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THE INDEX FOR 1893.
Wo commence with this, the first
issue of the New Year volume of
the Christian Index. Wo trust we
have made arrangements to give our
readers a more acceptable paper than
ever before. We have engaged
some of the ablest contributors to
our colums and they will appear all
through the year. We shall have
able contributions from Georgia
brethren, interesting articles from
brethren in other states and impor
tant matters from time to time from
some of our missionaries. Before
January passes, Bro. Diaz, of Cuba,
will interest our readers.
We have the paper divided into
departments, so the reader may turn
at any time to the page desired.
Wo desire to make our Georgia
news page complete.- This can only
bo done by brethren writing us short
news letters.
The Index begins the New Year
by adding a job department to its
equipment. We are prepared to
print anything from a good sized
pamphlet down, and hope soon to
execute orders for printing books, if
Called upon.
We will use more effort this year
to make the Index do good and ad
vance tho cause of Christ, believing
we shall bo blessed in so doing. We
want ten thousand subscribers be
fore tho year ends. Shall we have
them? Wo ask you, brethren, to
help us extend the circulation and
influence of the Index.
PASTORAL VISITING.
In an excellent essay on this im
portant subject, wo find this short
suggestive paragraph:
“Do you think itrny duty to visit?,”
said ayoung minister to an older one.
“Yes” was the reply, “and if you
don’t intend 1,0 do it, you ought to
get out of the way.”
And yet we must somewhat quali
fy the deliverance. 'There is visiting
and visiting. Every pastor should
know his people, and to do this he
must see thorn in their homes. The
average church member values a pas
tor in propotion to tho personal in
terest in him and his family shown
by the pastor. Able and eloquent
sermons do not reach him near so
readily as do the personal hand
grasps, and kind words of sympathy
’spoken in tho family group, the
counting room, the store, tho work
shop, or by tho highway. Every
pastor worthy of his high calling, ap
preciates the influence he thus gains
over his flock, and will consequently
try to do his duty in this direction.
But there is another side to the
subject. Every church has its chron
ic grumblers whom no pastor this
side of heaven can satisfy. Some
one has wittily said that “each church
has its workers and its grumblers;
the grumblers never work, and the
workers never grumble.” Whatever
may be true as to that, certainly Dr.
I’.S.Henson does uotput it too strong
ly when he says:
“There are sensitive souls in every
church who are apt to suffer from
real or imaginary neglect, and no
amount of temporal orspiritul minis
tration will ever quite cure them of
this constitutional predisposition.”
He is the wise pastor who knows
Low to deal patiently with such sen
sitive ones. Wo do not mean that
sort of wisdom which practically
transforms the minister into a syc
ophant, and scarcely removes him
from down-right hypocrisy. We
have seen instances where pastors
positively meFited the disgust of hon
orable and self-respecting men and
women, so apparent was tho insin
cerity of their gushing words and
obsequious conduct. Above all else
tho minister should be a self-respect
ing Christian gentleman in all his in
tercourse in public and private with
bis people. He should “magnify his
office” and see that it is properly res
pected by those to whom he minis
ters. In a true sense ho is the ser
vant of the church; in an equally im
portant sense he is the shepherd, the
leader, the teacher. No ohuich can
long have any proper regard for a
pastor who does not maintain his po
sition in these relations to tho peo
ple. The scriptural injunctions along
those linos are very impressive. Jes
us said “Whosoever would become
great amopg you, shall be your
minister, and whosoever would be
first among you, shall be your ser
vant.” Yet of those same ministerial
servants of the churches we find it
written; “Obey them that have the
rule over you, and submit to them;
for they watch in behalf of your
souls, as they that shall give account;
that they may do tigr with joy, and
out with grief; for this were unprofi-
table for you.” The divinely given
name for the pastor is bishop, which
signifies overseer, and impli s a cer
tain authority to rule. Among the
qualifications necessary for a bishop,
one w’as that lie “ruleth well his own
house, for if a man knowth not how
to rule his own house, how shall he
take care of the church of God?”
From this passage it is clear that the
Bishops, or pastors, were invested
with an authority bearing some analo
gy to the authority which the head
of a family exercises over his house
hold. Whatever that authority may
be, certainly, he who is by the word
of God invested with it, is entitled to
the loving and respectful regard of
the people he serves as pastor.
We write these things because pro
foundly convinced that much of the
popular demand for “pastoral visi
ting” overlooks the only scriptural
basis on which the pastor’s duty and
work can be placed. In the dis
charge of his duty, the pastor must
be the final judge of the nature of
his work. He must decide how his
time shall be spent, and what propor
tion of that time shall be devoted to
the various duties of his responsible
position. Dr. Cuyler, who so persis
tently and earnestly urges “pastoral
woik,” would be considered a very
poor pastor by most of our town and
city churches. He says “Every true
pastor will visit every family in his
charge at least once every year!”
The popular cry for pastoral visiting
would vote such a paotor absolutely
lazy! A sister, when remonstrated
with for her neglect of the sanctuary,
replied; “Why, Igo to church oftener
than the pustbr comes to see me.”
The truth is that pastoral visiting can
not be gauged by the number of calls
jotted dow n in the pastor’s book
The work is to be considered from a
higher than the numeral point of
view. T'hc true pastor will exercise
a sanctified common sense in this
matter, and will strive to fulfil his
ministry conscientiously, “not as
pleasing men, but God who proveth
our hearts.”
Dr. Andrew Broaddus, whose re
cent article we quoted in our last
issue, publishes the following card
in Gee Religious Herald, which ex
plains itself:
“The allusion, in my sketch of Dr.
A. HL Poindexter, to tho views of
Dr. E. 11. Johnson, Professor of
Systematic Theology in Crozer Sem
inary, was induced by reading iu the
Examiner of Nov. 3rd, an article
from Dr. Johnson’s pen, entitled
“The Possibilities of a United
Church.” In a private note Dr.
Johnson says I misstated his position
by applying to all Baptists what ho
said “of those English Baptists who*
do not require baptism in any form
as a condition of church member
ship.” 1 did not understand Dr.
Johnson in this restricted application
of what he wrote ; but, of course, I
accept his statement of his position
and withdraw anything I may have
written that may be in conflict with
it.
I would not knowingly do injus
tice to Dr. Johnson or to anyone
else. A. B.
We felt sure, and so expressed
our opinion that injustice had been
done our excellent brother at Cro
zer.
At tho recent South Carolina Bap
tist Convention, Dr. Dickinson of
the Religious Herald raised the ques
tion whether it is necessary for the
Home and Foreign mission boards
to publish the Home Field and For.
cign Mission Journal. Ho said that
“if one tenth of the labor spent in
preparing matter for tho Foreign
Mission Journal and the Home
Field were given to supplying such
matter to tho Baptist weekly papers
it will bo far better for the Boards
and for all concerned.”
There is much force in Dr. Dick
inson’s position, but we understand
the Herald to refuse to publish such
matter for our boards, if the same
matter is furnished tho other week
lies. Are we right?
DR. FROST ACCEPTS-
Information has reached us that
Dr. J. M. Frost, Secretary of the S,
S.Board of the Southern Baptist Con
vention, has accepted the call of the
First Baptist Church, Nashville,
Tenn, This involves his resignation
as Secretary.
We congratulate the church, but
lament tho loss sustained by the
Board, and by the Sunday Schools of
he South.
Mr. John D. Rockefeller has pledg.
ed another million dollars to tho
Chicago University. He proposes
to give this sum in five per cent,
bonds on the second day of Decem
ber next. This makes a total given
by Mr. Rockefeller, 13,500,000, be
side a hundred thousand given for
the erection of the Divinity , school
buildings.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY JANUARY &, 1893.
SLAVERY AT CHICAGO-
Major T. 11. Blacknall, who is
said to be thoroughly qualified for
the enterprise he has taken in hand
is preparing an exhibit for the
world’s fair at Chicago of “African
Slavery as it existed fifty years ago.”
This is what he says in “The Atlan
ta Constitution, of December 27th,
1892.”
“As a historical, national and edu
cational feature, in the great calen
dar of the world’s history, the sub
ject in relation to the past, the pres
ent and the future, is of universal
and paramount interest. Viewed
from the standpoint of great results
no grander achievement has this
country accomplished than that of
civilizing and restoring to liberty
these strange people.
“It is proposed to present to the
civilized world at the great Colum
bian exposition at Chicago in 1893,
a representation in vivid reality of
all the various phases of African
slavery from the beginning to end
embracing scenes of overwhelming
intetest. as true to nature as nature
is to itseif, and that will incidentally
convey to the mind an object lesson
of what, through the instrumentali
ties of divine providence has been
done for the African race.
“We propose to display at the
world’s fair a complete ante-bellum
southern slave plantation, not on
canvas, but in living reality, consist
ing of the mansion, ginhouse, cotton
press, negro cabins, in fact, every
house and every equipment that
constituted the make-up of a well
regulated slave plantation fifty jears
ago, together with its quota of ne
groes—about 100.
Tho major says “that nothing will
be displayed, calculated to wound
the feelings of any visitor from any
part of the civilized world ”
He might as well have left out
this apologetic sentence, inasmuch
as tho whole civilized world has
been engaged in the business. It is
like the receiver of stolen goods
apologizing to the thief. Especially
was it unnecessary in regard to slav
ery in the South where the “barba
rous savage was civilized, Christian
ized and (violently) made a free
American citizen.” We have given
only a part of Maj. Blacknail’s plan.
It will certainly be a most interest
ing and instructive feature of the
Columbian Exposition if the details
are represented as proposed.
Here follow two widely divergent
views taken from different stand
points, by two Southern Baptist pa
pers. .
1. “The highest compliment over
bestowed upon Southern civilization
was the enfranchisement of the ne*
gro. The amonders of the constitu
tion virtually declared by this act
that the negro's condition had been
so improved by contact with South
ern civilization that he was ready
without a moment’s preliminary in
struction to exercise the sovereign
powers and perform all the func
tions of citizenship.—Baptist Cour
ier.
2. It is strange what funny ideas
some religious editors have. There
was no compliment to Southern civ
ilization in the enfranchisement of the
negro. It was done by the Republi
can party in order to perpetuate it
self in power. The wholesale en
franchisement of the negro, without
regard to his qualification as a voter
was a crime against civilization and
was a compliment to nobody. It
was simply an exhibition of the cu
pidity of politicians, whose ambition
was to remain in power.”—Texas
Baptist.
No doubt the negro was made a
“free American citizen” too soon.
The motive of his freedom anil sud
den enfranchisement was to secure
through bis vote, a continuance of
party power and not to liberate the
slave. That partisan object has
been signally defeated. Slavery ac
complished much for the negro and
under wholesome restraint ho will
advance to a higher plane. The
hand of providence was in all the
changes.
One of our secular papers publish
is a “prize poem” on Christmas. The
poem tells of
"An angel in n sheen of glory,
A touch of EJcn's olden story."
though the reader is left to guess of
what part of the “story” the “glory’
is the “touch.” Then we have the
angel telling the “eastern shepherd”
to “follow the star” though tho
scripture record is strangely silent
about any such angelic instruction.
As the angel bids them follow the
star, the poem declares:
“And 10l there bursts upon tho eye
A star that lights the eastern sky."
From what apocryphal gospel the
poet got his information about tho
star wo have no means of acertain
ing. Certainly the New Testament
says nothing of any such star in the
,‘eastern sky.” The wise men, while
in tho east, saw tho star, but it must
have illumined the western sky, to.
wards which they hastened in their
eager joy. We know there is such
a thing as poetic license, but we res
pectfully submit that even that inde
terminate something should pay
some respect to the scripture record
when cliristmis prize poems are
writren t
Dr. Pilcher, of Virginia, in an
article in the Central Baptist, declares
that “the laws of our land are based
upon the law of God as revealed in
the Scriptures,” and that “the deca
logue is enforced by fines and pen
alties.” This is pretty hard on the
Scriptures! Vide tho conflicting
marriage and divorce laws of the
several States, to say nothing of the
laws licensing the nefarious liquor
traffic! Then, in what State does
the civil law enforce the decalogue?
We know of no civil code that provi
des “fines and penalties” for viola
tions of the first, second, fifth or
tenth commandments. Some of the
States do punish “blasphemy” and
violations of the other parts of the
decalogue, though they do not pro
fess to do so (except perhaps in the
case of the third and fourth com
mandments) because they are “laws
of God.” The civil laws against the
crimes of murder, adultery and per
jury are centuries older than the dec
alogue.
The New York Independent is
glad to see that an effort is making
by the Unitarians of Boston to a
rouse themselves to a sense of their
duty to give the Gospel to the un
enlightened.” The Independent is
justly recognized as, perhaps, the
most latitudinarian “religious” jour
nal in America. For some months
past its columns have been so devo
ted to politics, that there was scarce
ly room for the gospel. And now
when it does get a breathing spelb
it speaks approvingly of Unitarian
mission effort. If the Unitarians
preach the gospel to the unenlight
eneij, the missionaries they send out
must be of a different sort from that
from which they till their pulpits in
America. A people whose cardinal
article of faith (or rather of unbe
lief) is the denial of the divinity of
our Lord Jesus Christ, it seems to us,
know too little es the gospel to give
t to the “unenlightened.”
The Texas Baptist Standard in
forms its readers thusly:
“The Suez canal was a great event,
making the approach to Jerusalem
comparatively easy; and now Ameri
can cars are runjflug from Joppa to
the sacred cit>’’. (
This is decidedly rich! But per
haps our excellent brother’s geogra
phy locates (tinal and Jeru-
salem, in different relative positions
from those on ordinary maps. Just
what the Suez canal haa to do in
making Jerusalem more accessible to
us of this Western hemisphere, wo
are at a loss to determine, unless, ■>.-
deed one elects to visit Palistiuv by
way of the Pacific and Indian oceans!
Oh no, dear reader, we did not
write in our editorial on “,Baptism
and Salvation” that the penitent soul
is “mistified” by faith. Nor did we
write that “in believing that some
is accepted,” etc, What wo did say
was this: “In the sight of God the
penitent soul is justified by faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ. In believing
that soul is accepted of God and en
ters into the possession of eternal
life.” Poor manuscript and careless
compositors, to say nothing of bad
proof-reading, sometimes make the
types cut queer capers.
The Texas Baptist Standard makes
a good point in the following para
graph:—Give your pastor a salary
which will keep him from all anxie
ty about the support of his family,
and he will give you sermons which
will build you Up and call forth
praise from visiting brethren. We
know of pastors who find it impossi
ble to study, they are so haunted
with the dread of want. The church
can send whole bundles of rave into
the study of a half paid pastor.
The Central Railroad is returning
to its old methods of pleasing the
public and favoring its stockholders
with their free ride to Savannah
upon the occasion of the annual el
ection of directors. In the present
management we feel that the road
will soon bo again prosperous, and
at the same time more thoroughly
accommodate the public.
Os course. Writing to the Texas
Baptist Standard of Dr. Nunnally’s
going to Memphis, Rev. F. C. Mc-
Connell pithily says: “We Georgi
ans know that he was over-influen
ced. Nobody ever leaves Georgia of
his own accord.”
It seems tube the opinion of the press
that the lute election in Utah shows that
the influence of the Morman church in
politics is dead. The wicked system
which has defied both the government
and public opinion is dying from natural
causes. The influx of Gentiles from
the East has so swelled their numbers
that they uow outvote the mornious.
DR- BURROWS DEAD-
Dr. John L- Burrows, the venerable
father of Lansing Burrows D. D. of
Augnsta died very suddenly Monday
morning last at Stellaville, while
waiting for the train to go to Augusta.
Our readers will remember that Dr.
Burrows for the past year or more
has been residing with his son in Au
gusta. He recently agreed to preach
to the brethren at Stellaville and
Sunday went there to preach. He
was seventy-nine years old and had
not been sick, further than the in
firmities of old age. He was born in
New York. Up to two years since he
was pastor, for ten years, of the Free
mason church, Norfolk, Va., He
was one of our ablest and best men>
having a national reputation, a
strong and terse writer, a graceful and
eloquent speaker, a man of extensive
information and great usefulness.
The Index extends warmest sym
pathy and condolence to the devoted
son and family in their great bereave
ment.
Though there has been a large in
crease in giving for foreign missions,
there is not yet enough, if it could be
used, for that purpose, to make up
the deficit of §l*l,ooo, brought over
from last year. Much of the amounts
collected recently belongs to the Cen
tennial Permanent Fund, and cannot
be used for the current expenses of
the work. Unless there is large col
lections for the current, expenses made,
a larger deficit may be reported next
May.
Dr. F. E. Clark, who recently visit
ed Australia and New Zealand in the
interests of Christian Endeavor work,
gives some interesting fates respecting
the Baptist churches in those colonies.
Many of the Baptist churches he
found to be vigorous, influential and
respected everywhere for their evan
gelical zeal and devotion to the cause
of Biblical Christianity, They are in
the front rank in reference to reform
movements and aggressive religious
work.
The Foreign Mission Journal speaks
in a more cheerful strain about the
outlook. In every direction it says
the prospects brighten, The efforts
made by some brethren to draw off
some of the churches with an in
dependent work has {not seriously
affected any part of the work. And
the probabilities are that they will not
in future,
Dr, Clark speaks most encourag
ingly of Rev. Mr. VVhate, of Bris
bane, the capital of Queensland, and
of Rev. Silas Miad, of Adelaide. The
Flenders street Baptist, of which the
latter is pastor as “not only a church,
but a missionary headquarters, a trust,
repository and a theological semina
ry.”
The Foreign Mission Board have
recently been receiving numerous ap
plications for appointment to foreign
fields. It - now seems that the hope
of the Convention to send a hundred
new missionaries into the field may
be realized.
The Foreign Board are gratified at
the liberal gifts recently to the Lord’s
work. Up to December 10th the re
ceipts of the Board have been §6R
-418.4*' against §50,863.56 to the
same date last year.
Satolli lias reinstated Dr. Edward Mc-
Glynn as a Roman Catholic priest. The
Ledgers, New York correspondent says:
It was just six years ago on Christmas
that he received an order to go to Rome
and it was his disobedience of that order
that led to his suspension from the
priesthood. Not only does Dr. McGlynn
receive notice on the eve of Christmas of
his restoration to the priesthood, but his
former parishioners, delighted with the
news, make him a Christmas present of
82,000. and to-day, for the first time in
over live years, Dr. McGlynn said mass.
To-night he made his usual Sunday
evening address in Cooper Union, his
theme being “( hsistnias.” He received
an ovation. Just what Dr. McGlynn's
future position in the church will be is
not known. It is likely that he will go
into retirement for awhile. He may
also be transferred to another diocese.
His reappointment to the church of St.
Stephen's, in this city, would depend
upon Archbishop Corrigan.”
Sir William E. Gladstone reached his
eighty-third birthday, Dee. 20, 1892.
His good health ami longevity he at
tributes to moderate eating and regular
out-door exercise. lie has been Premier
of England four times, and is able to at
tend to the duties of his office, and to
make public addresses with comparative
ease, lie is one of the best Greek schol
ars iu England, is still a student, a con
stant contributor to tho literature of the
day, and able to contend, successfully,
with the strongest men of tho time on
questions of philosophy, politics, morals
and religion.
lie is neither too old to learn or to
work.
ludeed.ho well deserves to be called
“the grand old mail.”
Mr. Gladstones observations are
worthy of note. Tie says;
The older 1 grow, tho more confirmed
lamiu my faith and religion.” And
not only so. but ho added, “1 have been
in public life fifty-eight years, ami for
forty-seven of these years in the Cabinet
of the British Government: and during
those forty-sovcii years, 1 have been as
sociated witli sixty of the master minds
of the country, and all but live of tho
six were Cbristains.”
Most people strive to provide some
thing entertaining for their children to
read. There are quite a number of
papers devoted to children readers.
Many of our religious weeklies provide
a children’s corner.
This has been run entirely too far.
One feels happy to find some of the best
papers getting out of it. Take up some
child’s paper and scan the pieces that are
provided for your child and think so
berly for two minutes on the probable
bent of the mind fed on such food.
It might be well to have ’a little of the
kind of diet there set before them, but
you may be sure that such diet will
never give strength and appetite. We
often hear inind trainers say that the
mind like the body needs food adapted
to its growth. If this is true the ne
cessity for radical and immediate reform
in the matter of children’s corners and
children's papers is apparent. It must
be improper to cultivate the imagina
tion out of all proportion to the other
faculties even granting that the culti
vation is genuine which would be grant
ing far too much in most of the matter
printed in these periodicals. The idea
that children need a serial story long
drawn out to attract them to reading is
ridiculous. Some children take to read
ing like a duck takes to water, others
must be drawn into it, but never by the
use of material that ruins their taste.
It would pain you to know how many
have their taste for solid reading ruined
in childhood so that through life they
are either to gratify a morbid apetitc
for novels or made through years of
terrible mental discipline to correct
what might have been avoided in child
hood, Let the children read what you
read and talk to them about it until it
becomes a real living thing in their
minds. They will soon love to read and
appreciate as much of solid reading as
they would of tales.
It is not well for children to read daily
news papers unless we had an expunged
copy, so that they would not have their
blood curdled and their minds filled
with ugly expressions.
History, Biography, Poetry and scien
tific investigations will be enjoyed by
children as much proportionally as any
literature that can be provided fur
them.
A right good way to interest children
in reading is to allow each one of them
to subscribe for some good paper in his
own name. Not some paper that is full
of tales; but a good standard religious
agricultural or scientific paper. He
will begin then with a personal interest
and develops into a wider and deeper
appreciation of solid matter as the years
go on.
Aside from mere school books, be sure
you pnt the proper books in the hands
of your child. Do you remember tho
first book you ever read through? what a
victory! Guta book that the child can
read through in some reasonable time.
Get one on a subject that will live in the
mind, usually a short Biography, read
the book with him and make every page
of it glow. After two or three such
readings you will have no trouble with
that child’s reading.
It is hoped with anxiety that the pub
lishers of childrens' literature will give
them something solid and helpful and
stop the publication of cheap tales for
children.
We find the following paragraph in
tho Western Recorder of Dec. 29, 1802.
“We beg to assure the Christian
Index that the presence of over forty
students in the Seminary who are accom
panied by their wives does not mean “an
increase in the number of early marri
ages among our candidates for the min
istry.” No, it means an increased de
sire of married preachers to get tho
benefits of the Seminary instruction.
We hope the increase will continue*”
The Index lias to say that it has no
objection to the early marriage of young
ministers, The item noticed was con
tained in an article from one of the
Index correspondents. The Index be
lieves that when a young minister is
ordained and begins to preach the best
thing he cando is to get a wife, whether
he ever gets to the Seminary or not.
Brother W. D. Powell writes us the
following card from Jackson Miss.
Early in January we will begin the
canvass of Georgia in the interest of the
Centennial Fund. Let prayer be made
in all the churches for the work and
the workers. We can only visit a few
places and must depend on the pastors
and brethren to make a complete can
vass. Let every church give liberally,
A member of the Greensboro church
contributes to the support of native col
portuers in Mexico 8740 each quarter.
During last August more than sixty
candidates for baptism were received as
a partial result of tho labor of these
men. He has men iu every part of
Mexico. Who else will do a similar
work? Who will give a large amount,
the interest to he used in building
churches?
Has the year just past carried you
constantly heavenward? Then strive to
make greater progress in tho same di
rection during the year now opening be
fore you.
Dr. S. A. Sohnenschein, a distin
guished Jewish Rabbi, has been called
to the Synagogue of the Chattanooga
congregation. He has accepted, and
w ill take charge at once.
Philadelphia claims 80 Baptist
churches, with an aggregate member,
ship of 23,700
Mr. Charles Williams,London Cor.,
of The Ensign, says :
“As I anticipated in my last lctter>
the s>loo,ooo has been secured, and
so our special Centenary Fund may
be pronounced successful. I need
not add that the amount is not closed,
It was proposed out of the 1100,000
to pay the accumulated debt, which
by April next will probably exceed
§20,000: it stood eight months ago a
§15,873. The Executive hope to
add this sum to the 100,000 before
completing the canvass of the
Churches, and I see no reason for
thinking they will fail.
It has become quite common for
wealthy men in Chicago to do great
thingr for their city. The latest thing
known is the gift of Mr. Philip Ar.
mour, of the Armour Institute, for
manual training. He not only gives
the building and ground, but adds
§1,400,000 cash to it for the support
of the institution. It is expected to
be ready to turn .over to the city of
Chicago as a Christmas present.
This institute will be similar to the
Drexel Instittte of Philadelphia, and
Pratt Institute of Brooklyn.—lnd.
Bap.
“What is to be done,” asks Mrs.
Potter Pal mer, “with this strong,
self-poised creature of glowing im
agination and high ideals, who evi
dently intends} as a natural and in
herent right, to pursue her develop
ment in her chosen life of work?”
If Mrs. Potter Palmer does not
know what is to be done with Amer
ican womanhood,we not doknow who
does} American womanhood is
growing like the great cities of the
West. Womans work seems to be
everywhere, and her personality is
pressing ifself into all forms of use
ful activity. Woman in missions, in
art, in ethics, in literature, in philos
phy. This “strong, self-poised
creature of glowing imagination and
high ideals,” has come to town, and
is painting it red. Womanhood is
up, and will not go down. This
“strong, self poised creature” leaves
the kitchen and the nursery to Brid
get and seeks and claims „her inher
ent right to pursue her development
in her chosen life of work.” Hail
American womanhood! —Chirstian
Inquirer.
General Morgan Indian commis
sioner, seems to have honestly labor
ed to accomplish two objects since h
he went into office.
First to take Indian affairs out of
partizan politics.
Second to inforce the constitution
al provision woich forbids the apt
propriation of public money for the
maintain once of denomienationa
schools.
In his last annual report he takes a
decided stand against the” contract
school system” and favor of
government schools.
His position is approved by Prot
estants and Baptists but is opposed
by Roman Catholics.
CMldrou of Mr. and Mrs. 31. M. Roller
Altoona, Pa.
Both Had Eczema
In Its Worst Form
After Physicians Failed, Hood’s
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Worst Form of Eczema
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and In a month both children were' per
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1412 2nd Avenue. Altoona. Pa.
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