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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1912)
DR. AYERS SPEAKS OF FOREION MISSIONARIES Interesting Talk Delivered in Augusta, Ga., Recently. (Reproduced in The Monitor by Specie! Request.) “I am in charge of the Warren Memorial Hospital, built by the First Baptist Church of Macon, at Hwanghein, China. It has about 12,000 patients annually. For nine years this hospital has been absolutely self-supi>orting except for the salaries of those who work for it. During this length of time not one dollar from America has gone into the run ning expenses of the hospital. It is made self-supporting by the contributions of the well-to-do Chinese of the city, and last year it was one of two hospitals in the province which received contri butions from the governor of the province, he having contributed SIOO. The hospital and educa tional work is telling tremen dously in the evangelization of China, and two branches of work which are ap r.’dated by all Chinese. It is a conceded fact that the great Chinese patriot and statesman Sun Yat Sun, who was the first president of the Chi nese republic got his vision of a people set free from the Manchu government and of freedom of speech and of thought and of re ligious lilierty during his studies in the Christian school, and it is also a conceded fact that the study of the Bible has played an important part in giving to the Chinese people freedom and re ligious liberty. “The medical work especially has been shown to be a means of gaining a great hearing for the Gospel. It attracts the people of this day in China, just as it did in Judea during the times of Christ, It is also a means of holding up the benevolent side of Christianity as is no other agent now in use. It has also been shown to be a valuable means in making friends among the Chi nese. “It has been the means of opening the doors of the officials and the wealthy classes when ev ery other means had failed. “During the recent Chinese revolution all the missionaries in the station where I lived were ordered by the American minis ter to leave the station and go to the port of Che Foo, where they could be under the protection of the American gunboat. The city where I lived was one of the seats of battle during the revolu tion, and while in Che Foo I re ceived a telegram stating that there were a large number of wounded soldiers in Hwanghein with no one to care for them. I asked permission of the American consul to go back to my station and open the Red Cross work. After warning me of the danger of being killed on the road by robbers he agreed for me to go, provided I would release the American government and he as its representative from any re sponsibility for my life. To this l agreed. When within five miles of Hwanghein I saw a sen tinel on a horse whom I feared was a man from the army and that it meant that I would not be allowed to enter the city. Before i was in speaking distance of him he turned his horse and flew back to the city. When within half a mile of the hospital I saw a scene which I had never seen before. Up to this time the wealthy men of the city had had little to do with our Chinese Christians, but here 1 saw two rows of men, composed of Chinese Christians and the wealthy men of the city standing side by side, iorming a triumphal arch through which I was expected to proceed. And the sentinel who met me instead of being from the army had come to notify these men that I was coming and they came out to welcome me. After entering the hospital yards, 1 found there the leading official of the city who had come out to express in the name of the Chinese his gratitude for me having come back. There was also a delegation represent ing the bankers and wholesale merchents of the city, who came to pledge their financial aid in the support of the Red Cross, and they raised and distributed all the money necessary to treat the hospital full of wounded sol diers. After having been there for three weeks I received a tel egram stating that Mrs. Ayers was in Che Foo very sick and I hired a conveyance contrary to the advice of the Chinese and set out to attempt the journey at night. They all feared by trav eling by night I would be killed by robbers. We went along nicely until about 10 o’clock when I was held up by robbers. I was in a conveyance, on either side and the rear, so constructed so that I could not see out and when the conveyance stopped I looked in the front and saw a robber with a gun trying to strike the mule-teer. I called out and asked what he wanted; he answered ‘Want your road money.’ I i asked the second time; again, | ‘Want your road money.’ During this time they were standing on the side so that I could not see them. I then erawled to the front of the conveyance and again asked. By this time they evidently noticed the action was not Cjust that of a native and turned to the muleteer and asked who he was driving. He an swered that he was the foreign teacher who had been working with the Red Cross at the hospi tal treating wounded soldiers. The robbers then replied: ‘lf he’s the man let him go in peace. ’ “Through this it has been shown that the Lord has given us the medical work, something that makes friends even with the robbers. “There are in Georgia people who insist that it is not best to engage in mission work either in teaching or healing and that it is best to let all support go directly to the missionary from the churches and do away with all boards. This plan was thorough ly tested in the North China mis sion where I lived. About fif teen years ago about twenty mis sionaries comjxising some of the strongest men and women in the mission withdrew from the for eign mission board of the South ern Baptist convention and or ganized what was known as the Gospel Mission, their policy be ing to receive their support di rectly from the churches and to do no work other than preaching, and were decidedly opposed to both medical and educational work. They tested this plan for fifteen years and during this time brought into the Kingdom only about sixty men, while the missionaries who were left, a smaller number than those who withdrew, during this same period of time brought into the Kingdom about 3,000. “The men who went into the Gospel Mission were honest in their convictions and after hav ing tried their plans thoroughly saw that it was a failure and like honest men they came back to their mission one by one and ac knowledged their mistake until today there is only one man and his wife who organized the Gos pel Mission that have not come back. “This is a very practical dem onstration that God does not honor the work of doing only a part of what he has com manded.’’ Dwelling for Kent or For Sale. A comfortable six-room house, with garden spot, in choice resi dence section of Mt. V ernon, with conveniences. For terms of rent i or sale apply at MONITOR OFFICE. Quart bottles and nice, new cork stoppers in abundance at the Sumerford Drug Go’s., Ailey, Ga. Ad. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1912. Grow Many Pecans in Selma, Ala., Section. Selma, Ala., Nov. 18.—Pecan growing has come to be quite popular in this section of the state. Within the past year many citizens of this city who own small tracts of land have convert ed their farms into pecan or chards and are now directing their attention to the raising of this nut. One of the largest deals in pecan trees was made in this city a few days ago by Miles Hardy, who purchased 4,000 trees to be set out on his place. Thi9 investment represented something like SIO,OOO for trees and land. These pecans are of the grafted variety and it is es timated that within three or four years the trees will begin to bear, and there is always a steady de mand for the nuts, it is expected that within a few years the in vestment will be paying a hand some income. A tract of 1,000 acres of un improved black land at Flatwood, in Marengo county, has been pur chased by A. S. Harlow, whose investment probably will amount to $15,000, or more. Mr. Harlow formerly was a dairyman and cattle exporter of Mexico City, and he will condjct a similar bus iness here. His main idea is to develop a big cattle ranch on the tract just bought at Flatwood. He will raise cattle mainly for sale as beef cattle. The growing of pecans in a grove near Birmingham, Ala., is thus described by the Birming ham Ledger. “Three inches in diameter. “One inch long. “Four and a quarter inches around from stem to stem. This is the average size of pe can nuts taken from young trees on the pecan farm of T. H. Spen cer, of Birmingham, at Dowdell station on the Alabama Great Southern railroad thirty-two miles southwest of this city. There 650 trees in the grove, but only 40 have begun to bear. The first trees were planted in 1906 and were then two years old. The pecan budded tree becomes a good bearer of nuts in ten to twelve years. Mr. Spencer, there fore, may expect good crops in 1918. “A leading grocery has on dis play in its windows pecans not as large as Mr. Spencer’s at $1 a pound. A Mississippi raiser the paper shell variety has a standing contract with the Wal dorf-Astoria hotel, New York, to furnish it with pecans at $1 pound. The average price whole sale secured by raisers of such pecans as Mr. Spencer has get 75 cents per pound. The demand is unlimited. “A pecan raiser of Monticello, Fla., has a tree that bore 475 pounds of nuts for which he se cured $1 a pound. “The possibilities of pecan cul ture in Alabama and Mississippi are unlimited. The nut nowhere obtains larger size of nuts or a tenderer shell or more meat than it does in Alabama.—lndustrial Index. Rounds Tax Collector. SECOND ROUND Monday, Nov. 18. Landsburg 9, to 10 a. m. Glenwood, 10:30 to 1 p. m. Alamo, 1:30 to 4p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 19. Erick 8:30 to 10:30 a. m. 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McQueen, II (The Old-Line Merchant, With “the Goods”) i 1 Mt. Vernon, Qa. | NOTICE OF APLICATION FOR A RAIL ROAD CHARTER. Georgia—Tattnall County. To the Honorable Philip Cook, Secretary of State: The petition of Frank Easterling, K. C. Dubber- ! ly, H. C. Dubberly, J. D. Bradley, S. J. Kicklight er, D. M. Bradley, B. K. Willingham and P. M Anderson of Tattnall county, Georgia, -and H. B. McNatt and J. B. Jones, Jr., of Montgomery county, respectfully shows: Ist. That they desire to form a railroad corpora tion pursuant to the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 20, 1892, Code (1896) Sections 2159-2179. 2d. The name of the railroad company which petitioners desii e to have i ncorporated is to be the ‘Savannah & Western Kailway,” the same not be ing the name of any existing corporation of the State of Georgia. 3rd. The length of the mod. as nearly as can be estimated, will l>e alnnit fifty miles. 4th. Said road will run from Glennville, in Tattnall county, Georgia, in a westerly direction to Mt. Vernon, in Montgomery county, Georgia, and will run through Uvalda, Georgia. 6th. The counties through which said road will run are Tattnall, Toombs and Montgomery, and the names of the places from and to which it will be constructed are Glennville, Georgia, and Mt. Vernon, Georgia, respectfully. 6th. The amount of the proposed capital stock is Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($250,000.00) Dollars in shares of One Hundred Dollars each, all of said stock to be common stock of equal dig nity. 7th. Petitioners desire to be incorporated for and during the period of dne hundred and one years. Bth. The principal office of the proposed incor- ’ poration will be in the city of Glenville, Tattnall county, Georgia. 9th. Petitioners do intend in good faith to go forward witout delay to secure subscriptions to the capital stock, construct, equip, maintain and operate said rtsui. 10 Petitioners show that they have given four weeks notice of their intention to apply for a char- . ter, by publication according to law Wherefore, they pray to be incorporated under the laws of the State of Georgia. D. M. Bradley B. K. Willingham P. M. Anderson H. C. Dubberly J. D. Bradley S. J. Kicklighter J. F. Easterling R. C. Dubberly J. B. Jones, Jr. H. B. McNatt Petitioners. Anderson & Giardeau, Petitioners' Atttorneys, Cluxton. Ga. Lost Dog. One large white bob-tail dog with black spots on him. He is half bull and half hound, altered. Will give $5.00 for his where abouts. J. M. Rowell, Sharps Spur, Ga. I A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, GA. Will Practice in all the Courts of the State. H. S. BERNER, Boiler Making and Boiler Repairing. Special attention to this class of work. 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