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(Snore-Martin: At the manse, Gainesville,
Fla., July 19, 1912, by Rev. J. G.
Anderson, D. D., Mr. Butler E. Gcore
and Miss Mary Ella Martin.
Kaufman-Appelt At the residence or
the (bride's brother-in-law and sister.
Dr. and Mrs. Herman Oechsner, 1433
Lafayette Avenue, New Orleans, l^a.,
July 31, 1912, in a wedding "all in
white," Mr. Louis Charles Kaufman
and Miss Edna Irene Aonel; ho+h nf
New Orleans. Rev. Dr. Summey, officiating.
McQueen-Redd: In the Prytanla
Street Presbyterian Church. New Orleans,
La., July 17, 1912, by Rev. Lacy
I. Moffett, of the Ohlna Mission and
brother-in-law of the bride. Rev. J. C.
McQueen and Urilda B. Rodd, of the
Southern Presbyterian Mission in
min-a. Air. ana Mrs. Mcyueen sailed
for their field of labor on July 27th.
Patillo-Meeler?Bostlck-Ebarb: At the
residence of Rev. T. A. 'Hardin, Uvalde.
Texas, under one ceremony, on July 3,
1912, by Rev. T. A Hardin, i>ast?r of the
Presbyterian church, Uvalde, Texas, Mt.
0. H. Patillo and Mrs. Mary Meeler;
and Mr. W. A. BoBtick and Miss Carrie
Ebarb.
Story-Shirley: At Moutell, Texas, on
July 24,, 1912, at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. W<m. M. Jones by Rev. T. A.
Hardin, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, Uvalde, Texas, Mr. Thomas Alvin
Story and Miss Julia Shirley, both
of Alvin, Texas.
Beatftg
Moore: In the hospital, Clearwater,
Fla., on the morning of July 28th, Mrs.
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W. Moore. Mrs. Moore's death, so sudden
and unexpected, came as a great
shock to her relatives and friends. The
funeral services were held in the iPreBbyterlan
church, Dunedin, and in the
presence of a large gathering, the remains
were laid away in the Dunedin
Cemetery. Mrs. Moore leaves behind
her, her husband and four young children,
her parents and brothers, all of
Dunedin, except one brother in London.
England.
"So He giveth His beloved sleep."
MeLerent Mr. William G. McLeren
died July 14th in the seventy-third year
of his age at his home near Boonville,
Miss., after a brief illness. He is survived
by his wife, five children and a
brother. He has been a consistent
member and faithful elder in the Presbyterian
church for many years.
MRS. ELIZABETH A>'N CARRINGITON.
Mrs. Carrlngton died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Claude Pace, July
5th after a brief Illness. She was born
September 2nd, 1841, the eldest daughter
of Richard and Mary Baskervllle
V.atkins. She was marr.ed December,
1859, to Thomas Carrlngton, of Halifax
county, Va. To them were 'born twelve
children, seven surviving her: Mts.
Janie Davis, Mr. D. V. Carrlngton, Mrs.
fi. C. Martin. Mrs. John L,. Harvie, Mrs.
Frank R. Veale, Miss Mancy Carrlngton,
Mrs. E. Claude Pace. The funeral
services were conducted by her former
pjuXor, Dr. W. C. Campbell, assisted by
/. Rowbotham and Rev. P. B. Hill;
burial in Fairview cemetery. Roanoke.
Va.
The beautiful, unselfish life of this
"mother in Isreal" is a goodly heritage
to her children who rise up and call her
memory blessed. Her greatest privilege
was to attend the house of God. and
unless providentially prevented, was al
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ways in her place. She had no fear of
death; to be absent from the body was
to be present with the Saviour, whom
she loved so well.
MBS. OCT A VIA TLNSLEY CItALLE.
ThlB estimable and beloved Christian
woman passed from her earthly home to
her heavenly rest on July 19th last,
while on a visit to her son in the city
of Batlimore. She was the daughter obDr.
George Wythe and Mrs. Julian
Truehart Tinsley and was descended
from two of the old and greatly respected
families of eastern Virginia. In
early womanhood she became the wife
of Mr. William Cralle, of the old Powhatan
family, but afterwards of Rich
mond and New York. She leaves one
daughter, Mrs. George C. Jepson, of
New York; one son, Mr. Wythe Tlnsley
ralle, of Baltimore; two sisters, Mrs.
l!a T. Ropser and Miss Nannie Tinsley
~nd one brother, Mr. Charles T. Tinsley.
of Richmond.
Mrs. Cralle lived In Richmond during
er early married life and was a member
of the Second Presbyterian church.
Rev. Dr. Hoge, pastor. The writer remembers
her more than fifty years ago
as a young and beautiful girl, a member
of the Amelia church, of which he
was then pastor and cherishes a tender
and affectionate regard, not only for
her, but for her father and family.
"Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord."
Richmond, Va. Richard Mclwaine.
MRS. LOIS LOWRAXCE BERRY.
At San Antonio, Texas, July 18th,
1912, Mrs. Lois Lowrance Berry, wife of
Dr. C. C. Berry, and only daughter of
Rev. W. <L. Lowrance, D. D., died from
injuries received in a railway accident.
On that day. Dr. Berry with his wife
and four children were returning in an
automobile from an outing at the coast
and sixty miles south of San Antonio,
while crossing the railroad the car was
struck by a train. Dr. Berry and the
children were slightly hurt, but it was
Immediately evident that Mrs. Berry
?as fatally Injured. Sue was brought
to San Antonio, but died that night
without regaining consciousness after
the accident. On July 20th the funeral
service was held in the First Presbyterian
church of San Antonio, of which
Mrs. Berry was a devoted and faithful
member.
The sad and sudden removal of this
bright, happy and useful life is one of
the mysteries of the Providence of God
for which we have no solution, but we
receive the loss with faith that it was
permitted by a love that never fails and
a wisdom that does not err.
Mrs. Berry exemplified in unusual de
gree the graces of Christian character
in the various relations of her life. In
the home with her husband and five
children her spirit was beautiful and her
presence a benediction. Very tender
were the mutual ties which bound together
the hearts of this only daughter
and her father, and but recently both
had greatly rejoiced in his coming to
San Antonio and the possibility that 1n
larger measure her home should be also
his. Her love and zeal for the'church
were one of the simple, natural passions
of her life and she was honored and
by all who knew her in this fellowship.
Every comfort which belongs to the
Christian faith, and every promise which
the gospel of the Son of God speaks of
fho Chrlatlnn'* ilpnth ?r? nuro JLH wp
miRB her here, and as we wait for that
wondrous day when we shall know what
It means to be at home with our loved
ones in our Father's house, from which
none shall go out any more forever,
A. .G. J.
A N O f THE SO 01&
BEHAVIOR OF AMERICAN CHILDREN.
People of other countries criticise
with great severity, and with justice as
well, we are forced to admit, the behavior
of American children. They are
said to be the worst-mannered children
of civilization, and we are pointed to
the obedient German boy or the gentle
Japanese girl by way of conatrast. As a
matter of fact, we all know scores of
little gentlemen and ladies, products of
penned homes and careful training.
These are the children who are not permitted
to make themselves terrible in
public, and are therefore overlooked
in the generalization. Upon such children
as these the reputation of America
is to rest, if we are not to be known as
a nation of boorB. This is the oak of
the future, and it seems a far call from
that to the acorn of the present, which
consists in requesting your boy to stand
when his mothers enters the rocm, to
lift his hat as soon as he ceases to wear
an elastic band under his chin, and to
avoid using the coarse tones and coarser
talk of the street children. Each
thing is bo very small, the conflict over
it is sometimes so disproportionately
large, that it is well to remember the
magnitude of the result.
A brilliant preacher recently left the
city pulpit which he had occup.ed but a
short time .befcause, as one of his parishioners
expressed it, "he had never
learned little hoy manners." At the
table he was uncouth, in conversation
abrupt, in general manner awkward and
brusque, in personal habits careless,
yet in the pulpit he was a man of force,
sincerity and Intellectual ability. An
old lady of ninety, when told of his failure,
remarked: "If he had a mother,
she Is the one to blame."
It is a truism to say that the incitement
to courtesy in a child is courteous
treatment of that child. An Ill-mannered
little guest in the household of a
woman of many cares was won to much
better behavior In two weeks' time by
the application of this principli, and
that without a word of fault finding
The proverbs of all time Insist that
riches beget riche3; love begets love:
courtesy begets courtesy?let it shind
so for ;he anaio.<iis3 oie concluj.vc.
There are people who disdain to say
c/xcuse me, naving nurx a cnua; wno
take child service for granted, omitting
the "thank you" of recognition; there
is heTe and there a pastor who overlooks
the timid greeting of a child who
saw him at dinner or tea when the
minister was a welcomed guesc in the
lad's forae.
The boy remembers, pullB ofT his cap,
and is amazed to see no response in the
face he thought he knew. Then he
goes home and says, defiantly:
"Mamma, why should I take off my
hat to Dr. B ? he doesn't even look
at me." The answer to this is difficult,
to say the least.
Coarse tones are more of a problem,
for hoys learn from each other, and the
healthy young animal exults in noise.
It was wisely managed by the aunt of a
bright lad of ten, who had been making
the day hideous with unearthly sounds,
to the great discomfort of guests on the
yiuzzti. me opportunity ror wmcn tne
aunt was waiting came quickly; a lady
near her said: "Why do you permit
Francis to make such vulgar noises?"
The wise woman put her hand upon
the shoulder of the listening boy, who,
beyond everything, aspired to he a man.
"Francis is only a child," she explained,
"and he does not realize how silly
and ill-mannered this seems to grown
people. When he outgrows his babyhood
he will not think of doing this.
Francis flushed and fled; his aunt
told me she never heard the sounds repeated.
Sometimes children seem simply perverse,
when there is something more
behind.
[August 14, 1912
A well-trained small boy of eight was
walking beside his father, who noticed
with surprise that the child never lifted
his hat, although he had been carefully
instructed. Inquiry, suggestion,
command failed to reveal the secret cf
the obBtinate discourtesy. At last it
came out that his school teacher, a
learned man, but a man whose half
Indian blood was to blame for his
wholly barbaric mannerB, had forbidden
the children of his class to greet
Jjim or each other in the conventional
manner, ine small boy, told at home
to obey his teacher, was in a very hard
place, and was doing the best he could.
Luckily for him and his future, he had
a wise father, who saved punishment
until he could gauge the need for it with
accuracy.
One thing more. It is a mistake to
expect children to conform perfectly to
drawing-room conventions; too much
"manner" is as bad as too little "manners."
The ordinary police usages of
the home should be Che rule for ever>
member of the household, great or
small, and from great to small, as well
as vice versa.?Grace D. Goodwin, in the
Pacific.
PRAYER AS A HABIT.
There is no habit so necessary to the
power of a disciple's life and the effectiveness
of his work as that of prayer.
Not simply an occasional half hour of
supplication, however earnest, but a
habitual frame of mind that makes direct
and definite petition natural and
spontaneous at any time and about anything?prayerful
contact with God's
life and power, so that every touch on
the part of others brings out virtue from
it and from the Master. 'We are not to
think of prayer as common and habitual.
There iB an attitude and aptitude of
mmd and heart that is prayer in spirit,
like electricity in storage, only waiting
for the occasion to become prayer In
action. Any employment or enjoyment
that would be unfavorable to the prayer
spirit is, therefore, inexpedient, if not
nnsifivt.lv sinful "Pmi- n-IUini.' ????
ing." Does any one say this is hard to
do? Impossible and impracticable?
Hear the testimony of that brave soldier,
Stonewall Jackson: "I have so fitted the
habit in my mind that I never raise a
glass of water to my llpB without asking
God's blesing. never seal a letter
without putting a word of prayer under
the seal, never take a letter from the
post without a brief sending of my
thoughts heavenward, never change my
classes in the lecture room without a
minute's petition for the cadets who *c
out and those who come in."?Churchman.
PKESKYTKKI AN OF THE SOI'TII
PIANO CLUB.
The superior quality and durability
of the piano which is now being (ffered
o the members of the Presbyterian o'
the South Piano Club is shown by tbe
following letter from one of the earliest
purchasers of the Ludden & Batec
^lano, away back in 1883. Mr. H. V
Coarsey, of Bradentown, Fla.. writlns
under date of February 7. 1910, says'
"I am the owner of Ludden & Bate*
piano No. 111.. In mRAwnnii r>ara. ar.d
I take pleasure In mentioning that it
has a good clear tone and a smooth
even touch, notwithstanding It waf=
bought of you twenty-six or twenty
seven years ago. during which time it
has had constant service, cousidered by
some an extraordinary amount of hard
usage. This instrument has served two
generations in our immediate family i"
a most satisfactory way and we have
no idea of parting with It for any
other piano."
If* you would like to join the Club
write for club catalogue and full particulars.
Address Ludden A Bat""
Presbyterian of the South Piano Club
Dept., Atlanta, Ga.