The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-20

Cheer UP, Jeremiah.
Hon, John Burns. the noted English |
statesman and labor leader, in a recent |
speech told story which is worth re.
of his health into a building somewhat
population and cell accommodation
which ena bled him to be all alone. There
was n book there called the Bible. Eie
noticed that his predecessor in that par
ucuar place had utilized a pin which
he got very probably In his oakum. to
prick comment against particularly
dismal passage in the lamentations OF
Jeremiah The comment of his philo
sophie, predecessor was. Cheer UP. Jere-
mlahH'
Missionary Life Has Excitement.
The ife Of the missionary in Africa is
not without It's excitement and interest
DR.. Wilfrid McFarlane. one OF the Lon
don Missionary society's representatives.
who has Just gone back with his wife and
family to Mpologoso. Northeast Rhodesia
writes In a private letter; Not long after
we left the train and had crossed our
first big river, the Luapula, we came into
country which has recently become In
! tested with man eating lions, We were
| going along quietly. In our usual scat
tered way. when VIC heard tremendous
| shouting behind us. The natives were
rushing out OF a village, calling out that
we would he eaten by the lions " we
! went on. Two people had been caught
and eaten that very day. We lined up
and held a council OF war, and decided to
| go on, all Keeping close together. These
lions seemed TO follow us all the way
! One evening. Just we were coming
near Fort Rosebery. we came right on
two of them: they had just crossed the
road In front of us, and were trotting
! along only eighty yards ahead We kept
very close. and made for the government
house as quickly as possible
.Farthest Mission South.
The Methodist claim to have the mis-
sion farthest south in the world, main
tanning for years mission in Punta
| Arenas, Straits OF Magellan. and now
comes letter from Distric, Superntend-
ent Gerhard J. Schlllng, who Is evan
| gelizing upon one OF the top shelves
OF the elobe-Bolivia. A missionary Of
seventeen years experience, he is open
! Ing up new stations In the interior OF
Bolivia. attending at the same time to
an English, German and Spanish
! church In Lapsz. the capital of the re-
public He says. in part:
Among the steep slopes the natives
| cultivate cocoa. coffee. and cacao. These
people are extremely ignorant. A man
came to the town OF Coroico TO sell five
baskets Of cacao at S6 each. Said the
buyer: :. take them. Six times So are
| him. But the Indian did not agree with
him as 10 the result OF five times six.
He thought II ought 10 he more So
and this was TO me lesson in patience
! the obliging merchant took grains Of
corn and made SIX heaps Of FIVE grains
X each, Then he put two heaps together
and the Indian agreed as TO the sum of
ten. Having repeated the operation three
times, the surprised vendor acknowledged
the sum total to be three times ten. even
thirty. This manifest proof Of the pler-
chants honesty made the Indian buy
some articles from him in return
Restoring Garden of Eden,
"Out of Eden came river, which wa
tered IL garden and from then IL was
parted and became four rivers" Pison.
Gihon. Hiddekel and Babylon these four
streams were called In Bible times. All
four still flow. but are know by modern
l. Arab names; the present Euphrates. for
example. is the old River OF Babylon.
The Garden OF Eden. though long neg
lected, and now mostly a waste area. is
to be restored by great system of ir-
risation The Turkish government has
engaged the eminent Egyptian irrigation
engineer Sir william Willcocks. to SUI
perlntend the reclamation OF over twelve
million acres in Mesopotamia. Sir VIII
liam, himself man learned in Bible his
tory. says the Garden OF Eden was un-
doubtedly located on the EuphraIes. wcst
of Basdad and just below Hit OF the
Hittites.
understand the "Catch my PAL
movement. inauTurated by Rev. r, j.
Pattison. a young Irish Presbyterian min :
lister. less than two years ago and which
has swept that country. Is TO be brought
10 America. II has been the most Of
| fectlNe, practlCdI temperance movement
OF recent years.
Christian Citizenship Conference.
The Worlds Christian citizenship con
Wednesday, and will continue In session
until tomorrow. More than a thousand
delegates are present; representing al
eysry IN ssS
4 societies. Sabbath schools. mems broth,
erhoods. Christian Endeavor societies.
4 NJ c. AS. arc the various Christian re
form organizations entitled TO appoln
delegates, The sessions are held In thu
A Chambers -Wylie Memorial church il
4 Philadelphia. and the seating capacity
4 Scovel presides. The topics discussed In
n cudc THE Moral Accountability OF Ma
tons" The Bearing Of National Life Of
10 the Kingdom OF Christ" National Re
sponsIpilty Toward the Negro Race.
\ Traffie." "rhe Children Of the Natlor
and the Foes to Moral Purity" "Chr's
tIon Governments and Their EIepresen
Wefare Ths LGrds Mssona paE am
tian Commonwealth" "Emigra tion an
Y Immigration as Related TO Christian Citj
h Governments Tor Morals and Religion
u "Nntionnl Christianity In Fundamsnta
"A Laws" Perhaps the more importont par
IL OF tne conIeTrHc" WIS IN" CeCVptlun pl Te
4 ports presenting the conditions existin
4 all over the world. These reports dea
With Tho British Government and II,
Christian Religion" "Thc German an
N Holland Governments and Christianity,
"Thc French and Belgian Nations. per
n sla" "Mohammedanism and Nations
"A Life" "The Roman Catholic Countries {
Southern Europe" '"rhe Greek Catholi
X Countries" ''The South American Cont
nent. "Chrlstlanlty in the Unto
States" and "ChInu.
.sIptcuselv interesting" "historical
~ correct.h is the verdict of Utahp
who have read Josiah f. Gihbs's lates
work on the Mormon question. "Th