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August 25, 1915] THE
il?. latest catalogue. There are on one little
leaflet $20 worth of books, eighty volumes, that
I fear are as trashy as the Ilcnty books, which
I consider the limit. And there were numerous
?thers that I think must be of the style of the
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THE STORY OF JESUS.
Tell mo the story of Jesus,
Write 011 my heart every word,
Tell me the story most precious, /
Sweetest that ever was heard;
Tell how the angels in chorus,
Sang as they welcomed his birth? I
Glory to Clod in the highest!
Peace and good tidings to earth.
Pasting alone in the desert, '*
Tell of the days that he passed,
Mow for our sins he was tempted.
Vet was triumphant at last;
Tell of the veara of tiia Inhnr
Tell of the sorrow he bore.
He was despised and afflicted,
Homeless, rejected and poor.
Tell of the cross where they nailed him
Writhing in anguish and pain;
Tell of the grave where they laid him,
Tell how he liveth again;
Love in that story so tender,
Clearer than ever I see;
Stay, let me weep while you whisper
Love paid the ransom for thee.
?Fanny J. Crosby.
A TVTTKT A r?T TA rnTITi TTA?*n
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Rev. T. T. Trimble.
The Home?the oldest and greatest institution
in the world, is the nursery of all other
good institutions?the bulwark of the Church
an< 1 the nation. It. was for His own glory and
the welfare and happiness of the human race
tli.it "God bath set the solitary in families."
An oft-repeated and generally admitted truth ;
l?ut evidently, we forget, or fail to realize its
vital importance.
Recognizing the home as the most potent
factor in the moulding of character, we must
........ nicti w jiuiuvur tencis 10 uestroy or impair
the home, or pervert normal home-life (i. e.,
liomc life after the divine plan), undermines
Jtnd threatens the integrity, virtue and stability
<>f the Church and nation. * The fundamental
'longer to the home is, of course, in the decline
of family religion?the discarding of the family
altar, and the neglect of Christian instruction
and training. But, following and largely
growing out of this disregard of God's plan
for home life, there has grown up a movement
which treatens to work incalculable harm.
a iie a ew- w oman ' Movement.
It is boastfully proclaimed that "This is
toman's ape" and "woman is coming into her
own."
We rejoice in the fuller recognition of
woman's capacities and worth, which the
JU'owth of Christianity has brought about; in
tlie larger provision made for her higher education;
and in all that tends to increase her
' appiness and enlarge her scope of usefulness.
All?l especially are we thankful for the selfsacrifiein?
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? pv <11iti riiit'inu wrvietis oi women in
ihe greatest of all works, the evangelization of
I he world?teaching the (rospel of Salvation
"'rough Jesus Christ.
'hit this sort has nothing in common with the
"movement headed by female politicians, com"lonly
called "The Women's Suffrage Movement."
Hut votes for women is only one branch
PRESBYTERIAN OP THE SO
Elsie books, though it is hard to believe that
anything quite as bad could be written. These
last are certainly religious and orthodox too
if my memory serves mc right.
Mayesville, S. C.
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of this monstrous octopus. The goal of the "new
woman" is the abolition of sex distinctions?
independence of man's support, competition
with men in all industrial, professional and political
ursuits; club-house life instead of homes,
and poodle dogs instead of children.
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Xiiieubs on trie nomc.
In the nature of the ease, to the extent that
these principles arc adopted and practiced, the
beneficent influence of home life is lost. With
mother and sister in the office, at the club or on
the political platform, home becomes a mere
lodging house. There is the loss of companionship
between parents and children, the loss of
mutual interest and helpfulness and above all,
the loss of that parental oversight and training
so essential to the proper development of character
and to the safeguarding of boys and girls
against the pitfalls of the world. "A child left
to himself hringeth his mother'to shame."
Effects on Women Themselves.
It is a patent fact, often remarked, but apparently
unheeded bv many, that participation
in political affairs and in tbosc public and
coarser pursuits, for which God ami nature
never intended her, tends to rob woman of that
modesty and other womanly graces which command
the admiration and esteem of men and
make her the power she is for the preservation
and uplift of society. The following paragraph,
from an editorial in the Boston Pilot, states the
truth tersely and forcibly: .
"Already the gospel of so-called freedom for
women is revealing its baneful effects. Modesty
and virtue are losing ground. The sacred char
acter of marriage is yielding to the paganism
of free love, and divorce resulting from conjugal
feuds is all too common. Wives are finding
domestic duties irksome. Daughters resent
parental control and their extravagance in dress
and their craving for pleasure and excitement
outside the home are stifling the domestic virtues?meekness,
gentleness, and love."
What Will Be the Outcome?
An intelligent traveling man recently made
this dire prediction: "In fifty years from now
there will not be such a thing as a home in the
United States." Assuming that this movement
is going to prevail, the prophesy is by on means
a wild one; that would he the natural, logical
result. But the true, womanly women of our
country will be the means, under God of saving
our country from such ruin. But how much
more of the baneful effects of this evil we must
suffer no one can forecast. The disgraceful
and miserable events that have disturbed and
shamed England in late years afford an illustration
of the logical effects of the principles
now at work in our own country.
We are fully aware that, this is tho nnnnn..io?
side of this question. Seldom do we hear (in the
West) an "anti" expression. From the Chautauqua
platforms, political platforms, from
college and high school orations there rings
out the demand for "Woman's Emancipation'r
(degradation would be the more correct word).
The secular press is for the most part silent on
the subject or trailing after the "hand wagon."
A very much respected lawyer and politician
of Arkansas, a few months since, said to the
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writer: "Woman suffrage is coming?it is certain
as fate; 1 don't believe it is right or for
the best, but there is no use of our getting in
front of an avalanche." But there is use when
the "avalanche" threatens destruction to the
dearest institutions of our country.
Searcy, Ark.
TOUCHING THE BUTTON.
We are nowadays getting to do things easier
and further off than we used to. Deeds of
grandeur or deeds of terror are accomplished
with less immediate effort and at a distance
from their effect. The touch of a button executes
a murderer or starts all the enginery of
the Columbian Exposition.
Is not this somewhat the way that God
works? Stand by the electric chair. There
sits a man in his usual health. No cause appears;
but suddenly he dies. A Hash, as it were
from the clouds, invisible, with no cause at
hand, the sheriff somewhere else and unseen;
and he dies. The cause was a natural one, if
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of electricity such as every thunderstorm develops,
and it happened to come his way, and
he died. If you do not know of the divinity of
law and the agency of law behind the act, it
is just as much in the line of nature as when
a thunderbolt leaps from the sky and strikes
a house and kills a man.
The touch of the button by the President
starts into active motion the ponderous machinery
of the Exposition. Where was he?
Invisible, somewhere else. When he touches
the button every wheel starts, every process of
beautiful production goes on before our eyes.
And so it continues indefinitelv under rmrelv
natural laws. You can see and explain them
all. Him you did not see. He is far oft', unseen,
unconsidered; but the processes lie set
in motion go on. Is it any different in the
whole course of nature? Out of silence and
torpor starts the whole movement of spring.
Every current, every stream, every tree, every
rootlet feels the impulse, and starts into its
rhythmic motion, and develops its productive
life. Where was He whose will created and
set in motion the processes of nature, whose
command the processes of our own bodies
oueyi we uo not see Him; perhaps we forget
Ilim; bnt had we looked we should have
found His finger at the keyboard of the universe.
Another lesson not so grand, perhaps, but
more personal, must we draw from this illustration?the
lesson of human influence. Which
of us is not pressing the button? What we do
here is seen and felt, invisible, far off. A gift
here is converted into a book, or a preacher's
or a teacher's voice in a far off land, and
changes the course of a human life. It is such
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an in in w we exert nere
that regenerates the world. A New York merchant
touched a button and there sprang up
Robert College in the East, and the nation of
Bulgaria. Peter Cooper, Charles Pratt, touched
a button, and the transforming power of that
touch goes on in educational institutes long
after they die. A kind parent attempts to
reprove or correct his child. But In?, resisting
reproof and taking his own way,
brings dishonor upon his family and ruin upon
himself. A teacher reproves or corrects an
other child and he grows up a patriot, a hero,
a benefactor of the world. A ruler touches a
button, and beneficent or malevolent legislation
and administration follow, which save or
ruin the land. The great movement goes on,
while we do not see, perhaps never saw, perhaps
forget who it was that started the current
of influence. There is a button under every
finger.?Independent.