1911
Man does not develop in the highest sense until he comes into a conscious need of spiritual attainment, until there is a hungering and thirsting after the fruits of the spirit — gentleness, long suffering, goodness, temperance, love. — Rev. Gay Arthur Jamieson, New York.
Seed of the Church
The blood of the martyrs is the church, the giving up of life is at heart in all great movements, expiatory. — Rev. Allyn K. Foster, Baptist, Brooklyn.
Showing posts with label 1911. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1911. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Supremacy of the Soul
1911
Link soul with all that is worthy, with all that is true, with all that is good, with all that is noble and then when you go out into the world of nature you will be enabled to say, I have walked with God upon the hills and have seen each morn arise new, bathed in light of Paradise. — Rev. E. L. Powell, Louisville.
Love Your Enemies
The call from the great teacher to love even enemies is really a call to get acquainted with folks as they really are. — Rev. A. G. Singsen, Congregationalist, Providence.
Link soul with all that is worthy, with all that is true, with all that is good, with all that is noble and then when you go out into the world of nature you will be enabled to say, I have walked with God upon the hills and have seen each morn arise new, bathed in light of Paradise. — Rev. E. L. Powell, Louisville.
Love Your Enemies
The call from the great teacher to love even enemies is really a call to get acquainted with folks as they really are. — Rev. A. G. Singsen, Congregationalist, Providence.
Friday, December 21, 2007
On Early Christmas Days
(Article published in 1911)
Quaint and Interesting Customs That Prevailed When the Church and Festival Were Young
In the early days of the church, it is said that the bishops used to sing carols on Christmas day among their clergy, and around the sixteenth century the well-known practice observed by children of going around the neighborhood singing Christmas carols beneath the windows of the houses was commonly observed, usually taking place on Christmas morning. One of the oldest and most beautiful of the Christmas carols that has come down to the present day opens with these words:
"God rest you, merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
For Jesus Christ, our Savior,
Was born upon this day.
To save us all from Satan's power,
When we were gone astray.
O, tidings of comfort and joy!
For Jesus Christ, our Savior,
Was born on Christmas Day."
It is sometimes more appropriate to sing the Christmas carols on Christmas eve than on Christmas day, although they are sung at both times; but in England the choir of the village church used to go around to the principal houses in the parish and sing some of these simple hymns on Christmas eve regularly.
Frequently the singers were accompanied on some instrument and often the picture presented was a pretty one. The figures of the group of singers, only visible in the darkness, by the lanterns they carried, and the sweet melody sung and played, made the observance a striking and beautiful one.
Sometimes in England, the carols were also sung in the churches in place of the usual psalms and hymns; although it was more customary for the clerk at the close of the service in a loud voice to wish all the congregation merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Quaint and Interesting Customs That Prevailed When the Church and Festival Were Young
In the early days of the church, it is said that the bishops used to sing carols on Christmas day among their clergy, and around the sixteenth century the well-known practice observed by children of going around the neighborhood singing Christmas carols beneath the windows of the houses was commonly observed, usually taking place on Christmas morning. One of the oldest and most beautiful of the Christmas carols that has come down to the present day opens with these words:
"God rest you, merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
For Jesus Christ, our Savior,
Was born upon this day.
To save us all from Satan's power,
When we were gone astray.
O, tidings of comfort and joy!
For Jesus Christ, our Savior,
Was born on Christmas Day."
It is sometimes more appropriate to sing the Christmas carols on Christmas eve than on Christmas day, although they are sung at both times; but in England the choir of the village church used to go around to the principal houses in the parish and sing some of these simple hymns on Christmas eve regularly.
Frequently the singers were accompanied on some instrument and often the picture presented was a pretty one. The figures of the group of singers, only visible in the darkness, by the lanterns they carried, and the sweet melody sung and played, made the observance a striking and beautiful one.
Sometimes in England, the carols were also sung in the churches in place of the usual psalms and hymns; although it was more customary for the clerk at the close of the service in a loud voice to wish all the congregation merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Jews May Yet Colonize
July 1911
Another attempt will be made to establish a colony of Jews near the Holy Land. In 1903 the late Dr. Herzel, after having failed to obtain any satisfactory concession from the sultan of Turkey in respect to Zionist effort in Palestine, approached the Egyptian government with the object of getting a grant of land for Jewish settlement in El Arisch district, between Egypt and the Holy Land, the Jewish Chronicle says. The territory between these two points includes the Pelusium plain, which at one time was extremely fertile and the original habitat of the Hittites.
A tentative offer was made to the Egyptian government of a tract of land situated within an isosceles triangle, one side extending from the east of the Suez canal to Akabah, the other going from west of Gaza to Akabah, the coast forming the base. It was rejected.
Now once again Jewish eyes have been turned to this district. The plan offered by the General Jewish Colonization Organization is far less ambitious than that which animated the Zionist leader. Instead of attempting to colonize the large territory which Herzel had in view attention has been concentrated upon Rapha, which is situated near to Gaza.
Scientific Religion
Anything that can be studied at all can be studied scientifically, and there is no reason for trying to take it up in any other way. The moral conduct of men and the ideals inspiring it — i.e., religion — should be taken up in this way.
Another attempt will be made to establish a colony of Jews near the Holy Land. In 1903 the late Dr. Herzel, after having failed to obtain any satisfactory concession from the sultan of Turkey in respect to Zionist effort in Palestine, approached the Egyptian government with the object of getting a grant of land for Jewish settlement in El Arisch district, between Egypt and the Holy Land, the Jewish Chronicle says. The territory between these two points includes the Pelusium plain, which at one time was extremely fertile and the original habitat of the Hittites.
A tentative offer was made to the Egyptian government of a tract of land situated within an isosceles triangle, one side extending from the east of the Suez canal to Akabah, the other going from west of Gaza to Akabah, the coast forming the base. It was rejected.
Now once again Jewish eyes have been turned to this district. The plan offered by the General Jewish Colonization Organization is far less ambitious than that which animated the Zionist leader. Instead of attempting to colonize the large territory which Herzel had in view attention has been concentrated upon Rapha, which is situated near to Gaza.
Scientific Religion
Anything that can be studied at all can be studied scientifically, and there is no reason for trying to take it up in any other way. The moral conduct of men and the ideals inspiring it — i.e., religion — should be taken up in this way.
Josiah's Devotion to God
1911
Sunday School Lesson
LESSON TEXT — 2 Chronicles 34:1-13
TIME — Josiah began to reign B. C. 638. He reigned 31 years.
PLACE—Judah and Jerusalem. But his reforms extended over a considerable part of the territory of the Northern Kingdom which had become extinct in 722-718, 80 years before Josiah came to the throne.
Josiah was the grandson of Manasseh. He was born at Jerusalem, B. C. 646. His father was Amon, who reigned but two years, when he was murdered by his courtiers in his own palace. The people rose against the conspirators and made his eight-year-old son king in his place. Josiah's mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah. They belonged in Boscath, a town near Lachish in southwestern Judah, in the plains toward the Mediterranean sea. While King Amon was an idolater, and his court was corrupt, it is possible that Josiah's mother kept the true faith.
He began to reign when he was eight years old. Like his grandfather, Manasseh, he must for several years have been guided, and his kingdom controlled by his mother or by prime ministers. The worshipers of Jehovah must have been in control at the palace, the wise and religious teachers of the true God and the true religion. So that for the first sixteen years of his life the young Josiah must have been under good influences, while he also would know of his father's tragic death, and his grandfather's sins, sufferings, and repentance. And his ancestor, David, was ever before him as his ideal, his hero, his saint.
About the time when Josiah was twenty years old, and in the twelfth year of his reign, when he had begun his reforms, there came an invading host from the far east like a cyclone, an overwhelming scourge. Jeremiah foretells them in vivid pictures. But Herodotus tells us who they were, the Scythians "from the regions over Caucasus, vast nameless hordes of men who sweeping past Assyria, unchecked, poured upon Palestine. We can realize the event from our knowledge of the Mongol and Tartar invasions which in later centuries pursued the same path southwards. Living in the saddle, with no infantry nor chariots to delay them, these Centaurs swept on with a speed of invasion hitherto unknown. In 630 they had crossed the Caucasus, by 626 they were on the borders of Egypt.
The prophet, Jeremiah, describes in picturesque terms this invasion. "The lion is come up from his thicket;" "The destroyer of nations is on his way;" "Behold he cometh as clouds, and his chariot shall be as the whirlwind;" "Their quiver is an open sepulcher, they are all mighty men;" "They are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men of war against thee."
It is easy to see how this terrible invader, coming so near, just as Josiah was beginning his reforms, must have interfered with his plans.
Josiah began his reformation in his twelfth year, but the invasion of the Scythians soon after this beginning interfered with the work. The savage and cruel host came close to Judah's borders. Scattered bands may have entered the kingdom. Terror reigned. Defenses must be strengthened. Outsiders rushed to Jerusalem and the fortified cities. How far the reformations had progressed we do not know. But the chronicler having recorded the beginning simply goes on with the story, as is frequently done by historians.
The restoration of the Temple was entrusted to a committee of three — Shapan, the secretary of state; and Maaseiah, the governor of the city, the mayor of Jerusalem; and Joah the recorder, the keeper of the records, the historian. The temple built by Solomon, was completed 330 years before. It was repaired by Joash 240 years before Josiah began his restoration. The ravages of time, with neglect and abuse during the sway of idolatry must have rendered it sadly in need of repair. It was during these repairs that the Book of Law was found.
The work interrupted by the Scythian hordes is now resumed with greatly increased intensity and enthusiasm, through the new consecration of king and people, due to the finding of the Book of the Law.
The first condition of salvation for individuals or nations is the putting away of sin at any cost. The second is the building up of the good. He that confesseth and forsaketh shall find mercy.
One of the greatest revivals of religion ever known was begun in meetings where the pastor called upon his church members on a fast day to confess and forsake their sins. "How many of you," he asked, "have neglected your family prayers?" Several arose and one was called upon to pray. "How many of you have been speaking evil of others?" Several arose. One led in prayer for all. And so through the list.
There has been a remarkable revival in the territory made famous in the Japanese-Russian war. The movement began in Llaoyang, spread at once to Mukden, and, soon after, to Haicheng, Fakumen, Newchwang, and numberless towns and villages and hamlets of less fame. A mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit came to the Christians. Immediately after the opening of the meetings, and his power became manifested at once in heart-breaking confession of sin; then in outbursts of prayer, both petition and intercession, in great Joy, and, finally, in thank-offerings to God of money and of service. It was a case of complete surrender to God.
Sunday School Lesson
LESSON TEXT — 2 Chronicles 34:1-13
TIME — Josiah began to reign B. C. 638. He reigned 31 years.
PLACE—Judah and Jerusalem. But his reforms extended over a considerable part of the territory of the Northern Kingdom which had become extinct in 722-718, 80 years before Josiah came to the throne.
Josiah was the grandson of Manasseh. He was born at Jerusalem, B. C. 646. His father was Amon, who reigned but two years, when he was murdered by his courtiers in his own palace. The people rose against the conspirators and made his eight-year-old son king in his place. Josiah's mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah. They belonged in Boscath, a town near Lachish in southwestern Judah, in the plains toward the Mediterranean sea. While King Amon was an idolater, and his court was corrupt, it is possible that Josiah's mother kept the true faith.
He began to reign when he was eight years old. Like his grandfather, Manasseh, he must for several years have been guided, and his kingdom controlled by his mother or by prime ministers. The worshipers of Jehovah must have been in control at the palace, the wise and religious teachers of the true God and the true religion. So that for the first sixteen years of his life the young Josiah must have been under good influences, while he also would know of his father's tragic death, and his grandfather's sins, sufferings, and repentance. And his ancestor, David, was ever before him as his ideal, his hero, his saint.
About the time when Josiah was twenty years old, and in the twelfth year of his reign, when he had begun his reforms, there came an invading host from the far east like a cyclone, an overwhelming scourge. Jeremiah foretells them in vivid pictures. But Herodotus tells us who they were, the Scythians "from the regions over Caucasus, vast nameless hordes of men who sweeping past Assyria, unchecked, poured upon Palestine. We can realize the event from our knowledge of the Mongol and Tartar invasions which in later centuries pursued the same path southwards. Living in the saddle, with no infantry nor chariots to delay them, these Centaurs swept on with a speed of invasion hitherto unknown. In 630 they had crossed the Caucasus, by 626 they were on the borders of Egypt.
The prophet, Jeremiah, describes in picturesque terms this invasion. "The lion is come up from his thicket;" "The destroyer of nations is on his way;" "Behold he cometh as clouds, and his chariot shall be as the whirlwind;" "Their quiver is an open sepulcher, they are all mighty men;" "They are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men of war against thee."
It is easy to see how this terrible invader, coming so near, just as Josiah was beginning his reforms, must have interfered with his plans.
Josiah began his reformation in his twelfth year, but the invasion of the Scythians soon after this beginning interfered with the work. The savage and cruel host came close to Judah's borders. Scattered bands may have entered the kingdom. Terror reigned. Defenses must be strengthened. Outsiders rushed to Jerusalem and the fortified cities. How far the reformations had progressed we do not know. But the chronicler having recorded the beginning simply goes on with the story, as is frequently done by historians.
The restoration of the Temple was entrusted to a committee of three — Shapan, the secretary of state; and Maaseiah, the governor of the city, the mayor of Jerusalem; and Joah the recorder, the keeper of the records, the historian. The temple built by Solomon, was completed 330 years before. It was repaired by Joash 240 years before Josiah began his restoration. The ravages of time, with neglect and abuse during the sway of idolatry must have rendered it sadly in need of repair. It was during these repairs that the Book of Law was found.
The work interrupted by the Scythian hordes is now resumed with greatly increased intensity and enthusiasm, through the new consecration of king and people, due to the finding of the Book of the Law.
The first condition of salvation for individuals or nations is the putting away of sin at any cost. The second is the building up of the good. He that confesseth and forsaketh shall find mercy.
One of the greatest revivals of religion ever known was begun in meetings where the pastor called upon his church members on a fast day to confess and forsake their sins. "How many of you," he asked, "have neglected your family prayers?" Several arose and one was called upon to pray. "How many of you have been speaking evil of others?" Several arose. One led in prayer for all. And so through the list.
There has been a remarkable revival in the territory made famous in the Japanese-Russian war. The movement began in Llaoyang, spread at once to Mukden, and, soon after, to Haicheng, Fakumen, Newchwang, and numberless towns and villages and hamlets of less fame. A mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit came to the Christians. Immediately after the opening of the meetings, and his power became manifested at once in heart-breaking confession of sin; then in outbursts of prayer, both petition and intercession, in great Joy, and, finally, in thank-offerings to God of money and of service. It was a case of complete surrender to God.
Types of the Christian Life
1911
By Dr. Hugh T. Kerr, Chicago
TEXT — Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. — John 11:5.
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Jesus loved them all. Yet he loved each of them. Martha and Mary and Lazarus. Each of them has a place in his heart. Yet they are so different. Jesus does not ask for monotony, but variety in his kingdom. The kingdom of grace is like the kingdom of nature. No two varieties are alike. In my Father's house are many mansions. One family, but many members. One home, but many hearts.
That was the revelation of God's character in the Old Testament. He was the father of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob. How different they were. Abraham — the faithful, the consecrated, the pathfinder. Isaac — the lackadaisical, the indifferent, the father of an illustrious son, the son of an illustrious father. Jacob — the Jew — crafty and cunning, yet tender-hearted and visionary, and God was the father of each and yet loved them all.
The fault with us is we want religion to level human nature at a dead uniformity, and we think Christians should all be conformed to our type, forgetting that Christ is the universal type — so universal that we may all be unlike each other and yet all be like him. It is the fault that belongs to our education. We grind all our children through the same mill. Black and white, delicate and robust, brilliant and dunderhead, they must all submit to the same polishing process.
It is the fault of our church system, also. We want to level down the whole congregation to our own miserable level. We think Christ has conceived in us the true conception of the saint. There is the Sunday school type and the Christian Endeavor type and the prayer meeting type. There is the elder type and the trustee type. The W. C. T. U. type and the Y. M. C. A. type. The temperance type and the missionary type. There is the Presbyterian and the Methodist and the Baptist type. The Mary and the Martha and the Lazarus type. But the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind, and all may be included in his all embracing love.
Let us remember that Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Mary the passive, Martha the active, and Lazarus the patient. Mary — satisfied to be. Martha — to do. Lazarus — to do without. Mary — the waiter. Martha — the worker. Lazarus — the watcher. Mary content to sit. Martha content to serve. Lazarus content to suffer. And Jesus loved each and he loved all.
Jesus loved Martha. That is what the record says. The active, busy serving Christian Martha. She is in the majority today and is greatly in demand. Sometimes she is apt to think she is the only one whom the Lord loves. She has much Scripture to quote in favor of her disposition and she has the authority of great men who favor the strenuous life. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. "Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only."
Martha is everywhere respected and honored today because she does things. She is the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, the church services, the missionary society, the ladies' aid. She is cooking, praying, sewing, visiting, collecting for the kingdom of God, until when night comes she falls asleep too tired to say her prayers. And Jesus loved Martha. And we must love her too. A religion that finds its joy in service and in consecrated activity is apt to be a moral power. A religion that finds God nearer in moments of sentiment or musical ecstasy, instead of in moments of moral endeavor, is extremely dangerous. Jesus loved Martha.
Jesus loved Mary. Mary — the quiet, retiring sister who sat at his feet. Mary's claim to recognition came from being willing to wait upon his words. She is like the beautiful picture through which you look into the great far beyond. She is like whispering music singing comfort into troubled hearts.
In a world of sin and turmoil Mary sat in the confidence of a beautiful trust. She was like another beautiful girl upon whose tombstone her friends carved the words: "It was easier to be good when she was with us." That was Mary's tribute. "What interests the world in Mr. Gladstone," writes John Morley, "is even more what he was than what he did." What interests the world in Jesus is not so much his beautiful teaching as his more beautiful life.
It was a hard lesson for Elijah to learn. He was the child of the storm and the tempest. He lived in reformations and revolutions. "Behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah."
My dear friends, let us not take away from the boundless power the love of God. He loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. All with their differences. And they all loved him. Mary sits at his feet. Martha hurries to supply his wants. And Lazarus is content to glorify him with his radiant resurrection glory. With all our differences and misunderstandings and selfishness we love him and each in turn is loved by him.
By Dr. Hugh T. Kerr, Chicago
TEXT — Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. — John 11:5.
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Jesus loved them all. Yet he loved each of them. Martha and Mary and Lazarus. Each of them has a place in his heart. Yet they are so different. Jesus does not ask for monotony, but variety in his kingdom. The kingdom of grace is like the kingdom of nature. No two varieties are alike. In my Father's house are many mansions. One family, but many members. One home, but many hearts.
That was the revelation of God's character in the Old Testament. He was the father of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob. How different they were. Abraham — the faithful, the consecrated, the pathfinder. Isaac — the lackadaisical, the indifferent, the father of an illustrious son, the son of an illustrious father. Jacob — the Jew — crafty and cunning, yet tender-hearted and visionary, and God was the father of each and yet loved them all.
The fault with us is we want religion to level human nature at a dead uniformity, and we think Christians should all be conformed to our type, forgetting that Christ is the universal type — so universal that we may all be unlike each other and yet all be like him. It is the fault that belongs to our education. We grind all our children through the same mill. Black and white, delicate and robust, brilliant and dunderhead, they must all submit to the same polishing process.
It is the fault of our church system, also. We want to level down the whole congregation to our own miserable level. We think Christ has conceived in us the true conception of the saint. There is the Sunday school type and the Christian Endeavor type and the prayer meeting type. There is the elder type and the trustee type. The W. C. T. U. type and the Y. M. C. A. type. The temperance type and the missionary type. There is the Presbyterian and the Methodist and the Baptist type. The Mary and the Martha and the Lazarus type. But the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind, and all may be included in his all embracing love.
Let us remember that Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Mary the passive, Martha the active, and Lazarus the patient. Mary — satisfied to be. Martha — to do. Lazarus — to do without. Mary — the waiter. Martha — the worker. Lazarus — the watcher. Mary content to sit. Martha content to serve. Lazarus content to suffer. And Jesus loved each and he loved all.
Jesus loved Martha. That is what the record says. The active, busy serving Christian Martha. She is in the majority today and is greatly in demand. Sometimes she is apt to think she is the only one whom the Lord loves. She has much Scripture to quote in favor of her disposition and she has the authority of great men who favor the strenuous life. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. "Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only."
Martha is everywhere respected and honored today because she does things. She is the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, the church services, the missionary society, the ladies' aid. She is cooking, praying, sewing, visiting, collecting for the kingdom of God, until when night comes she falls asleep too tired to say her prayers. And Jesus loved Martha. And we must love her too. A religion that finds its joy in service and in consecrated activity is apt to be a moral power. A religion that finds God nearer in moments of sentiment or musical ecstasy, instead of in moments of moral endeavor, is extremely dangerous. Jesus loved Martha.
Jesus loved Mary. Mary — the quiet, retiring sister who sat at his feet. Mary's claim to recognition came from being willing to wait upon his words. She is like the beautiful picture through which you look into the great far beyond. She is like whispering music singing comfort into troubled hearts.
In a world of sin and turmoil Mary sat in the confidence of a beautiful trust. She was like another beautiful girl upon whose tombstone her friends carved the words: "It was easier to be good when she was with us." That was Mary's tribute. "What interests the world in Mr. Gladstone," writes John Morley, "is even more what he was than what he did." What interests the world in Jesus is not so much his beautiful teaching as his more beautiful life.
It was a hard lesson for Elijah to learn. He was the child of the storm and the tempest. He lived in reformations and revolutions. "Behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah."
My dear friends, let us not take away from the boundless power the love of God. He loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. All with their differences. And they all loved him. Mary sits at his feet. Martha hurries to supply his wants. And Lazarus is content to glorify him with his radiant resurrection glory. With all our differences and misunderstandings and selfishness we love him and each in turn is loved by him.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Lord Hates a Grouch
1911
Are you a grouch? Is the sun always behind a cloud when you look at it? Are you suspicious of every man who meets you with a smile, and does the prattle and laughter of children grate on your ears?
If this is the case there is something wrong with your insides. The trouble may be physical and it won't hurt to try a good dyspepsia cure. But the chances are that it is mental, and then you want to go out on the street and hire two or three big, husky fellows with heavy boots to kick you all over the townsite for a couple of hours. When you come to your vision will be a little clearer. A few doses like the doughnut instead of the hole.
The Lord and the community hate a grouch worse than they do a liar. There is no happy abiding place for them, either here or on the other side of Jordan's stormy banks.
The grouch walks down the street with his face the picture of a dose of quinine, and the neighbors look at each other and say, "How he hates himself." He goes to church and the only thing he notices is that the room is a little cold and the choir picked mighty poor hymns. He walks into a store and the clerks hide behind the counter to avoid him. His days are filled with stomach pains and his nights with bad dreams, while his cup runneth over with bitter gall. — Bert Walker.
—The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.
Are you a grouch? Is the sun always behind a cloud when you look at it? Are you suspicious of every man who meets you with a smile, and does the prattle and laughter of children grate on your ears?
If this is the case there is something wrong with your insides. The trouble may be physical and it won't hurt to try a good dyspepsia cure. But the chances are that it is mental, and then you want to go out on the street and hire two or three big, husky fellows with heavy boots to kick you all over the townsite for a couple of hours. When you come to your vision will be a little clearer. A few doses like the doughnut instead of the hole.
The Lord and the community hate a grouch worse than they do a liar. There is no happy abiding place for them, either here or on the other side of Jordan's stormy banks.
The grouch walks down the street with his face the picture of a dose of quinine, and the neighbors look at each other and say, "How he hates himself." He goes to church and the only thing he notices is that the room is a little cold and the choir picked mighty poor hymns. He walks into a store and the clerks hide behind the counter to avoid him. His days are filled with stomach pains and his nights with bad dreams, while his cup runneth over with bitter gall. — Bert Walker.
—The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.
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."
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Religion, Science, and Facts
1911
Science Does Not Stop With What Can Be Demonstrated
"Nothing else has to do with so many facts and so great facts as religion," says the Advance of Chicago, "and to call only those things fact which physical science considers and to ignore the facts which fall within the sphere of religious faith and action is to be blind to the most important thing of life.
"What is more absurd than to see in the wall which houses a hospital a fact and not to see a fact in the spirit which prompted and pervades the institution, or to see a fact in the chemical change produced by an experiment in a laboratory and not to see a fact in the change wrought in a community or an individual life by a revival or other spiritual influences?
"But it is said that Christian faith reaches beyond facts into the unknown. This is not disputed. There is no need to dispute it. Science does the same thing. It never yet discovered a fact great or small which did not carry it over into the unknown. Indeed, notwithstanding all the claims to the contrary, science does not confine itself to facts. 'Any one who is practically acquainted with scientific work,' says Mr. Huxley, 'is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely ever get so far as fact.'
"Indeed, science brings its followers at last to the borders of the unknown, where hope and fear quiver at the thought of the mystery beyond. But here faith takes the believer up in its arms and bids him look to the everlasting Father, who holds all things in his hands."
Science Does Not Stop With What Can Be Demonstrated
"Nothing else has to do with so many facts and so great facts as religion," says the Advance of Chicago, "and to call only those things fact which physical science considers and to ignore the facts which fall within the sphere of religious faith and action is to be blind to the most important thing of life.
"What is more absurd than to see in the wall which houses a hospital a fact and not to see a fact in the spirit which prompted and pervades the institution, or to see a fact in the chemical change produced by an experiment in a laboratory and not to see a fact in the change wrought in a community or an individual life by a revival or other spiritual influences?
"But it is said that Christian faith reaches beyond facts into the unknown. This is not disputed. There is no need to dispute it. Science does the same thing. It never yet discovered a fact great or small which did not carry it over into the unknown. Indeed, notwithstanding all the claims to the contrary, science does not confine itself to facts. 'Any one who is practically acquainted with scientific work,' says Mr. Huxley, 'is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely ever get so far as fact.'
"Indeed, science brings its followers at last to the borders of the unknown, where hope and fear quiver at the thought of the mystery beyond. But here faith takes the believer up in its arms and bids him look to the everlasting Father, who holds all things in his hands."
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Mourners Chilled at Cemetery
New York, 1911
Correspondent Suggests That a Church Be Heated on Funeral Days.
Highland Mills, Feb. 2, (Special) — Those attending the funeral of M. S. Lent, late of Cornwall, at the Cemetery of the Highlands, yesterday, suffered severely from colds and exposure. The day was blustery with a low temperature making it very trying for the drivers of the funeral coaches as well as for the mourners after they alighted at the cemetery. There was no church service and the church had not been opened or heated.
This state of affairs is liable to occur any day and has been occurring to the great discomfort of funeral parties. In short, on a very cold day those attending a funeral have no place to go to warm themselves, the little office of the superintendent being scarcely able to hold half a dozen at most. One who saw the conditions yesterday has suggested that a small annex could be added to the church, where a furnace could be set agoing on funeral days by one of the cemetery attendants.
—Orange County Times-Press, Middletown, NY, Feb. 3, 1911, p. 10.
Correspondent Suggests That a Church Be Heated on Funeral Days.
Highland Mills, Feb. 2, (Special) — Those attending the funeral of M. S. Lent, late of Cornwall, at the Cemetery of the Highlands, yesterday, suffered severely from colds and exposure. The day was blustery with a low temperature making it very trying for the drivers of the funeral coaches as well as for the mourners after they alighted at the cemetery. There was no church service and the church had not been opened or heated.
This state of affairs is liable to occur any day and has been occurring to the great discomfort of funeral parties. In short, on a very cold day those attending a funeral have no place to go to warm themselves, the little office of the superintendent being scarcely able to hold half a dozen at most. One who saw the conditions yesterday has suggested that a small annex could be added to the church, where a furnace could be set agoing on funeral days by one of the cemetery attendants.
—Orange County Times-Press, Middletown, NY, Feb. 3, 1911, p. 10.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Gospel Tent Ministries Going Strong — "A Waiting Savior"
Ada, Oklahoma, 1911
Gospel Tent on North School Ground
The congregation taxed the seating capacity last night at the tent on the North School ground where the pastor of the First Christian church is conducting a meeting.
The subject of the evening was "Throngers or Touchers," Mark 5:24-34. As long as men throng they are lost. Salvation is appropriated by the exercise of the sovereign will. "Whosoever will" rings all the way through God's word. All, every man, hardened in sin, the religionists, the moralists, must become touchers. The hardened sinner, Acts 16:25-31; the religionist, Acts 2:22-24; 32-38; the moral man, Acts 10:1-6; 11:14. All of these were pointed to the Christ as the source of salvation. The how to be saved is here set forth, faith, repentance, baptism.
The services will continue on each evening for the rest of the month at least. The subject for tonight will be "Who Could It Be but Jesus?"
Sunday at the Tent
There will be only one service at the tent on Sunday, the same being the evening service. The subject for this hour will be "A Closed Door and a Waiting Savior."
The Tent Meeting at 8th and Oak Avenue
Last night the subject was made very interesting. The "Fall of Babylon" (Spiritual Babylon) is not only interesting but immensely important. It was shown from scripture and plain admissions from leading men of various denominations that the churches are not what they used to be but are going back toward the mother church — Rome.
The eternal destiny of millions in Christendom depends on their attitude toward the "Fall of Babylon." If Rome is the "mother of harlots" who are the daughters? Are they not those who retain some of her false doctrines?
The subject tonight will be: "Spiritism." Sunday night: "The Two Covenants." Everybody should hear these.
We invite you.
—The Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, July 15, 1911, p. 1.
Gospel Tent on North School Ground
The congregation taxed the seating capacity last night at the tent on the North School ground where the pastor of the First Christian church is conducting a meeting.
The subject of the evening was "Throngers or Touchers," Mark 5:24-34. As long as men throng they are lost. Salvation is appropriated by the exercise of the sovereign will. "Whosoever will" rings all the way through God's word. All, every man, hardened in sin, the religionists, the moralists, must become touchers. The hardened sinner, Acts 16:25-31; the religionist, Acts 2:22-24; 32-38; the moral man, Acts 10:1-6; 11:14. All of these were pointed to the Christ as the source of salvation. The how to be saved is here set forth, faith, repentance, baptism.
The services will continue on each evening for the rest of the month at least. The subject for tonight will be "Who Could It Be but Jesus?"
Sunday at the Tent
There will be only one service at the tent on Sunday, the same being the evening service. The subject for this hour will be "A Closed Door and a Waiting Savior."
The Tent Meeting at 8th and Oak Avenue
Last night the subject was made very interesting. The "Fall of Babylon" (Spiritual Babylon) is not only interesting but immensely important. It was shown from scripture and plain admissions from leading men of various denominations that the churches are not what they used to be but are going back toward the mother church — Rome.
The eternal destiny of millions in Christendom depends on their attitude toward the "Fall of Babylon." If Rome is the "mother of harlots" who are the daughters? Are they not those who retain some of her false doctrines?
The subject tonight will be: "Spiritism." Sunday night: "The Two Covenants." Everybody should hear these.
We invite you.
—The Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, July 15, 1911, p. 1.
Friday, May 11, 2007
From the Pew — You Make Your Own Heaven or Hell Right Here
1911
By William L. Brownell
The preacher drew largely upon his fertile imagination as he described to his flock the Celestial City, with its streets paved with gold and its alleys even bordered with precious stones. As he expatiated on the richness and splendor of the place he called Heaven, Mr. and Mrs. Bondholder, down in the pew, were pleased, highly pleased, and they said to themselves, "He is a great preacher," we must not lose him. We must raise his salary; his sermons are so sensible, so uplifting, he gives us something pleasant to think about; he is not always talking about the poor and their suffering, our duty and what will happen to us of we do not perform it."
Then the preacher forgot himself for a moment and was transformed into a mere man, a man among men, and he said: "My friends, for many years I have preached to you about a Heaven that was away off somewhere beyond the stars; a place where, no matter how you had lived here, no matter how unfair, how unjust you had been to your fellow men, you would, if at the last moment you repented, enjoy through an endless eternity."
The old preacher paused, leaned heavily on the pulpit for a moment and then continued: "I feel that I shall not preach to you many more sermons and now I want to say to you something which I draw from my heart and not from my creed, with reference to Heaven and your relation to it. I believe that the poor man is not more liable to reach this place, or condition than is the rich man; that every man is making his own Heaven or hell right here and now, a Heaven or hell which he will carry with him across the border; a Heaven or hell created by his own thoughts and his own deeds, and that just as many poor men as rich men are manufacturing hell records which their future life phonographs will grind out and compel them to listen to. If," he said, "any of you people want to enjoy a Heaven in the hereafter, my advice to you is to start one here, otherwise you will be a long, long time in working it up over there.
—Middletown Daily Times-Press, Middletown, NY, Aug. 5, 1911, p. 4.
By William L. Brownell
The preacher drew largely upon his fertile imagination as he described to his flock the Celestial City, with its streets paved with gold and its alleys even bordered with precious stones. As he expatiated on the richness and splendor of the place he called Heaven, Mr. and Mrs. Bondholder, down in the pew, were pleased, highly pleased, and they said to themselves, "He is a great preacher," we must not lose him. We must raise his salary; his sermons are so sensible, so uplifting, he gives us something pleasant to think about; he is not always talking about the poor and their suffering, our duty and what will happen to us of we do not perform it."
Then the preacher forgot himself for a moment and was transformed into a mere man, a man among men, and he said: "My friends, for many years I have preached to you about a Heaven that was away off somewhere beyond the stars; a place where, no matter how you had lived here, no matter how unfair, how unjust you had been to your fellow men, you would, if at the last moment you repented, enjoy through an endless eternity."
The old preacher paused, leaned heavily on the pulpit for a moment and then continued: "I feel that I shall not preach to you many more sermons and now I want to say to you something which I draw from my heart and not from my creed, with reference to Heaven and your relation to it. I believe that the poor man is not more liable to reach this place, or condition than is the rich man; that every man is making his own Heaven or hell right here and now, a Heaven or hell which he will carry with him across the border; a Heaven or hell created by his own thoughts and his own deeds, and that just as many poor men as rich men are manufacturing hell records which their future life phonographs will grind out and compel them to listen to. If," he said, "any of you people want to enjoy a Heaven in the hereafter, my advice to you is to start one here, otherwise you will be a long, long time in working it up over there.
—Middletown Daily Times-Press, Middletown, NY, Aug. 5, 1911, p. 4.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
A Solomonic Judge – He Gets The Truth
1911
A Solomonic Judge
Judge William Jefferson Pollard, who has just been appointed by President Taft as one of the United States delegates to the thirteenth International Congress against Alcoholism at The Hague, Holland, which meets in September, is a temperance reformer of an original type. It was Judge Pollard who originated the Pollard "pledge plan" for reforming drunkards — releasing the accused on signing the total abstinence pledge for one year.
Judge Pollard, not long ago, had a driver brought before him, charged with cruelty to a galled mule. The defense was supported by a veterinarian witness who declared that the sore on the animal's back did not cause it any pain. Learning that the mule was on the street in front of the police court, the judge ordered court to adjourn for five minutes; took his cane and went out to investigate personally. With the end of his stick he gently touched the sore spot, at which the mule kicked every time.
"With all due respect to the expert testimony, I will fine you $50," said Judge Pollard to the accused. I asked the mule if the sore hurt him, and he said it did." — Christian Herald.
A Solomonic Judge
Judge William Jefferson Pollard, who has just been appointed by President Taft as one of the United States delegates to the thirteenth International Congress against Alcoholism at The Hague, Holland, which meets in September, is a temperance reformer of an original type. It was Judge Pollard who originated the Pollard "pledge plan" for reforming drunkards — releasing the accused on signing the total abstinence pledge for one year.
Judge Pollard, not long ago, had a driver brought before him, charged with cruelty to a galled mule. The defense was supported by a veterinarian witness who declared that the sore on the animal's back did not cause it any pain. Learning that the mule was on the street in front of the police court, the judge ordered court to adjourn for five minutes; took his cane and went out to investigate personally. With the end of his stick he gently touched the sore spot, at which the mule kicked every time.
"With all due respect to the expert testimony, I will fine you $50," said Judge Pollard to the accused. I asked the mule if the sore hurt him, and he said it did." — Christian Herald.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Question Box Service at Presbyterian Church
Illinois, 1911
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
REV. JAS. T. FORD. PASTOR
The pastor had a difficult task Sunday evening at the Question Box Service to decide which question from the Sunday School scholars was the most suggestive and helpful, but it turned out that the two questions that he did it on were written by Jean and Lura Taylor. Jean's question was, "What is it to be a true Christian?" and Lura's referring to the 3 years famine in Israel "Why did the Innocent suffer in this Famine?" The other questions were exceedingly good.
Sunday the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered in connection with the morning service. Will not every church member make a special effort to be present?
Mr. Harry Munroe in response to a request from the pastor promises to come up to Arlington Heights soon and give an address on: "Twenty years Gospel Work in the Slums of Chicago." This address will be free to all, but a silver collection will be taken for Mr. Munroe's benefit. We are confident Harry will meet a crowded house.
To develop a familiarity with the books of the Bible the pastor will have an exercise some Sunday soon in finding Bible references. Some ten references will be given out and any boy or girl in the intermediate department of the Sunday School who finds the most references first will be given a prize, there will be a second prize also. These will be medals. The pastor anticipates having a series of such exercises from time to time. As a clue to success learn the books of the Bible in their order.
Hurrah for the "Whirlwind Campaign!" Let prayer be at the bottom of it and animate it. It is a campaign for the honor of our Lord Jesus that he may have a suitable temple for his worship and that beholders seeing it may honor him.
Meeting of the Session at the parsonage at 8 o'clock Saturday evening. Those wishing to unite with the church please be present.
—Daily Herald, Chicago, March 31, 1911.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
REV. JAS. T. FORD. PASTOR
The pastor had a difficult task Sunday evening at the Question Box Service to decide which question from the Sunday School scholars was the most suggestive and helpful, but it turned out that the two questions that he did it on were written by Jean and Lura Taylor. Jean's question was, "What is it to be a true Christian?" and Lura's referring to the 3 years famine in Israel "Why did the Innocent suffer in this Famine?" The other questions were exceedingly good.
Sunday the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered in connection with the morning service. Will not every church member make a special effort to be present?
Mr. Harry Munroe in response to a request from the pastor promises to come up to Arlington Heights soon and give an address on: "Twenty years Gospel Work in the Slums of Chicago." This address will be free to all, but a silver collection will be taken for Mr. Munroe's benefit. We are confident Harry will meet a crowded house.
To develop a familiarity with the books of the Bible the pastor will have an exercise some Sunday soon in finding Bible references. Some ten references will be given out and any boy or girl in the intermediate department of the Sunday School who finds the most references first will be given a prize, there will be a second prize also. These will be medals. The pastor anticipates having a series of such exercises from time to time. As a clue to success learn the books of the Bible in their order.
Hurrah for the "Whirlwind Campaign!" Let prayer be at the bottom of it and animate it. It is a campaign for the honor of our Lord Jesus that he may have a suitable temple for his worship and that beholders seeing it may honor him.
Meeting of the Session at the parsonage at 8 o'clock Saturday evening. Those wishing to unite with the church please be present.
—Daily Herald, Chicago, March 31, 1911.
Sentence Sermons — The Crown of Life
1911
SENTENCE SERMONS
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. — Marcus Aurelius
If God writes "opportunity" on one side of the open doors he writes "responsibility" on the other side — Dr. Gracey
And he who waits to have his task marked out
Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled. — Lowell
Perfection of character can be achieved only through struggle, through discipline. It is for him that overcometh that the crown of life is reserved. — John Fiske
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or find it not. — Emerson
SENTENCE SERMONS
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. — Marcus Aurelius
If God writes "opportunity" on one side of the open doors he writes "responsibility" on the other side — Dr. Gracey
And he who waits to have his task marked out
Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled. — Lowell
Perfection of character can be achieved only through struggle, through discipline. It is for him that overcometh that the crown of life is reserved. — John Fiske
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or find it not. — Emerson
Monday, April 16, 2007
Temperance Work and Sunday Closings Encouraged
St. Augustine, Florida and Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1911
Dr. Badger's Good Work
The St. Augustine (Fla.) Record recently contained the ensuing pleasant item respecting the labors of Rev. Dr. A. S. Badger in that city. The article is headed "Splendid Sermon at Memorial":
"Upon the subject of temperance in the morning and "The Abandoned Farms of New York and New England" in the evening the Rev. Alfred S. Badger, D. D., pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church, delivered strong and interesting sermons at both morning and evening services yesterday. Yesterday was World's Temperance Sunday and his temperance sermon in the morning was most interesting and forceful and was also a scholarly resume of the temperance movement from its inception to the present day. His evening sermon brought forth forcefully the good that can be accomplished by co-operation."
Sunday Closing in Florida
Rev. A. S. Badger Relates Interesting Incident of St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Fla., Nov. 13, 1911.
Editor Freeman: —
I see that Mayor Love is seeking to make Waukesha a city of law-abiding people. I would like to take his hand and encourage him.
One of the elders of my church is mayor of this city. He has insisted on obedience of the law. Not long since he was absent over the Sabbath and the saloons opened for business on that day; so the city editor of the St. Augustine Evening Record stated at my Christian Endeavor meeting last evening, which he was leading. On the following Monday the police court calendar contained a long list of cases of drunkenness, disorderly conduct, etc.
On the mayor's return he closed the saloons absolutely on Sunday and on the following Monday there was not a case before the police court.
It is with this incident I would shake hands with the mayor.
Fraternally,
ALFRED S. BADGER.
—The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 23, 1911, page 6.
Dr. Badger's Good Work
The St. Augustine (Fla.) Record recently contained the ensuing pleasant item respecting the labors of Rev. Dr. A. S. Badger in that city. The article is headed "Splendid Sermon at Memorial":
"Upon the subject of temperance in the morning and "The Abandoned Farms of New York and New England" in the evening the Rev. Alfred S. Badger, D. D., pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church, delivered strong and interesting sermons at both morning and evening services yesterday. Yesterday was World's Temperance Sunday and his temperance sermon in the morning was most interesting and forceful and was also a scholarly resume of the temperance movement from its inception to the present day. His evening sermon brought forth forcefully the good that can be accomplished by co-operation."
Sunday Closing in Florida
Rev. A. S. Badger Relates Interesting Incident of St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Fla., Nov. 13, 1911.
Editor Freeman: —
I see that Mayor Love is seeking to make Waukesha a city of law-abiding people. I would like to take his hand and encourage him.
One of the elders of my church is mayor of this city. He has insisted on obedience of the law. Not long since he was absent over the Sabbath and the saloons opened for business on that day; so the city editor of the St. Augustine Evening Record stated at my Christian Endeavor meeting last evening, which he was leading. On the following Monday the police court calendar contained a long list of cases of drunkenness, disorderly conduct, etc.
On the mayor's return he closed the saloons absolutely on Sunday and on the following Monday there was not a case before the police court.
It is with this incident I would shake hands with the mayor.
Fraternally,
ALFRED S. BADGER.
—The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 23, 1911, page 6.
Church Notes: "The Teachings of Popular Hymns"
Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1911
Rev. F. D. Butler will give a series of addresses on "The Teachings of the Popular Hymns and Their Authors," at St. Matthias' church on Sunday evenings during a portion of the winter.
The young people of the Evangelical church will give a basket social. Friday evening, November 24, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lang, 301 Brookfield Ave. They will meet at the church at 7:30 p. m. Everybody is invited to come.
The regular monthly meeting of the Home Missionary society of the M. E. church will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, sharp, at the home of Mrs. John Becker, corner Lincoln and Oakland Aves. Miss Amanda Flattery of Carroll College will give an address on the subject of Mormonism, and there will be special music. This society is preparing a Christmas box to be sent to the frontier and contributions are solicited from all members and friends of the Methodist congregation.
—The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 23, 1911, page 4.
Rev. F. D. Butler will give a series of addresses on "The Teachings of the Popular Hymns and Their Authors," at St. Matthias' church on Sunday evenings during a portion of the winter.
The young people of the Evangelical church will give a basket social. Friday evening, November 24, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lang, 301 Brookfield Ave. They will meet at the church at 7:30 p. m. Everybody is invited to come.
The regular monthly meeting of the Home Missionary society of the M. E. church will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, sharp, at the home of Mrs. John Becker, corner Lincoln and Oakland Aves. Miss Amanda Flattery of Carroll College will give an address on the subject of Mormonism, and there will be special music. This society is preparing a Christmas box to be sent to the frontier and contributions are solicited from all members and friends of the Methodist congregation.
—The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 23, 1911, page 4.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Hindu Lecturer to be at 14th St. M.E. Church
Traverse City, Michigan, 1911
Church Brevities
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. The pastor will speak morning and evening. Morning subject: "Our Daily Bread." This is the sixth in a series of sermons on "The Lord's Prayer." Evening subject: "Spoiling God's Plan."
Oak Park Church. Rev. Sundberg of the Swedish church will occupy the pulpit both morning and evening. On Thursday evening June 1st, Mr. Allington will give his farewell sermon, before leaving for his new field, and he earnestly desires that the eastside people will be present for this last service together.
Fourteenth St. M. E. Church. Services tomorrow as follows: Morning at 10:30, conducted by the Rev. G. W. Plews. Subject, "The Vision That Encourages." Evening at 7:30, J. Mohammad Ali of Lahore, India, will deliver his interesting lecture on "The Transformation of Hammad." This cultured Hindoo gentleman is a very capable speaker and will certainly help those who hear him to more perfectly understand conditions of life in India.
--The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Michigan, May 27, 1911
Church Brevities
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. The pastor will speak morning and evening. Morning subject: "Our Daily Bread." This is the sixth in a series of sermons on "The Lord's Prayer." Evening subject: "Spoiling God's Plan."
Oak Park Church. Rev. Sundberg of the Swedish church will occupy the pulpit both morning and evening. On Thursday evening June 1st, Mr. Allington will give his farewell sermon, before leaving for his new field, and he earnestly desires that the eastside people will be present for this last service together.
Fourteenth St. M. E. Church. Services tomorrow as follows: Morning at 10:30, conducted by the Rev. G. W. Plews. Subject, "The Vision That Encourages." Evening at 7:30, J. Mohammad Ali of Lahore, India, will deliver his interesting lecture on "The Transformation of Hammad." This cultured Hindoo gentleman is a very capable speaker and will certainly help those who hear him to more perfectly understand conditions of life in India.
--The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Michigan, May 27, 1911
Faith Healer Does a Rattling Business in Indiana
Clymer, Indiana, 1911
Faith Healer Does a Rattling Business at Clymer
Hundreds of People Treated on Sunday, Most of Them Professing That They Were Cured. Some of Them Lift Their Crutches.
MANY INDIANA FOLKS TOOK TREATMENT
Miles Wall, a faith healer from Curwensville, is attracting considerable attention in this vicinity. He is said to have cured hundreds of persons at Clymer on Sunday. People who have been suffering from sundry ailments say that they have been relieved by the treatment, if such it can be called, given them.
Wall believes that he is endowed with the power of divine healing. Many instances of remarkable cures are recited by persons who have taken treatment from him. Twelve Indiana people went to Clymer on the 6:45 street car on Sunday morning and others continued to go all day to visit Wall. It is estimated that at least 100 persons from this town visited the man and took treatment from him. His fee is 75 cents per patient, and he claims he can cure any disease except those of heredity and deformities that were born with the patients.
One Indiana man had a child five years of age that would not eat. He took his child to Curwensville where he knew Wall could be found. The child had wasted away and was in a very bad condition. Wall handled the child and asked him if he wanted anything to eat. The little fellow ate enough for two persons and since that time has never uttered a word of complaint and is apparently healthy.
An Indiana woman suffering from rheumatism went to Clymer on Sunday and on Monday was working in her garden, claiming that her rheumatism had left her and that she had no traces of the former pain.
Another local woman suffered from a slight failing in hearing. Wall touched her ear and the woman claims that she never experienced such powers of hearing as she now enjoys.
Several persons from the surrounding country went to Clymer on crutches and after taking treatment from Wall left for their homes leaving their crutches in Clymer.
Wall began treating patients at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning and so numerous were they that he did not finish until about midnight that evening.
This is his second visit to Clymer, he having been there one Sunday previous when it is said that sixty persons were cured of sundry ailments and afflictions.
—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1911, page 1.
Faith Healer Does a Rattling Business at Clymer
Hundreds of People Treated on Sunday, Most of Them Professing That They Were Cured. Some of Them Lift Their Crutches.
MANY INDIANA FOLKS TOOK TREATMENT
Miles Wall, a faith healer from Curwensville, is attracting considerable attention in this vicinity. He is said to have cured hundreds of persons at Clymer on Sunday. People who have been suffering from sundry ailments say that they have been relieved by the treatment, if such it can be called, given them.
Wall believes that he is endowed with the power of divine healing. Many instances of remarkable cures are recited by persons who have taken treatment from him. Twelve Indiana people went to Clymer on the 6:45 street car on Sunday morning and others continued to go all day to visit Wall. It is estimated that at least 100 persons from this town visited the man and took treatment from him. His fee is 75 cents per patient, and he claims he can cure any disease except those of heredity and deformities that were born with the patients.
One Indiana man had a child five years of age that would not eat. He took his child to Curwensville where he knew Wall could be found. The child had wasted away and was in a very bad condition. Wall handled the child and asked him if he wanted anything to eat. The little fellow ate enough for two persons and since that time has never uttered a word of complaint and is apparently healthy.
An Indiana woman suffering from rheumatism went to Clymer on Sunday and on Monday was working in her garden, claiming that her rheumatism had left her and that she had no traces of the former pain.
Another local woman suffered from a slight failing in hearing. Wall touched her ear and the woman claims that she never experienced such powers of hearing as she now enjoys.
Several persons from the surrounding country went to Clymer on crutches and after taking treatment from Wall left for their homes leaving their crutches in Clymer.
Wall began treating patients at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning and so numerous were they that he did not finish until about midnight that evening.
This is his second visit to Clymer, he having been there one Sunday previous when it is said that sixty persons were cured of sundry ailments and afflictions.
—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1911, page 1.
Widespread Notion the World Will Last Only 6,000 Years
1911
LIFE OF THE WORLD
That It Will Last Only Six Thousand Years
Then is a general and widespread notion, which the curious investigator will find scattered throughout both medieval and modern literature, that the world will last 6,000 years from the date of its creation. An inscription in one of Martin Luther's books reads as follows: "Elijah, the prophet, said that the world had existed 2,000 years before the law was given (from Adam to Moses), would exist 2,000 years under the Mosaic law (from Moses to Christ) and 2,000 years under the Christian dispensation, and then it would be burned."
In the Etrurian account of the creation (by Suidas) there is a similar tradition. "The Creator spent 6,000 years in creation, and 6,000 more are allotted to the earth."
In the black letter edition of Foxe's "Acts and Monuments" (1632) there is a whole sermon given with the 6,000 year limit of the earth's duration as a text.
Some writers contend that the "six days" referred to in Holy Writ really mean 6,000 years and that the "seventh day" is a type of the coming millennium, or "Sabbath of a thousand years." The psalmist says, "For a thousand years are in thy sight as yesterday" (Psalm xc, 4; See also II Peter iii, 8).
—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1911, page 4.
LIFE OF THE WORLD
That It Will Last Only Six Thousand Years
Then is a general and widespread notion, which the curious investigator will find scattered throughout both medieval and modern literature, that the world will last 6,000 years from the date of its creation. An inscription in one of Martin Luther's books reads as follows: "Elijah, the prophet, said that the world had existed 2,000 years before the law was given (from Adam to Moses), would exist 2,000 years under the Mosaic law (from Moses to Christ) and 2,000 years under the Christian dispensation, and then it would be burned."
In the Etrurian account of the creation (by Suidas) there is a similar tradition. "The Creator spent 6,000 years in creation, and 6,000 more are allotted to the earth."
In the black letter edition of Foxe's "Acts and Monuments" (1632) there is a whole sermon given with the 6,000 year limit of the earth's duration as a text.
Some writers contend that the "six days" referred to in Holy Writ really mean 6,000 years and that the "seventh day" is a type of the coming millennium, or "Sabbath of a thousand years." The psalmist says, "For a thousand years are in thy sight as yesterday" (Psalm xc, 4; See also II Peter iii, 8).
—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1911, page 4.
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