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officia.l organ of the Volunteers of A rnerica.
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NEW YORK. SATURDAY MARCH 21, I9O8
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rHE ExECurlvE oFFIcERS_gn IHH"yglruNTEERs oF AmERrcA
GENERAL BALLINGTON BOOTH,
President.
COLONEL W. J. CRAFTS.
Treasurer.
MAJOR-GENERAL
E.
FIELDING,
Více President.
L.
GENERAL MAUD B. BOOTH.
Co-Gommander.
COLONEL
.
J. W.
MERRILL.
Secretary.
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In
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highly than the praise or honor of
men. And in reviewing his life as he
. neared its close he was satisfied to
know that he had 'fought a goott fight,'
and had 'hept the faith.' He was
'ready to be offered;' the crown fo.r
wnich he had striven was assured to
lìrm, âtrd all them also rvho have the
same love in their heart have the
same assurance."-"Heralal of Life.,,
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The question of proflt
,*
E,nters
action.
into every business trans,*
If
there is no immediate prospect of
,returns from the dollar and cent standpoint, the business man will not be
interestetl.
I
P,ttsburg Volunteer Work Among the
,*
Needy.
But as Volunteers and workers in
the Master's cause, \üe ask, Does it
not pay to move the hearts of mep
That the Voluflteers of pittsburg
are not behind the van in the wo.rk of
mercy ancl help will be seen by a
glance. over the report pages of this
edition. Here is a synopsis from one
of the'Iocal papers:
and woinen toward a better lite?
,*
Politeness and hindness are
said to
'We
Baskets given.............................
pay very large dividends.
pass
the tip along, for most of us are looking for tips on the best paying thiilgs
outsitle. Let's try it.
.*
Thanks to the officers from Field De-
...................
.... 531
Given in each Bashet-One cân
to
Loaves of bread........................... 900
partment.
beans, one can tomatoes, one can milk,
one can syrup, one pound coffee, one
pounal sugar, one cluart navy beans, one
loaf bread, one pacliage of cereal.
Many thanks to all the comrades
who have responded so promptly to
our eall for list ând dates of appointments for verification of our records.
-WiU
Crowtls seehing aid so large last
week that they intel.fered with regular
business of ofice buitding where headquarters are located. Many in need of
We have yet to hear from a few.
all please respond? The field Department will be grateful.
help in paying rents, No decrease in
,a
CaFta¡n Lee Very lll.
Quite a number of our oñcers have
been on sick list lately, among them
Captain Helen Lee, of ou,r National
Secretary's office. She is dangerously
ill at Nassau Hospital with typhoid
fever.
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Visitors at the National Gentre.
'We
were taken by storm one day last
week when our genial comrade, Col.
Herron, walked into the oñce and Broceeded to make himself at home. He
lryas accompanied by Captains Sisson
and Hughes, of the Philadelphia Volunteers. Always welcome!
THE VOLUNTEER MEEÍING HALL, BAY GITY, MIcH.
Photo by J. H. Lee.
Thousands Aided at Johnstown by Volunteers.
Some good comraile or frientl has
sent us the following clipping from a
nervspaper iu Johnsto'wn, Pa. - Evidently A.D.C. Schuster is a busy man:
"The demands on the free souphouse conducted on the South Side by
the Volunteers of America continued
last week as heavily as ever. During
tho week a total of 1,238 persous were
served. The to'tal number supplied
with food during the month of X'ebl'Lary was 4,?.33. During the month 2?9
garments of different sorts were distributed and 88 families supplied with
quantities of provisions. The total
amount o,f money recelved last week
was $9.86, while the ouLlay tnancially
was 09.22.
.*
Major Reid is Making Brooklyn Move.
Major Alna Reid and her assistin Brooklyn.
ant are moving things.
That's right, the 'City of Churches
ought to encourage the moving spirit.
demand.
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Training School and the Battle.
"'We are pushing the battlg hard,"
says Major A.ndrick of our Chicago
?raining School and Volunteer misTh,e
I have seen a snow-drop thrust itself
through three inches of maeadam.
How was that? I't ditl not believe in
environment. And if when God puts
this power into the bulb it cân thrust
itself through three inches of macadam, and look at the blue shy, and
get the hiss of the sun, do you think
God will give you an environment that
will shut you out from the higher
world antl higher life?-W. 1,. Walhinson.
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,'
Philadelphia Making a Record in Gonverts,
The Philatlelphia Post work, now
by Mrs. Colonel Herron,
is making great histoly. Some sixteen converts in a weeh is not a bad
commanded
record, qays the reader!
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For the Good of the
Cause.
Keep the work before yout' communlty, comrades. Kèep the Volunteer fires bright in the memolies of as
many âs possible, and to do this. most
effectively, the Gazette will aid you'as
agent. , Circulate it more
freely and watch the good results.
a powerful
,*
"Let your light so shine
before
men, that they mây see your good
works and glorify your X'ather which
is in heaven," is as positive a command, and just as much to be obeyetl
by every disciple of the Lord Jesus,
as "Go ye," is to be obeyed by those
called to preach the Gospel.-"Sent of
Gocl."
Our New Gazette Contributor.
Mrs. 'Woodfo,rd is keeping her work
well in hantl for the current anti coming editions of the Gazette. Many
thanks
!
a
Captain Smith and Wife Advancing in
.
Jackson,
point of view,
the work of the V. of A. in Jackson
can truly be declared as ideal, for
there are no liabilities, thanks to, Captain C. J. Smith's activities, the. hall
rent is paid in advance. Twenty recruits. awaiting enrollment also speak
well of the results of the spiritual
tr'rom the flnancial
v/orh.
.
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"Labor on, pray on, suffer on, O
faithful sérvant of the crucified Jesus!
Every day will add to your treasures
in heaven, so shall you be made meet
to be partakers of the glorious inheritance of the saints in light."-Dr.
Cuyler,
,'
East St, Louis Records 15.
Acting Captain Gessner, of our Elast
St, Lo.uis Post, reports fifteen so.uls for
the month of February. If r.rrat is not
well worth while, then we do not know
much of 'the value of tþe human so.ul.
Thank Gocl lor this work!
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"Paul loved the truth! He was n'illto die in defence of it. He could
not be induced to compromise with
errot to gain material advantage. He
valued ths approval of Goct more
ing.
sion
work. Keep on pushing, Major!
You cannot write Christian experience oncè for all. It varies, it carries
a thousa.nd different colors and tints
and hues and mixtures of color, and it
utters itself in innumerable tones-
complete, strong, tender, weak, whining, valiant, glad as the utterance of a
trumpet, and sad as the moaning of a
Ileart that is stabbed. Do not, there-
fore, be loohing ont for uniform standards antl unanimous opinions and coincident experiences. Christianity will
answer you so as to bring up the side
of your character that needs elevation.-Joseph Parlier.
To believe, not because we are
learned and can prove, but because
there is something in us, even God's
own Spi,rit, which makes us feel light
as light and 'truth as truth-this is the
blessed faith.-Sel.
The power to regenel.ate mankind
is not in the intellect, it is not in our
sehools of learning, not in ou,r houses
of mercy; it is outside of man, higher
than man, high as God. It is only in
Lord. Dismiss every
other hope; dismiss philosophy, science, law, philanthropy, for the¡e is
none other name by which r'\¡e can be
saved, can be purifiecl, can be ,redeemed, or by ¡ilhich society can be
uplifted, than by the name of Jesus
Christ our Lord.-John P. Newman.
Jesus Christ our
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417
Persons assisteal.......... ................2,114
Pairs shoes given...............,....... g5Z
Garments .given.............. .............3,027
Sandwiches and coffee served
heayt.
urs, and'deeÞ'
t.
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ornþl a int:
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Eear t¡iali nol¡lv-r"fs fl'v Fa{heri tl;tft
W\ere is tt¡y fai1l¡, if tlloü dost
fe,irut?
Tf,e pi.r""d hand stitl holds the rod;
Ttr¿ hlnd oncà natte4 oÀ Calvafv's treó
Ubaivres each cross, weiqfi5 evárv Load
And ningles èvery cup ¡ii ttpel
HLs
words,'Be
stätii. sto,^
sl'lìi
ciìi B. îiì. r;i-"^í.
His snrite tfle qloorr.'sllàlù chase'awav. '
{s
iroul,Led õafitee üav' hvshe'd ¿t d,ai'í.
tl¡ou, mourne{seÞ å briS{tei d.ay;
So witt
âru'|ji.b"q;*¿!îi';ln.Ìt ;r, il'¡;¿,¡
l.ee
êÉ,,îr',t!)ö.l,1''Ê*-'ïî*},I'"s
n
È'
thou
wi[t
qtadlu own
þiJ,' m,"Í,H.rili,ilb:i' ïttt,,l,lt['t'igla
6rieþ turn to lustyous' joys'in{e eternatyeari.
Corruq. I oh.
restl?ss. wearu soul.s j
Let qlodm and'dorùt
^.fli,,q.
ät once dispet'- .
The vrctorv comes ilr wavs thou's¿est notsavi;' doetl¡ all ,htry*f.r.ib;_
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TTTE'/OLANTEðRS" GAZBTTE
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work, and of the lmperfecüons whlch
still mar and cripple them even wheu
are most praiseworthy and
lhey
lovely, 1'here is always the mixture
of wheat and tares. Christ never has
the fieltl all to Himself. The enemy
OP faøß.abo
ONWARD MABCH OF TEMPERAN
TEMPERANCE
ve,rmont, New Hampshire, the
Sa3ng,
Dakotas, and Kansas are at present
under-State prohibition. liainð aA¿eO
A Word About Francis Murphy.
,,
a prohibitory amen.dmeut to its
stitution
ãì,,nn,.
^.
HUNDRED
yea/rs ego
tota,l abstainer was a rara avis.
and $'as looked upon with disfavor.
often with, disgust, and always with
'
con-
some years ago by an overr¡/nelming majority, and ratified the
"temperance" meant semething much different from
what it does to-day. Drinking was a national custom:
. the
themselves under prohibition, while
suspicion. Even ministers of the Gospel, who of all persous should be models of ptopriety, drank, sometimes to
excess; and it was a drea,ry home in
which the bla.ch bottle was not a frequent visitor.
About the beginning of the century
a temperance society was formed. lts
rnembership 'was small; its purposes
Ìvere ridiculed, and it was considered
unnecessary. But it was not much of
a temperance society according to ou,r
standards. Its members promised to
acrron some time after by even a
larger majority. Iowa has á proni¡it_
9ry law upon its statute bookõ, bul it
has beeu nullified to a great extent bv
juggling known as t¡le
?_ ìpecies of
lvlulct tax, whereby the saloon buys
protection iu the shape of a ûne,
When honestly enforced, Brohibitory
mighty temperance orators lihe Gough,
'
the blue ribbon, the red ribbon, the
white ribbon, all denoting total abstinence, became a common lapel orna-.
ment; and the new moral precept,
"Thou shalt not drink intoxicating
beverages," was rècognized as a p,roper
acldition to the Decalogue.
Parenthetically, we may say, Francis
A(urphy was
the last of the
great
moral suasion orators. He went up and
down the land trying to minimise the
influence of the saloon by reducing the
number of customers; and under the
magic of his wo,rds many thousands
have foresworn the cup.
this time the Civil Wal'
ì:roke out, and in the presence of the
oversh.adowing issue all other reforms
languished, and reformers of all kinds
Jusb about
were compelled to call a truce to thei,r
labors and act in concert against the
greater foe.
'When those troublous days were
passed and things began to resume
the even tenor of their way, the agitation against intempe,rance took on a
new lease of life and also took a step
fo.rward.
The temperance þeople contended
if the drunkard was an abnormal
and uirnatural product, then the
drunkard-maher was engagecl in a,
that
wieked and pernicious business, and
the drunkard factory was a deadly lnstitution, which the Government should
outlaw rather than protect and sanc.
tion.
The logic of their position was irre-
sistible, and an agitation for the
de-
struction of the drunnard factories
commenced. This could only be accomplished by making the business unlawful and placing the ban of the
law, which must mean the ban of the
people, upon the trañc, thus prohiblting the sale of liquor.
In two rrays could this be alone.
First, by means of local option; each
tortrnship or county having the right
to prohibit th,e sale within its borders.
Secondly, by State law anrl by State
Constitutional amentlment, thus pro-
hibiting the sale within the state.
Under the Local Option laws large
sections
of the country have plaeeil
of Whisky.
of acute poisoning by alcohol tia! workers, howevei high-mindetl
.rnCqsgs_
cnildren, followed by death, being and earnest, in which love and
To-! very frequent, I report ¡riény tlõ brotherhooct and mutual forbearance
following:
and
At some time betv¡een g.B0 and g30
a.m., before,they had eaten breakfast,
he
with his two brothers, ,ged g
and-went
4 years, to a closet where whisky
was ì<ept. Each poured out and dranÍr
undiluted wl'isky from a glass capable
of holding abott JB/¿ ounces. from the
des.ctiption given by ilre oldest boy,
Willie probably dlank abou,t threé
ounces and each, o,f the other children
aborrt two ounces.. Ttre parents hnew
of the
consequences
wink at th.e law's violation, lb has sucin reducing the evils to a mini-
The most recent advance of the retbrm is an attempt to capture the
national Government for iighteous-
ness a-nd sobliety, a,nd there the firingline of the war against intemperance
tnay be found, The great ,.head on,,
collision between the force of temnerance and the hosts of light will bê in
the ûeld of politics.
It is a long march from the universal drinhing habits of the last century
to the abstemious customs of to-dai,
One hundred years ago lh,e man who
could storü away the largest quantity
of liquo,r vras "the cock of ilre walk,,:
to-day the man who imbibes sufficieni
to bring a flush to his flace is censured.
sweet self-forgetfulness are perfect and undisturbed. There wilf alIays be a rift in the lute; ilrere will
ahvays be jarring notes in the music.
Il will never be one long, sweet song.
There are sure to be thinss which aú
born of faith, humiúty and the
lot
SpÍrit of God. There are sure to be
6 years
and B months old,
good. {,.,
of^Willie
family and perso,nal hiato;t;
unaccustomed to the use of alcoholici,
brighl and well developect for his age.
escapade
until
about
"sleep it off."
There was no thought of any serious
ceeded
mum.
darkness thrusts his hanct in antt
makes his, pernicious influence fell.
You cannot find a company of Chris-
Child Dies from the Effects of a Drink
rnen rell Irom lris chair. At 10.1b he
fell asleep on the floor, anrl his mother
pur, hirn to bèd, thinliing he would
. a dollar he could get as drunk as a
lord, without imperiling his goocl standing in the society. There were many
memìlers who thought total abstinence
lrom light \ilines fanalical.
We smile at such a pledge now, bu't
LATE FRANCIS MURPHY.
that organization was in advance of
its times. The temperance reform had
been started, however, and befo.re
many years had passed public senti- law has been successful in absotutely
ment had so progt'essed that, total ab- oestroying the liquo.r traffic, anrl even
stinence was as a virtue and extolled in districts whêre venal oñce holders
\ryas infused into the movement
against intemperance, and swept the
country with its zeal. Societies, lodges,
and various orgauizations sprang up
all over the nation, and pledge-signing
campaigns we,re inaugurated in every
city and town. Under the influence of
on in the world but the prince ol
when, on sitting down to b,reakfast, W-illie first dropped a plate and
abstain from liquor drinking, except
Slowly 'th,e sentimetrt grew until ilre
formation of the Washingtonian and
kindred societies, when a new impetus
ALCOHOL POISONING.
¡o^tling
y.öU,
on holidays, banquets and pubiic occasions. On the payment of a small ûne
a member was granted a dispensation
to celebrate a stroke of good fortune
with a mode,rate drunk, and for a half
by the.best people.
is sure to ûnd some opening, some un.
guarded place or moment, in which he
can do a little of his own sowing.
There is not a bit of noble work goin!
until
7.30 p..m., when
the
patenß were unable to ro.use the boy
and sent for me. tr arrived at the housä
at 7.45 p.m., and found the boy's sen¿i-
tion as follows:
lvas
-completely comatose, pupils
or^He
equal size,
widely dilated and un,re_
sÞonsive to light; the internal anci su_
perior. recti contracted; conjunctive in-
.
touches. of vanity and pride, and temp_
ers which are not heavenly, and mõtives in which the dross of selffshness
is -mi-xed witq the gotd of devotion;
and..there
will be envyings and petty
egousms, and sometimes the beeinnings of strife; and the ruean will-be
found- along side the noble, and the
aqgelic robes will have many an un_
clean spot, and .when Christ seems
to be all in all, and there rvill be much
of which Christ would say: ,,fhat ü
not Mine; 'an enemy hath <tone this.','
- tsut take care that you do not throw
the
lyork down in disgust because it
is not all fauliless and sainily, arrd be_
cause those who are d.oing it are like
your_selves,
burdened
wit[
human in-
flrmities. This parable is to teaclt us
q?tience and forbearing char.ity.
Ctrrist d.oes n9t give up iowing bêcause evil hands are busi in the-flelct.
He does not refuse to work with tei-
low-laborers because they are not. elt-
tirely- after His own heart. He does
not fling away His weapons l¡ecar¡se
and ;lrilüs
!1:t f:" not
according
to teen-edgecr^
His own glory. EIsõ
head and face cool and-slighily moisl
sh.outd we have no part witfi ffini-ài
Tolgue and lips somewhatãry. Trunk ?rr. uo 1ot expect to ûnd per.fectÍn:and extremities hot and dry. Axiilary growing
in the human sarùen; ,hai
plant is
temperature 103.2 degrees F.
reared in the fìeids-;;
In spite of all remedial measures, rltlr and_only
glory. And havo p¿ticnce
a,fter the first ho.ur of my presencé yrth yotrr fellow-workers, k,ec;ruse l:he
there was slow but continual failure rvraster nas unlimir,ed paLt(,uce \, ith
X'or let us never fòr.s^ct that ihË
9j h^ea{
_and ,r'espiration, but during Iou.
the
first hour
thel'e was a hardly per-- tares are growing iu our. owrì liv€s
ceptible improvement in the ratô ãntt rar [oo .plentifully,_Rev. J. G. Gr een_
powet
nough,
sensitive. Pulse 14b, small and weak.
very compressible, l¡ut regular. Respiration 40, easy and quiet. Skin
of
of the heart.
At 10.30 p.m. a severe clonic convulsion occurred, lasting perhaps ten
minutes, ancl from this timã theie was
almost co,nstantly recurring localized
extremities, the left side bèing much
mol'e affected than the right. Occa_
sional mystagmus was present.
Cheyüe-Stokes respirátion began at
.
about
2.45 a.m., and death f,rom car_
diac failure occurred at 5 a.m., probably 20 hours after the ingestion of the
A century ago the total abstai[er v¡as whislry.
. Êll
e¡ exception; to-day the great corporaWith the possible exception notedi
tions, railroads, banking institu[ions, no means of stimlrlation seemed to
and so forth, demand that those who have the slightest effeet on the heari.
The rectal temperature rose to 105.8
hold positions of trust must be totat
abstainers. Alcoholie beverages in degrees just before cleath.-New york
their vario,us forms were supposed .to "Meclical Jou,rnal."
be a panacea for all human ailments:
to-day even the conservative medicai
THE CURSE,
men of Durope are well-nigh unani- -ï _walked abroad one Sabbath day,
mous against their use. A hundred 'When all the world seemed brig¡t änA
years ago liquo.r was indispensable,
', {
BaY¡
and ranked rilitb, bread and meat as a And looked into each face I met
necessity; last year 187,000 inen in the Until my own with tears rras wet.
rural districts of New lork State I
such sorrow, such despair,
-saw_
alone voted for a.bsolute prohibttion The
lines of misery and carô,
under the Local Option laws.
ttemorse, regret and utter woe.
Truly a ¡¡¡onderf[l advance. A story "O God!" I cried, ,,why is this so?',
of progress unequalled in the world,s And straightway
âs unwinds a scroll
history of reform! Let the refo,rm. ad- A
came before my soul_
vance in lihe manner, and another flfty A Dicture
drunken father, at whose knee
years will wr'tness the enti,re annihilaStood 'Want and Vice and Misery,
tion of the traffic, and be as extinct as And
through another's nana I raised
the slave trade.
'r'he fatal goblet as I gazed.
Temperance workers have every 'Dtink, if you will,', I saitl, .,for
so
reason to feel encouraged and to enter
Uur countly's revenues must grow,"
into their work with renewed zeal.
The vision passed, I homeward
.Considøred merely fro.m a preseut day
turned.
standpoint the outlook may be dark.
The iiquor power was never so strong My sorrow more than I could bear,
as it is now, the per caþita eonsump-- Since.while my soul, to save, had
yearned,
tron never was so high, the Government never so indifrerent to the d+ My voice and vote had sèt the snare.
mands of the public conscience: but 'fhen kneeling as a contrite son
this is the darkest hour that comes At some indulgent parent's knee
just before the dawn, The night of r _prayed: "O God, Thy will be done!
intempe,rance is passing, the eye of 'l'lte curse shall come no more through
me."
faith already discerns the promise of
-,,Banne[ of Golà'.;;
coming glory, th,e light of a better day
is throwing its golden beams across
ouR OWN LtvES.
the sky. I-o! the sun of sobriety and
The
of the wh.eat and the
.
-parable
temperance :is risint.
tares
is
a picture of the best lives.
p{ay
Let us
a little more fervenfly, It shows _us the strange inconsisten_
rr'ork a little harder, sacrifrce a little cres ï'¡ich
are found in the noblest
more, and ère long we shall see Amer- men, and partly explains them. It is a
ica rise in the glory-a nation re- p?r?tJ9 of Christian thought and
deemed from the power of rum.
unrrsrran enaleavor and Christian
in,,Episcopal Reeorder..,,
goD ts NOT MOCKED.
_
But if- I_plan a litile sin,
So small no eye can enter in?
rniri*t#tt*it-thio" o*o
."".
Whal need for God to tooliã-in-ee'l-"'
"oul "ro
pinney, io th" .;C";-t*;.,,
-Evelyn
COMFORT FOR THE DISCOURAGED
Failures sometimes mean a general
renovation of
life.
\Mith tire ol¿"iðunã_
one lays new ones,
l:t^o^T^_up,*oted,
oroaqer, deeper, more permanent, and
of susraining ã no¡ler sîper_
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srructure. Financíal failures, although
'they. are ordinarily
considered as in_
volvrng almost the sum of tr,ouble,
and
lltuv .gltuioly invotve so much that
be
the
yglltd.
narr
of
ilr
:uGnãni
ilro_-rarl rn
.recognizing the very real
narure
this
trouble,
yet
are
sfill not
-ot give
Lnose Lnat
deepest pain.
fail_
ule oI character is somethingThe
so far
worse that. there can Ue no-unit-õi
coTÞarison. 'Ihe failure or
is the failure that is ha;rdesttienis¡if
of afl-iã
D.ear._ yet, let us stiil sing a song to
the.Go-d- of hope. Every conceivable
Krnü-ot tailure-even the most serious
of all,_tha-b_ of character_can
be re_
No .one need ever despair.
î,e^e.Pgd: ,
Nolntng
is- €ver so good that it iannoc þe maale better; and so, when failure comes, let us sweep off the ¿e¡iis.
crear ?way all the ,,dead
.t119.","' and proceed to ereatecircum_
anèw.
-Lilian
Whiting.
Then hush.! oh, hush! for the X'ather
'[ne knows what thou knowest;;tn_eed
of the thorn and
the
shadow ünkeat with tne ia¡resi
lot;
I(nows the wisest exemption from
many.an
unseen snare;
rÃ'ill. keep
thee nearest,
^ro*",,_y13-t
xnows what thou coulds,t noú
bear.
ÌIush! oh, hush! for the Father,whose
w¿ys ane true and jusl
Il,nowe[n.and careth and loveth, and
--*
*.j!r for the perfect
'r:ne
^. - cup He-ìs slowly filling,trust-.'
shali soon
rurr to the brim,
And inflnite eompensations forever be
found in Him.
-n'rances Ridley Havergal.
^. THE VOI.ANTEERS GAZETTE.
Sad Stories of Want Victims-The People Don't Want to Ask for Help, Uut ttrey Must, Else They Wilt
Star
and Freeze-patriotic scenes and More pathetic Tales Recounteo by Marion BrunotAfter Visit to Volunteers of America.
From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Do tne Pittsburgh people really real.
their shoes until they have scarcelv
any leather on their feet; but nothin;
can be found, and, finally, they musï
aslt ror aict or starve and freeze to
ize tne poverty âlÌd misery wtrtcn is
nbout them? Do t.hey undelstand the
black industlial cloud whicn is hangÌug
over oul' whoìe city'l
"l doÌr. t. believe they do, or tiìey
would come nobly torward aud wltlr
their combrned energy alleviate tl1e
sutel'irg arcl unhepprness which rs
upon aìl si(les.
'lhe UbÌonicle
death.
_,"Isn't this a ter,rible state of affaírs?
Think of people, who are used tó as
good homes as you and I have, without
tood and heat! Think of men who have
a,lways supportecl their wives anA cnil_
dren in a comfortal.¡le mannet, finrling
'I'eIe-
grap^- tteliet .t und rs doing much, but
not enough.
"f .weut, yesterday to.'the heatlquar'tels ol the volunteols of tr.menca, alrtl
certa¡nìy a $onctertul lvorìr lor the þertelmellt ot our city's u[roltunates is
thenselves with the wolf of núnger ài
their very doors! 'l.hese are .the hind
. of cases which are being repo,rted tò
our lelief stations all the time. These
lhe kinrl of men aucl women, humil_
iated and with broiren priOe, wúo have
1g'uSht, time and time again, aid at the
Pi¿tsburgh headquarters of the Volun-
tnere bei[g accosrplrsned! ¡.¡vely hand
.ar.e
rs. busy. trlvery mind is alert ano
orders and reterences are being consutted, until our eyes open wioer and
'wider and our neâ,r'ts become sadder
and saddel as rve are forceu to realize
t,ne marìy, many nonìes witnur our'
city's hmrts that are rn uttel destitu-
tecrs of America.
"ï,ieutenant'Vr'illiams tooh me to the
relief station in Second evenue. tteie
there aqe thlee women, neade¿
¡i
Majoa Corbin, indefatigably wortinä
fi'om early lrorning until late at nigñï
tlon.
"'l'he headqnarters of the Volunteers
is ou the tenth rioor of the Hartje
'ÌJuildiog,
lMood Street and Second Avenue, and at these doors from molning
until. night. hurdreds of men, womeD
and chrldren v¡ith baslrets and references in hand apply tor necessary a¡d,
antl, happy am I to say, that fhrË. help
is never ¡'efused unless tne hârûworking Volunteers have not anolher bll ot
ctothing nor another' loât oi bread to
give.
"When
I
giving out clothes and provisions..
-''Mothers and fathe.rs and. children
all lppty here and are aicled :usl
as they can be.
arrived at these headquar-
ters there were at least .fltty
waitiug to be helped, and
it
persoüs
had been
the same way ever since early rtrorùrrìg
and would continue so unril late ru Llrc
evening, as it has been for weeks and
"'How often can ilrese families be
rveehs.
repleuished wit.h plovisions?' asked I.
"'Not within a weelç's time,' was the
i "Lieut.-Major Sykes has chatge of
the investig.â,ting of tlìe cases, and he
invited .me to sit down and watch him
âs. he inteÌviewed lhe aplrricâuts.
"How kind and considelate he was
to them all! How sympathetically he
helped the pool mothers and fathels
anct children who flocked about his
leply. 'We
of provisions, ancl yèt considering that there are seven, eight
and ten in some of these families, îe
will
employed. Their nothsr had washed
for a living just as long as she could
flnd anylhing to do; but now those
who had employed her wele tnemse]ves
forced to retrench, so their lardel was
empty, ând they all, there being four
real srnall children, needed clothing
and shoes.
"Another pitiful case was a mother
with a baby in her arms. She hacl
three other childlen at home, a,nd her
husbancl had deserted her three months
ago. She had worked just as long as
she could; she had. washecl for people;
she had cleaned rooms; in fact, she
had clone anything that she could flnd
to do; but nov¡ she was weah and sick
and must needs ash for 'just a little
aid,' as she put it. Lieut.-Major Syhes
was very gentle with tris woman, and
promised her aid right away.
. "I talked a, few minutes 'Lo one
womarì who was waiting in line. She
was rather old, and seemed to be quite
well dressed. She carried the inevit-
soon realize that these foods w'ould
go a very little distance in assuaging
"One of the cases 'reportecl while I
was there 'was represeDted by a little
sincé they had been old enough to be
have too many othel or-
ders, you know.'
"This does seem to us to be quite a
g9-od.basket
desh!
girl. She said there were nine persons
in their family. The two older boys
wele out of wotli for the flrst lime
ioìár
"'Yesterday,' said Majc,r Corbin, .was
our biggest day. .'We gave out 500
pieces of clothing and 6Z baskets of
provisions and g0 pairs of shoes. In
eacn one of these baskgts are to be
found potatoes, a cân of dahed ¡eans, ã
can of molasses, some navy beans.
sugar and coffee and bread according
to the size of the family-sometimãË
one and sometimes two loaves. .!Ve
also gjve one or two cans of mitk, âccording to the number of children in
'the family.'
hunger for a whole week.
"Lieutenant Williams next took me
able basket, and apparenily was
barrâssed.
em-
"'Ah,' said she, .this is ilre first time
in my whole life Urat I ever asl(ed for
aid; indeed, I never dreametl that I
coukl come to such a thiug. But my
hnsband is getting olcl; I have a lot oi
chilch'en, and the boys are all out of
.worh."
"'You know,' continued she, .mybusband is a proud man, âncl if he kne.rr I
was here he would never forgive me.
He, poor soul, has triecl every place for
'worl(; but he
is getting okl, and if
it is given to a
there is anything to clo
l¡oungel man-it's âwful, these hard
times ! I don't ]<now what ' we Door
folk are going to rìo.'
"Lieut.-Major Syhes told me of a
number of. sad cases, sad because of
their humiliation, which had come to
him the last few days. He particularly
mentioned one that came to him the
other afternoon.
"Said
he: 'The other'room
(meaning
the one where the people await theii.
tu,r'n).was cl'owded with waiting people
and
I
noticetl among them one vðry
neatìy-dressed, fine-looking feilow, antl
thiniring that he must be á representative from. some church, I asked him into my office. He seemecl very much
embarrassed; he loohed out of the rvintÌow and then at me and ilren at the
-ceiling.
"'trVelt, lvhat tlo you want?, ashed I,
snpposing that he had sone charitable
ruission. 'Ah,' said he, 'I scarcely kuow
how to bêgin. I don't intend [o take
much of your time; but I'm here irorn
auother- city. I hopeil to . get work.
My mother and three sister! are here.
ancl I must support them. I have 'tried
every place for some liintl of a clerical
position, but I cannot flnil it. I am now
willing to do anything; but even that
doesi't come, and so-and so-I,-
"'But. here,' continued Lieut.-Ma.ior
'I realized his humiliating pósition, and I offered the aicl that he
needed, oh! so mnch.l'
Sykes,
"These kind of cases come every clay
tO Lieut.-Major Sykes. Men and wonren
rvho ale willing to worh harcl cannot
find anything to r1o. They have walhed
miles and miles. They havs worn out
to a number of homes where ilre bonnty
giveu by the Volunteers has l¡een anä
is being distributed.
, "'fwo of these homes consisted of a
father and a mother ancl ten children,
the father having been out of work
since befo.re Thanlisgiving. you can
picture the destitution that must be in
such cases, the pangs of hunger ilrat
have been felt ancl the litile bodies
tlaj.mÏst-I9eds go to bed many, many
Ìrrgnts natl tr.ozen.
"One mother said, ,Here am I without, anything in the house to eat, no
coal, and ten mo.uths to fill. My hus.
band has gone to the parl< for rivorh;
Þut wiÌl not get it for at least a weeli,
ancl in the meantime I dou't linow what
we will rlo.'
"Aid was cheerily promised in this
case by Lieutenant Williams.
' "Another famÍly rvas
visited where
theì'e is a father aud mother and three
chilclren. The father. is huntins .wo,rli
all the time; he wallis and walks and
watclres antl watches, but he, as yet,
has been unable to fincl even a sinEle
weel<'s emi:loyment.
"This woman has opened her
doors
THE T/OLU NIEER.SI GAZETTE.
to two of her brothers who ca.n flnd
scarcely any employment an¿ whð
at times, been almost frozen to
, "Another woman, a widow with six
cnlldren, was visited. This woman is
a hard-working creature, havine
washed for her living for years. Buî
norñ¡, sne says, scarcely any employment, can be found, a:rd, unless she
nave,
is¡
death.
aslrs f'or charity she and her boys and
.grrrs vrril have to die of starvation.
. "Three times a week the Volunteers
give coffee and sandwiches to men oui
of .employment. IJere, says Lieutenant
willlams, hundreds of half_starved
prg. giv_en a tiny ray of hope,_
lren
lrope_ in the shape of food and warm.tû.
."you knorü, if a person is halfstarveal and half-frozen and has no
ho.p-e of
_
shelter of any kind,
a JanA-
vrrcn and a cup.of coffee may save that
life-it.may mean neï¡ energ.y and new
determination. And these Inings, you
know, count e lot in tife.
').
¿l(
aì
ci
HOLD THOU MY HAND.
By W. D.
WHEN MOTHER IS BLUE.
Neale.
At close of the busy day my chilit hatt
gone to bed,
'When r-eac-hing
out his hand to me, in
pleading tones he said:
"qh,
' papa,_ hold my hand; it's dark,
._ .. -and ï can't see your face,
Don't leave your litile son alone in this
.
rçl-',
i
I
dark plaee.',
i
Margaret E. Sangstcr.
"'When mother is blue, I just put
od my hat and run away. It takes
all the shunshine out of the house.
and I can"L stand it."
The speaker was a girl of twenty,
with an apple-blossom face and merry
eyes. One saw at a glance that her
life had been free from the pressure
WHAT A BOY DOES.
The Editor of the'Washington Capl-
tol has evidently seen a boy, antt perhaps he was once a boy himself, ãnrt
so he tells what a boy does:
He comes out, ât the front door,
bright-faced and happy. He comej
o-ut for no . par,ticular reason, save
that he wants to be moving about. He
is full of physÍcal action, a;d he must
get some of it out of him before bedtime or he won't be flt, to sleep. ffe
doesn't know this with hÍs hedd, but
his- body knows it; for, after alf, firã
Dody cloes a gteat deal of its own
thinking independenily of w.hat we
cail consciousness. He stands on the
step . and looks up and down the
street.
He doestr't know what he is lookins .lo¡. Iryleed, he is not looking for
al'ything. He jusb looks rvith a-sort
of unlefined hope that he will see
something suggestive to him of what
to do.. He jumps down the steps and
goes to the gate, hangs on it a moment, makes a few sounds with his
voice such as nobody but a boy can
mare, and nobody else would make
rr .ne coulal. They don't mean any_
thilS._ He. makes them becausei_
well, because he is a boy.
As if he had suddenly thoughl of
somethin_g to do, he bangs thã
sate
olen and rushes down thé middlõ
of
rne street, yelling like a young
In_
of much care, just as one rèacts be"It is hard errough to see the poor
it gently there,
the lines, in looking at mother's
us suffering And he soon fonnd a peaceful sleeo tween
thâ! _we always have with .to
calm countenance, tha¿ the elder wodoub_ly; it is harrl enouþh
seJ t¡esË
and enter'd dream-land fair:
man hacl fought a long batile with
helpless .mothers.and clìildren wi¿hõ;l
coal, provisions and elottres; ¡ut wfròii And then I thought while sitting ciose adversities of various kinds. In that
beside his littte bet1.
f¿ded face the eyes may once have
it comes to seeing women who have How oft
when clari<ness came o'er me 'r-een merry, but they hacl grown
never known what it .was to want, men
thoughtful, and ft was hard to bèüeve
wh9-!1-ve always hacl fufl an¿ pientn lsi-l l I've looked to Christ and said:
that the matron had ever been reand little boys ând girls who havã beeï t'Hold
hand; it's growing proved in her youth for indiscreet and
used to almost the luxuries of life,
-Thou_my
dark.; Thy face I cannot see;
immoderate hilarity. yet as she
_
without even one cent in their poctrãts,
one Ioaf in their cupboarrìs noi a goo,í Oh, do not leave Thy child aloné in smileal at her daughter's impulsive
this dark world to be."
speech, she Saiil:
pair of shoes to ilìeir names, it isl in_
'Twas the! I felt the tender grasp of
"I was once as gay as Gertrude
deerl, then that the heart almost fails.
-the hand that giveth
rest,
is. Iq facl I was noted for my ever
irrej'^l!'t] g-row desperate-I'll kÍtt my_ And found a blessed, perfect
pressible
peace
spirits. The discÍpline of
self !r is ths cry more times illan one.
which
none
could e'er molest.
experience has to,ned me down. but I
"'I ca-n't stand it any longer,, said
am almost always cheerful."
, -Selected.
ole mother as she looketi at ñer three
small children. .you know I have
iï"r, - indeed,', said the daughter,
never kuown what it was to want. My PROMPTINGS TO THANKSGIV]NG. patting her mother's cheek, ,'anat that
is why I am so disturbed when she is
husba-nd, up until this 'Winter, has ¡éãi
is the expression out of sorts, the dear, brave lady. I
considered a man comfo,rtablÍ well off ;
-thanksgiving
-True
of
the
heart
that is fuII of grace and feel as if the bottom has dropped out
but- he _has lost everything. He cáú has 'the
conscionsness of tñe Divtne of our scheme of lÍving when mother
nnd_notnlng to do. We haven't bread,
It flows from a keen sense gives up and folds her hands in melwe haven't coal, and I'd atmost rathei Þresence.
and recognition of the fact that we ancholy."'
d'ian. But he ñas not sudãenly
die tha.n ask for ft, if it wasn't for the have
not merited God's mercie., ,o¿
f
went on my way with a. Dew aD- thought_of
children.'
something to do. H;-ha"s
that
in
ourselves
preciation
and
of
ourselvés
v¡e
of
the
mother's
value to ã 9lTPty ctone tlìat because he couldn't
"Poor mothers ! Unfortunate fathers! are unable
to
recompense
home.
God.
The
Motherhoocl
implies
I'wice rniscrable children! W-e must
so much, !lint..o.r anY!4ing to do, and must do
and our lives are must mean so much in every environ- something.
all help to alleviate your misery, we ¡no,re perfectlyinweGotl
. Then he picks up á iionã
through
ment,
Chrisl
and
in
our
lidden
.away
households
are all trying to aid you all we can. Jesus, the stronger, purer
what do llg
ft
ar ¿, dog, and cringes
and
y9
more
not
expect
from
her who is at the anq.reels..sorry
Surely, surely we are doing this, we constant
"1.-9!
if it hits the maik.
will
our
thanksgiving
helm?
be.
She
manages
qoesn'f
the Aomesfiõ .rre
who hope to grow, year by fear, more
want to hurt the dog. He
St.
Paul
declares,
in
hls
seõontl
ecolomy,
letoften
numane, are certainly giving until v¡e 'ter
most if not all throws
stone because ¡e anä t¡e
to the Thessalonjans, and in ihe ot the work withdoing
-the
her own hands. Sho
feel it.
rhe stone are there, and it is
fifth
chapter
:9gpo9
and
'the
eightéenth
vefse:
b-uys
material for the children;s nand-y to do so. I'or a tew sêconAÀ-nã
"The Chronicle Teleg,raph Relief "In everything give thãnlrs,
for this is cl_othing, cuts it out and *"tes-li
Ì-und is -We
stand¡ and looks up into a ,tree at_
.sca'ttering a good deal of the will of God
in
Ch,rist
Jesus
The
weekly
conmending antl Aarning fõ.r nothing.
bounty. _
are giving clothes, food cerning you.'l
_Then he breaks inio ä än
an
ordinary
family is a large anã onane IueI to hundreds and hundrerls of
suddenly sfts down
tr'irst,
then,
ìh;
'S/'e
"In
give
l.g3llt
L1d
everythins
erous
tâsk, and in a majoiity of in- curþsro¡e as if he irad
people.
are reliindling hope in dis- thanks." Thank
";
accomplisnãã
Gocl
for
iife,
iitn"
stances
its
the
mother
conraged hearts.
unaórtakes
something
anã
and
was
content.,,
possibilTties and opportunities.
carrieÊ it on wiilrout assis.tance. ,
"The Volunteers of America, who ar.e vqst
rl, about how it is with a boy,
Thanh Him for ilris Christián land, for
Mother
is
the
confldante
^rlil
helping us scatter the provisions which the
of
the
tq?!t
chilnany
bovs are ¡uilt ihái
Bibte, the Chruch, tne preaónea dren,
who
to ¡er tneir - litiiã -.3,:
come to us, âre also doing a work that
-bring
Gospel. Thank Him if you aie saved, oarry troubles
1ó,y. qo,-in
. r ou. never know_ what they
and trials, tell her ol wur
can scarcely be estimated_they a.re that
fact
they do not knov¡
His salvation has reached yori their school difficulties and ask her tn_emselves.
gland and goocÌ men and women, But
rr-e skittish,-:;iIh"y
you must give, too. you mnst give of antl delivered you from sin. If you help at e-vening when they studt lï;
are unsavetÌ, dear reader., tbank Him lessons for the next day.
|tf,n,,,noyi.lr. But then the¡, w¡¡1 luu*.
your food, your clothing and your in
-vãü
As
her
men
boys
once; and a
that
salvation
profferect
3]'_,tlu
_were
is
sons and daughters grow up, thev
to
money, you who have full anil plenty,
of- rhenr ale quitó
,,
took his little hanrl in mine and held
r
you who ean, maybe, recall days when
.well
yoll $'ere not so
plovitled for,, you
are- giving qnd will give. I know you
will."
grapll."-
"Pittsbu,rgh Chronicle
- Tôle_
THE PRAYER IN SECRET.
n-o!v,.and that you may enjoy its iictr
blessings by acce¡rting ¡esis C¡risi às
your personal Saviour. Thanli Him
devoutly if yo,ur family circle on eafth
rr.as ,remained unbrolren; but if some
tie was severed by death an¿ a seàl
ls- v-acant in the home, and the s.mile
of the loved one greets you no longer.
thanl{ Him that earth's separatións
.,earth
need not be eternal, that
. Good
_people sometimes fancy ilrat it
is
hardly
worilr rvhile to have fami¡y
p_râ.ye,rs if the family have been tô
cnurch, and that family p,rayer ma.l(es
secret prayer ünnecessary. It is easy
to u_nderstand 'that, it prayer means
a_nything at all, no playèrs'offered by
the Church or the fámiiy cr,, iáte tñä
pl"gg o¡ the praye,r offeiert ¡y inã in-
dlvlrtual. Every heart has Íts own
b-urden, and it is. not possible to ¡eai:
that burden fully to God except when
we are alone with Him. God can hear
us above 'the world's tumult. but we
cannot hear Him; ând we pray onty
to be ansrvered. Enter into thy öloset;
and when thou hast sbut túy
p,r1y. Let it be no formal praier,dooi
bui
a. full unburclening of every iisû, ot
tne very secrets of the heart. If you
are- sure that you are tallring to God,
l_nd if- you âre expecting añ ans*ei
through
that wordless, silent voice
wÍth which be speaks to ilre inner man,
there will be no lightness o,r orre"assurance. in the prayer. you will
xnow that a reproof from God is bet_
t,er than flattery from a king. The
s_uen-ce of
the night, the loneliness of
has no
sorrow'that heaven cannot heal," and
a-fter a ..few fleeting years at most,
there will be a glorious reunion with
loved. ones beyo¡d the sighing and the
weeping.
Thanlç Him for your sood health.
and i_f it is-impaired, thanh Him, név_
ertheless, that youl' ,.span of life" is
extended, and that time and opportun.
ity
still yours to lay up tieasures
in,..heave¡. Let yorrr soul overflow
wrrn Joyful -layf, and sing your great
.are
tledeemer's Draise.
,,it is the
,, T.hen. secondly,
will o,f God
so. He knows and
wills that ¡'ou,r heart and life *iff-¡ð
marle
rna.r,
you should do
better, stron_ger an¿ tnrer ii yõù
tndùlge oïten and constanily in ttre
spirit of thanlrftrlness.
I-ts_-ben-ign
racr
ínfluence upon tbe heart
is simply indescribable. Ct;
[na[ you
and life.
are obedient to Gotì's will
in cherishing thoughts of gratitiìde
l¡'artt
ió_
God. and express those feelings
in a wnole_neãrtË,ã
to the alt-s,raciòus --Gä,¿,
nlea.ses
A 'thanlrful
-Him.
ries rvith
it a moral unllft. .pì"it "á"1
-anrl _ sentiments
hallelujah
more tllan ever neerl her couniêl anä
support.; more than ever lay their
burdens at her feet, uod ,"ceiíe iroä
ner wise and tender hantls maxims
and_ bits- of advice as indispensäüiõ
as daily bread.
everYthing thev have to do,
motners
-^Y-i!! sometimes grosr weary,
health rlils, trials thicËe",- a"*iã[iãJ
crush. The most elastic
not stron_g enough to cope r¡ith
"át*"-i.
never_
ceaslng f¡nancial stress. Just a litile
more_ money in many an instance
woutd so _ease the machinery ólìñ;
nome,.so lessen the load, so brighterr
the life, that the mo,thei *oull-iivä
ronget', be less irritable, be freed from
and do her best as she
to_ do, handicapped by
li_X-r-_"i
umlred means. Mother is .,¡lue,,, ¡ðcayse__Tother is worn out. Motúer-ts
-P-ell9usnessl
abte
the roselishr o¡-h;p;
_llr:ll_!::rlrse.
tras-[ì¡rtred to dull gray ash and witï_
ereo þrowlr in her pathwaf. The happy
young things aboüt her,' ettervesciñä
-;idr-"Ë"'_
with vivacity, overflowíne
glqy,.do nor compreheno motnãit ãË.two reasons:
One is
fp_o199""y for
rnar r-tÌey are so well and
ihàt
they have not yet learnedstrong
;ñ-p;;Ëy
with .ill health and feeoreness, and
the, other. that they are
in iüð
oafk..a! to the causes otten
of naternài
solicitude. _With a mistaken hinAnäJs'
y,1rynts. ofren keep rheir t üh-";;
f,nemselv_es
and
refuse-
to tet young
people share them. The
life
rome-s goes on with ,,a flowingcit ifrã
sail,,,
9999,_*"ny
oo*,
¿Jcãnî
thanks to môme",, iä"ål
ra_rner's counsels, gran¿moihãr,s-"pãl
p^.:E_9,
lr^e-n_99,
and
9.^:1.r.9Ï.
rr^ove
them,
littìJ bir.cn on s¡reciat
_a
Be parierr .iih-iï;,;";yi:
teach them, eounsel them.
-;
them, and rod
l"pl9".
î;t"ü
wnen needful; but trainrhem
t¡em
path, and the besr way in-i-hã
.to
llC^lt. to
do
walk in it yoursetf anO t¡äol
l-!?,t.it
wr¡l be pretty sure to tollow-Vou_*öãí.
A RECIPE FOR SANITY,
(The late,Henry Rutherford
Eliot
-"- in
rne Novenìller ,,Centurl,).
^Are you worsted in a fight?
it
r.arrgh it
off.
it
off_
Laugh
off.
^ you_clea.teq of your
A.re
right?
l9:;!
r-lon'r
_Trr,g .trasedy of trifles,
shoot
butterffies with rifles_
Laugh
Does your wolh get into kinks?
Lâugh it off.
.
you
¡ear all sorts of l¡rinks?
Laugh it off.
rr-rt's,sanitY you're after,
'Inere's no re_ciDe
lihe laughter_
Laugh it off.
.
.+rre
_..Christian
.
.
.A,dvocate.,,
GOOD MANNERS.
are not tike ctothes;
*^y1lle.s,
oad rhing to have two suits oi it,s a
irrãï_l
beÌr and cne ro.
,lq.oot- until a crash comes are any ì/vea'r
tne forest, or the quiet of the room in
fJ^e^jo_l
yo-trr
best
manners
""",lu"fov.
of
all the timä;
wnlcn no eye but Gotl's sees may help
except the overwrought
_the_famity
suffer more by being pui
Parents
aware that there were dan- tney
hjm that prays to ¡ealize ttrat"frã-iã
äilü
r.nan
intlìviduals..
constant
Inrliviclual
ger-signals
use. If ;;, k;;í,
.by .
alone.with G9d; but a prayer may be for
which o,ught to have been you,r lest
-""cr-ei ãàìì
in-dividual
manners
thanl¡s.
for company, they
S-ine vóirr ee;- neeûed,
secret even if o,thers are ti. yetlt is ser
of nrai-se toward CoO's ttrrbne. put
Mgllg.. are very_apt to tack varte.[y will fit you ill, anrl your vis¡tä'r *iú
best in that eâse not to-asru-e ai meâ,ning.
,-_
.force
they
we-re
and melody into yòur
attitride of . prayer. If almsgiving is
tives. There is a limìt :"i:t:t!yo:l1 second_bestput on for him.
lÌto__ rneir
'wonlan's
offering. ITo.w marveltoïsty
ctothes ø¿ hãmì
too sac-red to
.y-e_1r
lTjseco¡spicuorrsly
be riisplayerì unñeceJsar_ and
of
rr_you will;
r¡y pgïore men, much more prayer your life's nathway God bas strerpà Y_Iel mtnY- a -power
_not your seconrt-¡est màì-_
lowly nround,
"nau.rüàål
bedewed
ners.
whom,
in Heaven,s ,;;;, ;;
wiilr numberiess oy sorlovr'ful_ mourners
shoülrì be in secret,-r,Christian-Advo.To
Þtessings.
"Count yonr many bless- tears, might be written, *iitr lonesì 1l ygith while to ¡e couoteous lï-nóï
cÂte."
"Di;ã
;i;;,
peopre
tngs, collnt fhen one by o4e."_sel.
you love nestt*-;Hãì.notony."-Sel.
:o !n9
this thanksqivÍng shoultt be
nersonal. "t'or this is the-wiil of Cóã
concerning you," The very choiõesi
blessi4es of life co,me to rrs iingty ànA
as
Again-.
nobody is warned ot reets anO'strJai's,
per's Ba.zaat,
rHE VOLUN?'EãRSI
6
Edited by Captain Chas. B. Booth.
OOKING along
the
many
lines oû silvery track, I
see ancl hear much that I
to
:u"-!
:_"::1 "1s
i,ï"-ì"1
G,ffit
of the
colto the reaclers
umn before I am caught in the whirl
of office v¡ork, or finrl myself rushed
westward on another trip.
Beautiful Louisiana means more to
@[
me to-day than it dicl a brief week
ago. It was then a great tract of our
I
knew on the
map; a State with a wontlerful his'
tory which I had reatl; a land where
the mighty Mississippi swept with
majesty into the Gulf antl where, on
v¿st plantations, sugar cane antl cotton gfew in the rich alluvial soil; the
Summer clime, where the mockingbird tritled his nightingale notes and
red bircls flashetl hither and thither
country whose o'utline
among the white blossoms and dark
of the Era CIub at which I was to
speak sometime during the next day
(Saturday), antl on reaching her
home, I received â, very loving welcome. The artistic taste of everything in those pretty rooms, glowing
with light and warmth from shacled
electric lights and the bright flrelÍsht in the open grates, appealed to
me very much. So did the thought
of bath and berl and quiel but before
I could be taken under the wing of
my kind hostess, I had to answer
questions that greeted me from all
sides of the room and by degrees it
dawned uÞon me that before our ad-
vent the house had been capturecl by
reporters. Now I was dusty, r¡eary,
antl so far as brain ancl mind wele
eoncerned, veÌy muddleil and stnpid.
I did not dare look at the papels next
day, because as likely as not the r+
po.rts would read as if I were talking
in my sleep, and I registerecl the vow
again to be caught without
green leaves of mighty rnagno'lias, never printed
facts concerning the
and where beardetl grey moss o'er some
anal our Prison work.
vivitl yellow Jessamine garlanded the Volunteers
various trees. So much for the Pic- Sometinre between twelve and one a.
I slipped away to dreamland, where
ture of my fancyl Now Louisiana is m.
delivered lectures to
dear to me as a living part of my tlear I misserl trains, got
up to lêave me
country because of the men and ¡ro' audiences that
and tried to frnd my
men I have learneal to know within to talk alone,
to have
her borders, the interests we have in way into prisons that seemetl
common, the needs I have seen and no openihg doors. Still, part of ny
the earnest workers who are striving sleep must have beetr dreamless, fol
I awoke refresìleti antl ere long was
to meet them!
enjoying a cup of reviving coffee at
But I must hark baek along the my
hostess's pretty breakfast table.
roacl atrd plck up the thread of mY
enterplising reporter, like the
triþ where I tlropped it. I am stanal- An
"early bird" hacl, however, appeared,
ing in the afternoon sunshine on the but
the "worm" dicl not mind it at all,
deÞot platform at Jackson, Missisfor she was a lady reporter and hatl
siÞÞi, waiting the train from the broughl
no pencil and note book,.ancl,
No.rth. It is reported an hour and
a member of the Era Club; we
twênty minutes late, but sinee that being
news, which brought me on the cor- forgot she had a dual identity and
of the press.
rectecl scherlule time from my hotel rras
'We also a lepresentative
bìrds and flowers antl
to wait its coming, it has lost more othertalked
like subjects at the table for
minutes and I have time to note the
poor, frozen garden at home had
truly Spring-like character of the sun my
rays and to watch the joy of a crowtl made me long for the earlicr Spring
of little boys playing marbles on the torches of the South.
The breahfast was soon over ancl
track, but I see at last the column of
black smoke in the distance, and' I then began a busy day. Mr. Sutton,
hear the unmistal<able cry of an llli- Mr. Shields and reporters ãecomnois Oentral locomotive ancl then the panied me on my journeys about the
great, heavy train looms up, gigantic city. X'irst I visited what is known
and terrible. The little boys scatter; as the Parish Flison. That. to New
the wheels eat up the silver metals Orleans is what the Tombs is to New
that gleam in the sun; the brakes York. The prisoners were all gathgrind and steam hisses forth in noisy ered in a kind of chapel and I talked
white streams and the lrorter helps to them for about twenty minutes in
me aboard! Yes, I have picked up the a little impromptu service. There I
clue and I am on my way to New met several members of the. Boards
that have the oversight and interest
Orleans.
the prisons and institutions of the
It was quite late in the evening, too in
city. tr'rom there we' went to the
late to see anything, when we neared House
of Detention. This is a place
the city to .which my thoughts had
looked forward so eagerly, ancl I must
confess I was somewhat weary when
I stepped from the train and looked
among the bustling crowds for somê
familiar face. I hacl not to search
long, for with cheery word and smiling greeting, the Rev. J. Sutton came
to¡vartls me, accompanied by Mr. F.
S. Shieltls. whom I was soon to know
and esteern for his earnest work in
the Prison Reform Association. 1\[r,
Sutton was lihe an old friend. for we
had seen a goocl deal of each other at
the Pri.scn Congress in Chicago, and
for two years he had been earnestly
endeavoring to bring me to Louisiana.
An
earnest, whole-souled Christian,
fearless in the defence of wha.t he
feeis to be right and equally courageous in the denouncing of that which
is wrong, he has proved himself a
valiant friend and champion for the
"boys" to whorn he has been chaplain
for some years. Now, though he is no
longer chaplain, he is going to ¡¡¡orh
just as zeaìously for them cn the outside ancl promises, beside tbe cther
duties which fill patt of his daily life,
to becorne the leader of the V. P. L.,
whlch has just started within the
IJlisou farms. But I am running
aheacl of my stotJ'. I left the three
of us standing in the New Orleans
depot, ancl I must surely get us â.way
somes'here, for it is nearlv eleven
o'clock and the night is dark, '¡.ith a
chill in the wintl. Mr'. Shields
ancr
Mr. Sntton tooh possessicn of my suit
in a few moments ¡¡¡e were
whirling away to a pretty ¡rart of the
city, where a very kind and charmins
hostess awaited me in her beautiful
horne, where I was to res¿ for the
night. Mrs. Ch¿mberlain is presklent
cases, ând
where Ehort terms are servetl as they
are oû Blackwell's Islantt in New
York. The building is built on a
beautiful, open square. I talked in a
kind of central hall or guard room to
a very dejected, hopeless lookilg
crolvd of human beings, and I felt
keenly how unsatisfactory it is to
rush in and talh and go away again
without any real human touch with
those whose conclition and surroundings you have had little time to fully
grasp. X'rom there rile went to the
St. Cnarles Hotel to dine. and I was
introduced to the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Louisianà. Then
came a fl¡'ing trip in an automobite
hindly brought b;1' s,o,ms latlies to es-
GAZETTE.
Club for my afternoon
cort me to the-We
whirletl through
streets into long avenues,
engagement.
crowded
passing at last along the beautiful St.
Charles Avenue on each side of which
are beauLiful homes and mansions,
while down the entire length, through
the centre, noble trees ancl graceful
palms beautify the urive. Swiftly as
we hurried to the hall, where I was
alreacly being irnpatiently awaited, I
coulcl ca.tch a glimpse here anal there
of trees laden with camellias or a
climbing rose in full blossom, clraping
porch o,r gallery with its delicate
bloom.
Alighting at last, a little unsteady
on my feet from the rapid pace, with
my hair in a tangle of wind-blown
stranals, I was met by a reporter
armed with a camera, from whom I
fled ! Three minutes later I was on
a platform looking down upon a crorqd
of welcoming faces of eârnest rilomen,
ready to hear my story and to give
me the loving, sympathetic respoùs.e
that leaBs so quickly from the heart
of wo,man to woman. Not only was
evefy sea,t taken, but many r¡ere
starrding. It was a clelightful audi
ence, but, a,lasl how the minûtes
ticked away, how slowly the words
seemetl to come when one has a heart
full to tetl to an audience that calls
forth all that oûe cah give. I haci hardly
begun, it seemetl to me, when Mr.
Sutton r¡ras making signals that
meant, "We shall lose our train if you
don't stop." Now I could have talked
to those dear, earnest Club women
two or three hours with pleasure, so
you could imagine how hard it ¡vas
to tlrag
mys,elf away,
but then, there
was another audience I longed still
more to meet, the aurlience I had
traveletl all the way to Louisiana to
talk to-the "bo,ys" in prison, and
when
ï
remembered them
I
gathered
up my wraps and fled from the hall,
for I knew if I lo,st that train the
whole ¡rrogram would be
s.D.cilecl, and
I should disappoint the hearts to
whom l carried a special message.
Ànother rapid whirl in the great automobile and we were safely landed ar
tbe depot. Good-byes were exchangetl
with the kind owners o,f that swift
flyer, and then, with Mr. Sutton, Mr.
Shields, several members cf the Boarcl
of Charities and Corrections, I found
myself on the train and once more the
engine is doing tbe rvorlt and I can
lean back and catch my breath antl
try to collect my scàtterecl wits, for
really that progr¿m hasbeen strenuous, and I can but wonder If f have
talked sense ancl really given anything worth while to those who have
shown so much .e.agerness to see and
hear me.
'We were travelling to Baton Rouge,
the capitol, but not to stay there. At
that point we were to be met by the
members
of the Board of
Priso,n
Management and with this added escort we $'ere to take a special train
out to Angola, the great prison farm
where I was to spend my Sunday. Beside the gentlemen who in the inter-
work with the "boys" is so personal
and of so sacrecl a character that I
am inclined to feel it is no concern
of the great outside public; but o'n
this occasion, those most earnestly
desirous of helping the cause of the
prisoner felt th¿rt the more the public
could be told of the s'ork, the better
it would be fo'r the future, and I will
say that the special reporter showed
deelr interèst anrl sent volumes of
n-ews very correctly to, hÍs paper,
which would doubtless be reacl by
many who, perhalis, had never given
the men and women ¡rrisoners of theil
state a kindly thought.
The sun was setting over the wicle
silvery stretches c,f the Mississippi
as our train halted at Baton Rouge
just below the Iittle green hÍ11 on
which is buiit. the castle-like capitol.
On the depot platform awaited ug
Colonel Parker, President of the
Prison Board, who is in Louisiana
what Co,mmissioner Collins ls to New
York State. Carriages conveyed the
'whole party to the hotel where we
gathered arounil one blg table for
suppef. Suppef over, rve drove ovef
to the tleÞot, and sooll were aboard
our special, While it rocks over the
road on the hour run to the Statê
Farm at .A,ngola, let me take the oÞportunity of telling y,oü something of
the prison system of thls State. I
cannot do better than côpy from Mr.
Shield's report, of the Prlson Refofm
Association which will best êxDfess
the drastic chatrge which has ðome
about during the iast seven years.
"As to oür own State, the leasê sys.
tem errdured in its very worst phase
until January, 1901. The lease was
made to one party, but he was vested
with authority to sub-lease. The convicts were employed largely in levee
building, in oo'nnection wÍth which
work the sanitary conditions were of
the worst, and the death rate reached
a higher mark than that of any other
State, being an aYerage of over 100
per 1,000 per annum, for the last eight
years, but an article of the new Con-
stitution of 1898 closed that page of
history.
In the early eighties a fe¡v earnest
men, resident chiefly in the alluvial
district of the State. where the evils
of the lease systern 'ç\¡ere ever in their
midst, ancl were exercising pernicious
and brutalizing influences, determined to bring about the abolition of the
system. They were convinced that
the system v¡as not only brutal and
a v¡rong on the part of the State to
that class o,f its population, and harn.ful to all who had to do with it, trut
from an economical and financial
standpoint it was a great mistake.
They demonstratetl to successive
State administrations and legislatures
that under the proper management
the convicts could be errrployed o,n
public works, such as levee and road
building and cultivâtion of State
Farms, to far greater advantage, and
to the physical and moral benefit of
the prisoners.
Despite persistent agitation and ilre
enlistment of some ,cf the State nress.
of prison reform work accom- Iittle
was accomplished even in the
panied me, a special representative
of the evil practices of the
of "The Picayune" had been detailed mitigation
to travel rrith us. Now, as the rule. system."
When the State took over the conthe last person I ever want in my
prison meetings is a reporter. My trol and mâ¡agiement of its own prisoners and the lease
ests
system was done
away with, some magniflcent farms
antl sugar plantations wore purchased.
Angola is the largest of these farms.
It is a beautiful sweep of country, with
wide fields protectecl by a long levee
built along the river side. There are
'three camps upon this farm-one
for
the r¡¡hite men, Camp E,-one for the
colored men, Camp Hope-anal ânother
camp for the women. There is another
farm nearer to New'Orleans which I
did not visit, and beside this they have
the levee camps which are built to be
used for a few months at different
points where the men are working on
the levees. Only the men who have
passetl a ,rigid physica.l examination,
ancl in weight, height and muscular
development are fit for the work on the
Ievee are sent to those camps. One of
the reasons that the farm system is so
necessary in LonÌsiana is the fact that
the colored population are much more
aclapted to worli in the open air and
on the farms than they would be
lf
hept elosely orowded w.lthlu walls aud
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T
TT
E
I/O LUATTEER.S'
G
I
AZ ETTE.
Polytheism is not natural to us; It
even impossible in practice. "No
employed fn workshops. It has been
proved that their health is lmpaired
and they are not suitable fof 'this work.
Sugar cane and cotton are príncipally
is
man can serve two masters," much
less can he worship two gods. In his
heart he will love the one and neglect
raised on the farms. Then tlrere is one
walled prison, the p'rison at Baton
the other, and the god that gets the
man's thoughts will soon have his
service ancl his soul. The heart can-'
not remain always divided. As we go
Rouge. A certain number of white and
coloreal men are kept here..
But the train.is slowing up anrl we
are informed we have reached our des-
tination. Looliing out f,rom the car,
everything is so clarli'that we cân get
no idea of our surroundings, but the
swinging lantsrns of those r¡/ho come
to meet ts reveal the stripes worn by
some of them, and we know we are in
the heart of the prison worltl. The air
was fresh antl balmy, l¡ut the grouncl
underfoot seemetl muddy and. somewhat difficult to tread in the tlarkness,
so I was put into a carriage drawn by a
couple of mules, and together with Mrs.
Colonel Parker, was driven by one of
the men to the big plantation honse
which serves as a sort of heaclquarters
on the farm. It. was a rambling old
house with lorìg galleries surrounding
it, painted white and lool<inþ lihe lhe
ideal plantation house which is pictured in the okl books concerning the
south. Bright fires were burning in
the open glates, and Íve needed them,
lor though the b,reeze seemed balmy,
there was a peculiar chill in the air
'which was perhaps more lrerceptible in
the house than outsicle. I retiretl to
my room almost at once, a,nd went to
sleep with the firelight flicltering on
the ceiling ancl the sense of somewhat
q.eary boues.
Ancl now
I realize I must
w¡ite
qnicher, and that nty report, which l
an ho.ur, and then oul Drocession of
buggies and car,riages formed again
a.nd we were driven bach to the Head'
qualters Camp for dinner. Ib hatl
tahen. us from nine o'cloch to two
thirty to get through the morning's
pt'ogram. After dinne,r, there was ilìst
time to drive to the hospital, but only
time to have a glimpse inside Ure
wârrls, because the smol<e of our train
lvas already seen in the tlistance. As
we boardecl the train and pulletl out
into the warm sunshitte for our trip to
Ba.ton Rouge, I hea,rcl the sound of
frogs in a liitle pond by the roatlsitle,
and somer¿hat amused. my friends frorn
New Orleans by telling them 'çvhat a.
delightful sound it was to me. It was
a beautiful ride through lhe sunlit
country, It is perhaps one of the hilliest parts of Louisiana, which is a state
of great, wide stretches of flat lald.
On the hill sicles, cypress trees, cane
brakes, ancl giant magnolias beautified
the scenery. I sarv wilcl ducks on [he
r¡'ater, and a beautiful king8sher flew
arvay at oul approach.
When v¡e reaclìed Baton Ronge, the
sun was setting over the river, antl I
hacl about an hour antl a half for rest
before my evening meeting. All the
chnrches had given np their services,
and a large hall had been talien in
which a splendid andience gatherecl to
greet me. I talkecl to them for about
an hour antl ten minntes, bnt I rvas so
tired that
I
fottncl
it
necessary to lean
against the stand in the centre of the
platfo,rm to rest myse'lf. 'fhen came a
night's rest, a,ntl IMonclay molning early
lur. Sutton anil I startetl together for
on in life our purflose becomes constautly more untlivided. Tlie ruiinq
passion drives the others out. The
sooner this happens tlre better, for
practical results.. A divicled life is
worthless. A man may follow more
than one trade and prosper, but in the
higher plane of life, in morals anrl religion, he can serve but one master.
If in his daydreams he revels in pleasures of sin and follows lust anrl pride,
his wortls and his deeds will follow
how it 'rainecl that morning!-a regular his heart, his noble purìlose to selve
drenching downpour, but the elements Gorl will come to nothing; for he has
rvere kind to me, for, just as soon as I set up his idols in the sanctna,ry, and
God will not be a partner with Mamhad flnishetl breakfast, the rain ceaserl,
and it did not start again until I was mon or with Baal. Gorl makes a
rinrler cover in the clepot, when another temple of every heart that accepts no
other god, that is kept free from idols.
deiuge brolte npon the city.
I reached Mobiie at about 1.30, anil "Blessecl are the pure in heart, for
was escorted to one of the beautiful they shall see God."
homes of that ciby, rvhere I had lunch'
Our thoughts come not only from
eon with several frientls who were ou'r own observation and experience,
I
love.
in
the
cause
interested
deeply
but from others, through hearing and
That eveníng I spohe in the Y. M. C. A. .reading. IMe do not thinh of reading
and
tlie
most
beautiful
builcling, one of
or conversing as a matter that conaltistic buildings I have ever seen, and cerns salvation, but that is the right
I
started
on
this
tlren at 12.46 D.m.
way to think of it. The most of our
northern journey which was to lanrl me
home again.
There is one thing I must mention
befole I close. I rvas delighted to flnd
a splendicl example which the South is
setting to all othel pa,r'ls of the country by its determined action in the
qnestion of the liquot l¡usiness'
is dry; Mississippi and Aia'
bama have both gone dry; bY local
option rnost of Louisiana is tlry alreacly
ancl they are preparing for a fight
which is to enable the whole State to
combine in this action. The,re are those
who rpiil tell us you can get all the
liquor you want in a dry State and who
try to argue the law is a farce, but
Georgia
if people rvho persistently seeh it
can find it, rve must all recognize the
value of rernoving the temptation from
the path of those (and they are a very
large majority) who cl'rinh because the
even
temptation
is ever before them. In
thoughts come to us in that way. With
no communio'n with others, we would
all. The thoughts that
are stored in the heart are the eternal
wealth, treasures either gootl or barl.
"A gootl man out of the good treasure
hardly thinh at
of the heart bringeth forth
gootl
things; and an evil man out of the evil
treasure b'ringeth forth evil things."
The parable of the net has more
than one application, but its application to the individnal is the most obvious. The mind is lil<e a dragnet; it
necessarily gathers of all l<incls even
when it seeks only the best. But we
have power to save the good anil to
cast the bacl away. It is the thought
that is treasured that is brought up
again and again from the treasure
of the memory like some rare
jewel to deligbt us that more than
house
every o,ther makes the character. Such
thoughts grow like the living pearl in
ihe Iiving shell. Happy is he who.
seehing gootlly pearls, finds the one
for which it is worth while to sacrifice
the meeting wlUrin the walls.
all that he has.
thought we hatl at last and for tbe fi"t
We eherlsh the treasr¡res of ou,r
time lost our "Picayune" reporter, but
irearts not only by thoughts, bnt by
he turned up without his b'reahfast, so easily led.
I shall send you for the next coltrmn 'rvords and deeds. The thorght that
having overslept, but heroically determining not,to mÍss this last meeting a couple of earnest letters of apprecia- has founcl expression in action gains
tion I have receivecl from the "boys" in double power, ancì even the thougbt
on the program.
Louisiana.
could have drawn out through many
that has founcl expression in wortls
The little chapel had been beautifully
pages, must be made as briefly as pos- decorated. There wel'è banhs of beautiEver lovingly your mother,
only is harcll¡' less potent. '"By thy
MAUD B. BOOTH.
sible.
¡vortls thot shalt be justified, and by
ful red canellias and vases fillecl witl.
When I came down in the morning. jonquils antl violets. I was very much
thy words thou shalt be condemned;"
rtre were glacltlenetl'to see the sun shin- touched to see a large motto which the
the heart
THE
TREASURE OF THE HEART. fc,r "out of the abuntlance oftbe
ing blightly, and one of the first sounds "boys" had preparred bearing the v¡orcls,
"pbunthe mouth speaketh." antl
grows to still more as it is
that greeted me was the trilling call of "Welcome, Little Mother!" ancl what
tlance"
Thoughts mahe character, antl char- spoken. "Let the worrls of my mouth,
a mocliing bird. We matle quite a a welcome their clear faces gave mel acter
makes the life history and the antl the meditation of my heart, be
large party around the table, and atter a Far, far away from my "boys" in Sing
most substantial breakfast, we stal'ted, Sing and the otlier prisons, yet I fonnrl eternal destiny of every man. Little
acceptable in Thy sight, O Lortl, mY
Samuel learned from his mother that strength, and my recleemer."-"Chrisout. It made quite an imposing string their hearts with the same earnest re- he
prayers,
given
to
her
answer
\üas
in
of buggies and carriages, with one of sponse and the same grateful appreciahim-to tían Advoeate."
the Captains licling on horseback ahead tion for what I am trying to do for and that she in turn lrad givengrowing
The
to
his
country.
and
God
of us. Reaching Camp E, we found them. \áe had a.gcod, lcng meeting,
boy nursecl the thought of Gocl's
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
oulselves soon in the mirlst of the
mercy and power and of his own oblimen. This is rrhere the white men and the League was fairly started.
gation
âncl
so
he
tentletl
him;
to
serve
for
hurrying
off
q'as
I
found
rnyself
Then
live. It
a gr"at regret to us that
Believe in yourself, believe in huCaBtain Young, the officer in charge, a train again, ancl ere long we we,re the lamps before the sanctuary antl manity, believe in the success of your
'was absent th'rough sickness. \Me speeding bach to New Orleans. That lay clown to see visions and to clream undertahings. Fear nothing and no
heard such gcod things concerninq evening there was a large gathering in dreams. The boy became a seer be- one. Love you,r worl<. Work, hope,
the trust. Keep in touch with to-clay.
him 'that I am sorry I failed to meet one of the Bublic halls of the city. I cause his mind was busy with
Ot everv Teach
yourself to be practical and uphim tluring my visit. The men were r¡¡as very courteously welcomed by the thoughts of the invisible.
"As he thinketh to-date ând sensible. You can not fail.
all gatherecl in their dining-room, and lVlavor. and then lrad the oÌ)Dcl't"nitv man it may be saicl,
least,
so
he;"
or,
at
hea,rt,
so
is
his
in
of
the
and
the
cause
"boys"
of
bringing
it was not long before l¡¡e v¡ere in the
Men bow before talent, even if unancl en- he wilt become. His purpose in life associated with goodness, but between
full swing of a meeting with them. their need to a sympathetic
,retiring
of
his
mind,
the
activities
to
will
shâpe
Before
I think I must have talhecl for about thusiastic aurlience.
these two we must make an everlastfancies anrl ing distinction. IMhen once the idolan hour antl twenty minutes. There bed that night, I packed my dress suit will clirect clesires anrlwhat
he
has
he
till
becomes
in
deeds
I
eally
the
when
rose
rtras so much on my heart to say, and cases, so that
atry of talent enters then farewell to
somehow my audience was so easy to morning, everything was reatly for my purposed. Keeu thy heart with all spirituality, when men ask their teâch'
issues
are
the
out
of
it
for
stoP
diligence;
I
was
to
ers. not for that v¡hich will make them
talk to, that, hacl Ít not been a con- start homeward. But
more hrmble ancì Godlike, but for the
sciousness of work still before me, I over in Mobile for a few hours, Oh, of life."
excitement of an intellectual banquet,
coulcl have gone on talking indefinthen farewell to Christian progressilely. Quite a number took their stand
'We
very manfully for the nev¡ life. After
the meeting was over, I shook hancls
with every man as he passed out, and
then we were off again driving over
the fields. Rather bumpety roatls they
were, but the air \t¡âs so refreshing
that
I
prob-
Selected by Mrs. Captain O'Brien'
Youngstown,
welcomecl the drive.
things don't come along Your
I find myself in the 'Women's Wheu v¡ay,
to a comÞanY of the
Can't hurry 'ern by frettin';
"girls." There we hatl also an interesting ancl enthusiastic meeting, and I If clouds o' care obscure your tlay,
Can't chase'em off by frettin'!
sullpose I talked for a.bout another
woe,
hour. Then came another drive, antl Your tears just irritate yourgrow,
it was a long one. This brought us to An' freshen up ancl help it
Camp Hope, which is the residence of Don't wash, it out o' sight, antl so
There ain't no use in frettin'!
our coloretl brethren. Here the seats
'were âll ont in the open air, and I
yon
Camp, talking
coulrl see a very earllest response- on
many faces. Again I tallied for about
with their ever-present
STOP YOUR FRETTIN'
Next
founrl my autlienee an enthnsiastic olre.
The singing was most tlìrilling' ând I
clealing
lem concerning their cololetl brethren,
the South will undoubtecìly be doing
much to help them by closing the
places into v'¡bich so many of them are
have to bear
The heavy load
Ain't lightened utl by frettin'!
The sorrow vultures in the air
Ain"t cheered away by frettin'!
O.
If
clel¡ts is orowdin', rent is due,
No cash in hand and you are blue,
Brace up and be a màn, for you
Can't square yourself by fre-ttin.'
No matter what your care antl riloes,
Don't humor 'em by frettin'!
If h,ard luck aims her heavy blows
Strilçe back-don't go to f,rettin'!
Screw np your nerve ancl holtl your
grip,
.A.ntl heep a frozen itpper lip,
For anything on earth cân whip
A man rvho gets to frettin'.
tr' .W. Robertson.
If we had prayed more, we neecl
not have worked so hard. We have
too líttle praying, face to face with
God every tlay. Looking back at the
end
I
suspect there rtrill be great grie'f
for. our sins of omission-omission
to get from God what we might have
hail by praying.-Andrew .4,. Bonar.
Full joy does not exclude sorrow, but
it is a joy so deep that no sorrow
can
get below it.-"Refolmatory Pless."
".A.nd he who serves
his brolher
best,
Gets nearer to God than all the rest."
-Ruskin.
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EDIT()RIÁ.L G(DitIn[ENT UP()N CURRENT TIIEDIES.
BI¡ TfIE
SPIRITUAL DECLINE MAY
BE
GRAÞUAL.
Dr. Gerhard Uhlhorn, in his admi¡ahlé.book on the conflict of Christianity with heathenism, in spealiing of the
EIDTT('TI.I!|r-ICITIEF'
PR.ESIDII¡':T
Heavenly Father, the only true Saviour.
and Deliverer, has been folsahen.
If this should reach the eye of any
r'vho have become lukewarm, and in
w"hose
mind religious thought, powe"
B^¡T.LLINGTION B(()IDTII.
see their precions ones die before their
untbrtunate habit,.¿ ûrait of being blinrl.
very
to the hopeful and happy side of work
eyes.
From the upper floors of the buiiding
two stairways offerè(l exit. One
of
these led to the door in the front, and
of the religious life of the and peace have been orortdecl out by the other to the door in the 'rear. It
pagâns, sholvs that it woulcl be a great tire things of the world, let him, ere it appears that it was at this latter place
mistake to suppose that paganisDo is 'foo ìate, turn and seeli the face of that the lives of the little ones were
evinced outwald signs of decay before thê One who said, "My peace I give lost while would-l¡e rescuers stood
decline
many.years. The waning of their religion was very gradual. The ternples
stitl stood in all their splendor, those
that were destroyed in civil wals having been restored. with great magnificence. G,reat pomp was shown in the
feast and sacriflces. SulrBliauts anC
seekers for. aid still surrorinded the
altars. Oraclês were still consuiteal.
One hundred thousancl animals were
sacriûced in three nonths upon the
accession of Emperor Caligula. Dr.
Uhlhorn further shows that even whele
the. father of a family believed in the
advancecl thinhers' views, the custom-
ary religious observances were never
at betrothals and marriages,
at births anrl oeaUrs. "Lucretius is
omitted
perhaps correct when he speaks of
it
v¡ent wêll witlt
them, mocked at the gods, btit at the
first reverse of fortune hastenerl to the
tempies for the sake of sacrificing, and
those who, so long as
to many woulil have applierl the pic'
ture Plutarch d'ra¡vs of a man who, inwardly estranged from leligious ceremonies, still outwardly jolns in them."
It
\
\
can be the same in the Christian's
experience as in the pagan's. While
the professèd Christian may lack ïhe
spiritual powel an,( life which alone
can come from God, ancl may be con'
scious of it, yet outwardly there may
be no special gigns of tlle rìecline. He
may l¡e punctual iu his attendance at
church. In his external affairs he nay
have resembled the ship found in the
Arctic regions rvhich, when found, was
o.bserved to be intact in all her palts,
apparently in perfect orde¡, yet frozen.
All such have 'the resemblance of Godliness, antl as rilith the Þagan, so with
them, the power of habiü onlY has led
them to conform to certain leligiotts
observances; lnueecl, the decay of their
retigion may have been so gradual that
even they themselves may not have
been fuìIy aware of it. IÛ may be that
their estrrangement was a qttestion of
years. Colder antl colcler ancl more ancl
more indifferent has that experience
become, until Gorl sees iL necessary to
cross their path with some sudden visitatio,u. But why this visitation? Becanse God knows that there is a greater
prorÌeness cluring prosperity, pleasure
ancl worldly indulgence, of the soul's
wandering flom Him aud cutting loose
from His faith. Hence, in His infinite
mercy and desire to save his sottl, He
permits dis¿rppointments, difficulties
and loss to restore him to his faith'
It may be the t'everse of fortune, it
may be the visitation of trial, or it
nay lre the sÙrolre of bereavement.
Then the sDirit is brought face to face
witb his slight arrcl forgetfirlness of
God, revealing to him that He' his
unto thee, not as the world gives, give
I
unto thee."
COLLI NGWOOD'S CATASTROPH E.
One of the most serious ancl fatal
catastrophes that has happened for
months, and which has occasioned a
wave of sorrow, as well as inclignation,
to sweep over the whole country, ocçurred in Collinglvood, neal Cleveland,
Ohio, last week, when some one hundred and seventy-eight children lost
their lives throrgh the fir'e which completely alest¡royed the public school in
that neighborhood.
,
It has seemetl almost incredible that
a public school, which of all bniidings
should have been erected with a view
to safety and tlura,bility, shoultl have
proved a veritable flre-trap. The fact
that rt was a beantiful structure, wlth
a strihing front entrance, merely met
the artistic view.
It is concetled
gen-
erally that a building of this character
should have, even atthe risk of losing
any artistic èffect, safety of construct.ion antl facility of exit. Furthermore,
the press reports state that there was
a turn in the a,r'cade, the pillars and
front of rvhich formed a veritable
wedge against which the clush of the
chiiclren was helcl in a grip lihe a vise,
But what of the other entrance which
was not hept open? This proved a
barrier which helped to catch the little
ones, until the fires which trapidly. appro,ached them clid their tlevastating
anrl dearily worli.
We do not propose to cl'rvell upon the
horrors of the catastrophe in this art-
icle, but we do think that the calarnity
should fo'rm a very selious warning
not alone to those rvho have the oversight of public schools, bttt also to
those who control the management of
public buiklings, churches ancl other
institutions. Another phase of
the
câtastrophe which has been pointed
is the fact
that whilst the walls of the schoolhouse were built of brich antl concrete,
yet the insicle vas little more than a
o.ut by the Clevelantl press
shell, which burnecl with almost incon-
ceivable ralridity, the entire irttericr
being a mass of smohing rttins lying
in the cellar within thirty minrtes after
the alarm of fire was soundetl.
'We, will no.t here enter into the
scenes of horror which r¡vere enacted
around the entrance of the ill-fated
school-house: It is statecl lry onlookers
that they have had few Parallels in
helpless.
One or two ímportant lessons shonld
not only be learned, but indelibly impressed upon the minds of all authorities who have the custorly, construc-
tion and safe-gnarding of ou'r public
buildings. I. It shoultl be a law as
ilexorable as that of the Medes and
Persians that all doors of publiò buildings open outwalds. 2. 'lh^at all buildlngs that have public rooms, like
school-rooms or church auditoriums on
the second floor, have sufñciently witle
ancl access.ible fire-escapes- It is not
sufficient that there are fi,re-escapes,
but that the fire-escapes shall be of
such a character that people may pass
down them with some clegree of safety.
3. The floors of public buiklings should
be built of sufñciently snbstantial ioists
if
not of iron, to fasten such a fire
as
that which occurrecl in Collingwood
sufficiently long to allow of people to
escal)e. 4. We quite agree with tlte
suggestion of one Governoi, antl also
the suggestion of the loca,l press, that
ministers, as well as principals of
schools antl colleges, should educate
the people to' leave the building
way. This is an
in the direction of the safety of human life and
in
some organizeil
and experielce. As J. R. Miller
saiil: "There
has
always have been those
who pervelt the teachrngs of Christ in
this matter of cheerful living and make
their religions life weary and disheartening. Instearl of beiug helpers of the
faith and joy of others, trey are hin-
derersj Instead of' tuahing
others
stronger for strûggle, for burden-bearing and for duty, they make it harcler
for them to-tlõ-their part.
But not in churches only are the discouragers found-they are everywhere.
Business men meet them continually.
The¡r are aln'ays saying disheartening
worrls. They discount all prosperity.
1'hey are prophets of evil wherever
they go. The sweetest happiness has
some alloy
for them. If they
made
only themselves wretched by the miserable pessimism, there would be less
to trouble ourselves. Ërrt they
are messengers of discouragement to
everyone they meet."
need
AMERICANIZING FOREIGNERS,
Considerable comment has 'been
made both by the secular, as well as
the Christian, press regarcling the Americanizing of the people who come to
this land fron fo,r'eign shores. l\{ore
particularly has this question arisen
in its important phases since the rapid
increase in the tide of immigration.
When it was a rnatter of several hundreds coming to these shores per week,
indispensable precaution
the problem was not Bresentecl in a
startling or conspicuous form. But
property.
now that tens of thousancls, sometimes
as many as flve or six thousanal in one
'We pray'that, Gocl's hancl may be ex-
tenderl in all the consolation and mercy
of His Divine Fatherhood towarcl the
bereaveil anrl suffering relatives of
these sûrichen little ones, and thât such
catastrophe mal
averted in this, our country.
a similar
be
long
THE MESSENGER OF DISCOURAGE.
MENT.
has been sâitl that an ecclesiastical court-martial shoulcl be establishecl
to inflict punishment uBon all who seek
to discourage members of a church
community, antl that a law Should be
passecl in each State prohibiting per-
It
day, are arriving in the New lilorld,
the ploblem is becoming one of serious dimensions. It has been argued
that many o,f the foreign peoples have
remainecl who ale subjects of their olrl
home, whereas it has been pointetl out
that it is not only desirable, but sh<¡uld
become co.mpulsoly that ali such shottld
become citizens, and should adopt the
institrrtions anrl custonrs, and in the
case of the children, the language of
the country as their own.
Regârding this question of resisting
Americanization, "1'he Congregation-
alist" says:
sons adopting discouraging words or
means whereby people are lecl to become disheartened in life. (It is cer'
"About flfteen years ago emigration
from Hungary to the Uniteat States began to assume large proportions. It
tain that such laws wottld be more
beneflcial to society at large than
many which are at present in exist'
ence. lt is an untlisputed fact that
is
there are sorne people who, more or
less s}'stematically discout'age others.
Not onty do they sov¡ the seeds of dÍs.
content wherever they go, bttt theY
throw a "wet blanket" ttpon the effo,rts
of
gooct, earnest, well-intentioned tndi-
this or oUrer countries. Little children
were piletl npon each other six and
eight feet deep, while strong men and
viduals. 'We do not say they are evil
people; on the contrarY, they may be
good and conscientious so far as llving
frantic mothers struggletl with desperation to free them. Yet they failed,
and lyerre compelled to stanal bach anil
tff¡
even câreful in the regard of religious
exercises anal life, but they have the
goorl antl moral lives is concerned, ancl
was clivided into two seDarate racial
streams, as the life of the home land
divicletl, the less atlvanced being
Slavic in blood ancl the others belong-
ing 'to the dominant Magyar
race.
Many of the Magyar immigrants be'
longecl to the Reformed Church of Hnngary, which is oue of the largest Pres-
byterian botties in the world. Efforts
were matle by American Presbyterians
and the Reformetl Church to provide
'religious privileges for these strangers,
anrl churches gl'ew t¡p in Pennsylvania
and other centres o,f their oecupatÍon.
,4,11 wenb well until the authorlties of
the home church began to awake to ihe
TH E
fact that their countrymen in America
were l¡ecoming Americanizerl. Thgre-
the American churches and to re-estâblisb. the home connection and the home
autllority. The direct aim of this attempt wâs natioual and political. It
rilas to l<eep the Hungarians true to
their political relations. As Baron
Banffy, the lay president of the Hungarian 'Convent' said
to
one
of
his
agénts, 'We want them to remain good
subjects of their old home; r¡¡e want
them to remain Htingarians and not to
become Americans.' Such an aim is
evid.ently against the best, lnterests of
the Hungarian immigrants and of the
American people. 'We havê a right to
challenge
any foreign conttol.
of
churches or schoo s w'hich prevents the
speetly Americanization of the people
who come to us as séttlers. The attemp't is just as obnoxious on the part
of Hungarian Calvinists as of the Russian Greelr Orthodox or Japanese Shintoists. The result thus fal has been to
caúse discord ànd division among Àmerican Hungarians ancl to hinder the
LU N?'EõN"Y GAZETTE.
By Rev.
Theodore
'We cannot trust ourselves too lit-
tle, and we cannot tiust God too
much. "Trust iil the Lord with" all
thy heart, ând lean not uPon thine
own understanding." Somewhere in
the future there hangs before us in
the air a golden icleal of a perfect life,
but as $¡e move on the dream of complete victory over sin moves on also
before us. It is like the ehild running over the hill to catch the rainbow; wheri he gets over, the rainbow
is as far off as ever. If our expect¿tion rests on our own resolutions and
our own strength, then our day-dreams
are continually doomed to tlisappoi¡tmenL.
"My soul, wâit thou only upon God:
Him." Goil
for my expectation is from
'When
we study
never cliÈappoints us.
the Àlmishty in the book of nature or
the book of revelation, we find our
utnìost expectation over-topped by the
wonderful reality. lMhen we obey God,
we find the rich reward sooner or
later, just as surely as day follo¡¡/s the
sunrise.
'When $,e trust God. He
One of the commenclatio,ns of certaìn sewing machines is that they are
"light running." They move very
easily, and require little strength or
labor. A little girl said, "ï like to sew
when there is no thread on the ma-
no buralens, no heart-breahings, no
"strong cryings ând tears," no "groanings that cannot be uttered," but light-
going religion, these sewing machines
whìch sew without thread, these faiths
that are \tithout worlis antl are cle&d,
the systems and creeds w.hich stir no
emotions in the hearts of saints, and
worh no conviction in the minds of
sinners, a,ntl which protluce ûo change
'We
iu the lives of their professors.
rreecl to come down to the facts, the
realities, antl the dutìes of a Ch'ristianity which is a reality as 'lvell as
a faith. anrl a fact as well .as a theory.
Life is short. .\Me have little time
for dreaming and dozing. With God's
help, we are to do worlt for Him for
eternity-worlr which will fequire
effolt, sacrifice and zeal in the Master's camse, and which will tell on hu-
man welfare nos¡ âûtl evermore. Let
us be workers togethêr with Him, that
rvhen He shall apÞear we may appear
r.vith Him
in glory.-"The Cliristian."
If 'lhe human so'ul were not curtained
by a material body, tbere could be no
such thing as a lie. Diogenes would
need no lantern. Men worild appear
as they are; the motive of everY ac-
tion woultl be clear. But here we are,
all masquerading. In the lor¡'est grade
man is honest; he follows instinct as
innocently ancl as openly as the brute.
Tìren he eats of the frttit of lhe tree
of
l<nowledge
airtl tliscovers that
can deceive others, and at that
ment he falls. Therea,fter he
he
mo-
Pro*
gresses through long mental anal spir-
itual evolution toward an
altruistic
honesty in which, let us hope, he may
ultimately recognize that to lie is to
insult his own being-is to violate that
distinction betv¡een right and wron¡;
which is inherent in him and upon the
use of which his real happiness tlenends. The average man fears God
llecause he lrnows that Go'tl is the one
being to whom he can not lie, and who
will not lie to him. If he loves God'
it is for the same Teaso$'-"Puþliç
0pinion."
my boundless and running over Christ
Jesus ! "
'When a friend of mine, long years
ago, urged John Jacob Ästor to subscribe for a certain object, and told
him that his son had subscribed, the
old German millionaire replied very
dryly: "He can do it; he hâs got a
you
rich father." Brother Christian,
and I have got a rich Father! 'We are
heirs to .a great inheritance, and
God;
"They trust not God at all who trust
Him not entÍrely; he that stands with
one foot on a rock and another foot on
a
easy-
less to exhaust I left some little
brooks nearly run alry, the other day,
up in the mountains, but ï founrl yonrler harbor, fed from the fathomless
Atlantic, as full as ever.
"Oh, how shallow a soul I have to
take in Christ's love," said the holy
Rutherford; "f have spilled more of
His grace than I have brought with
me. How little of the sea ean a child
carry in his hand; as little am I
able to take away o'f my great Sea,
for my expectation ís from Him."
There can be no divided resnonsibility; it is God or nobocly. As the otd
Purltan writer Trapp reminds us:
it;
We need to get ritl of this
have never been able to explore, much
"My souì, wait thou only upon
chine-it runs so easy."
There are persons \ilhose religion
seems to be of the "light-running"
order. There is nothing difñcult about
accomplished.
self "filled with might in the inner
man." There is a fullness of grace
and love ancl power and peace and
eomfort that His redeemed chiltlren
Gotl must take tt ill that we covet so
liltle of the best things, a"nd pray with
such scrimpecl and scanty faith.
"Open thy mouth wide and I will fill
it." 'We can easily over-expect from
our fellov¡-creatures. but we canriot
qver-expect from God. "The Lord
taketh pleasure in those that hope
in His mercy." I have read many a
biography which ended Ín bright
hopes quenched in blackness of darkness, but I never have read and never
have heard of the experience.of any
man who confessed that he was disappointed in his Lord and Saviour.
LIGHT.RUNNING MACHINES,
no'thing; l¡ut when that belt is thrown
lrpon a fast pnlley, then at every turn
machinery is mot ecr and something is
ciple, and John was not disappointed.
Neitner'was Paul when he founal him-
of exceedingly precious
promises. Let us ask for great things.
the sea."
is being done. A belt upon a loose
pulley runs easily, but accomplishes
housekeeper and nurse.
possessors
the
churches. But drany have lesentecl the
attemllt to clictate to them from across
pleasant,
eomfortable way of frutting things,
wirich holds oll orthoilox oBinions, but
never loses any sleep over them.
Machinery runs easily when no work
making her journey to strange lands,
saw herself shut in to the ctuties of
L. Cuyler' D. D.' in "Episcopal R.ecordçr."
work of gathering fhern into
ness, ease arrcl airiness;
9
COD. NEVER DISAPPOINTS US.
upon the Hungarrian Church, which had
heretofole done nothing for its self-
exiled children, began to.bestir itself,
ancl sent over delegations which attempted fo break the connections with
T/ O
a quicksand will sink as surely as he
that hath both feet on a quicksand."
The stake is indescribably tremend-
REV. DR. CUYLER.
nevèr fails us. When we prây l"o
Him aright, with faith, with submis-
with perseverance, and witll
to glorify Him, he answers us. I do not l¡elieve our
siveness,
honest desire
Heavenly X'ather ever tut'ned
a
deaf
ear to an honest prayer offered in the
right spirit. He is a soveleign, and
doeth His own wise will: and it it
Ì)leaseth Him to kee¡r us waiting for
the answer, then we must understand
that tlelays are not always denials.
'If we have only to
demand from
just ¡¡/hat we desire, and in the
way antl the time thât suits our pleasure, then we woulcl be snatching
God's sceptre antl trplng to lule the
Ruler of the universe. Did you ever
knpw a chiltl that ruled its parents
r¡¡ithout ruining itself ? And if it
spoils our children to have their own
way, I am sure that it rvould be for
our ruin if we conld l¡encl Gocl to all
our wishes. If this be our expectation
God
from God, then the sooner we abandon
it
the better.
God keeps
all His pronrises, but He
has nevel promised to let you and
nre holtl the reins, He anslvers Drayer,
but in the way and at the time that
His infinite wisdom cletermine. Some
prayers are
not
answerecl
at
once;
more than one faithful mothel has
gone to her grave before the child
whose conversion she prayed for has
given his heart to Jesus. Some prayers âre answered in a ìvay so unlooked
for that the answer is not recognized;
eternity will "make it plain." For
many Detitions are answered according to the intention and not according to the strict letter of the request;
the blessing granted has been something different from what the believer
expected. Jacob; when he blessed
the sons of Joseph, Iaid his right hand
on the son who stood at his left sitle.
So God sometinres takes off His hancl
of blessing froni the thing we prayed
for, and lays it on anotber which is
more for our good ancl His own glory.
He often surprises His people with
heaven
will have abundance of such surprises.
Let us rejoice to remember that our
Saviour is God, and in Him dwelleth
unexpected blessings*and
all fullness. "Of His fullness have
.all received," sald the beloved
we
dis,
it involves my eternal destiny.
Even heaven is yet only an "exnectation," but it ís from Hím!
"My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood a,nd rigbteousness:
On Christ the solirl rook I stan¡t:
ous, for
All other grouncl is sinking
INFLUENCE OF
THE
sand."
EVERY.DAY
COMRADE,
. a man of Israel."
was one of themselves, a man in
whom they hatl confidence beca.use
"Girleon,
It
they hacl seen hirn ctaily, that
Gorì
cbose fo,r the leacler. "One of the most
helnful sessions of Sunday-school I reruember vras ìÃ'hen I was a eirl of four-
'teen, ând our regnlar teacher was not
nresent. It was a stormy dây, ancl in
the scarcity of teacbers. one of onr
classmates was appointed to teach the
lesson. T hacl alwavs acceptecl it as
nattrral that the older ones shoukl
urge the claims of the Chrís'tian llfe.
l)ut u'hen I saw the s¿nrg g2,y¡gstncss
ín this girl of my own age,-one of my
own classmates.-ber v¡ords macle an
impression on me which ís impossible
to describe. lt was more than a yeâr
I fna,lly a,ccepted Oh,rist. btrt I
date the eha.nge in mv a'ttitncle to that
stormy Sunday wben Lena S-- snoke
loving r.vorcls to her.Weekly."
own mates."From"Youns People's
before
THE MISSION TO THE STREETS.
When Marqaret Anrlre¡¡¡s was twentyflve sìe receiverl rvhat she thoueht was
a call to the foreign mission fiekl. Her
parents, although at flrst. they trierl to
;lissnaile her. Dut no obsta,cle in the
r¡'a,v of her hopes, antl, full of ea.qerness, sbe beqan her tralning at a school
in another city.
One day she receivetl a telesram.
Her mo'ther hacl met with an aecident,
just how serlorrs could not at once be
For a year or two she bore her disappointment in silence; then she went
to her clergyman with it. The minister was an old man, who harl known
Margaret all her life. He looked at
her steadily for a moment. Then he
saicl slorrly: "You are living in a city
of two hundred thousanrl people. ISn't
there need eno,ugh about you to fill
your life?"
"Oh, yes," the girl ansveretl quickly,
I conld give up the foreign field.
It isn't that. But I haven't time to do
"autl
aqything, not even to take a mission
class; ancl to see so much work wait-
ing, ancl be able to tlo
nothing-"
"Margaret," the old minister
"come here,"
saíd,
'Wonderingly, the girl followed him
to the next room, where a mirror hung
betv¡een the windows. Her reflection,
pale and unhappy, facecl her wearily,
"All up añd down the streets," 'the
old minister said, "in the cars, the
marhets, the stores, there are people
starving fo.r the Bread of Life. The
Chnrch cannot reach them; they will
not enter a church. Books cannot help
them; many of them never opened â
book. There is but one way that they
can ever read the Gospel of hope, of
joy, of courage, and that is in the faces
of men antl women.
"Two years ago a woman who has
I{nown deep trouble came to me one
day, and asl<erl your name. 'I wantetl
to tell her,' she saitl, 'how much good
her happy face did me; but I was
afraid she would think it was presuming on the part of an utter stranger.
Some day, perhaps, you will tell her
for me.'
"Margaret, my child, looh in the glass
antl tell me
if the face yon see there
has anything to give to the souls that
are hungry for joy-and they are more
than any of us realize-who, unhnown
to themselves, âre hungering for righteousness. Do yon thinh that woman,
if she were to meet you now, would
qay what she said two years ago?"
The girl gave one glance and then
turnetl away, her cheelis crimson wlth
shame. It was harrl to answer. Ìrut she
was no cowarcl. She lool<ecl up into
her olrl frientl's grave eyes.
"Thanh you," she said. "I will try
to learn my lesson and accept my mis-
sion-to the streets."-"Youth's
panion."
WHAT COWARDICE CAN
Com-
DO.
"'Whosoever is fearful and trembling,
let him 'return." A gentleman whowas
orÉianizing a eompany of yo.ung people
to alo evangelistic ¡rorh in the slums,
politely declined to aecept the serviees
of several of tbose 'When
who signiffed theil
rvillingness to go.
he was ques-
tioned as'to his actio¡r, he saicl: "These
whom I have declinecl to take have no
confitlence in the unclertaking. They
say that the orlds against us are too
heavy to be overcome. 'We cân't afford
to take the fearful vith us when we are
on such serious bt¡siness." "Oh!" said
his friencl, "they woukl probably not
belp much, but they a're harmless."
"That is just where you are mistahen,"
was the reply. "Just because they are
not bad, does not follow tbat they
wonld do no harm. Pure water is a
good 'thing in its place, but pour it into
e bncket of rich millr, ancl you will so
rvealçen the milk that it will be good
fol nothing; so the presence of a-few
cowards may so weaken the courage
of a company that its ilsefirlness will
be destroyed."-Mattie M. Boteler, Cincinnati, O., ln "Suntlay-School TÍmes."
Did I ever tell you, among the alfecting little things one is always seeing in these battlefields, ho,n, on the
sround upon which the battle of Bull
Run was fought, I saw pretty, pure,
delicate flowers giowing out of the
empty ammunitlon boxes, antl a wild
rose thrusting up its graceful head
through the top of a broken Union
tlrum, which tloubtless soundecl its last
cbarge in that, battle, and a cunning,
scarlet verbena lreeping out of a fragment of an explotlerl shetl. in whieh
strange pot it was plantett? Wasn't
that peace growing out of war? Even
so shall the beautiful and graceful ever
known. Margaret paclred ler ,boolrs
anrl foolr the first train þome, exDectin:z fo teturn in a foç' weelrs. Long
grow out of the horricl and terrible
things that transpire tn this changing
bnt ever-advanelng world. Nature
covers even the battleflekls with vertlure and bloom. Peace and plenty
spring up ln the track of devouring
.mother rvonld ncvcr be able to do anv-
ress of manklnil.-GeoJge ÁUrçd ToWn.
bcfore the rryeehs had passecl she lrnew
that her clream mlst be given un. Her
thlng agaÌn, and Margaret, instead of
campalgns, anil all things ln nature
antl society shall work out the progsencl.
THE I¡OLANTEERS G/LZETTE.
TO
JUNIOR JOTTINGS.
"Be ye steadfast."
yon l¡now the meaning of the
Do
word "steadfast"
?
It
means flrmly ûxed
unwavering; steady.
ilr
position;
Morally or religiously it means
"firmly fixed in faith or devotion to
tlnty." Constant, true.
Is that lhe kind of Christian boy or
girl Vou are trying to be, my litUe
friend
?
Do yo,u take a stanrl for
the
right, and when you are convincecl you
are right, are you firm, in other worcls,
steadfast?
great need of good, firm
- There is a
Christians
in this world of change.
You will mahe no mistake if you wilt
heed the admonition f,rom God's worcl
written above, and you ,.will abouncl
in the work of the Lord.,'
{t,l p1}a¡.1ø !ç.1ef ø te lêtfãi"6+=gpl
A BEAUTIFUL
gLEAR=UP=ER.
By Annie Hamilton Donnell.
EA came slowly out of the
house and sat down in a
chair on lhe piazza. She
chose the farthest chair a
little round the corner
and
hicklen by the vines. Lea's heart ached
and hearts ache bes't in solitucle.
"l'm the only un - show - off - able
Quimby there is," she sighed, rocking
ashametlly. "Or ever, ever was," she
added, as memories and tales of little
Qnimby aunts and uncles, cousins and
even far-bach grand Quimbys reeurrecl
to her.
In the parlor back of the vineÈ some
one Ìryas playing a stirring march on
the piano. Il rilas Barba,ra-Barby
conkl play beautifirl music. Pretty
soon somebody would say, "Won't you
sing for us, Sylvia?" and Sylvy woutd
sing. Then if she sat there in the
veranda rocker long enough, Lea ltnew
she shoultl hear Luther declaim with
splenrlid, big inflections Ho¡atio at the
Brialge or The Black Horse ancl His
Rider. He wonlcl do it so beautifnlly
-:everyborly
did things,
"Now Luther-'won't you speak the
Blacli Horse for us, Luther?," murmured Lea outside. But Luther chose
another "piece." His big, oratorical
vo¡ce eame out through the window
impressively.
"Girt round þy rugged mountains,
The fair Lake Constance lies"He had chosen the Legend of Bregenz
instead of Holatios or Blacli Hoises.
it by heart and followed him
anxiously. Suppose he forgot! X'or
the honor of the QuimbV name he
mt¡stn't! At a dreadful litfle pause
she crept to the window to piompt
Lea knew
him through the blinds, but he pickéd
himself up without assistance. Luther
spoke pieces splendidly. Lea ,was
proud of
Luther-of Barbara, of Sylvia.
But she was not proud of herself.
"I ean't do a single thingl"
she
mourned, and went on sorrowfully
clearing up. When the company by
and by came out on the piazza to go
a$'ay, the delighted eyes of the
Quimby mother saw that it haat been
set in order antl she neecl not blush
for the little disordorly litter as she
had awhile ago. "Lea," thought lovingly the Químby mother. But no Lea
was in sight.
In the parlor, after the impromptu
little exhibition, confusion reisned.
The chairs were moveal about tifsily,
sheets of music were scattered -over
the piano antl floor, empty cups of tea
indicatecl whe,re Miss Getty anct Miss
Ann Mary hacl sat.
They harl been the "company," and
that was the explanation of the exhibition. The Quimby mother diat not
believe in showing off to people out of
the family, but she atwais iietded to
Miss Getty and Miss Ann Mary, because they were lone little otd sisters
from the Old Ladíes' Flome and aslrecl
in such-dear, eâger okl voices. They
deservecl to be entertained, reasoneá
the Quimby mother.
.- Lea -went il through the rea,r door,
through
the library
into the
empty
parlor-. Empty! It looked running
Lea! She began at oncõ
to set it in order, anal by the time the
two litlle olcl women had succeeclecl iu
over full to
tearing themselves away anrl the pro-
of Quimbys "processerl" bàch
.was spic-andspan again. But no Lea-she was
hurrying out to the kitchen with the
empty tea-cups a.nd the sugar bowl.
She could not know that the tÍred
cession
into the house, the room
Quimby mother said, "Bless her,"
meant her,
That night, after the
anal
diffeient
"stages"_of little Quimbys hail all gone
to bed-Jeffy anal Mig at seven, Luther
and Sylvy at eight, and Barby and Lea
at half-past-the
Quimby father anrl
the Quimby mother and the baby, who
refusecl to go to. bert at all. sat under
the nursery lamp and sofily talhed.
Lea could hear them through her halfopened door-the Quimby baby louttest of all. He rilas showing off, thought
Lea, laughing to herself in the dark.
The little beloverl, singing and speaking his little foreign pieces!
Then suddenly he stopped
alto-
gether, anrl Lea smiled tenderly and
wished she had his little warm. moist
head on her arm where every litile
while she could reach down anrl kiss
his sleeping little face. Thinlring of
the baby macle her forget the èore
place in her heart. But she felt it
agçain presently.
"Sylvy's voice grows sr¡¡eeter and
stronger, 'Willíam." The Quimby father
was'William.
"That so?" he said. "Good! I must
get the little midget to sing for me."
"Antl Barby to play for you-and
Luther Boy to declaim!" laughed the
Quimby mother with a tencler little
unclernote. "They all performerl for
Miss Getty and Miss Ann Mary this
afternoon.'William.
I courdn't retuse the little
old latlies,
The children
ctict
beautifully-but,'William"Lea's wet face, burrowed deep in the
pillow, came up ctuickly at the next
thing the Quimby mother said. It was
so very-so very-unexpected anrl so
gootl sountling! Lea could hardly be.
lieve her ears.
"But, 'William, our little Lea has the
most beautiful talent of them all, did
you know it?"
No, the Quimby father dtrl not knov¡
it,
antl while he waitetl for the rest,
Lea waited, too. She sat up perfectly
straight anrl held the breath of her
'What
sore
llttle heart.
coulcl
it be the
to say?
"The most beautiful talent of them
Quimby mothei was going
aìI"-not the most beautiful one! She
must have hearcl wrong, Lea thought.
Still, her ears were such goo¿l hearers"She has the talent of helping people
the tender voice explained
-mothrers."
out there to the Qujmby father. The
tentlerness rvas a ne¡/r' kintl that sent
a little sob upwaì'tl into Lea's throat
ãntl maale her feel like getting up into
the Quimby mother's lao and hiding
her happy face. It was different from
the other kincì that hacl been a pridetenderness. Thís u'as the-the lovekincl.
, ^'^It gquld
_i-s,': .tle euimby father norlded.
hear him nod. ..rtk -th;
!9a,
best kind _of a talent, Mary. --¡ìu"*;
to go in and-hiss ihã
åffiå,,ptru
"I'll go with you!,'
. -ney.were coming. Lea sank down
and-waiteo. Si-eìïui
11_a e{gs
littte leap
ìecause stre ,ttroushl- ifrö
ler.
,
wantect
to find her asteep. ve.ïäuiötií
she lay in the darkness. t¡erä -wäË
ptace.now in irer
19,.919
Ët'ð
nad,a talent too! It was neàii.a beautiful
y,"^"_: Èrre was_ a good clear_up_er, and
r.ney lyere coming in to kiss
h;. }'o;i;
I/_!I1 tb.ar woul¿ re riLã_ïå*.,,;i
when sarby and'Syriy
fflnJg,clapped
na{ talents_and Luther.
r,æa_ held her breath and
waited in
a little transport
of happiness. - H;;
small, expectant face was uplifted
aïå
ready.
'le.tgss her!,' the euimby father **^-'
al4_kissed it sofily ìn tne Aark.-- said.
herl', whispered. the
*^.ll,l-u...
p9,ler,and kissed it again andeuimby
aeain.
jvlorn_el! _are not satisfied with õnãã.
Lea fett her smooth cheek againsi-hiî
own,_ ancl the happiness grew
bigger
bisg"". In hèi heartïu. u-s?-""i
1l:1
oes-tre-
a¡d
to get up and go
downs-tairs
e-lear somebody
up lignC
î;;
-mott
th,is
";;"*ã"ii
euimby
e"l--eüi
.dear
ult .to-morrow_oh,
wait till to-mor_
Congregatiorialist ãáã
'Workl."
- "The
Christlan
THE SOUlnnel- nf.lO THE
'rowJ
MASTIFF.
"What an idle vagabond you are!',
sald a- surly mastiff to a squÍrrel that
-tiäãs
'was froticking
about in -
above him_
Orå1.
t¡e
.n"t".el threw a
nut_shetl at
"I've_ been watching you these two
.hours,"
said rhe mrúih
you've do_ne nothing ¡ut;dì;;".,;;ã
ãànãe ãnà
swrng
and skip and whisk that tail of
Yours about all the time."
:'ylr"t an idte dog you must be.,,
.,to
sard
-rle squirrel,
Yúatcning
me play!,'
sit for two houis
_"None of your pertness. I had
alt
lnv work befoie I came here.,,
done
said the squirréi. ..IMeu,
my.v/olk's
never done. I've businõä
up in .tbis tree that vou tnof roitririg
about."
"Business, indeeclI I know of no
,ousln-ess
that you
"Oh!"_
have but kickinE un
your heets. and eating nut* anã
pãiuiã
honest folks with thã sheUs.;,-
sins-thines
and play-things antl speak-things so
beautifully.
"Except me," sighecl Lea.
She stopped rocking surldenly and
gazed despairingly about her. In her
gentle, sore lTttle sonl ranhlerl a tlread-
ful feeling. Lea clitl not know its
Envy. She thought it was
name was
shame beeanse she was a Quimby antl
coukl do nothing to help entertain her
friencls.
Over the pja.zza ffoor were strewn
blocks and ocltl-sbaped bits of dlssected pictures. Lea got up ancl went
stooping painfully abont pieking them
üp. Jeffy and Mig were so scatteryand so dear! How many, many times
a day foìks had to clear them np!
Lea tlict not remember that it was
alnrost always she who did it. To her
order-loving little mind things lying
about out ct thcir places v'ere an offense; she had a way of stooping to
pick them up as she went by. It was
a beautifnl habit. Lea's motber
thought. Every Qtrimby-a,nd in the
family there were nine-likerl to have
Lea clear them up. But, oddly, Ít
never occurrecl to them to praise her
for it. No one ever said, "W'on't you
THE BEAR AND HOW TO AVOID
cleelr up for us now, Lea?"
The march came to an end with
TROUBLE WITH H]M.
several mighty, inspiring 'thtrmps on
the lower lreys. The sad little ffgure
By WÍlkes the Penman.
gathering up blocks outside the winThere may be some few of our
dow hearrl a soft clapping. Then, after
a few moments, a clear, s¡¡¡eet llttle young readers who have seen bears
voiee began to slng. Sylvy's volce- rrunning wild, but comparatively few
Lea listened arlmlringly. It sang some- of bruin's tribe noÌÍ find sway even in
thing beantiful about birds and flow- the wiltls of our most remote. terriers anal brooks. The soft clapplng be- tory. Civilization has crowded this
gan as soon as it stopped.
interesting, if not wholly picturesque,
all the
time doing beautiful
,..,ï-hg,iF
llttle things to help
*". you
-üp"îîð
She picks
"ao;i
lhink,.'Wiuiam!
playt¡¡o*.
anã
õrears
ïp iËã
l3lj".' If that isn't a ¡eautifìi
rooms.
iä1"_
ent"-
quadruped to the mountainous regions,
where they are more çecure anfl shel-
tered. They are not usually vicious
u_nless yog cross their path and annoy
them. Then you may look out foi
Number 1, and better be very quick
about it, too, for Mr. Bear is not [o be
trifled with. Elvidenily the victim of
our accompanying sketch has made the
mistake of testing bruin's good humor
and then failed ¿o make ggod his rçtreât.
.,,"tr'ie!" saitf. the squirrel, ,,don't be
rlr.
[empered,', and he dropped an_
other nutsheil at him. .'nóri;t -enî"
py lot; for, atthough t re:.oice iir
ne
rne. nappiness of it, I must remlnd you
it Ísn't all j6y. Summer ¿oesn,t íasì
rorever; and what becomes of me.
rnlnx_ you, when the trees are baró
and tþe wínd howls through t¡e-tJrãsi
are gone? nemem¡õ.
1Id.
!!" fruits
that tlen
you have iwarm hearth anå
g._o_od
a .'
meal to look forward to.,,
change with me,
, you .wouldn't
ho.wever,"
said the mastlff.
if you knew
.-'.No, nor you with me, ..8.;
the squirrer.
to;ï;;;,
-q11.1' lraid.ro ta,<e
pe,
together the roush
:,j9
ano [ne smooth of your proper Iõt.
y1!e¡ r'p starved *itr,
tËä
-ãi
Winter, I shalt be glad "äiã"io
tf,int
your pleasant fire. Can't to
you find ii
rn your ueart to be glad now 6f ¡¡y
s,unshine? Our lots ãre more equal
than they seem."-,,Earl' nãvs.""***'
The man p"vã t*"otv dollars for
mlssrons and trilo thousand dollars for
a ley automobile. His wife ¡uys à
Fall hat foi fifteen dollars o"ã-"pãVË
ten cents a month dues to the missionary society; if properly ãp- she may add a-doitarä
proached,
vei"
ptedge moûey. yet they are ..promin_
ent members" of the Church.- What
cal-ther. think, or do they tnink at ãü,
of Te_slight, which they itus put upori
their_ Lord? Is He nothinc- to t¡;ïî
D9 t¡ey care nothing thaa the ;ortã
which He dled to save has not yet
heard of His love? Have they'nì
g-ratitude for what He has donó for
them ?-"Christian Advocate."
THE VOLUNTEERS GAZETTE.
eï\d Tôpic for
S[JIIIAY SI|IOOL,
Lesson
Xlll.-First 0uarter, For
lncorrigibly bad and never cau
Prayer Mecting Topic For tho Wcek
.
lcxt of thc
Lesson, Prov. xxiii, 29-35.
Memory Verse, 3l-Golden Text,
. Prov. xxiii, 32-Gommentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearng,
toopyright, 1908, by Âsefldn Pres Asoclatlon.l
Äll Scriptule ls gireu by lnspilrrtion
of God and ls ¡rrofìtable. * * * tbrlt tbe
of God ma¡ be thot'oughly l''erwolks. \\:hdtso-
uished unto all good
ever things wele ¡vritten afoletime
were written for our learuíng (ll Tlm.
iit. 16, 11; Eom. 'rv, 4). 'These Éaylngs
certaiirly luclude the booh of Proverbs
as well as everl' other Þa.rt of the
Scri¡Jtul'es. This has bee¡ c¿lled a
booli ob godliüÞss or hoty llving, cortrasting God's wlsdoi¡ and man's folly; lt ls God's ¡vlsdom fot man's lgno-
fance. TIìe wolrls $lse and ¡visdonr are
used over 100 times, ancl tLe tvofds fool.
folly, foollsh. foolishness, over ninett
tlmes. Il ehapter viil and else$'he¡'e
¡vlsdom evidently rëfers to the Sou
of God. for [Ie is the ¡visdom of God
(l Cor. 1. 2.f1. B.y contrast we thinh of
the fools of whour lfe llimself spalie.
$'lro hear IIls wotds but do thel¡ hot.
s'ho are ricb on earth. but not rlch
ton'ard God:.who have no use for
prophecy (Ifatt. vii, 26; Lulie xii. 20,
21; xsiv,25). In verse 4 of this tesson
clrapter we read. "Labor not to be
richl cease from thiue owp wisdom,"
for it ls r¡an's ¡visdom tô get rieh
quiclily aud at any cost, for he is slow
to beliele that l'iehes mâhe themselves
wings and fly âr'ay (verse 5).
Our lesson. with lts lmmediate context. sets fortlr the folly of bad wome¡r
and strong drinli. two of the gl'eat
elils of tl¡is world by whiclr the great
destroyer destro¡'s multitudes. Conceming the former it is written, "E[er
house is the way to hell" (chapter vii,
2?). ând, coneerning both. they eannot
Iuhellt tho kingrlom of God (I Cor. vi,
9-11). but that even such h¿ve been
saved and may be saved, for Christ
Jesus came lnto the wolld to save sinners, to seel¡ and snve tìre lost. Woe
and sorrow ls tbé present portion of
all such. and lf they die in their sins
then it will be torment that rçill eovet a
drop of n'ater to cool the tongue, and
tìnally the everlasting fire_pre¡rtrled for
the devil and his angels (Lulie xvl, 2{;
rxv, 41).
But God is not ¡¡¡illing that any
should pelish, and in the person of Hin
Son He becanre a man of sórr.on's and
n<,quninted with grief, n'as woundecl
and hlt¡ised for us. bearing our sins iu
[Iis orvn body on tbe eross. suffering
Christ is then allowed to have the
rlgbt of way iu the life that IIe has
recleemed and to worli out the works
wblch He has prepared (Eph. ii. 10),
Gotl 'will be glorified and the life of
Jesus made manifest
In
that from small beginnings the liingdom of heaYen grows antl spreacls uDtil lt becomes great and pon'erful. The
Ieast of seeds becomes a gleat tree. Ä
little leaven leaveneth the entir.e lump.
in that life.
of oul' lesson we rend of
the eyes and the heart, and in Lam.
lii. 51. we learn thât the eye affects
the heart, and in Job xxrl. 7, that the
beart walks after the eyes. If, therefore. we would live as we should we
must look ln the right directiou and
contir¡ue so to do. ID verse 31 we
verse 33
read, "Lool¡
not" but there must
These parables are particularly applicable to the hingdorn in the Phltippines. It ls a great ûelcl, and toclay is
"the day of small tl¡ings," but we are.
not to despise it for that reason. Under God the small becomes great. El'eD
ât the present time great progress has
be a
counter attractlon. therefore the conrmftnd. "Looh unto 1\{e ând be ye saved."
"Behold the Lûmb of God." "Run with
patience, Iooliing unto Jesus" (Isa. xlv,
22: Johu 1, 20, 30; Eteb. xii, 1. 2). By
been made
look tl¡ere ls a life of triumph for
evefy saved one. Äfrart from Elim
The words "at the last" in verse 32
should lead us to consider well that
there ls a last opportunlty to repeüt, a
last eall to turn to Gotl. and "he that.
lieing often reproved. hardeneth his
necl¡ shall suddenly be destroyed, and
that without remed.y" (xxlx, 1). ffor
the sinner of er.ery .kind there Ís a
last lndulgence and then. if cut off in
sin. etelnal woe. Consicler Dan, v, 30;
Luke xil. 20, and the context.
Velse 34 of the lesson makes us
thlnh of that word of David. "Truly
as the Lord iiveth. and as thy souì
liveth, there is but a step between
antl death"
(I
me
3). The last
chapter xxvii. 22,
Sam. xx.
verse suggests
"Though thou shouldst btay a fool in
a mortar among'n'beat with I Þestle,
yet wlll not his foolishness depart
from b!nr."
Âpalt from God and tlis Spirit
aud
dear Son. the case of
the blood of IIis
any and every sinner is utterly hopeless. but to sueh a Sbepherd and
Saviour nothlng is too hard. llote tbe
lov and reioieins of rerses 15. t6. 24.
in oul Paclfic islands eclu-
cationally, governmentally ancl religiously. Churches anal Sunday schools
in falr numbers have already ì¡een es-
looklng unto lIlm there is life fot
evefy lost obe, ¿nd b¡¡ continulng to
there is no life. and looklng anywhere
else but unto Elim there ls no victory.
Boginning March 29, 1908.
By R,tV. S. H. DOYLE.
Topic.-Home mlssions.-Progress ln thc
Philippines.-Matt, xili, 31-33.
The Seriptural references lnclude the
parables of tlte*mustard seed and the
leaven, The irlea suggestetl ln each ls
to Efim, and then the sinner
becomes n new cl'eature iu Christ.
INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
clanlsts,
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.
be
made ne¡v' (Rom, viii, 7), but the Son of
God. the wisdom of God. will receive
any sinner who comes to Him (John
vi. 37), wtll enter any heart that is
If
man
iety/{e"tiryI;
opened
March 29, 1908.
THE
ñ,
The earnal mind. the natura¡ man. is
IrlI
tl
.
tablÍshed. llracts are being distributed
perhaps as in ro other place ln tlre
s'orlcl. The people no longer undel
the dominatlon of priest craft are more
willlng to henr what Protestants have
to say. But vice and immorality are
wldespreael. Drunkenness has a terrible hold upon the people, anal tl¡e saloon should go. When we eonsider all
things we may well rejolce over n'hat
God has done alreacly ln the PbilipÞiDes. The seed of the worrl is takÍng
root, antl the Ieaven of the kiugdom ls
widely spreatling.
'Ihe following "Philipptne
Notes"
from the Presbyterian Chrlstiau Dndeavor Manual are lnteresting ancl instructive:
The saloon ls the greatest enèmy oi
ln the Phlllpplnes, as lt lÉ the
greatest foe to missions everywhere.
progress
Break lt doy/n at llome, â,ntl you v/lll alo
the most for misslons abroad.
Chrlstlan Endeavor came to the Phlllp-
ln that splenalld soclety on Dewey's
flagshlp, the OlymÞia. It speedlly spread
among the Filipinos, anal It is destlnetl to
be an lmportant agent ln plantlng Protestant Christ¡anity ln those lslantls.
Therè are å,bout 1,?25 lslands ln the
Phtlipplne archlÞelâgo, wlth an area of
ebouf 122,000 sqtìare miles-a glorlous new
emÞire to win for Christ.
Þlnes
The populatlon of the islands is â,bout
8,000,000, nearly all of them Câtholics,
though, fortunâtely, 3,000,000 are lnde-
Þendent Catholics. There are
lra¡¡rnqda¡s.
?ã,000-
270,000
Mo-
"tfe Means Just What tle Says."
À{att.
tlre Just and tbe rrnjust. tb¡rt I:Ie rniglrt
bling us to Gocl (Isa. liii. 3-5;
I
Pet.
and he it is who says,
"Wisdom is the prirrcipal thing; therefore get wisdom. for wisdom is better
than rubies. and all the thingx that
nlay be desired are not to be comparecl
to it. for ¡vhoso findetlr 1\{e frndeth life
and shall obtain favor of the Lord"
li, 24; ili.
181.
lv, 7; viii. 11, 35).
Àll sin ls a form of selfishness, the
(chapter
gratificatlon of the carnal mlnd, rrhlch
ls ennity agaiust God. and tbe only
hope for any liind of a sinner ls a
new heart, a clean heart, which Gorl
Ilimself E¡ust create in us. and does
when we receiçe Iflm n'ho was macle
sin for us. Evely one. moral or openly
slnful, must be born of God, as we
loarned ln our reeent lesËon oq Jobn lil.
And some who believe a part,
Some who trust with a reservatiorr.
An(l it tells me it will heal me.
And hear'my feeblest ory,
A.nrl that His royal bounty
'lVill
It assures me of salvation
Thro' Jesus' precious blood,
' For the souls that will trust
Let me hearken to, all His Brecepts,
Anal instatrtly obey;
Let
me run to perform His biddings,
'TVhatever
'Ihere are some who believe the Bible,
And some with all the heart:
But I know that its every p,romise
Is flrm and true always;
It is tried as the precious silver,
Anal it means just what it says.
mercy,
His
And yield themselves to God.
And I claim for myself the promise
And just begin to p,raise,
it
I am saved by trusting,
I trust just as it says.
And it tells me there is cleansing
X'rom every secret sin,
And a great and full salvation
To keep the heart within.
A.ntl I take Him in His fullness
\Mith att His glorious grace,
l'or He says it ls mine for taking,
X'or
And
And
says
I
tnke Just what He
sayË.
all my needs supply.
And I seem to know no better
Than to roll on Him my ways,
For He says I may trust Him fully,
And I trust just as He says.
He may say.
Let me cherish His last
ment,
command-
And walk in all His ways;
Let me always obey my Master
And rlo just what He
says.
It is strange we trust each other,
And only doubt our Lord,
'IVe wlll take the vr'o,rd of mortals
'Word;
And yet distrust His
But oh! what a light antl glory
Would shine o'er all our days,
If we always woultl remembe,r
He means just what He says.-Sel.
Ànlmfsts-a compìlcatec
Spain and lnaugurated & second. 'wâr
'wlth lgnorance, Buperstltutlon and barbarlsm.
.{bout 18,000 converts have been matle by
our mlsslonarles In the Phlllpplnes. More
than 100 litUe churches have been bullt,
each a center of llght ln much darkness.
The missionaries have allstrlbuteal morê
tha,n 20,000.000 pages of religlous llteraturo
through the lsìands, and each page ls ã
precious seed that may bring forth gìorious fruit.
The native converts have begun to take
up the work of evangeltzlng thelr brethren. Seminaries have been establishetl.to
train the native preachers and schools to
trâln thê native deaconesses and other
women workers.
Nearly
800,000
of the l'lUplnos speak
Engltsh fairly $'êll, and thls ls a great
help toward the spread of the gospel.
There are employrrd. ln tr'illplno schools
800 .A'merican teache¡s ântl 6.000 Filipino
teachers. Nearly 500,000 chlldren attend
these schools-one of the most êncouraglng signs for the futute.
BIBLE REÀDINGS.
Ps. ti; 1-12; xxxtii, 12-20; Dan. xii, 3;
Zeph.
iÍi,
17-20; Acts
i, 8l xlll,
1-31
Rom. lx, 5; x, 14, 15; Rev. i, 49; xxt, 1?.
Seattle Pickups,
Rer. Francls E. Clarl(. D. D., ln hls
addless to tbe EDdeavorers ln eon'r'ention assembled at Seattle, among other
thlngs, said: "The key ç'olcl of Chrlstlan Endeat'or ls 'trainirrg'-tralning in
expression, training
ln
service, traln-
ing in Iiving, traluing of the heart,
training of the mind, training of the
tongue, training of the boy and glrl,
tralning of the young man and woman,
training to make ciiiiè-ii;,-- trainlng to
malçe effectlve Christians, tralning in
the ehureh, training for the church,
training by thechurch. Thethree great
departDents of Christlan Endeavor afe
the 'sreelily meeting, the
committees,
the unions, eâch of them iud.ispensable
to tlìe nroïement and each of them,
rvherever etablislied, so many training
schools for the church, the natlon, the
worlcl of the future.
"'Ihe prayer meetlngs are the train-
ing sclrools Ín expresslon.
The commlttees are training schools
ln
service,
"The unlons are training schools in
fellowsbip and unltecl actlon."
In conclusion he sald: "Take eourâge
and. press on, Endeavorers. See elearly, thtnk stralght and act."
Buddhtsts and Confu.-
@f@1@tr6Ï-sl@.@rsl@r8T@J@@@@l'8tæx@ï8xsx@),@f€fe@'etrcÞì
260,000
task for the misslonarles.
All fhe largest denomlnatlons and several of the smaller ones hasteneil to the
Phllipplnes at the close of the v¡ar with
Gídeon Equipment.
you û Gideon Endeavorer?
If you are, and lt is a good kind to
be, you possess three thlngs-& torch,
a fjitclìer and a trumpet.
Tbe torch-You lead a life that is a
llght, ancl you are ready to let your
.A.re
light
shlne.
lhe trum¡æt-You have eonvictions,
and you are ready to express them.
The piteher - You ha¡'e common
Êense. You lmow that there ts a tlme
to speak ancl a time to keep sllence, a
time to worli and a tlme to rest. You
know ¡¡'hen to smâsh the pltcher, let
the torch glare out, blow the trumpet
'and shout v¡lth mlght and maln, "The
sword of the Lord anal Gldeon!"
Cbaraeter.
Courage.
Wisdom.
No barl equlpmeut, that, for the dolng of Cbristian Eucleavor work.Chrlstlan Enrleavor'Worlcl.
To Work Out the Goldcn Rulc.
You recognlze only one Master, anal
your work Ís olre of
eo-operatlon.
The alm of the Cbrlstlan End.eavor ls
Dot for lts members to llve as õelfish
lntllvkluals, but to ease the burdens
of the less fortunate, to work for one
ü¡other and work out the Golden Rula
Jame¡ R. Garflekl a:
-Eon,
Conventlon,
Seattlc
t2
T H E Y O T,U]VT4E'R.f GÅ:Z
NEW CASTLE,
PA.
Captain Grainger at the Batile's Front
Again-One Soul-Greãt Faith for
the Future.
. The ¡rork in New Casfle is progresslns. lile confess we ought tb ieport
-fre_
for tle Volunteers' Gaze{te more
quently, and will see that in future the
,readers of our official organ are kept
more fully informed of the doings õf
the Volunteers in New Casfle.
_ The writer, who has been laid aside
for
nearly three months with typhoiã
fever, tales up the work again,-Ëeginning with a report to the Gãzeite. "Ife
would like, through íts columns, Mr.
¡jd¡tor, to thank o.ur many friends who
so kindly assistêd Mrs. Grainger during
his. affiiclion, and
for the many kinã
letters of sympâthy, which wóre so
encouraging to us.
..Our_ meetings have been, and are
still,
interesting and belpfui to thôsè
wrlo attend. Mrs. Grainger has been
ally_assístgd by Ma,jor and Captain
Knight. The. Major's singing,
gurtar aceompaniment, is greailywith
anpreciated. Lieutenant Geo.- L. Myeis
CAPTAIN RICHARD L. GRAINGER,
.
New Câsile. pa,
is mastering the violin and is of invalwas rejoicing over one soul forward
and many under eo,nvictiou Sunday
nable assistance in the meetings. Thêre
evening.
^.Our Stnday-Sehool, with Sister Mary
Stew¿ìrt
in
charge,
is
improving and
the attendance increasing. The services of Brother McKay as teaóher of
the Bible class, are valuable.
, Mls. 'Captain Grainger and O,rderly
Sergeant Sister Davis are the Gazettê
boomers, ânal are real husflers.
Rejoicing over the victories of the
Irast and with great faith for the
future, the New Castle comrades will
mareh forward.-Richarrl L. Grainger,
Captain,
OTTUMWA, IA,
Reports from Three Thriving Cities
in lowa, Where the Work of the
Volunteers of America is Grow-
'Well, certainly this was good
news.
Send us some more tike it, Mrs.
unteers of America have many warm
frientls. The writer had the privilege
of enrolling seventeen new -soldieis
lñ¡ednesclay night, and ilre attded
p-leasure of seeing two men weeping
theirway to the cross .on this occa-sion. The soldiers of this, our .,baby"
Post, are in a healthy spiritual condition and we Iook forward to the üme
rvhen this Post shall do a great work
fo.r God and eternity in the rescue .of
precious souls from the haunts of sin.
Comrades, Abraham Lincoln's ad.q$yic-e _to _the boy was good. viz.,
lWqlL hard! keep everlastingty at ití
Don't grumble!',
sroui-ìFv, r¡.
nuffil¡n Mrs. A. D. C.
Gei_dl,
who is doíng a s¡rlendid work
A tetter to
in Sioux -Clty, s_tates that the victory
_ls assured anal thts post ln a very few
dayc
wlll þe clear of all toeal rieñi."
I have no right to testify, as I am not a Christian. Although not a Christian, yet.I am an
ordained minister. tr'or five or six
years, the happiest of my life, I spent
preaching
.up.and said,"
Geidl.
DES MOINES, IA.
the Gosþel. X'eeling thàt I
was called into evangelistic. work,, I
resigned to enter it, supporting myself in commercial ¡usinessl nä_
"To the front" is o,lrr motto! This
last week was a week of many. victories for God ancl precious souls.
Sunclay night v¡â.s a time of great re_
freshing. Th-ere were tweñty-eight
on the march. îhe streets' wõre
bloched and hall crowded. I had the
lr-leasure of enrolling ten qew soldiers.
you ought to see them!
well,
'We say,
have had with us thls weék
nominational and sectarian arguments
proved my do.wnfall. I left God and
'went slowly but surely
further and
into sÍn. To-night, t am in
lqrther
Philadelphia to setile an estate leff
pe,. I
passed here to-night under th€
influ-ence-o,f liquor ànd curtosity iãã
me in. This is the first time f was
Brother-L A. McKinney, a Gideon, afld
nls zeatous., earnest talks were ap_
ever
preciated by all.
pro-gre¡sing nieely.. We
'a[
tle slory for
are
giving
things öôori
llishetl.-J. L. Dowell, Cantaltr. ----^:'
Q90-
in a
to stand as
MRS. A. D, C. GEIDL.
Sioux Gity, la.
I wani
I may again be able
of Gorl,i children.,l
mission hall, and
your prayels thât
_ Our relief work in. this eity has
been a blessing to mâny ¿urins thð
pT-t month, furnishing the ñeedy
with groceries, clothing, coal or medi_
cine as the different cases demanded.
The work in every aepartmeni -iJ
one
At the close of the meeting there were
five
at the mercy_seat, pray-kneeling
ing-for
salvation. One man sat iir his
chair_ very sad, tears streamett dowñ
nrs cneeks and it seemed a very sarl
time for the poor fellow. Mrs." H;;
ron approached him antl asked him
if
h_e
were a Christian?
lti,s ansïer^äs,
"I am and am n,ot." ,,Wilf
vou-iinàîv
ular Gospel service, during which the :*...d.*l and tisren to my
"Titl
yesterday
presence
Lold's
\ilas felt in mighty
morning I was Jôù""is"6;tii,
Blessed Meetings-Many Vlsltors_1O poriver.
A.D.C. Lewls delivered one of uan, rearing God and doing my duty
Gonversions_S Soldíers Enrolled
'When
¿rs
óne.
I came [ome tròm
Meeting_Election oi her-inspiring discourses on,.Loyalty
found iry home vacant; my
-Business
Local Officers-New Branches of to -Christ," following which eighi re- y."$
ilq
cruits we,re enrollecl. The enrõllment u¡rre and child were gone as nuai
Work Started.
service was conducted by our beloved everythjng else,. my home had nothinE
Since
our last report, while Gocl is Major Giffelt. A.D.C. Lewis led the ln. l!. . I love nìy wife and child, anã
.bless-ing others, we are getting. an consecration service, during which the tried
to find them. I was ñàìbomË
gverflow of His Spirit änd lo-ve. ,oä ,r" Lord moved graciously upon the with.._grief and resolved to ó";;;;;
d€termineal.'to husile and let Him have hearts of all present. Believeis were it w-ith drink. My money ran out,
anC
ttrs way with us.
strengthened and the entire service r needed more and knew of no place
'We
.have had a few visitors, who was crowned by the conversioh of one to get it bur steal it. Xoo*insITã
came p-repared to helþ us push on the soul. Glory be to God forever!
certain family who were going io-if,ã
yar. Uaptain McKenzie and also our
Our prayer is that.not only may the theatre_ and no one remaiiinE
Industrial Officer from Newark, N. J.; Lord visit us again in sr¡ch mighty nome, I determined to break into ^i
this
als-o Trvangelist Foster an¿ nís áoãå power, but that He may abide with us
nguse
and r¡as on my way
.tGnightwife, and Brother and. Sister Gay.
wflen
passed
no\'/ and evermore! Shoulder
l.
bere,
to
and somethinä
Now, as to onr work. . Since our tast sfou.lde¡ we will push the ..Gosþel constrained me to come
and wheã
report alrd up to Feb. 23rd, 190g, we chariotf' along and always be ready-to I was once in I 'could notin,
get ouil fî
Dave had
souls,
good
is
only
obey
because
cases;
the
command
of
our
also
something
dear Leader,
-u
h^4.t'e had -ten
business and socÍal convoca_ "Forward ! March !"-Cor.
to stay here, that I am *-pãi"
not
mv
tions, and appointed locat omôeis nro
to this home." . fhis manoncamä
Yay
tem.; adcled
BROOKLYN, N. Y., POST.
five soldiers and fourtõen
recrnit-s to the post; organized a Sun_
oay-$cnool, and appointed Brother Jen_
plson, Superintendent, and Brother
Jacques, Secretary. The ;offieers are
also not to be done out of their share
of the worrk, and have started a Sewing School on Friday afternoons; so
far so good.
Now ãs to orlr spiritual worl<. We have
started a class meeting on 'Wednesday
nlgnts lor our young converts and
Christian young men õnly, to help one
another and build them up in the faith
and love of Jesus Christ! This meeting is fo,r men.only, and in charge of a
practical Christian man, Brother Ford.
Our Major and her girls have been
called on in the past to relieve several
geedy cases; also have provicted lodging for seve,ral cases. We extend
thanks through the Gazette to friends
and our young men who have so nobly
come to our ofrcers' assistance in these
trying cases. May Gott bless the-'r
abundantly!-Yours for Christ anrl
Major Reid and her colabo.rers in
Brooklyn!-Bro F. O. C., 'War Corresponclent.
MTLWAUKEE, WtS.
ing.
This is a beautiful little cíty with
about 25,000 people, where the Vol-
ETTE.
Glorious Victory-Meetings Becoming
More and More lnteresting-Souls
are Being Born lnto the
dom.
King-
By the grace of God we are able to
report glorious . victory over the
enemy. The Lord is blessine our.
work Ín a wonderfirl manner. the
enemy is losing grouncl.
Our meetings are becoming more
and more interesting. The attenclance is on the increase, souls are being born into the kingdom, backsliders are being reclaimed and sinners
are under deep conviction because of
the manifestation of God's power. in
our midst.
Sunday,
1, at 6.80 p, m., a
-March
goocl crowd
gathered for our- reguiar
Christian Elndeavor meeting, teã ¡y
Miss .Ella Ifaznoe, an earneît, consecrated young lacly, whom we have
every reason to believe ilre. Lord has
chosen for His servÍce. God bless
her!
At I p. m. .we eutered lnto our
PHILADELPHIA. PA,
Seventeen Souls Found Christ Duríng
the Week and Over a Score of
Hands Were Raised for prayer.
The week just ended has proved a
very satisfactory one; sevente.en souls
have been forv¡ard to the mercy-seat,
for¡vard and made hiò peace with God.
determined that no matier wnai snðuü
-
he would live for coã. ô;
Ilaplen,
Ieavins flre hall he thanked tnã Cãìonels_ for their interest in ¡im, savtheir instrumãütulitv
*,* llit illoo*n
ne_nad
heen saved fi,om many sins
and sorrows. Gort naa savéä rrìm
fi'om probable prison, as he was'a-nã_
and by their actions after conversion. vlce,
and this would have been his
have given ample proof of their sin?ttenrpt at cornmitting crimã, anã
cerity since that time. Over a score flrst
a house. from teing robbáãi
of hands were raised for prayer, some qaygd
-cliià
(This man found his witeän¿
of whom even stood on their feet to a-_
few
days
later
annd
teft
tor--lhð
make their requests better under- \Me_st). This night,
six came forrvard
stood.
and five pro.fessed conversion while
Monday evenÍng, tr'eb. 24, a sol- one
out fighting against it.
diers' meeting was held over which nands
-went
were raised for prayer,Six
Colonel Herron presided. Seventeen
prove their sincerity two stood ún. to
soldiers answere¿l the roll call. l\fany
faces were seen at this meeting that __ I¡riday evening Colonel and Mrs,
rrerron again conducted the meeting.
hacl not been seen for some timé, antl
have determined to agaia ccme to the The brothc¡- who got uÞ the ¿av úËmeetings and do their litile bit for Iore and said he was an ordained min_
the Master in the Volunteers of ister o.f . the Gospel, gave hig testi_
Anrerica, Many things .were dis- mony. He said he believed he had
cussed, much time was spent in dis- a right to testify this time, as Gocl had
saved him. The service tqas â very
cussing the future welfareì,f the post.
Advancement of the .work here is the interesting one. Colonel Herron reàã,
nlo-st interesting problem. A call for and at the close one soul came tãrl
votunteers. We want all the Volun- ward.
teers_'we can get to take up the work
Såturday evening a large open air
of .relief an)ong. ilre poor mothers and ser¡vce was conducted at 10th and
cnrld-ren, and to brÍng forth the down_
Mar\et Streets, where a large crowã'
rloqdel ones into the marvelous light stood al'ound. The pavement in front
o{ Gocl.
of Blurn Brothers and Berg grãthe.s;
_ Tuesday evening Captain John D. store Ìvas crowded. It is Judged that
over trvo thousand persons must have
ll.at¡,-el!, A.D.C., of the' Headquarteis;
Staff, led an imìlressive and latisfac- stopped, even if but for a short tinìe.
tory service. The Captain believes to listen. On the insicle the meetinË
in every one working; tLe service was was enthusiastic, being led by Cap"so divided that each one harl a part tain t4zzie Huilinger, with her olä_
and thi! system proverl a great suc- trme fervor and zeal. At the close
gess: Captain Natzell is a fine leader: two came forward.
At the close of the meeting three men
Sunday afternoon a SoàA service
came f,orward, whilst fo,ur hanrls ¡¡¡ere was led by Lieutenants
Isabelle Shaw
raised for prayer.
and Lund. The night proved to be a
_ Wednesday eveuíng Captain and ver,y stormy one outside, the sitle
Mr:.J. -E._ Sjsson, ot-tt e äãäãquãrt- walks anrì streets were a mass of ice.
ers' Staff,
lecl the meeting. Mrs. Sis_ proving dangerous
pedestrian.s.
son satrg a solo and Captain Sisson Colonel Herron anal for
r-ead and delivered the message. At ventur"ed out, and in Captãin ¡fuãnes
a very fe.n äinthe close three came to.wafü ani utes the
had the service ãifou{ hands were raised for prayers.-- vided up.Colonel
Lieutenant S¡aw leã- ttrã
.. Thurstla.y evening Mrs. Hetr-on led song service,
Hughes in his
tne. n]eeting, which was a very ínter_ own inimitableCaptain
style led the testÍmonesting one. There were many testibeing interspersed frorn
¡9., s_olos
rnonies given and much saicl- to eli" the
Colonel, Sister Sheehan,
u"¿
'sisson
courage &ny man .on the rlght road. Líeutenant Lund.
Duriug this meeting ono lnpp stoad leâd the lesson, oneCaptaln
d.eA.f pran re_
reg"
THE'VOLUNT EË: R9'GAZ ETf Ê.
to the invitatiou and gave el's are one, but God gives the inlris heart to the Lord, whilst a num- "ctease! Gehazi carried his master's
ber asked for pra¡rers. This convert stâff, and touched the child wiilr it.
sâid he was led to the hall on Satur- .but that did ho good until Elijah him-.
day.night as a result of the open air- self cane.
Service and told that five mon[hs ago
Instrumentality is not
he buried his wife; iu fact, he felt ñe with God. God can, if henecesg&ry
please3,.
¡ilas reslronsible for her death, for she
cast, the instrumeut aside,.. but, He
worried ove.r him and his sinfúl ways,. uses instruments.
to set forth His
as sometimes fol' days at a tini'e he glory and exalt Himself.
The choicwould Dot be home. . Ou her death- est happiness
the human brea.st can
l¡ed ,he propised ùo give up drink ald know is the happiness of doing
good
meet her in heaveu. He had nò,t to our fell,ow crreatures. To save
dlank since, but hatt failed to give soul from death is almost heaveu onã
God liis heart until now. As we sãug,
!
"Praise God. fro¡r: whom all blessingì earth
Siuce
corres'pondence v¡e have
flow," we rejoiced to know that seve-n_ had good,iast
spiritual meetings, and they
teeû souls duiing the week had found have been fairly well
attended. WedCLrist aurl over a score of hauds wer.e nesday night 1Vrr. and Mrs.
Tom Winraised lor prayers.-Oor
ters led the meeting. Mrs. Winters
took chârge of the singing and tes,ti
VOLUNTEERS'
'Winters
sponded
PREPARATORY
monies; Mr.
SCHOOL, ENGLEWOOD, ILL.
Marc,hing
On to Victory with
read the Bible
lesson, taking his text from the lattef
the
Sword of Göd in Hand-F¡ve Souls
-Spiritual Meetings.
We
are glad to .report victory in
_
Englewood. We have- had wondórful
meetin.gs evéry night, both in the openair and in ôur hall.
trVe have had a visit from Majol aud
M'l's. P. Welch since our last report
was sent in to the Gazètte, and a iery
intelesting meeting was the outcomô
ot their visit. Mrs. Welch aave a
grand talk, after which we had-an.enrollment service, when new soldiers
wele taken in âs members of the
,._.
We had fine meetings on Sunday
-last,
'Ihe Cadets and worliers witir
the omcers were all on flre for Ure
Mâstet'. Twenty-foui people raised
llnglewood Post.
their hanal requesting prayers, and flve
souls sought and foqnd the Saviour
plecious. We were also enabled to
part 'of John 11:44. "Loose him and
let hirn go!" How significant these
words are. Oh, how men a¡e bound
by iguorance, do.ubts, fears, evil habits, sin. The prayer which raised
Lazarus frorrl' the dead was not the
prayer of a uìol'tal. It was the command of Gorl! He enabled Broilrel
Winters to waru and teach, and at
the effectual call o{ His w.ord and
spilit three souls were born into the
kiugdom. Bless His name!
On Sunday night we had a happy
tine. Mr.
Mrs. P. C. Steffens
'wele withand
us. Mrs. Ste.ffens. neé
A.D.C. Minnie Molrow, led the testin)cny . . meeting. Brother Steffens
sìlolre earnestly for about t.wellty
r3
PROMOTED
That is what we are doing in
Brother David R. Jones of New ôastie,
On the street corner where we hold
our open airs nightly there are three
places of .amusement within a stone's
throv¡ of ùs, where the people go in
thr.gngs nightly. Very few will stop
to hêar the Gospel; nevertheless we
a-re .told to sow the seed, which we
"Farewell, dear friends, I cannot stay;
The home I seek is far away.
Where Christ is not I cannot be;
forth the inclease, therefore we arõ
going forth in His name, leaving no
stone unturned to ¡vin souls for His
'.
are doing to the best of our ability.
God has told us that He will bring
Pa., Passes Away.
This land is not the land for me."
While the above worris were not
krngdom.
We have had our Colonel and Ca¡-
tain McMurray \üith us for a weeî<end. 'fhe Colonel held forth to a very
intelligent crowd in our hall Satui_
day eve,ning, giving us a very fine
ta!!. Captain McMurray, whó was
suffering from a very bad cold, was
l andjcapped in his singing, neverthe-
spoken l¡y Brother Jones, we believe
his sentiments were iir accord with
when he closed his eyes upon
!.!em
his earthly warfare after thirty years
of constant service for the dear- Sav.
iour.
Brother Dlivid R. Jones always had
less he sang some very beautiful songs
a wo,rd for his Master and a heartv
hand-clasp and encouraging, ,,Goä
bless you!" for those he met. I can
oI prarse.
- Sulday afternoon the Colonel and
the
Captain, accompanied by Lieuten-
hear the true ring of his testimony in
my ears yet. His testimony ran something like this: "Dear fr.iend, I am
not rüear¡' in well-doing, for in.due
pt;i.vlajpJ M-ilford, wended their way
!g
lhe Y. M. C. A., which had beei
kindly
loaned to the Volunteers for
the occasion. There our Colonel
spoke in his best strain, which was
ygry much appreciated by a large
qlence.
the evening he again held forth
. In
our hall, which v/as full. He spoke
with.
eloquence walning the
to be ready fõr the
,faittìfully
eventful day ilrat is sure to come to
u-s sooner or later. One soul came to
the penitent-form and was, we beiieve, soundly converted. W" put ã
ug.Y nice day in the service ãf t¡e
3
Lord, and the Colonel returned home
pleased with his reception._A. W.
peoptg
sho,wed
cleally by Ure wo.rd the provision God
has made for that thirst. It is exquisitely suitable, absolutely free,
eminentll' pracl.ical, Mrs. Steffens
followed with aÈ exhortation.. She
addressed her audience with the zeal
this week.
Ou'r Sunday-Sclìool is growing larger of a fliend and the love o.f a nlothel
right along. Over one hundred wère yearning ovel her lost children,
present Sunday. We also'have a flne Soon one young man cane to the
Junior Sewing Circle, which meets altar and cried to God for mercy, ãnd
found.thal the cry of a penitent soul
Saturday afte¡'noons.
We irad a big open-air meeting Sun- is heard. An,otheryoung mau to
day moming, and the plesence of the whom the wliter was speahing reHoly Spiriù wås stroDgly felt. In the garding his soul, had just had a vioafternoon our company divided, ancl lent quarrel with his father and bo,re
two finc open-ail meetings were held. the marks clf an encounter'. He sudM¿rjor ' and Mrs. Andrick were in
deuly rose anri rushed from the room
charge of one compaily of worhers, ând sobbing bitterly, saying he could
0aptain and Mrrs. Jachson were in stand it no longer. l\{rs. Steffens
cirarge of the other. All the heloer.s
followed him out.into the vestibule,
wele filled with the HoIy Ghost, -and aud the young ruan took Christ as His
we could feel the preselrce of God in Saviour. Olì, thè joy of converting
evely.song ând v'ord spoken. Sinners a soul!
were brought under deep conviction.
Arch-bishoÞ Williams once said to
The devil is doing his best to hold us a frieúd of his, "I have passed thlough
down, but by the help of God we put mauy places of honor and truSt, both
him to flight. We are marching on to in church and state, more than auy
victory wiUr the swo,rd of God in hand. of my order in Ðngland these seventy
years before; yet were I but assured
-Cadet Willis J. Parlis.
that by my preaching I had conveiteil
but one soul to God, I should talie
CHICAGO, lLL., POST No. 1,
therein more spiritual joy and comfort
than in all the honors and offices
Five Conversions This Week-Gom- which
have been besto.ï'ed upon me."
rades, Are in Fine Spiritual Gon- AlI Christian men w-ill eudorse the
drition and are Being Blessed!
wisdom of this utterance. Let.Wilson.
us all
OuI meetings were good Sunclay be soul winners.-John D.
afterno,on and evening. Two plunged Col'.
into the forìntain and vrere satisfied,
The crowds ¡Ã¡ere good. 'We noticed
SHELBYVILLE, IND.
that Adjutant Hubtrelt stepped in at
the close of the meeting. T.hose rÁ'ho One More Soul Born lnto the Kingsa$'him said he was looking flne!..He
dom-lnterest in Sunday-School
iras mauy friends in Chicago.
lncreasing-Goo'd Open Air Meethelp fo,ur families who were in distress
We had a glo'rious meeting Tuesday
evening. l'wo came to the uercy-seat,
one a brother for.whom \.ve liad been
praying many months; the other
a
poor girl who hacl once known God's
love but had wândered a-way and v¡as
all bruised by the enemy.
Lieutenant Runyan led the testimony meeting'Wednesday, which was
a spiritual feast to us all. The crowd
was
a little larger than usual.
.the
man c,laimerl Ch,rist at
this service.
One
close of
The interest at Post No. 1 is good.
The people show their interest by
helping with their finances to-keep the
doors open, and the offerings are always gootl. Comrades aré in fine
spiritual coutlition and
are being
blessed.-Isaac Roberts, 'War Cor.
LOS ANGELES, CAL. POST.
Still the
Good . Work Goes on and
Souls are Freed from the Bondage of Sin and Satan.
'Still the good worh goes on a.nd
we âre grateful to God for His mercies. "Salvation is of the Lord." aud
yet He deigns to use human instrumentalities for the furtheránce of His
plairs, "for we aie laborer,s to.gether
with God." Jewel gatherers. for the
Redeemer's crown. Thank God for
this privilege. The planters and work-
au_
in.
rìrinutes, setting for,th God's mercy to
a soul-thirsty world. He
San
the flghting is pretty
tough. People seem to be indifferent
with regard to their soul's salvation,
. all seeking worldly pleasures.
Jose, where
nruch
Kennedy, Cor.
SPOKANE, WASH.
Angels Have Rejoiced Over
Souls
Converted.
The- meetings all. tbrough the week
,nave
Deen well attended,
both on the
street and iudools, and angels have
IeJorcecl ove| souls conve|ted.
. Oaqtain Green and his dear wife,
also..Lieutenant
Byrne
wife havã
al rney can attend to and
in lookirrg af_
¿er the business of the post ana Íeio
iug the rleedy anct the sick i"ì;;t;;',
ways.- Spokane post cannot
be too
glateful for the ¡vork Mrs. Lieutón--
ant Byrne is doing amongst the busi.
ness _nten of Spokaue. She
has
seculect additional Ì,ent leaguers
DAVID R, JONES,
New Castle, Pa.
time we shall reap if we faint not.
While I am not well in body, yet I arn
well in my soul, praise God! I have
been orì this way fo,r thirty years,
and ;hould I live another thirly years
it .would be in the service of
I beseech you, uusaved brother Christ.
or bis_
ter, ¡¡' the rnercy of Jesus, that. you
give your heart to God." Very often
he .would sing tìre good, .old hymn,
Deginnillg, "\,Vhetì peace Like a River
Attendeth
'We who my Way,"
are young in. the Christian
life should profit by his exanrple and
tlust in God at all times, in joy or
sadness. During the sufféring and
¡:ain of his last illness, he saiã to a
friend who called upon him, ,.Though
ings.
He slay me, yet will I trust Hilu.,,
One more soul has been born into
Brother Jones and wife cams to
the kingdom. The husband of one of New Castle thirty yeals ago to enour dear, faithful . comrades sought gage actively in Christian work,
the Lord, and was pardoned of his Brothel Jones had seemed to inprove
sins and four yo'ung men raised their rapidly during the latter part oi his
hand for prayers, and Acting-Captain
irlne,ss arrd was planning to So to
S.¡tohn enrolled four new members on
cnurcn and otlìer meetings in a few
Sunday evening, and despite the in- 4ays, when the end came, ãnd he rests
clemency of the weather the¡e was a in the grave beside nis aear- witä
good attendance and much' enthusi- who also loved God. We a.re thanlifuí
asn'ì. was manifested in the meetings.
to know that nearly ali his childrer
The interest in the Sunday-School are treading the path their father and
is steadily increasing. Our Sunday mother trod. How grand it is.to, know
alternoon meetings are seasons of thal
great blessing and strengthening to
the pathway be lonely and danthe cause of the Volunteers of Amer- "Tho' gerous
too,
icâ in oui beautiful city.
Jesus in mercy will carry us
Notwithstanding the fact that Mrs. Still
.
through."
Captain Spohn is ill with an acute
attack of la grippe, we have beeh
Dear comrarle,s, let us úe faithful.
having some very interesting meet- and at last join hands with those oi
ilìgs. in the open air. The people our dear comrades gone before.-Lieuseem to like to stand and listen to our
tenant Geo. L. Myers.
singing and the plain words of trutñ
delivered by the Captain. We are
SAN JOSE, CAL.
expecting blessings from ilre Lord.
Paul says in Phil.4:19,.,My God A Very Enjoyable and profitable
Visit
shal] supply all your need, according
from Colonel Walter Duncan and
to His riches in glo,ry by Christ
Captain
Jesus."-Acting-Captain R. F. Spohn. ''X'ighting, McMurray!
fighting, on the narrow
¡râJ¡:
"Tears are often the lenses through
The way is róugh,
which God's truth shows clearest-"The fighting's tough,
Sel.
But we shall wÍn the tlay.;
-
fi'o,m
them. When
tooh -amongst
hotd of this work thé
she
lglgue menlbers were paying touriãen
"""i
dollars a month. The new members
she has securcd for the teague nrin*s
the amount of subscriptiös- ;t-i;
forty dollars per month.
The street meetings .have all been
good and the offefings
generous,
antountirìg to $A4.00. Lieutenani
.ra_cK uyrne has arranged to have
different _ speakei' evely night thiãa
week, and we look tor a gtorióus timã
in the Lord.
.'Ihe -bandsmen, under the leadersnrp . ot
bandmaster Clough, are im_
proving- wonderfuily. rnä 'mèã¡êïs
are ail happy and their fellowship is
harmonious.
..Capt-ain is inr¡rroving
'^.^O^ur,dear'
ntcely
lrom the
effects of an- oDera:
tion, and we hope to have
us soon.
hì--i;ith
jail
f{r.e
meeting was bearrtiful
sprrrrual,.two calling for ¡:rayer.. and
RernemDer these souls in your prayers.
comrades, please.
While_ proceeding
to the o¡err air
stand -Sunday aftérnoon, a traction
car collided with the band members.
Knoc&lng several down. Sistei
Teag\e received.some painful,
not- dangerous bruises. W"' th;;;h
p.ui.ã
God that no one was seriouslv^ nîit.
Please_ l.ernember us in your prayers,
^Cor. ---'
cornrades.-Zeila Biebel,
War
,Never.try to begin to be a Christian
?.i r.h9. circumference of thingS. Be a
¡.1 lerting Christ h"ave
^C^1!,=_ü"""
sesslon oI the centre._Campbell þJ
Morgan.
treg of Promise will not drop
.. "TLq
its
f,rui.t unless shaken by the nan¿ ã?
p
rayer."-Exchange.
R. I. CUMMINGS NOT AN OFFICER.
.Acting Captain Ross I Cummings,
who
for some months las con¿ucìä
the Volunteer post work in Woicés-ter:
is not any longer connected with thã
movement. This party left his station
\rynue under serious charges.
Ì4
,F
gWEET qAVlouR MINE,
By Gaptain O. H. O'Br.en, youngs.
town,
O.
Tune-"Sweei Adeline."
In the evening when I sit alone a.
dreaming
Of days goue by-so dear to me,
There's a picture that in fancy oft
1
appearing
Brings back happy days, wheu yon
were near.
It is then I
wonder where you are, my
Saviour,
Tho' I lçnow your h.eart to me is still
the
same!
The sighing winds and nightingale
singing
a-
Are breathing only my tlear Saviour's
nallle.
Sweet Saviour mine, dear Saviour
mine,
For Thee, my Lord, fo,r Thee I pine,
In all my dreams Thy fair face beams,
You're the flower of my heart, sweet
Saviour mine.
2 I can see Thy smiting face as when
we wandered
In the "narrow pa'th," just You and I,
it
seems so real
a,rvaken
LAJVTEERS G.IZETTE.
To find all vanisherl as a dream gone
by.
When we meet
I
in after years
Who could blot out all the past,
Now
some-
at times till I
mine,
No more in paths of sin will
MOTHER'S PARTING
Louis,
A
' I'lI
St.
Mo.
oi ih sin and
oear,
Till I heard the
Her prayers and loving tears
com¡ades singing here
one day.
They told me of a Saviour
Are with me in my memõry clay by
day.
xxlv.
He counted ¡t io
|6zg,vrceaJ
1ffi
.
DVv-Boot
-htAvtsFROM TFrE
Vor-u\ITEEFT
D¡.y ElooK.
ness'
mighty.
holy, holy, Lord God Al-
Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.-Draw not
nigh hither: put off tlry shoes from
off thy feet, for the place wherettn
thou standest is hoiy ground. .I am
the God of thy Father, the God of
Abraham, fhe God of Isaac, and the
Gorl of Jacob. Ànd lVloses hid hiÊ
face;.for he ¡ras afraid to lool< uporr
God.-To whom then will ye Iiìieu
me, or shall I be equal? saith the
Holy One.-I am the Lord thy God,
the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour
, .I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.
¡!s he which hath called you is holy,
so be ye holy iu all manner of convér-
sation; because it is written, Be ye
holy; for I am holy.-Know ye not
that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you, whieh ye
have of God, and ye arenotyourown?
are the tenple of the living
-Ye
Gorì; as God hath said, I will dwell
in them, and walk in them; and I
will be their God, and they shall be
my people.-Can trvo walk together,
excepi, they be agreed
?
4:8. Psa. 22:3.-Exod. 3:5, 6.
Isa. 40:25.-Isa. 4ll:3, 11. 1 Pet.
1 : 15, I 6,-1 Cor. 6 : 19.-2 Cor. 6: 16.REV.
Amos 3:3.
Long provoÈãd IIim to His fàce:
Would not hearken to Ilis calls;
Grieved llirn by a thousand falls.
xxvt.
,."1i,,1'Jni""ri "J ?:?"::"';,il," ffi:
Let me Dow my sins lament;
Now my foul ievolt cleplore,
Weep, believe, and sin'no more.
4-Kindled ILis relentings are;
Cries, ho v
õ Tbere for me the Saviour stands:
Shows llis wounds, and spreads ilie
han ds;
God is lovet I know, I feel;
Jesus weeps, and loves me still.
MARoH xxvll.
Be strong and of a sood courase.
MARoH
called his own servants, and
of
in iaitn, àî"irc;i;;; to Gort;.anO ¡ôl
prõmised,- rre was able also to periorm. nir¿ tneiJioru it *u, imputed
to.him_for righteorisness. Now itwas
not written for his sake alone,that Ít
was imputed ro him:*;;;ì;;;ilil;
to whom it shall be imputert, if we
believc on Him that raised up Jesus
lfe
now delights to spare;
shalil give tËee úp?
Lets the lifted thunder drop. I}Ig
delivered
-,
is my light aDd my salvaunto them.his goods.....to every man ..:lu-l'.Td
tion: .whom shall I fear? the Lord is
according to hiË several abilití.
ing fully persuaded that, what he had
to the faint; and to them that have
u-^-...^
he increaseth strength'
ye ñ^+
yield
not, +ü^+
that ¿^
to *-L^
whom ye
-his's"r*:.^:lfllt
--^::jao-{
shall faint and be
¿--iselves servants to obev,
Pl:i-t11.""uths
weary' and the young men shall ut,auis ye are to whom ye oiri¡vf
An these worketh that oiJ"and..the L"jlå:itåi,..:r":fi#,?r.î.?'j_tflîJå;
selrsame sl¡irit'
t?^ 1"^ïI írräìi äå,ilt up with wings as easres;
man severally as -dividilc
he will. . .The
;iräi run, anal not be v¡eary;
_manifestation of the Spirit is given
our Lord from the dead.
to i;r#
::ï *;;;^:r'^i,",-,:ii:'
^:î -î ":I_r
prontiith"r.-i;';uñ
every
man
io
shourd be rhe
.heir
trre¡iomiJè,-îri"iìe
illrg;:Sil *tt#tfjåuråi,lrli"h;
of the-wortd, was not to Abra- man hath received the gift,^even so äia
ä"ü.j strength of my heart, ancl
harr,-or to_his seed, through the law, minister the sarre one to another, as ;;;J;;
bu" through the righteousness of good stewards of the manifold grace *|" i^:':' for ever.
of God.-It is required in steviards. If God be for us, who can be against
faith.
tts?-The LoId is on my side; I will
The just shall live by faith.-Letus that a man be fountl faithful.
hold fast the professiõn of our faith
Unto whomsoever much is siven. of :rot,fear:,what can man do unto me?
without wavering; (for He is raithful him shan tre much
-..TT::gl thee will we ¡tush down
*,i'J
""s..i.ãäi^åiä'iä
yj{1ffi"."",ri'*:l;ï;"1
',1i,'.å?
rmt
i:ä1"å::î:TJ;?H"i"f",å"it'ii
ä:,r:ëËil!T;s:iffåål
---wr,o
hath pleased.
is sufficienr ror t¡eså t[i-ns¡? äfäi.åi: ffi.r,å,î ,üå.ryff ,:r"1å i::- with . G9,1., norh-int
cro an tninss tnroush chr"ist, "'ï;il ifie,ero"", and be doing, and
:i|tlrli
iä'",",îåålt?;;,åå,1:lîï"$"T ;i^ç"
wnrch strengtheneth me'
the Lord be with thee.
performance of those" tîi"Ëïff"fi
were told her _from the Lord,
rr,
cs¡,r. 'ri:ã. n"*. ¿lzó.z-a. Lo*.
srljF;.1,1å¡,rË'..fJj..-åî3i.$l::
4:13' Rom' 1:17'-Heb' 10:23'-Psa"
ì,î.'
r.ok"'lz,¿s.
z cor. z:16.-phÍ1. 11s:6. psa.
"#"jf,,ri]d1_iur"l*Tä¡.11u
g:B?.
"-
;
1-15:3.-Lulié 7i3'l
"'
4: tB.
. 46.
MARCH XXV.
leave thee, nor forsake
I w¡ll never
th ee.
.
i Deptb of mercy! can tbere be
lllercy still reserved for me?
Can rnyGod His wlath forbear?
Ille, the chief of sinners, sparep
2 I have loug witbstood flis grace
T
i;;;ühidr;:
He staggererl
the'nromlse
""t "t ;il
God through unbetief;
ä:-J;;;
MARCH XXIII,
Holy,
i¡m
OF
B Now incline me to repent;
so peaceful,
pray.
watch
'When the and
tempter with allurements
false
Would lead your soul ¿stray,
_?hinh of mother and the old home. far
away,"
Ah! _the parrting words of mother
My life was full of blame,
MAR3H
I left my home
homo
¡inun tne )vine-cup, read your Bible,
And its simple, homelike air:
'Tis the home of my dear mother, now
wander.ed
see her,
Mother said, "Be good, my child!
ney
I
I
meet her up in heaven,
2 When
'WithI love,
its quaint, oltl-fashioned ehim-
shame,
grave,-I see them day by
Live with Jesus in thal bright
far away.
ginia."
above!
SINNERS.
alay.
In a far-off, distant village
Though
grassy
away.
MERCY FOR THE CHIEF
Though no more on ea,rth
Tune-"'Mid the Green tr'ieltls õf Vir1
far
There's an ivy-covered porch,
And a little village church;
WORDS.
By Acting Lieut. Olive Jenkins,
Her hand is on my head now,
I see her face so dear.
Though she's gone to be wlth Jesus,
the
Chorus.
I be wanIf the sun again some clay for me
will shine!
dering,
Abraham believed ¡n the Lord; and
fir
I'm saved and walking in
narrov¡ way.
time, my Saviour,
know that I .will find Your love still
Many miles away,
There's an ivy-covered homes'tead that
Chorus.
And
H E IIO
So that we may boklly say, The
Lord is my helper, and I wilÌ not fear
what man shall do unto me.
tsehold, I am with thee. and will
keep thee in all places ¡vhither thou
goest, and will bring thee again into
this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I 'rave
spokeÈ to thee
of.-Be
strong and
of
a
good courage, fear not, nor be afraid
of them: for the Lord thy God, be it
is that doth go with thee; he will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Demas hath forsaken me, having
loved this present world. At my
first answer no man stood with me.
bnt all men forsook me. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and
strengthenerl me.
my father
- When
and my mother forsahe
me, then the
Lord will take me up.
Lo, I am with you alway, even unto
the end of the world.-I am he tbat
liveth, and s¡âs deâd; and, behold, I
am alive for evermore.-I will not
leave you comfortless; I will come to
yolI.
HEB. 13:5. Heb. 13:6. Gen.28:15.
Deut.31:6. 2 Tim.4:10, 16, 17.Psa. 27: 10. Matt. 28: 20.-Rev. 1:18.
-John 14:18.
qri
""'
44:b.-Rom.
22:16.
MARCH XXIX.
MARCH XXVII.
To him that soweth
shall be a sure reward.
iighteousness
After a long time the lord of those
them. And so he that had re-ceiverl
five talents came and brought other
servants cometh, and reckoneth with
ffve talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five tâlents: behold. I
have gained beside them five talents
more. His lord said unto him,
1 chr.
'Well
rlone, thou good and faithful servant:
thou hast been faithful over a few
things, I will make the ruler over
tn¡ny things: enter thou into the joy
of thy lord.
'We must all appear before the
judguent seat of Christ; that every
or€ mey receive the things done in
his body, according to that he hath
done,.whether it be good or bad.
I have fought a good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept the
faith: henceforth there is laid up for
Come, ye blessed
-herit
of my Father, in-
the _kingdom prepáred for you
from the foundation
of the world, -
little flock; for it is your
_ F,ear not,
tr'ather's good pleasure to give you
the kingdom.-Hath not Gocl choien
the poor of this world rich in faith.
and heirs of the kingdom which he
hath promised to them that love him?
of
God, and joint-heirs
ráith
-Heirs
Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that rve may be also gloriûed to-
gether.
The Father himself loveth you,
cause ye have loved me.-God
be-
is not
aslìamed to be called their God: for
he hath prepared for them a city.
He that overcometh shall inherit
all things; and I will be his God, and
he shall be my son.-l'here is laid uo
for me a crown of righteousness-,
which the Lord, the righteous judge,
shall give me at that day: and not
to me only, but unto all them also
me a ero¡¡¡n of righteousness, which
love his appearing.
tle Lord, the righteous judge, shall that
He which hath begun a good work
give me at that day.
i1 vou will ¡rerform it until the day
Behold, I come quickly: hold that, of Jesus Christ.
fast which thou hast, that rro man
talie thy cÌos'rr,
PROV. 11:18. i{att. Zl:tg-Zt. )
Cor.5:L0. 2 Tim.4:?,8. Rev. g:11.
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By Ordcr of thc
ILd.
IOARD OF DIFICTOR¡.
HE VOLANTEERS¡ GAZETTE.
t6
think, "He is
of ?'Train
himself."
TÍIE PARENTS' FAULT
By Mrs. Essa Woodford.
a,
boy; he can take care
up a child in the way
he
should go, and when he is old he u¡ill
not depart from it."-Prov. 22:6. A
Catholic prriest once said if he could
have the religious training of children
until bhey were ten years old, he was
never afraid of them departing from
his teaching,
The devil is ever on the alert, and if
he can get a person to take the û,rst
E hear a great cleal these step
in the wrong direction, he thinks
days about the duty of his work
well begun. Parents shoulal
children to their parerts, be more vigilant, more careful of the
and, of course, they should
fE=¡=Ð be dutiful, oberlient, and
loving; but if they fail to properly ap-
preciate their pa,rents an<l fail in th;e
performance of their duty, whose fault
is it? Look at a new-born baby. What
SEATTLE, WASH., POST.
Another Week of Victory-Good Meet'
ings-One Precious Soul Won for
Ghrist-Visits from Two . Young
People's Societies.
During the past week the services
have been precious seasons of rrefreshing from the presence of the Lord,
clear Jack*qon I'osl of all debt. The
Volunteers of Ame.rica do not owe one
ten cent piece in Jackson. Hall and
qrrarte,rs' rent are Baid in advance.
When we took charge of this Post
there were no soltliers, fo.r two weeks
no meetings hrùd been held, ând the
debt had been accumulating for weehs.
'fo-day we have eight soldiers
and
recruits. Our work is prosper"
P' S. C. E. twenty
ing.
Crowds are better, and many
Church,
Anne
Christian
from the Queèn
frienrls have be<n made. Althouglt
-it': their pastor, Rev. J. L Greenwell, times are dull, we can sây, "Victory is
Tuesday evening the Y.
was present. After the.singing of seve'ral selections by the quartette of the
society, Rev.
shor! bu+. porverful sermon from the
third chapter and fourth verse of St.
Greenwell Preached a
Jobn's Gospel, viz., "Sin is the transgression of the law," When the invitation was given, several hands were
raised for prayer, Il is the intention
of the society to come once or twice
every month.
The service Wednesday evening was
conducted by Captain'W. Smith, A'D.C.,
who gave us an eârnest exhortation,
taking for his scripture lesson a
pa'rt
ours" along the way.
Five sor"rls were conve,rted last rveek.
'We
are. going to have an enrollment
service soon and organize Jackson
Post.-C. J. Smith ânal Wife.
ST. LOUIS, lLL.' POST No.
Again Report Victory-Souls
.
1.
mother.
So why blame the children
the. parents have done?-or
for what
I
say, not done?
Not long ago a mother said,
shoultl
"I can't
get my girls to help me. I would
rather do the work than quarrel with
them."
EverY
Night!
Our oficers and comrades are giacl
to repo,rt victory. By the grãce
of God we keep the devil on the run.
We are having souis every nighL. The
again.
of thè t¡¡¡elfth chapter of St. Marh's
last two Sundays several ha]1ds went
Thurstlay evening rile had a conse- up for prayers. O'ur band gives us
cration meeting. Rev. E. B. Suttoû some fine music.
preacherl a sèrmon appropriate to the
At the close of the SundaY morning
occasion, showing how necessary it meeting we give ho.t rolls ancl coftee
was forr us to be consecrated Chris- 'ro the pooÌ and needy. Our hall is
tians if we would be successful in wrû- ove'rflowing with people, and our souls
ning souls for Christ. At the close are overflowing with joy and gladness.
officers, comratles and friends gat¡rer
We are sorry to learn that our be'round. the altar, where we trust all re' loved officers are to farervell to St.
newetl their covenant vows'to do better Louis. The farewell and welcome
work for the Master.
meetings will l¡e repor'ted next week.Fritlay evening the Baptist Youûg Llêutenant Olive Jenhins.
People's Society of the Firsl Baptist
Church, with their assistant pastor,
RENO, NEV.
gospel.
does it knojr¡? What is it? Only a
piece of plastic clay that the parents
rnay mold at will either into' an hcnorable, upright, noìrle being, or, if neglected and left to follow its own course,
grow to be all that is the opposite.
The ûrrst duty is that of parents to
the home and the children; but what
are'lhe parents who have ungrateful
s,ons and daughters doing?
The majority are so engrossed with
social pleasure, or they are so busily
engaged in th,e mad rush fbr gold, that
the child'ren 'f ust growed," until a
time comes when the parents realize
that the children hâve very little love
or respect for home or father or
Often the moth,er is the household
drudge, while the children live lives of
ease a,nd pleasure.
Àgain, some women say, when a son
"I raised the gi,rls, and
their father raised the boys." Now,
the father is away from home a good
share of the day, antl cannot know
what the children do' as the mother
should. It is he¡ business to know
where they are eye.ry hour of the day,
ând that they are congenially employed. That is the whole secrel, I believe,-employment. When the hands
and mind are busy with what they
goes wrong,
should do, they cannot be in mischief.
To, those who cannot get their children
to help them, I $'ould say, "You have
to begin." Intleed,
there shoultl not be any real beginning.
waited too long
I know one girl, thirteen
years old,
who is a real jewel in the home. When
she was a v¡ee tot she would "help."
children, for .much of the wrong done
by them is indirectly the fault of thei'r
parents.
THE
' FOG
CONCEALED
LIGHT.
THE
RED
Not long since, an excursion train
ington City just after nighlfall. It
halted at a nearby statìon to take on
other passengers. Just at that moment an engine dasherl up to the l;tation al a râte of forty miles an hour,
was approaching the subru'bs of Wash-
antl plowed clean through the coaches
or the .passenge,r train, leaving more
than sixty dead and as maiy more
mangled. It ¡ilas an awful catastrophe.
.trut the engineer o'n the crushing engine said, "The fog concealed the red
lights, ancl as there was no signal to
run slo'lvly, I did not slow down the
engine." Rut this :gnorance clid not
protect the lives of the men, women
ând children on the fated train. Tho,se
who did not perish were nearly all inju,red, Sometimes you hear people
it does .not matter what a
man believes, just so he's honest."
There never was a greater fallacy.
That engineer pvas honest in his belief that there was no train just ahead
of him. But the train was there.
loaded with human freight, and the
fatality was appalling!
The same principle is equally true
in matters o,f mo'rals and r.eiigion. As
a man tþinheth, so is he. If he tbinks
mistakenly or falsely, the result is
fatal. ft mattels not how honest he
may be, the effect is just as certain
ancl just as terrible. We need to thoroughty examine the ground of our beliel'. The red lights of God's truth are
say, "Oh,
hung out all alo,ng the way of life. They
are there to admonish, to cautioû, to
remind us of danger. If . we allow 'the
fogs of ignorance, of prejudice, of in-
difference, of vice o,r wickedness, to
obscure our vision, antl untler the mad
rush of life's pressure we dash into
the clangerous places that confront us,
we have to sxffer the consequences.
cann.ot plead ignorance as an ex:
to wipe the smaÌl things We
Four Bn¡ght Conversions-A Visit from when mamma washed dishes; of cuse. God will accept it. He has
to, ns the capabilities of intellicourse, mamma had to wash them given
Gaptain McMurraY.
gence and rectitude. -We have the
was
usefrìlness
over,
the
lesson
but
power of discrimination. IMe hnow
Praise God, the work in Reno is'still \Mell worth the extra'of,
door. I will come in to him and suP
trouble.
with him. and he with Me." Brother advancing! Within ten days we have
I
have heard mothers say, when a righl from rvrong, good from evil.
Jones pictured to all what a blessed had four conversions, three at the hall child went wrong, "Oh! why am I pun- truth from falsehood. God's bright
signals are waving on. either side and
friend lesus will be to all who wili and one at the county jail.
ished so? 'Wh,at have I done?"
fìro,nt of us. All we havo to do is
One of the three converted in the
come to Him.
It
is not wJrab you have done, but in
A blessett teslimony service followed. hall told us atter the meeting of his what you have faiied to do that to consider these, and danger vrill be
avelted. When the time comes for us
Arnong the number of those who spoke erring ways the past few years, said he causes the remorse.
doriln. we had better turn. on
tryas a sailor, who gave testimony ot had spent ser.e'ral years in San QnenParents should be companions to to slow
how Breqious Jesus was to him ancl tin, also handed me a letter from a their children. Read what they rread, the air-brakes. It won't do to prehow he receivetl st'rength from Him to dear Ohristian nrother, and said, "t go wh,ere they go, cast grim care as.tle sume. Health, morals, spirflual weal
bear the taunts anal. jeers of his un- wish you v¡ottld t'rite her antl say the for awhile eâch day anrt do things that are all involvetl, and the throttle o,f
past is blotted out and I have started rilÍIl interest them, antl they will not so the engine is in our own hand. .Bnt we
companions on board his vessel'
Eodlv
- wã nad
ãnother blessed meeting Sat- a new iife." I wro'te the mother, and often go away from home to, find often 'run at too great a speed, and a
premature breah.down, a moral lapse,
urday evening, Major Markle deliver- receivetl a beautiful Ìetter in ânswer pleasure.
saying she rejoiced over her l¡oy's coning-We
the Scripture message.'
unto" a spiritual wreck, is the result. We
"Do
Follor¡ the Golden Rule:
had a blessed day on Sunday. version, and wished us to do all we your children "as ye .would that they had better look out for the sig;nals!"Texas Advocate."
IMe had large open-airr meetings in the could for him.
should do to you."
morning, afternoon and evening. Our
One evening, not long ago, I was in
The man that was converted in the
WORKING IN SILENCE.
Post Sãcretary, Rev. Bl. B. Sutton' county jail, I believe lilas desperately a drygoods storre shopping. It was
nreached at the afternoon. service in in earnest; he has been conflned there about eight o'clock, antl after dark. A
One of the most impressive things
itre ttatt, his subject being Goil's hand for a month at least, brit when we lvere crowd of stylishly dressed young girls
service, there conducting services, he would came in, and when asked s/here they about the greatest engines is thc
in history. At the evening
Rev. Judãe Puwin, D.D., gave us the keep hirnself track in his cell out of were going, said: "Oh, no-where; Just s'lence with which, they do their work.
messagê, beautifully describing'"he sighl, until last Sunday. He hatl lis' up 'the street." Did their mothers not The same thing may be observed in
mioistiy' of the Apostle Paul to i'he teneal to the singing, the testimonies, know of the dangers "just uP the regard to the wo,rk of ,religious leaders
or soeieties. Those which are most
Gentilei, showing his faithfulness in and the reading of God's Word, and at street ?"
p."""itins
the evè,rlasting gospel, and the close the invitation was given to
*Christians
Thre prudent mother is as careful of powerful are very quiet.-"Zion's Hershould be as zeal- a.ny man who wanted to be known her boys as of her girls, and does not ald."
inãl *e
óos io t¡e Master's service. He also from that day on a,s a man of Gotl' He
ureeat the unsaved to accept Christ as stepped frrom his cell and saitl, "I do!"
thõir Bersonal Saviour. When the in- He said he l<new perfectly well that it
vitation was given, one dear mân came would be a hard fight, brit that he
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olri an¿ surrendered himself to Christ, wanted to go all the way with Jesus.
áná ottrers were under deep conviction We took him a testament the next
IS
but did not' Yieltl.
him that tly reaaling it
'We failetl to note in our last report dat¡, a,nal toltt
he would know Gotl's will concerning
a
had
recently
th.at Maior Markle has
him. f,ast Sunday there wel'e eleven
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'We were pleasantly surprised last
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came, and the basis
Rev. IM. G. Jones,
of his remarks .was the 20th verse of
the 3rd chapter of Revelations, "Behold, I stanal at the door and knock; if
any man heâr mY voice and oPen the
She loved
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ãeant W. V' GildaY.
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week by a visit from CaPtain McMurray from San trlrancisco. He came to
Reno on business, and helPetl us in
the meetings at night by singing his
beautiful Gospel solos. He returned to
Debt-Five Souls Gon- San tr'rancisco SaturdaY morning.
'Post
-- Glear of New
'We are looking forwaral to a visit
Soldiers and 20
rr""ted-g
' Recruits the Result of Ten Months' from Colonel
and Mrs. Duncan in the
Work!
Faithful
I wis'h to say that after ten months
of hard work we have managerl to
latte,r part of March. Cap'tain McMur'
ray will accompany them.-Mrs. CaBt.
Brooks.
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