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A representative of the Farmer and
Stockman, a weekly paper published
at Kansas City, in the interest of
the farmers of Western Missouri and
Kansas in its issue of April 25th has
an extended write-up of Alex Phil
ip and Son's Big Creek ranch. The
story covers nearly two pages of the
paper, including photographs of their j
new ten room modern dwelling re- j
cently built, and an excellent picture
of a herd of white-face cattle. We j
quote the following from the article : j
Forty-f our years ago this spring :
there journeyed from the hills of
Scotland to Western Kansas, Ellis
County, a young man, bare-handed
but aglow with the enthusiasm of
youth and fired with the ambition to
conquer and build a home for himself
in the great free land of America.
He made good, for straightway he
began to turn Nature's stores into
useful things and today, as recom
pense for his trift an dindustry, he is
' er of close to 6,000 acres of
Ellis and Trego County land, upon
which he has raised thousands of
good cattle, and grown many more
thousands of bushels of wheat and
other grains. This young man was
Alexander ("Alex") Philip, who to
day is known to practically every
stockman in Kansas and half a dozen
other western states.
As we rode with Mr. Philip and his
son, William D. ("Bill"), over the
broad undulating acres of this fam
ous Western Kansas farm known as
Big Creek Stock Farm the other
day, we were reminded of the words
of the late Joseph E. Wing, when; in
discussing pastures, he said: "There
is something that comes from living
; amid pastures that makes men sane,
patient, enduring, imbued with deep
love for their land and their country."
How true that is! But perhaps it
is not so much the pastures that have
his broadening effect upon those who
know them best as it is the herds they
support or possibly it is the combined
effect of the two. True it is that the
" real stockman, the man who raises
cattle, horses, sheep, or hogs because
he loves the business for its own sake
rather than for the money it brings,
is not only sane, patient and endur
ing, but also truthful, honest and
kind. We believe that these great at
tributes of character are in some way
absorbed and developed from close
contact with Nature and God's dumb
creatures. Be that as it may, the
true stockman invariably has them
and the better you get to know him
the more you appreciate his broad
sympathies and his big heart. It is
among the old pioneers that one finds
true hospitality the kind that is pure
and unadulterated and springs from
the heart, yea, from the very soul.
Such is the hospitality of "Alex" Phil
ip and son, whom we had the pleasure
of visitng a short time ago.
Big Creek Stock Farm, founded by
"Alex" Philip in 1875, is the only
large stock farm in Ellis County, we
believe, that is still owned and oper
ated by the man who founded it and
who came into that section in an ear
ly day. It comprises an acreaage of
4,160 acres,' but is supplemented by
1,760 acres in Trego County, direct
ly west of Ellis. Thus Big Creek
Stock Farm may be considered as a
farm of 5,920 acres. There are hun
dreds of thrilling incidents connected
with the building of this great west
ern stock farm that might serve the
novelist as a foundation for an inter
' esting book on western life in pio
neer days. There were Indians to
fight in early times, and there have
been hailstorms, cyclones, severe
drouths and insects to contend with
ever since, but in spite of drawbacks,
and discouragements a great ranch
has been established that for a score
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of years has supported 500 choice
breeding cows and paid for the land
that gave them support land that
ttoday is worth considerably over a
quarter million dollars..
Mrs. Daniel McCarthy, who has
been visiting her son, Will, in Os
borne, returned Monday noon.
On Friday morning, in the hospital,
a son was born to Jir. ana Mrs. h.a.
Briggs of Collier. Mr. Briggs, Sr.,
who has been in the hospital for
some time returned home Monday
noon.
i The recital of Miss Eyler and Perle
Tilley with Miss Scnven as accompan
ist on Tuesday evening, was well at
tended. The performance of the two
violinists was very fine and Miss
Scriven showed herself an able ac
companist.
The M. E. Sunday School elected
Mrs. Fred Albertson delegate and
Miss Alta Garrett alternate for the
State convention to be held at Hutch
inson, nex week. The Workers class
will send wo delegates, the Misses
Evadna Kraus and Olive Runyon.
The Workers class held a business
meeting Monday night and elected
the following officers. President,
Jaisy Beeby; Vice President, Marie
Weber; Secretary, Iona Goetchius,
Treasurer, Katherine Snapp.
Prof, and Mrs. H. R. Phalen of
Berea, Ky., are attending the races at
Lexington, this week. They are be
ing entertained by a gran1 daughter
of the late Henry Clay, at the old
Clay mansion. At the race track
they occupy the old Henry Clay box.
Mrs. Phalen is the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Geo. B. Snyder of our city.
Prof. Phalen recently was appointed
to a chair in Armour Institute of
Technology, Chicago, where they will
reside after May 30th.
The Bureau of Animal Industry of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
has named Miss Rena Faubian, a
home economics teaches of the Fort
Hays Kansas Normal School to en
courage in Kansas the production of
cottage cheese on farms, and also to
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SLimuxctLe ils use ui uuiue. luiaa rau-
bion, one of forty-seven - women
agents for as many states, is to co
operate with Federal and State agri
cultural home demonstration agents.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Lu
theran Church will meet with Mrs.
H. B. Kohl on Thursday afternoon,
May the 9th.
The Hays Music Club met with
Mrs. Wood on Tuesday afternoon,
and a good program was rendered.
The club was delighted to have Mrs.
James Reeder with them. She played j
thp accompaniments for Mrs. Mat
thew, who sang for us again after a
long enforced silence. A motion was
carried to reduce the dues, 75 cents
for active members, and $1.00 for
associate members. The next meet
ing will be an open meeting with Mrs.
C. W. Miller, Jr., on May 4th. This
is to be a victrola concert of records
sent out by K. U.
The East District Conference of
S. S. workers was held lastt Sunday
afternoon at the Lutheran church
with a good crowd attending. Two
addresses were given, one by Dr.
Snapp and the other by the Rev.
Rogers. Some problems of county
work were discussed by Mrs. Wood
and then were good reports from the
Sunday School comprising this dis
trict. The following officers were
elected: President, Mr. C. E. Malm
berg; Vice President, Mr. A. F.
Stone, Codell, Kansas; Secretary and
Treasurer, Mrs. F. B. Lee.
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CHRISTIANITY and LITERATURE
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nearly 500 references to it are found
in his poems. If Shakespeare is sat
urated with Scriptures, Browning is
fairly inundated submerged ! "Christ
mas Day and Easter Day, two
short poems contain more than a
hundred each. In the "Ring and the
Book" there are nearly a thousand,
28 of the 29 books of the Old Testa
ment having furnished this versatile
author with materials for his great
masterpieces. Many of his best poems
are based on Biblical subjects.
There are about 13,000 Bib
lical references in Ruskin's
works, and he always quoted from
memory. It is remarkable that? only
one small misquotation has been dis
covered. Ruskin wrote of the "three
smooth stones out of the brook,"
with which David went to meet Goli
ath. The Bible states that there were
five. But some one remarks, "The
odd two are hardly worth throwing
at Ruskin s memory."
Prof. Albert T. Cook found in a
book of descriptive sketches of Italy
63 statements based upon Uibie
facts, and in a volume relating to
wild animals he found 12 Bible pas
sages. In one of Thomas Hardy's
books ho dsicovered 18 statements
that reauire a knowledge of the Bible
for their understanding. Some years
aero ex-president Harrison contribut
ed to the North American Review an
article on "Musing on Current Top
es." A reviewer later, referring to
this 13-page article, called attention
to the 21 quotations, 8 of which were
taken from the Bible
The Bible is a dynamic in the moral
world, a motor force in the spiritual
realm, a battery of such moral and
spiritual energy and power . that it
makes the world tingle to its fingers'
ends. What age, what nation, what
worthv institution has not felt the m
fluence of the Bible ! It has vitalized
art. literature, music and philosophy
It gives worth and permanence to
evervthiner it touches and uses. It
has entered" the very heart of advanc
ing civilization with all its depart
ments of activity and progress. It
holds its throne there above all riv
als and sways- its scepter by right of
its matchless superiority. It has fur
nished inspiration for the master in
tellects of the world. Its themes and
figures and principlses are perhaps the
most conspicuous elements in our lit
erature today. Take away all Biblic
al references from hymns, sermons,
poems, essays, history, fiction, laws,
painting, sculpture and music, and
you rob the world of its most price
less jewels. It penerated the being
of the great artists, it guided the hand
that painted the "Last Supper," and
directed the chisel of the sculptor
when the "Moses" and the "David"
were taking shape in stone. Could
the world afford to lose its Da Vincis
and its Angelos? It is true that myth
ology has a large representation in
art and literature, but its moral value,
its chief consideration, is largely neg
tive. Since the music of the Word
entered the souls of Handel and
Haydn the "Messiah" and the "Crea
tion" cannot be forgotten.
The New Testament the source
book of Christian doctrine and prac-
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is quoted even where it is not
obeyed. The Hun may claim special
partnership with God, but he knows
really nothing about its teachings. It
is an authority even where it is not
praciced, and is stoutly defended
where it is not honored. Even the
I. W. W. has it glibly upon his tongue
and quotes its teachings in terms of
his selfish and narow scheme of so
cial reconstruction, or rather destruc
tion. So today Christianity expresses it
self through Current literature. True,
much of the present day writing is
ephemeral but its source and inspira
tion are Christian and cannot be mis
taken. In a generation Harold Bell
Wright may be no more read than is
E. P. Roe today, but they have had
their vogue and have borne their wit
ness to the clean and sane influence
of the Christian spirit!
There are the Pseudo-Christian
writers, the so-called Christian writ
ers, who, after a very tardy and sup
erficial conversion brought about "by
the horrors of the present world war,
want to be listed among the elect
spirits of the "New Christianity" as
thev call it! With brilliant style and
faultless form they are bearing their
talented witness to the influence of
Christian thought, although they con
tinue to exploit their ancient errors
their false and unChristian views of
marriage, their bohemianism, and
their anarchism. They hold to the in
tellectual rather than to the spirit
ual conception of Christianity, plac
ing reason above. faith, and idiosyn
crasies above a common creed. What
they call faith is only a flirtation with
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Deity and revelation. They have not
yet had even a formal introduction!
They are certainly n6t on speaking
terms with Christianity. While these
writers are not strictly Christian in
the othodox sense that is, m the
Bbile sense thev get their inspira
tion from the Master Teacher and
the Book of Books.
I am frank to say I do not delight
in the vaporings of misty men
like H. G. Wells who inexperienced in
Christian discipline, hostile to the
evolutionary, historic and normal
development of Christianity,' now
penitent in a sense at the 11th
hour, a dying thief upon the cross, in
his ignorance, inexperience- and char,
acteristic intolerance and fervor of
the new proselyte, want to dictate to
an age-long civlization that has come
up "out of great tribulation" just
what it shall believe and do. For
many years a pronounced agnostic,
and even now defending a certain
kind of benevolent atheism, Wells has
been berating and ridiculing religion
ind God. He never sought to under
stand historic Christianity, but only
with tongue and pen to persecute the
church. Now after a sudden change
of mind he would reveal and dictate
true religion to the waiting and hun
gry world. If the disciples at Jeru
salem f eare dto receive the new con
vert, Saul of Tarsus, because of sus
picion. the Church today may well re
iect Mr. Wells as the self-appointed
apostle and exponent of Christianity
and the Christ of the gospels. I say
this knowing full well that Wells will
continue to be read with Meredith and
others, by progressive students in the
coming generations. A quotation or
two from "God the Invisible King"
will suffice. "Modern religion has no
revelation and no founder: it is the
privilege and the possession of no cot
erie of disciples or exponents; it is
appearing simultaneously around the
world exactly as a crystallizing sub
stance appears nere ana tnere m a
ersaturated solution. It is a pro
cess of truth, guided bv the divinity
in man. It needs no other guidance
and no protection. .It needs nothing
but freedom, free speech and honest
statement." (p. 173.) This is not a
criticism of present day Christianity.
but his idea . of what Christianity
aght to be. Christ s discourses in
the little upper room are hardly to be
erited as orthodox by this brilliant
author. If those last illuminatine up
per room conferences are correctly
eported Christ would not accept this
from Wells: "The extreme aloof
ness and inhumanitv, which is logic
ally necessary in the idea of a Crea
tor God, of an Infinite .God, was the
reason, so to speak, for the invention
of a Holy Spirit, as something pro
ceedmg from him, as something
-mdgmg the gulf, a Comforter, a me
diator descending into the sphere of
-he human understanding." (P.x)
This unsympathetic outsider and
stranger continues, "God is an im
mortal being arising out of man.
somewhere in the dawning of man
kind he had a beginning, an awaken
ing, and as mankind grows he grows.
(p. bl.) "With our eyes he looks
out upon the universe he invades;
with our hands he lays hands upon
All our truth, all our intentions
and achievements, he gathers to him
self. He is the undying human mem
ory, the increasing human will."
,od is not an aggregate but a syn
thesis. He is not merely the best of
us all, but a Being in himself, com
posed of that but more than that, as
a temple is more than a gathering of
stones, or a regiment is more than an
ccumulation of men." (p. 62).. "If
a figure may represent him it must be
the figure of a beautiful youth, al
ready brave and wise but hardly come
to his strength." (p. 64.) In spite
of all this camouflage of Bible phrase
ology, his god seems to be purely sub
jective and in no sense objective; it
seems that God did not make man
but that man made God! Of Wells
we might ask today, as the surprised
and skeptical people asked about the
seemingly penitent King Saul thirty
centuries ago, Is baul also among
the prophetst!" lhere is no humility,
no docility, but only pride of intellect.
it is not an attempt to improve, but
to side-track Christianity. These clev
er men, keen and plausible, of which
Wells is the type, would change the
majestic and spreading and hoary oak
into a cottonwood forgetful of the
fact that we have the ancient oak to
day only because an acorn was
dropped ino the soil in the far past
and that after the rooting, strength
enmg and testing of centuries of
storm and calm, the acorn developed
because of that which its Maker put
into it.
It has yet to be explained why
Christian students of large intellect
ual caliber should emerge from our
schools, colleges and universities
easily familiar with the profane po
ets, but almost entirely ignorant of
the beauties of the Bible. It is cer
tainly inexcusable that any educated
man should say that "Golgotha" is a
variation of "Goliath;" that "Golgo
tha was the name of the giant
whom .David slew! Frof. Phelps of
i ale, relates this of one of his stu
ents. This same author affirms that
"the Bible has within its pages every
single kind of literature that any pro
posed list of the English classics con
tains. Priests, atheists, skeptics, de
votees, agnostics, and evangelists, all
are agreed hat the authorized version
of the English Bible is the best ex
ample of English composition the
wolrd has ever seen. It combines the
noblest prose poetry with the utmost
simplicity of diction." Dr. Phelp
holds that to understand our secular
literature we must have an acquaint
ance with the Bible, and that the
present ignorance of the "best book
ever printed" makes the frequent
reference to it by practically every
English author meaningless.
III. This subject has a bearing on
Word Democracy.
As members of the same human
family we have a common calling. In
the largest sense the calling of one
is the calling of alL To this common
racial calling we give the general
name of Culture. Culture is as di
vine as any mission ever laid by God
upon mankind. As separate nations,
we rejoice m that calling, but selfish
:y follow our particular brand of cul
ture. Christianity has introduced the
idea of humanity which i3 esesntial to
Christian culture. All Christian ideals
are universal and Altruistic in their
scope. The Jew. misunderstood and
would not include the Gentile in the
world scheme. "Salvation is of the
Jews," was his slogan. We are just
as guilty and will not" now include the
German! "True culture is only of our
own type," we cry. So, in mistaken
zeal and prejudice, we banish from
our programs, exhibitions and institu
tions, but not from our hearts, than
God! such choice universal spirits as
Mendelssohn. Wagner and Goethe
forgetful of the fact that in some re
spects these men were aliens in their
own land! -
Music is a universal language.
we listen carefully it always tpeaks to
cost when the Spirit came, so it may ;
be said of music-lovers at any classic
gathering, no matter who the artist
or what the selection, "And every
man heard them speak in bis own lan
guage the wonderful works of
God." Art is a universal language.
Perhaps it is more limited than music,
but its appeal is primarily to the soul,
which needs no language but that of
igns. Literature is a universal lang
uage. erhap3 it is least so of all we
have mentioned. The classics are in
ternational in their appeal. They are
not. interned aliens, but have their
ery home in the appreciative hearts
of every clime.
Literature makes for Democracy.
Real democracy would be more near
ly come hand in hand with the king
dom of heaven if the world could
only understand a common tongue.
Unfortunately when history dawned.
man had already developed countless
languages, widely different, and ex
pressing as ideals many totally differ
ent cultures. To this sad confusion
the modern world has fallen heir.
Men do not yet quite understand one
another, and Christianity has been
working as a leaven for nearly 2.000.
years! We are still laboring on the
ruins of the old Babel, to reach our
respective heavens, and in our tum
ult and disorder are still asking for
atone and mortar in a language no
one understands and to which conse
quently no one gives any heed!
IV. Christianity gives us the true
conception of culture.
It sems that this world war is a
war of conflicting Cultures. The ob
ject of true that is, Christian cul
ture, as announced by God in the be
ginning is that man is to appropriate
nd subject the whole world unto him
self ! God said, "Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness, and let
them have dominion over all the
earth." Later He said to them. "Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
tne earth, and subdue it." It is in
chis sense and in no other that the
righteous shall inherit the earth."
The entire earth is to be man's ma
terial and intellectual property, and
he -must set about to subdue and get
possession of it. History records how
well or how ill it is being done. The
means ior earxn s subluxation are
physical and mentaL The first form
of culture is Agriculture. This
takes the command literally. The last
and Highest form of culture is in the
realm of mmd. This takes th com
mand spiritually. Between these two
extremes range all the various forms
of external and physical dominion
over matter; namely, handicraft,
manufactures, trade, science, art, mu
sic, literature, etc. Education, ac
cording to this point of view, is noth-
.ig more nor less than the develop
ment and appropriation of our own
natures. The appropriation comes
through the development or Culture.
n education we acquire dominion ov
er ourselves, the highest form of con
quest, and the most difficult. It can
easily be seen that true culture turns
towards Christianity as the flower
turns towards the sun. The ideal is
found only in the Christian Scrip
tures, in Christ Himself! Christianity
offers the best motive, the largest
rield, the profoundest inspiration for
.lvice and enjoyment.
But this means effort. True cul
ture is obtained not by absorption but
oyjabor. Blotter methods gather no
results in this field. Toil is the pre
requisite of highest enjoyment- En
joyment depends to some extent upon
production. One must not only lis
ten to music, one must help to create
and contribute to it if possible. Tru
ly to understand, and to enjoy
through understanding it, is to help
to make it; at least in the subjective
sense. This is true of literature. I
know of no poet who so well repays
the student for his effort as does
Browning, our most religious poet-1-
not even excepting Milton and Ten
nyson. The value of Browning to the
student is that when the student fin-
si-rUT-ati Y moIUt
tor. it r.irr,coii ia-rZ
for Kansas students is "Through dim-
culties to the stars." Here too Christ's
words apply, "Strive to enter the
straight gate." Here too it is true
that "through much tribulation we en-
ter the Kingdom."
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Method Lt Notes.
9:45 A. M. Sunday School
11 a- m. Preaching Service.
6:30 p. m. Epworth League.
The Sunday School is doing excel
lent work and approaching full stand
ardization. Several new scholars en
rolled Sunday. Two delegates were
elected to the State Sunday School
convention which meets at Hutchin
son, next week. Besides these sev
eral classes elected extra delegates.
Mother's Day is May 12 th, and the
church will observe the day with ap
propriate services.
The anniversary of the Epworth
League occurs May 12th, also, and
the-young people are planning to give
their annual program in the evening.
The Epworth League will have an
interesting service next Sunday even
at seven p. m.
Preaching service at 11 a- m. and
8 p. m. Subject: "The Unveiling of
the Righteous." Evening subject:
"The Worth of a Man."
Miss Dorotthy Glynn will sing a
special selection at the morning ser
vice. v
Baptists Notes.
10.00 a. m. Sunday School '
11:00 p. m. Morning Worship.
7:00 p. m. Young People.
8:00 p. m. Evening Worship.
Edward Otis Rogers. Pastor.
inexnemeiorjsunaay morning win
be "The Christian's Mirror." In the
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The Sunday School meets at 10 a.
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Trinity Lutheran Church.
Charles F. Wiest, Pastor.
Schedule of Cervices.
10:00 a. . Sunday Schol.
11:00 "a. m. Moraine worshiD.
7:00 p. m. Luther League.
8:00 p. m. Evening Worship
Mrs. Weber received two letters
last week from John, who is "Some
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At the Officers' Training Camn
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who won a commission as an officer
of the volunteer army.
The M. E. Ladies Aid voted Wed
nesday, to buy a Liberty Bond.
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