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kingdom
One of the moet unpleasant things we
have ever had to do was to ask for
money, even when we knew it ought to
be paid or given. And we believe that
very many share with us in this feeling.
Many a pastor has seen things go un
done in church or community, or in
mission fields, for the want of money,
just because he shrank from asking his
people for it. And the unpleasantness
of one's experience is more than doubled
if he has to ask money for benevolent
work from people who treat him as if
he were a doubtful character, or at beet
as if he were a nuisance. The agent of
the Lord is sometimes made to feel
keenly that he is looked on as a neces
sary evil in a community. Some wen,
and not infrequently the men who are
best able to give, have a'wonderful
knack at producing this feeling in any
solicitor for Christ’s cause.
How delightful, on the o'her hand, is
it to come into touch with a man who
has means, and who, regarding himself
as a steward of his Lord's bounty, loves
to give, and looks upon and treats the
man who solicits aid from him for a
good cause as one who confers a favor
on him in affording him an opportunity
to give something for the Master. We
have met a few such men, and the re
membrance of them is always a joy.
Dr. Pierson describes such a giver in
Mr. Wm. E. Dodge. He says, speaking
of his habits in considering applications
for aid:
As soon as letters and imperative
matters of business, such as signing of
checksand dictating replies to corres
pondents, have been dismissed, the
cards of a score of visitors and appli
cants for help are laid before him. and
he cheerfully gives injunctions that
they be shown in, in the order of their
arrival. Time is too short to hear them
at length, but it is necessary in the
interests of courtesy not to be brusque
and rude even in dismissing the un
worthy or the unwise; and it is neces
sary in the interests of fidelity to know
what are the true merits and claims of
every cause. So with tact he brings
ever}’ visitor to the point, and deals with
him justly and generously, but firmly
and promptly; and then, with such
affability as is noticeable in Mr. John
Wanamaker, somehow edges him
toward the'door, until without knowing
how, he finds himself outside. A few
he has to thrust out. because they are a
sort of tramps, but he is patient with
all. And if the most timid and humble
applicant is found to be a messenger of
God, he makes such feel that he has
been honored rstber than bored in hear
ing him state his case and in being per
mitted to give.
He gives an applicant the benefit of a
doubt rather than embarrass him by an
air of distrust; but if he is not satisfied
waits till he is, for he is a steward and
will not waste his Master's goods.
Japan.
Many beautiful things have been
written about Japan recently, and many
of them are true The travelers passing
through Japan, stopping a few days at
the places of special interest, will see
much that is to them strange and won
derful.
The polite and suave manner of the
people, their quick comprehension of
foreign ideas, and their marvelous ca
pacity for copying whatever they see
will first attract their attention. In
many beautiful, nay wonderful, speei
mens of workmanship, especially in
bamboo, lacquer, and porcelain; and in
in the beautiful mountain scenery with
its numberless silvery waterfalls, they
will find much to interest and instruct
them But by those who live for years
among the people, their politeness is
more feared than appreciated, for they
learn that it is used as a cloak to cover
so much that is untrue and sinful.
The flowers are beautiful, but the
children are early taught that the
most beautiful of them must be placed
as an offering before the family idol.
The gardens, no description can ever
do them justice, but even here we find
in the most attractive p’a:e a very
small tample. Signs of foreign ideas
are to be found, and even in the heathen
ten pies.
Stopping under a tree to rest, the
traveler would be surprised to find there
an image of stone to worship, and when
visiting the many beautiful waterfalls
in the mountainous country their en
thusiastic admiration will be checked,
for here where God has done so much
for man's pleasure and elevation, man
in his ignorance has set up a stone,
hewn into human shape, which he wor
ships in gratitude for the blessings
which surround him.
Over the mountains and across the
plains, a woman passed on a pilgrimage
making offerings to the wayside shrines
and to the images of wood and stone in
the temples along the way; and footsore,
weary, and hungry she chanced to stop
at the home of missionaries to beg food
or a little money; she was fed and
warmed and induced to tell something
of her troubles.
Disease bad attacked her husband,
and for long, weary months he had
languished, until all their living was
gone: and then the priest told him that
he had done something that would
have to be atoned for by a pilgrimage
to a far distant shrine. In his helpless
condition he could not attempt the
journey, and his wife went in his place,
begging her food and shelter as she
went. She listened with wonder to the
sweet old story, as the missionary told
it to her. When she left she carried
with her a Bible, and the prayers of the
missionaries that God would bless his
word to her salvation and make her a
light in the darkness of her home. —
Annie Clagett, in the Colporter.
The Church Missionary Gleaner quotes
a letter from Bishop Ridley, in the
Northwest. “After describing the com
fort and cleanliness and industry of the
Christian Indian villages, he writes: It
is impossible to heighten the contrast
between the Christless and the Chris
tian people of the same tribes' Great
is our present reward in seeing the ele
vating as well as saving effects of a
pure Gospel. The things endured in
the process are forgotten in the joy that
abideth.’ This, he adds, is the civiliza
tion that springs from the resurrection,
apart from which, in our day, solemn
S regress is impossible. Let those who
eny it prove it I Then he gives a
touching account of the Kucheng mas
sacre reaching his Indian converts.
They fell to prayer, and one prayed
thus: ‘Say again, dear Jesus, “Father,
forgive them, for they know not what
they do.’” O, gracious Spirit, Thou art
not quenched by blood; let it make thy
garden soil strong to grow Chinese believ
ers tn I ”
John Chinaman.
In no way, either as cook, servant,
laborer, farmer, or millionaire, could we
do without John Chinaman in the East
Indies. And he is waiting to solve the
servant girl problem, and others, in
America A very tidy and faithful
housemaid he makes when properly
trained, but he will not be tyrannized.
“You no do what I say, takeoff your
jacket,” shouted a military officer to one
of his houseboys. ' ‘But Ino catch hear,
sir,” replied the boy. “Never mind,
take it off, all the same.” cried the of
ficer, brandishing his riding whip; but
at the same instant Ah Jeng snatched
the whip out of his master's hand. "Now,
sir, takee off your jacket, quick," cried
the angry boy; "me go beat you!" And
that boy did give his master a sound
thrashing with whip and fist.
It is a fact that the Chinaman has
tremendous muscular power and quick
ness. When he comes to know it and
understands how to use it, he is no easy
customer to handle. He will not bear
bullying. On the other hand he does
not stand too much softness. That
spoils him, and leads him to take advan
tage.
A missionary in Penang nursed his
servant through a serious attack of
smallpox, paying him while recovering
too many delicate attentions. When
welbhe came to his master and demand
ed a considerable advance in wages,
“Why, Ah Quee.” said the missionary,
“how is this? I think you get very
good wages ” “No enough, sir, me vel
ly fine boy; me worth velly much; if not
so, master no takee so good care of wif
me when sick.” This anecdote may serve
to show the difficulties to be met with
when dealing with Eastern character,
and the inestimable value of patience to
those whose work it is to develop
straightforwardness and honesty among
people who forages have been trained to
think that in the struggle of living, craft
is the great essential to success The
missionary who wants to live long in
the East, and succeed must cultivate
patience. Rudyard Kipling puts it well
in these lines:
“Ills not good for the Christian’s health
to hustle the Ayran brown.
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan
smiles and be weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone
white with the name of the late deci as ed,
And the epitaph drear: ‘A fool lies here, who
tried to hustle the East.”
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Making Calls in Japan.
A missionary of the Episcopal church,
now at work in Japan, gives the follow
ing amusing account of “society calls”
as made in that country. She says:
“ When a Japanese caller comes to see
me we both kneel down on the floor,
leaning back on our heels, and •! say,
' O kaki:na sai ' which literally trans
lated, means, ‘ Hang your honorable
hips;’ or. in our words, ‘ Please be
seated.’ Then we each bow twice very
low, so low that our foreheads nearly
touch the floor. Then the Japanese
says, ‘Thank you,’ and I say, ‘No
trouble at all,’ and then we both touch
our foreheads to the floor again, taking
long-drawn breaths so that they can be
distinctly heard. Then I say, ‘ O ma-ri
ka ri mam,’ which is, ‘ Let me hang on
your honorable eyelids;’ or, in good
English, ‘I am glad to see you.' Then,
as 1 understand so little of the language,
I have an interpreter called in, and,
after going through all those bowsagain,
she does the rest of the talking. I get
pretty tired sometimes, sitting on my
heels; and when I go to see a Japanese
I have to remove my shoes before en
tering the house, and then my feet get
pretty cold. But it has to be done, for
it is a great insult to the Japanese host
to keep the shoes on, and we would not
offend him.”
Bound Feet
The whimsical fashion which con
demns Chinese women to totter on the r
tiptoes issaid in the Kingyuen, or "Mir
ror of Research,” to have originated
between 300 and 500 A. D.. but native
scholars generally maintain that the
custom sprang from emulation of Lady
Yang—a small footed Cinderella—who
bewitched the Emperor Minghuang
twelve centuries ago. So light was her
step that, Camilla-like, she “skimmed
o’er the unbending corn,” or, as the
Chinese say, “over the tops of the gold
en lilies; ” but her imitators have since
ceased either to run or to dance. The
source of many evils and of no good
whatever—unless it be that of keeping
women at home —this usage surpasses
anything we meet with in the West as
an example of the tyranny of a per
verted taste, the passion for a waspish
waist or that for a flattened skull not
excepted. These are sporadic or tribal;
the other is national. — A Cycle of
Cathay.
The Hindus are adopting methods in
propagating their doctrines, which they
notice have been successful among
Christians. They not only have organ
ized a Hindu Tract Society, and indorse
street preaching, but one school has
opened its session with prayer. The in
vocation is idolatrous, and with the
doxology sounds the praises of Siva,
but the prayer is in direct imitation of
Christian petitions.
In the prayer may be found these
sentences : •’ Oh! Thou who hast cre
ated, and dost protect all the worlds,
we praise thee, with the three parts of
ourselves, for thy great mercy in lead
ing us worthless little ones, in the good
way. So Thou our God, besides for
giving us our sins, and being our great
help night and day, grant that we may
not enter into any kind of sin or trouble,
but that we may accept good knowl
edge and virtue and lead a good life. ’
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Prayer for tin Extinction ot Heresy.
The following prayer was printed and
distributed by one of the “viryarios”
(priests) of a city in the north of Brazil,
and sent to the Estandarte for publica
tion by Rev. Belmiro Aran jo, one of the
members of the Pernambuco Presby
tery, with the comment, “Let the wor
shipers of Baal and Astarte cry louder,
for their gods are asleep.”
"O most holy Mary, mother of mercy,
we supplicate you to look compassion
ately on all sinners, and especially upon
the Protestants! You who are the
throne of wisdom, enlighten their
understandings, shut up in the darkness
of ignorance and sin, that they may
know clearly that the holy Apostolic
Roman Catholic Church is the only true
Church of Jesus Christ, outside of
which there is no salvation. Grant, O
queen of heaven, by your influence with
Jesus Christ that, delivered from Pro
testant errors, they may embrace all the
truths of our faith, and submit them
selves to the sovereign Roman pontiff,
vicar of Jesus Christ on earth, so that,
closely united to us in the most sweet
bonds of divine charity, there may be
one fold and one shepherd, and all may
together, O most glorious Virgin, sing
eternally, transported with jubilee. Re
joice, O holy Virgin, because you only
have been enabled to extirpate all the
heresies of the world. Amen. Three
times queen of the most sacred rosary,
pray for us!”
Mr. Womeldorf also sends us the
above, and adds: “If our enemies are
so much interested, will not the Chris
tians at home who read this be stirred
to pray more to God for us, in Jesus’
name The Missionary.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1898.
department
Prayer Meeting Topics.
December 27. —State Missions.
Voluntary Participation.
Very few of our Baptist Unions
use the pledge. In the Christian
Endeavor societies the pledge is
an essential and by it all are
bound to take part in every meet
ing. This participation is ex
pressly stated to be other than
that of singing. The result of
this is seen in the fragmentary
testifying of the average young
people’s meeting. The princi
ple of compulsion leads to verse
saying and the repetition of some
hackneyed sentence of so called
testimony. In our Baptist Unions
we have the opposite tendency.
We resort to essay reading, or
call out certain ones, or, worse
still, have a lecture on the sub
ject by some one person. This
method produces its own perpet
uation. The real live way is to
rely on voluntary participation.
This presupposes both an inter
est and study. It boldly gives
the meeting over to the young
people, believing they will just
carry the work right on. Why
not ? We are intelligent, we can
get the subject, usually, before
hand, why should we wait to be
asked to speak ? We have as
much interest in the Union as
anybody and are just as much
concerned to have the meeting
prosperous. It is only when
this spirit is cultivated that a
Union can do its work. We ought
to cult vate this spirit by making
our meetings depend on this
method of work. A little confer
ence by a few can make certain
any meeting. If these come pre
pared and agree to respond un
asked, the thing will be started
and others will follow.
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The Southern Union Topic.—Dec 27.
State Missions.
It is expected that the Unions
of each State will use this to
study their own State work. Our
Home Mission Board assists in
work in all of the States and as
sumes care of special efforts
among the negroes and foreign
populations. In every State,
however, missionary wo*k«is
carried on by the Baptists of that
State. We are to learn some
thing of the work as it is being
done in Georgia.
The Georgia Baptist State
Convention is the body under
whose direction the State Mis
sion work in Georgia is con
ducted. This convention meets
annually >in April, hears re
ports from the work already
done, and makes plans for the
work to be done. It then ap
points a board or committee, to
whom it entrusts the practical
conduct of the work for the time
intervening before another meet
ing. The Board is located at At
lanta. That is, its secretary lives
in Atlanta and its meetings are
held there. That the Board may
better conduct the work, it in
turn appoints a Corresponding
Secretary who takes general su
pervision, acting under the di
rection of the Board. Dr. J. G.
Gibson fills this position as he
has for many years past. On
him falls the greatest burdens
and the most exacting labors.
The Board not only supervises
the work of State Missions, but
collects and transmits money for
Foreign and Home Missions to
the Boards of the Southern Bap
tist Convention.
The direct work of the State
Board of Missions is fourfold.
1. In supporting, or aiding in
the support, of missionaries and
missionary pastors, and aiding
in erecting church houses. Some
forty missionaries and mission
ary-pastors have been employed.
These preached 3,140 sermons,
baptized 386 persons, made 4,062
religious visits, organized eight
churches and twenty Sunday
schools, and sold and distributed
699 Bibles and Testaments.
2. Bible Institute Work. Two
brethren, Dr. B. D. Kagsdale,
and Dr. A. B Vaughan, are en
gaged in holding institutes for
preachers. These brethren ap
point places of meeting and for
a week or ten days meet such
preachers as will come, and con
duct a school for Bible study.
Many preachers who have not
had the privilege of a special edu
cation come to these institutes.
They also serve to cultivate an
interest in missions of all kinds.
No work at present conducted
by us is doing more good.
3. Sunday-school Work. For
this object the Board employs in
connection with the Sunday
School Board at Nashville, Bro.
R. H. Smith. Bro. Smith also
represents the Orphanage. He
travels over the State arousing
interest in Sunday-school work
and aiding in Sunday-school
meetings.
4. The Care of Indigent or
Poor Ministers. Many men have
given their lives to unremitting
toil for the Baptist cause in
Georgia. During their time of
labor they have received but a
mere living. In their old age
they can no longer work. To
such assistance is rendered. This
is a noble work and ought to be
sustained. Twenty-one names
are on the roll, of whom ten are
widows. $2,008.37 was given last
year for this purpose.
In addition Bro. E. L.
Vaughan is employed as a special
evangelist in the prisons of Ful
ton county. He visits ten pris
ons and eight other stations.
Last year he preached 323 ser
mons, and conducted seventy
one prayer-meetings. He super
vises five Sunday-schools. Large
numbers of papers, books and
Bibles are distributed. Thirty
two professions of religion vfture
made through his work and he
baptized three.
$27,027 was spent last year for
State Mission work. Then are in
Georgia 1,844 Baptist churches;
1,548 of these are identified with
the Georgia Baptist State Con
vention. Os these, 360 churches
gave nothing, and 416 gave less
tnan $5 00 to the work of the
Convention. This shows a great
opportunity to do better.
We hope our yoilng people will
take up this work for ihem
selves and remember its impor
tance. Prayer-should be offered
for the work and the workers.
We ought also to give something
to help it.
Hints From the Golden Rule.
A recent report of the fellow
ship committee of the Cleveland
Union indicates very fully some of
the lines in which such a commit
tee may be exceedingly useful.
During the year they have held
forty two fellowship meetings of
various sorts. This strong com
mittee goes to the weaker socie
ties upon their written invitation.
This invitation sets forth the
weak points of the society, and
the committee attempts to
strengthen them in the meeting
which it holds. Sometimes these
invitations come through the
suggestion of the union lookout
committee, which, in its oversight
of the societies, sees that some
of them need stirring up in cer
tain directions, and urge them to
invite such a meeting. Where no
fellowship committee exists, this
work would appropriately be
done by the lookout committee
itself.
* * *
The Ohio State workers are
pushing the planjMjMMkng all the
county ty
believe that tfiTs wTII assist in
mutual acquaintance and spread
information among the workers.
* * *
The president of the Chicago
Union believes that a great deal
of the effectiveness of the union
is due to the fact that the execu
tive committee of the union has
met regularly, rain or shine, hot
or cold, on the first Tuesday 7
evening of each month. Un
doubtedly he is i ight. All union
executive committees, and, for
that matter, the executive com
mittee of each local society, will
find iteminently wise to set apart
one day in each month for their
regular meeting, and stick to it,
though the heavens fall. Some
may think that there is not busi
ness enough to warrant monthly
meetings, but no one will say
that who has ever tried it. These
‘meetingsare sure to suggest new
ideas.
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A California county convention
once called its committee confer
ences “ laborers’ councils.” This
is a better name than that ordi
narily applied, because it includes
conferences of officers and junior
workers and pastors, as well as
the committees.
* » *
A New Jersey county Christian
Endeavor convention opened with
a rally prayer-meeting in the
morning, before the first regular
session of the convention. This
must have given to the meetings
a very helpful spiritual tone.
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of the barley grain was long ago discov
ered to be rich in all the elements that
go to make blood, bone and muscle, and
only the fact that every preparation of
the nutritious grain contained much
that was indigestible prevented its being
generally used. Messrs. Farwell &
Rhines, of Watertown, N. Y., have put
in operation a process by which the nu
tritious part alone of barley is put in at
tractive form to tempt alike the appe
tites of sick and well. Barley Crystals,
as the preparation is called, is a most
delightful breakfast dish, besides being
capable of transformation into many de
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sanitary value as an emollient and diu
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CHRIST'S ASCENSION.
Lesson for Sunday, Jan. 3, 1897
Script ore Lesson.— Acts. 1:1 14
Motto Text.—While he blessed
them, he was parted from them,
and carried up into heaven. Luke
24:51.
Jesus Began.— lt is very gener
ally agreed, and that upon clear
evidence, that Luke, the author
of the third gospel, wrote the
book of Acts. The gospel of
Luke is much more nearly a com
plete and orderly account of the
things of Christ’s life on earth
than either of the other gospels.
He gives a more detailed account
of the birth, infancy, and ch Id
hood, gives a well combined nar
rative both of what Jesus did and
taught, traces carefully the clos
ing scenes of the life, and is the
only one to record the ascen
sion. It seems singular here to
find him referring to so complete
a history as embodying only the
things which Jesus began to do
and teich.
But it is a very important con
ception to see that the whole earth
ly ministry was only a beginning.
Jesus, the same Jesus, yet lives
and works and teaches. No long
er in person, for he has gone up
into glory, but through apostles
whom he has chosen does he
carry his works forward. Luke
so connects the earthly ministry
with what Jesus does from above
through his servants as for us to
see clearly an unbroken identity.
The acts of the apostles wrought
out before us through the guid
ance and power of the Holy Spirit,
have for us the same meaning
and authority as though they
had been done directly by Christ
in person.
Our Christ neither lies in the
tomb, nor exists in some far-away
mystical realm. But not more
real is his reign in the heavens
than his reign in human lives
upon the earth, as he teaches and
works through them. The book
of Acts itself is little more thana
record of beginnings—the begin
nings of what Christ did as he
worked through chosen repre
sentatives. The history of no
apostle’s life is complete, and the
larger part of them are never
heard of after the simple mention
of their names found in the first
chapter.
Restore the Kingdom to Israel.—
As Jesus goes away what is the
fitness of his chosen ones to stand
in his stead and carry on his
nrogress have they
tffatle in learning and in life dur
ing their three years of instruc
tion and fellowship ? The one
word they speak at this final
interview opens a window into
their inmost thoughts and reveals
the concern that with them is
supreme. They would know
about the restoration of the king
dom to Israel. How far this,
their most earnest thought, is
from the spiritual conception
Christ had sought to impress.
They were looking for a worldly
kingdom, one that should free
them from the bondage of the
hated Romans and be character
ised by great splendor and re
nown. Poorly prepared they
truly seem to be for the work of
such a kingdom as corresponded
with Christ’s spirit and purpose.
They had thought much of pro
motions. On the very night be
fore the crucifixion they had
quarreled about the first places.
JFitnesseg.—The word witness
is deeply and aptly significant of
the new relation and office into
which the disciples were to be
brought. The word is deserving
of a careful study. The office
of witness is clearly distinct
from that of judge or legislator.
The matter of testimony must
not be hearsay, but accurate
knowledge and experience, given
neither in part nor in partiality
The sphere in which testimony
is borne is not be self chosen
nor in any way circumscribed.
The Lord points to Jerusalem,
Judea, Samaria, and the utter
most part of the earth. The
power of testimony is not to be
in cunning words of man’s wis
dom, but in the power of the
coming Holy Spirit. It is
worthy to note the characteriza
tion of the Holy Spirit as a Spirit
of power, and the need of such
power in which to bear true tes
timony. How hard it is to be
strictly true in anything, and es
pecially to represent with true
faithfulness the justice and
mercy, the truth and power of
the Lord Jesus Christ
Was Taken Up—-Jesus had
been upon the earth forty days
since his resurrection. By the
showing of his hands, his feet,
his side, his voice, he had proved
to his disciples his identity, that
he was the same Jesus they had
known. Thus he gathers anew
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( CHICAGO, 1893.
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Recmi HiOsst Award
l ATLANTA. 1895.
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about himself their love, their
faith, their hopes, strengthening
them in and toward himself where
they had faltered. By sudden
vaniehings and mysterious ap
pearances he lifted their thoughts
toward higher and spiritual
realities. When he last departs
they behold him as he is taken
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out of their sight. Henceforth
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fore, do unseen and spiritual
things become genuine realities,
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come the power of their lives
for godliness. How sadly do we
all need this fellowship with
powers heavenly.
Shall Come. Again.— Along with
a distinct sense of our Lord’s
present exaltation, and likewise
of his abiding presence with
those who are his true disciples
on earth, we need to cherish dis
tinct expectations of his coming
again. Every plan and purpose
of life should receive its proper
ione and coloring from being
scrutinized in the light of our
Lord’s second coming. That
august event should be the em
bodiment of deepest longings and
loftiest desires. He will not fail
of his promise to return. Let us
be found watching.
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How Tn Get Good Teachers.
Write J. M. Dewberry, Manager of
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The Most Picturesque Route iu the
South.
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Receivers.
This line, penetrating the highly pictur
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place to rest and recuperate. Some of the
most advantageously located resorts are:
White Path, Ga.; hotel half mile from
station.
Murphy, N. C ; situated on the banks of
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hotels.
Alleghany Springs; thirty miles south of
Knoxville; dally hack line from Alleghany
Station.
White Cliff Springs; one of the most noted
and pleasant resorts In East Tennessee, with
dally hack line from Telllco Junction.
Through tickets on sale from all southern
points. Dally train from Atlanta via West
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8:05 a. m arriving at resorts same afternoon.
Information cheerfully furnished.
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Gen'l Pass. Agent. Trav. Pass Agt.
Knoxville, Tenn.
Jos. Mo Willi amb, Supt.
Marietta, Ga.
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