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6 Sunday School Lesson Young Peoples Topic THE ROMANCE OF A SLAVE. The International Sunday School Les son for April 28, is, "Joseph Faith ful in Prison." 39:20-40:15. The Golden Text is, "Be Thou Faithful Unto Death, and I Will Give Thee a Crown of Life." Rev. 2:10. By William T. Ellis. Like a page out of a modern so ciety novel though a more perfect story than any novel is the old Genesis incident of the Hebrew slave who, risen to power in his master s house, became the victim of the plot of that master's wife, whose shameful advances he had spurned. From the cistern into which he had been cast by his inhuman brothers, to the nost of chief stewni'd in Potiph : r's house was a great rise for Joseph task of becoming of soniethin now he was to experience a greater J nd the whole world would be better The surest path to recognition is ac omplishment. Of course, ability may lave its name stolen by mediocrity, and envy or hate may keep real worth from its thrcne for a time; most Josephs have their prison ex periences. But in the long run merit filone tells; it tells in prison and it tolls in palace. There is no substi tute for it. No end of conning of books on "succcsss" can take the place of the downright mastery of some one thing. Good address may count, influential friends may count, tactfulness may count, and the fifty and one other conditions of success, but with them or without them effi ciency is the master key to success that is worth while. If a few mill ions of the people who are pulling long faces over their lot in life were to settle down to the hard, toilsome they erl mflnv or them by a persecution as M bitter as the world has ever seen. sc The latest interruption to Chinese miccinno the Rnvpr massacres, were the most terrible event in the history of the world. The outbreak came at thP Pnd of the vear 1S99. The h,h press Dowager had ordered that all Christians be exterminated and that all foreigners be driven from the land During those dreadful months 135 adult missionaries were killed. But the staunchness of Christianity was prov en by thess experiences and already in China, as els where in the history of the world, the blood of the martyrs has become the seed of the Church. fall, though no demerit ot nis own. Put a diamond is a diamond, whether reposing in a king's diauem or hidden in the mire; and a noble character is a noble character, and itseif a price less possession, no matter in what lot it be cast. Joseph in prison was really as great as Joseph in power, How the Young Man Rose. Many of the rules for success given by rich men are mere stock platitudes which they never practiced them selves. But Joseph's rise is written plainly on the surface of his engross ing biograpny. lie was cumpewui, I no v its laiuiiui, nt; v 0.0 aon China is a continent in itself. The great bars are gone, and China is open; not the rim of China, but China. China is sure to be one ot the domi nant world-nowers in the future. In working for China, we are working for all nations and for coming ages. Chauncey Goodrich. India is by far the greatest Moham medan country in. the world. Two thirds of the people are Hindus, while 00,000,000 are Mohammedans. The1 population is strangely complex In cluding Burma and Siam, the Iidia Empire uses three hundred distinct languages and dialects. The dreamer who torgets not ms ; Then thj record nmkcs another point, golden dreams of youth may master oftcn forgotten in the modern books circumstances; pity those in a hard I mishine to tne front,' namely, -Jehovah was with him, and that iot who have not this spring of sus tenance within themselves, uoseph was always true. to his gleam. Even when his flesh quivered beneath the Midianite lash, or when he stood bound in the public slave market of Egypt, the high blood of sensitive princeliness mantlinghis cheek, he was still Joseph the dreamer. Through all the subsequent years of drudgery, dishonor and degradation, as well as through his years of responsibility and elevation, he clung to those boy hood visions ot Canaan. He nau, says Marcus Dodds, "this character istic of a steadfast soul, that he riverenced as a man the dreams ot his youth." The Temptress and Her Hate. which he did, Jehovah made it to prosper." It is an old-fashioned notion that God is really a practical tactor in the everyday affairs of life, i;nd that he is concerned about the prosperity of common-place individu als. It is an idea which was lodged rtrongly in the minds of Joseph ana the other patriarchs and of the New Testament heroes as 'well. Perhaps it is worthy of the attention of the progressive young person of today. It may be, after all, a rather serious mistake to leave God out of the reckoning. Certainly this confidence which ail of us have seen work wonders in the lives of men and women in our own Many voting men have to learn, in I neighborhoods, had a wondrously the shock of undreamed-of tempta-l calming effect upon Joseph's spirit tion, that all women are not like their I it made him patient, it made him own mothers, Joseph, the ingenious, J sympathetic, it made him sensible, it unsophisticated youth, found himselt j made him cheerful. A good consci confronted by the subtle and powerful I ence always makes a light heart. Be v.iles of a woman older than himself, sure that if Joseph had gone about and far shrewder. Wherewith could his prison abode looking like a batch he meet her guile and passion? He of sour dough he would never have was face to face with what Geikie I been promoted to the post of over calls "the sorest temptation that cani seer, and the imprisoned officials befall any one to sin and prosper,! would never have made him their rather than to resist and suffer. His confidant in distress. It was while master's wife could make or break he was in the "cheer-up" business him, worldly wisaom would declare, that he fell in with the incident Yet he fearlessly confronted the lust I which eventually lifted him out ot that dwells hard by hate; for therein prison and into pre-eminent place and lust differs from love; love, denied, power in the realm, still loves on, and seeks only the Tne otnep Mans TroubeSi welfare of its object; but lust, - thwarted, turns to bitter and unscru- The art of keeping one's own troub- 1 les so far out of sight that people pulous vengeance. want tQ lQad yQu up & Against the power of Potiphar s tneirs is nnr nnfi tf. hA rtpSniSPri i wife Joseph reposed a simple faith in know a man who hag acnISved nign his father's God. He had a clear mor- distinction and vast power largely by being ready to take on the cares and al integrity and a vision ot essential principles which neither passion nor Lonhistrv could cloud. Behind all responsibilities which others have wanted to unload. Joseph shared the other considerations lay this one dom-troubles of the king's butler and mant iactor: now can 1 uo baker, and therehv liflnprt thPm nn irreat wickedness, and sin against God?" As a later Hebrew than Jo seph who knew the ways of the world and of "high society" keenly helped himself. It was all on account of more dreams. Three days before Pharaoh's urtnaay and in most countries a wrote, "Wherewithal shall a young ldng.s birthday is an event of more man cienst; . importance than an eclipse of the heed thereto according to Thy word Eunthe butler and tne baker eacn This wonderful Book is not blind had a dream having to do with tne to the actualities of life; it sets no j master whose displeasure the i""1 iU1 ""-"b " had incurred. Moved by Joseph's the modern fashion, to whatever is ,olicitude or tneir meiancholy, they unlovely in human nature, and tacitly relatsd to him their dreams He encouraging its secret development. in whose mind dreams nad a di A scandalous criminal trial like the relation to jehovah, made answer to one which recently touled the records their puzzlea Wnen tn ki , bJ h 01 tne iew ioik cowls, seems ne-i,1fJV nTlnni1Tlr.finiflvltu aTY1Q nt it. The caste system in India presents a great hindrance to the gospel. Origi nating probably in the conquest of the aboriginal races by more powerful in vaders from the north, it grew to have a four-fold division. Brahamans, sol diers, merchants laborers, and lowest of all. those without caste, the Par ili lis. ( ..- Missionary work in India has. been officially permitted since 18Q.. Some of the honored names on te mission ary roll of India are .TVi'lHam Carey, Henry Martyn, Regip-aid Heher, Bishop of Calcutta. Alexander Duff. William Butler, and, lshop Thoburn of our own timt, Thirty-five American societies ar.? at work in India at the present time. The work of Pandita Ramabal for the child widows of India, includes a school for high-caste widows at Poona as well as a mission for child widows, deserted wives and famine orphans where two thousand are sheltered and cared for by this devoted Christian woman who began life r.s the daugh tei of a Brahman priest, becoming herself a Hindu widow early in life. Because of her own experience came the longing to aid the millions of girls whose lives were wrecked through the wrongs done to the child widows. Ninety-two "per cent of the people of Burma are Buddists. and all the men of the country pass some time in a monastery. The pioneer of mission ary work in this country was Adoriam Judson, whose words, "The prospects arc as bright as the promise of God' has become a missionary proverb. Dfi- nite work is now done for the forty seven tribes that comprise the popu lation of the country. Churches, col leges and theological seminaries are the outgrowth of the missionary work in Burma. Siam, which is one of the -smaller countries of Asip has Buddhism as its state religion. The principle missionary-body now at work in this country is the Northern Presbyterian. One of the early missionaries. Rev. Stephen Mattoon, so won the confidence of the Siamese that when the first treaty in behalf of the United States was nego tiated they insisted upon having the missionary as the first American consul. INDEPENDENT We don't own the earth, but we do own and run our business; satisfactory to ourselves, our cus tomers and the chewers BAILEY BROTHERS (Incorporated) iinston-Salem, N. G No Better tobaccos made than those manufac tured by BAILEY BROS.. NOT IN A TRUST. II Kingan's, F. F. V., Swift's Premium and Gold Ban Hams, 18c at W. Wl. CROWEUL'S PHONE 744 r run i nnir iiV'Mii ' -n iu"'J ynnr Sun A CAR, LOAD HR0N The Epworth League will hereafter Qrnth Cnmlitrinn c hold its conventions but once in four &uurn UrullMUTI Leave For Jamestown years. This society fopmerly held its national conventions annually, but be lieves that a higher level of inter est will be maintained if the change is made. A plan for the organization of a Bap tist Union, or general counsel, will be discussed at the meeting of Baptists to be held in Washington in May. The new council, or union, is not to be leg islative, but will serve merely to sug gest action to the churches. It has been suggested that all Prot estant Sunday-schools use a uniform service for their devotional exercises on May 19. World's Sunday School Day, when the great World's Sunday School Convention will be in session in Rome. The service is entitled "The Apostle Paul at Rome." ll "f found that, as Joseph had said, the pectability, the hntlpr wa rflotovoH 1l5c, ' put to cessary to bring home to the world in all its - outward res rlpnths nf wickedness and the st.renstl- . . - ; ; ' . : uonor ana tne baker was cf temptation to which young men tieatn and women of our own time are sua- The s s jeet These hideou s revelatums mdicated here He gaw , rhould awaken the teachsrs of moral- the possibmt of a friend ler ity and religion to a sense of then lhrwf could be done lesponsibihty for inculcating the Jo to him And h fceph virtues in the youth ot the ing himself up to the limit, and then twentieth century. trusting God to do what lay beyond Bettering a Bad Lot. a very sane and effective kind of or ia.-..tm eh etaoin hrdlu hrmhsc faith, and thoroughly in accord with A woman's hate threw Joseph, who the Scriptures. God never carries a had risen to be the responsible heac man who can walk; he did great of Potiphar's house, back into prison, things with Joseph as we shall see Falsehood, slander and detraction may next week, because Joseph was will- overthrow a man, but they cannot I ing to attempt great things for him- kppn him down. A eood man mav I self. live down any ill report. Not by moping and whining, however; Jo-1 ASIA FOR CHRIST. f,enh did not conceive a grievance against the world because he hadTei"se Comments on the Unifo.-r pray er Meeting Topic of the Young Peo ples societies for April 28, "Christ in the Continent of Asia." Isa. 49 : 8-13. . BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. twice been badly used. He kept his optimism, burnished up his dreams, pnd set about getting the most pos sible out of his prison life by putting his utmost into it. Thomas Jefferson said that the best trro-rr - crckt mit on UTi nnn iron 1 1 citn. ation in life is to be conspicuously T .ro,m Africa's teeming tribes, from effective in it. A similar idea was J?d.ia ? Perishing multitudes, from expressed by the late Dr. Maltbie D. 'h, ki? mi$.y, milhons' from Japan's Babcock in the acrostic SlSinf' T 1 l amon - the thousand millions that know not 5. . Gocl the crv of despair its inartieu- Rlgnt Ifte cry for help goes up. This weary n world, in all its continents, with ail Working its nations, wants to know more of Wise industry is a sure recipe for Christ's message, and of that lovo development. Joseph in prison was c!: stoops from neicu. China 1ms rot only making his own lot more uo sorrow that his message c;uimt comfortable, hut he was also making ro; India has no problem tha t Joseph a greater man. He found that ca:'"t solve; Janaa n.) question it there is-much to learn in any station. r"'"JUt ,auswe1.' no iarnrs.5 it Fffisiencv is a virtue which can be1"' 1,01 uein uispei Jm.m Smith cultivated alone at sea in a fishing dory, as well as in a modern office or workshop. This old world is quick to make The problem of China is this: 'An empire of four and a quarter million square miles one-sixth larger than c I tha TTnitaI Cfonn. i i way for the man who can do the Lut hW,Trp,i Jn l uuiiivu, a. ian job. From every industry and pro fession the cry is ever going up for guage the most difficult to learn, and a people immersed in superstition. 1 V.S 1t -i t-rct -v Tk oori I men wuo can unuB i. w Working in China are but twenty-eight capable men, growing men, hundred missionaries, with com 119. 000 Chinese Protestant Ch T'l-i- mon whn An thp WOrlf t'Or Which I rr,5fV,P,.l .1 1 , , . x uiwu iuuiuui rtiiu Li ue as any uoay 01 Chris they draw the wage.' In the northern part of Siam are found that peculiar people, the Laos, the first convert, among them beinr von by the occurrence of an ecupse which the missionary had predicted. From a fierce find unfriendly people they have grown amenable to teach ing, and the mission now enjoys gre;;t favor and success. a Tibet, the loftiest country in the world has thus far, more thar, all other lands, resisted tne onward ma -eh 01 tnnstiamty and civilization. The heroine of Tibetan missions is Miss Annie R. Taylor. In spite of opposi tion she studied medicine aad aftei three years of service in medical work in China determined to go to Tibet. In 1S92 accompanie l bv a youth whom she had healed, she set out for this country so Ions closed to foreigners. Although the government turned hi back when within three days of L'lasa, her Tibetian Band of the Clmi. In land Mission is now laying seise to the Forbidden Land. The Moravians have translated the New Testament into the language of the people that it may be ready, for use when the oppor tunity comes to enter the country. The Asiatic countries which are practically untouched by the mission aries include Siberia, Turkestan, Af ghanistan, Baluchistan and French In-do-China. When Carey went to India and Jud son to Burma, practically all the world was closed against foreign missions; now, practically all the world is open to them, with the Bible translated in to more than four hundre.l languages and dialects, covering the vast rnu5o ity of the people of the globe. NEWS AND NOTES Semi-official information states that last year the expenses of the Vatican administration amounted to $1,200,000, while the income is said to be not more than SS00.000. For this reason the Pope has appointed a commission of cardinals to study the matter and determine whether contributions to wards the Peter's Pence fund cannot be more systematically organized so as to produce an increased income. A movement to provide safe and . adequate dormitory accommodations for the 20.000 Chinese students now being educated in Japan, where they shall be unexposed to the1 temptaons of life in the student centers, is being backed by American money, and as sisted by influence of such Americans as Prof. George T. Ladd; of Yale Uni versity, who is now in Japan lecturing to the students in governmental posi tions. The largest gathering of men ever heiu under the auspices of any tvgan ization in the Protestant Episcopal Chwreh is expected to assemble in Y'ashington next September at the great mass meeting of the Brother hood of St. Andrew. The last Inter national Convention of the Brother hood was held ten vf.ars ago, and since that time the organization his spread almost into all countries of the Uioofc. it is expected that President Roosevelt and the Bishop of London will attend the convention and make addresses at the meeting in the Peace CrossCathedral in Washington. Special to The News. Columbia, S. C, April 25 The South Carolina party for the opening of the Jamestown Exposition left here this evening at seven o'clock over the Sea board Air Line for Norfolk, arriving there early tomorrow morning. The party consists of Governor and Mrs. Ansel, Gen. William Jones, Mrs. Jones and Miss Reau Jones; Colonels D. O. Herbert, of Orangeburg; F. S. Evans, of Greenwood;. J. G. Wardlaw, of Yorkville; R. P. Hamer, Jr., of Ha mer; George Y. Coleman, of Charles ton; W. W. Moore, of Barnwell and Mrs. Moore; Col. W. T. J3rock, assis tant adjustant general, besides Adju tant General Boyd, representing the governor's staff. Cols S. T. McCra vey, of Spartanburg; D. W. Daniel, of Clemson College and T. B. Butler, of Gaffney, will go by the Southern, and join the party at Norfolk. Governor Ansel has reappointed Mr. Earle Sloan, of Charleston, as State geologist for the term of two years. Mr. Sloan was appointed to this posi tion by Governor Hey ward two years ago when the act creating the office was first passed and he has demon strated his fitness for the position. has just arrived the very thing that so many of our friends have been waiting for because they know that we always give The Best Bed for the least Money Call at once and make your selection of both Bed and Felt Mattress. We can please you in both price and style. H 23 mi MiniftlTrra-nill i- n umi i irrnr tt KB TRAIN-WRECKERS FRUSTRATED. of Town Marshall Frustrated Plans Would-be Train Wreckers. Evansville, Ind., April 25. Several attempts of train wreckers to set fire to a bridge on the Southern railroad . near Temple, Ind., were frustrated last night by the town marshall of English, Ind., who was shot twice by two men believed to be the guilty parties. Traveling: IVIen Say BUFO . . IS THE BEST. Large Rooms, Good Beds, Table Unsurpassed, Clerks Courteous and Obliging artd Everything Connected with "THE BUFORD" Is Strictly Up-to-Date. C E. HOOPER & CO Charlotte, N. C. Proprietors, 0 0 0 0 0 m U Best Health Insuranc 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Swicegood, of Savannah, Ga., and Mrs. H. C. Swice good, of Charlotte, are here. They will remain until after the sale of the Swicegood home on the 26th. Salis bury Post, SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. The biennial national convention of the Society of Christian Endeavor will be held in Seattle, Wash., in July. The World's Christian Student: Fed eration, which has never before met in & non-Christian nation "has been hold ing a convention in - Tokio recently In the reorganization )f the Chris tian Catholic Church, belte - known as the Dowie Church, it is announced that VoVliya, the present leader is gifted wun divine power and that he will be known as Elijah IV. I know no failures, save failure in cleaving to the purposes which I know to be the best. George Eliot. O. never falter! peace must come by pain Heaven is not found, but won. Samuel Johnson. The space between a man's ideal and the man himself is his opportun- ity Margaret Deland. The depth from which our words are spoken is the measure of the depth at which they Avill be heard. Julian Hawthorne. Sins of commision are the usual punishment for sins of omission; he that leaves a duty may well fear that he will be left to commit a crime. Gurnall. a Thou earnest, not to thy place by accident, It is the very nlace God meant for thee. 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