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Obituaries,
t STONE —In sweet remembrance of
my dear aunt, Miss Margaret Stone.
She was a devoted Christian woman,
of about 68 summers. She joined the
Union Hill Baptist Church, about 20
years ago, and was a consistent mem
ber until March the 21st, 1908. To
speak of her, my heart is filled with
sorrow, and my eyes with tears; for
there is no tongue or pen that is
able to tell the good she has done.
God alone can reveal her love and
work.
The last words she spoke: she was
trying to tell me something about a
river: while I could not understand
much of what she was saying, I know
she was speaking of the River Jordan,
whose brink she was then on and lin
gered there till about 6:30 o’clock,
where the great Boatman of Life
came to her relief and landed hei
safely on the other shore.
The funeral services were conduct
ed at her home by Rev. ‘Lucas Bur
gess, a Baptist minister, who, after
reading a portion of the 15th chapter
of Paul’s first letter to the court
house, made a very beautiful address
for the occasion.
I am sure that if the natural eye
could see far enough we would be
hold her shining face; and when we
did a kind little act that was well
pleasing to our blessed Savior that
sweet and pleasing smile of commen
dation would flash from her face on
us; cr if our ears could catch her
voice it would come in angelic tones:
.“Sorrow not; I have only come be
fore you, and you would not have me
hack there to suffer as 1 did.”
She has entered into that perpetual
and eternal lest that we have the
promise of if we will only accept it.
It is left as a matter of choice with
us. She chase rather to suffer afflic
tion with the children of Gcd than
to enjoy the fruits of sin for_ a sea
son the light afflictions which lasteth
but for a moment worketh for us a
far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory, while we look not at
the things that are seen but the
things that are not seen; for the
things that are seen are temporal,
but the things which are not seen
are eternal. She is watching us over
the ibattlements of heaven, seeing ev
ery step we take. She will continue
watching until we wade down into the
River Jordan and watch our struggles
and, when the great ferry boat of
life comes to our rescue, she will be
standing at the shining portals and
the sweet smile, and welcome that
shqpwill extend to us is inexpressible.
In my imagination I can almost see
her way around the great white
throne, giving her praises to the Fa
ther, Son and ever blessed Spirit
for the blessings she so much enjoyed
here below and exclaiming: “Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain!”
Her body is still near us. The lit
tle mound that we so much love is
there to mark the body’s last resting
place, but the spirit is now with our
Lord; and in the resurrection morn,
when the archangel sounds the trump
of God and the little convoy of an
gels hover around the Bagley Cem
etery, where the little mound is rais
ed, her old mortal body will be rais
ed’ immortal, and that corruption shall
put on incorruption—that will be the
sweetest and most glorious reunion!
,We cannot realize half its blessed
ness; and, while it is heart-rending
to give her up, we have the great
consolation of meeting her in the
sweet bye and bye, when'parting will
not be known, goodbyes are not spo
ken and farewells are not said just
over there, in that realm, where the
rainbow never fades, where the staio
will be spread out before us, like the
islands on the bosom of the ocean,
and where the beautiful being that
have passed before us, like visions,
will remain with us forever by the
help of the Lord Jesus. This I can
cheerfully say: God gave, He took,
He will restore —He doeth all things
well Her bereft niece,
FLORENCE STONE.
BANNISTER—On Wednesday mor
ning" November 20, 1907, When the
earth seemed to be wrapped in a
mantle of sorrow and the sky was
hidden by sombre clouds, a dreary
time indeed; yet the gloom on the
outside was nothing to compare with
the awful sorrow that swept through
,Mr J H. Bannister’s home, blighting
hopes' and saddening hearts of many
precious ones. The death angel vis
ited that once happy home, and bore
away on its snowy wings the devoted
husband, loving father, the light of
that home. Mr. Bannister was o
years and ten days old; leaves a wife,
nine children, a dear aged mother,
two .brothers and one sister. Besides
a host of other relatives.
We cannot portray his love for his
family but will say, as a husband
he was true; as a father an affection
n.te one, ever ready to sacrifice his
pleasures for those of his children ;
as a son he was one of the ver>
best, asking counsel and guidance
from his dear parent as long as he
Jived- and as a brother he was loyal
and kind. A more benevolent neigh
bor you cannot find. His friends are
innumerable. His doors were never
closed on the needy, but rich and
poor alike found a hearty welcome
there.
Mr. Bannister was a man who de
sired and tried to make and keep
peace in his community. “Blessed
are the peacemakers; they shall be
called the children of Gcd.” His life
for twenty-six years has been a beau
tiful Christian life; and never once
during this time was he known to
shirk his duty. Although he was a
man of much trouble and “acquaint
ed with grief,” still he kept pressing
onward “toward the mark of the high
calling as it is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.”
He attended church services at ev
ery opportunity; not only at his home
church, but he visited those far and
near, and was always ready to en
gage in all kinds of worship and do
his part; and in our singings and
Sunday Schools here we looked on
him as our leader. Never did his
countenance appear more effulgent
than when praising God in songs.
We, in our weakness, fail to see
why God has taken him now, when
we feel the need of his presence here
so much. But we console ourselves
with the thought. “God works in a
mysterious way, His wonders to per
form.”
You, dear bereaved ones, we know
your sorrow is inexpressible; but
Jesus lias said: “I will not leave you
comfortless; 1 will come to you.”
You orphan children, no doubt you
feel as though your happiness is for
ever marred, but the “Lord loveth
those whom he chasteneth.”
We look not in the newly made
mound, all covered with flowers, plac
ed there by loving friends, for Mr.
Bannock, but up yonder, where, he
said “Mother, I want you, Cora and
Lizzie, to go—up yonder with me to
day.”
May each one of that family make
their peace, calling and election sure
with God, and be an unbroken family
in heaven. And may it be a privi
lege of all their friends to speak a
word of consolation to them, or give
them a word of advice. For “pure and
undefiled religion before God, the Fa
ther, is this, to visit the fatherless
and widows in their afflictions and
keep himself unspotted from the
world. Written by request.
MARY KATE MONROE.
Silver City, Ga.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
President Roosevelt declared he
would live most of his time in the
West after his return from Africa.
The Duke of the was
found in London, and sketched his
plans for scaling Himalayan peaks.
Lady William Beresf(|rd, who was
Miss Lillian Warren Price, of New
York City, died at Dorking, England.
Justice Wright is forty-odd years
old. He is an outdoor man and a
lifelong friend of President-elect
Taft.
D. O. Mills and his daughter. Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, have arrived in San
Francisco from New York to spend
the season at the Mills country home
at Mill Brae, near San Francisco.
Alec Lior, the “piper of North
Muskagon,” has a violin which, he
says, is a genuine Stradivarius. In
Civil War time on the Mississippi
River he used to get SSO a night to
play it.
H. H. Rogers has now ordered a
$20,000 pair of brass doors and a
font for his church in Fairhaven,
Mass., and has given it a massive
communion set in memory of his
mother.
Edward H. Hyatt, superintendent
of public instruction in California,
determined to ask the next Legislat
ure to provide textbooks for the pub
lic school children of that State at
public expense.
Dr. James A. Craig, professor of
Semitic languages at Ann Arbor,
Mich., invented a system of short
hand when a student at McGill Uni
versity.# He has used it constantly
for thirty years.
Conrad H. Young, of Omaha,
hunter of big game and crack tennis
player, has been invited to become a
faunal naturalist and go along to
Africa. “Mr. Young's sister,” says
the dispatch, “was for some years the
governess of President Roosevelt’s
children.” ..... .
What’s in McClure’s.
“Cleveland the Man,” by George
F. Parker, a paper containing some
intimate reminiscences of a beloved
’national character; “Our Navy on tue
Land,” by George Kibbe Turner, the
story of the great waste of national
funds in the history of the United
l-.tes; “Work at the Rockefeller in
stitute,” by Burton J. Hendrick, an
article describing the wonderful ex
periments of Dr. Alexis Carrel in
transplanting the organs of animals;
‘ The Scientific Solution of the Liquut
Problem,” another paper of the series
by Dr. Henry Smith' Williams which
’ ~ attracted national attention
these and other features make the
February issue of McClure’s Maga
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The External Feminine.
“She's quite masculine, isn’t she?”
“Oh, she is and she isn’t.”
“Why, you used to consider her ex
tremely mannish.”
“True, but one day I asked her why
she was, and she simply answered,
‘Because.’ ” —Philadelphia Press.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
* MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 7.
Subject: True and False Brotherhood,
Acts 4:32-5:11 Golden Text:
Prov. 12:22—Commit Verses 32,
33—Commentary on the Lesson.
TIME.—3O A.D.or later. PLACE.
Jerusalem:
EXPOSITION I. A Spirit-filled
Church, 4:32-37. Some time has
passed since Pentecost, perhaps a
year or more, but still the unity and
love of the early church abide. Tt
was deep seated and permanent. Its
origin is snown in the immediately
preceding verse, “they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost.” This is the
spirit of genuine Christianity in every
age. The form of expression may dif
fer, even as it did in the early church,
for we find no community of goods
outside Jerusalem, but no tree Chris
tian regards aught of the things which
he possesses as his own (1 Jno. 3:14,
17, 18). “And with great power gave
the Apostles witness of the resurrec
tion of the Lord Jesus.” Here was
another result of being filled with the
Holy Ghost. There is much witness
ing to “the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus” in these days, but is it “with
great power?” There is evidently
nothing more needed by the individ
ual believer and the church than a
new filling with the Holy Ghost, that
there may again be love, unity and
power. The word translated “gave”
in this verse occurs forty-seven times
in the N. TANARUS., and always has in it the
thought of giving something due.
“Their witness to the resurrection of
the Lord Jesus” was something the
Apostles owed to the world, and it is
something every one who knows Jesus
Christ owes to the world, give
their witness to Him (Rom. 1:14,
15). “Great grace was upon them
all.” It is not said whether it was
God’s favor or man’s favor that was
upon them. It seems, therefore, to
imply both (cf. Luke 2-52). The rea
son why “great grace was upon them
all” was because love and self-sacri
fice abounded. No man looked upon
his own interests, “but every man on
the things of others” (comp. 2 Cor.
9:7, 8 ; Phil. 4:15, 1 •>). “According
as any one had need.” Not according
to distinguished abilities or notable
services, but according to need. That
is the Christian principle of distribu
tion.
11. A Devil-filled Hypocrite, vs. 1-
11. It is an exceeding fair picture
we have been looking on up to this
uoint, but the serpent again enters
Eaen. Up to this point the church’s
danger had been principally from
without, but now it faces the greater
peril of foes within. No wonder God,
who loves His church, dealth with
this matter with a stern hand. The
atmosphere of love and entire conse
cration in which the deed of Ananias
was done, made it the more unpar
donable. The same language is used
in describing his action and that of
Barnabas, up to a certain point. But
what a difference; the one the deed
of self-forgetting love, the other the
deed of closely calculating hypocrisy.
The early church was not perfect
(Jno. 8:44). But the lie of Ananias
was more than an ordinary lie. He
had seen the whole hearted love of
Barnabas (cf. ch. 4:36. 37), how he
had literally brought all that he had
and laid it at the apostles’ feet. He
had seen the admiration the conse
crated Barnabas had awakened in the
apostolic, company. He decided to
gain the same applause for himself,
but without paying the full price.
He, too, sold a possession, but se
creted part of the price and brought
the rest with the intent to deceive the
church. The Holy Spirit guided the
early church and the attempt to de
ceive the Spirit-guided church was an
attempt to deceive the Spirit Himself.
This presumption brought swift and
awful judgment. Ananias fell dead
the moment his sin was uncovered,
an awful warning to all who attempt
to deceive God. Not all lying can be
called lying to God. But when there
is a false pretence of entire consecra
tion, when something is knowingly
held back for self, that is lying to
God; for consecration is not unto
men, but unto God. Peter’s question
is very solemn, “why hath Satan filled
thine heart t.o lie to the Holy Ghost?”
It implies that while the plan had
originated with Satan, Ananias was
none the less responsible, that he had
given place to Satan and permitted
him to fill his heart. The fact that
the sin originated wjth Satan did not
lessen but aggravated his guilt. He
had entered into partnership with the
devil. And that is what every liar is
doing, every teacher of error instead
of the truth of God (1 Jno. 2:22). In
chapter four we see the true disciples
Spirit-filled (ch. 4:31), here we see
Ananias devil-filled. The heart that
is opened to the Holy Spirit He will
fill. The heart that is opened to Sa
tan he will fill. The one who pre
tends to an entire consecration that
does not exist is “tenanting the Spirit
of the Lord.” It is a dangerous tiling
to do It may not bring physical
death in every instance—indeed i*
will net in many; for God gives an
Illustrative example of His feeling to
ward certain sins (as, e. g., in the
case of Achan and here) then does
not again visit with immediate judg
ment, but there will be great loss
none the less. The effect in this case
w r as most salutary. Those who were
thinking of joining the church for
mercenary motives were held back
from so doing. Would that the Spirit
were present in such power in the
church to-day that hypocrites would
regard it with terror.
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