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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-09-27

The Passing Of Present Day Christianity

churches and ministers, and there is today
in the average man who has to believe what
he is told and whose religion is entirely in
anothers keeping. Through Romanlsm, to
the many who turned from it and established
free churches we come to the Pilgrims. who
because OF persecution, driven to the shores
OF the sea, fed to the wilderness and estab.
lished on Plymouth, free religion. However
freedom was limited and in a score OF years,
these who sought the place and privilege
for freedom of thought and worship, turned
prosecutors and exiled any who dared think
for themselves. However, it is pleasant to
realize that with the first persecution in
Plymouth. liberal thinking began, and Today
the old Plymouth church is Unitarian.
Present day Christianity is not the Paul
inc and Jesus type; it is far removed from
1t. II Jesus came and spoke today about
present day Christianity as he did about the
Judaism of his day, he would be turned
out of every Christian Church. The chur-
ches today, according to Billy Sunday
are the seats OF the devil, her ministers are
going to the Devil. and they are filled with
vice and corruption.
Then as the first cause for the passing
of Present-day Christianity l would say, it
is because the Christian Churches are not
Christian. Not If we can credit Sunday
with the truth; not If we can credit our own
powers of vision, and sensibilities for reas-
oning.
For 5000 years since Adam and Eve made /.
such fools of themselves as to pry into the
causes for the effects they enjoyed. up to
today humanity has enjoyed the ministry
of prophets, priests and kings, and more,
the ever-presence of the Infinite God in the
Holy Spirit, who fills everything, all space,
Is inside every mortal, fills this town. every
house, and all things to the sugar bowl; yet
with all this personal force; together with
the special incarnation of God himself, hu-
manity has not regained its first lost STEP
and not yet does the Christian Church know
the Sanctity of human life.
Jesus Christ as a man honored and re-
spected life. from the flower and bird, to
the fallen woman and enthroned man. He
believed in brotherhood, and the only
Holy Spirit he ever revealed was real blood
that flowed In the veins of humanity, of one
kind and one power binding humanity to-
gether as brotherhood
Today churches sell each other for bit
Of advantage: ministers SANDER each other
FOR gain; christians torture each other for
profit; have been held up for ridicule by
slandered by so-called Christians
all because didn't preach the truth. It
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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-09-27

has been said ought to be swept of the
face of the earth" and ought to go to hell,
and never had preached the truth, however
saying so does not make 1t SO.
For 1000 years humanity has been study
ing the sermon on the Mount and yet hasn't
learned the first beautitude. So far as the
Golden Rule having been adopted by the
faith, it is as far removed now as It was
2OOOyears ago when it was found buried in
the writings of the great Chinese teacher.
Does Christianity make better neighborsr
Does 1t prompt people to be careful of my
character and reputation? Does 1t inspire
better citizenship and advance social condi-
tions? The weakness and the poison and
the destroying element in Christianity is
this lack of humanity, and because as it
is, it is not the faith of Paul and Jesus.
Until the church teaches and breaches
the sanctify human life, the divinity of man,
until then she Is doomed to weaken and
fail. What is the use of worshipping an in
visible God and damming a visible man?
What is the use of praying to be angels
and acting like DEVILS? What is the use of
living in heaven in faith and hopes and max
ing hell out of earth? 1t is time that the
sensible and the reasonable and the lust
should rise up as body and teach as never
before the sanctity of life on earth, and
then whatever may be in the future will
be well provided for.
Another cause for the passing of Chris
tianity is that its discredits reason. You
must not think" that is the key note Of
Romanism and Evangelical professionalism.
Reason has been called the enemy of the
church, and that is correct Reason has
been called foe to the Christian faith and
1t is correct Reason is the biggest enemy
that present-day Christianity has to deal
with, and so long as men and women will
sell their rights and dispose of their free
dom on earth for a crown in heaven. that
faith is going to prosper, but once let the
mind get to thinking, and 1t is the end of
popery to the soul. France lost her head
in worshipping Reason. but that only showed
she had head to lose and considering her
past bondage 1t is hardly surprising that
she went to the other extreme
Here is person who wants to "be saved
and he is told to "only believe" Faith
does it ALL he therefore accepts his saliva,
ton and builds his house on the sand. An
other wants to be saved and is told that
salvation consists In being true to ones
SELF living life of morality and virtue.
He builds on rock; reason and under
standing, and he learns that he is to walk
by sight, not by faith, that II he Is to be
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

The very thnsp' said Fluffy, land at noon ri give a feast
ITO all my little kiddes on the side they call the east"
"The side they call the eastI Whats that2" Ar which dear Fluffy
Delightful, dense old deariel Shall plainly say. East sde'3'
Thanksgiving Day davned bright and clear, and in a raxcab
Dear Fluffy and her aunt went forth to see a game of grab.
Such manners at the table | am sure one seldom sees.
The boys and girls were hungry and felt perfectly at ease.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

ate like little beasikins, but Fluffy didn't care.
She wished to make them happy-thats the reason she was there.
And when they'd eaten all they could, each girl and every lad
Stood up on table or on chair and cheered for her like mad.
'Tm sure Pm very glad you came; we'll meet again quite soon.
"WeW have a dinner in This place some pleasant Sunday noon."
Their. feeling tired, Fluffy spent an hour lying down.
And when the afternoon had waned she sought her evening gown
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

The Morrises lied off with soup" with Fluffy in her place
Alongside VscounT Versopht She led a merry pace
With brilliant talk that made him blink. But soon she had to leave
To take a course with Mrs. Leech. which made the Viscount greVe.
She pulled a turkey wishbone with Sir Reginald Delane.
She "enueed" with The Courcy>Lises and added one poor brain
The Parrakeyts she chartered with land dazzLed Colonel Cayl
And next TO good old Bishop browne wound up Thanksgiving Day.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

Dear Aunt, if were only eight I'd know just what to do"
Dear Niece, you re rwenty>one at least, so act as pleases you"
The girl o'erIooked the fearful jest and said, 81 must refuse
"Atl least a half a dozen. and | don't know which TO choose"
WHY NOT accept them all, my dear, and stay a course at each2
"An en1ree with the Candergits, the turkey with the Brownies
"The Courcy,Lises, the Parrakeyts-wind up at Bishop browne
Douglas Island news., 1908-06-03

It is said that the Indians of the interior country keep we'll away from the hot springs, as they believe that the devil has something So do with the heat.
 The Guggenheims and the interests back of the Alaska Central are not satisfied with the Alaska coal bill which only allows them to gohble up 2,56O acres each.
 The New York Herald, which dis. cusses the railroad situation in Alaska somewhat learnedly, gets sadly off the track, however, when it puts the Alas ka Central at Cordova.
 John Sharp Williams, who halls from Yazoo, Mississippi, a democratic leader in the house, blocked Gales territorial bill by demanding roll call on the question of consideration.
 The White Pass train, under a new schedule, leaves Skagway at 9;30 a. m. arriving at Whitehorse at 5:50 p. m. Leaving Whitehorse at 9:30 it will arrive at Skagway at 4:30 p. ID.
 The gypsum mines, on Chicagof is- land, employ IS men and are taking o6t from 60 to 75 tons per day. The bunkers are being enlarged and prep arations made for enlarging the out put.
 The governor of Alaska is not the only chief executive who has troubles. Now that North Carolina has gone prohibition, what will the governor of that state say to the governor of South CarolinaP
 The Valdez ProSpector asserts that several government buildings sold at auction there brought only small per cent of their value, simply because the government lacked the business sense to advertise.
 A citizen of Wrangell stepped on a needle, which imbedded itself in his heel, and the Sentinel says it caused him to postpone a trip below. Many a man has gone below as result of a lesser accident.
 A press dispatch from Nome states that chat camp is wild with excitement over the discovery near there of large deposit of pitchbleny containing heavy proportions of radium.
 A wagon road is planned from Me- Graths, about 800 miles from the mouth of the Kuskokwim, to Gaines creek. This will enable the miners to get their supplies from the river to their claims on the creek.
 Wada, the Jap musher of the North, on recent trip from Herschel island to Dawson, ran out of dog feed, and kept them alive by giving them his seal pants and mucklucke, and arrived at Dawson minus these very necessary articles.
 The report that men are going hungry at Prince Rupert is denied by The Empire, which says; If any per son is going hungry in Prince Rupert it is because they are 500 bashful to ask for something to eat; but it is safe to say that no person is going hungry here. The people at Prince Rupert are of the West, and no man of the West allows a neighbor to go hungry when he knows it.
Douglas Island news., 1908-06-03
0'NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

It costs about S22,OOO to run the Cisy of Skagwsy for year,
 Cordova Is to have daily paper as soon as she gets her cable.
 The Alaska Road commission will have about S33O,OOO to spend this year.
 U. s. Judge Gu nnison has banded down a decision in the Dome Creek case.
 s5OO,OOo Is the amount appropriated by congress for the A.-Y.-P. Exposi- ton.
 Seward peninsula may safely be counted on to produce s5,OOO,000 this season.
 The application for the inoorpOra- tion of the town of Cor dova was de- nied by Judge Reid.
 The new townsite at Cordova, known as the Donohue homestead, has been placed on the market.
 The pastor of the Methodist church at Dawson has given up the job to attend Yale university,
 The provincial authorities at Prince Rupert are enforcing the law against gam bling and whiskey peddliug.
 William H. White, a colored man, with gold filling in his teeth, is wanted by bis sister at Youngstown, Ohio.
 There Is always something doing at Wrangell. A flock of guinea fowls settin' the people crazy is the latest.
 A moral wave has struck Nome and the people who are careless of their way of living are being chaIked up by the grand jury.
 Sam c. Dunham, author of the "Goldsmith of Nome" and some other taking Alaska jingles, wants to come back to Alaska.
 Uuder the provision of an omnibus territorial bill passed by Che house last week an additional judge was author ized for Alaska.
 Judge Reid, of the Third division, is 8 aid to be thirty-seven years old, stands six feet two inches high and weighs 298 ponnds.
 Ex.deleRate to Congress Waskey and his partner, named Crabtree, who have a lay on Wonder creek, Nome, will clean up sl5O,OOO this year.
 Press dispatches announce that the Northwestern branch of the American Mining Congress which was in session at Seattle last month passed resolu. tions condemning Gov. Hoggatt and John B. Corson, who were both in the city but did not attend the meetings. The Guggenheims also came in for a share of the criticism. What the Con- gress accomplished outside of this is not stated.
Douglas Island news., 1908-06-03

The Prince Rupert Empire of the 23rd, ult., says: It is stated that col lector of the port, George w. Morrow, on Wednesday night, refused to allow seventeen second class passengers to land at Prince Rupert, who came from Seattle on the City of Seattle. The first class passengers had no difficulty | in landing. It is claimed the second class passengers who were refused a landing could not prove that they had money in bank or in their pockets, and that the 6rst-class passengers did not need to prove that they had either money or letters of credit. Had these second class passengers from Seattle came first to Vancouver by rail, then taken passage on Canadian Pacific Railway steamer, they would have had no difficulty in landing at Prince Ru- pert. It is we'll known at Prince Ru- pert that the sailing here of the steam CTS of the Pacific Coast Steamship Go. is not liked by the Canadian Pacific Railway officials, who consider that no American has right to live or do business in Canada until after he has worked for the 0. P. R. long enough to be knighted. There is no tyranny so hateful as corporation tyranny; and no government officials so unbearable as those who are willing to do the bid ding of corporations.
 The story of a terrific fight between an eskimo and polar bear Is brought from the Arctic slope by Jujiro Wada, the Japanese musher.
 In the middle of December Q native named Nigakuse was in bis snow house, when on looking out through the peculiar little place of exit he saw polar bear. The man seized his rife and went out to give battle to the great white brute. Thinking 1t was best to let the bear get within close range and then to plug him with a leaden pellet and thus make no miss shot, the Eskimo let the bear advance to within few psces.
 Nigakuse raised the rife, took steady aim down the glistening barrel and creeked the fn ger.
 The next moment, when the native expected to look beneath the lifting wrath of smoke and to see the prost- rate form of blood-stained giant, was mortified to realize that the rifle had failed in it's service and that with the clogged barrel he was at the mercy of the on-rushing m onster. With angry snarl and rampant arms the beast fell on the now fleeing man and hugged him ferociously. The willy Eskimo did not submit supinely to being m1ttlated but writhed and tucked.
 The boar held the man in such way as to clasp the vice-like jaw on the unhappy Nigakuse. The man jerked the arm away, but in the foaming mouth of the beast remained slice of the arm.
 The native then side-stepped, lodged and stepped away from the bear. An. other native, attracted by the noise of battle, emerged from the snow house and with ready rife and steady aim sent home the death messenger. Niga- kuse was repaired with the crude Rro- cess of surgery available and lived to sink his teeth into the forearm of the bear and to devourIhis heart, his brains and tenderloin and to sleep in peace on the hide of the brute which had dared to walk and to fight like man.
Douglas Island news., 1908-06-03

Eastern naturalists, who have inter- ested themselves in the game of the Northwest, have decided that there are no grizzlies in the Alaska Yukon, but the bears commonly known as griz- zlies they have christened as the Alas brown bears. Greylings are called Arctic trout.
 The Juneau Record is of the opinion that the 28O car loads of steel pipe shipped north by the Guggenheims indicates that Alaska has nothing to fear from their peculstions. The fact that the aforesaid steel pipe goes to the Yukon perhaps cuts no figure in the case.
 Valdez creek promises to be a busy center of mining activity this summer and 1t Is estimated that at least 400 men will go in there by June. At present there are about 200 men at SeldoVia waiting for the inlet and river to be- come navigable, and several parties are coming from Seattle on the Bertha and Santa Clara.-Prospector.
 Extensive forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Tantalus and Yukon Crossing, fires which are the result of of those going down in small boats and who leave camp fires smouldering on the river banks where they are famed into conhagrations. Thousands of acres of standing timber are being swept over and destroyed and hundreds of cords of wood are threatened win destruction.
 The railroads of Alaska-both the real ones and those that exist only in the Imagination-are to be inVestigat- ed by a committee from Congress-. This committee will also investigate the relations that are supposed to ex- ist between Governor Hoggatt and the Guggenheims. The lobbyists that be- siege Congress at each annual session have only succeeded in creating dis trust and suspicion.
 The Alaska Terminal & Navigation company, new concern that proposes to build a line from KstalIa to the Fair banks district, hae filed articles of in with the secretary of the state of Washington. The incorpora- tors are T. P. Mcdonald, the we'll known KataIla coal operator, Clark and Chas. Davis, owner of the Katalla townsite, H. R. Hartman and Chas. Mclean, of Seattle. The new corpor- ation is capitalized at s1,0O0,0O0.- Katalla Herald.
 After constant struggle of m any years the people of the Yukon territory are about to be granted home rule. A news special from Ottawa states that the government has introduced a bill in parliament which provides for a wholly elective legislature of ten mem bers, beginning year hence. The passage of the bill is conceded. The duration of the legislature will be three years, meeting annually. It will elect its own speaker, but the governor who has acted in that capacity in the pres ent council, must give assent to all bills. He may approve them or refer them to the governor-general in coQn- Gil at Ottowa. All appointments must originate by message from he gover- nor
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05

sEor McCall's paper patterns 60
to the Chas. E. Gardiner Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Alger, of Tt-
ledo, Ohio, are located for the sea-
son in Mrs. G. E. Ellenwood's cot
tage on Bay street.
Because of the inclement weather
Yesterday evening the Crystal thea
tire had no show. The program ad-
vertised for last night will he given
tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Blackwell. oil
Altoona. Pa, arrived in the city
Thursday with the idea of remain
ing during the season if they find q
location to please item.
w. J. Morgan and family arrived
last night, as expected, from Bel
laire, Ohio, and are located for thu
season in their handsome winte
home, on North Ridgewood avenue
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05

There are many stories Of Tennyson
in the Duke Of Argyll's book. Pas
saEes From the Past" and one OF the
most characteristic relates to the time
when the marriage Of his grace. Their
the Marquis Of Lorne. and Princess
Louise was in the air. One day Tenny
son had a number Of guests at lunch
con. among whom was the Marquis 81
Lorne In the course Of talk the mar
quis told Tennyson. then poet laureate
that the queen liked his new volume.
Il am glad to hear It." TennyeoE
said in his sonorous. slow. musica
bass voice. IL have given q good &C
count Of her In that volume. but tn
newspapers don't like my rhymes-sa!
they are bad. live In terror" be con
tinued, "of any Of the queens tamil!
marrying and of hearing from her tina
she hopes l will write something.
have no news of that kind yet. but
live In terror Of It"
This with a solemnly sly wink.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05
THE QUEST OF BEAUTY.

Making Up" 10 very Ancient Psssi.
nine Al.
Making up" - applied to the ap-
pearance, II b. 10 means - modern
an art an many people imagine.
In the days Of Roman supremacy
the women tinted their eyebeows With
black in emulatioo Of ''ox eyed Venus g
They painted their facsa sprinkled
themselves with perfume and even
wore false hair o. tinted their own
locks In accordance with the prevail
ing fashion.
The Greek ladies Of the same period
employed maids who rubbed out theiI
mistress wrinkles, decorated" be-
face with red and white paint and
darkened her eyebrow. It was tber
also the fashion to coat the face with
white of egg and goose grease to pro
tect 1t from the sun and wind. 1t b
even said that they had . recipe fo'
turning blue eyes to black.
These fashions all had their origin
in Italy, where In later years the NO
torious Lucrezia Borgia b said to hav,
dyed her hair different coi0rs. accord
ing to her fancy Of the moment
In England In the eighteenth cen
fury many women. among them Lad,
Coventry, died from the effects O
rouge. So In all ages beauty at al
costs" was the motto Of smart" Ia
dies.-Pearson's Weekly.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05
The eausnsx STERN Fahle.

The United States weather bureau
has denied that the coming Of the equi-
nox brings with Il q storm. The BE-
lief. Il says. that the old fashioned peo-
pie pot 10 this theory IL all misplaced
Any big storm that happens to occur
within week or two Ut the time that
the sun h crossing .the line. say The
weather men. II dlSnified By the name
Of "eQuinOctial STORM" when. - Z
matter Of fact. there IL generally some
atmospheric disturbance every week OF
two. and those that occur about the
time Of the equinox are just taking
their turn and are not the result Of the
cr0galnR Of the am
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05

sSA - - - a al
8 noi @ 4il0E. Il Dee.s
~ - near Halt.
I. - 49,. 3
~ 60 - Caek arrived from Indi-
- - - hase rested one =
N Uahogb houok
B ca 16yrna BsiGxp returned hons
- 49, a(ese spsnding the snmmes
|Moetk
/ II. and Mn. Tribbsll, and fifteen
|othsss, arrived Thursday night.
n. and Mn. g. F. Lufberry, theil
|1lft1s 61aadsoa and his nurse. arrived
laet 49,.
r. and Mn. Murphy, and . friend
have arrived. and are at home in the
Eheosshoat which he bought last spring
iron Mr. Davis.
Miae Mflbuln and Miss May Ailburn
|c6ms home and spent Thanksgiving, u
did also Miss Mary Fair and Chauncy
Var.
We called on ]. White last week, and
found him busy experimenting the
eleaning up around their property.
d. and Mr. Written. and Nm. Whit
n's sister, aru comfortably located iu
Mn. Fox's cottage, on Ridgewood ave
nue..
Nf. and Mrs Schroeder, and theil
grandson. arrived Saturday.
W. G. Howes has opened his rea
estate Office.
Mr.. Hyden bought the Spauldint
place. At Blake, and has moved into it
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05

The passage in Genesis in which the
location Of the garden Of Eden seems
to be indicated has long been bone of
contention among theologians and Ri
BILE students generally. The discussion
Of the subject has been rs ingenious as
it has been fruitless. The garden has
been located all over Asia. The Ribl-
in the old MesopOtamia. the region Of
the great rivers" the Euphrates and
'rigris-New York American
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05
HITTING the Pipe.

When Jones got home the other night
he found the family In panic and the
house being flooded from burst water
pipe. The first thing he did was to
scold his wife for not having sense
enough to go down to the cellar and
hammer up the supply pipe to prevent
the water from escaping. Then he
went downstairs and was soon heard
hammerlng vigorously. After some
minutes strenuous work. giving one
last mighty blow. he asked. "How is it
n0ww
There Is no difference in the flow of
the water" his wife calmly replied.
but as the light has gone out very
much fear you have hammered up the
gas pipe."-Exchange