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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
A Primitive Baptist's View
of Missions

VI CSdCu Lu0 GOSpGl pT0C0pCS ana 6X-
amples. Anything more than this is
presumption, and we should not pre-
sumo to be doing thing that God
has not called us to do. Now I feel
the same rule of quickening into life
in every nation is the same as it is
here, and that by the Spirit of God,
for Christ says He casts out Satan or
regenerates by the Spirit of God.
Paul, in speaking of the saving in
fuence of the Gospel, ''For we are
unto God sweet SAVIOR of Christ in
them that are saved and in them that
perish, to the one we are the SAVIOR
Of death unto death and to the other
the SAVIOR of life unto life" 2 Cor.
2: Is, 16. Now this is what he
means. When the Gospel is preach
ed to the dead in sin it condemns
him in his sins, for he has no love
for it, because he has not been kill
ed to love of sin, and, therefore,
he does not feast on it, But to
those that have been regenerated
and have life, when the Gospel has
been preached unto them they hear
because they have an ear to hear.
they understand because they have
heart to understand, therefore they
grow under the sound of the Gospel.
To him it is a SAVIOR of life unto life,
and he is made to rejoice in it, and
it is food to his hungry soul; there
fore we hear Christ say, Blessed is
he that hungereth for he shall be
filled. So we see that character has
already been blessed or he could not
hunger. No dead man hungers for
the natural bread, for he has
not natural life to subsist on that
bread. So we must have spiritual
life to feed on that spiritual food;
for the natural man receives not of
the things of the Spirit, for they are
spiritually discerned.
SO that is what our Bible teaches,
and | believe you believe it.
l was talking once to missionary
minister on the subject of Foreign
Missions in the year that the Phil
ipines were annexed to the United
States. | said to him, You claim that
God uses the Gospel as a means to
regenerate souls? He said, Yes.
Now suppose the Gospel has just
reached the islands, and God is re-
generating them with or by the
Gospel; then what has become of all
that died before the Gospel reached
there, if the Gospel was the means
to quicken those? He hung his
head and said they must have been
all lost. Then I said, According to
that theory, it seems as though their
eternal salvation hung on that PLAN
they could say in the morning of
the last day that they did not have
the Gospel that they might believe.
That put him to silence. And it is
the end of such a theory.
Now much could be said on this
line. If the Lords servants were as
busy working in the sphere that God
has called them and placed them, as
they are trying to do out of it, we
would have a glorious world.
So, Mr.. Watson, I feel that the
above is the teachings of the Scrip
lures, and the intention of the Cos
pei.
l hope you will ever be blessed to
expose the unsoundness in the Gov
eminent, and the presuming theory,
and Roman Catholicism, which is
the darkest cloud that is hanging
over and darkening our nation.
Yours very truly,
J. e. SPILLERS.
Sycamore, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14


am well pleased with same. heartily
endorse what you have to say about
Foreign Missions as far as you go,
but you only condemn the financial
and immoral part.
[ have thought for a long time
that there was never a greater hum
bug practiced on the people than the
modern mission system. And I feel
if there ever was time for the Cos
pei to be preached it is now, and that
beginning at home.
Now pardon me if I should give
my views on the Bible teachings as
[ understand it. Christ said to the
Jews first, then to the Gentiles-
First at home then abroad. This you
have set forth from a moral and
a financial standpoint
Now the subject is, What was the
intention of the Gospel? Paul says,
it pleased God by the
foolishness Of preaching to save
them that believed First Cor. 1t
would be we'll for any one to read
the whole chapter. Now we are
tat Eht that a believer is one that has
beeSSborn Of God and not dead sin
ner{S For whosoever believeth is
borE1Spf God, so says the Bible.
Noy----e know that no dead sinner is
cape mSed to have an understand
ing, hanGen to believe until spiritual
life oA; aarted. Then how does life
come oillc3t? The same writer says,
YOU Hath He Good quickened who
were dead in trespasses and in sin"
Then dead sinners are quickened in
to life by the Spirit of God. For the
Bible says it is the Spirit that
quickeneth, the flesh profiteth moth
ing. Then we see how a poor dead
sinner is made capacitated to love
and believe. Now until this is done
the Gospel can have no effect at all,
for no where in the Bible 3S it eX-
pressed or implied that God uses the
Gospel as a means of Quickening
into life, for the same writer says,
received it not of man neither was i
taught it of man, but by revelation
of Jesus Christ. So it was after this
principle that Christ said unto his
disciples, eco into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every crea-
ture" Preach means to teach or in
struct. Knowing that the Spirit
would go ahead and regenerate the
uSd1 UO1n IACO C1C OP14ACu mig
dom, that they might be prepared to
receive the Gospel, for the Bible
says in every nation, kindred and
tongue the Lord has a, people. But
one says, are we not all His chill
dren? We are by creation, but not
by regeneration. Now Paul says
again, eft was through the Gospel of
Jesus Christ to bring life and i'm
mortality to light through the Cos
pei. - Tim. 1:10. So we see that
the Gospel does not impart life, but
brings to light that which the Holy
Spirit has already impaired and
teaches that creature what God would
have him do in the Gospel kingdom
of Christ. Now we see that man is
presuming to do what God has not
called him to do.
So on the same principle we hear
our blessed Savior say to Peter in
person, Go and feed My lambs,
My sheep Not to buy them
with money, for He had purchased
them with His blood; not to quicken
them into life for that was the work
of the Holy Spirit, not to make choice
Of for His Heavenly Father had al
ready chosen them in Himself,
Christ, before the foundation of the
world; but just simply do as I have
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
DEAFNESS CURED
BY New Discovery

s'I have de-
I'M on $ { r a ted
{ Ia a { q e "A f.
ness can be
Gu re d. DIR.
Guy Clifford
Powell.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Four and Its MultipIe Of Ten.

The number four was uncicnuy es.
teemed the most perfect of ALL being
the arithmetical mean between one
and seven. Oman, the second calirt,
said, -Four things come not back
the spoken word, the sped arrow, the
past life. the neglected opportunity"
In nature there are four seasons and
the four points Of the compass
Forty, multiple of four by ten, is
one Of the sacred numbers. The pro-
baton of our first parents in the gar
den of Eden is supposed to have been
forty years. The rain fell at the del
uge forty days and lights, and the wa
ter remained on the earth forty days.
The days Of embalming the dead were
forty. Solomon's temple was forty
cubits long. In it were ten LAYERS,
each four cubits long and containing
forty baths.
Moses was forty years old when he
fed into the land of indian, where he
dwelt forty years. He was on Mount
Sinai forty days and forty nights. The
lsraelites wandered in the wilderness
forty years. The Saviour tasted forty
days and nights before entering upon
public life. The same time elapsed
between the resurrection and the as
cension.-Exchange.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Paderewski,s Qistinction

There was day when Paderewski's
English was not fluent One evening
before a choice company in his ele-
CANT apartments in New York he was
showing few highly flattered callers
how to do this. that and t'other on the
keys of his grand piano, explaining in
bad English as he went. OF course the
man was present who is ever ready to
supply a word when q speaker hest
tates. The famous artist, landing with
both hands as if he had just dropped
from the ceiling, exclaimed, "Harmo-
ny" All applauded the perfect con-
cord. He shot down again like a trip
hammer and would have exclaimed
again, but the word refused to come.
what you call-er-er"- "Discord,"
put in the supplier Of words. Padcrew-
skis hair stood straight out, and his
face was white and red with anger.
Jumping up from the stool, he sput-
tered: "Deescort! No! With me a
deescort ISIS eempossiblcw He would
not be persuaded to touch the instru-
ment again that night. The unintcn-
tional insult struck deep.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
The Owls Give An Entertain
ment.

The Rapid City nest, Fraternal Or
der of Owls, organized and already
numbering over one hundred and fifty
members, has secured the Columbia
Opera Company for two presentations
of the celebrated Chinese comic opera
of the "Mandarin.' This company
made such a charming impression in
Hot Springs in January that they re-
turn for another engagement of two
nights for the benefit of the Hot
Springs base ball team in the same
opera.
The Owls are nothing if not pro-
gressive, and they have shown by Sc
curing this company a praisoworthy
enterprise which sh I'll commend itself
to all our citizens. A very hands ONE
souvenir program will be published in
connection with these entertainments
freely interspersed with elegant half
tones of the principals of the company.
Tickets are now in the hands of the
members for sale, and they will
doubtless find no difficulty in dispos-
ing Of them to all who have the price.
There are other adjucts to the opera
which will be announced later, and
no stone will be left unturned to rem
der the occasion memorable in the
history of Rapid City good things.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
No Sense of Humor.

"Fog Eye" Smith of northwest Wyo-
ming bore an appalling facade. His
style of beauty was a blight. Depend
ing upon his horrific exterior, he was
in the habit Of trying to awe newcom-
erses On one occasion, affecting some
displeasure at the manner in which
q pallid stranger watered his liquor.
Mr.. Smith announced, frowning, that
unless he detected immediate amend
ment he would send the neophytc
home in market basket. (which I'll
sure tear you up a whole lot" said
Fog Eye Half an hour later Mr.. Fog
Eye was found cropping about on the
floor under the poker table hunting
for his glass eye and muttering to him
self. The stranger asked with some
evidence Of impatience what new line
Of sentiments Mr.. Smith was now har-
boring. That injured resident, glar-
ing inadvertently from beneath the fur
niturc, replied, (Which sure do hate
a man with no sense Of humor."-
Argonaut.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
SEVENTEEN-YBAR LOCUSTS
ARE DUE THIS YEAR
No One Knows Where They
Come From But They
Seem to Get here

This is the year that the seventeen
year locust is due again and in a few
weeks he will make his appearance
in the farms of the middle west. At
least the authorities on locust lore
and superstition are sure he will, and
they have never been mistaken in the
past. No one seems to know exactly
where the seventeen-year locust con4%
from, but it is a matter of recogu Una,
he does show up regularly just The
same.
And the thing that is interesting
the farmers and the old timers most
is whether he will bring q "W" on
his wings or a "P' as is hoped. wv"
on q Seventeen-year locust means
war. There is no reason under the
sun that is known as to why it should
.be always either "W" or ''P,n but
those are the only two letters that
have been noticed. And also the To-
Gust lore experts have good deal of
statistical backing when they assert
that if the 'W" is on the wings it
will surely mean war and if the "P"
is on the wings it will just as surely
mean peace.
In 1893, the last time the locusts
were here" said an old commercial
traveller the other day, ''the wings
bore a decided "W." And we prompt
ly got into the war with Spain. In
1876 saw the "P" on the wings my
self. And following that we had
peace and plenty. l don't remember
SO far back as 1859, that is to say, 1
don't remember locusts back in those
days, but have been told by scores
OF old farmers that the seventeen
year kind showed up that year and
bore "W" on each wing. The civil
war followed.
Some of the older generation of
farmers have records in the old fam
lily bible to prove that the former Wis.
itation of seventeen-year locusts that
came in 1912 presaged the Mexican
war by bearing ''W" on their wings.
| can tell you the farmers are not
anxious to have them come, but they
they are superstitious as to their ver-
ity as harbingers. When you come
to think Of it, this letter business
seems like very foolish superstition.
But when you know that they do
bear either the ''W" or ''P" and that
thesign has never failed, what are you
going to DO about it?'
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
MORE SOUTH DAKOTA
LANDS TO BE OPENED
Pine Ridge and Rosebud Bills
Have Passed Both Houses
of Congress

All of the conference reports on the
Pine Ridge and Rosebud opening bills
have been approved in both house
and senate and went to the white
house for the last act needed to make
them laws Of the land. Senator Gam
BILE got the reports accepted and
Chairman Burke guided them safely
through the house.
The SABBATH amendment, which per-
mitted registration to take place from
any part of the country without Wis
iting the beautiful state of South Da-
kota was the cause of all the worry
on the part OF the statesmen who
wanted the bills to pass. This would
have meant millions of applications
in the lottery for a million and a half
acres of land. 1t would have cost the
Indians large sum to take care Of
the registration.
When the conference committee
took hold of the bills as passed in
house and senate they eliminated the
amendment.
These bills throw open to settle
ment 100000 acres in the southern
part Of the state. Registration points
will be selected by the department
and the applicants will have to jour
ney to one of these points to deposit
their applications. Already Gregory
wants to be one of the registration
points. Merriam, Nebraska, demands
recognition as the registration point
for Bennett county. Chamberlain,
Kadoka, Murdo and Rapid City have
also been mentioned as possible loca-
tions for the registration. Four of
these towns will be chosen and the
registration will begin this fall or
next spring.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Newsy Notes of the State.

Miss Mary Humphrey, of Water
town, is the new editor Of the Hill
City Star, having taken charge of
same this week.
The Belle Fourche Bee has just put
in a Junior linotye machine in order
to handle the increasing business of
the office.
Oelrichs is to have new building
for the Odd Fellows lodge. 1t will be
two stories high, the lower floor to be
used as theatre and public hall
The rush for the lands in the
Standing Rock and Cheyenne Indian
reservations recently opened to set
tlement seems to have abated. Reli-
t,Ie e.;iA1ates indicate that of the
iiroI ten thousand names drawn only
about five thousand will make their
filing on the lands.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Misinterpreting the West.

In much OF. the conventional "West-
ern'' fiction that is being dealt out in
book form and short stories, and
palmed off on Eastern readers as Sthe
real thing a good deal is to be for
given on account Of the appalling ig-
norance Of the authors. They don't
know any better and never will know
any better; and if they can make a
few dollars by holding themselves up
in IIackensack, N. j., and writing
cowboy stories, it is not for any
Westerner to attempt to stop the
game.
When a writer of Hamlin Garland
reputation perpetrates a book like
Cavanaugh, "Forest Ranger" how
ever, it is time to ask the literary au-
thorities if misrepresentation of the
west has not gone far enough. Any
thing more unappreciative and I'M
sympathetic than Mr.. Garland's atti-
tude is hard to imagine-particularly
in the case of western settlers who
are not Of the jaunty Pullman-car
type exemplitied by this ranger, Cav
anaugh, who is English by birth and
looks with holy terror on all the in
stitutions thau have made the west
what it is. Most of the people por-
trayed by Mr.. Garland-the book is
evidently on alleged picture of Wy
oming in the days of the Wyoming
cattle WARFARE Doors. He cannot
caricature, but contents himself with
petty meanness. According to one of
his characters, "the coWman was con-
ceived in anarchy and educated in
a malicious statement that
is only one Of the many things show
ing the authors unreasoning and UNI
attitude.
Frem the beginning of his literary
career, however, Hamlin Garland has
not been distinguished for sympathy.
His gloomy picture Of life in the Da-
kotas in his earlier stories made the
reader wonder how anybody could
live there-and yet the Dakotas are
settled with reason able, happy and eX
ceedingly prosperous folk today. Now
that the same gloomy eye has been
turned on the far West, it is evident
that those who do not belong to what
Mr.. Garland chooses to call "the new
regime are to be held up as anar-
chists, murderers and Doors. In spite
Of this casual observer, with his total
lack of understanding of the forces
and motives that shaped the old west,
there are many Westerners who will
go right on believing that this part
of the country has much to he proud
of and little to apologize for, let the
gloomsters of the Garland type select
what epoch they will.-Denver Re
publican.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Annual Meeting.

Notice IS hereby given That the
annual meeting of the Mountain
View Cemetery Association, for the
purpose of electing board Of direct
ors for the ensuing year, and trans
acting such other business as may
properly come before the meeting,
will be held at the Office of the sec
rotary, in the First National Bank
building, on the second Wednesday in
June, being June s, 1910, at o'clock
p. IN. A. X. THOMAS, Secretary.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Oriuin of MWaterad Stock y

The expression "watcred stock"
which describes SO well the expansion
of the stock of a company beyond the
value of the property, originated, it is
who was once the wcalthicst and most
unique manipulation in Wall street.
Drew had been a drover in his younger
days, and it was said Of him that be-
fore selling his cattle in the market he
would first give them large quantities
Of salt to make them thirsty and then
provide them with all the water they
could drink. In this way their weight
was greatly increased, and the pur-
chaser was buying "watered stock"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Church Announcements

BAPTIST.
Rev. j. +. Blodgett, pastor. Morn
ing service at 1915: Sunday school at
l2:Oo: evening, 1870.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. f. G. Holbrook. pastor. Morn
ing service at lO:45. Sunday school at
II M: evening services, 1870
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Rev. w. S. Grim, pastor. Class meet
ing at 1915 a. M: public worship and
sermon, l0:45 a. M: Sunday school at
l2:O0 M; Epworth League, $50 p. m.
CATHOLIC.
Rev. FIR. StraetOn. pastor. First
mass at 500 a. m. High mass, 1000
a. m. Sunday school Immediately af-
ter high mass. On week days mass at
700 a. m. Sunday evening services
at 1870.
EMANUEL MISSION.
Rev. G. S. Kellar, pastor. Morning
service 1915 a. ~; Sunday school at
l2:l5 p. M; evening service 1870
SWEDISH FREE CHURCH.
Kansas City and Twelfth streets.
Sunday school at 1870 D. m. Evening
services at 500. Thursday evening
services at 500.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST.
Services at II a. m. Sunday school
3:45 a. m. wednesday evening service
at 500. Chapel on Sixth street, near
Kansas City street. Reading room
open Wednesday afternoons at same
place,
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Alfalfa Growing.

Alfalfa has been designated the
King Of Forage Crops. 1t is a great
and valuable crop for South Dakota
where we have as good alfalfa soils as
in the world. The acreage should be
increased.
Brother Farmer are you growing any
alfalfa? If not, why not? Send me
your name and l will send you Bulle-
tin No. l2O on alfalfa, which is just
Off the press. After reading this bull
letin you may decide to grow small
patch to begin with.
Bulletin No. l2O contains the fol
lowing:
l. Introduction.
2. Soil Type.
3. Preparation of the Seed Bed.
4. Pure Seed.
S. Quantity to Sow.
6. Time to Sow.
I. Method of Seeding.
s. Management in the Field.
8. Harvesting.
10 Seed.
II. Varieties Tested.
Why not join the list of farmers
who are cooperative with the Agron-
omy Department Of the Agricultural
Experiment Station in testing afal-
fas?
For information regarding soil,
corn, small grain, alfalfa, clover, for
age crops ETC., write to the Agrono-
my Department, Brookings, S. ID.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Another Family Comes Here.

George Walters left on Friday morn
ing for Mystic where he takes charge
of the freight train between Mystic
and Rapid on the old Crouch line.
The position is good one and Mr..
Walters can and will make good in
the place. He has resided here long
time and has nice property in town,
which he is Offering for sale as he in
tends moving his family to Rapid
City as soon as he gets settled. He
and his family will be very much
missed in our town as they are the
best of citizens. We wish them the
best of success in their new home
Edgemont Express.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27

Remember the Upion-sl.5O year.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-27
Word comes through number O

Word comes through a number of
people down from theASh Creek cOun-
try that a party of surveyors for the
Milwaukee road are running prelimi-
mary lines and working to the south
east, practically along the North
western survey that was made last
year They started, it is understood.
at the end of the Fox Ridge survey at
Faith, Meade county, and are to
work into kadoka. Perhaps it means
another line for Philip Philip Re-
view.