Audubon, the great ornithologist, with gun and pencil, went through the forests of America to bring down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and after years of toil and exposure completed his manuscript, and put it in a trunk in Philadelphia for a few days of recreation and rest, and came back and found that the rats had utterly destroyed the manuscript; but without any discomposure and without any fret or bad temper, he again, picked up his gun and pencil, and visited again all the great forests of America, and reproduced his immortal work. And yet there are people with the ten-thousandth part of that loss who are utterly unreconcilable, who at the loss of a pencil or an article of raiment will blow as long and sharp as a northeast storm.
Now, that man who is affable in public and who is irritable in private is making a fraudulent over-issue of stock, and he is as bad as a bank that might have four or five hundred thousand dollars of bills in circulation with no specie in the vault. Let us learn to show piety at home. If we have it not there, we have it not anywhere. If we have not genuine grace in the family circle, all our outward and public plausibility merely springs from a fear of the world or from the slimy, putrid pool of our own selfishness. I tell you the home is a mighty test of character. What you are at home you are everywhere, whether you demonstrate it or not. — TALMAGE.
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Showing posts with label working. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Life of Man
The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others. — GARFIELD.
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance. — H. P. LIDDON.
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. — F. W. ROBERTSON.
A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care. — GEORGE MACDONALD.
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance. — H. P. LIDDON.
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. — F. W. ROBERTSON.
A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care. — GEORGE MACDONALD.
Know Your Work and Do It
Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the work — the idle man. — CARLYLE.
Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die. — WHITEFIELD.
God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding. — THOMAS BROOKS.
We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and doing preparation for higher being and doing. — HENRY GILES.
Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die. — WHITEFIELD.
God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding. — THOMAS BROOKS.
We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and doing preparation for higher being and doing. — HENRY GILES.
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.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Millionaire Working Construction on Railroad
1900
Some people were startled recently by the news that in the survey corps engaged in the construction work for the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, working for $1.50 per day, is a reputed millionaire, or perhaps a multimillionaire. He is Bertram Bell, the son of a wealthy capitalist of New York, who died recently, leaving a large fortune, variously reported from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000, to his son, who left the luxuries of his metropolitan home and came out West to enter the surveying corps just to learn the business.
It must be admitted that in these days when the sons of our multimillionaires are so partial to golf and polo as a means to develop a robust body, it is somewhat of a shock that one of them should be so unconventional as to choose a chain and transit instead of a curved stick or a champing steed. But such happenings as this are a good augury of a better future. It is good for Mr. Bell and the world in which he moves that he has the hardy manhood to break away from the enervating environment of wealth and pleasure. He has dignified his rank and station which are falling rapidly into disrepute because they have been made disreputable by the idle and predatory rich.
No sane human being envies a man of wealth. One should even admire him, if his wealth be honestly won, for genuine success of any kind is worthy of admiration. Bertram Bell proves to be an exception, but as yet the exception is by no means rare. Every large city and some smaller ones present instances wherein young men have taken their father's name and undertaken their father's business burdens, and by so doing have inherited a richer possession than their father's wealth. They have succeeded to the honor and esteem in which their sires were held among men.
It is true there are many contrasts to these careers, and the contrasts are perhaps the more numerous. But when the young and idle men of wealth know and experience the contempt in which the world holds them they may not be quite insensitive to the world's bad opinion. It is our duty not to keep them in ignorance.
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 6.
Some people were startled recently by the news that in the survey corps engaged in the construction work for the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, working for $1.50 per day, is a reputed millionaire, or perhaps a multimillionaire. He is Bertram Bell, the son of a wealthy capitalist of New York, who died recently, leaving a large fortune, variously reported from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000, to his son, who left the luxuries of his metropolitan home and came out West to enter the surveying corps just to learn the business.
It must be admitted that in these days when the sons of our multimillionaires are so partial to golf and polo as a means to develop a robust body, it is somewhat of a shock that one of them should be so unconventional as to choose a chain and transit instead of a curved stick or a champing steed. But such happenings as this are a good augury of a better future. It is good for Mr. Bell and the world in which he moves that he has the hardy manhood to break away from the enervating environment of wealth and pleasure. He has dignified his rank and station which are falling rapidly into disrepute because they have been made disreputable by the idle and predatory rich.
No sane human being envies a man of wealth. One should even admire him, if his wealth be honestly won, for genuine success of any kind is worthy of admiration. Bertram Bell proves to be an exception, but as yet the exception is by no means rare. Every large city and some smaller ones present instances wherein young men have taken their father's name and undertaken their father's business burdens, and by so doing have inherited a richer possession than their father's wealth. They have succeeded to the honor and esteem in which their sires were held among men.
It is true there are many contrasts to these careers, and the contrasts are perhaps the more numerous. But when the young and idle men of wealth know and experience the contempt in which the world holds them they may not be quite insensitive to the world's bad opinion. It is our duty not to keep them in ignorance.
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 6.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Work, Our Highest Privilege
1902
Whoever attempts to escape work avoids his best friend. We read the story of man's fall in the light of subsequent revelation, only to find that work is not a curse, but our highest privilege. The fact that the seasons end urges us on to do our best. An endless probation is simply none at all. There is no more pathetic lamentation in all literature than this. The summer is ended and we are not saved. Probation is over. The Judge enters the field and counts the sheaves. The summer ever reproduces itself. They come in their annual succession, but each holds its own place. This summer will be this but once. Another will come, but it won't be this. Nothing is ever repeated. The second resembles the first, but is not to be identified with it. The sun never greets the earth twice the same. Probation is written everywhere. — Presbyterian Journal.
Whoever attempts to escape work avoids his best friend. We read the story of man's fall in the light of subsequent revelation, only to find that work is not a curse, but our highest privilege. The fact that the seasons end urges us on to do our best. An endless probation is simply none at all. There is no more pathetic lamentation in all literature than this. The summer is ended and we are not saved. Probation is over. The Judge enters the field and counts the sheaves. The summer ever reproduces itself. They come in their annual succession, but each holds its own place. This summer will be this but once. Another will come, but it won't be this. Nothing is ever repeated. The second resembles the first, but is not to be identified with it. The sun never greets the earth twice the same. Probation is written everywhere. — Presbyterian Journal.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Free Lunch Goes With Religion
Illinois, 1905
Inducements to Be Offered Bloomington Men to Attend Church
Bloomington, Illinois, March 7 — To draw the men to the prayer meeting has been a problem before the congregation of the First Methodist church of this city for a long time. This week a new attraction will be introduced. A free lunch will be served between the hours of 6:30 and 7:15 o'clock for all business men and mechanics. It is believed that the merchants, clerks, and men in the shops will go from their work at 6 o'clock to the church and after eating remain to the 7:30 o'clock prayer meeting.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois, March 7, 1905.
Mormons Can Elder Cannon
His Conduct Is Declared to Have Been Unchristian
Salt Lake City, March 7 — Former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon has been disfellowshiped from the Mormon church for "unchristianlike conduct and apostasy."
This action of the church authorities followed a hearing in the city of Ogden before the local bishopric with whom charges had been preferred against Elder Cannon who is editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. The charges were based on editorial utterances of the Tribune including "an address to the earthly king of the kingdom of God." Mr. Cannon admitted the authorship.
Inducements to Be Offered Bloomington Men to Attend Church
Bloomington, Illinois, March 7 — To draw the men to the prayer meeting has been a problem before the congregation of the First Methodist church of this city for a long time. This week a new attraction will be introduced. A free lunch will be served between the hours of 6:30 and 7:15 o'clock for all business men and mechanics. It is believed that the merchants, clerks, and men in the shops will go from their work at 6 o'clock to the church and after eating remain to the 7:30 o'clock prayer meeting.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois, March 7, 1905.
Mormons Can Elder Cannon
His Conduct Is Declared to Have Been Unchristian
Salt Lake City, March 7 — Former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon has been disfellowshiped from the Mormon church for "unchristianlike conduct and apostasy."
This action of the church authorities followed a hearing in the city of Ogden before the local bishopric with whom charges had been preferred against Elder Cannon who is editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. The charges were based on editorial utterances of the Tribune including "an address to the earthly king of the kingdom of God." Mr. Cannon admitted the authorship.
Monday, June 4, 2007
King of Hoboes Openly Defends Knight of Road
1914
We Need Doughnuts and Coffee, Not Prayers
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5. — James Eads How, a wealthy resident of St. Louis, and who inherited his wealth, has an interesting and not altogether useless hobby — the apologetic advertising of the American tramp. Mr. How is pleased to be called "the millionaire tramp."
At a recent meeting in St. Louis "the millionaire tramp," who by the way has hoboed his way over the United States with the best of them, gave utterance to the following sentiment:
"We need the doughnut and the cup of coffee more than we need prayers. Society is very self-respecting but society is not a necessity and employment is. The cup of coffee and the doughnut are essential to the affairs of life."
The trouble with Mr. How and his fellow hoboes is that none of them cares anything for prayers, and they care nothing for the trouble of earning the doughnut and the cup of coffee. If the doughnut and the cup of coffee were provided for all men and women and all children so that they could be fed without an effort, the world would be far worse off than it is today. Again, if the heavens rained doughnuts and coffee, a considerable portion of Mr. How's following, the professional hoboes, would object to the labor and trouble of picking up the doughnuts and gathering up the coffee. They would insist on somebody else assuming that responsibility and of serving the coffee and the doughnuts to them. Again, a considerable number of the associates of Mr. How would believe that society ought to furnish doughnuts to them because they have been railing at society.
At present the people who work instead of spending their time in idleness and who restrain their passions and appetites have no trouble in securing doughnuts and coffee but as long as the world lasts the people who think only of their own appetites, their own desires, and their own comforts will have to get their doughnuts and their coffee at the back-door of the people who do the real work of the world.
Mr. How does not think much of prayer, because he has not tried it. Perhaps if he knew its helpful and inspiring effect on character, if he knew how it could help sustain and stimulate the soul of a man, and arouse in him new purposes, he would think better of it. Perhaps, too, if "the millionaire hobo" knew how prayer inspired a man to a sense of his own responsibility, and to a realization of his duties to himself, to his neighbors, and to humanity, he might become a useful member of that society which he professes to despise, and so he would be better able to give good advice to his useless and inefficient followers. — Montgomery Advertiser.
We Need Doughnuts and Coffee, Not Prayers
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5. — James Eads How, a wealthy resident of St. Louis, and who inherited his wealth, has an interesting and not altogether useless hobby — the apologetic advertising of the American tramp. Mr. How is pleased to be called "the millionaire tramp."
At a recent meeting in St. Louis "the millionaire tramp," who by the way has hoboed his way over the United States with the best of them, gave utterance to the following sentiment:
"We need the doughnut and the cup of coffee more than we need prayers. Society is very self-respecting but society is not a necessity and employment is. The cup of coffee and the doughnut are essential to the affairs of life."
The trouble with Mr. How and his fellow hoboes is that none of them cares anything for prayers, and they care nothing for the trouble of earning the doughnut and the cup of coffee. If the doughnut and the cup of coffee were provided for all men and women and all children so that they could be fed without an effort, the world would be far worse off than it is today. Again, if the heavens rained doughnuts and coffee, a considerable portion of Mr. How's following, the professional hoboes, would object to the labor and trouble of picking up the doughnuts and gathering up the coffee. They would insist on somebody else assuming that responsibility and of serving the coffee and the doughnuts to them. Again, a considerable number of the associates of Mr. How would believe that society ought to furnish doughnuts to them because they have been railing at society.
At present the people who work instead of spending their time in idleness and who restrain their passions and appetites have no trouble in securing doughnuts and coffee but as long as the world lasts the people who think only of their own appetites, their own desires, and their own comforts will have to get their doughnuts and their coffee at the back-door of the people who do the real work of the world.
Mr. How does not think much of prayer, because he has not tried it. Perhaps if he knew its helpful and inspiring effect on character, if he knew how it could help sustain and stimulate the soul of a man, and arouse in him new purposes, he would think better of it. Perhaps, too, if "the millionaire hobo" knew how prayer inspired a man to a sense of his own responsibility, and to a realization of his duties to himself, to his neighbors, and to humanity, he might become a useful member of that society which he professes to despise, and so he would be better able to give good advice to his useless and inefficient followers. — Montgomery Advertiser.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
New Pastor Makes Bow — 'Don't Talk About Me To Others'
Ada, Oklahoma, 1922
Rev. E. O. Whitwell, new pastor of the Presbyterian church, desires to make his bow to the citizens of Ada and the surrounding community in general and to members and friends of the church in particular.
"In beginning the active work of shepherd of the flock permit me to say a few things to be remembered.
"I am not here only to serve the church, but to use the church as a force in serving the city and community and thereby make the church popular by reason of the good it does to as many people as possible.
"To accomplish this we must first become well acquainted with each other and with the needs of the field of operations, thoroughly organizing ourselves to give each worker plenty of definite tasks to keep him so busy with valuable services that there will be no time to make trouble in idleness.
"I most cordially invite the full co-operation of the members and friends of the Church, specially in the following ways and as many more as you may think of.
"Talk to me about what you think I should do and do not talk about me to others regarding the things I fail to do.
"Call me, write me, send for me when you or your friends are sick, in trouble, in love, or for any other service of a minister. I am not a mind reader and do not communicate with spirits to find your needs.
"Let us all be boosters not knockers, workers not shirkers, soldiers not slackers, seeking by all possible means to prove worthy of the honor of citizenship in the country in which we live and the kingdom of God.
"To do my duty among you as a Christian and a citizen shall be my every day purpose, but my highest ambition will be to inspire and lead as many people as possible to victory in the battles of life thus helping to make our city and country a better place in which to live the life that now is and prepare for the life that is to be.
"Command me when it is possible for me to serve you and be ready at all times to assist me in serving others; thus may we be coworkers together with God and with one another in being the friend of man. Remembering that he is the friend of God only who is the friend o£ his fellow men, let us seek to be greatest of all by being servants of all.
"Hoping to see multitudes of you each Sunday morning in the City Hall taking part in the Bible school and the church services, I ask the privilege of subscribing myself your humble servant in Christ.
"E. O. WHITWELL,
"Minister Presbyterian Church."
—The Ada Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, May 6, 1922, p. 6.
Rev. E. O. Whitwell, new pastor of the Presbyterian church, desires to make his bow to the citizens of Ada and the surrounding community in general and to members and friends of the church in particular.
"In beginning the active work of shepherd of the flock permit me to say a few things to be remembered.
"I am not here only to serve the church, but to use the church as a force in serving the city and community and thereby make the church popular by reason of the good it does to as many people as possible.
"To accomplish this we must first become well acquainted with each other and with the needs of the field of operations, thoroughly organizing ourselves to give each worker plenty of definite tasks to keep him so busy with valuable services that there will be no time to make trouble in idleness.
"I most cordially invite the full co-operation of the members and friends of the Church, specially in the following ways and as many more as you may think of.
"Talk to me about what you think I should do and do not talk about me to others regarding the things I fail to do.
"Call me, write me, send for me when you or your friends are sick, in trouble, in love, or for any other service of a minister. I am not a mind reader and do not communicate with spirits to find your needs.
"Let us all be boosters not knockers, workers not shirkers, soldiers not slackers, seeking by all possible means to prove worthy of the honor of citizenship in the country in which we live and the kingdom of God.
"To do my duty among you as a Christian and a citizen shall be my every day purpose, but my highest ambition will be to inspire and lead as many people as possible to victory in the battles of life thus helping to make our city and country a better place in which to live the life that now is and prepare for the life that is to be.
"Command me when it is possible for me to serve you and be ready at all times to assist me in serving others; thus may we be coworkers together with God and with one another in being the friend of man. Remembering that he is the friend of God only who is the friend o£ his fellow men, let us seek to be greatest of all by being servants of all.
"Hoping to see multitudes of you each Sunday morning in the City Hall taking part in the Bible school and the church services, I ask the privilege of subscribing myself your humble servant in Christ.
"E. O. WHITWELL,
"Minister Presbyterian Church."
—The Ada Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, May 6, 1922, p. 6.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Gems of Thought — "Patience is Sorrow's Slave"
1877
Gems
Gathered by Mrs. Felix Van Wyke
Patience is sorrow's slave.
Every path has its puddle.
Time passed never returns.
Talkers are no good doers.
There is no joy without alloy.
The more law the less justice.
Great bargains empty the purse.
Strew not roses before swine.
A good fellow is a costly name.
The little alms are the good alms.
He that is down needs fear no fall.
Saving is a greater art than gaining.
The cock is lord on his own dunghill.
Think to-day, and speak to-morrow.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Pin not your faith on another's sleeve.
Though a lie be swift truth overtakes it.
Virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
— The Reynolds Herald.
Gems
Gathered by Mrs. Felix Van Wyke
Patience is sorrow's slave.
Every path has its puddle.
Time passed never returns.
Talkers are no good doers.
There is no joy without alloy.
The more law the less justice.
Great bargains empty the purse.
Strew not roses before swine.
A good fellow is a costly name.
The little alms are the good alms.
He that is down needs fear no fall.
Saving is a greater art than gaining.
The cock is lord on his own dunghill.
Think to-day, and speak to-morrow.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Pin not your faith on another's sleeve.
Though a lie be swift truth overtakes it.
Virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
— The Reynolds Herald.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Deserving of Pity
1895
Deserving of Pity
"A home where the Bible is never touched except to be dusted, where no prayer is ever voiced, where no mention is ever made of Him whose words have changed the course of empires — such a home is deserving of pity. It is nerveless and powerless for good." — D. O. Mears, D.D.
Make a Business of It
"Make a business of religion. To this end estimate: What will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what should a man give in exchange for his soul?" — Philadelphia Methodist.
Laziness
"Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time." — Sir M. Hale.
All for Our Good
Many things happen that we cannot understand, but if we love God we have a right to believe that He is in all of them, and just as surely as we have that belief, it will give us constant and perfect peace. Not a trouble can come to us in this life while we are trusting in God that we will not thank Him for when we get to heaven.
Deserving of Pity
"A home where the Bible is never touched except to be dusted, where no prayer is ever voiced, where no mention is ever made of Him whose words have changed the course of empires — such a home is deserving of pity. It is nerveless and powerless for good." — D. O. Mears, D.D.
Make a Business of It
"Make a business of religion. To this end estimate: What will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what should a man give in exchange for his soul?" — Philadelphia Methodist.
Laziness
"Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time." — Sir M. Hale.
All for Our Good
Many things happen that we cannot understand, but if we love God we have a right to believe that He is in all of them, and just as surely as we have that belief, it will give us constant and perfect peace. Not a trouble can come to us in this life while we are trusting in God that we will not thank Him for when we get to heaven.
Christ's Second Coming – Working in The Meantime
1895
In every age since the advent of Christ, he has had numerous followers who were expecting his instant coming. When his immediate disciples saw him rise majestically in the clouds they heard the assurance that in like manner he would appear again. This promise they quite naturally applied to themselves, and in the apostolic age it was the common belief that the Lord would soon appear.
But as time wore on it became apparent that the purpose of Christ's first coming was not to bring the world from darkness to light by a magic process, but it was to reveal the Father's love and so inaugurate the dispensation of the Holy Spirit under whose guidance and influence human life would be transformed as fast as it could be brought subject to the gospel's power.
That Christ is sure to come is as certain as his sacred promise is true, but we doubt the utility or the propriety of laying extraordinary emphasis upon this part of our Christian hope. The time and manner of his coming are matters which he has preferred to leave us in ignorance, and we can see no advantage in prying into the counsels of heaven respecting the divine intentions regarding this planet.
As our artist well shows in the cartoon of this week, the call of the Master is to the opportunity that is present, immediate and around us. Our aim should be to watch, not that he may find us waiting, but that he may find us working. — Ram's Horn.
In every age since the advent of Christ, he has had numerous followers who were expecting his instant coming. When his immediate disciples saw him rise majestically in the clouds they heard the assurance that in like manner he would appear again. This promise they quite naturally applied to themselves, and in the apostolic age it was the common belief that the Lord would soon appear.
But as time wore on it became apparent that the purpose of Christ's first coming was not to bring the world from darkness to light by a magic process, but it was to reveal the Father's love and so inaugurate the dispensation of the Holy Spirit under whose guidance and influence human life would be transformed as fast as it could be brought subject to the gospel's power.
That Christ is sure to come is as certain as his sacred promise is true, but we doubt the utility or the propriety of laying extraordinary emphasis upon this part of our Christian hope. The time and manner of his coming are matters which he has preferred to leave us in ignorance, and we can see no advantage in prying into the counsels of heaven respecting the divine intentions regarding this planet.
As our artist well shows in the cartoon of this week, the call of the Master is to the opportunity that is present, immediate and around us. Our aim should be to watch, not that he may find us waiting, but that he may find us working. — Ram's Horn.
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