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GLEANINGS from a WORLDWIDE HELD
UNION EVANGELISTIC BUREAU.
The Union Evangelistic Bureau, of Nash
ville, Tenn., keeps a list of Evangelists and
Singers to recommend to Pastors who are
planning evangelistic campaigns. All denomi
nations are represented on the list.
While the Bureau stands for union revivals,
some of the helpers assist in single meetings.
Rev. Walt Holcomb, the Evangelist, is the
Secretary, and will furnish any information on
application.
NEWS IN THE AIR.
Newspapers by aeroplane delivery! That is
the newest thing. It was carried out at Los
Angeles the other day, when copies of a daily
paper were distributed over a route sixty miles
long. It is not likely that newsboys will be
peddling their periodicals from flying machines
at any time in the very near future; still the
fact remains that the start has been made on
sending the news literally on the wings of the
wind. —Ex.
NEW COOK IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
There is a new cook in the W hite House.
She is Flora Hamilton, a young woman of
Scotch-Irish descent, who went to Washing
ton from the kitchen of a wealthy New York
family. The New Yorkers gave her up unwil
lingly, but they were glad to see Miss Hamil
ton get such an excellent place. The new cook
will have charge of all the cooking in the White
House and will direct the serving of the big
dinners there during the winter. Amelia How
ard had the place, but she became ill and re
signed. . Martha Peterson, another recent
White House cook, resigned to be married
to James Mulvey, one of the policemen in the
executive offices.
A SLAP AT BROOKS LAWRENCE.
What is considered a direct slap at Brooks
Lawrence, the Anti-saloon League worker of
Alabama, was offered in the House of Repre
sentatives when a resolution was adopted con
demning lobbying by partisan organizations
and calling on the governor to remove, by le
gal means, all such persons from the capitol.
Brooks Lawrence is the man who led the
fight for Prohibition in Montgomery, and his
presence in Montgomery early in the session is
taken as meaning he intends to lead the fight
to sustain the Prohibition laws.
Up until this time he has circulated freely
among the members of the legislature in both
Houses, but the new resolution may result in
this being stopped.
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DONT’S FOR PROSPECTIVE MINIS
TERS.
An English paper gives the following as
part of the charge delivered at an installation
by a Detroit pastor:
Don’t study without prayer.
Don’t pray without study.
Don’t feed people with unbaked dough.
Don’t tell all you know in one sermon.
Don’t put the hay too high in the ricks.
Don’t offer sentimental confections or intel
lectual shavings.
Don’t mistake philosophy for Christianity,
cant for piety, noise for zeal or crowds for
success.
Don’t be so broad that you can float noth
ing but intellectual chips on your shallow
stream.
Don’t scold.
Don’t mistake length for profundity, or brev
ity for wit.
Don’t lash the back of a sinner instead of
the back of sin.
Don’t offer to other people manna which
you have not tasted yourself.
The Golden Age for February 9, 1911.
TO A SINGER.
Dedicated to Mrs. E. K.
Impassioned heavenly, thy loveliest strains
Os sweetest cadence! Thy passionate
Crescendos undulating clearest trills
Os throbbing song, upborne on pinions rapt,
Pulsating, surging, thrilling ecstacies
Os living soul, through the adoring, blithe
•And supplicating air. Sweet singer! Thou
Sweet magic-throated melodist!
Replete
Thy raptured strains of all the varied hues
And passions of soul's fitful fantasies!
In transports of celestial song, enrapt,
Thou calmest to sublime serenity
The agitated, importuning will;
Or tempt the caprices to airy flights
Os gay vivacious thought, abandon sweet;
Or, in sad, pensive strain, intune the soul
To rueful throes of mournful threnody.
Sweet singer! Golden-throated nightingale!
—James Aubrey Turner.
A HIGH ROLLER.
It is announced that a new ocean passenger
ship is to outclass all previous monsters, the
“Europa.” It will have nine stories above the
water line, a veritable skyscraper, and it will
carry 5,000 passengers, a larger number by
over 1,000 than can be entertained by any hotel
in this country, or in the world. The steamer
Carmania, on which we traveled from New
York to Alexandria, is ten stories high, but sev
eral of these stories are under the water. —
Baptist and Reflector.
TECH. MEN TO HAVE CAMPAIGN.
The Y. M. C. A. is making large plans to
win the student body to adopt a code of Chris
tian morality, and practical spirituality. A
special campaign of this nature is to be held in
the School, February 12 to 14.
The leaders in this campaign arc college
men themselves, who since their graduation
have had work and experiences that fit them
well to bring messages to the highest manhood
and victory over the temptations that beset college
men.
Louis J. Bernhart is to speak to Tech, men
Sunday night, February 12. Mr. Bernhart is
a man who has fallen and “come back” again.
Fie is in charge now of the Yale Hope Mission,
and is doing a magnificent work there for fall
en men and discharged prisoners. But briefly
to his story:
A son of a prominent Georgia family, a stu
dent of the University of Georgia, a graduate
of the University, a trusted employee of the
Southern Express Company, a gambler, a de
faulter, on the chain-gang for a term, back
home to redeem himself, unable to find work,
forced to crime again, a prisoner altogether
for 22 years, rescued finally in the MaCauley
Mission, in New York, winning the fight, a
man again, and now giving his life in service
to other men. His simple story of the struggle
he passed through is a call to the best in man
and hundreds of college men arc gripping
themselves anew and turning to the best in
life.
THE SENTINEL.
Fort Worth, Texas, is headquarters for a
new publication that has just come to us, hot
from the bat. Editor Clarence E. Farmer has
equipped The Sentinel in the habiliments of
real soldiery, and is in business to maintain the
rights of the common people.
In his maiden issue, the editor goes after
lawlessness and official prostitution with
gloves off. He proposes to strip the hot-bed
and expose every fraud and its bedfellow be
fore The Sentinel retires from service. Here’s
our Godspeed, Brother Farmer.
SOME TRIBBLE TRUTHS.
In a masterful speech on Christian Educa
tion, before the Florida Baptist Convention
last week, Dr. Henry Wise Tribble, the popu
lar and winning President of Columbia Col
lege, at Lake City, carried the great audience
with him to the very heights. His peroration
in which he drew a powerful lesson for pa
rental care and ideals in the tragedy of Peter
the Great, and his neglected, wayward son
Alexis, will never be forgotten by those who
heard it.
Among other gems caught at random here
and there in his speech, are the following:
“We arc so rich in America that the glitter
of our gold blinds us.”
“Language is the expression of life—there
fore, Carnegie and Roosevelt failed to regulate
or remake our language.”
“Money has no right to say what our edu
cation shall be—the religion of Christ has a
right to say what real education shall be.”
“I he Light from off the altar of God has
lighted up the labyrinths of intellectual dark
ness.”
“Every triumph of science is the inspiration
of the religion of Jesus Christ.”
Just across the street from me is a little
plot of ground which has been cultivated for
years, but they just tickled the surface and
raised poor crops; but last year a man came
with a deep plow and fairly tore up the heart
of the soil, and behold, the luxuriant crop that
followed! Brethren, I believe deep plowing
in Florida will bring up enough boys and girls
yet unreached to fill all the dormitories at Co
lumbia and Stetson, and require the erection
of new buildings.
Let’s plow deep in Florida.
A POLYGLOT WEDDING.
Richmond, Va., pulled off a wedding a few
days ago which would have made the mixup at
the Tower of Babel sound musical.
A Russian bride, who knew only Russian,
married a Polish bridegroom, who knew only
Polish, through an interpreter who spoke only
German and Russian, before a judge whose
sole lingual accomplishment was English.
1 hat courtship must have been like a mov
ing picture love affair, for the two hearts with
but a singe thought weren’t able to think out
loud in anything that was mutually intelligible.
Ihe judge acted wholly on suspicion, for he
couldn’t understand the bride, the groom or the
so-called interlocutor, whose spoken words had
meaning only for the bride.
All in all, it would strike us that there is
ground for suspecting the two-tongued inter
preter was married instead of the would-be
bridegroom.
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THE MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE.
The Moody Bible Institute, of Chicago, is
planning to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniver
sary by a week of special services beginning
Founders’ Day, February 5, 1911. Invitations
have been sent to over six thousand graduates
and former students who are scattered all over
the world engaged in various forms of Chris
tian work.
A strong program is being prepared, and
some of the most notable ministers and laymen
of this and other lands are expected to assist
in the celebration.
At that time it is expected that the new dor
mitory for women will be ready for occupancy.
It has cost $200,000, an d will accommodate two
hundred. This is the second of the three new
building made necessary by the steady growth
of the Institute.
The object of this anniversary week is not
simply to mark off another mile-stone in the
history of the Institute, but also to inaugurate
a vigorous campaign for awakening interest in
Bible study and in individual effort to win
men to Christ among Christians generally.
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