Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — STUDY OF THE BIBLE [ARTICLE]

STUDY OF THE BIBLE

In eighteen months the Standard oil company, capitalized at $100,000,000, paid to its stockholders—most of whom is John D. Rockefeller—s7s,ooo,ooo in dividends. If the Standard Oil company is not a monopoly, what is it?

In vetoeing the two cent fare bill, passed by the New York legislature, Governor Hughes tried so hard to be just to the railroads that he gave them the benefit of all doubts. But then that is what Republican governors and presidents are in the habit of doing. The people have to take what is left after the corporations are satisfied.

Last week Captain Harry S. New, acting chairman of the Republican national committee, asserted that the next, convention of his party would be "a fight to the finish.” And now Chairman New declares that “the man who announces himself for office in 11108 must be a Roosevelt supporter.” If any other kiud of a candidate is nominated, he says he “will be beaten long before the country goes to the polls.” From all this it is plain that Chairman New sees the “finish” of one Charles W. Fairbanks early in the game.

Mr. Bryan, who all along has given Mr. Roosevelt greater credit for some things he has done than many persons feel he is entitled to, said the other day: “I glory in what the president has done, but he has not done enough. Democratic ideas have been worked out. Democracy, which laid the reform egg, claims to be the chioked’s mother quite as much as the hen that is hatching it.” Well, it seems just now that the “hen that is hatching it” is getting ready to repudiate the chick, in which event its own proper parent will have to take it in charged

The administration is going to “investigate” the thread trust. But what does that amount to? It investigated the beef trust, the oil trust, the tobacco trust, the coal trust and one or two other trusts, but they are still doing business at the old stands and in the same old way. • Indeed, they seem to get fat on the Roosevelt sort of investigations The steel trust is getting fat without it and sc are numerous others. The thread trust—otherwise known as the American Thread company—has raised the price of every spool of thread without the least reason except its greed. It is infamous, of course, but it is only one of many iufamies for which the Republican tariff is responsible.

Candidate Taft says that the congress which will assemble bn the first Monday in next December was elected to carry but the polices as announced by the administration during the 1906 campaign. As Mr. Roosevelt’s standpat letter to Subsidy Jim Watson was an administration announcement, there is. of course, no hope of tariff reform. And as Mr. Roosevelt, has greatly modified his other announcements, there is little hope of any sort of beneficial legislation.

Ship Subsidy Watson made a speech before the Indiana Grain 1 Dealers’ association at Indianapoj lis last week in which lie said that j Ine national government was going ' into the grain inspection business and that he had introduced a bill for that purpose at the last session of congress, but not in time to secure its passage. It was in time, however, he said, to get a $40,000 appropriation for “investigating” the question. As the government has already provided for inspecting the farmers’ live stock, the inspection of his grain, apples, potatoes, cabbage, onions and other products may be looked for. After awhile government inspectors will be as thick as blackberries.

Many People at Winona Lake In Summer Diligently Search the Scriptures. THE GREAT BIBLE CONFERENCE Eminent Ministers of America, England, Scotland and Wales Will Be Heard at Northern Indiana LakeSpecial Conferences for Mission, Sunday School and Temperance Workers. )

The old assertion that In this gent eration the attention is not given to the Bible aa in “the good old times” when grandmother Studied the Book by candle-light, will not, it will be found, hold true through the summer season if one will attend the special conferences that are held at Winona Lake, Ind. Several thousand people from over the United States, both young and old in years, spend July and August at this resort for Christian people and make diligent study of the Scriptures, under the leadership of a number of eminent teachers. The study of the Scriptures at Winona Lake begins on June 24th, when an interdenominational committee representing many church denominations in the central West opens its school of missions, in which women not only study the Bible, but learn all modern methods of spreading the word among the heathen of all lands. A still greater effort to get light on the Scriptures begins at Winona Lake on July Bth, when the Winona Summer Bible School opens, and continues Its sessions for a month. It will this year be under the direction of Dr. F. N. Palmer, teacher of the Bible in the Winona winter schools. The Summer Bible School has been reorganized for this year, and among the teachers of the Scriptures who will lead the students in their work will be Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, at the head of the Presbyterian evangelistic work; Dr. W. G. Moorehead, of Xenia Theological Seminary; Prof. Elbert Russell, teacher of the Bible at Earlham College, Richmond; Dr. E. W. Work, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Colorado Springs. The courses of instruction will include Bible geography, biography, book study, the Psalms of David, the minor prophets, the teachings of Jesus, the prison epistles, the typology of the Old Testament. At ll o’clock each, weekday morning there will be a popular talk on a Bible subject by one of these Instructors. The conference, which always brings together several thousand devoted men and women of the country, is the Winona Bible Conference, which this year opens on Aug. 18 for teu days. It will be the thirteenth conterence, all of which have been under the leadership of Dr. Chapman, and it will bring together next August the greatest array of pulpit orators that this conference has ever known. Special attention is to be given to the study of the English Bible, and numerous lectures will be heard. The day’s program Is so extensive that it will begin at 6 o’clock In the morning, ending at 8 p. m„ with a popular address. The afTairs of the conference will be made up of special meetings of interest to home and foreign mission workers, temperance workers, Christian business men, evangelists, young people and children. Speakers who are coming to this, conference from abroad are: Dr. James Orr, of Glasgow, Scotland; Rev. William Spurgeon, of CardifT, Wales; Dr. W. J. Dawson, of London; Rev. W. R. Lane, of London, associate of "Gypsy” Smith; Dr. J. A. Macdonald, editor of the Toronto Globe and one of the most forceful men of Canada. Among the many speakers from over the United States will be Dr. E. Y. Mullins of Louisville; Bishop F. C. Breyfogle, Reading, Pa.; Bishop J. S. Mills, Annville, Pa.; Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, Chicago; Dr. C. L. Goodell, New York; Dr. S. G. Huey, St. Louis; Dr. R. J. Cook, Cincinnati; Dr. M. G. Kyle, Philadelphia; Dr. C. F. Reisner, Denver; Dr. J. M. Thoburn, jr., Allegheny; Dr. E. P. Hill, Chicago. Among the distinguished travellers who will appear on the conference platform will be: Dr. Arthur J. Brown, of New York; Dr. W. E. Geil, Doylestown, Pa.; Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston, of New York. Special services will be conducted by Governor H. A. Buchtel of Colorado; Judge Willis Brown, founder of the juvenile court of Salt Lake City; Rev. M. C. Trotter, of Grand Rapids, and other Rescue Mission workers; Miss Alice Hamlin. Pltsburg; J. E. McAfee, New York; Rev. Charles Stelsle, at the head of the labor department of the Presbyterian church; Mrs. C. S. Besserer, New York; H. P. Freece, Salt Lake City. Of the temperance workers who will participate as leaders there will be Prof. Charles Scanlon of Pittsburg, and John G. Wooley of Chicago. The Bible teachers will be Dr. Jameß M. Gray and Prof. R. R. Lloyd, both of Chicago; Rev. O. W. Willits, Alpena, Mich., and Dr. F, N. Palmer, of Winona Lake. / long list of eminent names appears on the list of evangelists who will be beard, among them Dr. R. A. Torrey, of Chicago; Dr. W. W. Hamilton, of Atlanta; Rev. H. A. Smith, of New York, and a number who have been in the Presbyterian evangelistio cam' palgns during the last winter.