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The Baptist Herald A D E N 0 MIN AT I 0 NA L P A P E R V 0 I C I N G THE INT E R EST S OF THE GERMAN BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS' UNION

Volume Eleven· CLEVELAND, 0 ., OCTOBER 15, 1933

B USINESS is more than sit­ting around answering the

telephone. The man who would be successful must also initiate calls. Likewise in the business of being a Christian, we cannot develop character by merely be­ing passive. There is a time for being quiet and receptive in the presence of God, and there is also a time for active service. Faith must be accomplished by works if we are to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Often our prayer to God should be, "What wilt thou have me to do?"

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2 THE BAPTIST HERALD

What's Happening Read the s pecial a nnouncement of our

B us in ess Manager on the la~ t page of this numb~r- This l.b~ral in.luccmcnt ought to b ring in many new subscrib:! r5.

Rev. John Luebeck, pastor of the Ger­man Baptist Church a t Whitemout h, Man., has resigned to accept the call of the ch ur ch at Medicine H at, Sask.

M r. Alfred B ibelheirner began his pas­tor ate with l he German Ba p tist Church of S outhey, Sask. , Can., on Sunch1y, Sept. 24. B r o. B1bel he imer was ind ucted int o his new cha rge by Rev. F. A. B loedow, cu 1· veteran Wester n Canada p .on~er and missionary wo rke r. Br o. Bibclhc imcr g r a .lUate<l las t Spring f1 om the German de partment of our Colgate-Rochester D,­yj ni ly S::hool.

T he Ins titute at the McDermott Ave. Chur ch, Winni p2g , Man., R <:v. H . P . K a yser, pasto r, for Sunday School Work­er~ a nd Young P eop les L eadership, Ser,t. 25-29, was well attended with a n aver ag_, oi. al.iout 75 night y. Rev. l". A. B loedow and S ;:c reta1 y A. P. i\1 1hm were t he teacher s. T hr 2e per .ods 0£ 40 min­utes were held f rom 7.30 to 9.30 P. li-1. The weather during the week wa s de­lightful.

T he Alberta, Can., Triunion will con­du<:t a B ,ble School fo1· you ng men a n d young women th is Winter at Wetask.­win, A lta. Rev. F. W . B ~nke will se rve as Dean o f the School. Suitable bui cl­ings have been secured for the school in . thi: City of W etaskiwi n a nd the school wi . l op : n on Jan. 8 a nd contin ue for two mcnths. An extens ive cu rri culum is planned a nd a good fac ulty will be sc>cur. cl. G"neral Secretary A. P . Mihm w JI teac~1 for a p E-r od of four w~eks.

Rally D ay for Church and Sunday ~c.hool was held at the \Vh ite Avenu ! Cnmcil, Ci eve:and, 0. , Rev . \Vm. L. S.choeffel, pastor, en Su nday. S <!p L. :2 -l. A::ld re!:s~" were given by the Supt. , i\'.ir. F red L ns z, a nd the pastor, who spohe on " T he Chall: nge o( the H ou!'. " T he m ; rn ing attendance wa-; 252 and l 10 in the eve ning. Among the ~oa l s li,; l e:I for the· com"ng y<'ar is a Sunday ~chool at­t< !1'1ance of 300, an a ttendance of 80 ·,, of th!l memliers at chu rch ,;e rv ices, lh t: ,\i nning of :25 rw w meml.Jer s Lo t he church and a leacie1 s h ip t raining class for the l ache rs a n ri worke1·s.

The chur ch at Stafford, Kansas, had t he pleasUi"<' of g-iving- the r new min ­ister and wife, Brot her and Sis ter A !fred \\'e:sser. a 1 cc.!ption on Friday evc> n ing-. S· p t. ·1 ;; . M~ml;cr~ of t he vario11 > I r a nchrs in t 11c chu rch ~ poke words 0f wclconw . and llf'v . . ). B<1rch'" rs from F. l-1 nwr,o i pres. nt-«l ;1 n ad • lrc~-; of \Vl'l · c: 1me . Fol owi n g- 1 h · n•c0 r:t ion 1 h" .vot1n t(" cnu ple werP 1tivc•n u .• howe r, con-;i<lin;r o f pren•nt<; U>" f.rl lo I hc>m in furnish ing­thPir horn" !fro. Wei•,;er i' a m mb· r nf the 19:-!~ gn1d11ating rla~~ of th e Ro­c-hC'ster s~minary.

O ur "~aptist Herald" boosters ough t to get of! to a n ear ly star t in wmning new subscr.bers fo r 1934. Mr. Donner ·s offer on page· l G is an encouragemenL to begin now. Let's go !

M r. J ohn Broeder of this year's grad­u~t1ng class of the Ge_rman depart ment of Co ga te-Rochester D :vinity School has :::ccepted the ca ll of the church a t Tro­chu , Albzr ta, Can., as successor to Rev. E . P. Wa hl. ·

Rev. David Zimmerman, pastor of the First Ba ptist Ch~ l'~h, Arnprior, Ontariu Can., ha(I the p n v1.ege of baptizini; fiv~ g r ls ancl three boys on Suntlay . J 1 !) , morn-111g, . u y . rhe young people wer e g iv the right hand of fe llowship and ,., · e~ . , t i b 1 . «Ceivt u 11_110 1c ?1cm ers. up of the church at th Conunu n1 011 ser vice held in the e · e of the ~ame <lay. vcning

Mr. O tto Draeger and M;ss • c· Draewell wer e marri e:I in t li SLY ia G B t . C e econd

erman . a p 1st hurch of Ph "il 1 1 h" t " p M a' c P ia a <> . 1 • on Saturday, Sept. l G 19

T he bride is a <la ughter of Rev , ·d l\. 33· J G D · . · .in l [rs. . . : rae1\ell. T he fa t her of th b ' o~c1at~d a t t he wedding ceremon~. \~e w:sh the young couple many ha e tog-ether on the j ourney of life:Y years

The Churches at Miniton R M C as and St ose, a n.. a n., composed f G · colonists who settled th . b 0 erman . ·. e1e a :>u t5-6 . ago, wer 2 v1s1ted by the E 1.t yea ts "Baptist. H era 'd" on Sunday < ~~~ of ~he l r ·p wa,; made by a uto fr~m · .1. _1he with Rev r;· " B loed \V1nn1p eo· . , .. ·"'-· ow. T h • . " ga ve _th_ rec a ' lr esses to a lar e : Ed~.t!ir at Mm · tona~ in the f . g gatheung

01enoon and 1 a f ternoon a11d pr<'achecl to ti ear Y ccngrega l ion, about 130 n . 1

1~ St. Rose Minitonas in t he ev~n in II es nor th r. f strenuous but b 'e~sed day~· I t was :1

Rev. Wm. G. J as ter, pastor of ma n Bapt ist Church of l("ll the Ger-

. -1 1 aloe o l W <JS 1H1v1 eged to baptize 1 ' 11 . ,

on Sun da y, Aug. 13, in t'h O conver ts a n: ;Jrby flowing wa te r. I\ 1~ 0.u t-doors at up:; but one, w ho w·is a .

1 ''el'e g l'Own-

.. ' g1 r O( 12 from our S_unday school. Tl Ye_ars was someth 1ng new in tho l . ie ba ptism chu rch in K illa'oe; of t he i istor y of_ the cine came from t ho r ut h lO bapt izecl

~ ' cr an f • fh C' E vangelical. anrl two ', ' our front t lw Rom a n Cathol ic chur~~~n came frcrn dom ha p pens. A fle r the b· s ,_ which sel­in t he church for th L .ipt is 111 we mnt

2 Ord' S ~ 1 h<' l 0 hapti~<'d and ~

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t irm of fa ith r eceived t he ~Ie by restora­" hip . It wa« a g lad rlay f~~:.I of follow-

t t h :! church Dcnation Da y at the Ph"I ·

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Dona t ion Day at t he Phi l· m<1n Ba pli"t. Home fo r 11 ''delpl1ia Ger-he;~1 011 Satu rday, Oc-t·obp~: 2~ ~<'d will he

I h~ a ftP r noon p i·o""ra · ti R Al " 111 \vjj t

IP ev onzo D. W int.(>i- Prc>~c>n t ph 'a and the Rev. J ohn S

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Donation,; in merchand i s ~ or g i !'ts by f riends throug hou t North Amer ica m ay be sent at a ny t . m~ t o 70~:! H.i,.; ng S un A venue. The Philadel phia H onw deep Y apprecia t es your in terest in it:; work and serv.ce.

Program of the La k e Erie Asso­ciation, Detroit, Second Church

·october U -<! 5

Advance P rea 1:her on the Lor~rs Da y, R _v. E. J. Ba umga r tne r, Da yton, 0.

Monda y: Opening serm on , l .! .. V . w_ L. Schoeffel, White A ve ., C levcJ<.lld . O.

Tuesday A. ;vr.: D evot ir nal, Hev. John Gr ygo, Lansing, Mich.

01ga n ization and RqJo r ts of the Churches.

"Contempura 1 y R ::! li g ous Thi nking,"' Book Review, Rev. C . F . L: li r. Siic.kcr :::.qua r e, Cievela ncl, O.

P. 1\1. : ' l:Suchn1am s m Ol' the Oxfo rd l\b vemenl," Hev. J. Ley poi.it, V e-emit.

B.b.e Swcly, Rev. C. A . D:i nid , Detroit. T ne evening se r vi c~ w ill l.Je unJr: r the

auspices o i the Young P eop les a nd Sun ­<. ay Scla,ol V,,orkers · Union af Ddroii. --'1 11d ress : '·What S hall 1 Do \\" 1th J\1y L ife?' 0 . 8. Krueger, Pi ttsbu rg h, Pa.

W ednesday A. M .: D evo!:1ona! , Re,-. F r ed Guenther, A lpe na, Mien.

.. Church Clin ic,.. Rev. Pa•i ! W e ng el, Uetto.t.

" Ba rth's Th ;:ology and .Mr.\·.•m .·:1·c. ' Hev. 0. E. Kru~ger PiLtsbur g :1.

P. M. : The Wom~n s Union vf D etroit will have thei r fa. I l unc heon a fter w hich Rev. E. J. Ba umgart nl' r o r D :t~ to11 will ~p:ak.

Bible S tudy, Rev. W. S . Argow, E r ie, P a .

Even ing: : Sermon by R ev. s. l31t11n, l!.rin Ave., Clevela nd.

We in vite all of the chur1::1cs o~ the Associa tion Lo send t hei r d .!iLg,,t:•s and \<1!:.iton;. Announcements may bl! sent to lle m1an Eich le r, 12018 P ra1 L e, 1Jet 1oir, Mich.

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11 cdo<.J ic ~l devot ed to th e interests of t he licr 111au Hapt ist Young P eople's and S unda y School \\forkers U nio n a t t he subsc ript10n price of

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Ad vcrtioing ra tes. 60 cen ts per inch sing !< «Olumn. 21/J inches wide.

1\l l editorial corn :spo1u.lent.·<' is lo br ad clreb!cd ·o Rev. A. P. Mihm, 7346 ~ l a<l i son St., l'ores1 !':i rk, fll .

All business cor res ponflenrc to Ccrmn 11 Bap ri· I l'uhlicatio n Sociery. 3734 P:1yne Avenue , Clevr la nrl . O hio .

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October 15, 1933 3

The Baptist Herald Our Baptist Churches in Germany and Their

Sunday Schools

0 N January 8, 1825, P astor Rautenberg, at the instance of Johann Gerhard Oncken founded

the first German Sunday school in St. Georg church in Hamburg. ·

On April 23, 1834, the fi rst seven converts, wh o were baptized upon confession of their faith and formed the first German Baptist Church on German soil in Hamburg, soon ther.eaf~er ? egan the first Sunday school of our cl enommat10n m Germa ny.

In 1851 our churches in Germany had 3,746 mem­bers a nd reported 56 Sunday sch ools with 151 ofli­cers and teachers and 1243 sch olar s. For ever y lOO church members there were 33 pupils in the Sunday schools. In 1932 there were 278 churches with 1821 stations and 68,538 members. They r e­port 840 Sunday schools with 4,019 teachers and officers and 33,653 pupils. For every 100 chur ch member s there were 49 pupils. The churches bap­tized 4,001 converts in 1932 of which 855 were from the ranks of t he Sunday school.

The Sunday school statistician, Bro. lYiax Knappe f Dresden, to whom we are indebted for these ~gures distinguishes between enrollment and aver­age attendance. The a bove figures are those for

er age attendance. The enrollment of the schools fsv reported as 50,003 which wou ld raise the p:r­centage of Sunday school scholars to m ember ship· ma king it 7 4 pupils to every ~00 church members. The fi gures include the Baptist Sunday schools in the areas, formerly German, bu~ now belonging to p Janel as well as the churches m the Memel terri­to~.; a n'd t he free city of Danzig. During the years . ce the war the ch urch es and Sunday schools in ~~sace Lorrai~ e and North S~hl:swig a nd lately h churches m the Memel district have sever ed

~h!ir connection which entailed a loss of 20 preach­. laces 542 members, 11 Sunday sch ools with ing p ' 5 ·1 29 teacher s and 34 pup1 s.

. I considering these Sunday school statistics our 11 t b . . d ··can reader s mus ear m mm that Sunday

Ame11 d t t d · G 1 enrollment a n a en ance m ermany is

sc_hO~·estricted to children u P to the intermediate stilld about 15 years of age. The yo ung people's gr a es{ It classes, which fo rm such strong sections and ~~ uar tments of our American Sunday sch ools, and P

1 ·ng V\Te have a somewhat differ ent con-

·e la c 0 · h 1 th E a1 . of the Sunday sc oo an our ~ uropean ceptio~ n and we think a better and more advan­brethi e e W e believe the Sunday school, while ta~e.ou~lonst.arted to g_ath~r the children, has cl eve l­or1gina Y d that initia l idea and stage and now is oped beyon '

the t eaching agency of the church and the teaching service of the church to which a ll age groups are urged to come because th e Sunday school has some­thing which all need.

It may be of interest to compar e the above fig­ures with the 1932 statistics of our own German Baptist Sunday schools in the United States and Canada. We report 323 Sunday schools with 34,960 enrolled pupils and 3298 teachers and officers. Our church membership for 1932 is 34,737. For every 100 members of our churches, a s may be seen, we h ave over 100 pupils in the Sunday schools. The much la rger comparative enrollment in our schools is due to the somewhat different conception of the range and outreach of the Sunday school t hat we have in America as compared wit h that of the Baptists of Germany.

Forcing Our Religion on Non-Christians

W HEN we gr ow excited, we use strange phrases which ' iire sh ould repudiate in our cooler mo­

ments. One of the str angest w e use is when we speak of for eign missions as " forcing our religion on other people." It is a foolish term, on two counts.

For one thing, Christianity is not " our" religion. It came to us from other people . W e adopted it in our ancestry, and there is no reason in common sense why it should stop ·with us. It is not so tre­mendous a success with us that it ought to count its work done; that is sure. We speak about people's "native faiths." W ell, t his is not our native faith any more than it is China's or India's. Christianity is just as much "native" to Africa or Persia as to America and England. Most nations have changed their r eligions at least once ; and if a better fai th offer s, it is not ridiculous to suggest that it be ac­cepted. J apan is largely Buddhist, Siam is wholly so; yet Buddhism ·was born in India , and has been accepted by other lands. Africa a nd China have large Moslem populat ions; but Islam was born in Arabia, and has traveled to these other lands. Christianity was not born in the vVest, and is not "our" f aith over against t he r est of the world.

For another thing, nobody is doing a ny "forcing.' ' Nobody in non-Christia n lands has to become a Christian if he does not choose to do so. If we open a schoo l, nobody has to attend it ; and even if one does attend, he need not become a Christia n. Only a bout fift een percent of the students in mission sch ools are Christians, or ever become Christ ia ns. If we open a hospital or send out a doctor, nobody has to go into the h ospital or r eceive t he doctor . If we publish the Bible, nobody has to read it. Even if treaties permit missionar ies to ·work in a country ,

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no trea ty ever suggested t hat anybody had to accept their teach ing. There is no fair sense in which any such word as "force" can be used about mission work. Non-Chr istian people can take or leave the missionary service precisely as anybody in Chr is tian lands can take or leave t he service of any minister if he chooses.- Cleland B. McAfee in C. E. World .

H a ve You Had Your Face Lifted?

W HAT do you suppose I r ead in th e newspaper the other day? I read that some people wer e

going to Paris to have their face::; lifted. Now wasn't that a funny idea! It seems t h at when your face is lifted yo ur skin is smooth er and clearer and you look much younger. But of course you cannot laugh very hard, and you m ust never cry. In fact you must not show any strong emo tion like joy or gra­titude, because your face might fall again! It seem3 to me that kind of face must be a great deal of trouble. I have h eard that it is also a gr eat expense.

Now I know a way to get your face lifted that doesn't cost a cent. It is not g uaranteed to take all the wrinkles of living ou t of your face, but then who wants to look like a wax doll, anyway ? But i t surely does make your eyes brighter, yo ur mouth '>Weeter and your face younger. And you can laugh and sing, and expr ess all the happiness you want.

"Hasn' t she a lovely face! Did yo u notice her eyes? W hat a sweet expression she has!" These things wer e not said about a young girl. They were said about a woman of midd le age. She must have had her face lifted by my n ew method. This method may be used on your face whether it is on ly nine or ten years old or has been worn for a hundred years. But of course the method gives a more lasting effect if it is begun when one is very young.

A girl whose mouth turns down, whose eyes ar e dull, whose lips curl scornfully, whose face mirrors discouragement, despair, or disgust, should have her face lifted right away.

Here is th e recipe : Take one ounce of forgetful­ness of self, mix with three large lumps of interest in some one else, spice well with enthusiasm, stir vigorously with a spoonful of service. Apply when­ever t he face is drooping. This is guaranteed to lift yo ur face into beautifu l lines and quite often it works down toward the heart and make an upl ifted heart, too.-Girl's Weekly.

Largest Baptist Cities in South

FOR many years, Richmond, Va., was considered t he largest Baptist city in the South-that is

Richmond had more Baptists, white and colored ii~ proportion to the total population than any other city in the South or the world, as for that matter. More recently, however, Atlanta, Gorgia, has been claiming this signal honor. The 1926 Census of Re~ ligious Bodies, on the other hand, revealed three hitherto unknown facts about the Baptists in the big Southern Cities:

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First of all, Birmingham, Alabama, leads the South in the numbe1· of Baptist.:, having in 1926 56,000 Baptists, white a nd co lored, as compared ~o 47,010 in Richmond, Va., and 46,482 in Atlanta, Ga.

But in proportion to the total population of the city and in proportion to the total church member­ship of the city, Knoxville, Tenn., leads the whole South, and the nation as well, having a total of 48,-211 church members of a ll faiths and 29,000 Bap­tists out of a total population of 105,000. That is t o say, t her e is 1 Baptist in Knoxville to ever y 3.6 p er ­sons in the city, and 29,000 of the total church mem­bers are Baptists, while only 20,000 belong to all th e other churches in Knoxville.

In proportion to the total population, the four ranking cities of t he South stood as fo llows in 1926 viz : Knoxville had one Baptist to every 3.6 person~ in the city; R ichmond had one Baptist to every 3.8 persons; Birmingham had one Baptist to every 4.G ~ersons, while Atlanta was four th, with one Bap­tist to every 5.8 persons in the city.-The Cha l­lenge.

Setting Goals for Others

JN the come~· of the dining room of the home of . a Dalla~, 'I exas, woman there is a line at the

heigh~ of six feet, two inches with "A.A." written after it, meaning "All American ." When her oldest son ~as h ome on furlo ugh from West Point a nd h ad r eceived All Amei·i·ca t' h . . n men ion, 1s three younger brothers were eager· to t . . b k d h

. , o, o gam this honor · so they ac e 1m · t '

d . agams the wa ll measur ed him put own the d t · ' ' day th ha e, weight, and height, and from that

t . er e as been a conscious effor t on their part o arrive some day at th A

these r espects. · e .A. pinnacle of fame in

Not always is th 'd vious as in th' . e 1

· ol of the younger set so ob-is instance Oft h d the threshold f · en we w o stan on

a few years seo r:ia.~hood or womanhood, with only unconscious ofpar a ting us from the junior-high, are

our gr t · fl Youngsters loo) t ea m uence over t hem. These to measure up ~o 0t~!~r goals and bend every effort

What kind of t those who · s andards ar e we setting up for I are Young ? tl anguage we er · The cloth es we wear, rn ments we atten~set the books we read, the amuse­fish service th~t he companions we have, th e unsel­form the goals for we undertake-all t h ese t hings c?nscious of thi . these proteges of ours. Paul w~s himself," he . . s Influence. "None of us liveth to

sa1d.-For ward.

Study' h .

IT · Ing t e Prophecies is a melan

religious choly symptom of the prevalence of meet with apathy in our day that we so rarelY th . men wh t . "ther e Sc11ptu 0 ake pleasure in studying el f re as a h · ar-ic ular. w ole, or t he prophecies in P

October 15, 1933 . Learn from Isaiah to value Christ above all. Let

Jeremiah with his oft-repeated cry, " Repent!" be to t hee a wise preacher of repentance. Let Ezekiel, w ho describes Goel as a fire, humble thy stubborness and self-righteousness. Let Daniel open up to thee 2. prospect of those events w hich shall occur in the kingdom of God on earth, from its establishment to its final and universal triumph. Learn from Jonah how deceitful and wicked t hine own heart is. Let .1 oel r ouse thee and make thee abandon all luxur y and sinful ease. Let Amos warn th ee against secur­ity and ease, and let Hosea rouse thee up to r e­ne wed faithfu lness. From Micah learn what is a rare virtue in our day, that of swimming against the current of public opinion. Learn from Nahum how irresistible is the stor m of God's wrath when it once begins to blow. Let Habakkuk be our example of t he blessedness of waiting for the Lord amidst evil clays. Let Zephaniah and Obadiah recommend a confident t rust in the final result of the divine dis­pensations. Let Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi show thee h ow t hose should diligently labor to build up the city and Temple of God, especia lly in s uch t imes as the present. And rest assured, O i·eader, t hat the more t hou studiest the prophecies with such fee lings as these, the mor e abundant and mor e precious will be th e t reasures w hich t h ou wilt find in t h eir perusal, and the more surely will thev lead thee to Christ !-Barth. ·

A n Object Lesson

A SUPPLY MINISTER was taking th e place ot a regular pastor for a few Sundays and was

especially h appy in giving the children's ser mons. One Sunday he said : "Ch ildren, next Sunday I am going to br ing som ething in my pocket that I haYe never seen . The person wh o gave it to me h as n ever seen it. Nobody in this whole world h as ever seen it. And yet I have it at home, and it was given to me by a fr iend. I will show i t to you next Sunday, then it will disappear , and no one will ever see it again. Do you believe that I can do t his?"

Of cour se the children were curious; they prom­ised to come the next Sunday and bring their friends.

When Sunday morning came the number of chil­dren in th e congregation was noticeably larger .

Again th e ministe1· began by saying: " I have something in my pocket that I have never seen something that no one else has ever seen, th e ma~ wh o gave it to me never saw it. Do you believe me?"

" Yes! Yes '. " came from the children.

"Now, children, that is faith. You believe what l have tbld you. You believe that I am able to show you something that I have not seen myself, some­t hing that nobody else has seen. Always remem­ber that t his is a lesson on faith." Then he took from his pocket a peanut, broke it open, and showed the ch ildren the meat. After they were through

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laughing he called two boys to the platform, gave each one-half the meat, and told them to eat it.

"Now, children, you see for yourselves that it has disappeared and no one will ever see it again. And I want one of you to tell me what I told you a t th e beginning. What is faith ?" Sever al hands went up and 'vaved vigor0usly. "Jack, you may face the people and tell them what faith is."

Jack : " A peanut." - The Children's Leader.

Editoria l J ottings

WE ARE NOW in the heart of t he F a ll season when we rally our. "Baptist Herald" Boosters for the annual subscr iption campaign. The advantage of an early star t is clear. Bro. Donner, our busi­ness manager, makes a special offer of sending the "Herald" from the time the order is received to all new subscribers. A splendid box of Christ­mass cards w ill be given by t he publisher to all Boosters sending in the names of no less than ten subscriber s for 1934 a ccompanied by the cash, or its a quivalent, such as check or money order, on or before the tenth day of December. All r enewals as well as new subscriptions are included. We hope many Boosters will take advantage of this offe1· and ·win s uch a prize.

THE STORY-"The Transformation of the Fairview Sunday School"-in this number is by Mr. Herman J. Weihe of Milwaukee. Bro. Weihe is one of the best informed men on Sunday school work among German Baptists and can write ably and in an interesting manner about it. In this number our readers will find t he first installment of a pleasant " Plauderei'' on "Sunday Abroad" by Mr. Walter A. Staub, one of t h e foremost figures in the account­ing world of today and a devoted Christian layman. This issue a lso contains the last of the Conference r eports for this year,- the Eastern and Atlantic. The cuts of the various groups also enhance this number. In the editorial section the reader will find an illuminating ar ticle on Sunday School work among Baptists of Germany.

"I BELIEVE the 'Baptist Herald' should b e placed into the church budget for every German Bapt ist fami ly. I believe t hat churches with the 'Baptist Her ald' would pr osper more than double ever y way. It creates a greater zeal and determi­nati~n to be loyal to the kingdom's cause. I believe the 'Baptist Herald' to be the key to spiritual inspi­rations and the door to material gain. For it is by the rules and the laws of the Word of God given to us and in the keeping and exercises of them that we prosper in both, the spiritual and the material t hings which the 'Baptist Herald' maps out for us to follow out of the Word of God."

A Reader-an admirer of the "Baptist Herald" in the Southwest.

We are glad to publish ihe above suggestion. It might be carried out by some organized classes and young people's societies.

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~inner in Bible Memorizing Contest, Clay St. Sunday School, Benton H arbor, Mich.

Benton Harbor School Has Bible Contest

Several months ago we made an effort in our Sunday school-the Clay Street Sunday school of Ben ton Harbllr, :\I ich., -to increase interest in Bible study, so iu t he accompanying picture you ~<Ze a g roup of twelve young ladi e.~ ; in t he front row are Martha Koss. Helen Zoschke, Mary Koss , I vy Cass.ner and Anna Mae Versaw. These memorized t welve or more psa lms . In the back row

· a r e Mary Applegate, Gladys Rcnhack, Edith Schermer, Ruth Steinke. Marie Mabs, Evely n Miller and Helen Glaske, and these memorized s ix or more P sa lms. There were a great number who memor­ized Psalms but since they did not a ttain the number of s ix or more Psalms , they were not admitted into t he picture, which wa s with in the rules of the contest.

H. J. GT,AS K F..

(What's the matter with the boys? E ditor. )

The Thirty-Sixth Atlantic Con­ference in Philadelphia

The thirty-sixth session of the A t lan­t ic Confer ence met wi t h t he Fleisch­mann Memoria l Church in i'hiladelphia , P a., from Sept. 13-17, a nd in con junc­tion with t he Conference t he entertaining church celebrated t he 90th annive rsary of its existence. We met wit h the oldes t of our German Ba pt ist chu rches in Nor t h America. In his welcome a ddress on the opening nigh t, Rev. M. L. Leuschn ~r, the pastor , spoke of m a ny "fi rst thing~" for which Philadelphia was histor ica lly noted,-the fi rs t savings bank, etc. H e a lso co rdially welcome<! u s to t he hospi­tality and fellows hip of oui· "Fi r!>t Ger ­man Baptis t Church" in t his country. Jn spi te of n in et y year s of his tor y, t he ch u rch is live, up-to-datc.-worship~ in one of our fin est church bui ldings and its war m hospitality sh owed n o signs of fe~bleness 01· senili ty.

The Motto and Theme

of t he Confoxcnce was "The Kingdom of God."' In lal'ge German let..ters is was ~lruni.t above t..hc choir lo.rt : " I love thy k in).!clom. Lord." Rev. J ohn Sch midt of U nion Cit..y, N . J. , pr eachl'd t he opening

sermon on t he topic : "The Church and the Ki ngdom," basing his discourse on texts from Matth. 16, Psalm 2 and Revelation 1~. As we. left t l.1e church at the close o(

1th

1e. ser~1cet ra1dn \~as fa ll ing heavily

anc t 11s rain s aye with us, more or !es~ until the last day of the C•>n fe re · '

h t i S er· · b nee, w en 1e un a,,,a1n egan to s hine Tl continuous rain kept us fron1 · ~1e · .1e

• • 0 • nearoy park in r ecess hours, but kept U'" to t i · h h " ge 1er 111 t e chu rc parlors and cau«"cl ' - ·· many to cluster around Bro. Donnel"· b display. This , no doubt worke , ts 0 0 k-f . . . D . ' ' ' ogct her ot his good. esp1te the ra 'n body was cheel' ful in the fine £"ii eve~~­and l'acliated the sunshine of (.'h01.~vs . ip brotherhood. stian

After t he usual reading of "· . letter s Bro. M. L. L h "1'e c11urch

' eusc nel' Pres• t the r eport of the Conference M . . . . n cd Cornn "tt B L 1 s~ 1 onaru

11 ee. ro. euschner cl B , W: ~(oiler were elected to ~~ ~ t'o. C. M1ss1ona ry Commi t tee. Bro. J Gen~ 1·a1 r ad, treasurer of the C f · A. Con-

t d · on er ence ,. sen e hi s annual report and . : P-e-vot~ of thanks for his faithft\ec~• ve~l a durmg his term of offic T 1 "ervices ence adopted the recomme.

1 l~e Confer-

G . enc at ion f h . en e1·al Fmance Committe . 0 t c hne with most con fet·cn e and fell iii · ces 111 1 · General Trea~urer the trea ma rn:11: the Conference and sending a~rrer of t heir fuu t ure dir ect to him in F mon1e& in

'orest Pari-T he General work '·

was well represented b . manager H. P D Y bus1ne•s · onner ' por ted on t he status of ' who t·e-t ion Society, by Dr. Wm

0~! Publica­eral S ecret.a y o:f our Missi~ uhn. Gen-

\ A P "·l "h S na r y Soc· l a n< . . " 1 m, e.cretary f th _ IC Y, P eople's and S. S. Worke>i:s '

0Uni e ) oung

Kuhn spoke on Thursday ev ?n. Bto. crowded h ouse in a h appy en ing t., a Kingdom of God and Our D vein ~·n "1'hr· B ro. Kuhn is a son of the oldeF?Jntnathn." anrl was pa!<tor of the S irst Church Ch · h f . ccond ,.. _ , m c 01 man y Years

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f' n homP ground . in the. c' ,;'>tO le i!:i alway0 T l y Of B . ~ ,ove. rotherl A sp lendi d a ddres,r; wa . Y

,Julius Kaaz of Ne,v i:_. s given hy ,...r n.nve>n . 1\ •v morning- on "Kon rnl[ A l on 1'hui·s!] ' n111l the l\Ien Who lnfl 11 011 l~ ldxt'\1111 ny · ft ue1wN1 lT nnn rn uence of Gco1·R'l' M 1 llll ." 'l'I t he famous philunthl'on; IP1• of li t•!

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prayer on F leischmann 's ca r e1..r wa :; v iv-1Clly port rayed. Two other a1:d L'E:sses by brethren W. A. Mueller and C. W. Ko l­ler on " Fleischmann an d Hi .; lfolation to Our Work, .. and "As Christi:rn Wo;·ker a nd Leader" were crowded ou L by pro­tracted discuss ion over certa i 1 ~ bus incs:; matters to the regret of all.

A Pageant depict ing nine decades of h' s torv was sp lendidly g;ven by t he young pe~plc of the Jubilee chu1ch on Friday evening. Nine histoi"ical scenes were pre~ented. W~ under stand pas tor Leuschncr wrote this pagent. It was a fine piece of work. . Other notab'. E: a dd resses w <? re tiws<!

given by Rev. G. H. Schneck on Friday rnght on "Our Fathers a nd '.V e, " an ,! by Rev. V. Brushwyler on Saturd::i} forenoon on "For Such a T ime as This . ., Br~. Schneck emphasized the Christia n attitude to the past and admonis hed us to honor our fathers to hold t heir faith and to evince a wi l,l ingness, like t h em, t~ ~ut first t hings first. The· ' h ad con­viction. 1Ne often lack conv i~ ti on.

Bro. Brus hwyler in his addr ess said t hat · ·

. 111 a t ime like ou rs we need m en of r :pc scholars hip men of conversion men of ' ' courage and men of conviction. H e sounded th e no te of evangelism and str~ssed the conti nuous need of evan ­gelism in our churches

The stat is tics s howe;! total additions of 322 !;ince t hP las t repor t a nd tota l losses ·f ?29 r " 4 · 0 - , leaving a n et ;;ani o· " · T~e p resen t members hip is 29 churches with a member ship of 4412. Tile Eben-Pzer Ch r J r~ . Ut·ch of ' Vest New York, N. .,

ceived the hand of fe llowship. . After a full dis cussi on the Confere~ cC! adopted a resolution endors in g t he act1" 11

~· tho Council and the German Baptist mi sters ' Conference of New York with

rcga1·d to Bro. John Lehner l a nd rc­q~i es~e r l the Wes t New York Church to ~i smi~s h im as pa stor and to .with~ra.w

le hand of fe llowship from nun within t he next mont h. ~ev. C. W. Koller and M r. Reuben

Windisch were elected members o~ the local Con ference Missiona ry Committee. The new Conference officers. are: R ev. V/ · A. Mueller, Brooklyn, moder ator; Rev. ,John Schmidt, Un ion City, vice-modcrat ?r ; R : v. Ji'. 01thncr New York, r ecordmg ~Cl'Pla ry, ~n(~ Re~. C. P eter s ,_Jarn<!3bu.rg ,

· J ., statistica l sec retar y. fh e sess ion ~<'xt Year is to be held with the Second -l·r111an Chur.l'h , Brooklyn , N. Y.

An Enjoyable Outing W<1 !:i held on Satu rday afternoon ~o historic Valley Ji'org c iwmc th i rty-1Vo miles cl iRLnnt Ahou

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t 20 or more 11 U l I . • • I . 0 8 uo1·e us th rough t he tree-ll nl!C 1 '.i,acfs and hroad g reen fields to t he pince

11 ine W :J ('on ­r · ashington a nd his ragge· -' .

111 ~l'ntat ai·my s pent t heir h a rd a nd r.1.gj

Ci ous wi11 Ler. A beau t;ifu l Mem o11a l hnp<'! nncl 11 Lo wt• r of i:;wt•<'t.-vnirod be ll s ,

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11°11 01 <'cl hy vn1·lo1111 Hlnlrt1 now Rl11ncl t1 °11

w 1 i ' ' l l l 1 Rlol' ll' linLil<• 11 11cl <'llmping t C' t ' I A l'l <' t' t I \ tic' " l\ nl ir r1t 1 l ll1 ~ llrn vlalt 111•ti nn< \hi.'

I n~ IVPt·11 11 11l t1l'lni11Pd Il l RllllJll'l' 111 '"ll ut 11'111 ' . . ,. sun A Old l1'ollct1 I lol\ lll 011 lt 1 ~ 1 11 v; .1i11-

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October 15, 1933

The Transformation of the Fair­view Sunday School

HEllMAN J . W EIHE

Chap ter I When Rev. Hemingway began his min­

istry in Fairview he made a rather di s­concerting di scover y. He found t hat the Sunday school of his new field was to a la rge extent a failure, as far as t he n . I!g ious t raining of childhood and youth was <.:oncerned. While it seemed at fi rs t ;i~ i f none of t he fol ks were consciou:; of t hi s deplorable situation , t here was ::. t l••as t one exception . T his became eviden L when Clarence Benton, the youthful ;: ss istant s uperinten dent and teacher c,E a la rg•e boy·s class, asked the quest ion: "B rother H eming way, what do you think of our Sunday schooi?"

Afte r a moment's hes itation the pas­tor r eplied : "My friend, t ha t 's a ques ­tion which I ought not to answer h a st ily or prematurely . You see, I 'm a n ew­comer and ought to have more inne for fur ther observa t ion a nd better acquaint­ance. How about express ing you r own opinion? You are probably thor ough1y acquain ted with every phase of t he work.

" Well , pas tor, I'll be perfectly frank. Jfs been my conviction for some time t hat NI r school is noth ing to be proud of. 1t .; i, robably the least effic ient deparlment of our church."

"Perhaps you have also diagnosed con-1! it ions ," t he pastor continued, "an d have reached some definite conclusions in r e­gard to l he cause of our s chool's delm-11uency."

The young m an was about lo r eply when t he conver sation had to be discon­tinued, as Rev. H emingway was unex­pc.ctedly called away.

Chapter II

On t he Sunday fo llowing t his brief inter view the pastor began to do various things wh ich caused no little s u r prise pmong his a~sociates. Instead of accept­ing a pos it ion as teacher of the Adu lt Bible Class, as had b2en axpected, he be­came, what might be called, "a worker :::t large." Generally he > tau~ht some cla ss which had been lef t . without a teacher , occasionall y .he v isit ed a clas s upon the r equest of its teacher a nd on o t1c Sunday he assis ted the secre.tary of the school who had ask ed for ad:r1ce con-

. . t lie 1·piprovernen t of his work. ce in111g • d .11 . t · Some of the in teresting· an I umma ing <x eri ences which came to t he pastor. 111

p · i"ti es a s well as nn-t hesc various capac ' . . t t •t of information gathe1erl

por an 1 ems . ·cl 1 . f . ti . soui·ces were duly r ecor ec m r om o 1er . . 1 . tl " notebook a nd then ~ummanzec m 1e fo llowing statement:

Sunday School Assets 1. A faid y good working plant with

some useful equipment. . 2. Officer s a nd teachers with cons1der-

b1 t 1 bi"lit y and many undevel-·1 .e na ura a . . .. . 0ped leadership poss1bihties. .

::!. An a:;sisl an t supe r intede~t w1ih c.n t•tlract ive p <> rsonality. high ideals nnd much executive ability. .

il . A. communi ty with many childr en

not r eached by an y agency of Ch risLia a educat ion.

5. T he Mastct.-s commission to Leaci1, together with his as5urance: " Lo, I am with you always .. ,

Liabilities

1. I rregula r attendance of pupiis and t eachers.

2. Rel igious indifferen ce of many par­(·n ts.

3. S unday school ruts of various types. 4. I nadequate preparatio11 and t r a inmg

of teacher :;. 5. Discouragements of some of t he

workers .

There were al so a few factors of im­por tance which were not easily evaluated or classified. So, for instance, it seemed ntther doubtful whether t he superinten­ricn t, Br other Paxton, should be lis ted :.: mong- the a ssets of t he school. It 111.igilt l·e better to wait and see before coming to a decision.

Chapter III Abou t two months alter his anival in

Fairvie ll', the R ev. i\Ir. Heming'Way sta r ted what soon became a fo t"l\varcf m ovemr nt in Christ ian education by l'rea ch ing a r emarka ble :;ermon on ·'The Teaching Min is try of the Church." W lu le t he pastor's plain speech offen ded a few of the members, there were some im­por tant res ults of a practical nature. On the following- Monday evening, t he church, in its business meeting , elected G "Commi ttee of Relig ious E ducat ion,. which was dest ined to have a n impor­t ant pa r t in t he work of t he church for the moral and sp irilual welfare of its youth .

During the same week the office rs anci tea chers of t he Sunday school began to hold a series of sp ecial Worker s' Meet ­ings fo r the purpose of studying the local Sunday school s it uation and plan ni ng- needed imprnvements. W hile the :,uperintendent rather reluctantly served 115 .chai rma n of t hese meetings, the pas­t or was their guiding sp irit. In his ef­for t ::; to make ever y session instructive, ins pira tion al and helpful, he was ably ~upported by the assistant superinren­dl'n t and a number of the other workers . As t he meetings pr ogressed the interest grew un til practically all officers and t eachers were enlist ed in a campaign of improvemen t and progress. There was a fact-finding or survey committee which discovered a nd r eported special n eeds , a nd a liter atur e comm ittee which f ur­n is hecl information in regard to the most l·elpful material fo1· r eading and st udy . Throug hou t the cour~e much practical ll ><C was made of the denominational Sun­day School Standard , as well as the 500 Point Standard of t he I nternational Commit tee of R eligious E duca tion. U3u­a lly t he study of some part icular project wa :; fo llowed by som e "forward step " or rl<' tinite prnject in the wa y of Sund.iy school improvement. So, fo r i nstance, the discussion o f the topic " Leader ship Tra ining'' led lo the or ganization of a young people's train ing class which met om ing- the r eg ular Sunday school se!!sion.

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The cons ideration of the subj ect "Build­ing up t he Member s hip and Attendance" resulted in a n eighborhood canvass and the adop tion of an effective "follo1v up sys tem ."

One of the most urgent needs of the school was t he improvement of the wor­ship service. Under existing cir cum­stances all depa rtments above the Pri­mary met for a united opening service which was in char ge o-f the superinten­den t. It was easy to see that the a imless and des ultor y manner in which this serv­ice was conducted was largely r espon­sible for the i11attention and irrever a n ce which usually prevailed during th is per­iod. T he solu t ion of t his vexed problem was a ll the more difficult, because Brother Paxton did not take very kindly to s~g­gcstions that might be given concernin g <: nything which he r egarded as his offi­cia l prerogatives. For a t ime t he s uper ­intendent's reformation seem ed a h op e­le!<S task, when someth ing occunecl wlnch was destined to have an important effect, not on ly on t he i'Chool's wor ship ser vice, but a lso upon its progress in other re­spects.

It happened when t he superin tendent, who was otherwise very r egular in at. tcndance, was obl iged to make an ex­tended business trip of several weeks riuration , so that his a ssistan t, Clarence Benton, was left in char ge of the school. It was the fi r st t ime that t he responsi­bi li ties of a Sun d>a y school executive h ad been placed upon the young man and ne 1 ose to the occas ion in a manner wh ich s u rp t·is ed even his most intimate friends. Among- the comments which were made in r egard to h is work were the following: "It beat,: all how t hat young f ellow takes h old of things." "Clarence surely knows how to r un a Sunday school." "Brother Paxton had better look af t er h is laurels, if h e has any to look after."

Chapter IV

'When B rother Paxt on, after a t hree weeks absence, ret umed to his accus­tomed place in the school t here was some­thing in hi !'> demeanor and attitude which attracted attention. It was also quire evident t hat he had carefully prepared himself for the day's program and that, as a r esult, t h ings were running smoothly. Some of t he fo lks t h ought they knew what had brought about the change, while oth­ers were n ot so cer tain. All had r eason to feel gratified that t he improvement in the work of the superintendent was not a t emporary matter , but cont inued on s ucceedin g Sundays .

The improvement o f the s chool a lso continued in ot her r espe.cts. Better teach­ing· \\'as one of t he goals which had been ~tressed in the worker s' conference wit h som e encoura ging r esults. Progress in t his, as well as in ot her r espects, was a lso due to the personal '''ork and in­fluence of t he pas tor. T eachers discov­ered that he en tered m to a consideration of their p roblems intelligen tly and sym­p at hetically and t hat h is counsel wa:; often of great practica l value.

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KEZIAH COFFIN JOSEPH C. LINCOLN

({'llfJYfit//1 hy LJ. Appleton ~ 11d Comvany)

(Continuation)

Chapter XVII

Jn which Eben ezer Capen is surprised

Before sunset that afternoon the "San J oso" was anchored behind the point by the inlet. The fishing boats changed moorings a nJ moved farther up, for not a s ingle one of t heir owners would trust himself within a hundred yards of the stricken brigantine. As soon a s the an­chors wer e dropped, the volunteer crew was over side and away each of its mem­bers receiving a scolding from his family for taking such a risk -and to have his garments sulphur-smoked. or buried. Charlie B urgess , whose wife was some­t hing of a Ta rtar, observed ruefully that he "didn't take no comfort 'round home nowadays ; between the smell of brim­stone and the jawin's 'twas the hereafter ahead of time.''

The la rgest of the beach shant ies, one which stood by itself a quarter of a mi le from t he lig ht, was hurriedly prepared for use as a pest house and the s ick sailor was canied there on an improvised s tretcher . Dr. Parker and Ellery li fted him from his berth a nd, a ssisted by old Ebenezer Ca pen, got him up to t he deck and lowered him into the dory. Ebenezer rowed the trio to t he beach and the rest of the journey was comparatively easy.

The shanty had three rooms, one of which was given up to t he patien t, one used as a living room, a nd, in the third, Capen and t he minist er were to sleep. Mattresses wer e procured, kind-hearte1l and sympa thizing townspeople donated cast-off tables and ch a irs, and the build­ing was made as comfortable as it could be, under t he circumstances. Sign boar ds, warning stra ngers to keep away, were erected, and in addition to t hem, the Trumet selectmen orde red ropes stretched across t he Jane on both sides of the shanty. But r opes and signs wer e super ­fluous. Trumet in general was in blue funk and had no desi re to approach within a m ile of t he locality. E ven the driver of t he grocer y cart, when he left t he day's supply of provisions, pushed the packages under the ropes, yelled a h urried "Here you be !" and, whipping up his horse, departed at a rattling gal­lop.

The vi llage sat up nights to discuss the a ffa ir a nd every day brought a new sensation . T he survivors of the "San Jose"s" crew, a wretched, panic-stricken quar tet of mulat tos and P ortuguese, were apprehended on t he outskirts of Denboro, the town below Trumet on the bay side, and were promptly sequestered and f u­migated, pending shipment to the hos­pital at Boston. Their story was short but grewsome. T he brigantine was not a Turks Island boat, but a coaste1· from Jamaica. She had sailed with a small cargo from Savannah. Two days out and the smallpox made its appearance on board. T he sufferer, a negro fore-

mast hand, died. Then another sailor was seized and al.so died. The skipper, who was the owner, was the next victim and the vessel was in a state of demora~ lization which the mate, an Englisman named Bradford, could not overcome. Then fol.lowed days and nights of calm and ten-1.ble heat, of pestilence and all but mutmy. The mate himself d" d The_re '.vas no one left who unders~~d naV1gat1on. At last came a 50 th t gale and the "San Jose" drove b ~ ea.~ Fair weather found her abre~s~r\: · Cape. The survivors ran her in aft~~ d'ark, anchored, and reached shore . th longboat. The sick man whom th m h e left in the forecastle was a ey ad who had shipped at Kingston ~v hand was Murphy, they believed . T~s name left him because he was SUl:e ~Y ~ad the others, and, besides, the ~ die, like one would see the distres Y . new some

. investigate. Th-at was alls signals and Mar. 1 · , Yes. Santa 1a. was 1t not enough? '

This tale was a <lei· : . D"d ICIOUs t db"

1 ama and the "daily d . I 1t for after all, it was a mer: v~rbs~rs,'' but, pared to Mr. E llery's side. dtsh com­havior. That he the a~t~ntshing be­Re~ular church, should ri~~n1s~er. of the dymg of the smallpox to h his hfe, risk ger ~nd a common saiior elp. a stran­hens1ble. Didama at • Was mcompre-under stand it and' . ·!least, could not

d b d , sa1c so "i\ an o Y !" she exclaimed · . 1y soul hands. "I wouldn't , ~v1th Uplifted grandfa ther if he hal~ nigh my own alone set~in' up with a he smallpox, let that I chdn"t know f. strange .critte And a . . l orn Ad . r

. m1111~ter <loin' •t 1 am s cat consider the 1 · lie 0 h · nothin' else. ~:~~e~ation, if b~g J0~0 than a common watee more importa et when he's d · , r rat th n like a shi , Ym , swears, so at, even f h P s poll parrot? I I hear t ell

o I~u~'be~~?,lishment. It .beat~ever heard w· . a good ma rn.ef''

id?w Rogers, could ny, Who, lik sacrifice. But th not understa e the the majorit y ~re were more nd se)f_ people, who und~rst~o~Umet's . ln~~i they Dr. P arker, a man . and ap r . gent ~ai:ige1·ousl y liberal w~th a repufat~ciated. hg1ous matters an ~1ews concern !on for tendant at church < an infre ing re­prodigal of praise' was enthus9ue~t at-

"B . tastic d Y George 1•· an

"Tha~·s ?ny kind of vow~d the the kind of Parson IChristianit doctor. John Ellery after th· can tie tt That's t he t ime. And i"f h is, first l . I'm for P d . e d , • ast . ox an die, and if h on t get t and all m the Re 1 e dn..~ 1. he sm 1 gu ar chur h -..,, tve t a \. oTne of the front c , You'IJ o Preach

hat 's what I thinkllews ever see me in else ran away a nrJ olf him. ~ Sunday much . But h don• Yerybod . George! he st e dstaYed. ~ blame , y do .t, aye . •c. J: es . em

I , says he I 130tneb , Slr b that young fe!iow,, ta]{e oft' Ody hact ~ . Captain Zeb M. my hat t mg for h " ayo \y o

is parson e11t ab · Mrs b 0ut ch

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delicacies to be pushed under the ropes for the minister's cons umpt ion. The parish committee, at a special sess ion, voted an increase af sala r y and ordered a weekly service of prayer for the safe delivery of their young leader from dan­ger. Even Captain Elkanah did not try to oppose the general opinion; "although I canot but feel," he said, ·'that i\lr. Ellery's course was r ash and that h e should have considered u s and our inter­est in his welfa re before- - "

"Dum it all!" r oared Captain Zeb, jumping to his f eet and interrupting, '')H'

didn't consider himself. did he? and ain ' t he as important to himself a s you, E_l­kanah Daniels, or a nybody else in this meet!n ' house? B ah! don "t let's have !1.~ more talk like that or I'll say so.meth11: ,

that won't be fi t to put in t he minutes. Even at Come-Outer s ' meeting. when

Ezekiel Bassett hinted at a "jus t punish­ment fal!in· on the head of the leader of the Pharisees,'' Thoph Back rose and de­fended Ellery.

Keziah Coffin was perhaps, t he one ~ on's person most disturbed by her pars

heroism. She would ha ve gone to the shanty immediately had n ot Dr. p~rke~ prevented. Even as it was, she did g as far as the ropes but t here she was warded off by Eb~nezer until Elle~~ came running out and bade her come nearer

" But you sha n't stay he re, l\lr. Eller y,'' vowed Keziah. "Or, if you do, I'll s taY too. I ain't afraid of smallpox." I

" I ·• · · ter "an( am, confeS£ed the minis • f r I 'm not going to Jet a nyone I ca.re ril~· ;xpose themselves t o it unneceSS~ he f _You try to come in here I shall' - 00

smiled-"well Capen and I will put y off th ' "' e premises by force Ther e · If

K · · f } er sc · "M eziah smi led, too, in spite 0 1\ ,, she

. aybe you'd have your hands fu ' ade said. "O John, what in the world m I You do t his th ing? n ·s dreadful· I ~han't s leep a wink thinkin ' of you. Ju t ' ,.

s must come here and help. e ~ s ' 'N om "

f o, You mustn't. You can c h .Jc if ar a th · ,v 1 • C s e deadline once m a but

tha~~ain Mayo will drive you 0,~e~~orrY a s a ll. I'm all right. Don d 1'111

about me. rm feeling t iptop a n a nd hot go· home mg to be s ick. Now go f those ;a~cle. me some of that-some ot11en1 to

ll l 1 ngs of you rs. We can use advant ?"' " age, can 't we, Capen· "th en·

~et Yer! " replied Ebenezer "'1

05to· ih~si asm. K eziah , after more ex;vhere t~t1on , Went bark to the p a rsonage,asoned

.e Puddings were made and se She \v1th te ·ayers· f ars anti f ervent P1 ews o ~~:0~? to Grace and told he~· th~t~ing ~!, th San J ose" but !'he said 11 thing ·

e -· · ' "P or I . H&lllt ster's part in it. 0 gh !l -s ighed Keziah " she's bearin' enou .,,ine• r ead • g as ,. JI

Y. H er back ain't a s stron. , "f//e ' ml aybe, anc] mine's most craclon ·r don't et it I all· ·• k .crack for good anc ' 0 ot· now but that 's th e easiest waY paYd

. The s ick sailor g rew no bette r.ed a ll . and 11· h d I e r~" z;et ig ts passed an 1 E::berte t llloaned or lay in a stupor· ,, s leP , acted .1 EJle1·J 011·

a s clay nurse wh1 e . g yo e and at . I . . t e 1· be1n .,fl'l ' lllg lt the m1n1s • tor Cv jer, Went on ' wa tch. The doc no hope· requently, but said t h er e wa.s

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A question of time only, a nd a short lime. he said.

Capen occupied his mind with specula­tions concer ning the pat ient.

"Do you know, p&arson," he said, "sec-m's if I'd seen the feller some­wheres before. 'Course I never have, but when I used to go whalin' v'yages I cruised from one end of creation to t"ot her, pretty nigh, and I m ight have met him. However, his own folks wouldn 't know him now, would t hey? so I cal'late I 'm just gettin' foolish in my old age. Said his name's Murphy, them ha ·r­brecds did, didn't they? I know belter'n that.''

"How do you know?"' asked Ellery, idly listening.

" 'Cause when he's floppin' round on t he bed out of his head, he s ings all kinds of s tuff. A good dehl of i t's p lain cussin', but there's t imes when he talks respectable and once I heard him say 'darn· a nd another time ' I carlate: Now no Irishman says that. That 's Yankee, that is."

'"Well, he ought to know his own name."

"Prob'ly he does-or used to-but ·most likely he clon"t wa nt nobody else to know it. That"s why he said 'twas Murphy and, bein' as he did say it, I know 'tain't it. See my argument, don't you, Mr. Ellery?'"

"Yes, I guess so.'' " Um- hm ! Why, la nd sakes, riames

clon·t mean nothin' with seafarin' men. I 've seen the time when I had more names- Humph l Looks kind' of squally off to t he east'ard, don 't it? '"

Tha t night the s ick man was much worse. His ravings were incessant. The minister sitting in his chair in the liv­ing roo1;1, by the cook stove, could hear the steady s tream of shouts, oaths , and muttered fragments of dialog with imag­inary per sons. SY'mpathy for t he .rnf­fcrer he f elt , of course, and yet he, as well as Dr. Parker and old Capen, had heard enough to realize t hat th~ wor~d would be none the worse for l?s111g this particular specimen of ?umamty. ~he fellow had undoubtedly ltved ~ hard hfe, among t he r oughest compa111ons .a fto~t a nd a shore. Even Ebenezer , who ~y his own confession, was f ar from bemg a

. t exclaimed disgustedly at the close Sat n ' ' tJ . k bed of a day's watching by ~ e. ~1c . : " Phew! I feel's if I'd been v1s1tmg state s

.· Let me set out doors a spell and pnson. , 1 h list en to the surf. It s c ean, .any ow,

d t h t critter's talk makes me want an a h ,, to give my brains a ba t ·

The wooden clock, Joane? by Mrs. P.ar­ker t he doctor's wife, ticked stead1 ly , although a half hour slow. . E llery,

I . t 1· t to see if the t1111 e had g ancmg a . d 1 come for gi ving med~c1~e, sud en y not iced how loucl its ticking sounded. W d . t t hi . he was awa re t here

on e rmg a '" . h I use He was no other sound m t e 10 · rose and looked in at the door of the adjoining room. The pati~nt had cea sed to rave and was lying quiet on the bed.

The m inister tiptoed over t o look at him. And, ns he di cl so, the man opened his eyes.

"Ha!loo! '' he said fa in t ly. "Who arc you?''

Ellery, startled, made no answer. " 'Vho a re you?" demanded the man

aga in. Then, with an oath, he repeated the question, adding: " What place is this? This ain't the fo 'cast le. ''' her e am I? "

'·You' re ashore. You·ve been sick. Don' t try to move."

" Sick? Humph! Sick? 'Course I been s ick. Don't I know it? The d- n cow­ards run off and left me ; blast their eyes ! I'll fix 'em for it one of these days ; you hear--''

"Sshh !" " Hush up yourself. Where am I ?'" "You'r e ashore. On Cape Cod. At

Trumet ." "Trumct ! '1'1r.1mct.!" He was struggling to raise himself on

his elbow. Ellery was obliged to use force to hold him J .1wn.

" Hush! hush!'' ple;1ded the minister , "you mustn· try to--"

"Trumet ! I ain"t. You 're lyin". Tru­met! Good God ! Who brought me he•re? Did she- Is she- -"

He s truggled again. Then his strengt h and his reason let him simultaneously and t he delirium returned. H e began to shout a name tha t caused Ellery to stand upright and step back from the bed, scarcely believing his ears.

All the r est of t he night th e ma n on the bed raved and muttered. but of p eo­ple and places and happenings which he had not mentioned before. And the min­ist er. lis tcn'ng inten tly to every word, caught himself wondering if he also was not los ing his mind.

When the morning came, Ebenezer Ca pen was awakened by a shake to find John Ellery s tanding over him.

"Capen," whispered the minis ter . " Ca­pen. get up, I must talk with you."

Ebenezer was indignant . "Judas priest! '' he exclaimed; " why

don"t you scare a fe ller to dea th, comin' and yankin ' him out of bed by the back hair?" Then, being more wide awake, he added: "What's t he row? Worse, is he ? H e ain't--"

"No. But I've got to talk with you . You used to be a wha'er , I know. We1·e you acquainted in New BedordT'

"Sartin. Was a time when I could have located every stick in it, 1n·etty nig-h , by the smell, if you'd i;et me down s ide of 'cm blindfolded."'

"Did you ever know anyone named-" H e finishl'd the sen tence.

" Sure a nd sartin', I did. Wl1y?" "D 'd you know 11im well ?". ' 'Wcll's I wanted to. Pretty decent

feller one time, but n fast goer, and went downhill like a young one's s1er1. when h e got s t a rted. His folks haci money. th.nt was the t rouble with him. Why, 'course I knew him! R e ma r-1·ied--'· ·

"T know. Now. l isten." Eller y went on talking rapid ly ancl

wit h g reat earnestness. EbenezPr lic;­t ened, at fir;;t s ilently , then breaking in wi th ej aculat'ons an cl g runts of a <:tonish­ment. H e !;at up on the edge of t he bed.

" Rubbi1<h !'' he cried 'at last. "Why,

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·tain't possible! The feller's dead a s Methusalem·s grandmarm. I r emember how it happened and- - "

"lt wasn·t true. That much I know. I k now, I tell you.'·

He went on to explain why h e knew. Capen 's astonishment grew.

"Judas priest!" he exclaimed a gain. '·That would exphin why I thought I"d seen- Ther e ! heave ahead. I've got to see. But it's a mistake. I don·t believe it:•

The pair en tered the sick room. The sailor lay in a stupor. His br eathing was r.apid, but faint. Capen bent over him and gently moved the bandage on his fa ce. For a full minute he gazed stea dily. Then h e stood erect , drew a big r ed hand across his forehead, and moved slowly back to t he living room.

"Well?'" asked E llery eagerly. Ebenezer sat down in the ro.cker . " Ju­

das priest! •· he said for t he third t ime. " Don't talk to me! When it comes my time they 'll have t o prove I"m dead. I won 't b~lieve it till they do. Ju-das P'riesl f'"

"Then you recognize him?'· The old man nodded solemnly. " Yup,•· he said, "it's him. Mr. Ellery,

wh at are you goin' to do about it?" " I don't know. I don·t know. I must

go somewhere by myself and think. I don't know w hal to do."

The minister declined to wai t for hreak fast. He said he was not hungry. Leaving E benezer to put on the coffee­pot a nd take up his dut ies as day nurse, Ellery wa lked off along the beach. The "dead line•· prevented his going very far, but he sat clown in t he lee fo a high dune and though t until his head ached. What shou ld he do? What was best fo r him to do?

H e heard t he r attle of the doctor 's cha ise and the voices of Ebenezer and Parker in conversation. He did not move, but r emained whe re he was, thinking, thinking. By and by he heard Capen calling his name.

·'Mr. Ellery!'" shouted Eben ezer. '·Mr. E ller y, where be you ?"'

"He re!" r eplied the minister. The old man oame scrambling over t he

sand. He was panting and much ex-cited.

·•Mr. Eller y!"' he cried, " Mr. E llery '. it's sett led for us--one part of it. any­how. Hes slipped his cable: '

"What.?"' The minister spr.an g up. " Yup. H e must have died just a little

while after you left and after I gave him his medicine. I thought he looked kind of queer then. And when the doc­tor came we went in together and he was dead. Yes, s ir, dead."

" Dead!" "Um- hm. No rloubt of i t : ifs fo1·

g-oocl this time. Mr. Ellery, what shall we do? Sha ll I tell Dr. Parker?"

Eller y considered for a. moment. "No,·· he said slowly. "No. Capen, don·t tell anyone. I can·t see why they need ever know that he hasn·t been dead for years, as they supposed. Promiso me to keep it a 1<ecrct. I'll tell- her-myself, l ater on. Now promise me; I trust you.''

"Lands sakes, yes! I'll p rom is~, if you want me to. rm a " ; dower man,

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so t her e'll be nobody to coax it out of me. I guess you're right, cal' late you be. What folks don't know they can't lie about, can t hey? and tha t's good for vour bus iness-meanin' nothin' disrever · ~n t. rll promise, Mr. Elle1·y; I'll ~wear to it. Now come back to the shanty. The doctor wants you."

The next day the body of "Murphy," foremast hand on the "San Jose," was buried in the corner of the Regular g raveyard, n ear t hose who were drowned in the wreck of that winter. There was no f uneral, of course. The minister said a prayer at the sha nty, and that _was all. E benezer drove t he wagon wluch was t:.<sed as hearse, fo r t he occasion, anri fi lled in t he grave himself. So great was t he fear of the terrib'.e smallpox that the sexton would not perform even that ser vice· for its victim.

Capen remained at the ~hanty another week. Then, as t he ministe 1· showed no symptoms of having contracted the di­sease and insisted that he needed no com­panion, Ebenezer departed to take up his fishing once more. The old man was provided with a new suit of clothes, t hose he had worn being burned, an_d having been, to his huge disgust, fumJ­gated until, as he said, he couldn't smell himself without t hinking of a match box, went away. The r oom wh ich t he dear! sailor ha-d occupied· was emptied and sealed tight. The "San Jose" was to s tay at her anchorage a while longer. T hen, when all danger was past , she was to be towed to Boston and sold at auction for t he benefit of t he heirs of her dead skip­per and owner .

E llery himself was most urgent in the decis ion t hat he should not go back to t he parsonage and h is church just y~t. Bett er t o wait until he was sure, he said, and Dr. Parker ag reed. "I'd be willing· to bet that you are all right," declar'ed the latter, "but I know Trume~, and if I should Jet you go and you did de_vel~p even t he t ail end of a case of vanolo1d -well 'twould be t he everlasting climax for yo~ and me in thls county."

Staying a lone was not u~pleasan_t, in a way. The "dead line,. still remamed, of course, and callers d id not attempt to pass it but they came more frequently and he icl lengthy conver satio!ls a~ a re­spectfu l distance. E llery did h is own cooking, what little t he re was to do, but sc• ma ny good t hings were pushed under t he ropes t h.at he was in a . fa ir way ~o develop weight and ind:gest10n. Ca-pt arn Zeb Mayo drove down at least t wice a week a nd usually brought Mrs. Coffin wit h h im. From t hem and from t he doc­tor th e prisoner learned t he village news. Once Capta in Elkanah :an~ Anna.be! came and t he young lady s gu;;hrng prai ~e of t he minister 's "heroism" made its r ecipient almost sorry he had ever heard of t he "San Jose."

Dr. Parker t old him of Grace Van Horne's return to the village. She had come back, so t he doctor said, t he day before, and was to live at t he tavern for u while at least . Yes, he guessed even she had given up hope of Captain Nat now.

"And say,"' went on Parker, "how are you f eeling?"

'"P retty well, thank you,'· replied the minister. "I seem to be rather tired anri g:ood for not hing. More so than I was during t he worst of it."

"No wonder . A chap can't go throurrh what you did a nd not feel some reacti;n. I expected that. Don·t get cold, that's all. But what I want to know is whether you t hink I could leave you for a coup'e of ?ays ? The Ostable County l\Iedical Society meets at Hyannis tomorrow and I ha d promised myself to take it in thi:; year. But I don't want to leave you. if you need me."

Ellery insisted that he did not neerl anyone, was getti ng. alon:;r finely, and wou d not hear of his friendis . . t i d. . m1ss111g

1e me real society's meeting S t i phy~ician went. · 0

l e

'·Good-by,"' he called as he drove ff " 1 e t . o . gu ss your erm 1s pretty nearly

0 _ •

I shall let you out of jai l inside f f•er. o · fi 1· ·f b o our r v_e cays, i ycu ehave yourself .,

This shoufd have been cheeri · hut, somehow, John E llery did ng ; e;vs, cherrful that a fternoon Th t• no eel · h . · e ired feel mg e had spoken of so ligl ti -wor th J h d 1 Y was se an le a descr ibed it . was despondent, for no parlic~l ,i~d he son. That night he slept miser ~{ rea­a \~oke wi~h a chill to find a cold a Y ~nd ram beatmg against the · d ' pourmg ~hanty. win ows of the

H e could not eat and he c Id war m, even with t he cook-~t~v not keep hot and a blanket over hi ~ top red P.y noon t he chill had s shoulders. I I . . gone and he , azmg- wi th a fever. Still th . Was the wind, and no visitor e rain and not even the light-keepe/ at the ropes,

Re la y down on his bed . ::<leep, but thoun-h he do d and tried to 1 • ,.., ze a bit k

a ways With a s ta1t and eith . • :wo e fever fi t. His head beg er a clnIJ or Iently. And then, in t haen Ito ache vio­anrl misery, fear beg-an t tonesomeness him. 0 ake hold of

He remembered the sym tor warnl'd him against· h pt~ms t he <loc­and all t he rest. He f~It eh1: a.ch~ . fever , arms and began to ima . is wnst s and t he skin were the litfine bthat beneath small shot, tha t were the un~hes, like t . Th e certa1 · 1 ions. en he rememb n inc ica-othn man looked , how he 1~;~d . how the he to look tha t way and . d'.ed. Was And he was all alone ti chle like t hat? alone. ' ley ia cl left hii~

Night came. The ra in h !';f•a rs were shining cle . ad cea~ed and shant y t he m:nistei· tos~~; 1 Inside the or sta ggered back and f on the bed

I:r orth h • room. cie wondered what th ~ out the be; then he clid not care e hme might The smallpox ha d him : l_Ie was alone was a lone and he was g

1.11 its g rip. H~ l"d 't ' oing to r c 1 n some one come? Wh c ie. Why Coffin? And GDace?. Sh err Was Mrs. where near him- Parket· he • Wa!'; some­and he mus t see her hPfor ad said so_ ca lled her name over and e he died. He

The win ci fe lt cold 0

~~er again . He st um bier! a midst tin b118 forehead WI . le ea I .

iat was th is thing acr c .1 grass. A r ope, appar ently, bu t wh oss h1s Pat h? be: ropes in t hat house? T; should there

. ere had never

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been any before He climbed over it and it was a climb of hundreds of feet anu the height made h im giddy. That was a house, another house, not t he one he had been living in. And there were lights all about. P erhaps one of t hem was t he light at the p a rsonage. And a big be!I was booming. That was his church bet! and he would be late for the meeting.

Some one was speaking to him. H e knew the voice. He had known it a lways and would know .it fo rever. It was t he voice he wanted to hear. "Gr ace !"' he called. " Grace ! I want you . Don't go '. Don't go ! Grace ! oh, 1;1y dear! don't go!'' .

Then the voice had gone. No, it ha<t not gone. It was s t ill the re a nd he heard it speaking to h im, begging him to listen, pleading with him to go somewhere, go back, back to something or other. And ther e was an a rm about his waist anil some one was k 'ad ing him, helping hini. He broke down a nd cried childishly and some one cried wit h him.

Early the next morning, just as ~ur was breakino- a buggy t he horse whtc 1

drew it gall~ping r~dked a nd bumped down the lighthou'se lane. Dr. P ark_er, his brows drawn together a nd his ]!psi

t "th · d · · '-Ie ha< se w1 anxiety, was nv111g . ' t been rouse:.! from s leep in t he hote:l a H · "Come yannis by a boy with a telegram. . Tl quick,"' it read. " Mr. Ellery sick.' 1e sender was Noah E llis t he lightkeeper.

' . ·"dden The do.ctor had hired a fas t hor se, 11 1 at top speed to Bayport, gotten a fres ~

horse t here and hurried on. He stoppC'C t h. t mer elY a is own house but a momen '

to rouse hi3 wife an d ask her if tr.e r~ was any fresh news. B ut she had no even hca1•cl of the minis t er's seizure.cl ' (,

"M · · d "you on Y soul, Will! " she cn e , think it's the smallpox do you T' I

"Lord knows! I'm afr aid so,·' groan~~ her husband. "'W hctt made me lea If him? I ought to h ave known better. her t hat boy dies , rn i1ever dr aw anot easy breath " . gy

He rushed out, spr ang into the b~g. 't and drove on. At the ropes, early ~1~ •

was, he found a small g roup wa~t1tf­a nd gazing at the shanty. The 11~ 1 r keeper was t here a ncl two or three ot i e men. T hey were talking earnestly. the

"How is he, Noah ?" demanded doctor, j umpin g to the ground. . "r

"I don't know doc ,. r eplied Ellis . 1 · , ' ' I tee· ain t heard sence last night when

graphed you.' ' "H , mean a ven t heard? What do you . ?'"

by that? H aven't you been with him1-"N " 1 ish rep Y· o-o, was t he rather s 1eep .f 's "You see, I - I wanted to , but my wi e awful scar t I 'll catch i t and-" · -

"Tl r·e 1111 . 1e devil !"' Dr._Par~er swo? y ou

Patiently. "Who is wi th h11n t hen · haven't left him a lone have you?" .

"N ' rno1c. " o-o," Noah hesitated once ,. N °-o, he 'ain't alone. She's there. "Sh ? C ffi ?" , e . Wl10 ? Keziah o n · "t yet -'! rlon' t cal'late Kezia h's heard 1 ·cl

We . . . ' f we sa1 was wa1tm fo r you ore the

much to anybody. But she's t here- h e - th o one t hat found him. You ~~· up wa~ out of his head and wanclet ~ nd the lane' most to the main roa a

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The Baptist Workers in Bulgaria Seated : Geo. Vasoff , At. Georgieff. Second Row. seated: Triphon Dimit roff, Nichola

i\1ichailoff, Sister Hanna Mein, Paul Mischkoff. E. V. Gerasim2nko, Carl Grabein . Peter Zasheff. Thi rd Row, standing: Geo. Stephanoff, Chr. NJicheff, P eter Raicheff, Dimit r Christoff, Gligore Vas ileff, ] van lgoff, Chr. Mocheff.

Bulgaria Today By PAUL L. M ISHKOFF, Pres iden t Bulgarian Bapt ist Union

Modern Bulgaria was born in 1878. It is a country about the s ize of Scotland and Wales toget her. It has now a popu­lation of about 6,000,000, with a Const itutiona l Government based on Anglo Saxon idea s of democracy. All t he nationals in Bulgaria enjoy equal rights. The Constit ut ion guarantees lib­erty to a ll.

Bulgaria has made remarkable progress during the fif ty years since her liberation. In social conditions, in education, in morali ty, this youngest of the Balkan States stands pre­eminent among them all. 'l' he peasants r epresent about 85 per cent of the popula tion.

The ha rd conditions under which t he peasa nts live is one of the factors in Bulgaria 's supreme social and economi,c proble m. There is no h ighly-developed industry in Bulgaria such a s c-x ists in England. The laws created for controlling the con­ditions of labor guarantee t he Bulgarian proletar iat better living .condition s t han those exis t ing in most European coun­tries. Bulgari a has ratified all the Conve11tions r ecommended by the International Labor Bureau and has adopted the mos t modern measures for t he insurance of the wor kers.

The co-operative movement is fast becoming a decisive eco­nomic factor in the country. At present ther e are mor e t han 2,600 co-operative a ssocia tions engaged in a wide va r iet y of ~cti vi tie!< .

But t he mos t extens ive enterprise carr ied on by Bulgaria for the enlightenment, elevation and unifica tion of her people is her school syst em. which is t he bes t in t he Balkans. Bul ­garian yout h is very eager to secure an education. A tirnless striving for improvement. and r eform is rha rncteri f;( ic of the

people ancl , s ince the younger Bulgari ans a re wide awake and very r eceptive, idealist ic movemen ts flourish among t hem as in few other counh'ies.

The most noteworthy of these organizations for the making over of Bulgarian life a r e Temperance societies, t he f edera­tion of women's clubs, a well-developed peace movement, all sorts of athletic clubs, and various religious bodies. The Tem­perance movement is rapidly gain ing influence, especially among t he young p eople.

The Bulgarian woman is playing a n ever more importan t role in t he social life of t he country. The women's societies, during a quarter of a cent ury, have worked against great odds for the awaken ing, enlight enment and uplift of t he Bulgarian woman. and have accomplished a great deal.

Bulgar ia is a land of a ;::pirations and hopes. A restless , impetuous nationa l spirit , ever striving for reforms a nd libe ra­tion, seeks to express itself in many ways and organiza tions. This k ads to tolerance and co-operation, and t he Bulgarians are r emarkably toleran t. The supreme problem is to get al l t he turbulent st reams of Bulgaria n social life to mi ngle in one broad, life-giving river .

The Bulgaria of today is a romantic land, pulsating with life. The Churches, t he schools. and a myriad idealis tic socie ­ties are composing a new song for Bu1ga r ia . Her mot hers will no longer sing d ir ges, nor her maidens s igh-winged ha r vest songs heavy w ith tea rs a nd sweat : no, we shall a ll s ing a new song of love, and enl ightenment, of uni ty a nd life , beca use we have set out to turn Bulgaria in to God's country.- The Bapt ist Time~ (London ).

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Wiesental Church Orchestra

Wiesental Church Orchestra The above picture represents the Wie­

sental, Alberta, German Baptist orchestra. Rev. Fred W. Benke, minister of t he church, is music-director ancf Miss Frieda Borchert is the church organist. They are t he two firs t in t he front row, from the left.

The young people of Wiescntal show ~nuch n:iiss:onary zeal. The meeting of t he society are weJJ a ttended an.f car­ried or_i with a fine Chr istian spirit of en th~~1as~. And t hen they visit com·· muni ties In . outlying districts to bring the Gospel in word, song anci music to others. ~r. Hermann Kern, president of the society, leads t he meetings.

Last Sunday evening we held one of such meetings in the P orta Bella school 10 miles southwest of our church. A large . number of people from the sur ­~~undmg district had gathered. Go•I

chly_ blessed us and his Word to the salvation of souls.

The Atlantic Conference (Continued from page G)

pe~ fo_r an informal meeting. Mr Reul.Jen ~md1sch , so prominently indentifiei.1 "'.1th t he Home from its inception . _ ;-1ded and various brethren spoke brf:;Y in humor?us and serious vein, inter­spersed with song and music.

The Lord's Day was a fitting climax to the Conference. The sun gladdened our eyes and hea rt and it was a fine late Sum­mer da y. The Sunday school as­sembled at 9.45 A. M. Brethren H. P. Donner, Wm. Schmidt and A. P. Mihm addr~ssed t he school. Bro. M. Her!nger led In prayer. At t he Jubilee Service following, Rev. F . P. Kruse, a former pi:.stor of t he local church and now chap­lain of the Old P eople's Home, preachetl t he sermon in English on "Remember t he Days of Old." He told us to remem­ber what God had wrought during the 90 years ; t o r emem ber to avoid the mis­takes of former days and to be consider­ate of others in view of t he low estate from which we came. Then came the Cel:ltival sermon in German by Prof. Lewis Kaiser of Rochester, a son of t he church a nd one of its forme r pastors. His sub-

ject was: "Man P roposes and God Dis­poses,"--drawing an a nalogy from Paul's experiences as narrated in Acts 16 :6-12 and God's hand in the leading of K. A. F leischmann to America and Philadel­phia.

A great mass meeting of young people was hc~d in t he afternoon beginning at 2.30 o'clock. Ma ny delegations of young

.people had come to the Conference from Brooklyn, Newark and other nearby places for the day. Mr. Ed. Kiesewetter P.res ident of the Confe t'€nce Union, pre~ sided. The new officers of t he Atlantic Conference Y. P. & S. S. W. Union with Mr. Ed. Marklein of Brooklyn at the head as president were installed into office by National Secretar y A. P. :Mihm. Prof. L. Kaiser was the speaker of the afternoon and brought an inspiring and thoughtful message on "The Enlarger of Human Lives." The male chorus of the Second Church, Philadelphia, ren­der ed several numbers with fine precision and harmony.

The Co~ferenc.e came to a close on Sunday. night with a Union service of the Fleischmann Memorial and th S ond Churches. Rev A p M.he ec; F · · · 1 m OL ' orest Park brought the closing messa on "The I mpelling Vision" b 1 ge Paul's wo1·ds : "I was not dlsob ~~e( ton the heavenly visfon.'' It r de ien . to word for the c!ose. H~a~ve 1 a ~t~ing came to us during t he Co /n Y v1s1ons bt:t they are not only fo n ~rence days, fot· employment W r enjoyment but to their call . · e mus.t be obedient . Space fails to speak . _

s inging by the choirs ~ore fully of 1.ne delphia churches th 0

1 the tw.o Phiia­Windisch Zachay' a ed so ohs by brethren

' n ot ers · ti meals furnished by th . • le good torical exhibi t and oth! r s1sters, the his­Go1l bless the Fl . h features. May CJ e1sc mann M .

lurch as it presses to\ emorial ma~k and the Atlanti.c ;vard the Century begins another year in ~~nference as it Lord! e work of the

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THE BAPTIST HERALD

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The survey of the missionary fie ld of t he world today wiih its opportunities and its difTiculti~s, peculiar to our day and age, is presented in a master ly. a~d !:tatesmanlikc fashion by Dr. Franh.h~i. The a uthor is well-known and beloved 111

C\ur Ba pt ist circles a s t he secretary .,0f t~e Am. Bapt . F or eign Missionar~ .::;o­c.cty for many years. Through his re­peated visits in t he foreign fields and <:ontacls with the leaders of t hought 10

t hese lands, the writer is in a position to speak as a keen observer. The book ~trengthens missionary zeal.

A. P. ~I.

L iterar y P a rtne r s hip A young author in Washington once

wrote to Rudyard Kip ling as follo,~s : " I have heard it st ated that you r eceive one dollar a word for everything ~ou writ e. I inclose one dollar and would }Ike a sample."

Kipling replied with just one worJ , "Thanks ,·• signed t he lette r a nd kept t he dolla r .

The Amer ican then wrote t he anecdote up and sold it to a magazine. Being _an honest fellow h e t hen wrote back to J{ip­lin: "I sold the a necdote for two dollars and I inclose your half-forty-six cents , afte r deducting the postage."-Exchangc.

• • • It is said that Big Bethel chur.ch­

the largest Negro chur ch in Atlanta, G~·· -keeps three rolls. A layman of t ,c church explained it as follows : "There~ the roll of act ive members the roll 0

the dead who have passed 'avv-ay to t he othei· side, and t he roll of the deadhea~~j T he las t is for people who do nothing 11

1 pay nothing. We keep them on t he deac,­head roll for a year and if they don t become active we tur'n them out."

"' "' . Man is that peculiar animal who c~n

get a good hearty laugh out of pic­tures in an old family album and th en Io~k in a m irror wit hout -as much as a grm.

Oc: lober 15, 1~33

T h e Texas and La. Y. P . and S.S. W. U nion

The llur1wille Tex., church wclcomt!d t he Texa:; a nd Louisiana Young P e0pl1.?'!' and ::>undav School Worker s· Union 011

1"1 iday aft~rnoon , A ug . . J, 1933. Scrry io stale our young people wer e not r c]lre­sent!'d like other years on accounL o[ the dist ance and othe r circumstances.

The meeting was opened wii.h son~"· led by our pres ident. The delcitatPs list ii howed there were 8 Unions ret·rcscnted w. t h 37 de~egatcs from Crawfo rd, Gr~cn ­vine, Cottonwood, Dallas, G~tesv 1 llc, Kyle, l\lowata, Waco a nd H urnYJllc. All Unions brought reports from t he work t hey are doing.

Officers were elected as follow.:; : Pres­ident : Norman Lengefeld, Kyle ; vicc­president : Rev. C. C. Gossen, Cn,wford ; :-;ecretary : Mat i.da Hirsch, Waco; ireas­u1·cr, Paul Loewer, Branch, La.

Various committees gave some real in­terest ing l·epor ls of their work in the past conference year. T he Counc1: ~l~m­ber ·waiter Schaible, gave an 111~p1r111g r ep

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or t of his activit ies. He abo helped lo get up t.he historical . re~ort ~f t.l~e Unions from the very begrnnrng of t hen· wor k. It showed how the u nions ha \'e progressed with the talents of t heir young people. We wer e real glad t ha t the young people could have a par t in helping to celebra te the 50Lh Anniver­sary of the Conference. May we keep this good work agoing, so we too ca n celebrate the 50th Anniver sary of the Young P eople·s Wor k some J ay!

On Friday night the meeting was open~d by Rev P h. Potzner. The meet ing was then t urned over to the pr esident. The Council member hall the pleasure to int roduce the officer s to the Union after which we listened lo a pro-

' ·tr t n Y P · 1 ' ~ram given by d1 eren · . . u . s . Sa t urday morning a g roup of young

p eople met a t t he Red Rive r. fo r a s1:1n­rise breakfas t . After a devotional period a nd games the p icture was taken which appears in the " Herald."

Satur day a ftern-0011 we met ai;a in a t L;,ke Gage to play games.

Sunday afternoon the meeting was opened with songs, led by Paul L_ab~rn­Two letter s were r ead from our n .1ss1on­a ries in Africa, A. Or thner and Paul Gebauer.

After several musical numbers, w~ had the pleasure to hear the sp~aker, _ \~alter Schaible. He chose for his ,,topic . "On the Road to Doubt.ing Castle.

The offer ing, though small, ;tS.75, was promised for missions. \ Ve rc~t·et very much that Rev. W m. K uhn could not stay for our program. .

May we ask for new co-opcra t1011 and p ra yers for Gocl's wor k among our young people in the new Confer ence yeai-.

Tll E Sg0RE'l' /\HY. . "' "' P frst Stenog : "The idea of your work-

ing steady eight hours a day! I wou ld not think of such a thing!"

Second Stenog: "Neither would I. I t was t he boss that thought of it."

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P icture of the Sunrise Breakfas t during the Conference at Red River

The Eastern Conference Burden of Our Message to t he Wor ld ··· The S3r <l annual session of the East- Friday evening the Conference st.atisti­

e rn Conference took place in the beauti- cian ga ve a summary repor t , and Rev. fo1ly d€cor ated High St . Bapt ist Church, Dav.cl Hamel preached on "A Life Buffalo, N . Y., August 23-27. At. the Well-pleasing Unto God.'' ' t•pening service Rev. R. A. Schmidt, pas- On Sa turday mor ning Rev. O. E . io1· of the High St. Churc11, heart ily we!- Krueger , assist ed by the brethr en Ar gow comer! t he delega tes and visitors to t he a nd Geissler, conducted a well p lanned cit.y, l he Hig h St. Church, and t he homes a nd impressive Communion Service. On of the German Baptists of Buffalo ; and Saturday night the B. Y. P . U. banquet ou r moderator , Rev. Vl. S. Argow, very was held. The speaker s were P rofessor fittingly r esponded to the hea1ty wel- A. A. Schade and Dr. Wm. Kuhn. T he <:ome extended. Rev. A. E. J as let· banquet \\'as a success and enjoyed by p reached the opening sermon on "Th e all who attended. Myster ious Power, " based on 1 Cor. 2: 2. On Sun~iay morning ther e were serv-

The t hirty-minute devotional periods ices at t he three German churches of on Thursday, Friday a nd Saturday Buffalo, and on Sunday evening the final mornings were led by the brethren Zinz service was held in the Confer ence Licht. and Zimmerman , and ser vccl as church. Dr. Wm. K uhn preached a very very fit.ti ng in tr oductions to the daily g ripping and hea1 t -searching sermon srssions. based on J ohn 4 :35.

T he election resul ted in t he r e-elec- We are sincerely grateful to the many t ion of the old officers, viz : Rev. W. S. singers who cheered a nd inspi red us wi th Argow, moderator; Rev. A. E. J aster their singing, and to the good cooks a nd vice-moderator; Rev. Petet· Geissler , sec~ cap:ible wait resses who served us such r eta ry ; Rev. David Zimmerman statis- de.icious meals, and the kind hostesses tician. Most of t he church repo;.ts were of the homes where we were so well cn­Clp t'mistic a nd showed t hat the past.ors tertained during our stay in Buffalo. a nd Ch ristian worker s of our chu rches " Blest be the tie that bintls labor ed fai thfully and not in vain. They Our hearts in Christian love; showed an increase of 139 members and The fellowship of kindred minds n decrease of 89, leaving a net increase Is like to that above." of 50, making t he total member ship of D B z Repor·tei·.

C f 233 . . .,

our on erence 5 fo r this year. T he' tota l expendi t ures were $36,999.62, or $15.8 1 per member. •

The pastors Zimmerman, Bibcrich and A1·gow spoke on : " W hich is the Specia l Task of the Christ'an Church ?'', "Does the Church of Christ Today Stand on the Offensive or Defensive Side?'' a nd " Our P osition Among and Toward Other Ch ristian Denominations.'' These ialks were interesting anrl instructive, a nd were followed by discussion. Professor A. J. Ra maker report~rl about our Sem­inar y, Rev. G. Fetzer about our P ubli­t'ation Society, Rev. O. E . K rueger about om· Orphanage in St. J ost>ph, and Rev. ' Vm. K uhn about our denominational work.

Professor A. J. Ramaker led t he Quiet Meditation 011 Thursday afte1·noo11, !'peaking on " The Value of Good Cheer,'' and Professor A. A. Schade led it on Friday afternoon, speaking on " F aith."

'l'hur~day after noon I.he "Schwester n­bunrl" of the E astern Conference held thei r meeting. 'f hursday evening P ro­fessor H. G. Dymmel preached 011 "The

And Mama Was So Pleased " You must be

Willie, aged six, widow who had mother.

pretty str ong," said to the pr etty young come to call on his

" St rong? W hat makes you think so?'' "Daddy said you can wrap any man

in town ar ound your little finger ." Buffalo News.

• • • " How has your potato crop turned out,

old chap?" asked one ardent amateur gardener of his neighbor.

" Splendid, old man," replied the other ; "some are as big as marbles, some as big as peas, a nd, ot course, quite a lot o( little ones."

• • • Small Boy : "Uncle Ben, can you still

do tr ick s?" Uncle Ben: "W hat do you mean, my

son, 'do t r icks'?" Small Boy: "Mamma says that when

you were young you used to drink like a fish."-Osteopathic Magazine.

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The Laym a n

EDGA!l .A. GUEST

Leave it to the minis ters and soon the church will die ;

Leave it to the women-folk, the young will pass it by;

F or the church is a .I that lifts us from the coarse an<l selfish mob;

And the church that is to prosper needs the Laymen on ihe job.

Now a layman has his business, and a layman has his joys,

llut he also has tl1e training of his little girls and boys.

I wonder how he'd like it if there were no churches here

And he had to raise his children in a Go:l less atmospher e?

ft"s the church·s special function to up­hold the finer things,

And lo teach tha t way of living from which a li that's noble springs.

But the minister can't do it ,:ingle-handed and a lone,

For the la ymen of t he cou nt ry are t he church 's corner s tone.

When you see a church t hat's empt y, though its doors are open wide,

ft's not t he church t hat's dying, but the laymen who have died.

F or it's not by song or sermon only that t he church·s work is clon e,

But by the laymen of the country who for God must carry on.

The Fairview Sunday School (Cont inued from page 7)

In a !J t he acivities of t he s.chool t he !>p irit ual purpose was kep t uppermost. 'What are our pupi ls becoming ?" was a

qm.stion which r eceived much considera­tion. Commitment to Christ a nd tra ining 111 Christian living were among t he school"s most importan t goals.

Chapter V

why .you got. a s many votes as you did ? I le1·e s the reason: During the last month:; folks couldn·t help but see tha t you w~re waking up. Before you took l ha t trip, or whatever it wns

a , you were n?t even a second class Sunday school pil ot. Very often it lookecl ,1 ·f . )" . 't k • ' 'S I ) OU ~ icm ·now for what por t you were s teer-111g, bu t when you got back thin <l" tr t E ' gs were • . 1 eren . • ven my youngsters noticed it. . ?n account of the way you made thmg,, go, some of the folks though• .t wouldn't be more t han fair to . ' 1

t i h give you ano 1c1· c ance. Sorry you r 1 , enough votes.' c It n t get

"Many of you have no doubt d h t ·t won ered w a 1 was that caused th h

which my very outspoken ~rfe::ge to others have refe rred. For this d and reasons I ought to make a c~n ot.her When our pasto1· came to nfess1011.

S d us a year ago my un ay school activitie ' ing along on a dead level ofs .weffire . mov-A - r · me 1c1ency - " see 1t now, I was out of . · almos t every progi·essiv step with I fi Id e movement ·

t 1e e of relig ious d · In would probably have c et .ucation, and

on 1nued i th· manne r until the expiration f n 1s of office, if it had not been f o ~Y term able exp erience which came ~: a t ema.rk­'1:1Y absence from Fairview D m~ during t ime I visited a Sunday s h

1 ~ rm~ that

na ti which is noted for itsc oo 1!n C1nc111 What I heard and saw on t~x~e ent work. Sunday was in the nature ia memorable F or the first time in m ~~t revelation. the wonderful possibilitr

1 ~ I realized ~chool which emp '.oys so~sndo e a Ch.urch methods and is also full ducational its divine task. I a lso b~c~onsecrated to t li a t I had thus far hard! b me convinced stand a nd appreciate the Y egun to under ­our pastor was doing / emarkabJe wor k tion of our own school I ohr dthe r eforma-r h · a now 1g t, a nd resolved that 1 seen the fort h, with God's help , k~\•ould hence­the light." ' see to walk in

Chapter VI

It was now the pastor's t . The first year of Rev. Hemingwa y's

pastor ate having been completed, the Fa irview ch urch commemorated the oc­casion by means of a fe llowship suppe1. Jn a ddition lo various other in terest111g and enjoyable features, the program also provided for a goodly number of brief addr esses. One of t he speaker s was Brothel' Paxton, who was referred tc a.; "our former Sunday school superinten­dent who will in the f ut ure serve the ~chool as treasurer and cha ir man of the Stewar dship Committee."

He referred in a louchin Utn lo speak. manne t· to some of th th' g and tactful former superin tendent\ Jng~ Which the cont inued as fo llows . '~Y said and then noticed that all of · ou 11lay have made personal confesos~r speakers have . . ions r I

c1dcd to fo llow their exa · 1ave de-g raduated from t he Theo! mple. When r a ~rnmber of years ago I

0f1caJ Seminary

fa1r!y .well equip ped f;r th elt th.at I was Chnstian min istry · as e WOt k of t he ~iowever, my training h:drnatter of fact, tncomplet.e as far as t h be:n Woeful y ligiou~ educ a ti on is c e subJect of re . I . oncerned I -After some prelimina ry rema rks a so surpr ise you lo h . · t may

'L'llE BAPT lS'l' HEHALD

!·ichly blessl•d. In the cuu r:;c of a cun­l'll'Sation one day he said to me : ·Brother Hemingway, it is my cane! id opinion that r ou have bt?en on lhe wrong track. You have tr ied to become a bril liant preacher when God called you t o be a t eaching pastor.' T hose words, together with some ot het things which my friend said actu­a lly led to a turning point in my iife. l began to util ize alt ava ilable means an ti 111~thods which promi~ed to make me a better teache1· of religion . The work has not always been easy, but it has brought rne much joy a nd happiness.

"These personal matters have been mentioned in this connect ion because t hey have had a n importan t bearing upon many of the things which I ha ve tried to do s ince I came to F.airview. One of our speakers has expressed the opinion that our Sunday school has been trans­~o~med during t he pas t year. I t is cer-a in that my own humble s hare in the

work of improvement and r econs truction l\'?uld have been entirely imposs ible wit.hout that per sonal transformat ion to which I have ref erred and for which 1 am deeply g ratefu l to

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God . ., T he pasto r closed with a fe rvcnL

l~ra~er which fi t tingly expressed that ~pi r~t of g rati t ude and r enewed conse­cration which now p revailed among hi~ people, and which would mean so much fo r lhe cont inue:! sucess of the work in l he fu ture.

Some English Names . Those of us who find the pronouncia­

tion of French wor ds trying and un­re-asonable will be surprised to find as much difficulty, on vis iting England, in Pronouncing certain English proper ~ames. The following list dea ls pilonet-1cally wi th a few of t he most difficult cases.

T I · T~ bot is pronounced Tolbut. B iames .is pronounced Terns. C u lwer 1.s pronounced Buller. Howper is pronounced Cooper. K olburn is pronounced Hobun. C no!loys is pronounced Knowles. B ~ckburn in pronounced Coburn.

i ou~ham is pronounced Broom. Norwich is pronounced N orddge. ~t. Lege r is pronounced Sellinger. Iawarclen is p ronounced Ha rden.

Brother Paxton refen-ed to t he change which had taken place in h is official r e­lation~hip a nd then con tinued as follows :

my a mbition at tha t ti~: 1 t hat it was eloquent preacher D . to become an tcrate, however , T. b~~::::g my first Pas­illusioncd with referen thoroughly dis-

C~!quhoun is pronounced Cohoon. Circencester is pronounced Sissiter . Grosvenor is pronounced Grovenor. Salisbury is pronounced Sawlsbury. Beauchamp is pronounced B eecham· Marylebone is pronounced Mar rabun . A.b~rg~venny is prnnounced Abel'gennY·

b MaJon banks is pronuonced March­

anks.

" It is not at a '.l surprisi ng t hat my young friend, Clarence Benton, became my successor at t he last election ; as a matter of fact, I did some electioneering for h im myself. It was somethmg of a surprise, however, that I 1·an a ver y close ~eccmd in the race for the superinten­dency. One of my acquaintances said to me afterwards: 'J ames, do you know

1 Tt ce to m a JI 1 .\', a nd even bega t Y oratorial 1·u1ness as a Christia n" ~ ~oubt rny use­rtsperts. During this pnH~ister in other .t d. e1·1od of 1 y and 1scou1·agement 1 . . Perplex-made the acquaintance f Pt ov1dentia 1J y i~ter who had, to a c

0 . a retired rnin­

~pecia lizecl in the Chri~nt~Iderable extent th I I ian edu t· ' you anr w rose mini t ca ron of

s ry had b een

br~oo~'.ngbroke is pronounced Bulling-

Cholmondely is

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p ronounced ChumleY· - The Classmate.

"' • ~ccording to a college week ly : l• 1·ench1nan: " I don't know.'' Sop~omore : " I am not prepa r ed." J unior : " I do no t remember .'· .Seniot·: " I don't believe I can add any­

thing to what has been said .''

October 15, 1003

Sundays Abroad \V ALTEll A. STAU B

PART ONE

It is sometimes sa id that many Chris­t ian people, who are ot her wise quite r eg­ular in their a ttenda nce a t Sunday church ser vices, take a vacation from church attendance when going upon sum­mer trips. My observat ion has been that, aside from the necessity for spiritual re­freshment and stimulus which is just as essential to one's well being during vaca­tion as at other times, one may well miss some inter esting contacts by giving the chur ch t he "go by" on vacation Sundays. l have again had a series of interest ing Sundays in the course of a recent r ip to E urope.

Afloat Our eastward journey was on the

" Caledonia" of t he Anchor Line with Glasgo-w as our landing por t. Our sec­ond day out of New York was a Sunday a nd I was in ter ested in the church serv­ice which was held in t he lounge wit h t he Scotch Captain of t he ship leading it. The service was well a t tended by the passengers and consisted of t he singing of quite a number of hymns (from t he Church of Scotland hymn book, of which t he ship ca rried an ample supply) and the r eading of a Scripture selection a nd the use of the Church of Scotland ritual. In general , the service was conducted by the Captain, t he Scripture selection how­ever , being read by one of t he 'ship's other officers. No sermon was included in the service. T hi:; might appeal to a good many folks !

As is generally known, t he Captain r eigns supreme on a ship and unless t he ship has a chapla in, which is t he excep ­t ion rather t han the rule, he also con­ducts t he religious ser vices, such a s t he Sunda y services which may be held on t.he ship or a burial serv ice a t sea, unless he wishes to delegate t his to another officer or to a clergyman who may hap­pen to be a mong the passengers.

Sunday services ar e not invariably held aboard ship. The fi rst t ime I went to Europe, now just twenty years ago, i t was on t he " Ryndam" of the Holland­Amer ican Line, which has since gone on t ho scrap heap. Ther e was no question about a serv ice being held on t hat t rip fo r t here were a bout seventy of us aboard who were journeying to t he World 's Sun­day School Convention which was being held in Zurich, Switzer land, that su~­mer. A ser vice was ar raJ1ged by t he pas­sengers, with t he Ca pta in'_s ~ppr.oval, and we had wit h us ample 111 1111sten a l talen t lo furnish a fu ll fledged ser mon and a ll t he other features of the type of service to which Baptists and other non-ritua l­i!:.-tic Protestant denominations are ac­customed

When, fou rteen years later, '~e we~e again on a H olland-America sh1P-tl11s t ime the "Niew Amsterdam," which has a lso since been scrapped-no ser vice was held on Sunday. Perhaps this was be­cause of the small number of passengers aboard. It was in October and t her e were only twenty-n ine of us in a ll of first class. There were, it seemed, al-

most more s tewa rds than passengers on ihe ship. H ad it noi been tha t t he ves­sel was carrying some seven thousand tons of grain it would certainly have been a costly trip for t he shipping com­pany.

Three years ago we wer e on the " Bre­men" of the No1-th German L ine, but we got a board on a Sunday in the early a fternoon off Southampton, England, so I did not learn whether or not a church service was held in the morning. Vve have twice sailed on Italia n boats, six years ago on t he " Conto Biancamano" and three years ago on the .. Conte G1·ande.'' In both cases a Roman Cat ho­lic service was held on Sunday morning which, in t he a bsence of any other , we a ttended. Incidentally, one must pay t ribute to t he fidelity wit h which the Roman Catholic Church maintains it s services. I remember being a t the Grand Canyon in Arizona some nine years ago 0 11 a Sunday and being told, on inquir­ing about a church, that there was none t here but tha t a Catholic priest came t wice a mont h to hold a service.

On our latest European trip we were afloat on one Sunda y while en r ou te from London to Gothenburg, Sweden, on the "Britannia" of the Swedish L loyd Line. There was no ser vice aboard t he ship, either Protestan t or Ca t holic so far as I know. '

England

In E ngland t he forms of religion at least appear still to be observed in cer­ta in connections to a grea ter ex tent than has come to be the case in America. F or ex ample, in t he early years of my bus i­ness life it was a rather gener al cus­tom in America to invoke t he divine blessing a t the beginning of a banquet or public d inner; today I t hink it is probably in only a minority of such in­stances t hat th is is still done. Be.cause of this change which has ta ken place in the course of t he year s in Amer ica, I was t he more interested in the procedure at t he International Congress on Ac­coun ting held in London during July of th is year , attendance a t which was t he p1:ima ry purpose of my latest European t rip.

The very fi rst item on the program of t ho Congress, which after a ll was a tech­nical a.ncl not a r elig ious gathering, was a special service in Westminster Abbey a t eleven o'clock on Monday morning. It was very impressive a nd included a n ex­c~llent and t imely sermon by t he Ar ch­bishop of Yor k. It was r epor ted in pa r t as fo llows in " The Accountant,. (Lon­don ) :

T he Archbishop took as his text the word;;: " Seek ye fi rst t he K ingdom of God and his r ight eousness"--or h is j us­tice-"and all these t hings shall be ad­de<l un to you·• (Mat t . 6 :33) . T he wor ds "these things," said t he Archbishop, re­ferred to "wh at we sha ll eat" and "what we sha ll drink" and ' 'wherewit hal we shall be clothed.' ' In other words, the distribution of economic goods would come right when men sought first the Kingdom of God and his justice.

How insistently history taught us that lesson ; and how continuously mankind

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disrega rded ii ! We liked to take to our­selves what was sometimes called the consolation of r eligion- to seek in it a comfo11; for our distress without t rying to understand or t o r emove the causes of our distress. But the proclamation t hat God was Jove was not only an a n­nouncement of a truth which brought comfort to ever yone whose hear t was touched by t he spirit of love, but was also a nd inevitably t he p roclamation of judgment upon a ll policies of p urposes \\-hich were dictated by motives at var ­iance with love. For if God, the Supreme Reali ty, was love, then every p olicy a nd purpose which was governed by selfish­ness was based upon something at vari­ance with ultimate r eality, a nd was bound to end in calamity. So our Lor d said t hat they who heard his sayings and fol lowed them were like those who built upon a rock-the rack of fact-while those who heard them a nd followed them not built t heir house, indeed, the house in which they sought for these consola­tions of relig:on, but when t he t ime of stress came the house would fall because it was n ot based upon fact, which a lone supplied firm foundation.

This thought of the work ing of the Divine judgment upon all that was con­trary to t he Divine will was very prom­inent in the Gospel. Our Lord '' 'l'apped up wha t he had to say concerning his own judgme1\t of the wor ld with what he foresaw to be an imminent event in t he experience of the disciples- the fall of J erusalem. lt fell because it could not rise to the height of its spirit ual oppor ­t uni ty ; i t did not know the time of its visit a tion.

The wr iter of the great book with which the Bible closed beheld all history as it wer e set out in a single panorama, a nd its leading principles were two : the pr inciple of self-centerdness and pride, which used force as its instr ument and was typified by the great wild beast, and the pl'inciple of love, which used sa cri­fice as its instr ument a nd was typified by the Lamb as it had been slain. Over and over aga in men had bui lt upon the basis of self and p ride, by means of force, the civilization whose name in that book was Babylon t he Gr eat; and every t ime i t came t umbling down be­cause it r ested on a foundation that was P.Ot the r ule of God. But ever before men·s eye;: was the vis ion of that civi­l iza t ion which could be the Holy City, which came, when and in whatever degree it came, always from one source-out of Hea ven, from God.

W hen we turned to apply such thoughts to the routine of our mater ial and eco­nomic l ife, two t hings above all we1·e seen to be involved as necessary. The first was obedience to God and the realization of dependence upon him, and the second was mutual trust among those who con­ducted the world's affairs, in little things and in great.

But trust and trustworthiness went hand in hand. It was not true simply that one of them created the other, but that each created the other. When a person was trusted, he did not like to

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Kez iah Coffin (Cont inued from page 10)

she'd been callin ' on Keziah and when she come a way from the pa rsonage she heard him hollerin' and goin' on and-"

·· who did'!" ''Why"-the ligh tkeeper glanced a t his

companions-"why, doc, 't\~as Grace Van Horne. And she fetched him back to the shanty ;:tnd t hen come and got me to telegraph you."

" Grace Van Horne ! Grace Van- Do you mean to say she is there with him now?"

" Yes. She wouldn't leave him. She seemed 'most a s crazy's he was. My wife and me, we--"

But Parker did not wait to hear t.he 1·est. He ran at full speed to the doo1 of the shanty. Grace heriself opened ii:.

'·How is he?" demanded t he doctor . ·'I t hink he seems a little easie1·; at

any rate, he's not delirious. H e's in th~re. Oh, I'm so thankful you've come."

•·Is that the doc tor?" called Ellery weakly f rom the next room. "Is it'?''

' ·Yes " replied Parker, throwing olt his coat a~d hat. ' 'Coming, Mr. Ellery."

" For God's sake, doctor, send her away. Don't let her stay. Make he r go. Make her go! I've got t he sma llpox and it: she stays she will die. Don't you un­derstand'! she must go.''

"Hush, John," said Grace soothingly. " Hush, clear."

Dr. Parke1· s lopped short and looked at her. She returned the look, but with­out l he s lightest semblance of self-con­sciousness or embarrassment. Sh.! did not real ize that she had said anything unusual, which must sound inexp:icably strange to him. Her thoughts were cen­t ered in that adjoining room and she won dered why he delayed.

" Well?" she asked impat iently. "What is it'! Wh y do you wa it?"

The doctor did not a nswer. H owever , he waited no longer, but hurdcd m to his new patien t.

(To be continued)

Beware of Big Words Herc is Johnson's definition of net­

work: "Anything r eticula ted or decussed at equal distances with interstices be­tween the intersections."

It is no wonder that Goldsmith said to t he great lexicographer: "Doctor, if you were to write a fable about little fishes, you would make them talk like wha les l"

As we have been told, it is better to say fine things simply than to say sim­ple things finely.

Not much too severe were t he Spar­tans who fined a citizen "because he used three words where two would have done as well."

At all events, beware of big words !

• • • "I wouldn't cry like t hd if I were

you," said a lady to little Betty. "Well,'' said Betty between her sob~,

"you can cry any way you like, but this is my way."

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be:tray that trusl, and ,;o fou nd an added motive to be t rustworthy. And when a person was trustworthy he encouraged other:; to trns t him-for the first time if they had not done it, in g reater measur e if they had. Trust a nd trus tworthiness developed one a nother in the world, and those who gathered in the Abbey t hat morning were, in a quite peculiar de­gree, the custodians of t hat sacred prin­ciple of t rustworthi ness and t rust.

Upon t heir profession, and the con­duct of its responsibilities by its mem­bers, must largely dep end the basis of mutual confidence which was the first condition of returning or a biding pros­perity. It was because they knew t hat full well that they had come to the Ab­bey, in order t hat in t he course of their del iberations , and at t heir very outset, they migh t remember that other great factor which was the primary necessity of man's welfare--the sense of depend­ence upon Got! for g uidance and for power. Surely the ver y holding of that Ser vice was of good a ugury, not only for their Conference but for the future of the world . For they, upon whom so much depended in t hose various coun­tries which they rep resented, had come to seek the guidance of God a nd to con­fess their dependence upon him in their work of maintaining mutual confidence and trus t.

Upon such a purpose they knew tha t lhc Divine Blessing fully r ested. With the sense of such a consecration about them they would pro.ceed to their delib­era tions with lhe confidence that they could claim God"s guidance. And those who watched would try to pray with them and for them, that through them something more might be done to bring mankind to lay a s ide the dreams of ac­quisitiveness and to seek first God's Kingdom and his jus t ice.

At t he banquet seven hundred men at­tending the Congress from the British Isles a nd various foreign countries , which was held in the his toric Guildhall and at which Prince George was present the Archbishop of York was among t he

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hon­ored guests and, in addition to making a happy and effective response to one of the toasts, invoked a blessing· at the be­g inning of the meal and gave thanks at its conclusion when t he speaking was al.lout to begin.

On another day, when t he technical business of the Congress was put as ide for the time being, various g roups jour­neyed to different points of interest, each group uncle r the leadership of a British accountant. The irroup which Mrs. Staub, our daughters and I joined, visited Hampton Court and in the course of our vis it there an informal luncheon was served. Ere we " set our t eeth into the food," the leader of our party, a W e'sh accountant, asked a bless ing upon t he meal.

• • • If your neighbor is sprouting wings,

he doesn' t need to t ell you about it­you'll know it before he does.