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2 < ' ~ ' - T~E SEVENTH 'DAY B~~TST~GE~El\~~ l ' THE SEVENTH DAY BAPTST l'j: CONFEREN(::E~;~!!~; _ ~EMOR~L FUND Next Sesson wll be held Ct ;Bahte-:::'G(~ek -:Mc~~ ~~:~:_ ~:' F~~de~7'J M ~axs0!1j P~nfeldN J l:{ -August :~91~ - Vu;e-Pres'([ent--Wtlhal! lv~ Stl!lman Plamfeld N J' Presdent-Rev Wllam- L ; Burdck Alfred N Y Secretary--W:-CHubbard Plamfe~ N J ~ecordng Secretary - Prof J Nelson Norwood T~easurer- Joseph A: Hubbard Plam~e1d ~ J' ~ AU'red N Y '; ' Correspondng Secretary-:-Rev Edwm Shaw Plam~ Gfts for all Denommat1on~1 l?terests sohclted Prompt payment of all oblgahons requested feldn J d' A' f' d' N Y Treasurer-Rev ' Wllam C Whtfor re E:recutve Com~ttee-Rev WllWm ~ B urdck-cbar- ' man' Alfred N Y; Prof J; ~elson Norwood Rec: SEVENTH DAY BAPTST HSTORCAL_ Sec Alfred N Y; Rev ~Edwl!1 Shaw Cor Sec;; SOCETY Planfeld N J; Rev Alva L DaVS North Loup N~b (for 3 years); Mr Wardner; DaVS Salem W ; Va ' (NCORPORATED 19x'6) (for 3 y~ars): Dr Geor~e E- Crosley!dlton WS Presdent-Corlss F Rand'op'h Newark!:l J (for2 years); Mr Asa F R~ndolph Plamfeld N:- J Recordng $ecretary-asa F Rand<?lpht PlamfeldN J (for 2 years);- Rev Henry N Jordan Bat~le Creek Treamrer--:-Frank J Hubhard Plamneld N J Mch(f~r 1 year); Mr n~ B: Crandall Westerly~:R AdvSsory Commttee-Wllam L Burdck Charman ;' (for \ ~ year) Also a~l l~vxn~ ex-presdents C?f' th~ Conferenck and the presdents of the S~venth Day -:---' =---:---: :-- Baptst Mssonary Socety the A~ercan S:l~bath :~rac~ Socety and the Seventh Day' Baptst Educaton Socety SABBATH SCHOOL -BOARD COMMSSON OF THE EXECUTVE COMMTTEE' ' d Presde~t-Prof Alfred E Whtford Mlton Ws For one year-rev Wm L Burdck F J HUbbar B d k J ft ' Allen B West ' ; : Recor~1ng Sectetary~Dr A Lovelle ur C anes- ' -For two years~corlss F :Randolph Rev H N~ J~r- ~vt1le WS : M J f W' dan M Wardner Davs t ;~: ': Treasurer-;V H Gre~nman ltq'n: unc lon S t'or 'three years-' Rev Alva L Davs J Nelson' Nor- Stated meetmgs are held on theahlrd DFlrst bday 0l : d B C andal1 ' ' the week n the months of Septe~ber ecem e! an woo ra r ' j ' March and on the frst Frst Day of the week xn the month' of June n'the Whtford Memoral Hall of Mlton Co~ege ~ton W's ' BOARD df DRECTORS ' -'---:-~ ;---_ ~ Presdent-Corlss F ffahdo!ph Newark 1 ~ J _~ ; Recordng Secretary-& L Ttsworth Plamfel~ N} Assstant 'Recordng Secretary-Asa F Rando~ph ~laxn- BOARD OF FNANCE ' Presdent-Grant W Davf\ MUton' Ws Sel;;retary-Allen B WestJ Mlton Juncton Ws Custoda~Dr Albert S MaxSOn Mlton Juncton WS ~Al\fERCAN: SABB~TH TRACT 'SOCETY / ~e~~~;!~lo'nd~g Se~r~t~rj:!Re~! Edwn Shaw p~ nfed ~ ~'~~~as~rer--f: J 'Hubb~rd~ panfeld N J: -:_ ~ 'Regula~ meetng of th'~!1 Board atplaxnfeld N J the ~_--:-- ---: -- second Frst-day of each jlonth at z p m YOUNG PEOPLE'S EXECUTVE BOARD ~Presdent ~ )' THE SEVEN:rH DAY BAPTST MSSONARY _SOCETY' t - Emertus-2Wllan L:: Clarke'Asha-wayR! ~! Presdent-Rev C A Burdck Westerly R: Recordng Secretary:A S Babco<:k Rockvt11e R Correspondng Secre:tary-Rey Edwm Shaw Plamfeld N J ; '/ W '1 R Treasuret-S H DaVS ester y ' The regular meetngs of!he Board of ~anagers are hem the thrd Wednesdays m Janu~~y Aprtl July and October ' ; ' WOMAN'S 'EXECUTvE BOARD OF THE' GENERAl CONFE~EN~E Presdent~Mrs A B 'West Mlton Junct!on Wsr Recordng Secretary-Mss Cora -Clarke Mlton Ws Correspondng Secretary-Mrs 1 H Babcock Mlton ~~~;easut~r-mrs 'A E' Whtford M1to~ Ws 'M ~ Edtor of Woman's Work SABBATll RECORDER- rs George E Crosley MlltonWls Ta ' Presdent-'-Rev Henry ~ J ordan bat~te Creek- Mc\! Recordttg Secretary--Mss Ethlyn DaVS Battle Creek ~k~ b k B - Correspon'dng Secretary-Mrs Ruby C Ba coc atte Creek Mch Treasurer-Davd M Bottoms Battle Creek Mch Trustee of Unted SocetY-Rev Wllam L Burdck' Alfred N y ' 'Edtor of Yqung People s Departme'!t O'f SABBATH RECORDER-Rev R R Thorngate Salemvtlle ~a Junor Superntendent-Mrs W D Burdck Dunellen N J ' ROd ntermedate Superntendent-Mrs Cora g en Salem' W Va N 'T l~eld 'Secretares-Edna Burdck Dunellen o:!'; Zlla Thayer Durh~m~lle N Y; Mabel Jor~an Nle' N Y; Mss Marjone Burdck :~'blton Wl5; Mls~ 'MarCa Rood North Loup Neb; MSS Franke Lowther Salem W Va; Neva Scouten Fouke Ark; Mary Brown Rversde Cal SEVENTH DAY BApTST VOCATONAL ~ COMMTTEE Char~a1-Frark J Hubbard Planfeld N J Secretary-Mss Mram E Westl Mlton Juncton' Ws Paul E Ttsworth Alfred' N Y; pd; Nelson ngbs Mltdn Ws' Orla:N Davs Salem W Va; George C Tenney' Batte Creek Mch E TWENTETH' CENTURY ENQOW- ASSOCATONALSECRETARES MENT FUND' Eastern-Mrs Edwn Shaw Planfeld N J Soutl&eastern-'-MrsM G Stllman ~ost dmcreek W ya Alfred N Y N 'Central--Mrs-Adelade~ C Brown West E eston C We sern-mrs Earl P Satm4ers Alfred N Y'For the jont beneft of Salem and Mlton olleges Southwestern:-M rs R J Mll s'l' Hammond La 'alld Alfred Unversty B t' EA' 1 t Norlh'wester~Mss'PhoebeS Ulon Wa!worth WS The Seventh' Day' ap 1St ~ucat10tl :50C e Y SOle ts : Pacfc Coast- M rs N 0 -M oore R vers1 de Cal ' l' : gl'fts and bequests for these denommatlonal colleges ( The Sabbath Recorder A Seventh Day Baptst Weekly Publ~hed by the Amer~n Sabbath Tract Socety Planfeld N J \ VOL 86 NC> PLANFELD N J JAN 6 199' o ) JJS' WHOLE NO 3;~53 Lookng Back Nearlv one-ffth of the ure by the forces actve or latent n A D' twenteth 'c en t u r y' has 1919 'f those who' lved before us and passed and Yet t ' seems but; a lttle' whle our contemporateswho are' one by one snce we -began to wrte the date -906 passng on to the other lfe have - made us ' Tme lfe the stream of events ; rush'on as a~eople what we now are then we must wth such unceasn'g flow that one s al- conchtde that we hold n our han4s today' most bewldered n efforts to take note of the future of our cause ''0' J them as they pass' Ths 'should lead us all to a thorough anc( But when now and then we stqp to look 'honest self-examnaton to determne: what hackward tme!s length~nngperspect:ve permanent results are lkely'to come from adjusts~ harmonzes qnd brngs out many our chershed purposes and the forwarda feature lost sght of before; and from reachng nfluences of out:' lves /Wll our ths calmer more mpersonal vew we get churches become less w~cldly mo~e sprta dearer nsght nto the workng out of tal wll the-bonds ef unty be s-tronger human plans and' purposes and are better wll the people be more gven 'to practcal able to pass judgtnertt on each; We all may work n soul-savfng through the curre~ts be helped by a thoughtful s~rvey of the of thought we are tod(fy settng n ltoton past vve all may learn lesso'ns for the fu- and theworks we' are now engaged 'n?' t~re by a careful st1\dy of past fa1~tes and Just' what s the ten<;lency of our lves a's to accomplshments the makng 9f the next generaton of Sev- \ enthday Bapt' ts? ' ' Relaton of the Past ~y ther' fruts yeo No good ca~ come from mournng over: To the Present snal know them sug- our falures or lamentng 'because nterest-~n- gests alfnversal law the Master's: cause seems' to lag~ unless we' whch holds good n tlje realm of hstory are_thereby prompted to renewed actvty The ever-present now holds the acc~~ulated f n ou~ heartswe fnd' a growng deterharvest of ~he past and' the esse~hal char- 'mnaton to more (:omplete consecratop)o acter of any perod has' been settled before f hope for hgher a'ttanments causes us ts events have taken place to turn our thoughts away frolll past fa- The fearful cataclysm of the wqrldwar ures' wth stronger purpose to mp~ove the was the - outcome of human thnkng and 2Pportunttes of the prese~t7 thep we may lvng for many generatons ndeed the 'thank God and take cqura~ On the othe~ events whch we call revolutons-the up':' hand fthe sprt 'of ndfference holds us\ heavals n poltcal crcles n affars of n thrall we have reas@n to be greatly' church and state-'are but the prgducts of undercurrents of tloughtwhch' through alarmed for the' future of our cause: _ 1 years have been ganng' strength and momentum ready to break out n'the tulness Old Hopknto'n Chrstmas n the Frst Good Cheer froln' On' the S'abJath before of tme Thus the marvelous events' of 1918 the surprsng advance n temper ance reform n the struggle 'for equal rghts for men and women and n 'all lnes of practcal Chrstan work have been but the fr~tage of' other years ' Apply :rha Truth to f 'what appears Our Den:omnatona:Lfe above s tr\1e then J \ the 'gerer~l ~har- ' acter Qf Seventh Day Baptsts'n 1950 or 1975 s beng determne~ n no small m~as- Hopknton church Ashaway R: L the' pastor Rev D Burdett Coon lad upon the hearts of hs people the' burden of the' MssQnary Board'sJ debt The mmedate hearty response was most cheerng as wll be seen' by the followng letterl /\ ~ ( DEAR EDTOR SABBATH RECORDER: Pastor Coon~ of the Frst HOPknton~ChurCh at Ashaway R preached a sermon 1 t Sabbath n keepng wth th~ Chrstmas ~ptt show: ' ng that t s more blessed to gv~ tqan re- '' l'-' ~ - - \ 'f

3 ()J THE SA'BBATH RECORDER TH!E SABBATH RE<:ORDER ' j '! J ~! ' ' ; ceve He' called 'the' attenton of the congre'- gaton: to' the needs of the mssonary felds where he had labored He mentoned the debt of the Mssonary Socety whch socety has been strugglng so long whle tryng to meet' th~se needs Then just at the dose of the ser- 'm'on he read that Thrty Thousand Dollar let- 'ter from Doctor' Branch n a recent SABBATH RECORDER n 'just a few mnutes the c~ngregaton to make the serm'on practcal Wlt~out any prevous ann~u~cement whatever subscrlbed $11200 on the MSSonary debt ThS S' to be pad at once as a -freewtll offermg atten4ed by the prayers of the: church for the bjessmg 'Of God upon the mssonary cause Ashaway R Dec SCRBE Such r~sponses are most encouragng Freewll offerngs brng blessngs to the church that makes -them and at tre same tme r~sult n good cheer to other churches p~omptng them to better seryce What better thng -could happen for the promo- ton of the welfare of Chrst's kngdom than that the 'freewll-offerng sprt should take possesson ofall the churches? Such gfts attended by the prayers of the church wouldwonderfully brghten the outlook f~r the -boards ' f what yo~1 promsed yoursel~ to d~:n 1918 s not already' begun eve~y passng day ncreases your chance~ of fatlure De- lay n takng up known dutes only strengthens the mpulses that oppose them nac- ' ton wll weaken the very best purpos~s f you real1y mean to help the cause of God ths year do t now Mstaken deas as to t has been sometmes Acceptable Servce made to appea~ by overzealous ' e a d e r s that acceptable- servjce for the Master con- ssts mostly n bearng verbal test1t\ony n meetngs: ' rdeed have known excellent Chrstans to go away f~om prayer and conference meetngs under a cloud because the leader had seemed to condemj them for beng slent and because he gave the mpresson that one could not be a Chrstan who dd not speak and pray n publc am glad to see that ths method of exhortaton s passng away We all know ex cellent Chrstans who have 'not the gft of publc testmony Some have never developed ths' gft S<?me from nborn nerv-: ousness would' suffer ntensely f compelledto'speak vve loveto hear beautful Why the Wdow's Mte t may be that' expressons of 10yalty to Chrst n prayer Brought Comme~daton' some people make meetngs These are ~very hell?ful t?' the too much of the' people of God But t S not Just to say' sto'ry 6f the wdow's mte when-they gve to tl1at those who reman slent ar~ unnterest~ the work of the kngdom f we expect to ed o~ unconsecrated There are ot~~r servbe commended when we gye a dme where ce's whch the Master accepts as beng d<:ne we ought to gve doha:rs we shall be ds- unto pm and whch he approv~s as certal~ appot:ted and we ought to be The Mas- ly as he does spoken ~estmonle~ whe~ hs ter's words of approval came 'not because the 'wdow gave a small sum but because p~ople meet for worshp kn~w ~f stlent ones who seldom render hp servce n meet- she gave all her lvng Gvng mtes when ngs and yet whose lves day by d~y are we are able to make much larger gfts wll' as strong' and as helpful as the hves of -not only mpov~rsh the church' treas- those nore gfted n publc testmony ures' but wll also nproversh the soul of the gver ' 'Are We Pray~ng Wrong End-Frst? The Thng to Do Probably 'there are Wth Good Resolutons but few RECORDER 'readers who have not made good resolutons at the begnnng of the new year And t must be that every one wthout excepton regrets hs -falure to carry'out some 9r all of those madeat the begnnng of 1918 There s only ore w~y to make sure of mprovement and that s to begnat once to carry out whatever good resolves faled of 'ther purpose 'n the year just passe4 ' - 0 Recently read of a 'daly pr~yer meetng that was started n----' London some tme ago~ n whch everybody prayed for the whole world Tmewenton ' and no specal blessng came After a whle the burden of prayer began t9 be fo~ England then t) a few days t was for f London; and yet there seemed to be no marked uplft of soul Fnally after so~e weeks of such prayers the cry arose 0 Lord! 'haye mercy on me break up the fa!; me a broken low ground of my 'soul; gv~ and contrte heart Then the- ~lessng - ' : ;~ - 3 came' and the people of Londo~ were of the drty cty 'and to 'mprove the ~an~ stronger' a~d better prepared to carry tary condtons for ts- sufferng people; we blessngs to England and to t1!e whole do' not ~onder that Turke)r' s 'surprsed:' world Ths' s another object lesson n human- ' Blessngs are' frequently deferred and taransn1 'and n Chrstan kndness whch (sometmes despar~d of entrely bec~use t~s war' s brngng' before barbarous napeople do not begn to pray 'at the nght tjons end J e40vah does not wat long to answer the prayer God be' mercful to me 'a s!!:ydon't M1 Readng Our readers have ner! - ' ' ' TbeCQmml~on'l Page notced a new de- Educatve nfluences partment- n the We have been' last two ssues' of' the RECORDER headed Of Amercans n Germany deeply 'nterest- The <:omm'sson~s Page We hope every f ed n accounts of one wll read carefully whatever may ap- the' way German cvlans are' beng m- p~ar n that department for t' wll conpressed by the general bearng and humane tan 'messages 'fron the Commsson of the sprt 0' the Amercan solders now occu- Executve Commttee of :OUf General Con-' pyng German terrtory When Germans ference Ths Commsson has begun the se~ the splendd dscplne and wonderful: work assgned to t by the Confererce at equpment of the Amercan Army wth ts Nortonvlle and t s hoped t4kt the denom- marvelous executve ablty they naturally' naton may be well prepared' for ts' re;' look for the regal pomp and glamor and the commendatons wheq the meetng at Bat sprt ~f ntolerance whch the people have tle Creek Mch shall convene n August known n ther own arm~s for generatons c On P-775 n the ssue of December 23 They can j10t understand how an army that there s a reference to the War-Reconstruc-: s so terrble n battle so' overwhelmng n ton Board and n the 'next pap~r P S force can be tolerant ard sympathetc n may be found the names of those apbonted ts atttude toward vanqushed foes The on that board ' ' Hun seems to know nothng of the splen- Please take specal 'not~ of the resoludd dealsm whch nspres the generosty t~ns passed 'by the Commsson cbncerntng o~ t~e Amenca~ so~d~er or of hs natve the matter oft encour~gng' ou m~nst~rs krndhness and SmplCty The vtal queston of mnsteral help for- We predct that when the good results our denomnaton can not long be gnored: of the worldwar are summed ljp n comng f we expect to ~ve and prosper Members 4ays the splendd educatve uplft exerted of the Comm~so~ wll present artcles'upon~ by the army of freedom now n Germany ths and other mportant matters week hy; wll stand among the very best The natons week whch should receve the careful at-~ of eartl) must forever feet the effect of ths tenton of every one nterested ~n our caus~~ mghty nfluence for true democracy Even the Turn Accordng -to re mpressed by Acts of Mercy ports the blood- \ t'h rs t y mur- Tre 'denomnaton has a 'lve;: Commsson and' the Commsson s anxous to' se~ a lve de~qmnaton Read pond<er~ get' busy ~s the slogan Seventh Day' Baptsts don't you hear the call Awake awake put on thy strength? ' / ' derous cty-sackng Ottoman whose atroctes for hundreds of yea'rs have a'stounded ' all c:vlzed peoples s 'now greatly m- After'F~tyYe~rs' ~any SABB}\TH RECORD- pressed by the' qu~t humane and blood-' '' ERreaders wll enjoy the less occupaton of Constantnople by' the account publshed' else'yhere of the'golden Brtsh -' -' weddng of Dr Thomas Henry Tomln- When the Turks captured that same son and -wfe of Planfeld 'N J Dr ~ cty they dsmarltled an<l runeg t and Tomlnson s the senor deacon of -the were not satsfed to stop short of the ex-: Planfeld' Seventh Day B~ptst ' Church' : termnaton of ts prnces and people NOw' and 'Mrs Tomlnson has long been a when the Brtsh take possesson by me!ely leader n the Woman's Chrstan Tem-' droppng a few a-nch<;>rs n the harbor and per~nce Unoh ( < ' --sendng troop~ ashore to clean up the streefs 'The RECORDER famly ~ll jon n coll- ~ ) : '

4 ~ '~ l' : 4~ THE SABBATH'RECORD~R gratulaton's and We }Vsh ths worthy couple many years together n' ther mportant fjelds of work ' - llness of Frnlc JHubbard ' RECORDER read- ers wll be 'sorry to learn of the 'serous llness wth nfluenza ard pneumona of Treasurer Frank J Hub bardpresdent of last General Conferen~e For nearly two weeks hs frends have been very anxous over hs condton We'sncetelyhope that wth' our next 'ssue'we:~ may be able t~ gve a more favorable report ' - dren receved n the large' parlor whch wth the hall and dnng-room was most attractvely decorated wth flowers an_d greens approprate not qnly for the cele-' braton but also the Yuletde 'season There 'was an nformal program of musc whch rcluded the famlar weddng march ' Ths added much pleasure to the happy event Rev Dr Arthut E Man former pastor of the 'local Seventh Day Baptst church now of Alfred NY and l\frs Thomas B Ttsworth of ths cty are the only two now lvng who attended the weddng of the cguple Mrs Ttsworth was at the re ' GOLDEN WEDDNG OF'DR AND MR'S; cepton last nght but Dr Man was THO~'H TOML~SON 'prevented from atte'rdng' because of ll-' Dr :artd 'Mrs:' Thomas H Tomlnson' nes~ celebrated the ffteth annversary of ther Dr ~and Mrs Tomlnson were marred \Ye~dn& at 'a delghtful recept~~ gven at! D~e~ber at the Seventh Day ther hol1fe on East Seventh Street last Baptst church New Market by Rev L nght' ''the affar was ~arked by many A Platts p'astor Mrs Tomlnson who was pleasng features whch were enjoyed by Mss Marx E Davs ~aughter of Mr and m9re than 50 r~latves and frends of the ~rs DaVd Bond Da~ls wa~ born a~ Duncouple from Orange' Brdgeton Metuchen ellen and Dr Toml~nson 1S' a natve of Bottnd Brook Pleasantvlle N Y New Roadstown CUp1?erland Co~nty and when York 'Ctv and Planfeld The ~ompanyn- marr~ed was l~v~ng at Sh1loh where' he ' ' practced med1cne The couple mo~ed eluded a number of ltfelong fnends ~nd to Planfeld N ovemqer '187 0 ; snce oth~rs who hav~ kn~wn the c~~ple durng whch tme Dr Tomlnson has practced the:r resdence -n ths Cty 'whch covers a here contnuously He s now the dean of th~ p~nod of nearly forty years : local medcal professon Durng the h6~rs of the recepton from Mrs Tomlnson has been actve n'local 8 untl 'o'clock~ Dr and Mrs Tonln- county and state work of the W C T~ :U son vvere shower'ed 'wth congratulatons snce 1874 and has been county presdent 'and best wshes for the future ' They are for thrty-two years She was elected at both fortunately the possessors of excel- the Natonal W 'C TUConventon n lent health and they entered nto the sprt 1893 as natonal superntendent 0- parlor ' of the ~~asdn as heartly as the youngest' meetngs havng been state superntendent guest ' They receved wth ther chldren of that department n New' Jersey for nne ~lss Mneola Tomlnson Dr and Mrs years n 1910 When the World's W C Rolland D Tomlnson of New York and T U Conven ton was held n Glasgow E<hvard M Tomlnson; each one sharng Scotland' Mrs Tomlnson was elected' n the hearty congratulatons 'extended to World's stpet:ptet:jdert of parlor meetng~_~~ the celebrants and stll retans these' offces The couple were the recpents of a She has been assocated wttt the' 'Y omlarge number of beautfu~ gfts froth r:ela- en's Auxlary Board of Muhlenberg Hostves and fre~ds ncludng specal ~mem- ptal snce organzaton hayng been r: brances' from the members of the Planfel~ cor~ng secretary sxteen years andpresl Seventh Day Baptst Church thew oman s dent for fve years She has been closely Chrstan Temperance Unon and the Plan-dentfed wth the Equal Suffrage League feld Clncal Socety as we as other holdng for several years ~e offce of vc-e ~ frends These were greatly admred by presdent Snce 1888 she has been a memthose p'resentat the recepton ber of ~he Rasores Club and for several Dr and 1\1rs Tomlnson and ther chl- years a t1enl~~r of the Monday -Afternoon ' fhe SABBATH RECORDER Clu? She s a membe'r of the J\1ayflower Socety 'and both-she and her husband have 'been for many years:actve members of the Seventh Day Baptst Church : Dr Tom~nson obt~ned hs eatly educa-' ton at Unon Academy Shloh and contnu~d hs stud~s' at the Unv~rsty of LeWsburg -Pa now Bucknell Urv~rsty; D~ ClnCl Mnr _T M TOMLNsoN- - Albany Medcal College; and 'was gradu- ated from the medcal department of the~ Unversty' of Pennsylvana n 1859 Hs father Dr George Tomlnson practc'ed medcne n Cunber~nd Cou~ty for ffty years and the Son practced there untl 1870 whch' year he came to ths cty' ' Besdes' beng a member of tle Unon County > edcal S~Cety Dr Tomlnson s' t~e?ldest member of the Planfeld Medcal S~clety and t~e Planfeld Clncal SoCety He ~~~ a membe~ ;0 the orgnal staff of physclans of lyuhlenberghosptal untl a few years ago when he was made' consultln~physlclan Despte advancng years he sttll follows hs professon' '!' Th~ couple have three - ~ Mneola T6mJnso'n and Edward -M'~: Tomln'son who lve' ~t home and Dr Rolland' D 'Tomlnson; who 'for several years was assocated n practce 'wth hs father but now has a large p'ractce n ~ ew York as a specalst-pl~nfeld (N :1) Courer News' God does' ~ot wr-te all hs truths n solaton s the m6~hero gnorance;a:nd bo~ks or 'p:each' them n sejmons; h~ gnorance s the p rolfc mother of msunwrtes them ~n human 'hearts The nvs- derstandngs and prejudces socal natoftal ' bl~ thngs of hm are p~rc~ved by the p<;>1tcal and :relgous~ 'Human nature s thlng~th~t a!'emade' All about us' there ' fundament~l~y the same among all peoples; are lves whch ~re ~peakng of' fath' of' and f men' get near enough really to ds- sacnfce and of servl~e ~'Fheyare God's cover one another they-fnd that they have' : s:hool-teachers declartng- the truths of the more' n common than n dffererce- ' kngdom of heaven Yosah Strong ' 5-4 '; OJ' \ \

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J - '- r:' t ( ~ J ' J ' ) ' THE COMMSSON'S PAGE 'READ PONDER GE~ BUSY UA'lvake awake put on thy strength Two weeks 'ago you were told of the e5tablshment of a War-Reconstructon j ~ Board (Seventh Day Baptst) f you just happened not to read the SABBATH' RECORDER that week} or 'n some way fa1~d to see ths page please look pp that ss~~ of our denomnatonal magazne -and read t Then you wll know the purpose of the War-Rec()nstructon Board ' Or~ week ~go the personnel of the board w as gven all the parnes and Jddresses ' N 0 one has dechned a place on the board 'And t s R fne lot of men And the best of t s we mght go out and appont :5ever~1 more 'boards for the sat?e' purpose and nox run out of good materal ether ' On the plan of one thng at a tme a thrd matter fnds a place ths week on ths page t s n lne of the one thng of last'week~ only dfferent That was a plan to 'gve encouragement to' our mns- 1:ers those who 'are and have been servng the denomnaton so well and fathfully thes'e many years sympath~jc moral and fnancal encouragement They well deserve encouragement and t s our prvlege' to gve t generously an-d lovngly The one thngof ths week comes drectly from the Commsson The preamble s gven n~ exactly the form as adopted by the Commsson at Syracuse also the resoluton but theeutlne of' the plan' has been arranged by the' secretary t was to be done by Frank J Hubbard the father of the plan buf a severe llness has prevented -1m from' dong t A PLAN ~ TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG -MEN TO ENTER THE MNSTRY THE SABBATH RECORDER 'WHEREAS The General Conference has recognzed the pressng need of our people for able mnsters and has urged that th1s need be kept constantly before our people and WHEREAS The Commsson of the Executve Commttee s convnced that unless ths need' s met and our mnstry s augmented by the addton of a constantly ncreasng number 'of men ftted by ntensve tranng to take ther place wth the men of hghest attanments n the land we a~ a people' are d~d to an 'early la~ of ) leadershp wth~t whch there' can be but slght relgous and denomnatonal lfe and WHEREAS The' present plan 'or lack of plan of carng for: and enc'ouragng men lookng to; wards the mnstry holds out but small hope' of any general' denomnatonal or collectve nterest: n the welfare of such men and no adequate _fnancal assurance that warrants men n as- the rsk 'of securng even a reasonablelvng therefore Reso lved That ths Commsson re~bmmend to our Ge~eral Conference the adopton of the followng plan whch shall be fnanced by the de- nomnaton: :-s~mng (The detals of the plan are not yetweu worked out and theref re not ready for' publcaton but 'they are along these lnes) The establshmert ' by the /~Genera Conferencenf College Scholarshps Most of ouryo~ng men now fnsh ther college 'course ' debt sometmes several hundred dollars and Jhe frst duty s to pay the oblgaton Ths often leads 'them 'nto lnes of work from whch they never agan get 'back nto the sprt that they were n durng ther college days n reference to re- lgous work and the mnstry Scholar~ shps for' tuton and a lttle more would enable students to face the world free from debt when they graduate: 2 The establshment by the General :onference of S emnary fellowshps The purpose of such fellowshps s the'same as that of the scholarshps to enable men ;to< fnsh ther semnary tranng and enteractve work wthout the burden of a debt t s expected -that th~ fellawshps would yeld enough ~come to enable students to' gve all ther tme to ther semnary work 3 The guarantee by the General C?nference for fve years after 'graduatton from the semnary ofa salary of at 1ea~t $()(X)OO a year The purpose' of ths provson s evdent t s to gve me~ a chance to make good n ther work by beng able to gve fl\e best n them to t~e work and not be compelled to earn lth~~!_ ' lvng and support ther famles by otheroccupatons (The Commsson corsde~e? a fourth proposton but dd not have tme to workt out t may be ncorporated n the re-' port of recommendaton beforeconfe~encemeets and t may not ' t was along the' lne of protecton 'and provson for' men 'enterng the mnstry by way of Jfe n- suranc e- For example there s a sngle pay~ent endowment polcy 'about as fo1-:- ' THE SABBATH RECORDER lows: ' On the payment- down n cash of to man by man' openng '-h~: treasures to about $225~oo a young';lfuanat the age Heaven ' ~ of twenty-one years can look ahead to a lke a good theme and have one here: protecton' t-o hs famty n case of hs There s a sermon n ths theme for t can: death-of $ n /'case of total dsablty to' work on hs part he can have text There s a challenge here from the Al tans the gst of the great burden of the :$50 00 a month S~ch a polcy matures' mghty to' hs chldren to put hm -to the when the man s 'sxty year5 of age after test He wants to open hs treasure' house whch he wll have $800' a year ~s long and pour the contents nto the lap of those as he lves; Ths s ' qute exact but he lovesand there s 'only one col1dton nearly so Perhaps the General Confer- 'ence mght not' be repared thus ;to pro; necessary an~ that s that there! be a re~ vde for young men enterng the mnstry cprocal atttude' toward hm; wth the but possble ndvduals or a -group of -ndvduals mght n a sngle payment make great dfference however a~cor4ng to tfe neanng of the words that God does hs provson for a young man n ~hom they wtlout reserve whle he asks them to 'had great confdence) ' cheerfully surrender to hm only a smaj fracton of 'ther possessons Of course ths plan of the Comms5on nvolves a good' many condtons Only RECPROCTY well approved people could e2:cpect to re:! The law of recprocty s a' law of earth ceve the help ofthe scholarshps and~ fe1- and heaven We see teverywhere~ among lowshps: Those who recevecl help would neghbors ~omm;un'tes states and natdns 'have to 'agree to Serve the denomnaton n the early' hst'ory of' our country our n some' approved capacty for at least a forefathers ~ere brought nto close assocaterm of /year~' They' would be expected ton wth the natve ndans 'The latter!o refund ~ny help th~t th~y had receved cam~ nto the cab~; of \~h~ early se~~ler sat 1 they fated to reman n the chosen at hs table and enjoyed hs lrosptahty The work They would expect whle usng ths settler was no less welcome to the w~am ~elp? schc?1 to mantan good! sta?dn~5 of the ndan to partake of hs dred ven- n ther studes~ etc All these detals Wll son '; and f read correctly as long as -ths be worked out by the Commsson and rec~ free nterchange of -neghborly feelng 'con- Olnmefolded to the qeneral Conference tnued there was never any ~rouble t was These three projects l:-the War-Re- only when the = whte man began to be offconstructlo~ ~oard 2-A Plan to Encour- sh selfsh exclusve a:nd decetful takng age our Mnsters and 3-A Plan ~o En- advantage of the gnorance of hs 'redcourage Young Men to Enter-the Mnstry sknned: brother that the latter's face beare by no means t~e only ~atters- consd- anto' be sullen'and dstrustful The same ered by the Comm1s~on at ts n1~ettng at law apples to neghbors n close proxmty Syracu5e: _ These thngs Wll be ntroduc- f we are neghborly -pleasant and nter- ed on ths p~ge fro~ week? towee~g~t ested n our neghbor 'we are apt to re nto the habt 'Y hat haht Readng ths cev~ the same pleasant recprocalatten~ page ((x~j tor50 also between eart4- and' heaven; o ~ - between God a'nd mao 'f w~'seek heaven's ====:=======:::::::==========- blessng we must sacrfce our/ best to A SE!{MON hea:v~n f we pray for the Almghty to Preached by Pastor MB Kelly to hs congre- open the wndowj 0' heaven and pour hs gaton n Battle Creek Mch November 30 h' ' t h th t 1918 and requested for publcaton n the-re- ' ess1ngupon US we mus s ow' a Ken; corder' by the Fnance Commttee of the une degr ee of nterest n hm and n hs church - Tex{ Brng ye all the tthes nto 'the cause that wll enable us to open our' weak storeho that th' b t treasure house to hm and gve hm free u~e ere may e mea 'n m'v 'd' house a1 d po' h -'th 'tt access to our purses our garners an granr o~os S ' no 0 e'y u ' 'the L'o- d~ f r vet n1: f e /n wlw 1 eret'wtp'lsa'lo ares our J ewels :and most'precous posses- the wndows of heaven' and :pour YOtf out S10ns a blessng 'that there shall not be room ' PASTORS AND FNANCE enough to receve t Malach 3: 10 : Pastors dsl~e' to preach upon the suq-' ~4 Theme: ':The' treasures of Heaven open j~ct ot fnance ~ lest they be consdered 7 '\ j! 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' 8 < THE S~BATH RECORDER mercenary worldy graspng p~ng nar:ce frst nam~ly that whc~ pertans to for money ' the pastor's salary T9 get drectly at the:: But mean to take the rsk foday for queston let us consder what t~e ~ver~ge' 'several reasons Frst the Mssonary and church regards th~ most essenhal '9u~hf; T'ract socetes modestly ask us to make catons of a pastor to be Frst he must a thank offerng durng ths great thanks- have a good educaton from a recognzed: gvng tme to releve ther ~ndebted1es~ college or unversty and then several rand help them meet the press111g responsl- years of techncal tranng n a theologcal ;bltes before them Second have been school and f possble several years of asked by the Fnance Commttee of our postgr~duate work anywhere from twelve' church to preach' upon ths subject' Thrd to fftee'n 'years spellt upon hs educaton t s a subject that greatly 'needs to be Ths by the way n the majorty of cases ~~ 'preached upon Fourth accordng to the all has to be worked out by the student hmestm'ate placed upon the subject by Je- self vorkng wth hs hands most of the' hovah hn1sel as revealed n the text t dav t'o provde the staff of lfe and hs col- s a deeply relg9-phlosophcal queston lege expe'nses and then dggng out hs lesthat we lnust COlne to better understand 'sons by the lldnght ol Agan he must and act upon f we are to mantan our re- be a l11an of -ablty as a publc speaker lgous and denomnatonal exstence equal to any emergency whether cal~ed - J' _ PASTOR S SA~RY 'upon suddenly or otherwse so' as to glve- hs people no cause for embarrassn1ent but Partcularly does the pastor shnnk from rather an 9ccasonfor prde ~e must be a preachng upoh that phase of church fnance good nxer; one ~ho can adjust hmself whch relates to the pastor's salary but to 'all temperaments of men H'e?ust be a am leven gong to rsk ths t?day forsev- versatle pleasng conversatonalst ~e eral reasons Frst my poston fnancally nlust be tactful and help~ul among the Sck 's better than that of the average pastor[ the poor and ~he sorrowng H'e sho~ld be among us and therefore less embarrassng; conversant Wth all other occupatt~ns of Second n my more than twenty-fve years tllen so as to have a common ground of experence as a pastor no one ~an j ustlyme~hng them; and above all t~~s~ quahf~ Clam that have ever hnted dtrectly or catons he should have the splrltual overndr~ctly that my salary was too small or s&ht oj all hs flock of from one to sev 'that ought to have an ncrease n salary eral hun~red people n fne he should have and thnk no one wll make that charge r the quahfc~t1ons that n many other pr~- aganst me now Thrd f all the pastors fessons would command) a sal~1f of fro~ through a sense of modesty or per?o~al $ to $Sooo?O n~ddltton to th1~ embarrassment refran' from speakng he should have a wfe who S also well ed UpOl1 ths subject' ths apparent vrtuebe- ucated hghly cultured ~nd refned She comes a menace n as much as a sub] ect should be a woman' who S an adept 111: all that s vtally reated to our very exstence culnary arts and n general qousekeeplng s entrely neglected Fourth as far' as She s exp~cted to do all ths and pu~ ~ut myself am concerned f can not after l~rge washngs for -want of m~ans to h1re all th~se years of experence command sal- ' tlem done whlle at the same bme she an- : ary enough to comfortably provde for my swers countless telephone and door-bell famly and lay up somethng for old age calls S?e must bea model hostess for her shall n a very' short tme feel perfectly home wt11 be the ~enter of w~yfarers from justfed pefore God:;' n gvng up the pas- al~' pol'nts of the co~pass She must entertorate and devotng what powers he may taln three to fve bmes ~s much ~ompany' haveconferred'upon me to such a cause~s as ~qes any o~er ~o~e 1n'the soc1ety n wll contnue to serve my f~llow-men '1n add1ton to th1s she S ~xpected to make perhaps \a larger ~eld and at the same tme many cal1 1 a~d be quahfed and ready to furnsh the necessary provson for that day when the churches wll begn to say He s-too old' we need a younger man After the above observatons let us take the most dsagreeable part of church f~' take the lead n all classes of church work She wth her fanuly must ~ess well ~~r the people would feel m~rbfed for ther pastor or any memq~r of hs f~m!ly to wear clethes that looked old or a httle' worn 'ffe SABBATH RECORDER And: above all they must lve wthn ther ~at a prncely salary many a pastor 'means and on a salary of from $40000 to would consder' that to 'be and here s a $oqooo ( thnk two' of our' 'churches man resevng t who n all probablty pay $5 0o oo) And all theme'mbers of 0 could n6t tell the dfference between anoun the famly are -specal targets' of crtcal and a verb flnd who at the most has spent -nspecton ' only months n hs 'preparaton 'for' lfe's REQU~EMEN:TS N OTHER PROFESS~ONS actvtes where the pastor has spent years Anyone who s nformed knows ths s- the pastor ekng out a mserable exstence 'not an overdrawn lor~ exaggerated pcture~ whle' the uncouth llterate man ha~ Seeng at a glance therefore the tremen- enoug:h to lve n to~fort or even luxury: ' dous demands upon-the pastor 'and hs wfe carng nothng for~any one beyond the ct- ; 'let us make a compa~son as to the demands' ele of hs own famly whle the pastor has' upon other professons t s frequently consecrated hs refned and culturedfacttltes ' to': the uplft' of humanty The stated that' of all professonal men; teath- stoker wth hs blackened face down n' ers and preachers are the poorest pad But' the hold of the shp recefves se~eral tmes' the aver~e preacher's salary can nof 'com- as much ~oney for hs servces' as the pare wth - the average teacher's salary average pastor does for hm Wle au Most any grl wth only a second-grade cer- these 'humbler callngs 'are honorable n the tfcate can command a larger s~lary as sght of God' a'nd< snould be 'n the sght teacher of a country - school than the of me'n and would be the last man to ds average pastor of a rural church; whle the crmnate aganst the men who follow them :ollege grad1:late who has' spe~alzed say do nsst that the dsparty between the 'n language or mathematcs can draw as monetary value of ther servces as ev-' large a salary oy' vrtue of hs one specal~' denced by ther salares~' s a blot and 'a dstyas the average cty pastor 'wth the many grace to the Chrstan Church and especal- qualfcatons demanded of hm and the cor- ly so when we consder the ~eat dfference respondng qualfcatons demanded of hs' n the tme and' expense ncurred n ~ the -'wfe At the same tme the wfe of the col- preparaton for and the mportance of the lego professor may be'a tyro n socety or servces rendered any publc functons and the fnancal 'value ~ moment's consderaton'of' the 'dfferof hs professon' s ' not serously affected ence between the effect of the two classes of thereby The' same condtor s true' n re~ servce1:1p6n the physcal consttuton gard to the lawyer physcan merchant should also be gven here to emphasze the and n fact to those of most any other pro- truth of the stuaton: ' The man who does fessonthan the m~stry whle n the lower eght or ten hours' physcal labor s usually professons the dfference n the ntellect- the man other thllgs beng eq~al who has ual qualfcato~$ s much great'er Take a the most perfect' health and the strongest mechanc ~any of whom have not even a con~ttuton; but the p~stor wth hs many common school educaton f 'n an ap-' responsblt~s and ~nxetes hs preparapr~ntceshp of tlree years he has become bon for pubhc addresses and oversght l of sklled as a machnst of carpenter he corn- church actvtes can not lmt hs' tme of mands 40 cents to $1:00 an hour Brck pressure 'to eght or ten hoursa day but ' m~sons and plaster~rs demand a'nd receve does well f he esc~pes tw:ce that number a: correspondng wage Why met a of hours of constant mental stran whch co~ple of lttle newsboys -n knee pants s fat: more taxn:g upon the vtal- powers a f'ew days ago and as they' pass~d one sad than physcal exerton' Psy<;hologsts as- to th~ other an recevng ~ro'09 aweek sure us!hat one ~ h~tr!s ext~mporane~jus ~ow thought as they passed on That speak1ng S equal n 1tS tax upon the Vtal ~s equal to the salary of many a hatd;work- powers to eght hours' physcal labor ng pastor Only-a few days later the gar- Two veeks ago today one of our strongbage collector wth hs drty face'and sem- est: and most beloved mnsters attended cultured expresson was talkng to another for' the last tme the servce' n hs own churchout dd not preach' The next day' man rght ~'n front of the parso~age 'and hea;d ~lm say am gettng $25~oo a h~ 1>reached twce n a neghborng pulpt week and could not prevent the thought came home and went to' peces; 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' \ ;d lj j \: \:!' : :: : :;: ~~ :;;: ' :!{ ; - 10 THE SAB;BATH RECORJ)E~' gve them even a graded-school' educaton'; few days' passed away Physcal exertt?n and t was deel?ly patj:t eṫc to ~~ar th~ older w'ould not havlc'lwrought such havoc wth one n a rebe1hous spmt say We amtgot v L 'C Randolph: \Ve for~et that John L nothn' never dd have nothln' and never' Htlffman one of the strongest evangehsts d h d of wll have nothn we' have ever had sank un er t e oa Of- course the- mplcaton was that as: hs great!'abors whle yet a conlparatr~l: long as ther father was a mnster they young man We forgetthat C M Le ' would have nothng Not only ~as her a man who was also mlgh~y Wth Godm descrpton of ther fnanca~ condlt!on l?a- prayer and as an ev~ngehst whle upon thetc but the ungrammattcal express~on hs knees 'prayng Wth ~ great burden tself sent a pang to my very soul ~o thmk upon hs heart sank nto unconsc10us~ess that these grls wth sweet a~es and from whch he never recovered t S a brght ntellects by reason olhavmg been pfn'7dologcal probablty ~hat al~ of ~ese unfortunate enough to be born daughters splendd men mght have hved yea;s longe~ of a preacher were not onlydebarred frpm had they been only under the stram of or the comforts of a well pr?vlded ~ome but dnaryphyscal labors from the ntellectual trantng w):l1ch would /1 A BURNNG QUESTON have qualfed thenl to grace any so~l~1 po: -n' vew of these stern fact s and condl- ston s t any wonder that nl1nls~ers tons let meburnths qt~eston nto th~ v~ry chldren sometmes rebel a~~ sometmes ((Whv a1~e-' our able' selr-sacrrlcvng have lttle nterest n the retgl?n that has ~ou - rt JJ - mnsters pad so poorly always meant prtvalon t an d pnch to 'f' all n these days of gr~at1y mflated pnc~s members of the ~~mtly and curtall:en!fu all classes and professons exc~pt the ffln- m~ny ~pportunlttes as?compare 'nt of' strv have 'had large ncreases n salary as neghbors all about ~hem 0_ ' An age the - -t for lvng decently' But the Uncle Sam recently got hs eye upon ' a necess ~ h f du on hs father of these same two grls as~a man pastor whle paymgh~o~ ~ e ~~'fv~ years' who upderstood how to care for be~s; and tabje l double th~t w ~c ~ pal d 11 th u ha~ preacher he began' serv1ce for ago; wh!e payng fr~m sl~to te~ u~h~~~ h~ ~ncle Sam a f~w weeks al?o as?ee n ~or a par of shoes o~ w~ elforfa ~ be- spector for the States of Wsconsn and that he got for th:ee an a a or ou lvfnnesota at a salary of $ and allfore-the 'war; wh1~e req~lre~ to pay twenty _ lnct ex enses ad Are not these to twenty-fve dollars for dresses tha! he travd~t o a P burnnpg' answer to' the oft- f t the pastor receves con 1 ons f' former y got or en-' 'at re eated uest()n 'as to why so' ew 'yo~ng n too many cases a salary remammg m~;are e~terng the mnstry and espectalthe old l~w fg':1 re N'- _ so when t s so evdent that the great There S a very slgn1~cant verse n fn 6usness' socal and poltcal world f nqt hemah '( 13: 10) n w~lch th~ proph~: ed most of the' relgous world rega~ds the descrbng hs reforms says: _ p~r~lv t' th a small salary as a small calber that 'the portons of the L_evl~es a no 111an?Wl ' been ven them; for the Lev1tes and the map : ' g that dd the YTork were fled every OTHER OBLGATONS Sngers h feld The ~oor fellows had So much for the oblgatons of the church one to S t th brga been so grossly neglected 1n ther ml~ls ra- to ts pastor B~t there areo_ -er 0 1 ':1--; ton n the house?f Go~ that they were : tons restng heav~ly ~pon all our chu:ch~s - oblged to leave ths s~rvlce and ~o!o the The church that S self-centered tn ts felds where they could earn a hvehhoq1 efforts wll never be a source of very great T~at th~ng s beng rep eate 1 amo~g God s sprtual s~rength-; ~o~ whle ~us absorbed m1n1stenng servants today hn ts own nterests t S' forgettng the gre~~ Untl recently! t~o beauttful gtrls~ ~r~ comms\>ol?- to go nto ~l1~e world daughters of a mnster of mor~ th~ th There are other commjnltes 1n o~r own dnary ablty have been roo?~n~- n f ~ and- other lands where theyrtever have the home of your past~r and \vorklng n a b~- rvleges of the gospel message and the -tory to help proylde for t~em~~lves P hurch whch s most a~ to -the: needs of cause forsoo~ the father wlth h s h meag er ~uch communtes an4 st't:vesthe most salary was nelt~er able to clot e t em nor l THE'SABBATH'RECORDER ~ earnestly to 'send th~ gospel to them; wll as ~ re~ut there was 'no progress They be the warmest n ts sprtua: lfe' We haye spcetes ~rganzed t9 send the were beng depleted n numbers were wanng n sprtual power and were losng ngospel m~ssage Jhrough the ns~onay terest n tl1eordnances and ~omma'ndments and the pnnted page to these locahttes and of God Altho~gh they were the chosen all our churches have_ the oppotunty of people' of Go~ an9 w~re the conservators but whle we are earnestly seekng' them- ply n tthes and offerngs comes the-- we should not forget that the Word of God quck rejonder ard: then oh! awful to s equally emphatc n Ufe declaraton that contemplate Ye are cursed wth a curse he that provdeth not for hs own and' fo ye have robbed 'meeven tps whole especally for those of hs_ o:wnhouse; hath [denom J'naton f' you want to come dened he' fath and s _worse than an n- out from under ths curse and' be pros~ fdel '\ pered and greatly blessed YOl wll do t T 'se socetjes are our own and the n:- 'not 'by purchasng' ''your salvaton wth ter and respqnsbltes restng so heav- mon~y but by gvng evdejlce ~of you~ 1 ' up n ther hearts are ours How; there- genune nterest suffcent t9 cheerfully fore shall we escape the dvne declaraton open YQur purs~s to the extent of onethat n neglectng to pro'vde for our own tenth of your ncome whch Wll provde relgous nterests we are gvng evdence the necessary funcs for my house and my' to the world that we have dened the fath work challenge you to prove me n ths ' and tnay)ll:stly be regarded ~s on an equal - w~y: and see f 1 :wll not op'en to 'you the ty Wth f not worse than an nfdel? Wndows of heaven and pour' you out a ' Another says: '~Oh; t s 'not money that blessng that there shall not be room we need but we need more fath Let us enough to receve t -Here s the stand- lsten to the voce of the nspred apostle jng challenge~ 'plan and :unequvocal?-nd James n answer to sucb' an one': Fath we hav e never accepted t Evdently w~ ' wthout works s dead You show me your lke the chldren of srael mus~ ht; under '_ fath wthout works' and wll show you the curse for there s no progress the evdence of my fatl~ by workng wth t seems to me that the only hope tor our my hands as pray and op~nng my purse peopl_e s for us to wpole-heartedly accept as preach that these God-gven hum~n n- the challenge and brng n the tthes f ' strumentaltes may be used and blessed by we do flot do t t wll -only further ac- ) the dvne wsdom n sendng-hs great mes-centuate the smlarty between our pos-) sage of salvaton to the ends of the earth ton a'nd that of the sraeltes when as the n our repeated' plea for funds the de- 'Lord accused them they sad What pronomnaton 'has no' occason for fear of ap ft s t that' we have kept hs ordnances? enrched presthood as n' the Roman We wllngly gv~ to that n whch we a~e' ~ Catholc Church The-latter s at one ex- - nterested' and that whch we beleve wll t~eme whle ordnary- ProtestantC~urGhyeld us a proft N:ot ~any y~ars ago a; fnance s at the' other good many of our people Jumpedat the:op;' srael had been deserted of the -Lord and _portunty to buy stock ~n some' ol wells n 6' ' enlargng ther work and exte'ndng t far of hs truth yet he could not do otherwse beyond 'the bounds of ther own' parsh tha~ gve them up to the nevtable result through the nstrumentaltes of these or- of ther'lack of nterest ganzatons 'rhese socetes must have What a strkng' smlarty between ther' funds wth whc+ to carryon ths splendd condton- 'and that of Seventh D~yBapwork a'nd now they ~ome to us wth a lsts today Let us apply the lesson to ourmodest pl~a for a thank offerng durng selves ' ths great thaqksgvngme to help them God gves a gracous nvtaton to re- -- meet an ndebte~ness and meet the heavy turn whereupon we say We knew not responsbltes restng upon them Buf me- that we were ajar off -- Wheren' shall we thnks hear some one say : We are al- return? Theft th~ Lord s'ays HThe frst ways beng appealed -- to for money t s thng necessary' f~r your renstatement s! not so much money that we need but rght'' to cease ~obbng me~ Ths mpresse~ us eousness and holness The Lord knows as somethng new; we are greatly surprtse9 \; we are ~n need of these relgous qualtes Wheren have we robbe4 God? 'we re- ' ' ( -: - -~ \ -

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'''''1 ; ~ :; ~ l; ~ 12 THE SABBATHRECO~ER the' West because' we beleved n- t as' a 'proftable tvestm~n~ and our money s n those dry ~oles yet wth not one cent of proft - r Some years later our whole denom~naton; 'more or less poured out money nto a gold-mnng project because pro~table re 'turns seemed' to be so slfre Agan a complete loss~ Would to God our relgous 'nterests had the beneft of all the money lost ll those sands' of Colorado' for t could be lad up as treasure n heaven where the nvestment s always good and the blessed returns sure lvy beloved our heavenly Father s ~ pleadngly lookng upon us and sayng - 'through hs Word and through ths mes sage f you want access to the treasure house of Heaven that you 'may be blessed multpled ncreased enlarged as never be fo're open your treasury to' Heaven t makes ro dfference' f there are only dmes and nckels even' pennes there t s the Mlrt the heart the nterest am ye~r~~g for Gve me that and the blessng S yo~rs \ W o~ld to God we ~ould?ear hs '' voce and brng n the tthes nto hs store- house ': ' Say not'l old dspe~saton': Jesus condemned the Scnbes and Pharsees not for ' ther scrupulous tthng of arse mnt and cummn but rather whle dong that for - neglectng the weghter 0 matt~rs of the law-judgment mercy and fath for he 'says Th~s ought ye to' have ~?ne and not ' to have 'left the other undone' : Fve thousand dollars s a small estn1at~f the tthe of the ncome of our church membershp / Tthng ~ s a great ' pleasure' and:' source of satsfacton when THE VOCE OF GOD thnk all the sufferngs of lfe that overwhelm' us represent the voce of God ts 'an old statement and-proverb that nothng s so hard' to explan as the' prob- len of sufferng and that the slences of -God are chefly dscerned by men w:hose hearts have been lad upon the anvl whle the angels wth the hammer n ther hands have beaten the sword out thn And yet Chrst tells us that God never speaks to us so tenderly as n the hour of sufferng and of chastsement We au _know that ran sometmes means just as great a help to a sheaf of wheat as a day of sunshne We know that mdnght s necessary to unrol the crmson secret of a red rose We know that no angel was ever made out of a marble statues by mere love' that always a man has to lft a hammer and chsel and make the sparks fy vve know that the men who have been the greate~t n the hstoty of the Chrstan Church have been the men who' have' suffered most f we call the roll of the great men of hstory we wll fnd that th: were all heartbroken; they all had ther es n some way destroyed through suffern and trouble and were made perfect through trouble Homer s the greatest' poet ~nd he had hs heart broken because he was blnd Dante was the second great poet and he tells us n hs nferno that for thrty years held heartbreak hke a wolf at bay John Mlton was argreat p0~t and he W;LS a blnd man God closed hs eyes to the beauty of the landscape that he mght see that lght whch s never seen on land or sea or n the sky~((the Voces of God}) JVetoell Dwght Hlls one really has formed the habt Tthng wll solv:e all our problems of chur~h f- Gvng make's a man of broad and nt~: nance pay our p ast 9 r a decent sa ary~ lgent sympathes ' f one gves largely to meet the-demands upon our bqards' enable the church and ts varous nsttutons 4e us to enter the new and nvtng felds of wll b~come nterested n the kngdom f labor encour~ge our young men a~d women he -remans gnorant of the accomplshments to enter the mnstry and the msson felds of the church he wll naturally gve lttle Ths challenge of the Almghty s the key to t to unlock the doors whch shut us from th~ greatest joys an< sprtual blessngs Let f t srght for our government to pro- us come' out from under the curse Let hbt the use of alcohol among the solders us no longer be robbers of God Let us why s t not ~g~~ to ~rohbt ts use among open our weak treasures' to hm a~d re- t~e artny of ctvthans f p:~hpto~ proceve the' out pourng of hs grace wthout: hlblts l~ ~e army \Yhy can t not?e mad~ Sn t~' t' ' ; to proh~bl t among all the people? ~ MSSONS' *~ ' THE SABBATH RECORDER' SABBATH REV EDWN SHAW PLANFELD N J ContrbUtng Edtor MSSONARY AND TRACT SOCETY NOTES We all realze that war 'knows no rest days and n the Great War whch we trust has happly ended~ the recessary dsregard for a' Sabbath has gone far from the front lne of actual conflct' away back to' the factores and to the farms where 'the muntons a11d supples '~f war are produced Ths neans that one of the results of the war has been/a breakng down of almost all sacred r'egard for Sunday as a Sabbath and the churches of Amerca wll have a tre nendous task to r~store a relgous respect and a reverental observance of Sunday Many people have made the war an excuse for a dsregard of Sun~ay as a sacred day What does ths mean' to those who hold the Sabbath of Chrst? t means that we too shall have' to battle aganst an observance af the Sabbath by <?urselves that s nfluenced by the regard n whch Sunday s held by other people For we are qute lkely to gve to ~he Sabbath just such care and attenton as' others gve to Sunday ' Let us hope and beleve however that the need of the world' for a 'Sabbath wll be so ntensely felt and realzed and so fervently wll t be prayed for and sought after that peop1e wll come to see that only' 'wth the Word of G'od and the example and teac~ng of Jesus as authortes wll the world ever be constraned to accept and observe a Sabbath ' Wd the present outlook t would seem lke ah almost mpossble task But the opportuntes were nevermore favorable There s a new readness to see truth and to accept ch~nge A feelng of expectancy'~ s everywhere~ Now s our tme as a peo'; pe' to gve a real demonstraton to the world of the value ard power of the Sab bath by lvng t by ~njoyng t by pro-\\ clamng t by beng loyal to t - A former much 10vedmeJber of the 'Tract Board las been heard~ to s~y that n our efforts we ~ometmes almost seem to' be buttng our heads' ag~~sf a stone wall That was Davd E~Ttsworth But 'when t came to makng th~ charge of-battle aganst ths stone wall When t ca'me to undertak ng the mpossble none was braver ~an ; he none more royal none more de~oted; - none more hopeful and enthusastc n gong nto the battle lk~ the m~n who 'fa2es wh~t he must ~ Wth step 'trumphant and a heart of cheer 3 ; Who fghts the daly battle wtbout fear; ~ Sees' hs hopes fal yet keeps' unfalterng trust; That God s God; that somehow true and just Hs plans work out for mortals; not a tear s shed when fortune whch the world holds' dear Falls from hs grasp; better wth love a crust Thm lvng n dshonor; enves not; N or loses 'fath n man but dres hs best Nor ever murmurs of hs humble l()t -But wth a smle and words of hope gves zest To every toler; he ~lone s great Who by a~ lfe hercc conquers fate' The word reconstructon s up'on many' tongues these days c Destructon has' been rampant n all realms of lfe Re-buldng and we 'hope on better lnes s the task be fore us What place' an~ we as a people to take' n ths work? What shall be our at:' ttude towards some of the mmedate problems that fa~e o'ur own country and our own communtes'? ' mean what shall be our' actve atttude our practcal atttude? For example the 'problem of the-horne-com- ng man the brokenamly the status :of ~ woman alcohosm-socal vce etc 1 \' ' '~--; Or what ar~ we gong to do n relaton to such tasks and ans as are suggested by the top~s war fn~rce and the ncreased burden of lvng democracy ~nd the war~ ndustral- unrest natonalsm and nterna- _\: tonalsm the sprt of' Bolshevksm bass; of }Vold peace>etcc? jot how are we to relate ourselves actvely to the new 'sprt' of co-operaton and servce or the' p:ew tasks 6f organzed relgon? What ~r~ we amng at? Where are we as a 'people comng out at? ' feel that 'frst; o{ all ~e should recognz~ : the fact- that a tme of re~bu1dng of the ' structure of socety s at hand W e should' recognze the stuaton andtlleft study t ' J L J - - ~ _- ' 0 { t ~ 1~

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' '1) :: : 1; ~ /: : ;r : '- ; : ~ - 14 'THE SABBATH RECORDER Tlese are d~ays of great: responsblty for those who thnk We can not tak~ our place as a people n -the work of the world unless we acqualt ourselves wth present :condtons and S9 beprepar~d to meet the tasks L ~: Our mssonary AnnaM 'West 'who s home-on a furlo~gh plans to spend a few months n New York n specal study for her wor~ as teacher n the)grls' school at Shangha ' -' J' _ As ths pote s befng wrtten our hearts are gladdened to learn that the' condton of FrankJ Hubbard s mprovng For several days hs lfe has seemed to pe hangng n the balance from the nfluenza and double We are a thnkng people No other relgou~ del)omnaton has 'a hgher per- cent age of people who do ther own nde- pendent thnkng We do not follow mere eloquence or specous argument or ready pneumona wt or enthu~asn or devoton We 'ask to be shown we want to know for ourselves A letter from mssonary T J Van furn Anq ths s the bass of a safe democracy [States that hs plans for specal gospel And the people who thnk sanely and sonerly and long a~d on broad lnes must broken by the prevalence of nfluenza n: meetngs- not far from Gentry have J?een ;gve drecton to matters a~d be gudes or that communty l the' sprt of ~elfsh unthnkng Bolshevksm wll yet wreck the socal order of ths countrv: \\That has all ths to do wth the Mssonary and Tract socetes? t h:as a most m 'portant bearng The work of our people as a denomnaton must be adjusted to' these new condtons f we would take a place of worth n the servce of the world for hunla'nty and for God And our work' can' not be thus adjusted unless we care- fu1ly' and prayfuuy study the stuat~on and getsomet1:n~of real perspectve of the movements of these days unless we get a Te'al vs~n of the largeness of the tasks and a real vson of how ()1:1r specal message of the Sabbath 'Of Chr~t fts nto the world's 'work wth all ts problems 'When 'we come to know and understanq these problems of reconstructon through careful study and thnkng then shall we be_ able wsely and well t<)f apply forces through 'ways and means n detal th'at shall be effectve The N ovembet number of De Boodschap 'per from Amsterdam Holland has just ar 'rved ' Now' that the war has ended we 'hope -that we may have a freer correspond- ~nce 'wth our frends n Holland ' -Mssopary evangelst James H Hur1~y was receptly summoned to go to Whlte Ooud- ~fch on the sad errand of conductng two funeral servces n the famles of our people at that place \ A recent letter -from mssonary Crofoot 'says that D'r Palmborg w~s on 30 vst t9 Shangha from her work at Leu~oo and' thafshewas ll whle thereat the home of her frends ~ We trust that she was soon better and able to return to Leu-oo t s expected that when ths -note gets to the readers of the SABBATH RECORDER Dr Grace 1 Crandall and Mrs Jay W '_ 'Crofoot wll be n md-ocean on the Pacfc' on ther way back to Shangha The last draft from Shangha -for the quarter endng December does' not show any mprovement yet n the rate of exchange Our mssonares delayed makng the draft for several' days n the ~ope that wth the sgnng of the armstce the exchange would mprove But t d~ not Our people here n Amerca 'wll have to rally to the help of our workers n Chna t means a larger gvng and that means a larger blessng t' has not been possble for the secre--'---- taryo to keep a lst of the ten dollar peo- ~ pe as started by Dr Branch for the very good-reason that those who have joned thjs club have sent ther contrbutons to about four dfferent persons the edtor of the SABBATH RECORDER-the treasurers of the Mssonary and Tract socetes' and to the s~cretary and t has been mpossble to getall the names nto one lst We thank' you _ all 'justthe same and ask that the club' b~ contnued ~ ~ \ 'THE SABMTH RECORDEn ~ 15 r================:::' made lttle cakes-they were ~erynce ltte ' WOMAN'S 'WORK ; '1 'cakes t:6~but that ddn't $een to help any And then' fnally n desperaton ' put on my hat and started out to walk away ' from my unhappness_ ' And hadn't been MRS GEORGE E CROSLEY MLTON' 'Ws Contrbutng Ed C tor out more than'ten mnutes before passed ' that shop and saw the beautful shmmer- ng slk the slk that made me thnk of such' cool beautful happy thngs And turned around and went holne wth my whole out':' BMEBY Supp'ose'the sk s dark 'at dawn A~' clouds h~g gray an' low; Suppose- the thrush don't sng at mom Because there s no glow ; ' Bmeby th~ clouds wll break away The sun wll have hs flng; Bmeby 'twll be a pleasant day; An' then th~ thrush wll sng; Suppose the whter days are long ' An' Natur's gone to sleep; - Suppose' t4e btn' wnd's are strong Wth snow-drfts cold an' deep;' Bmeby the days wll lengthen out An' snow wll turn to ran; The bluebrd -he wll be about An' sprng wll come agan Supp'ose -the world s dull an' drear The burden heavy too; Suppose all thngs Seem out' of gear AxJ' you 'are feeln'-' blue Bme~y the crooked paths wll straght; An' God wll ease the stram; Bmeby you'll cease to ral at fate An you wll sng aga~!' '-Joe Cone' _ look on He changed!''' smled at her For understood Oftentmes when' the world has been a rather bl~ak' pl~ce 1- too h~ve had my whole 'vewpo~nt changed by a dash of prght color or a handful of flowersn a florst's wndow or the smle on the face of a stranger chld have gone out' wth bl~nk lonelne~s n my: heart and have comeback because of some' tjny colo'ful ncdent' 'to wrte the most joyous- of ve~e Dh yes understood! '' a o ~ KNO~: a woman 'who has a most' gor geous orawng-room t s flled wth won4er~ul orental rugs and bts of quant carved vory and rosewoo:d furnture t t a dream~ropm- ~ roo'm' t'9 come to when _ ' the world ne~ds a bt of brghtenng when there are decsons to -be made and when comfort s' needed And yet the ~9~an' who- owns the room' A' BT OF COLOR keeps t locke<d up: Not because she s sel- fsh but because she s afrad that the' WAS r'ather unhappy today the Grl 'CU'~ental rugs wll' wear out' and that the told me untl-she paused rosewoo9- furnture wll get scratched and Untl what? questot;led that some one wll some day knock over: and Y ou'l' laugh the grl sad '~when T break one of 'the carved vory fgures ;''She tell you -' But was unhappy today untl has made that room nstead of the comfort passed a shop:'wndow and saw a bolt of : and prde that t should be to her a bug s~lk that was dsplayed there t was green- a-boo and- a' ~u'den tmghfbe a blessng' sh blue slk wth a touch of cool gray n to her and ~t s' very nearly a curse-for the depths -of t and t made me thnk of the there are' many nghts wher she les awake summer sea and happy lttle boats wth sl- n fear of moths and du'st les awake to ver-whte sals and 'most b~e~z{!s! worry because her'beautful rodmmay not waked up ths mot;'nng feelng-well ahvays be beautful ' - blue And couldn't shake o:ff that feelng know' oth~r people' who o~'n pretty of depresson~ ' kept rememberng that' frocks and save them untl the materal s there were red 'battlefeld~ n Europe and ready to~ go 'to peces and the style s obso- that there were lttle chldren'dyng n th~ ete-savethem because; f they ~ere worn summer heat rght here n our' cty ' And ~nd enjoyed 'they -mgh( not last long kept thnkng of tragc: stores that had enough kt:low' people who 'keep ther ' read and heartbreakng songs that had been sold' slver' spoons shut away n a chest sung to me and use very ch~~~ plat~d ~are; except on ~' went about for se~eral hours do!ng _company ~ occaslons:- Slver sp{)on~ last my regular work 'dustng and makng through many generatons and are a delght beds and settnglhe house to rghts _ : to the eye' anq yet th~se people take no ' ' f 1 ' ' ::; - : ~ ' (; - ~ '

10 ' ' ~ 1 ;) ' ' THE SABBATH RECO~ER pleasure n the possesson of them~ know t do not thnk that worth-whle thngs peopl~ who put hgh stone w;tlls around should be used carelessly' wastef~lly for garden places so' that the passer-by wll not ' people who are not hoarders can very easly stop and stare And know other people go to the other e~tremebut do thnk that who wear ther pretty frocks- wear them beautfuf thngs should be enjoyed: That joyously-and'n wearng them gve pleas- ~s why they are beautful! That s-what ure to others as well as' to themselves' makes them most beautful-m argaret E know people who have beautful rooms that Sangster n Chrstan Herald they leave hosptably open n the face /of dust--or dust can always be brushed away! Of course the' fr06~s wear out and' the rooms grow a bt faded n tnt but ther owners have enjoyed then-and the wear-:!lg out h~s been made worth whle~ TRANNG LTTLE CHLDREN ' Suggestons h'y mothers who have been kndergartners ssued by the Unted States Bureau of Educaton W'ashngton D C 'and the 'Natonal Kndergarten Assocaton 8 West Forteth Street New York The ntellgent Mother May Gude Chld Pa the Same Wa-y 88 Doe the r - ' DO notth~k _~at beautf~l thngsshotld Kndergartner be hoarded and tucked away from ~he ARTCLE XX 'sght of'peop1e thnk that they should'be F MRS EDTH CLARK COWLES left out where'folks may see and'enjoy them there's no kndergarten near enough ' ''f t was rght to own thngs and keep them ' for the chld to attend when he reaches ' hddelj away a'tral nstead of a blessng the 'stage of development that should have God would never have starred hs green 'more defnte purpose' than mere actvty of' feld~ w~ wht~ dases for every way- body or handlng of materals~ the P ntell-' farer to _ Se~a!SleS that bloom and after gent mo~er may gude hs play n such t!tey h~vegtven JO~ fade away f GQd be- ; manner as to supply n a measure the probeved n the hoardl~~ of thlf?s t~e leaves - cess of development adopted by the traned on trees would?e std~ metalhc thngs t?at ' kndergartner ' ' would never hlc:>w off n an autumn wnd ~ A table or trough contanng sand has st~rm ; and there wou~d be no gold- go!d unlmted possbltes for the energetc that fade~ at the 'evenlng of ~~eryday-ln ' chld At frst there should be free handlng the ~unshll~e~ an~ -no laughter 1n the eyes of the sand (guardng al~~ys aganst the' of lttle chldren dangerous sport of throwng the sand 'at No God beleves n puttng beautful another chld) Then smple forms that thngs out n the great' wndow of th~ may be molded wth damp sand then m- ' world~splaytlg them as slks are ds- pressons made on the surface 6f the sand played~ n:' the shop-wndows He doesn't wth blocks tart pan or other objects Then' hde -hs treasures from our sght; he puts 'drawng wth the fnger or a stck on the them where they may he seen ana appre- smooth~d surface of sand Later on as the' 'elated and used He places them bts' of ' chld develops t may be suggested to ~m lght and fragrance ard color so that our eyes may fnd delght and our sohls may that he can buld ahouse wth blocks n the center and layout grounds n the sand a1?out fnd comfort n the joy of them t Twgs and leaves make excellent trees;- Oh frends of mne f you own beaut- - tny sprgs help ~o make ~e garden He' tt1 thngs enjoy them and 1et'others enjoy may even have the beds lald off by shel~s---- them! For God has 'gven you these beau- A small pa~ of water sunk n the sand Wll -tful :thngs for just ~hat 'reason He serve ad~lrably as a lake Clay can be doesn't want you to h<e them away so that modeled ~nto peo~le and anmals and more -they wll always have the gleam of new- blocks w~~l1 make a bam 'or stabl~ The -ness upon 'them; for of what good wll' beauty of all t~s 1S that' the chtld' can l ' -ther newness be f they are never seen??o every!htng hmself and 1S' most happy Jre wants you to keep' them out so that they n the dong - ~ll brghten your pa~way and the 'path- A wooden b~x d1vlded once honzo~tally ways' of people who lke the' grl need at and once vert1cally makes a fo~r-roomt;d the moment a bt of color' or happn~ss ~ house whch can be papere~ :wth 'Yall ther lves paper samples and furnshed Wth furn1ture os' THE SABBATHRECO~ER' constructed of cardboard Books of n- ly satsfactory to a lenent audence f the structon easly understood by most motl- 'mother begns 'ear1y~wth yery smple stores ers are usually fpr~-shed wth the heavy s~e ca11 ea~1y learn to tell these' ard later quahty of cover paper used for such hand- Wth practlce _ mast~r' the_ more complec work ones A story told S m~ch more satsfc-' Wth a par of' blunt-ponted scssors tory to the average chld than a stprf read plan manla paper or colored paper can b~ 'As the chld grows older there are nature cut nto the most fascnatng plants tran- study prmers and readers whch gve mals people and many nanmate objects charmng accounts' of the lves and habts' A clo~h scrapbook or one of heavy paper of plants nsects' fsh ~nd anmals s eastly made at home nto whch these Care sh~uld be taken that the books se cut-out objects may' he pasted Ths s de- l~cted -are sc~ntfcally 'accurate :although lghtful work for rany days' and needs lt- Smple te or no drecton except n the use of the Lve pets serve -'to nstl n the 'chld repaste so as to avod smearng or 'waste: A spect for other lfe besde hs own and to' chld soon learns to use paste dantly ~v~ hm a s~nse of responsb~fy n pro- ~h1dren delght n st~ngng objects vldrng for ther care ' '1 Wth a large blunt needle and_heavy thread Few parents need to be told the value of' they can strng rose hps or cranberres ndtdual ~ardenng and f no greater ac?rns acorn cups and many other natural space can be provded a wndow box wll objects - When- these are not avalable \col- serv~ as a garden bed ' ored ~oode kndergarten beads tt the The ntellgent parent realzes that the for~ of spheres cubs and cylnders can 1>e c~ld s above all th~gs else a self-a~tve ' obtaned and strupg on shoestrngs These j)eng Ths abundant actvty s -a compell- ' beads supplement blocks n teachng form' ng- force whc4 must fnd' an object upon - and the knowledge of color and number whch to spend 'tself n othertlwords the Mlton Bradley Company has fa small chld musfbe ~'up' and dqng Let us booklet on bead strngng whch apples thereforeendeavor'to always provde hm ~qually to the strngng of o~er objects: wth worthyobje'<:ls upon whch to expand Most chldren develop early a love of that dvnely provded energy ' 'numbers and take gr~at- delght n count- Lfe les before hm and we wsh hm not!ng When the desre to do ths appears' t only to obtan the be~t from'lf~ hut to con- S well to meet t but not to force t-the trbute to lfe som~tl}ng worth' whle Re chld maycotnt or many strng' all the exerts nfluence : ~as ' unconscously as he' beads of one color and of varous colors breathes and as parents t s our prvlege b:y ones ny tw~s and by threes: accordng to to see that he becomes:' a conscous nflu- ' hs age and ablhty ence for good : ''- A wse mother wll nat allow any of 'Every act of hs ~ helpng to form the these exercses to contnue ndefntely As ' lfe he s to lea4 ann t s onrprvlege to s<?on_ as the chld appe~rs bored or when a equp hm for hs journey wth a: str~ng new way of d01ng the work n hand s not clean healthy body a well stocked mnd readly accepted hs:-attenton should be d- and a sprt' whch bds' hm serve hs felverted to -some other form of play or work low-man and thus '~fulfl the law of God' Th~re are so' many lttle dutes rsde and The followng books wll be fpul:1d useful ' ( :?~tsde of the hous~ whd~ an' eager wll- to mothers: ' ~ng chld can assst the mother'n perform:- Froebef's_ Mother' Play Mottoes' and lng he may be kept happly employed whle Comtnent~res F~bebel's Mother Play unconscously learnng much that wllbe Songs and Musc' Letters to a'mother always useful to hm ' Mss Susan EBlow s th~ translator of the Toward the c1ose~f a busy' day before ' frst two books and the author ofl the last early tea: (Jnd bedtme' there comes / the one' D Appleto11- & 'Co New 'York are perod properly known as' the chldren's the publshers' ' hour /' when father or mother' tells or reads c ~ a storyal~ parents are not gfted'story~ Please pa~sths art~e on toafrendand tell~rs but most of them may become w~ thus helpunc1e?amrea~ all the mothers' \' ' a lttle effort suffcently adept to be ertt~re~ ofthe~ country : ' ' ' j; \' ; ;' J ' '~ ' - 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11 j ether 18' THE SABBATH RECORDER - '- Board as the frst number of a seres 'of ten -gospel ~racts '\ ' _ 'YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK Qute recently t has been reprnted along wth other tracts e the s-ame seres as REV R R THORNGATE SALEMVLLE PA Gospel Tract No n dn attractve- lttle Contrbutng Edt~r' booklet of a few pagesfor dstrbuton by the-tract Board The edtor of the Young' REPENTNG' ~ople's department 'knows of no other treatment Of the' subject that wll gve a _ Chr~tnn Ende~:~la:;{)~~ 1~~~ Sabbath Day better understandng of t and for that rea~! ' son the tract s prnted n full wth the hope :paly READN9S 'that t may be read by nlany of the young St1~day-Sn 'abhorred (Ps S: ~-7) people and ad them to a 'better under- 'Monday-A' call to repentance (Mcah 6: ~8) Tue sday-genune repentance (Luke 3: 7-14) _ standng of ths' mportant- subject Wednesday-The burden~-of sn' (Luke 18: 9-14) The queston ~of drecton s a v:ery m- Thursday-Sorrow' and repentance (lvlark 14: - portant one f you hear of a 'case where '72)' ' Frday-A call to-the church (Rev 2: 1-7) a shp came safely nto pqrt t means that Sabbath Pay-Topc Our relaton to God the shp kept the rght drecton; and f you Repentng ClYlark : ) hear of a 'qlse n whch a: 'shp went on the T\VO SERES OF TOPCS Attentdn 'has already been called to' the topcs'for the present year~ Among ~hem are two seres qf topcs Our Relaton to God and Our Relaton to Others There : are sx n the former and fallr n' the latter seres The frst topc n the frst seres the one treated n ths artcle s rocks and was destroyed t smply means that the shp's dnfcton was wrong : But drecton s 'a very serous queston 'n the- matter of lfe When a 'lfe's drecton s rg~t t means comng nto lfe1s harbor n ' safety; and when a lfe's drecton s wropg t means the run and loss of thc)t lfe on the rocks of evl- and sn One can not turn hs face toward the rght towar~ goodness- REPENTNG and' hs Father' n heaven and be gong n There are many shpwrecks n lfe Many the wrong drecton; but f he tufn:s ~hs derelct lves The one thng that srespon- back on the Tght on goodness and hs sble for them 15 sn wrongdong Srhas Father n heaven the drecton s wrong started them n the wrong drecton and- hs end wll be wrong and he wn lose ' or at some tme has swerved them from that' whch s of the most possble account ther course They then become as shps to' hm-hs lfe 'f one change the dn~cwthout ruddefs The gudng han9 s re- _ ton of hs lfe' from wrong- to rght t s leased Lfe's true course and drectons because he does that of whch we wsh now must be_sought and found' How shall t be to speak wth you a lttle whle-_ he repents ' done? ' What s the frst step?1 The an-' f the meanng of repentance should be swer s of course by repentng or through asked ~or nne out oj ten persons would un- -repentance Then comes the queston doubtedly say 't s feelng sorry for one~s WHAT S 'REPENTANCE? 'sns' t s true that no man' can soberly Repentance as has' been suggested' s thnk of a wrong lfe wthout a great deal the frst step to be taken n gettng a rght start'n lfe f lfe's drecton has been of 'feelng sorry and probably there s no' real case of ~epentance wthout a feeln'g---~'--_c -;' wrong or has become uncertan Lkely however there are many of us who '~o not of~drrow for that 9f whch 'one ~epents But f you take up the Bble word for re~ have clearly defned n our mnds all that s pentance you wll fnd that the- Scrptures meant by repentance t s a more nclusve do 'not make repentance a matter of feelng - term than most of us have thought' but one of usng the judgment 6f thought- A number o(years ago:one of our ablest fulness 6f delberaton; of reflecton The mnsters~ Rev Wardner c Tts~orth con- BQle truly proceeds upon the truth that trbuted an edtoral to the SABBATH RE- one's feelngs have very lttle to do wth 'CORDER enttled Repentance t treated controllng hs conduct for the rg~t whle the subject n such a clear concse way that hs' sober judgment has a great d~l t()' do later on t ~aspublshed' by our Tract wth t 'One who goes byhsfe lngs does / THE SABBaTH RECORDER rght or wrong accordng as- he feels but '''When the Father n heaven sent men one whq s controlled: by reflecton and to teach repentance' he sent them to -prohldgment do~srght no matter how he clam that he offers men new opportu'nfeels So whle t s common for us tb say' tes 'o~ lfe H:e gyes us theseopportuntes that repentance s feelng sorry for' one's as 'constantly as he gves us the sunshne sns! and t s true that ro one repents' and as freely as' he gves us the ar:' Every' wthout' sorrow: for hs' sns) the Bble day 'gves us a' cl~an-ce_ for anew lfe and uses a word for repentance whch makes t f you change your mnd about t your lfe ~ean 'chang~g one's mnd' and the Bble wll take'a new drecton and be a new lfe' way of thnkng s better than our way For We have two examples n the 'Bble that just thnk!j'ave you not often seen peo- are worth ~hnkng about Judas and Peter pe who have felt truly and very sorry for both felt very bad about what they dd n ther sns and stll have gone on dong the provng trators to' Jesus One felt S9 bad same thng after the feelng of sorrow has that he destroyed hs own lfe Hs fe~ll:g grow'n to be a lttle less keen? : But one was remorse'the ot~er went away by hmwho changes hs mnd about the drecton 's~lf and wept -btterly but n that weepng of hs lfe wll change the drecton of hs th~re was also 'the thorough change ofnnd lfe There s no such ~ th~ng as c~angng that made the same man a man of courage one's mnd about lfe and yet' beng of the ever after Bs feelng was'repenta'nce Wth same mnd and gong on n the same lfe 'hs new mnd he turned hs back forever on There s such a thng -as sayng one has hs old lfe and hs _ face toward the -path changed hs mnd about lfe and yet beng ofa true and brave dscpl~ of Jesus n of the sa1ne mnd but there s po such thng 'whch he walke<tto the 'day of hs death as 'changng one's mnd about sn and n9t Reperttat~e does nqt alf>ne mean get: 'changng one's lfe too Feelng-sorry for tng frghtened'atwhatwe pave done or sn when t s very sharp and keen feelng at the punshment we thnk we must-some makes people pro se a great deal n the day P1eet hut t rpeans takng the queston ' way of change but very very many tmes -of lfe ts drecton and destny nto they db not keep ther promses al!d they thoughtful consderaton ether wth feelng never keep ther promses unless ther sor- or ~thout and after the reflecton that berow s kept company by a change of n;tnd comes a sober person; dealng wth ths most th~t changes the lfe ' - ~erous qte~ton~that of 1fe t s' chang- t you may be v~ry sure tha~ chan~lng ng one's mnd about the;old and wrong way f one _~' mnd about Sn so that s~n ~ gtven 'and havng a new 'mnd wh~ch s the be- ~ { ' up 'S all the repentance the Bble kn~ws gl1~ng; of a new lfe Repentance s full of' aj:d7thlng ab?utor teaches us anyt~lng hope t t ~ees God's o!fers of op~()rtun~ty about ' FeeJjng sorrow- for Sn so~ebmes and ~ accepts them t 'S the startng-pont goes SO far as tomake mentake ther own from whch our whole'eonscous'lves are lves from remorse; DUt remorse ~nd re- deter~ned by the wll' and the kngdom~ of :'~ ~entance ~re as d~fferent as darkf!ess and God Though the- call to repent rpay seem hght; whtle r~morse ~!equently destro?s lke awarnpg t also contans a blessed men and makes them gve up all hope re- pronlse and opens the door of hope _ The pentance always save #em and mak~s'them 'best thng that can- cotpe to anyoqe of us hop~fu1 Remorse l1?-~k~s a man f~el th~t where lfe's dregton s wrong s the }1esaU S lost and there S no use try~g any' sage 0; God's Sprt callng us so to change more but repentance never makes hm feel our mnds that we no longer thnk the old that way? t rath~r helps_hm to ~e~the new thngs about sn but thnk -new ~nd -beto~portun~ty of lfe) and ~elps ;~~ deter- ter thngs and walk 'n th'e new way mlne that nstead of abusng ths' new~p- ' c portunty and refusng t he w~l accept t -SUGGESTQ'NS TO THE LEADER and use t for a new startn lfe Remorse Ask some member of the soc~ety to' -pre-:- ' s turnng ohe'seyes toward the dark thngs 'pare and read a sketch of the lfe of Rev one has done n hs lfe whle' repentan~e -s Wardner C Tjsworth or' better stll; ask turnng one's back on the dark thngs one -some older persqn' who' may have known has done and hs 'eyes toward the lght of' a hm to gve 'personal recollectons Bobetter' day a~da new lfe graphcal materal may be found- n our hs- 19 ' c> ' ~ ~ -' ~ ' ~ --->~ ~- -~~

12 J '~! ' 20! THE SABBl\ TH 'RECORDER THE SABBATH RECORDER' 21 tor cal volumes Seventh Day Baptsts n Europe and Amerca Provde a set of the gospel tracts wrt= ten by Mr Ttsworth and publshed by the Tract Board -' Call attenton to them and ask the young people to exa!!lne them at the c1os~ of the meetng A 'request to Sec-' 'retary' Shaw Planfeld 'N~ J wll brng a set' of them ' ' YOUR THOUGHT ON THE TOPC Why s repentance necessary to begn- nng: a Chrstanlfe? s 'repentance a sngle act or does' t re::- qure repetton? ~ What are the evdences of sncere re- 'pentan'ce? \\That s the dfference between repentance and remorse? Why do people/refuse to repent? ' THE FAR LOOK OR KON OF 5ALEM~ REV HERMAN D CLARKE CHAPTER XXX (Contnued) 'COLLEGE SONGS The West Vrgna Hlls socal flnctons examnatons prep- :' araton of oratons class play settlng of college expenses two or three falures n the fnals the most of the Senors successful dread of' the last day apd partngs' snapsh'ots ~ q! cty campus buldngs groups of students ly c~um and class 'pctures last games these and much more were crowded nto the few short days of' ths college year 'Walter' Wens a'11q Esther hs good wfe arrved but poor grand- pa was too feeble just then to venture the trp That was a great dsappontment to Kon and hs sster and ther parents Alfred had had ts commencement and Suse Mead at home the week before ths had wrtten Kon her congratulatons and' told' het:' mpatence for hs return home Just before leavng for Salem Mr Wells had met Mr Mead and remarkng on hs expected attendance at Salem commencement had sad 1 'wsh Suse were gong wth us f you could afford half the fare 'd pay the rest Mr Mead had smled and remarked Guess ~th ths year's good crop 1 could pay t all myself f she wanted to go ' Two days before cqmmencement Kon receved ths telegram: Unadlla Forks June 5 Konrad Wells Salem W Va Meet a frend of yours at staton T~day 5 p m tram No name was sgned Who can t be? asked 'Kon of hs father You have me Kon know of no one from that burg comng here Anxously Ken awated the tran mentoned t wastwb hours late and he had a practce at 8 p~ Seven 0' cjock came and the dstant rumblng of a tran was heard Hs heart' beatnghe paced the platform and then 'stood~ where the second passenger coach usually stop~ peq Of course no one would be n the smokng car to see hm Why dd -ralway companes furnsh smokng cars anyway encouragng smokng for the ncotne slav'es? The tran - stopped Passengers comng to commencement got off and no one he knew appeared He ran to the s~cond and thrd car ' Then suddenly~ all smles and blushes Suse Mead \ alghted For the land's sake ncludng Markum where' do you drop down from? And oblvous to all else Kon greeted her delghtedly Suse' laughed merrly as she repled: ' '~ From old Unadlla sweet ho! The chld of the mst and the dew;' was n a great hurry to' go- ' Couldn't wat -e'en a mnute or- two Ah that s msquotng ers better than that: can msquote Rog- A lover has come from Old Markum' A bonne good lasse s she; 'll gve' her te tme of her lfe now As she comes from that mountan: to me All the famly were on the porch to satsfy ther curosty and gve welcome to whoever mght be the guest N one were expectng Mss Suse However she was the more welcome and observers would have thought that an actual member of the famly had arrved More rays of sunshne n our home ths commencem'enf tme We are glad to welcome you sad Mrs Barber as she embraced the grl 'm glad for that Ethel' repled Suse for 'who brngs' sunshne nto the lfe of' another has sunshne n hs own' The' college presdent was passng by' just then and Kon called hm' to the porch and ntroduced hm to Mss Suse A student from Alfred here to make com parsons between commencements! laughed Koo Not at all hope have better motves than that but an so glad to meet you have heard so much about you at Alfred the past two years sad Suse to the presdent Anythng good? he asked f you' had heard one of the oratons the' other day you would have rejoced that you had sad so many good thngs there years ago' 'wh n you were a teacher n that co11ege - One brght young man had for hs theme 'ndvqualty as a Vrtue' took notes He sad that the subject was not orgnal wth hm but was'~ from a speech you had made n chapel once and that he should quote from t Enlargng u>on the subject he sad that f he quoted 'youcor~ rectly ' you had sad that 'he b~st serves the race who m'ost sncerely expresses 'hs own n- - dv~ualty One must be hmself n hs acts and ~ n hs words and have the convcton of Luther when at Worms who sad can not do otherwse {:od dd not put us here to brng back any bygone form type or character though t be as strong as Hercules' or as santly as Thomas a' Kemps God plans that we shall be our own selves just our best and truest selves - a beautful personalty -W eean nqt command agan the condtons of any age or man; ' let us' be content therefore to adapt our lves e?st ~nd no clam :to your suppport That prnto the world n ts 'present needs and combna Cple S trampled beneath the feet of men of-all 't'ons' There s 'nothnfg more wonderful n creeds and men 0' the best college' ed'ucaton Palestne than n Amerca God s here -as Personally carre' here for ths four years there~ Let us' lve n hs presence here n course because of ths' prncple wthout whch Amerca f Jesus were here today he would none of us; wn do deeds worth dong even not lve dentkally the same lfe whch he dd though we pant beautlfullyor sng grandly orple~d at tpe bar logcally or mnster to' the nneteen hundred years ago; but he' would wth all 'hsgen~neness and smplcty wth all hs needy or p~each ma~y nsphng truths' eloquently~ U~1ng 'ou(~gtfts for'mantanng popu democracy and human sympathy and wth all hs blamelessness lve hs best self!ch S!ar theo~les and unscrtptural dogmas for satlsfylng ~e~f and supporters of self we fal of God n man Culture does not deman e sacrfce of ndvdualty but ts fructfca on' t' God s desgn need not dscuss the matterat length you may gu~ss my meanng; and was' a fne oraton nspred from you'!' chapel talk and only wsh had the entre quotaton though may not be' popular n ths oraton or rather the entre speech you made sad put t on record aganst the day of revelaton Mss Suse ' of all thngs ' ' only w~h all studen~~ had yo'ur c~pacty When 'Kon 'w~ t~rough: the~e was lttle 'applause An appllcabon had been made by many for remembermg and applymgwhat they have heard We are a part of all we see and hear Some of the facul~y appeared puzzled' at such 'No man lvet~ to hmself' am certanly glad a concluson by ths youngman to meet you 'M~s Mead and hope you wll ; A~ the pe~ple were leavng the audtorjum the enjoy our 'commencement exercses' 'Excuse presdent sald to Kon; There are s~me thngs' me nowplease~ have an appontment v:orth thmkmg a~ut m your orahon: Pos: t 'was a glad tn!~ that evenng as they talk- slbly some of us: may' have a lttle dfferent dea of deeds worth dong but am thnkng that ed a b out home neghbors far away events of < ths college and all bur colleges ought n some the past and then of the comng \veek to be ~y to stand bette~ than' we do for tha~ great ~ade eventful by all' that comes wth collegeprmclple you mentoned You have' thrown a hfe and the last commencement of ts students shot mto our ranks that wll have effect Some Kon's oraton was on Deeds Worth Dong day we shallunderstand better than we do what Every gft of man was made for use for hgh an educaton s for and what s after au worth est use But hghest use s not the servce dolng God- gve you success n ve ur' future unof one's self The hghest standards' are not dertakngs' one's embodment of creeds theores deas of 1 shall ct:lways remember Salem as a place \ ar t as art s 'd entty Th e best use of art and f or f ormlng hgh deals and shall thank YOll' - gft s servce of manknd The hgher rule s more than can hnd words to do for your n~ God's revealetl truth verfed by our' lves structron and example ~ And Kon and hs Whe11- we leave truth or God when we leave teacher parted ' nature and ourselves when we only st at the Well! ths has been a great day sad 'Suse feet of worldly teachers and' stuff our brans Great n more ways than one Great for me; wth ther' maxms customs deas ther laws Kon and am so proud of you How dd you and our fances are led UP' to such leadng have courage to say such thngs? / strngs then we wll never do a thng worth As Luther sad '1 can not do otherwse' and the dong De~ds worth dong result from con- so t has been sa~ But ~'ow for packng and vcton' from personfyng the truth we fnd~ n homeand you w~l1 be Wth us all the way the ~ords of '!- p'oet- ' ' ' t w~s so good of yqu to come' t lent n- ' _ splratlon to me all through my speakng and ' Strange how a man m~y carry n hs heart had a vsop of your lfe and mne n the ~ From year to ye~r-through au hs lfe ndeed'- deavor to carry out the deal -answered Kon A truth or a convcton whch shall be shall never forget ths day but how sad s ' No more 'a part of t -and no more worth the breakmg of these college tes! feel a3' Than t9 hs flask the cork that slps w~thn though must cry for you/' ' ' Commencement at Salem College 'was over for' ~nd yet sad he how many publc men and that class Beau~ful Salem! Grand people f m1mste~s of the- gospel 'appear to shape ther Great college not n number of students 'or enwords to meet worldly standards 'standards of?o~ments o~ gran~eur' of buangs b~t' great ther flocks and pew holders That whch s n ~ts lofty '1deals lt~ consecrated teachers ts: truest and grandest t~ey do not re~h and do n?ble presdent the self-sacrfcng' patrons who no~ seem to ~ry to reach Touchmg bu~ 'the dld so much to establsh' t' Farewell! The sur!ace of thmg~ that meet a common vson close of the y'ea! s a f~eral Happy days ther art!>n!y alms to ~lothe them graceful~y beautlful as~ocatlons lastmg fellowshp; all to-' Wth fances gaud~ fabncs ~r ~o p0!ray ther pass mto hstory and lved ~o' more agan 'n ' ' patent beautes and defomllbes ThS ~olle~e the hfe of Kon and hs assocates only n fond ' ' ' repre~ents a great truth of whch but ht~le' S!llemory And yett was a happy day wth an ' ~ald np1!bhc t ~tand~ for t~e hlghest deals ts sadness opartlogs ' m educaton' and good c1tzenshlp bu~'! stands Good-by sster' sad Kon as all were ready' for mor~ t sta~ds for aneter!1al pnnclple em- to start for home What a noble sster you boded 1n the behefs and p~actc~s 'of them~n have been:' Half -my battle has been yours and ~ho founded t and~ave gven t suppo}t f to you ~ shall always owe a debt of grattude t were not so then t would 'have ~o nght to can never pay Your home has been so dear ' ;

13 ~ 22 THE SABBATH RECORlDER THE SABBATH RECORDER -~~~ ~- ' ' to me Your love has been' more than a ss- vlle the sound of the old bell vbratng amd ters t's almost motherly And you; my broth- Y?u: natve hlls all wll come back to you a' er-n-law God bless you' You have been such nch legacy and gve you power and grace to a- help and nspraton to me thank you an1 cope wth all the vcsstudes of lfe 'There's 'love y~!l Take ths as a bouquet for' wll no pl~e lke ~one' Foretaste 'of the heavenly 1;1ot walt to lay one' 011 your casket Tears!11anslOn to whch shall 'soon go my boy Ths were shed: whle smles were forced And they S a glad day to me 'But am excted were off could hardly contan myself watng fortlle All were n a hurry to ~ach home by the tratl My! but how good you look to me Kon! nearest route and quckest tme Sghtseeng Come here and take my bony old' hand and tell was' qute d~pensed' wth except as occasonally me you love your old grandf~ther know you some beautful scenery' -through N~w J ersey- and do yqu have sad so and 't made l!1e happy; up the Hudson and' along the M'ohawk attract- but want to hear you say t once more and ed specal attenton Kon and Suse sat to- then-' ~ark! heard some sweet voce just 'gether the most of the' way and talked of the then t seemed to say 'Come/ YeS 'm t d f th 1 d ~ f comng And the outstretched hand droppas an' uture '0' elr ove an uevotlon 0 ped and the head bent and' d'ear old grandfather the college days an 1 such other matters as en-' h d Th gage the attenton of lovers' a gone~ e day had be~n too exctjng and Oh there s' Old Markum almost' sll'outed the heart too weak The hred man had' tred h to keep hm at home but he would go to meet K?n as t ey c~e do'yn the valley on the new K t s th ' h Th ratlway from Utca and neared the Forks Sta- 011 wa e ast meettn~ on eart e ' ton Just as beautful and suggestve as ever ' g1ad day was turned to moummg and yet peace regned t ought to have been nameu Far-Look Moun- He has fulflled hs msson and done t tan don't knew who old Markum was yet well We can not -wsh hm back He went nor why t receved the name but from' all the so beautfully and peacefully n the fulness of past assocatons shall always love the name j\oy sad the son Walter whle great teardrops And 'm glad we bought our tckets to the f n f F or~-s nstead of Leonardsvlle so we can rde e rom all eyes Never mnd my son that under the mountan and look up at 'old Pro-'!le ddn?t ~ear y~' say you loved hm he knew t and Wll m hea know t t j ector' There s my papa and your grandfather at T4ey lad hm away n the old famly cemethe staton to meet us sad Suse' tery where the companon of hs eventful years Dear old grandfather sad Kbn But for was bured t was a great throng of people that pad last respects to one they had known 'hm and hs plahnng you and would not have so long and respected so much Then shall the been to college nor here together today dust return to the earth as t was' and' the And S9 they were at home once more The greetngs and welcome at the staton had been spltt shall return unto God who gave t ' m'ost joyous and to the aged grandfather almost (To' be contnued) overcomng can almost say n the words of another 'Now let thy servant depart n peace for have seen thy salvaton' Anyway Kon r am ready to depart at the Lord's callng for have seen Sabbath School Lesson V-J~n SRAEL CROSSNG THE' RED SEA E~od 14:' 1- S: 21 the fulflment of my far~look vson sad the aged 'man as hs' face was lghted up wth joy c;olden- Text-Jehovah saved srael that day and satsfacton out of the hand of the Egyptans Exod 14: After supper and when they were seated n the 30 ' old room so dear to all 'grandfather broke out DALY READNGS wth eloquent words: R'ome agan-the school J an ~Exod 14: -g Pharaoh Purs<ung srael best of all Colleges have an mportant place but home s the school for the cultvatng of the Jan 2o-Exod 1:4: ' srael Troubled by most mportant feelngs and prncples the place Hs Comng where mpressons are deepes~ add most lastng Jan 21-Exod 14: 21;31 srael Crossng' the Othe r mpressons wll fade -aw4y but these from -- Red Sea ' the home wll lnger n memory forever Other Jan 22-Exod: S: A Song of'delver: chords wll be' broken but these mpressons ance wll sway the soul touch the heart always You Jan 23-Ps 106: 1-12 Ths Deverance Como memorated ' wll some day go from ths home t01 dstant scenes and many dutes wll engage Y;Qu~ attenton : You may plunge nto busness or Jan 2s-----Rev S: 1-8 The Song of Moses and Jan 24-Deut 4: God's Mghty Han'd~ gaety but n the mdst 'of all your wandernl!;s the Lamb and pleasures whsperng' voce's wll tell you of ths old home Dear boy years hence when (For Lesson Notes see Helpng Hana) the medtatons of the nght are upon you the tender assocatons that have bound you toa Chrstan ho)lle ts sacred nfluence wll vst' t S ours to be ether the grave n whch 'you and urge the clams of vrtue and the du~es the hopes of the world shall be enthroned of hfe as God reveals them to you 'The Bble or the pllar of cloud whch shall plot the _your mother: gave you the Sabbath hours spent ' ' ' ' her~ the past0r:'s wor~s conce~ng the love of race onw~rd to mllenna! g~qry-:alexan-:_ Chn~t spoken- n the' old 'church at Leonardse der fl am~lton ' ' \ - / 1F=========:::c=:::c:::====:n - as an expresson of GOd'5 wll and of the ' WE' prncples of rghteousness ' OU R ': EK LY SERMON ~ There are' other -passages n the wrtngs' ' of the apostle that to some mnds teach the ~=============:::--- abrogaton of the 'law n spte of thepos; ARE CHRSTANS UNDER THE LAW? tve statements already adduced 'to the con- ' 'tr~ry But we ~can not for a' moment sup- PASTOR GEORGE C TENNEY pose that Paul would gnore the 5tatements Text: F or ye are not under la'lobut of our Lord' or that he would n one place under ~racen - _ sp~~k S? postvely ~f the perpetu~y 'and The above declaraton of tj1e great splntua~ty of the law and n other places apostle mght be consdered a suffcent!each that' t\vas abrogated ~1d rendered ~nswer to the query proposed n the :above neffectual ~Y the death 'Qf Chrst We headng t s' pos~tve apd unequvocal ca? har!t0nze S{)n:~ of hs statements on But a merely categorcal answer' to tta ' tl11s subject by adlntttng that there are Vclqueston would not satsfy many people nous lavvs nlentoned n the Bble and that because t ~oes not just agree wth 'the two of these ~odes were before the':ap03tle deas' they hold upon that subject:t 5 as he wrote these dec~aratons~ One of a favorte text wth the antnoman by these 'S the law-of -the Ten Command< whom 't s also msunderstood and t s nle~ts th~; epltomlzed expresson of rqpral often a stumblng block to the command; eth~cs and rtght~ous prncples ~hj~h ment-keeper as he tres to evade ts appar- f sprtngtng from ~the' heart of the unchangeent force' ' able God relnaln's forever n force The To examne - ths or 'any 'othergueston other beng the law of '''commandments''; 'n Bblcal exegess correctly t 1s abso- contaned n ordnarces that was aganst' 'lutely n'ecessary' to approach t wth un- us- whch wa5 contrary to us and took' t based mnd5 We need to say as dd the out of the vay nalng t 'to hs cross ~ chld Sanluel and wth as'tuch sncerty ;n the mnds:'of many Commandment- Speak Lord thy servant: heareth'' keepers ~th's dstncton between the two ~ Let us frst read together a few passages laws dsposes' of the whole queston but of S~rpture ;touth!lg u~n ths: mport~nt t does not Here aresonle other po~tve queston Frst dldch~lst do away Wth statements of the apostle that need to be r law? For greater perspcuty Jet us read woven nto our conceptons of Scrptural from the Twenteth Century' Verson of teachng$ For we conclude that arlan the New Testament w1:tch s ~ve~ nmo~- s pronounced rght~9us (justfed-+ V:) er~ phraseology Jesus sad '~ not on thegroun~ qf fath qute apart from the thnk that am come to do away Wth th~' law (Rom- 3: 27) '''Do we then use 13:w and the prophets; have not conle to ths fath to abolsh law? Heaven' forbd r do a~ay :wth them but to complete them \lve establsh law (Roth 3: 31) Now' For tell you tll the heavens and the we know that everythng sad n the laws earth dsappear: not the 'smallest letter tor addressed to those who are und'er ts 'authe 'stroke of a lettetshall dsappear froql thorty' n order that every mottth may! be the: ~aw'tll all s dorl~ (1vatt 5: 17) closed ~nd the w:hole worlfl be~01ne lable Agan t would be easer for the heavetts t~ the Judgment of GDd for no human and the earth to dsappear than for one beng wll be pronounced rghteous' (juststr~~e of a letter to 'dsappea: fron' the fed) befor~~o~ as th~es~lt 'of ob edence law (Luke 16: 17) 'There S no evad- to law; for t S the- aw that shows us' ng of these; statements whch co~t1d' not 'be what sn ' s But' no qute apart from n1ade more explct: law the Dvne rghteousness stands re- Paul wrtes: DO we' then- u'se ths fath vealed and to t the law' and'prophets bear to abolsh law?::' Heaven forbd ' NOt we C wtness through fath n J esu; Chrst establsh law (Ron3: '' 31) Agan-he; ~pon all wthout: dstncton who beleve wrtes: ~'So the law s holy and each C0rl:-'::;: n hm For all hate snned\and all fall short Dlandment s also holy; and just and goqd' of' God's- glorous deal but n hs l~v-' (Rom 7: 12) '::The perpetual character jng-kndness beng 'pronounced rghteou::~ of God's law)s thus establshed beyond through the _delverance found' n' Chrst queston ot:-cavl Forever the -law'stands Jesu's (Rom 3: 19~24); ~ ~ ' ' l t t' J' '\ -' \ ~ '~ -; ' '; <

14 ': THE SABBATH RECORDER! '- THE SABBATH RECORDER n hs Galatan letter the apostle speaks you ask was the use of the law? t was very decdedly upon ths matter We a lateraddton to make men con~cous 'of who are Jews by brth and not of Gentle ther wrong-dongs and ntended to last outcast orgn know that n(!) one s pro-' only tll the comng of that o:ffspr~g to nounced rghteous as the result of obed- w~m the proms'e had been made; and t ence to law but only through fath n Jesus was delvered through angels by a med Chrst ~ ; ndeed through law became ator Now medaton mples more than dead to law n order to lve to God one person but God s one only Does that have been crucfed wth Chrst So t s ' set the law n opposton to God's prqmlo longer that 'lve but Chrst that lves 'ses? Heaven forbd! Fo~f a law had n me; and as for my pre~ent' earthly l~e been gven capable 01 bestowng fe th~n ' am lvng: t by fath n the Son Qf God rghteousness' would actually have owed ts who loved me and gave hmself for me exstence to law Before the comng of ~ do not reject the love of God f rght- Jath we were kept under the guard of ~e -eousness comes through law then there law n hondage awatng the fath ~bat was was no need for Chrst to de (Gal 2: destned to be' revealed Thus 'the law 15-21) Paul 'gves us the analyss of ths has proved a gude to lead us to 'Chrst death n:- Romans seven: ~)1at are we to t11 order that we may be pronounced rghtsay then? That law and Sn are the same eous as the result of fath But now that j th~g? Heaven forbd! On th~ c~ntrary fath s come we no lon~r need a gude should not have learned what Sn S had For you are all suns' of God through your f not been for law f the la\v dd not fath n Jesus Chrst' (Gal 3: say Thou shalt not covet shomd not 26) You have severed yourselves from know what t s to covet But sn took Chrst-you who are) seekng to be proadvantage of the commandment to arou~e 'llounced rghteous through law; you have n me all manner of covdtousness for fallen away from love (Gal 5': 4) But where there s no conscousness of law sn f you follow th~ gudance of the Sprt shows no sgns of lfe There was\a tme ryou are not sul?ject to law (Gal 5~ 18) when myself un'conscous of law 'Yas Our ftness con~s!r?m 9od who hmself alve; but when the commandment was made us ft to be mnsters of a new covebrought homel> to' me sn sprang nto lfe nantof whch the substance s not a wrtand -ded!the ve~y commandment that ten law hut a Sprt For the wrtten law should have meant lfe found/to result means death but the Sprt gves lfe f death Sn took advantage of the com- the 'system of relgon whch nvolved death mandrnent to deceve me and used t to emboded n a wrtten law and engraved on - brng abo~t my death And so -the l~w stones began amd such glory that -the s- s holy and each commandment s also holy raeh~es were unable to gaze upon the face and Just and good Dd then; a thng of l\10ses on account of ts glory though whch n tself was good nvolve death n t was but a passng glory wll not the remy case? Heaven forbd! t was sn lgon that confers the Sprt have stll 'that nvolved death; so that by ts use of what regarded as good to brng about my death ts true nature mght appear greater glory? ' For f there was a glory n the' relgon that nvolved condemnaton far greater s the glory of the relgon that and n tlls way the commandment showed confers rghteousness (2 Cor 3:- 6-9) how NJensely snful sn s (vs 7-14) M uch ~ore mght be quoted on ths 'su~ All these ~statements stand out very j ect but these excerpts are suffcent 'to' -: clearly n ths tra~slaton ~nd t?ey chal- brng ths matter plan~y b~fore ~s Paul lenge our thoughtful consderaton Go- was greatly harassed n hs mnstry by ng back to the Galatan letter we contn~e : Jewsh enemes and J uda!zngchrstans AH who' rely uppn obedence to law are who sought to exact obedence t~ the ~aw under a' curse' for Scrpture says Cursed s as' a condton of salvaton 'The latter every o~ewho does not abde by all that \vere d~termned to att~~h 6b~dence to the s wrtten n the book of the law and do ceremonal law to Chrstanty and Paul t (Gal '3: lo)~f our hertage s the labored constantly!lndarduqusly topre'~ent result of'law then t has ceased to be the such a consummaton Some get Jbe ld~ result of promse Yet God conferred t that he went to an extreme n order tq hold upon' Abraham by promse What' then these people n check But we can not beleve that he'would exceed the truth 'even yoke of bondage; ~he a law th~t s '~~t- l' such C:t cause He evdertly teaches the ten on our hearts and wth whch we are ' perpetuty and holy dgnty of the law ~ and deeply' n love becomes a delght :a soutce yetnsst-s that Chrstans are not under of comfort on whch we medtat~ day and -' law that' to place one's self under law nght Chrst says of hmself through 'the WQuld be to fall from love' (grace)' to Psalmst -Lo come; n the volume or ceas'e to be led by the Sprt and to be- 'the book t s wrtten 'of me delght to do come subject to a curse thy wll 0 my God yea thy law s n my Many can not see ther way' clear to em- heart';' Hs sprt was n such perfect ac- brace all law n these restrctons They cord wth the Father's wll'that obedence '- decde that Paul had only th~ 'ceremonal was the spontaneous response of hs heart's law n mnd But there s no' warrant for a:ff~cton He promses so to change our such' d~tncton r hs 'language and t s atttude to that ~erfect law as -to make 't suggested by a preconceved opnon tljat Our joy and delght to 'do t What was the apostle could n<?t possbly s-peak thus 'b~fore' a dsagreeable oblgaton enforced; of the moral law But let us nqure under penalty of eternal death becomes a whether such a dstncton s really called precous prvlege _ for by the truth n most of the passages Wth people thus transformed ther~ s read law s not lmted by the defnte no 'need of '''Thou shalt and Thou shalt the The term ~ used genercally wth- not They are no longer mpelled by the out specal reference to any partcular law' stern mandate of law that langs' a' penalty Another quotaton from Paul's wrtngs over ther heads The law no longer dc-' reads: For Chrst has brought law to an tates to them ther course of acton 'The' end so that rghteousness may be obtaned ' by' everyone who be~eves n hm (Rom 'law remans steadfast n all ts dgnty~ 10: 4) Ths renderl1g s more un~quv- but to -them ts dctates no Jo'ngel'- come n ocat than that w}th w~th we are~ more fa- thun~er 'tones 'Beng led of the Sp'rt~ mllar PrOVdng thl$v~rsl0n S beyond they are no longer under ether the con : crtcsm t s very decsve There' s demna:ton or the control of law The good grouj?d for' thnkng that the render- Sprt gudes them by a stll small ~oce' ng 'of the Greek word telds s correct behnd them th~t whspers Ths s the snce 'whle the tern:t s capable of a 'va- w<ly walk ye n t They are under the rety of renderngs ts pr~me meanng s power of alvng' example under' the conthat of fnalty The ant~omanr uses ths trol of a lovng Sprt of affectonate loytext very freely to show that the law s alty that needs' no stem remnders of abolshed Bpt we have seen that the law duty- Under the law? No under:>' love q not abolshed nor can be Yet t s true and grace Where hearts are true and that to the Chld of God wdtten law s no pure and the conscence enlghtened by the longer a controllng factor n hs lf~ ' Sprt of God' wrtten law s no longer TaklJg the texts together that we have necessary' read t s' easy to see that n recevng To llustrate W-e have state laws but ~hr5t our relaton t9 the law changes rad- probably only' a few of us ordnary folks lcally TO' the man or woman out of - are at all' famlar ' wth the statute books Chrst the law of God ~ a mandatory code They do not shape 'our conduct we do not backed up by dreadful penaltes The un- come n C'ontact' wth the law They are 'converted sprt chafes unaer' ts restrant not necessary to us as a code of ethcs and feels that hs lbertes are beng lmted because they are framed' on lnes of conalmost beyond endurance But when the duct wth whch we arf!n full accord yv e ndvdual comes nto covenant rel3;tons to purpose to be good Ctzens but our -m- Chrst the Lord says ''' wll/put my law pulses come not from the law books but' n ther nward parts and wrte t n ther from our relatons to Chrst' who has hearts (J~r 31 : 34)' Then keepng the ~ brought us nto 'fullharnony wth every law becomes a very dfferent matter' from good prncple n our country we are \ followng a law that 's' 3mply wrtten n free and at l~berty to do as we please be; : a b~ok or graven n stotle and that s ex- cause we please to do the thngs that the traneous to' o'lr nature < and contrary to our law: requres - An unlawful act would wshes ' Stch laws become 'rksome and a change our relat~nsat one

15 ': ~-- The o~ly law n that p'erfec~ worl~ wll be the unwrtten law-of love and gratttude 'Ouf sprts wll be so en' rapport wfth!he mnd of our Father that we shall anttcpate hs wll and ~njoy: to do t We ~h~ll not wat for commands nor be restraned by njunctons > THE S\BBATH RECORDER The nearer we reach t~at 'gqal of perfecton 'whch makes us one Wth 'God and wth Jesus Chrst the less we shall feel the constrant or restrant oj wrttel rules whose' transgresson speaks of death and condemnaton and the more we :shll know of the love of God whch on our part' fnds expre3son n lovng ~bedenc~ Ths s the love of G?d that we do hs con1mandments and hs commandments 'are not revo~s ( J ohh 5: 3) T~e true Chrstan keeps the Sabbath;_and :all the' commandments \ not because he sees wrath and run f he does not' but because 'we would rather do God's blessed 'vlf than to eat hs daly bread t H3 testmones are to :Our taste sweeter than boney n the h?~ey-comb':' T~us t s tnatfor us law S merged nto lovng fhal servce through' the trans(ormng nfluence of dvne grace Santarum Battle Creek Mch A SURE ~COME Mrs ~-' Yes Pettfogger wants~ t for some of hs shaky schemes ' 1\lrs r-' wouldn't trust hm the l~'ngth of my lttle fnger Mrs S-Then there's that Pnchpenny; he's bound and determned shall lend to hm f dd 'm sure 'd never see even the tal feathers of the nterest ; Mrs J-Ths nvest11?-ent proposton s a staggerng problem for us lone women ~ho hate busness We can worry ourselves n~o our graves qucker than we c~nwalk the:e Sav let me tell you what ve done wtth sot-te of my lucre ~ Mr~ S-'dJ lke your recept!for your money seems never to worry you l\1rs J-Well Old Ben Evolent put me next Accordng to hm many men are dong the same ~ndfndng t mghty good busness 've nvested- and very safelyn a college Mrs~ S-n a college? n what college? Mrs~ J-' n the college of ths reg~n: 'Alf red The school has very substant1~1 resources behnd t You see the college takes your money 'on the-what do they call t?- 0 yes the annuty plan That j me~ns that t pays'me nterest at about 5~ per cent as long as lve was fxed as you are: ' had no one to leave my money uthetannuty Pla~JJ to when was through and had long 111rs jones past mddle lfe plump 'and wanted to gve the nsttuton ~qmethhg ()f ~are~free countenance ~hats over the' So when sold my nterest n the homeback fence wth Ars Sm~th an elderly stead last sprng handed m~ mo'ney ov~r woman g-atnt and haggard n appearance to the co11egen ow get n1y1t~come semlannually and as regularly as the caendar Mrs J ones- Good mornng Mrs~Smth and when 'm gone the money goes to' ~e areyou ll? Yo~ look so w?rn ' school That su~ of money T feel pretty Mrs Smth-t's not' 111 health m comfortable about ~ t's where want t troubled about my money; just lost some :and kn9w t wll stay when 'm gone~ A~~ lately ' '' '- other good thng aqout ths arrangement S Mrs J-That's' enough to make a body that n the meantme 1 do' nothave topay feel gunhow dd t happen? ' any t'ax on ths money that'the college has 'Mrs S- lent Losadollar Earnacent :!Vrs S-But shoqjd have to have more - t tjhe;ghfolcfer 'a thousand dollars of what than 5~per cent n~e'reston rr): funds: OSla e t me '1 f d Th ' 1rs J -And only last' week the poor Mrs J -That S east y xe e co man went completely up the spout ddn't lege can takeyour money pa~ you; say 7 ' he? '/ 'per cent on t; ~a~ng up 'the dderencebe- J\lrs S-But that's not <lu Rght now tween what ther 'lnvest~ents actually e~rn!1 've two!thousand dle n the bank that and whatth~y are payng you out of the :ought to be out earnng my_ bread and but- prncpal W~C~ you'let the~m have Then t ' d' ' - ' when you are through needtng the nterest er an J am ~ 1 b t f the ' Mrs'}-Prospectv'e borrowepsare yap- the unusua pnnclpa ecomes par a : ~ Png at your heels lke hungry curs ex~ perma~ent funds of ~e school ~ '' pec t ' Mrs S-' That stnkes me as a dehght- \ THE SABBATH' 'mcomer' ful way' out of my: nvestment' proble'm' - Th t' t Ch' - ~ e es mohy to rlst as the Savor of Mrs- J-t s an arrangement of mutua manknd' s smply ov~rwh~lmng There advantab'e t helps you when you most h b th' ' n~e~ help; at the same tme; t eventually ~s een nq ng ~e t n the whol~ hstory gves the school the money t must have f 0 the world: We all beleve n what we t s toc??-tnue t() make boys and grls nto strong Ctzens' re 'd of Alexander the Great and Julus ' Ca ar of Socrates and Seneca '''and 'of _Mrs S-;:-1!hnk 'll wrte Alfred today man other less noteworthy -personages n about my partcular case Good-bye Mrs Jones ance t :hstory How many wtnesses do we renure? ' n all that s demanded Thnk Mrs J-Good' daym!s ~mth how often we ~epend on the soltary test- HOW T WORKS many of Plutarch; yet no one thnks t ~~s X wshes to 'found a $1000 scholarshp n Alfred' College n honor of her necessary to prove that Plutarch was' n fallble We thnk ourselves happy when mother Unabl~-at present~to spare the n- we have a twofold wtness as n the case of come on that sum she makes the school the the tfe and teachng- of Socrates s tl}ere gft 0!l the ~nnuty plan and receves' 2~ a Sngle person n all ancent hstory of per cent seml-:-annuallyas long as she 1v~s who:m~e ha~e fourbograpljesby Ple'n of' She has no worry about the nvestment no the character and trustworthness of Mat- tax to pay on the amount whle she lves the~; MaF~ Luke; ard John? Even that and there s no nhertanc~ tax to be pad 'were all t would be ncomparable' but on--thls sum after she des She s also sure th~nk of the number of letters devot~d to that the money has gone' where she 'wanted ' settng th~ same august pers9nake before t; to go After her death the ncome pays the eyes 'of men And such : bographes! each year n perpetuty the tuton pf a deservng student ' And such letters t s only famlarty wtb them that makes t possble for any ntell- Dr Y s a physcan' wth a bg practce gent perso~ to mss the wonder and the He wants to help Alfred' and' gves $2000 glory 6f t~j ohn Monro Gbson - ~ on the annuty or nc'orne lft plan The college p'a~s hm' $110 a' year or 5~ per There are tempt~tons before' us Ths cent At 'hls'death the $2000 goes nto any must needs 'be~ The :grapes must be presse4 lund of the s~ool whch he may' have des gnated Meanwhle he enjoys ~n ncome from a secure and untaxable' nvestment :He has the satsf(;lcton o'f knowng too that ~ respect of ths sum hs wshes'- wll hot be' set asde after hs death n -favor of ' some graspng relatve Mrs Z s a wdow whose sole resources are $5000 Unable now to spare 'a cent of her ncome for the college' but wshng A- HOME NEWS f~ed eyentually to_ have her-' money she DERuYTE~ 'N Y:-:The close '~f th~ year or there wll be no wre~ The gold must be tred r the' furnace The bell must be beaten wth sledges before t s hung n the to~er Blest s the ~an that endureth temptabon- for when he s tred he shall receve' -~hara:~ter; the crown of lfe--davd ' Barrell D D '_' ' - gves 't to the school on the hlcome ~ gft ftrds us stll wthout a pastor as reported a - ' arr~ngeme~~ The col~ge agrees to pa~ h~r f~w' weeks ago n some tems {coped from? per ~~nt nterest or $35 0 a year whle t the DeRuyter Gleaner We have not heard S gettng only about '5 L 2 per cent an- f th ' ~ ' 7~ '- rom e one who has 'been recently nvted ually or $275 f Mrs; Z hves only ten ' Years more the th h f' to come among us and we are beng- sup~ ' co ege W en ave or l' d b 'th 'f' ' th th' ts permanent funds $5000 _m~nus $750 pe Y em1ntsters r9m ' e 0 er Thus Mrs Z a woman wthout fnancal churches Dur Sabbath school 1s ' dong ~xperence and wshng an assured ncome good wo~k an4 has' elected a' good- com- ~t stated ntervals durng the 'rest of her pany of offc~rs!rom among ~~ y()ung peo- ' hfe has been' r~lev~d of the worry of ~le for the ensung year retau1ll~g the same' ' handlng her -money and the': college gans s~perntendent: :Mrs Carroll R Burdck $ for ts endowment funds~~alfred!fer assstant s Mss Besse Phllps ~ho College Bullet~n S also chorster Gur beautful Chrstmas _ - ~ t W '

16 c~ ' : : ' j 28 THE SABBA l'h RECORDER tree and church decoratons al1d excellent pt:ogram made up an nterestng occason r The Chrstan Endeavor socety meetngs held on S~bbath evenng are more' largely attended than the ~hurch prayer meetngs held on Tuesday evenng ' Our hearts have been deeply saddened by the' news of the d~ath of Mrs Harry: Lom: bard who was the daughter of our' ~ormer 'pastor Rev L A~ Wng of Boulder Our town thus far h(s been: greatly blessed n regard to health durng the ~me of war an~ the prevalng: 'ep dem c '4 ~;;> MEN N THE SERVCE FROM SEVENTH DAY -BAPTST HOM~S\ ADAMS CENTERN Y Carley Franc8 Greene Carlton Horton Corp Kenneth' Langworthy Vrgll Wllams; Clayton WllUams Ernest '~ ALBON~ WS : Ayers Elsworth D Ayers Elton Babcock Fred 1 Gre~ SldneY C St1ll~an Mahlon Stllman George ALFRED N Y ' AyaFs~ Capt Emerson W Ayars Lster S Ba bcock Corp Ronald 'Bass~ Corp Elmer Beach Rolland P Burdck; Corp Arthur E Burdck Ca»t~George E Clarke Capt Walt-on B c~)(~nlance Corp Aaron' Mac 10Cottrell Capt Arthur M Crandall Capt Wnfeld R Davs B Cqlwell Jr Davs Stanton H Dunham W E Ells Sergt A1 ton B Fenner Glenn' B Greene Sergt Edward F R Greene Leut E~nest G - Greene Ser~t Robert A Hall Horace A Man Capt Danel C Martn Howard ' Mer tt Carl L ' Phl1Ups Leut Kent Poole Leut Clesson O Potter Clfford M Ran401ph Leut 'W;tn~eld WF 'Rosebusn Capt Waldo E Shaw Capt Leon' ~ Sheppard Leut Mark ~tevens G n Ol'gP P ~ 18Straght Leut H D Saunders Edward E Saunders Harold B Thomas Herbert Truman Sergt De Forrest vars Otho L Wtter Adran E Wtter E Allen ALFRED STATON N Y Allen John R Allen Joseph 'L Burkhart James Champln Capt E V Ormsby Orson O Palmter Elson G Roberts Guy Smth Claude C Woodruff Corp Charles Eldon W-orrell Herman L Worrell W T ASHAWAY R Babcock Lawrence Babcock Walter Brggs Charles B r BrlggslrLeverett A Jr Coon ~ohn T Coon Walter Crandall Ahvern Crandall Julan Greene Lews R Hll Albert HU1 Frank M Langworthy Harry LanworthyLloyd Lews Walter T Matheu Wnfred Murphy OrVlle RUfenberg Fred Smth' Arthur M Spencer Elmer Spencer Paul Turn bull; ohn Turnbull Peter Wells Edward Wells Forest Wells Nathanael BATAVA LL Clement; N~al Glbert BATTLE CREEK )lct Bottoms' Leut Roger Confer -Oren Ellsworth' Carlton Evans Lesle D Evans~ WUlam C Hargs Gerald D ; Hoekstra John ' Knney Master Engneer C B Kolvoord D Benjamn' ;Kolvoord Paul 'Kolvoord Lteut Theodore Lppncott Herbert ~tockwell Guy' Tyrrell A Lee BEREA W VA Brssey AG Thurman Brssey Grover S Brssey Reuben M Brssey Wllam Da vs 1st Sergt Artlpr G Maxson Forest Maxson Guy Sutton Guy T Sutton Holley BERLN: N Y Hull Gerald W 6Mosher Floyd C Tft L E Vars Jesse D BOULDER COLO~ rsh Glenn W Jeffrey W M' J ones Rev Ralph Curts Weaver Charles Wng Hubert B BRADFORD R N ewton Harold S BROOKFELD N Y Spooner 2d'Leut 'Malcolm G' Stllman LynnA_' Todd Sergt Leon J Worden Dean CAMARGO _OKLA Es~ee James L E-C B CHCAGO ~ Leach 'Leut Floya Dewtt ' Platts: capt Lews A DENVER COLO' Crosby Capt Leonard G DERUYTER N ~ Whg Arche' L : DODGE CENTER MNN Crardall EllerY' Dlaggett Q :M Sergt Q S Langworthy Floyd' E Lanlf'worthy Regnald Lewls Clnton' Van Horn' Herbert C tj> FARN A LL Bassett 1st Leut L C: Bee Charles ~; Bond Howard Clarke John Mllton Crandall C L Davd Maron' Kelly Kelso 'Rogers Shr!ey Z' Seager Harry Bernard Seager Ross Smth Clal'k FAYETTEVLLE N ~ C F1l1yaw Walter Judson FOUKE ARK Davs Karl Sanders Capt JY; Jr GARWN OWA Ford John P Saunders Ora E Saunders S Perry 7Saunders Wllam M Van Horn Harold A Van Horn Harold E GRAND MARS~ WS _Babcock Stephen GRMES OKLA Crandall Lesle D HAMMOND Lfl Clarke Charles G Mlls Corp Harold A HARTSVLLE N Y Ells Cleon' M HARVARD LL Maxon Capt Jesse G HEBRON PA 13Hemphlll Harry HEBRON CEN:rER PA Hardy TheodoreJ NDEPEND~NCE N Y Clarke Howard M Kemp Major Elmer JACKSON' CENTER OHO Babcock C' H Bartlett Rhuel Colman Roy Davs Arthur Davs Garwn Hughes Stanley Hughes Ted N ewnan~ Chester Taylor Harry Taylor Roy ' LEONARDSVLLE NY lb'ennett' Ralph C 'Coon Corp Leland A -Coon Robert '14 Dresser M A >Greene Stuart Faye Whl te Ernest ' Wnlam~ G Grover LTTLE GENESEE N Y C1GBurdck;' Lous Harold Burdck Lucan T ' Burdck Leut Phlp' C Burdck 'Sldney' Do: - 'Brown Wllam ld 'Clarke Vergll Maxson Lesle B LOST CREEK W VA Batten James WllUam -Curry John Davs' Edward Davs Corp MaxH Ra~dolph Bro9ks F' MARON low A 'Ormsby Elwood W ' THE SABBATH RECORDER ' J MLL YARD CHURCH ENGLAKD 'Rchardson rst Lleut Br~_t Gllbert ~Rchardson ad Leut Robert Harold Rlchardlon Corp W Albert 'Vane George H MpDLE SLAND W VA 'Cozad Howard ohn LowtherCorp Chester Wlls Parks Alva Cleo -Sutton Eustace Wlls CUord Wlls Harry' Wlls Roy { MLTON WS Ayers E H Babkcoc~' Sergt Laurance er a ew George Burdck Allson Burdck ClftordH ~ Burdck Leut Paul 'Burdck 2d Leut Wllam D Burnett George C Campbell Howard -Cartwrght Frank 'Cartwrght Lesle 'Clarke Wllam Aden -Crandall George H CrumbFred' ];)!1land Alexander K Davs Earl F Davs Ezra M ' navs Elmer M E Dunn 1st Leut Charlee E merson Paul L Ferguson Glenn Fox HO'ward Greene Ralph : Hall Gregory Hurley Francs H Hurley Leut George ' Hurley Vctor Kelley Sergt -Albert L Kumllen L L ' ' Lanphere 2d Leut Leo L Maxson Charles S Maxson Roland' H Nelson 2d Leut JUlus S Oakley Carroll' F' Post Charles 'E 8Randolph Kenneth 'Randolph Paul Randolph Vctor Rasmussen Orvlle Sayre A Gerald ' Stllman Clare L Strnger L H Thorngate Bergt John H ' MLTON' TlTNC'l'ON Allen Frakly'J Atz S DaTd Bond Pewey L Coon Carroll L Coon Lleut Wallace WS W Garth wate Corp Harlow B Garth wa te Bernard Greenman George R Horwood Stanley R H~ll S C Lews Clnton Perce Sergt Samuel 11West ' Car-roll B ~ NEW AUBURNMNN 200leson Charley Arthur Oleson Wllam ' NEW AU:SURN WS; Babcock Earl 14Coon;- Claude Curts Cra~dall Ellery F Greene' George M Haskns Claude Lng Phlp Mack Leut Sta~~eYl NEW MARKET: N~ J Burdck Harold 10 ' Burdck Russellf W Randolph Eston Glem }~tz urandolnh Forrest Gerald'Flt? Randolph Corp Lesle Ftz RandC)lph Mlton Fltz NEW YORK CTY N Y Chpman Leut Charle C lrandolph Frankln Ftz NLE N Y~ Burdck Wllam J 19Canfeld Paul C Green Paul L Greene Corp Wllam C; Whtfor<l Leut'~ W G NORTH L6up NO Babcock Albert Babcock Earl Bab~ock Edwn J Babcock ven' Barker; LeUt Frank M Brannon Rley U Brown Alex Burdck Edwn Clement Nel Davs FrankL Davs Reed Eglesfeld Ralph Goodrch Lorenzo G Goodrch Harold Hemphll Paul H Hurley EtnoC Lark~n George Maxson Eslle Rerce Earl Rood Bayard A : Sayre Walter- D 'Stnlman Arche L Stllman Clarence Thorngate Arthur Thorngate George Thorngate John Thorngate Walter Tucker Henry- A Van Vorn; Beecher Van Horn Dale R Whtte George' Wrght Everette} Q NORTONVLLE KAN 'Babcock radell CQon Sergt Edgar R Eckles Fayette Eyerly Leut Tema Hurley Alvn Jeffrey Leut JRobn Knght Saddler RaymonJ Knght Roy' Btephan~ Alfred D Stephan Corp Earl D Stephan; Corp Thomas A 5StUhlan ' ra Orson Stllman Ralph - Van Horn Earl \ W09lworth Cecl _ OXFORD N Y Stukey' Donald _ PPESTONE MNN Peterson Lester W Davs )lax H t - 1: :: + : 1-29' PLAN~ LD N J Barker Ensgn Ere F Cottr~llj John 'B Jr Huntmg Elmer!Jeon Langworthy Frankln 'A Spcer Harold W ' St John Leut Mlton :w ~ Ttsworth 1st Leut Sydney R W~lau Gustave H ' - f PORTVLLEN Y Hamnton: Sergt Cllnton ' RCHBURGN Y~'; Saunde~s George W re ' RVERSDE: CAL Davs Charles L - Crandall~ J Howard Davs T Eugene Furr9w Harold F' Ol!lborn Lester G Sweet Lawrence E ' ROANOKE W VA Bond an -H BO!ld' Oras Bond Orson' H Hevener Walton ' \ ROCKVL:E R L BarberWUfred E Burdck 'Elverton C Jordan Allen D o Kenyon Clttyton C Whtford Marcus Woodmansee Lloyd 'E c SALEMW VA Bee Carl Bond Paul f Brssey; Paul!; Brssey Randall Chlders Sergt~ A T Chlders Leut E W ChjdersW s Clark Paul ' Davs Courtland V Dav~; Capt Edward Sur-' 'geon Davs Coral Davs Joan Huffman ' Dav~s Ser&t-Maj Geo~ Warren Davlst- Russell-- Kelley Sergt Audra 1L K~nealy George Qfden Carroll Randolph Harold C Randolph_ Brady ~F Randolph Donovan Sutton Sergt ~arnest Swger; Capt Fred E Warren Corp Hurley S West W Robert \ SALEMVllE PA Thorngate Roscoe M - '1: S~LOH N J Bonham Clarkson 'Jaunder Second' Mate' Machnst CamDbet Francs E Davs Wlson Jones Gla'spey Roy B' ' Harrs ~d Leut Lawrence F Kuyper Wllam _ Randolph Capt J Harold Sheppard Berte B l1tomlnson Raymond J ' SLVERTON ORE' rsh Leut Harold' R STONE FORT 'nl Johnson~Robert - SYRACUSE N Y Clayton Howard SMTHTON W VA Davs SergtWalter H -' WALWORTH ws Clarke' Capt Charles P C~rke' Charles P Jr Clarke Harry Larkn Charles Sm th Raymond # - l ' ~ \ - l - _~::: > '

17 '3 'THE SABBA'tH RECORDER THE SABBATH- RECORDER -3 1 WA''ERFOJD CONN : Brooks Albert WELLSVLLE N Y ~urdlck Percy Wtter WELTON low A Bentley Roy Hurley Francs 'Hurley Vctor ' Saunders Ernest W 12V~n Horn Floyd Marvn WESTERLY R L Babcock Major Bordon A Darker Earl C Burdck CharleB G Burdlck- Leut H RUBBell Burdck Stanton Chapman Sergt George Coon Howard Ames Coon Raymond lj Greene Lous Hemphll RUBsell - - Hscox Raymond' a Hscox Robert M SKenyon A Elwood Kenyon Spcer Lanphaer H Wayland Loofboro Lloyd' C Maxson ' Al bertus B Nash Major Arthur N Peabody T Edward ~lll'lat Harry P Stllman Serg t Karl G: lded t January at Camp Green N C of cerebro-spnal menngts 'Klled n acton on the Yl>r~ Front n France November ' 'Ded November ~_Fort Sll Okla of cerebro-menngltls 4Ded at SpartanbUrg S C pru ot pneumona '!Dled at Jackson Barracks 0 February of me~sles and pneumona / - Dded from wounds receved; n acton on the Western Front France ' 'Ded n France'May from etfects of gas ' 8Dled at thaca;n Y ot pneumona whue n Stud ents' Army Tranlng Corps of Cornell Unversty SLOst wthu S S Herman Frasch October 1918 ' loded at Camp MUla L: of -nfluenza l;tj)ed of wounds receved n Battle October 1918 ' -12Dl~d at Great Lakes Naval Tranng ~taton OCtober ' laded at Alfred N Yof pneumona whle 11'J Studerts' Army ~ranng Corps ot:alfred Unversty 14Ded at Camp Grant Rockford ll November ' lldlled of pneumona September 18 t 1918 t 'at Hanes Memoral Hosptal Brghton Mass l6ded at E~st Lansng Mch Noveml?er of pneumona whle n Student Offcers Trammg Camp 17Klled n 'acton n Franc~' October ~K11ed nacton n France October uklled n' acton n France November Klled n acton n France Septem'ber The soul whch has the capacty of suf- fetng has also the capacty of enjoyment love And theres no' more~ lastng love n the heart of man lan the love whch The lov~g heart whch may be flled wth sprngs from grattude Ths s the love sorrow may also be~ flled wth joy The whch forever bnds together God and man '-Son ot God who became the'son 'Of man to God commendeth hs-own love toward us save smers ~ees - of the traval of hs soul n that whle we were yet snners Chrst and s satsfed For the joy that was set ded for us: And we love hm because before hm he endured the cross- And he frst loved us God forgves beca1:1se he there s no other joy so pure and' so deep loves much; and man loves- because he s as ths t s more blessed to gve than to much forg~en The love whch has sought -receve Nothng s so dear 'to a lovng to save' through sorrowng and sufferng heart as that wff~ch' has been won through wll keep and the love whch has been won sufferng 'N othhg s so precous as that through 'forgveness a'nd salvaton wll no whch has been lost and s found The lost more /stray;- Nothng wll separate the pece of money whch the woman of the saved snner from the love of God_ and the parable found;' the lost sheep borne home saved snner wll rejoce never to be separated from that love The pan 6f the cross by the shepherd; the lost son restored to hs fa~er are more dear than they were hefore Ths s perfectly ntellgble to any heart of God and from the heart of man and the sorrow of t 'Yll pass from the one who' has known lfe's deepest exper~ and th'e pure pleasure' of love wll abde ences - The jewellosf and found's doubly forever- Wllam W M ~LaneD D precous The chld who has been at '( death's door and has recoveeds doubly - dearthe prodgal son' who returns s n a~l the flurry and foam about-us let loved more because he was lost a'nd s us bend our heads 'and lsten to the great found There s J QY n heaven over one anthem of that f~r-off sea for ~ur lr e- barks shall- soon be cradled there;j we are snner that repenteth more than' over nnety but buldng here the launch1s not fat off and nne just persons who need no repent- d h th b' dl f th ) Th b an t en e oun ess ocean 0 e years ance S S not ecause one snner S f God-'F E 'fy'll d J better than nnety-nne just persons but 0 ranees l ar because he' was worse and s saved Ths s' allaw of the heart The love whch wl' make sacrfce tq forgve and to 'save s the greatest possb1e ' Amerca has a natural base for theg~eat~ est contnuous empre ever estal>lshed' by man-' Gladstone : J - BERRY-PALMER-:At'the home of the brde'sparents Mr and' Mrs 'Mlo Palmer at Alfred StatonN Y by Rev Wllam M Smpsol on Chrstmas eve 1918 Mr James R Berr:y of Mddletown Oho and Mss Mldred E Palmer~ of Alfred Staton~ N Y DEATHS BRlSSEY-Bernce Grace _Brssey ded 0' nflu enza at Berea W Va on November ' aged 13 years 10 months and 21 days She was the daughter '0 Arthm N and G~nevra Maxson Brssey and s survved by fa- ther mother and two brothersmaynard Carl and Harold Lee and a' large crcle of frends She wll be greatly mssed by all 'The funeral servces were' conducted by S R Ford and nterment was n the Pte Grove' Cemetery near Berea s A F HAYNES- n Arkp'ort N: Y December ; 1918 Clarence A Haynes t n the 27th year' of hs age Mr Haynes was born and grew' u> 10 South -Dansvlle N Y but for two years past Ar~ port had been hs home and her~ as well as n South Dansvlle he had been a hghly respected and honored ctzen' ' The 26th day of last June he and ~~ss Odessa Potter ' of Alfred N Y were umt~d n- holy wedlock but ths unusually happyumon ws\s ~o last only fve months and fve days BeSdes hs wfe he s survved by on~ brother' Lloyd Haynes t and 'two ssters; Mrs Fred Wermller and Mrs Menzo Wlhams c111 of South Dansvlle - Funeral servces conducted by Pastor Wll~am L: Burdck asssted by' Rev G M Wdkms were held at the house Tuesday December 3 and nterment took place n the 'cemetery neat South Dansvll~ WM L B The only path to ~e' permanent s through the passng What s the permanent? t s the sprtual t s character t s' helpfulness t s power How ~an weg~t t?only through the passng There have be~n those' who thought t could be' go!ten _ by separatng ourselv~s fron the w<;>rld; by ~abstractng ourselves ffon' the datly ~nd the prosac and the materal and' devotng ourselves to medtaton to readng to con -templatonof God They ha~e thought t came by pump~g t up out Qf the 4epths of our souls t can ~ not come that way _ We grow by the way ~ whc~ ~e meet the thngs that come~to us f~omwthout The more -thngscome~ to us 'and ~rr the more ways or n the more exactng ways the more we grow There s' more growth n sweepng' a 'roon qs for God's law than n a day of prayer There s m9re real sprtual buldng n the rght use of a dollar for God than there s n the sngng of a dozen' hymns or' the chershng of a dozen' holy' thoughts There s no \vay of gettng these ' thngs other'than by puttng r forth sprtual effort and you- must have somethng to put f forth upon f' you get muscle you must lft; but f you have nothng to lft you can not l!ft All 'these' ~ng~ we see ana tol1ch and handle these passng rela- tonshps are nothng more than the pe~es n the game They are lke the club the SC~ ' ~ng swung The-physcan told hm t had potent ~rugs n ts h~ndle whch hs ope'ned pores would' absorb as 'he swung t Bu~ there was no power n the club The' power ' was n the exercse t wa's the' exercse that healed hm ~ The sgnfcance of the thngs that are seen s' that they are the tbngs we play and work wth and S9 get strength But wthout these thngs we can not play t)1e 'game and we can not gan the strength No man' must despse houses lands money occupatons relato~~h~s tasks drugeres achevements These- are the apparatus use to buld' up th~racter and toache'\(~;' tesuts n the sprts' of others can not buld wthout them Holness heayen glory Chrstlkeness are all' dependent uron these What we have n the eternal habtatons s dependent UEon what -we do wth the u:nrghteous mamnlan Do not ~ee these thngs Meet t4em use them' chmb up by: them to the h~glts ofgod~ Welcome them as so many 'lad~ers of t~e etern~l Never expect to do wthout them t 1S h~re 'on earth that we buld tlp heaven; wh~ther n ourselves' or n others- Phlp Wendell Crannell D D The \vorll ~f the' past has bee~- to fashon the many dfferentnstruments for a world Qrchestra and au hstory has' beenflled wth ther dscords whle n the makng But no\v the work of harmonzng s well begun and the tme w11surely come when theywll be attuned loheaven's keynote of brotherly 1ove- Josah Strong '! - ' 1-': - '- -; ~- r -

18 v- ~' ' : \ ;' 3 2 THE SABBATH RECORDER THE SABBATH' RECORDER Theodore L Gardner D D- Edtor Lucus PBurch Busness ManaKer Entered as se'cond-class matter at Planfeld N: J ' ' Terms of Subscrpton ' Per year $200 Per copy 05 Pape'rs to foregn countres ncludng Canada wlll be charged 50 cents addtonal on account of postage ' All subscrptons wlll be dscontnued one year after date to whch paym'ent s made un-' less expressly renewed Subscrptons wlll be dscontnued at date ot expraton \vhen so requested All communcatons whether on busness or' for publcaton should be addrel!lsed Sabbath' Recorder Planfeld N J Advertsng rates furnl!lhed on request to the RECORDER WANT ADVERTSEMENTS For Sale Help Wanted and advertsement! of a lke nature wll be run n ths column at one cent per word for frst nserton and onehalt cent per word for each addtonal nserton Cash must accompany each' advertsement MAGAZNE 'SUBSCRPTONS-Ask the Sabbath Recorder for ts magazne clubbng lst Send n your magazne subs when you send tor your Recorder 'and we wll save you money ' The Sabbath Recorder Planfeld N J _12-1Jtt WrANTED-By the Recorder Press an opportunty to fgure on your next job of prntng Booklets Advertsng Lterature Catalogues Letter Heads Envelopes; etc Better let the Recorder prnt t The Sabbath Recorder Planfeld N J tt World-wde evangelsm s the message of the hour and t s as mperatve n the' Occdent as n the Orent t s self-denyng se'rvce that counts counts everywhere How came an ungodly reporter to' wrte chapters that read lke another Acts of the Apostles? t was because Stanley' met Lvngstone jn the heart of Afrca and saw n hm the temper and sprt of hs Master How was t that' George Romances the cleat-headed skeptc pllowed hs head at last upon a mghty fath? 't was because he read a letter from a msso'n~ry who was countng not hs lfe dear Ah yes when the world seesthe marks' of the nals n the palms of the Church t wll be no longer fathless but belevng!-charles L Good- THE YOUTH'S COMPANON CALENDAR FOR 1919 The Publshers of CT he Youth's Companon wll as always at ths season present to every subscrber whose subscrpton s pad for 1919 a c8lendar for the new year t s a gem of 'calendar-makng The decoratve' mountng s rch but the man purpose has been to produce a calendar that s useful and that purpose has been 'acheved Subscrbe through the Sabbath Recorder 'r- S_P_E_C_A_L_N_O_T CES --:l1 Contrbutons to the work' of Mss Mare Jansz n Java wll be gladly receved and s~mt to her quarterly by the Amercan Sabbath Tract Socety FRANK J HUBBARD Treasurer ' Planfeld N J ; The address of 'all Seventh Day Baptst mssonares n Chna s West Gate Shangha Chna Postage s the same as domestc rates The Frst Seventh Day Baptst Church of Syracuse N Y holds regular' Sabbath servces n Yokefellow8 Room 3rd floor of Y M C A Buldng 334 Montgomery St ' Preachng servce at 230 p m Bble school at 4 p m Weekly prayer meetng at 8 p m Frday evenng at homes of members A cordal nvtaton s extended to all Rev WlHam Clayton pastor 106 West Cornng Ave Syracuse Mss Edth Cross church clerk OO Cumberland Ave Syracuse :N Y The Seventh Day Baptst Church ofn ew York Cty holds servces at the Memoral Baptst Church Washngton Square! South The Sabbath school meets at 1045 a m 'reachng servce at a m A cordal welcome s extended to all v'stors Rev Geo B Shaw Pastor 65 Ellott!>-ve Yonkers N Y The Seventh Day Baptst Church of Chcago holds regular Sabbath servces n room 913 Masonc Temple N E cor State and Randolph Streets at 2 o'clock p m Vstors are most corda'l1y welcome The Church n Los Angeles Cal holds regular servces n ther house of worshp near the corner of West 42d Street and Moneta Avenue every Sabbath afternoon Sabbath school at 2 o'clock Preachng at 3 Every' body welcome Rev Geo W Hlls pastor 264 W 42t Street Rversde Calforna Seventh Day Baptst Socety holds' regular meetngs each week Church servces at TO o'clock Sabbath mornng followed by Bble school J unror Chrstan Endeavor at 3 p m Senor Chrstan Endeavor evenng before' the Sabbath 730 Cottage prayer meetng Thursday nght Church bu1dn~ corner Ffth Street and Park Ave'nue Rev R J Severance pastor S3 Mulberry Street The Seventh Day Baptst Church of Battle Creek Mch holds regular preachng servces each Sabbath n the Santarum Chapel at 245 p m' Chrstan Endeavor Socety prayer meetng n the Cnllege Buldng (opooste Santt!rum) 2d floor every Frday evenng at 8 oc1ock Vstors are always welcome Parsonage gft N Washngton Avenue The Seventh Day Baptst Church of Whte Cloud Mch hotes regular preachng servce! and Sabbath school each Sabbath begnnng at a m Chrstano Endea~or and prayer meetng each Frday' evenng at 730 Vs~tors are welcome: The Mll Yat:d Seventh Day Baptst Church of Lon don holds a regular Sabbath servce at 3 p m at Morntgton' Hall Canonbury' Lane 'slngton N A mornng servce at 10 o'clock s held except!1 July ancf August at the home o! the pastor 104 Tolhngt~n Pa~k~ N Strangers' and VStng brethren 'are cordally n vted to attend these servces ~e'yenth Day Bap!ss plannng to spend the' -vynter n Flortda and who wt1' be n Daytona are cordally nvted to attend the Sabbath school servces whch are held durng the wnter season at the several homes of members The day wll come when the Bble wll be read n the publc schools just as any other book There s no good reason why the Bble should Dot have ts rghtful place n our school currculum-' HQ~ P P Claxton r'~'~fred UNVERSTY COME TO SALEM! :U~dUlgS ~nd equpment $400000' Nestled away n the quet hlls of West Vrgna far M n owmen s ov~r : 'from the hum and hustle of the bg cty Salem quet eets stanpdarfd1z~hon requ!rements for College Gradu- says to all young oeople who wsh a tho~ough Chrsta~ ate s ro esslonal Certlfcate transferable to other college educaton Comel' States ' S FACULTY' Courses n Lberal Arts Scence PhlosoJ)hy Engneer- em $ k ff j~ composed of earnest -hard ng A!culture Home Eco~omcs Musc Art ' ~or mg e Clent teachers who have ~ath- Freshman Classes l'g15 the largest ejer enrolled er~d thflr hearun~ and culture from the leadng umver- S1 tatbe~ arn C ong them beng Yale attendance rvar C gan 0 urn la orne 11 Alfred and Ml- Expenses moderate ton Ff~~ free sc~olarsh~ps f~r wort~y applcants Salem's COL~EGE buldngs ar~ thoroughly mod TUt!On free m Engneerlng Agrculture Home Econom- d ern n st~le and eq(upment-are 'up-to-' lcs and Ar~ courses ate n ~v~ry respect Salem has thnvng Young Peo- Ffteen New Yo;k Sta'te Scholarshp students 'n~w n H t a 1es d Mt!! h' mted c Catalogues and lllustrated nformaton sent on applcaton BOOTHE COLWELL DAVS :rresdent ALFRED N' Y - mlton flollege A college of lberal tranng for young men and women All graduates receve the degree of Bachelor of Arts ' Well-balanced requred ~ourses n Freshm~n ~~d Sopho- ' more years Many elechve courses SpeCal advantages for the study of the Englsh language and lterature 9-erman~ and Romance languages Thorough course~ n all scences The School of Musc' has courses n' panoforte voln ~lola voloncello vocal musc voce culture harmony' muscal kf!derkarten etc' ' Classes n Elocuhon and PhYScal Culture for men and women Board n clubs or prvate famles at reasonable rates For further nformaton address the f w t Daland t D D JJldtnt Mlton Rock County Ws Cbe Pouke $cbool FRED BABCOCK PRNCPAL Other competent teachers wll assst ' Former excellent standard of work wll 'be mantaned Address for further nformaton Fred Babcock 'Fouke Ark ' ' AMERCA'N SABBATH: TRACT SOCETY PubUahlns Houae Reports Booklets Perodcals ' Publshers and Commercal Prnters The Recorder Press Planfeld N J THE SABBATH VSTOR ' Publshed weekly under '~he auspces of the Sabbath School Board by the Amerlcan Sabbath Tract Socety at Planfeld N J S' ' TERMS -- lng e copes per year 0 60 cents Ten or mc~e' c~pes per year at 50 cents Commltntcahons should be addressed to The Sabbath Vtstor Planfeld N J HELPNG HAND N BBLE SCHOOL W'ORK A qua!terly?contanng carefully prepared helps on the nternattona! 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19 : 0 ~ ~ _ ';' ': 0 0- Vol 86 No2 ' salle _ to '~ any- :U~ ~> 'potaj J and t be plac'ed n th~ hands of our SOllQlelr8 or salors a~ the front No wrappngnoddreu A'S B URLESON' P ostmaster G' era JannAn y ' : ' ':' \; ):~;' OUf :' Magazne J e :a' t ' ; /' ' Sub~crptons - 1 \ ' '!! ' r 1! Place' your subscrptons for the c~)1nng year now bef~re the magaznes advance more n prce Many have' ad~anced and ~thers wll The SABBArH RE~ CORDER can gtve you rates as low as any magaztne' agency '! Specal The SABBATH RECORDER and the YOUTH'S COMPANON one year for' $3~75 / (Ths s' good only wth a RECORDER subscrpton / new or renewal ) The SABBATH' RECORDER and $2' 75 McCALL'SMAGl\ZNE one year (Good only wth SABBATH RECORDER) Send lor Our Lst 'The Sabbath ' Babc~ck Buldng 1 ' : : ' \: - 1 ; ~ f' : : Recorder '' / : '~' '; t '!;' What shad we brng our brave our own Who stood 't)v'xt ua and death And' fturled the hosts of Satan back Untl ther passn breath! L Lau~el to crown the vct~r' a brow! And graven on the sheld The ames of freedom's worthy aons Who feu upon the feld Edltorlal-A Naton Pays Trlbute to The 0 d 0 re Roosevelt LQuestlons About Forglveless- Helpful Prayers- Many 0 the r s nterested-a Lberty Bond-uHow t Greved Me-'4Why s t So?-Amerfcanzaton Work by the W C T U~ Death of Rev A G Crofoot~Frank J ubbard s mprovlng-cct Was a Revelaton to Hs People-u Am Glad Came~' ; Letter From a Solder 36 The Comlllulon Page-Read : Pon derget Busy-Recrutlg for the ~nstry J'~ ~ ' ' t -~;- ' 38 The C!turches' Duty to the Returnng Solders and Salors 39 M lodj and the Sabbath-MssQnary and Tract Socety Notes ~ 42 Presdent W:Uson's Trbute to Roose- vel't - - ~ ~ 43 A Glorous Past nspres a Glorous Future WHAT SHALL WE BRNG OURBRAVE M E H Everett ' Naynot' the laurelps posonous leaf Nor any scroll of fame For those 'who trove for rehteouanesa n ther Redeemer's name - Brng sonsofmost ahalted prase The sweetest ever aunr And n the nghttme slent tears ~ F or those who ded so youn Not sweetest songs' nor hottest tears That ever mortals weep Could eros the dark and cruel sea To reach them where they sleep Thenbrng the peace long promseclearth The peace they ded to wn; On us mud rest the sn For f they gave ther lves n van ' ' MemorlesRevlved r 44 Woman Work-Erlargement (poe- try)-as 'rhy Need s 45 -CONTENT' ~~_ /' j 1 Tranng Llt'teChldren 46 A Qolden Weddng:! 47 Young People'lJ 'Work-BoOks That Help-N ews Notes ~ ~ ' ' : 48 A good Eample ~ ~ :' T 49 When tl1e Germans Captured a Ca- nadlan ' ~ f 60 The Naton's Debt of Grattude'to ts ' Defenders ~ : ~ 60' Chldren Page- An Ouch of Preven ton ; \ 0 : 61' Uhe Far ~ookor Kondf Salem~' 6'2 Sabbath S~hoo-Mrutesof Sabbath School Board Meetfng-Treasurer's Report-8abbath School Lesson for February' ~ ~ 55' Our ' Week) Sermon-our Chrstan' :Ancestry 'O~ a ~ Moral Educaton 69 Home and Alled ReUet ~ 60 A Mssonary Martyr ~ 60 M~mage ~ - ' 61 _~: :~' Deat ' ' ~ 0 :; ~' ~ ' 61:: -':' The ROll-call ~' ' ~ 63::- Lberty Enlghtens' 'theworld ~ ' 83: ':: : ::- - -: ' :7 ; { :;'~ {-