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Markets---Continued
GRAIN.
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
Wheat—No. 2 red ............ 92@%4%
SOILONG T G s
OB NG B 0E ki
CHICAGO, March 31.—There was fur
ther recessions in the wheat market at
the opening of the grain market to-day
on additional rains in Nebraska and
Kansas. Liverpool was lower for fu
tures and spots.
Corn was % 10 %c lower on increased
;fferings from longs and cautious buy
1.
Oats were % to Ye¢ lower.
Provisions were easier.
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
Grain quotations to 1 p. m.:
. . 1 e
High. Low. P.M. Close.
WHEAT--
May.:., .7 98 909% 91% 9214
July oo ey 8614 865 87%
Bept.ii o AR 859 6 867
CORN-—=
May..... Wy 671% 6714 6814
July ..... 683% €75 67% 6815
5ept...... 8% 67 % 67% 683
OATS—
May. 7., 3¢ 3814 38% 39
July. .. 398 38% ° 38 7% 395%
Sept..... 3814 37% 37% 381,
PORK—
May.... 21.87% 21.75 20.72% 20.80
July.... 2195 21.75 20.80 20.9%0
Sept.... 31100 20.80 20.80 bk
LARD -
May.... 10.521% 10.45 10.47'% 10.45
July.... 10.76 10.62% 10.65 10.62%
RIBS—
May.... 11.12% 1160 11.02% 11.05
July.. .. 8.31% 1% 11.17% 11.26
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO, Mareh 31..—-Wheat, No. 2
2 red, 93@93%; No. 3 red, 92%; No. 2
hard winter, 91%@%2% . No. 3 hard win
ter, 914 @91%; No. 1 northern spring,
94@95% ; %\'o, 2 northern spring, 53@%4;
No. 3 spring, 92%.
Corn, No. 2, €813; Neo. 3, 66@67%; No.
8 white, 6714, @68% No. 3 yellow, 634 @
661 ; No. 4, 63%.@65; No. 4 white, 62
@65; No. 4 vellow. 63% @65. £
vats, No. 3 white, 38, @39; No. 4
white, 37%@38%; slamlarfi. 39% @39%.
CHICAGO CAR LOTS. |
Following are receipts fer Tnesda)f
end estimated receipts for Wednesday:-
T j |'rqeaduxw_gy_'ag-_y“
Wheat % o &5 29 o
Com: Vot e ot 21° -
Oats . T o o i 143 8
Boge . ooty LS 10N 29,006 ‘
BRADSTREET’S VISIBLE.
Following shows Bradstreet's visible
supply changes of grain for the week:
Wheat, decrease, 4.270,060 bushels.
Corn, decrease, 504,000 bushels.
Qats, decrease, 539,000 bushels.
LIVERPOOL GRAIN,
LIVERPOOL, March 31.—Wheat open
ed 'i to %d lower. At 1:30 p. m. the
market was 3%d lower: closed zd lower.
Corn opened %d lower. At 1:30 p. m.
lihe market was %d lower; olosed %<
ower,
PRIMARY MOVEMENT.
WHEAT— 11914, | 1818
Recelpts <. . l 597.000 | Holiday.
Shipments . . . . .| 449,000 | Holiday.
CORN— | b
Receipts . . . . . .| 813,000 | Holiday.
Shipments © 0 [ | 536,000 | Holiday.
' ST. LOUIS CASH.
ST. LOUIS, March 31.—Wheat: No.
2 red, Y2@%4%;: No. 3 red, %1% @¥%2; No.
2 hard, 0% @931%; No. 3 hard, "0@93'%.
Corn: No. 2, 69; No. 3, 651%; No. 4, 62
@64'%: No. 4 yellow, 69; Ne., 3 yellow,
6516 @56%: No. 4 vellow, 64% @64%; No.
2 white, 70%: No. 3 white, 67@$8; No.
4 white, 6414 @65%.
Oats: No. 2, 40; No. 3, 39%: No. 2
white, 40% @41%; No. 3 white, 39% @
40'%; No. 4 white, 34; standard, 40%@
40%.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO, March 21.—Hogs—Recelpts
14,000. Market 5¢ lower. Mixed and
butchers, $8.40@8.65; good heavy, $8.50@
8.65: rough heavy, $8.25@8.45; light, $8.40
@8.65; pigs, $6.60@8.30; bulk, $8.50@8.60.
Cattle—Receipts 4,000. Market weak.
Beeves, $7.00@%.40; cows and heifers,
$3.50@8.25; stockers and feeders, $6.40@
78(5); Texans, $6.50@7.90; calves, $7.50@
9.25.
Sheep— Receipts 25,000. Market
strong. Native and Western, $4.20@
6.25; lambs, $5.75@8.50.
ST. LOUILS, Mareh 31.—Cattle: Re
ceipts, 4,200, including 300 Southerns;
native market steady: native Dbeef
steers, 7.50@9.25; cows and heifers, 4.25
@8.75; stockers and feeders, 5.00@8.00;
calves, 6.R0@9.30; Texas market steady:
stgesrf. 5V5@8.00; cows and heifers, 4.50
@6.65.
Hogs:' Receipts, 11,500; market 5 to
10¢ lower:; mixed and butchers, &Gbg
§.70; good heavy, 8.65@8.70; roug
heavy, 8.00@8.25: lights, 8.60@8.70; pigs,
7.00@8.00; bulk, £.55@8.55.
Sheep: Receipts, 2,000; market slow:
muttons, 5.75@6.50; yearlings, 5.75@7.25;
Jambs, 7.00@8.35.
ATLANTA PROVISION MARKET,
(Corrected by White Provision Com
pany.)
Cornfield ham, 10 te 12 average, 17T%¢
Cornfield hams, 12 to 14 average, 17%c
Cornfield skinned ham, 16 to 18 aver
age, 18c.
Cornfield picnic hams, 6 to 8 average,
14c.
Cornfield breakfast bacon, 25c.
Cornfield sliced breakfast bacen, 1 Ib.
boxes, 12 to case, $3.30 per case,
Grocers’ bacon, wh}: and narrow, 18%
Cornfield fresh pork sausage, link or
bulk, 256 Ib. buckets, 13%c.
s Cornfield Frapkforts, 10 Ib. cartons,
4c,
Cornfield Bologna, 25 Ib. bexes, 12e.
. Cornfiaid luncheon ham, 25 lb. boxes,
4%ec.
(l?nrnflem smoked link sawsage, 25 Ib.
boxes. Ilc.
Cornfield Frankforts in pitkh‘ kits $2.
Cornfield pure lard, tierce basis, 13%c.
Country style lard, 50-Ib. tims, 11%e.
Compound lard, tierse basis, Ye.
D. 8. extra ribs, IZec.
D. S. beltles, medium average, 13e.
D. S. rib bellies, light average, 13%e.
ATLANTA BANK CLEARINGS,
Clearings to-day, March 31, $2,007,393.88
Same day last year..,..ss 1L777,136.19
Increase for day ......%eae . 320.267.69
g:or month of Mareh... .. e 66,235,637.79
e month last mr...:s:é 58,908,458 88
Increase for month., .. 7,332,178.91
THE GEQRGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS.
| Atlanta Markets |
EGGS—Fresh ecountry,. candled, 20c.
BUTTER—Fox River ana Meadow
Gold, in 1-Ib. blocks, 32c.
UNDRAWN POULTRY—Drawn. bead
and feet on, per pound: Hens 16@17¢c;
fries, 25@30c; rosters. §@1l0c; tur
kefi.nwmg to fatness, 23c.
E POULTRY — Hens, 15¢ Ib.;
roosters, 30c; broilers, 30@40c per
%Qund: puddle ducks, 30@35¢c: Pekins, 83
40c; geese, 65@T75¢ each; turkeys, ow
‘ng to fatness, 19@20¢ pound.
FISH.
FISH—-Bream and perch, 7¢c pound,
Inaprr. 10¢ pound; treut, 11c pound;
bluefish, Tc pound; pompano, 25 pound,
mackerel, 12c pound; mixed fish, Eg&'
round: black fish, 10c pound: mullet,
13 per barrel.
FRUITS AND PRODUCE.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES—AppIes
$6.50@6.75 per barrel; strawberries, 15@
17%c - qt.; Florida celery, - $1.75@
2.00; Indian River oranges, $3.00@3.25,;
banapas, 21 @3e .pound; Florida cab
bage, per crate,’ $2.00; peanuts, lb.,
fancy Virginia, 6% @7c; cheice, 5% @6c;
cauliffower, $3.00@3.50 per crate; snap
beans, $3@3.25 per crate; English peas,
;240 per hamper; lettuce, well headed,
2.50 per drum; grapefruit, $2.75@3.00
per crate; tangerine oranges, $5.00@
3.50; kumquatz, 7% @B¢ per pound,
beets, $3.50 in %-bbl. crates; eueumbers,
$3.00@3.50; eggplants, $2.50@2.75 crate;
bell peripers_ $2.50@3.50; tomatoes, fancy
six-basket ecrates, active, $2.50@2.75;
squash, in large crates, $2.00@3.50; on
iens, red and yellow, $4.75 per bushei;
sweet potatces, pumpkin yams, $3.00;
choice, $2.60 per bushel; Irish potatoes,
$2.75 per bag containing 214 bushels.
| NUTS,
Brazi] nuts, 16@18c per pound; Eug
lish walnuts, 14?16:: per pound; pecans,
owing to size, 12%.®@30¢ per pound.
| FLOUR AND GRAIN.
.~ FLOUR — Postell’s FElegant, $7.00;
Omega, $6.25; Carter's best, $5.50; Qual-
Ity (finest patent), $6.10; Gloria (self
rising), $5.90, Results (self-rising). $5.40;
Swan’s Down (fancy patent), $5.75; Vie~
tory (im towel sacks). $0.25; Victory
(best patent), $6.10; Monogram, $6.00;
Puritan (highest patent), $5.60; Golden
Grain, $5.60; Faultless (finest patent),
§5.65; Home Queen (highest patent),
'§5.60; Paragon (highest patent), $5.60;
Sunrise (half patent), $5.10; White
Cloud (higlesl patent). $5.35: White
Daisy, $5.35; White Lily (high patent),
'55.60; Diadem (fancy high patent), $5.75;
Water Lily (patent), $5.15; Southern
Star (patent), $5.10; Sunbeam, $5.10;
Ocean Spray (patent) $5.10; King Cot
ton (half patent), $4.90; Tulip Flour
(straight), $4.50; low grade, 98-Ib.
sacks, $4.
Dried keet pulp, 100-1 b saeks, $1.65.
CORN—Choice red cob, 94c; No. 2
white, 92¢; white new, %c¢: yellow, 90c.
MEAL—Plain, 96-Ib. sacks, 88c; 48-Ib.
mixed 9%0c; 24-Ib. sacks, 92e.
OATS—Far Cf‘; white clipped, 57¢; No.
2, 56¢; fancy white 55¢; No. 2 white, 54c;
mixed 53¢; mill oats, 50c.
- Cotten seed meal (Harper), $25; Cremeo
Feed, $27.00.
Cotton seed hulls, sacked, $12.50.
GROUND FEED—Purina feed, 100-1 b
sacks $1.70; Purina molasses feed, $1.85;
King Cern horse feed, $1.65; Larro dairy
feed, $2.00; Arab horse feed, §1.75; All
needa feed, $1.65; Suerene dairy feed.
'51.60; alfalfa meal, 100-lv. saeks, §1.50;
Victory horse feed, 100-lb. sacks, $1.65;
Fat Maker, horse and mule feed, $1.30;
A B C feed, $1.60; Milko dairy feed.
- $1.60; ailfalfa meal, 100-Ib. sacks, $1.50.
. SEEDS—Tennesse¢ biue stem, $1 40;
"Appler oats, Tse; Texas red rust proof
oats, 64c; Oklahoma red rustproof oats
63c; Georgia seed rye, 2%-bushel sacks,
'51.20;, Tennessee seed rye, 2-bushel
sacks, sl.€o; Tennessee barley, $1.00;
Burt oats, 66c; Orange cane seed, $1.77
Amber cane seed, $1.75.
. CHICKEN FEED-—Beei scraps, 100-
Ib. sacks, $3.25; 50-Ib. sacks, $3.50: Aunt
Patsy Mash, I€o-Ib. sacks, $2.25; Pu
rina pigeon feed, $2.50; Purina scratch
feed, bales, $2.40; Purina baby chick
feed, $2.20; Purina scratch, 100-Ib. sacks,
' $2.10; Puwrina chowder, dozen pound
ckages, $2.50; Purina Chewder, bales,
f;so; Purina scratch, 12-pkg bales,
$2.30; Victory baby chick, $2.20: Vietory
serateh, 50-Ib. sacks $2.15; 100-Ib. sacks,
$2.10; No. 1 chicken wheat, per bu., $1.35
No. 2 p:zrlbsush;i'l. 31.2]5; :&'?{,er shekll. Toc;
Eggo, $2.15; charcoal, 50-llb. sacks, per
lmounda. $2.00.
~ SHOR'TS—Red Dog, 98-Ib. sacks, $1.85:
white, 100-Ib. sacks, $1.85; dandy mid
dling, 100-Ib. sacks, gl.u; fancy, 75-lb
sacks, $1.80; P. W, 75-Ib. sacks, $1.70;
brown, 100-Ib. sacks, $1.70; Germ meal.
75-Ib. sacks §1.70; Georgia feed, T5-lh.
sacks, $i656; Germ meal, 75-Ib. cotton
sacks, $1.70; clover leaf, 75-Ib. sacks,
$1.607 bran, 75-Ib. sacks, $1.55: 100-Ib.
sacks, $1.55; bram anmd shorts, nixed,
$1.60; Germ meal. Homeo, $1.65.
~ HAY—Per hundredweight: No. 1 al
falfa hay, $1.35; Timothy echoice,
large bales, $1.30; large light clover
mixed, $1.20; Timothy No. 1, small
bales, $1.25; Timothy No. 2 hay, $1.15;
heavy clover hay, $1.15; No 1 light
clover mixed, $1.20; alfaifa choice, pea
en, $1.35; alfalfa Noc. 1, pea green,
ffzs; clover hay, $1.20; Timothy stand+
ard, $1.05; Timothy, small bales, $1.00;
straw, 65¢; Bermuda, 9%c.
. SALT-—One hundred peunds, 53c; san
brick (plain), per case, $2.25: salt brick
(medicated), per case, $4.85; salt red,
per hundredweight, §1; salt white rock,
per hundredweight, 9%6¢c: Granocrysral,
per case, 25-lb. sacks, 75e; salt, Omone,
case, 30 chas:s. 90c¢; 60-Ib. sacks,
m; 25-Ib. sacks, 18ec.
: PROVISION MARKET,
(Corrected by White Provisioa Co.)
Cornfield hams, 10 to 12 average, 17%c.
' Cornfield hams, 12 te 14 average, 17%e.
~ Skinned hams, 16 to 18 average, 18c.
’ Picnic hams, §to 8 average, 13%e.
Cornfield breakfast bacon, 24c.
~ Sliced bacon, 11-pound boxes, 12 to
case, 3.30
Grocers’ bacon, wide and narrow, 18c.
Cornfield fresh pork sausage, link or
bulk, 25-pound buckets, 13'%e.
Cornfield Frankforts, 10-pound car
tons, Il4e.
Cornfield bologna, 25-pound boxes, 12c.
Cornfie'd luncheen ham, 25-pound
boxes, 14%e.
Cornfleld smoked link sausage, 25-
pound boxes, llc.
zo(;ornfleld Frankforts, In pickle, kits,
Cornfield pure lard, tierce basis, 12¢.
Country style lard, 50-pound tins, IZe.
Compound lard, tierce basis, 9%ec.
P. S. extra ribs, 12%ec.
D. S. bellies, medium average, 13e.
D. S. rib bellies, llfiht average, 13'%4e¢.
GROCERIES.
SUGAR-—Per pound: Standard gran
ulated, 4%c; New York refined, 4%e;
plantation, 44e.
COFFEE—Roasted (Arbuckle), $20.75;
AAAA, $14.50 in bulk; in bags and bar
rels, $3l; green. 200
RICE-— Head, 44@0%; fancy head
m. according to grade.
i Wmfl“ Ib.; Seoce,
9%e nd; ke te, B%e¢; Cotto
lense, ms per case;, Snowdrift, $6.60 per
taxe. :
THE WORK OF THE CHURCH
Text: *“As My Pather hath sent Me
even so send I you.'—Jehn xx:2l.
There are many things that are some
what cloudy as regards the church of
Jesus Christ. Its doctrines, ordinances,
words and works, This eught not to
be, but we are dealing with things as
they are, and not with ideal conditions.
If we should agree to let the spirit have
the right of way in our lives. He would
lead us into all truth. There weuld be no
error if we would study in the white
light of the Holy Ghost's illumination;
but alas! we place in the forefront our
own prejudices and preconceived views
and notions, and as a result there arise
various views and almost endiess dis
putes and tons of potential literature
that attempt to bolster up the tottering
walils of our human erection.
But amidst the ecclesiastical logo
machies of the present day there re
mains a settled fact, a field that has not
been invaded, a sheltered spot where no
warfare has been waged, and that place
is bounded by the words of the text.
However, we may differ among our
selves comcerning doctrines and ordi
nances and polity, there is not room for
any one to doubt that the work of
Christ while He was here on earth is
the work of the individual members of
His church. “Follow Me’ carries weight
with it. He who would follow Jesus
must take up His cross and follow Him,
and the via dolorosa must be trodden
as well as the road that leads in
triumph into Jerusalem. One must be
willing to walk the way that leads to
Golgotha carrying a cross, as well as to
ride in triumphant glory with shouts eof
Hosanna and wreaths of flowers amid
the plaudits of the onlooking throngs.
Upon this we all agree. Christ's work
is our work.
Dealing With the Down-and-Outs.
Our eompassionable Lord came to seek
and to save tnat wnich was lost. The
lost sheep of the house of lsrael ap
pealed to Him. One of the sweetest and
most helpful lessons in all His earthly
ministry was the one He so graphically
taught with the stery of the Good Sa
maritan. No picture could more ac
curately " portray the conditions of the
human race lost in sin than that of the
fellow who on the Jerusalem-Jericho
road fell among thieves and was beaten
and robbed and left bleeding and half
dead without any one to care for hin.
The law and ceremonial rights through
representatives passed by on the other
side, but the Good Samaritan stopped.
The need of a fallen man in trouble ap
pealed to his compassionate heart, and
he did all that was necessary to restore
the man who was beaten to his former
condition. The inhabitant of the way
side cove, poor and bleeding and needy,
appealed to Jesus 1908 years ago. He
appeals to Him to-day. And no amount
of false reasoming can get a sensible,
thinking man to believe that He is not
responsibility. For vears the church
slept over her rights and privileges. She
was indifferent to the call of suffering
humanity. But in recent years she has
aroused herself and is now taking no
tice. ln the recent pamphlet gotten out
by the Men and Religion Foerward Move
ment in .Atlama. statistics are shown
and conditions made public that ought
to thriil the heart of every citizen of
the Georgia capital. The eyes of the
Christian world are turned upon At
lanta. The followers of the Man of
Nazareth are looking and watching and
praying for the success of the meve
ment. Atlanta is in the limelight
cleanliness, purity. A city like that,
whose buailder and maker is Geod, is
what the people of the State and ef the
vorid are expecting.
The Churches of Atlanta.
The Christian men who are driving
evil out and setting up instead right
and law and order and whose efforts
are making a Christlike town deserve
the gratitudeof every business man in
Atlanta, whose gain they have contrib
uted so much toward.
For a long while the Baptists of Geor
gia were quiet and had little to say.
At length they commenced to educate
and to agitate, and at first their small
contributions and numbers seemed to be
against real success. But their weak
nesses were persisterrtly peinted out,
and from press and platform and pulpit
a mighty erusade was waged, until to
day they are in the forefront of all de
nominations of the State. Sometimes
the surgeon's knife is necessary. BEvil
must be cut off, wrong wt down before
right can be set up. hen a boy on
my father's farm I noticed in the early
spring that the fields that were to be
cultivated and planted te corn and cot
ton were gome over with ax and grub
ing hoe, and bushes and trees and
b:irs were cut down ant destroyved
before cotton and ecorm plants would
grow sueccessfully. True it is that pris
oners can't be treated as princes, but
it is also true that they are men, and
however much good the churches of to
day may do they can mever do what
they might do until our priseners are
dealt with in a different style. “Do
unte others as you would have them do
unto you' is no mew doectrine. There
ism’'t a man in all of the State of Geor
gia who would be vulin? to receive the
treatment that many of the prisoners
receive. The wearing of siripes bas
tended mot only to hurt the prisoners,
but it has had its demoralizing effects
upon those whe looked on them. Our
children will never forget the impres
sion made upon their impressionable
young minds by the sight of men
chained and branded, as they so often
see them, for small crimes. The citizen
who calmly stands by and raises no
protest when a drunken man is placed
in charge of the criminals of his State
is not far short of a criminal himself.
The church in this werk is awakening
and efforts that are telling mightily for
righteousness are now everywhere be
ing put forth. To read the bulletin
re?errvd to is an inspiration. Its die
tion is perfect, its spirit high and ex
alted, and that is just one of the thou
sands of fillustrations that could be
cited whieh proves that the people of
our churches are gradually realizing
that the Master really meant to teach
that every sufferer in meed is our neigh
bor and clamors for belp that can not
consistently be denied by anvone, least
of all by a Christian.
The man who is unable to keep from
drinking liguor when it is near him and
who uses it to destroy both bedy and
mind is just as much in need of help as
the crazy man who tries to kill himself
with and destroy his usefulness with
any other poisonous substance. Christ's
kingdom can never be builded up as it
should be afong with the agcursed lguer
traffic. God and Mammen don't dwelk
together. Sam Jones, one of the streng
est and most unique and powerful of
the preachers of his day. well said that
the ‘‘grace of God and corn liquor
couldn’t stay in the same hide at the
same time.” Owr infant death rate is
fearful. Infant mortality is getting to
be one of our greatest problems. \What
will we do with the liquor problem? It
is a mighty question. Likewise it must
not be protected, but prohibited. Liguor
and lust go hand in hand. If the
churches of Georgia would iake one
fair, honest shot at the destructive lig
uer vulture in the State it would drop
instantly as dead as the fabied Hector.
Imagine if you can Jesus here on earth
to-day. Think you that His voice would
be stlent on this great evil? He would
stand on the street corners of Atlanta
and New Orleans and New York and
Chicago and pronounce woes against it
greater than He pronouneed against the
scribes, Pharisees and hypocrites of the
long ago. .
Nineteen hundred and twelve was a
great year in the history of our coun
try. We boast of our accompiishments,
of our civilization and schools. Compare
for a moment the school bill and the
liquor bill—the one $426,250,434, the
drink bill $1,750,000 000. China is ap
plying drastic measures to-day to rid
the iangdom of the awful opium habit,
while the liquor traffic is growing under
Christian domination. When will the
time arrive in our land when our peo
ple will be willing to stop the awful
traffic for sake of gain? Selfishness is
at the root of the entire matter. Re
eently a newspaper carried the state
ment that a minister of .great promi
nence had publicly stated that after ail
had been said the saloon had something
that could be said in favor of its serviece
to society. Well, when | read the state
ment I thought the preacher had about
exhausted something to talk abeut.
Nothing but bad ean be said in its
faver. What has it ever dene to heip
men? Even the saloonkeepers who have
made money have felt its blight upon
them as they watehed their money ltake
wings and fly ‘and saw it heeome a real
curse to the members of their family.
In its wake there lies wasted and
wrecked and ruined homes, blighted
lives, blackened reputations, shattered
health, deterioration of families and in
dividuals, fortunes wasted m riotous liv
ing, death and dampation. No good
thing has it ever done for individual or
community. No good thing will it ever
do. Like dead sea apples its promises
are but ashes and bitterness. Woe and
sorrow have been two words attendant
upon every thought about this, Ameri
ca's most blighting and baleful instita
tion. The drinking man is a disgrace
to himself, his family, his State and his
God. And in his weakness, in his vary
vileness, he calls to us for help Shail
we assume the attitude of the priest or
that of the Good Samaritan? Shall we
as Christians put liguor out or let it
alone?
Feminine Unfortunates. -
It is bad enough for men to live in
sin and te leve sin. It is even worse
for woman to give herself to the serv
ice of the devil. Feor long years the
ehurch has not only tolerated and re
mained silent concerning the white slave
traffic. but it has had notbing loud 1o
say against the conditions which fos
tered it. At length it is speaking in
po uncertain terms. When Jesus in
the long ago stooped and wrote on the
ground and arese gnd looked for the wc
cusers of the poor unfortfinate who also
themselves were guilty, He found none.
Gradually the publicity given to evil and
evildoers is foreing wickedness in high
places to retrench, Occasionally a howl
is heard when sin is attacked aud a
wealthy church man sees his revenue
touched, but by degrees the Christian
world is demanding a living wage for
the girls of our country, and this de
mand is being yielded to by the powers
that be. The weakest saint upon his
knees can make the devil and his forces
ery out. No wonder that when mikitant
business men take the matter-up and
go about the crusade against it in an
intelligent, businesslike way that a
mighty yell goes up, but the good work
goes on.
The fires kindled in Atlanta are grad
ually eatching in Birmingham, Dallas,
Little Rock, Charlette, Asheville, Ath
ems, and in the great metropolitan eities
of the United States. The ‘‘red light
distriets,”’ where vultures prey upon vir
tue, where the exceeding sinfulness of
sin is more andl more manifest, are be
ing clesed. Sinful women are repent
ing. Men who were more brutes than
citizens have sorrowed over conditions,
and a radical change has taken place as
regards vice. Fight on, oh! soldiers of
Christ! The great Captain has said
that the gates of hell should not pre
vail against your onslaught. If at the
first march around the walls fail to rall,
keep on in God’s strength until the sev
enth time, and His power will prevail
ard the walls of vice and evil will fall
with a crash.
A Mission of Service.
Jesus was not an epicurean in his lifs
and teachings. Self always came last
with this Master Teacher. Duty eame
before pleasure. The moving pleture
shows are in many instances of a harm
less nature. Suppose that the money
spent on the movies daily were spent
for education and charity and missions,
Soft grinks are usecless and eould be
dispensed with. Suppese that the doi
lars used in this way to gratify seif
were given to the poor?” It would be
well, as we consider the matter of money
and benevolence, to note that God holds
us responsible for sins of omissien as
well as for sins of commissien. ‘That
we are not only responsibie for the
money that we have te spend for char
ity, but that likewise we are responsi
ble for that which we do not have but
possibly which has been wasted in riot
ous or frivelous living. ‘'Then shall the
King say unto them on His right hand,
Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the workl, For | was an
hungered and ye gave Me meat. | was
thirsty and ye gave Me drink. [ was a
stranger and ye teok Me in, naked and
ye clotheg Me, | was sick and ye vis
ited Me, | was in prison and ye came
unto Me. Then shall the rightecus
answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we
Thee an hungered and fed thee, athirst
and gave Thee drink” When saw we
Thee a stramger and took Thee in, or
naked and clothed Thee? Or when saw
we Thee sick and in prison and came
unto Thee? Ar/d the King shall answer
and say unto them, Verily I say unte
you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of .the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unte Me.” The mission
of the Master is that eof His church.
Where he led we should follow. What
He commanded we should do. For in
doing what He has commanded we have
His premised presence alway, even unto
the end of the age.
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