The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 December 1910 — Page 1

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1 GREAT WORK AMONG CHILDREN '4 In with the Union Revival Meeting being carried on in this place in charge of Evangelist S. B. Shaw and wife, Mrs. Shaw is holding children’s meetings at the close of school each day. Deep interest is shown m [these meetings and -the attendance has been from fifty to nearly ninety, at each meeting Mrs. Shaw relates a true and touching story calculated to teach just such lessons as will keep the children and lead to right decisions and noble aspirations. After songs and story all who wish to go are dismissed, but many stay to the after service when those who so desire are encouraged to yield their hearts to Christ. As a result many of the children have been converted and give sweet bright, touching testimonies of their new found joy. One dear girl said with deep feeling, “Oh, its so sweet, so sweet this peace that Jesus has put into my heart! ; I feel so different and now I’m good to Mamma all the time.” Another said with touching emphasis (after hearing the story of some who were without home or friends) “I thank God, for giving me a good home and clothes and plenty to eat and because I don’t have to go with old shoes and wet feet like that little girl did.” Still another told how she used to be afraid of the dark but now Jesus Was with her all the time and* she was not afraid of the dark any more. Mrs. Shaw is in the habit of holding children’s meetings in each place in connection with their evangelistic work and she relates some touching experiences. In Cardiff, Illinois, the “ten children of saloon keepers attended the meetings regularly and many others who had been accustomed to going to the saloons j for their parents for beer. Sometimes; the children have been led to make confessions that showed how already Satan had 'been getting hold of their young hearts

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and lives. But a short time ago two girls of about twelve years of age went to their teachers and confessed to having stolen money from her desk at school. Surely it is God’s place to help and bless the children and fill their hearts with his life before they form evil habits and associations that would lead them astray. All Christians are urged to pray that God’s work may go in power among the children. Home From Visit to England. Mr. Wesley Snyder who has been with his son, Audrey, in England for several months returned to Syracuse Monday. He came over in the largest ship plying the Atlantic, making the trip in five days. He arrived in New York two weeks ago today. He stayed in New York five days and from there went to Fort Wayne for two days. While there he heard Dr. Wilbur Chapman preach. He was at Milford over Sunday. In all he traveled 16,000 miles in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany and France. , His son Audrey will come to America in April to fill a three weeks engagement in Canada. From there he will fill several weeks engagements in the United States, visiting here some time in June. He expects to return to England from here to make a fifteen months tour and then he will quit the business and come home to live with his father. Marriage Contract Broken. Judging from the number of divorce cases that went on docket in St. Joseph county during two terms of the circuit? and superior courts, i marriages must be a failure in that county. Applicants for divorce have been made by 270 persons. Former deputy fish and game warden Andy Vander ford hasbaud- ' ed a bill of $134, to the commissioners of this county. He claims i this amount due him for seizing and destroying nets, spears, etc. It is thought that the commissioners will refuse to pay and that Vanderford will sue.

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SYRACUSE, INDIANA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1910

SERMON DELIVERER BURS. SHAW Text—“ Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hearts ye sinners; and purify your hearts ye double minded.— James 4:8. You will notice that the inference of the text is that of separation between God and man. There has come into our life that has separated us from God. But while we must confess this sad fact, there is a sense in which God is very nigh; and if we will draw nigh unto him He will draw nigh unto us. God is not far from us, for we read that “in Him we live and move and have our being.” God is keeping us every moment. If His care were not over us, if His mercies were not extended toward us, if it were not for His great love lor us, not one of us could reach our home tonight. If Satan had his way. every unsaved person in this house would be in eternity. It is his will to destroy us, but God is so near us and so interested in us, that in His mercy he preserves our lives, and He says to the enemy “thus far shalt thou go and no farther.” There is another sense that Godj is with all of us. If the Holy Spirit should withdraw from us there would be no possible chance of our being saved. I knew the captain of a vessel on Lake Michigan that was so wicked that even wicked sailors were afraid to go upon the Lake with him because of his awful profanity. And when I talked with him after he had been saved I asked him this question: “Did you ever blaspheme in the name of the Holy Ghost?” A startled expression came “over his face as he looked at me and he said, “No I never did, but it was the mercy of God, that kept me from thinking of it, for if it had come into my mind I was wicked enough to have done it.” It is the restraining mercy of God that keeps us from sinning against the Holy Ghost. But there is a sense in which we are not near to God. Our inquiries have separated us from Him. Sins, our transgressions, stand like mountains between us, and in this sense we are far from Him. If you are unsaved tonight, every sin that you have ever committed stands between you and God and this includes sins of omission as well as commission. To this statement there may be one exception and that is the case of the backslider. When God forgives sin He casts it into the land of forgetfulness to be remembered against us no more, and if the backslider is lost it will not be for the sins that have once been forgiven but for the sins he has committed since, and for the sin of trampling upon the blood of Jesus since he was once forgiven. Not only so, but the great debt we owe to God separates us from him. I should continue to buy goods of one of your merchants without paying any thing his account against me would constantly increase and stand between us. So all your life, unsaved one, daily, hourly, yea every moment you have been receiving from God life, strength, breath, every morsel of food, yea every blessing of life and have never attempted to pay the debt by giving him your heart and service, and so all that you have received from God stands between you and Him tonight. “ ‘But’, you say, ‘I never can go back and live

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my life over, I never can pay the debt. How then can I draw nigh to God? What can an honest man do if he owes a debt he cannot pay? He can acknowledge the debt, make it right any wrong so far as it is in his power and ask mercy and forgiveness for the past and promise, so far as in his power, to meet his obligations in the future. This you can do with God. And when you draw nigh to him by the confessing and forsaking of sin, He will draw nigh to you, blot out your transgressions and receive you to Himself as if you had never gone away from Him. But reember that every time you refuse to draw nigh to Him the sin that separates you from Him is increasing and it will be growing harder instead of easier to come to God. There is another sense in which we are separated from God and this way, in a measure, applies to Christians. We are by nature separated from God by an unlikeness to Him in character. The text says: ‘ ‘Purify your hearts ye double minded.” There may be in some hearts, roots of envy, of jealousy, of bitterness, of malice, of pride, of self will that are unlike the mind that was in Christ We can not remove these things from our hearts but we can draw nigh to God by confessing them and bringing them to the blood for cleansing and He will draw nigh to us and deliver us for he says: "Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus.” In one more sense we are separated from God and in this the distance is infinite for though we may come to love the things God loves and hatethe things God hates, yet in disgrace He is infinitely beyond us. att«t<jmhawe can draw nigher tohim learning more and more of his wondrous power and love and grace and so even in this world if we continue to draw nigh to Him our path will be like the “shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” May God help us all to draw nigh unto him this night—that he may draw nigh unto us. Charles W. Miller formerly a partner with A. W. Strieby, arrived Thursday night from Wheelock, N. D. where he has been for several years. When Mr. Miller left Mynot there was about five inches of snow and it was four degrees below zero. Those from here who were at Goshen Friday, were the Mesdames Fred and B. F. Hoopingarner, Mrs. Marion Miller and daughter, Miss Zella, Mrs. Frailk Bushong, Mrs. D. R. Pomeroy, Midp Lola Zerbe, Cui Grisamer and George Abbot. B. B. Morgan of Chesterton came Saturday evening afld his wife and son, Robert, who have been visiting with her parents, Mr- and Mrs. S. L. Ketring for a fortnight accompanied him home Monday. If you want a celebrated “Coon Tail” Show Excluder Misawaka knit boot, or a High Buckle Rubber Over we have them. Economy Store. H. G. Yojng, Prop. Mrs. George Howard left for her home at North Liberty. Indiana, Friday morning after T a ten days visit with her sister, Mrs. Madison McPherson. r SI.OO buys a good heavy woolen shirt for home. Economy Store. H. G. Young, Prop.

PAID VISIT TO HIS ' BOYHOOD HONE I met four of my old-time school mates-boyhood classmates, on this last visit—and others of my oldtime friends—a few G. A. R. Comrades among them. I met one who knew my grandfather who died and was buried in the Syracuse Cemetery in 1839. I met several women who remembered my mother who passed to the higher life in 1848. I visited the public school and gave a short talk to the high school and Bth grade pupils. What an attentive audience they gave to the words I spoke! I proffered each a present worth not less than one thousand dollars—if he or she would accept it—a thing invisible and I might say almost indefinable—yet more potent, more invincible than an army with banners. It is a thought. Its place of lodgment is within the mind. When once lodged therein, it protects its possoi from all the evils of earth-life, and lifts him or her up to greatness. It is God’s Kingdom— not observable. The thought is not one but many. It was a single thought in the mind of Florence Nightingale that took her to the Crimea. She raised on high the red cross. She was the first of the order of professional nurses. They number now in the United States more than one hundred thousand and Oh, the good they have done and are doing! No one has ever arisen to greatness but that the seed germ of his usefulness was a single thought—an ideal. The lump of leaven that the woman put in three measures of meal, the grain of mustard seed The single thought is defined in one latin word “excelsior” more excellent, or higher up, up, on the mountain height of true righteousness and worth, which if possessed by each man and woman in America would make of our country a true kingdom of God. Jesus, the ideal king; and there can enlightment, no reform, no advance without the germ-idea that was his that is, indeed, unselfish devotion to human welfare. All book-learning is of no worth without this idea this thought controlling the mind, viz; I live to leave the world the better, the wiser, the happier, for my having lived in it. The boy should be possessed by this; for the thought possessing the boy and controlling him. For no one controls his thoughts; but his thought controls him—and that is the fundamental fact of human life—man is controlled by his thoughts, and, indeed, by one positive thought, which is the essence of his character. I say the one divine thought that shone in Palestine nearly two thousand years ago that made it undoubted that the Carpenter-Nazar-ene was indeed the ‘‘Sun of Righteousness with healing in his beams” (Wings) his thought “I live to do good’’ controlled him, and led him to the cross; the same thought led John Brown and Robert Emmett to the scaffold. What is the essential to bring all to Christ? Devotion to doing good. Syracuse is a Christian town if no one may want the essentials of life within her boundaries of distribution, in a benovelent manner, is made to every one according as he or she has need—if bread is not wanting to the hungry, clothes to the naked, and shelter to the stranger. In so far as Syracuse comes short

| of the “measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” in her readiness to abolish want and suffering within her borders, does she stand in need of a revival of religion of the true and undefiled kind; for there is but one definition of religion in the New Testament. It is not given in metaphysical terms dark and difficult to understand the meaning of, but in plain anglo-saxon viz; pure religion and undefiled before God the Father, is this—to visit the fatherless and the widows in their afflications and keep one’s self unspotted from the world,” which means to . “go about doing good and to bear no taint of impurity in character.” Not they that cry Lord! Lord! in stentorian tones, but they that do the will of the Father, belong to the invisible Church of Jesus Christ. It cometh not with observation, it is within the disciple, and the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth in alms giving. And no one is called to prayer by the muezzin, but the command of the master is: “When ye pray go into your closets, and when ye have shut the door pray to your Father who seeth in secret.’’ No priest look in through the closed door. Old time gospel pounding has passed. God is in the small voice. God’s blessing rests on the W. C. T. U.—on the Y. M. C. A. on the Y. W. C. A. and on all the clubs organized for Christian work, and, more especially, on the Kingdom of God that cometh not with observation.—Leonard Brown. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our heart felt thanks to one and all who so generously assited or extended sympathy to us in any way during the last illness and death of our son, George. We also assure you that these favors have been appreciated more than words can tell. Charles D. Thompson and Wife.

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OBITUARY. George Ball was born in Indianapolis. Indiana, September 10th, 1890 and died at South Bend Hospital on November 29th, 1910, aged 20 yrs. 2 months 19 days. Os his immediate family there remain his mother, a brother and a sister. His father died when George was quite young and in consequence the home was broken and it fell to this boy to be the care of public benevolence uutil he was about 10 years. Then through a kind Providence he was taken from the public institution into the home and life o? Charles D. Thompson and wife. Here he found a home wherein he received not only the physical needs of his little body but he was nutured and cherished and trained into correct habits of industry, frugality, integrity and usefulness, besides acquiring the quiet ways of a cultured home and the rights tendencies toward his whole duty as a youth. These influences helped in moulding his character as observed when he entered the Syracuse High School. Students seldom err in their estimate of the character of their fellows They found him manly, self-reliant industrious and capable and he was cordially esteemed by all his classmates to whom his sudden death come as a painful personal loss. For,about a year he was in the employ of the Sandusky Portland Cement Company as assistant in the chemical labratory. Here, tco, among his fellows and superiors he was held in high favor because of his careful, correct habits and trust worthiness. George’s death is not only a sore loss to his foster parents, and young associates but the community suffers too in the death of such a young man of fine promise. Your money’s worth in every puff on a John Rogers cigar.

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