The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-03


 as for. our deeds.
 "The secret of success" said Disraeii. "is constancv to purpose. | This wonderful new year of 1909 | clamors for men and women of larger | vision. The old world seems to be In [! q making over process these days: per sons who are alive now are more for. l tunate than any who have ever lived before. To enter fully into the inner. itance of the new year requires upiook and outlook; wider horizons, higher as- pirations. deeper purposes. This is no time for petty existence for mean ends. We are living. we are dwelling. l In grand and awful time; In an age or ages telling, To be living is sublime, At last we have come to the flying machine age. In our congratulation l over this stupendous achievement. we may not forget. however. that the need for soaring souls is still more import | ant than the need for flying bodies It takes more than flying machines to cure man of his tendency to plod. and to- be satisfied with himself in huin- drum life. Only a frequently refresh- ed resolution to keep his spirit un. 1 tranimeled and free can enable man | to maintain his inheritance which is super-earthiy. t Before there can be great resolutions. in life or in lot. there must first be good resolutions in the individual heart.
 Seven sestenee sermon.. Bear your own burdens first: after | that try to help carry those of other l people. .--George Washington.
 Wisdom is. always good to learn, whose wisdom soever it may be.--A NJ. Fsirburn,
 Life Is leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two. and then comes night. Lowell. ] The truest proof of mans religion Basil. lSs
 No prayer takes hold of God until 1t first takes hold of man.-Horace Bushnell.
 Love rules the court. the camp. the | grove.
 And men below and saints above;
 For love is Heaven and Heaven Is love. | Scott.
 The Sabbath Is to give Us a chance to do what we like to do--to carry out our own character: the use we make Of It shows whether our character Is Christ-fike orznot.--Anon.
 News end Notes.
 Tn the Hawaiian Islands there are i01 Congregational churches, the mem- bership of which includes native Ha- waiians. whites. Chinese. negroes. Ko. reans. Japanese. Portuguese and people of mixed blood.
 The famous Labrador missionary, Dr. W. T. Grenfeil Is said to owe his con. version to a characteristic bit of un. copventionality on the part of Dwight L. Moody. The young Oxford man had gone from curiosity to one of the | evangeiists meetings. but q long. 1 winded man prayed so, long that Gren- fell. wearied, got up to leave. Before l he reached the door he heard Moody say. While this brother is finishing l his prayer. let us all sing" Grenfell ! decided that he wanted to learn more l of a man original and brave enough to do such thing, and he resumed his seat. In that meeting, the story has it, he was converted
 Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark. Presi- dent of the United Society of Chris tian Endeavor, was recently received by | King Haakon of Norway. A new theological seminary, a union of those which formerly existed at Tihin. O., and Collegeville, Pa., has been established at Dayton. O., by the Reformed Church in the United States.
 Rev. Dr. John H. De Forest. a dis- ffngutshed Congregational misionarv has been decorated by the Emperor of Japan.
 Archbishop o'Copneii. of Boston. ts to leave for Japan shortly on a diplo. matte mission. This is the second time the Pope has sent him to the Far East on an important mission for the Vatican.
 Broadway New York, recently was treated to procession of Protestant Episcopal Church workers, late at night. with the rector of St. GeorRe's Church and Evangelist W. J. Dawson at its head.
 The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. arranged three days convention of Christian workers. including many Of the country's foremost evangeIists. for the close of the year; the whole cuInI. hating in a watchnight service of Gos- pei song. with a chorus of 5000 voices in the Coliseum.
 Governor Glenn, of North Carolina | whose term of office expires with fhS