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GLEANINGS from A WORLD-WIDE HELD
MARIANNA CAPTURES HYMAN.
Rev. Geo. Hyman has accepted a call to the Ma
rianna First Baptist Church. His record at Brooks
ville, Fla., where he has served three years, is in
deed gratifying. The membership has increased
three-fold. The Sunday-school is one of the seven A-l
schools in the South. The B. Y. P. U. is one of the
seventeen A-l Unions in the South.
We congratulate Marianna on her good fortune in
“plighting troth ’ at Hyman’s altar.
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“THE END OF FINLAND.”
The Russian Duma has passed a bill which takes
away from Finland nearly all that was left of her
ancient rights of autonomy. The Finnish Diet is not
abolished, but so much authority is transferred to the
St. Petersburg government that the liberty-loving
Finnish people are plunged into despair. When the
vote was announced in the Duma, the president of the
reactionary ‘‘League of the Archangel Michael'’
sprang to his feet and triumphantly shouted, “The
end of Finland.”
Any remnants of loyalty to the government that
may have existed in Finland have been destroyed by
this suicidal action, and when the next uprising oc
curs, Czar Nicholas may count upon the cordial, un
swerving, and unanimous disloyalty of the Finnish
people.
A bill to abolish the Jewish pale and permit the
Jews to live anywhere in the empire without perse
cution was introduced into the same Duma. The bill
declares that the persecution of the Jews hampers
Russia’s economic development, and degrades the
people by giving them lessons in oppression. The
bill had strength, but did not pass. Meanwhile, the
expulsion of Jews from districts outside of the pale
goes on with great cruelty and severity. In Kief and
other cities the people often were not permitted to
enter their homes to carry away their belongings.
In some districts the unfortunate people are being
hunted down like game by the mounted police.
In their treatment of Finland and of the Jewish
people, the czar, Premier Stolypin, and the w’hole
Russian beaurocracy have manifested anew their un
fitness to be the rulers of men. —Success Magazine.
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IT DIDN’T PAY.
In Indianapolis they tell a story of a certain at
torney to explain why he quit drinking so suddenly.
He had patronized one saloon with great liberality
for years. Lately the proprietor of the place bought
a house and lot and he employed another lawyer to
examine the abstract for him.
The steady patron, when he heard ic, went after
the saloonkeeper roughshod, demanding to know why
business favors weren’t exchanged when there was
opportunity. Why did the saloonkeeper turn away
from his own customer and give business to a man
who never bought anything of him —nor of any other
saloonkeeper?
The saloonkeeper was amazed at the complaint;
he thought the explanation ought to be plain enough.
“When I’ve got business,” he said with childlike
frankness, “I want it done by a sober lawyer.”
Suddenly the attorney, too, concluded it was all
plain enough; his friends say he hasn’t touched li
quor since.—The Interior.
HIGH SIGNERS.
The deaf and dumb Catholics of New York City,
of whom there are about 1,000 are to have a church
of their own, in which all the services will be in the
sign language.
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“NO MORE LIGHT BREAD.”
Bread must be sold by weight in New York after
October 1. The size of the loaf is not specified. The
bakers can make pound loaves or otherwise, but the
price must be so much per pound.
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HOW THEY GIVE IN INDIA.
When the girls in the Nellore school were told
there was a deficit and asked if they should send
home twenty or thirty girls because there was not
enough money to take care of them, they said, “O
no, don’t send them home, give us a little less rice
every day!” And they are receiving none too much
food even now. Do we think of these things, we who
live in our ceiled houses?
The Golden Age for September 1, 1910.
BROAD BUT SHALLOW.
The Northwestern Patriot says:
“A clergyman needs only to oppose prohibition
and prate about ‘sanity’ of speech and ‘temperance’
in reform in order to be praised by the liquor press
as ‘broad-minded’ and, although he- may never have
been heard of before outside his dooryard he sud
denly becomes the eminent Dr. So and-So.”
It might be opportune to remind the notoriety seek
ing clergy that there is danger of broadness produc
ing shallowness. Our experience with streams has
taught us that the widest rivers are not always the
deepest, and they seldom possess any valuable
power.
ENTHUSE IF YOU WOULD WIN.
Enthusiasm is the element of success in every
thing. It is the light that leads and the strength that
lifts men on and up in the great struggle.—Bishop
Doane.
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RECRUITING FROM THE CRADLE ROLL.
The liquor business has no conscience and knows
no shame. Recruits must be found and these must
be sought for among the children. The papers last
week gave accounts of children served with alcoholic
candy, or drops, filled with intoxicating liquors of a
wretched sort. To cultivate a taste for alcoholic li
quor among the children by means of candy is a de
vice that savors of the very pit. Men who do such
things should have visited upon them the very heav
iest penalties that the law permits.—Herald and
Presbyter.
“HELP THAT CH U RCH”—BON FORT’S GENEROUS
APPEAL.
How would you like to have your church patted on
the back by a leading whiskey journal? That is the
singular position of the First Congregational Church
of Sioux City, lowa, whose pastor, the Reverend Wal
lace M. Short, is spending a large part of his time
defending and championing the drink trade.
“The church that will defend our trade, should be
helped by our trade,” generously declares Bonfort’s
Wine and Spirit Circular of New York, for June 10.
“We wish our readers would write to Dr. Short and
encourage him, and it would not be a bad idea for
those who can to send him a few dollars to help his
church.”
How proud this Sioux City congregation must be
over their new found friends, and it is to be hoped
that they may get enough to double the height of
their spire, and so bring their church building, if not
their membership, nearer to heaven.
But this remains to be seen.
BEND THE TWIG THE WAY THE PLANT SHOULD
GO.
A Catholic archbishop declares that Catholic
churches would be emptied in ten years -were it not
for the influence of their parochial schools. Here is
a hint of the surpassing value of denominational
schools. —Biblical Recorder.
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THE TRUE TEST OF CHRISTIANITY.
The Northern Baptist Churches have undertaken
'to raise a fund of $1,000,000 for the support of aged
ministers, and the Brick Presbyterian Church of New
York City, has just settled the sum of $60,000 on the
widow of its late pastor, Rev. Dr. Richards, who died
in its service.
AN EARNEST SEEKER AFTER TRUTH.
The power of the Bible has again been shown, this
time in a village in a remote part of Brazil. Manoen
Bispo had heard of the Word of God and took a jour
ney of 1,000 miles to Rio Janeiro to get a copy. On
his return he read the Bible to his neighbors with the
result that many were converted. A colporter of the
Bible Society went there and a church has been
constituted.
“GET AWAY FROM THE CROWD.”
Dr. Robert Burdette, in a talk to young men, said:
“Get away from the crowd for a while and think.
Stand on one side and let the world run by, while
you get acquainted with yourself, and see what kind
of a fellow you are. Ask yourself hard questions
about yourself. Ascertain, from original sources, if
you are really the manner of man you say you are; if
you are always honest; if you always tell the square,
perfect truth in business details; if your life is as good
and upright at 11 o’clock at night as it is at noon;
if you are as good a temperance man on a fishing ex
cursion as you are on a Sunday-school picnic; if you
are as good when you go to the city as you are at
home; if, in short, you are really the sort of man
your father hopes you are, your sweetheart believes
you are. Get on intimate terms with yourself, my
boy, and, believe me, every time you come out of one
of those private interviews you will be a stronger,
purer man. Don’t forget this and it will do you good.”
A CHINESE MEAL.
At 10 a. m. the tables are set —those for men either
in the wings or in their rooms, those for the women
in their common sitting room or parlor. Each table
will seat eight persons. No table linen is used.
Chopsticks and spoons are placed before each plate.
The food is brought in on large bowls or plates. Rice
is carried to the table in a wooden pail or wicker
basket, from which it is served in small bowls. Soup
is taken first; then each person, holding the chop
sticks in his right nand and the bowl of rice in the
left, lifts his food to his mouth, pushes the lumps in
with the sticks, alternating this motion with picking
meat, fish or vegetables from the dishes which are
common to all. One must take only from that side
of the plate which is nearest to him. When one fin
ishes, he bids the rest to “Eat leisurely,” which is our
mode of saying “Excuse me.” The Chinese inva
riably wash their hands and faces after every meal. —
Being a Boy in China.
BEHOLD! HE COMETH.
“Thus silently and with no signs at all frequently,
is the Kingdom coming all about us. Pressed by this
rising tide, there are silent eddies in the literature,
social science and ethics, civil principles and civic
reform o. our day, and the new brotherhood in inter
national diplomacy. In the charities, benevolences
and humanities of our times Jesus is getting His fra
grance disbursed among men who do not even know
that the 4 r easier and pleasanter lot in life is attribu
table to Him and His coming Kingdom. Evermore
will the silent tide of Christ’s influence rise and, thus
at last the silent dawn of His second advent arrive.
In such an hour as men think not He will come to
consummate the glory of His silently, but surely,
coming Kingdom.”—J. F. Love in Biblical Recorder.
“CATCH MY PAL.”
It is stated that the temperance society in Ireland
called “Catch-My Pal,” has grown with most gratify
ing rapidity. The men take a pledge not to drink, and
also try to get their “pals” to cease. Each pal takes
the same pledge to catch his pal, and thus the society
grows in geometric proportion. This society began
with the first converts to Christianity. As soon as
Andrew was saved he went after his brother Peter,
“and he brought him to Jesus.” Peter and Andrew
then brought Philip, and Philip, Nathaniel. And so
it went. This was the “Win One Society,” which
really is the most effective way of winning souls to
Christ.
RAPID GROWTH OF METHODISTS.
In a report just given out it is shown that during
the past quadrennium $3,193,685 was collected on the
foreign field by the two Mission Boards of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South. This is an increase of
$987,084 over the previous quadrennium.
The report states further: “The collections on
the foreign field indicate a steady growth in the
spirit of self-support. Four years ago the total con
tributions amounted to $36,750 (United States cur
rency), while during the past year the sum of $52,880
has been reported, an increase of $16,130. The in
crease in church buildings is most striking. While
in 1908 there were reported 167 churches and chap
els, we have 348 at the present time, an increase of
181. Parsonages to the number of eighty have been
built during the last quadrennium. The value of
property owned by the church on the mission field
has advanced to nearly two and a half million dollars,
the exact figure being $2,427,454, or an increase of
$1,063,323. —Associated Press.
