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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-04-04
The Mission Field.

Wherever Mr.. w. J. Bryan went in Japan he
sought diligently to gather information not only
among the American missionaries but from i'm
portant Japanese sources. He was gratifed to find
the cordial cooperation between foreign and
tive Christians and he believes with great conf
dence in the possibilities of the future for the
Christian Church. Mr. Bryan's summing up is
follows:
Japan needs the Christian religion nation
must have some religion, and she has outgrown
Buddhism. The ideals presented by these two
systems in many respects Numerically OPP
posed to each other
zone looks forward. the other backward;
CARDS life a blessing to be enjoyed and op
portunity to be improved, the other sees in it only
evil from which escape should be sought; one
crowns this life with immortality the other adds
to gloomy existence the darker night of annhila-
ton; offers faith the inspiration to noble
deeds, the other presents plan for the perfectng
of self with sense of responsibility to God to
prompt it promise of reward to encourage it:
one enlarges the sympathies and links each in
dividual with all other human beings the other
turns the thought inward in search of perpetual
calm.
christianity dominates Europe and the West
ern Hemisphere, while Buddhism still holds the
Orient under its drowsy spell. On the islands of
Japan a struggle is going on between these
two great religious systems. and the triumph of
the Gospel of love and of consecrated activity in
the land of the rising will open the way to a
still larger triumph in Asia"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-04-04
Story Corner.

The Christian Register tells this story of an
hpiscopalan rector who, travelling in the South
met native, also by his own profession an Ennis
cOpalian.
who confirmed you?" asked the rector.
Nobody. whats that?"
But didn't you tell you were an Episco-
palan?"
"Oh, yes" said the old man, and I'll tell Won
now 1t is. Last spring L went down to New Or
leans Visitin. While I there 1 went to church
ana heard EN- say they had left undone them
Things they'd oughter done. and done them things
they hadn't oughter done and 7 said to rovse1f
! nat S jest my fix, too I found out that was an
Episcopal Church, and so I've been an EpiscopaI
ever since"
After few weeks at boarding school Alice wrote
home follows
Dear Rather: Though / was homesicS at first
now that l am getting acquainted like the school
very much. Last evening Grayce and Kathryn INV
roommates) and I had a nice little chat g-disb
party and we invited three other girls Mavne and
Carrye Miller and Edyth Kent I hope YOU are all
wei at home. / can't write any more now for r
nave lot of studying to do. with lots Of love to
all Your affectionate daughter A1vss
To which she received the following reply:
My Dear Daughter Abyss: was glad IN recot,,o
your letter and to know that you are enfovine
yourself Uncle Jaymes came the other dav
bringing Charts and Albyrt with HIM Your broth
er Henrie was delighted, for he has been 1onal,
"Ithout you I have bought a new gray borse
whose name is Byllye. He matches nicely with old
'Ieeoe with much love from us all am
your ahectfOnate father WvlIIvar, Toros
Inc next letter from the absent daughter vyas
panion., li0'"e Noin-
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-04-04

bly,, that they fully as much influence in the
church courts and perhaps more.
When Mr. Mcleod says that business men" do
not attend church courts, where they are wearied
with technicaities and long, aimless discussion he
is at one of his weakest points. e knows per-
fecty well that in the matter of technicalites our
law courts are unrvaled in fact they rather glory
in it, but that does not keep business men and law
yers like Mr.. Mcleod away from them. We will
have to get some other reason for their absence
from church courts.
So far as aimess and heightened discussion is
concerned, the facts do not bear Mr. McIeod's
statement historically correct The General
Assembly has vast amount of business in con-
nection with all the great colleges and missionary
enterprises of the Church both at home and abroad
Ihere is an immense field to traverse but the AS
semby gets through it's business in a week There
is no time wasted. The House of Commons could
not get started business in a week to save its
life The members generally wrangIe over the
speech from the Throne for month, and during
the debates business men" of acquaintance
have spoken from two to sixteen hours at a
stretch. The General Assembly never allows men
ito speak against time" as the House of Com
mons has done-and therefore we must have more
evidence on this point also
We do not find fault with Mr.. Mcleod for writ
ing his letters Even if they to guard against
possible danger they do good, and, in any case
man is to be admired for his frank outspoken-
ness. But If there is decline anywhere in the
Church the supreme need is spiritual revival. All
O'Hei Ielleules merely deal with outside symptoms
Let our good brother join with others in working
ana praying for revival. And revival will not
come through coddling the man, quoted by Mr.
Mcleod, who graciously allows his wife to attend
the services and his children to go to Sunday
school, but who says che can get nothing out of
the Church for his life" He gets nothing be-
cause at heart he prefers to get nothing He gets
nothing because he gives nothing either in time or
attendance or sympathy but the fashlight at the
moment of death will reveal that kind of man as
fool Jesus Christ Himself attended church
regularly Notwithstanding all it's defects because
lie purchased it with His own blood and was send
ing 1t out to save the world. The Church has IFS
Weaknesses, but it is the one power to-day that
in the name of God, is lifting the world ever nearer
to heaven.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-04-04
Ministers Corner.
A PIECE OF SCOTCH ARGUMENT.
"REGARDING THE CHURCH"


I have been interested in reading the letter of
my old friend Mr. Alex Mcleod of Morden who
is distressed because owing to clerical preponder-
ance, the Church is on the downgrade. We do not
believe the Church is on the downgrade, and as
Mr. Mcleod is a lawyer he will not resent being
asked to produce his evidence. His views on cler-
cal domination are partly those of Mr. Buckle, who
once said that presbyterian Scotland was the most
priest-ridden country in the world" and partly
those Of the ordinary Socfalist-Democrat whose
scent for class privilege is particularly keen. Mr..
Buckle had to retreat before a Scot who said that
his countrymen had never been easy to ride and
the Socialist-Democrat, while having some good
elements in his creed is In danger of mistakes
through the ignoring of God. Mr.. Mcleod should
not be labelled belonging to either of these but
his views might well be considered as a mixture of
both
In saying, against a Special class" that only
God and the people should be recognized Mr. Nc
Leod is surely forgetting that according to the
Scriptures God calls out from the people and away
from the ordinary work of life the men whom He
selects for special service ministers of the gospeI
If Mr. Mcleod admits this divine call as believe
he Will he must also admit that in this way a spe-
ciaI class of men is called into existence These
men are specially designated to be ambassadors for
God and it is their main business to sneak for Hin
and keep alive His ideals in the world
1t follows from this, that men who are sneciarv
separated to the work of the Church of Christ must
become specialists in that work lawyers like Mr.
Mcl'eou become specialists in the work of law
courts. 1t is reasonable to expect to find these
specialists in their respective spheres taking more
of an active share in them than men who arc NOT
trained in these directions This will inevitably,
mean that more ministers than layrnen Will fa1,o
active part In the Church but this arises out of tho
nature Of things and not through any desire IN tho
part Of ministers to exclude laymen IF the fact
of a divine call to ministers is admitted their 1o7
ership will generally be acknowledged Scotland
which Mr. Buckle called "priest-ridden" never
brooked clerical domination but admitted the min
isterial leadership Of men Of the calibre NJ 1rr-
and Chalmers and found herself safe in doinp co
Wheh Mr. Mcleod has laymen who devote as much
une ana study to the work of the Church as the
ministers he will find, Is the fact in our Assem-
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-04-04
NOT WEARY IN wELL-DoING.
Anderson, w. Va.

Account of a late sermon in London by the Rev.
]. H. Jowett of Birmingham, in the British Weekly
Mr.. Jowetts voice is we'll suited to Union Chapel,
and was perfectly heard even in the distant
corners. The evening sermon, from the words,
Let us not be weary in well-doing," contained
some of those personal stories and sayings which
congregations have learned to watch for.
Referring to the fact that the Christians work IS
compared to that of the farmer, Mr.. Jowett said
II took down from my shelves I was writing
mis- sermon little primer of agriculture which |
Ought years ago. What most impressed me was
the constant sense of the impalpable and myster1-
GUS force hiding behind every page, the dim allies
limited at expressed, because inexpressibe.
Every maxim seemed to me to have this under
meaning: DO this do that, and thou wilt insure
the hidden force waiting for thee, which will
operate in the provision of the harvest. put away
my primer and came back to my text. 1 saw that
cur efforts in the Christian life are so many hall
lowed experience by which may enter into league
and covenant with mysterious Divine Ally"
IF our work is like farming and if have
Invisible Ally, how much of it goes on i'm the dark
as many of the processes of agriculture are hidden
behind mysterious veil Anyone can see a corn
field, but who detect the first thrill of sermna-
ton? Anyone can count the converts at the AL
bert Hail. but who can trace the first impulse the
rst sign of spiritual resurrection"
In the course of hfs sermon, Mr. Jowett told that
during his ministry at Newcastle it was his habit
on Sunday afternoons to preach in slum iouging-
houses-the haunts of the poorest of the poor. i
was his ambition to invite these Sunday afternoon
audiences to feast in the lecture hall of James
Church, and at length ne managed to arrange for
such entertainment. In his nexperience he
consulted old friend to how the affair should
De conducted. well" said hts adviser, Gin the
Est place you must that the table is covered
With a scrupulously clean white cloth" THAT"
Hr. Jowett told his hearers "was the very last
ring should have thought OF till my friend point
81 out that it only by showing these people
,omething exqufsitely white that they could be
1de 60 realize their own dirt"
IN finding reasons for "wearness in well doing"
"r. Jowett said; 81 believe that much WEAKNESS
~ be accounted for in way not generally men
toned in the pulpit believe it is caused by sheer
0dily fatigue. And It seems to that
some Of us only went to bed a little earlier. AMI
ent a few more quiet evenings by the fire, Chris
I work would gain much thereby"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-04-04

We count the Scriptures of God to be the most
sublime philosophy.-Sir Isaac Newton.
one gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles
from earthly streams.-Robert McCheyne
L confess to you that the majesty of the Scrip-
Tres strikes me with admiration the purity
he Gospel has its influence on my heart. Peruse
the works of our philosophers, all their pomp
OF dlctlon; how mean, how contemplate, they
'ompared with the Scriptures! Is it possible that
book at once simple and sublime should be
merely the work of man? Is it possible that the
eacred parsonage whose history it contains should
We himself mere man ?-Jean Jacques Rousseau
find more sure marks of authenticity in the BIZ
lie than in any profane history whatever-Sir
Isaac Newton.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-04-04
VIA CRUCES.

weary feet, heavy hearts, souls that suffer
% you know why it is that THIS desolate way your
Master has called you to go?
you read in your blindness the meaning of all
these bitter and scalding tears?
AN you see in your sorrow why God has called you
to suffer for many years?
Know this, dear heart, and through your tears
smile, and grieve
4ou are treading the sorrowful way of the cross
that your Saviour has trod before
and the meaning of all this lesson so hard. THIS
grief and this bitter loss,
Is that thus you made to understand the beau
tiful way of the cross.
Allathea Todd Anderson.
Anderson, w. Va.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-08-16
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
PASSES into HISTORY
General Assembly Passes Out
of Existence.
WILL BE NO LIEuT-eovERNoR
Bill of Senator WheatIey Met Final De-
feat at Hands of Representatives.
Fielder Substitute Was AIse Sent to
Its Grave.

Atlanta, Aug. 15.-Wednesday was
the concluding day of the annual ses-
sion OF the general assembly of the
state Of Georgia. The senate and
house adjourned sine die, and the
present legislature has passed into
history, this being the record year of
the terms of the members.
Citizens of Georgia will not be call
ed upon to vote for or against the rat
ification of the proposed amendment
to the constitution creating the office
of lieutenant governor, for that meas
ure went down in defeat in the house
despite the game fight made in it's
favor by Messrs. Anderson of Chat
Floyd and others.
The substitute of Mr.. Fielder to
amend the constitution so as to pro-
vide complete line Of succession in
the event of the governor at a time
when there is no president of the SEN
ate or speaker of the house. certain
state house officers being named as
successors, met with like fate, each
bill requiring constitutional major
ity of III votes, while. one. received
only 85 votes, the other 80.
The house amended the senate
amendment to the Jamestown exposi-
tion appropriation bill, providing that
the additional six commissioners pro-
Vided by the senate amendment should
pay their own expenses.
This suggestion was made by Mr..
Russell, of Muscogee, the author of
the resolution
The resolution was returned to the
senate and the house an=1dment
concurred in, and the resolution is
Row ready to be transmitted to the
governor.
Mr.. Russell, who has conducted the
whole fight in behalf of this measure,
which means SO much to the state,
was warmly congratulated by his fell
low members.
The house concurred in amend
ments Of the senate to a number of
house bills, and a number of senate
bills were passed.
The resolution for an investigation
Of the Soldiers Home was adopted,
also the report of the special COM
mittee recommending that there be
no further Investigation of the
charges of official misconduct prefer
red against Judge John III. Martin
Of the Oconee circuit.
The house refused to entertain the
resolution of Mr.. Perry, of Hall, for
the appointment of a joints committee
OF the house and senate to investigate
the state railroad commission.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-08-16
American Arrested in Russia.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 15.-Professor
George H. BIackeslee, of Clark univer-
sity, Worcester, Mass, who was ac-
companied by M. N. Lubeskey, a news
paper man, was arrested near Volo-
kamsk as suspicious character, al
though he had a certificate of tden-
tity from the American consul-gener-
al, Mr.. Smith, of Moscow, and was on
the point of being sent to Volokamsk
when he was released by order of the
governOr-ge general. Professor Blackes-
lee is one of number of American
gentlemen who are travelling in Rus
sia studying the political, social and
economic conditions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-08-16
WOMAN ATTACKED
BY BLACK BRUTE
Whole Community Is Greatly
Excited.
NEGRO SUSPECT is CAPTURED
Young Wife of Truck Farmer Near
Battle Hill, Suburb of Atlanta,
Fought Desperately for Her Honor.
Dogs and Posse in the Chase.

Atlanta, Aug. ia negro who was
caught by the posse near Battle Hill
is being brought into town and will
be held suspected Of the assault OF
Mrs. Hembree.
Mrs. Richard Hembree, wife of
Battle Hill farmer, was robbed, drag
ged to the woods and attacked early
Wednesday morning by negro.
Mrs. Hembree, who is a strong wo-
man, struggled with the negro, and
he frightened, ran away before he
could accomplish his purpose. Then
she sank into unconsciousness.
When she revived few minutes
later, her screams brought several
men of the neighborhood to the scene.
Mrs. Hembree was borne home, and
blOOdhounds having been pressed into
service, the citizens, with the county
police and two sheriff's deputies, got
on the trail
The negro, however, had a good
lead during Mrs. Hembrees uncon-
sciousness, and the dogs, for some
4SdSOlJ WS1C u1clD1S " 0II1hC q u dll'
Chief Turner, of the county police,
is of the opinion that this negro is
the same one who several weeks ago
attempted an assault upon Miss Baird,
on Simpson street beyond the city
limits.
Mrs. Hembree, although hysterical,
and in a highly nervous condition,
will recover.
Mr. Hembree owns a truck farm in
what is known as Lathams settle
ment, beyond Battle Hill. 1t was
about Z o'clock when Mrs. Hembree
left home on her way to town.
Between her house and the public
road which leads to Atlanta, there is
a dense strip of woods, well suited, in
it's loneliness, for the unspeakable
crime committed Wednesday morn
ing.
Mrs. Hembree passed through these
woods, and had just emerged upon
the road. The negro, who had been
walking up the road, saw her and call
ed on her to stop. He saw her pock-
etbook
Have you any money" he demand
ed.
Too frightened, and too much alone
to offer any resistance Mrs. Hembree
promptly surrendered her pocketbook,
glad to escape with no worse treat
ment from the negro.
He took the pocketbook, opened it,
and slowly counted the money. There
was about So in the pocketbook. This
he put in his pocket Then he hapG-
ed the empty pocketbook to Mrs.
Hembree.
She, too frightened to say word,
took the pockebook or rather extend
ed her hand for it. This gave the
negro his opportunity.
He grasped her wrist with one hand,
and with the other clutched her throat
Then he dragged her, resisting him
as best she could, across the road and
far into the woods, where all view
from the road was cut Off
1t was several minutes before Mrs.
Hembree revived sufficiently to re,
member what had happened. Then
the full horror of the situation came
upon her. She cried at the top of
her voice
Her cries were heard at the Hem
bree home, and the alarm was given
In a very few minutes twenty men had
arrived on the scene. They found
Mrs. Hembree bloody from the chok-
ing the negro had given her5>and her
clothing was almost torn from her
body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-08-16
Crushes Man With Ak.

Jacksonville, Fla, Aug. 10 N I'm.
known man entered the home OF deu
ry Davis, a prosperous farmer near
Baldwin, struck him on the head vita
an ak as he. was asleep beside his
wife, then made a desperate attempt
to criminally assault Mrs. Davis, who
fought with the strength of a giant
ess, screaming Justify meanwhile for
help Finally othe" members of the
family were aroused and the man
escaped through window Mrs. Da-
Wis was besmeared from head to foot
in blood from her wounded husband,
who is in a critical condition Mrs.
Davis is also in a collapsed condition
A posse of neighbors has been out
with dogs hunting for the fond with
out as yet picking up the trial Mrs.
Davis says she could not tell whether
the man was black or white. The
entire neighborhood is greatly excit-
ed, and threaten speedy justice if the
man is apprehended.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-08-16
Shot Through Heart; Still Lives.

Birmingham, Ala, Aug. ia spe-
cial from Hattisburg, Miss, to the
News, says that with a bullet hole
straight through his heart and another
through his temple, entering at one
side of the head and coming out at
tn eOther, Charles Williams, a negro
of this city, has survived for three
days and the prospects are that he
will eventually recover. He was shot
by another negro in a crap game Sun
day, the wounds being inflicted by a
SO caliber revolver fired at a short
range. Williams fell over as though
dead. The undertaken was telephon.
ed for, but surgeon beat the funeral
man to the scene and when the dead
wagon arrived, the wounded negro
was able to sit up and take notice.
Since then he has been eating hearth
ly and the physicians venture the
opinion that he will recover if no
unforeseen complications arise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-08-16
Believed To Be Miss Case,

Haverhill, Mass, Aug 15.-It is be.
heved here that Miss ASH Esac, the
mysterious woman who has been seek.
ing an interview with President Roose.
welt at Oyster Bay, is Miss Isabel E.
Case, of this cRy. Miss Case has
been absent from her home here for
some time. Miss Case has been in.
terested in securing a pardon for a
man serving a sentence in States
prison for manslaughter and she has
been at the state house in Boston sew,
eraI times on that errand.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-08-16
Boil WeeviI in Mississippi.

Birmingham, Ala, Aug ia spe-
cial from Hattiesbug says that the
declaration that specimens Of the true
boil weeyil had been discovered on
cotton plantations, 5 miles south of
Hattiesburg, and has aroused no lit
tie excitement among the planters and
cotton factors. The identity. of the
insect is vouched for by w. e. Clark,
who resided in Texas many years,
and is familiar with the weevil and
declares that the insects now ravaging
the farms in Perry county is the gen
uine article. The pronouncement of
Professor Bamberge, the expert sta
toned at Jackson, on the Perry coun-
ty insects, is awaited with keen inter
est.