The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 November 1910 — Page 1

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DON'T UNDERTAKE SMAIL EARMS The average American does not believe there is much money for him in the small farm, says Allan L. Benson in the Delineator for November. Ask him if he believes he could make a living on a ten-acre farm for a wife and three children, and he will throw up his hands. Suggest five acres to him, and te ■ will begin to suspect that you ha\ e designs upon his life. Even if he be disposed to wrench his living from the soil—which, probably he will nob be—he will tell you that he could do nothing on less than forty acres, and that eighty would barely give him decent comforts. More likely, he would reject the farming proposition altogether, and take a polite clerkship at twelve dollars a week, or a place in a factory at ten dollars. Our national tendency is to get away from the land. In* 1672, 96 percent of the population lived on farms. Now, seventy per cent of; the population are engaged in farming. Americans are quitting the land ds if they had measured its possibilities and found them insufficient. The fact is, Americans never even dreamed of the possibilities of land. Old as the earth is, Americans don’t know what it can do. They regard Mother Earth as a lean mother. They believe much land must be used to get a little living. They be - lieve all land is like a yeast cakegood only a.little while. Witness the abondoned farms to be found in New York and New England. Americans are wrong. A little land is enough for a living. All land is good.- Crops can be grown on Sand if the grower knows how to grow them. No farm ever becomes useless. Any land can be kept all that Ponce de Leon wanted’to be him self—perpetually young. Broadly speaking, no land in Ameri ca ever produced for a year a tenth of the wealth that it is capable of producing every year. If railroads were run as poorly as farms are tilled, a passenger would require a week, instead of eighteen hours to go from Chicago to New York. Lack of uderstanding is the rule on the farm. There are just enough ex-i ceptions to prove the rule.—Ex. L„ Wild Man Is Seen, A wild man has been frequenting the stretches of timber land between New Paris and Millersburg, frightening women and alarming travelers after dark. He is unshaven, dirty, ragged and unkempt., Traces of camping places of the fellow havebeen found.

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BENEEirS DERIVED JON BIRDS Aside from (he good cheer which the presence of birds inspires, their economic value is very great. Birds are our greatest naturul check upon insects tending to prevent their undue increase and preserve the proper balance in nature. They feed upon caterpillars, grubs, cutworms* beetles, butterflies, moths, grasshop- ! pers, chinch bugs, plant lice and . many other destructive insects. Some birds are on hand all the year to guard the crops and trees against the ravages of insects. Another large service rendered by birds is the destruction of various rodent pests such as gophers spermephiles, mice and rabbits, which work such havoc to trees and crops when they become numerous. The annual loss occasioned by insectsandrodents amounts to several million dollars each year in the United States. This loss is increasing as tillage increases and birds a’e destroyed. Hence it is the greatest importancdwto agriculture that cur valuable birds be preserved and everything be done to allow th|m to increase. The third great line of service is in the destruction of weed seed. Many kinds of bird feed upon the seeds of noxious weeds, in this way destroying countless millions of seeds that otherwise would germinate and spring up to pollute the fields, lessen the yield of grain and lower its market value? The service rendered here amounts to many million dollars annually in the United States. < Certain birds also serve as’scav engers, consuming decaying ani mal matter that otherwise might become a source of pollution of our air,, streams, and water supplies, thus endangering health. The use of native game birds Tor food is an important item also and may be made even more important through the proper conservation and increase of our native game birds, and by domestication and rearing as permitted by law.—Ex. Don’t Pull, Always Boost. . When you pull down the town in which is your home, you are pulling down yourself, and when you build up you are helping yourself ! and your neighbor. Try and banish from your mind the mistaken idea that all good things are away off in some other locality. Give your town all the praise it can legitimately bear. It certainly will do you no harm and will cost you nothing; and above all patronize your home institutions—including the printing office.. J Kabo Corsets sold by A. W. Strieby.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1910.

THE KIND OF A REVIVAL NEBDED 111 SYRACUSE

(Evangelist S. B. Shaw.) We are not pessimists. We do not for a moment lose sight of the fact that all foundations of God stand sure. We do not for a moment question that God has his thousands that have not bowed the knee to the world, the flesh, or the devil, nor been swept from their mooring by the present floodtide of false teaching and doctrine. These unite in declaring that the only remedy for the evils we deplore is an old time revival, a revival brought about by the mighty working of the Spirit of God in the awakening and quickening and saving power. Oh! for a revival that will turn the professed people of God back from their idols of sin and worldliness to serve the true and living God—back from the “broken cistern” to the ‘ Fountain of living waters.” A revival that will save the peo-

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pie of God from covetousness and love of the world and all uncleanness of spirit, mind and body. A revival in which professors of religion will have their eyes opened to see and feel their responsibility for souls and in which they will confess with broken hearts their former backslidings, their carelessness and indifference, and in thousands of cases their actual transgressions of the moral law. A revival that like' a flood will “sweep away the refuge ' of lies” and “overflow *the hiding places” of all them that would hide'' away from the light of God’s Spirit. A revival that will unearth and uncover every device of Satan for deceiving souls, whether found in the church or outside of it, “For the Secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and He will show unto them His covenant.” A revival that will make both the church and the world to realize the shortness of time and the importance of eternity. A revival in which judgment light 1 will shine not only on the unsaved but in which God’s people will see their duty and realize their opportunity as those that have lost sight of the things of time in the light of the coming judgment. A revival ’ that will make heqrven and’ hell, Calvary and the resurrection, salvation from sin, deansing through the ’ blood, and the gift of the Holy 1 Ghost, living realities by the reve- 1 lation of the Spirit in harmony with ' the Word. A revival in which the sinfulness of sin will be so revealed 1 that instead of excusing and pleading for it, souls will turn from it in 1 utter loathing and cry out “0 1 wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death” f and refuse to find comfort in any t

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thought of imputed righleousnes as a coveting for sin but cry out for deliverance from every wrong affection and from every evil thought and desire and rest not until the old man is crucified with Christ and the very body of sin destroyed. A revival that will sweep away selfishness and narrowness and all sectarian spirit and bring those that now spend their time in criticism of each other down on their faces together before the Lord, crying out for the salvation of lost souls. A revival that like a tornado will sweep away all the old dried up sermons and all the cold formal prayers and all the lifeless singing, and like a whirlwind . will carry everyone that comes in its pathway heavenward. A revival that will fill the hearts of saints with holy love and so burden the hearts of God’s ministers that the word of

God will be like fire shut up in their bones. (See Jer. 20:9.) A revival that will help the people to honor God with their substance and so have their bams filled with plenty. (See Prov. 3:9, 10.) A revival that will open the windows of heaven by bringing all of God’s tithes into His storehouse. A revival that will so fill the saints with love that they will rejoice in the opportunity to give their time and money and, if need be, their very lives for their biethren and for the salvation of a dost world. A revival in which the presence of God will be so revealed that multitudes will fall under the power of God and cry for mercy as they did on the day of Pentecost. Areyival that has so much of Heaven and so much of God’s glory in it that all the world will be compelled\to see and feel fts mighty influence. A revival that will gloriously defeat the powers of darkness and hell and make earth and heaven ring with shouts of victory over a multitude of souls snatched from the eternal burnings and won for God and heaven—yea a revival that will never n6ed to be be revived, but that will Sweep on like a mighty wave of the\sea that nothing can hinder until time shall be no more. For such a revival our heart cries out to God! Foft such a revival we are ready to watch and toil and pray. For such'a revival we believe the blessed Holy Spirit is interceding in many hearts. Such a revival God is able and ready to give. But for this He must be enquired of by His people to do it for them. (See Ezek. 36:37.) May God grant it not for our sakes, but for His own name’s sake and for His <nvn honor and glory. Amen and amen.

: LEARNING TO BE FARMERS, VISITS WINONA COLLEGE I The writer had the pleasure of • visiting the Winona Agricultural : College, on Thursday of last week, and found the boys deep in the i mysteries of botany. This is a delightful study, and one which has no limit>Jor the reason, that, if all the realms of plant were explored that exist today, this information would open up new fields and point the way to improvements which would have no stopping place short of perfection. The Winona College affords advantages to the boys within reach of it, which are probably not as fully appreciated as they should be. Pupils are enrolled from several dis erent states, and coming from a distance, the expense is much greater than to the boy who can board at home or at least can be at home over Sunday. The farmer who knows, is in demand, and positions are awaiting the graduates as fast as the course is completed. | The Winona College is among the , best of its kind. The instruction is I not merely theoretical but a college farm is provided for demonstration. Those interested in agriculture would find a visit to this institution profitable, —Pierceton Record. Attend Church Regularly. The man or woman who stays away srom church because some one has said something about them that . was unkind is suffering a great loss. These little episodes that hurt are placed in the Christian path for a purpose, and when we let them conquer us the devil has us on the run. If we have not a sufficiency of Christ ian grace to with stand the little tangles that come up in Christian work, we have made a poor beginning, and had better rub out and begin anew, for the little we have will only cause us to be miserable. There are thousands of people in the church who could become great Christian lights but they have allowed a thread that has been stretched across their pathway to trip them and throw them down. As the days go by they become less useful to themselves, to the church and to the community. Finally wrinkles begin to make their appearance, the expressision changes and by this time a habit has form-* ed, and they are completely side tracked. While they have been pouting the church, society, and all other things have been moving right along as before and the party from whom the offence has come is gathering strength everyday. Christian work can only be compared to machinery that is in constant use, and so long as it is kept running every part is bright from using, but when it stops the parts begin to rust, and soon it becomes junk and is sold to the dealer at his own price. If all the pouters in every church, every secret order and society of every character, would rise up and say, “What a fool I have been all these years to be content with feeding the swine, when there is plenty to do, and at resonable wages.” they would become factors. CENTRAL GIRLS WANTED. We want several girls to learn the work as Central Operator. Permanent positions to girls of right disposition. Apply at Telephone office. Syracuse Home Telephone Co.

THECHRISHAN IDEAL OF LIFE Life is as we think it. All there is of misery to us or of happiness is of mind. As to the length of life it is only the NOW the present moment. No one living knows positively that he shall live beyond the present moment, so that the NOW is all one has. It is our duty to make the most of the time present. The past has gone beyond our reach except in memory. Now, if we Wronged any creature the memory of it becomes our chief sorrow and the good we have done, our chief happiness. So it is as we do are we made happy or miserable. But happiness is not our proper pursuit. We should seek nothing for self but opportunity to do for others. We are here only to serve. Do we seek health? It is that we may be strong to go forward in some good work. May we do most good by going forward at the risk of liberty and lift, as do soldiers in line of battle, or as did all the martyrs? Then let us go forward. Our own well being we may not consider; except as a means to an end and that end the good we may do. And what good may we do? The good in reach. So much, assuredly. And is that all? Though we have no positive assurance of earth-life beyond this present moment, yet one is never so old but he may live a year longer and never so young but he may die this year, and the thought of death should never enter the mind, for indeed, there is no death, but only transition from a lower to a higher life. We shall rise from off the earth-plane to a higher plane of existence! That is the all of the change We call death not a catastrophe to be dreaded or feared at all—not a thing we should ‘ think of, except in happy anticipation (if it come unsought; for suicide is against nature and wrong.) Now, I began to say that we may lay plans to do good, not anticipating Jthe end of life near at all. Hence we eat and take exercise and recreation to build body and mind for future work. Seeking knowledge and health and strength for the good they may enable us to do. That is our bounden duty. Indeed we have no use for life except for the good we may do. Yes one should never reach after happiness for self as a direct object;

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but we should strive to give hapiiness to all within reach, seeking ever to give and not to get. He that looseth his life shall find it. John Brown lived a thousand years in a moment. That was the moi ment of his death for the freedom of his fellowmen. He that giveth receiveth. The consciousness of our having (in our seeking after pleasure or happiness) made another person miserable, will bring immeasurable misery to him who has done so. Now, how does institution justify its existence? The good it does. The example of well doing was presented in the concept of the ideal God-man Jesus. The church originally crystalized in its doing this concept. Jesus “went about doing good.” The good done by the master was in restoring to a natural state of health and comfort the abnormal. He would see that all had “according to their need” bread for the hungry and health eased of body and mind. Right here let me say emphatically that when the church of totoday has stepped upon this platform ignoring mediaeval creedism and shall give its entire attention to “doing good,” as Jesus did, will God’s Kingdom have come and his will be done on earth as it is heaven. No one wanting his daily bread.. But is he a “heretic” that at death leaves the world the better, the wiser, and the happier for his having lived in it? I would rather be known as a heretic of that order and die for my heresy as did Jesus, on the cross for the same heresy then known as a “Saint” living always in a cave away from the society of my fellow men engaged continually in (so-called “devotion to God”) as were the hermits of the dark ages—Leonard Brown. Charged Failure to Report Births. Dr. Anna G. Kauffman-Kreiger of Goshen, is charged by Dr. J. A. Snapp, secretary of the county board of health, with failure to report two births. The complaints were filled in Justicie S. S. Whisler’s court, in that city. The law provides for the report by the attending physician within twenty da. In the cities the report is made to the city health officer, while in the country, the births are reported to the county secretary. The penalty for the first offense is a fine of from $lO to SSO; for the second offense, SSO to $100; and for the third offense, $(00.

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