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Li »- PICKED UP IN PHILADELPHIA. “The bicycle can keep up only as it keeps on.”—A. H. Strong, The English people have finally come to recognize John Bunyan’s place among them by allowing a me morial window to be put into. West minster Abbey. The window cost $7,000. In 1905 religious liberty in Russia was born. In the same year was or ganized the Baptist World’s Alliance. Mr. Fetter, one of the Russian Bap tists in Philadelphia, was arrested just before leaving Russia and was allowed to come only after giving bail for $2,500 for his appearance in court on his return. His offence was preaching the simple gospel. Eighty-five per cent, cf the money of the church is spent on adults; 92 per cent, of the church’s membership comes from the children, and 8 per ^cent. from adults. A friend from Kansas said that two thoughts had come to him in connec tion with the Baptist World’s Alli ance: (1) That Paul would have felt very much at home with those Rus sian exiles and sufferers; (2) that no other people on earth except the Bap tists could have had such a meeting. One of the exiles in Siberia bap tized more than 2,000 people after cutting a hole in the ice to do so. Dr. Mullins says that two things are essential to a great life or a great denomination; (Ij A vision; (2) a task. The task without the vision is drudgery; the vision without the task makes man visionary. The vision and the task make the hero and apostle. To say that we as Baptists have no 'authoriiauve cieeu is not \0 aaj that we have no authoritative Book, nor that we have no authoritative King. The Alliance is something of the realization of Carey’s sermon and vi sion when he said: (1) Expect great things from God, and (2) attempt great things for (lod. Bishop Westcott once made a great missionary address of which the fol lowing is the outline: (1) The little that- we have done; (2) The much that God has done without little; (3) The much that remains to be done. A man preached the gospel in Ja pan and thought his work was a fail ure. Some time afterwards a woman came asking if they knew where the people were who mended broken hearts. of the fiduciary principle of life. This is true. Life is a trust—a sacrea trust. We are celebrating this year rhe 300th anniversary cf two things; (1) The giving to the world the King James Version of the Bible, and (2) the laying of the foundation of the modern Baptist denomination. There is a close connection between the two things. The great problem of the industrial world of the future will be competi tion between China and the West. In China the Christian hospitals arel called “.lesus stations." / Dr. John Clifford, the great English Baptist hero of seventy-five, says: “The way to live long is to be always at it, and always at it’ with all* there is in you.” The women of the United States and Canada gave to foreign missions in 1909 more than three million dol lars. This was from all denomina tions, of course. “Rome,” says Dr. Chas. E. Jeffer ses, “goes on with her crimson work bemuse she knows the value of the chit Scot'jand has held her grasp on democracy longer than any other na tion. 'llhis is because the father, the pastor, apd the school teacher have all joined hands around the child. MEMORIZING SCRIPTURE. his possession memorized th^ ]7th chanters went to Sunda No people can rise higher than its women, and it is a source of great satisfaction to know that all nations are striving to elevate their women. Dr. J. B. Gambrell, the great Baptist hero of Texas, tells an interesting ex perience from his boyhood as to the value of memorizing the Word of God. His Sunday School Superintendent of fered a beautiful book to the child who would m|emorlze the largest num ber of verses; from the Scripture. He said he went] home feeling that that book should -1 e his. All through the week he couljd imagine that booh in He went to work and 14th, 15th, 16th and if .John’s .gospel. ,.He School and when the recitation of ^cripture wms called for he arose and/ went through with all the verses oi those blessed chapters without a brelak. He took his seat as sured that the book was his. Follow ing him a little girl arose and be,gan to recite Scrjipture, and he said she went on and; went on and went on until he concluded he had never heard a person go on so in all his life. She took the book, and he went home a discouraged lioy. Years went by. Dr. Gambrel was a mature man with grown children. One night a message came to him that his oldest son had been shot flown in a southern city in the midst/of a temperance fight. The father wj6nt to the scene of the trou ble. Ha shut himself in a dark room where /no eye could see but the all- seelna eye of God. While thus alone with /God thinking, praying, struggling with/ his trouble there, chapters mem- ori^d in childhood came to him verse by/ verse to give him succor and strength. “Let not your heart be roubled, ye believe in God; believe also in me,” &c. THE NEW REFORMATION IN EUROPE. FOREIGN MISSION REPORT. In Dr. Byford’s speech before the Baptist World’s Alliance he said that the spirit of religious inquiry was abroad in Europe as it has not been before in many, many years. Two or three marks of this reformation he named as follows: (1) It is not con fined to any one race or people. It is not the outgrowth of any educational- ism or anything of the sort, (2) It is Baptist through and through. The man who teaches baby baptism hasn’t much chance. All over Europe are those churches that have sprung up simply from reading the New Testa ment, and they are as good Baptist churches as we have any where. (3) The secret of success is to be found in the, fact that they believe thorough ly in prayer and in the Word of God. They obey the command of Jesus Christ without fear or favor. One of the persecuted ones was given a paper and told that if he would sign it he would be allowed to go free. It was a paper promising not to preach the Baptist faith any further. He took the paper, read it, tore into pieces and said, “I’d rather rot in prison than to give up in any such way.” Robt. E. Speer speaks somewhere There were 3,618 baptisms for the year, the largest number in the his tory cf the Board. Thirty new mis sionaries were sent out. The brother who sent out the ten missionaries agrees to support them for another year. There are now 273 missiona ries and 521 native helpers. The nine Theological Training Schools and eight Training Schocls for women have an enrollment of 350, who are being prepared to labor among their own people. More than 40,000 patients have reecived treat ment in our hospitals. The debt of $89,600 is the cnly depressing feature of the report. THE BANK OF WAKE, WAKlh FOin/bT, N. C. Capiuil Stock $20,000 00 Surplus 4,000.00 Four ) er cent, paid on time certificates. Every cointesy and accommoda tion extended to customers. Try us. DR. R. M. SQUIRES^ rnsivarisTT, Wake Forest^ N. S. Office over 0. Y. Holding & Co. There is a beautiful legend which runs as follows: Late one evening a careworn, hag gard man came to a priest, and beg ged to receive absolution for the sins of a life of which he was weary, a life which had become to him a living death. The priest listened with at tention to his confession. Crime after crime—a long tale of woe—was poured into his ear. At length he in tervened. “My sen,” he said, “God’s Spirit will ’ not always strive' with' man; your sins are too fearful. I dare not pronounce absolution on such an one as you.” The poor man rose up and went away, bent low with grief and remorse. That night the priest in his bed was visited with a strange vision. He seemed to be present at the judgment of a soul, which was to be arraigned before the presence of God. A large balance was placed firmly in the ground. A man whose face he recognized, whose crime he had pronounced unpardona ble, was brought trembling before th-3 Judge; in cne scale cf the balance the devil was busily engaged in plac ing all the sins of a misspent life, and they were very many and very heavy. Doom was certain, condemna tion inevitable, when a faint flutter of wings was heard, and an angel ap peared, bearing in his hands a hand kerchief all wet and heavy with tears. He cast it into the other scale; the sins were outweighed, the balance al tered. The soul was saved. The pries', awoke with fear and compunction. He hastened to seek out and inquire for the careworn sinner who had sought his help. After some time he found him lying under a tree—quite dead— dead of a broken heart—but under his head was a handkerchief still wet with tears; and then he remembered how it is written: “The sacrifice or God is a troubled spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. We Carry a Full Line of Dry Goods, Millinery, Notions, Heavy Groceries, Shoes, Fancy Groceries, General Merchandise. New Stock Just Received. S®“ We invite you to come.“®J Jackson & Powers, Inc., WAKE FOREST, N. C. GO TO E ALLEN’S WAKE FOREST, N. C., - For Furniture. - There are two great dynamics in the human soul. Mohammedanism has the dynamic of hate, and Chris tianity has the dynamic of love. This love is born of a sense of obligation to Christ. 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