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if THE WB AND OBSERVER, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 19C9 7. ' ACStO&S T n E tnOTEp STATES , Ooverlnff a Distant of Mllea v t ' la a Solid Pollman Train With v ' ' f ,: Diner and Observation Car. I I Ihrouob ljie Rbclty niounlaios Dy Day viV ntan-CLASs TOtht, arranged iWITU ALL CONVENIENCES . FOR COMFQRTAKLB LV-f:r. .V TRAVELLING. -;-K PERSONALLY CONDUCTED OVEU . ENTIRE TRIP. ! ! VLJM Ml' I ! SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY V Special Pullman train "all the way around" will handle 1 the tour ! leaving ..via the Seaboard, - personally conduc ted by Mr. C. H. Gattls, District Pas senger Agent, and chaperoned by Mrs Gauls, over the ; entire trip, which leaves July Srd. i j- : ", FKAl UKKS OF THE TRIPv . Handsome Equipped - Pullman - Train, Pullnianr Observation car, f . Pullman Dining' Car. The ! most , scenic route through the Greatest Country In the .world. Through the Gorges. and 'Canyons of the , Rocky Mountains; by Day Light At the Elks' National Contention, Los Angeles, Jul? '32th to 16th. Up the Coast of the Pacific Ocean, ' The Alaska-Yukon?, Exposition. ; . Five and one-hall days through the Yellowstone, Park. The stops t. at the Principal ; Cities and Re sorts and through'; the Grand scenery of the West, , j t The most inexpensive trip ever op erated from the Southeast, throug Atlanta, Birmingham, "Memphis, stop pins at Kansas City: Denver, Colorad springs, salt Lake, n Angeles, Sanh Barbara, Monterey, f, Santa j Crux. Sat Francisco, Portland, : Seattle, Tacom Spokane, through Yellowstone Na tlonal Park, St. Paul, Chicago, return ing home through Cincinnati and and O. through Richmond. ? - 1 Trip cost will include railroad an Pullman - fares, hotels, dining ca meals, stage ride of: five (5) and one; ' hulf (1-2 ) days thiiough the . Yellow j stone National Park,, transfers, sld. trips, carriage and .automobile ride ' at stop-over points and all actual ex penses necessary with the I exceptloi of meals in Los Angeles and Seattl and a few other mlnon expenses whicl we 'explain In itinerary sent to-tbo who make application 4 t Side trips will ber arranged at a i ' stop-over points to places of Interest all details being arranged' In advanc and looked after en route. ? , j i An attractive:! SS-day ' trip, : through the "Greatest Country in the World, covering' s distance or 8,7W mile of , travel In a mod- era Puljman train ' with superb ' dining i-ar servlcto, ' eating-, and sleeping In the -best of hotels, . slghl-secing Tlie ' under! of tlie . ' West" leisurely, wlthj all details arranged In advance Is a luxury. of a life-tune. - i V -V i. ,Jr Write at once to the undersign- for cost of trip, schedule and Ulnei ry. . If maps, timetables snd book let of the lines vf, which the part; .wlll travel, are desired. send; 10 cen in stamps. (i ' . . C IL OATTISL PUtrlrt , PafltwngVT Age-nt. mm mmm we What the Church Folk Are Thinking About and Doing. Religious News From Elsewhere i A NEW WAIJt IN THE NEW WAY. I - Tlie International Sunday School Lcv- Hbn for June 27th Is a Temperaiu-e Lemon. Romans 13(8-14. ' By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. A fw weeks ago a New York col lege graduate was carried off to an insane asylum becajuse he had be ccime deranged by one , of the new Oriental cults that are Invading Amer ica in such profusion. The episode was a retnlnder of the variety and strangeness of the new-fashioned re ligions which are claiming the Interest of, the western world. Yet how few of them are really making any Im pression upon the great body of peo ple! . The busy, everyday men and women do not even guess the exist ence of these so-called mahatmas, and transcendentalists. and new old thought ' Orientalists, whose pictures que garb and nebulous, mystical apeech wins the attention of a few die and jaded spirits. , bit is no slight matter to establish a new rellglom There never has been a time when It has been easy to get a hearing from the busy world for the claims of a different faith. The In ertia of things as they are must al ways be overcome. The triumphs of Christianity, have been tremendous, and aruge that this gospel must have offered a content of truth which man xlnd needed and which appealed to .he human judgment. In this year 1909 It! is rather dif ficult to realize how fresh and differ ent and radical were the teachings of jesus and the apostles which have now been gathered into the New Tes tament canon. They were far above h old pagan philosophies, and ran counter to many of the fundamental doctrines of the latterJ They super-. eded the Levitical law of the Hebrews,- and were a marked advance upon the teachings of Moses. , . A Study of Contrasts. The novels of Farrar, Kingsley and iienckiwlcz show the sharp contrast between the new l'te of, ti.e Christians and the old times into which It was projected. The life of the early Church against a pagan background is as a shaft of sunrise across the 'alght's darkness. The 1 licentiousness, elfishne?a, and general! immorality of the world that environed the apostol c Church makes us shudder as we view It from Our present standpoint. The times in which the gospel first showed its power seem to have exhibited the Aame characteristics which we may find in the nor.-Chr etian lands today. The reason contemporaneous Chris tianity Isno? more conspicuous In the orld -that Is to say, the reason why there is not a greater difference be tween Christians and non-Christ ans In civilized land -Is that we see the latter on a reflected Christian back ground. The leaven of Christianity has nfluenced the entire body of so ciety." We do not see Christianity In contrast with sheer paganism, but its own radiance has Illuminated its sur roundings so- that i the-f 1 ght .iuerga into lesser light. It Is a real triumph for Christianity that the contrast is io greater. , The - indirect benetfls of the gospel must be accounted to. Its cred t. We' cannot hopevfor the sharp distinction that Paul presented as he ;Wrote from corrupt Corinth to the church In jthe Roman capita! at the time of Nrv. j V ,Tlie Law of the Golden Age. f The fragment of Paul's letter which Is studied this week is an exhortation to some of the characteristics which differentiated the Christians from the non-Christians. It will, be noticed that (Paul confines himself largely to nllrh : NO. OlITIDOllLElKSCDlIOTIOIi specul nmoTjcn ptjllma . CAR TO CARRY DELXZGATES TO LOS ANGELES, f Mr. C IL Gattls. foistrlet Vr- A rent of ths Seaboard.' mads arranra- ments yesterday with District Deputy L. B. Markham. oi, Lurnuu u. tx Elk In Eastern Carolina, for i through Pullman to Los Angeles, Cat in July for the delegates to the Na tional Convention which meet in Lot Angeles Ju'y 12th to 16th. Th rountf trip railroad fare will be I S. 40. and it is expeciea a iarg numoer ox kmc will ro from North jCarollaa; l Plans 7antod For Uuni- cipal Ouifding in Raloiph : -r i, Ths Municipal Buildlnr V Commis sion of Raleign hereby gives publle notice to all architects desiring; to compete with; plan l for - the pro posed municipal building' - to have their plans In that hands of the com mission as early as 'possible, a th Commission will consider all rlan - not later than July jtsth. and select those plans which meet - with I ;heir approval. - The following data i printed for use of thf architects whr wish to make plans:- 'i An auditorium seating 8,000 people Only one gallery, not; supported bj , columns. 4 ; ,- J-F , -''! -; v Entrance from Fayettevlll 1 street from Davie street, from Wilmington street and, from the atley between the auditorium .and the Yarborougr House. '. j ;:.:! ; ' The auditorium floor! to b ; so ar . ranged that the chairs can be re moved and the building. used for other purposes, such as festivals, balls, re ceptions, etc.- t : rr Plans to contemplate stores on Wil mington street, underneath the stage or ' gallery, or . not ,10 nav u . -may be suggested by he architect h his plans. . . - - r The Municipal Building, fronting o Fayetteville street, to contain the fol lowing: : ... a , 1 Mayor's Office. ' M - ' . ! Police Justice. Court (Room; 1 Boare of Aldermen. Retiring Room. Ai can be In one.' ! ' nty- Clerk. . . j C; -" "' . S .'' Tax Collector. ; 'fc V v 1' Sanlury Officer." i vv; 1 Chief of Police. f ; n Toard of Audit and Finance. ' Police Commission. 5 j " ' rr; City Attorney. 7Li-j-'j " -Vr Guard House, .v-.y .tr !:.' '-'.; .The total cost, includlnf " fce&tlnr. plumbing and lighting, not to exceed $90,000. - , . 1 ., i Dimensions and leVel of lot inaj be secured- by appUcaUon to IL W. Jackson, secretary. V . ' CUARLES EL JOHNSON, : $ CThalrcuui.' JOSEPH O. BROWN, JOSKPHTJS DANIELS JOHN C DltEWRT, ; u. w. jackson, Eecret-ir. foe to the use of and traffic in strong drink. There is a world-wide and Irresistible movement toward temper ance, because temperance Is inextri cably bound up with the social health. The liquor men may hire renegade preachers to espouse their cause; they may organize national leagues far the reform of their own business; and in panic they may pour limitless treas ure Into 1 their legislative "defence fund But it is all in vain. The stars In their courses are fighting against the unneighborly saloon. It is doomed In an enlightened society because it hurts manhqod and 'the community life. . The war against the saloon Is one with the war against tuberculosis; and a specialist remarked recently that within fifteen years tu berculosis would be as uncommon as small-pox. There is so much of the mind of-Jesus in the world today that these social anachronisms' cannot be tolerated. Expulsion and Impulsion. The attitude of the twentieth cen tury world Is hospitable to the new teaching which Paul was enunciating to the early converts in Rome. MenJ are readier to listen "to the doctrine of unselfishness, for they have seen the ; bitter truth of the practice of the contrary teaching. When people get busy about loving they have no time Jor selfishness and sordidness, and low self-indulgence. When any communi ty Is permeated with the ministering spirit of Jesus a great deal besides strong drink will be driven out by the impulsion of that strong mind. "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.," as Paul counseled, and a great many other things will be put off.- Darkness and light cannot abide in the same room. The spirit of Jesus and the spirit that erects saloons and sweat shops and unsanitary tenements and permits child labor and the other evils of our time, must fly as the night before the dawn. m To bring this to pass Is the mission of the gospel. It is after a' new soci ety, which Jesus called the Kingdom of Heaven. That kingdom consists of men and women who live by the love law. His disciples are disciplined to self-forgetting services of their fel low i men. Their "allegiance to him Is proved by their attitude toward their neighbors. In his train enter a new order of men and women sober, self restrained, self-sacrificing and society serving. No thought, of temperance Is adequate which does not look for ward to a social order where men "walk becomingly,, as In the day" whose every action will stand the test of the white light of the will of God. "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ." cried the apostle, because He Is so cial salvation. There is no other pow er that can make the Rome of Nero Into the world's religious capital, that can make the sodden cities of ancient heathendom into new Jerusalems. I Newand Note. A; monster labor meeting under the direction of Rev. Charles 8telzle was the principal feature of, the Presbyte rian. General Assembly In Denver. The remarkable Chinese revival.' which beean in Wales, spread to In dia and. then to Korea, has made it way down through Manchuria until no wit Is at Nanking, the southern capital of the empire. The same scenes of simultaneous vocal prayer, of the confession of lns and the res titution of possessions wrongly ac quired mark these recent revlal meet Injra. "The Interior" quote President James H. Baker, of the University of Colorado, as sayin that the religious revival In educational circles Is one of the most, marked of all the intel- Itrtssing principles rather than rules. lectual signs of the present time. The Jews were accustomed to a relig-l The Lotc Colleee, founded Neh- lon of definite proscriptions and ore- aminy, fa., Dy Kev. wiinam Tennent. scrlptjons. Now these old regulations were being superseded by the domin Ion of the love of Christ in the hearts of his disciples. The law of love had been written as a gloss .over the Mo saic tables. 1 ' . Rnmpuhot the an me truth Is Ultra rated by the fact that In the United rates today the prohibition partv ts eaker than it was fifteen years ago. tet the principles for which It stood are stronger than ever, i The lesser has been swallowed up in the greater. The program has been outdistanced by the progress of the principle. Paul was exhorting his friends to wake up to their obligation to love. He said (hat all Moses had taught was com- vrcucilUCU vu iti .iuwr must a ituu shait love thy neighbor as tnyseu. The Christian may no much that the ancient law said he might not do. but upon one point it Is Inexorable: he ust love. Now this new law ot e better day cannot be a formal rite regulation.. It is an upspringing love from within. All the lawyers Jn Philadelphia cannot draw up an agree ment that will make the discordant temperaments of a man and- wife congenial. Only a new Inner motive can do that. There is not a contract that can be created to compel men to fulfill the full measure Of obligation td each other. Only the spirit of honor , and love .can do that. The most advanced socialists In the world mla-ht write all of society's laws wUh- oiit .improving conditions any, unless human nature itself was first im proved. "Only the aoiaen Kuie can Ing in the Golden Age. The New Social Sense. . We think that these are wonder(ul times In which we live because at last we are getting some slight grasp of the conception that the teachings or Jesus are a working principle for society. 'Each for all and all -Tor eacn is ac claimed as a new slogan of progress. Really it is a direct return to the teachings of Christianity. We are simply showing that the. 'ideals of esus are (working out in the minus f men. The law of neighborllness which Is now' creeping into political platforms was basic with the early Church. It is at that truth that Paul is hammering In the present lesson. A few evenings ago I sat with a com mittee of men to promote social "ohesion In their community. The gathering was not the result of ad vertisement or agitation, and ' no re mark was made about it afterward: t was mere'y the workmr out of the teachings of the life of Jesus which Ihese men - had been studying in a ible' elcss. , For, when the mind of Chrirfla, given play, as the. early Christiana sedulously ; endeavored to glye it play. It expresses Itself In an exaltation of " human . relationships. The old gospel makes, new neighbor hoods. The 1 social sense of our day Is but a beginning of an apperception of the aenius of the gosneL u 1 Here li .where the day's teaching applies iu iciujrei outc, -iur mis ia designated ' as a . temperance lesson this new social Impulse of brother ltness. . thli conitant endeavor to pay j. v 1 t";.e - debt of love,' Is the most Insidious X ntcn wes the motner of Princeton . Unlvers'.ty and a contemporary of Har vard and Tale, will be commemorated by the establishment of a summer school for Bible study and evangelis tic work at Netshsaminy. a commit tee of Philadelphia Presbyterians have organized for this purpose. The twenty-fourth international Christian Endeavor convention, which meets at St. Paul. Minn., July 7-12. will be unusually comprehensive in Its character. The leaders say that It will have a record attendance. One feature wll be a dai'y exposition of clvfr, moral and religious progress. This will Include a tuberculosis exhib it. On Saturday evening there will be a celebration of the Mendelssohn cen tennial by the rendition of the oratorio Elijah." There are in the Hawaiian Islands I the same number of Congregational churches as there were children in the Mayflower In 1601101. They are a polyglot company, as is illus trated by tne fact that they comprise Chinese. Negroes, Hawallans, Kore ans, Portuguese, Japanese and white men. ; The special propaganda for the oenent of Korea In the Presbyterian Church has raised up to date over 1170,000. At the time of the ecumenical con ference in New York, in 1900, Presi dent Harrison, after hearing Miss Singh, of the Isabella Thoburn Uni versity at Luck now. speak, declared, "If I had given a million dollars to foreign missions. I should count it w sely invested if It had led only to the conversion of that one woman." Miss Singh, who possessed remarkable abilities, has been studying In Amer ica for a number of years. She re cently died In the city of Chicago. The fore gn mission board of the country are appealing for aid for th regions In Asia Minor and northern Hyrla, which were ravaged by the recent massacres. Mr. John S. Iluy'er. the well-known Methodist and candy manufacturer, wss recently tendered a banquet in New York City, at which representa tives of every Method at church and mission in the city, to the number of twelve hundre-l men. were present. The organized adult Bible classes of the Middle West are to hold a con ference at Winona Lake, Ind.. August 10-25. ! At-the recent meeting in New York City of the Home Mission Council. It was stated tht there are flffy thou sand American Indians who are stlli uncared for by religious agene'es. ;. WHEN MONEY TALKS. ( ) (IE AT J.TOE ( ' i l vl l .j ; BSBaBBBBBBBaSBSB - ' JSf ' MOW MSTEAD CDF M JUJILY: NOW, when extraordinary values will appeal to you most. NOW, before you have purchased your summer's supply. NOW, when you can get practically a full Reason's service out o NOW, because we do not believe in holding back thd clearing sale untU so late in the season that you don't care totwiy at fyourpur'ch ase3e WE MENTION A FEW OF THE BARGAIN-BUYING OPPORTUNITIES THE WHOLE STORE JOINS IN THIS GREAT EVENT. COME AT ONCE. EVERYTHING IS READY FOR YOU. 'v:':- yi:';:? ::! Women's Ready-to-wear Suits. Come early, one of a kind In many of the styles. High-grade1 Linen Suits Two end three piece models, one-third off and no extra harge for alteration. High-grade Lingerie Suits. Rcautlfully made of Lingerie Hat 1st e, lace and embroidery trimmed, one-third off and 110 extra r harges for alterations. .if Special Value Linen Suits at only $5 choice Linen and Lingerie Batiste, hut no altera tlotiH made on this fe.YOO for choice lot. We can not rfTcrd. to make alterations, aa the materlalx tost more than $3.0-0. let alone the making-. Special Value Linen Suits. , Coats and 'skirts at only $3.08. No alteraltonk. Silll Dresses. In tlte nenvoKt Hummer model, one-third off and no extra charge for .altera Uoiim. Sflen did for golng-away goWn- mountain), Heaxhpre or springs well made, beautifully fash ioned and trimmed exquisitely. Wanted SilKs. Newest Foulard Kllkr. In splendid array or beautiful printings tlie 81.00 grades at only 2.cenUA yard. J Linen Dress Goods Fancy and plain Dress and Skirting Linens, worth 25, 30 and 35 rents a yard, at only 19 cents. Just the kinds wanted for liot wcatlier wear. White Goods. Here a piece and there a piece left over. In 35 and 40 -em goods, now at only 1 cents a yard. i. White Lawn Waists Mighty pretty at only 98 cents. Tlie best hot weather waists we ever offered. ; Dutch Collars. j Lace trimmed; fresh and dean, 25 cent raloes at only 10 cents. Dutch Collars. The new pique-Jetted with black nail heads, at on'r 25 cents. Big Bargains in Wash ress Goods. J Mercerized Chambrays 10 cents a yard, plains and stripes. 10. 12 1-2 and 15c Dress Ginghams at onlr 8 cents n yard. Splendid for now and : later on. Buy tliem for tlie children. i White Irish Linen v Sheetings Ciootl for Coat Suits all pure linen 90 Jncliea wide, at only 91. OO and 81.25 a yard. Im- port prices. . . . . i.r-. Rough Shantung SilKs. ' 150 cent grndes at only 29 cents. 'j complete line of new shades bought for May Belling, but rain and cold weather Interfer ed with tltetr selling. They are worth 50 cents yard, but yon can buy them in this great June Clearance Sale at only. 29 cent. 36-inch AU Pure Linen Cambric Lawn ; " Worth 40 cents.) at only 25 enu an Import price bargain. j midsummer fabric at a big bargain price, v-; .. - - - -- -- M-BVWUt-LTLn Irish Linen. : r The new finish Llnon D'Indes, 32 Inchea wide. tk. mly - 10, . IS 1-2. 15 and'20eents n yard. The more you wash this fabric the better it is.' , v . . 40-inch Sheer Lawns Frem Batiste finish, nt only 10. 12 1-2 nd 15" cents a yard. Calicos and Standard Prints 5 ents n yard for all Calicos ml Standard Printa dress and thirting styles. White Duett Hand-Bags 25 cents new kind of hand nag'. Splendid, for summer ne $1.00 Umbrellas. ' The ' best $1.00 umbrella :ia , town for rain or shine.' '.' "Roco'vsuus t , : Painty FouUrd - patterns, are I ideal summer rtlk at only: .'29 New Style Barred Lawns Hew lot 25c values I only 1 1 cents. J Cleaning up a manufacturer's ' line at less than cost to make-; a bl summer bargain.", "We .. have only about one, thousands yards, and the line will go. In,;? a day or so. - . ' -------- - i i w. yrfy(fCifrjjif v Big June Sale of Laces 5 rents a yard and 10 rente a yard. Some of these laces on "v tills bargain table are worth 40 I ccnta a yard. All are priced In plain figures, & and 10 cents yard. ;Yo can. see for your. i -. t ., t --' ! Travelers' ncqtdsitcs Biggest and best stock of trav elers requisitesTrunks, Snit casea. Handbags and furnish- ings tot nich and women ;at tlie' lowest priree. ; . I - i'-i t 'V"rrvrru'uTj ' i ''I 'l h Hew Straw Hatting At. enly 23 and 35 rente yanl our own Importation. - -- " -i-ii--,--r-irvvv'u'uvnLriAr; Ladies9 Underwear j Ladies White If UKTIn TTne. wear Skirts, Drawers, Gown, - Corset-covers, Cltemlsea. Prin- i" . k cess Slips, ete.vj.":.. v - Corsets In all styles.: - : Glove. - Hosiery and Summer Knit Underwear. We sell th best goods at the lowest prices. . -None can compare with us. r. V I i ; i V.'. i . SHOE DEPARTMENT No shoes so!d anywliere wear as well as ours. None fit as well. None keep their shape and look as well as ours. We want every man, woman and child to see our snoes. j MILLINERY DEPARTMENT; 4 ' rs Sf'ss Tliom Is cleaning; up lier Millinery KoasonT and offers the hl-rT Mimnery bargam feasts of the season. Every liat, trimmedand-tl untrlnuned, at great reduction In price. Nota single reservation Is I I1)(11)IE)1BBMqIFEISISmLIL 123-12.5 Fayetteville St RAUIGD, W. CAROUWA y i' Terse Comments Upon the Christian Endeavor Topic for June 27, "Mis sionary IKketbooks. II Cor. 9: Py WILLIAM T. feLLIS. A -' common saying has It that True; but.lt peak only the, language which it has been taught The speech of money may be low, coarse, sordid and selfish; or else It may be .lofty, fine, noble and lov inir. A man's money will express the sentiments which he has imparted to it. He may make it eloquent with words of love and service, so that wherever It goes bowed heads will be uplifted, discouraged hearts made to hope and need's Lves enriched. It is part of a person's proper work In life to teach his money to talk wisely and helpfully. 1. 9 4.1nnn" niullrAtlinnl-l- but of a different and better jort are the pocketbooks that reach far. Even :he shortest rirse may reach to the uttermost bounds of the earth. , Money is a missionary. Wherever !t is heut it Is a messenger of light or darkness. It goes to the help or the hurt of manknd. The sad truth i that so much money Is sent on foolish, needless or wicked errands. Fcr money may bear the most precious truths of brotherhood, of love and of hope. A nruin who has no Rift of rpeech, no education, no appetite for teching. and ro personal charm, may yet fulfill all these ottlces through the right disposal of hl money. - Paptlzed pocketbooks are those over which tears of sjmpathy for a world's need have been shed. Such pocket books are veritable treasur es of .the Lord; because out of them he watis fles the wants of those whom h lias declared to b his representatives? for "Inasmuch as ye did St unto one of the least of these, ye did It unto me." a So long as a man has money' he Is free; but aa soon as money has the man he la a slave. , Money Is "nly "means": It Is not an end. A man may possess millions, and still fsli to have secnred.aM the most . desirably things f, Ilftift Is hot the possession of money, but It use, that makes a person rich. The orfice dt money Is merely as a medium of ex change. Certain abil'ties or oppor4 tunitles are changed into money; then the money is changed into houses and clothes and food and health and ser vice and pleasure. The manner in which this med um Is employed deterr mines one's wealth: so that one per son buys more riches with a hundred dollars than another buys with a thou Fand. A popular notion that m'ssion are simply something to which money must be gtven widely prevails. Prob- ably most person think of missions only In connection with money; Among Christ una the idea is common that their supreme missionary obliga tion is met bytnoney. A certain type of missionary address, with which all attendants upon religious gather ngs are familiar, has greatly fostered this misapnrehe.i?lon. Really the money side of missions is only 'secondary If this enterprise 'a to be conducted as a mere financial propaganda. It cannot widely succeed. Missions need knowledge. Interest and sympathy be-i' fore they need money; "the grift with out the grlver Is bare." It Is more lm-j portant that a Christian bear upon his plrit the burden of the1 unevangel-i Ized world than that he make - large gifts of money to the missionary treasury. This cause needs his. 'ntel-j ilgent interest,, his best counsel his sense of responsibility, and his earnest prayers, more v than It ' needs his dol lars. A" godless mlllIona"re might give a fortune to foreign missions, but. It ! would not count for as much In ulti i mate results as the prayers': of. the deep-souled saint who has no earthly store to give. : il ! -,: v. . Fvo-vbdv at now v AfH ( feels the desire to travel: comparative ly few may travel far ;in person, out everybody rnay journey tu - distant realms representatively! One's' money may go to scenes tropical and Orien tal: and thus one's own power" and personality may be projected into the uttermost parts of the earth. In this fashion, even a small pocketbook may Decome an avenue of deliverance from a petty, trival and setr-centered exis tence. . in ere is a ramuiar ' I3.nie verse which says that "the Lord loveth cheerful giver." That word "cheerful. says a commentator, really means in the original "hilarious." The picture called up by the word is so contrary to our accepted notions as to be al most grotesque. The idea of giving wun nuarity with unrestrained and overflowing 'loyfulness is foreign to prevalent ideas and practices. Yet that is the kind of giver the Txrd lovea The circulating, grudging: and pain fully self-conscious giver, who has llgured out a due return. for hU boun ty, may get full credit upon the books of benevolent societies; but the Lord doesn't love him. Only they who so enter into the secret of the Christ spirit, which has forth-giving, self abasing, vicarious love for Its essence, can know the Joy which comes from service, surrender and sacrifice, ; - Some folk reckon religion In terms of pennies. They are like the heathen who have 'temple moneyi coins, too small. to pass current in the ordinary transactions of business, and so re served especially for gifts to the tem ple and to beggars. The effort to buy the gold of religion with the cop per of selfishness la a chean transac tion. Every child should learn that While candy may be bought- by the Benny's worth, nothlnr less than a nickel should be put Into the contribu tion box. ,- God asks for our money only be cause he wants it. He, can get along without aifts from us; but we cannot get along without gifts to him. : A' distinct advance was registered when Endeavorers started the fashion of giving two centa a week . to mis sions.. Then it was rare for an Indi vidual to support his own missionary. Now scores and hundreds ot pertons Indulge themselves-, often ' at great sacrifice in the luxury of an Indi vidual missionary. . So while ' they work and earn and eat and sleep Jn one hemisphere, they, minister as me- ; sengers of the gospel In another hem isphere. - ' ' V .. -.:-.' ;-H,l '''vM-:-. SEVEN. SENTENCE SEnfONS:;! No question Is ever setttea until It is semea rignL- Abraham Lincoln- Genius Is mainly an affair of energy." Matthew Arnold. ".iv' v ., i . iii. It Isn't raining rain o me. In every, dimpled thing-, I tee pi v i Wild flowers oil the hills, 'i-!. -r-Robert. Loverman; y.'V.; ,;': Along- levels-that anybody can reaxh 1 lies the bulk of happiness everywhere, a , 4 Edward Taylor Fairbanks. 'J; trt n;1!; iu iKjmr iney Duua wno build be- is wia mc siars.- x oung-.-'--' Friend Is a word of royal tone: Friend Is a poem I all alone. - r ' , ."' ' T-Fxoxn the. Persian we are wllllns- to inv' w. H.i.k ' bors---if we can choose; our neighbors but that is lust whr nnA He gives us neighbors; whom we na4 turally would not choose in order t teach 111 to no nn V. x. i rule of helping- the man next to us,? whoever he may be.J. Jl Millen . " ,1 -'t ' i , , .. ..' - All work la drudgery to those who! arenot Interested , in honest labor. 1 1 ?-!!' ?! Mr CDl7Lr3'G PREPARATION - EXTESfNAl, - 1 ' ' . - A kITlit -tVl for Son Tkfotl, Cold.CTaili, fnfM. kthrtmnl I :- vn.u; - ' v-. - . .'.-
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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June 20, 1909, edition 1
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