The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04

phenomena more remarkable tina
the crusades OF the middle ages. Pres
dent Taft, from practical first a
knowledge, gives the work his VI
qualified approval. In a recent maya
zine article Nihol Single, an Orientf
again., points out that the number c
converts is no measure OF the effect
iveness Of Christian missions in IN
East The indirect result of their Ia
bOrs is seen in the establishment q
natives of orphanages, schools an
colleges and in medical and socls
work and the amelioration of the con
dition of Asian women Though thes
Institutions and these efforts may Q
p~ropogated under another name tina
Christian, yet they are the frultlon {
missionaries toll.
When two American m~issionarie
Henry Maurer and D. M. Rogers, an
another American, H. c. Baskervill
we're killed While defending Armenian
in Asia Minor last April, by Moseln
a secular paper thus called attentio
to the work of missions:
primarily the missionary
breaches and teaches, but he can
not represent a higher civilization
and a better faith without leading
in all else. His schools and col
leges begin education. His print
ing press is first, and it has n'nre
than once begun, as in Turkey, a
free press. His hospital and his
~dispensary introduce modern
medicine. He opens strange
grammar and dictionary lead the
way.
when trouble he is at
the front of danger. He faces the
riot, fights fire, and risks his life
for those about him. His house
and school is the one refuge for
those hunted by the mob. Two
American teachers thirteen years
ago in Aintab, Turkey, faced all
that concourse alone to open their
doors to fleeing Armenian wO-
men, n held back the MOslem
mob by sheer moral force and
personal presence. h Catholic
missionaries at Peking led the de-
Tense of their cathedral, crowded
with converts, against the Boxers.
A Baptist missionary, with an en-
gineer's training, planned and
laid out under incessant fire the
Qualifications for the legations
there and led the attack which
seized the central point Of de-
Tense.
"At Adana, Tarsus, and Mer-
sina today the refugees from the
MOslem massacre crowd the
American miSsiOn-hOuses."
Ratification of Joan.
The qualification of Joan of Arc. h
maid of Orleans, by Pope Plus Y. a
the Vatican was the most ~interestin:
church ceremony of the year. Afte.
forty years Of patient inquiry thi.
maid, burned on earth as a witch. i
named "blest of heaven raised t.
the affairs of the Church, priests ma,
offer mass in her honor and peop1,
NAV sock her intarnnSSjnn in nr0I-ar
Thunder Of riotous hoofs over tn
Quaking sod;
Clash of reeking suuadrons, steel
capped, iron-shOd;
white maid and the white hors,
and the Tapping banne Of God
Like q story from some IL book
hat battle Of long ago:
Shadows the poor French King ant
the might of his English foe:
Shadows the charging mobiles and TIL
archers kneeling arrow,
But a flame in my heart and my eye
the Maid with her banner o
snoW!'
Perhaps in the ecclesiastical lis
might be mentioned the excommuni
cation of Mrs. Stetson, formerly Firs
Reader in the First church of Christ
Scientist, for practicing ''maliciou,
animal magnetism" mental assassi
nation which appear to be refined
modernized names for witchcraft.
For the first time since Napoleon
the Pope left the Vatican, and the1
his aim was to succor the sufferins
Messina refugees.
Political Changes.
The center Of political turmoil shift
ed from the theatre of Japanese-Rus
sian war to Turkey and Persia. II
turkey the Young Turks backed b,
the army, gained the ascendency ant
Sultan Abdu Hamid granted a consti
luton and a parliament assembled
Later, when the sentiment of tn,
army showed a change he reverted +.
his old policy. This was followed b,
the massacre Of nearly $4,000 Chri
tlans IN Asia Minor by Moslems ant
among these were three American
missionaries. May LIST the Unitee
states cruisers Montana and Nortl
carolina We're ordered to CONSTANT
noble. However, another bioodless rev
olutlOn took place, Abdul Hamid II
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