The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-07
BETHANY'S LOAD OF DEBT
PROPOSED TO PUT MEN OF BUSINESS
ABILITY AT THE HELM.
Election of Officers Next Thursday
Last Services at Acton TO-Norrow
"A New Baby in Camp.

Bethany Park is rejoicing in the ex-
ceptionally cool weather and the result is
that redoubled energy is being put forth
in having a royal outing as well as doing
c~ommendable work. Considerable interest
IS aroused in the coming election of officers
OF the assembly, which is to take place
next Tuesday. The plant is burdened with
a considerable debt. a great part of which
was incurred in the erection of the sani-
tarium last year, a venture which has
proved to be a dead expense, and the prom
inent men of the assembly are anxious that
men of money and influence shall be put
at the head of affairs. The sanitarium is
a commodious and up-to-date building and
with a competent physician and a corps of
well-trained nurses it is believed it could
be made a paying investment during the
entire year. A number have signiied their
desire for more ministers to be put on the
board OF managers, but A. NJ. Atkinson,
I. M. Wiles and several more of the prom
inent members of the assembly say "1et the
ministers provide for the platform and
put men of business ability at the helm"
Yesterday was the opening of the con-
vention of the Christian Women's Board of
Missions and a fairly good crowd was in
attendance. The women began business
Immediately. The work was begun with
the election of officers and resulted in the
following: Mrs. e. v. Pollard, of Kokomo,
reelected president; Mrs. S. A. r. Boor.
New Castle, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Fife Cunningham. Alexandria, recording
secretary; Mrs. w. o. DarnaI, Lebanon,
treasurer; Miss Kate E. Whistler, superin-
tendent of young peoples work. Mrs. Pol
lard was also chosen as d delegate to the
national convention to be held in Indian
apolis in October. At 9 o'clock Professor
Willett pursued his Bible studies by taking
up "The Evangelistic Prophet"
At 10 o'clock Mrs. Jessie Brown Pounds
addressed the assembly on the subject CT
THE Call of the Cross"
"The cross of Christ is the call of God
to the higher life of self-abnegation," said
she. "He who has once looked into the
eyes of the dying Son of God has seen re-
Elected there the needs of a dying world"
She asked the question "TO whom does this
call Gomez" end answered, ut comes es-
Pecially to the people of our land and Ma
ton" She then dwelt at length on the re-
sources, advantages, wealth, beauty and
learning of this country, and said that
never before had there been such Oppor-
tunities for preaching the gospel or such
need of it as at the present day. "Again,"
said the speaker, the call of the cross
comes to us as a religious people. We 1--WE
it to God to spread the Christian religion
among the benigEted races of the world"
She administered a scathing rebuke to
eign missionaries, but who do nothing for
home mission work. She spoke OF woman's
advancement and said:
Some persons in our day are greatly
distressed about the new woman. They
tell US that she smokes cigarettes and
wears mannish garments and threatens by
hn% l1rf ~ 1Nr nnA1f1nf n hnnn1nGGly ~
set the peace and order of good society.
We are informed that this is the woman
Of the future and we are p~assionateely i'm
plOred to look upon her and see for cur
selves what is liable to oVertake 1S when
woman. lovely woman shall have so TN
seXed herself. But it seems TO me that this
anxiety is quite unnecessary. 1t is true
that there are women in the world who
wear mannish garments and affect mannish
ways. So there are men in The world who
powder their faces and use the curling iron.
But no one gets hysterical for fear that
men will unseX themselves. Mem Why
these exceptions are not men in the typical
sense. They are freaks and no one takas
a freak seriously except himself. Men are
splendid creatures who. use plain soap and
water on their faces and don't know q
curling iron from a button-hook After all,
this matter of neWnesS, | fancy, is one OF
phraSeolOgy rather than of sex. When a
man is conspiciously new we call him fresh
and when a woman is conspiciously fresh
we call her new. But seriously we ire
compelled to admit that the movement of
WOmannOOU, Wherever the influences OIL the
gospel have made themselves felt, is toward
a larger and sweeter life. IN lands where
Christ is not known woman is at best
the mere slave of mans caprice"
The second part of Mrs. Pounds's lecture
was in answer to the question, ITO what
are we called?" She said: God has called
us to be sharers with himself in the con-
quest of the world. When Christian America
can spend $3.50, 900, 900 every year, $1,O00 900 a
day, in theaters and places of amusement,
and less than 100000 for the preaching
of the gospel to the strange nations of the
world, it would seem that some must be
needing the call of pleasure who ought to
be moved by the call of the cross. Others
listen to the call of fashion, of mammon,
and are deaf to the cry of the heathen."
THE ASSEMBLY LECTURE.
The assembly lecture was given by Rev.
Charles A. Young, of Ann Arbor, Mich,
who took for the topic of his discourse,
Christ and Modern Thought of Litera-
ture."
In the introduction of his lecture, Rev.
Mr.. Young noted the extension of thought
in the literature of to-day, after which he
briefly referred to such works of fiction as
"Ben-Hur' and "Quo Vadis." In speaking
of the place Christ held in the literature
and thought of to-day the speaker said:
His law of love is gradually gaming au-
thority. He is the pole star OF our higher
civilization. The whole sweep of our West
ern world, political and ethical, mas been
informed, reformed and transformed by
the carpenter of Nazareth. The working
man of the nineteenth century who Kisses
at the church, reVereS the WofklnSman OF
the first century who Ounded the church.
We look at God, man and society through
the mind OF Christ. The min of the Mas
ter leads the master minds of our day.
Christ is not only the center of thought in
the last decade of the century, but we also
have a very much larger conception Of
Christ. We have advanced from the myth
zeal theory of the nationalist III the begin
ming of the century to the ethical theory
of the mystics at it's close. The doctrine
of the atonment has yielded precedence
to the doctrine of the incarnation. This
compels us to have a more Christian view
of God and of nature than the old theology
and the old science permitted. Our enlarged
vision of Christ gives us Il nobler concep-
ton of man. Man is to be Christlike as
Chlist is Godlike.'
In the afternoon the report OF the state
organizer, Mrs. $. A. r. Boor, was heard
and approved.
Professor Wilett conducted a question
drawer. Since he began his Bible talks this
week a score of hard questions have come
before the members of the assembly, and
they took this opportunity of having them
answered. The address of the afternoon
was given by Miss Matte Pounds. whose
theme was The Kingdom and Woman.
The speaker compared the lie of woman
in heather countries, where the love of God
was unknown, with the life OF woman IN
Christian lands, and showed that the for
mer lived a life of slavery while the latter
was free and ~unshackIed IN thought, &C
ton and speech.
In the evening a miscellaneous pro-
gramme was held in the tabernacle. To-day
will conclude the work Of the convention.
ACTON SEASON CLOSING.
First Baby Born ON the round
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