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Hart-Tracy: In New Orleans, Da.,
January 25, 1912, by Rev. Dr. George
Suinmey, Mr. Charles Everett Hart, of
Port Arthur, Texas, and Miss Anne
Aline Tracy, of Meridian, Miss.
Wood-Cope: In the Prytania Street
church, New Orleans, January 18, 1912,
by the pastor, Rev. Dr. W. McP. Alex
antler, Air. liums u. wooa ana .niss
Marguerite Cope, daughter of Mr.
Ernest Irving Cope.
Wyatt-Kennie: In the First Presbyterian
church, Norfolk, Va? by the Rev.
Joseph Rennie, D. D., father of the
bride, Mr. Robert J. Wyatt and Miss
Mary Christian Rennie, January 25,
1912.
-Btatljg
Mrs. Georgia Bryan Griiinun died on
January 8, 1912, at her home, Grampton,
in Madison county, Virginia. She was
laid to rest in Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Va., by the side of her husband,
Dr. A. G. Grinnan.
Thorne: Mrs. Annie Gwathmey
Thorne, wife of the late J. W. Thorne,
passed away at the home of her
daugnter, Mrs. u. 'i. Harris, luaa, miss.,
on January 21, 1912, at the age of
eighty-six years. She was a member
of the Presbyterian church, and a
woman of many Christian graces.
Lewis Ellenian Gilbert, aged 14.
Born June 24, 1897, died January 23,
1912. Born at Branford, Fla., died at
Lake City Fla. Professed faith in
Christ and united with the I^ake City
PreBbyterian church March 31, 1908.
Faithful at Sabbath school and church
worship. "He is gone, but not lost."
"Then they who are fallen asleep in
Christ will God bring with him."
Woods: At her home in I^ewisburg,
Tenn., on January 2, 1912. Miss Annie
Margaret Woods died of fever. Age,
twenty-two. The funeral was conducted
by the pastor, assisted by Rev. M.
IS. Kennedy, of Pulaski, Tenn., at the
First Presbyterian church.
Mr. J. A. Stimson died at his home in
Columbus, Miss., January 22, 1912. In
his death the church has lost one of its
most efficient ruling elders, and the
State has lost one of its best citizens.
MRS. MARY E. SIMPSON.
Died at her home at North Fork, Va.,
January 17, 1912, Mrs. Mary E. Simpson,
in the eighty-fourth year of her age.
In 1855 she was married to Capt. John
H. Simpson. Five children were born
to them, three of whom survive their
parents.
She had long been a member of the
Catoctin Presbyterian church, a most
faithful wife and mother who was untiring
in her labors of love and devotion
to her family. Much had she learn.
ed of the "afflictions of the righteous."
"Servant of God well done,
Rest from thy loved employ;
The battle fought the victory won,
Enter the Master's Joy."
Pastor.
THE USELESS HOOKS.
Nearly every minister and every
other man accustomed to buy books
will find by looking over his library
that he has many books for which he
has no further use. Either the books
were not what he suppbsed that they
were when he bought them or else he
has gotten from them all that he can
get. At the same time there are scores
nf mlnlatera In fho mnnn.
tales who have no hooks, no money to
buy hooks, and only a common school
education. They have not the ability
to ssleet books from printed catalogues
even If they had the money. Bat the
useless books are Just as ^ood as they
THE PRESBYTERIj
ever were, and well suited to some
other tasteB and minds.
'Impressed by these facts I offered
to Bend a box of books to any minister
having only a common school education
who would apply in writing and would
pay the freight. The offer was published
in a conference and sent to one
paper and copied into several others.
I had twenty-six applications and sent
twenty of these boxes each containing
about twenty books. The four hundred
books in them were only a burden to
me; and the books left will be more
useiui 10 me Dy tneir apsence. Here
is a copy of a letter just received:
"Dear Sir: I feel I am under obligations
to you for the books. 1 like them
fine. I will study them and I am sure
they will be a great help to me. You
could not give them to one who would
appreciate them more than me. I can't
express how good I felt when I received
them. I am sure you have done a great
work in advancing me and the cause of
Christ more and more. I hope I will
get to see you and tell you more, and
if not here I am sure it will be in a
better place. Your Brother in Christ."
Brethren of the ministry and laity,
look over your libraries and pick out
the books that can not help you any
more and send them to some one they
may hell You can hardly make a
mistake for in every twenty volumes
there is almost sure to be at least one
that will be helpful to the recipient.
James B. Converse,
Morrlstown, Tenn.
MISSIONARTF* TN TROUBLED
CHINA.
(Continued from Page 19.1
seemed most imminent, we seut our ladles
and children to the consulate (November
7) Two days later, under the
consul's orders, all British and American
women and children left the city.
On that day an American bluejacket on
guard at the consulate counted over
10,000 Chinese fleeing out of the city by
that one route alone in an hour's time.
This gives an idea of the terror they
felt.
"Two days later again we Bent our
seminary students away, escorting them
in person to the city gates, lest they,
especially the queueless ones, be massacred
on the way. The next day we
saw the medical students off. Then
Dr. Shields and I helped with the university
students, city preachers,
Christians, etc.
"The presence of us foreigners meant
more to the Chinese than you, or even
we, can ever appreciate. They Knew
from our consuls, papers, etc., that
they had not, and our staying meant
things were still fairly safe. Besides,
our very presence required the authorities
to preserve better order, or
'the powers' might be heard from. For
this reason, and still more because of
the many for whom we were in some
sense shepherds, we men stayed on
until at last the gunboat officers refused
protection longer to the consulates
and consuls were advised to leave, as
Nanking was regarded as in a state of
siege. By this time practically every
Chinese for whom we were responsible
had left the city, or had at least determined
not to leave.
"There was no work that most of us
could perform. We could not even
Hiuuy, hh our personal teacners nan
fled. So most of the missionaries withdrew.
leaving the doctors, who, of
course, were all the more needed for
Red Proas service, and a few others
who had special duties. By this time
perhaps eighty or ninety per cent, of
this great cltrv had fled. Yon can Imagine
the suffering Involved. Those
who fled were plllasred hv robbers or
paid ruinous fares and food rates, with
no source of Income. Those who stay,
ed were alike without occupation and
&.N OF THE SOUTH
lived .n daily dread of either a bombardment
of the city or iooting by
soldiers or the far more dreaded army
of the unemployed. The gates were
opened for an hour or two a day, and
the sight of terrified jams of fleeing
people, with soldiers accountable to no
one keeping order'' at the gates with
swords and bayonets, which they used
recklessly, and often with deadly purpose,
I shall never forget.
"Dr. Shields has stnvoH
One of the four doctors left to see his
sick wife, another to go to Shanghai for
medical supplies, and both returned
after the city gates had been closed
against every one. This left Drs. Macklin
and Shields alone. Their presence
prevented the massacre of certain Christians?one
a most capable teacher in
the seminary?and otherwise gave a
rare chance for medical service to
wounded soldiers, comfort to many
frightened ones, and they, with a few
other missionaries, actually were the
ones which led to the control of the
city by the revolutions!Has anj evio ma
toration of peace. My colleague would
never tell you of this, nor of the Imminent
risk of life It meant for him,
but all Interested In our station should
know of it. It was a splendid bit of
unostentatious heroism. And it was no
less brave for his wife to approve his
eourse while she waited through some
anxious weeks with hospitable friends
In Hashing.
"I left Nanking with our counsel November
14, and I have since been staying
intermittently with my parents in
Hangchow City, or my brother, on the
other side the city, at the Boys' College,
where he teaches, having brought
my wife and boy here from KaBhing. I
made two attempts to get back to
Nanking to see Br. Shields and look
after our seminary property and caretakers,
as well as bring away clothes,
books, etc., not thought of in our hurried
departure. The last time T Rot to
the river suburb, but it was hopeless to
enter the pates. The usually bustling
river front was absolutely deserted, except
by a few famine refugees from the
north. It was a weird feeling to be so
near and yet so shut off. Finally T
managed to learn by telephone that the
foreigners inside were safe, which
made the trip worth while.
"T have been doing two things that I
never dreamed of as a part of my missionary
1'fe?acting as war correspondent
for the American Associate Press
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