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January 15, 3913] T H K P
fathered their ilk for the citizenship of today.
And what of it all? Who can tell what was
lost to high thinking and to masterful achievement
and to great statesmanship when the
boys in blue and the boys in gray died on the
field or in the hospital or returned home maimed
for life? The names that sadden the wall
of Harvard's Memorial hall and the unnamed
Heroes in unmarKed graves?they and those
who ought to have been their sons might have
lightened every State with the brilliance that
once was Boston's glory. The whole South
might have been redeemed had the high-bred
chivalry of Virginia and Kentucky been spared
to reproduce itself in the generation that followed
after. The nation slit its own veins and
let out its best blood, and in the places where
patriots ought to have been bred we have?
well what we have.
Surely the guilty fallacy of the railway presi
(lent has had its day. For the nation the law
of war is the survival of the unfit. And the
nation that "kills off" its best in times of
war will find itself at the mercy of its worst
in times of peace.?J. A. Macdonald, in The
Continent.
OUR MOTHERS.
The strength of a nation lies in its mothers.
The Spartans recognized this, and trained their
girls to be brave, to endure hardships, to be
self-sacrificing and pure, and their sons were
sent out into life, strong, vigorous, chivalrous
I and fearless
Behind every invention, heroic deed, poem or
story, stands a great soul, and back of this
greatness is the mother who formed the character
and was the inspiration and power.
The greatest place in the world is not in
kings' palaces nor in beautiful temples,, or
where the laws of the nation are made out,
but, as N. McGee Waters beautifully says, "It
is the homes of the people, where, by night and
day, women tend little children and train
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"Unconsciously we uncover our heads when
we meet a mother with her little child. She
may be young, like Mary ; she may be poor, like
Nancy Hanks; she may be inexperienced, like
Mary Ball, but she has the power to work mysteries
and perform miracles.
"In sickness and health, in toil and in ease,
at home and abroad, she lives for the life that
is grafted upon her own, scornful of pity, Conceiving
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loan upon the arm which she has made strong
by her strength, and to trust to the heart which
has been made pure and true by her own purity
and fidelity.
"So she lives her life. 'Drudgery,' silly people
call it, but unto her who is wise it is holy
mystery.
"So she lives her life. 'In a prison house,'
unknowing ones may say; but unto her whose
eyes have been opened to see mysteries, and far
into the future, it is a queen's domain.
"And then one day, when the world may
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Rhe stands up and puts judges and
statesmen, and inventors, and poets, to shame,
for she has done what they cannot do. She has
ffiven a man unto the world, to rule it, or a
woman unto the world. Her ministry is ahove
ordination.?Today's Magazine.
To have it said of us that we did what we
could, is greater praise than to have it said
hat we held a high place in the world.
RESBYTERIAN OF THE SO
WHAT SOUTHERN MEN HAVE DONE FOR
LIBERTY.
A Southern man, Patrick Henry, before the
old House of Burgesses, in Virginia, thrilled
mankind with the undying words. "Give me
liberty or give me death."
A Southern man, Thomas Jefferson, penned
the Declaration of Independence, the world's
model charter of liberty.
A Southern man, George "Washington,
against the most adverse fortunes, led the patriot
armies of our forefathers to final victory.
A Southern man again, Thomas Jefferson, by
the Louisiana Purchase, added to our country
all that territory comprising the States of
Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa. Minne
sota, Kansas, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Colorado,
Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
and Oklahoma.
A Southern man, Andrew Jackson, commanded
the fathers and grandfathers of the veterans
of Lee and Forest, Wheeler and Johnston
at New Orleans, inflicted the bloodiest defeat
upon a proud and disciplined British army ever
sustained where such army was not totally destroyed.
A Southern man, James Monroe, uttered
those momentous words, which gave to the
powers of Europe conclusive warning that any
future attempts to establish their colonies upon
any foot of that hemisphere discovered by Columbus
would not be tolerated by the American
people.
A Southern man, John Forsyth, of Georgia,
added to our territory the Riviera of the New
World, the "Land of Flowers," the vast empire
of Florida.
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Jacinto, won from Santa Anna the empire of
Texas.
A Southern man, Winfield Scott, of Virginia,
planted the stars and stripes above the halls of
the Montezumas. A Southern man, Zachary
Taylor, of Louisiana, led the gallant volunteers
of our country from Palo Alto, Resaca de la
Palma via Monterey to Buena Vista, and there
on the bloody slopes of that famous field the
Mississippi Rifles, with unflinching valor and
deadly aim for hours rolled back and swept
nway the charging columns of Mexico. In
command of the American regiment, stood
their colonel, a Southern man. His name,
Jefferson Davis. As the result of these victories,
nnder the presidency of a Southern man.
James TC. Polk, through the treaty of Gaudelupe
Hidalgo, to our country was annexed the
territory comprising the vast States of California,
XJtah, Nevada, New Mexico and Ari
zonn.
Tt will thus he seen, except in the acquisition
of Maska and Hawaii, which are to he accredited
to Northern diplomacy, and of the insular
possessions, in which the participation of Confederate
veterans and their sons were surpassed
hv none?-every foot of that vast, empire,
much more than half of our territory
which has heen acquired since the peace with
Great Britain, is directly ascrihahle to the
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niaircniiimiBiiip, me constancy, tne foresight. or
the daring of Southern men.?Wesley an ChrisHart
Advocate.
How often Christ gently touched those whom
he healed! "As many as touched him were made
whole." Not those who knew of him, or heard
about him, or saw him, or admired him, hut those
who touched him. were healed. One must come
to him. The closeness of relation, friendship,
reconciliation, intimacy, giving and receivine
Hvhieh the touch symbolized are the sources of
soul healing.
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NEW RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, first of all, That I will seek a larger
measure of divine grace to put all of my
resolutions into practice. Unless I do this
they will break down at the first real test.
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one'8 life more beautiful and attractive. If
my religion makes me contentious and repulsive,
so as to alienate people from me, there
must be something vitally wrong with it.
Hence, I will endeavor to be more charitable
and kind, more humble and helpful, more forgiving
and forbearing, and to exemplify the
Christ spirit in all the petty annoyances and
details of every-day life.
Resolved, That the commonplace, every-day
virtues will be the most needed throughout the
year. In the divine economy there are hun
areds o* ordinary folks to one that is extraordinary.
The bulk of the world's work must
be done by people of mediocre ability. It is
true now, as it was in Paul's day, that the
Church doeb not need the gift of eloquence, or
of prophecy, or of healing, or of miracles, or
of tongues, as much as it needs the gifts of
sympathy and love. It is the exercise of the
common gifts, the gifts that all may possess,
that purifies the moral atmosphere and lifts
the world to higher levels. I will therefore
"covet earnestly the best gifts."
Resolved, That more can be achieved by giviuc
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than by continually deploring their shortcomings.
An appreciation of the good there is in
the world, and an optimistic spirit, will give
virility and fragrance to my religion. But if
T take an "anti" position, because the world
is not all sunshine, I am likely to miss and to
cause others to miss what sunshine there is in
the world.
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of opportunities, but to me their value will depend
on myself. I can make them mean everything
or nothing. My chief problem will te
how to gather up the stray bits of my time
and weave them into the fabric of a noble
life purpose.?Ex.
CAN'T LEAVE MY BUSINESS.
Sometimes we hear a brother say: "I wouH
like to go to church or prayer meeting, but I
have not the time to spare." Some of these
good brethren have (own) a store, or farm,
shop, peanut stand, or something they call
"their business." Well, anyway, they say
"we can not leave our business" to go to the
house of God. Now, if this is actually true,
the sooner such brethren fail in business the
better it will be for them spiritually. Paul says
we should not "entangle ourselves with the
things of this world." I know a good brother
in our town who owns a number of farms,
and business houses, has an interest in three
or four banks, yet he comes to church, every
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uay ne is aoie. For example, at prayer meeting
one night, after waiting for the "delinquent
members," I said: "Well, we might
as well begin. All here but Bro. R., and he
went out twenty miles into the country to-day.
and, of course, he will not be here." (I did
not know the man then, as I do now.) So we
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sung in stepped Bro. R. I said to myself: "No
use a brother saying 'I can't leave my business.'
If Bro. R. can drive forty miles in a
day and leave his business for the work of the
Lord, so can others." In conversation with
him later he told me that he had never lost
anything in serving* the Lord.?Ex.
The man who does not believe dn the existence
of a God proclaims to the world that he does
not think, and he who does not think is a fool.