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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD" Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion . - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal ' Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXVII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C; FEBRUARY 3, 1915. NO. 26. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS JJFJHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South, land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. European War Severe fighting is reported all along the eastern frontier and throughout the Polish border. Petrograd advices admit the Russian invasion of the Car pathians has been repulsed by the German troops. Turkish forces are said to be over powering the British on the Suez ca nal. The British have lost another ves sel in the Vikncr, an armed merchant steamer, off the coast of Ireland. The entire crew of 258 men went to the bottom. Nothing has been heard of the elab orately planned victory which had been promised the German kaiser to celebrate his birthday. An English subject cabled Emper or William birthday congratulations, and told him to remember St. Helena with the assurance that there would be no Elba. Sharp fighting has been reported all along the Anglo-French lines on the western frontier of Germany. . The long-premised Turkish invasion of Egypt has begun in earnest, it is said, from eastern .tropical war cen ters. Ottoman troops are said to have fought their way to the British out posts east of the Suez canal, where the first skirmish took place. Accord ing to accounts one British officer was wounded in the encounter and the invaders suffered severely from the English machine guns. The London war office announces the sinking of the German cruiser Kolberg in the North sea. The British government has just ar ranged to advannce Roumania a war loan of $25,000,000 with which to pre pare her armies and purchase ammu nition so that she may enter the Eu; ropean war in the spring as an ally of the triple entente. With this addi tion the line up will stand England, France, Russia, Servia, Montenegro and Roumania against Germany, Aus tria and Turkey. The German forces are reported to have fiercely driven the Anglo-French lines all along the western frontier. They have attacked the French east of Ypres and have thrown large num bers of troops on the first British division on either side of the La Basse canal. All efforts will be made to check the proposed Hungarian invasion by the Muscovites. The Austro-German troops are being , massed . between Karlsbad and "Vienna to strike the Russian column, which, according to Budapest advices, is making its way directly south through the Carpath ians. The eastern British army is report ed to have repulsed the Turks in a struggle in Mesopotamia and are ad vancing on Bagdad. Domestic The Tennessee legislature passed a resolution providing for a constitu tional amendment which will give women suffrage. The resolution pass ed the senate by twenty-six to three and the house by seventy to fourteen, The next legislature must act on the same resolution before it will reach the people. Former President Taft declared in an address in Charlottesville, Va., be fore the students of the University of Virginia that a despotic or tyran meal president without the sympathy of the people could not develop into a perfect tyrant after all. John R. Lawson, representative of the Colorado United . Mine Workers, testified before the federal industrial relations commission in New York that the philanthropy of the Rockefel ler foundation never extended to the starving employes that family's in terests in Colorado. Lawson bitterly attacked the testimony of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on the stand for ad mitting his lack of knowledge of the Colorado situation and said too many of the Rockefeller philanthropists were exerted on the Chinese, the Bel gians and people in foreign lands, but nothing for their own in America. The revenue cutter Itaska, summon ed to the aid of the Italian steamer, Angelo Parodi, in distress off the coast of Cape Hatteras, reports to Norfolk the sinking of that vessel be fore the cutter could reach the spot where the Parodi went down. The entire passenger list and crew were lost. The exact number cannot be as certained until word from the vessel's sailing port. Governor Henderson of Alabama pea sonal!y appeared before the state leg islature to urge that body to cease its sinti-liquor agitation. A Sharon, Pa., woolen mill has re cejved a large contract to furnish 1, 50.0,000 pairs of hose for the French army. On the witness stand before the federal industrial "relations commis sion, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., stated he believed in keeping a "black list, but did not believe in circulating the same among other employers. A big building boom has started at nariotte, N. C. South Carolina is considering the passage of a state wide prohibition measure. . The Alabama legislature has set aside a certain day in February to be known as Crop Diversification Day. The legislatures of the two Caroli- nas have taken opposite stands re- ?R in r tVi - nnttrin ttaJ niimn anif crop diversification movements. On the very day the South Carolina as sembly passed a measure urging cot ton curtailment and diversification, the North Carolina body repealed a . simi lar bill which had already been enact ed there previously. . William Travers Jerome, former dis trict attorney of New York, appointed by former Governor Glynn as special attorney general on the present phase of the Thaw case, has been removed from that post by Governor Whitman. Jerome succeeded in twice preventing Thaw from regaining his liberty and was the means of bringing him back from New Hampshire to New York for re-commitment to Matteawan. Deputy Attorney General Kennedy, acting with Jerome at the present time, regrets the tetter's removal. It is suggested politics has played a part in Whit man's act. William Lorimer of Chicago, former United States senator from Illinois, who was unseated on bribery charges, has again been indicted on the charge of misapplication of funds of the La- Salle Street Trust and Savings bank, of which he was a director and which collapsed last summer. Foreign Crown Prince William of Germany has stated to the Associated Press rep resentatives in Berlin that his na tion expects the fair opinion of the American people in the present war situation. v Provisional President Garza of Mex ico, chosen by the convention to fill that office, only a few days ago, to succeed General Gutierrez, suddenly fled from the capital at the head of a small force of troops to Cuernavaca, where a temporary government has been established. His hasty flight was on advice of the convention, in control of the Villa action, which be came alarmed at the advance of Gen eral Carranza and his army from Vera Cruz. The Villa and Zapata forces have evacuated the Mexican capital for the north country. General Carranza is soon expected to be in complete possession of the city. General Carranza is organizing pow erful columns to storm Chapultepec. His bombardment and anticipated cap ture of the city, it is predicted, will end the Mexican revolution which has now been in progress since the au tumn of 1910. Washington President Wilson has declared the new era of prosperity for the .Amer ican people has now dawned, that evi dences of It will soon be seen now that business uncertainties are Re moved and that the remedial legisla tion is over with. He delivered a powerful address to the convention of the American Electric Railway associ ation in Washington. In his appeal for a larger navy, Con gressman Hobson of Alabama vigor ously attacked President Wilson and Secretary Bryan and declared them to be the greatest . obstacle of national defense. Mr. Hobson said the Roose velt administration had to promise Japan that when the American fleet made its trip around the world in 1908 that it would leave the Pacific by a certain time. Secretary Bryan has denied this statement. Hobson is in great fear of a Japanese attack on the Philippines. The house immigration committee has decided by a vote of eight to three to report the literacy test bill back to congress for passage over the president's veto. President Wilson honored the mem oir of President McKinley by wear ing the martyred executive's favorite flower, the white carnation, on his seventy-second birthday anniversary; all White House attaches did the same. The determined Democrats have be gun the all-night sessions of the sen ate in order to wear out the Republi can filibuster which is planned to kill the passage of the merchant marine bill. The first all-night session, Sen ator Smoto talked until after midnight and said he would continue as long as his strength would permit. Sena tor LaFollette has been in close con ference with the Democratic leaders and. predicts the passage of the meas ure. Secretary Daniels has announced the postponement of the formal opening of the Panama canal from Marcn un til July on special request from Gov ernor Goethals, who has some fears of another cockroach slide and is working to prevent the same. President Wilson has announced he will attend the. San Francisco expo sition in March. The federal reserve board has asked for another regional bank to be locat ed at New Orleans. The board of governors of the Atlanta bank has recommended such a step. Secretary of State Bryan and Coun sellor Lansing of the state depart ment received an official call from Sir Joseoh Pope, Canadian under secre tarv of state for external affairs, and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British am bassador, who both offered the United States an apology for the shooting of the two Americans who were duck hunting in Canada by Canadian troops, The British government representa' tives expressed keen regret and have offered the families of the two vie tims large indemnities. The hunters were Walter Smith and Charles' Dorscb FIVE VESSELS SUNK BY GERMAN ATTACK SUBMARINES GET THREE IN IRISH SEA AND TWO IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. THE CREWS ARE ALL SAVED It is Believed That the Crews of All The Vessels Were Allowed to De part from the Ships. London. The toll taken by the Ger man submarine U-21 in its raid in the Irish Sea in the vicinity of Liverpool, stands at three ships the steamers Ben Cruachen Linda Blanche and the Kilcoan, the last a small vessel. The Kilcoan's crew was landed on Isle of Man by a coastwise steamer. In addition a German submarine also torpedoed two British steamers n the English Channel near Havre the Tokomaru and the IcarianJ The Irish Sea raider escaped and sniping- interest confident he had returned to her base, ordered a re sumption of normal traffic. This under-water Emden is the ves sel which last September torpedoed in the North Sea the British cruiser Pathfinder with a loss of 246 lives ahd later destryoed two British steam ers off Havre. In addition to the three vessels . she is known to have sunk she chased at least five other steamers. These include the teamer Graphic with 100 passengers and a crew of 40 and the smaller boats At reus, Ava Kathleen and Edymion. All these vessels escaped in zig-zag flight. The Graphic's captain had his pass sengers don life belts and sent the stoke hole so that the steamer could keep up a full head of steam. The captain also warned by wireless ves sels from coming into the zone of the submarine's activity. The Allan Line steamer Scandina vian from St, John, N. B., January 22 for Liverpool with 500 passengers on board, learned of the raid of the U-21 and put into Queenstown. After remaining in Queenstown for a short time the steamer proceeded for Liver pool. DACIA SAILS WITH COTTON. Will Follow Usual Course and Make No Efforts to Avoid Capture. Galveston, Texas. The steamer Dacia recently transferred from Ger man to American registry and whica the British Government has declared would be considered a fair prize of war, sailed for Rotterdam via Norfolk with a cargo of 11,000 bales of cotton for trans-shipment to Bremen. Capt. George McDonald, master of the vessels, announced that the Dacia would follow the usual course of trav el and no special, effort would be made to avoid capture. The cargo, valued by the shippers at $S80,000, was in sured by the Government War Risk Bureau but it is stated insurance on the bottom was refused. The Dacia cleared January 22. Un favorable weather conditions, accord ing to the captain, delayed the depar ture of the vessel for several days and then it was explained that no attempt would be made to sail until important papers were received from the owner, E. N. Breitung of New York. Rear Admiral Montagu Dead. London. Admiral The Hon Victor A. Montagu is dead. Rear Admiral Bontagu was 79 years old. He served with the fleet in the war with Russia in 1855, in the China War of 1857 and with the naval brigade in the Indian muntiny of 1858. Bread 50 Per Cent Flour. Vienna. The Vienna Zeitung pub lishes a ministerial decree ordering that henceforth bread may contain no more than 50 per cent of flour or rye meal. The remaining ingredients must consist " of substitutes, such as barley, maize, oats, rice or potatoes. William M. Brown Dead. New York. William M. Brown, Representative in Congress for the Twenty-fourth District of Pensylvania and former Lieutenant Governor of that state, died here of pneumonia. Big Storm in Texas. Dallas, Texas. The Eastern por-" tion of Texas and parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma felt the effects of a severe windstorm, which at Tyler, Texas, and Malvern and Garland City, Ark., assumed the proportions of a tornado. Falling temperatures also were noted. No serious delay -to traffic or communication lines were reported. No death had been report ed. Tyler, Texas, and Malvern, Ark., reported the 'greatest property dam age. At Tyler the damage is estimat ed at approximately $15,000. - . Complete Despotism in Colorado. New York. John R. Lawson of the United Mine Workers of America, who denounced conditions in Colorado min ing camps in testimony before the Industrial Relations Commission, and sharply arraigned John D. Rockefel ler, Jr., for his alleged failure to in form himself as to conditions there, continued his testimony. "There is no social life in the camps," Mr. Lawson said. "The companies own all the houses, grounds, schools, churches, and stores. Complete despotism ex ists in the mining -camps," he said. THREE BIG BILLS ' PASSED IN SENATE WOMAN NOTARIES BILL, ARBI TRAL COURT BILL AND INSU RANCE LOAN BILL. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Caoitol. Raleigh. The General Assembly by the con currence of the Senate in the House bill on loans by insurance compa nies, registered its vote against an opinion of the Supreme court It was flatly held that premiums paid on an insurance policy, and interest on a loan for which the policy was re ceived as security is not and shall not be considered as usury. Senators Hobgood and White were the chief champions of the bill in the Senate. They were opposed by Sen ators Snow, McRackin and McMich ael. The opponents of the measure cited the opinion of the Supereme court when an insurance .company makes a loan, and requirs the bor rower to take out an insurance policy as security and at the same time to pay the legal rate of Interest on the money borrowed, that this is usury. It was pointed out by the advocates of it that the Insured is gettingall the benefits of the premium in his in surance, and is getting- the full value of his interest in the money -borrow ed. In no way could the premium and the intrest be considered as a lump of interest. In the end the Sen ate held with this opinion and the bill was passed. Woman Notaries Bill Again. With a formal ratification by the Senate, the woman notaries publio bill will become a law. From the time of its introduction in the; Senate, through the committee of that body, Into the Senate again, then over to the House through the same routine and back to the Senate for concur rence in an amendment, the measure has had rough sledding. Every time it has appeared on the calender has been an occasion for wordy debate. The constitutionality of it is the scrapping point, And now the measure will go on the statute books, a wom an will be apointed notary and it is up to the Supreme Court to say whether it is constitutional or not. Arbitral Courts Bill Is Passed. Senator Nash's bill for the estab lishment of arbitral courts was an other long fought over measure that passed the Senate. After going to committee and returning to the same following a brief fight on the floor the bill came out yesterday with an amendment that obviated much of the opposition. The measure calls for the establish ment of an arbitral court in those counties desiring such, to be com posed of the clerk of the court, and two others, oneto be appointed by each party to the arbitration. The amendment called for the naming of a third party to take the place of the clerk if the duties of that officer are such that he cannot devote time to the arbitration. Senator McLeod offered an amend ment to get Robeson excepted from the provisions of the bill. Senator Speight also tried to get the same for Bertie and. Northhampton.-But the Senate- was against amendments and enthuasiastically voted them down. Now its up to the House. There was a lively tilt over tbe Muse bill to prevent the State Treas urer from giving credit on the books of the treasury to the State's Prison for more than the actual cost of main tenance and other expenses of work ing convicts on railroads in exchange for stock, Instead of credit as is now done for full face value of stock taken for the convict labor. Want Power To Regulate Game. In the Senate Governor Craig trans mitted the appeal of Federal Secre tary Agriculture Houston that the State give the federal authorities pow er to regulate game, forest and river conservation in Western North Caroli na. A bill to this affect was introduc ed by Senator Weaver. Senator Cur ry introduced a bill to abolish the crop lien system. The bill to repeal the long short hauF clause, of the Justice act as passed by House . was made the special order. Anti-Liquor Bill In House. Great numbers of petitions were presented from nearly every section of the State appealing for the enact ment of a law to stop shipments of liquors for beverage purposes. It re quired 15 minutes to receive and read these petitions by titles. They pre ceeded the introduction by Represent ative Grier of Iredell of the official Anti-Saloon League . bill for the pro hibition of delivery of liquors for bev erage purposes and to regulate the sale of malt so as to assure record of dealers and persons buying malt Bill To SimpUVy Registration. They, considered the Nash bill to simplify the registration of deeds and mortgages It came up as a special order. Senator Ward opened against it, charging that it 'would be not much less costly than the present system and would tend to confuse the condi tions as they now. exist and are un derstood. Senator Nash said that there are now 24 states that have the system that he is urging. He said It would save time and money and prevent confusion and complications. It would cut off some lawyers' fees, but would not altogether dispense with the need for a lawyer In such matters. Sena tors Muse, Gilliam, White, Atwater supported the bill, and Senator Ward was joined in his opposition by Sena tors Haymore and others. The bill passed 36 to 3. A joint bill in the Senate by Sena tors Weaver of Buncombe . and Hob good of Guilford would prescribe a legalized primary for the state to in clude all parties and all offices from President down to and including coun ty officers. It is a document for some 2tMdd pages and 500 copies are order ed printed. The introducers of the bill admit that they are expecting amendments to except county officers in part, if not all the counties; and they will not venture an expression as to the liklihood of an effort to have the bill passed with a referendum, with people to ratify It before it s effective. ' There was no need of argument; by advocates of the repeal of the long and short-haul clause of the Justice intrastate rate act in the House; that body, on the statement Of Representa tive Henry A. Page that he had peti tions signed by 15,000 citizens asking that this clause be stricken from the act and the assertion that the short- line railroads of North Carolina had all been seriously crippled by its op eration, by a vote of 107 to 2 straigt way passed the bill repealing this sec tion of the act and sent it to the Sen ate. There it will he met by the Mc Rae amendment to its duplicate, offer ed by Senateor Ward which would sus pend the clause only so far as it shall apply to freights that are handled toy short lines in conjunction with the trunk-line railroads. Representative Allen and Mintz in troduced the first workmen's compen sation bill of the session which pre scribes a basis for settlement for in jury to employes. It was referred to the committee on propositions and grievances. It comprises about 30 pages and is made up, the introducers say, from what they consider the best features of workmen's compensation acts that are in operation in a number of other states. The House received from Governor Craig the recommendation by the Special Commission that the State School for the Blind be removed from Raleigh to Salisbury and there was also submitted to the House a propos al from the town of Rockingham, through W. N. Everett and others, who would donate 50 acres of land on either the Seaboard or the Rockinr ham Railroad as a site for the school, if located there. Representative Smith of Cleveland cot in the first bill to amend the pro hibition law in the matter of the de livery of liquors for beverage pur poses. He introduced a bill to pro hibit such deliveries ot liquors in Cleveland County, and declares his nuroose to press this through wheth er the Anti-Saloon League forces suc ceed in getting the State-wide , bill through. The House received with favorable report the resolution by Representa tive Mason of Northampton County recommending that the cotton grow ers materially curtail their cotton crop for the coming season. Teachers' Association Conference. The legislative committee of the North Carolina Teachers' Association was in conference here with Dr. J. Y. Joyner, state superintendent of public instruction, canvassing the situation as to educational legislation pending or to be introduced in the General Assembly, particularly , as to those matters to which the Assembly stand-3 Dledeed. Chief among these matters is that of perfecting the uniformity of certification of teachers for the pri mary, grammar school and high school work. Patents Granted to Tar Heels. Washington. Messrs. Davis and Davis, patent attorneys, report the erant. to citizens of North Carolina, of the following patents: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, trade-mark for plug and twist tobacco; James L. G. Ballard, Wadeville, car- coupling; Edward L. Bracy, Scotland Neck,, tobacco-pacakaging machine; Charles W. Carter. Fairfield, hinge; Ernest Hall, Kannapolis, attachment for looms; Frank E. Perkins, High Point, dental tool; Harry P. Robbins, Raleigh, grease-cup. President Hilt Makes His Report. There was filed with Governor Craig by President D. H. Hill, the bi ennial report of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. It shows that there wil lbe five vacancies on the board of trustees to be filled, including the vacancy caus ed bv the death of D. A. Tompkins The renort says: "Mr. Tompkins was for many years on. the college board and was an. active member, full oi initiative and force. It was largely through his help that our textile schoo? was started and developed."- STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE. COMING EVENTS. Tri-State Medical Association. Charlea- . o. v,. reo. 1915. Blown Down By Heavy Wind. News comes to Black Mountain through the person of J. F. Lundy, cnier engineer for the Perley & Crock ett Lumber Co.. which is eettinsr lum ber from Mount Mitchell and vicin ity that the Elisha Mitchell monu ment was not dynamited, hut was blown down by a very heavy gale of wma. it was through this source of information the first news came that the monument was dynamited. On the night of the shattering of the monument there were some shot heard in the direction of the 'monu ment and after seeing it was down cne next morning the natural explan ation to be made was that, it wna dynamited. ' National Guard Meeting. The North Carolina National fin a r I Association adjourned a two days' ses- ton voting the stay in Goldsboro in every way enjoyable. The following officers were elected: President, Maj. York Coleman, Rutherf ordton ; vice president, Gen. Laurence W. Yonti?. Raleigh; secretary and treasurer, Capt. w. a. t air, Lmcolnton; assistant sec retary and treasurer, Commander Wil son of Naval Reserves, Elizabeth City. me Dusiness session was purely rou tine in detail and full of intfrect anA information to the delegates. . ,000 Members Home-Made Meat Club. One thousand members have en rolled as members of the Home-Made Meat Club, an organization which haa as its purpose the organization and instruction of clubs for tbe promotion of the raising of more meat in the bounds of North Carolina. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BRIEFS. Asheville citizens heartily endorse; a State highway commission. The continued wet weather through out Halifax and Martin counties is be coming very alarming, almost, every one declaring that the peanuts will be absolutely worthless in that they will rot in the stack. North Carolina poatoffices issued and paid from July 1, 1913, to June 30, 1914, domestic money orders totaling 2,246,185, valued in mone, $9,024, 676.17. Congressman H. L. Godwlfc who has been spending some tjme at his home at Dunn, has returned to Washington P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, will speak at a public school convention at West End, Hoke county, February 13. Pamlico county has - had a woman notary public for several years. She. is Miss Charlotte Muse of Cash Cor ner. More than 60 have presented this claims as heirs of Sam Merrick, the Wilmington Negro, who died recently leaving $5,000 in silver dollars and other property. Congressman-elect James J. Britt of Asheville told a large audience of Hendersonville people recently in ihs interesting way about how to build and advertise a city. Pamlico county is one of tbe best sweet potato growing counties in the state and the- farmers of that section have during the past four months re ceived thousands of dollars from the sale of the tubers. Programs are being mailed to the members of the Southern- Ice Ex change for the 26th annual meeting of that organization at Asheville, Febru ary 9-11. It is very probable that Mrs. C. B Aycock will be appointed as post mistress at Raleigh.- Salisbury end Raleigh are both bid ding for the state school for the blind. . Mr. Hugh A. Murrill, Jr., of Char lotte, was appointed by Congressman Webb, a cadet to West Point. Mr, Purvey Summey of Dallas was named as first alternate and Mr. Henderson Hall of Belmont as second alternate. Newbern' is making ample prepara tions for entertaining the firemens' association this summer. Quewhiffle Township, Hoke county, is "all het up" over the epidemic of moonshine stimulant, and the harsh way the officers of the law are dealing with this struggling industry. Western contractors are exploring the bottom cf the Cape Tear river for unknown reasons. Interest is Increasing , in railroad building in Henderson county, . Rev. William Black the noted re- vivalist'is conducting a series of ser vices at Charlotte. Davidson county farmers have sent a delegation to Catawba county to study farming conditions there. Calvin Cook, who lives near Hick ory, blew a- mincie ball from his nos tril recently that was shot there dur ing the Civil war." ; Mr. and Mrs. ' A. H. Selzer publish ers of Leubo, Africa have returned to their former home at Hickory. Citizens of Raleigh are making a special effort to retain the state school for blind. Before the Legislature has granted the authority to issue them New Han over county has tentatively sold $35,- 000 worth of work-house bonds, .which run for 30 years" and draw five per cent interest. Gastonia's fire; insurance rate will be substantially reduced as the result of the purchase of a triple combination motor-driven fire truck, the putting on of a paid fire department and a num ber of other important changes that were made recently. SiMfSQlOOL Lesson iBy B. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course Moody Bible In stitute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 7 RUTH CHOOSES THE TRUE GOD. LESSOXT TEXT Ruth 1:6-18. (Read en tire book.) GOLDEN TEXT Thy people shall be my people, and fay God my God. Ruth 1:6.- The book of Ruth is a great love story, full of deep spiritual sugges- tiveness. Amid the tales of war, de ceit, success and failure, this Btory most beautifully illustrates another side of the life of the Israelites. The author of the book Is supposed to have been the same as the writer of Judges, perhaps SamueL I. "There Was a Famine , In the Land." This famine drove Elimelech, his wife Naomi and their two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, into the land of Moab, even as Abram before them went down" into Egypt. The immi grant sons married in that land, one of them becoming the husband of Ruth. Through this Israelitish al liance Ruth learned of the true God and the record of this book reveals God to all who turn to him in sincer ity and truth. This suggests the es sential missionary character of the Old Testament. After the death or her husband and sons Naomi, hear ing: of returning- prosperity In the homeland (1:16), elected to return to her own people. II. "Entreat Me Not to Leav Thee." This story puts to silence all of the mother-in-law jokes. When fJaomi thought they had gone far enough she sought to dismiss the younger women and expressed to them the tender affection which ex isted between them. A woman In an eastern land can find rest only in the house of her husband and these young widows stood but poor chance of se curing husbands among those who hated their race. Moreover we must remember that they were penniless.' There seemed to be nothing for theua to gain if they proceeded any farther (v. 12). Orpah reluctantly and tear fully turned back but Ruth clave-to Naomi (v. 14).., This illustrates our experience when we have to decide whether to leave friends, home and everything that we may follow Christ or, on the other hand, have to choose the things which are good and refuse to follow the best, (Matt. 10:37; Luke 14:33). III. "Whither Thou Goest I Will Go." Naomi gave Ruth another op portunity to go back to her people and this time bases her appeal upon the love of. Ruth for Orpah (v. 15). The word Ruth means "friendship," and one of the strongest motives for a loving nature to forsake the Lord Is the love for those that are of the' world. Many young men and young women have had such loves but they usually result in making shipwreck of faith. Read II Cor. 5:14, 15; Rom. 10:37. This test caused Ruth to count fully the cost (Luke 14:25-33). No more beautiful nor immortal words can be found in all literature than Ruth's reply (vv. 16, 17). Ruth's words are still sung as best expressing our song of life devotion. They have fur nished inspiration for countless lives, sermons and stories, and for some of the earth's greatest musicians as well. They most wonderfully illustrate our attitude towards him "whom not hav ing seen ye love" (I Peter 1:8). IV. The Sequel. At Bethlehem Ruth had no other thought than to cling to her mother-in-law, . even in poverty ana a iue ui iuwijr. ociyjw She did her menial duties faithfully, and displayed more of the real hero ism of faith than that shown In the daring exploits recorded in the other history (Judges) of her day. The truest hero is not the reckless partici pant In Europe's battlefields, nor is he found in the mad struggle for commer cial supremacy, but more often in the self-sacrificing acts of tender women and in the common round of life's duties. Ruth in a humble, hut with Naomi was better off and better satis fied than to have lived in the finest palace in Moab (Phil. 1:23). Through all of this love and devotion Ruth was being fitted for a larger sphere oi influence In which she was enabled to give to Naomi the happiest life possi. ble to her. Not once is Ruth's beauty suggested but she had the more at tractive attributes of goodness, kind ness and courtesy. She may have had1 personal beauty but her character far outshone the physical. This lesson is a suggestive one for Decision day in our Sunday schools. Give all an opportunity to choose and to follow even as Ruth did. .For the little folks tell the story simply "as to a little child." Emphasize the beauty and value cf lovingly serving our elders. Naomi is no less a heroine. Her name means "pleasant, .winsome." True, she suggested a new name Mara, "bitterness," but her sorrow was not for herself but for others, "it grieveth me much for your sakes" (1:13). Naomi made the religion and worship of Jehovah so attractive aa to win a most notable convert It ia our privilege to make religion attrac tive.. This-gift cannot be bought nor commanded, but by the power of thq holy spirit and through the fellowship of Christ may be the experience of all
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