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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 TT* ! 1 ? 1 | raniiiy J 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 n " ? . . - " ' ? ? X \J lil?l n \J ITlXj . 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? -*"1 ?1 : " ? 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. Readings | 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. war i- n- - TT. - 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 U T H. (575) 5 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 VOll lionnon 4 a Ka <?V?1a 4-? ? * ..ut/pvu iu uc nine n> umvuver n?a c urreill 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 rliatnnt inftnnnnn no 1.! .1 . ' 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.