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The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

"Yule' of "Merrie England" is the old Teu-
tonic name of the religious festival of the win
ter solstice, during which Cet and Roman
could trace the movements of their deities as
they walked abroad in the world.
The Story Christmas Tells.
The Christian religion is not merely some
thing built over the old ethnic religions as the
church of st. Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome is
built over the ruins of the old heather temple
of Minerva, as the grove sacred to Adonis
was planted by the order of the Emperor Had
rian over "the cave close to the village" which
is now honored as the scene of the Saviours
birth. 1t had a larger and deeper meaning.
Christmas tells the story of gradual but
complete unfolding of the divine idea of relig-
ion as seen in the Christ Child of its worship
and its merry-makng in its at once sacred
and social feast
The story is told simply but graphically by
two of the four evangelists. st. Marks gospel
begins with the baptism of the Christ, so log
ically he had no need to tell the story of his
birth and boyhood. st. John wrote near the
close of the first century, and with the domi-
nant idea of setting forth the divinity of
Christ in opposition to the prevailing gnosti-
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17
REAL SOURCE OF STRENGTH
Astounding Love Of the Saviour Where
In the Christian Serves and
Is Served.

Christs love does not depend on our
faith, but our faith depends on his
love. Our service depends on his love,
also. We need to feed our faith there
II we are to serve him at all. IF any
man serve me, let him follow me-"
The way to serve is to be disciple;
to sit at his feet, to learn of him.
Before we can do his work we must
drink of his spirit and let him teach
us his secret. Before we can serve
him we must be humble enough to let
him serve us. Behold" said Thomas
a Kempis, ''all things are thine which
l have and whereby l serve thee. And
yet contrariwise thou rather servest
me than l thee"
This is the root of our faith, the
source of our strength, and the very
heart of our communion: Namely, that
the Son of Man came not to be min
istered unto but to minister There are
other aspects Of religion, the fight of
faith, the witness to the truth, Chris
tian service, and the whole issue in
practice of Christian love, but this
first, and this last, also, and this all
the time, that our spiritual life de-
ponds utterly on Christ. Creep close
to the warmth of his love; get near
to the source Of all your joy and SER
vice. Let the Son of Man minister to
you, serve you with his own sweet
courtesy.-Hugh Black, M. A.
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tian era pagan Europe, in all its tribes and
peoples, had celebrated its chief festival. So
here we have the double truth of the golden
age and the rebirth of the unconquered sun,
as he breaks the power of darkness refined
and enriched in the Christian teaching of
peace on earth and good will to men," as
coincident with the rising of the Sun of
Righteousness in the birth into the world of
the son of the peasant woman who was also
the Son of God.
This view of Christmas accentuates the
true place OF the Christian religion in relation
to the ancient and deep-seated religions which
preceded it, and at the same time reveals a
beauty of development in its elimination as
the completed manifestation of God to man.
In the infancy of the race the winter solstice
was everywhere a season of rejoicing. No
matter what the peculiar form which it as
sumed, il expressed the world joy of the time.
So the very idea of the Child God which gives
Christmas its meaning may not only have been
foretold by sybil and seer and prophet but
prefgured by the infant gods of the Greek and
Egyptian and Hindu and Buddhist forms OF
religion.
These to us imperfect an unsatisfactory
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17
Fishing Extraordinary.

Representative Flood of Virginia
tells a good story in which one OF
the characters was Gen. Reuben Lind
say Walker OF the confederate army.
On one occasion the general was wait
ing for his breakfast, and his faithful
negro servant had gone to catch some
fish for the feast. When the servant
was away an unusually long time the
general called to him impatiently:
"Why don't you come here with that
fish, Sam?"
Sam in the meantime had caught a
founder, which is white on one side.
with a whiteness that looks like raw
fish meat.
"All right. Massa Reuben!" called
out Sam. Use comm des ez soon ez
l kotch de uvver ha'f o. dis here fish,"
Washington Times.
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17
The Life In Christ.

II am come" said Christ, that they
might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly." The world
does not realize it-but ito live Is
Christ; that is, to know and serve
Christ is really and truly to live
whereas the service Of the world and
self is mere existence. So far from
being a cramping, restrictive infiu-
ence, allegiance to Christ is an intro
duction to an infinitely wider and full
er experience. "All things are yours,
and ye are Christ's, and Christ is
Gods" To see life in its true sense
is to realize its expanding possibilities
as the grace of God enlarges its scope.
In the realm and service of God every
thing abounds-love abounds; grace
abounds; life abounds.
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opher and surnamed Doctor Seraphcus" His pre-
served writings of dogmatic didactic nature
cusively and this hymn is not to be found them
Doubtless 1t be referred to the seraphc side of his
genius and temperament It's classic Latin cadences are
of such lyric felicity that cannot help but believe
they written to the noble and touching melody
whose wings they have oated to time Surely this is
fantastic suggestion when it is remembered that
the original Greek music of the Dephc hymn to Apollo
is intact and that certain familiar phrases OF
the Gregoran chant used to-day in the Roman are
identified by Hebrew historians the which were
sung Soomons temple many centuries before the time
of Christ.
The hymn "Adeste Fdees" is not known to have been
used England earlier than the seventeenth century
The musical setting have it in modern notation is
ascrbed by Noveo to John Reading, who was
organst Winchester cathedral from 1876 to 1881 and
winchester college. Its real origin is lost in the
antiquity which probably far antedaes the middle
ages and the Latin to which 1t has been insep
arably welded
Wordlanguage reaches but the people race to
directly addressed But the language Of music
universat is understanded of the people instantly
all the wide world overt needs not to be written in
choice Latin translated into many tongues-it is
caught up the heart and echoes forever That is
why the "Adeste Fideles" has become the Christmas
hymn of all the world.
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conceptions of the Di-
vine may have been the
rude but honest efforts
of the earlier days of the
human race to group the
idea of a Goldman which
has been made so real
and so full of Joy to us
in the Nativity and the
Epiphany of the Christ.
In this sense the early
church may have been
wiser than she wot of.
Her aim was to select
the best features of the
heather feasts and en-
body them for their puri-
fication in Christian
practices and sacred
rites and to wean the
converts from their old
superstitions to the
deeper and more real
truths of the Christian
faith.
But in so doing she
may have been the un-
conscious instrument of
a divinely guided evolu-
ton in religious practice
and belief which has en-
nobled and enriched the
world. The symbolism
of our Christmas today
certainly lends itself in
many ways to this point
of view. In the greenery
with which we deck our
houses and churches and
in the gift-laden fir trees
which gladden. our chill
dren's hearts, we still re-
tain the symbols by
which our heather fore
fathers signified their
faith in the power of re-
turning sun to clothe the
earth with green and
hang new fruit on the
trees. The Christmas
carol may be a new
birth of the hymns of
the Saturnalia. The
holly and mistletoe
came from the Druid
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17
The Vacant Chair.

What sad memories linger around
the old vacant chair. Sitting in the
middle of the floor, with a plaintive
look about its frayed and seemingly
weary back, it brings back a tumultu-
Gus riot of sad recollections that time
can never efface. Volumes of bitter
anguish come to me when l arrive
home In time to catch the milkman
swiping the loose furniture around the
place. and take of my shoes to avoid
publicity, and strike my best toe
against the rocker OF the old vacant
chair. Then, forgetting for the mo-
ment my unclad feet, kick the chair
on the other rocker. That is when
the sadness and suffering that fingers
around the old chair comes out with
an extra edition and great chunks of
gloom settle over me like herd of ILL
natured flies.-Oregon Journal.
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EvIdenee Of the Eather,s Love,

We ought not to be surprised at the
coming of sorrow or suffering. 1t IL
a part of our common lot, to be &C
cepted candidly and to be borne brave
ly. Let none of us conclude in con
sequence of pain that God is not good
that He is not wise. and that He has
ceased to love His child, for nothing
could be farther from the fact. He
is the sum of all that is good His
plans never miscarry, and sorrow Is
to the child Of God an exalted evidence
of the Fathers love.
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His Retort.

Newzance-Do you know, young
man, that five out of six people who
suffer from heart trouble have brought
it upon themselves through the filthy
habit of smoking?
Karmley-Really! And possibly you
are aware that nine out of ten people
who suffer from black eyes can trace
the complaint to habit Of not mind
ing their own business.-Pearson's
Weekly.
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COUGHING BURST
BLOOD VESSEL
Says Danger Avoided and Cures
Couuhs In 5 Hours,

Says Danger Avoided and Cures
Coughs in 5 Hours.
A writer for the medical press
states that coughing is responsible
for the bursting of blood vessels
quite frequently. A cough or cold
means inflammation (fever) and con-
gestion, and these in turn Indicate
that the body is full OF poisons and
waste matter. Simple relief, as found
in patent cough medicines, and whis-
key, often result in more harm than
good; as they cause more congestion.
A tonic-laxative cough syrup will
work marvels and here follows a pre-
scription which is becoming famous
for its prompt relief and thorough
cures. 1t ribs the system of the
cause, except it be consumption.
Don't wait for consumption to grasp
its victim, but begin this treatment,
which cures some in five hours. Mix
in a bottle one-half ounce fluid wild
cherry bark, one ounce compound es-
sence cardiol and three ounces syrup
white pine compound. Take twenty
drops every half hour for four hours.
Then. one-half to one teaspoonful
three or four times a day. Give chill
dren less according to age.
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

II is reported that there is a great
lack OF candidates for the ministry in
the provinces of Canada. Nova Scotia,
Newfoundland. New. Brunswick and
Prince Edward island. In the growing
vest there is said to be a demand for
20 to rs new candidates each year,
md we're It not for the supplies re-
'eived each year from England many
iastorates would remain empty.
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

CYHN EVERY Roman Catholic church and in probably
iHt / nney-andnine out Of every hundred Protestant
CO. churches throughout Chrstendom this is the sea-
L&gsRI when is heard that grand old hymn whose
tender and solemn strains find echo in the
universal human heart"Adeste Fideles" Come, All Ye
Faithful is the anthem at high at Christ
masde centuries past, calling Chrsts worshipers to
Bethlehem, where the newborn Savior lies
This naive and beautiful Latin anthem is ancient
than its history, and goes back six centuries
Saint Bonaventua Italian monk of the thirteenth CEN
ury died Lyons France in 1874 is credited with
the authorship of the beginning:
Adeste fdeles,
Laeti triumphantes,
Venite, vente in Bethlehem.
Nahum videte, Regem angelorum.
Vente adoremus,
Vene adoremus,
Venite adoremus Dominum.
oh, come all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant,
Oh come ye Oh come We to Bethlehem.
See the newborn Saviour. king of all the angels.
oh. let us adore him,
oh, let adore him,
Oh, como let adore him, Christ, our Lord.
Saint Franciscan scholastic phios-
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Not Up to Modern Standards.

"Your wife's new hat makes her
look like a queen" said the man who
tries to be complimentary.
Don't let her hear you say that"
answered Mr.. Bliggins: II have
looked through the histories and I
never yet saw picture of a queen
who looked as IL she enjoyed first
class milliner."
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

worship. The banquet
time itself may be a sur
vival, purified and refined.
of the original feast to
the gods and goddesses of
the fabled Olympus. The
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

Some people get so little out OF re
lgion because they arc so anxious to
yet so much for themselves.
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

Rheumatism and Neuralgia never could
get along with Hamlins Wizard Oil.
Wizard Oil always drives them away
from the premises in short order.
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

If a man will compliment his wife upon her
youthful appearance and tell her that he loves
her. she will forgive other white lies.
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

It's better to deserve success and
not have 1t than 10 have success and
not deserve II, although less pleasant
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

bration is part of the universal
history of the human race. What
ever may have been its origin and
whatever peculiarities may have
gathered about 1t in its adaptation
to different people and different
circumstances, it is to us Ameri-
cans to-day a practically national
feast.
To keep it was at one time, and
in our own part of the country, it
is true, a penal offense. 1t was
thought to SAVIOR of prelacy and to
foster unpleasant memories of DO
litical servitude. But it has grown
with our growth and the broad
mindedness of the American
people is seen at its best in the
hearty commemoration of the ma
tivity of the Christ from year to
year.
In some parts of the country, in
fact, Christmas day bids fair to
supplant Thanksgiving day, and it
certainly may already claim an
equality of recognition with the
time-honored national festival of
our New England forbears. People
of every creed and every nation
atty within our borders delight to
participate in the celebration of
the Christmas feast, and many a
scion of oldworld stock finds him.
self back home again as the church
bells peal and the candles glim-
mer on the Christmas trees. 1t is
time of universal peace and
good will. 1t brightens homes,
softens asperities and uplifts us
as 1T brings "the light that never
was on land or sea-"
The Origin Unknown.
The origin of the festival is said
to be lost in antiquity. If, as held
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

story is told of Alpine farmers servant
who hid in the stable Christmas eve and
heard the horses talking about his own death,
which followed few days later.
Bosnian Legend.
There is a Bosnian legend that the sun
leaps in the heavens and the stars dance
around it, great peace comes stealing down
over mountain and forest The rotten stumps
stand straight and green on the hillside. The
grass is befowered with blossoms and the
birds sing on the mountain tops in thanks to
God In Poland the heavens open and Jacobs
ladder is set up between earth and sky. In
Austria the candles are set in the window, that
the Christ Child may not stumble when he
comes to bless the home. In north Germany
the tables are spread and the lights left burn
ing for the Virgin Mary and her attending
angel.
The English superstition is admirably
voiced by the myriad-minded Shakespeare in
Hamlet"
Some say that 'ganst that season comes
Wherein our Lords birth is celebrated
The bird OF dawning sngeth all night long.
And then they say spirit walk abroad.
The nights are wholesome. Then no planets strike.
No fairy takes. nor witch hath power to charm,
SO haowed and gracious is the time"
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We help ourselves when We help
9th ers.-W. ]. Bryan.
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17
LUNG BALsAM

Is the old reliable cough remedy. Found IN every
drug store and In practically every home. For sale
by AZ druggists, sc, SOC and sloo bottles
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

Mrs. winsiow's Soothing Syrup.
Tor children teethine softens the gurns reduces m
aanraaton sllays pain. cures wind cole. 2oshottAe
The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17

LII the world
keeps Christ
mas day. From
the land of the
midnight sun
to the sunny
south of per-
petual summer
is a far cry.
But in the long
distance there
is no Ian d
where Christ
m a s is n o {
kept. It's cele-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-18
{ AR M [ AND
IN CENT RAJ iowa
IOWA CANNING COMPANY OF VIM
TON PAYS $3.50 PER ACRE
ADVANCE OF II PER CENT

Vinton, Sept. 16.-The sale of the
S. r. Booth farm Of 160 acres, located
one and three-quarters miles south
west of town, at $160 per acre, to
the Iowa Canning company establishes
new high mark for Benton county
farm land, and a new minimum price
for land similarly located and Inn
proved. The highest price previously
paid was s14O, an advance over the
high mark of 1908 of $40. The pur-
chasers last year bought the S. E..
Keith quarter section, adjoining the
Booth farm, nearer town and on the
same road, for $3.50 per acre. The
Booth improvements are held to be
worth SIS per acre more than those
on the Keith property, which would
make the advance in land SIS, or
over II per cent in one year.
The land is to be held strictly for
agricultural purposes-the especial
crop being sweet corn for the protec-
ton of the established business of the
canning company. Other farms as well
located will Immediately advance to
this new level. The price will prob
ably shade off to about S14O for land
located six or seven miles out, and no
land will be quoted below SIPS in this
part of Benton county.
In this connection it is worthy of
note that land prices have always
been too high in the estimation of
possible purchasers. There has always
been debate as to whether the crops
to be produced would pay out. There
was more hesitation to buy when
quotations reached $50 per acre than
there has been since the 500 level
was reached and passed. The can
ming company realized that their pro-
duct must be produced at the lowest
possible cost, and their willingness to
pay $160 is proof Of their belief that
there will be a further advance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-18
IOWA c. ELS CLOSE MEETING.
Vinton Gets Next Conventon-En
sign Elected AS
President

Iowa Falls, Sept. 16.-At the annual
state convention of the Christian En-
deavor society Of Iowa just closed in
this city, Vinton was chosen as the
place for the next convention in
July, 1910. The following officers OF
the state association were elected:
President, Rev. G. F. Ensign. OF Ce-
dar Rapids; vice president, Rev. H. E.
Van Horn Of Des Moines; secretary,
Miss Zerilda Black of Clinton; treas
urer, george w. Walker of Grinnell
junior superintendent, Miss Minnie
Thomas of Iowa Falls; intermediate
superintendent, Mrs. E. L. Condor of
La Grande; good citizenship Rev. w.
A. Schwamley of Sibley; Bible study
Rev. G. H. Doane of New Providence;
missionary superintendent, Rev. w. H
Ensign of Manchester; prison superin-
tendent, B. w. Garrett of Des Moines !:
editorial superintendent, Rev. G.. E.
Tower of Mason City.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-18
MYSTERY IN MURDER
Two Chicago Women Victims O
Tragedy Which Was Enacted
in Their Home,

Chicago, Sept. 16.-Mystery which
so far the police or the coroner have
been unable to solve, surrounds the
shooting of Mrs. Leah Trip and her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Silvers, whose
bodies, riddled with bullets and slash
ed with knife, we're found in an
apartment building at 5000 Prairie
avenue yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Trip, the wife of Julius
Trip, superintendent for Morris, Mann
& Reilly, was dead. Mrs. Silvers, I'M
conscious from lose of blood, was
taker to the Washington Park hos
pital, where ner death occurred four
hours later.
Two Theories Advanced.
Two theories as t. the shooting have
been advanced by the police and rela-
tives, but neither explains away
battling incidents connected with the
crime.
Relatives assert that Mrs. Silvers,
mentally deranged, ttacked her sister
in-law. shooting her when she was I'M
protected, and then turned the weapon
upon herself
The other theory is that a third per-
son broke into the home and out of
revenge or for purposes Of robbery
shot the two women.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-18
Northwestern to Build New Town.

Buxton, Sept. 16.-Rumor has it that
several changes are going to transpire
in the mining town of Buxton While
the c. & N. w. are not going to move
the town entirely away, they expect
to extend their line over in Wayne
township, in Monroe county and open
up the extensive coal field they own
and have option on in the corner CT
Lucas, Marion and Monroe counties.
They will move part of Buxton to the
new sight and run two coal camps,
instead of one.
The new town in Monroe, county as
intimated, will be located on the land
of James Foley and the Coleman
farms north of Melrose about five
miles. Ben Buxton has resigned rs
manager of the Buxton camp and with
his. family will move to Chicago. If
the G. & N. w. build on, as it is
rumored, it will benefit the towns on
the Belle PLANE and Buxton branch
as it will give them connections with
the Wabash and Burlington railways;
probably at Lovilia or near there
where the Northwestern will cross.
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WHIST CASE UP
IN CONFERENCE:
IOWA WOMAN WHO WON A PIG
WITH CARDS CARRIES APP
PEAL TO MINISTERS.

Ames, Sept. 16--Mrs. Minnie
Douglas of Abel played whist for
prizes and was ousted from the Meth
odist church at Abel Among the
prizes offered by the club was a live
pig. The annual conference at Des
Moines this week will probably con-
slider the matter, as Mrs. Douglas says
she will bring it before the assem-
blage.
The decision of the conference will
be important, as it might result in
ousting many women from the church.
There is division of opinion among
the ministers Of the Methodist church
regarding card playing, and a lively,
discussion will ensue if Mrs. Douglas
appeals to them While all frown on
card playing and playing for prizes,
many think there Is no more evil in
card playing in moderation than there
is in tennis or croquet.
81 do not believe our church rules
intend to exclude women like Mrs.
Douglas from the church." prominent
minister is quoted as saying. I'm my
l have, the one who is always first at
the prayer meeting, a competent
steward in the official board, president
of the Ladies' Aid society, teacher
in the Sunday school, a devoted
mother, and true woman in every
sense Of the word, occasionally plays
cards. regret that she does it, but
she is a model in every other respect.
and am not going to start trial to
GUST her from the church.