Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1910 — Page 3

The Treasure and the Pearl

By REV. E. SINCLAIR SMITH

Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Houston, Tanas

Che treasure and the pearl.... ~r ex t: What Is the summum bonum—the chief grooA—Matt. 13:44-6. Again the kingdom of Heaven la like onto a treasure hid In a field, the ■which when a man hath found he kldeth and for Joy thereof goeth and selleth ail that he hath and buyeth that field. Again the kingdom of Heaven la Uke a merchant man seeking goodly Pearls, who when he hath found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it. Prof. A. B. Bruce characterize* these two parables as the “Treasure and the Pearl” (or the kingdom of God as the summum bonum or chief good). These two parables constitute but one text and teach the same general lesson, the Incomparable worth of the kingdom of uod. They show how the kingdom of God ought to be esteemed In whatever esteem It may In fact be held. Something that it Is worth while giving up everything else In order to attain it. What Is this supreme good of human life? We are all looking for hidden treasure. We are all seeking goodly pearls. The only question Is what treasure Is worth the most? What pearl has the greatest value? What Is best worth living for? What Is the summum bonum? What, according to Jesus Christ, Is the chief good? The treasure It Is worth while to barter everything else for? The prlce : less pearl whose value Is greater than all else? Is it not tbfe kingdom of God set up in a man’s heart? To have God’s kingdom set up In a man’s own heart, to be In touch and sympathy with the great Interests of Christ’s eternal kingdom; this Is worth while, worth living for, worth dying for. This is the only interest deep enough, high enough, comprehensive enough to absorb a man’s affection; arouse his energies, develop the best and broadest life. There Is only one thing worth living for—the kingdom of God. Christ teacheß and experience proves the truth of hla teaching that only the kingdom of God set up 2 a man’s heart can satisfy him. He ay have everything else under the sun, but Unless he has entered Into living, loving fellowship with God his soul will thirßt for the living God and will never be satisfied until satisfied In God. Man’s chief good is God. The living, loving God as recalled in Christ enthroned In the heart, the source of life eternal! this Is man’s chief good. "This is life eternal that they might know this the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” Another term our Savior uses in describing the chief good, is “eternal life.” If men only knew the significance of those two words —eternal life—they would give up everything they had on earth rather than not possess., it. : __ ~ Like the man who found the hidden treasure, they would sell all that they had to possess that field. Like the merchantman seeking goodly pearls, when they found this pearl of great price they would give up everything they had rather than to give up this priceless pearl. Let us study these parables a little more closely. They represent two different classes of men. The parable of the man who found the treasure hid In the field represents a man going about his daily business, living a surface life, unaware that just below the ■urface, If he would dig a little deeper, he would find a rich treasure, not knowing that there Is a richer, better life in store for him, until accidentally, as It were, he stumbles upon “the Christian secret of a happy life” and goes on through life rejoicing in his newfound happiness. The parable of the merchantman seeking goodly pearlß represents a different type of a man, one of high Ideals and expectations, always reaching out after something better than !he possessed, until at last, In his seeking, he comes across the pearl of great price revealed in the peerless one, and he gladly parts with all that he has gained that he may possess it Such a cholee soul was Paul, who said:,. “What things were gain to me these have I counted loss for Christ. Yea, verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things and do count them but refuse that I may gain him.” Another choice soul was Justin, martyr, one of the early Christians, who tells us In his writings how he had traveled through the whole circle 0 f Greek philosophy, seeking everywhere for that which would satisfy the deepest needs of his heart’s soul, and ever seeking in vain, till he found It at length In the gospel of Christ This parable represents an earnest seeking soul finding at the end of Ita weary quest Christ God’s answer to the heart’s need. We show our appreciation ,of the yaluo of this treasure, this pearl, by the earnestness with which we seek |o possess it The man that found this bidden treasure sold all that he had fchat he might possess this treasure. If the kingdom of God.set up in the heart Is the chief good then our only rational course is to give up everything that hinders Ottr possessing It jtto irrational to go through life Withoat possessing ourselvss of it

HIS CAREER WAS ACCIDENTAL

Harry Mclntire, One of the Winning Pitchers on the Chicago Team, Telia of Start .. . / BY HARRY McINTIRE. (Copyright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles.) My baseball career was rather an accident from the outset. I never had the slightest idea of earning my livelihood playing ball or of taking it up as a profession. The truth Is that I was Inclined to go into the priesthood when I was a small boy, and my other ambition was to be a locomotive engineer. From the time I first can remember I loved baseball and played It, always as a pitcher, If the other fellows would let me, and when they wouldn’t let me pitch I played somewhere else. * It was at the Brothers’ School at Dayton, 0., that I first belonged to an organized team. I was backstop for the catcher, and very proud to chase balls that went past him. I began to study pitching then, for we had a good pitcher ob the school team, and I watched to see what he did to puzzle batters. One of the priests had been a pitcher at school, and he taught me some more. I remember when he told me that keeping cool and never losing the temper was a better way of winning than pitching curves. Pretty soon our class team let me pitch, and after a time we tackled the school team and beat them so I was put on the school team. I began to think I knew it all, and it took several beatings to show me how little I knew. When I left school I was looking for a job and a friend of mine, who was playing on the Kankakee (Ill.) Y. M. C. A. club asked me to come over there and pitch for that team. I looked on It just as a summer vacation, but made good there and found myself getting along so well I commenced to study pitching seriously as my profession. It was hard work with many discouragements, but I stuck toi it. Every time a batter made a hit off me I studied to find why he had hit

Harry Mcintire.

it and what I ought to have done to keep him from hitting hard. The next season I arrived at Danville, 111., and played all summer. There was a wise old catcher there who taught me a lot, and from there I took a couple of big jumps into the big league and have stuck. I think the great reason why I have managed to stick Is that r never have stopped studying the game and its players. If a man gets to know it all he will be in the bush leagues soon.

BROTHERHOOD HAD FAST BALL

In 1890 Baseball Players Used Bphere That Burned Inflelders When Hit—Some Batting. Speaking of the rubber-cored ball and the cork-cored ball and likewise the cry* for more batting* how many of the fans remember trie time when a ball was used that did result in extra slugging? In 1890, wnen the Brotherhood was hatched and tried, there was the same yell for extra batting that you hear today. The Brotherhood decided to gratify the wish, and, first of all, moved the pitcher a foot back. Then they had a special ball built, with twice as much rubber as was contained In the Reach-Spalding globule. The result was batting till you couldn’t rest, but, unfoFtunately, was also bad fielding. While the new ball went so fast and so bumingly that the inflelder* had to duck or die, it also took weird and inexplicable leaps, and when sailing for the outfield, would actually turn and wheel away as If blown by the wind. It is the plain truth, and no exaggeration, absurd as it may seem, many a time a ball would start for •center, and, with the center fielder all set, would swing over and take the right or left fielder off his guard. Batting? Plenty. Pete Browning led with .391. Had the present scoring rules, which all favor the batsman, been In use, Pete would have been tabbed .450, maybe more. Any time they want more batting, a rub-ber-centered ball, with additional rub ber, Is the thing to do the "work Browning would have hit about .60( that season with the pitcher as fai back as he Is now, and using tbs' lively balL

CONNIE MACK IS GREAT LEADER

Connie Mack ami Frank Chance will each be given a much higher rating as a manager by the baseball public than was accorded to either in 1909, but neither has shown qualities as an organizer, disciplinarian or general that he did not exhibit during the preceding pennant race in landing his team in second place. Chance has won a pennant with every major league team of which he has been in charge except in 1905 and in 1909. The Cubs of 1905 lost the services of the lamented Selee, In mid-season and Chance, his successor, established his reputation as a leader by securing third place. New York won, with Pittsburg as the runner-up. The Athletics have made a creditable record during Philadelphia’s membership in the American league, but Mack has never been able to win two successive flags. In 1901, the Initial season of the American league, the Athletics finished fourth. The White Sox carried off .the honors of the year. In 1902 the team that McGraw dubbed the “White Elephants,”

CINCINNATI SECURES A STAR

Dave Altizer, Who Has Contributed Much to Success of Minneapolis, Is Drafted. One hundred and fifteen minor league players were drafted by the 16 clubs of the two major leagues when the national baseball commission met at Cincinnati recently. Of these the National league secured 67, while the American league got only 48. The Brooklyn club of the National league secured 15 players; the New York Nationals were the next fortunate In the draw, as they secured 13 players; Philadelphia Nationals came next with 12 players secured; Chicago Nationals were fourth In point of number with 11 players, while the Chicago Americans secured ten. The others ranged downward to a single player by Detroit, and this one is under investigation, so that Detroit

Dave Altizer.

may come out empty-handed In the draw. St Louis Nationals did. not secure a player. A little less than $125,000 was deposited' with Secretary Bruce of the commission to cover the drafts. One player in particular, Shortstop Altixer of Minneapolis, was most eagerly sought Every club In both leagues wanted him. He was finally awarded to Cincinnati. Altizer is, to take L the most daring leap of all this fall, ft is reported. He will march to the altar with one of the fair young ladies of Chicago and allow himself to be doubled up.

Manager Connie Mack of Athletics.

finished first. Boston beat them out in 190? and in 1904 Philadelphia tumbled to fifth place. In the next race, the Mackmen qualified as the American league’s representative in the first world’s series conducted under the aaspices of the National Commission, but were decisively defeated by the New York Giants, and were shut out in four of the five games. Bender blanked the Giants in his team’s lone victory. The gameness of the 1910 Athletics has been proved and those who earlier in the race taunted them as quitters and predicted that they would not stand the Btrain, have been silenced by their sustained steadiness at all stages of the campaign. Most of the veterans are still in ( line. Coombs, Bender, Plank and Morgan are considered the big four of the Athletic artilerists, but none but Mack knows who will be his slabmen in the world’s championship series. It Is possible that Krause may he specially prepared for these engagements.

BALL AND BAT NOTES

Harry Lord has been counted a* the classießt of third basemen for the last two seasons. He has been picked on the All-American teams of several of the dopesters. Fred Luderns has already made himself solid with the Philadelphia fans. He looks even better than Bransfleld and it is likely that he will soon supplant the veteran. President Herman of the national commission announces the national commission will investigate the plan for two ball clubs to tour the country and will bar league players from the tour if Tex Rickard is backing it. The National commission will not allow the promoters of the All-Na-tional and All-American teams to get away with it The commission is right, for the game should be allowed to rest in peace during the off season. Snodgrass, the leading slugger of the National league, is only a youngster, and if he keeps up the record he has set for himself this year he Bhould have a record as good as that of Pop Anson, Ed Delehanty or Honus Wagner, aB a great hitter. Cobb of Detroit, Snodgrass of New York Nationals and Lajoie of Cleveland are batting .362, .360 and .359, as named. There Is only one automobile to be given to the player having the highest batting average at the end of the official season In both leagues. Pitcher Klettinger of the Clinton team should get a chance to show what he can do In the big leagues after that exhibition against the Cubs a few days ago. Any bush pitcher that can make the coming champions go 11 Innings to win a 2 to 1 contest must have something worth trying out In his whip. President KlnseJJa of the Springfield team, who sold Meloan to Chicago, is becoming a successful scout. He has Bold four more players of hla team: Outfielder Shatter to Detroit, Pitcher Willis to the St. Louis Browns, Catcher Hartley to Toledo and Pitcher Laudermllk to the SL Louis Cardinals. Kinsella Is said to have 300 players under contract.

A Comer in Ancestors

Simon’s 6on easily becomes Simson, Simpson or Sympson. Another orthography is Simptsen. One branch of the Simpsons dates to time of Edward the Confessor, and from Archil, a Saxon thane. He possessed the manor of Clint, in Yorkshire, where, his descendants living In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, called themselves "de Clynt.” One of the family was Symon, son of William de Clynt, 1300. Symon’s son came to be known as Symson. If this tradition is as true as it is interesting, the first Simpson were de Clynts. “Quite aristocratic!” do you say? Yes, indeed. Sims, Simes and Symonds are said to be variations of the name Simpson, or like it. They trace back to “Simon’s son.” Simpson Is the name of a parish in Buckingham, and at Knaresborough, is one seat of the Simpsons. Another, Is Foston Hall, Yorkshire. Searching the records, for early fathers, we find that John Simpson came over in the “Truelove,” 1635, with wife Susanna. They had six children, and after John’s death, his

widow became the wife of George Parkhurst. Watertown, Mass., was the home of John and Susanna. Francis Simpson of Salem was "worried as a Quaker." 'This was about 1648. Alexander of Boston, 1659, was bom in Scotland, which was also the native land of Andrew, who was living in Boston, 1725. He married Elizabeth Patten, and they became founders of the New Hampshire branch of the Simpsons, making their home at Nottingham, N. H.

Every Flournoy in America Is descended from Laurent Foumoy and his wife Gabrielle Mellin. Laurent fled from the Champagne, France, to Geneva, Switzerland, after the Duke of Guise massacred the Protestants at Lassy, in 1662; thus the Flournoys were early sufferers for their religion. His wife Gabrielle was born in Lyons. They had two sons, Jean, born 1674, and Gideon. Jean married Frances Mussard, and they had Jacques, born 1608. He married Judith Puerari, or Puesary. Their son Jacques, born 1657, married Julia Eyrand. , It is interesting to note that “Julia” is a name, which Joined to “Elizabeth,” has been perpetuated to the present day. In every .generation there is an Elizabeth Julia. Laurent was a lapidary, and his sons followed the same trade. The son of Jacques and Julia was Jean Jacques, born November 17, 1666. He Is one of the progenitors of the American branch of Flournoys. Jean Jacques married in Virginia June 23, 1720, Elizabeth, daughter of James Williams and his wife, Elizabeth Buckner, and widow of Orlando Jones. Jean Jacques, immigrant, and Elizabeth had ten children —sons and daughters. The sixth son and youngest child was Colonel Thomas, an ancestor to anchor by. He is a wise descendant who claims him—if he can! Colonel Thomas held offices of various kinds. He was born November 20, 1738. These dates are given for the purpose of filling up aching voids on family charts. He married Anne Martin, who survived him, dying June 1814. Their children were David, Jean Jacques, Elizabeth Julia, Mary, Anne, Lucy Paris and Marcia Martin. Colonel Thomas led the strenuous life. That he usually spelled his name rather laboriously Flowrnoury is neither here nor there. He was under sheriff of Prince Edward county, and later high Bheriff; in 1780 he was member of the house of delegates; in 1777 he was captain of militia and in 1783 commander-in-chief of militia of Prince Edward county. It is an unreasonable grandchild who demands more in the way of a career, from an ancestor. The same year that Jean Jacques came to Virginia or earlier, his uncle Jacob, born in 1663, came over with "sa famme, deux gareous et deux fllles," and made a home at Williamsburg. Jacob was son of Jacques, born 1608, and Judith Puerari. His two boys were named Francis and Jaotoes, and his girls Jane and Frances.

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Simpson Family (Copyright by McClure Syndicate)

Flournoy Family

Andrew Simpson had eight children; one was Josiah, a brave soldier in the French and Indian war, and the Revolution. He removed to Maine and was the father of ten children, some of whom became founders of the family in far western states. Andrew and brother Thomas were “agents of the towns of Nottingham and Deerfield.” Heitman’s “Officers of the American Revolution,” gives the names of Ensign Andrew Simpson, 119-’81; Surgeon John t>f Connecticut, and Captain Thomas of New Hampshire. Captain Michael Simpson was also a member of the Continental army, and , with Arnold at Quebec. Michael, one of nine children, was the son of the Immigrant Thomas, who was the son of John, born in Scotland, but who lived and died in Ireland. His two sons, Thomas, just named, and John came to America, 1720, and settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania. Michael, the soldier, became the owner of land, and a ferry in York county, Pennsylvania! —Simpson's ferry, It was called. Another patriot was George Simp* son of the Pennsylvania branch. The Simpsons of New England were no less patriotic than their brethren of Pennsylvania. When the news of Lexington reached Deerfield Major John Simpson shouldered his gun. The Simpsons are prominent In Virginia, and related to the Peytons, who numbered many Revolutionary soldiers, and received large grants of land in Virginia, for services in the war. Among marriage connections in Pennsylvania, are the McLeans, Murrays, Hamlltons, Espy? and Elders. Sarah, daughter of Mary Simpson, and Rev. John Elder, married Gen. James Wallace, who was prominent ,ln the Revolution, and member of the house of representatives. Arms are blazoned for the Simpsons, and Slmsons, also the Symsons of Buckingham, Dunham, York, Litchfield, London afsl Scotland and Ireland. The one Illustrated is:: Argent; on a chief indented, vert, three crescents of the first Crest: A crescent or. Motto: Tandem Implebltur— at length he shall be filled. Other mottoes of the family are: Je Suls Pret —I am ready. Nunquam Obllvlscor —I will never forget; Perseverantl Dabltur —it will be given to the persevering; Alls Nutrior—l am fed by birds. The coat-of-arms of the Scottish branch Is similar to the .one Illustrated. It is argent; on a chief, vert three crescents of the first. Crest: a falcon, proper. Motto: Alls Nutrior. The motto shown with the illustration is also used by Scottish Simpsons.

The name Flournoy is not common, either in this country or in Europe, but those who can claim Flournoy lineage, If not the name, are found probably In every state In the Union. From Virginia the family went farther south, to Kentucky and Tennessee, and now every state, without doubt, has its branch of the family, which 1 traces back to Jacques or to his uncle, Jacob. In Europe, there are some of the! name in Switzerland, and in Austrian A genealogy of the family was com-j plied by Gallffe, entitled “Some gen 4 ealogical accounts of Genevan fam-i tiles from earliest times Jto the pres-! ent day.” From the Gallffe book we learnj that Flournois, or Flournoy was a vll-i lage of 30 households, between JoiiH vllle and St. Dlzier, France. ' Altai-

FLOURNOY

court, Champagne, was fjaurent's home; his house and lands were soldi after his flight to Switzerland. He also had lands at Vassy and in three or four other jurisdictions, and he also owned land in the town of Flournoy, rfTso spelled Flornoy, Flowrnoy, Fleur- * noy and Flowrnois. A member of the Flournoy family at Geneva has a map and views of this old town, where one member of the family Is now living, an old lady, who was born Flournoy. The interesting part of the Flournby story, or one of the points to mention, is tiie derivtatien of the name. “The flower of the walnut*’ is the literal translation, and the name, first Fleurnolx went through several changes before becoming Flournoy. The arms are blazoned: Azure, a chevron argent, In chief, two chains of walnut flowers, in pale, a walnut of the same (same color, argent). Motto; Ex flore fructus—"From the flower, fruit."