New York, 1895
The women's missionary societies of the Reformed church in the North Classis will hold a conference in the church at Newtown on Thursday next. Mrs. C. H. Harris, of Jamaica, is secretary of the society. Mrs. Cornelius Rapelye will preside. The Rev. Mr. Clearwater will deliver an address of welcome. There will be addresses at the afternoon meeting by Mrs. E. B. Horton and Miss C. Anderson, and Miss Kitty Scudder, who has been engaged in mission work in India, will speak of the work in that country. At the evening session Mrs. John S. Bussing will deliver an address on "Work in Our Home Land," Mrs. Clearwater will sing a solo, "Pardoned," and the Rev. John Anderson, late of China, will speak about the work in that country.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 12.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Where Women May Not Pray
1916
In some parts of the world the women are not even allowed to pray. Certain Hindoo congregations deny their women this privilege, and among the Ainus women can pray only in very rare cases as the deputies of their husbands. The natives of Madagascar, however, stretch a point and permit their women to intercede with the powers of evil, but prayer to their supreme being is strictly a masculine prerogative.
In some parts of the world the women are not even allowed to pray. Certain Hindoo congregations deny their women this privilege, and among the Ainus women can pray only in very rare cases as the deputies of their husbands. The natives of Madagascar, however, stretch a point and permit their women to intercede with the powers of evil, but prayer to their supreme being is strictly a masculine prerogative.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The King's Daughters and Sons
1900
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS UNITE IN CHRISTIAN WORK UNDER THE WATCHWORD
"In His Name"
Look up and not down,
Look forward and not back,
Look out and not in,
Lend a hand.
Such were the sentiments of that wonderful little book, "Ten Times One is Ten," written by Edward Everett Hale, and they have found an embodiment in the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons. This organization has proven marvelously successful and its membership today is over 400,000. So broad was the foundation laid that its sentiments do not conflict with any church creed and its membership is found in every quarter of the globe. "In His Name" was made the watchword and the silver Maltese cross was chosen for the badge. Those who preferred could wear instead of the cross a purple ribbon, either badge signifying that the wearer had undertaken special work for Christ "In His Name."
The King's Daughters as an organization came into existence at the residence of Mrs. Margaret Bottome, in New York City, on the morning of Jan. 13, 1886. Nine ladies met together to organize themselves into an order, or sisterhood, of service. Mrs. Bottome was chosen as president, Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, secretary, and Miss Hamersley, soon succeeded by Miss G. H. Libby, treasurer. The remaining members present were Mrs. Theodore Irving, Mrs. F. Payson, Mrs. C. D. P. Field, Mrs. J. F. Ruggles, Miss S. B. Schenck, Miss G. H. Libby.
The name, The King's Daughters, was suggested by Mrs. Irving, a well-known educator of New York City, who had been in the habit of giving this name to young ladies as they went out into the world from her school. The original plan was to form "Tens," as many ladies' societies in large churches are called. But this was found impracticable and the name "Circle" was substituted, so that any number might be included.
For some time no effort was made to extend the idea, the members not seeking notoriety and shunning the publicity of their plans. Even today it is difficult to secure complete information for the same reason. Strictly speaking, it is not an organization, from the fact that no attempt is made by the officers to control the work undertaken by local circles. Any who desire to form circles address the headquarters in New York City for suitable literature to put them in touch with the aims of the order, and then they decide on what work they desire to undertake in their locality. Oftentimes each member of a circle will lay out special work for herself, in addition to the general work of the circle. More than one thousand different lines of work have been entered upon, which members have undertaken "In His Name."
In 1887, after urgent request, membership in the order was opened to men and boys, and its incorporated name is now The International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons.
For the past two decades there has been an intense and growing desire on the part of many Christian people for more reality in religion. It was first among the objects of The King's Daughters to develop the spiritual life and at the same time to start the individual at once in some form of practical Christian activity. The founders recognized that "love enough to create the desire to serve" was much more universal than is generally supposed.
No attempt has ever been made by its Central Council to examine into the theological views of its members. It considered it had no right to question the love of those who accepted a call to commit themselves to labor for His sake and in His name. Referring to it on the platform, a public speaker recently said: "It is the only absolutely Catholic organization known to me." A well-known editor wrote of it: "It is one of the two greatest human forces now at work in the world to bring about the unity of the church of God."
One strong point made by The King's Daughters is to teach all members of "Circles" that they are not their own, but that they belong to God and to humanity. They wear the little cross as an outward acknowledgment of this. There are state and county branches, chapters and city unions in America and Canada, and national branches in foreign lands. Its order of service is "the heart, the home, the church, and the world." While the organization is absolutely inter-denominational, perfect loyalty to that branch of the church to which its members belong is insisted upon, and all Circles at work in churches are under the teaching and guidance of their own pastor or rector.
Within its ranks can be found not only the little child and the wayworn pilgrim, but some of the noblest men and women who, in the church, the state, the university and the business world, are today shaping the policy and guiding the affairs of the nation in this marvelous nineteenth century.
What are they doing "for the love of Christ in His name?" Everything that can help the souls and bodies of the children of God; building churches, paying mortgages on those already built, building and furnishing parsonages and rectories, educating young men and women for the ministry and for the foreign mission field, taking care of orphans and widows, of the old and the sick, building hospitals and infirmaries, maintaining day nurseries and kindergartens, sending trained nurses to the homes of the poor, and following the sailors out upon the lonely seas with evidences of loving care for their spiritual and bodily welfare.
A Commercial Circle was formed in Baltimore less than a year ago, and members of it can now be found in almost every line of business in Baltimore. Six men in a large corporation deeply conscious of the need of "shining" Christians in their own offices, met at a private house to petition God for some practical method by which they could shine for Christ right where they were. God manifested Himself at the meeting and all were blessed, energized, and returned determined to do their utmost.
They met again one Sunday afternoon in the basement of church and so forgot the flight of time in their devotions that the sexton arrived to light up for the evening services, and though there was not the least excitement, God was so powerfully present that tears were shed and men who never before had done so, prayed aloud.
Out of these two meetings sprang the Commercial Circle, which now has representatives among merchants, lawyers, clerks, brokers, and others throughout Baltimore. It is intended especially for business and professional men and women.
The four lines of work which are emphasized by the Commercial Circle are: Missionary, prisoners, the poor and shut-ins, and hospitals. The first question this organization asks is, "Are you a Christian?" The next is, "Are you shining; if not, why?"
The following poem appeared in a recent number of "The Silver Cross," the weekly organ of the Order, and it beautifully expresses the aims of the organization:
In His Name
This is the task, so little, yet so great:
To keep the ear ajar for voice of God;
The eye alert for sign of messenger
From near or far that brings His high command;
To keep the hand to toil, the feet to haste,
The voice to echo loyally His own,
The heart to throb swift answer to His will.
All this, and more: To lift the stricken up,
On grievous wounds to pour the oil and wine;
To heal where hurt is sorest, to bow down
And lift the fallen, and to lead the blind;
To answer every plaint of human pain
And strengthen e'en the little ones of God.
Ah, glorious work! worthy the knightliest soul
That ever 'neath the banner of the cross
Set steadfast face toward far Jerusalem,
Or died for right to guard an empty tomb.
Small need to quarrel o'er His sepulchre;
His grave is wheresoe'er His Christhood dies;
He lies enshrouded in the hearts of men.
To rise in strength and cast the evils out
That stay the Christ-life in the human soul;
This is the work. And the reward is this:
To see on human faces, stained and scarred,
The dawning light that says the Lord is risen;
That they have seen, like Mary, face to face,
The majesty of kingliness and power,
The tenderness of wondrous love and grace
By which all wrongs shall measure their brief hour,
And one by one, before the matchless sight,
Slink, Judas-like, each to his own dark place.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 6.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS UNITE IN CHRISTIAN WORK UNDER THE WATCHWORD
"In His Name"
Look up and not down,
Look forward and not back,
Look out and not in,
Lend a hand.
Such were the sentiments of that wonderful little book, "Ten Times One is Ten," written by Edward Everett Hale, and they have found an embodiment in the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons. This organization has proven marvelously successful and its membership today is over 400,000. So broad was the foundation laid that its sentiments do not conflict with any church creed and its membership is found in every quarter of the globe. "In His Name" was made the watchword and the silver Maltese cross was chosen for the badge. Those who preferred could wear instead of the cross a purple ribbon, either badge signifying that the wearer had undertaken special work for Christ "In His Name."
The King's Daughters as an organization came into existence at the residence of Mrs. Margaret Bottome, in New York City, on the morning of Jan. 13, 1886. Nine ladies met together to organize themselves into an order, or sisterhood, of service. Mrs. Bottome was chosen as president, Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, secretary, and Miss Hamersley, soon succeeded by Miss G. H. Libby, treasurer. The remaining members present were Mrs. Theodore Irving, Mrs. F. Payson, Mrs. C. D. P. Field, Mrs. J. F. Ruggles, Miss S. B. Schenck, Miss G. H. Libby.
The name, The King's Daughters, was suggested by Mrs. Irving, a well-known educator of New York City, who had been in the habit of giving this name to young ladies as they went out into the world from her school. The original plan was to form "Tens," as many ladies' societies in large churches are called. But this was found impracticable and the name "Circle" was substituted, so that any number might be included.
For some time no effort was made to extend the idea, the members not seeking notoriety and shunning the publicity of their plans. Even today it is difficult to secure complete information for the same reason. Strictly speaking, it is not an organization, from the fact that no attempt is made by the officers to control the work undertaken by local circles. Any who desire to form circles address the headquarters in New York City for suitable literature to put them in touch with the aims of the order, and then they decide on what work they desire to undertake in their locality. Oftentimes each member of a circle will lay out special work for herself, in addition to the general work of the circle. More than one thousand different lines of work have been entered upon, which members have undertaken "In His Name."
In 1887, after urgent request, membership in the order was opened to men and boys, and its incorporated name is now The International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons.
For the past two decades there has been an intense and growing desire on the part of many Christian people for more reality in religion. It was first among the objects of The King's Daughters to develop the spiritual life and at the same time to start the individual at once in some form of practical Christian activity. The founders recognized that "love enough to create the desire to serve" was much more universal than is generally supposed.
No attempt has ever been made by its Central Council to examine into the theological views of its members. It considered it had no right to question the love of those who accepted a call to commit themselves to labor for His sake and in His name. Referring to it on the platform, a public speaker recently said: "It is the only absolutely Catholic organization known to me." A well-known editor wrote of it: "It is one of the two greatest human forces now at work in the world to bring about the unity of the church of God."
One strong point made by The King's Daughters is to teach all members of "Circles" that they are not their own, but that they belong to God and to humanity. They wear the little cross as an outward acknowledgment of this. There are state and county branches, chapters and city unions in America and Canada, and national branches in foreign lands. Its order of service is "the heart, the home, the church, and the world." While the organization is absolutely inter-denominational, perfect loyalty to that branch of the church to which its members belong is insisted upon, and all Circles at work in churches are under the teaching and guidance of their own pastor or rector.
Within its ranks can be found not only the little child and the wayworn pilgrim, but some of the noblest men and women who, in the church, the state, the university and the business world, are today shaping the policy and guiding the affairs of the nation in this marvelous nineteenth century.
What are they doing "for the love of Christ in His name?" Everything that can help the souls and bodies of the children of God; building churches, paying mortgages on those already built, building and furnishing parsonages and rectories, educating young men and women for the ministry and for the foreign mission field, taking care of orphans and widows, of the old and the sick, building hospitals and infirmaries, maintaining day nurseries and kindergartens, sending trained nurses to the homes of the poor, and following the sailors out upon the lonely seas with evidences of loving care for their spiritual and bodily welfare.
A Commercial Circle was formed in Baltimore less than a year ago, and members of it can now be found in almost every line of business in Baltimore. Six men in a large corporation deeply conscious of the need of "shining" Christians in their own offices, met at a private house to petition God for some practical method by which they could shine for Christ right where they were. God manifested Himself at the meeting and all were blessed, energized, and returned determined to do their utmost.
They met again one Sunday afternoon in the basement of church and so forgot the flight of time in their devotions that the sexton arrived to light up for the evening services, and though there was not the least excitement, God was so powerfully present that tears were shed and men who never before had done so, prayed aloud.
Out of these two meetings sprang the Commercial Circle, which now has representatives among merchants, lawyers, clerks, brokers, and others throughout Baltimore. It is intended especially for business and professional men and women.
The four lines of work which are emphasized by the Commercial Circle are: Missionary, prisoners, the poor and shut-ins, and hospitals. The first question this organization asks is, "Are you a Christian?" The next is, "Are you shining; if not, why?"
The following poem appeared in a recent number of "The Silver Cross," the weekly organ of the Order, and it beautifully expresses the aims of the organization:
In His Name
This is the task, so little, yet so great:
To keep the ear ajar for voice of God;
The eye alert for sign of messenger
From near or far that brings His high command;
To keep the hand to toil, the feet to haste,
The voice to echo loyally His own,
The heart to throb swift answer to His will.
All this, and more: To lift the stricken up,
On grievous wounds to pour the oil and wine;
To heal where hurt is sorest, to bow down
And lift the fallen, and to lead the blind;
To answer every plaint of human pain
And strengthen e'en the little ones of God.
Ah, glorious work! worthy the knightliest soul
That ever 'neath the banner of the cross
Set steadfast face toward far Jerusalem,
Or died for right to guard an empty tomb.
Small need to quarrel o'er His sepulchre;
His grave is wheresoe'er His Christhood dies;
He lies enshrouded in the hearts of men.
To rise in strength and cast the evils out
That stay the Christ-life in the human soul;
This is the work. And the reward is this:
To see on human faces, stained and scarred,
The dawning light that says the Lord is risen;
That they have seen, like Mary, face to face,
The majesty of kingliness and power,
The tenderness of wondrous love and grace
By which all wrongs shall measure their brief hour,
And one by one, before the matchless sight,
Slink, Judas-like, each to his own dark place.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 6.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Woman's Voice Never Heard Here
(Click the picture for bigger view)1920
On Mount Athos, the "Holy Mountain of Greece," no females, human or animal, may ever tread. On top of the mountain are located twenty monasteries which house 3,000 monks and as many laymen. These buildings date back more than a thousand years and contain many valuable religious works. The monks have a sort of republic there and have preserved their independence and ceremonies thru three centuries of Moslem rule.
—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 11.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Keeps Women Silent, How Does He Do It?
1920
Pastor Finds Long-sought-for Method of Hushing Talkative Sex.
Women are not allowed to preach or to bear rule or authority in the church at Zion City, Ill., near Chicago.
"I will not allow any woman to come on the platform and preach or teach," said Overseer Voliva. "Paul said, 'Let the women keep silent in the churches,' and in Zion no woman can be a public speaker. No woman is entitled to bear rule or to be placed in authority. When the apostles were selected, there wasn't a woman among them. When God chose a prophet, or a messenger, he always chose a man."
Here are some of the things that a woman can do, according to Voliva:
She can stay at home and mend socks; wash the dishes; knit and darn; cook; keep her home and her children clean and tidy, and she can be an angel of mercy to the sick and distressed. But she can't preach.
Besides accepting the apostle Paul as an authority on woman's place. Voliva also takes the position that woman was to be subject to man, from creation down. Voliva gives as his reasons for this position that Adam was first created, then woman was created from the rib of man, and that Eve was first in the transgressions in the Garden of Eden. She didn't keep her place, and not only got into trouble, but dragged man into trouble after her.
—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 5.
Pastor Finds Long-sought-for Method of Hushing Talkative Sex.
Women are not allowed to preach or to bear rule or authority in the church at Zion City, Ill., near Chicago.
"I will not allow any woman to come on the platform and preach or teach," said Overseer Voliva. "Paul said, 'Let the women keep silent in the churches,' and in Zion no woman can be a public speaker. No woman is entitled to bear rule or to be placed in authority. When the apostles were selected, there wasn't a woman among them. When God chose a prophet, or a messenger, he always chose a man."
Here are some of the things that a woman can do, according to Voliva:
She can stay at home and mend socks; wash the dishes; knit and darn; cook; keep her home and her children clean and tidy, and she can be an angel of mercy to the sick and distressed. But she can't preach.
Besides accepting the apostle Paul as an authority on woman's place. Voliva also takes the position that woman was to be subject to man, from creation down. Voliva gives as his reasons for this position that Adam was first created, then woman was created from the rib of man, and that Eve was first in the transgressions in the Garden of Eden. She didn't keep her place, and not only got into trouble, but dragged man into trouble after her.
—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 5.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
The "Thirteen" Superstition
1910
According to reliable authorities the popular superstition that attaches to the number 13 owes its origin to the story of "The Last Supper." For unreckoned centuries the superstition has been universal that if 13 persons sit down to a meal at the same table one of them will die before the year is out. This doubtless comes from the Biblical feast when Christ sat down at table with his 12 disciples.
Those Small Pledges
When the minister views the display of millinery this morning, he will begin to understand why ten cents a week is all that some of his parishioners can afford to subscribe.
According to reliable authorities the popular superstition that attaches to the number 13 owes its origin to the story of "The Last Supper." For unreckoned centuries the superstition has been universal that if 13 persons sit down to a meal at the same table one of them will die before the year is out. This doubtless comes from the Biblical feast when Christ sat down at table with his 12 disciples.
Those Small Pledges
When the minister views the display of millinery this morning, he will begin to understand why ten cents a week is all that some of his parishioners can afford to subscribe.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Easter Sunday Comes April 23, 1905
1905
Only nine times in two and one quarter centuries has Easter fallen as late as it does this year. Only five times in this period has it come later in the spring than it does in 1905, and it is not possible for it to fall more than two days later. In all of the time from 1786 to 2013 there is not an occasion when it falls later than April 25, and only twice does it come on this day of the month. During this period it will come three times on April 24 and four times on the 23d.
This year Easter Sunday. will be celebrated on April 23. This is the latest date since 1886, when it came on April 25, the latest date possible. As a result of a late Easter, Lent, of course, came correspondingly late and this meant a very long social season. Lent came as early as February 4, and as late as March 10, but it more often begins from the middle to the latter part of February, thus cutting off the gaiety of the social season right at its height.
The lateness of Easter and Lent this year will be appreciated by the ladies of the city for many reasons, some of which may perhaps seem trivial, but nevertheless they are of considerable moment to them. In the first place the lengthening of the social season is really a treat, then Lent is always taken advantage of by many as a time to prepare the spring and summer wearing apparel. While they are not kept out of the swirl of society by their regard for religious duty, they use the time in making up their clothes and the hum of the sewing machines is the prevailing sound in the household during this season. Because the beginning of Lent came so late this year all the spring and summer fabrics will be on display in the stores and they can have the latest there is to begin on at once.
Everyone knows what a pleasure it is to wear new Easter bonnets on Easter Sunday, and what a disappointment it is to the woman who has purchased a beautiful spring blossom of a picture hat, when she wakes up Easter morn to see the snow on the ground and the mercury hovering about the zero mark. With Easter falling so late there is only a slight possibility that the weather will be unfavorable.
Only nine times in two and one quarter centuries has Easter fallen as late as it does this year. Only five times in this period has it come later in the spring than it does in 1905, and it is not possible for it to fall more than two days later. In all of the time from 1786 to 2013 there is not an occasion when it falls later than April 25, and only twice does it come on this day of the month. During this period it will come three times on April 24 and four times on the 23d.
This year Easter Sunday. will be celebrated on April 23. This is the latest date since 1886, when it came on April 25, the latest date possible. As a result of a late Easter, Lent, of course, came correspondingly late and this meant a very long social season. Lent came as early as February 4, and as late as March 10, but it more often begins from the middle to the latter part of February, thus cutting off the gaiety of the social season right at its height.
The lateness of Easter and Lent this year will be appreciated by the ladies of the city for many reasons, some of which may perhaps seem trivial, but nevertheless they are of considerable moment to them. In the first place the lengthening of the social season is really a treat, then Lent is always taken advantage of by many as a time to prepare the spring and summer wearing apparel. While they are not kept out of the swirl of society by their regard for religious duty, they use the time in making up their clothes and the hum of the sewing machines is the prevailing sound in the household during this season. Because the beginning of Lent came so late this year all the spring and summer fabrics will be on display in the stores and they can have the latest there is to begin on at once.
Everyone knows what a pleasure it is to wear new Easter bonnets on Easter Sunday, and what a disappointment it is to the woman who has purchased a beautiful spring blossom of a picture hat, when she wakes up Easter morn to see the snow on the ground and the mercury hovering about the zero mark. With Easter falling so late there is only a slight possibility that the weather will be unfavorable.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Gum-Chewing Girl Makes Faces at Minister
March 1896
Two girls in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, have been heavily fined for disturbing public worship by chewing gum. The minister testified that when he remonstrated with one of the girls she made faces at him.
The Congregational Church of Sedalia, Missouri, is going to make a grand effort to bring the old sinners into the fold this year. Young women are to act as ushers in place of the young men hitherto acting in that capacity.
Mrs. Cleveland rarely fails to attend the regular church services, and is scrupulously exact in being present on all special days.
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein who is Queen Victoria's daughter Helena, and her daughter Princess Victoria, are to sing solo parts in the "Messiah" at a church concert at Slough.
Two girls in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, have been heavily fined for disturbing public worship by chewing gum. The minister testified that when he remonstrated with one of the girls she made faces at him.
The Congregational Church of Sedalia, Missouri, is going to make a grand effort to bring the old sinners into the fold this year. Young women are to act as ushers in place of the young men hitherto acting in that capacity.
Mrs. Cleveland rarely fails to attend the regular church services, and is scrupulously exact in being present on all special days.
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein who is Queen Victoria's daughter Helena, and her daughter Princess Victoria, are to sing solo parts in the "Messiah" at a church concert at Slough.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Lectures on Chastity and Social Purity
Kansas, 1911
Men's Meeting Held
There was quite an interesting event last Sunday afternoon at the Opera House under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A.
The secretary, Britt Harris, had issued tickets to men only and boys over sixteen years of age to a lecture delivered by Dr. Wayne K. Stalnaker of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, who gave his lecture on the subject "Chastity and Social Purity."
The Doctor held his audience for nearly an hour. It was evident that the audience was with him from start to finish, and at the close, each man pledged himself to stand for the motherhood, wifehood, and daughterhood of the city of Ellis.
The song service was in charge of Prof. F. F. Gearhardt who is conducting the chorus at the Methodist Revival. It was a source of inspiration to hear 90 men singing the songs of Zion like camp-meeting folk. Mr. Harris seems to be adept at getting men together and in touch with each other.
—The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.
1910
Families Should Have Dogs
An Edinburgh clergyman says: "Every family should have a dog. It is like a perpetual baby; it betrays no secrets, never sulks, asks no troublesome questions, never gets into debt, never comes down late to breakfast, and is always ready for a bit of fun."
Men's Meeting Held
There was quite an interesting event last Sunday afternoon at the Opera House under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A.
The secretary, Britt Harris, had issued tickets to men only and boys over sixteen years of age to a lecture delivered by Dr. Wayne K. Stalnaker of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, who gave his lecture on the subject "Chastity and Social Purity."
The Doctor held his audience for nearly an hour. It was evident that the audience was with him from start to finish, and at the close, each man pledged himself to stand for the motherhood, wifehood, and daughterhood of the city of Ellis.
The song service was in charge of Prof. F. F. Gearhardt who is conducting the chorus at the Methodist Revival. It was a source of inspiration to hear 90 men singing the songs of Zion like camp-meeting folk. Mr. Harris seems to be adept at getting men together and in touch with each other.
—The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.
1910
Families Should Have Dogs
An Edinburgh clergyman says: "Every family should have a dog. It is like a perpetual baby; it betrays no secrets, never sulks, asks no troublesome questions, never gets into debt, never comes down late to breakfast, and is always ready for a bit of fun."
Monday, June 11, 2007
Pastor Bars Hobble Skirt
1910
No Woman, Wearing Garb of Latest Fashion, Can Enter New Jersey Village Church
Groveville, New Jersey — Rev. Peter Henry, pastor of the First Reformed church, has refused admission to his church to any woman who wears a "hobble" skirt, and has denounced from his pulpit those who have adopted this style of dress. He terms girls and women who wear them as "walking balloons," "lunatics" and "godless." He says the style is a travesty, and asserts the girls and women who wear such skirts should be "spanked."
Since the minister began his crusade few of the "hobblers" can be seen in these parts, and although a number of women in his congregation had gone to considerable expense in placing skirts of this style in their wardrobe, they are now bemoaning the expenditure, as they have destroyed them or given them away.
Lincoln — Learned or Unlearned?
Congressman Wise of Virginia, in his address on Lincoln, said: "Abraham Lincoln had neither the learning, the experience in public life, nor the social advantages of William H. Seward. Nor had he the political training, the polish, or the skilled weapons of debate possessed by his great antagonist, Stephen A. Douglas. What he had was a faith which knew no variableness nor shadow of turning, and a purpose that he boldly announced at the outset and never abandoned under any discouragement. It is a mistake to say he was an unlearned man."
No Woman, Wearing Garb of Latest Fashion, Can Enter New Jersey Village Church
Groveville, New Jersey — Rev. Peter Henry, pastor of the First Reformed church, has refused admission to his church to any woman who wears a "hobble" skirt, and has denounced from his pulpit those who have adopted this style of dress. He terms girls and women who wear them as "walking balloons," "lunatics" and "godless." He says the style is a travesty, and asserts the girls and women who wear such skirts should be "spanked."
Since the minister began his crusade few of the "hobblers" can be seen in these parts, and although a number of women in his congregation had gone to considerable expense in placing skirts of this style in their wardrobe, they are now bemoaning the expenditure, as they have destroyed them or given them away.
Lincoln — Learned or Unlearned?
Congressman Wise of Virginia, in his address on Lincoln, said: "Abraham Lincoln had neither the learning, the experience in public life, nor the social advantages of William H. Seward. Nor had he the political training, the polish, or the skilled weapons of debate possessed by his great antagonist, Stephen A. Douglas. What he had was a faith which knew no variableness nor shadow of turning, and a purpose that he boldly announced at the outset and never abandoned under any discouragement. It is a mistake to say he was an unlearned man."
Where Adam Lives, But Eve is Excluded
1915
The Monastery of St. Peter
Where the white cowled peakhead of Mount Athos rises into the serene turquoise sky and looks down its slopes, solemnly verdured by dark forests and gardened by olive, myrtle and rose, is the most remarkable republic in all the world, into whose arcadian confines came, again the call of war — the world's greatest of wars.
This dominion, at all times on a military footing to repel its one great, human enemy, has passed through many wars with pirate invaders, not to mention the invasion of curiosity of the Byzantine empress, who insisted upon visiting the place to the mortification and scandal of the good men — so there is small wonder that Father Bulatovitch, once a grim soldier, volunteered to go forth and fight for the czar.
Mount Athos is on the peninsula of Saloniki, which territory Greece wrested from the Turks in the last war, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. There are twenty monasteries in the republic, eleven villages and 250 hermitages. The population is composed of more than three thousand monks and as many lay brothers, who are classed as "worldlings." There is an army of fifty Albanian guards stationed at the capital, Karyas, to see that no woman enters. And so rigid is the bar against the weaker sex that not even the female of any animal may be admitted.
In a Romantic Garden Spot
Think of this garden spot, where, despite the iron impress of celibacy, there are romance and poetry in the very air! There is mystery, too, for, looking from the sea, the cloak of the dense forest that lies over the titanic shoulders of the holy mount is full of blue and black shadow and silence; then, grimly medieval, clinging to the side of the elevation, even in the bright sunlight losing none of its impressive character, is the "mysterious monastery" of Simon Peter.
Mount Athos might have still drowsed in the serenity of its recent dream picture days had not Father Bulatovitch, who at one time held a commission in the army of the great white czar, been stirred by the martial spirit and declared his willingness go to war. He had been an officer of the guards and as abbot of a monastery brought something of the military discipline there.
He made it clear he did not intend giving up his religious orders, but, in imitation of the crusading monks at the time of the Tartar invasion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, would head his troops with his uniform covered by his priestly vestments. He may be fighting now, or he may have been mustered in at last for the long twilight march.
But even the monks who have been trained in the paths of peace are not unfamiliar with war. They have it as an inspiring tradition, for all of these monasteries in the beginning were armed forts to repel the invasion of pirates. The Russian monastery, four hours by muleback from the capital, is the best example of this defensive style.
Mount Athos a Place of Thrills
"As you approach," tells a recent visitor, "you are impressed and bewildered by that strange fortress sanctuary, with its bristling array of bastions, towers, turrets, redans and parapets, all stained, riddled and crenellated by the action of time and tempest. As far as the eye can see there is no opening anywhere along the whole expanse of walls. Wooden galleries project beneath the roof, but they are of comparatively recent construction, having been added since the pirates ceased to harry the holy mountain. They are painted a defiant wood red. The whole mass of masonry clings acrobatic-like to a rock, which is covered with luxuriant verdure."
In this curious republic there are Russian monks and Greek monks and Servian monks and Bulgarian monks. Though peaceful in general effect, Mount Athos has been a place of thrills. Not long ago the Bulgarians made an effort to seize the Servian monastery Hilendar and annex it for their own monks. The matter caused intense indignation in Belgrade, and, was adjusted with some difficulty by the governing council of monks at Karyas.
For these men, rugged through long years of clean living and wholesome work, are of the stuff of ancient conquerors, despite the transforming spirit of the church. It would be interesting to know just how diffuse among them is the old crusading spirit as shown by the action of Father Bulatovitch, who believes he will be fighting for a holy cause.
Karyas an Eveless Eden
The Saloniki steamer puts into the small port of Daphne, but even though a woman landed there in disguise and was not discovered, she could not consider herself really in the forbidden precincts of the Eveless Eden. The envied objective is Karyas, the capital, on the eastern slope of the mountain, a gem of a settlement, almost hidden among gardens and olive yards, a scattered mosaic on a field of green. And yet in this garden there is no note of the appealing cadences of a woman's voice, no sound of childish laughter, not one touch that would tell of the presence of Eve.
That there may be no invasion, the army of fifty Albanian guards watch night and day. Women have endeavored by various ruses to enter, but invariably have been discovered and turned back. But who was the Byzantine empress to whom the chronicler refers who insisted upon the forbidden visit and who lived to regret it? You naturally settle upon Theodora, the wife of Justinian, who, having been at one time a performer in the circus and much given to adventure, is likely to have undertaken such an exploit simply because it was forbidden.
A story is told, also, of an American girl student in Greece who essayed it, and nearly succeeded, but for the cleverness of a monk who was endowed with some of the subtle craft of Sherlock Holmes. She went about to prepare for the adventure with painstaking deliberation. She practiced for days walking after the real masculine style, assisted by the young man who was to accompany her on the mission. She could smoke a cigarette like a man; but considering this as not being absolutely convincing, she mastered the cigar, and then, with a heroic effort, conquered the pipe.
American Girl's Exploit
Her voice was a deep contralto, and when she was at last ready for the adventure she was as perfect a young man as one would expect to see out for travel and instruction. The party landed at Daphne without the disguise being discovered.
On arriving at Karyas one reports to the prefect, who is in charge of the Albanian guard. One of these soldier monks watched the proceedings with keen interest. There was nothing in the manner of the disguised girl to excite suspicion — she was playing her part to perfection — but this fierce looking soldier cleric must have received some subtle intuition that the enemy was at hand.
Preferring to be absolutely certain, he said nothing while the routine was being gone through. But, as the party was about to go out into the single street of the capital he suddenly pointed to the floor and exclaimed in perfect English:
"Be careful, please!"
The girl instinctively made a motion, as though to gather up her skirt had she been wearing one. That motion discovered her. She was escorted back to the little seaport with less pomp than is due to an empress.
Wars may sweep the earth with fire and steel, and women bear the bitterest penalties of the loss, while they rise to the supremest heights of heroism and self-sacrifice — being angel to friend and foe alike; but there, at Mount Athos, she can have no part either in its peace or its peaceful wars. For she is the enemy, the insidious foe urged to invasion by the most powerful of feminine motives — curiosity.
Against her the army of the guard and the army of the isolated faithful are unceasingly on guard. And we, who are in the high fever of life, in the full consciousness of what misery, suffering and crime such an obvious thing as sex may encompass — who of us can say, with anything of verity, that these earnest men of Athos are not entirely and supremely happy in their Eveless Eden?
The Monastery of St. Peter
Where the white cowled peakhead of Mount Athos rises into the serene turquoise sky and looks down its slopes, solemnly verdured by dark forests and gardened by olive, myrtle and rose, is the most remarkable republic in all the world, into whose arcadian confines came, again the call of war — the world's greatest of wars.
This dominion, at all times on a military footing to repel its one great, human enemy, has passed through many wars with pirate invaders, not to mention the invasion of curiosity of the Byzantine empress, who insisted upon visiting the place to the mortification and scandal of the good men — so there is small wonder that Father Bulatovitch, once a grim soldier, volunteered to go forth and fight for the czar.
Mount Athos is on the peninsula of Saloniki, which territory Greece wrested from the Turks in the last war, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. There are twenty monasteries in the republic, eleven villages and 250 hermitages. The population is composed of more than three thousand monks and as many lay brothers, who are classed as "worldlings." There is an army of fifty Albanian guards stationed at the capital, Karyas, to see that no woman enters. And so rigid is the bar against the weaker sex that not even the female of any animal may be admitted.
In a Romantic Garden Spot
Think of this garden spot, where, despite the iron impress of celibacy, there are romance and poetry in the very air! There is mystery, too, for, looking from the sea, the cloak of the dense forest that lies over the titanic shoulders of the holy mount is full of blue and black shadow and silence; then, grimly medieval, clinging to the side of the elevation, even in the bright sunlight losing none of its impressive character, is the "mysterious monastery" of Simon Peter.
Mount Athos might have still drowsed in the serenity of its recent dream picture days had not Father Bulatovitch, who at one time held a commission in the army of the great white czar, been stirred by the martial spirit and declared his willingness go to war. He had been an officer of the guards and as abbot of a monastery brought something of the military discipline there.
He made it clear he did not intend giving up his religious orders, but, in imitation of the crusading monks at the time of the Tartar invasion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, would head his troops with his uniform covered by his priestly vestments. He may be fighting now, or he may have been mustered in at last for the long twilight march.
But even the monks who have been trained in the paths of peace are not unfamiliar with war. They have it as an inspiring tradition, for all of these monasteries in the beginning were armed forts to repel the invasion of pirates. The Russian monastery, four hours by muleback from the capital, is the best example of this defensive style.
Mount Athos a Place of Thrills
"As you approach," tells a recent visitor, "you are impressed and bewildered by that strange fortress sanctuary, with its bristling array of bastions, towers, turrets, redans and parapets, all stained, riddled and crenellated by the action of time and tempest. As far as the eye can see there is no opening anywhere along the whole expanse of walls. Wooden galleries project beneath the roof, but they are of comparatively recent construction, having been added since the pirates ceased to harry the holy mountain. They are painted a defiant wood red. The whole mass of masonry clings acrobatic-like to a rock, which is covered with luxuriant verdure."
In this curious republic there are Russian monks and Greek monks and Servian monks and Bulgarian monks. Though peaceful in general effect, Mount Athos has been a place of thrills. Not long ago the Bulgarians made an effort to seize the Servian monastery Hilendar and annex it for their own monks. The matter caused intense indignation in Belgrade, and, was adjusted with some difficulty by the governing council of monks at Karyas.
For these men, rugged through long years of clean living and wholesome work, are of the stuff of ancient conquerors, despite the transforming spirit of the church. It would be interesting to know just how diffuse among them is the old crusading spirit as shown by the action of Father Bulatovitch, who believes he will be fighting for a holy cause.
Karyas an Eveless Eden
The Saloniki steamer puts into the small port of Daphne, but even though a woman landed there in disguise and was not discovered, she could not consider herself really in the forbidden precincts of the Eveless Eden. The envied objective is Karyas, the capital, on the eastern slope of the mountain, a gem of a settlement, almost hidden among gardens and olive yards, a scattered mosaic on a field of green. And yet in this garden there is no note of the appealing cadences of a woman's voice, no sound of childish laughter, not one touch that would tell of the presence of Eve.
That there may be no invasion, the army of fifty Albanian guards watch night and day. Women have endeavored by various ruses to enter, but invariably have been discovered and turned back. But who was the Byzantine empress to whom the chronicler refers who insisted upon the forbidden visit and who lived to regret it? You naturally settle upon Theodora, the wife of Justinian, who, having been at one time a performer in the circus and much given to adventure, is likely to have undertaken such an exploit simply because it was forbidden.
A story is told, also, of an American girl student in Greece who essayed it, and nearly succeeded, but for the cleverness of a monk who was endowed with some of the subtle craft of Sherlock Holmes. She went about to prepare for the adventure with painstaking deliberation. She practiced for days walking after the real masculine style, assisted by the young man who was to accompany her on the mission. She could smoke a cigarette like a man; but considering this as not being absolutely convincing, she mastered the cigar, and then, with a heroic effort, conquered the pipe.
American Girl's Exploit
Her voice was a deep contralto, and when she was at last ready for the adventure she was as perfect a young man as one would expect to see out for travel and instruction. The party landed at Daphne without the disguise being discovered.
On arriving at Karyas one reports to the prefect, who is in charge of the Albanian guard. One of these soldier monks watched the proceedings with keen interest. There was nothing in the manner of the disguised girl to excite suspicion — she was playing her part to perfection — but this fierce looking soldier cleric must have received some subtle intuition that the enemy was at hand.
Preferring to be absolutely certain, he said nothing while the routine was being gone through. But, as the party was about to go out into the single street of the capital he suddenly pointed to the floor and exclaimed in perfect English:
"Be careful, please!"
The girl instinctively made a motion, as though to gather up her skirt had she been wearing one. That motion discovered her. She was escorted back to the little seaport with less pomp than is due to an empress.
Wars may sweep the earth with fire and steel, and women bear the bitterest penalties of the loss, while they rise to the supremest heights of heroism and self-sacrifice — being angel to friend and foe alike; but there, at Mount Athos, she can have no part either in its peace or its peaceful wars. For she is the enemy, the insidious foe urged to invasion by the most powerful of feminine motives — curiosity.
Against her the army of the guard and the army of the isolated faithful are unceasingly on guard. And we, who are in the high fever of life, in the full consciousness of what misery, suffering and crime such an obvious thing as sex may encompass — who of us can say, with anything of verity, that these earnest men of Athos are not entirely and supremely happy in their Eveless Eden?
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Evangelist Martin on "The Three Social Evils"
California, 1921
"If laws were passed in the state of California making it unlawful for men to dance with women other than their own wives, and allowing single men to dance with each other, and not with single women, the dance craze would soon be abated," declared Evangelist T. T. Martin, addressing a union meeting in the Twenty-third Avenue Baptist church yesterday afternoon on "The Three Social Evils — Dancing, Card Playing and Moving Pictures."
"In San Francisco," he continued, "statistics show that 75 percent of fallen women come from dance halls.
"The harm of the dance comes in the contact of the sexes and should be abolished for that reason. Although the dance ruins many women, the great sufferers are of the sterner sex. Where the dance ruins one woman it harms a dozen men."
Card playing and moving pictures were both condemned by the evangelist. "If card playing, one of the great social evils, is to be abolished, the women must cease gathering around their bridge tables. Were that the case, the men would not gather at their poker tables."
—Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, March 7, 1921, p. 8.
"If laws were passed in the state of California making it unlawful for men to dance with women other than their own wives, and allowing single men to dance with each other, and not with single women, the dance craze would soon be abated," declared Evangelist T. T. Martin, addressing a union meeting in the Twenty-third Avenue Baptist church yesterday afternoon on "The Three Social Evils — Dancing, Card Playing and Moving Pictures."
"In San Francisco," he continued, "statistics show that 75 percent of fallen women come from dance halls.
"The harm of the dance comes in the contact of the sexes and should be abolished for that reason. Although the dance ruins many women, the great sufferers are of the sterner sex. Where the dance ruins one woman it harms a dozen men."
Card playing and moving pictures were both condemned by the evangelist. "If card playing, one of the great social evils, is to be abolished, the women must cease gathering around their bridge tables. Were that the case, the men would not gather at their poker tables."
—Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, March 7, 1921, p. 8.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Adam Was Rib, Woman Says
1914
Mrs. Gilman Asserts at Feminist Gathering Eve Came First In Garden of Eden
New York, Feb. 20 — Adam, not Eve, was the rib. That is, instead of woman springing from the rib of man it happened the other way — man was fashioned from the rib of woman, who came first in the Garden of Eden. So declared Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leader of the feminist movement.
Elaborating on her address delivered before 100 women, Mrs. Gilman brought out these tenets of her belief:
First, the highest form of life is the female of the species — any species. Woman has progressed, while man has failed to develop physiologically speaking.
Woman's sphere is motherhood and the growth of the race, while man is but a hunter and fighter. Only as she serves man in motherhood is woman considered useful and protected.
Mrs. Gilman Asserts at Feminist Gathering Eve Came First In Garden of Eden
New York, Feb. 20 — Adam, not Eve, was the rib. That is, instead of woman springing from the rib of man it happened the other way — man was fashioned from the rib of woman, who came first in the Garden of Eden. So declared Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leader of the feminist movement.
Elaborating on her address delivered before 100 women, Mrs. Gilman brought out these tenets of her belief:
First, the highest form of life is the female of the species — any species. Woman has progressed, while man has failed to develop physiologically speaking.
Woman's sphere is motherhood and the growth of the race, while man is but a hunter and fighter. Only as she serves man in motherhood is woman considered useful and protected.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Bars "Tango" As a Punishable Sin
1914
Paris, Jan. 12. — Cardinal Leon Adolphe Amette, archbishop of Paris, in an admonition which was published in his churches yesterday, forbids the dancing of the tango as a sin which must be confessed and require penance. He also will publish an official admonition on the daring and eccentricities of modern dress.
"We remind the women," the cardinal says, "that they should observe always the rules of Christian modesty, which too often are violated. We ask Christian women to unite in abolishing certain styles of dress which are contrary to decency.
"We condemn the dance imported from abroad known under the name of the tango, which, by its nature, is indecent and offensive to morals and Christians may not in conscience take part therein.
"It will therefore be the duty of confessors to take notice of this in the administration of the sacrament of penance."
Andre de Fouquieres, who lectured a year ago in the United States, said that Cardinal Amette's prohibition of the tango would produce profound dismay in Parisian social circles.
Paris, Jan. 12. — Cardinal Leon Adolphe Amette, archbishop of Paris, in an admonition which was published in his churches yesterday, forbids the dancing of the tango as a sin which must be confessed and require penance. He also will publish an official admonition on the daring and eccentricities of modern dress.
"We remind the women," the cardinal says, "that they should observe always the rules of Christian modesty, which too often are violated. We ask Christian women to unite in abolishing certain styles of dress which are contrary to decency.
"We condemn the dance imported from abroad known under the name of the tango, which, by its nature, is indecent and offensive to morals and Christians may not in conscience take part therein.
"It will therefore be the duty of confessors to take notice of this in the administration of the sacrament of penance."
Andre de Fouquieres, who lectured a year ago in the United States, said that Cardinal Amette's prohibition of the tango would produce profound dismay in Parisian social circles.
Pastor Discovers Ideal for Bride
1914
Philadelphia, Jan. 5. — After compiling specifications for a wife, Rev. Henry Barnes, chaplain of the House of Saint Michael and All Angels, searched for a bride until he found one who measured up to the requirements. She is Miss Sara Elizabeth Robertson, 35 years old, supervisor of Visiting Nurses' society. The engagement of the pair is announced.
Barnes is a widower, his first wife having died a year and a half ago. He has three children.
The specifications which Mr. Barnes set for his wife follow:
First — Must be good and sweet to look upon and have an attractive personality.
Second — She must have plenty of snap and vivacity.
Third — Must have a capacity of grasping the vital things of life so she can keep pace with her husband and understand his viewpoint.
Fourth — Must have a broad understanding of humanity and love all men and women as her brothers and sisters.
Rev. Barnes says Miss Robertson is qualified to fill all these specifications.
Note: The article said her name was "Sare," which I changed. If it's wrong, sorry!
Philadelphia, Jan. 5. — After compiling specifications for a wife, Rev. Henry Barnes, chaplain of the House of Saint Michael and All Angels, searched for a bride until he found one who measured up to the requirements. She is Miss Sara Elizabeth Robertson, 35 years old, supervisor of Visiting Nurses' society. The engagement of the pair is announced.
Barnes is a widower, his first wife having died a year and a half ago. He has three children.
The specifications which Mr. Barnes set for his wife follow:
First — Must be good and sweet to look upon and have an attractive personality.
Second — She must have plenty of snap and vivacity.
Third — Must have a capacity of grasping the vital things of life so she can keep pace with her husband and understand his viewpoint.
Fourth — Must have a broad understanding of humanity and love all men and women as her brothers and sisters.
Rev. Barnes says Miss Robertson is qualified to fill all these specifications.
Note: The article said her name was "Sare," which I changed. If it's wrong, sorry!
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Evangelist Criticizes Women's Dress — 'Nearly Naked'
1914
Oliver on Dress
Evangelist Makes a Few Remarks While Sojourning on Pacific Coast
Rev. French E. Oliver, who conducted the Union Evangelistic Campaign in this town, a short time ago, has come into public notice on the Pacific coast, where he is spending a season for the benefit of his health, through severe arraignment of women for immodesty in dress.
Among his utterance on the subject, while at Venice, were the following: "Most assuredly I would say that women are losing their modesty. To the styles adopted by some of the women I attribute their downfall and the crowding of the divorce courts. Think of the fact that there are over one million divorce suits filed in the United States in one year. Women are dressing to attract the attention of men, and it is this situation that results in the downfall of both. Seventy per cent of the women who go in bathing daily have scant enough clothing to shield their nakedness. No stockings, low cut waists and neither garments that do not reach to their knees. Could that be considered womanly modesty? It is the same at the Eastern beaches that are at Venice. The more aristocratic the resort the more prevalent the lack of modesty.
"One reason why the world is not as good to-day as it was years ago is that the same religion is not being preached. There is too much modernism in present day religion. Religion can not be changed with the fashions, for there is but one religion and that is the one that was first preached."
—The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, OH, Aug. 22, 1914, p. 2.
Oliver on Dress
Evangelist Makes a Few Remarks While Sojourning on Pacific Coast
Rev. French E. Oliver, who conducted the Union Evangelistic Campaign in this town, a short time ago, has come into public notice on the Pacific coast, where he is spending a season for the benefit of his health, through severe arraignment of women for immodesty in dress.
Among his utterance on the subject, while at Venice, were the following: "Most assuredly I would say that women are losing their modesty. To the styles adopted by some of the women I attribute their downfall and the crowding of the divorce courts. Think of the fact that there are over one million divorce suits filed in the United States in one year. Women are dressing to attract the attention of men, and it is this situation that results in the downfall of both. Seventy per cent of the women who go in bathing daily have scant enough clothing to shield their nakedness. No stockings, low cut waists and neither garments that do not reach to their knees. Could that be considered womanly modesty? It is the same at the Eastern beaches that are at Venice. The more aristocratic the resort the more prevalent the lack of modesty.
"One reason why the world is not as good to-day as it was years ago is that the same religion is not being preached. There is too much modernism in present day religion. Religion can not be changed with the fashions, for there is but one religion and that is the one that was first preached."
—The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, OH, Aug. 22, 1914, p. 2.
Noah's Wife Illustrates Mysterious Nature of Women
1903
An Unfamiliar Text
But It Was a Forcible Illustration of a Great Truth
Several years ago there labored in one of the western villages of Minnesota a preacher who was always in the habit of selecting his texts from the Old Testament and particularly some portion of the history of Noah. No matter what the occasion was, he would always find some parallel incident from the history of this great character that would readily serve as a text or illustration.
At one time he was called upon to unite the daughter of the village mayor and a prominent attorney in the holy bonds of matrimony. Two little boys, knowing his determination to give them a portion of the sacred history touching Noah's marriage, hit upon the novel idea of pasting together two leaves in the family Bible so as to connect, without any apparent break, the marriage of Noah and the description of the ark.
When the noted guests were all assembled and the contracting parties with attendants in their respective stations, the preacher began the ceremonies by reading the following text: "And when Noah was one hundred and forty years old he took unto himself a wife," then, turning the page, he continued, "300 cubits in length, 50 cubits in width and 30 cubits in depth and within and without besmeared with pitch."
The story seemed a little strong, but he could not doubt the Bible, and, after reading it once more and reflecting a moment, he turned to the startled assemblage with these remarks, "My beloved brethren, this is the first time in the history of my life that my attention has been called to this important passage of the Scriptures, but it seems to me that it is one of the most forcible illustrations of that grand eternal truth that the nature of woman is exceedingly difficult to comprehend. — Starlight Messenger.
An Unfamiliar Text
But It Was a Forcible Illustration of a Great Truth
Several years ago there labored in one of the western villages of Minnesota a preacher who was always in the habit of selecting his texts from the Old Testament and particularly some portion of the history of Noah. No matter what the occasion was, he would always find some parallel incident from the history of this great character that would readily serve as a text or illustration.
At one time he was called upon to unite the daughter of the village mayor and a prominent attorney in the holy bonds of matrimony. Two little boys, knowing his determination to give them a portion of the sacred history touching Noah's marriage, hit upon the novel idea of pasting together two leaves in the family Bible so as to connect, without any apparent break, the marriage of Noah and the description of the ark.
When the noted guests were all assembled and the contracting parties with attendants in their respective stations, the preacher began the ceremonies by reading the following text: "And when Noah was one hundred and forty years old he took unto himself a wife," then, turning the page, he continued, "300 cubits in length, 50 cubits in width and 30 cubits in depth and within and without besmeared with pitch."
The story seemed a little strong, but he could not doubt the Bible, and, after reading it once more and reflecting a moment, he turned to the startled assemblage with these remarks, "My beloved brethren, this is the first time in the history of my life that my attention has been called to this important passage of the Scriptures, but it seems to me that it is one of the most forcible illustrations of that grand eternal truth that the nature of woman is exceedingly difficult to comprehend. — Starlight Messenger.
Clergyman — 'For Women To Be Ugly Is Nearly Sinful'
1909
BE WINSOME, GIRLS
Clergyman Says It's All Right For You to Paint and Powder
Young women of the First M. E. church in St. Louis may now use the powder puff, likewise the paint brush and the brow pencil, without any compunctions of conscience. Their pastor, the Rev. Philip Cone Fletcher, says it is all right.
Lecturing recently on "Love, Courtship and Marriage," he told them that beauty was a duty and that if they had not been born that way it was incumbent upon them to powder and paint and pencil themselves beautiful.
"If I were a young woman, I would try to be winsome," he said. "Beauty is a duty. Young women ought to strive to appear to the very best advantage, mentally, physically and morally. If by the use of the powder puff, the paint brush and the brow pencil you can make yourself more winsome, you have my consent to use them freely. It is all right to supplement the works of God. To be ugly in an age like this is but little short of a sin against God and self."
BE WINSOME, GIRLS
Clergyman Says It's All Right For You to Paint and Powder
Young women of the First M. E. church in St. Louis may now use the powder puff, likewise the paint brush and the brow pencil, without any compunctions of conscience. Their pastor, the Rev. Philip Cone Fletcher, says it is all right.
Lecturing recently on "Love, Courtship and Marriage," he told them that beauty was a duty and that if they had not been born that way it was incumbent upon them to powder and paint and pencil themselves beautiful.
"If I were a young woman, I would try to be winsome," he said. "Beauty is a duty. Young women ought to strive to appear to the very best advantage, mentally, physically and morally. If by the use of the powder puff, the paint brush and the brow pencil you can make yourself more winsome, you have my consent to use them freely. It is all right to supplement the works of God. To be ugly in an age like this is but little short of a sin against God and self."
Saturday, May 19, 2007
The Bicycle a Means of Grace
1895
A Presbyterian minister, Rev. Roland D. Dawson, declares that the bicycle is a means of grace.
He lately preached a sermon on this topic, taking for his text the passage from Isaiah, "And their wheels were like a whirlwind." He suggested, moreover, that cobblestone streets could be made into good bicycle routes at small expense by covering them with a coat of asphalt.
He said wheelmen would be welcome to come to his church on their machines, and the bicycles would be cared for during service. As a means of giving women strength and independence and "freeing them from the slavery of the skirt" there was nothing like it.
The bicyclists ought to patronize his church in great force, for he called for the universal construction of wheel routes. He predicted that before long the bicycle would be the common means of transit, and every one not physically incapable would ride it.
A Presbyterian minister, Rev. Roland D. Dawson, declares that the bicycle is a means of grace.
He lately preached a sermon on this topic, taking for his text the passage from Isaiah, "And their wheels were like a whirlwind." He suggested, moreover, that cobblestone streets could be made into good bicycle routes at small expense by covering them with a coat of asphalt.
He said wheelmen would be welcome to come to his church on their machines, and the bicycles would be cared for during service. As a means of giving women strength and independence and "freeing them from the slavery of the skirt" there was nothing like it.
The bicyclists ought to patronize his church in great force, for he called for the universal construction of wheel routes. He predicted that before long the bicycle would be the common means of transit, and every one not physically incapable would ride it.
The Order of St. Monica
1895
How many people of the workaday world realize that there is in this prosaic country anything which smacks of medievalism as an order of "consecrated widowhood?"
Sisterhoods where virgins become the brides of the church are numerous in the Roman Catholic church and are not unknown among the Episcopalians, but the order of St. Monica is an order of widows. It is an Episcopal organization, and its head is Sister Caroline, the widow of the Rev. Ferdinand Ewer of New York.
It was formed in 1884, but its members were somewhat scattered and engaged in different pursuits until recently, when they have been invited to reunite at Springfield, Ill., and to take charge of an orphanage there. — Philadelphia Press.
How many people of the workaday world realize that there is in this prosaic country anything which smacks of medievalism as an order of "consecrated widowhood?"
Sisterhoods where virgins become the brides of the church are numerous in the Roman Catholic church and are not unknown among the Episcopalians, but the order of St. Monica is an order of widows. It is an Episcopal organization, and its head is Sister Caroline, the widow of the Rev. Ferdinand Ewer of New York.
It was formed in 1884, but its members were somewhat scattered and engaged in different pursuits until recently, when they have been invited to reunite at Springfield, Ill., and to take charge of an orphanage there. — Philadelphia Press.
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