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giving them all the personal help he could. Two churches
were organized, the Friends and the Methodists. They
are still working in perfect fellowship.
Employees were encouraged to leave leaky cabins and
move into little homes of their own, their wages being
adjusted so that they could make small payments until
the happy day arrived when they could claim a clear title
and have the deed for their very own. More than twenty
families are today occupying homes which were secured
in this way. One young woman aided her husband in
paying for their cottage by doing laundry work at the
“ big house” . Two old colored men, born slaves and now
nearing the century mark, are still well, and happy in the
service of the Woody family.
The wilderness and solitary place has been made glad
by Christian example and the Gospel.
Newton W oody’s influence is still felt in Moore County
which has become a great in d u stria l section of North
Carolina. A member of his fam ily wrote the American
Bible Society concerning the observances of Bible Sunday
in that section:
“ I am a ‘ Shut-in’ mostly, but I had officials of the
. churches in this and other sections who took the posters
to different localities to post in the churches and to present
the subject of the undelivered Bibles. The superintendents
of Sunday-schools or teachers in a dozen or more
schools presented the little folders to classes' as book-marks
if the pupils would remember as they saw the appealing
folder to pray that the Bible might be set free to go on
its errands of mercy. I sent many letters to friends to
awaken interest in faraway places. One mission worker,
a stranger, informed me the folder she received cost her
$10.00— that she sent the money for distribution of Bibles
in Korea. My work has been only seed sowing. I enclose
my check for $5.00 for this privilege. I will follow up
the work as I can.”
HOW MORMONS TRAIN CHILDREN
The school of week-day religious instruction has been
appropriated by the Mormons, according to the Presbyterian
Magazine. In many communities where there are
no “ Gentiles” to oppose, there is constant and unhindered
teaching of their faith within the public school building.
Elsewhere they have had academies or church schools.
But with the coming of the high school they have abolished
the academies. They depend on the public funds to
educate their children, but a few feet away they build a
“ seminary.” They have about sixty of these two-room
buildings. Leading from the high school to the seminary
is a cinder path and when school is dismissed announcement
is made of the religious school to follow. Often it
is so made that pupils who do not go are marked. (Schoolmates
do not hesitate to dub them “ heathen” ). Teachers
well-versed in the Mormon doctrine give their time for
instruction in these seminaries. Thus the constant teaching
of children begun at four years of age is carried
through the high school period. No wonder that their
growing youth, though intelligent, are confirmed in their
faith.— Missionary Review of the World.
A DECAYING CHURCH
Some one tells a story of an artist who was once asked
to paint a picture of a decaying church. To the astonishment
of many, instead of putting on the canvas an old,
tottering ruin, the artist painted a stately edifice of modern
grandeur. Through the open portals could be seen the
richly carved pulpit, the magnificent organ, and the beautiful
stained glass windows.
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Within the grand entrance was an offering plate of
elaborate design for the offering of fashionable worshipers.
But— and here the artist’s conception of a decaying church
was made known— right above the offering plate, suspended
from a nail in the wall there hung a square box,
bearing the legend,
“ FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS,”
but right over the slot through which contributions ought
■—to have gone, he had painted a huge cobweb!— Advent
Christian Missions.
AN OPEN LETTER TO JUDGES
By Junius Channing Quincy
With your permission I want to reason with you concerning
your method of dealing with the violator of the
prohibition laws.
Suppose a counterfeiter were brought before the court
and proved to be guilty. Would it be any service to the
country in restraining the crime of counterfeiting if
the court were to fine the criminal ten thousand dollars
and permit him to pay the fine with good money obtained
from victims in exchange for his counterfeit money—
setting him free to go and make more counterfeit money?
You will answer “ Certainly, not,” and you will snort
at the absurdity of the illustration.
And yet that is exactly in kind what many of you do
with the violator of the prohibition laws. You fine him
and then set him free to sell more counterfeit whisky
to get more good money to pay the fine.
And it is just such timid if not venal proceeding on
the part of some of our courts which help along the criminal
combine between the bootlegger and the local official
who protects him.
The original offending is not in the court. But the
court has the authority to check by severe punishment
all offending which reaches the court; and to make salutary
example which will send fear into all the rings of
evil doers:.
As one who has observed the court for many years I
avow this to be a fa ct:— One resolute judge can terrorize
crime within his jurisdiction. He can subdue it to a
minimum within his bailiwick. Once it shall be known
that the offender receives the limit of the law as a sentence
from the judge, the criminals will flee from the range
of his authority as rats flee a place where other rats have
succumbed to rat poison.
All this is known to you judges. Are you willing to
risk the peace of your community, the proper interest of
taxpayers, the safety of your fellow citizens and even of
your own family, by making light sentences— fine or very
trivial imprisonment— upon the violators of the prohibition
laws?
They are just as guilty as counterfeiters. And they
should receive the same kind of severe sentence up to
the limit of the law.
Pile on the fines to the confiscatory point with the ignorant
bootlegger who is in the business for gain. Put
him away behind prison bars long enough to break up
his business. And send the pretended respectable member
of society, who violates the law, to jail for the full
limit permitted under the statute-— so that the disgrace
will brand him before all his community as an ordinary
criminal.
It is true that the responsibility for the saturnalia
does not begin with you; but it ends' with you.
You can stop much of it, if you will.— The Christian
Statesman.