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GLEANINGS from A WORLD-WIDE HELD
THE FAILURES OF JESUS.
God compares the world to a vineyard, which He
leased
To husbandmen, sending forth a Prophet or a Priest
To receive the fruit that was His rightful share:
These they beat, and wounded, then God sent His
Heir,
Saying: “It may be that they will reverence Him.’'
They kill Him! Their hearts He could not win,
Though with strong love and tears He tried to bring
Them underneath the shelter of His brooding wing.
Jesus was sought one night by a ruler of the Jews —
His mind was analytical, practical his views.
He gave a logical reason for his faith, far as it went —
Miracles were credentials the Teacher from God was
sent.
What Nicodemus wanted was the secret —of His
strength,
Fxmson told Delilah, might not Christ tell him at
length?
“Ye must be born again,’’ “the truth I speak to thee,”
His carnal unbelief replied, “How can this thing be?”
There came a young man running, such eagerness
he felt
To ask a momentous question. With reverence he
knelt:
“What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
“The answer to this query will settle my mental
strife.”
“Jesus beholding him loved him,” will he recipro
cate?
Or is his heart enthralled by his possessions great?
“Come," said the Soul-Lover, “leave all and follow
Me!”
But he “went away”—his riches rivalled the Sav
iour’s plea!
—(Mrs.) R. J. McClintock.
1093 Main St., Beaumont, Texas.
WINNING HOMES AND HEARTS.
A remark of a native of India shows the quiet
power of medical mission’s. He said: “We are not
afraid of your books, for we need not read them;
we are not afraid of your schools, for we need not
send our children to them; we are not afraid of your
preaching, for we need not listen; but your zenana
workers get at dur homes, and your doctors get at
our hearts, and when you have got our homes and
our hearts, you have all.—Christian Endeavor World.
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SWEEPING REFORMS IN CHINATOWN.
New York, September 21.—The turning of China
town’s “Heathen Theater” into a Christian mission
a few weeks ago, is to be followed by other revolu
tionary changes in the Oriental quarter. A week ago
a score of leading Chinese merchants cut off their
queues. It is now announced that the old temple or
joss house, at the entrance of Mott St., will be
abolished. The Chinese public chamber plans to
destroy the idols and remodel all buildings for use
of a Chinese public school. The destruction of the
idols is to be the chief of a series of reforms to be
followed by the prohibition of public exhibition of
opium dens and the removal of gambling houses.——
Columbus Ledger.
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CHINA’S NEW NAVY TO BE BUILT IN THE
UNITED STATES.
The ships and guns of China’s new navy with
which that mighty sleeping giant purposes to grapple
with the civilized world, are to be built in the United
States.
For the profit to accrue from equipping the world's
oldest and most peaceful empire with Christendom’s
latest and most decent instruments of death and
destruction, there has been keen competition for
the last year between the United States Steel Trust
and Charles M. Schwab.
It was announced in dispatches today that Mr.
Schwab is now on his way to San Francisco, where
he is to meet Prince Tsai Ksum, uncle of the baby
emperor of China, to close the contract for con
struction. It appears, therefore, that Schwab has
won another notable victory over the Steel Trust.
- Only a short time ago he outbid the big concern on
The Golden Age for September 29, 1910.
contracts for building dreadnaughts for the. Argen
tine navy.
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WHAT LABOR'S REAL LEADERS SAY.
John Mitchell:—“l am not at all impressed with
the argument that if you close down the liquor
traffic you bring about a calamity. I believe that
liquor has contributed more to the moral, intellec
tual and material deterioration of the people than
has any other agency in the history of mankind."
Samuel Gompers:— “The time has come when the
saloon and the labor movement must be divorced."
John B. Lennon: —“The liquor traffic tends to de
crease wages, never to increase them. To the trade
unionist there is no redeeming feature in the saloon."
THE USUAL PLANS.
Now that Alabama is coming close to the time
when her quadrennial session is to be held, there
will be the same old plans of the liquor crowd to
confuse the minds of the people. They will send
out large amounts of money to the newspapers, who
will sell their space, and they will print the most
misleading statements. Time and again they have
done this in almost every case, using the names of
men long dead, so that no one can investigate and
ascertain the actual present-day views of these men.
They will have their paid workers in every com
munity telling the dear people about the Golden
Days when “booze” was present and easy to obtain.
The fact that the saloon is an outlaw hurts some
fellows’ sense of dignity. They want the thing to be
as respectable as the law will make it, so they fight,
for the license system by every foul method the
old devil ever invented. The same old methods
will be employed. Let the citizenship of Alabama
be prepared for a campaign of deceit and falsehood. —
The Citizen.
THE ESKIMO AND THE TELEPHONE.
An amusing story is related by Prof. D. B. McMil
lan, of the Peary north pole expedition, regarding the
efforts of an Eskimo to construct a telephone line.
The Eskimo came into possession of a piece of wire
of considerable length, and never having seen wire
before, he asked Professor McMillan what it was and
what it was for. He was told that the white man
strung it on poles stuck in the ground, and that a
voice talking to an instrument at one end could be
heard at the other end. After some search the next
morning the Eskimo was found engaged in telephone
construction work of his own. He stuck some sticks
into the ground, and hung his wire on them. He held
one end of the wire to his mouth, and talked to it at
the top of his voice. Then he ran as fast as he
could to the other end, and held the wire to his ear.
with the expectation of hearing his own words re
peated.
When he failed to hear any sounds, the expres
sion on his face revealed his opinion of his white
friend. —Popular Electricity.
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A MACHINE THAT TALKS MONEY.
“A cash register that announces the amount of
a sale in human voice, as well as registering the
figures, has been devised by a Minnesota inventor.
When the keys are touched for a sale of. say, $1.65,
certain phonographic reproducers are released, and
the machine sings out, ‘One-sixty-five.’ Such expres
sions as ‘Thank you,’ or T think you will find these
goods satisfactory,' may be added to the announce
ment of the sale.”
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LOOK OUT FOR FLORIDA.
Florida liquor sellers are badly scared. The State
wide prohibition campaign is on. in earnest. Tons
of prohibition literature are being distributed. Thou
sands of buttons advocating a “dry” vote are being
worn by the boys and girls. Three-fourths of the
State is already no-license, and’the victory of Sen
ator-elect Broward, himself a fearless champion of
prohibition, despite liquor and corporation slush
funds in the cities, is considered a good omen. The
Prohibition National Committee is expecting to lend
efficient aid.
CHRIST BEFORE ALL.
It is related that an artist once painted a-picture
of the Christ pointing to the lilies-of-the-valley. When
people looked upon the work of art, they were espe
cially impressed with the delicate proportions of the
lilies, and when they left the gallery, they each and
all exclaimed: “What beautiful li’ies!” When the
artist heard this, he seized his brush and went to
his picture and struck out the lilies, exclaiming, “No
work of mine shall hide the Savior.” Many appre
ciate and enjoy the fruits and flowers of Christian
civilization but deny the Author.—Selected.
HONOR THE NATION'S FLAG.
The recent session of Congress made a splendid
stroke for patriotism when it passed the measure
proposed by the Judiciary Committee, to make it a
misdemeanor to use the American flag in any form
of advertising.
There is no sound argument against such a course.
The nation’s flag should be immune from use for any
purpose not a patriotic one. The meaning of the
stars and stripes should be taught to every child and
every immigrant. It should be revered for what it
represents. It is the flag of no one class of men,
of no one party, or no one religion. It is the banner
of all and a'l should protect it from all forms of
desecration.
This recalls the incident of General Grant’s cam
paign for the presidency when a campaign commit
tee prepared a flag with his portrait on it. He or
dered it off saying: “No man is great enough to have
his portrait on the flag.”
WHO ARE THEY?
A press dispatch is going the rounds to the effect
that some preachers down in Florida have lined up
with the local optionists as opposed to State-wide
prohibition. We should like know something of who
these preachers are, and it is due the preachers of
Florida that those who parade this item be specific.
Trot out their names and official standing—it would
not take much space.—Raleigh Christian Advocate.
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“CRADLE OF PROHIBITION” BURNED.
The “Cradle of Prohibition in Kansas,” the First
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Leavenworth, Kan
sas, was recently damaged by fire to the extent of
SB,OOO. This historic church building was erected
in 1859, and here it was that the first State-wide
prohibition club was organized and the constitu
tional amendment movement definitely launched. A
saloon on the corner adjoining the church, which
refused to .be closed by methods of moral suasion,
was the immediate provocation for the forming of
the prohibition organization.
A PAPER BOAT.
One of the most remarkable boats on record was
built recently in St. Augustine. It is made almost
entirely of newspapers, put together with shellac,
and the outside layer exhibits headlines of papers
from every State in the Union, from nearly every
country in Europe, and from Alaska, Egypt and
Japan. The boat is snug and watertight, having been
tested by its builder on a twelve-hundred mile trip
from St. Augustine to New York. It is twenty feet
long, and when completed weighed ninety-one pounds.
Its present weight is about one hundred and fifty
pounds. We should like to know what papers went
into the making of this boat. There are some papers
in this country which will not “hold water.” —
Baptist and Reflector.
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THE WORST PHASE OF CITY CONGESTION.
“In a single New York block there are herded to
gether, according to the last State census, more than
six thousand persons. Thirteen blocks contain over
three thousand persons each. A small portion of
Manhattan Island, south of Fourteenth Street, houses
a population of more than half a million. This ex
ceeds that of any one of fourteen of our American
States, and is denser than the densest parts of Cal
cutta or Bombay. The most interesting war waging
at the present day is the war against overcrowding
in disease and vice breeding tenements, here in New
York on the part of modern-day crusaders.” —The
Youth’s Instructor.
