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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL-SUNDAY MORNING.
Observations of a Day
By the AMATEUR
AmHEY call him the Poet. I do
w I w not know that he ever wrote
. I any poetry, but he has some-
I how earned the reputation.
Perhaps it is because he goes
about reading other men s
poetry for women's clubs and talking
about the authors. He has two or three
poetry lectures which are in tlla
favor among the high-browed. Also
he collects rare books and things ana
knows something about architecture
and pictures I don't know how much
but enough to impress people out here
where a man Isn't expected to know
much of anything except how to earn
a living for his family and where the
Uplift is left largely to the women.
The women fairly dote upon the
Poet. They say he has the artistic tem
perament. He is the sort of person
who shudders if he finds a triptych
which an ignorant amateur decorator,
In his unguided search for the beauti
ful, has used upside down. Under
stand, I don't know what a triptych is,
but anyway he is always going around
picking people's houses and clothes to
pieces and explaining how they are ar
tistically impossible, violating all the
canons of art and so forth. No doubt
he is right, but it is the sort of talk
calculated to make a healthy man long
to give him a swift and vigorous kick.
The Poet is as careful about his dress
as he is about everything else. He
wears his hair rather long and affects
a Van Dvke beard. He would faint
away at a ready-made cravat or any
such sartorial monstrosity, and he has
pent the best part of his life trying
to impress western men with the im
portance of correct dress for all occa
sions the frock coat and silk hat and
such toppy lugs for afternoon and the
proper functions of the dinner coat and
full evening dress.
An error of English jars the sensi
tive soul of the Poet, and a faulty
pronunciation gives him a nervous
headache. Still he enjoys pointing out
such errors and holding forth upon
them. Anything that gives him an op
portunity to tell what he knows is
worth while to the Poet. Talking is
really his long suit. He does this in a
gentle voice of ladylike modulations
and says a great many high-sounding
things which impress the average man
who reads nothing except the headlines
and the sporting page in the daily pa
pers. They do not know that the
Poet's Ideas are all borrowed and many
of his expressions as well. They think
him, as they express it, "very brainy
and literary." Anybody must be who
can talk so long without uttering a sin
gle intelligible sentence. However,
they are perfectly willing that some
one else should listen to his lectures.
But for all his fine discriminating taste,
his delicate reserves, and sensitive
shrlnkings, his artistic temperament,
and all the rest his admirers would
probably say because of these, but that
doesn't go with me the Poet is a fire
side tyrant one of thoje petty, exact
ing tyrants who know how to make a
whole family miserable. His wife, who
is just an ordinary woman who might
have been very happy with a plain,
plug man, wears an habitual expres
sion of deprecation and apology and
has worn out the best years of her
life in a vain effort to come up to the
artistic expectations of her husband, to
share his emotions over poetry and
things, to understand his antipathies
and ward oft his wrath when the an
tipathies are unusually aroused. His
children are frightened to death of
him and it is almost an impossibility
to keep a servant In the household.
Of course the club women rave over
him and the papers habitually refer
to him as a Poet or a dilettante in art,
or a literateur or some other term
that sounds equally good and equally
vague to the reporters who do pieces
about his lectures or after-dinner talks
at public and lodge banquets. And no
doubt his wife worships him it's a
way women have with selfish, domi
neering, arrogance In masculine guise
but all the same she'd been much
happier with a plain, plug man who
Bald "have saw," used a toothpick at
the table, liked Charles Harris in mu
sic, the chromo in art and wouldn't
know a dithryamb If he should meet it
coming up the street.
A man and a woman are rarely "on
the square" with one another. Prob
ably If they were the race suicide
alarmists would have more to worry
about. For the chances are that in
every love affair, duplicity and deceit of
a narmiess sort, play a large and Im
portant part. If the average man who
Ms In love with a girl knew h fir a i rVi
really is and not as her pose and his
passion have made her seem to him,
and if she could see him stripped of
tho glamour of romance in which her
imagination nas enveloped him and the
attitude of chivalry, conscious and un
conscious, which his feeling for her has
engendered, it is safe to say their In
terest in one another would not last
long. And that Is why marriages are
often failures and why romantic love
rarely outlasts the honeymoon.
The man and woman have loved not
Public Sale
REGISTERED
Holstein-Frisian Cattle
STATE FAIR GROUNDS, TOPEKA, KANS.,
Wednesday, Nov.. 29th
g Head Registered and Grade Holstein-Frisian Cows,
11 Heifers and Bulls, rich in the blood of the best milk
and butter families. Some of the cows now fresh,
some to calve soon, and others in early spring. A portion of
the offering are Heifers, the making of great producing cows,
and a few bulls.
Shady Brook Oerban Sir D Kol, 30479 : nine nearest ancestors average
a seven-day Butter Record of 26 lbs. each.
SALE. WILL BEGIN AT 1 O'CLOCK SHARP
Terms made known day of sale. Write now for catalogue.
Hi N. HALDEMAIM,
Topeka, Kan., or Girard, Kan.
PHILOSOPHER
each other as they really are and as
they reveal themselves under closer ac
quaintance, but creations of their
imaginations which have no existence
In fact.
This is especially true of very young
lovers and it is the one argument
against a youthful marriage. Worldly
wisdom and experience rob us of many
of our illusions we expect less of life
and less of our friends and observa
tion has taught us that marriage is not
Invariably a dream of Joy, so we ex
pect less of it than we would have in
our younger days. It is impossible for
a man in love to realize that the girl
he loves is not all that his fancy paints
her. still in the light of sober reason
and past experience, he knows it
is improbable that she is, and he is.
In a measure, prepared for some dis
appointments and ready to accept them
stoically and make the best of them.
The girl's attitude is much the same.
Sometimes, she is aware, they -will
know one another as they really are.
see through the mental and spiritual
poses they have assumed for another's
benefit, or which Nature, that clever
but autocratic diplomat has contrived
that they should assume for her own
eternal purposes and their individual
undoing, but meanwhile life is young
and they love each other. It Is a mad
plunge, they are vaguely aware, but
they are willing to shut their eyes and
take a chance. a
ESCAPED PRISONER'S REVENGE.
Broke Jail to Kill His Brother and .a
Faithless Sweetheart.
Paris, Nov. 25. When Gustave Rol
land, who has served several terms in
jail, went to Tarascon to undergo his
eighth sentence of Imprisonment he
left Marie Ziegler, his sweetheart, in
the care of his friends. They were
charged to watch her actions and re
port to him anything which they con
sidered he ought to know. The friends
of the prisoner played the detective
very well. They found that Marie
Ziegler had conceived a predilection for
her lover s brother, and that a mar
riage was talked of.
Accordingly they informed the pris- !
oner what was going to happen. The
fury of Rolland when this Information i
was conveyed to him knew no bounds.
It served to endow him with the neces
sary energy and ingenuity to effect his
escape. One night he made a rope of
his bedclothes, which he cut into
strips, and lowered himself from a
height of 135 fret, after having
broken the door of his cell. He came
to Paris, but was arrested by detec
tives. "Let me go!" he cried. "I am
going to kill my brother and Marie,
and afterwards I will return and give
myself up."
SKTPPER DRANK DISINFECTANT.
Then Berated the Doctor on Account
of Its Bad Quality.
Berlin, Nov. 25. A laughable inci
dent happened the other day, accord
ing to the "Ostpreusslsche Zeitung," on
the Gilge, a tributary to the river Nie
men, in eastern Prussia, where, it ap
pears, tha precautionary measures
against the spread of cholera are still
being enforced. The medical officer
charged with the sanitary supervision
of the river craft boarded a barge for
inspection, and gave the usual instruc
tions, accompanied by a tin of white
wash for disinfecting purposes, to the
skipper. The latter, an irascible old
sailor, growled that "he could not be
bothered about instructions." "He
knew all about it, as he had been
through a previous epidemic."
Some time after, the same barge re
turned up-stream, and the doctor on
his visit was greeted with a torrent of
abuse regarding the bad quality of the
disinfectant supplied, which, the skip
per said, had given his stomach "a
devilish bad turn," though he had
taken it diluted with water. The doc
tor's reply is not recorded, but It Is
fair to assume that he was speechless
for a time.
Betrayed by Fever.
Berlin, Nov. 25. The mystery of a
murder committed in a forest near
Oberkaufungen seven years ago has
Just been solved In a curious manner.
A dead body was found by a Swiss em
ployed on the estate, robbery, appar
ently, having been the motive of the
crime. No trace of the murderer
could be found, and the crime was al
most forgotten. On the same place,
where the Swiss was employed, stands
a smithy. The smith became ill a short
time ago and was removed to a hos
pital. In his delirium he spoke of the
murder, and confessed that he had
committed the crime. His story was
investigated, with the result that when
he recovered from the fever he was
arrested, and is now in prison.
The Quit-Business Sale !
Of the C. J. Mills StocK of Furniture is still going on. Every day's
sales are larger. People who came and bought during the early days of the sale, are 0
coming back and bringing their friends with them.
No Sale of Furniture in TopcKa Ever Sold Furniture at Such
Low Prices as We Are MaKmg at This Quit -Business Sale
We have had a great many customers come in and buy who have been in almost 0
every furniture store in Topeka and got their prices. They bought at our store.
That explains why our trade has increased every day since the Sale began.
Now is your time to buy handsome articles of
Furniture for Christmas Presents
When you can buy them for less than mauf acturers' cost, at a saving of 30 to 50 per 0
cent to you.
Ind. Phone 1485 Q J MILLS 507 Kansas Avenue
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THE CHURCHES
And Other Religious
Organizations.
N. B. There are probably a number of
errors in this list. Pastors and others will
confer a favor Dy sending, in writing, any
proper changes to The State Journal so
that the list may be kept correct to date
each week.l
BAPTIST.
First Baptist Corner Ninth and Jack
son streets. Rev. Thomas S. Young, pas
torr. North Topeka Baptist Corner Harrison
and Laurent streets. North Topeka. Rev.
Waiter E. Tanner, pastor; residence 316
West Laurent street.
First German Baptist Madison street,
between Second and Third streets. Rev.
Jacob Albeit, pastor; residence 233 Mon
roe street.
Swedish Baptist Corner Fourth ana
Fillmore streets. Rev. Gustaf Nyquist,
pastor; residence 222 Fillmore street.
Second Baptist (African) Corner Third
and Quincy streets. Rev. C. H. Duvall,
pastor; residence 712 Western avtjnue.
Third Baptist (African) Corner Twelfth
and Washington streets. Rev. W. P.
Brinks, pastor; residence 1121 Lime street;
-B Street uaptist tAtncani-i-orirer
Railroad and Western avenues. North To
peka. Rev. W. H. Hart, pastor; residence
309 Laurent street.
Central Baptist (African) 426 West Gor
don street, North Topeka. Rev. H. W.
White, pastor; residence 917 Topeka ave
nuu. Sliiloh Baptist (African) 1201 Buchanan
street. Rev. C. G. Fishback, pastor; res
idence 1201 Buchanan street.
Kount Olive Baptist (Airicanj uornjjr
Kious and Madison streets. North Tope
ka. Rev. H. B. Do Moss, pastor.
Primitive Baptist (African) Corner of
King and Buchanan streets. No regular
Bastor.
Mount Hope Baptist (African) Topeka
avenue. Rev. A.'B. Stoner, pastor; resi
dence Sixth avenue and Locust street.
CATHOLIC.
Church of the Assumption Eighth ave
nue, near corner of Jackson street. Very
Rev. F. M. Hayden, dean, rector; Rev.
Hippolyte Topet, O. S. B.. assistant; res
idence 206 West Eighth street.
St. Joseph's German Catholic Comer
Third and Van Buren streets. Rev. Fran
cis Henry, pastor; residence 228 Harrison
street.
CHRISTIAN.
First Christian Topeka avenue, between
Sixth avenue and Seventh street. Rev.
Charles A. Finch, pastor; residence 623
West Sixth avenue.
North Topeka Christian church Corner
Kious street and Central avenue. Rev. F.
H. Bentley, pastor; residence, 1422 North
Topeka avenue.
Second Christian (African) Fourth
street, between Polk and Taylor streets.
Rev. B. C. Duke, pastor; residence, 1216
West Twelfth street.
Third Christian Corner Third and Lake
streets. Rev. F. E. Mallory, pastor; resi
dence, 1307 East Sixth avenue.
Oakland Christian Rev. Homer Foltz,
pastor; residence. 219 Winneld street.
Central Park Christian church Corner
Sixteenth and Central Park avenue. Rev.
C. A. Poison, pastor: residence, 1424 Lin
coln street.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Firt Congregational Corner Seventh
and Harrison streets. Rev. F. L. Hayes,
pastor; residence, 429 Harrison street.
Central Congregational Corner Hun
toon and Rnchanan streets. Rev. Charles
M. Sheldon, pastor; residence, 1515 West
Fifteenth street.
North Congregational Corner Jackson
and Laurent streets. North Topeka. Rev.
T. J. Pearson, pastor; residence 833 Mor
ris avenue.
Seabrook Congregational Southwest of
city. Rev. P. B. Lee, pastor; residence,
Nineteenth and Highland avenue.
Mission of the Central Congregational
Church Corner King and Lincoln streets.
B. E. Crane, superintendent; residence,
1167 Lincoln street. ,
EPISCOPAL.
Grace Cathedral Corner Polk street
and Eighth avenue. Right Rev. Frank R.
Millspaugh, D. D., bishop of the diocese;
Tamps P. de Bevers Kaye. dean; resi
dence, corner Eighth avenue and Taylor
BtChurch of the Good Shepherd Corner
of Quincy and Laurent streets. North To-
Seka. Rev. DeLou Burke, canon; Tesi
ence, 1101 Western avenue.
Saint Simon the Cyrenlan Mission
(African) Corner Seventh and Western
avenue. Rev. DeLou Burke, canon; resi
dence, 1101 Western avenue.
LUTHERAN.
First Lutheran Corner Fifth and Har
rison streets. Rev. H. A. Ott, pastor;
residence, 333 Tyler street.
St. Johns' German Lutheran church,
Missouri Synod Corner Second and Van
Buren streets. Rev. Theo. Bunder. thai,
pastor; residence, 213 West Second street.
Swedish Lutheran Corner Fourth and
Tyler streets. David Nordllng, pastor;
residence, 516 West Fourth street.
Swedish Bethel Polk street, between
Fifth street and Sixth avenue. Rev. Peter
Persson, pastor: residence, 622 Clay street.
METHODIST.
First M. E. Corner Sixth avenue and
Harrison street. Rev. W. C. Evans, pas
tor; residence, 500 Topeka avenue.
Kansas Avenue M. E. church Between
Gordon and Fairehild streets. North To
peka. Rev. J. W. Reed, pastor; residence.
1010 North Jackson street.
Oakland M. E. church Corner Chester
and Sardou avenues. Oakland. Rev. A.
ft Boyd, pastor; residence, 389 Chester
avenue.
Walnut Grove M. E. Corner Sixteenth
and Harrisons streets. Rev. David A.
Schutt, pastor; residence, 1609 Harrison
street.
Parkdale M. E. Corner Seventh and
Lime streets. E. O. Raymond, pastor.
'Lowmaii Hill M. E. church Corner
Morris avenue and Eleventh street. Rev.
C. B. Tlolcombe. pastor; residence, 1124
Garfield street.
German M. E. -Corner Fifth and Tyler
streets. Rev. H. Brum, pastor; residence,
514 Wi;st Fifth street.
Asbury M. E. African. SS7 Van Buren
street. North Topeka. Rev. J. D. Smith,
pastor; residence, 115 Lane street.
Mount Olive M. K African. Buchanan
street, between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets. Rev. J. S. Burton, pastor; resi
dence, 1182 Buchanan street.
Brows Chapel M. E. African. 1206
Washington street. Rev. J. M. Pope, pas
tor; residence. 1205 Washington street.
First M. E. Mission 426 Jefferson street.
No regular pastor.
Euclid Avenue M. E. Corner Euclid
avenue andXane street- Rev. J. J. Skin
ner, pastoff residence, 1733 Buchanan
street.
St. John's African M. E. Corner Topeka
avenue and Seventh street. J. F. C. Tay
lor, pastor; residence, 511 West Seventh
street.
Wesleyan Methodist Jefferson street,
between Third and Fourth streets. Rev.
C. F. Carkuff, pastor; residence, 505 East
Third street.'
Second Wes!eyanMethod!st uorner
Fifth and Leland streets. Rev. I. A. Wil
liams, pastor; residence, 906 East Sixth
avenue.
Free Methodist Lake street, near
Eighth avenue. Rev. F. E. Bonham, pas
tor: residence, 1106 T.ljne street.
St. Mark's M. E. African Railroad
street, near Rock Island railway, North
Topeka. Rev. J. W. Williams, pastor;
residence, 805 North Harrison street.
Lane Chapel. M. E. African Corner
Fourteenth and Van Buren streets. Rev.
J. W. Jacobs, pastor; residence, 1335 Van
Buren street.
PRESBYTERIAN.
First Presbyterian Harrison street,
between Eighth avenue and Ninth street.
Rev. S. S. Estey, pastor; residence, 819
Harrison street.
Second Presbyterian church Corner
Jackson and Gordon streets. North
Topeka. Rev. John S. Glendenning. pas
tor; residence, 1310 North Quincy street.
Third Presbyterian Fourth street, be
tween Chandler and Branner streets. W.
M. Cleveland, pastor; residence, 1001 East
Fourth street.
Westminster Presbyterian Corner Col
lege avenue and Huntoon street. Rev.
Frank Ward, pastor.
Oakland Presbyterian Corner Winfleld
and Riverside avenues, Oakland. Rev. S.
A. Alt, pastor; residence, 205 Winfield
avenue. -..
Cumberland Presbyterian Corner Fifth
and West streets. Rev. A. H. Kelso, pas
tor; residence, 1612 West Sixth avenue.
First Cumberland Presbyterian African
500 Jackson street, North Topeka.
Second Cumberland Presbyterian. Afri
canail East Thirteenth street. Rev. J.
E. Cary, pastor; residence, 211 East
Thirteenth street.
First United Presbyterian Corner
Eifthth and Topeka avenues. Rev. J. A.
Ren wick, pastor; residence, 812 Tyler
street.
Second Presbyterian Corner Fillmore
and Huntoon streets. Rev. 3. P. White,
pastor: residence, 816 Huntoon street.
Reformer! Presbvtcrian Clay street, be
tween Ninth street and Tenth avenue.
Pastor, Rev. W. W. Wilson. 922 Clay
street.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
First Church of Christ. Scientist Cor
ner Huntoon and Polk streets. Mrs. W.
D. McKinney, first reader, 1112 West Sixth
avenue.
Second Church of Christ. Scientist 108
West Ninth street. Ruth Wells, reader;
residence. 107 West Eleventh street.
MISCELLLANEOTJS.
First United Brethren Corner Quincy
and Twelfth streets. Rev. T. D. Crites,
pastor; residence, 112 East Twelfth
street.
Evangelical (Albright) German Corner
Fourth and Monroe streets. Rev. Peter
Schumann, pastor; residence, 329 Monroe
street.
First Unitarian Topeka avenue, be
tween Ninth street and Tenth avenue.
Rev. Abram Wyman, pastor; residence,
305 Greenwood avenue.
Seventh Day Adventlst Corner Fifth
street and Western avenue. Rev. E. T.
Russell, elder; residence, 501 Polk street.
Swedish Mission 532 Polk street,
Rev. Peter Persson, pastor; residence,
622 Clay street.
New Jerusalem. Swedenborglan 600
Harrison street. No regular pastor.
The Church of God Corner Grant and
Jackson streets, North Topeka, No reg
ular pastor.
Salvation Army Barracks, 312 Kansas
avenue. Captain and Mrs. E. Stinnett,
officers In charge.
St- Paul's Evangelical church Corner
Fourth and Monroe streets. Rev. Mr.
Voightling, pastor; residence. Alma, Kan.
CHURCH NOTES.
The subject for the 11 o'clock Sun
day morning service at First Church of
Christ, Scientist, will be. "God the Only
Cause and Creator."
At the Parkdale church on Thanks
giving day there will he a social for the
old people from 1 o'clock until 4
o'clock in the afternoon. From :Ss
until 8:00 o'clock in the evening a gen-
eral social for everyone. Regular ser
vices Sunday.
Rev. W. S. Louie will speak at the
morning service of the North Topeka
Christian church. At the evening ser
vice the pastor, the Rev. F. H. Ben
nett will have for his topic: "What the
Disciples Believe and Teach Concern
ing Repentance."
The First Spiritual church will open
their meetings in the Security building,
Seventh and Kansas avenue, Sunday at
7:30 p. m. Mrs. Bessie Bellman will
lecture and Mrs. Inez Wagner will give
messages. All are invited.
At the First Cumberland Presbyter
ian church, the Rev. Mr. Madden will
take for his subject Sunday at 11
o'clock "The . Uplifting Power of
Christ." at 7:30, his subject will be
"Love's Lasting Memorial," a special
service for ladies, but men as well are
invited. There will be special music.
Violin solo by Mrs. Foster and two se
lections by Ladies' quartette.
The Ladies of the First Cumberland
Presbyterian church will give a Wo
man's service at their church Sunday
evening with the following program:
Organ Prelude Barnard
Mrs. McReynoIds.
Hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God
Almighty" Dykes
Invocation.
Hymn -"Loving Kindness" ... .Anon
Vocal Solo Bowroski
Mrs. Frank Foster.
Scripture.
Prayer.
Quartette Thomson
Ladies Quartette.
Offertory Dana
Vocal Solo.
Sermon "Love's Lasting Memor
ial" .- Pastor
Prayer.
Quartette Nickle
Ladies Quartette.
Hymn "The Wondrous Story" . . .
Bilhorn
Organ Postlude Wallis
Ten Minutes Greeting.
Men as well as ladles are invited.
The Thanksgiving sermon will be
conducted by the Rev. O. A. Raymond
for the Third Presbyterian church at
the Third Christian church Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock.
At the North Topeka Baptist church
tha Sunday morning services will be in
the nature of a church rally. In the
evening the pastor, the Rev. W. E.
Tanner, will present the second of the
series of sermons entitled "Night
Scenes of the Bible," using as a sub
ject, "A Great Wrestling Match.
At the First Methodist church, the
pulpit will be occupied both Sunday
morning and evening by the Rev.
Frank Lenig, Ph. D., of Lawrence,
Kan.
Tho service at the First Baptist
church will be of special interest Sun
day evening. Ordinance of baptism at
tn-'nr
lustrated song service led by a chorus
of forty voices to follow. The ser
mon will ba an illustrated temperance
sermon.
The First United Brethren church
will have services in the morning by
the new pastor, the Rev. W. S. Baker,
with the topic. Pray for Laborers." In
the evening tha subject will be "Flesh
Against Spirit.
At the First United Brethren church
on Thanksgiving the program will be
gin at 11 a. m. Everyone is requested
to bring dinner. Tables will be pre
pared in the lecture room.
A special Thanksgiving service will
be held at the Young Women's Chris
tian Association rooms Sunday after
noon at 4:15. Miss Louise Allison will
have charge of the meeting. The
Misses Irene and Lucile Frank will
sing.
All women invited.
The topic chosen for the morning
sermon at the First Baptist church by
the Rev. Thomas S. Young, pastor, is
"How Not to Do It." The evening ser
vice will consist of a temperance talk
and song service illustrated with stere
opticon views. There will be baptism
at the opening of the sen-ice.
At the Lowman Chapel, C. E. Hol
comb, pastor, the morning subject will
be "Love Envieth Not." In the even
ing the presiding elder will conduct the
services. Quarterly conference Mon
day at 7:30 p. m.
At the First Unitarian church, the
morning services will be conducted by
the pastor, .Rev. Abram Wyman, the
topic "What Unitarianism Means." The
Rnndav school lesson topic, "Psalms of
Trust." The-subject of the religious
study class at noon, win os toi.
James' "Varieties of Religious Experi
ence." The subject for the Young
People's Religious society at 4 p. m.
will be; "What can I Do to Help the
Young People's Society This Year."
The Ladies' Missionary society of
Westminster Presbyterian church will
hold their annual prayer meeUng Sun
day evening at 7:30. A special pro
gram has been prepared. The friends
of the congregation are invited.
At the Quinton Heights school house
in the evening Judge West, superin
tendent of the First Baptist Sunday
school, will speak on the subject of
"Free Moral Agents." Mrs. W. F. Ax
tell will play a violin solo. Mr. Axtell
will sins.
At the Railroad Y. M. C. A. Sunday
afternoon the Rev. Dr. Estey of the
First Presbyterian church will speak
to young men about "Traps." Mrs. R.
H. Morehouse will render several solos.
All men arc invited.
At the First Presbyterian church,
the Rev. Stephen's. Estey, pastor, serv
ices will be held in the morning in the
lecture room on account of remodeling
the church. No evening service.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Gleaned from Teachings
of All Denominations.
Christianity's two greatest miracles
are that it makes the marvelous com
monplace and the commonplace mar
velous. Rev. Dr. James B. Clayton,
Baptist, Louisville, Ky.
NOT A MYTH.
This Christianity of ours is no myth.
You can throw your weight on the
promises of God, and they will not go
down. Rev. A. Z. Conrad, Congrega
tionalism Boston.
A WARNING.
Emotionalism and spiritualism go to
gether to a certain extent, but to be
good Christians it is not necessary to
be too demonstrative. Rev. W. H.
Chandler, Methodist, Chicago.
CHARACTER.
The joys, sorrows, pleasures and
pains of this life are discovered in
character, and through these each man
must work out his own salvaUon.
Rev. Dr. E. H. Ward, Episcopalian,
Pittsburg.
UNBELIEF PARALYZES POWER.
It is unbelief, unbelief, the sin that
doth so easily beset. This is the sin
that paralyzes power and unnerves the
man for running this race more than
any other. Rev. Dr. G. Campbell Mor
gan, Presbyterian, London.
REAL BASIS OF RESPECT.
A man is to be respected and honor
ed not because he has beaten some
one else or got advantage of his fel
lows, but bcause he has accomplished
f worth in itself, because
he has something of worth in himself.
This should be the real basis of re
spect. Rev. E. P. Tuller, Baptist, Chi
cago.
GOD'S LAWS.
A spiritually minded person is one
whose life is controlled by the laws
of the invisible kingdom of God as set
! forth in the New Testament. His code
is love toward God and man. It is
his fixed purpose to obey this law. no
matter what it may cost him. Rev.
A. S. Gregg, Methodist, Worcester
Mass.
DEFINITION OF EDUCATION.
Education is not cramming the mind
with information. It is rather the ae
velopment of the powers of mind, body
and soul. An institution of learning is
not a shop where men are taught to
perform certain tasks like a machine.
It is rather a place where men are
taught to study, think and act. There
is danger In magnifying the place of
fraternities in our high schools. The
folly of a good time at the expense of
good work is almost criminal. No one
dubts the benefit of athletics in our
schools, but we must not forget that
there is a brain as well as an arm and
that after all it is mind that counts.
Rev. William Hathaway Pound, Con
gregationalist, Chicago.
BEAUTY OF CHRISTIAN HOPE.
There Is always hope for a man
while there is hope in a man. Most of
our defeats and failures are due to a
faint heart. Many an evil vanishes
when the mental attitude of fear is
changed to fight, and many a defeat is
changed to victory by a song of hope.
Hope does not foolishly cajole us into
believing that there are no ills In life,
but it assures us that we will win out
in "the end. It does not minimize the
awfulness of sin, but it magnifies the
wonders oX divine grace. Where sin
abounds grace much more abounds.
Christian hope does not need to hide
its head like the ostrich in the sand to
blind Itself to the pursuer it cannot
escape. Like Jesus It weeps at the
tomb and shudders at the horror of the
grave, but like Jesus it triumphs over
an. Rev. T. Fross Paden, Presbyter
ian, Allegheny, Pa.
A SOCIAL NECESSITY.
The church is neither a charity no
a luxury. Laying aside all Questions
of religious culture, the church Is a
financial and social necessity, and the
money you spend for public worship
is just as really spent upon yourself as
though you put it into a garment to
cover you or in a house to shelter you.
Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peters, Baptist,
Baltimore.
TRUTH.
The great thinkers and educators of
the world today are followers of the
Man of Galilee. Christ assigned the
highest place to truth. He has arous
ed the mental energies of mankind and
poured his rays of knowledge and wis
dom into all the regions of thought
and given guidance to the student In
the temple of learning as well as to the
pilgrim on tho way to heaven. Rev.
John L. Brandt, Christian Church, St.
Louis.
CHURCH PAUPERIZATION BY
RICH GIFTS.
There Is danger of the church becom
ing pauperized by the rich givers. If
God can bless and usa the large gift
of "tainted money" it is because of the
disinfecting Dowef of the small gift
of pure money that is given in a spirit
of love. Jesus turned his microscope
on a small offering the widow's mite
and made It Seem larger than the rich
man's golden contributions. This we
need to emphasize in these days. There
is danger of the church becoming pau
perized by rich givers. Rev. Frederick
Staff, Methodist. Chicago.
EDUCATING FOR LIFE.
To educate for life Is not merely to
equip to earn money. I do not decry
money. It is not necessarily bad It
can be very good. But money is not
the highest good or the deepest happi
ness. It alone cannot make life gen
uine, desirable and worth while. We
may be rich In money and poor In life.
Let us spare our children this curse.
Let us not surround them like Sisy
phus with things they are Incapable to
use. God made our children men; let
us not make them machines, cash reg
isters. God has given us heart, head
and hands. They have higher possibil
ities and uses than to be mere feeders
to stomachs or tentacles to pockets.
We should educate our children to
make the highest use of money if they
have It and to get along without it if
they lack it. They should be cultivated
with more than material interests and
physical gratifications. "Train up a
child in the way he should go." That
way Is to give him opportunity and en
couragement to acquire deftness, skill,
cultured senses, higher ideals, sympa
thies and an all round symmetrical de
velopment. To have such is living. To
strive for such Is to educate for life,
for the human life. Such is the proper
educational task of our children. It Is
our task and duty as their parents.
Rabbi Alexander Lyons, M. A., Brook
lyn. THE CHURCH AND TAINTED
MONEY.
There Is no moral quality resident la
money nor can a moral quality be Im
parted from the giver to the gift.
Money is impersonal. It Is simply a
representative value and morally neg
ative and colorless. It cannot receive
any taint in the method of its acquire
ment nor in the hand that bestows it
Many persons would regard money ac
quired in the brewery business as
tainted. And yet there recently died
a brewer of unimpeachable integrity
In business relations, a member in good
and regular standing In an evangelical
church, who when asked on his dying
bed if he had any counsel or admoni
tion he would like to give replied. "I
am thankful I can look God in tha
face and say that I never brewed bad
beer." The attitude of the church to
ward all classes and conditions of men
should be the attitude of Jesus Christ.
The question for the church to declda
is, What would Christ do? Directed
by his example, as given in the gos
pels, the church would receive the gifts
of men, even though condemning the
methods of acquisition. Let the church
speak In no hesitating or uncertain
tone concerning dishonesty, trickery,
fraud, deception In trade. Let It con
demn in severest terms all efforts to
accumulate wealth through plunder or
robbery. Let It show most certainly
that no man can buy his way into the
kingdom of heaven. But why should
it refuse to accept the services or gifts
of men when such services or gifts are
rendered in a right spirit? Christ re
ceived the gifts of the abandoned, the
unjust, the despised. Shall the church
make herself holie than her divine
Lord? Rev. Dr. William C. Stinson,
, Reformed, New York.