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Program of Union Meeting. The union meeting of the Union Baptist Association will be held with the church at Macedonia beginning on Friday, December 29th. The fol lowing is the program: FRIDAY. 11:00 a. m.—Introductory sermon, T. P. Little; alternate, J. L. Bennett. 1:00 p. m.—Organization. 1:30 p. m.—Query: What is regen eration and what are its effects? M. D. L. Preslar, J. G. Gulledge. SATURDAY. 9:30 a. m.—Devotional exercises. 10:00 a. m.—Query: Is there Scrip tural means by which to regulate our giving? G. 0. Wilhoit, J. W. Biv ens. 11:00 a. m.—Query: Do the preach ers and churches rely upon the Holy Spirit in their work as they should? J. L. Bennett, H. M. Nicholson. 11:00 p. m.—Exegesis of Hebrews, 6:1-10. W. F. Watson, D. A. Snyder. 2:00 p. m. — The importance of reading the Bible and the best meth od of studying it. S. R. Brock, A. Marsh. SUNDAY. 10:00 a. m.—Sunday school mass meeting, conducted by F. B. Ashcraft. 11:00 a. m.—Sermon. W. F. Wat son. The churches are requested to send delegates. Committee. Pen Picture of Christ. New York Press. The following is the only relia ble pen picture of Christ as seen in actual life, and it is an exquisite piece of word-painting. It is taken from a manuscript now in the possession of Lord Kelly and in his library. It was copied from an original letter of Publius Len- tulus at Rome, it being the usual custom of Roman governors to advise the Senate and the people of such material things as hap pened in their provinces in the days of Tiberius Caesar. Publius Lentulus, procurator of Judea, wrote the letter to the Senate: “There appeared in these, our days, a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted as a prophet of truth. He raises the dead and cures all manner of diseases. A man of stature somewhat tall, and comely, such as the beholder may both love and fear. His hair of the color of a chestnut, full ripe; plain to his ears, whence downward it is more orient and curling and waving about his shoulders. In the midst of his head is a seam, a partition in the hair, after the manner of Naza- rites. His forehead plain and very delicate; his face without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with a lovely red. His nose and mouth so formed that nothing can be reprehended. His beard is color like his hair, not very long, but forked. His look innocent and mature. His eyes fiery, clear and quick and luminous. In reprov ing he is terrible, his eyes pierc ing—as with a two-edged sword —the greedy, the selfish and the oppressor, but look with tender- est pity on the weak, the erring and the sinful. Courteous and fair spoken. Pleasant in conver sation, mixed with gravity. It can’t be remembered that any have seen him laugh, but many have seen him weep. In propor tion of body most excellent—a man for his singular beauty sur passing the children of men. ’ ’ Heroic Faith. Selected. Robert Morrison, the first Prot estant missionary in China, died strong in the faith that that coun try would become Christian. Yet he labored in that country for twenty - seven years fighting against hatred, opposition, and persecution, and won by his own efforts but two conversions. There is a lesson of faith that many of God’s workers need to learn. J » “ ® “I do not know the word dis couragement,’’ said Dr. John Scudder; “I long ago erased it from my vocabulary.’’ “I do not want your pity, dear friends in the homeland, ’ ’ wrote a missionary from Zululand, ‘ ‘for I am in the ‘tip-top’ field of the world. ’ ’ ‘ ‘I would rather wear out than rust out, ’ ’ said Henry Martyn, of India. “I am God’s little woman, and he will take care of me, ’ ’ wrote Annie Taylor, of Thibet. ‘ ‘My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him,’’ wrote Gardiner upon a rock on the coast of Tierra del Fuego just before his death by starvation. “We missionaries have put in all we have got here, ’ ’ said Rock ville Clancy, of India, to a maga zine correspondent. ‘ ‘We are here for life; we are hard at work, and we are happy.’’ Glimpses of the Infinite. Sunday School Times. What we see is a very small part of what is. One realizes this with new force as he pushes through the un derbrush of a forest or piece of wood land, and comes at every step upon new and unsuspected beauties of God’s creating. Here is a tiny flower hidden beneath a leaf; no man ever looked upon it before, and perhaps never will again; yet it is perfect be yond Solomon’s glory. For every such glimse given us of God’s infin ite creating and beauty-loving power there are ten thousand times ten thousand manifestations of it, here in this world, that man has never seen. In the depths of the sea, in the artic regions, in the heart of the earth, and close to us on every side, his works are going unseen by any of his children. And if this is so of his finite, material world, what of the material world beyond, when we shall have entered there? It is such suggestions of the infinite that reveal how little we really know of our Fa ther’s love. What a Love to trust, while awaiting that time wh§n we shall know even as also we were known! Sacrifice for State Missions. Livingston Johnson. A young man, a native of South Carolina, who graduated at Wake Forest a year or two ago, is a mis sionary in an important seacoast town. He is doing a magnificent work, for which he receives the small salary of $500.00. He rents his house, and it takes all his salary to support himself and wife. He is in debt for his education. He was re cently offered a thousand dollars and, parsonage by a church in his native State. That' would give him a sup port and enable him to pay off the school debt. Under the circum stances it was a great temptation; but the young man, after earnest and prayerful consideration, decided that it w'as his duty to remain on his present field. Here is a man’ from another State, so much interested in a mission point in our State, that he practically contributes $600.00 to j State missions, and suffers the pri- 1 vations that such a sacrifice involves. Saddest of Sights. Keligious Herald. “What was the most distressing thing you ever saw in a court room?” was the question propounded to a group of lawyers recently, as they sat together in the office of one of their number. One told of hearing a j udge pass sentence of death on a woman; another told of the scene between a mother and son as she bid her boy goodbye before he started to serve a ten years’ sentence in the penitentiary, and as the question went round the circle each related a story of court room scenes. Almost the last one in the group said: “Gen tlemen, the saddest thing I ever wit nessed in a court room was when a healthy, strong, handsome man and woman, with a group of children, appeared before a circuit judge, the one plaintiff, the other defendant, in a divorce suit. The look of distress on the faces of those innocent chil dren as they sat and listened to the crimations and recrimations of their parents, intent on breaking up what had been a happy home, was the saddest sight I ever witnessed.” 1896. 1905. It is a favorite argument of the whiskey people that prohibition does not prohibit, and that liquor is always more or less plentiful in a community after a prohibi tion law has gone into effect than it was before. If such an argu ment were founded in fact, it does seem then that prohibition would be the very thing the whis key people would want. If pro hibition makes liquor more plen tiful, then why is it that the whiskey people fight prohibition so hard?—Waxhaw Enterprise. The Messenger is only twenty- cents a year. Send in your sub scription at once. Phone 44. Wingate, N. C. Railway, Municipal, and Farm Surveying, Rapid Stadia Work, Triangulation, Roads and Pavements, Maps, Etc. E. C. WILLIAMS R. W. LEMMOND Williams & Lemmond, Attorneys at Law. Monroe, N. C. Practice in the State and Federal Courts. Special attention given to the settlement of estates for executors, administrators and guardians. Charges reasonable. G. B. imi M. D„ Residence Phone, No. 274, Having located in Monroe offers his services to the town and surrounding country. Diseases of the stomach and bowels a specialty. Office over the English Drug Co.’s drug store. Calls answered in the day from the English drug store or residence, at night from residence. ...Photographs... We use only first class materials and guarantee first class work. Come and see us. Hale’s Photograph Gallery. R. B. Red-wine, Pres. r. H. Wolfe, Cashier. The Savings, Loan and Trust Company, Receives deposits subject to check. Issues certificates on time deposits. Savings feature a specialty. Lends money on good paper. Office in Loan and Trust Building. Charges Moderate. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Dr. B. C. REDFEARN, Dentist, MONHOEj N. c. Will be at Marsliville, N. C., on first and third Mondays of each month, and at Matthews, N.C., on second and fourth Mondays. Phones: Office, 232; residence, 2-54. Just Received a nice new line of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles,etc Will be pleased to have you call at any time. Also fine Watch Repairing done. W. S. KRAUSS, The Monroe Jeweler. IDingate 5ct)ooI, For Boys and Girls. Located at Wingate, N. C., on the S. A. L. Rail road. Good 'Water and healthful surroundings. Location ideal for a school of high grade. Win gate is a quiet country village free from the usual temptations of town or city life. Cigarette Smoking Not Allowed. Cursing and swearing is seldom heard. No temptations to extravagance. Prepares for college or for the various avocations of life. Students are prepared to enter the Sophomore Class of any College or University in the State. :: :: The school has won the confidence of the peo ple and is steadily growing in popularity. Last session 271 students were enrolled from more than a dozen counties. In the nine years of the school’s history 24 teachers have been employed and the names of more than 1200 students have been catalogued. Between 600 and 700 of these were boarding pupils. The school has furnished 135 teachers for the pub lic schools of North and South Carolina. 62 of the students have attended college. The Wingate School is the prop erty of the Union Baptist Associ ation. This should be a g’uarantee of its stability and permanency. The school is chartered and the village of Win gate is incorporated and officered. For fur ther information or for catalogue, address, M. B. DBY, Principal, WINGATE, N. C.
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