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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-12-18

Edward Townsend died last week at
Parshallville at an advanced age He
resided in Owosso up to 1875.
Roger Gorten, of Bancroft. an
outfielder who was with Ovid two
years, may play with the Owosso
Independent baseball team next season.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-12-18

Itching hemorrhoids were the
plague of my life. Was almost wild.
Doan's Ointment cured me quickly and
permanently, after doctors had failed.
G. F. Cornwell, Valley street, Sanger
ties N "
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-12-18
NERVOUS DEBILITY,

Vital Weakness and Prostra-
ton from overwork and other
causes. Humphreys Homeo-
pVthic Specific No. %, in use
over 40 years, the only success
full remedy. 81 pervial, or spec
ial package for serious cases, $5.
Sold by Druggists. sent prepaid receipt of price,
= Humphreys Med. Co., William John Sts. NY.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-12-18
SIeepZeSSneSS

Is akin to insanity. Many woman re.
alizes this as she lies awake hour by hour,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-12-18
circuit Court

Walsh & Pardee, who represent, de-
PENDANT in the case of Stebbins VS.. De-
morest, have filed bill of exceptions.
In the case of the village of Morrice
vs.. Sutton e. Mackey for bonus money
which defendants did not return after
failing to fulfill conditions for which it
was given, was decided on Tuesday.
Judge Smith gave the village verdict
for $2325. The case will probably be
appealed. 8
In the case of Sarah G. VS.. Seth N /.
Soper, of Corunna, for divorce, $50
solicitors fee, $40 witness fee and 81 per
week alimony has been ordered by the
court. w. j. Parker and Watson 81
Chapman are the attorneys.
Judge Smith has issued writ hold
ing Bert Stroud, formerly of Marion
and Owosso, in contempt for not pay
ing alimony to his divorced wife, Carrie
Stroud, of Owosso.
Anthony La Pratte, of Owosso,
through his attorney, S. S. Miner, has
begun suit for So, 900 against the Kilby
Mfg Co. La Pratte, who was recently
struck on the head by falling brick at
the sugar factory, claims to have
been permanently injured. He holds
the company responsible for not pro-
viding screen above the workmen on
the ground floor to catch falling
material
Attorney Fred Everett, of Ovid, has
begun suit for Charles Green, against
the Laingsburg Telephone Company for
$4,000 Mr.. Green claims that fire
which destroyed fine large barn and
contents on his place near Laingsburg
was due to the companys defective wir-
ing
Walsh 81 Pardee have filed security
for costs in the circuit court in the case
of Sylveneaus Adkins VS. j. X. Fischer,
ct al. The firm represents plaintiff.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-08-01

same question that confronted the
church half a century ago-"Will the
church, man by man, be true to it's
own best self"
THE SALOON OUGHT TO DIE.
I make bold to say without argu-
ment, that that application of that
Truth, which today is disturbing
churches, annoying pastors, agitating
laymen and preparing the next great
sword clash which shall pierce to the
dividing asunder of the joints and
marrow of society, is the Truth con-
cerning the Christians political duty
touching the licensing of the alcoholic
liquor traffic. The saloon ought to
die. That truth has flashed from east
to west. Men have SEEN that light.
But they walk on in darkness. They
see Truth, which is Christ, know Him,
say Lord, Lord, but deny Him by their
deeds. For the Individual Christian,
for the church militant and for the
nation, the question is not, "Can the
liquor traffic be effectually suppress
ed?" It is not "can the evils of the
liquor habit be materially diminish
ed?" The question confronting the in
dlVldual IS now, as 1t ever has been
Shall I, by my single self alone, DO
RIGHT as I see it," The question con-
fronting the church is now, as it ever
has been, "Shall l crown or cruelty
Christ, the TRUTH" The question
pounding at the door Of this nation is
not 16 to 1, nor gold standard, nor ex-
pansion, nor traffic, nor prosperity,
nor trusts, nor a full dinner pail, but
it is ''Shall my laws be true and my
judgment right?" Remember, to know
little is no sin; not to do as we'll as
the little known is. To suffer defeat
is no crime. To desert a righteous
cause, for the fear of defeat, is. "To
know the right is prophecy and it is
no less true that to know the right
and DO 1T NOT, is infdelity, by the
side of which honest unbelief becomes
godliness. 4-.-s.e.s-.. .-.--.--.-.--.-
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been in the days of our fathers we
would not have been partakers with
them in the blood of the prophets" ;"
The crime of these men was not that
they appeared outwardly to be right
eous, but that they saw their Christ,
knew Him and denied Him. The
crime of the generations, the ages
through, has been that people saw the
Truth, knew it, but by their deeds
denied it. We say:
If I had live in Noah's time
I'd preached a hundred years,
An, nary given way to doubts,
Nor harbored any fears;
Tho I had nary saved a soul
And been called nicknames vile,
I'd stood for God, an truth, an right,
And fit sin all the while.
If he'd been with Joshua
When he went across the creek
An found the grapes an pumgranits,
An other fruit s. thick
I'd "a sed that we could take the land,
I'd "a showed myself a man,
An tho all Israel whined 1--WE can't
I'd sed "By gum, we can
If I he'd lived in Elijah's days
When Ahab raised the deuce,
All Tie people dill give up the nSnC,
An said it want no use,
Elijah d one cOmrade
as Beside that old black cow; 14=-z-~raz.sz@asss
I'd stuck by the prophet-and the right
Fer the right must win, We know.
If I he'd lived in slavery days
I'd stood for freedoms cause;
I'd grappled with the nations sins,
In spite of the nations laws,
I'd not have feared the eggs or stones
Or execrations base;
With courage high and faith in God,
I'd "a fit in dangers face.
The blacklist blight on history's page
Is the liquor traffic curse,
But the crazy cranks a-fightin' it
Only make the matter worse
Would 1 he'd lived in former days.
I'd fit with martyrs brave;
I'd brooked all danger, care and pain,
And won a hero's grave.
IT'S A SIN AND A SHAME THAT A
SOUL LIKE MINE
DID NOT LIVE IN A TIME WHEN
1T COULD SHINE.
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TURN NOT TO THE RIGHT OR
LEFT, THAT THOU MAYEST
PROSPER,"

Gods word is clear that a church
that is not true to the Truth so far as
she has seen the Truth, cannot pros
per. And no financial showing can
prove that church is prosperous
Listen:
'These things saith the Amen, the
Faithful and True Witness, the Begin
ming of the Creation of God, I know
thy WORKS, that thou art neither cold
nor hot!'" And concerning it's rela-
ton to the licensing of the saloon the
10th century church is neither cold
nor hot. "I would that thou vert
cold or hot. So then because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot I
will spue thee out of my mouth. Be-
cause thou sayest, I am rich, and in
creased in goods, and have need of
nothing;' and knowest not that thou
are wretched, and miserable, and poor,
and blind and naked" Wealth and
prosperity are not synonyms in Gods
vocabulary.
"BUT-"
The relation then of the Christian
Citizen to the license system is Who'll
ly comprehended in these words-Be
THOU true. "But you can't enforce
it." Can't is hell's gospel for timor-
GUS Christians. Be THOU true. "But
my vote won't hurt it." May be not,
but be sure that it does not help it.
Continued ON Page 81
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TRUE WHEN THE CROWD is
TRUE

The pulpit and pew are full of men
who would nail the white banner of
their highest political aspirations to
the tip top of the flag staff and march
with heroic stride, with swelling
bosom and with dauntless heart at the
head of ten million men; who because
the millions do not go their way, tag
along with their flag at half mast in
the smoke and fog and filth and pollu-
tion of the political quagmire, for no
other reason by their own confession,
than because the millions do likewise
And it is a sin per sc to follow the
crowd instead of the Christ. 1 am but
the echo of the voice of hundreds of
thousands of church voters when
say Prohibition is right and when
there are enough of you to win will
be with you" The fidelity that is
faithful in victory is the friendship
that is true in prosperity. Their
voice is the voice of the ten infidel
spies on the neither bank of Jordan,
eve are in our own sight, as grass
hoppers; and so are we in their sight,"
Behind the walls of prejudice, en-
trenched in custom and buttressed by
law, the giant sons of whisky Anak
stand. They possess the wales and
mountains of our political heritage.
WIsHBoNE VS.. BACKBONE.
They brag, and buster, and work;
we whine, and whimper, and wish.
They have the backbone to back their
political desires at the ballot box; we
have the wishbone to wish ours at the
prayer meeting. Now abideth wish
bone and backbone, these two, but the
greater of these is backbone. They
worship the God of Get-there, and
make their faith whole by their deeds.
We worship the God of Truth, but be-
lie our voice by our vote. And it
seems that God must again "fill forty
years full of funerals and the wilder
ness of sin full of dead mems bones
because of the unfaith of modern
Israel. Faith to God means that the
Tuesday hand be as holy as the Sun
day heart.
FIRST PRINCIPLES.
/ do not here argue that license is
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These two correlated propositions
may be taken as the core of this dis
cussion:
First. He who does a deed which
he believes wrong is sinner.
Second. He who, protesting to do
right, does a deed which he believes
wrong, is hypocrite.
CHRIST TRUTH MADE FLESH.
81 am the Way, the Truth and the
Life" Christ came, a disturber of
the existing order of things at points
where the existing order was wrong
He came to His own and His own re-
ceived Him not. So truth comes to
her own and her own of each genera
tion receive her not.
''Once to every man and nation comes
the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for
the good or evil side;
Some great cause, Gods new Messiah
offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and
the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes on forever, 'twixt
that darkness and that light
WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TRUE.
And each one of us, looking back
and marking how preceding genera
tions have answered, marvel at the in
fidelity, cowardice, hardness and dull
ness of those who have gone before
and we arrogate to ourselves the
righteousness of the few of each age
who knew the Truth and followed it,
We all count ourselves the heroic
progeny of Elijah, and Stephen, and
Ridley, and Luther, and Wesley, and
Lovejoy, and Garrison, and we view
with gaping astonishment, the fact
that fifty years ago Methodist minis
ters. nay Presiding Elders, Doctors
of Divinity and Bishops, both north
and south, we're found, who saw the
evil of slavery and confessed it, but
who failed to square their deeds by
their creeds. And we are sure that
if we had lived in the time of these
historic struggles we would have been
among the prescribed, prosecuted
handful Of men who were not dis
obedient to the voice of Truth.
WHAT WE ARE WE WOULD HAVE
BEEN.
But the only way for us to know
whether we would or would not is by
our attitude toward the problem of
this hour. Our prototype has lived in
every generation. If we drift with
the crowd, we are what the drifters
of the past were.
CHARACTER is DOING.
In speaking to the pillars Of the
church of His time-to those who at
tended prayer meeting, paid literally
to the support of the preacher, took
the denominational papers, went to
church in the rain, compassed sea
and land to make a proselyte, and
held official position on the board
speaking to these men Jesus said:-
Even so We outwardly appear right
eous unto men, but within We are full
of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto
you, Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites!
because ye build the tombs of the
prophets, and garnish the sepulchres
of the righteous and say, eff we had
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CREED DEED
Christianity in the Realm of Citizenship

Read before and published at the request Of the
Minneapolis Methodist Ministers Association
by W. G. Calderwood, President of the Min.
neapois District E pworth League IS s.
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wrong, but I do insist that if a single
man of you believes license to be
wrong in his own best heart of hearts
and goes to the ballot box and sets
the seal of his approval upon that
murderOus, seditiOus system by fol-
lowing. multitude called a political
party, which is bent upon committing
that evil, he is Sinner-not by any
Judgment of mine, but by his own con-
fession. Let me repeat the first prop
osition, HE who does a deed he be-
lieves wrong is a sinner" l do not
here claim that a man is essentially
dull of moral vision that fails to see
the moral truth on the license prob
lem, but I do insist that he who be-
lieves that 'it can never be legalized
without sin" and claims that he is
guided by the sinless life of Christ,
and then uses the talent of power CIV
en- by God to him in the form of citi-
zenship to elect that error, while his
ballot is instant requiring that the
Truth which he processes be crucifed,
do insist that that man is a hypocrite
not by any judgment of mine, but
by definition. Let me again repeat
the second proposition, "He who pro-
Tossing to do right, does a deed which
he believes to be wrong, is hypocrite.
l do not here maintain that mo politi-
cal party has the right to expect nor
should it receive the support of Chris
tain men so long as it stands commit
ted to the license policy Or refuses to
put itself in an attitude of open hos
tility to the saloon," but 1 do main
tain that if the voters of the church in
the pulpit and in the pew believe it,
confessing it on the mount of trans
iguration, but denying it before Plate
at the hustings, that church cannot
prosper. Charles G. Finney, the
greatest evangelist of his age, made
this assertion concerning the church
and slavery: ''There will be no great
revival in the church in America until
the church shall liberate the captive
and let the oppressed go free.' And
history supports it. The Epworth
Herald, says, in recent editorial:
'The great God yearns to save this
world. And He will do it just as soon
as His church will lend it's co-opera-
ton.
BUT WE DO NOT LOOK FOR A
GREAT, SWEEPING, ALL PREVAIL
ING REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN
THIS COUNTRY UNTIL THE CHRIS
TIAN CHURCH SHALL RISE IN ITS
NIGHT AND DO ITS UTMOST TO
SMITE HIP AND THIGH THE MON
STROUS, MURDEROUS, LOCALIZED
LIQUOR TRAFFIC."
TURN NOT TO THE RIGHT OR
LEFT, THAT THOU MAYEST
PROSPER."
Gods word is clear that a church
that is not true to the Truth so far as
she has seen the Truth, cannot pros
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-08-01
WHAT WE ARE WE WOULD HAVE
BEEN.

But the only way for us to know
whether we would or would not is by
our attitude toward the problem of
this hour. Our prototype has lived in
every generation. If we drift with
the crowd, we are what the drifters
of the past were.
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Continued on Page 3 }
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FIRST PRINCIPLES.
/ do not here argue that license is
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-08-01
DIVISION THE MANIFESTATION
OF TRUTH.

Christ, Truth, is made manifest in
this generation by the application of
Truth to some error in the establish
ed order of things. And if this be
true, that manifestation of truth has
come to bring sword. 1t will divide
the joints and marrow of society.
ITO THE JEW FIRST"
AS the church is on the firing line
of moral conflict, this sword will first
appear in the church. If there be the
application of some great truth to
error in the existing order of things,
it will, like Christ, challenge attention
and disturb the quiet of the syna-
gogues everywhere, and moreover, not
many of the rulers or Pharisees will
believe on Him now any more than
they did 1900 years ago.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-08-01
AN OLD PROBLEM.

What is the great overshadowing
problem of today? 1t is the same
problem that confronted Moses in the
wilderness-"Will the servant of God
be true to his own best self" "Will
Israel, man by man, follow Joshua and
Caleb, who counsel fidelity to God, or
the ten traitors and the multitude who
counsel infidelity?" 1t is the same
question that plagued Elijah, gave
jeremiah the blues, and wrung drops
of blood out of the heart of the Divine
Master-namely, "Will the Israelite
be an Israelite indeed-Will he be true
to the apprehended truth?" It is the
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25

l. ;ny>:,"..;, 81" H. c-:ii:'a.n,, ro..-
rn:lc rtr>;t- iF,' orc!:nary cx-
pan,t:sur,, oi III" s,;s"t> have f.;
4 n;ltn3": ot ycAl! bren il: eN1"+s
"f the general revc.:,." Ie>~:pt-,
auI Ill" county j. ;1)ro ,.!an twelve
months hat:;,,, in Ike re,irnDl.n:2
OF its WARRANTS. Thu, i, is |'l,;i:,
that tie court has 10 available
funds to draw upon ior tie pay
ment Of the bridge appropriation
warrant. The read f;lnl to Whic,:
The appropriation property be
iorr-. i, also exhausted. The court
has made n bad move in this mat
tcr aat il i; n"' l.'i.ly y that thc l2n-
pie q iIo county outside OF ti!e
area ;ii;,h vnni,l ha h2no!itrd by
The bridge vii rcrmit the arl,Iu-
nr;a,inn u stand.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25
Bidding Tor nu:.:s ; Support.

!: part Of llawe; speech at Han
nih:.l WAS trucking bil for Ia
Buffers contiuIcd corporation
with the .Ic,icv.~n cluh, ilaWcs
proceeds 10 tickle the old n.nn
with some tinc phrases about jim
Butlers contests in Congress.
iluwcs say, A Repuhiic"" Con-
ores nasca.yI Mr.. Butler over thc
p"otcs' Of t,c Democratic minor
i!v. which, under the leadership q
De Almond, fought IN his hn"a'f
one Of the most dramatic fights
ever Witnessed in the h:;iiS Of Con
pIc.s." The fight referred !" was
simply q tilihiIstc.. Net a single
| Democrat III Congress Wa wiling
to present an argument ter Jim
and the Democrats On the com
mit,ee dodgci that part OF The
! business. Ee51r; was had t. q Iii
! buster because Buffers side "":
! too rotten 10 handle. Known :
this, the minority party cEa'ic>
the Evidence and Wen; iato an esd
les demand for rU?: cs:.>. In9r'
stands Jim Buffers defense III tn
House-calling The roll hnndre"
of times as g substitute fOr tho ~'ss
cus>!on of facts.
''Tne uasea.ing Of Alr. Better,
Haucs proceeded to say, was
:.ioi: handed and outrageous 70
} cce,!inu, which q. once raised II
;aa;sru,ab!c Statement, mat :! NJ!
it:u,|pr wa no. elected, tler I.
three circuit Judges antI the circa
attorney were not elected. De-:
oe,a,s will be allowed t. settle Il
( profound question. PEI i#p' ~
" rs can decide. il t,y" li:!hu.'@:' t
" - needs ia Batter :" he ,,'@. ;"
:, for mex, year, .;::% II: ,tar1:'
=, speech j. intnnic. F. h. a%:>.:2 tie Il
man ;h#, his ,:i;.>p IT IT." hes q
j. the machine t:,:ir j. sill; i"< ~
for him url .!,a' Inn ri;t ',c il,i
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25

TX xEorcrror Stephens i ,eput-
ed rs having sad that it was not
Harry lluves and his Jefferson
Ciun which has made St. Louis
Democratic. but that it was accom-
pli>hed by ;ilc Nc5bit law signed
by himself whcn governor. Steph-
e.is ha>; GOT ,le :nattcr about right,
,he cxnrc>, t'-pv>o Of the Neshi'
law Wa to give the Democrats
control Of the election machinery
IN ST. Louis unA thus make ballot
box .tutiin~ possible.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25
!.1e Man and .,,e ccifar.

! ''piatf~inn Of the AIa-~acIau-
s"i's state democracy. 1903. Is III
print, which declares in is first
para-rap'1 that "the democratic
party. he defender of nipn against
the dollar, will eight the trust oil
CAREY nov Us il fought tie loIiiic-
{! oliearcy with jefferson" just
az TIC ;rc~ent moment 70 tght the
4 as, oiigercy seems rathcr like
jnbhing at drowning cog with
Inc 1,,t end Of I'll car. Plenty OF
! ,1a,.: water seems likely to deal ct-
fcctivcly with Il large proportion
os the trust without violence from
y, ,,anlers: but vililont iiScrSs
10 that. does man III Na-~a
ri,u<etts want f. be defended traI1
lie du.lar. Here in New I"l';z !.
locscn't. Here il New lot'
vhan man sees the dollar comm:
for hlm he stands out i'll the or
and clutches f.: il, "nd clasr~
: 10 his bosom. He thanks ne Int
who scares the dollar of when / /
: coming his way. What lie il ".t'
/: and will thank TIC democratic ..t'
ty or ANY c!Arr iart.:, t" r'o' -"t'
is tl:o ,nnrs perfect domc.t'3at'o
j. of the t'>.'iar, 80 shat it wi! i.3 II,
= f,ui,:y2 AID timi3. aud vii c"r'
,,h uoe,la in his pocket. anc,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25


in~,cl for l,;i14,c>s ~ machine
acc'ana,ion. Folk will not s:mi-
lariy &c in with Butler, OF make
. ~]1ecch under his n .nago;nen5.
and therefore iiuHc~ Ipnpurcc-
Folk as 40 Dompcrnt. The Bat
l"r pn7~n4a in the ilawes speech
gels righl down t. The business OF
carrnling Buffers delegates for
the Democratic state convention.
\ BnlIer-IIawe4 piimarE will be
held, for lIa"c~ paid the price ut
Ha.lnii,al. Einna-DelHocrat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25

With so l:5any OF the Missouri!
Democratic leaders finding their
way to tie ponijen,iary through
the medium ut tue Federal court,
it is within lie possibilities that
TIE Dr,nncyat@ will raise the >'1orcc
hil!" issue in the state campaign
rcxt year. HE cry will be that
tie Republican are trying to carry
tie state hy locking up their op-
pOucDt-
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25

The ircnda!e Gazette, the ''rf
fcial'' paper Of the c"';n:y. t'olH'e'i
On tue Mcramee hridgc question,
and it has been Unlimited to rs
that it only took two cash sub
scriptions to iGc paper = O. ii.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-11-25

Senator Gornian, the Democrat
ic leader in the Senate, stated that
at recent caucus Of the Democrat
ic Senators they DID much talking
and would do The thinking after
wards. This is tie best delinea,
ton Of Democratic characteristic,
we have .crn lately.