The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 10, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 July 1913 — Page 6

Confusing | Voices By REV. J. H. RALSTON Secretaiy of Coenspondeace Department Moody Bible Metitute, Chicago

TEXT—“There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance.” I Cor. 14:10.

The apostle Paul was greatly annoyed by the general confusion that characterised the Corinthian church, but this text seems to have in mind a religious meeting In which somq are praying, some exhorting and some teaching. He says there are so many kinds of voices, and none of them is without some

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(particular significance. Transferring the scene to the presient day there are many voices concerning almost all subjects—social, ipolitical, commercial and religious, but we confine our thought to the Hast. Os the many voices on religion that might be considered, there is not one but has some signification. There is not a religious error of the day but contains some truth. There Is some valuable signification In it, and from It the religious and orthodox can oftentimes learn useful lessons. Probably never in the history of the world have the voices touching religion been ■so confusing as now, and largely because the most dangerous of them carry some badge of adherence to the word of God and traditional religion of the best kind. There is nothing that should so concern a man as religion—his relationship to God involving his own weal or woe for eternity—and he wants to know just what the truth is. With a goodly number the voice of reason is esteemed as safe, and as the Christian religion is a religion of rationality that voice has strong support. That the power of reasoning is highly important is conceded, or God would not ask man to reason together •with Him. But reason is given a place beyond its right, and the result is most unsatisfactory, and with many there Is a fanaticism and unreason, of which Paris worshipping a harlot is a suggestive result. Men trusting reason will either become thorough anarchists, or adopt some religion which Is the very antithesis of rationality. With some the voice of the inner spirit is supreme, and by introspection they are seeking to know what God is saying. This voice is so variable that no reliance can be placed on it, every man becoming a law unto himself. The most grotesque experiences are at this point engendered, and the way is open for the incoming of all kinds of religious fallacies such as Christian Science, spiritualism, occultism, and a brood of other evils. With many the voice of the church, as such, is supreme, and when the church, considered in the light of its history, is fairly treated its voice is worthy of the highest respect. It is never wise to neglect the great historic creeds, nor the church as speaking through representative ministers, but if the church as such is depended on exclusively it becomes ultimately the voice of a single person, and we have the hundreds of millions of the human race dominated by one person. It has been found that the church, . whether speaking through its popes or ■councils has certainly often been wrong, and it cannot therefore implicitly be depended upon. But with some the church speaking at the last moment Is to be heeded. It is contended that the church today does not believe as it once did, and that because it is more intelligent its voice is to be heeded rather than the church of two or three centuries ago, or even the church in the first centuries of the Christian era. This is evidenced by the tendency to the revision of church creeds, and the argument tor such revision is that the church does not believe as it formerly believed and should change its creed. The teachings of the great divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when theological thought was at its zenith, are thought to be outgrown, and that the teachings of the men of today, regardless of their loyalty to the Bible, are to be heeded. It is claimed that the Christian teachers of the earlier centuries did not know the truth. The German distinguished apologete Lepsius makes the modern theologian say, “Christianity has for nearly two thousand years •forgotten what the Master originally taught, and perhaps neither Paul, nor John, nor Augustine, nor Luther, nor Calvin ever understood who Jesus was and what He wanted. The entire church from the beginning of the apostolic age to the present generation has been one great misunder-* standing and blunder.” We might ask, is it likely that the further we get away from the source of religious teaching, the clearer will be our view? Is it likely that the German and Pnglish rationalists know the truth better than Jesus Christ, and Paul and John? There is another voice and that is God speaking through the Bible. By the Special providence of God that book has been preserved through many-centuries substantially as it was given to the holy men of old, and the reader of today can go to his English Bible with just as much confidence in Its safe guidance as those who handled the original manuscripts. The Bible is a safe guide in doctrine and practice. As to doctrine, it contains the faith once for all delivered to the saints, to which there have been no additions, and from which there have been no subtractions. The history of individual nations by whom the Bible has been sincerely respected and made a guide, shows that prosperity of all kinds has followed, and hopes for the future have been most satisfying.

KEEP YOUR SECRETS PERSONS WHO CONFIDE IN “FRIENDS” (MAKE MISTAKE. “'Learn to Keep Own Counsel —Affairs Safe Only When Known by One of Three Persons, Two of Whom Are Dead. There is a fixed belief In the minds of most women and men that no matter how> often they may be called upon to listen to the telling of other people’s secrets, they are far too wise to make the mistake of telling their own. As a matter of fact it Is the easiest thing in the world to betray your own confidence, and It is also quite the hardest thing after the cat has been allowed to slip out of the bag, to be forced to admit to yourself that, certain disagreeable consequences might have been averted had you taken the same precaution in locking your own private affairs. The door through which most of your secrets are likely to escape, unless you are as wise as a serpent, is that of sympathy, with a big ”S.” You would not be human if you did not crave sympathy, and you will always find plenty of people ready to hand out to you what looks like the genuine article, but is nothing more than a contemptible imitation, assumed for the purpose of leading you to make a fool ot yourself. You may seek to justify this betrayal of yourself in your own eyes by arguing that your dearest friend, Jane, is “as deep as a well” and “as silent as the grave,” and nine times out of ten you may be right in your high opinion of Jane s integrity as a “secret keeper.” However, there is sure to come a tenth time when Jane, either through thoughtlessness or malice aforethought, falls down hard on her job, and the inmost revelations of your soul are whispered about the community, and become a fruitful subject of discussion among your friends and acquaintances. If you have learned to keep your own counsel in the face of the tantilizing temptations to tell your best friend your right name; if when laboring under the stress of some great emotion you can keep absolutely mum about what doesn’t concern anyone but yourself, then you may be safely entrusted with your own secrets. Always remember that “a secret is a secret when known to one of three persons, two of whom are dead.” Change in Coast Lines. To discover a town under the waves of the Mediterranean is not so won-der-provoking as it would have been ten years ago, when organized researches disclosed the fact that since the Roman dominion the Neapolitan coast first sank about thirty-five feet and then rose about nineteen feet. Scientists are now convinced that what is going on in the middle sea is one of those slow and majestic movements that have raised continents from the sea —and sunk them under. All the evidence for this slow earth change can be seen by the tourist in the form of grotto, cave, erosion lines high above water mark and sunken wonders of buried forums -and temples. The great bath of one of the villas of Tiberius that once stood on high cliffs is now filled daily by the sea. Shakespeare in Burmese. Shakespeare in Burmese was successfully presented recently at Mandalay, India. “Pericles” was the play chosen and the participants were amateurs recruited from the Burmese legal profession these. The play was selected and adapted to Burmese ideas by Maung Tin, district judge. Some idea of the original lines on which the play was produced may be gathered from the fact that the scene was laid in China! So encouraging were the financial results that the idea is to be followed up, the scenes being shifted according to the Imagination of the promoters. Medieval Theaters. National theaters —of an open-air kind—at one time existed in England, ar Parran Round, in Cornwall, testifies. Here we have a vast amphitheater, turfed to seat over 2,000 persons. The beginnings of British dramatic art sprang from these open-air theaters, where the medieval plays were produced—and forgotten. The sands of the Cornish coast may have covered more than one specimen of these pioneer tempels of the dramatic art. Potash From Feldspar. German Potash interests are perturbed over the news from Stockholm \hat a scientist has discovered a process for producing potash from common feldspar. There have been many attempts in Germany to extract commercial potash from the many minerals containing it, but up to the present they have not been successful. The .Swedish method at its present stage is! understood to be too expensive from a commercial standpoint. His Confession. Once a clergyman went to pay a visit to an old Yorkshire yeoman, who was lying on his deathbed. After a few preliminary words, the worthy minister said that, if the veteran had any- , thing on his mind, he hoped he would [ ease his conscience and confide it to his pastor’s ear, so that he might file in peace. “Well, sir,” answered the old sportsman, “if I only had to live my life over again, I’d fish more with bait and less with flies.” As Usual. Boss —Where’s Jones? His vacation was up this morning. Fellow Clerk —It was, sir; but he telephoned that would have to ask for a few days to rest up before he could possibly go to work.—Judge. Poor Human Nature. Madge—Why don’t you go to your doctor for advice? Marjorie—What’s the use? He always tells me to do a lot of things he knows I won’t do.—Judge.

PATERSON STRIKERS FED BY THE I. W. W. jhuihaui ... m i i Fit ft l|' Men, women and children in the bread line established by the 1. W. W. at Paterson, N. J., for the feeding of the mill strikers and their families.

NOVEL LAW POINTS

Prosecutor’s Contract Declared Against Public Policy. Woman Was Enjoined—Verdict of Lone Star State Judge Who Traveled on a Railroad Pass Satisfied His Conscience. Chicago.—ln a case before the supreme court of Michigan involving the division of the profits of a law partnership, it appeared that the plaintiff was an attorney with an established practice while the defendant was a young lawyer with no experience. Under an agreement by the partners, when the plaintiff was prosecuting attorney he promised not to run for office again, but to assist the defendant to be elected. After defendant was elected it was agreed that the salary of the defendant as prosecuting attorney should be divided between the lawyers. The court holds that such a partnership contract is against public policy, because it is in effect an assignment of the earned emoluments of a public office, and is void and unenforclble. In support of a recent application in the supreme court in Brooklyn by a wife for an injunctoin against another woman to restrain her from alienating the affections of the plaintiff’s husband a decision of the Texas court of appeals was cited. This case arose out of a writ of habeas corpus sued out by a man sent to jail for contempt of court for violating an injuno, tion prohibiting him from associating with the plaintiff’s wife. The court upheld the injunction and -aid: “The suit was brought for damages on an alleged partial alienation of the affections of the plaintiff’s wife, and it was averred that on account of the past conduct of the defendant In that suit plaintiff was apprehensive and had just grounds to fear that by the continuance thereof the wife’s affections would be entirely alienated. There would consequently be a breach and destruction of the matrimonial contract existing between the pasties by which plaintiff would entirely lose the affections and services of his said wife. These, it must be conceded, were of peculiar value to the plaintiff; and it would seem that he would have a right to invoke the restraining power of a court of equity to prevent the utter annihilation of his wife’s affections and the utter destruction of the marital agreement.” The court held that the ir junction did not violate unlawfully the defendant’s right as a citizen or unlawfully interfere with his freedom of speech. A judgment rendered by a Texas justice of the peace, as reported by Law Notes, is in part as follows: “In the first place I am going to rule right as I see it regardless of the fact that the plaintiff Johnson is a friend of mine, and the railroad company has in the past issued me a pass and that I hope to again ride on their road free. There are two things evident from the evidence. There is a lie out somewhere, and a number of turkeys were killed on the G. H. & S. A. Railroad company’s fright of way. The quail seen by the witnesses Ayers and Scott must have been large ones, or the chicken hens seen by the witness Johnson must have been small ones. But, be that as it may, the number of turkeys killed were about 50, and they were not fully grown. Again, both parties were negligent—that is a fact. The company for allowing grass to grow on its right of way, and the plaintiff for allowing his turkeys to run upon the railway property, although there is no law against turkeys running loose. Now, if both the company and Mr. Johnson were at faul.t I do not see how either could object to paying for his mistake. Therefore, the railroad will pay Mr. Johnson for killing his turkeys the sum of sls, and Mr. Johnson will pay the costs of the suit. In rendering this judgment I have no apologies to make and my conscience is clear, as I believe I have done right.' If I have made a mistake I have done so unconsciously, but after weighing all the evidence I feel that i am for once right. Do you? J. Littleton Tally, J. P. Pre. No. 1, Goliad county, Texas.”

MAN 81 WALKS FIVE MILES Le?rns to Dance When 76, and Is Anxious to Have a Try at the Bunny Hug. White River Junction, Vt. —-Although he is eighty-one years old, Dana Burbank of Barnard walked five miles to attend an old folk ball here. Mr. Burbank did not learn to dance until he was seventy-six years old. Now he likes it better than /anything else in the worlds

WANT HUSBANDS, NOT VOTES Mayor Gaynor Explains Militancy— Not Enough Men for All, Fair Sex Desperate. , New York.—Women become militant suffragists because they have no husbands, and for that very reason there is no need of apprehension in this country of the bomb-hurling and window-smashing type of vote seeker, according to Mayor Gaynor. These and other sentiments on the subject of votes for women were expressed by the mayor in an interview he gave at city hall. The mayor believes that if all the women make up their minds they want I ■ • - Hsu lISBbBHH Mayor Gaynor. to vote they will vote, and the men may as well understand it first as last. But the great weakness of the women’s cause is that they do not all stand together. Some of the mayor’s trenchant remarks on the question are: “There are lots of men who should not have the vote. I know a distin-

CHILD KILLED BY SENILITY

Slx-Year-Old Girl Bore All the Symptoms of Extreme Old Age. Cleveland. —Rosie Gryelck, 2107 Robin avenue, Lakewood, is dead of “old age,” though her seventh birthday was not until next August. The little girl’s hair was as gray as that of the aged women who are ending their long lives in the sun at Warrenville. Not only had her hair turned gray, but many other characteristic changes, which appear with the passing of middle life, accompanied the progress of the rare malady which caused her death. Her steps were faltering, and her hands withered, while wrinkles lined .her face. Her parents and her younger sisters had become accustomed to these changes. So had some of the neighbors. Many others who visited the house, learned for the first time of the little girl whose life had so been telescoped that while youth was yet beginning, old age came on. To many of these visitors this was an awesome thing. They crossed themselves and talked of It in whispers. Coroner P. J. Byrne visited the home after the child’s death and reiterated the statement that she had died of “old age.”, Raymund’s disease was given as the cause of death.- This unusual affec- | tion, as medical textbooks show, is named after Dr. Maurice Raytaund, who first described it in 1862. It has i its seat in the heart and results In I a diminished flow of blood to the i lungs. The final result Is a malnutrition

*T never saw the tango or the bunny hug danced.” Mr. Burbank told a reporter. “but old as I am I would like to give them just one whirl. “I don’t think there is any harm in dancing or attending dances any more than there is in attending church. I know there is a lot said about dancing and the idea is that it is immoral, but I don’t see it that way. I think there is a lot of enjoyment obtained and it makes you feel i that you are not on the shelf of old age. 1 love to dance, and lam now I

guished man who said only damned fools vote, and he is a high state official. “I am willing to let all the women do all the voting and let the men tell them how to do it. Is there any suffragette in the world who would not give up her principles for a nice manl “In Great Britain there are about 1/ 500,000 women who have no men and they are rather desperate. As soon a* every woman has a man, the women get to be very peaceful. I do not blame the women for getting mad. They ought to tear down all England. But voting will not get them husbands and they will be as bad off as ever. “I feel both jolly and bully about ths subject of equal suffrage. But we cer tainly do not want to bring any new source Os discord into the household. “The political result would be ths same (with all women voting) in this country. The women would say ‘Lei father attend to this matter; it bother* our little heads too much.’ “The English suffragettes who are committing crimes would be locked uj here. The men, whether policemen, judges or jurymen, do not like to hurt the women, and that is the weak point in the case.” The mayor said that he whs quits willing to classify himself as a suf fragisL BABY BEGGARS HER FATHE& Savings of Steel Worker Thrown from Train Window Leaving Family Stranded. New Castle, Pa. —According to word received here from Fernando Russo, a steel worker now at Harrisburg, Pa., his savings were thrown from a train near Philadelphia by his baby, Jose Russo, and his family are stranded. Russo, his wife, and children, were returning from New York, where they went to meet a relative, when the savings of several months were thrown away. The parent gave his baby hie pocketbook to play with, and Jose tossed it out of a window. The family traveled from Philadelphia to Harrisburg on a freight train. Poor Town for Lawyer. Penn Yan, N. Y.—This is no town for a lawyer. There is not a single civil or criminal case In Yale county undispueed of. and there will be no cases to be tried before the semi-an-ual term of the country court this month. Yale county has a population Os 108,700.

which brings about changes, which commonly accompany old age. The immediate cause of the child’s death was dropsy. GEM PACKAGE IS OVERLOOKED Diamonds Valued at $3,000 Lost from Express Wagon Finally Found by Driver. Baker, Ore.—While $3,000 worth of diamonds lay in the middle of Center street Express Messenger Russell Browning passed the busiest half hour of his life. When he was not wiping the sweat from his brow he was searching the pavement The diamonds were In a package consigned to a local jeweler from a Chicago firm. Instead of placing them in his chest with the other sealed packages,-Browning threw them carelessly in the bottom, of the wagon. When he stopped to deliver the package at its destination it was missing. Cold beads of sweat stood out upon his brow when he thought of the loss. “Big Tim* to Visit Europe. New York. —Congressman Timothy D. (“Big Tim”) Sullivan, whose affairs have been in charge of a committee for four months, has so nearly recovered his health that he is making plans for a summer trip to Europe, according to Sheriff Julius Harburger, who has been the Bowery statesman’s friend through many hard-fought campaigns. Harburger, who visited Sullivan at a farm where he Is resting In West Chester county, also said “Big Tim” was hoping to take his seat In congress next December.

realizing wbat I missed by not learning before. I don’t know just what started me.” Dog Chicks’ Foster Parent. Shelbyville, Ind.—Samuel Knelsley of this city Is the owner of a black terrier which has taken a brood of small chickens for its own. The chickens were hatched several days ago and the, ; hen sat again. Mr. Knelsley was surprised later to see the dog in the yard with the chickens, jealously guarding them.

EMPTY TOMB AT ST. HELENA Longwood House, Where Napoleon Died, Is In Ruins and French Ask That It Be Preserved. Complaint is made in France that the government of the republic is neglecting the house in which Napoleon died and the tomb in which his body was laid at St. Helena before removal to the Church of St. Louis at the Invalides. In 1858 the Longwood house, In which the emperor lived during his exile, and the plot in the Valley of Geraniums, where his tomb was made were given by Queen Victoria to Napoleon 111. for the French government, which desired to maintain them as lasting memorials. But of late years little has been done to preserve either the home or the sepulcher. The building is falling into ruins, the farmers of the neighborhood let their sheep graze In the valley. Visitors are few. It is believed that ere long a storm will wreck the decaying building, and then in all probability the caretaker will be withdrawn and the land abandoned to the farmer and the herdsman. Sentiment will mourn over such surrender of ground to utility, but it is inevitable. In a world where the palaces of Alexander and Caesar have crumbled into nothingness, there can be no perpetuity for the homes of Napoleon. The Tuileries went to ashes long ago; why save Longwood ? Nettle Porridge. Mr. Pepys was regaled with nettle porridge at the house of a friend and found it “very good.” The same delicacy is referred to by Evelyn. The nettle, in fact, which the ignorant dismiss as an unpleasant weed, is capable of doing all sorts of things for man. A Scot was able to boast that he had eaten nettles, slept in nettle sheets, and dined off a nettle tablecloth. And it is at this time of the year that we should take out dose of nettles. Spring nettle tops boiled in pottage, according to old authority, “consume the phlegmatic superfluities in the body of many that the coldness and moisture of the winter leave behind.*’ The nettle is not the only vegetable delicacy enjoyed by country folk which never finds its way to the townsman’s table. In Kent, at this season, the early shoots of the wild hop are cooked and eaten as something superior to asparagus. The plant needs searching for amid the hedges, but that, no doubt, adds to its piquancy. Hop hunters, however, have always to remember that the taking of the cultivated plant is a felony.—London Chronicle. The Tortures of Prickly Heat and all skin affections are quickly alleviated and in a short time completely cured by using Tyree’s Antiseptic Powder. 25c.-at druggists. For free sample write J. S. Tyree, Chemist, Washington, D. Cl—Adv. Sleepy Philadelphia. Penn —“I see more than 14,000 children are crowded out of Philadelphia schools.” Gotham —“But where in the world do they sleep, then?” His Guess. Yeast —“Why do they call a drink a ‘ball,’ do you suppose?’ 5 Crimsonbeak —“Because they come ’round so often. I guess.” Their-Goal. “They want to sue this aviator.” “Then literally, they are after the man higher up.” Those who neglect to make hay while the sun shines can be depended upon to make trouble when it rains. Most of us are willing to concede the superiority of our friends in the matter of making mistakes. Naturally. “This is a shady business.” “What is?* “This one of providing people with family trees.” Usual Thing. "This milk story I found today Is fine.” ‘‘Has it a punch in it?” It takes a pretty good mixer to scatter seeds of kindness while sowing a crop of wild oats. The best brand of happiness is the home-made kind.

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HIS HENS SWIM AND DIVE Fowl Fancier Declares They AlsoCatch Young Trout and Now Lay ,Fishy Eggs. Expert research has disclosed the reason that patients at the Foresters* sanitarium at Rainbow Lake, N. have had to complain of a fish flavo» in their eggs. The institution has its own poultry- , t yard, extending to the edge of the lake, whither the ducks repair forswimming and the hens for drink. Recently the keeper of the hens got upextra early in the morning and was confounded when he saw a dozen of his hens floating on the lake in themidst of the flock of ducks. They were divifig, too. and coming up with, infant trout, which they brought toshore to devour. The hennery man, who is also a bio logist, says it is a characteristic acquired through long association with the ducks. He will segregate the hensand ducks hereafter, for, although hehas no objection to swimming hens, he feels that the flavor of the eggs directly concerns his own reputation. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Chiidrs»> teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamm*tioUjaklliays pain,cures wind colic > 2sc a On the Lawns. “They say she’s neat.” Neat!- Sht-, has cuspidors placed about the grounds.”

AILING WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Mrs. Hilbert Tells of Her Distressing Symptoms During Change of Life and How She Found Relief. Fleetwood. Pa.—-“DuringtheChafig* of Life I was hardly able to be around

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