Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 9 November 1911 — Page 4
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We are in favor of the Republican State Convention of Indiana in 1912 adopting a platform in favor of County Local Option. We believe guch a platform, with a strong temperance candidate for Governor, will win back Indiana to the Republican party, but whether it will or not, such a platform is right, and we are for it,
The Democrats in Indiana suddenly have assumed the defensive. From that arrogant sureness and confidence that have characterized the Democrats for some time past, they have passed to an apologetic attitude, and are busy trying to explain the state deficit and Democratic extravagance.
The Democratic Governor rushes to the press with the assertion that he will not call an extra session of the Indiana Legislature to appropriate money with which to pay for Democratic extravagance. The Democratic Governor may be forced to change his mind, later.
The Democrats have used $50,000 of the money belonging to the year 1912 to pay current bills of 1011. Of course this makes a big hole in the revenue for the year 1912. Suppose this deficit runs over into 1913 and grows with time, in the ratio Jiiat Democratic deficits have grown in the past in Indiana!
Suppose the state's revenues do not come up to anticipations! Revenues have a way of falling off from what the Democrats count on. Suppose the Democratic prophets are right, and we are on the verge of' hard times, or tight money? If matters get worse than they are at this time, decidedly the Democrats will find it difficult to make both ends meet. And matters may become so acute in the windup as to force the Democratic Governor to call an extra session whether he wishes to do so or not.
AVhen times are uncertain and money hard to get, the delinquent lax list grows. Never in the history of the state was there such a wonderful payment of taxes and settling of back taxes as during the period of Republican prosperity since 1897. But let things get uncertain in the business world and the delinquent lax list will grow to its former imposing proportions, and the Democrats are likely to find the state's revenues falling far and away short of the estimates. Then will come the disaster which the Democrats have been busy preparing for their own undoing. Then will come the bankruptcy to which Democratic management has been tending.
The Democratic Governor does not give details to show how he is to stave off the bond issues or extra sessions. Assuredly the Indiana Democratic hope of breaking even in 1912 will not be helped by the fact that new jobs and increased salaries at the state house alone have added $68,000 a year to the cost of running that institution over what it cost under Republicans. Assuredly, the big increase in the cost of maintaining the state institutions will not help the Democrats cut expenses. The fact that the Democrats have increased the length of the stale pay roll 25 per vent, will not tend to bring about the paring of expenses. Then, too, there will be a part, of the state debt to meet in the next year. How •will the Democratic Governor surmount that little obstacle?
Grain Market Not So Strong. The Greenfield grain buyers report the market not quite so strong as last week. Wheat has dropped from 88c to 86c. Old corn is 64c, but none is being marketed. Some little new corn is being bought at T)0 cents, although it is in fair condition for shipment, not much is being sold, and it is the general.impression of the dealers thai there will be no great, amount of" corn marketed this fall.
Advertised Letters.
Following is a list of unclaimed letters remaining in the Greenfield postoffice, November 9, 1911:
Mrs. Suzana F,ck. Mrs. Charles Gardner. Mrs. Emma Gappin. James Harding (2). Mrs. Matl-ie Johnson. Mr. M. V. Monroe. Miss Marj" Heed. Miss Delia Ruby. Miss Daisy Ricliey. When calling for above letters, please say "advertised."
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A Pleasant Surprise.
The neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Laub Elliott, of Jennings county, gave them a surprise last Sunday, November 5th, and to say they were surprised would be telling it in a mild form. When the noon hour came the good wives unpacked their baskets and a bountiful dinner was served, to which all did justice. The day was spent in a social way by young and old and all enjoyed the day fine. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Hupp, Joe Donner and family, John Walters and family, Frank Keeslingand family, George Hansel and family, Wm. Austin and family, Tom Morrison and family, Mark Clarkson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Pastel D. Clarkson, Mr. and Mrs. Robison, of Grayford, Mrs. Harriett Austin, Mrs. Martha Shepherd, Myrtle Shepherd and daughters, Mrs. Nancy Palmer and son, Everett, Charles Baldwin and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Calicott, Marie Horn, and those from a distance were Miss Clarkson and Miss Tribbie, of North Madison Lena Shonk, of Indianapolis, the total number being sixty-six.
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McClarnon-Narvell.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Narvell. of near Carthage, announce the engagement of their daughter, Effie Florence, to Virgil N. McClarnon, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. G. McClarnon, of near Greenfield. The wedding will take place November 16th, at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Jesse Kizer, at Carthage.
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This is Some Pumpkins. Rev a Pope, son of Coleman Pope of Brandywine township. ha3 a pumpkin on display in Pilkenton's drug store window that weighs 65 pounds. It is of the round golden yellow variety.
1 will offer at public sale next Saturday, November 11th, at 10:30 a. rh., a small house and fine" lot at the corner of Wood street and Park avenue. John A. Barr. 6d3
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"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he gets old(er), he will not depart from it."
Send the young folks to our bank with the first spare dollar that comes into their hands the next dollar should be treated in like manner and the practice so continued until a fixed habit of saving has been established. The goodly bank account soon acquired will give the young folks an inkling of the ways of business and they will grow into straight-forward-thrifty manhood.
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city property, all with pre-payment privileges at any interest paying' period. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF FARM INSURANCE ON THE IN STALLMENT AND CASH PLANS AT LOWEST RATES WITHOUT SURVEY AND POLICY FEES. We are the Agents of the following well known Companies—Aetna Insurance Co,, of Hartford, Conn., with a surplus to the Policy Holders of $12,3(59.016.00, American Central Insurance Co. of St. Louis, Mo., $2,897.00 German Alliance Insurance Co. of N. Y. $1,130,243.00, New Hampshire Fire Insurance Co of Manchester, N. H., $2,778,331.00. New York Underwriters Agency of The Hartford Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., $8,923,967.00. Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., $5,565,181.00. Queen Insurance Co. of America $5,389,125.00. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of St. Paul, Minn., $2 546 541 00 and the following foreign Companies, with U. S. surplus to the Policy Holders Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd. $890,891.00. Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co. Ltd. $5,155,975.00. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Co., $1,411,303 00 Sun Insurance Office, $1,279,676.00. Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation Ltd $1*911 982 00 Also the National Live Stock Insurance Co. of Indianapolis, ind., $125,000.00: also' the Mutual Benefit Life Insurahce Co. of Newark, N. J.. $5,655,402.00. Total surplus to Policv Holders of all companies $57,120,560.00.
One Who Was There.
Horse Scared to Death. It is not a usual happening for an animal to be scared to death, but a case of this kind is reported here, and occurred Tuesday afternoon. John H. Binford was going to Morristown in an automobile from the garage of C. E. Kinder, driven by a young man by the name of Hutton. When near the Couden school house they came up behind a wagon filled with lumber. The horn was blown and the driver turned his team out to let the auto pass. One of the horses scared some, but did not seem very badly frightened and the automobile went on. When the machine passed the spot on the return trip, however, the horse was lying in the road dead, and it is supposed it died of fright.
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In 1797 Samuel Slater formed a Sunday school operative in Rhode Island and a poor colored woman Katie Ferguson, who had never even heard of Raiks or Sunday schools, established such a school in 1793, for the benefit of the children in the humble quarters in which she lived.
About 1802, Mrs. Tsabelle Grayhan and her daughter, who had become acquainted with the English schools while traveling abroad, set up three schools in New York City at their own expense. From that time they gradually increased through this country, though none of them was connected with any church until in 1809 at Pittsburg, Pa.
The schools instituted by Raiks and his successors were very different from the schools of today. The teachers were hired, most of the pupils were ignorant, belonging to the poorer classes. The spelling book and the hymn book were the books they used, as few could read-. Religious instructions in the ordinary sense were not given because it could not be understood. Now, Sunday schools are to be found whereever the English language is spoken.
So Judaism was, and Christianity is a teaching religion. They both lay the stress of supreme emphasis upon the personal touch of the teacher upon the taught. They have also emphasized strongly the supreme importance of definite and continuous education of the individual, beginning with the earliest childhood.
Hence, it is easy to show that distinctive Bible study under a teacher has been carried on continuously from the time of Ezra, the Scribe, unt.il now. Still it is true that the Sunday school, as it now exists, had its roots back no farther than the movement of Robert Raiks, of GloiFcester, England, in 1780, as he saidr "For the instruction of the children on the Sabbath Day, in the rudiment, of learningvand religion" The essential element of Raiks' movement in contrast with Judean, Patristic and medieval Christian Bible
GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1911
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I SUNDAY SGHOOt AND ITS DEVELOPMENT
History of Sunday School Started by Robert Raiks, and Its Rapid Growth and Development.
The following paper on Sunday schools was prepared and read by J. E. McRoberts at the Sunday school convention of Brandywine township, held at Carrollton:
Sunday schools were founded at about the close of the year 1780, by Robert Raiks, a printer in Gloucester, England. Business leading him into the suburbs of the town inhabited by the lowest classes of people, he was struck with concern at seeing a group of children, miserable and ragged, at play. He was informed that on Sunday the street was filled with a multitude of boys and girls, who, having no employment on that day, spent their time in noise and riot, cursing and swearing. To check this deplorable profanity of the Lord's Day, he engaged four women to instruct as many children as he should send to them on Sunday. In a short period a great improvement was effected, both in the manners and morals of the children who attended in considerable numbers. In 1786 Bishop Asbury established Sunday schools on Raiks' plan in I he United States. Five years later the lirst society was organized in Philadelphia under the presidency of Bishop White.
Sunday, but it was in laying over upon the church as a whole, the duty and responsibility of this service, rather than holding the clergy alone responsible for this service of love.
But it is a far cry from the Sunday school in its rude beginning in the schools established by Robert Raiks, touching but few here and there but lightly, owing to insufficient means and imperfect methods to the present magnificent instrument for Christian service, making the circuit of land and sea in its goings forth, and touching profoundly all men, whether Christian or heathen. Two essential things have made this growth possible:
teaching, was not in teaching the! from them, but because of what he Bible, not in doing the work on! had received from God. God's
First, this modern revival of Bible study fell upon propitious times. Through the middle ages, dnd, to some extent, later, learning both the secular and sacred, was largely confined to the clergy. Even kings and nobles look about with them their seal rings with which to affix their personal authority to official documents in wax, because they could not write their names, while themiddle classes, ith the lower, were almost totally ignorant of science and religion. But by the close of the 18th century the revival of learning and knowledge, and the intelligence that goes with them, had extended more widely among all classes. The Bible was a closed book during this long period, both because of this lack of intelligence and because, the Roman thought it necessary to keep the people in ignorance of its teaching and sacred pages. The fundamental result of the reformat ion, led by Luther, was to remove the supreme authority from the church to the Bible. This led to the presentation of the Bible in vernacular versions, and opened its sacred pages to the masses. Thus the way was made ready for the Sunday school.
The second essential element in this new growth was the call of the Laity to service in this new field. Bible instruction from the pulpit and in the catechetical schools had been given almost entirely by the clergy. They now call to their-as-sistance the Laity, and from having simply a teaching clergy, we have a teaching church. A magnificent gain. No longer do we see a bare skeleton of the army of the Lord, conspicuous leaders, leading
no one but themselves pressing!
forward in forlorn hope to sure de-' feat, but a splendid army with the skilled and courageous officers, full of battalions, regiments, divisions, and corps, pressing forward to assured victory.
But the Sunday school o'f 1780!
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it does not spring into its hat He full armed, like Minerva from the head of Zeus. Tf gradually finds itself and its work, and gradually procures the instruments for the doing of its work. The growth and fruitage of (lie Sunday school has been along three lines.
First, in itself, making itself a more effective 'instrument for the work.
Second, it has been gradually changing its definition of itself until if, no longer understands that the Sunday school is a few devoted t«.achers and officers of the church, serving as best they may, while the mass of the membership is different, but that the Sunday school is a church as a whole, exercising its teaching functions, it recognizes individual obligation to serve as Paul did. He was debtor to Greek and Barbarians, to wise and unwise, not because of what lie had received
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method of instruction is from man to man. He has made the church the depository of his truth in the world, and each man, as he has talent or attainment, or both, in this depository, is debtor to those that have not what he possesses.
Third, this recognition has led to profound Bible study, to more accurate teachers' training, to a more perfect grading of the scholars, to a more scientific adjustment of the Word of God in graded lessons to the recognized perils of child growth, to the formation of the organized class in short to the more perfect adjustment of what may be called the machinery of the Sunday school to make it a sharp-cutting instrument for the Lord.
The second line of its development in its widening mission has been in-the increasing number^ of classes to whom it makes its appeal. The Sunday school at first reached out. only to the ignorant and neglected children of the street. It has gradually extended its outreach, in its divine hunger for souls until it., meets mankind at every stage of its growth. With its cradle roll if takes the infant just opening its eyes upon the circle of its mother's breast, thrusting the cross before its vision new to earth and sky. and attends its footsteps with Heavenly instruction and ministry, until old age, keeping before its sight the same symbol of love with its message of hope and Heaven. The Cradle Roll, the Primary, I he .Junior, Intermediate, Senior, Advanced Adult Departments these cover I he full span of human life. Nor is if salislied even here it extends its fostering care and ministry outside the church to the indifferent. the invalid, and the careburdened, until six hundred and fifty, yes. seven hundred thousand souls in the home department welcome weekly its Heaven-sent, messengers bearing healing in their wings.
Taken up as a Heaven-given agency by the missionary forces of I lie church universal, it is used to plant the standard of the cross on prairies, in hamlets, in cities, on the far frontiers of our country, in I lie islands of Hie sea. in deserts, plains and mountains of heathen lands, where the message of tidings would not otherwise be heard. The row into churches, and become centers of power, hit -siuHding tlie earth.
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Beginning in the Old Dominion, England, it has extended to the New and attending upon the footsteps of the missionary of the cross, it has made I tie footsteps of the earth, until it -exists, not only as an individual school, but as organized unions in all Ihe earth, each giving strength to the other, marching forth to universal conquest, under the blood-stained banner of the cross, keeping step to Ihe anthems of I lie angels who sang on that fateful Christmas morning, "Peace on earth, good will to men." And what shall we say of its numerical extent? Nothing. Its millions of teachers and officers and its tens of millions of scholars are spoken of on house-tops. Thus, if appears that
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Sunday school covers /the whole church, for the whole people, over the whole world.
By Order of the Convention, Martha Ivrammes, Sec.
THE STOCK MARKET
HOG RECEIPTS, 14,000 PRICES TO IOC LOWER.
Good Demand for Heavies—LightsClosed Weak—Cattle Values a Shade Lower.
Receipts, 14,000 hogs, 1,300 cattle, 700 calves and 60 sheep, against 18,815 hogs, 1,213 cattle, 889 calvesand 821 sheep a week ago, and 4,504 hogs, 1,078 cattle, 153 calves and 540 sheep a year ago. Since the beginning of October there has been an average of nearly 9,000 hogs a dayarrived for the local market, and in twenty days the average has been over 10,000 a day.
The run 14,000, was one of the largest of the year. There was a good demand, however, for the good weight hogs and that grade did not sell over 5c lower than at the best time the previous day. Lighter weights' were 5c to 10c lower, and there was an uneven market for the trashy hogs. There was no change at the close as compared with the opening for the best kinds, but others finished weak. A load of fancy heavy butcher hogs sold at $6.45, and ordinary lights as low as $5.50. while most of the good hogs sold at $5.90 to $6.35.
About 1,700 cattle and calves were available for sale. With no improvement in the quality or condition the supply was fully equal to requirements. Most of the killing steers were 10c lower than at the close of last week. No change in price of stockers and feeders and bulls and calves were steady.
Receipts of sheep and lambs were largest in almost a week. Most of the lambs, ordinarily called good in this market, sold around $5,00, but there were a few at $5.25 to $5.50, and culls sold under $4.00. Culls to good fat sheep sold for $1.00 to $3.
PURLIC SALES.
George Shay. 5 miles west ef Greenfield at Shay's Stop,, on T. H. T. & E., Wednesday, November 15, 1911.
Smith Hutchison Estate, Tuesday, November 14, 1911. on National Road, 6 miles west of Greenfield, mile east of Gem, near Stop 34, T. II. I. & E.
John D. Whitaker. one mile north and one mile west of Maxwell, three miles north and two miles east of Mohawk, and seven miles northwest. of Greenfield, Thursday, November 16. 1911.
James O'Banion Estate, at lateresidence, 4 miles east, 2 miles north and a half mile east of Greenfield,. Thursday, November 9, 1911.
Real Estate Transfers. Edward S. Custer ef, al to Eliza B. Oakley, land. $1,000.
Dorcas E. McCarty et al. to ChasApole. cemetery lot. Eden. $1.00. Henr-y Comstock et al. to Robert t. litis Charlottesville. $150.
Huldah A. Binford to Horace L.. Binford. 75 acres land, $7,500. Horace, L. Binford to Huldah A.. Binford. 40 acres land, $4,000.
Horace T,. Binford et al. to Joseph Jay et al. 23 acres land, $2,300. James E. Collins et al. to James F. Ashcraft. 7 acres land, $1,000.
Edmund P. Thayer et al. to Moses W. Vandenbark. lots city, $6,000. Eat hen A. Snyder et al. to Thos. II. New, 40 acres land, $1.00.
Veteran Struck Ry Car. Mitchell Ham. 71 years old, a Civil war veteran, was struck by a traction car at ShelbyvilTe yesterday, and win die from his injuries.
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