The Kansas City Deaconess (Kansas City, Mo.), 1913-01-01

              VOL. V  KANSAS CITY, MO., JANUARY 1913 NO. 4

A Prayer

These are the gifts I ask of thee, Spirit serene--
Strength for the daily task; 
Courage to face the road;
Good cheer to help me bear the traveler's load; 
And for the hours of rest that come between, 
An inward joy in all things heard and seen. 

These are the sins I fain would have thee take 
away--
Malice and cold disdain; 
Hot anger, sullen hate; 
Scorn of the lowly, envy of the great; 
And discontent that casts a shadow gray 
On all the brightness of a common day.
-- Henry VanDyke.

2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS

WHAT IS IT THAT COUNTS?
Miss Blank's cozy little room shown in the fire-
light which lingered hero and there and gave such 
If sense of rest that the tired girl curled up in the big
chair unconsciously lost, some of the tension with
which she had entered it a few moments before the
others came from the dining room,
"How cozy you look, Miss Orr," said Miss Blank
ns she entered. "Shall I turn on the light?" she in-
quired as the others arranged themselves in their fa-
vorite resting places.
no!" they cried. "I love the firelight on your
added Miss Redmond as she picked up some
from the table at her side. I"0, days since Christmas had been so full of
business that the little band of workers
had a chance to visit since then and each was
her own thought for a few moments.
Miss Redmond sat lovingly turning the pages of a
Hi little book and reading an occasional sentence with
such an interested face that Miss Orr said, "What's
EJj that you're enjoying all by yourself!" Leaning to- -
H; ward her she continued, "0, that's 'The Mansion;'
read it to us, won't you?"
"Do," urged the others, and Miss Blank turned
on the light, and Miss Redmond read the exquisite lit-t- ie
story by Van Dyke, while the others listened with
fl pleasure to her musical voice. Soon the story came
to a close.
"Well, that's true to life," cried Miss Orr. "I know
ji some people just like John Weightman."
ij "Yes, and some of the other kind," said Miss
Blank, thoughtfully.
"I should say so!" exclaimed Miss Zaring. "I
haven't been able to think of one of my Christmas
presents without an ache in my throat. You remember
poor little Martha? Do you know that child gave
me a handkerchief she had found on the street and
M washed so nicely. I call that giving."
"Yes," said Miss Orr. "That is. .One of the
j things about my Christmas this year was that my
plans all went awry and I couldn't do what I wanted
to. If we can't plan inexpensive things the gifts are
very few. I couldn't even write all the Christmas let-te- rs
I wanted to."
"Too bad, dear," said Miss Blank. "But the
thought and desire were there and your real wishes for
your friends' happiness found lodgment in the ear of
the Father, don't you think?"
"Dr. Allbright said the other day that after his
mother's death in looking over her things they found
put away among her treasures a Christmas letter he
1 had written her years before. Of all the costly and H beautiful gifts .he had given her that alone was treas- -
Hjj ured," said Miss Orr. "We only give the gift worth H while when we give of ourselves."
H9 "There was one couplet on my December calendar
HI that has clung to me ever since I turned the leaf," said
HI Miss Zaring. "It is this:
HI 'You may give without love,
HI But you cannot love without giving."
HI "My, and you can tell the difference, too," said H Miss Orr. "I've noticed that when folks make me H presents because they love me, they make me feel a H whole lot more thankful than when they are given H from a sense of duty."
H "We don't get very many of that kind," said Miss H Blank, with a smile. "People have always been so H much better to me than I deserve."
"Yes," said Miss Zaring. "I almost feel as though I
. I were obtaining things under false pretenses." S I
t There was a general laugh at this, then Miss '' I Blank inquired, "What was the guide's answer to John I Weightman's question? I can't quite remember. It I seems to me there is a wholesome truth in that," she I added as Miss Redmand hastily turned the leaves in I search of it.
"He asked, 'What is it that counts here?' "Only I that which is truly given," answered the bell-lik- e I voice." Only that good which is done for the love of I doing it. Only those plans in which the welfare of I others is the master thought. Only those labors in I which the sacrifice is greater than the reward. Only I those gifts in which the giver forgets himself." ' I There was a silence ns she placed the little book I on the table. Then Miss Blank said slowly, "Girls, I
suspect if we took that as our standard it would sim- - H plify our Christmas giving and many other services ' H and expressions of love. There is always danger, in H our work especially, of the other motive creeping in. H I am glad you read us the little story, Miss Redmond. H I shall try to profit by it," she added as she arose, for H it was growing late.
"I'm going to," spoke up Miss Zazing. "I wouldn't H know what to do with a mansion if I did build one H here. H "I'm wondering where we'll find any labor where H the sacrifice is greater than the reward," said Miss H Orr as she stumbled stifFly to her feet. H "We may not find it," said Miss Blank, "but may
be we can apply some of the other things," she added H as they separated. A NEW HOPE. I
"As the dead year is elapsed by a dead December, H So let your dead sins with your dead days lie. H A new life is yours, and a new hope! Remember H We build our own ladders to climb to the sky.
Stand out in the sunlight of promise, forgetting fl
Whatever your past held of sorrow or wrong;
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting.
We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. H
Have you missed in your aim? Well, the mark is still
shining; H
Did you faint in the race? Well take breath for the
next; ,H Did the clouds drive you back? But see yonder the
lining; H
Were you tempted and fell? Let it serve for a text.
As each year hurries by,.let it join that procession V H Of skeleton shapes that march down to the past, H While you take your place in the line of progression, H With your eyes on the neavens, your face to the blast. H I tell you the future can hold no terrors
For any sad soul while the stars revolve,
If he will but stand firm, on the grave of his errors,
And, instead of regretting, resolve, resolve!
It is never too late to begin rebuilding,
Though all into ruins your life seem hurled.
For look ! how the light of the New Year is gilding
The worn, wan face of the bruised old world !"
Christianity means not only the perfecting of
personality, but the energetic diffusion of good. Per-fectio- n,
indeed, is possible only through diffusion.
No grace of God is given us for our sole use and bene- -
fit, but only that we may share it with our kind. We fl
are ourselves, truly saved only in propotion as we help
to save others. Rev. Henry Haigh.
H V SOURCES OP STRENGTH FOR THE NEW
YEAR.
We ought to make something of our new years.
They should be like new steps on the stairs, lifting our
M feet n little higher.
The best of Christians grow faint and weary in
M their very faithfulness not weary of, but weary in,
their duties and tasks.
But we can be strong. God has strength for us.
His strength comes to us in many ways. Every good
fl and perfect gift comcth down from the Father of
fl, lights. No matter, then, how the strength comes to
M, us. it really comes from God. We may find it in a book
M whose words freshly inspire us for struggle or service.
We may find it in a friendship whose companionship H fills us with new courage and hope. Far more than we
1 understand does God strengthen and bless us through H I human love. He looks into our eyes through human H ' eyes and speaks into our cars with human lips.
Hi But God's strength is imparted in other ways.
HI' Some day we are discouraged, overwrought,
ml vexed by cares, fretted by life's myriad distractions, H weary and faint from much burden-bearin- g. We sit
HI down with our Bible, and God speaks to us in its H words of cheer. One who reads the Bible H as God's own word, and hears God's voice in its prom- - H ises, assurances, commands, and counsels, is continu- - H ally strengthened by it.
But there is something better than even this.
God is a real person, and he comes into our lives with
i his own love and grace. There is a direct
impartation of divine strength for God's fainting and S weary ones on the earth. He giveth power to the faint.
How can we make sure of receiving this strength?
"They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their
strength." This means to trust God patiently, to ac-
I. cept God's guidance, to keep near God's heart, to live
in unbroken fellowship with God. Prayer is part of
waiting upon God. As the waters of the
sea pour into every smallest indentation along its
shore, so God's strength fills every heart that is linked
to him.
Note also the word "renew" in the promise. As
fast as the strengt his exhausted, it is replenished. It
is like the widow's barrel of meal and cruse of oil. We
are to go on with our work, our struggle, our doing and
I serving, sure that, waiting upon God, we shall ever
' renew our tsrength. Thus it is when we
give to others in Christ's name, he fills the emptiness.
Ij Over all the unopened year God casts his light.
There can be no experience till the year ends for which
there will not be strength. We need only to
be sure that we wait upon God, and then all the strength
we shall need will be given, as we go on, day by day.
The Sunday School Times.
THE OLD, OLD WISH.
"I like to catch th' sperrit that is back of every word,
Th' sperrit that th' shepherds felt th' minute that they
heard
Th' whole sky full o' music.
Oh, they understood it then
Jest as we do at Christmas if we mean 'Good will to
man.'
It aint jest for your nebbers an' your fambly, but it
1 starts
Right from your soul an' takes in all th' world o'
human hearts."
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"HAPPY NEW YEAR." I "Happy New Year!" I "Happy New Year!" responded little Mary Ann I as she placed her basket of launry on the sidewalk and I looked up into the cheery face of the elderly lady who I had greeted her and received a pleasant smile. I "Happy New Year!" she said a minute later as M
Tim Graham ran by her.
"Humph," responded Tim, stopping quickly and H
turning round. "Aren't you putting on airs, Mary H
"They're not airs, Tim," said Mary Ann, "they're I just things to pass along. Before I came out this morn- - H ing, mother said, 'If you get anything good while H you're out, just pass it along.' " I got a real pleasant H 'Happy New Year' from the white-haire- d lady you H just met, so I'm passing it along to you. It's your H turn now." H
"Mebbe," said Tim, as he turned away and pushed H his bare hands deeper into 'his torn pockets. "But," H he added to himself, "I wonder who'd care for my H 'Happy New Year!' Guess I'll try it though."
"Happy New Year!" he said in a half-bashf- ul H way a minute afterward, as he met an officer of the Mm
Mm
"Happy New Year!" responded the big policeman MM
cheerily. "It seems good to have a chap like you speak MM
up so free and honest." "Say, will you pass it along?" M
asked Tim, looking up into the face above him. "That's M
what Mary Ann said to me, sir." M
"That's what I'll do, my boy, and be glad to. It's
a good thing."
"Happy New Year," ma'am, he said, cheerily, as M
he approached a stand behind which an apple woman M
stood shivering.
"Happy New Year!" said the apple-woma- n, as Mm
Mrs. Murphy stopped to buy some apples. MM
"A 'Happy New Year' is it, you're giving me?"
exclaimed Mrs. Murphy. "Sure if it's a happy new MM
year to the loikes of you behind that apple MM
stand, what moight it be to me sick man at home who Mm
has a hot fire and plenty of hot gruel? I'll take that MM
home to him, and sure he'll stop fretting because he H
can't get out to work till next week." The Christian H
Advocate. H
A NEW YEAR AND A NEW MAN.
"Have you begun the new year as a new man? H
What have you brought over with you from 1912? H
What did you leave finally behind, that you might start H
fair and free with the dawning of 1913 Did you leave H behind your guilt? Did you let go dispositions that H
have spoiled you, habits that have coarsened or weak- - H ened you aims that could never ennoble you? Did you H take Christ as your Saviour, and submit to thim as MM
your Sovereign? Do you now, at the beginning of MM
this year, stand pledged to His causes, and do you MM
count life of value only as it fulfills His ends? Are MM
the loves and 'hates of your life, its preferences and MWM
repulsions, to be henceforth conditioned and controlled MM
by Him? Then, indeed, has the new man been born
in you, and the year you have entered on will be as- -
suredly new." Rev. Henry Haigh. MM
Laying down the volume of Wordsworth, of whom MwM
she was an earnest disciple, the precocious child turned
to her mother with a sigh. "If 'heaven lies about us
in our infancy,' as the poet says," she queries, "what
will happen to us when we grow up?" Life.
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THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
Published monthly in the interest of the Knnsas
City National Training School of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society.
Editor: Anna Neideriieiser.
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KANSAS CITV. MO.. JAN. IQI3
D 1 TOR I A L
AT KENSINGTON MISSION.
planning to visit Kensington
so were very glad of the
Christmas program to see the
Christmas was in the air,
but how differently the season
As we neared the Mission
was brightly lighted and men,
flocking in at every door, many IE seeking the cheer to be found
Christmas that means to the
at home!
building the room is bright
and the children with
and their bright faces make a
As more children come
of delight, for the Christmas
trimming is but partly hidden
has arrived for the program. The
interested fathers and mothers,
all in their best, for this is
march out, and in their earnest
child-lik- e manner sing Joy to the World," we are H glad that Christ remembered the children; as one of
ml the workers reads the Christmas lesson, the old, sweet II story, we are glad Christ came with Christmas love I for just such as need Him. I One little boy came in late, and thought he was I too late for his part on the program, so when his name I was called he rushed upon the platform and gave his I piece with all his might. So the program went on. At I last each one has done their part and the time has I come for the unveiling of that wonderful tree, the
H children anxiously expectant of some beautiful gift. I The eager faces so confident made us glad that so I many kind friends had remembered these needy ones I and had made it possible for the workers to have a
I! gift ready for each one. A very practical and much
Ij needed gift for each child was a pair of stockings, con- - I taining candy, nuts, and a toy or doll. Toys, games,
dolls, clothing, fruit, and other supplies had been sent 11
in for this work, making it possible for the workers , f I
to provide in a very helpful way for each child and to I
reach many homes. Some friends contributed cash, so I
that needed clothing was bought for some specially I
needy ones. In one family the ten-year-o-ld
boy was I
provided with clothing and so could be kept in school. I
Several widowed mothers with little children were sub- - I stantially helped; while the sick and aged were cared I for.
Because of the terrible curse of drink many of the I children come from places which it would be a travesty J I to call home, and as we looked into their faces we could I but wonder what sorrow each heart held, what longing I for better things, and we were thankful that through I the teaching and training and personal effort of the 1 Kensington Mission workers ideals of better living are ( 1 being brought into these homes, and that a knowledge 1 of the Great Christmas Gift so freely given for all, is I brought to these hearts.
With a prayer for the workers, the children and I the homes, that the Christ may mean more in that dis- -
trict than ever before, and that we may all be faithful B in doing our part in uplifting and saving, we watched H the happy crowd disperse, and then went to our homes. H
Kansas City National Training School, I Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 1, 1913.
Dear friends at home: Mm
A Happy New Year to all! School beings tomor- - H row, and I want to take the opportunity this New H Year's Day offers, to tell you or our Christmas here. H When so many of the girls went home for the Christ- - v H mas season my heart sank, for, as you know, I had H never been away from home at that happy season ; but lmm
I determined to have a happy time anyway in helping MM
make others so. .Mm
For days before plans were being made as to what mm
each of us could do for the needy in our districts, in mW
with those interested with us, both in and
out of the city. Supplies came in early this year, mak-in- g
it possible for all preparations to be' completed and
distribution of food, clothing, and other needed gifts jH the day before, so that Christmas eve found us with mWg
our minds at ease. jH The silence of slumber had at last settled over the
house when through the stillness came the sweet tones
as of angel voices,
"Silent night, Holy night,
All is calm, all is bright,"
and a sense of peace and calm repose came to each
listener. 'm Early on Christmas morning we were all awakened
by a triumphant Christmas carol sounding through the
halls, calling us to a merry, happy day in honor of our
King, and soon joyful greetings were heard every-wher- e.
As quickly as possible we all gathered in the parlor mm
for the early morning Christmas service, of song, mW
praise and prayer, and a blessing came to each heart as
we each gave the message that Christmas brought to
our own hearts, and when we united in prayer it was
truly a loving adoration of our Christ.
The parlor was beautifully decorated with fes-too- ns
of evergreen, bells, holly, mistletoe, a poinsettia
plant, and some flowers, and the dining room was
brightened with festoons of red, with the bells, and i mwm
With hearts aglow and atune for the joys of the
day the Christmas breakfast was eaten with a zest, in
THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5 I
eager nnticipntion of whnt was to follow, for myster-ious
preparations had been going on. Up stairs again
we trooped, and passing through the clnss room each
was handed a bundle of nondescript appearance, which
had the name of some one else on it, and a merry time
we had finding the owners and getting our own pask-age- s.
But we were all settled very soon in the class
room or parlor, and the silence was broken by the rust--
ling of wrappings and the exclamations of surprise and
delight as the remembrances of friends and loved ones
were brought to view, for you know our packages are
all carefully kept for us until Christmas morning and
are indeed a surprise. We were all children together
after a visit from Santa Claus.
We spent an hour or longer laughing and looking,
and then the family scattered as duty called,
i A number of the deaconesses and several of us
girls had a jolly time helping with the Christmas din-- (
ner. Friends from out of the city had sent in chick-
I ens, fruit, and other provisions, making possible a
' bountiful dinner, and it was such fun helping get
everything ready for our small Christmas family. Of
course thirty seems large to you, but fully half of us
were away, so it seemed small to us here.
After dinner some members of the family called
on the sick or shut-in- s, others visited quietly together
at home, or took a long walk, for it was a glorious day,
while others read their Christmas books or wrote to
the home folks.
It was a real "home" Christmas, and instead of
being sorry that I had to stay here, I feel as though 1
should have missed one of the sweetest experiences of y my two years at "Fisk" if I had not been here for the
Christmas time.
The clays since have been so full, with visiting,
sewing, reading, and other duties, that the time has
been too short; but we are all glad to welcome the regu-lar
work again.
With love to all, your friend.
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE.
Dr. Chesteen Smith conducted our Christmas ser- -
I vice, Saturday evening, Dec. 14.
I After an opening service of song and prayer, he
I asked each one to give a reason why Christ should re- -
I ceive universal homage. A large number of reasons
I ' " were given.
The Scripture for the evening was Matthew's ac--
I count of the visit of the Magi. Dr. Smith then read a
I poem descriptive of that scene and its meaning, after
III ' which he showed how the Christmas season and the
I Christ whom it commemorates are influencing the in- -
tellectual, business, governmental, social, educational
and home life of our times. He who does not give
evidence of kindly feeling and good will at this time is
considered to be lacking in the spirit which all should
have. This is in truth the Spirit of the Christ. This
Spirit of Christ shows itself in humble, loving service
for others.
In closing, Dr. Smith gave briefly "The Story of
the Other Wise Man," by VanDyke, as embodying the
true Christmas spirit, that which seeks to be of service
to the humblest of His needy ones.
I We wish to say thank you to all the friends who I ( added to the happiness of our Christmas by gifts either I I for the School or for our Mission work. Our hearts I were made to rejoice many times through your kindly
thoughtfulness.
By the will of Mrs. Mary Denton, of Denton, Kan- - I sas, who went home December 12, our Training School
receives $1,000.00. Mrs. Denton will be remembered I as the good friend who gave us an annuity of $2,000.00 I four years ago. The influence of her unselfish life and I her good works will long be felt in the world. I
COST OF VICE. I That Americans arc mulcted in the sum of $3,-- I 000,000,000 annually through the drain upon the coun- - I try's resources traceable to the white-slav- e evil, trans- -
'missiblc diseases, and general immorality, was stated I by Vernon M. Cady, lecturer of the American Fcdera- - I tion of Sex Hygiene, at the health exhibit in conncc- - I tion with the International Congress on Hygiene and
Demography. H
He declared that there are 300,000 registered H
white slaves in this country, and that the police of the H
various cities estimate that there are 1,000,000 more H
not registered. He threw upon the screen a table show- - H
ing how Americans spend $3,000,000,000 annually H
through the social evil and the diseases of vice. Other H
principal expenditures of the American people were H
given as follows: H
Intoxicating liquors, $2,000,000,000; tobacco, $1,- - H
200,000,000; jewelry and ornaments, $800,000,000;
automobiles, $500,000,000 ; church work at home, $250,- -
000,000; .confectionery, $200,000,000; soft drinks
$120,000,000; tea and coffee, $100,000,000; millinery,
$90,000,000; patent medicines, $80,000,000; chewing
gum, $13,000,000; foreign missions, $12,000,000.
In placing the cost of immorality at $3,000,000,- - H 000, Mr. Cady did not include the cost of the care of H the sick, blind, insane, paralytic, or the expense of in- - H fant funerals, which, he declared, result from immor-- H ality. He made a strong protest against connnon ig- - H norance in matters of sex hygiene, declaring that the H time is fast coming when such ignorance in either sex H
will not be regarded as innocence. Homiletic Review. H
WRONG PRESENTATION IS ESSENTIAL
UNTRUTH.
A friend of John Ericsson, famous as the builder H
of the "Monitor," was giving an illustrated lecture H
upon the great inventor in the city .of Philadelphia.
A number of military men were present. One of H the pictures shown represented Ericsson as a Swedish H
chasseur. At the conclusion of the address a Danish H officer came up to the lecturer and asked: "Why did H you. show Ericsson in disgrace? That picture shows H Ericsson in arrest, was that a fact?" "But, my dear H sir," said the surprised lecturer, "I did not show H Ericsson in arrest." "Yes, persisted the Danish gen-- H tleman. "Your slide showed him with 'his sword on H the wrong side, and that means that he was in arrest." H A conference with the operator showed that that H worthy had reversed the slide in placing it in front of H the lens.
Ericsson was dishonored by the presentation given
of 'him. So is Christ by that of many of His followers. H Selected.
A NEW YEAR.
Set an ideal today. Set it so high it will seem
somewhat dimmed by a sense of inability. Then by
patience, and willing acceptance of discipline, and
never tiring industry, and never failing trust in God,
see to it that twelve months hence all doubt shall be
gone, and you shall stand assured that you have done
your best. Rev. M. S. Rice.
I A UNIQUE SANIT0R1UM.
The Survey of December 7th gives a very intcr- -
I eating account of the new Tuberculosis Snnitorium at
Arcquipn, Calif. This institution is unique because
the patients work from one to four hours per day, live
days of each week at making pottery. There is a large
demand ior the pottery, and the patients earn the cost
of their maintenance.
Arequipa is an hour's ride from San Francisco,
and vs lnenfpd in one of the loveliest spots in California.
Patients can sit at ease out of doors all the year
I around. The superintendent gets eggs, milk, butter,
1 cream, etc., directly from the farmers of the neighbor
hood. This, with the warmth of the climate keeps the
total cost oi care at 37 a week, including laundry.
I Frederick II. Rhead, who is at the head of the
pottery department. !t of the fifth generation of a
III family
Eng.
of pottery makers, and comes from Stafford-shire,
Dr. Philip King Brown is the founder of this in- -
stitution. As a rule he accepts only incipient cases.
The sanitorium is self-supporti- The buildings are
of the best modern type, the table excellent, and the
patients more cheerful and lively than in most other
tuberculosis sanitoriums. The knowledge that they
are paying their own expenses contributes largely to
their cheerfulness.
Cured patients do not want to leave and go back
to stenography, telephone operating, and the like, but
prefer to remain and make pottery. This is the best
way to prevent a relapse, and has suggested the build-ing
of a large pottery, distinct from the sanitorium
workshop, but under the same management. Here ap-parently
cured patients, the deaf, the partially crip-pled,
and other handicapped persons will supply the
labor and reap the benefits.
"WE ARE NOT DIVIDED."
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ I! in
Chicago.
America has recently held an important session in
The Council was comnosed of bishons. secretaries
of benevolent societies, pastors, college presidents and
teachers, editors and other laymen. It represented
fifteen or sixteen million Christians.
"Many thincrs wove discussed. Great addresses
were heard and there were great debates.
The churches are united in the war against sin
1 and self and ignorance and sorrow. We are
sure that a self-center- ed church is a standing insult
to the Head of all the Churhes.
The battle now is not against any theological
gates of hell, of whose exact location we cannot H convince one another. It is against the gates of
Vjj hell which the Churches have located beyond question
the saloon gate, the slum gate, the child labor gate,
the disease gate, the gates of greed and lust and am- -
bition and folly.
Through these issue the forces which war against
H the soul. Against them the Churches set themselves, H with mingled sternness and yearning. H The Federal Council is a sign of great times com- - H ing. It is wonderful to be a Christian in these days, H when the world seems more than ever ready for
H1 the Christian word, yet more ' than ever insistent, on H testing the reality of the Christian's profession by H new standards. H The Federal Council will meet again in two years.
Hj And, when it meets, the distance between that to
morrow and to-da- y will be greater than the four I years between the first Council and now. So swiftly do ' I God's purposes run when men set themselves to work I with him." Dan B. Brummit in Epworth Herald. I
"The manufacturer who stands a woman twelve I hours a day for six days in the week in an unsanitary I workshop cannot be convicted by law as a murderer. I Yet he is a murderer in every sense of the moral law. I I do not care how much the prominent member of the I church may give to missions and to charity. If I am I convinced that he got the money from the blood and I sweat and toil of his weak brothers and sisters, or if B
he made it by transgressions legal under the law, but I not moral under the laws of God that man is no
Christian." Vice-Prc- s. Elect Marshall.
Bishop Roots, of Hankow, says that when he first j
went to China he had a good deal of difficulty in re- - , H
membering faces. "I'm getting over my difficulty H
now," he said one day to a mandarin, "but in the be- - w
ginning here in Hankow you all looked as like as two ,
peas." "Two peas?" said the English-speakin- g man- - H
darin, smiling. "Why not say two queues?" The H
Argonaut. H
"For showing the white feather at the battle of H
Kirk-Kilcss- eh the handsome young prince, Aziz Pasha, H
was shot on the spot. He was the soul of courtesy, H
apparently. When the company of school teachers H from America was in the Mediterranean the young H prince entertained them on his yacht, which was stock- - H
ed with a remarkable library as well as music. But s. H nothing has been invented that can take the place of H courage." H
West Virginia's prohibition victory at the recent H
election was the most sweeping ever won in this coun- - H try. Ninety-on- e thousand eight hundred majority in H a total vote of less than two hundred and fifty thous-an- d.
And it was not a temporary, statutory victory.
It was a permanent constitutional victory. All hail
West Virginia! Marion Record.
PERSONALS. H
Miss Bertha Cowles spent Christmas with the .
home folks at Sibley, Kas.
Mr. Geo. Garretson of Baker University, visited
his sister, Miss Aletta M. Garretson, Jan. 2.
Miss Velma Forbish of Marshfield, Mo., has en- - y
rolled as a student and taken up her work among us.
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Rev. H. A. Cook of North Ottawa, Kansas, visited
his sister. Miss Nellie Stevens of the Senior Class, not
long ago.
We were delighted by a visit from Rev. Thos. M.
Harwood, Sunday School Missionary of Albuquerque,
N. Mex., in December.
Many of the students went home for the holiday
vacation, but all are back, full of enthusiasm for the
work of the New Year.
Miss Bernice Lough, '10, has been elected kinder-garte- n
teacher in the public school of her home town,
Osborne, Kansas, for this year.
Miss Blanche Kinison, deaconess for Independence
Avenue Church, spent Christmas at the parental home
in Kane, 111., as aigtf from her church.
Miss Mary Ryan, '11, has recently been appointed J
deaconess for First Church, St. Joseph (the White
Temple), much to the joy of that congregation.
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Mr. Elmer Lnkey wlio is attending Southwestern
College, Winfiehl, Kns., visited his cousins Julia Lnkey
i and Nellie Closely, of the Junior Class during vacation.
l I We enjoyed very much a visit from Miss Ethel
Ilerren, '10, enroute from her home in Oklahoma to her
HI work in Oil City, Pa. We hear excellent reports from
Miss Herren's work in Oil City.
Kf Miss Eunice Britt went to Warrensburg, Mo., for H Christmas, and will spend the month of January in H Garnett, Kansas, assisting in revival work. December H 29 she spoke at Muscotah, Kns. H Miss Alice Walton, '10, was home from St. Joseph, H Mo., for the holidays. She is now serving six of the H St. Joseph churches as deaconess; a large undertaking, H but Miss Walton is doing good work. I Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Henslee of Salina, Kas., made
HI us a much appreciated visit at Fisk Hall last week. It
HI .s' was their first visit at the School, though they have
H been interetsed friends for some time.
H Miss Nettie Harris spent Christmas at her father's
H home in Bunker Hill, 111., and is now making an itiner- - I ary in the North Nebraska Conference. Dec. 15 she
H represented our work at Pretty Prairie and Castleton, I and Dec. 22 at Burrton, Kas. I Rev. J. Willard DeYoe, pastor of London Heights
H Church, Kanass City, Kas., and efficient teacher of the I Life of Christ in the Training School, led our chapel I services Thursday morning, Dec. 19, bringing us a
very helpful message fr6m I Cor. 3 :21-2- 3, "All things I are yours." I The Methodist Churches of Kansas City, Mo., are
H engaged in a union revival meeting at the Grand Ave-- I nue M. E. Church, under the leadership of Rev. Milton
H I S. Rees and wife, of Rochester, N. Y. This meeting I has opened under very encouraging circumstances, and
H we hope to have more to say concerning it in our next
H issue.
Rev. W. R. McCormack, faithful member of our I faculty, and pastor of Oakhurst church, led the open-ing
chapel service for the New Year. His lesson was
based on Isa. 1 :19 : "If we be willing and obedient yi.
shall eat the good of the land," and Gen. 24 :27 : "I being
in the way the Lord led me." It was a message we
will long remember with profit.
It has for some time been the privilege of the dea-conesses
and students to make a love offering at Christ-mas
for some one less fortunate. This year it was used
to send a little orphan girl in whom we are much in-terested,
to our Cunningham Children's Home, at Ur-- j
bana, 111. It was a great treat to buy her small trunk
and provide the ticket, while other friends helped
I prepare her wardrobe for the coming winter.
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