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THIRTEEN" THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 17, 1922 irl RisGomdacStn.ioBiako i . :. . .Ft "til lw' M X II lilt .lift iWlV "" If I. ' .Ml w iliyr I A . TW M1.C TTMIIM I II" pie rAMOUS ml 1Hnv tin God, don't lie to 11 Htm know it. INilitleal Fat convention yell thetrMtelvt when a nomlnf In mntlcmfl. Inot about In cUojr wlicn the lot the Lord la called? four are nappy, let me wnoie up. snow pep: wrt up your . work your arm: nhako your sm and ahufflo your feet. with the holy dance and save koul! Ii, In ahort, aeeima to be the ut- ot in t'tnar or mie raitn. Wi no doubt, but effective. Judg fom the rapid, growth of this Kentlonal sect, not only In the B States, but in otner, parts or KtranffA in more ways tnan thla new Christian faith: for fcder 1 of the ao-oalled gentler Urn- Alma While, and he hears tlncllo or Ming me omy wo- n the world who la privileged leflx her navme with the iltle rise from childhood on a poor farm In the hllla of Kentucky rider of the Pillar of Fire church only woman biahOD la Indeed Imlrial and s most Interesting tap no person In pubilo eye has come up tnrougn naroer to a atage of apparent auccean p. than aha.; Born in a lama if whose meager fortune led tta Fen continually through the l of poverty, (he haa known It is to struggle for existence, father. William Moncure Brid- wa of Virginia Rtok and had id Into Kentucky during t early and latar enKaged iln the tan- bueiesa with - the father and bro- jpt Ulyuea S.. Grant.- Ha married Am rriaon or inen ana mng- leed bid reared eleven, cnll- C Vi: batons vxMh a RAttitntH and one of eeVeri altera. lllam and Mary Brldwell were fenlned, in a far a it wai poa- to give their children what edu- I'at-ion the ncliooii of '.hat day could arfurd them, but It was'UUle Alma'ii ' Ill-fortune to be oonitldered the dull est ono of the family, and ahe waa moat of the time kept at home when the other children were aerU to achooi, not only because she was greatly needwl to halp with the work both In the Imuae and on the farm, but also because the money cjuld be more ad -vfttagcouly spent In education of her brothers and slst-rs. It was thought. Alma took thia as a great hardship, as she had a atrong dealre for an education. Finally, however, ahe was enabled to go to school for a short time, and though affected with ab normal bashfuJneas, to the surprise of her friends and the chagrin of her Hintera. made enviable progress. When she was about 17 years of age ahe received a high achooi certificate to teach in the pubilo schoola md a few months later the family moved from Kltinlklnntck, Lewis county, Ky.. to Hourhon county, where ehe entered the MIllerHburg FemaJe college. At the sge of 19 Mlsa Brldwell re ceived an Invitation from an aunt living In what waa then the wllda of Montana territory to visit her on a more or lesa protracted atay. wy the strange Irony of fate, the aunt, on giving her the invitation, ha4 made a last resort to the one girl of all the slate whom she liked the least: the one, In fact, for whom ahe eonfnssed poativa dielike. The other sisters, being afraid and unwilling to venture out into the land of Jeese James, cowboya and Indians, had one after another refused to go. ' What would she do? It was one of the great crisis of her life. Oharao terletlo of what proved In later years to be the most dauntless of pioneer spirits. Alma determined to accept the invitation and three months pre vious to her twentieth birthday start ed on her long Journey. Breaking of home ties waa by no means easy. The hardest person to leave was her mother. But Alma had that some- She thing In'her that takes the step. had been converted at the age of 1H, and while not at all luring, the wild life appealed to her as a great mis sionary field. Tt waa a day long to be remember d when, aionu and full of misgiving, she started on her great and .seem ingly dangerous adventure Having arrived safely in Montana which had not then been admitted as a state. Miss Brldwell began to teach school at Bannack City, and thereafter for several years followed that profession, also doing missionary work aa time and opportunity af forded, In the meantime sending home moat of her wages for the education of her younger brothers and sisters. The story of her life during these years reads like a novel. Teaching school In the wild west la those days with the outlawry, daredevlltry and barbarlem waa no easy vocation, but the young woman made a great suc cess of it and proved herself able to manage pupils where other teachers had hopelessly failed. Indians who were not always friendly often camp ed In close proximity to the school- house, where there was no human protection except that of the larger pupils. In 18S7 ahe married Kent White, at Denver. Colo., who was then a minis ter student in a Methodlet university. Previous to her marriage. Miss Brld well waa employed for a yeaj by the Woman's Home Missionary society to teach school in a Methodist seminary In Salt Lake City. Later, as a min ister's wife, she began to take active Interest In pastorlej work and des pite the fact that the Methodist church gave no official recognition to woman's ministry, occupied her hus band's pulptt occasionally herself. She devoted considerable time to revival work.. - -ww It was not long before she proved to b a powerful teacher and such success attended her efforts that she soon aroused not only great Interest but also oposition. The Methodist bishop and presiding elders, feeiing that she was getting out of her place, frowned upon her. and took steps for the suppression of her work. But she NnnllnxaJ n nnAjO tk !nl I A th apostolio fashion, notwithstanding all in politics even i, that was said and dons to stop her. 'last presidential In time sh beran to establish mis sions of an Independent character. At this shs soon acquired a coneia eraUs Mowing and in 1901 organised her constituency Into a regular so ciety. This point, to put It briefly was reached through most heroic tat tling for her rights and convictions. For years she had ten pioneering almost alone th way for woman's ministry. Never In her life was aho inclined to push herself forward aa a woman. Quit the contrary, shs was of a retiring disposition. More over, she had two sons, Arthur and Ray, that required a mother's care and she could not neglect them, but she was impelled by a relentless pur pose to save souls and felt a definite call to preach. With it had come a degree of faith In God and that has ever stagggered her friends and fol lowers as well as her enemies. In 190! the new little society was Incorporated under the state laws of Colorado. No one felt that much would com of It. Even her husband wa of a doubtful mind. He on many occasions had opposed her most tena ciously in her work. In fact, at times he constituted a great block In her wv. Never did he dream when he. a Methodist preacher of strong will and talent, married the unpretending young woman from the hill of Ken tucky, that he was tying up to what would prove to he a personality more powerful and reeourcerui man me own. And afterwards when he saw It he was, perhaps, not Just Inclined to concede It, nd so natxjrally was of little encouragement to her. Sufflc It I to amy, th UtUe snctet) has outstripped even Its own most ardent hopes, and through the years Mr. White with an amaslng faith in Ood and undaunted purpose has been Its great dynamlo force, v People are naturally Interested In Bishop White as a personality, and are constantly seeking to know the secret of her success, fihe gives Qod the glory for what she has dons, maintaining tb.t ahe li only a poor Instrument In His hands. Ail this mav be conceded, but It must nevsr theiewi be said that Mrs. White Is an axtraordlnary woman. For years she hus been and continues to be a baf fling punzl to even her most intimate friends. Her resourcefulness and Inl- Matlve have at times Deen dumrouna lng. Kh has a way of thinking that nothings is impossible and a disposi tion to act acconllnly. once possess ed with a purpose to do this or that llilng, once, aa sne says, -gening mo nind of the Lord" on any particular lrojcct. she proceeds as though noth ng Instead of everything were again st her. At one time, for Instance. In the early history of the oranlsatlon she rait "led to siart arouna tne worm. The fact that she had no money did not seem to her to be any reason for not doing so. If It did. she Ignored It and started, having In her pocket Juat forty cents and a ticket from Denver, Colo., to Omaha. From here she somehow succeeded In getting to Chicago where. In answer to prayer, aa ehe says, transportation was fur nished her to London by railroad and steamship company who were booking missionaries for foreign fields. Here she stopped, not because shs could not or would not have gone on, but because, having- started services there the. people turned out In thousands to hear her preach, and ahe was made to feel that London was for the time her divinely appointed destination. And so It proved, for that visit to London resulted later in the establish ing of a Pillar of Faith branch there. As in traveling so in everyimng else. Including the putting up . of buildings. On tiwo or three ocooslons, for Instance, she had asked the mas ons and carpenters of the oranlsatlon to start work on somenew building without, a dollar In sight to do It with, saying that If they hesitated on account of lack of funds she would begin excavating with pick and shovel herself. At one time she actually started digging ground for a new barn and garage that had been needed for some time at Zarephath, N. J., the headquarters of the Pillar of Fire. It Is not necessary to add that the build ing went up . Bishop Whlta has proved to her satisfaction that where there Is a will, plus some faith, there is a way. There seems to be scarcely any thing to which Bishop Whits he. not or will not turn her hand. She has planned hie, dings, directed In !h 'ay lug of campus grounds and thv plant ing of tre, built roads, written books, comoosed eonjrs. e.1!t,d miners, man aged linan.,t. and intereeted herwlf the extent In tne iectlon, for instance. of smphetfying in one of her papers th nomination o' Harding and at tending the reoubHcan convetlon at Chicago t" see that it was done all ' in addition to her regular work as 1 evangelis, and bishop. One of th i chief nhj.vi of Mrs. White's minis- ' try is lii c'la'Tipiuning of the cause ( of women j At .V) n'ti-r much trepidation sbe learned to drive automobile and pass ed the t u .terscy slate examination fordrivT,s license. About the amc time si e lr. her hand at swimming , and sue. eide.1. a thing which ahe had ' never ilm- before lu'cauae she afraid of Ihe water, anil later took to horactwrk ruling, .ill of which.! thout1' p-r.fcTiy cu:!?:tcnt with her' way of rt.i tig t h:ni. fcrr.itly surpris ed her fr!fn,l Ann' jer '-,T(t of her micccss is l i her d;s7os'i :on in "in It now." Periling no 1'ttle amount of ftflvm Whites Influence s a leader and or- i ganixer is line to 1i,m- personal appear ance. Il.ning a jrtroni; countenance and b.'iu ra'her tall ar.d toiit.!v built, sue make a. marked impression 8he has open been accused at Orel eight of ro tlnon and reserve. Put a ltttle acquaintance readily prove her to be of ijir'e the contrary nature Indeed, a'l who know hr will avow. he s a most sffable an.l tcti-der-hiMU 'I w-ornsn. " Bishop hi. claims that whn: slic has aeco'ni!ilieri has only been through ci-i-al suffering, both physical and menial And it ts iru Year ago donors fa!1 he bad a weak heart and only co.xl lung and predicted for her an early death A tendencv to over we cm tias constantly been a caiiso of anxious concern for her health and lias oflen given her occa sion to go on long fasts or the most meager of diet Notwithstanding her physK.il weakness site has scarce ly stayed In bed a. day for ihlrly year. She has simply defied sick ness and pushed ahead. In aditloit lo founding the Pillar of Fir church with lis splendid mission ary staff, she lias written 18 books, composed oytr loi) hymns, odlts six papers in America and Kngland. aim! haa founded schools, unioi'g which ate Alma colee in New Jersey and th" new Westminster college In Denver, Colo. She ha traversed the continent for years and h.ict niadu thirty trips across the ocean. Mrs. Wh.it was recently consecrat ed first bishop of the Pilar of Fire Church, in a.-conlnnce. with provisions as set forth in Iho Pillar of Fire dis cipline, having been ordained an elder nearly iweniy years ago previous by duly ordained nilnlaler. Though Htnoluteily Independent as a oliurch lisoif. the Pilar of Fire Is essentially an offshoot of Methodism and holds to tho same fundamentals both In doctrine and administration. Mrs. While, a.1 founder and general superintendent, has to ail intends ami purposes acled in tho capacity of a Pivhon for seventeen - years. It had been her function as its offi- , cial head both to dire. I in the poll- I cies of the church and lo give to It nr.toarieaL. eiangeiists and ministers lo their respective field and loca.1 p pointmenis. For era the church bad contem plated her consecrsilon as a bishop, and IbeTfore, after the publication o' its flnst official discipline in which provision for the ceimnnv had been duly made. Mrs White, after unani mous vote, was formally consecrated bV'op by tii laving on of ban-Is at i' .. -..,.n,,l.f,l conference heitl al Zarep hoth. N. J, In the presence f hun 1; of ih h eat. and member o' !' r- otvureh ftom a:: pans of ihe I'ni- 1 S'afes ami Kng'and How to Make Pins Cough Syrup at Home Has ee equal fee prompt result. Take bat moineat to prepare, sad saves ou aksut It. Pine is used in nearly all prescrip tions and remedies for couahs. 1 he reason n that pine contains several elements thst have a remsrkable J effect in soolhinc ami healing the membranes of the throat nd chest. Pinefotmh syrups are combination of pine end syrup. The "svrup'' part is iimisIIv plain sugar ynip. , To make the best piue cough remedy that monev can buy, put i't ounce of Pinex in a pint bottle, and fill up with home-made sugar syrup. Or von rn use clarified molasses, honey, or corn svrup, instead of sugar syrup. 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