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THE CHRISTIAN NATION.
Vol. 61.
A R O U N D T H E O L D A R M C H A I R
"I love It, I love it,
And who shall dare
To chide me for loving
The Old Arm Chair."
through. The table was covered
THE PEACE-PACT. A PROGRESSIVE MISSIONARY
with Indian curios, shoes, jewelry,
Tbey were foes as tbey tell in that
Going home Betty and I talked
frontier fight.
MEETING.
nose-rings, toe-rings, and other it over, how we could do the same
They were friends as they lay with By V. F. Penrose,
objects, borrowed from boards or in the way best suited to our society.
We should not have their
their wounds unbound,
Author of "Opportunities." friends. She had a set of pictures
Waiting the dawn of their last morning-light.
"We are to have a progressive
alcoves, nor space for so many lit­
from The National Geographic
It was silence all, save a shuddering
Magazine carefully cut out which
missionary meeting the twentytle
tables for the cups of tea which
sound
she handed around for inspection we all enjoyed after our travels,
Prom the souls of the dying that seventh. Will you lend us "
while describing some of the cu­anrios before us.
offer as if by magic; but we must
which the hostess seemed to
rose around;
the leader telephoned me.
And the heart of the one to the other "But -what is it"
Tinkle, tinkle, and a bell summoned
us from those five minutes we too will show foreign lands, by
imitate. And at our next meeting
As closer'they drew, and their arms ;'' really do not know. It is an
enwound,
original plan by one of our mem- to the Chinese table, where the permission of the deviser of "progress,"
Miss Kershaw, South Am­
"There will be no war on the Other bers, but she is keeping it secret."
guide in Chinese costume was
^^'^^•"
"Certainly I will do what I can
most enthusiastic over China and erica taking the place of Moslem
As the souls of the dying mounted for you; perhaps I might call her
all she had studied about it during lands.
liish
up and talk things over as to what
several weeks. She had been to
It seemed they could hear the long , ^ a i • •
One hour covered the whole
J
gj^g wants. As I am now missionfarewell!
land, Elmendorf's, I think, and we discussed the novelty and suc­
some of the pictures on that great thing except the social tea, when
Then together they spake, and they ary chairman for my own society, was brimming over with information.
Five minutes sped very fast, ing.
cess of this truly progressive meet­
questioned why—
might I come and bring two or
Since they hated not—why this evil ^-j^^gg qJ ^^jy mission-study class"
^«*®^^- ^^ ^ "Yes, indeed, do come."
Can not more churches study
And neither the Prank nor the Gei- ' , , , ,
up why and how to improve their
man could tell
Three of my class, who had been
Wherefore themselves and their coun- most enthusiastic over "The Call
trymen died.
of the World" and were also help-
But thes said that Hereafter in . .^ ^^^ ^^^. ^^^^ ^^_
peace they should dwell— . . . .
"There will be no war on the Other ceptance to the invitation, and we
Si(ie." all proceeded to the Wakefield
. , , ^, J.. „, p.^ Church, Germantown, on the
pletely covered with her veiling referred us to it in fine fashion.
garment, cap sewed to the voluminous
folds of sheeting, and face to keep on reading about "her
Each guide said she was meaning
covered with a shorter piece that country." It had awakened new
had embroidered holes to see
and we were sorry when the tinkle
announced the second five
minutes over.
But Persia, Syria and Mohammedan
peoples were just as interesting,
and the black Persian outdoor
costume with its long white
interest, and made each land absolutely
real.
missionary meeting for no one
need ever have a missionary meeting
that in any way needs the reproach
of being termed dull.
It would be quite possible to
veil was a marked contrast to India's
white "extinguishment" that
take only one land, and have a
.A.S they languished there on that field ' '
phase of work at each table. Medical
missions, educational, evan­
accursed
twenty-seventh with curiosity fulstood
next (the indoor costume is
With their wounds unbound, in their ly aroused.
regular ballet-dancer style, and no
gelistic, press, industrial, all could
mortal pain. Blessed be curiosity. It can do American woman could appear in be made real by means of pictures
>aake one to the other, "I faint from j. ..u- u it. it), and we found again new interest.
Dolls from Persia were on
or objects, if one just begins to
-«is.c uiic , great things when properly harthirst!
, , . .
take thought, and studies the
And the other made answer, "What nessed, and this time it surely was her table, showing plainly the indoor
and outdoor types of dress. The National Geographic Maga­
missionary magazine as well as
drops remain
SO.
In my water flask thou shalt surely At first there seemed no differ- More than fifty years ago the old zine. The Missionary Review of
^^^^^- ence from other meetings I had Shah had visited Europe. He had
As he lifted the flask the other re- ,, . , „
the World offers constant thrills
been so much delighted with the
jjg^ attended there when the speaker
of interest and stimulation for
"I pledge Side!' thee in this till we me^t of the day. The regular business ballet there that on his return such occasions. Everyland has
again—
had followed the devotional exer- home he had ordered all his women,
high or low, rich or poor, many secular magazines, for the
suggestions; so, in fact, have
There will be no war on the Other ^j^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^.^_
sionary interests had rapidly and throughout his empire to discard
And it
was
came
fanned,
to pass as the night wore stepped pointedly to the followed front. one another.
(Continued on page 12.)
their long, modest dress and don
So
....
tbat
. ^.f^
visions
..r.
were
X.
theirs,
11 *i,
(yet
•
not
„,-.,, Then In her the hand originator was a of thick "progress" bunch
That
from
fever
sleep,)
through all their veins => t- & the many skirts of ballet type.
of red cards, or what She proceeded
to explain that she would
DO YOU SUFFER
And each was flown to his own
Africa and Japan were the remaining
tables, half an hour suf­
FROMJACKACHE
loved land. -< * * . ...
But, rousing again, one murmured, S've each one a calendar card with ficing for the moving from table
"Thy band!
a number on the back. These were
When your kidneys are weak and
to table, and each "native" guide
Thou art my brother—naught shall di- home-made red cards cut the dey^^^'
^ sired size, with a foreign picture
torpid they do not properly perform
having her own method of information.
Thus Japan had prepared
their functions; your back aches
Something went wrong * * - but
. . . on each and a little red calendar, a regular itinerary, and as a special
point was reached would hand
understand, _ '
There will be no war on the Other tied with red ribbon. We were out the Geographic picture that il­
and you do not feel like doing much
of anything. You are likely to be
despondent and to borrow trouble,
just as if you hadn't enough already.
Don't be a victim any longer.
Side."
to walk past in single file from
lustrated it most cleverly.
The old reliable medicine, Hood'%.
L'ENVOI.
left to right, and as we got our
Comrades of peace, we can give but ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ p^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ Africa wore merely as an overdress
a costume from the Congo,
Sarsaparilla, gives strength and
As we
tone to the kidneys and builds up
our tears • ^i. i , •
human look tide oti - the * waste *
ber.
the whole system..
of the m the alcoves bearing our num-
Yet forever one cry so haunts my Number 3 we had, Betty and I;
decorated with cowries, not attempting
any more realistic repre­
combination of roots, barks and
Hood's Sarsaparilla is a peculiar
ears—
so we went at once to a table
There will be no war on the Other
where stood a woman in the white
sentation. She had a map of Africa
on the wall back of her,
herbs. No other medicine acts like
Side!
—Edith M. Thomas, in X. Y. Times.
Mohammedan garb of India, com­
and
it, because no other medicine has the
same formula or ingredients. Accept
no substitute, but insist on having
Hood's, and get it today.