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- ?? C ISSUED SEKI'WEEKLT. ^ L. m. orist'S SOHS, Pnbu.hen,} % 4amilS $?waj>ajir: 4or ">< promotion o| th< folitiimt, fotiat. ^griijnllBp! and (JJommeijctal Jntmala o( th< feopl|. P" a?o? mpV ?t5 iBmVA!'u'! ESTABLISHED 18557 YORKYILLE, 8. O., FRIDAY, JTJNE 11, 1909. NO. 47. ?UK AKA KAK AHA IUK MA HAK I HERON' J 1 By ETTA > 2 UK AKA KAK AKA KAK AKA KAK CHAPTER XXXII. The Flight. "Miss Carbury," said the voice of Pitt Rivers, "here is my betrothed wife!" The little gentlewoman, anxiously watching at the drawing room window, turned and saw the colonel and his 1 ?nin>th?r on the thresh waru ouuiuiiiB ? old?one with a face of passionate exultation, the other pale as ashes, but carefully composed. "All Is well!" announced Rivers, gayly. ,"Yes, more than well, Miss Carbury, for Sergla has Just promised to marry me! You cannot feel very much surprised, for, with your penetration, you must have guessed my secret weeks ago!" "Oh, my dear colonel!" cried Miss Carbury, flying toward the pair with hands extended. "My dear, dear Sergia. Nothing, I am sure, could please me better! Accept my warmest congratulations. What a delightful end to all our fears, and what a disappointment, too, for the fortune hunters who are waiting to pay court to our debutante! I always feared that Sergia miaht fall a prey to some of them, and now she is safe!" She took the pale girl in her arms, and kissed her. "I wish you a great deal of happiness, child, and you will be sure to find it with Colonel Rivers." "Spare me, Miss Carbury," answered Sergia, with a deadly weariness in her voice; "these things are stale?tiresome?they are said over to every girl. We come to tell you that we must leave Wolfsden immediately. I cannot breathe longer in the place?help us to get away at once!" There was an agony of impatience in her tone.' The colonel pressed her hand soothingly. "Call all the servants to assist you, Miss Carbury," he said, "and pack the trunks with the utmost dispatcn. we must take an evening train for town. I have just sent Martin to telegraph for rooms in a quiet West End hotel, where we shall neither be recognized nor watched by the people whom we wish to avoid. Sergia has consented to marry me there. We will sail for Europe by the next steamer, and you shall go with us. Overcome by the shock of these words, Miss Carbury collapsed in the nearest chair. "A girl of Sergla's social position marry in that way?" she gasped. "Oh, colonel, no trousseau, no invitations, no bridesmaids? Impossible!" tie luugneu ai uer uiam#}. "You can purchase the trousseau as soon as we arrive in Paris. Meanwhile Sergla's wishes must rule us both. She will have no preparation, no display? everything must be done swiftly and in secret. First of all, she is determined to quit Wolfsden this very night. She fancies that she can never recover her strength here. Haste! Haste! That is now your watchword, Miss Carbury." Some indefinable fear seemed to assail the old woman. She ran to Sergia, and looked up in her face. "My dear, is this really your wish?" "It is really my wish!" answered Sergia. "You know my great faith in the col onel's Judgment?you have often laughed at me for the same. But now I do not like his plans. Is it weak, is it wrong, Sergia, for me to acquiesce in them? I am too bewildered to think for myself." Sergia smiled drearily. "It would be very weak, Miss Carbury, for you to oppose a will like Colonel Rivers's. His desires are mine. You and I need not be parted?we will travel together. Oh. I must go" feverishly; "do not try to detain me, but make all the speed you can, for my sake?if I am kept here another four and twenty hours, I shall die!" Miss Carbury, to do her justice, was ,.f h?r r>hsirtrt? and the distress in the girl's voice cut her to the heart. Instantly she flung her scruples to the winds. "Aly dear, my dear, rely upon me!" she cried, and flew to make the necessary preparations for immediate departure. Sergia, reclining on a sofa in her own chamber, watched the packing of the trunks with an absorbed, far-away look in her eyes. The whirlwind of haste and excitement that filled the room brought no color to her marble face. Her thoughts seemed far from Miss Carbury and her labors. By and by, ' L ?. U *nnn/t/l *<\ V> a onfo n n/1 me UIU WUIIIU.Il LU1UCU iu uic oviu, aiiu with an attempt at cheerfulness said: "I never dreamed that you had found your fate in the colonel, my dear! Of course, your friends will be amazed at your great haste, and Francis Heron will rage and blame me?indeed, I am sure to be blamed by everybody. All the same, my conscience is clear?it is no mesalliance which I countenance? the match is most suitable. Your guardian is your equal in all respects." "Yes," assented Sergla, quietly. "And his ardor?his devotion Is something amazing! Some men never woo in vain. All the world?the feminine world, I mean?loves a lover." Sergia tried to smile. "That being so, the object of his choice should not be the only one to remain Indifferent to him, Miss Carbury?" "Oh, my dear, I hope you care a great deal for the colonel. It seems to me that he Is worthy of a?a?supreme passion." Sergla stared out through the window into the rusty tops of the chestnut trees. "A supreme passion?what is that?" she queried, dryly: "does It really exist? Is it worth the breath in which the words are spoken? Rest assured that my guardian is satisfied with such love as I have to give?he knows that I care more for him than for any other person in the world." A red spot, like a blossom of fire, flashed out on her cheek. "Best of all. he is going to take me far away?that is very thoughtful of him. Is it not? You do well to sound his praises. Miss Carbury?he is al * I 'SWlFE. j _ S V. PIERCE. 5 I AKA tUH AKA tun AtU *U* AttA ways kind and good, and I mean to be properly grateful. 1 shall visit strange, foreign places, and forget the old things in tne new. Change, I have heard, is a panacea for many ills?often it works wonders in one's ' thoughts and feelings." "I dare say," replied Miss Carbury, somewhat bewildered. "And we will purchase everything in Paris?that will be some compensation for the barren arrangements and almost indecent haste of your marriage. Ah, if I could have my way, there should be a wedding at Trinity, with orange blossoms and duchess satin, point lace and the wedding march, and the creme de la creme to look admiringly on." Sergia shuddered. "Miss Carbury, do you think I could live through all that?" she said, hoarsely. "You mean well, but you don't understand." "Well," replied the elder woman, with a heavy sigh of renunciation. "I can't think how you will be able to bear the rush and distraction of our present programme. We all know that you have not yet recovered your strength." "I am as vigorous as an Amazon!" cried Sergia, sharply. "Do not put so much as a straw in my way. I go toT Irnfiw t~hc* affnrt WAllld kill me, still I would go!' She ended the sentence with a sob, and turned her face to the wall. After that. Miss Carbury said no more. Meanwhile, In Mrs. Steele's private sitting room, below stairs, Pitt Rivers was closeted with his yellow-eyed housekeeper. The conference, whether Important or otherwise, was brief. From it the colonel emerged slightly ruffled In look, and proceeded to discharge all the Wolfsden servants, with a month's extra wages, and an order to quit the house by nightfall. He then * * 11- 4ah?_ directed me preparations iui luc jumney to town, sent Martin away with the luggage, and finally hurrid to Sergia's chamber, where he found his ward already dressed for the railway ride. A fierce exultation flamed In his eyes, as he bent over her sofa, and took her passive white hand in his own. "In a few hours you will be mine forever, Sergla," he said. The delicate fingers trembled a little, but she answered, bravely: "I told you In the garden that I would never recall my promise, guardy ?I never will." "My darling! It was a fortunate thing for me that you went to Heroncroft today!" She shuddered convulsively. He caught her In his arms. "I do not mean to distress you?I will not even ask you to disclose your secret. That visit drove you to my heart for comfort and consolation. Whyshould I care about the cause, when the effect is all that I can desire?" and he laughed softly, joyously. "For weeks my sole purpose has been to win you, Sergia. Look in my face?is it not the face of a man who knows, at last, what happiness is?" She shivered 'out of his embrace. "You love me too much!" she faltered. He shook his handsome head. "That cannot be; I will yet teach you to return mv nassion in full. For your sake, I mean to forget my past, and begin a new life?I mean? But I cannot talk of these things now. By nine o'clock we shall reach our city hotel. It Is best for us to remain strictly incognito there till the steamer sails, and I so avoid all gossip. Once on the other side of the Atlantic, I can defy the world?no human power can then take you from me." She listened, without comprehending. "You know what Is best," she said, listlessly. "I will do as you wish, guardy." The trio were to dine at Wolfsden, and under cover of darkness take the evening express for town. Only one servant remained in the house to assist Mrs. Steele. Just before the dinner hour struck, Miss Carbury descended to the dining room to speak a few words to the housekeeper. She found the table spread, but the apartment was empty. From an adjoining pantry, however, issued the murmur of voices. Miss Carbury was not above temptation. She moved softly to a communicating door, which chanced to be standing ajar, and listened. "You must stop this marriage!" It was Mrs. Steele who spoke. "How the deuce am I going to stop it, Maisie?" came the answer, in a sulky masculine tone. "Kill one or the other!" "Humuh! Suppose you do that little job yourself?" "I have tried and failed!?you might be more successful." "I take no risks, Maisie?not if I know myself?you're off your head." "I tell you he shall never marry her!" "Very well, my lady?put an end to the business, if you can. A jealous woman stops at nothing." Miss Carbury could bear no more. She flung back the door of the pantry. At a shelf stood Mrs. Steele, arranging some pieces of china. Her face was turned toward an open window near by, over the sill of which a masculine head sank suddenly and disappeared. "Oh," cried Miss Carbury, "who was that man? I heard you talking to him about killing people, and stopping Miss Pole's marriage. You dreadful woman! Something extraordinary has come over you of late?I ought to call Colonel Rivers"? Behind her glasses, Mrs. Steele's eyes glowed like twin fire opals. "You must be dreaming!" she said. "No man has been here?I have not uttered a word to any one." And then, as if disdaining further subterfuge, she seized the old woman by the shoulders, and pushed her violently out of the pantry. "Eavesdropper! Idiot!" she cried. "Co your own way, and don't dare to meddle again with me!" Poor Miss Carbury tottered into the hall, and sat down there, overcome with astonishment. She had not fully recovered when the bell rang, which sum % ** mfHH jf. V ^j THOMAS W. LAWSON AND TW WHOM IS Announcement bas been made In B<| Lawson, second oldest daughter of Ttl of Chicago. Miss Lawson apprised h<| returned borne recently from a trip til o?*> frmri nf hnrwa nnri nrft clever rid J riding clubs about Chicago, and it wai Lawaon took part in a club run, that i miss in short skirts In this picture Is X of the family. moned her to her last dinner at Wolfsden. The one remaining servant of the house waited at table?Mrs. Steele did not appear. Sergia was pale and silent ?the colonel in splendid spirits. "What is to be done?" asked Miss Carbury, "with all the things that we must leave at Wolfsden??the horses in the stables, the appointments of the house?" He laughed. "Like John Gilpin's wife, you have a frugal mind, Miss Carbury! Mrs. Steele and our good Martin will take care of everything." "As for our neighbors at the villas, I cannot think what they will say of this headlong flight. We actually have not spoken a good-by to any one." "Let us not mind such trifles," answered the colonel, lightly. "These Black River people are no longer of any importance?they served my purpose for awhile, but I have no further use for them." A rap at the door; Martin entered with a telegram for his master. The colonel's fine eyes glittered a little as he tore open the message. It contained but one word: "Danger!" The signature was "Dr. Bird." Pltl Rivers crumpled the laconic paper In his hand, and threw it under the table. As he glanced at Sergia, his lips curved in a smile, but she saw that he had grown ashy pale. "You have heard bad news, guardy?" she said. "No," he answered, rising hastily from the table; "only a kind Intimation from an old friend that I must waste no more time at Wolfsden." Clouds had gathered In the sky. The night was dark, and full of gusts thai came and went with an eerie sound in the chestnut trees. At eight o'clock the evening express would leave Black River station. Seven had barely struck when a roll ol wheels on the gravel announced the arrival of the carriage at the door. "Martin will drive leisurely," said the colonel. "Miss Carbury, have you plenty of wraps for Sergia? Wait a moment. There is a fur mantle somewhere in the house?I will find it. The night is chilly, and we cannot be too cnrcfnl of our invalid." Witli boyish eagerness he rushed ofl up the stair. "How good he is to me?how thoughtful for my comfort!" murmured Sergia, turning her large, tired eyes or Miss Carbury, as though hungering foi approval. "I am sure to be happy with him some time, am I not?" "My dear, you ought to be happy now!" replied Miss Carbury, in a shocked voice. "He is utterly devoted to you! Sit down upon this sofa?you begin to look frightfully fatigued, Now, where is Punch? That creature is always missing at the last moment ?of course, I cannot go a step without Punch." Sergia suggested that the troublesome pug might be shut in some uppei chamber. Miss Carbury rang the bell but nobody answered. Then she started to ascend the staircase, and at the top of the tlight she came suddenly upon a sight which made her heart stand still. One lamp burned there, and in its light Pitt Rivers was standing?stern repellent, with the figure of a woinar groveling at his feet?embracing hirr about the knees. "Mercy! Mercy!" Miss Carbury heard her cry, and the voice was that of Mrs. Steele. For answer, the colonel gave the abject creature a blow which laid hei J wH^Hlvg&l Mm'4 m. jBf - A ^^QHRv: ' |^9Rn - J^r \ |w* : ^B^' ', ?b SSI S r^b ' fin jB^v^gwifiSKS^i IB : 8 Hr m^mr r vH r0 OF HIS DAUGHTERS, ONE OF < i TO WJiU. >8tou of the engagement of Miss Marion j lomas W. Lawson, to James Fuller Lord ;r father of the engagement when she trough Maine. Both she and Mr. Lord ?rs. Mr. Lord Is a member of several s on a visit to that city, in which Miss ihe first met her future husband. The larjorie Lawson, the youngest member J i prostrate. She made no effort to rise. 1 , He kicked her smartly. "Get up!" he said, In a tone of smoth- ( ered fury; "and don't let me see your tn oera tn I " iavc uhuiu. ( , The next instant he espied the amaz- , ! ed and horrified Miss Carbury, and ad- < , vanced briskly to meet her. A mag- ' , niflcent wrap of black fox fur?the wrap J which he had procured for Sergia?was , hanging upon his arm. His manner < was perfectly cool and collected. "Ah, Miss Carbury, you have wit- \ nessed a very unpleasant thing," he ( said, "and you look greatly shocked ?you think me cruel, brutal? 1 have acted thus only in self-defense. Poor Mrs. Steele, once so gentle and faithful, is fast becoming a dangerous lunatic. Our lives are not safe under the same roof with her?hence the neces sity or narsn measures, i iancy uiai you are in quest of Punch?he is whin! lng somewhere near." And he rushed to Miss Carbury's own chamber, brought forth the dog, ' and put him in her arms. The figure ! on the floor had staggered to its feet? 1 without a sound it disappeared down ' the dark corridor. "Say nothing to Sergia of what you have seen!" commanded the colonel, a ; trifle sharply. "The poor child is well 1 aware of Mrs. Steele's Infirmity, but in her present weak state she must not I be subjected to any new disturbance." 1 Miss Carbury nodded?she could not trust herself to answer. The colonel had shown her a new phase of character. It seemed incredible that a man ' 1 ? r t.i.. ... .. . ... * ...? 1.1 .. n UL I11H I trll III 11 Id I I UUUIU 311 1IV.C it W UIUU1I 1 ?even a dangerous one. For once, she ! felt half afraid of him. Quite unmoved by the unfortunate occurrence, he ! descended the stair by her side, and hurrying into the drawing-room, wrap- < 1 ped the fox fur mantle about Sergla, i with a care of a passionate lover. Out- J 1 side on the gravel the horses were | stamping impatiently. < To be Continued. ! _ I CEDAR FOR PENCILS. < i Only Wood the Price of Which Is ] Quoted By the Pound. < ; The lead pencil Is one of the most "j common articles in everyday use, and , since practically the only wood used i , in its manufacture is red cedar and : since the pencil industry is steadily ' , growing (320,000.000 are manufac- ( 1 tured annually in the United States) ; | the supply of red cedar is becoming greatly depleted. Red cedar has a soft, straight grain | and is very free from defects when , properly grown. Reeause of Its pe- J culiar qualities no good substitute for , I it has ever been found, and it is ] j doubtful if any other wood using in- 1 dustry is so dependent upon a single 1 , species as the pencil industry Is de, pendent upon red cedar. It is the . only wood the price of which Is nuot . I ed by the pound. The popular belief Is that the see- ' . oiul growth of red eedar never reach- ] es marketable size, says Country Life ! ' In America, but the forest service has | , made a careful study of the subject j , and has reached the conclusion that i . it can he profitably grown in regions 1 of its development. s Some changes are recommended In ? the present forest management in or- < ' der to secure the desired growth. In J ( the southern forests It must have a , better chance instead of being consid- i , ered, as now, a negligible quantity In 1 its younger stages. Many of the for- ' est grown trees which are now cut for i fence posts can profitably be left to i attain their full development and thus < become available for pencil wood. I WITH THE I Splendid Papers | vention of ] COMING TO ITS OWN. " The Whole Church Awakening to Sunday School Work. Paper by Mr. J. M. Way, General Secretary of the South Carolina Sunday School Association, before the York County Sunday School convention. For nineteen centuries the Christian ohurrh has been battllne with the problem of evangelizing the world and yet one billion people remain without the gospel. The work of the church has not been a failure, but it has certainly failed to reach the highest ideal of Christianity. In these nineteen centuries of Christian work and trials, the church has tried almost every conceivable pian of winning the world to Christ. All but the most narrowminded and bigoted agree that it must be done as the Savior intended and according to the example He gave us, namely, through teaching. We realize how often it proves futile to win people who are old enough to be fix-J 1- -l- nlnulno bu in ineir imuius, anu mc >.iuoine years of the nineteenth century brought the Christian world to a realization of what we now believe to be the correct method of evangelizing the world, and this realization has in a very short time brought the Sunday school as a world-wide institution, into world-wide prominence, and a prominence which no other institution enjoys. "Save the child and you will save the world" is the slogan of the Twentieth Century Sunday School Awakening. No movement for the advancement of God's kingdom on earth is more far-reaching in its pains and achievements than the world-wide Sunday school movement. Between twentyfive and thirty millions of Protestant Christians in more than a quarter million Sunday schools study the principles of Christianity as laid down in the Book every Sunday. Eighty-five per cent of the vast Sunday school army study the same lesson each Sunday. This vast work, generally known as the Organized Sunday School Movement, carries on its work through a chain of associations which encircle the globe and which, when perfected, will reach and help not only every Sunday school in the world, but every home. The greatest of these is the World's Association, which held its last convention In the city of Rome, under the very eyes of the Vatican, ana 11 Will nuiu ua IIUI in mc Latitat of our own nation, from the 19th to the 23rd, inclusive, of next May. In the western hemisphere is the well knjyvn International /. relation with Its vast number of auxiliaries in the states, provinces, counties and townships. In the International Association alone, 16,000 interdenominational Sunday school conventions, attended by fully two and one-half millions of different people, are held annually. In the eastern hemisphere, the work Is carried on through the British Sunday School Union. Because of the fact that Protestantism in that half of the world is weaker than in America, the British Sunday School Union Is aided by the strong hand of the International Association. Different conditions in the two hemispheres necessitates somewhat different plans for carrying on the work, but those methods and policies which are most KMMAMilnl OMA MAiink fVl A on mo f VtrAliah -oseiiua.1 air iiim.il?CTTC TTZTTTTT?tin uu?,n 1 iut the world. In every state and territory of the American Union, In every province of ? Capt. W. W. Boyce, President of the York County Sunday School Association. Canada; in Mexico, Central America and the Isles of the sea, the International Association has succeeded in organizing auxiliary associations, and it is now beginning to extend the work to the countries or South America. The associations organized, so far as I have observed, invariably take their names from that it the political bodies in whose boundaries their work is carried on. Thus, for the old Palmetto state, we have the Sunday School Association of South Carolina. All of the state, provincial and territorial associations have auxiliary associations in their counties and townships. There is a distinctive work for each kind of association In this great chain, but the rounty and township associations are recognized by all experienced workers t)f the Organized Sunday School Movement as being the ones which, when brought to their highest and most useful development, are most effective in their accomplishment of Immediate results. It is not our purpose to undertake a discussion of the details In the work of eacn Kinu 01 these associations, but to bring to your attention what the movement at large has done and is now doing for the Christian world. It has been said, and correctly so, that it is the greatest missionary force in the whole world. "Why Organize?" The association of this vast army of Sunday school workers to do things in a common way with a common purpose, is not without the best of reasons for its existence. The world needs such an organization. The Sunday school nearly a century ago, found it necessary, and the great denominational bodies were really bound to have It, and have profited Inestimably by it. The protection of all our Sunday schools from destructive Bible criticism would In Itself alone be a sufficient reason for the existence and maintenance of the Organized Sunday School Movement. Organizations, institutions, and individuals stand ready to leaven our schools with all kinds if loose doctrines, for the purpose of creating a demand for certain things they have to sell, to build up new organizations of doubtful teachings, or extend the teaching of and adherence to certain doctrines which the ortho SUNDAY SCHOOL Read at the Secc York County Ai dox Christian world has been pleased to style as counterfeit. Not all the people who claim to be Christians are n a Prntpfltflntlflm ftPPS Of thodoxy. The number of people whose orthodoxy Protestanlsm denies, is almost as great in America as that *>f all the Protestant denominations combined. Have we so far forgotten history as not to remember the methods by which these forces attempted only a few centuries past to overthrow all Protestantism and establish their doctrines forever? A method of warfare common to invading armies when they cannot enter and take the city openly, is to move their forces In such a way, at such a time and such a place as to take the defenders unawares. Protestantism in America is too strong to overthrow in open combat and the only methods open to unorthodox bodies will be to leaven the teaching In our Sunday schools with unorthodox doctrines. This is the shrewdest method that could be adopted, for by inculcating these doctrines in the child mind at the impressionable age, they are lodged there to stay forever. Those who have observed carefully me religious neveiopmems ui uur country during the past few years will easily understand the meaning of what I have suggested, but those who have not kept up with the onward march of events in the world may be doubtful of the accuracy of my Judgment. However, such doubts will not suffice to change the facts in the case, and it is my hope to at least arouse sufficient interest to bring about a careful investigation and study of this Important question. But some people say, "Our denomination is able to take care of its own I i Mr. J. W. Way, General Secretary of the South Carolina Sunday School Association. Sunday schools and we can do the work through our denominational organizations." Have you succeeded in taking proper care of your Sunday schools? Can you? The very people who make these suggestions are largely the ones that need the m'ost help of this great conserving, unifying agency. To get at the point let me ask a question: How many of your schools use other than their own denominational literature? How far are other agencies breaking into and thwarting your plans? So far as the Sunday schools of this state are concerned. my observation of what they are doing leads me to assert that those denominations entering most heartily into organized co-operation are the very ones that succeed best at getting their Sunday schools to use their own denominational literature, and those who have stood aloof and declined to enter heartily into co-operatlon, although they may have co-operated in part, are the very ones that have suffered most by the invasion of independent or non-denominational literature. Let me give a concrete example without calling names: I know of one denomination that al -i 1.. ,1.. +.1 m,t + V? ways siunus reauy iu tu-u(icia>.c miu all the other Christian bodies in any good work. Of course it may suffer from the Invasions of independent or non-denominational publishers, but in all of my travels from Horry to Oconee, and from Beaufort to Cherokee, and in all my contact with its Sunday school interests, I have yet to find a single instance of such invasion. I therefore assert from observation and experience that those church people who are most loyal to their denominations in all of their varied interests, are those who enter most heartily into interdenominational co-operation. You ask me why this is so? I am not going to say that I can tell you, but I believe that God intended that all of His people should act as brethren. The Christian world should be one body and that denomination which stands aloof, bringing as it may in a small measure Christian dissension, must suffer the same in its own ranks. As KLi W w Rev. R. E. Hough, General Secretary S. S. and Y. P. C. U. of A. R. P. Synod of the South. a proof of this I turn to my red letter Bible and In Matthew vll, 1-2, I find these words printed in red: "Judge npt, that ye be not judged: "For with what judgment ye Judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Christ said these words, and nineteen centuries of rich experience has found them true in every walk of life. We now come to another phase of the question. Does it pay? This is the question always asked by the business man when the proposition to enter Into a new undertaking comes before him. The question is purely le . WORKERS ? ?? y 8 >nd Annual Con- < c sssociation. i s <3 y d gltlmate. If a thing does not pay, t why have anything to do with it? In f Christian work, the question, "Whom t does It pay?" Is of as* much import- * ance as, "Does It pay?" I have Just t c H\ mm Wmm Ww nSH Wy Rev. Edw. 3. Reaves, \ Pastor Fort Mill and Flint Hill Baptist t Churches. i shown that it pays the denomination to organize and co-operate with oth- t ers. That was only incidental, for i that which pays denominationally is 1 secondary to that which pays in the ] advancement of God's kingdom ( throughout the world. l The Organized Sunday School Move- e ment, it entered into heartily by all ? Christian people, will concentrate the t energies of the entire Christian world a on the performance of a common task f which brings us to the real aim of ? Sunday school work, namely: teach- t ing the word of Qod, leading souls to s a personal acceptance of the Saviour, c and developing Christian character. J A thousand streamlets trickle down j the sides of the everlasting mountains s and hills and wind their way like sil- ? ver ribbons through the verdant val- 1 leys. Not one of these streamlets has r .sufficient volume to turn a spindle or \ carry a boat Moving forefver toward a the ocean, these little streamlets join c forces and form a river. The volume c of the river as it moves onward is e ** n" K? nnw trlhll. t CUIIllIIUUlljr auguicilicu u; uen u.?? tarles. Soon it has grown in volume c and power sufficient to turn the great mills which dot Its banks, and long \ before It empties into the great ocean c it is large enough to carry on its bos- \ om great ships, bearing the commerce e of nations. But for the union of the \ little streams, the factories could nev- t er have been turned, or the Bhlps c borne up by their waters. There are I problems before the Christian world 1 which no denomination working alone, e can solve. There are foes that must t be met and put to flight, which will c require the combined strength of all. a The task is of such magnitude as to r call for not only the united efforts of c all Christians, but the unreserved co- t operation of the great bodies into ii which our distinctive beliefs have di- c vided us. e 1 -u 1 ~ CVAW IM A mnr{/iQ CJ WHICH IB me auuugci ill nuieuv^ the intrenched interests of the liquor 1 traffic, or the combined power and g concentrated energy of the Christian * church? These great evils exist in I organized form, because the church of God allows it, and for no other rea- d son. If the Christian church were s united and properly organized, with i< one stroke of its mighty arm it could t blot out forever from the face of the i: earth the highly organized interests li of the liquor traffic, the gamblers, or a any other kindred evil. What would 8 our country be if none of these great a evils which distract our youth, ruin r our homes, rob honest people and ? make life miserable were suffered to v exist? Let the church of God on a f platform of beliefs which are common u to the entire Christian world get to- v gether, work together, and the victory v over these great, world-wide evils will t be ours. Our Leader is omnipotent, r and If we will but follow Him, laying fc aside our wrangling, and doubtful dis* g putations, we cannot fail. t The tremendous power derived from s the Uniform Lesson System and uni* ?? J- ~~ ? arrA far-- a I urill II1CU1UU9, 19 OKJ 51 cat UUV( *? - M reaching that the human mind can S neither comprehend nor estimate It ii Instead of several hundred lesson systems, gotten up and foisted upon the public by irresponsible men and publishing houses, the great Sunday school army centers its mind upon one selection of Scripture every Sunday, and the lesson editors everywhere working upon the same topic, are en- h abled to give each other invaluable help. To those who doubt the value, or to put it stronger, the absolute necessity of this movement, let me make g this proposition: Disband the International Sunday School Association c and all of its auxiliaries, and let v whomsoever may desire select and edit g Sunday school lesson helps. What would be the results? Well, it is needless to say the number of lesson makers and lesson editors would be s legion, and that In a very short time; j, and everybody, everywhere, with ev- . ery kind of religious opinion imagina- 11 ble, would have the right to make and ii sell our Sunday school literature. Un- b der glowing titles, and apparently F harmless in make up, the unorthodox would have their systems for the gen- a eral Sunday school world and these t< of course printed as neatly as could y be, on the very finest paper, and at the very lowest prices, would catch some of the unwary In every denom- o inatlon. The results would be just tl what the sainted B. F. Jacobs, when the desire for the uniform lesson took f hold of him, saw coming to the great fl Sunday school world; chaos, confus- 1 ion, misunderstanding, error, and ef- d forts absolutely devoid of progress. Not only should we fear the unorthodox, but since the great whisky interests of the country have been able, in tl every prohibition campaign, to secure t< some man, styling himself a preacher, and who is willing to go about the country advocating wnisay interests and trying to prove by the Bible that tl It is all right, could they not have a d system all right In every respect except an occasional sentence which, shrewdly and cunningly tries to make the li Impression that the Bible does not tl condemn their business, but justifies f the keeping on hand a small quantity of the products of their distilleries and k breweries to be taken occasionally for 1< the stomach's sake, and to enliven 5 conversation by taking from It every , vestige of meaning. Have we not heard and read th? great crusade c: against the acceptance of tainted mon- h ey by church Institutions? If the Inter- c national Sunday School Association were disbanded and the Uniform Lessons dispensed with, would It not be n quite probable and really would It not f, be a very shrewd and cunning method of those who offer the churches tainted money to have a splendid Sunday w school lesson system, all right in every o respect except occasional sentences fi ind paragraphs and the Very finest hat our printers could devise, to be lold at only a nominal price? Let me lay now, once and for all, if I should nake up my mind that I cared nothng for Qod and His kingdom and I vanted to corrupt the world, I would limply adopt the method of tainting iust a little of the Sunday school literature of our country, and of workng just a little of my misleading oplnons Into the school books. Shrewd ind cunning methods like these are vorth a thousand times what the relults of an open fight would be. The International Association with ill of its auxiliaries makes the greatest bulwark the Sunday schools of our eountry have or have ever possessed, ind If taken away, your Sunday chools will become victims of the ilrda of prey that now sit about on the urrounding trees, ready to pounce lown upon them at any time. Can 'ou afford to have its Influence wlthIrawn? If not, can you afford to do he very small, narrow thing of reusing to co-operate with It In the innreaf A# tfAttMsl# WAit? as* ststl AMil fke CI CJ3L KJ L /UUiOOUf JUU1 DV11UV1 OUU kUC :ingdom at large? There are other logical and valuatle reasons for the existence of this irgantzation. Christians, regardless if distinctive names, should co-operite because it is Christ-like. If we ecognlze the Fatherhood of Ood, we nust admit the brotherhood of man. Hrue brothers will not stand aloof rom each other, and refuse to associate with and help each other. A rood Christian example is worth more han all we shall ever be able to speak md write. What, then, can be _ the pinion of the unsaved part of'the vorld as to the genuineness of our Christianity, if we profess to be ol lowers of Christ, whose Bpirit vas broad enough to take in the rew and all the great Oentile lations, and yet we refuse absolutely. if uviiviiiiiinwviiot ku uviu|#oii/ kith or help each other? In the foreign . , nlsslon fields the denominations have lad to get closer together because the inlearned heathen could not underitand and were absolutely amased at he differences existing between Chrlsian people who professed to follow, >bey, and serve the same Ood. Unlaved men and women are doing the tame thing right here In the Sunny louth, and before we succeed In leadng all these unsaved people to Christ ve must certainly put before tho world >ur belief In a united way in those ' hings which are essential to salvation md cease to magnify and wrangle >ver our differences of opinion as to ion-essentials. There are so many other good reaions and enllffhtenlns Illustrations I vould like to give, and I would but or the fact that time will not allow. would like to answer briefly a few >bjectlons that I have heard and read. would not have you believe that evirybody favors the Organised Sunday Ichool Movement, for If no Objections vere recorded against It, that In ltlelf would constitute an objection sufIclent to my mind to cause me to ihun it No Christian denies Christ >ut no Christian would stultify hlmtelf so much as to say that no one objected to Him or His teachings, rust so surely as counterfeit money Is >roof of the genulne's existence, so lure Is objection to the Organised lunday School Movement proof that t has true, genuine helpfulness In Its nethods for the Sunday schools of the vorld. If there were no 8unday' chool leaders of world-wide visions >f the on-coming kingdom, there ould be no counterfeits to object to i movement that seems nearest to vhnt tho Vfaafor IntAnHoH Hia lrfnar. lom to be?world-wide. There are a few men and women vho seem never to realise that the :hurch Is Ood's Instrument to save the vorld and that all Christian activity hould be for the promotion of God's vorld-wlde kingdom and not alone for he promotion of the Interests of the >ne body in which we hold our memtership. Yet there are those who beieye that If God's kingdom cannot be idvanced through the narrow chan>els of their special beliefs, that It annot and ought not to advance at ill. They simply hold their denomltational banner high; and the banner f Christ far below, If at all. To them, heir religion is what a terrapin's shell s to It?something into which they an crawl, shutting themselves in and verybody else out No wonder they deire no company as they go through Ife, for their track is too narrowrauged for them to walk side by side vith broader people. They are to be titled rather than blamed. "We are at a disadvantage In lnterlenomlnational bodies," says one. Of lis* Vi on AnA lot ma oalr Ara vnn fnl owing the teachings of Christ? The eachlngs of our Lord and Master are nvulnerable, unanswerable and absoutely Irresistible, and if your beliefs ire founded upon them and you are trictly following Him in letter and plrit, you will be at a disadvantage iowhere among any people in the vide, wide world. God save a man vhose religious beliefs would place ilm at a disadvantage or for one mlnite embarrass him while in company vtth any of God's people in the whole irorld, or while mingling among sinters. With such a man something Is ad leal ly wrong. God save him, troaden his mind, widen his soul and ive hfm one taste of that which he tath never had, the true, genuine pirlt of Christianity. Another objection Is that the time .nd money spent in Organized Sunday ichool Work should go to the denom nation. Another evidence that a man [Continued on Fifth Page], INJURY TO ANKLE8. low to Treat a Sprain By 8impla Methods and Avoid Trouble. If possible, as soon as an ankle is prained put It under water as hot as an be endured, alternating with cold /ater. The easiest way to manage his is in the tub under the hot and old water spigot. This treatment often allays the welling and stops further trouble. It s well to summon the doctor at once i naao r%f a hoH anrain If Via la Irmtr i arriving, bandage with antiseptic andages or with adhesive plaster, 'or the former wrap it around the nkle and the middle of the foot alernateiy in the form of an eight. Cut he adhesive plaster in short strips nd interlace them from side to side f the sprain, pulling tightly to hold he injured parts In place. Making a shoe of medicated clay requently reduces the Inflammation, 'his should be renewed as fast as it ries up. Rest the foot in a horizontal posl ion, or, Doner yei, nave it. nigner man tie hips. When the ligaments are urn and the ankle must be rested on pillow, much of the strain will be elleved by keeping the foot beyond tie edge of the pillow, which is oubled up under the ankle. When a sprain Is bad, necessitating mction for a long time, the clrculaion should be kept up by Ynassaglng requently from the knees to the anle, more particularly the calf of the ;g. The massage movements should e UDward. If this Is kept up many Imes a day from the time of the acIdent, there will be no pain in walkig. even after weeks of disused musles. There Is apt to be weakness for lonths after a hard sprain. To avoid urther trouble one should wear a upport of gome kind. This may be a -'oven stocking made of rubber or silk r a leather anklet that laces up the ront and slips over the heel.