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saw tnunuiain cup and came up smiling to repeat the malefaction.

The Cubans in this country are get ting the junta habit again, probably on the principle that one Cuban rule ia as good as another.

If marriage is “involuntary servitude’' for the woman, then the man who backs out is some sort of emancipator. One can fancy Washington saying to Lincoln, “It is an honor to be honored after you, my dear son.”

Religious Thought.

EDITED BY HENRY J. CALLI8, D. D.

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SATURDAY, + FEB. 13, 1909

A novel on the unwritten law had best follow the example of said law and remain unwritten.

Scenery as a Resource. The public reservation principle, grand as it is in theory, is likely to follow the general law and strike a snag whenever strong Interests clash. The Yosemlte reservoir is a case in point The Yosemite reservation owes its existence to the fine scenery Included* In the area. The dispute between the defenders of scenery and the people who want to break In and get drinking water which the scenery guards and makes pure resolves itself Ultimately Into a question as to who shall come In for the benefits of a reservation. In a double sense the “protected” scenery is a resource. It attracts tourists, who must spend money to get there and to live there, and it supplies water in abundance. There are numerous instances of natural scenery proving a valuable resource. Switzerland’s chief resource is tourist money. Italy’s scenery and history attract tourists from all over the world. Norway and Scotland have found their scenery to be veritable gold mines. In this country the White mountains and the Adirondacks draw money to the neighborhood. The people nearest are the greatest benefactors, but all within the sphere get- something out of nature’s plant It Isn’t all profit, and naturally those who make access possible and sojourn comfortable and are always “right on the Job” expect to be consulted as to the fate of the scenery. It Is their problem first, and their states will not inclined to tolerate federal restriction here more than with mines or any of nature’s bounteous gifts. Whether the scenery Is the most valuable or the only valuable feature of the reservation seems to be essentially a local

matter. .

When the president says that some means must be found to insure coordination among the naval bureaus he probably intends to hint that some means must be found to stop their disgraceful wrangling.

Paris had but one day of sunshine in two months, yet the Parisians insist that things shady in the gay metropolis vanished with the second empire.

These centenary celebrations throw a side light upon the contemporaries of the great and bring up history that otherwise would be neglected.

A simplified spelling reporter can have a man “dogd,” “clubd” and “kild” by a “led” bullet, yet he’ll not be done dead, simply “ded.’

“We are coming. Father Abraham, eighty thousand thousand more!”

Evidently Poe is to get fame out of the Hall of Faroe by being left out

CHURCH NOTES.

The New Baptist and Second Bapt<ist churches will hold union services all day tomorrow, at 11 a. m., 3 and 7:30 p. m. Rev. Thomas L. Ballou ar ri\^d in the city Friday and will offlciate'at these services, assisted by the Rev. W. W. Wines, Jr., pastor of the New Baptist church. All members and friends are requested to be present at these services at True Reformer’s

Hall, 12th and West sts.

Sunday is Quarterly Meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church, P. E. Lewis will be present. The sacramental ser mon at 3 p. m. will be preached by Dr H. J. Callis. Special services in the evening with an add ess by the pastor Dr. Shaffer, subject “The World’s Great Deliver.” Special music and papers and recitations on the Life of

Lincoln. Public is invited.

First Baptist church North Indianapolis, Rev. F. F. Young, pastor. Sundayschool at 9;30, Y. Jones, Supt collection $1.02 The choir’s effort last Sabbath was a success. Church service well attended and one addition Collq^ion $8 50 At 8 p. m. Sunday remarks on Abrahams Life. The sermon by Rev. Buck of Chicago was enjoyed by all and we hope that he may call again. Bro. Robt. Evans to a filled house last Wednesday night. ‘He bids fair to become a strong divine.

Tbe Right of Asylum. • The principle of the right of asylum has been put to a severe strain in this hemisphere within a few months. The defense of tbe Russian refugees Rudovitz and Pouren has been that they were political offenders and not ordinary criminals. In the case of Rudovltz the mere fact that the evidence left our state department in doubt as to the nature of the offenses for which Russia asked his extradition entitled him to the protection of thir flag under which he sought asylum. The ruling of Secretary Boot was a liberal one, yet .accords with the practice of the United States in the past. The question*as presented when the Haitlah dictator refused to permit the embarkation of subjects who sought asylum in the French consulate after being condetnned as revolutionists was not thrashed out because the dictator waa deposed by the people. The case In Haiti was clear. Only political crime was alleged as Justification for attack on the right of asylum. In like circumstances South' American revolutionists have found asylum under the stars and stripes and would have had the protection of warships If necessary. Professor Ferrerro has discoveredthat American business' men bustle In town and live In the country, hiring city slum dwellers to go out and till, their gardens and keep their lawns in order—a sort of “going back to the land” and letting the heathen do the work.

Come to Union Tabernacle Baptist chu ch, Sunday to the special services in honor of the pastor’s second anniversaiy. Rev. Y. C. Terrell, A. B. of Marion, will preach morning and evening. Grand reception Monday night The pastors and their wives are invit-

ed to be present.

Approves of Rev. Callis’ Efforts To the Editor of the Recorder. • Please allow me space in your valuable paper to thank the Rev. Henry Callis, D. D., for his profound and logi cal article, which appeared in the Recorder, Feb. 6, 1909, under the caption “Religious Thought.” I, Rev. F. L. Davis, organizer for the Baptist State Sunday School Convention and Deputy State Organizer of the big P. M. Convention of Indiana, do hereby endorse every word of the article. My subject at the Metropolitan Baptist church Sunday morning, Feb. 7th : was “The churches daily cry should be: For the promise is unto me and njy children,” Acts 2 38-39. I spent fifteen minutes discussing Dr. Callis’ article, as a preface to my sermon and my prayer to God, on behalf of our people within this, our fair city, is that all, and each of the pastors and editors will join Brother Callis in this public fight which he has so manly begun, and continue it until every immoral man aqd woman in Indianapolis have become moral, and all the professional followers of our blessed Christ be found in regular attendance of their churches and all the young people attending all of their regular religious services. After the sermon the church voted to join in and do all in its power in the future to help better the present condition of our people. May God bless Brother Callis. I am also the Fresi dent of the Baptist Young People’s Bible Reading class, which holds its regular services at 910 W. Michigan street each Wednesday and Friday evening at 7:30 p. m., and I shall have the class to discuss the article also. The objects of the class are, the unification of the Baptist young people, their increase spiritual y; their stimulation in Christian services; their edification in scripture knowledge; their instructions in Baptist doctrine and history and their enlistment in all the religious services now existing,Brother Callis and all other visitors are welcome. Rev. F. L. Davis.

As to the defendants getting out from under Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ huge fine, history shows that the other fellow dodged the original Kene-

Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Zion. Corner North and Blackfdrd streets. Dr. J. H. Manley, the new Presiding Elder, gave his humorist and instructive lecture last Monday night to a fair audience, from the unique subject, “My Red Top Boots.” The lecture was well received and much enjoyed. The other numbers upon the program were several chorouses by the church choir, also solos by Miss Snobia Ously, Mrs. Laura Cohen and Miss Anna E. Wallace of Louisville, Ky. All of these numbers were well received. But Miss Wallace was easily the star of the evening, and simply captivated her audience. The social club will be entertained next Thursday at the church by Mrs. Julia Hamilton. The Pastor’s club will meet at the Manse, 818 Camp street, Tuesday at 8:00 p. m. The J. C. Price literary will be entertained by Rev. and Mrs. Callis at the Manse, Friday, Feb. 19th

at 8 p. m.

Sunday evening'will be Lincoln centenary anniversary. A special program has been prepared and the general public may expect a rare treat. There will be recitations from Lincoln’s speeches, and address by the pastor and patriotic music by

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Does My Religion as I Live It, Help To Make Any One Better? The religion of Jesus as understood by the Christian world is a living reality. There are somethings about it that are common to all who believe in it, and practise it, that cannot be explained in words. But we know it just as well as we know we live. The peculiar thing about it is that every one who believes and practises the religion of Jesus, has to know that one thing for him or herself. You cannot know it for me nor I for you, it is puiely a personal experience. And only the person who has been converted or born again, can have this experience that is peculiar to 'he person to who believes and practises the religion of Je-

sus.

There is a great deal being said just now about accepting Christ and living the Christian life. What is it to accept Christ? It is to be born again What is it to be born again? This is a hard question to answer, but I will tell you what it is to me. When I was a small child, not more than five or seven years old, I was conscious that there was a God and that He liked me when I was good, and did not like me when I when I was not good. I found that I had two wishes or desires, one was to be good all the time, and the other was «o do as I saw others do, and to like the things that others enjoyed, although I was sure sometimes that they were not just the right things to do. As the years passed by I found that the wish to do as others did was the stronger of the two wishes and that the fitst to be good and please God, though still there was not so distinct, only at times it would assert it self; but the wish to do as others did to gratify my appetites and passions would prevail against the wish to be good. At times however, 1 would do the thing that was right, hut felt that I was not what God wanted me to be. Now the trouble with me, as is with evory human being, was 1 had always had God’s nature in me, therefore I was religious from tyie beginning But my human nature had always asserted itself in trying to satisfy its desires and paid but little attention to the God nature that is in me. To he born again, is to have the human nature so changed as to bring it into subjection to the will of God, through the spark of the divine na ture that is in us. This change cannot be brought about of ourselves. In our humanity is the dominating part of our present existence. But alone we cannot do what we would like to do. So there has to be a change in our human nature as to its relation to the God nature that is in us: so that the controlling element in our human nature will love to do the will of God more than the will of the flesh. While in deep meditation as to my real standing before God; there was a strange ihfluence that came over me, and I was made sensible that in my present condition I had no reason to think that I would, by continuing in that condition ever be at peace with God. So I began to pray. And it came to me that I was not lost from God, so far as I was concerned; and that the only way I could get to God and he safe, washy believing [that Jesus had made atonement for my sins, and that He was able to keep me from sin now, if I Would trust Him. So I accepted His plan, trusted and was saved. I am trusting now, and am saved now. This my new birth. 1 know that I can follow Jesus; I know that I can do God’s will with the aid of that strange influence that helped me to bring myseltinto subjection to His will; which I heiieve was the Holv Spirit. I Sm sure that every person who has been born of the spirit after this manner can controle him or herself in every particular way if they so desire. With the human nature brought into harmony with the wish or desire to do of be good all the time, the controlling element is no longei under the direction of the carnal mind, but it is dh rected by the spiritual mind. This being true I am sure to make the world better, as I live the religion of Jesus, which is now my religion. So I can truthfully say that my religion as I live it is helping others to be better. It does not matter who we are or what church or denomination we are identied with, but it does matter whether or not we are actually making the con ditions where we live better. To me this is the only test of a religious life that is worth anything to you or I. I fear that the greatest mistake that is being made by the followers of Jesus to day, is that they do not know that there religion as they live it is actual ly making some one better. The great awakening that is now going on in Boston, Mass., and stiring that city from center to circumference, is the res .It of the efforts of those who are working, knowing that they are helping others to be better. This I believe is the only thing that will change the moral and religous tone among us in Indianapolis. The workers of wickedness are united and are seen on every hand, doing all that they can to make young and old think as they think and do as they do. To stay this tide of immorality, wickedness and crime, the followers of Jesus Christ, must unite in one eternal struggle, with a knowledge that he life we are living, the religion we profess is actually changing men’s minds and bringing them to see that righteousness practised in every day life is the only hope of the world. It mattersdittle where be my grave, Or on the land or on the sea; By purling brook or ’neathe stormy wave, It matters little or naught to me; But whether the angel death comes down And maks my brow with his loving touch, As one that shall wear the victor’s crown, it matters much.

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Complaint for Divorcestate of Indiana. Marion County, ss: In theProbate Court of Marion County, in the Mary E, Hoopengarner vs: Howarn M Hoopeugarner. No, 340 BE I I KNOWN. That on the 26 day of Janu ary 1909, the above named plaintiff by Her attorney, filed in the office of the Clerk of tbe Probate Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana, his comolaint against the abov^ named defendant, Howard M Hoopengarner said plaintiff having also filed in said Clerk's office tbe affidavit of a competent person shewing that said Hester L.Mosby ts not a resident of the state of Indiana, ard that said cause is for divorce and that the above named defendent is a necessary par ty thereto, and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said ‘defendant to appear in said Court and answer or demnr theretoon tbe24th day of March. 1909. Now. Therefore, by order of said Court said defendant last above named, is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against her, and that unless she appears and answers or demurs thereto at the calling of said cause on the 24«h day of March 19o9. the same being the 21st judicial day of a term of said t ourt fo be begun and held at the Court House in thecity of Indianapolis on tbe First Monday in March. 1909. said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard aud deter mined (in his absence. Leonard M. Quill, Clerk. A. H. Dickey, Attorney for Plaintiff. 18 Baldwin Block.

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Executor’s Sale of Real EfTat.?. The undersigned, executor of the last will and testament of Adam Griffin, deceas ed, hereby gives notice that by virtue of an order of the Hancock Circuit Court, in the State of Indiana, he will at the hour of 10 o’clock a. m., on the 19th day of March, 1909, at the office of Samuel and Harry II. Griffin, in the town of Sheridan, Indiana and from day to day thereafter until sold, offer for sale at private sale, free of liens thereon, all the interest of said decedent in and to the following described real estate

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Ninety feet off of the east end of let seven in John S. Spanns’ sub division of lots two, three and four, in Block eight, in Isaac. Harris’sub division of out lot I57*in the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana. Being known as Number 716 Blake J street. *• On this tract there is a two story frame dwelling. Said sale w ill be made subject to the approval of said court, for not less than the full appraised value of said real estate and upon the following terms and conditions At least one-thirdof the purchase money cash in hand, the balance in two equal install' ments payable in not to exceed nine and eighteen months evidehced by notes of the purchaser bearing six percent interest from date, waiving relief, providing attorney’s fees and secured by first mortage on the real estate sold,or the purchaser may pay all purchase money cash in hand. Hafry H. Gr’fpin, Executor, Feb. 6 1909 51 Sheridan, Indiana

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