The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 28, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 November 1910 — Page 1

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THE BREAD AND BUTTER MOTIVE ELIMINATED The primary motive to human action is not bread and butter. Subsistence is the superior motive with all animals below man. And it is so, too, with man net above the animal plane. “Give me liberty chgive me death,” said Patrick Henry. And that is the plane on which the Indians stood. Hence they could not be enslaved. The only question with them was, which shall die first the Indian or the white man that would be his master. Whose fault was it that the negroes were enslaved? It was their own fault. They preferred life to freedom. They consented to be slaves. At the moment the effort was first made to deprive him of his liberty the blaeftk man should have said: “This is the best time that I shall ever find to die.” The best time for any man to die is in defending his inalienable rights. No people so determined will ever be deprived of what they value most. What was the meaning of the autodafees in Spain? They meant that the rectuant stultify his soul and declare that he believes what he does not believe or burn; —choose to relinquish his freedom of soul dr die a horrible death. How many thousands preferred death to this enslavement? Martyrs! No one burned alive as a heretic in Spain, or any where else in Christendom, ever denied the truth of any word spoken by Jesus. And nothing taught by the Master was ever written in any church creed as an article of faith for denying which martys were burned. Nothing was placed in mediaeval creeds but metaphysical dogma that led to persecution—“homoousian or hommsian—the son is of the same substance with the Father, or the Son is not of the same substance with the Father.” These and the like preposterous metaphysical dogmas comprise all the church creeds on which anathema ever was or is now grounded. The echo reaches us today from the dark ages, and Trinitarians have still a mortal antipathy to Unitarians, and they shut them out of their. Ministerial Associations, and doubtless would still burn them alive, as Calvin burned Servetus,’if they could. But the Unitarian is not less at fault for recognizing m this day a metaphysical dogma as his religious belief at all, and so helping to keep alive the old controversy that has cost so many lives. Ohe should say “God is love” and farther keep silent; for what the odds if one or three, if love? But the preacher must hold fast dogma or lose his bread and butterThen let his bread and butter go.

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Rockefeller could not offer me salary high enough, if he offered all his fortune, to bribe me to preach that God is either three or one. It is j enough if he is love. The deification of love is the grandest and only essential id<ea in the Bible. It is but a little beyond a century ago that love began to be preached as it was preached by St. Paul and St. John and by Oregon and Clement. ‘The wrath of God,” taught in America by Edwards, held the ground until Ballou and his coworkers touk the field. They turna hose on hellfire and extinguished it. So that now, I dare say, few clergymen are today deprived of bread and butter for teaching the doctrine of the divinity of love. If Calvin had so taught Servetus would hot have had to broil at Calvin’s cammand. It is clear that the Geneva doctor oj divinity never did teach that God is love. And this sublime doctride is not emphasized by the clergy of any sect today as it/ought to be. It is my contention that they who preach Christ should make the most of this tenet of our religion—love. But the “rigidly righteous” pastor says of his brother minister, who lets bread and butter go that he may devote his life to following in the footsteps of the Master “going out doing good” feeding the hungry, healing’the sick; etc, moved to his task by love for humanity and not salary. “He undermines the Christian religion by his heretical ideas, if he minimize the sancity of decrees, free will, fore ordinatioti, the fall of man, total depravity, original sin, the plan of salvation and the wrath of God.” Mediaeval Christianity exists in its purity in Rnssia today. What grand churches and cathedrals and how magnificent the hiearchal forms of so-called “worship” contrasted the ideas of the humble What a mockery of the religion of Jesus? But the prophet Tolstoi has broken open the door of the whited sepulcher and exposed to view the dead men’s bones and uncleanness., The crystalization of love into human action is the all of the religion of Jesus. The Christian “dwells in God” (love) “and God (love) dwells in him”. Now what more should be wanted in Christion character? Why hold as . essential what is farthest From love and that divides into hos tile sects the would-be “Disciples of Jesus? Love will unite all Christians in one, as Jesus and the father are one.—Leonard Brown. FOB For sale or exchange for good land, or what have you? A fine large property located in the heart of Syracuse, Indiana. Building 35 rooms, partly heated by hot water. Would make an ideal place for hotel. For full particulars address W. G. Connolly, Syracuse, Ind.

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LARGE CROWDS ATTENDMEETINGS The revival meetings conducted by the Rev. S. B. Shaw and wife continue to draw large crowds; and those who attend the same are made to feel that they will result in the biggest revival Syracuse has ever witnessed. It is a very common thing in these meetings to see ministers as well as lay-men upon theii faces weeping over the desolation of Zion. The various churches are laboring faithfully together and it is hard to distinguish one from the other’ The writer has had enough experience in this work to know* that this is an evident token of success. The sermons preached by the Rev. S. B. Shaw are very practical as well as soul stirring, and awakening. Many times during the sermon the saints crying amen, while upon the faces of unsaved men and women there is a look of condemnation. The preacher uses such old time texts as, “Thy God shall be my God ann Thy people shall be my people.* This was the language of Ruth to her mother-in-law Naomi. The speaker brought out that when we forfeited God’s presence as our leader we forfeited His protection. He made a strong plea for a return to God in the old fashioned way. (hie very touching incident in these meetings was a mother who has has been faithful to God standing and looking up into the face of God praying for the Salvation of her son whom she loves more than her own life, and as the tears streamed down her face the entire congregation was moved and we are led to believe that every heart went out to God for that son. Oh! what an indescriable privilege it is to have a mother who is so interested in her son: it is better than all the finance the world can give. Ten Dollars for Essay on Forestry. In order to encourage the study of forestry among the pupils of the public schools, the State Board of Forestry is offering four prizes, of $lO each for the best essays on forestry. The contestants for the first prize are limited to the pupils of the seventh grade country schools The second prize is for the pupils of the eight grade country schools. The third prize is for the members of freshmen and sophomore classes of the high schools of the State. The fourth prize is for the members of the junior and senior classes of the high schools. The conditions are as follows: The subjects must be “To what extent should Indiana be reforested; give reasons.” The essay must be a hand written manuscript in ink, containing not more than one thousand words. The essay must be in the hands of the Board on or before May Ist, 1911. Address your essay and inquiries to Charles C. Deam, Sec’y, Slate Board of Forestry, Indianapolis, Indiana. Lutheran League Convention. The Lutheran League Convention of northern Indiana will be held tomorrow at the Grace Lutheran Church at Elkhart. A goodly number are going from here as delegates among whom will be Mrs. Rebecca Stettler, Mrs. Wm. Rothenberger and Reverend Ladd. Ladies he itherbloom underskirts at 98 cents at the Economy Store H. G. Young, prop.

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SYRACUSE AS A JIORSE MARKET Few of our citizens realize that our townsman, Jake McNutt, has made Syracuse a horse market of no small proportions. He has purchased during the past season not fewer than ten car loads of horses. They have not all been shipped from here, some having been delivered to shippers at Goshen and Ligonier. He has bad horses delived here from as far west as Bremen, from the south and east beyond Pierceton and on the north be has invaded the land of the Michiganders and traded shekels for some of their choicest specimens of the noble animal. Os the horses caared here most of them have been sold to J. B. Duffey of Fostoria, Ohio. Since the subject of the sketch is in no way related to tne writer he will pardon us if we toss him a little bouquet by stating that in addition to being a good horseman—and he certainly is that—he is a square dealer and a good citizen—no kicks coming from Jake’s customers. Papers of surrounding towns please copy. its an Educator. A good, dean local newspaper should be found in every home. No child will grow up ignorant who can be taught to appreciate the home paper. It is the stepping stone to intelligence in all those matters not to be leamd in books. Give your children a foreign paper which contains not one word about any person, place or thing which they ever saw or perhaps ever heard, how can you expect them to be interested? But let them have the home paper and read .of versons whom they meet, and places with which they are familiar, and soon an interest is awakened which increases with every arrival of the local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed, and those children will read the paper all their lives and become intelligent men and women, a credit ko their ancestors; strong in their jmowledge of the world as it today. Jgndianian. Installing Acetylene Plants. George W. Elliott and wife, of Wars«r, were in town a couple of days Ist week. George is installing acetylene lighting plants for lighting farnl buildings and Mrs. Elliott came over with him to visit friends and take a look around Syracuse after an absence of fifteen years. George had charge of the B. & 0. station at this place about twenty years ago, dpd, by the way, received a reward of some sort for having the best kept station on this division. He wenv/rom here to Milford and kept boooks for J. F. Young, father of our townsman H.G. Young who was then operating extensively in timber and lumber. Later he moved to a farm just west of Warsaw, near to his and.his wife’s people, where they Our artist, A. L. Miller, tried to preserve for us some'of the beautiful scenery that was all aronud us the morning the snow hung so heavily on the trees and shrubs, by taking a negative of south Huntington street but the light was not sufficient to make a good picture. If we could just have a good picture of the sights here that morning to send to our friends in Florida wouldn’t it make ’pm home sick? ‘I„ , , Lanterns at Lepper and Cole s.

IRE MORALITY DE IM WRITING Bj F. S. KITSON Too many persons still consider good writing a sort of trick, knack or talent As a rule they are persons who write poorly and try to appear wise. Now the facts are that good writing requires concentration of attention and continuity of effort to acquire, both of which qualities make for backbones rather than rubbernecks. No other universal art requires as fine quality of motor impulses as that of guiding the pen in good penmanship. And it is this QUALITY of nerve control which makes for character. More than once have I seen pupils of indifferent quality take on firmness by degrees as they encountered the difficulties of learning to master a good hand, for, after all, you are but mastering self when you master a good hand. And it is mastery of self that is the very essence of success. Many a pupil has found it necessary to abstain from intemperate habits, to reduce the nervous kinks to the minimum and to increase the quality of line and form to the maximum. And as a rule they do so with little or no preaching. No other art requires greater care more ’ patience and perseverance, and finer quality of effort than writing, it is therefore educative in tendency in that it makes for finer fiber, greater perseverance, and painstaking care. There is therefore more morality in skillful writing than is very generally supposed. The new fellow who intimates that writing is a mere knack or trick, needs to be reminded that poor writing is an evidence of inefficiency and wide-stepping than of brains. Moreover the one who has acquired a good hand is in possession of such self command as to acquire other arts with comparative ease. Skill is catching and co-operative It is therefore worth while in writing as well as in other things. Will Attend Lecture. Rev. Ladd and Mrs. Rebecca Stetler will attend the second number of the Lecture Course at Elkhart this evening. The lecture will be held in the Opera House. Rev. Dr. Gunsaulas who will deliver the lecture, is pastor of the Central Congregation at church and president of the Armour Institute of Technology of Chicago. He is generally accetded to be the second best living pulpit orator in the United States. MICHIGAN LAND FOR SALE. Landin central Michigan is now open for home seekers. This land is level on which heavy timber grew. Is a loam with clay subsoil town and railroad near. Price ranging from sls up according to improvements. For further particulars see or address H. H. Doll, Syracuse, Ind. Mrs. Florence Mayfield and het grand daughter, Romaine Gibson, are here visiting Mrs. Mayfield’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Crom- ' well. I Kabo Corsets sold by A. W. Stiieby.

! PREPERATION FOR AN OLD TIME REVIVAL 4 p By S. B. SHAW. Genuine revivals are not gotten Up nor worked up by merely human effort. “They “do not come that 1 way.” They are from Heaven and of divine origin. God is their author and the Holy Ghost in His ex- ( ecutor and director. Human instrumentality is needful but only in submission to the divine will and power. He who would be a co-worker with God in the salvation of men must needs be, so far as perfect submission and dependence upon divine power and energy are concerned, like clay in the hands of the potter. Those who would be greatly used in the salvation of souls must be dead to the praise of men, dead to self importance, and self seeking, dead to everything but the glory of God and the Salvation of immortal souls, seeking the honor that comes from God only. All the old leaven must be taken out of their hearts and lives that the new leaven may have control and that they may have no other desire than to glorify God, in their spirits and their bodies which are God’s. Everything in their hearts that could incline them to be satisfied with shallow work must be cleansed away by the blood of Christ. Where God has his way Christian workers will noL.be satisfied with any thing that does not satisfy God, and working in harmony,with the Spirit and under His direction, they will have a faith that “laughs at impossibilities and cries, it must be done. If the church waits for a revival untU all conditions are met, it -will wait till time is lost in eternity. “God’s good time is now,” and every thing that hinders just such a revival, is on the human. God works just as mightily as He is able to work in full recognition of mans choice and slowness to believe an d obey God’s word. The Holy Ghost is at all times striving to bring about a revival; and will use for this any and every heart that is ready and willing to be used according to its capacity. And for this, God can use large hearts coupled with small intellectual powers far better than large intellectual power coupled with little faith and love. Your money’s worth in every puff on a John Rogers cigar.

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If They Only Knew. He is coming, we have heard it, And our hearts throb with delight Soon will end earth’s dismal story, Soon will close her dreary night. Then will dawn, in matchless glory. Her eternal morning bright. 0 that every one might know it! Is the burden of my prayer. 0 that men would pause to hear it 'Mid their ceaseless toil and care! 0 that thoughtless youths might learn i\ And their earless hearts prepare! Would the rich cling to their riches, Would they hoard their gold away e While earth's weak ones cry of hunger From the famine they might stay If they knew that when He comelh, All their wealth would pass away? And the ones who bear life’s burdens, Who are weary and oppressed. Who must toil and plan and struggle— Would their heearts be cheered and blessed If they knew the Heavenly Master Soon would come and bring them rest? To the suffering and the sick ones, Who have sought for health in vain, Carry quick the joyful message. It will help them bear the pain— This sweet hope of seeing Jesus, And of being whole again. Those who run the race for pleasure, Who but chase 'a fleeting goal, Tell them of the love of Jesus That can satisfy the soul. They may share heaven’s purest pleasures While eternal ages roll. Tell them all the joyful tidings; It will cheat earth of her woe. It will fill all hearts with gladdhess Tell them all! 0 let them know! —Ella M. Robinson. The above is published at the request of Mrs. Ida Strieby. Friends have received word from Mr. and Mrs. Ed Holloway that they landed safer at Largo, but their daughter, Mrs. Haney would not hear to them locating there as planed but would have them cross the bay to Tampa and take rooms with them, which they did. Now look out for some fish slories when Ellen gets busy.