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14 THE CHEISTIAN NATION. Vol. 61.
Y o U n ^ Peooie's Tonic ^^^ ^^^ ^'^^ °'^'' '^^° ^^^^ ^"""^ ^^' ^'^^^S the Jews. This latter field South. The work was not fully es-
S f ^P^^ fore. For a few dollars, we can ex- ,yas opened in the year 1894 through tablished until 1874, when Lewis
FOR DBCBMBER 13 ^^°^^ realms whose discovery cost ,, 'L , .t^t^ i^rxi. ti ^ r 4.-x it. „
R p A A T T t ^^^^i"^' Tyndall, or Stanley hundreds ^^'"'^ '^^^^^ "^ ^^r- ^^^^i*^ Metheny. Johnston, licentiate, and Eev. G. M.
iiy Rev. A. A. Johnston. ^^ thousands of dollars and patient I* i^ called the "Mission of the Cov- Elliott began Mission work in
Gems from My Reading. Prov. 2: years of toil. The printing press is enant to Israel." At times the work Selma, Ala. We are told that they
^ Psalm^llf'"Srt'2"'Nr'3l9^°31- ^^^ ^^^ "^^'"^ unlocks the door into in this field has been very encour- opened a school with 14 pupils. In
4-7. NO. 75; 119: Part 17, No. 338; 33; welurof'^Jhe^prr Each generatTon '^'''^ ^""^ ^^''^ ^^''''' ^'"^ '^'''°''''' *^' ^'''' ^^^^ *^'
1-4, No. 79; 119: Part 22, No. 347. ca^ n^^, Ijegijj j^ j^g progress, where '^Sing- "^^e believe the mission was shape, property was purchased and
Parallels: Phil. 4:8; Prov. 23:7; Ps. the last generation left off. ' closed or practically so for a few a congregation was organized. The
119:18; Deut. 6:7; Jos. 1:8; Jer. 15: gy^ ^jj^t books should we read months for the reason no one seem- work from the first began to movp
P 3 13 14 P 22 1718 The volumes already published and ed available to take hold of the work forward. Other stations were open-
^There a^e 'few'problems more im- l^dTo'numteftXmXif'sTmany ^^^" ' ^^^^' '''' ' ^'^' "^^ ^'^- "^ '* ^^''''°* ^"'' ^'"^^^ ^'''^
portant to young .people than their ^^.^ ^^^^^-^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^y^ ^^^^ ^^^ E. A. Blair was chosen to the field, and East Selma. According to the
reading. The books we read will de- ^^ ^^^^_ ^^^ ^^g^ choose a few I^ is considered a hard field and ('Continued on page 18.)
termine our thinking and our think- ^^^^^ masters and make them our why Different reasons may be men- ^^,^,^ ,^ "
ing will determine our "fe Out of .instant friends. There is firstbi- tioned. One reason is that these WON T MIX.
nvionln"%ompron7Lfrecre" '^^r'^' "^^ ^^^"^^'^ "^'^^ "' "^^^- People are a foreign people and ^^-^ ^^'^ -^ ^'^^d Health Won't
environment, companions and recrea- ^j.,, soswell's "life of Johnson," Car- ^ , , . , -r. • • M,-^
tions influence us wonderfully, but jyj^.g ^^udy of Oliver Cromwell. There 'P*'^^ ^ ^^''^^S^ language. It is in Mix.
only because they affect our thinking, ^re great epics like Milton's "Para- reality. Foreign Mission work -
which in turn creates our character, ^jg^ ,^^^„ rj,^^^^ are great novels brought home. There are about -^^^ numan stomacn stands mucli
-Our soul is dyed the color of its ^^^^ ..^es Miserables," "Romola," 100,000 Israelites in the community ''^''''' ^^* '* ""^^ * '•'*" g°°'l
Thfre'lre two ways in which we "^'}' !• ^"° ''""''" "'""'''' ''"'- ^^^ ^hey know very little about the ^'f^ '^ T'/"V! ^"'^ ^•^•
there are two ways in which we ^^^•, "Oliver Twist," "Hypatia," and t^ ,. , , ''„, . ^, If you feed right you should feel
can keep our thought life pure. We ^uncle Tom's Cabin." There are won- ^""S^"'^ language. Then agam the ' ^^^ ^ ^^ '
can, first, fight off every evil sug- ^grful ,poems which sing themselves Jews have rejected the Messiah, •,'•,, -, , , ,,°
gestion. We can tear down every ^^^ ^ur hearts, "songs immortal as they have disowned Him as the Sa- ,,, ^® ^ ^^""^ ^°^^ ^° ^®*'"*'-
vile picture from the walls of our im- j^ye, pure as the dew of the morning vior of men who should come into ^^^'^ ^^^ ^ ^®^^® "'='^
to're'^'^mTure^VdTaltVthoS '"' '"'"' '' "' '"''''''•" '""^^ ''' ^he world, and therefore they have a "^^^/^ "^°^* 7 ^^^^^^ ^'' ^ ^^to
eveiy impure and jealous thought t^^^ g^^.g "Crossing the Bar," i i 4. 4. , . • „ gan to suffer after each meal no
But there is a better way than that •aT^^Ac„,r,r.fh'„ -t^,^ tj,,,.,,, tut^.^^,^'- personal, hatetul antagonism for " ^^ , ^.,,, ^ , „
T3 , . •, • v.- , ff + Wordsworth s The Happy Warrior, ] ' ° matter how little I ate," says a Den-
Paul suggests It m his letter to the ^^ Shelley's "An Ode to the West ^he Gospel. We need to remember ' •^
Philippians, "Whatsoever things are ^in^." There Is history and philoso- this Mission in our prayers that the ^'^^^ woman.
true, whatsoever things are honest, ^^^ pj^g^Uy there is the Word of Lord, l^y His Spirit might open the ^®* ^ appetite and the very
Whatsoever things are just, whatso- God, greater than all, greater in truth eves of this blinded'neoole
thought) of food grew distasteful,
ever things are pure, whatsoever ^j^^ puj.ity_ pointing to the paths of " ' ^,. ^r- . mn with the result that I was not nourthings
are lovely, whatsoever things p^ace and righteousness, which tells '^- ^^"^^^^ Mission. This Mis- .^j^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^.^
are of good report; if there be any authoritatively of Jesus in whom sion was opened among the Indians ayr r. \
viirtue, if there be any praise, think alone is their salvation, the quest of in Oklahoma in tbe year 1889 ,. , ., ^ ^^^ "^^f ^.f ^ !^'^^'
on these things." It is far better every man. by Eev and Mrs W W Cari "" ^^^^ ^^^^ "'•'
and easier to have your heart so fill- -^ ' „ • ,, ,' ' own I have also to look out for an
ed with good things, so that there will D MoPtinCT TontP K ' ^!^''' f f r^ ^^' aged mother. There was no one to
he no room for the evil, than to be wag- JT itiycr XVlcClUlx 1 UpiC been greatly rewarded. The work ii-, , t_ijij j
f , 1, +n„ f„ ,...1..= «„t • f 1 • 1 • shoulder my household burdens, and
mg a continual battle to arlve out ^^^ j^j,^ consisted m reaching out among come what miirht T must hear them
the bad. An empty garden is an in- ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ j^^. ^^^ come what might I mu t bear them,
vitation to the weeds. But fillyour ^J ^^^- ^--*-^- 30uuiein mibsion. -, , , I j. x, about some one With trouble like
thought me with tne beautiiui nowers Pac,.a(ra,„^+ ' „„„ of
How wonderful are books! We can ,,. . ' , x- , sit down at the Lord's Table and mcreOiOly snort space 01
., ^ J ,• f f fv - f f Missions. The question may be ''^^ uowu at tne ijora s laoie ana ,. ^ mvoolf 'i.\noc
sit down and listen to the scientist ^ •' „„v,n,v,„,„^„„+„ +i,„ .q„„+i ^^i-i, o ^^'^^ 1 was again myselt. ftince
tell us all he knows about stones and asked what is meant by Home Mis- commemorate the death of the Sa- ^^^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ .^
seeds and birds and stars. We open sion work Our Synod speaks of ;;^7^'°°*^'^^°"^^lP J^ t^^^^' f''^* weight through a summer of hard
one book and an astronomer tells us, her work among the unsaved as hath the Lord wrought.-' lo know ^,^^j_. ^^^ jga^ij^e I am a very diifer-
"Here is the sum of my fiftyyeais' Foreign and Home Mission work, their lives after conversion, to hear ^r^lpurlid
study of the sky." Another writer -,.•,,,, , ,, , them nrav one cannot doubt the ^^oman, all due to the splendia
f „ "TT • fv. A t It is all the same work, the preach- ^'^em praj, one cannot aouot tne » , ^^.ar^Q at„i-o " ATomo rrivon hv
tells us, "Here is the record of my . „ ' ^ „•„ v -j. j ai, n i j -x looa, trrape-Auts. JName given oy
, • .-u . X- „ TTr-f,. V. , ino- of the Gosnel sppkino- to Ipad simplicity ot the Gospel and its won- -r, , J: -r. ,., „ •, ,^. 1
travels in the Arctics." With a book ^^^b ^^ ^"e t-ospei, seeking to leaa f^ -^ ,, , , , Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
in one hand we can go from Central men to a knowledge of Christ as derful power over the hearts and ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^^^^ ^^^^ ,,^^^
Africa to the 'North Pole. We can go their personal Savior, but it is car- hves of men. The Mission has sure- j^^^^ ^^ Wellville " in nkgs "There's
with Audubon in his travels as he pjgjj on in different lands Home ^y heen blessed by God to these poor ' „ ^ ' ^ ^ '
studies birds, with Stanley to Africa ^^.^^.^^ ^^^j^ .^ ^^^^ ^^^^ .^ ^^^^ heathen people.
' Eve^Ld the above letter A new
dise. even Peary with Napoleon to We the can golden frozen glean in his tlio North, streets campaigns, experience with .of Para- John with of ^t Selma, tions home of Apache m . special our own and operation 1 land. in j Philadelphia The m, are , loca- iu started the 3. q year o Southern among 1863 .i. that the nj- Mission. Freedmen the - Mission t, It was of was the in interest. are one genuine, appears from true time and full to letterf time. of m human They new