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The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
Kindling Fires.

Theodore Cuyler found Mr.. Moody
laboring in a mission-room in the city
of Brooklyn. With him was a hand
full of plain people. DR.. Cuyler whis-
pered to him: "Slow work. this, is it
not?" Mr.. Moody looked at him and
said: did you ever light a fire? l
am lighting my fire." and he kindled
it to such good purpose that anon it
blazed over two continents.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
Cheering Up the Invalid.

Mrs. Barr, an elderly ScOtchwoman,
had been seriously ill for weeks, dur
ing which time even the members OF
her immediate family had been ex-
Guided from the sickroom. AZ last,
however, she so lOnged to see her rela'
tives that it was deemed advisable to
admit them. one at a time. When
the moment for Mr.. Bars visit ar
rived the trained nurse cautioned him
against showing too much emotion
over his wife's changed appearance.
What you must do said the nurse,
sis to cheer her up. You must tell her
how much better she is looking, what
a nice color she has in her cheeks, and
how bright her eyes are. Above all
things. you must be cheerful"
Mr.. Barr promised faithfully to say
the proper things; but when he ap-
preached the bedside and beheld the
ritiful ravages that illness had made
IN Mrs. Bars once plump countenance,
he became so agitated that he forgot
the nurses caution and exclaimed in
the rich Scotch brogue that strong
emotion always called forth:
"Oh. Maggie, Maggie, woman. whaur
vad We like to burrit?'
yell not get a chance to bury me
this time. William Barr" returned the
invalid. with unexpected spirit.
you're all together too anxious"
1t was afterward said that Mrs.
Bars rapid recovery dated from that
noment.-Carroll Watson Rankin, in
LippinCott's.
The new cook comes with fine
recommendations" said Mr.. Bliggins.
Yes. answered his wife, they sound
rs if the people she was with thought
q great deal of her, or else that they
were willing to do or say almost any
thing in the hope of getting rid of
her."-Washington Star.
Because a woman is nervous, it does
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
PHRASE common

PHRASE common
in the world to-day
is Gods WILL" or
the will of God"
However much or.
little the term is
understood, certain
it is that it is fire.
quently used. AS
part Of the Lords
a y it finds fire.
quent utterance in
religious gather
ings and %fraternal
organizations. 1t
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
A Prayer to Be Honest.

The earl of Hopetown, in Scotland,
has in his possession an old, brass
bound leather-covered ledger which he
prizes very highly.
1t belonged to John Hope, the found
er of the family, who kept a shop il
Edinburgh 200 years ago.
The first entry in that ledger reads
as follows: 20 Lord, keep me and thi!
bulk honest!"
If every merchant since had adopt
ed John Hopes practice, there woult
certainly be a much higher standard
of commercial morality than at pres
ent exists in the business world
Rams Horn.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
DOING THE
WILL OF GOD
Sermon by the Highway and
~ Byway" Preacher. "
Copyright, 1904, by ]. NJ. Edson.)

Chicago, Sunday. July 81, 1904.
Text: And He stretched forth His hand
towards His disciples, and said: Behold,
My mother and My brethren! For who
soever shall do the will qf My Father Who
is in Heaven, he is My brother. and sister,
and mother.'-Mat II: 1886.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
Tact.

Has your mother finally consented
to your marriage with Dick?"
"She dotes on him Just because she
pities him. I don't for a minute think
that he is as short-sighted as he pre-
tends to be, but he rushed in Sunday
evening, kissed mother twice, and apollo
gized beautifully by telling her that he
thought he was kissing me.""-Detroit
Free Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
Stuffed Beets.

Six medium-sized beets, n can
French peas. Boil the beets and skin
them, but leave them whole. Turn the
water off the peas and wash them; heat
with salt and pepper. Cut off the stem
end of each beet SO it will stand evenly,
and scoop out the center. Put in each
one a tiny bit of butter, and a little salt
and pepper, and then fiji high with ths
peas. Serve very hot.-Good Houss-
keeping.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

Come" said Diogenes, after listen
ing to the candidates make their ad.
dresses at the barbecue, "let us blow
out our lantern and put up u um.
brella. Our quest is done. Honesty
is too common to be even interesting"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
Immense

Germany's colonies are five times as
big as herself, those of France 1Stimes
and Britain's 81 times bigger than her
self. 81
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

no YOU desire to be included as a
- member of Jesus family circle?
Do you long to have Him stretch forth
His land and point you out as belong
ing to Him in a peculiar and close
relationship? There is only one way
to have your desire and longing salts
fled, and that is to do the will of God.
And this involves knowledge of the will
of God and ability and desire to per-
form that will. And what is the
will of God for man? Just as the
earthly parent desires its child TO be
the very best, to realize the very best,
so God, in infinitely higher and better
degree, desires for mar the very best.
He commands: BE We holy; for l
am holy" And Jesus summed up all
the wonderful teachings of the Ser
mon on the Mount in the words: BE
We therefore perfect, even as your Fa-
Their Which is in Heaven is perfect"
God searched through all the centu-
ries before Jesus anne into the world
to find a mar who could perfectly full
fill Gods will, and He found him not.
The very best specimens OF manhood
failed. Noah, Abraham, Moses, the
prophets, and even David, failed.
There was none righteous, not eve
one" All had sinned at some point
in their lives and come short OF the
glory of. God. But Jesus came and
was holy in life and character, even
as God was holy; He was perfect in
keeping the law of God, wen as His
Father Which was in Heaven was
perfect. And in Jesus, the Son of God,
vas realized Gods will for man.
And Jesus turns to you and to
me and says: whatsoever shall
do the will of My Father Who is in
Heaven, he is My brother, and sister,
and MOTHER
Il ERE, then, is the will of God con-
III corning us, that we be holy even
as He is holy, and to be perfect as
He is perfect. But. you say, God has
appointed us a task impossible to per-
form. And surely it would seem so
in the face Of the sin and failure of
men from Adam down to the present
time. But let us look into the mat
ter a little more deeply to see if God
has provided a way out of the diff
Guilty. Surely it is not unreasonable
for me as a father to lay upon my
SON a task which is beyond his skill
and strength to do. il ! provide .
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

Many a man, o, Horatius, by dream
ing Of Fame hath walked to Famine.
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is so easy W Spcnh
| of Gods will, but it is quite another
thing to realize it's meaning and 10 SO
| think and act as to bring the Will or Goa
to pass. To do Gods will requires an
| understanding of what that will is, n
the purpose and ability to DO that VIII
as it is revealed. 1t would be FOLLY LOT
the child to attempt to do its 1ather 5
will unless it had a clear understanding
of what that will was. And, further, II
would be unlikely to perform that WILL
gran ling that it did know what 1t was
| unless the attitude of the heart was right
and there were a desire to do and aplllty
to perform. And, again, the loving and
wise and faithful father would not eX-
| pect or demand of his child that which
he was unable to perform, nor would
he demand or expect less than that
which would call forth the best effort OF
the child. And. further, the father
would not be so unreasonable as to ex-
pect the child to perform his Will II ne
had rot revealed and made plain to the
child just what that will was. We have
two viewpoints. then. from which to
consider our topic, from the fathers
standpoint and from the child's stand
point; from the standpoint of the one
whose will is to be done and from the
standpoint of the one who is TO do that
will. The father must make his Will
plain to the child, and must be wise ami
careful to exact or expect nothing of the
child but that which he is capable Of
performing. And the child must seek
to know the fathers will and must have
the desire and purpose to perform it.
And this statement of the case of the re-
lation of the earthly parent to his child
exactly illustrates the relation which
man sustainS to God.
r Cd has a will to be lone on earth
VI wen as it is perfectly lone in
Heaven. And that this will may be
perfectly don requires first that Zoe
shall reveal that will to man; and Sec
ond that He shall require not less nor
more than man is able to perform. Mar
on his part must seek to know what the
will of God is and then have the desire
and purpose to perform that will as it is
revealed to him. This, l think, fairly
states what is involved in the doing the
will of God. And we must recognize the
fact that the will of the all-wise, all
loving, all-faithful Heavenly Father is
best for man, even as we recognize iE
human relationships that the will of the
wise, loving and faithful parent is best
for the child. The child is not always
able to see it and understand it. He lives
for the moment, he weighs things on the
scale of appetite and desire. and that
which he wants the most he judges to be
the best thing for him. But not so the
parent. He looks down the years and,
desiring things for his child which will
best fit him for life and its social and
business relationships, he wills this and
that for the child. The child often does
not understand. he cannot see the value
of doing this or that or of keeping from
this or that indulgence, but if he is an
obedient and loving child he will cheer
fully say: Father knows best" and do
his best to perform his fathers will.
And this is exactly the case as regards
the relations of Goa and man.
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way by which the performance Of the
task is made possible. And surely
God cannot be charged with unrea-
sonable exaction when He commands
us to be holy and perfect, inasmucn
as He has provided a way by which
man may meet His commands and con
ditions. God says: BE ye holy"
and then pointing to His perfect Son,
He says: Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin OF the
world" Unrighteous before God
apart from Christ, but in Christ, &C
cepted because of His righteousness
AS Paul puts it in the third of Phil
ippians: THAT l may be found in
Christ, not having a righteousness OF
mine own, even that which is of the
law, but that which is through faith
in Christ, the righteousness which is
from God by faith" The first condi-
ton, then, of doing the will of God
is in obtaining from Him that right
eousness which we have not of our
selves, and this is realized by a faith
in Jesus Christ as the personal Sa-
viour and the One Who cleanses from
all sin.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

There never will be a}poor prayer
meeting SO long as there is n hear
rich with gratitude.-Ram's Horn.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
OF COURSE.

Tourist-How much farther have we
got to climb?
Guide-Only to the top, and then it'll
be down grade!
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

Because a woman is nervous, it does
not necessarily follow that she is
narVy.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

n DING the will of God may bring SUI
~ fering, but it means blessing in the
end. But what comfort to know that
the affection is in line with the will OF
God. Peter says (and who is there who
knew what suffering meant better than
he-surely none, save it were Paul. ::
Wherefore let them also that suffer
according to the will of Goo commit
their souls in we'll doing to a faithful
Creator" The Cody shall suffer perse-
cution. but what glory is to some da.
shine out of that suffering! We say
''Thy will be done" as though it were
the hardest and saddest thing in all the
world, when it is the most glorious, for
that will will find its joy and realiza-
during. Doing Gods will is a c%opartner-
ship affair. Christ by His indwelling
Spirit is present and ready to help us do
what we cannot do ourselves. And not
only does Christ's strength become our
strength, but His desires become our
desires. THE Spirit maketh interces-
sion for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered; and He which searcheth the
hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
Spirit, because He maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will OF
God" Surely. this is blessed encourage
ment for those who desire to know and
do the will of God. Christ the One Whc
gives us His righteousness, Christ the
One Who dwells within to help us do
the will of God, The highest end and
aim of mar should be, as Peter puts it, to
no longer live the rest of his time in the
flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will
of God. Let us will to do the will of
God!
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

SAS
Saviour, and this act depends upon the
real desire to do the will OF God. 1t in
wolves the attitude of the heart towards
God. The Scribes and Pharisees, the
leaders of the Jews, came to Jesus, talk
ing about God their Father, and pre-
tending to be jealous for God and the
doing of His will. But they were noe
willing to accept the Christ, the Son
Whom God had sent into the world to
save the world from sin and unrighteOus-
ness; and, because they were not willing,
Jesus declared they were of their ia
Their the Devil, and that they did his
will and not Gods will. Man cannot DO
the will of God while his attitude towards
God is not right, any more than that
child who is in rebellion against the
parent can do its fathers will. A re-
bellious heart cannot do the will or
parent or God. Note the parable which
Christ spoke of the two sons. One with
rebellion in his heart said, when TOLD
to go and work in the vineyard: Il will
not 60" And while rebellion ruled he
went not. But afterwards he repented
and went. The desire to do the fathers
will took possession of his heart and he
went and did it. And the second son
who outwardly assented. but went not.
lacked as much as I'D the rebellious o
the desire to do the fathers will. He
recognized the right of the father to
command him to so into the vineyard.
but he was so busy doing his own will
and seeking his own desires, that there
was no room to desire the will of the
father, and so went not.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05

Exc We nave Illustration OF tWt
ii classes of people in the world to-
day. Both refuse to do the will of God
One class recognize the claim of Goo
upon them, but being so occupied witt
their own affairs, and the doing of the!l
own will, they fail to do the will of God
The other class in rebellion Of heart re
fuse to recognize that God has any CLAIM
upon them. And would that it were
true that all in such rebellion would re-
pent and do the will of God. But, alas
many, many will not. But there are
those who are coming. The will is be
ing given up for Gods will; the desire O.
man is being given up for the desire OF
God. The family circle of Jesus is grow
ing. In ever widening stretch of arm
He points out His mother and brethren
including not those who only say ord
Lord, and go on doing their " will, bul
including those who Go the will of God
The acceptance of Christ is the begin,
ming of the doing the will of God. The
successive steps are taken as we do the
will of God as it is revealed to us. One
step at a time, is Gods order. God';
Word assures us that IF any man will
eth to do His will he shall know of the
teaching" If you live up to the light
you have. when you need more light fol
the next step. God will see thatyou have
it. Many Christians are cropping abou:
in the dark. are discouraged and theil
faith is dim because they have failed tC
do the will of God as far as it had been
revealed to them. They wanted to see
all the way, and because they could not
they refused to take the first step which
would have brought 0 light.
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A Million in Rulha.

Country Life In America: 1t takes an
immense quantity Of bulbs every year to
satisfy the love of the Americans for the
most delightful flowers thai grow from
them. Most of our bulbs are imported.
We get annunciation lilies and Roman
hyacinths from France, Easter lilies from
Bermuda, narcissi from England, and
practically all of the Dutch bulbs" par
ticularly hyacinths and tulips, from Hol-
land. For centuries the Dutch gardeners
have almost m%onoplized the bulb growing
industry of the world. In 1902 we paid
Holland nearly half a million of dollars
for bulbs, and we gave another half a
million to the bulb growers of other coun-
tries.
1t needs only a little Yankee shrewd-
ness to see why American gardeners are
discovering that there is enough first
class bulb land in western Washington,
alone. to supply the world with bulbs
and, undoubtedly, many parts of Oregon
and British Columbia are equally suit
able for the business. There is no uues-
ton whatever but that it is possible to
grow them in the Puget sound country
which are superior to the best Holland
stock. Bulb growing offers attractive
considerations to those who wish to earn
a living out OF doors. 1t will probably
grow to a great industry In this couatry.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-03-11
Somebody Stole Every 49," but tho
News Was Not Disabled.

We are thorry to thay." explained
the editor Of a weekly paper In Texas,
that u compelling room wath en-
tered latht night by thome unknown
thcoundrel who thtole every eth in the
ethtablithment and thucceeded in max
ing hith ethcape undetected.
1T hath been impothible OF courthe to
procure a new thupply OF etheth in time
for thith iththue, and we are thuth
compelled to go to preth in a thituation
moth ~embarrathing n dithrething:
but we thee no other courthe to pur-
thue than to mak the beth thtagger
we can to get along without the NTH
ing letter. and we therefore print the
'Newth' on time regardleth Of the 10th
thutntained.
The motive OF the vulnerable NTH
creant 18th unknown to nth, but doubt
leth wath revenge for thome thuppoth-
ed inthult.
1T thai be thaid that the petty
thpite of the thmall thouled villain hath
%dithabled the 'Newth.' If thith meeth
the eye OF the deththable rathcal, we
beg to athure him that he underethi-
match the rethourceth OF a frth-clath
newthpaper when he thinketh he q
cripple 1t hopelethly by breaking Into
the alphabet.
W take occathion to thay to him,
Furthermore, that before next Thurth-
day We will have three timeth ath many
ethstR .ath he thQley
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planning an equipment capable of 1oG.
miles an hour for everyday schedule.
Trains leave the Indianapolis and Co
lumbus terminals at 1920 o'clock every
night. and finish the 200 mile run at 9
O'Clock in the morning. The operation Of
the Dad has shown that there is no
smoke, cinders or dust, and that Sleep
ing car passengers will be able to open
their windows in The charge
for a berth and fare between the two
cities is So, which is less than the day
coach fare on the competing steam
railroads. Although in the eastern
states the development Of the electric
railway has not yet reached a stage
where sleepers and dining cars are in
use. still the improvements in the
equipment n fittings of the ordinary
service cars are keeping pace with
those of lines in other parts of the
country. The Fonda, Johnstown and,
GloNersville railway has put on new.
palace cars, which are said to he the
largest and most expensive ever seen.
They are fifty-five feet in length and
weigh forty-three tons. High back re-
versible seats, finished in plush, with
roll headrests and footrests increase the
comfort of the passenger. Each car
seats fifty-siN persons. Over ach seat
is an electric light, and the electric
%pushbutton keeps the passenger In
close touch with the conductor. A
telephone connects both platforms, so
hat The motorman and conductor can
talk with each other and also with the
general offices of the company. The
cars ale geared to forty-tive miles an
hour
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-03-11
INDIAN CHILD. LOST BIRD.
Whose Mother Was Killed
in Wounded Knee Rebellion,
10 Now in All Saints School
at Sioux FAlIsSo Nth Dakota
White Men SIay
and Educate

was o altogether quenched by the
leaden rain. they did not see little
BidlSa. Her wild, intuitive little heart
told her this was u good time to keep
still. Then, her mothers body had fall
en- SO that she was Utmost under II,
and, If she would keep real still, like
her mother. perhaps no one would see
her.
The day at last hid her face from the
blood-stained field, and drew nights
curtain down. But this was not enough.
Lest another day should look upon the
brought down from the north a snow
storm and spread a mantle of white
over the whole battlefield. The wind
came, too. and roared through the ra-
vine as can only Dakota winds. Little
Bidka shivered now. for her mothers
body was strangely cold. She was
hungry, too, but she did not cry Out.
Soldier guards heard not a sound from
the valley of death.
Next day, in spite of the bitter biz
card, DR.. Colby. a surgeon who had
come up with reinforcements. wandered
out again upon the scene of the con-
hict. He thought, perhaps, some life
might still linger there. He CHANGED to
stop close to where Bidka lay. The
stout little baby-spirit had been broken
at last. Such cold as she had never
known in months of exposure numbed
her little body and mother had allowed
her to grow so hungry. She was
moaning p%iteously. DIR. Colby. amazed,
could not trace the sound. He turned
over a half dozen bodies and finally
came upon little Bidka. where her
mother still protected her from the
wind and the snow. The urgeon picked
up h mite in a tender mood. But the
baby wriggled and fought. He carried
her to the camp With hin and fed her.
Since then. she has been his foster
daughter.
When DR.. Colby moved to Washing
ton. d. c.. where he now resides, Bid
ka went as one of the family. There
she has had ell the privileges that
would have belonged to a natural
daughter. She is now in charge
of the most experienced Indian mis-
sionary n philanthropist, Bishop
Hare. All saint college is not an In
dian school. Bishop Hare consented to
admit Bidka as a favor to DR.. Colby.
Only three other Indian girls are there
and they are daughters of native In
dian ministers.
Bidka is not a handsome type of the
Indian girl. She has the broad nose
and fiat, wide face hat marks the
Sioux. All the refining influences that
have been brought to her have made
her none the loss q ful-blooded, UNI
tanned Indian OF the plains.