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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
Are the British Deterioratinrq

In consequence of startling reports
brought to the War Office by recruiting
officers that the British as a race are de.
teriorating in physique, committee of
the Privy Council was recently appointed
TO investigate.
The necessity for the inquiry is empha.
sized by paper which was read recently
before the society for the study of inebriety
by DIR. Robert Jones, medical superintend-
ent of the Claybury asylum.
DIR. Jones does not mince matters. He
believes that the deterioration exists and
that it is largely due to intemperance.
In support of his theory he gave some
figures, of which the following are the most
striking;
OF the 10000 cases of insanity at pres.
ent in asylums probably 900 male and
0000 female cases are the direct or indirect
outcome of alcoholic excess.
OF the 35,9l6 persons admitted to the
London County Council asylums between
1893 and 1902, twenty-one per cent. of the
men and eleven per cent. of the women
owed their insanity to liquor alone.
Alcohol, DIR. Jones believes to be devital-
izing not only to the individual, but also
to the race. The community loses by its
interference with the working power of
the skilled craftsman and the artisan, and
the presence of the inebriate Injuries the
younger generation directly by neglect and
cruelty, and indirectly by evil influence
and example.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11

Miss j. Wilkins tells of a converted
Hindu who believed that God would hear
the prayer of His children if they prayed
in faith. She writes 81 should have liked
some of my many intercessors to have
heard the story of one of our leaders with
regard to the threatened drought of last
month. had suggested that a Monday be
observed as day of fasting and prayer
for rain. This old man went back to his
country home and started the day going
from village to village with gong and al.
ter assembling the inhabitants asked them
if they wanted rain to kneel together
while he pleaded with the God of heaven
to give them their request The people
were all raw heathen, but almost without
exception, he told me, they willingly came
out and did as he directed He arrived
home faint and weary late in the day, and
his housekeeper, an old aunt had prepared
Cruel, but he felt he could not take it lest
he should break faith. The next day a
hot, dry wind blew and after breakfast he
started in another direction. The unprom.
Using wind made the people ridicule. but
he held on all day, meeting with willing
ness to pray in some. On the Wednesday
he started another round, but before night
he had to return owing to the heavy rain.
As he passed each village in the soaking
rain and quite wet through, the people all
came out calling out-'God has heard your
prayer-He is good-the gospel hall people
have much merit"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
.EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
JANUARY FIFTEENTH.
Am | My Brothers Keeper?-Gen. A.

Sis.
The question of our lesson is live
one. The hosts Of evil in this world
are seeking to obscure this issue.
They ask to be let alone. But we can
not let them alone and maintain a
clear conscience The vices which
prey upon society, the wrongs and in
Justice which obtain in the world,
must be overthrown, for we are re-
sponsible for them. AS Alpine travel.
ers are bound together by ropes, SO
the members OF society are bound to-
gether. We cannot escape if we would
our share of blame for the evils per
mitted.
There may be a difference IN
worthiness, but we have a relationship
to the poor. We must give help when
needed We must remove the causes
Of poverty. We are to insist upon
justice in their treatment, And we
are to give them ourselves, better
than money or food.
Paul taught the duty of Christian
selfdenial for others. He would eat
no meat if that made his brother
stumble. This may be carried to IA
natical extremes, but the principle is
true one. We are to help the weak,
not scorn them This principle ap.
piled to all questionable things will
settle them rightly. Shall ! indulge
Sin intoXicants? Shall dance and
play cards? Shall ! attend the thea
ter? Well, are you responsible for in
fluence? Are you your brothers
keeper? The law of the lesson will
lead us to refuse to do many things
because it will cause a weak brother
to fall. We are here not to hinder.
There are SO many helpful things we
can do.
This whole trouble in the industrial
world is from some violation of the
law of brotherhood. Why almost civ
II war in Color do? Why strikes and
violence in Chicago? Why mutterings
In the mines and factories north. east,
south and west? The law of brother,
hood is violated. THE Man with the
Hoe" is oppressed The toilers are
burdened. Wrong on both sides, nc
doubt, but wrong because II is the non.
recognition of this principle. that |
am my brothers keeper.
Every Epworth Leaguer is a broth.
er 10 every lost soul. Are you seek
ing to save him? Do you realize that
you are in some measure responsible
for his soul? Do you know that IL you
neglect duty his blood may be on you?
This is a season of opportunity Are
You using them for the salvation of
their souls? You are your brothers
keeper, You are more. You are his
brother You ought TO help him and
i'm nttr In.
we simply do no harm. Ye are TO be
positive factors for good Look out
for your brother. He is In danger.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
The Milking of chrIst,an. His Firth.

BY AMOS r. WELLS.
For seven months we are to have lessons
on The Making of a Christian" 1t is a
topic well worth our thoughts. Most
Christians are content to be like Topsy,
who Just growed. The wise man will
plan his growth, and see that he is grow.
ing in the image of Christ.
The first question we have to answer
honestly to ourselves is this solemn one:
Have | been born again?" Without the
second birth no one can see the kingdom
of heaven, Henry Drummond illustrates
1t thus: How does the inanimate kingdom
reach the animate kingdom? The soil can
not climb up into the corn, but the corn
reaches down and takes the soil up into
itself. Neither can the plant kingdom
reach up into the animal kingdom, but the
OK must reach out and take the corn and
make it part OF itself. And by the same
process the OK becomes part of man,
In that way the man becomes part of
the kingdom of heavenly a new birth,
as a helpless infant, the higher kingdom
reaching down and lifting us up into it.
That Is why Christ came to earth-because
earth could never come to heaven. That
is why Christ alone can tell us how we can
enter the spiritual life, be born again.
1t is a double process. Christ says, We
are to be born of water and of the Spirit.
What did He mean?
Water" is the outward token OF the
new birth We are not spirits yet. we are
in bodies. We cannot wholly be born
again without an outward act as well as
an inward change. That is why Christ and
His ministers insist on baptism, on Join.
ing the church, on the fulfllment in the
world of the outward duties of Christian.
To be sure, as Christ said, "the kingdom
of heaven is within" but il it is truly
within it will show itself on the outside
No one can truly give himself to the high.
er life and not be eager to be baptized, to
Join the church, to manifest his new JOY
in every outward way
But the new birth is also "of the Spirit"
1t is mysterious, as mysterious as the night
wind that Ncodemus heard moaning
along the narrow streets of Jerusalem"
But it is certain, as the wind is. No one
that is born again will be unconscious of
it or doubt it,
For it will transform his entire life, as
the wonderful light in Goethe's lovely tale,
placed inside the fisherman's hut, gradu.
ally transformed its logs and boards to
gleaming silver and changed all its ugli-
ness to beauty.
Is ours this transformed life? Has the
Spirit of God lifted us up, out of our frets
into His peace, out of our weakness into
His power, out Of our sins into His purity,
out of our shame into His glory, or are we
still living 'to the hesh?' Not for an
hour longer need we go on in the lower
life, for the glad new birth is to be had
for the asking. Reading.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11

The outlook for temperance was never
more encouraging 1t occupies larger
place in the public eye than at any pre-
yious day
Herr Ernst Kraus, the German tenor in
the corps of the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York City, is on record as
saying that beer drinker cannot be a
great singer
The Liquor Dealers League has raised
S5,OOO00O to place ten picked men as lobby
lists in Congress and in every State Legs.
lature in the United States to secure the
repeal of all restrictive or prohibitory laws
and the passage of laws favoring the trade
The beer that makes the brewer Is the
beer that makes the buns
A son of drinking man or woman has
less chance Of health and active mental
faculties than OF total abstinence parents.
Statistics show alarming facts in this par.
ticular.
An eminent docta IN New York City
found over seventy per cent. Of the chill.
dren OF drinking parents afflicted with or.
sanic or nervous dis s'es in large number
examined.
In Ohio during the past year there have
been ten men executed for murder, and
tive more conyiqts are awaiting the day Of
their exe~Ation. This is terrible record,
and It e. without doubt chiefly due to the
demoralizinhS mhrderinclting work Of the
saloons, says sAe Religious Telescope.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
Withholding Judgment.

Why should we be harder on orr friends
than the law is on suspected prisoner? =?
guilty until he is proved innocent? 1t mat
ters not that our lifetime knowledge has
proved ones dependableness, and love,
and good judgment; if something happens
that we do not entirely understand, our
silent or outspoken condemnation is likely
to be instant, instead of withholding iudg.
ment until all the evidence is in. 1t is hui
10 sarn hat rev houpi OF tbe is% usSs s'I
noeent of the seeming carelessness, or un-
kindness, or wrong; but this does not pre-
vent the same quick condemnation the
next time. He is rare soul who keeps
his poise Of trust and love when he cannot
understand. But it is fairer, and it makes
life sweeter. to do so. = Sunday-School
Times
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11

We are to see not ouIv wnat God has
done in the past but what He IL always
doing. Always God was in His work and
He always ia in it. foroiving, pitying. help
ing, feeding, comforting. STRENGTHENING.
We do not know it. but He Is always here.
in the hearts end lives Of men, doing what
He did in the past, still saying to Nicode-
mus, "You need 20 be born again" to the
Pharisee, "Woe unto. YOU that devour
widows houses;v to the weeping sisters.
"Thy brother Is not dead. There. is, no
diving" to the penitent sinner. crushed bv
the memory OF wasted life. "Gn, in peace
thv sins are forgiven thee" The lite ., .,
Christ did not istop at the cross. l WI
NOT saw that we look ct the cross tor much.
but 7 will saw that we have looked at the
resurrection too little. Christs is con-
tinuous life. That is what He. means wien
Tie saws. "T am with you always we
must realize that lie Is here and now in
the lives of men. My conception OF the
Bible has undergone a great Glance and J
TS ccTnG .ss any longer e gsa tGen xs sS sSt snv hc
Rible nm and saw it is hut n record Of rast
life? No. IL is the revelation Of the eternal
life. the Interpretation Of God in human
experience. not only in the devout but also
in the undevout: not only in the believing,
but in the skeptical. The Bible seems to
me like great orchestra of 100 men all
OlaNlng TO express tne musical lllt lHHL y
in the conductor. tt Is God speaking
through the experiences of men. believe
that God is carrying us through transi.
ton time (all times are transition times),
and taking away the idols upon which we
rested. and which we have counted sacred,
in order that Tie may carry us back to
Himself: and that. il we take the exper.
ience of the past twenty centuries and un.
derstaud the message it sends, its litera-
ture. history and religious life Alright. we
shall find it all explains these words Of st.
Paul; we are not to ascend into heaven to
bring God out OF the past nor look to the
future. but we are to look about us and
understand that He is still directing the
destinv Of nations ard ourselves. We are
to look within us and know that the aspir-
atoms. the desires, the dissatisfaction in
ourselves. the longing for something hiuher
and better-these are the voices Of God.
He was always and always will be in His
world; and through the church and The
Eible and by the revelation of Himself in
the Christ. God manifest in the flesh He
is bringing us. not to the church, not to
the Bible. not to the mediator, but TO
Himself. He ever lives He ever indwells
closer than breathing, nearer than hands
or feet"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
JANUARY FIFTEENTH.
Am NY Brothers keeperr-Gen

Am NY Brothers keeper7"-Gen
4, S-l5. CA Temperance Topic).
Scripture verses.--Lev. 10, IA; Jer
I, G; Luke IL, So; II, 1-2; Rom. IS,
10; 1913, 21; l Cor. 0. ~; 10, 13.
Lesson Thoughts.
The laws of the state and the laws
of simplest morality hold man respon
sible for bodily murder of, or physi
cal injury to his brother. What, then,
must be our accountability, before the
perfect justice of God, for the spirit
ual death of anybody?
Our responsibility for others does
not cease when we have merely re
Trained from doing them any positive
injury; 1t is our duty also to go after
those who have strayed, and actively
seek to save those that are lost.
Selections.
Come, let us work for Jesus
By faith and earnest prayer.
The wandering ones from Jesus
Should claim our constant care.
Then let us work for Jesus
Before the sun goes down;
We've hearts to win for Jesus
Ere we can wear a crown.
Inquire diligently what blood mort.
gage there is on your property in the
interest of missions, how much you
owe to the heather because Of what
you owe to Christ for redeeming you
with his precious blood. l warn you
that II will go hard with you when
your Lord comes to reckon with you
If he finds your health invested In su.
perfluous luxuries. or boarded up in
needless accumulations, instead of be.
ing sacredly devoted to giving the
gospel to the lost.
Amid the snares misfortune lays
Unseen, beneath the steps of all,
Blest Is the love that seeks 10 raise
And stay and strengthen those who
fall;
Till, taught by Him who for our sake
Bore every form of life's distress,
With every passing year we make
The sun of human sorrows less.
The great problem is not how to
save the world but how to persuade
each Christian that it is his business
to be the means of saving some one
man in the world
Let us reach into our bosom
For the key to other lives.
And with love toward erring nature
Cherish good that still survives;
So that when our disrobed spirits
Soar TO realms Of light above.
we may say, Dear Father. love u.s.
Zen as we have shown our love-"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
Modern Daniels.

President Lincoln was one day dining
with party of friends, when one of them
offered him some wine, and rather rudely
tried to force it upon him Mr.. Lincoln
finally replied: 81 have lived fifty years
without the use of intoxicating liquors, and
| do not think it worth while to change
my habits now" 1t is related of General
VIM. Henry Harrison by one who knew
him well. that while he was candidate
Tor the Presidency, at a dinner, a New
York gentleman, offering a toast, asked:
General, will you not favor me by drink
ing glass of winey' The General politely
declined. Once again he was urged to
drink glass of wine This time he rose
from the table and said in his grave, dig
nified way: Gentlemen, | have refused
twice to partake of the wine cup. That
should have been sufficient Though you
press the cup to my lips not a drop shall
pass the portals. | made a resolve when
started in life that | would avoid strong
drink, and | have never broken it. | am
one of class of seventeen young men who
graduated together The other sixteen
filed drunkards' graves, all through the
pernicious habit of wine drinking. ] owe
all my health happiness and prosperity to
that resolution. Will YOU urge me now"
Similar courage in refusing wine has been
shown by Hayes. Garfield Colfax. Henry
Wilson and General Miles. The latter re-
Gently went around the world, and though
daily in banquets where every one else
drank, took not drop himself. That took
greater courage than any of his battles.
When you are with the Romans do as the
Romans ought to do.
"Poison and death the cup contains.
Dash to the earth the tempting bowl;
Stronger than bars and iron chains
This power that captive leads the soul"
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c. L. aLANvILLE.
1t was only flower, fair white flower,
] laid at the Masters feet.
But others had brought Him their golden
store
From the waving fields Of wheat;
And my tiny gift was so fral and small
] scarcely thought He would heed it at all.
II was only smile and loving deed
To needy, suffering one,
And n helpless hand lent to some
Who were weary and undone;
But did not know that the Lord was
there
When another's burden / tried to share.
II was only tear that sadly fell
Der another's woe and sin
And oh, how longed of His love to tell,
Who had died that soul to winl
But | had no words that my thought would
frame;
could scarce cen whisper the Masters
name.
But the dear Lord smiled on my tiny gift,
And my deed of love He blest:
he bade me to seek out the wand'rin one
And tell OF His own sweet rest.
Thou needest no message, My child -
said He.
"Brt to tell OF the love gave tc thee"
-Lo ldon Christian.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
Lonoest pastOrate on Record,

To the Rev. Laban Ainsworth must
In all probability be given credit for
holding the longest pastorate, over
one church and people that ever was
known-seventy-six and half years,
He was born July 10. 1857. in the
little town of Woodstock. Connecticut,
says writer in Every Where. When
just "of age" he was graduated at
Dartmouth college-then the reignine
educational institution of America. A
year later he was given a license to
preach.
His first charge was at Spencerport.
N. Y, and in 1871 he went to Jaffrey,
N. H.. where he commenced pastor
ate that for length and continued,
steady effort. has never been parallel
ed In the world.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
Source of ivory Supply,

During a recent visit to the London
docks the queen of England was in
formed that the stock of ivory then
Shown represented, on an average, the
annual slaughter of some 10000
African elephants. This statement has
been contradicted. One importer states
that at least S5 per cent of the supply
Is dead ivory" mainly obtained from
boarded stores of African chiefs. who
are shrewd enough to put their com,
modities on the market only in drib.
let's, The most interesting part of
the letter is, however. the statement
that the great bulk of this boarded
ivory is cotained from elephant
cemeterles"-spots met with here and
there in the jungle, where elephants
have resorted for centuries to die.
Much Of the ivory that comes to the
market may, therefore, according to
this letter, be several hundred years
old.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
TIE VICE OF iNTEMPERANcE.

Teetotaiism and Longevity Figures
which Are an Unanswerabie Argu.
ment In Favor of Total Abstinence For
the Best and Longest Lives.
We desire to call special attention TO the
following figures which this letter of Mr.
Whittaker's to the editor of the Morning
Leader so strkingy set forth. They are
an unanswerable argument in favor Of to-
tal abstinence for the best and longest
lives
70 the Editor of the Morning Leader:
Slr-ln your issue of Saturday last Dr.
Selfe Bennett is reported to have said:
challenge the figures on which Mr.. T.
T.. Whitaker, NJ. p, bases his statement
that during the strenuous working period
OF life mans chances of longevity are
forty per cent. better if he is a teetotaer
than otherwise
The figures referred to were those of the
mortality experienced by the life office of
which have the honor to be the chairman
and managing director. They cover pc
rod OF sixty years. and they deal with
something like 10000 lives, among which
there were about $4,000 deaths.
The records and statistics have been
most accurately and carefully kept since
lS4l under the supervision of some of the
most eminent actuaries of their time, and
have been circulated and widely discussed
among the insurance authorities of Amer.
lea and Australia.
DR.. Bennett may, if he chooses. chal.
lenge the conclusions which | draw from
them, but when he challenges the figures
themselves land he is the first man, as far
as | am aware, to do sol he challenges
!igures which are beyond dispute
These figures SHOW the rate of mortality
per cent. per annum among the abstainers
and the non-abstaners from the use of in.
toxicating liquors who have been assured
IN our life office. Commenting on them l
said:
1t will be observed that during the siren.
uous working years of manhood, from
twenty-five to sixty years of age, the an.
nual mortality rates among the abstaners
were, on the average, forty per cent lower
than among the non-abstainers. That is
an enormous difference
The figures upon which that remark was
based are as follows:
ABSTAINERS AND ON-ABSTAIN
ERS COMPARED
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11

content to continue in doubt.
The unlnfiuential man often has the
most influence.
No mans back ever breaks under the
burdens of others.
Songs of triumph are often for the
conquered and the slain.
A mans power on earth depends on
his connection with Heaven.
The devil never really hates us until
we begin to love our enemies.
Thoughtfuiness doubles the value OF
gift and often halves its cost.
Christ's yoke is built for two and so
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11

One never secures the essentials
without sighting some non-essentials.
The golden age is not coming in by
means of the copper collection.
When innocence is dependent on evil
dence II is innocence no longer.
No power comes of the steam made
by pouring cold water on warm zeal.
Whatever man thinks most worth
while that Is the object of his true wor-
ship.
Some men complain because they are
checked trying 70 eat the table Instead
OF the dinner.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
Begin with Little Thinrs.

II is Gods plan to begin with little
things, with weak things and even bad
things, and to develop out of these things
world begins in chaos, the oak begins in
the acorn, and the river begins in the tiny
spring, or rather, in the thin vapor float
ing. in the upper air Mentally. morally
and spiritually the human race began as a
little child, and every new member of the
race has to begin at the beginning again.
as little child.
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The Work That Endures.

If we work upon marble, it will perish;
if we work upon brass, time will efface it;
if we rear temples, they will crumble into
dust, but il we work upon immortal minds,
man, we engrave on those tablets some-
thing that viii brighten all eternity ty.-Dan-
iel Webster.
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Deaths Bargain Counter.

"Woodst alcohol with me?"
Punned the barman blithe and free;
81 can serve you best old whisky, two
for fivel
This makes suicide quite cheap,
For just drink before you sleep,
And the Coroner won't know you've
been alive"
The Analyst, in Town Topics.