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YOUJiG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY.
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Ilict or undue competition. The misbions
of our church, with Cardenas as
a center of operations, and working
froxi four or five other points, have
been most successful and hopeful.
in the Philippines She same distrlbuion
has been made as in Cuba. Our
own church has no work there. Our
sister church of the 'North, however has
been vigorously engaged in It and has
been greatly encouraged. There as In
I'orto Rico and Cuba, the representatives
of a free faith and open Bible are
bitterly opposed by the hierarchy that
calls itself a church. The people, however,
see that the truer faith openB the
way to a larger, better, freer life, and
are more and more revolting against the
system which would keep them in ignorance
and superstition.
REV. DANIEL A. LOXG, I>. D.
What He Thinks About Hiugluuii
School at Mebanc.
Graham, *N. C., June 5, 1912.
Preston Lewis Gray, President,
Bingham School, Mebane, N. C.
My Dear President Gray: While we
are pleased with all the honors Joseph
won at school, we are pleased best of
all, with the moral and religious training
of our boy?no swearing, no swaggering,
no vulgar stories, no swell
headed pomposity?just a nice, clean,
Vigorous boy of eighteen, who weighs
about 180 lbs., ready for the cornfield or
college.
After spending many years in teaching,
1 believe it is easier to cultivate
good habits than to remove bad ones;
better to send a boy to school wihere the
Faculty spend more time in training a
young man to do right, than in trying to
prevent him from doing wrong; that it
is cheaper and better to prevent crane
than to cure criminals; that it is always
better to send a young man, or
boy, to a school where he is likely to be
won to the Christian life, when he is in
the formative period?for these reasons,
I selected the Bingham School at Mebane,
N. C., for my only son. He spent
four years there, graduated at the schocl
last month with good health, unsullied
morals, and the 'highest regard for his
-hers. No wonder the outlook for
years to come is so good<
Very truly,
DANIEL ALBRIGHT LONG, D. D.
For handsomely Illustrated catalogue
of Bingham School, sent free, address
Preston Lewis Gray, B* L, President,
Box 56, Mebane. N. C.
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now.
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THE HEART OF A FRIEND.
By Cornelia Seyle.
A heart that is glad when your heart is
gay.
And true in the time of cares;
That halves the trials of a fretful day
And doubles tihe joys that it shares.
A heart that can cheer your heart with
its song,
And comfort your hour of need;
A heart that is brave and faithful and
strong,
Wherever misfortune may lead.
A heart that is yours, when the way
seems dark,
.And yours in sunshine, too;
A heart that cares not for rank or mark,
But only the heart of you.
A heart that will shield when others
abuse
The name that it knows is fair,
That would rather miss fortune and
fame than lose
The love of a friend that Is dear.
A heart that will hear no ill of you.
Gut Is ever quick to defend,
A heart that Is always true, steel true?>
Such is the heart of a friend.?Ex.
NOT MY BUSINESS.
A wealthy man in St. Louis was asked
to aid in a series of temperance meetings,
but he scornfully refused. After
being further pressed, he said:
"Gentlemen, it is not my business."
A few days after, his wife and twc
daughters were coming home in the
lightning express. In his grand carriage
with liveried attendants, he rode to the
depot, thinking of his splendid business,
and planning for the morrow. Hark!
d.d someone say '^Accident?"
There are twenty-five railroads enter
ing t>t. ijOuis. it there has been an
accident it is not likely it has hap
pened on the ?? and Mississippi Rai
road. Yet It troubles him. "It is his
business" now. The horses are stopped
on the instant, and upon inquiring he
f?i_ds it -.i* otcured twenty-live miles
distant on the and Miss stippi. He
telegraphed Co the superintendent:
"I will give you five huncied dollars
for an extra engine."
The answer flashes back, "No."
"I will give you one thousand dollars
for an engine."
"A train with surgeons and nurses
has already gone forward, and we have
do other."
With white face and anxious brow,
the man paced tbe station to and fro.
That is bis business now. In half an
bour, perhaps, which seemed to him half
a century, the train arrived. He hurried
toward it, and in the tender found
the mangied and lifeless remains of his
wife and one of his daughters. In the
car following lay his other daughter,
with her dainty ribs crushed In, and her
precious life oozing slowly away.
A quart of whiskey, which was drunk
fifty miles away by a railroad employee
was the cause of the catastrophe.
Who dares say of this tremendous
question: "It Is none of my business?'
?Selected.
A TRAMT'S ELOQUENCE.
A tramp asked for a free drink In a
saloon. The request was grantctl,
when, in the act of drinking the proffered
beverage, one of the yousg men pres
cut cA\;iaiixieu.
"Stop, make us a speech. Tt Is poor
liquor that doesn't loosen a man's
tongue."
The tramp hastily swallowed down
the drink, and as the liquor coursed
through his blood he straightened himself
and stood before them with a grace
and dignity that all his rags and dirt
could not obscure.
"Gentletnen," he said, "I look tonight
at you and myself, and it seems to
AN 0? THE SOUTH
me I look upon the picture of my own
manhood. This bloated face was once
as young and handsome as yours. This
shambling figure once walked as proudly
as yours, a man in the world of men.
I. too, once had a home and friends
and position. I had a wife as beautiful
as an artist's dream, and I dropped the
priceless pearl of her honor and selfrespect
In the wine cup, and. Cleopatralike,
saw it dissolve and quaffed it
down in the brimming draught I had
children as sweet and lovely as the
flowers of spring, and Baw them fade and
die under the blighting curse of a
drunkard father. I had a home where
love lit the flame upon the altar and
ministered before it, and I put out the
holy fire, and darkness and desolation
pp Ion pH in ofoa H T HoH QOnoro^lrvno
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and ambitions that soared as high as
the morning star and broke and brushed
their beautiful wings, and at last
strangled them that I might be tortured
with their cries no more. To-day, I am
a husband without a wife, a father Without
a child, a tramp with no home tc
call his own, a man in whom every good
impulse is dead. And all Bwallowed u.
in the maelstrom of drink."
The tramp ceased speaking. The glass
fell from his nervous fingers and shivered
into a thousand fragments on the
floor. The swinging doors pushed open
and shut again, and when the little
group about that bar looked up the
tramp was gone.?'New Orleans Picayune.
CHRISTIAN LIVING.
"As by the light of opening lay
The stars are all concealed;
So earthly pleasures fade away,
When Jesus is revealed."
Christianity effects the world mainly
through the zealous devotion of ChrisHarm
fa tho onrulcn Af Hod Tha RiKlp
may be read for the information it imparts;
admired for its beauty and sublimity;
it may modify the laws and improve
the morals of society, but it will
not be an operative power unless it is
accompanied by Christian influence, and
the influence of Christianity on the
world depends very materially on the
faithfulness of professing Christians.
It is a sorrowful fact that a large
majority of church members are not
what they should be. They would inO
i ln/tf I irnlv o Vi t?i n Ir f mm n onn onVt (n r?
ouuvutcxj ouiiun. iivui a ocatV/Uiug
self-analysis because of a conscious lack
of holiness.
The necessity of having some religion
is generally admitted by all, but the
trouble is we 'have not enough. If a
person ca-n only breatho enough of the
Spirit of Christ with him he will be
grand and lovable just as truly as
"Labrador, could it have enough sunshine,
would be golden with harvest
and aromatic with flowers."
Negligence in religious duties is
dangerous. The means of grace are
calculated to promote the life of Christ
in the soul, and they have the promise
of God's blessing to make them effect
ual. The body suffers If It lacks wholesome
food and the soul suffers If Its
religious duties are neglected.
We, as Christians, must seek suck a
close and vital contact of qui spirit
with God's Spirit tkat we shall feel
the inspiration of his presence. And
this inspiration will make us strong
and fearless;' comfort our hearts when
we are in sorrow. and make us kind and
gentle to our fellow-creatures.
Christ must find the first place in our
. rts. We matt esteem him above all
the world and trust in him for all blessings.
How rich is the true believer! How
grand it would, be if we all had that
faith which is the "evidence of things
not seen" and which brings the eternal
world and its solemn realities so near.
Mrs. P. W. Boggess.
Hinton, W. Va.
(955) 21
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
(Continued from poge 8.)
.sub now to be & great victory for
truth. But, alas, as he continued to
speak and to apply the Word of God
this became too personal. It began to
bear too direotly upon themselves. Not
'being willing to accept it. and not being
able to refute it, they became angered,
and rising up, like a mob. they rushed
the speaker out to the brow of a hill nm.
posing to thrust him down its precipice
like declivity. His time being not yet
come, he passed through the midst of
them and went his way.
Lesson: Early associations were
sanctified by Jesus He had the patriotic
spirit. The place "where he had
been brought up" was dear to. him.
When he went to Nazareth he took his
old place in the house of worship. He
always observed the Sabbath. A sacred
part of its observance was faithful
church attendance. He was ready, too.
to take part in the exercises. He read
the Scriptures, not hesitating to do what
was asked of him. Isaiah is a real
Gospel to all who will rightly read and
follow it. Christ's coming and work
were predicted, in the most minute way.
All that was prophesied came to pass.
His words were tender and persuasive.
Grace was poured into his lips, as the
psalmist predicted. Yet even this could
not overcome the natural enmity of the
human heart, which the Spirit alone
cnanges. Fimiliarity with Jesus, and its
consequent indifference, made his hearers
condemn his message and led to
anger when he showed them their sins.
A prophet from a distance might have
been listened to. and might have been
honored. Passion often overrides a
sense of truth and justice. Though the
Kazarenes knew the truth and knew the
purity of Jesus' motives and the intelligence
of bis utterances, they were
so angry that they tried to do him great
bodily harm. The truth either "convinces
or makes mad." Christ's enemies
little realize that by their anger
they sometimes only prove the truth.
THE BEST OF THE THREE.
"1 am glad they have moved out. I
would rather have my house stand
empty than to have such bad tenants
racking it to pieces." So spoke the
owner /
"But the best thing is to have it occupied?by
nice people," said his friend;
"for an empty house runs down rapidly.
"Yes, that's so. A good family in a
house keeps it in order and brings out
the full value of it," the owner agreed.
As with the house, so it is with the
mind of a man or woman, young or old.
So many are careless about the kind of
tenants they admit into their mental
houses; and only when the bad tenants
are installed do they realize what havoc
they work. Trashy reading, idle or
harmful thoughts, the close association
of those who lead in the wrong direction?these
are tenants to be avoided
and sternly refused admittance when
they seek to enter.
But even when they are kept out the
whole work is not done. An empty
mind, aimless and idle, is a constant
invitation to e>vil to enter in and make
its home there. The old story of the
house swept and garnished and empty,
Into which the evil spirits re-entered
with others to keep them company, still
holds good. So, then, when one Is desirous
of having his house in the best
possible condition, let hra (or her) All
it with good thoughts, reading that leads
upward, thought that broadens and refines,
association that makes life better
daily. Then, indeed, will the mental
house return full value to its owner.?
Young People.