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I THE COUNTRY HOME
I . Women on the Farm
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The Philippine Fiasco.
The trial of Major Waller and Lieuten
ant Day having resulted in acquittal to
their great satisfaction, by the courtmar
tial in Manila. General Jacob H. Smith
was jut on trial last week. General
Lloyd Wheaton presiding.
The counsel for General Smith seised
the ardmal by the horns at the start and
said he was ready and willing to admit
that General Smith Issued Instructions to
Major Waller to kill and burn and make
pamnr a howling wilderness, that he
wanted everybody killed capable of bear
ing arms, and that he did specify all over
ten years of age. for Samur boys of that
age were as dangerous lighters as the
older ones.
Now we can Imagine a horrible condi
tion of affairs when the American sol
diers were turned loose on Samur. .
And it may be disputed, but the federal
army has been instructed to kill and
bum before they were carried over to
Manila to make Samnr a howling wilder
ness. The orders Issued by General Sher
man to his subalterns as he passed
through north Georgia are proofs posi
tive that the federal soldiers were not
novicts before they went ts war with
the Filipinos and directed to kill and
burn.
Many years ago Justice Hiram Warner,
of Georgia, told some friends (of whom I
Was one and present) of the treatment he
received at his own home from some of
these ‘kill and burn'* soldiers during the
civil war. Everybody who knew Judge
Warner can testify to his absolute ab
horrence of all injustice Inflicted on oth
ers. and no deceased Jurist or statesman
of Georgia occupies today a more exalt
ed position In public opinion than Judge
Hlran. Warner.
His beinved daughter was at his house
with a fews-<lays-old baby, as I recollect,
her husband absent in the Confederate
army and not able to come to see her
at that time.
The vandals called her father out and
demanded a large amount of money from
‘him under threats. Failing to get the
money they carried him along to a little
grove of saplings, and bending down one
they held It In place until a hank of cot
ton thread was fastened around the brave
judge s neck and then fastened to the
bending sapling, near the top.
After repeated threats, with curses and
taunt * Innumerable, the sapling was turn
ed Rose and the judge was swung up in
the air
The gang left, but somehow the fasten
ing was insecure, or the sapling broke or
the cotton hank slipped out of place.
When the judge came to himself he was
on toe ground and recovering from a
swot n 'A partial unconsciousness.
He saM bls first thought was of the be
loved daughter, fearing the fright would
kill her. He shuddered to think that her
fate in the house might be even worse
than the cruelty out to himself.
For some time be remained outside to
compose himself and to protect the belov
ed child from a paroxysm of horror at
Me own looks, it it was possible for him
to do so. Fortunately it was only money
the vandals sought and they retired when
they -lid not get money.
Th* history of the “kill and burn” in
atro< Urns in the anyth perhaps will never
be written, but the gang that went to
Manila were brought up under the same
Instructors (or others like them) who had
led the federal army through the south.
Other- people may rudely criticise Sena
tor Tillman’s philippics against the Phil
ippine dertreyers and blatant persecutors
of the south, but there are some still liv
ing who were here when a defenseless
population was overrun by the vandpls of
General Sherman's army, who have not
feggotten. ahd. what is more never will
forget the cruelties and rapine that fol
lowed In its wake.
South Carolina had a similar experience,
•nd the federal army was especially "care
less with fire."
I am not going to rebuke Senator Till
man for telling the truth, and the trujh
ought to be told in the senate of the Unit
ed States, where Jacob H. Smith has
found defenders of the kill and burn order.
The discussion may develop many of
•uch defender* of Smith, but the country
should know who they are and where
the. were brought up.
The story of the invasion of the Philip
pine tsiands«is simply disgraceful to peo
poople living under a form of free gov
ernment t
The kill and burn orders are no better
than the acts of vandal barbarians centu
ries ago. When human k.nd is fed on
human blood the taste soon becomes in
ordinate.
Farm Values Steadily Falling.
There is reason for very serious thought
z tn the fact that farming lands in a state
like New Jersey are geing down in price
every year and all the time taxes are
nknning up higher. A very thoughtful ar
ticle on thia subject is found in the Coun
try Gentleman, written for that paper by
a correspondent for whom the paper
vouches for very emphatically. A sympo
sium on the subject has attracted atten
tion and some examples therein given are
very suggestive. In evidence of deprecia
tion In farm values he writes:
"In 137 a young married man became
owner of an estate of 300 acres with a
small mortgage on it. By HC the farm
was paid for. A governess was hired for
the children, and as they grew up they
were sent to a boarding school. Three
men were employed constantly on the
farm and plenty of kitchen help made it
easy for wife and mother. In isM the
cv.-r.er died and the estate appraised after
everything was paid for at 00.000.
"An adjoining farm in 1859 brought 1113
In gold per acre.
"Two years ago the first farm brought
ss’> per acre and the owner is struggling
like a hero. His wife takes in summer
bcarders and all the children have left to
* F" positions.
"In 1857 the tax on the farm was $3.75 on
the sl.sX». the land assessed at two-thirds
Its valuation and today the tax is sl6 on
the n.Ctt). assessors’ valuation, and the
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assessment Is nearly three times what it
would bring if forced to sale at public
outcry.
"Two weeks ago a farm of 100 acres (in
New Jersey was sold for SBOO. It has a
fine large old style brick house, built for
a hotel in 1814. The barns and sheds are
roomy and stage horses were kept there
to carry passengers to New York city.”
The editor commenting says:
"These things are discouraging. t>ecause
it has become impossible to get adequate,
reliable help on a farm. The farmers'
boys will not stay—they rush off to big
cities. The farmers’ daughter prefers al
most any other work than farmwork, and
the farmer must take what he can get in
the way of hired men, and what he gets Is
not good for much.”
Now and then a rich man picks up a
nice farm for a song, repairs the build
ings and has a nice summer home at
small cost.
If he can get a good man to stay on
the farm maybe he can get enough re
turns to pay the taxes.
The readers of The Semi-Weekly Jour
nal will not forget this is in New Jersey,
adjoining New York state and In easy
reach of the city.
But It might be applied to other states
and other farm lands with equal force
and pertinence.
Take Bartow county, one of the best
counties in North Georgia. Farm lands
have been bid off In that county at SSO
per acre in 1860 that would not bring S3O
.to day if put up at public outcry—no. not
sls. and compel the purchaser to get bis
living on the farm. Between loan com
panies and difficult labor and poor crops
the land is sold for a song in many parts
of the south because taxes eat it up.
The taxes here are simply enormous.
Last year the state and county taxes in
Bartow county lacked a fraction of sls
on the thousand. This year we are told
It will be S2O on the thousand. Those who
have municipal taxation to pay may add
on considerably more.
We had an excellent brick courthouse,
large and roomy, built since the war, but
the county authorities determined to build
a new one that promises to cost some
where in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO and
the bulk of this extorted money is to be
drawn out of farm lands and real estate
under the same conditions that are com
plained of tn New Jersey.
To a man up a tree it looks like we ara
being taxed to death for non-essentials
and to support an extravagant civil gov
ernment. while the farming interests are
being constantly depleted.
Labor is almost worthless, such as farm
ers can get. and the struggle to keep out
of debt’is exhausting.
Insurance in country places is almost
prohibitory—tt is so high— yet you are not
safe to lie down in a country place when
the incendiary torch Is ready. It may be
applied on any night that suits them.
The land swarms with ex-convicts who
have neither character or credit and farm
ing has become a very risky business to
the man who has so mqny difficulties to
encounter and with profits so uncertain.
Jersey and Georgia are some mileg
apart, but the story reads alike.
Cutting Wisdom-Teeth.
I read of a man the other day who cut
two wisdom teeth after he was sixty
years old.
Poor fellow! It is bad enough to cut
them before you are twenty, and it is
good fortune when you get rid of them
by the time you are thirty, for it was
my experience that they were good for
nothing when they hurt and ached me
to get up out of the gums, and the only
pleasure I ever had with them was the
satisfaction of knowing I was for all
time done with them after they were ex
tracted.
And they are so difficult to get at when
the dentist says, "Open your mouth a lit
tle wider, please.” 1 had one or two that
had a double fang to them that showed
a resolution to stay there and keep on
hurting me.
I can generally arrive at a reason for
the appearance of such things as a sec
ond crop of teeth or the renewal of finger
nails and toe nails, but I never did see
any use for those late arriving wisdom
teeth. (
They are supernumeraries, so far as 1
can see. and if poor little babies are made
to suffer with their incipient teeth as I
suffered with the advent of my wisdom
teeth, I do not wonder they cry, fret and
keep irritable.
Those who claim to know say that wis
dom teeth sometimes get hung under the
roots of the next molar, and stay hung
until the poor sufferer Is a victim to
chronic n*rralgia. Sometimes they sup
purate aa-j give a world of trouble. 1 re
member‘having a small cavity filled in
one of mine when I was in my' twenties
and the filing, scraping and polishing act
ually put me in a sick bed. and it was
not long until the troublesome thing had
to be yanked out to give me relief. The
idea of going through such torture with
I tooth cutting at sixty years old makes one
nervous to think of it.
Girls Learning to Sew in New York’s
Public Schools.
The New York Herald says there are
nearly 72.000 School girls learning to sew
in the public schools of New York city.
They are eager to learn, and it is said
they become really proficient After a sin
gle term of instruction.
These girls come from the tenements,
basements, everywhere in that over
crowded city. They are first taught the
proper way to thread and hold a needle.
The stitching lessons are very exact. Sew
ing seams, running edges together must
be done we’l to pass inspection.
After awhile they are taught to cut and
fit dresses, make children’s clothes, etc.
This work also progresses in the night
schools.
1 his is as it should be. These girls need
this instruction far more than they need
Greek or Latin or algebra.
This Instruction gives them a chance to
renovate and keep their own garments
in good order. If they can do really good
sewing they are reasonably sure of get
ting work when obliged to help with their
own support.
Dress making, millinery, plain sewing
and fancy handwork were never in great
er demand than at present.
While I will agree that the most of our
average homes in country and in town
teach the girls to sew, and the average
girl has both pride and ambition to ex
cel in sewing still there is a great deal
in securing expert and scientific instruc
tion on these lines under proficient teach
ers. '
The time has come when public educa
tion should mean equipping the pupil for
future life, and this learning to sew is
a step in the right direction. The old
fashioned mother took great pride in hav
ing her daughters learn all that she could
teach them in sewing. It is a nice, cheer
ful employment, that fills a very proper
place.
A Grandmother Seeks Grandchildren.
Dear Mrs. Felton:
As/we have been readers for a long time
of The Semi-Weekly Journal, piease make
inquiry through your Country Home col
umn fur two little boys by the name of
Griffin. When we last heard of them they
sere in Jackson county, west Florida.
They are named Leonard a,nd Johnny
Griffin. If we can trace them up will glad
ly pay all expenses. Their father, our son.
Is dead, and their mother's name was
Mary. I am going to watch your paper
to see if we can hear anything from them.
The last time we did hear from them was
eleven years ago.
MRS. J. H. GRIFFIN.
Autrevllle, Ga.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 29. 1902,
Journal's
Saturday
Sermon
It is my purpose and pleasure at thia
time to tell why I affiliated with the
Unlversalist denomination, and to do so
will require a statement of many of my
personal experiences during the past ten
years which, though they will be of in
terest only to my friends, will show some
reason to others for the faith I am pleas
ed to entertain.
This text of Jesus seems to teach the
largeness of the sphere of Christian ac
tivity and the definiteness of purpose and
aim of the glad tidings of joy. Accord
ing to our master, no human heart is - un
touched by infinite love; no sufferer is un
blessed by this boon from heaven; no
earthly condition remains unbettered by
the truth and life our Lord brought to
the world.
We leave our text for individual con
sideration, believing that it is suggestive
of the larger hope which many desire,
and the larger assurance which many
claim to possess.
In leaving the Congregational denomina
tion under whose influence I was raised to
manhood, and by whose service my re
ligious nature was developed, I take the
step not without most careful and prayer
ful consideration and study. For nearly
twenty years I .have been an active mem
ber of this church, about half of the time
being spent in her ministry. In becoming
affiliated with the Unlversalist church, I
realize It is a step which is a great mo
ment to me and of no little concern to my
closest friends.
I boast of no Unlversalist creed by In
heritance, my present theological concep
tions are the result of thought, prayer and
study, and the freest exercise of reason.
To say when I began to be a Lniver
sail st would be as difficult as to say when
I began to be a man: the time when a
step separated my childhood and manhood
is unknown. My entrance into the Uni
versalist fellowship has been one of un
conscious growth covering a period of at
least five years.
Some Influences have come to my lire
Indirectly which have greatly modified my
method and manner of thought. Indirect
influences are often more forcible than
those that are direct.
A knowledge of men is indlspenslble to
any public servant. The physician needs
the hospital in order to complete his class
room work. I believe I can safely say
I have come in touch with many of the
most happy and distressing conditions of
humanity in the different lines of mission
work I have been engaged in while a stu
dent or pastor.
Slum work in Boston and other places
brought me in touch with men who had
gone to the lowest gutter; as assistant in
a large city church I came into pleasant
relationship with those in happier condi
tions. While assistant in this church I
had charge of the city mission work
among Chinese, which work was not only
educating but uplifting.
While a student in Bangor, Maine, it
was my lot to work among prisoners and
there I came into close contact with those
whose crimes were from petty stealing to
murder.
In my first regular pastorate I became
Interested in state humane work and for
several years worked in the organization
as an officer and editor o( a national mag
azine. In this work I became acquainted
with many Unlversalists throughout the
county who seemed to take a most active
interest in this line of benevolence.
While a pastor in Vermont I was for
some time superintendent of education
and principal of a large school. This wqrk
was done in connection with church duties.
State and local Sunday school and Chris
tian Endeavor work, especially among
children, has been of great interest to me
and in which I have devoted much time.
Here in Georgia my work has centered
In the Central Congregational church, and
my duties have been in educational and
practical lines in this city and other parts
of the state. The work in the Atlanta
Theological Seminary was of great in
terest to me, and my efforts in the;local
union of Christian Endeavor as president
was not the least pleasant work, as I
found the young people of the city most
noble and consecrated in their efforts for
Christ and the church.
Meeting and knowing people from man
sions to log cabins, from places of happi
ness and prosperity to those of misery and
wretchedness, these experiences have had
much to do in broadening my conceptions
of life.
When one comes in touch with real life,
he tends either to believe in no God for
anybody, or one God for everybody. Man
comes in touch with God through men
chiefly.
When I saw the slum inhabitant lifted
up and made over by a kind word or deed;
when I saw the most depraved come forth
into newness of life through the sweet in
fluence of Christian charity; when I saw
drunkards show kindness and considera
tion; infidels and non-professors minister
for righteousness, I began to think of the
doctrines of total depravity, eternal tor
ment, predestination, and the like, as the
false conceptions of human minds.
When I took my own little babe on my
breast, seeing in her a beauty and loveli
ness superior to the lily, the thought of
native depravity left my mind, and I could
not but look upon that little one as sweet,
pure and untainted by sin.
He who advanced the doctrine of in
fant damnation must have been one whose
own heart was cold and unresponsive,
about which was an impregnable wall,
against which Cupid’s dgrts dashed in
vain. . >
When I saw and touched real life with
my own, breadth displaced bigotry; char
ity dispelled criticism; largeness of faith
took the place of littleness, and the belief
in the imminence of God enrapt my whole
attention.
Narrowness and bigotry are the fruits
of a life devoid of excursions Into the
world where men live. There is but one
class of people that truly lives: The very
rich and the very poor each exist, but the
middle class lives. This class serves the
rich and dispenses charity to the poor.
The direct Influences that have come in
to my life have been many. The first one
I will never lightly value, as it consisted
in the lives of noble Unlversalists who
have been members of former parishes
where I have ministered. The Universal
ist people have often been my strongest
friends and cO-workers, and their kind
ministries in my behalf have left strong
impressions on my mind of their genuine
ness. Not one ever talked to me of his
faith; every one lived it.
The strongest direct influence has come
from the Bible itself, a book. I have en
deavored to study and to preach.
I believe in the Bible and love its sa
cred pages, and accept it as containing
the revelation of God to man.
In my individual research I have found
the Bible to be a book of history and
from Genesis to Revelation there is a
purple as well as a 'scarlet cord” passing
through the entire book, which to me
means the triumph of God in the soul.
The first prophetic utterance in Genesis
is an assurance of the triumph of the seed
of woman. This prophecy is generic, im
plying the triumph of the sons of men;
it is the Messianic spirit in the world
triumphing through men. Sin will bruise
the heel, the least sensitive portion of
man, but the bruised heel will crush evil
at its vitals. Paul brings forth the same
truth in Romans xvi, 20: “God shall
bruise Satan under your feet." Here
bruise means to break in pieces.
From this prophecy, through all the pro
phetic utterances in Israels history,
through the records of the life and works
of Jesus, the developed thought of the
Apostles and the vision of John on Pat
mos, all testify to the triumph of truth,
righteousness and good. "God will have
all men to be saved and to come to a
knowledge of the truth.” As Paul well'
y Why 1 Joined the Universalist Church.
Text—“ The Spirit of the Lord la upon me because He hath an no in ted
me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken
hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised; to preach the accept
able year of the Lord.”—Luke 4:18-19.
BY REV. CHARLES J. HARRIS, FORMERLY A CONGREGATIONAL
-IST, WHO HAS BECOME A UNIVERSALIST.
nays in Timothy. John in Revelation xxi,
sees an utter doing away with misery,
suffering and crying, and Paul speaks in
phophecy when he says that ' when all
things shall be subdued unto him, then
shall the Son also himself be subject unto
him that put all things unto him, that
God may be all and in all.”
One’s belief in God depends very large
ly upon his thought of life, here and in
eternity.
A god, riding' in gorgeous array in a
chariot of the clouds, with the winds har
nessed for steeds, over whose head Is a
diadem of stars, and in whose hands Is a
scepter with which he sen<js the thunder
bolts of his wrath upon those he created,
and whose voice, like the roaring of thun
der proclaims a day of judgment soon to
come, for his glory; this is a conception
of God that is the product of an Infant
mind and a life devoid of experience.
The ability to comprehend the immi
nence of God requires the exercise of the
intellect and reason; the most earnest ef
fort of faith and the deepest human ex
periences. To me God is no longer simply
an omnipotent power dwelling above the
world, but an omnipresent personality
abiding within the world. "The kingdom
of God is within you.”
I believe if God would elect any one to
be saved he would elect all. He is no
respecter of persons. If I believed it pos
sible for a soul to be in perpetual enmity
with God and that it coqid be put Into a
never dying fire, I would believe that He,
whose future is like the present, would not
have created such. If I thought there was
sych a thing as annihilation of the wicked,
I believe God would have annihilated them
in his mind before He made them. If 1
believed-in a never ending fire, I could not
believe In a never dying love.
If I believed God would allow the "weep
ing sinner to return”. at any time he
would in this world I could not think that
His entire method would suffer a change
in eternity. Any time with God is all time,
with God and his sons, true time Is eterni
ty. If I thought Jesus the teacher of
endless damnation of the wicked, I would
esteem him careless and cruel in saying
nothing about so tremendous a truth, or
in saying what he did say in so mistaka
ble terms.
Divine fatherhood is the theme of to
day in all denominations. My faith In this
divine, infinite father precludes from ray
mind all thought of a possible defeat in
his loving efforts toward his own.
As a heavenly father I expect to find in
him all the good and true and loving I
ever saw in an earthly paregt; and as a
divine. Infinite father, I am certain that
his justice, love and mercy will trans
cend a thousand times the most holy and
tender spirit of a human, finite father. (
I do not believe God is too good to pun
ish. Human and divine law demands
retribution to the "uttermost farthing.”
From the petty thief to the murderer
justice will demand full and complete sat
isfaction for the Wrong-doing. "What
soever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap.” The bread thief and the murderer
have both turned from God, but who will
say that the distance from God is the
same in each case. The prodigal a thou
sand miles from home has the sorrow,
suffering and misery of a thousand miles
journey back. A life of self-indulgence
and crime will pay full price for its sin.
Immortal torment excludes from my
thought all Ideas of the possibility of in
‘finite wisdom, justice and love in Him who
demands or permits it. Punishment is
sure to be, here and hereafter, but pun
ishment never ending is not punishment,
but torture. Punishment Is such only with
corrective purposes in view.
Already In this life the flames of hell
are burning within the breasts of many
sinful souls; already the heavenly life,
the songs .of and the Eamb” fill
the souls of the truly righteous.
Eternal torture is not the demand of the
lowest human creature toward his tor
mentor. ‘ 0
When President McKinley fell, his first
thought, after consideration of his be
loved wife, was for* his assassin. God is
better than a thousand McKinleys.
Everlasting damnation makes God the
possessor of fewer paternal virtues than
is he qf earth whom we call father.
The Congregational church pulpit is si
lent on this great theme, although it still
keeps it in its creed. This silence is due
to an inaudible demand from the pew as
well as enlightenment in the pulpit. For
me to believe In eternal damnation and
not preach It would be culpable, to believe
in it and not say sO would be cowardice.
The Universalists believe In a hell, and
one which the reason as well as scripture
approves. Harmony with God is heaven;
discord is hell. Hell is anywhere where
a soul is out of harmony with God. Heav
en is anywhere where a soul is in hartnonv
with God. Heaven and hell may be in
the lives of two persons, who are togeth
er at the same place. Hand and hand
they may go, but their lives are separated
by an impassable gulf, over which no hu
man being can pltlce a span, and no per
son can leap; but to say that this condi
tion so easily changeable here is eternally
fixed there is to show the defeat of God
and ter utterly abolish the principle of the
evolution of the soul. We learn through
scripture that the soul is to be Mke God,
“we shall be like him" that nothing here
or hereafter' can separate us from the
love of God, and that that "kingdom
which is within” is none other than God,
and that life in which God dwells, will
ever be blessed by His presence, and from
that heart, God will never be dispelled by
a force weaker than Himself.
The fall of m»n was like that of a
child who falls down to rise up. His falls
lift him into intelligence. Man in the
midst of toll, working out a character of
his own outside of Eden differs from a
wax figure. When man fell, he opened
his eyes, saw himself, saw the world, saw
God, and became cognizant of his indi
vidual responsibility to that which is with
in and without. A willful, wayward child
is better than a wax doll,.
Man, coming lnt<ythe world with inher
ited weaknesses in the flesh, is constantly
led astray by them- Christ knew what
temptation was, his physical nature
fought a severe Battle with his spiritual,
but was vanquished in the struggle.
Regeneration is God and man working
in harmony for the conquest of the lower
nature of man. Accepting and believing
in Jesus Christ will not alone endow us
with a holy character, but participation in
his life of service and suffering will pro
duce in us. Christ-likeness and a charac
ter, which is the basis of salvation.
Jesus Christ came into the world to save
the world. "I, if I be lifted up will draw
all men unto me.”
I believe in Jesus. Christ, in his divine
character and divine life. Jesus Christ
came to seek and to save the lost, and
his mission will never end nor his ener
gies cease until he brings back to his fa
ther's crown the last dust covered gem;
to his Father’s fold the last stray lamb,
to His Father’s bosom the last willful,
wandering son.
I find the Unlversalist church exalts
Christ as no other denomination does; He
is the center of her theology and thought,
the inspiration of her life and service. 1
can preach Christ and Him crucified in
the future as I never have in the post
"Christ shall conquer" is the corner stone
of this church.
After accepting these views my preach
ing became modified. For five years my
thinking and preaching has been under-
t Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
In time. Hold by druggists.
going many changes toward the more lib
eral. To be "liberal" is to be called by
some either a heritlc or a fool. I think to
be liberal is to be as Christ was. able to
see God in all human hearts. The liberal
views I hold are liberal in this direction;
I do not consider myself at all radical In
my-theological views; I have studied con
servative theology, and the liberal; I ac
cept neither as such, but willingly accept
any truth from either so long as it does
not oppose my reason and faith in God.
My views are not destructive, but con
structive; I do not believe less today but
more; I do not throw aside much of what
I have held; I feel that I have increased
my possessions.
Why did I Join the Universalist church’
Because I am a Unlversalist. I am not
ashamed of that fact. If all the Universal
ists in other churches Joined this church
to which they really belong, this church
would be the largest of all denominations.
I am a Universalist because the creed I
have formed for myself Is like the Unlver
salist’ s creed, and one should associate
with that denomination nearest his own
thought and faith. Because I believe the
Unlversalist church best represents the
spirit, purpose and life of Jesus Christ,
our Lord.
Because I believe this church is the most
evangelical in her, evangelism; most ortho
dox in her truths:
Because I believe her claims appeal most
readily and most speedily to the reason
and faith of all, old and young:
Because I believe God is the Father of
all, and knows no one to love him more
than another; because I believe Jesus is
his divine Son, our spiritual guide and
leader; because I believe the Bible is a
sacred book, containing the will and wish
of God to men; because I believe in full
retribution for sin, and that the final re
lationship of all men to God will be that
of harmony and never-ending peace and
joy.
I shall always try to be a good Congre
gationalism ts I am not such I can never
be a successful Universalist. .
For the many kind ministries of love
that have been tendered me and mine by
the Unlversalist church of this city I am
exceedingly grateful, and I shall always
feel indebted to you.
As to the noble pastor of this church.
Dr. McGlauflln, I cannot give expression
to the kind feelings I cherish toward him.
I gave him my confidence a number of
months ago, and today I feel that he is in
my life a most important factor. The
he is doing here will never be fully
known or appreciated by us. but God sees
the spirit and the service and rewards ac
cordnigly. My only word is that I thank
God out of the depths of my heart for the
day and hour that light from the charac
ter of this noble man of God fell across
my path.
I am now in the struggle with you, and
trust that I may be a blessing and not a
burden, and may aid in carrying the gos
pel of love, light and liberty into the
world where it is needed for the saving
and uplifting of the sons of God.
I love, honor and respect the Unlversal
ist church, for she is earnest enough to
call for light; sincere enough to appro
priate the light, brave enough to be true
to her heavenly vision. ,
Sixteen years ago I left my old home in
New England. Beside that fireside sat one
of the most godly of mothers, whose
faithfulness to duty, consecration and self
sacrafice to those about her made me in
debted to her beyond measure. Since the
day I left, new responsibilities have
crowded into my life; new duties have
been heaped upon me; new affections have
found lodgment in my heart; a new fire
side about which sit bits of my own life
now claim all and the best there is in me;
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.but notwithstanding all this, the old fire
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Davy Crockett
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A HISTORY STORY.
BY KATE STEPHENS.
When Davy Crockett was on his way to
San Antonio to fight for the independence
of Texas —this in the year 1836 —one night
found him on the banks of the Navasola
river and his horse broken with fatigue.
What happened at this point we’ll let
Davy tell.
"Near the margin of the river a large
tree had been blown down, and I thought
of making my lair in its top. While beat
ing about the branches I heard a low
growl, as much as to say,’'Stranger, these
apartments are already taken.’ Looking to
see what sort of a bedfellow I was likely
to have, I discovered an enormous Mexi
can cougar some five paces away. Rays
of light darted from his large eyes.
"One glance satisfied me there was no
time to be lost. I fired. The ball struck
him on the forehead and glanced off.
doing little except Infuriate him. He
sprang at me. I jumped aside and hit him
with the barrel of my rifle. He made at
me again, and I drew my hunting knife,
for I knew we must come to close quar
ters. He seized my left arm and began
to tear the flesh, when I thrust my knife
into his side. He let go.
"Smarting with his wounds, he came at
me again, and he pressed so close that in
stepping backward my foot caught in a
vine. I fell, and he was on me like a
nighthawk on a Junebug. He seized my
right thigh, and, since the hinder part
of his body was toward my face. I grab
bed his tail with my left hand. With my
right I stuck my knife into his side, and
summoned all my strength to hurl him
down the bank of the river. He resist
ed. At last I worked him to the very
edge and he lost his balance. He fell, but
he dragged me with him.
"Fortunately, at the bottom of the bank
I found myself uppermost. I aimed a
desperate blow at his neck. He struggled
a few moments, and then his loosened
strength told me I was saved.
“I returned to the treetop and made
myself as comfortable a bed as a weary
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manches joined me, and some of the war
riors discovered the body of cougar
and began skinning it. The chief noticed
how many stabs were about it, and when
I told him of my struggle, said: ‘Brave
hunter, brave man,’ and wished to adopt
me into his tribe, which honor I de
clined.”
THE KING’S BELL.
,A 'grave. sweet poet in a song has told
Os one, a king, who in his palace old
Hung up a bell; and placed Its cord sneer
His couch—that thenceforth, when the court
should hear
Its music, all might know the king had rung
With hla own hand, and that Its stiver tongue
Gave out the words of joy he wished to say,
“I have been wholly happy on this day!"
Joy's full perfection never to him came,
Voleelesa the bell, year after year the same.
Till, in his death-throea, round the cord his
hand
Gathered—and there was mourning In the land.
I pray you, search the wistful past, and tell
Which of you all could ring the happy -bell!
The treasure-trove, the gifts we ask of Fate,
Come far apart, come mildewed, come too lateu
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A few specimens of the most ancient and
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instead of a hook, upon which the fishes
would impale themselves.
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