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Things That Are Happening
Nelvs Gleanings and Thoughts They "Bring
WEDDING BELLS FOR UPSHAW.
I am thinking of Old Upshaw,
And the glorious Fifth of May.
I hope it will be bright and happy —
A bright and happy day.
May his pathway be glorious,
May his heart be filled with love.
And in the end a happy home,
In the Father’s House above.
May God bless the noble woman,
As by his side she’ll stand.
May they both be a blessing,
To their native Sunny Land.
May God bless the Golden Age,
And fill each page with gems of truth,
May God bless it’s noble Editor,
In his mission to the vouth.
May he teach them to “'climb upward,”
Till they reach the promise land.
May they never cease to climb.
Till on the mountain top they stand.
May God bless my dear old Upshaw,
On the glorious Fifth of May.
May it be bright and happy—
A bright and happy day.
—J. R. Nutt, Ackerman, Miss.
BOOKS WANTED!
We are exceedingly anxious for several copies of
Spurgeon’s, Maclaren’s, and other good sermons,
as well as other religious books for the Bessie Tift
College Infirmary. If you have a spare volume and
will send it to us we will put it to doing good, and
hold you in grateful remembrance for your kind
ness. We will pay postage or express. Address,
Miss Bessie Knowles, B. T. C. Librarian, Forsyth,
Ga.
BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE MISSION CLASSES IN
THE VANGUARD.
These striking figures from a representative of
the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention in Reference to Besisie Tift College
Mission Study Classes speak for themselves:
“I am much obliged to the leader of the work at
Bessie Tift for the cards enrolling your new class.
This puts Bessie Tift in the lead. This makes a
.total of twenty-nine classes, with a total member
ship of 338. The college which stands next to
you is the University for Women at Raleigh, with
eleven classes and 189 students. Next is Furman
University with seventeen classes and 166 students.
The next is Baylor University, Texas, with twenty
one classes, and 147 students. So you see that
your school is in the lead. I congratulate you upon
the splendid work you have done during the year.”
This institution sends up $225 for Home and
Foreign Missions for the convention year, and has
sent one box valued at $45 to the frontier, and two
valued at $25 to the Orphanage ait Hapeville. Are
we not entitled to the enthusiastic support and
encouragement of the mission workers in the South?
The courses on China, Japan, Africa, City Mis
sions, Frontier, Moslem World, and the How and
Why of Foreign Missions have been pursued
throughout the year, and we have the Reference
Library on each course to aid in the preparation
of the lessons. We are proposing to use our mis
sionary information in leading local mission-study
classes, or in helping the regular leaders in their
classes during our coming vacation period from
June until September. We are trying to prepare
a large number of girls for such work, and believe
that our students will be a blessing wherever they
are permitted to work. In addition to these mission
study classes our girls are preparing to do Sun
beam work, teach Sunday school classes, or do any
other Christian work which may present itself.
In all of this work we propose to keep ourselves
in harmony with the Baptist workers now organized
by our Convention, also under the superintendence
of the local churches and pastors where we work.
We beg for your prayers, your sympathy, your
co-operation, and assistance in these great efforts
to further our Master’s cause, and to make our
friends and supporters proud of Bessie Tift College.
BESSIE NOLES.
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THE CHURCHES AND THE STATE SCHOOLS.
I have had it in mind for some time to write some
thing about the relations between the churches and
the State schools. The incidents connected with
the recent education conference in Atlanta furnish
a fitting occasion for what I want to say.
Bishop Candler has presented the prospect for our
endowed institutions to pass under the control of the
educational “trust” that the General Education
Board has developed or is rapidly developing into.
That such a combination as that board has come
to be, may largely dominate the schools of the coun
try, has been made very plain by Bishop Candler’s
article. That there is already in the South, a dis
position not to sell out, is beyond question. A few
years ago The Florida Baptists turned their backs
on the magnificent Stetson University, because the
managers of that school refused to allow it to come
under effective denominational control. The senti
ment in the South is to preserve the old faith and
to protect it against such attacks as Mr. Rocke
feller’s millions have made possible at Chicago. We
repudiate the snivelling claim that we must allow
men who teach, the liberty to study and to think.
We do that in its truest and broadest sense, and
have always done it. And we remember that it is,
“the fool that says in his heart that there is no
God.” And when the stuff sent out from those in
stitutions that are given over to reckless materialism,
is analyzed it is rank atheism. Those “fools” have
said in their hearts, there is no God. In those insti
tutions men are set to teach the Bible and theology
and biology and the other sciences that have to do
with the relations of man to his Creator, when they
have no knowledge of God in their hearts, and no
fear of Him before their eyes. They are in unbelief
and sin, strangers to the commonwealth of Israel
and to the covenants of promise. I say this because
their pronunciation of the 'Shibboleth hisses in the
tongue of the Ephraimite. If they were of the king
dom they would bring forth the fruits thereof. We
have nothing to hope for in education, that comes
tainted with such license, as some of these teachers
claim in the name of liberty. If they were not in
the pay of the same sources of wealth that support
the Education Board there would be no fairness in
classing them together. But the connection between
them is notorious.
The attempt has been made to suggest a parallel
with our State free schools. This cannot be done
successfully. The Constitution of Georgia declares
that the Bible shall not be excluded from the Public
Schools. While nobody wishes the Bible to be a
text-book in the schools its influence is there. Our
school trustees, from the university down, are m the
main under Bible influence. Our teachers are gen
erally Christians. The Chancellor of the university
has always been a pronounced Christian, and so of
most of our schools. We have therefore in the per
sonalities of the teachers an effective safe guard
against infidelity. This Georgia, system is as good
as it is possible to have a public school system.
We have need therefore to watch lest those who
fear not God, but trusting in Their pride and power,
of learning and wealth, they rob us of our birth
right. Let them help us if they will, but let them
not dictate our policies.
J. L. D. HILLYER.
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THE ZONES.
Teacher —How many zones are there? Small Boy
—Six. Teacher—No; there are but five. However,
you may name six if you can. Small Boy—Torrid,
north temperate, south tempcirate, north frigid,
south frigid and ozone. —'Chicago News.
SELECTED SMILES
TOOK UP THE SLACK.
Stonewall Jackson had small mercy on soldiers
whom he caught straggling, but is said to have
laughingly condoned one instance. During a forced
march in the summer of 1862 he stopped to consult
with one of his general officers. The entire com
mand had been passed, and as Jackson and his
officers rode forward to rejoin the column the
former discovered a private up a persimmon tree.
Asked by the commander why he was so far in
the rear, the private replied:
1 ‘ Eiatin ’ ’simmons. ’ ’
“Persimmons,” roared Jackson, “why they’re
not even ripe yet.”
“Like ’em green just now,” exclaimed the soldier.
“And why?” asked Jackson, softened a little
with amusement at the fellow’s laconic answer.
“To draw my innards up to fit my rations,” was
the answer. —Philadelphia Ledger.
A lecturer dramatically inquired: “Can any one
in 'this room tell me of a perfect man ?’ ’ There was
a dead silence. “Has any one,” he continued,
“heard of a perfect woman?” Then a patient
looking little woman rose in the back part of lae
house and said: ‘ 4 There was one, I have often heard
of her, but she’s dead now. She was my husband’s
first wife.”
NOT SO FUNNY THEN.
“ ’F I should die ’fore I wake,” said Donny,
kneeling at grandmother’s knee, “’F I should die
’fore I wake ”
“I pray,” prompted t'he gentle voice, “Go on,
Donny. ’ ’
“Wait a minute,” interposed the small boy,
scrambling to his feet and hurrying away down
stairs. In a brief space he was back again, and
dropping down in his place, took up his petition
where he had left it. But when the little white
gowned form was safely tucked in bed, th' grand
mother questioned with loving rebuke concerning
the interruption.
“But I did think what I was sayin’, grand
mother; that’s why I had to stop. You see I’d
upset Ted’s menagerie and stood all his wooden
soldiers on their heads, just to see how he’d tear
around in the morning. But ’f I should die ’fore
I wake, why I didn’t want him to find them that
way, so I had to go down and fix ’em right. There’s
lots of things that seem funny if you’re goin’ to
keep on livin’, but you don’t want ’em that way if
you should die ’fore you wake. ’ ’ —Baptist Common
wealth.
The large iron used by the tailor is called a
goose. A tailor once wished to send an order for
two so he tried—as follows:
“Please send me two tailor’s geese.”
That did not sound right, so he tried again:
“Please send me two tailor’s gooses.”
That surely wouldn’t do, so he tried to think it
out and finally gave it up and wrote:
“Please send me one tailor’s goose, and by the
■eternal, please send me another one just like it.”
THINGS THAT HAPPEN.
The victory in the Milwaukee debate and the dry
ing up of Springfield, Ohio, is followed by eight pro
hibition county option elections in Indiana, two
went dry on Monday, one on Tuesday. The conflict
goes on all this week. Twenty-five saloons were
closed in Jackson county and two in White. These
voted on Monday. Delaware county that licenses
desperate contest by an estimated majority of 2,800.
desperate contest b yan estimated majority of 2,800.
The county seat of Delaware county is Muncie,
where the eighty saloons were. At this writing
another most aggressive attack and defence in Tippe
canoe county is raging. The county seat is Lafay
ette. This town has 101 saloons and is the seat of
Perdue University. This fact has greatly intensified
the state-wide interest in this election. And not
state-wide only, but nation-wide.
We hope to finish this notice with other figures
indicating victory, before we go to press.
