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GLEANINGS from A WORLDWIDE TILL'D
ORIGIN OF WOMAN’S TEMPERANCE UNION.
Eight years ago, in the town of Hillsboro, Ohio,
a delicate, refined woman, who had had every advan
tage of education and social position, mused, in her
own luxurious home, of the sorrows brought upon
her sex by the drink traffic. Strengthened by the
reading of the 146th Psalm, she went forth with a
mighty purpose, and led a band of seventy-five of the
best women of her town into the saloons, there to
pray and plead with the rumsellers. This woman
was Eliza Thompson, “the first crusader” in the great
woman’s onslaught upon the liquor saloons of the
West. The woman's crusade was brief but terribly
earnest, and, although in some instances erring
through mistaken zeal, was the natural outburst of a
long pent-up and righteous indignation against the
traffic that was murdering the peace of woman, and
destroying her best blood.
The “Woman’s National Christian Temperance
Union," the sober second thought of the crusade, was
organized at Cleveland, Ohio, in November, 1874.
From the beginning, its officers have been women of
acknowledged worth, piety, and influence. The weap
ons of its warfare are the Bible, prayer, and persis
tent, systematic, patient effort.
“GYPSY” SMITH CAN NOT CONDUCT REVIVAL
IN ATLANTA THIS YEAR.
“Gypsy” Smith, the English revivalist, will not con
duct the revival services that the denominations of
Atlanta will unite in holding at the auditorium in
January. A letter was received from him Saturday
night in which he said that he has engagements that
will keep him in England until May.
A meeting of the joint committee appointed by the
Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian ministers’ asso
ciations, will be held within a short while to decide
on what revivalist will be secured to take the place
of “Gypsy” Smith.
A “STINGY OLD PURITAN”.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist, who
has given away more than $6,000,000 in his lifetime,
is now advertising his home at Hinsdale for sale, and
hopes to realize $30,000 more, which will also be
given away. He is 90 years old. His wife and all
his near relatives are dead, and as he has tired of
the cares of maintaining the home, he is ready to
part with it and thus dispose of his last piece of real
estate and wind up his estate by giving the proceeds
to charity.
The list of schools which Dr. Pearsons has assisted
embraces forty institutions in more than twenty
States.
A New England conscience, and not a desire to
gain publicity, led Dr. Pearsons to give his fortune
away. In discussing his philanthropies recently, he
said:
“Another thing I want distinctly understood by
every one is that I am not benevolent. To call me
benevolent is to make a great big mistake. I am
not, positively, once for all; I haven’t a spark of be
nevolence in my make-up. lam a hard-hearted, tight
fisted o’d curmudgeon, without a trace of charity. I
am giving my money away because I want to be my
own executor. I want to know just where my money
goes and what is done with it. I want to see it
really doing some good. The man who waits till he
is dead to see where his money goes never sees it.
When people call me a stingy old Puritan, I take off
my hat to them, and consider I am complimented. 1
would rather be that than a spendthrift.”
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ROME’S TROUBLES INCREASE.
We spoke last week of the rupture between Spain
and the Vatican. Both Spain and the Vatican have
recalled their ambassadors and the cleavage is grow
ing wider. On the Pope’s side are all of the Catholic
priests iq Spain, including many who have recently
gone there from France. The Spanish pretender,
Don Jaime, is also encouraging the Catholic rebel
lion against the government, hoping that he may
profit by it. But back of the Spanish Premier, Can
a’ejas, is King Alfonso, a majority of the Cortes, the
socialists, who are very numerous, and above all, the
modern spirit of progress. The cause of the rupture
was the liberal attitude of the government towards
religious worship by non-Catholic organizations, or in
other words, religious liberty.
The Golden Age for September 22, 1910.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, boasts that the
Catholics believe in religious liberty, but the atti
tude of the Vatican in Spain gives the lie to his
boasts. Rome believes in religious liberty, only when
she has to. Or, as one of her bishops said, “In Pro
testant countries we believe in religious liberty be
cause that is their principle, but in Catholic coun
tries we deny it because that is our principle.” In
this he told the exact truth, as evidenced by the
present struggle in Spain.
And now it is said that Portugal may follow Spain
in its break with the papal court. The occasion of
the friction there is that the Archbishop of Braga
suppressed a Portuguese newspaper without submit
ting the order for its suppression to the Portuguese
government for endorsement before its promulgation.
A royal decree was thereupon sent out disapproving
the action of the Archbishop as hasty and unwar
ranted, and vetoing it. The Portuguese government
has left the post of Ambassador to the Vatican un
filled.
A law has at the same time been drafted which
strikes at one of the most lucrative' clerical perqui
sites in Portugal. The recording of marriages, births
and deaths, according to this draft, is to be put in
the hands of a civil register bureau and taken out
of the charge of the priests. The income devolving
from the duties of registry are said to have brought
considerable sums to the priests.
After losing Italy and France, and now about to
lose Spain and Portugal, the papacy is declaring
“America is the hope of Roman Catholicism.” Ex
actly. But why? Simply because America is not a
Roman Catholic country. All of her fundamental
principles are antagonistic to Catholicism, such as
individualism, religious liberty, separation of Church
and State. With these principles as a foundation,
America has grown into a tremendous power. On
the other hand, Rome has blasted like a hot simoom
every country where she has held sway. Like a
swarm of locusts, having consumed all of the vegeta
tion in one field, she is now seeking new fields to
devour.
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THE ONE WHO FOLLOWS.
One day an old umbrella mender brought his skele
ton frames and tinkering tools into the alley at the
back of my office. As he sat on a box in the sun
mending the broken and torn umbrellas, I noticed
that he seemed to take unusual pains, testing the
cloth, carefu’ly measuring and strongly sewing the
covers. Being always interested in any one who
does a piece of work well, I went out to talk with
him a few minutes.
“You seem extra careful,” I remarked.
“Yes,” he said, working without looking up; “I
try to do good work.”
“Your customers would not know the difference
until you were gone,” I suggested.
“No; I suppose not.”
“Do you ever expect to come back?”
“No.”
“Then why are you So particular?”
“So that it will be easier for the next fellow who
comes along,” he answered simply. “If I put on
shoddy cloth or do bad work, they will find it out in
a few weeks, and the next mender that comes along
will get the cold shoulder or the bulldog—see?”
Yes, I saw; and I wished that every worker in
every trade and profession had as generous a con
ception of his duty to his calling as this itinerant
umbrella mender. —Gol.den Rule.
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AN INTERESTING STORY.
A few days ago there came to our school a thirteen
year-old boy from an adjoining county. As I asked
him about his advancement he told me a story which •
I think worth repeating. Said he: “I have attended
school only forty months. 1 have my certificates from
both the teacher of the last school attended and the
county superintendent, showing I have completed ev
erything in the eighth grade and am ready to enter
your first year.” When I complimented him on his
advancement, he said: “I attribute my advancement
in school to the fact that I have never used tobacco
in any form.” I have never been in a class where
there were those who used tobacco that I could not
easily excel them in school work.”
My opinion ig, after careful observations extending
over several years, that this boy is correct. Every
demonstration made in all the schools where classes
have been divided into tobacco users and non-users
proves he is correct. This is a lesson which it seems
hard for some to learn. I know men four times as
old as this boy who have not learned it yet. But all
teachers, preachers, doctors, lawyers, and other pro
fessional men should learn it that those who ab
stain from the use of tobacco accomplish more in
same time and by same effort than do tobacco users.
Tobacco is a narcotic, and deadens the brain centers,
so it is impossible for them to do their normal work.
G. T. HOWERTON,
Normal School, Ada, Okla.
GOOD! GLORIOUSLY GOOD.
The story is being told by the Prohibitionists: A
paid speaker against local option was making a roar
ing speech.
“What would become of the brewery men, he asked
the drivers, the saloon proprietors and their families
if the town -went dry?”
A woman arose in the audience and said very qui
etly: “My dear sir, I have washed for twenty years
to support a family and educate three children, all
on account of a drunken husband. If our town goes
dry, some of these people can have my job.”
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BORROWINGS.
“Let nothing come between you and the light.”
“Let there be many windows to your soul that all
the glory of the universe may beautify it.”
“ ’Tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are not deeds.”
“Life is a train of moods, like a string of beads,
and as we pass through them, they prove to be many
colored lenses which paint the world their own hue,
and each shows only what lies in its focus.”
“We all have need of that prayer of the British
mariner:
“Save us, O, God, Thine ocean is so large —our lit
tle boat so small.”
“Heaven doth -with us as we with torches do;
Not light them for ourselves, for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
As if we had them not.”
“A poplar leaf hides our view of the sun; the slight
substance of an earthly care may hide from us the
immense and radiant God.”
“Duty done is the soul’s fireside.”
“Faith must become active through works;
Deeds must spring spontaneously from the divine
life within the soul.”
“If you loved only what were worthy of thy love
Love were clear gain, and wholly well for you.
Make the low nature better by your throes,
Give earth yourself, go up for gain above.”
“Happiness is a perfume ycu can’t pour on others
without getting a few drops yourself.
We can finish nothing in this life, but we can make
a beginning and bequeath a noble example.”
THAT WILL STOP THEM.
The Georgia Farmers’ Union Convention in Macon
in 1908 passed a resolution asking the members to
cease to take papers carrying whiskey advertise
ments, and to subscribe only for papers which keep
its columns clean of trashy and immoral advertise
ments. Let every one who reads this, write a postal
card to any and all papers coming into their homes
with whiskey advertisements in them, saying: “Stop
your whiskey ads, or stop my paper.”—Farmers’ Un
ion News.
PROPOSED RELIGIOUS CENTER IN TEXAS.
About 200 acres of land on the shores of Mata
gorda Bay, near Collegeport, Tex., have recently been
given for the purpose of developing a Christian cen
ter for the Southwest similar in character to Wi
nona, Chautauqua and Northfield. It is to be known
as Bay Park. With a working capital of SIOO,OOO and
a body of trustees representing all evangelical de
nominations of the Southwest, Mr. John W. Hanse 1 ,
former president of the Secretarial Institute of the
Y. M. C. A. in Chicago, who has charge of this w’ork,
hopes to organize Bay Park into a center of wide
spread educational and evangelistic influence,
