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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08


Nicodemus represents a large multitude
of men and women in the world to-day.
He was seeking truth IL not salvation for
his restless soul. He was so interested
that he did not wait until morning, but
came TO Jesus by night Some have sug.
gested that he did this not because of his
anxiety, but because he did not have the
moral courage to come to the unpopular
teacher by daylight. If so the offense was
not an objectionable one. for Jesus did
not even rebuke him. He welcomes the
coming Of the most timid, the most
doubling, the most unworthy. Nicodemus,
like nearly all the world who know any.
thing about Jesus. recognized His moral
supremacy. They know He is n teacher
sent from God by the same test that
Nicodemus applied. But that compliment
is immaterial to the Christ. That ac-
acknowledgement has no saving value. "Ex-
cept man be born again" is the ever
lasting sine qua non. the absolute and ir-
irevocable condition for heavenly career.
How could Jesus have made palmer the
necessity of the New Birth" How is it
therefore that more than half the world,
more than half, perhaps. Of nominal Chris
tendon, are persstently searching for
some other way. Why is it so? The
world approprates other common bless
ings from Gods hands without demur or
question. His sunshine and sweet air are
taken greediv and counted good Millions
have tested His plan Of life, His way of
salvation, and rejoice in the experience.
They give us their word that they find
joy and peace. And yet the world is slow
to follow. Is il sign of a perverse heart
or a constitutional incapacty TO act in
ones own interest? Jesus was patient with
the slow believing Nicodemus. But He did
not have nearly twenty centuries of
Christian testimony to bear witness to the
truth. That is why it will be less toll.
cradle in the judgment for US than for
those Of Tyre and Sidon and the genera
tions that have gone to their reward and
doom.-Ram's Horn.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

mat it Is not an invitation to come 70
Christ simply but a command, and in
His name, after the manner Of Eleazar,
say, Deal kindly and truly with my
Master" By His beautiful life, wilt thou
gog BY. His agony in the Garden, wilt
thou goy BY His BETRAYAL and His trial
Of mockery. wilt thou go? By His shame.
full death, ask you once again, wilt thou
go? His marred face and His bleeding
back, His breaking heart. His cry OF
agony, wilt thou go with this Man? He
you; He was man Of sorrows and ac
quainted with grief for YOU. It is the
moment Of crisis in your life. "Wilt
thou go with this MANI" Answer, and
answer IL now as did Rebekah, 'T will
go" Oh. say it; say it, and the Devil
shall hear IL and tremble. the angels
self shall hear it and shall rejoice with
10y unspeakable,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
"Purse- and-AIi" Conservation.

Many who count themselves wholly tho
Lords do not count all their possessions
the Lords. Yet either we and all that
we have are Christ's, or we do not feel
that we or anything that we have are
Christ's. There is no halfway consecra-
tion in Gods service, although many
seem to think that personal conservation
only applies to those things that are
specifically included. That was a very
positive truth stated by Prebendary Fox
at the Student Volunteer Convention in
Toronto, when he said, "There are thou
sands who will trust Christ with the sal
yation of their souls who will not trust
Him with the key of their cash-box" 1t
Grafton must be spelled "purse-and-alp'
conservation, or it practically amounts to
nothing
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

Mrs. Arthur Cadogan. slster-in~iaw
of the viceroy OF Ireland, Is one OF the
very few lovers OF animals who have
ever made pet of python. There
have always been individuals. es-
pecially members OF the fair sex. who
have exercised curious fascinxtion
over snakes, perhaps ono secret of
their power being absolute fearless
ness. Mrs cadogans python Il niue
feet long and. Though showing srsa<l
dislike TO strangers. IA devUted to ht1'
own mistress. The London Preaa pub
lishes photograph Of the lady n ~
embrace Of her b'e snake
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

Have you ever seen a great, unsightlH
Cd oal? 1t was caused probably a hun.
dred years 6. when the tree was a tiny
s.plilg, ~ the poison of an Insects
sting. and has grown with its strength.
Yor have roticed that the foliage on thar
b-Glch is less luxuriant and healthfuI
knot strangles ir and prevents the free
few of life-giving sap. So, after tinY
injury, q slight, real or fancied, will if ita
poison is ermitted to rankle in a soun
cause an ugly Geformty of grudge that
hinder5 the true spiritual growth, be-
cause it prevents the free flow of spiritual
life from Christ to the branch.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Poem; To Arms-"Poor Tom"-The Liquor
Interests Apparently Deeply Concerned
For the Comfort of Hard-working
CIerks-A Hint to Cruel Employers.
To armsl against our nations foe,
The cause OF wretchedness and woe;
The author OF the orphans cry;
The source of woman's misery. -
To armsl the friends Of temperance cry;
With courage to the conflict fly
Say, shall the foe destroy our land?
Or shall we join the temperance band?
To arms! though wealth and power unite,
Though strong the struggle-sharp the
fight;
The victorys sure, the curse shall cease
And temperance crown the land with
peace.
To armsl the scabbard's thrown aside;
Wen fight till victory's on our side
And temperance" shall employ our
breath
Until our lips are closed in death.
English Temperance Hymn Book.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
GODS MESSAGE TO NAM
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THEi
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS

Poem: Precious Gift of Prayer-Wo shsuDa
Glory Not I'm what We Are Hut In ths
Hope OF Delonsing to God--be Frou&
OF Your Religion.
To bow before a throne of grace, \
To leave our every burden there,
And gain new strength to run our rsccs
To grid our heavenly armor on,
Depending on the Lord alone.
When conscience sinks beneath its 1oads
That bids our guilty fears remove,
And points to Christ's atoring bioods
Oh then tits sweet indeed to know
God can be Just, and gracious, tool :.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

The Beal municipal local option bill has
passed the lower house OF the Ohio legis-
lature by the large vote OF SO to 10. As
originally drawn II required but % per
for an election, hut the house amended
it by making IL 40 per cent. This is
not so favorable as at first, but it is bet.
ter than the present law
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

1t is the man who lives the well-regu-
lated daily life who is tit to meet an
emergency when it arises Little bits OF
pure inspiration very seldom come to or
are acted upon by sloyens, self-indulgent
or undisciplined people. Similarly, the
Christian who lives ordinarily at lower
level of grace, whose Christian life is de-
pressed and feeble, is unable to seize on
great opportunities of usefulness when
they occur
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
No Middle Ground For Physicians.

The middle-of.the-road physicians who
talk emphatieally about the vice of in
ebrety and the food value of alcohol and
who express great fear of extravagant
statements on this subject, are falling out
OF the ranks in the forward movement of
science. There is no middle ground con-
cernng inebriety and alcohol it is a
physical disease, aud alcohol cannot be
Q food and poison at the same time
Theories of vice in inebriety and the food
value of alcohol utterly fail to explain the
obscure phenomena of inebriety, but rather
deepen the mystery and make the means
OF treatment more uncertain. The as
sumption that the moderate use of alcohol,
as in the s'canteen," promotes sobriety
and health, comes from profound ignor-
anee and inability to correctly interpret
the facts. The subject is greater than
any theories or studies OF means or
methods of cure, and beyond the fact OF
disease of inebriety and the poison of
alcohol stretches wide field yet to be
explored. Of Inebriety
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
"Ih, yyIlov,s NT,t. >,

It needs v-Ntchfulncss and faith to keen
from rowing otingy as ones income in
ereases. Com nonly, the more one has the
less one gives. There are beautiful ex-
C }. ons to this gneral rule, and these ex-'
gifts may have Gods approval, yet not be-
cause they are small, but because they are
the most that the giver has to give.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

A small feather with very little
stem must be produced to play the
feather game; also tabiecloth or
small sheet. The feather Is placed
upon this. and the company stands In
a circle, holding the sheet.
Some one gives the feather a blow,
and the object of the game is to pre-
vent 1t from touching any one. =
Each one gives the feather a pun
whenever 1t comes near him, and over
II goes to the other side again. The
excitement produced is very great. and
II is always most amusing spectacle.
the onlookers enjoying It, almost as
much as the players themselves.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
Expert opinion ON Beer Drinking.

Dr. Blnz, professor in Bonn, Germany,
says: Flooding the stomach and brain
with beer, as is the case among the
studying youth, the regular drinking es-
pecially between meals and in the morn
hourly as is the custom among the major
ity OF the lower and middle class in Ger
many, is, in my estimation, from the
standpoint of health, social economy and
intellectually a national evil"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

a good many people get only half the
gospel. They talk great deal about be-
lieyiae. but very little about repentinR.
II needs to be remembered that a faita
pentance is not a faith which saves
Rev j u Miller
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
The Strongest Thinra.

There are some good things in all men,
no matter how low they may have fallen,
and every effort should be exerted to
make them the strongest things in the
life of every individual. Rev. DIR. Scott
Il. Hershey, Boston, Mass.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
AaA


Cod has lis plans in providence and
gracc. They ripen by degrees This does
MT suit the human mind. Men call for
tie speeCier processes. They become dis
couraSed AMI doubling at seeming delays
Or slow i-.ovcme1ts. But this does not
tic. He makes NJ mistakes He will
lot &c forced; neither will He force His
at..res. He will not deviatc from His
ordaiHed 1erations. He will not shorteu
tnc, sters between the beginning and tha
~ - Hi purpose
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

u you will look up you will walk stead
lily. Do not ignore the danger, nor pre-
sumptuously forget your own weakness;
but when l said my foot slippeth, Thy
mercy held me up" Recognize the slip
perry ice and the feeble foot and couple
ES them htI shs tSa GSer Gaggh hs Isd
McIaran
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

The modern temperance agitation may
be said to have begun in England about
a, century ago, but 1t was in this country
headway, and its influence on American
society has been far more general and
more powerful than on any other.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
Evil Physieai Enests.

Unquestionably, one of the strongest in
fuences in bringing about the greater
temperance in the use of alcohol which
lgent people has been the spread OF
knowledge as to the evil physical effects
of its abuse.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

1t is well for us to make diligent quest
to be surN that we always abandon the
v'rong-doing which we deplore, that we
quit she evil course which we regret, that
we turn away from the sin which we coa-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

Abstinence from Intoxicating drink has
become the teaching of the religious com
munions in which are included the ma
iority OF American Christian believers, and
10 some OF them i is enforced by drastic
discipline.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

where mans ability ends.
Men reach God by realities and not
by formalities.
Gods essentials may be hidden In
our incidentals.
God never forgets the man who. can
forget himself.
The man who is willing to work ir
not kept waiting.
Nothing paralyzss the love of right
like lust for riches.
The bigoted hold no belief; they
are held In bonds by them.
Idleness and riches furnish time
and tide for the DEVILS ships.
Uncharitable thoughts will deface
the most charitable actions.
When Christians go ost In obedi
ence to Christ sinners will come In.
Get on the other side OF a hind
rance and you viii see II labelled
Help"
The fun salvation of the saint do.
pends on what he is doing for the
salvation Of the sinner
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
what the Liquor Man Saws.

The saloon wants Sunday, wants by law
what it has already seized contrary to
law.
The reason on which the demand is
based is more insolent even than the de.
mand itself. Stripped to the bone it
stands as follows Says the liquor man:
We don't believe in any provision of law
that restrains our business, more particu-
larly the Sunday law. We have persist
emily evaded and violated the law, and
intend to do so in the future. We will be
perjurers and bribers if necessary. We
will pay blackmail il necessary. We will
elect corrupt city government if neces-
sary. We will degrade our business to
the level of immoral resorts if necessary.
We will stop at nothing. for we intend
at any cost to sell drinks on Sunday.
Now. if you don't want to be demoral-
lied by unenforced law, and if you want
to get rid of the vile Raines law hotels,
and If you want an honest government
in the city of New York. and il you want
to make us good. pious, law.abiding citi.
zens, give us Sunday by law And to this
proposition the whole people of the great
State of New York are expected to bow
Alfred Manierre, in New York Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
The Lesson From a blacksmith.

Rev. Samuel Chadwick, of England1
throws new light on the uses of satan in
this world by the following anecdote:
Il have seen blacksmith stand on one
side Of his anvil, while the striker with
his sledge-hammer stood on the other.
The blacksmith would turn the iron over
and yer and touch it here and there with
his little hammer, and the heavy blows
of the striker would mold and shape it
to his will. But / could never see the OBJ
ject OF the little hammer until | one day
with his small hammer he directed the
blows of the striker, touching the iron to
show where the blow was to fall. God
uses the devil to hammer the saints into
SHAPE, and makes him sweat to perfect
the saints for glory. Instead of murmurl
ing and complaining at our trials and
temptations we should thank God for
them, for they are the necessary means
sor our perfecting."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
RAMS HORN BLASTS.

H z modern
Tower of Babel
is built out Of
dollars.
God n e v er
gives His power
I o feed our
pride.
The dove of
promise comes in
response to pray
er.
Gods RESPONSE
bility begins
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
Poor Toms A-CoId.

One Of the most intensely dramatic
scenes pictured by Shakespeare in king
Lear is that in which he describes the
distracted king and the fugitive Prince
Edgar grooping their way in the dark.
ness, while over their defenseless heads
in the kings mind surpasses that raging
in the sky, but in the case of Edgar
there is only feigning of madness and
extreme distress. Is the modern clerk
in much the same plight, socially and
economically as that Of Poor Tom?"
According to the Liquor Trades Review
he is, the editor using the following Ian.
The shaving clerk Yields his weary
pen six long, ioyless days, and yearns
for the right to be a man, with all a
mans natural privileges, one day out of
the week. The poor clerk labors all day
long and when evening falls, staggers
homeward, exhausted and faint"
This is a serious statement, but COM
ing IRON such a source we suspect that
1t is overdone for some ulterior purpose,
and indeed, this soon appears. The
editor is inceused at the action of JUS
tice Hendricksen for delivering a charge
to the Grand Army Of Atlantic City ask
ing for the enforcement of the Sunday
closing law, and it is obviously to his
purpose to paint in as vivid colors as
possible the need of wide open Sunday
for the benefit of the clerk. To quote
again:
eff on the Sabbath day he is denied
the right to momentarily forget that he is
a beast. OF burden and that day is made
well-nigh as joyless as its fellows, more
will be done to recruit the ranks of an
archy than all the vaporings Of Most or
the. hysterical gatherings of Goldman
could accomplish. If the rich will ponder
upon this Sunday question but a little,
they will be astonished to find that they
are vitally and directly concerned in it,"
Yes, indeed, the rich are concerned,
but granting for the moment that the
average employer is so cruel as to send
his clerk home at night staggering from
exhaustion (which he would Indignantly
deny), the proper remedy is not to make
the public resort more enticing and there
fore expensive to the clerk, but to make
his working hours less a terror and more
pleasure to him, thus leaving him in the
mood for a nationally kept Sabbath. The
louder is the writer's lament, the weaker
is his case, He sees no other fate for
Poor Tom" than that of the race horse
which is first urged to utmost speed and
then sponged off preparatory for another
heat" We forget, no, not for a mo.
ment, that the Sabbath was made for man,
but so also were the week days Stag.
gering from exhaustion naturally leads to
staggering from another cause, while the
Golden Rule in force six days in the
week, leaves heart and brain receptive for
the higher truths and joys appropriate to
the seventh day-Union Signal
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

Scripture Verses.-John vi. 53-5S
iv. 15; Elk. xvi. Is; Neh. tx. 1915; l
Cor. X. Ia; John vi. 47-51 Matt XVI.
1928; John vi. 23.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
The Apologize Christian.

"And hope maketh not ashamed. ROM
SIS.
The humblest follower of Jesus Christ,
the poorest man or woman who belongs TO
Hin, has honors, privileges and dignities
such as the German Prince whom we
have been worshiping and the King
WHOM. we shall help to crown this sum-
mcr do not know and cannot enjoy ex-
cept they become also His humble serv-
ants. Such belong to the Royal Family
Of Heaven and their Brother is the most
glorious, being who has ever lived
crowned by mankind as their everlasting
King and Savior. They are the heirs to
the Kingdoms of this world and to
realms reaching far beyond our ken
And yet many of these royal people 60
through life spolog5ing for their honors
and asking the pardon of the world for
presuming to differ from it. They will
fall in aduation before man for a bit
of gold lace OF a paltry decoration, and
they will hide their own royal blood and
lineage as though it were something to
be ashamed OF; They will themselves wear
a badge or button marking them as MEM
bers of some secret society or honorable
fraternity; but they would no moro
think of proclaiming with pride, Il am
a Christian" than they would want to
walk around clad in convict's garb. They
will strive for, place, and prreferment in
this poor world while their hearts never
seem to think of the place they might
have, right by the Kings side in the
Royal Palace.
Imagine the monarch of some great
territory crying to wear q polcemau's
badge or strut about in schoolboy'a
paper helmet and wooden swordl
Some would apologize for their honors
from a false sense of humility, lest they.
should be accused of religious pride or OF
pretending to be better than the aver
age. The. best way to silence such aoI
Gus, cusatlons IONS, is to keep quiet and prove that
you really have something worth being
proud of. The Kings son can be for
given for feeling that it is better to bel
the Kings son than the peasants; the
unforgvable thing in the Christian
would be for him to think that the merit
wrong indeed to be proud of ourselves;
but still more wrong to be ashamed Of our
Father and King.
Our glory is not in what we are; for
that we often need to apologize; but In
the hope of what we shall be and in the
honor OF belonging to God. If the hope
OF the eternal glory and perfection of the
sons of God is in our hearts we shall
not walk through the world as though
we were not worthy of living in it, but
we shall rather show the dignity, the
excellence of character of those of whom
the world was not worthy.
II your religion is of the type that you
be very poor kind; if You feel that way
about it what viii the Judge. think of ity
If you are carrying a sham, a pretense,
vocabulary of cant through life, it will
not only disgrace you here; it will work
your doom both here and hereafter II
you really knew Cod you would not be
ashamed of Him nor think of apologize,
ing for Christ. But so long as the hope
that is in us produces nothing but fear,
of the world the faith that is in us will
fail to produce any faith that is in US viii.
Henry F. Cope, in Rams Horn.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08

that ne mad done. nnu- .~s-= brought nef
unto his mother Sarah's tent, and took
loved her, and Isaac was comforted after
his mothers death" Genesis "a: e3-67.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-18
snEI CORN For FEEDING.

The practical value of the Iowa Ag
ricultural College is quite frequently
demonstrated in the fund of informa-
| ton given out to farmers. as in the
| case OF the experiment with soft corn,
to prove it's feeding value. 1t is true
that experienced farmers have gem
\ eral knowledge of its value, but the
| exact demonstration of the experiment
| tai station reinforces this knowledge
and gives more thorough and compre-
hensive statement, especially with ref
| erence to its relative value as compared
with sound corn.
punches of cattle on soft and sound
| corn has not been completed, a state
! ment has been sent out to assure feed
| ers Of the desirability of utilizing the
damaged grain. Chemical analysis at
the college experiment station shows
| that soft corn contains as much pro-
| it contains about 90 per cent more wa
ter. On waterbury basis, the results
are approximately the same. This
would indicate that when the corn is
husked out and dried, that pound for
pound it will contain as much nourish-
ment as fully-matured corn. From the
analysis made it is estimated that it
will take l20 bushels of the soft corn in
its present state to be equal in feeding
value to 100 bushels of matured corn.
THUS to some extent the shrinkage in
the value of the crop may be estimat-
ed.
The farmers Of Iowa who are pre-
pared for it have a strong incentive to
engage in feeding cattle in the high
prices that are now obtained for stock,
and, according to our exchanges many
are taking advantage of it. In this way
to a large extent the farmers of Iowa |
will recoup themselves for losses in
CURED thru frost, and at the same time
meet an urgent and Worldwide de-
mand for more meat