Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1914 — Page 2

Back to the Bible

Applicative ol the Scriptures to the World Today as Seen hy Eminent Hen in Various Walks ol Lite

(Copyright. 191 L by Joeeph B. Bowles) RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE FAMILY. (By RT. REV. JOHN N. McCORMICK. _ D. D„ Bishop of the Protestant EpisL copal Church.) “The Bible steads alone In human literature tn Its elevated conception of manhood as to character and conduct It Is the invaluable training book ot the wp|ld.”— Henry Ward Beecher.

One of the pressing problems of the day is the religions education of the

to grow np godless, Ignorant of the uninstructed in the religious history of the race, and deprived of religious sanctions and stimuli in conduct and in character, then fathers and mothers must give time and attention to religious instruction and inspiration. v For thin the Bible speaks most strongly: “And these words which I command thee this -day shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest In thine house and when thou w&lkeßt by the way and when thou llest down and when thou riseth up.” And we are told in the Book of Proverbs, “Traill up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from It” .

Instruction In the law and In the great tradition of the chosen people ■was part and parcel of Jewish home life. At twelve years of age Jesus Christ was able to converse intelligently with the doctors of the law, and he grew up as every child of Bible-loving parent should: “And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. • * * And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and In favor with God and man.” If we want the next generation of American citizens to he God-knowing and God-fearing men and women we must see to it that they learn the Bible stories and catch the Bible spirit at the mother’s knee and from the father’s lips and life. Happy Is the young man who can say, "For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.”

THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH.

(By O. FREDERICK WRIGHT, L,L. D., F. G. 8. A., Geologist; Author of “The Ice Age in IJorth America,” “Man and the Glacial Period.” Etc.) "There never was found, in any age of the world, either religion or law that did so highly exalt the public 1 good as the Bible."—Sir Francis Ba- ; con, father of modern philosophy.

The southern end of the Dead Sea is In a played out gas and oil region. Bi-

crevasse in the earth’s crust, where one side of the crack has slipped down thousands of feet and in the process has from time to time unloosed the forces pent up below. Earthquakes hare abounded in the region, thus recording the spasmodic movements in the eartb’J’j jprust which are the cause j of earthquake tremors. v The description of the destruction of Sodom in the Bible accords so perfectly with that of the explosion of a reservoir of gas and oil under high pressure that It bears upon its very facer indubitable marks of being that of an eyewitness. Abraham looked down from the heights near Hebron and *‘lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.’’ And In the direct description it is said: “Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire 111 I M l liTfTri nr IW i M ' '

young. The teaching pttheußlble to not officially permitted in the public schools. Paroch ia 1 day schools and Sunday schools cannot bear the whole burden. There most be religions instruction in the home; for the most formidable menace to the national life is education (so-called) apart from religion. If our children are not

tumen, which results from the evaporation of petroleum, is thrown up in great sheets by earthquakes from the shallow bottom at the south end of this sea. Oil still oozes from the crevices of the rocks surrounding it, and is found on the surface of the water. Moreover, the Dead Sea is 1,300 feet lower than the Mediterranean, and occupies a deep “fault” or

from Jehovah «ut of heaven.” These pare exact descriptions of what would take place in case a slight earthquake had released and ignited some of the reservoirs of gas and oil which we know have been imprisoned in that region. It Is only in recent, years that we have come to know much about such reservoirs. At the present time they are frequently penetrated in the Russian oil field at Baku on the Caspian sea. Occasionally there a reservoir is Btruck in which spouts forth 100,000 barrels of oil a day. Sometimes three such wells have taken fire and been burning at once, the ignited material rising in a column hundreds of feet in height and the burning Bpray being carried to points several miles distant, the sulphurous particles falling down upon ships and bouses five miles away. —— ; —- On telling the great oil expert, Mr. L C. White, these factß on my return from Siberia a few years ago, he said that he could ‘‘go me one betr tcr,“ for he had supervised the drilling of a well in Mexico that spouted out 160,000 barrels a day. It is almost incredible that such forces are imprisoned beneath us, but the late Prof. Edward Orton, one of our most distinguished scientists, told me that he had seen the pressure gauge on a gas well in central New York •register 2,600 pounds to the square inch, whereas the pressure of the piston of a / locomotive 'engine rarely rises above 150 pounds. The forces at the Lord's command for the production of a “miracle” are limitless.

THE SUBLIMEST MORAL CODE OF THE AGES. (Bq THEODORE KEMP, LL. D., President of Illinois Wesley University.) “It is a belief In tire Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life."—Ooethe. —7- ; The law of Sinai has not been repealed nor the Sermon on the Mount superseded. Who is audacious enough to add to the Ten Commandments or who dares to remove a single “Thou shalt not?” Every vital virtue to herd implied and every cardinal sin M here condemned. With all our progress in education and morals, men cannot improve upon these commandments. Men may continue to break them, but we may question any man’s right to amend thefn. It 1b remarkable that this code of morals has stood the test of over 3,000 years. There are those today who under a mistaken sense of freedom seek to ignore and often endeavor to have others ignore them, but the very stability of government and home, as well as the rights of all individuals, are bound up in their observance. Man’s attitude toward God and his relations to men are set forth here with amazing wisdom and with unsurpassed authority.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness.” "Thou shalt not steal.” "Thou shalt not murder.” “Thou shalt not commit adultery." “Thou shalt not covet.” How these strike at the very heart of modern Bins. To omit even one from the category is to bring ruin down upon home and heart; and yet today in much of our literature, in popular plays, and in the utterances of would-be prophets of the new day, we hear and see bo much at variance with these fundamental laws. Never has there been a greater need in this country for men and women to hark back to these utterances thundered from Sinai and graven on tables of stone. The light regard for human life, the disregard for rights of property, the preaching of easy virtue, the lessening of the sanctity of the marriage bond, and the feverish greed of covetous men, all proclaim that the redemption of society, the purification of the home, the sanctity of property and person, must be obtained through the observance of the ethics of the Ten Commandments and their wider application as expressed in the Sermon on the Mount. In the light of these great commandments which constitute the world’s greatest authority in the realm of morals, all attempts to condone and extenuate the sins here condemned fchpuld be met with a storm of protest by those who love the nation and the home.

Hew to Cut Glass.

There is a method of cutUgg glass without the aid of a diamond which is very little known. Take a piece of common string and dip it in alcohol and squeeze it reasonably dry. Then tie the string tightly around the glass on the line of cutting. Touch a match to the string and let it burn off. The heat of the burning string will weaken the glass in this particular place. While it is hot plunge the glass under water, letting the arm go under well to the elbow so that there will "be no vibration when the glass is struck. With the free hand strike the glass outside the line of cutting, giving a quick, sharp stroke with any long, flat instrument, such as a stick of wood or a long-bladed knife, and the cut will be ae clean and straight as if made by a regular glass cutter.

Few Scandinavian Illiterates.

Scandinavians lead the world in point of literacy. Among every 20 German immigrants over fourteen years old is found one illiterate. Of immigrants from other nations it is claimed there is found an Illiterate among every 23 Dutch, 38 Irish, 62 Welsh, 60 Bohemians; TT Finnish, 100 English and 143 Scottish; but the proportion among those who come from Scandinavia is one in 260. Among the Uthunlan immigrants and prose from southern Italy half of them read nq language.

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U. S. FLEET AT VERA CRUZ SPEEDS TO SEA AND MEETS INVISIBLE FOE

Graphic Description of a Hurry-Up Test Eight Big Warships Maneuvered So as to Eneircie Enemy for Crushing Broadsides—New Signal System Evolved by Admiral Fletcher is Tested.

Vera- Cruz, Mexico. —“Put out to sea and Intercept a hostile fleet approaching from the east,” was the signal that came to the New Jersey from the flagship at eight one morning, says Junius B. Wood, in .Chicago Daily News. Instantly the big battleship was alive with action. Captain Jayne, who had been chatting on thequarter deck, hurried forward to the bridge, the officer of the deck close

Warships En Route to Sea.

I’ at his heels. A messenger ran below for the navigator. Tlfe bugles sounded assembly, officers hurried to the bridge, and others below to tho fires and engines. The anchor chain, like a big black iron snake, was sucked slowly in br some invisible power. A swirl of sand and mud showed where the giant teeth had held the bottom of the bay. On each oT the “chains” at the sides two boys were hearing the leads and Bhouting the soundings. Others were frantically waving flags or hoisting long strings of pennants, signaling to nearby ships. The big qhip was slowly getting under way. On the other ships of the Third division of the Atlantic fleet was similar activity. The flagship Virginia, with Rear Admiral Beatty, steamed out in the lead, with the Georgia, Nebraska and New Jersey following in the column. After them came the Second division, under Rpar Admiral Bousch on the Louisiana, which was followed by the Michigan, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Grimly and silently they moved out to sea 150,000 tons of floating iron and stbel, eight delicately adjusted engines of destruction, in a line more than two and a half miles long and as straight as if they were beads on a string. The order from the commander-in-chief had come as a surprise. The fires under the boilers had been lit, and some order expected, but nothing was certain. It might be a welcome order to go home or one to go td an even mare desolate port. But it* was to go out and attack. That was all. The fleet to be attacked might be the two tiny gunboats of the Mexican navy or a European power’s dis-

GUADALAJARA AND ITS CAPTOR

VS * t General view of the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, Just captured, by the constitutionalists after a three days’ battle. Inset Is a portrait of Gen. Alvaro Obregon, commander of the victorious rebels. , ' r; -

play of dreadnaughts. Sallor-like, the squadron started and asked no questions. It was another day of a. week's maneuvering. Everything was to be carried out as if the ships were actually expecting to meet an enemy. The secret war signal books, their covers weighted with lead so they could he thrown overboard and sunk In case of defeat, were brought from their hiding jtlaces to the bridge. One of the one pounders was loaded and a man Stationed at its trigger ready for any sudden signal. Swinging a fleet or a squadron ,of eight or even a division of four battleships into action is s feat which requires days of drills even by . men whose lives have been a study and practise of the science of warfare. This week was to try out a new scheme of tactics and‘signals evolved by Rear Admiral Fletcher. Naval of the future will be between fleets; The old days When ships locked masts and hammered each other until one sank or bnrned or its decks were swept clean, live only in paintings* The engagements between single ships will be occasional. The real battles of the sea will be between fleets —16 to 60 hurling shell and deadly exploding fulminite. The Japanese knew how to maneuver by fleets and picked off the Russian battleships one by one and wiped out the czar’s fleets. The Third division ships, which weigh 17,000 tons each and with good marksmanship could put a shell in an opposing ship six miles away, arp becoming obsolete and are doomed to retirement. The Second division ships weigh about 18,000 tons each, and might do as much damage at eight miles. They will last a little longer. Then, just arrived from the ship-

Navigators’ Chart Table.

yards, are the New York and Texas, each of which weighs 27,000 tons and can shoot farther. Their days are numbered, just as surely as are those of the New Jersey, which went Into commission only six years ago. There was a New York once before —now she is rechristened the Saratoga and classified in the naval regis-

ter as a third rater. In 1*33, when she sailed from the yards at Phlladelcan navy.. She had a siren, which was another novelty *ln those days. As she headed down the Delaware turned the stgam into the siren. Several hundred staid Quaker City horses ran away as the earjrfercing shrieks rent the air and half a hundred persons were injured. She never injured that many again. In her entire career as a battleship. , •, ; J» a tow months the present York will be outshone by-the Nevada and Oklahoma, weighing 27,500 tons

Steersman on U. S. Warship.

each, and now building are the Pennsylvania and No. 39 of 31,400 tons. Every ton costs close to fl,ooo. . Fleet tactics have kept pace with tile growth of battleships. Naval au* tHorities say that the commander who can “wind up” his enemy’s fleet—get it into the center of his encircling battleships or overlap it so that his broadsides can rake the others one at a time —will always win. That is why the American tuhry is maneuvering, ' having , target practise, going through 'drills whenever opportunity offers. Rear-Admiral Fletcher’s system which is now being tried out prior to being officially adopted by the navy—is designed to reduce to a minimum the number of signals necessary to put a fleet through the evolution. In the smoke and excitement of battle the fewer signals to watch and Interpret the better. On top of each ship’s mainmast is a bearings indicator, or flapper, as the men call it—two yellow square boards on opposite ends of a long slanting arm which swings on a pivot in its center. The indicator shows what formation is to be made. A signal flag tells how it is to be made. When the two yellow guide-boards on the flagship are in a straight line with each other to the captain on the bridge of a following ship he is in Correct position. The indicator on the flagship, as we steamed from the harbor, stood at what is called the zero angle. It pointed straight ahead, and the other ships, their indicators duplicating it, followed in long single column.

LOLLING GIVES LONG LIFE

Or. G. H. Weils at Homeopathic Meeting, Tells Tow to Escape. Heart Disease. Atlkntic City, N. J. —‘Lolling means longevity and would save the present generation from.heart disease, asserted Dr. G.'Harlan Wells of the Hahnemann Medical college, Philadelphia, in a paper read before the American Institute of Homeopathy. “It means that the heart simply hag to push the blood through the arteries and veins,” he said, "Instead of having to lift 150 tons more than four feet from' the ground dally during the time an ordinary human being is awake. ’ ‘ " '•?; ' “People of the earlier periods and the savages lolled at every opportunity, stretching out flat.while eating, and lying on their backs while resting. , They didn’t have heart disease and*the copying of their methods would save the present generation from that ailment.” Speaking before the bureau of pedology, Dr. Joseph P. Cobb of Chicago said that of two and a half million babies bom in the United States each year half a million die before they are a year old. Of the.deathß, he asserted, 60 per cent are attributable to gastro-intestinal diseases, and at least 20 per cent more have digestive” disturbances as contributory factors. “The agencies already aroused on the subject of infant feeding,” said Dr. Cobb, “only the borders of humanity. The great mass is still dopendent upon the instruction of physicians and nurses and the mothers of the preceding generation. The greatest error of infant feeding today hi lack of attention and study given maternal feeding by the physician directly in change of the baby.”'

Will Adopt “Mashers’ ’’ Bill.

Boston, Mass. —The senate passed to third reading the “mashers' ’’ bill, which would punish with six months’ imprisonment any man who accosts a woman or girl with whom he is m* acquainted.

v 1 - nJWjfJJnJr \ WjrJßjSj Why did she coldly answer no? i’s Because. . Why, when she stood and watched him so. ’ •/ rv i; --V' Did she permit hen tears to flow? ■’ T; " Because.. Why did she kneel, when it was late, Bewailing her unhappy fate, And vowing It was only hate For him that had oppressed her so? : Because. • 'Why did she toss awake that night? Because. Why did she hope he never might Again Intrude upon her sight? 1 Because. Why was it, when he came next day, That to his arms she flew to lay Her face against his breast and say: ..... “My prince! My king! My hearty'dviightr Because.

Reassuring.

"Have you heard about. Miss Rockingham? She is to marry an English duke.” v^v,: “Are you sure about that?” “Yes, it’s all settled. He is here' now and preparations for the wedding are already under way.” "By George, I’m glad to hear t£.’ You can’t imagine how the news you bring clears away my doubts and relieves me of fears that have been keeping me awake at night.** ‘1 ‘don’t understand why you should be so deeply interested. What is Miss Rockingham to you?” "Nothing—nothing at all, but you see, I have all my money in her father’s bank, and for several months past I have had serious doubts concerning the soundness of the institution. If an English duke is to marry her. there can, of course, be no question concerning her father’s financial standing.” I >^

Evidently Too Honest to Deceive.

“Why did you give that man a room?” asked the landlord. “He hasn’t, any baggage. How do you know that he won’t Jump his bill?’’ “I’m not at all afraid that he’ll do' any such thing. He’s an honest man. He walked right up and registered himself from Pittsburgh, in spite of the fact that several other men stood where they'could look over bis shoulder and see what he wrote.”

Fruits of the Season.

*BO young Yarrow is going into the Jewelry business, is he? Where did he ever get money enough to start withr ' 1 “Oh, his four sisters have been at the seashore this summer, and I understand that he's to sell their diamonds on commission.” > '/ •

HE DOESN’T SNORE NOW.

“How did you stop it.” "Well, we’ve got a baby now."

His Ridiculous Claim.

“So you claim to possess the heart. PC a boy? Bah!" “But, really, I feel Just as young ap I ever did?’ , ? “Go on. The Are engines went past here five minutes ago and you were so bu?y reading some of Emerson's essays that you never knew it”

Eleven Years After.

He married her to .have a home, jgg 8 "h, A dear and co«y little neet. Where she would be the inlatresa and Contentment would be table breast Alas, how, oft the dreams and schemes Of mice and dfen are still -upset; He married her to have a home, ' And bo and she are boarding yet

All Patched Up.

“Mr. Wappleson" said Mrs. Oldcastte. “has* heart of gold." “Dear me," replied her hostess, "la that so? I knew he’d got hurt in the army so he had to. have a silver plat* tn his Jaw, but I’d never heard about His other."

“You - used tq complain that your husband snored -so hard that he kept you awake at night. Do you still have that trouble?”