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Sx>Ct645 46 5*** lMTU^6lmi/A .I' 'EDUCATION Is The First Step to Being Somebody Doing Something Helping Someone Getting Somewhere DO ANIMALS REMEMBER? L. E. Eubanks. > _ I have read an article in which a trapper denies that animals have a Teal memory. He admitted that most of them knew enough to avoid a trap after an experience or two with it, but contended that this was merely a manifestation of the self-preserva tion instinct. The same man cited an instance— not at all unfamiliar—of a dog’s .re fusing to hunt with a man who had kicked hiin. He said that this, too, was only the instinct of all living cfeatures to avoid injury. Animals do have a memory—at least some of them do. The trap per’s theory would not explain those many evidences of recollection wherein self-preservation plays no part. I once carried a fox terrier in to the house after he had been well nigh killed by an automobile. His master had just moved into the apart ment-house, and I had never seen the dog before that day. We moved away two days-later, and I did not see the terrier for over four months. Then one day I passed the house—or I was about to do so—when out came that dog, wagging his stoibby tail- He jumped all over me, in joyful recog nition—and memory. An amusing story, significant on this subject, is told by my father. As a boy he lived on a farm, and was always a close student *of animal na ture. The mare he usually drove was old and fat, and would never go faster than a walk unless urged. There were two roads to town, one branching off from the other and a little shorter. It had been old Maud’s custom- to take this road, of her own volition, until on one occasion a vi cious dog barked at her and snapped at her legs. After that the driver had to be on his guard; Maud would speed tip when about fifty yards from the turn-of, and try to get by it be fore she could be restrained. This showed not only memory, but a sense for planning.—Our Dumb Animals. NOTES FROM CONCORD, TE|NN. Dear Editor: It has been some time since I have attempted to write a letter to The Star of Zion for publication. I am proud to say opr success has been marvelou sthis year at this place and I want our friends to know about it and that forces me to say a few things about the splendid success that has been ours to. enjoy this con ference year. I was transferred to the Tennessee conference and stationed at LjaFollette, Tenn. I took charge of this church, January 8th, 1921. This church and people had been without .a preacher for some time, and has rjiad its third pastor this year, 1922. Here I had a pretty hard struggle to maintain myself and family, but was able to bring a fairly good re port to the annual conference at Knoxville, Tenn. At this conference the good bishop and presiding elder, W. H. Mitchell, found it convenient to send me to Concord and Ryington circuit. Here I found that the • church *nd parsonage were in great need of repair. But knowing it was my «duty to make things better wherever 3 am sent to labor for the church jmd people, and the Master's king. . : ' - ■ . - / /• . ' YOUTHS’ CORNER ^_ dom, I did my utmost to make things better. This is my motto wherever I am sent to pastor. My first effort was to get the con gregation in/an incorporeal mood. I began to spiritualize the folks by holding cottage prayer meetings for two weeks. Then I preached the gos pel of God to the people, and. sang the songs of Jesus Christ to saint and sinner. This moved upon the heart of every person in the com munity and out of this great move ment the church was greatly revived and twelve precious souls were saved and added to the church. ^ Secdnd Revivication Our spring rally that was so well known throughout Knox county was so real it needs no advertis ing. Everybody looked forward to this pertinacious day. We began our day’s work with a sunrise prayer meeting and the Lord wonderfully blessed us with the outpouring of His Holy Spirit. We were able to break all records previous to this time. We raised $340. This be ing the highest amount ever raised at this church, it seemed to set ev erybody’s heart aglow and tongues to | talking about the wonderful success. Just before my great rally, a society of ladies called the Busy Bee club [ in a hundred dollars, they would do the sjime thing, and they did it. Mrs. Matilda Brooks, a splendid lady, praised $40. Mrs. Nina Criukshank and Mrs. Lucinda Vance, captains for club No. one, Star of Bethlehem, raised $78.00. On the day ^ of the rally their friends greatly augmented this sum by laying on the table $1^1.60, making the total for this | particular club $229.60. This made j this club the victorious club—Mrs. I Holden and Mrs. Bacon raised I $109.47. This brings our grand total ! with some minor donations up to ! $360.00. Out of this great rally we ! paid our Ter-centenary money which 1 was $40 for this church. Byington ^ church paid $12.00 making $52.00 Tercentenary money collected arid | paid ill except $5.00 on hands. We J have raised our annual assessments— 1 general claims, $25.00; education, $4,001 foreign n^issjor^, $J2L00; church extension and home mission, $2.00. We are up with our presiding el der. He is a prince among men, and is one of the best presiding elders in the Tennessee annual conference. He is not only a good presiding el der, but one of the best preachers I we have anywhere in our great J church. He possesses fine business ' qualities, is kind and patient in all his administration; and never fails to bring good results, making his dis trict the banner district each year. The last great lineament in our year’s work that brought delight to the hearts and minds of our good people, was the district Sunday Bishop Geo. C. Clement, A. M., D. D., Secretary Board of Bishops. laid hold of the plow handles and began plowing the furrow to the end. They made good in their (efforts raising $52.00. With this amount the church was grandly beautified in side. This society is headed by Mrs. Della Fox, Mrs. Maggie Moulden Mrs. Lucinda Vance and . others \flho are worthy ladies.. They stand ready at all times to spend and to be spent for the cause of Christ and His Church. Organization v The best method in raising money for the church is to plan well, and to have each scheme well organized. My congregation had never organized for a rally. They seemed to think it was impossible to raise this amount of money? at this little church with so few people. But I laid my plans in good faith, and organized two clubs and gave each club its name. Club No. one^was called the “Star of Bethlehem.” and club No. 2 was named the “Morning Star.” After a little hesitancy these ladies coaled up their little ship, and pulled out for the other sid#. Miss Agnes Si ler fired the hearts and minds of the captains promising to raise one hundred dollars herself, which she did. Mrs. Holden and Mrs. Mary Bacon, president of the stewardess board and captains of Morning Star club, ^declared if Miss Siler brought School convention. This was the first time it had been attempted to op erate a meeting of this nature. It proved an epoch making proposition. Hon. John A. Huff, district Sunday School superintendent, presided with great dignity and credit to all. Rev. Mitchell, D. D.,( presiding elder, opened the convention and presided the first day. Rev. W. B. Gibbs, pastor of Lonsdale A. M. E. Zion church, preached a fine sermon on FridayAt noon. His text was taken from St. Luke, the 10th chapter, and 37th verse. The convention lasted three days and a half, raising $60.00. This was disbursed as follows: to the reporter, St. Clair|Cobbs, $4.00; church, $10.00; sexton, $1.50; sta tionery, $1.00; Sunday Schcool un ion, $5.00; programs, $lj?.00; secre tary, $3.75; Hon. John A. Huff, $10.00; Rev. W. H. Holden, P. C., $5.00;! Rev. W. H. Mitchell, P. E., $3.10; with the understanding that this amount be augmented from the Sunday’s collection. The folks here are highly elated over the con vention. j Yours for success, REVERENCE Planted in Childhood will Bear Fruit in Manhood in BETTER LIVES HAPPIER HOMES NOBLER CITIZENS “TRY BEFORE YOU BUY ” A Korean Tale. Translation by B. R. Lawton. There was a certain elderly man who all his life wanted a pair of spectacles through which one could see exactly as with the naked eye. One day he went to a spectacle shop to ltmk around, and the merchant, noting the foolish appearance of the old man, laid down a pair cf rims with the remark, “Here is a pair of spectacles that will match your eyes exactly; try them.” The man tried them on and sure enough, it was just as though he were looking with his own eyes. So he bought thorn and took them home, boasting that he at last had obtained his lifelong desire. His sons took a look, and seeing that there were no lenses, but only the rims, exclaimed, “You have made a worth^ss purchase!” To which he wrathfully replied, “Just as I have my heart’s desire and have found what fits my eyes, do you deride me as an antiquated old man?” “Well”, said his sens, “put on the spectacles and try sticking your finger through.” The old man responded at once to the suggestion, and jabbed his finger into his eye till the tbars started. i The demonstration was conclusi'^ and ever after when he met a young person his advice was thiv “Don’t buy a pair of glasses until you have put them on and tried to stick your finger into your eye. ” PAML'FCO FLASHES. To the Editor of the Star of Zion: I read an article under the caption “The ringing of the bells near the city by the sea.” It seems that the writer was stirred up over an ar ticle under the caption, “What shall we do?” I was quite amused when I read it. The presiding elder system first came about in the days of Rev. Ed ward Hill. This was about 1874 or 76. The system was not perfected as it is to-day: It was regulated in the eighties when the General conference passed a law giving the bishops the power to nominate, and the annual conference, elect. During these times, the P. E. and pastor were closer to gether than they are' now; because the presiding elder was dependent up on the pastor’s suffrage. Tuec too the election was to be every two years. Bro. Bell quotes in his article, “If our system were' similar to the M. E. church, south”. Why our two years system was better, because we could elect every two years. The trouble was, we were not satisfied with that- We thought there was too much buying of votes and offering of appointments, such as was desired by the voter during those tfodlmy days of franchisement. The question was dis cussed. pro and con by the ministers and the majority of them thought wise that the presiding elder should be appointed by the bishop: There fore the matter became a General conference. issue, hence becoming a law. It seems to me that the ministers gave up their rights, and of course the General conference thought it wise to do so as they thought there was nothing greater than a gift, see? Now since the appointment has been going on for 'nearly forty years, it is becoming now to taste badly. Some say, “It is useless, that it is the fifth wheel in the wagon.” Others say, “Whether he is a blessing or v not to the district, you have to take him and pay him”. Another family! ALTAR. group say, “If he and a certain charge^ disagree, he will send to them at preacher that cannot measure up to the standard; thus the progress of _ the church is hindered spiritually and financially." The preacher sent to officiate in his place must bring hack the money. And many*other complaints. The writer of the caption, “The ringing of the bells near the city by, the sea," seems to think that the present presiding elders are appoint ed for life. I suppose they are. I know several .who stayed such un til they died. Those who are serving now would not object to a life-time position. I am sure that I would not., if I were honored. Why! beeauae it is a nice place, no responsibility of any note. The. pastors have the bur den . If they fail to come up, what ia said by the P. E. ? “If Bro. Moore had paid his claims he would have had . a round report”. So you see when Bro. Moore fails,, the district fails. Listen!'Bro. Moore will get it in the recommendation*. Bro. Bell, the same power that made the law to appoint presiding elders must change the law so as to read like the M. E. church, south as re- j gards the presiding elders. . I want to inform you and the other writer that the General conference* is composed of all the presiding el ders. This reminds me of the story of the “Rats convention”. Old Tom e .. had been destroying their families; to such an extent until he had be come serious, and they decided to» call a meeting and discuss the best, methods to prevent their families from being entirely destroyed; final ly, it was decided to bell old Tom. All had spoken except one old rat,, and the members wanted to hear from him. He arose and said, “Gentlemen you have not come to the right ques tion which is, who will bell old Tom"? Now if there is so much said in the write-ups about our presiding elders; who hold their positions as long as. they des’re, and quit when they die, go to the General conference and! see who will bell old Tom. W. J. F. Moore. WATCHFUL WAITINGS My dear Eifitor of the Star of Zion:—For some time and for very good reasons, I have been a little? reticent as to the matter of writing through the luminous Star of our be loved Zion. I have not complimented you for giving us such a fine journal. It is remarkable that we have not even noticed one word of criticism from a man in Zion. That means you are giving the most satisfaction generally, and therefore need not lose any sleep as to your chance to continue in this position should you desire. I have been considering you among the aspirants for the’ more excellent position from several an gles, and will say more at a later day. I am very fond of the men already filling the office of bishop in our church at present. They are men of quality and fully prepared ih every tense of the word; men of broad vis ions and kindly over-sight of those over whom they preside, and knowing you as I do, I feel that no mistake can be recorded should you be called. Now there are some great and good men in the ranks of our church rom whom we can choose in this eming quadrennium. We cannot get dong without electing five or six nore new bishops. No one who is tudying and watching sincerely the nterest of our church, hut will agree hat the over-work and taxation upon he bishops is causing or threaten hg too great a sacrifice of life, and hat of men we are least prepared o lose so early. Bishpp Caldwell, our senior bishop 3 one of the hardest working bishops in the staff physically and mentally, ,nd is by no means a young man. Bishop Blackwell, the scholarly man n the bench is not contented est, even though he might. “Zion bfg lion,” is always his slogan. ' Bishop L.n W. ire. and
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