The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 24, 1905, Image 7
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H^HH^^^Rrluks^^Pr York In 1805
home with
terrible
3 acute
|HH^Hr ?-s^ lion. sharp paiu in
V the back, headaches
jV ^MHra^'mul attacks of d:z
^^S^S'aSS^i ziu?ss* My eyes
HsfM^lilT^ gave out, and with
P ^^K9y the languor and
sleeplessness of the
disease upou me 1
wasted from 194 to 122 pounds. At the
Itae I started using Doan's Kidney
^pis an abscess was forming on my
right kidney. The trouble was quickly
-Checked, however, and the treatment
*4 cured me, so that I have been well
since 1896 and weigh 1SS pounds."
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo. N. Y.
For sale by all druggists. Price, 30
vcuia uw.\.
Prejudice is the basest counterfeit
of principle. So. 34.
A Frame House 100 Year* Old.
A frame house can be kept in good order
for a hundred years, it painted with the
Longman & Murtinez L. & M. Paint. It
won t need to be painted more than once
in ten to fifteen years because the L. &. M.
Zinc hardens the L. 4 M. White Lead, and
gives it enormous lite.
Four gallons Longman <fc Ma.tinez L. 4
M. Paint mixed with three gallons linseed
oil will paint a house.
W. B. Parr. Charleston. W. Va.. writes:
"Painted Fran ken burg Block with L. <k
11.: stands out as though varnished."
Wears and covers like gold.
Sold everywhere and by Longman &
Martinez. New York. Paint Makers for
^ Fifty Years.
A serum for hav lever is u<cu by physicians
in the Island o; Heligoland.
FITSpermanentlyurei. Sont?ornervon?.
ness after tirst lav's use of Dr. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer,$2trial bottleand treatise free
Dr.R. H. Klixe. Ltd..?K>l Arch St.. Phi la.. Pa.
wi In U'i!n -rhieh hears
the name of Nowhere.
Mrs. Winslow'sSoothin;; Syrup for Children
teethiae,soften the mims.reduees inflammation,allays
pain.eurcswind colic, 25c.a bottle
The Japanese "Hello!" at the telephone
is "Moshi Moshi!'" or "Ano ne!"
.'do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumotionhaeaneqnal
for coughs and colds.?Jons
F.BoTER.frinttv Springs. Ind.. Fob. 15.190 h
Japanese chopsticks are delivered to the
guest in a decorated envelope.
Yellow Fever and Malaria Henna
Are instantly killed by tiie use ot sis drop*
of Sloan's Liniment on a teaspoorinil of
sugar. It i- also an excellent antisept: .
Prisoners of war are never spared in
Morocco; they arc beheaded.
RAW ITCHING ECZEMA
Blotches on Rands. Kars and Ankles For
Three Years ? Instant Relief and
Speedy Cur? by Catlcnra.
"Thanks to Cuticura 1 am now rid of
that tearful pest, weeping eczema, for the
tirst time in three years. It hrst appeared
on my hand, a little pimple, growing into
several blotches, and then on my ears and
ankles. They were exceedingly painful,
itching, and always raw. After the first
day s treatment with L'uticura boap, Ihntment
and Pills. there was very little of the
burning and itching, and the cure now
seems to be complete. (Signed; S. B.
I Hege, Passenger Agent B. 6i U. 11. It.,
Washington, D. C."
Verse.
To talk with the wild brook of all the
long ago;
To whisper the wood wind of things we
used to know
When we were old companions, before
my heart knew woe.
To walk with the morning and watch Its
rose unfold:
To drowse with the noontide, lulled on its
heart of gold:
To He with the night-time and dream
the dreams of old.
To tell to the old trees, and to each 11stening
leaf.
The longing, the yearning, as In my boyhood
brief.
The old hope, the old love, would ease my
heart of grief.
The old lane, the old gate, the old house
by the tree.
The wild wood, the wild brook?they will
r.ol let me be;
In boyhooa 1 K:ie\v mem, ana sun iney
call to me.
?Madison Cawoin. In the Criterion.
Marriage and Divorce in Japan.
They marry early and often in Japan.
A man aged forty, living in the
province of Bizen, has married and
divorced thirty-five wives, and is now
married to a thirty-sixth. The reason
he assigns for his extraordinary fickleness
is that he has a younger sister el
extremely rancorous and jealous disposition.
who. from the moment a new
bride enters the house, institutes a
system of persecution which soon
drives the unhappy woman to ask her
husband for a divorce, which is an
easy tfnd inexpensive process in the
land of the Rising Sun.?London T
A. T.
WRONG SORT
Pfrhsp* Plain Old Meat, Potatoes and
ISread Slay He Againtt Von For a Time.
A change to the right kind of food
can lift one from a sick bed. A lady iu
Welden. 111., says:
"Last spring I became bedfast with
severe stomach trouble accompanied by
ick headache. I got worse and worse
until I became so low l couia scarcely
retain any food at all. although 1 tried
every kind. I had become complete,
ly discouraged, had given up nil hope
and thought I was doomed to starve to
death, till one day my hu6baud trying
to find something I could retain brought
home .some Grape-Nuts.
"To my surprise the food agreed with
me. digested perfectly and without distress.
I begau to gain strength at
once, my flesh (which had been flabby)
''grew firmer, my health improved In
every way aud every day. and in a very
few week3 I gaiucd 20 pounds in
weight. I liked Grape-Nuts so well
that for 4 months I ate no other food,
and always felt as well satisfied after
eating as if I had sat down to a fine
I banquet.
"I had no return of the miserable
?ick stomach uor of the headaches that
I used to have when I ate other food.
I am now a well woman, doiug nil my
own work again, and feel that life is
.worth living.
"Grape-Nuts food has been a godsend
to my family: It surely saved my life
and my two little boys bare thriven ca
it wonderfully." Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Gat the ljttla book. "The Road to
JfcUtillo," in each pkg. -
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMOK
. A Rrilliaiit Discourse By the Rev. A
H. C. Morris.^
Brooklyn. N. Y.?Sunday morning. in
Strum; Place Baptist Church. the pastor.
the ltev. A. II. (J. Morse, had as
his subject, "Powerful Promises." The
I text was from II Peter i:4: "Whereby
I are given unto us exceeding great and
| precious promises: that by these we
might be partakers of tl,ii divine nature.
having escaped the corruption
which is in the world through lust."
Mr. Morse said:
At any rate the Bible is frank. It
' says the plainest things about man's
sin. But it also holds before him a
wnntlprfnl Imno Tn.ilnr lir* 1 o
corruption. To-morrow lie may have
! escaped from this and become like
God. The whole gospel is found in
1 these few words.
We have here a statement of the fact
of sin and its origin. The fact is "cor|
ruption" and the origin "through lust."
1 know that there are or idly-wise
men who sneer at the third chapter of
1 Genesis. But this 1 have noticed, that
i they are uniformly unable to give us a
I simpler solution of the mystery of evil.
Somewhere and at some time^the race
i must have sinned. The stream of life
has been poisoned, and this must have
taken place at its fountain head, for
we cannot find any divisions which do
not have the entire characteristics of
the whole. The Bible says the event
took place in the first man. before a
single son was born, and lie lusted after
something which was forbidden to
: nii? nn.l l - !.:?
j Ainu, turn iiiiii m> vusuumivuvc ur
j fell l'rom a primal innoce'ncy. and
1 lurched the race, and entailed a condition
of corruption. And that we have
1 aggravated this calamity hy repeating
j sin and deepening the ruin,
i But 1 am not so much concerned tod:fv
about the origin of the condition.
We can leave that witfl a single word.
But there are certain facts that cannot
be brushed aside. A man may question
the story as it is written in Scripture.
but he cannot deny it. for it does
not come within the region of denial.
Neither can he deny the story as it is
! reproduced in life to-day. Have you
never plucked forbidden fruit? Have
you never lusted for pleasure which
j has been distinctly forbidden? And as
a consequence of transgression, have
' you never experienced a repulsive sick;
ness and an intolerable loathing, so
| that you have known what is the
' meaning of this phrase, "the eorrnpI
tion which is in the world through
! lust?" Do you not know anything at
i all of the lashings of remorse?
Let nte ask you another question.
How does it happen that the heart is
so constantly "running down?" Why
must it he repeatedly wound up and
fastened with ratchets? Why do we
have to make and renew resolves, and
lash the will to the "sticking place?"
Why is it that a man never backslides
into holiness? Why cannot we take off
the brakes aud find ourselves gliding
into the highest moral living? Everything.
we are told, tends to move in
the line of least resistance. Do we
find flint wo ;iro tmvnrrl ctinr.
ity and holiness and benevolence and
virtue? Nay. but to all of us these
graces are the fruit of serious toil.
They an1 magnificent possessions, more
precious than gold and sparkling gems,
but they are gotten only by struggle
and privation and self-denial. And
that word "self-denial" contains a fossil
history of primal sin. It tells us of
an evi! self that must be constantly denied,
because its desires are wrong.
But whence this evil self, and whence
thjse wrong desires?
But let us come a little closer to this
subject. Let me hint at the things that
| we cannot spread before the public,
our secret thoughts and faults which
are hidden. The thoughts that creep
into the heart and nestle there. Can
you tell me whence they come? Tell
me. for instance, whence c^me the envy
and jealousy and malice and evil desire,
and the lust for gold that makes
the thief, and the thirst for blood
which crimsons the hand of murder?
Do you not think these things arise in
human life as malaria and pestilence i
from a death-dealing: bog? Do they
not bespeak what this Scripture calls
a "corruption which is in the world
through lust?" I suppose that the angels
before the throne of God would
shirk from having their thoughts proclaimed
with the trumpet of Gabriel.
1 know that Jesus has torn open His
heart and flung out a challenge which
no man can accept. "Which of you
I convinceth Me of sin?" said He. Hut
: we cannot do that. We hide our
thoughts and cover our faults with a
crimson blush, and walk among our
nearest friends with a coward's step.
But what has befallen man? If God
made him innocent?and nobody quos- !
tions this?something must have hap- '
pened to corrupt his thoughts and
make them so black that he stands in
dread of the day for which all other
days were made, when this hidden his- j
tory shall be revealed.
There is something pathetic in man's
attempts to assert his worth. We
speak, for instance, of the "Majesty of
conscience" ar.d the "Dignity of human
nature," and of the "Fatherhood
of God." and the "Brotherhood of
man" as if these terms were true and
meaningful. Take the first of these
and see what comfort there is in it.
"The majesty of conscience!" But do
you nor know that conscience almost
always speaks in judgment? It seems
to have lost its authority to command
if it ever possessed that authority. It
cannot iusist upon obedience, but can
only raise its voice in remonstrance.
It can be easily overruled, and voted
down, and then it can only record a
minority vote, and lapse into silence.
But there is more in this scripture
than a statement of the fact of sin.
Ilerc are also "tiiese great and precious
promises whereby we may hecoin*
partakers of the divine nature."
That is men may become as God. And
the warrant for tills promise is found
in the fact of correspondence between
the divine ami the human. The natural
man cannot discern spiritual
things, and it is 110 use to talk to him
about them, for there is 110 correspondence.
no basis of affinity. 110 ground of
fellowship. But man was made in the
image of God. ami it was possible for
God to take upon Himself man's nature:
and it is within the power of
every man. by the gral-e of God. to
take 011 also the divine nature, to be
made like God.
That is what is said in the word before
us. And this is done by a single
act. Man fell, we are told, by reaching
after the divine attributes. "Ye
shall be as God" was tbe lying promise
of the tempter, and by listening to that
we were cast to the level of beasts.
But now God returns to us with the
promise that after all we shall be as
Himself, sharers in His nature and
conformed to His image. It seems
strange to you that for a single sin so
serious consequences should be eutaiied.
This could only be because the
stream was poisoned at its source, and
the race sinned in its first man. ButB
here is something which is quite as 1
great. The Lord God Is makJng to ?
vm
Himself a new creation. He has begun
it in one new Man, who kept His
life without spot or blemish. And in
His life and federal headship we share
by a single act of faith. The consequences
of faith are quite as great as
the consequences of disobedience. "He
that believeth on Him hath everlasting
life."' And that does not mean that
his life is prolonged in endless time,
but that it is endowed with an immortal
nature. It Is received the instant
he believes, as by a new birth, and has
passed from death unto life. He hath
been already delivered from the bondage
and corruption of the kingdom of
darkness and has been colonized in the
kingdom of His Son. He is born of
Clod, a son of the Most High, a citizen
of heaven. A single sin has stained
the race. We laid hold on death and
spite of tears and cries and struggle,
we have not been able to loose the
hand. One single act of faith takes
hold on eternal life, and in spite of
sins nnd fnlls end failure that nrize
can never be wrested from our grasp.
And this is all by faith.
Men have said to me that the scheme
of salvation is arbitrary. It is vain,
they say. to shut the world up to faith.
But, my friend, do you not know that
this entire universe isarbitrary? There
is nothing more arbitrary than the laws
of mathematics, or of health or of
gravitation. It is not strange that
every son of Adam is shut up to the
multiplication table? Is it not strange
that if a man wants to compute numbers
in China lie must use the identical
system mat we use.* mui turi-c mm
two make five there us they ilo here?
No, there is but one law for light or
heat or electricity or numbers, or gravitation
in all the earth. And there is
but one way of salvation for all the
earth. Here it is said "through these
promises," which only means that a
man believes in Christ. A promise is
nothing except for the value of the
person who makes it. Some men may
make their promises, and no man gives
them heed. But if one promises whose
character you know, then you count on
them as you count upon the shining of
the sun.
We hear a good deal in these days
about education into the kingdom of
Cod. about the natural development of
righteousness. But development is
only unfolding, and that the race has
been doing in all the centuries, and
each age surpasses the last in the
enormity of sin. Education is drawing
out. but how can you draw holiness
from a heart that is "deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked?"
Education can never do the work. It
is like putting a new handle on the
pump and leaving the dog in the well.
You may wonder at the fancy of
bringing in a new and supernatural
life by belief in precious promises.
But all questions are answered by the
experiences of history. Great men have
been regenerated by single words of
Scripture. This was true of Augustine
and Luther and Spurgeon and scores
of others whom time fails me to mention.
They were not only new men.
but mighty sons of God. Wonderful
was this? As great as the wonder of
all forms of life. Look into the acorn
and tear its halves apart, and tell me
if you can see therein the stalwart oak.
Analyze the seed of wheat and tell me
if you can see therein the waving fields
of grain. "Well," said Jesus, "the
words which I speak unto you they are
spirit and they are life." You cannot
see the spirit, you cannot see the life,
but can you say they are not there? I
hold up to you these great and precious
promises, and there are saints and missionaries
and noble lives and giant
charities and mighty revolutions there.
There are heaven and an eternal
weight of glory wrapped up in that.
And our growth in grace and the likeness
of God is not a process of mending
and improvement. But it is a new
creation by which we become like God.
And now I have finished. I know I
have borne down hard on sin. I wish
I did not have to do so. I wish
with you that the word were not in the
language because it was not in the
heart. If one of those phantom friends
of the astronomers should come to this
earth and say to me "I understand this
is a beautiful place, but for one thing.
I understand it is filled with sin and
rebellion against the rule of God." I
wish I could say to him, "My friend,
you have been misinformed. There is
no sin." But I tell you frankly, I could
not say that to him. I would have to
say to him: "Alas' 'tis true, us pny,
ami pity 'tis, 'tis true." But I could
also say to him that sin cannot hold us
in its cruel grasp. I would point him
yonder, and say, "Do you see that golden
splendor? That is the gospel of
Jesus. It is filled with sweetness, and
by that we are restored and have become
partakers of the divine nature."
And isn't that more than the fact of
sin?
God'* Wnjr.
God's promises are ever on the ascending
scale. One leads up to another
fuller and more blessed than itself.
In Mesopotamia God said: "I will show
thee the land." In Canaan: "I will
give thee all the land, and children innumerable
as the grains of sand."
It is thus that God allures us to
saintliness. Not giving us anything
till we have dared to act. that lie may
test us. Not giving everything at first,
that He may overwhelm us. and always
keeping in hand an infinite reserve
of blessing. Oh, the unexplored
remainders of God! Who ever saw
His last star??Itev. P. B. Meyer.
Wlmt Clirintlanlty 1*.
Christianity is that historic religion
founded by Jesus of Nazareth, and
having its bond of union in the redemption
mediated by Him, in which
the true relation between God and man
lias lor tlie first time found complete
ami adequate expression. and which
throughout all the changes of intellectual
:iii(l social environment which the
centuries have brought, still continues
to maintain itself as the religion best
worthy of the allegiance of thoughtful
and worthy tueu ?Schleier timelier.
Alway.
Little pink feet
That have trotted all day,
Wee dimpled hands
That are tired of play.
And teeth white as pearls,
And tousled gold curls.
You're dad's queen of girls
To-night and alway.
Now, and alway.
Just dad's queen of girls!
Weary of play
Your tousled gold curls
Lie spread on my breast;
And sweetly to rest
As day reddens the west
Drafts dad's best of girls.
Dear, for all time,
Kor all time and alway,
When weary, come climb
As you climb, dear, to-day
l'p in your dad's lap
A\ hen wanting a nap
Or to ward off mishap.
Or when weary of play.
Always to me.
All your life to jour dad
Laughing with glee
Or sorry and sad;
Pring all to me, dear.
Your bright days and drear,
Your joy and your fear.
And make your dad glad.
?Houston Post.
An Austrian army officer cut himself
under the chin in shaving, the
green collar of his tunic rubbed
against the cut and he died of blood
poisoning.
H
international^^^H^^HFs
FOR
Subject: Jeremiah in t^rDnngeon, Je*?
xxxvlil., 1-13? Golden Text, Matt, t.#
10? Memory Verse*, 8-10?Commentary
on the Day's Lenon.
I. Jeremiah's enemies (vs. 1-4). L
"Then." After the events referred to
| in chapter 37, where Jeremiah was dej
livered from the dungeon. "ShephaI
tiah," etc. Some of Jeremiah's enemies
who were seeking his life. "All the
people." They'had free access to him
in the court of the prison. 2. "Life for
a prey." A proverbial expression. To
make one's escape with life like a valuable
spoil or prey that one carries off;
the narrowness of the escape, and the
joy felt at it are include^ in the idea.
He shall carry off his life as his gain,
saved by his going over to the Chaldeans.
Had Jeremiah not had a divine
commission he might Justly have been
accused of treason, but haying one
which made the result~o? the siege certain
he acted humanely as interpreter
of God's will under the theocracy in
advising surrender. 3. "Surely be |
given." This was a testimony that he j
constantly bore; ne naa toe auinonty
of God for it. He knew it was true
and lie never wavered or equivocated.
4. "The-prinees said." Their reasons
were pjain enough, but the proof was
wanting. "Seeketh . . . the hurt." An
unjust insinuation, for no man had
done more for this people than had
Jeremiah. His preaching was calculated
to arouse them to a senseof their
sins and cause them to turn'to God.
One of the commonest ways of injuring
others is to misunderstand and|misinterpret
their motives, as JerAiah's
motives were maligned because l^vas
possible for him to have done whOT he
did with bad motives. When there are
two possible motives for the conduct
of another, it is not only a more charitable,
but probably a more truthful
judgment to impute the better motives.
"Judge not that ye be not judged,"
should be written in capital letters,
yea, in flaming letters, before us all.
II. Jeremiah in the dungeon (vs. 5,
01. 5. "King is not he." Zedekiah was
a weak king. He had a conviction that
Jeremiah was a phophet of the Lord,
and yet he dared not oppose his statesmen,
but yielded to their will without
n miestinn. An innocent man was thus
sacrificed to their malice. These
princes were wroth with Jeremiah
(chapter 37: 15); "he had compared
them to rotten figs" (chapter 24). But
for him they would have had affairs |
all their own way, they were anxious
to be rid of him.
*>. "Then took they Jeremiah." Jeremiah
was the butt of ridicule and
scorn. He was put in the stocks, was
publicly whipped, was misrepresented
as an enemy, was imprisoned several
times, but he kept right on. "The dungeon."
Literally "the cistern." It was
not a subterranean prison as that in
Jonathan's house (chapter 37: 15), but
a pit or cistern, which had been full of
water, but was emptied of it during
the siege so that only mire remained.
Such-empty cisters were often used as
prisons. (Zach. 9: 11); the depth forbade
hope of escape. "Sunk in the mire."
They evidently expected that he wojldt
die in that place.
III." Jeremiah's friend (vs. 7-9). 7.
"Ebedmelecli." The servant of the
king. He probably was keeper of the
royal harem, and so had private access
to the king. Already even at this
early time, God wished to show what
good reason there ^as for calling the
Gentiles to salvation. An Ethiopian
stranger saves the prophet wjioin Ids
own countrymen, the Jews, tried to
destroy. So the Geutiles bQlieved in
Christ whom the jews crucified, and
Ethiopians were among the earliest
converts (Acts 2: 10: 8: 27-39). "Sitting
in the gate." The gates of cities were
the places where justice was administered.
8 "Went forth." The servant
tn tiio kinp. There I
V>t-ilL JllilUCUiUlWiJ VV 0.
was no time to lose, for if he delayed I
the prophet might perish. What a
told, courageous act this was. It ought
to put many of us to shame.
9. "These men," etc. He must have
been In the king's confidence or he
would not have dared raise his voice
against the action of the princes. The
Lord can raise up friends for His people
where they are least expected. "Xo
more bread." That is, no more bread
left of the public store in the city
(chapter 37: 31); or, all but no bread
left anywhere. This shows to what
straits the city was reduced.
IV. Jeremiah rescued (vs. 10-13). 10.
"Kirig commanded." Zedekiuh's better
nature was stirred. "Thirty men." Not
merely to draw up Jeremiah, but to
guard Ebed-melech if the princes
should oppose him. The king was determined
that he should be rescued by
force if necessary. Ebed-melech was
rewarded for his faith, love and courage.
exhibited at a time when he might
well fear the wrath of the princes.
- ' ' - -1- */,?! Minn OB
11-1& n,ueu-mviuiu iuc ~ .
the king had commanded and rescued |
Jeremiah. He let down into the pit j
some torn clothes and worn out gar- !
ments and instructed Jeremiah to roll
them around the ropes and place them
under his ayrapits, so as not to suffer
injury from the ropes when he was
drawn up. Although Jeremiah was
thu9 rescued from a terrible death, he
was not set at liberty, but remained in
the court of the prison. He was still
in prison when the armies of Babylon
took Jerusalem. He was found in
chains and carried with othen|baptives
on the way to Babylon, but was released
at Ramah, six miles from Jerusalem.
Thus ended the prison life of
the prophet. How long he was in
prison it is difficult to determine, probably
for years. The Lamentations
which he wrote after the destruction of
Jerusalem must have been his frequent
meditation while in confinement.
Fad for Optimism.
One of the most wholesome fads
that has been prevalent among society
at large Is the newest of all?
optimism.
For it is no longer the fashion to go
jbout looking as though you bore the
burdens of the world upon your devoted
shoulders. But, instead, you're expected
to look blithely upon the old
world and its troubles?and your own
troubles, too, says the Philadelphia
North American.
Perhaps it is our free outdoor life
that has developed the quality. Perhaps
it is only a new pose?for public
opinion must have its poses, like
every individual.
Surely it sholud make happier,
healthier communities out of cities
and states. Good cheer is more or
less of a habit?pretend to have it,
J and you suddenly wake up to find
you've really got it, and, too, have
created a more joyous atmosphere for
yourself, that gradually grows necessary
to you.
The happy habit is a good one?
much tetter than the tragic-faced,
world-weary type that precede! it.
#ay the new fad stay in fashion I
\
fit.* i, ' -a*". _ -V ^ J
AUGUST TWENTY-GEVENTH.
Mission Work Among Women.?Acts
16: 13-18; Tit. 2: 3-5. (Home
and Foreign Fields.)
Some Bible Hintc.
The chief difficulty of missionaries
in the Orient is to reach the women,
secluded as they are in harems; and
this seclusion dwarfs their minds as
much as it confines their bodies.
The winning of the women means
the winning of the children, the servants,
and often of the men. so that
work for women is especially important.
In pagan superstition the women are
the soul of conservatism, and often
bitterly oppose any change on the
part of the men. They must be won
first.
Women have shone everywhere on
the mission fields, and especially in
the schools, where they have been indeed
"teachers of good things."
Mission Notes Concerning Women.
A Christian woman went to work in
a negro settlement in the Indian Territory
annronriatelv named Sodom, so
vile was it. In less than a year the
men had built a school house and
church, and now the place is called
appropriately, "Pleasant Grove."
In heathen lands the suffering
caused women by the ignorance and
superstition of the native doctors is
unequalled among the world's tortures,
and the woman medical missionary
winds the endless gratitude oM
the women whom she frees from they
agonies.
Dr. Clara Swain was the first woman
medical missionary. She went
to Xorth India in January. 1870.
When the medical missionary attended
in her severe illness the wife
of the Chins prime minister, Li Hung
Chans:, the great man's influence was
won for missions.
A mission school-teacher in a Mormon
village was tormented by a rabble
of boys, who stoned the schoolhouse
and tried to drive her out of
town; but one day she called In the
leader and got him to help her to put
up a fallen stove pipe, so winning him
that he became one of the most successful
pastors in Utah.
A mission teacher in Xew Mexico
was thwarted at every turn by a Ca^K/\1Sa
rvnl Aof Kmf oV?n t A
j;t icoi, uut ouc tinuiokvi vu w
the sick during a terrible scourge of
diphtheria and smallpox, and afterwards
all doors were open to her.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH.
Womens ^ork for Missions.?Mark
14. 2-9; Acts 9. CG; Rom. 1G. 1, 2.
The woman who anointed Jesus;
the patron saint of all Ladies' Aid
Societies, Dorcas; and Phebe, the
"succorer of many," furnish us our
lesson basis. These all were nobie
women who poured forth their love
to Christ in help to' others. They are
wortht types of those noble bands of
Christian women who in our day have
banded themselves together to carry
the gospel to the neglected and secluded
women of heathen lands. It
has crystallized itself into the Woman's
Foreign, and the Woman's
Home Missionary Societies.
Ninety days after the organization
of our Parent Missionary Society in
1819 a "Woman's Auxiliary" was organized
in New York by Dr. Nathan
tsangs ana omers. au auuic^o r?cio
issued to the "Female Members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church." But in
time the society became almost inactive
and crowded out by the organization
of other societies. It has been
estimated, however, that they contributed
at least $20,000 to the Parent
Society. Wnen the China .Mission was
planted in 1S47 a society of women in
Baltimore was organized as the "Ladies'
China Missionary Society." For
some twenty years this did a noble
work. It granted $5,000 for a "Female
Academy" in Feoehow, and gave for
ten years $300 per year to the Parent
Society. The Union Woman's Missionary
Society was organized in New
York in 1SC0, and many of our church
women were active in it until the organization
of our own Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society.
The organization of this society was
effected in Boston in 18G9 by a few
elect ladies, some of whom are still
living. They rapidly grew in numbers
and in favor with the church. The j
present work of the society is important
and growing rapidly. Their income
is about $500,000 a year. They
support missionaries in all our foreign
flekii?. About 250 are now at work
under their direction. Some G,000
auxiliaries at home with nearly 150.000
members insure a still larger advance
in the future. Twenty-five
1 - ? ~r ' v. - vi;o_
muusauu cujiihs i>i uic nuuiaus
sionary Friend go into the nomes of
our people. In common with other
church boards of Woman's Societies
they are taking a systematic study of
missions from text-hooks prepared for
the purpose. This society is only one
of many other church societie.3 of
women who are sending the gospel
to the heathen women who are inaccesible
sav? through Christian women.
South American Letter Press.
"Cigarettes and conversation, and
ragtime dancing on ledgers," said
Captain Robert Quinton, of the lightship
Blunt's Reef, which recently
completed a unique voyage of fifteen
thousand miles from New York to
San Francisco, "constitute the chief
reasons why the races of South America
are behind those of North America
in all important particulars. As
to the cigarettes and conversation, I
will arrive in a minute. But first of
all I will speak of the ragtime danc *?
offlno in San
mg. 1U UUI U UOJliCOO viuvv - ?
Francisco when the clerks wish to
take a copy of a letter or any other
business document, why, of course,
they take a copy in a proper and ordinary
copying machine. But down in
these South American countries,
when they wish to do that trick, why,
the letter or other document is put
between the carbon sheets in a big
book, which is put <? the floor, and
then the clerks do a ^ance upon the
book to take the copy. jBay, it is the
funniest sight in the ^^ld to see all
those clerkt., every o4re of them with
a cigarette in his Hps, dancing upon
the books."?San Francisco Chronicle,
Information from Ottawa states
that the Dominion astronomical observatory
has been practically completed.
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Tint tlie rank outsider in a race
often has the inside track .
One can often measure a man's
debts by the cut of his clothes.
So many of us are anxious to do
away with vices?in our neighbors.
Wise farmers never attempt to
raise their crops in the political field.
On the day a man discovers that he
is a fool he begins to acquire wisdom.
Culture enables one to dodge the
pronunciation of depot by calling it
station.
Most people are opposed to every
thing of doubtful propriety that cannot
be concealed.
Women do not take kidly to the
telephone; when using it they have
to listen half of the time.
With a tombstone epitaft the trouble
is that it comes too late in the
game to enable a man to borrow money
on the strength of it.
If the ministers preached how
wrong it was to go to church 011 Sunday
there would be millions of men
who would insist on sroing.
THE TURF
A Time When Women j
Dread Diseases?Inte
for It. Two Relate tl
The "change of life*'is
the most critical period
of a woman's existence, ft r*
and the anxiety felt by i SY<
women as it draws near I ? f /?
is not without reason. 9 1 ff /?
Every woman who 91 M
neglect's the care of her 31 ff /o >
health nt this time in- fj tj /o V ^
vites disease and pain. | t/ C
When her systyn is in B / m :
a deranged condition. jl/*
or she is predisposed to I l/g v- apoplexy,
or congestion I |/ 9
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dency is at this period |1 !j ?
likely to become active Bi g
?and with a host of ner- Mjj *
vous irritations, make mS ? ,T
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time, also, cancers and |[|\q
tumors are more liable
to form and betrin tbeir Ills?. t
destructive work. I /
Such warning1 symp- I f'
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Modern Schools Criticized.
Prof. H. C. Annsling, in a recent
address in London, said that school
and college education wpre mostly de- ?
structlve of common sens3. The classical
school was not a school of
thought, but of prejudice, and under
the present unfortunate system of education
it was chiefly the games which
promoted alertness, individuality and
common sense.
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Reflections of a Bachelor.
If a woman is afraid of a man it
is a sign she isn't married to him.
Half the enjoyment of being married
is thinking what a lot of enjoyment
you had before you were married.
Drove Into Swarm of Bees.
Joshua WJ1IIU?, mail carrier between
Wrightstown and Bordentown,
one afternoon, near Chesterfield,
drove into a swarm of bees.
The horse, wagon and the driver
wore literally covered with bees, and
WiHltts thinks it was nothing short of
a miracle that himself and horse were
not stung to death?Bordentown coi*
respondence Philadelphia Telegraph.
J OF LIFE J
\re Susceptible to many
iiigent Women Prepare
leir Experience.
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Compound as you directed, and I am
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left mo and I have passed safely through
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Md.
Another Woman's Case.
"Dunns 'bans'* of lifo words cannot express
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