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•September 2, 1914.
A FAMILY PAPER.
village, I saw a man at his own house and was
moved with a desire to spcnlv to him l)iit passed
with the thought of doing so some other time.
There never came another opportunity. I suppose
within an hour he was carried into the
house luu-diiscious and lived only a short time.
|'i)-silil\' soiiu' of you have been iieglectrul also.
Let us heed the warning and be more diligent
m pressing home tbe claims of Christ.
When shall we coiniuoiice Most of us have
iust t'xpi'i'iuneed a communion season. That is a
ffood time to commence, .hist after communion.
Aiuhew found his brother and "brought
him to Jesus." Let us be more faithful in
pressing home the claims of Christ.
THE XEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY.
The illustration serves to show one feature of
the \ery practical and varied work carried on in
this great cit\ liy the Xew York Bible SiK-ii-ty.
.-Vmong the leeeiit contributois to the work is
the Seniiid Churcii, this city, Rev. A. A. Samson,
pastor, which gave $4(i.0.j. Congregations
or individuals desiring to aid the Society may
send their gifts either to Rev. George William
Carter, Ph.D., (ieiieral
Sccretai-N. (i4 l>il)ie
House, New York, or in care of the Cliristian
.Xation.
(Juo of the woikers has recently been visiting
the hotels of the city that have never heen supplied
with Bibles. As a result, the Sociely has
now furnished the transient guest rooms of
nearly every hotel with Bibles. Tliey have recently
supplied •-'Oi hotels with (1,474 tJihlcs.
Counting the liotels previously furnished with
Bibles, they have provided a total of 370 hotels
in Xew York City with .s-.'.S'.'ii Billies. The regular
hotel population uf Xe\v York is estimated
at (J0ll,O(H) and is a (-(instantly changing throng.
A iireat multitude of people will see these Biljles
and many individuals will find joy and comfort
in the Word of Life. The Society wishes to
thank those who have helped to provide the
Bibles for these hotels.
During the last fiscal year 338.00(1 volumes
of .Scriptures were distributed. If each volume
has been read by three individuals (and many
volumes were read by scores), over a million
people have been reached. The cost, including
the price of the books, to reach each individual
was less -than three cents. The cost of the distribution
alone, not including the \alue of the
books, was less than one cent. We venture that
no Si.H-ictv is reaching such a large number of
people with the Message of Life at so small an
outlay per capita expense.
A meeting of the Societ\- was held Julv ".^Ist,
following the C^uarterly Meeting of the Board
of Managers, at which the following named
gentlemen were elected managers of the Society:
Joshua Lindley Barton, il,i)., of the Society
of Friends : Hans P, Freece, of Fort Wa.shington
Presliyterian Church; George H. i\lasfen,
of the Broadwav Prcshyteriaii Church, and
lf'>l".'rt H, Robinson, of the 3btli St, Collegiate
Beformed Church.
SKiaiA AND ITER NEIGHBORS.
By Francis E. Clark.
Dr. Chirk, in his iridr Iraveh. hd-'f had an
opporiunilij to become irell acijnninted with
tlie coiniiiiin iicojilc of eiislcrn I'Jiuope.
He
/••Ko/r.s- the honied of tlioxe upon whom the burden
of iriir irill fall licarili/. He here glees a
riosc eieic of tlic jicoplc in llic countries wlicnce
came tlic .v;«(r/i- wliicli stnrlrd tttc great war conflaijrahon.
he de.^cribe.s Iheir porcrtij and the
load of pre.'ient la.rc.'i.
Imagine a stale about one-third the size of
.New York, with less than a third of her population,
and scar(-ely a twentieth part of her
wealth; a state of rugged mountains and dashiii.il'.
crystal streams, whose arable land constitutes
hardly oiie-(|narter part of its whole area;
a state half of whose acres arc covered with
tiuc Seib looks bai-k with a thrill of pride.
This was in the early part of the fourteenth
century, when her tenth ruler, Stephen Duslian,
A\-lio called himself a czar, conquered almost
all the territory now included in the Balkan
States, and kept e\en the Turks of Constantinople
awake for many a long night for
fear that their great capital might fall before
his arms.
But this golden age of Ser\ia was as brief
as it was brilliant, foi', only forty years after
Steplien Dushaii jiroclaimed llimself czar, his
siu-(-essor, Lazarus, was slain in battle, and
Servia was wiped off the map of hhirope for
iiKire than four centuries. The Turks overlaii
the country to the banks of the Danube
nnd far beyond, anil even today one sees
iiK.sipies and minarets, now turned into Christian
churches, in many towns of modern Hun-
L'ai'v; towns like Pecs, where I have more than
SEAMEN AND FISHERMEN RECEIVE THE BIBLE.
Mr. Jones, a Newr York Bible Society Missionary, carrying the Scriptures to Fishermen,
On September 30th he completed forty years of service for the New York Bible
Society and this year he is making the largest distribution of Scriptures
he has ever made.
great forests of oak and walnut, whose immense
herds of swine, half wild, root foi- the
abundant mast; a people as poor as the poorest
in all Euro]je, who live, for the most part,
in little stone lints where a well-to-do American
farmer would hesitate to house his pigs—
imagine this, and you have a very inadequate
picture of the little kingdom of Servia, where
started the terrible conflagration which has involved
most of Europe in a war the like of
which the world has never seen. And yet there
is another side to this picture. The people,
if poor, are brave; if ignorant are liberty Iovmg;
if bigoted are devout; if good haters, or,
perhaps one had better say, bad haters, are
vet steadfast friends,
Servia. too, like Poland and Bidgaria and
once attended a rousing ('hristian Endeavor
(-(invention under the shadows of ancient minarets,
A little more than loo years ago. after nearly
lialf a millennium of Turkish rule, the
national sjiirit of Servia revived, the iloslems
were driven out, and, under the peasant king,
Kara- (ieorge. and the swineherd prince, Milosch
Obienovitch, who assassinated his predecessor,
Servia was again put upon the map.
For a hundred \ears she has had a checkered
history, and has been saved from annihilation
more than once by her powerful Slav friend,
Russia, and once at least, in ls8."i. by her
present po-iverful eneniy, Au>ti-ia-IIungary. To
prevent Scivin from beinir utterly crushed by
Bulgaria. .Vusfiia then interfered and saved
even Croatia, has had its brief day of nation- her from a fate she riclilv de 'll for atal
glory and conquest to which even now the tacking without reason her sister kingdom at