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PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
—Twenty-Five Daughters
I do! And I want to take them on
that gorgeous Western trip with me.
Think of it, girls! Twenty-eight days
of the rarest sight-seeing in all the
world, accomplished in the most de
lightful way imaginable, all at the
expense of The Golden Age.
How I wish I knew this minute just
who my twenty-five daughters are to
be, and that I had “the whole bunch”
down on the hearth-rug all cozy and
“comfy” so we could talk over this
glorious prospect in genuine kimona
confidence.
Any girl with a grain of gumption
and two ounces of grit will jump at
this offer. It is the opportunity of a
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lifetime, and a chance to gain a fund
of information, rest, and real, down
right, wholesome pleasure that sel
dom comes within the sphere of the
girl of moderate circumstances.
From fourteen to forty years will
constitute the age limit of my group
of adopted daughters. School teach-
REVIVAL DAYS IN NORTH CHINA.
By Edgar L. Morgan, Missionary at
Laichowfu.
HE jackson, Georgia, Baptist
chapel at Hwanghien, China,
has recently been the scene of
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a revival worth telling about. We
wish the readers of The Golden Age to
join with us in thanksgiving, and in
petition that other places shall like
wise have a deep work of grace. For
a long time we have felt there was a
spiritual drought in our field, while
Korea, Manchuria and parts of China
have been having outpourings of the
Holy Spirit. This drought has now
been broken, and we believe this is
only the “early rain,” with the later
rain” and a bounteous harvest to fol
low.
Think of a whole house full of peo
ple while engaged in prayer suddenly
moved on like as if by the breath of
a strong wind from the Almighty,
many breaking out into confession of
sins, weeping, singing and eventually
praising God! This continued four
hours. What power to move a strong
preacher to travel forty miles to the
place where he had sinned and there
to make public confession and to re
store money he had “squeezed eight
years before! The Chinese say even
ers, business girls, bachelor maids,
etc., I want them all, only I don’t want
any “big rich” ones. Every girl who
goes under my wing must know what
it means to earn her own dollars, be
cause The Golden Age wants to take
only such girls as are capacitated to
enjoy and appreciate such an un
equalled advantage.
Look at these fascinating pictures.
Catch a glimpse into the wonderland
through which the Seaboard Family is
to pass. Dream all you will of the
glory and beauty of these scenes lit
up, as they will be when we see them,
with the radiance of June sunshine,
and sanctified with the incense of
MT. SHASTA.
June flowers.
An education is worth more to a
young woman than anything else in
the world. And the most delightful
and effective way of acquiring knowl
edge is through travel. It broadens
the scope of one’s conversational pow
ers, deepens the school-room impres-
the mandarin, with his rods and the
bastinado, could not wring out con
fession for such things.
Here is an evangelist convicted of
sin because he has not preached the
cross of Christ. Not only to the Greeks
and Americans, but to the Chinese is
the cross a stumbling block, an of
fense sometimes. An opposing teach
er rather full of his own knowledge,
an intellectualist accepting Christ with
his head, but averse to any heart feel
ing, and more set against confession
of sins as displaying too much emo
tion, forsooth! He could not hold out
against God. “Others say they have
been feasting a week, but I have been
eating bitter medicine and I think it
has helped me.” An atheistic society
was completely cleaned out; even in
China, with its many false gods, has
begun to creep in the deadly breath of
atheism.
For years there has been a
steady, increasing and, sometimes as
we have thought about it and written
of it, a gratifying increase of member
ship by baptism; to some this gratify
ing part has faded before the paralyz
ing fact that for the number of our
membership the amount of work they
did, the numbers these brought in, the
power of their lives and testimony
The Golden Age for April 6, 1911.
Margaret Deberty Upshaiv,
sions concerning geographical and
historical data, and it lends a con
scious poise to the traveler that no
amount of reading, study nor “second
hand” seeing can *give.
Every American woman owes it to
herself to know the grandeur and won
der of this, “our own, our native land.”
The ignorance of some folks concern
ing their homeland is appalling. They
live their lives out chained down to
one little spot of earth, and die with
no knowledge or appreciation of the
majestic mountains that sweep the
azure canopy of heaven with their
waving plumes of verdure, or without
ever having felt the soul grow calm
and reverent and lifted up with un
speakable awe and trust in contempla
tion of “old ocean’s grey and melan
choly waste.”
It is a shame to live in a great coun
try like ours and never see it. You
get an idea that the whole earth is a
dinky little cabbage patch with a dingy
board fence around it.
It is like the answer the school
children in Topeka gave on their ex
amination.
The question was asked: “What is
a blizzard?”
The answer: “A blizzard is the in
side of a hen.”
I am just “dyin’ ” to tell you the
how and why of The Golden Age’s
sudden notion to adopt twenty-five
girls. Please write to me quick, and
in the meantime select your “bib and
tucker” and begin to get ready.
When we come home we will be so
full of information we can beat the
little boy’s bear story. It is a short
story, and the little boy told it to his
papa. Said he: “Papa, have you ever
heard the story of Algy and the bear?”
“No. Tell me about it.”
“Algy met a bear; the bear was
bulgy; the bulge was Algy.”
But, girls, your bulge will be more
substantial and elevating than a dozen
Algys.
And nobody will come home feeling
like the two boys who went abroad
together, either.
They had been chums at mllege,
and naturally expected to have a big
time. One of them conscientiously
wanted to visit every spot mentioned
were amazingly too little. Seeking
for the reason, the conviction has
grown that with holier living power
would surely follow. The small force
of missionaries has been entirely in
adequate to reach so many scattered
people for frequent instruction. For
such days and such cleansing we have
been praying for a long time. The
following account, by a Seminary stu
dent, will give you the Chinese view
point:
“On the 26th of the 10th Moon Pas
tor Goforth began an eight days’ re
vival service. After the third day
the Holy Spirit suddenly descended
filling the hearts of all present, mani
festing great power. With loud voices
and weeping every one cried out, none
not confessing sins in a most amazing
fashion. In the Hwanghien Boys’
Academy had been secretly organized
a “No-god” society, the members of
which had banded together with one
heart to resist and drive away the
Holy Spirit. When He descended the
Holy Spirit moved powerfully on them,
like as if knives were piercing their
hearts beyond their endurance. With
tears streaming down and crying out
earnestly they confessed their sin,
each saying, ‘I truly have been a great
enemy to Jesus. Oh, Lord, pardon
in the guide books; the other was
equally conscientious about having a
hilarious time. This inevitably led to
disagreements. In the course of one
of these tilts the lover of pleasure said
tauntingly:
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ON THE BOULEVARD, SOUTH
BARBARA, CAL.
“Perhaps you are doing these places
so thoroughly because you are going
to write a book about your trip.”
“I should,” replied the other prompt
ly, “if Robert Louis Stevenson hadn’t
pre-empted the title I want to use.”
“What’s that?”
“Travels with a Donkey.”
Bushels of Room.
As the children say, “there’ll be no
‘scrouging’ ” in our Pullman, either.
Everybody will be given plenty of el
bow room, although we can not ask
for such wild extravagancies in the
matter of space as Ike Stevens en
joyed in the acquisition of his new
babies.
Two Pullman car porters met under
the shed after a night’s run, and one
asked the other:
“Where’s Ike Stevens, Bill? He
hasn’t been on the job for two
nights?”
“No. He had a birth up at his
house.”
“Girl or boy?”
“Twins.”
“Huh! I don’t call that a birth; I
call that a section.”
If you want to have the best time
you ever had in all your life, write me
quick and get your name entered as
one of The Golden Age Daughters for
a tour of “THE WONDERFUL
WEST.”
this my transgression!’ From this
may be seen how diligently the devil
is at work to harm the Church of our
Lord. We have with us, however, the
great power of the Holy Spirit to ex
terminate this evil root. Thanks to
God for His abounding grace.”
Perhaps you would think it a very
disorderly thing for a great body of
people to pray aloud at one time; I
thought so once myself, but having
heard it once under the presence of
the Spirit I can never again feel that
it was not proper, orderly and exceed
ingly fitting. The open confession of
sin is another point of objection, that
is, the Chinese, who have greatest
reason to fear uncovering of sins, do
make that objection sometimes. Mr.
Goforth never makes propositions or
tells any one they must confess or
cry; he preaches very plainly, telling
of the action of the Spirit in conquer
ing sin in cases he has known, then
he calls for prayer. This open confes
sion is from an inner compulsion, and
has a great moral effect. Time and
again have men determined to resist
and spoil such meetings; sometimes
it is a crowd of school boys, but al
ways, so far as I have been informed,
this has been overcome and the sin
of opposing God has been exposed.
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