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TODAY IS DEDICATED TO
THE MOTHERS OF THE LAND
All Over the Country Tributes Are Being
Paid to the Fond and Gentle Parent Who
Keeps Vigil at the Cradle Side-Y. NJ.
C. A. Secretary to Go to Constantinople.

of her plan They all thought it a good
one and many wondered why no one else
had ever founded Mothers day. The
original thought which first came to mind
of this middle-aged women was discussed
and praised publicly for the first time
through the columns of the press. Prom
inent ministers brought the matter to the
attention of their brethren Of the clergy,
the superintendent of the Philadelphia
schools caused notice of the first Moth
ers' day." four years ago. to be made IN
all the elementary schools Of the city.
On Sunday, May Q. 1906 Mothers day
sermons were preached in many nun
dreds CT churches in different cities:
Mothers day will be widely observed
i'm New York in San Francisco, in Alas
ka and in nearly every small city ana
town in the south, east and west.
Special services are to be held In
number of the local churches. AT tEe
First Presbyterian Church the pastor
and each person attending will receive
white carnation or white rose. Carriages
will also be sent TO the Presbyterian
Home. and number Of aged people VINO
are unable to walk a considerable as
lance will be brought to church
There will also be special services IN
the New York avenue and Westminster
Presbyterian Churches. DR.. Radchne. the
pastor, will preach in the FORMER edince
and Rev. Titus e. Davis at the second
named.
The following musical program VIII
he given in ST. Pauls English Lutheran
Church this morning: Prelude. Ave
Maria tSchuberO; professional, ~
Mother Dear, Jerusalem: liturgical serv-
ice; anthem by quartet. House of Many
Mansions (F'oster); Scripture lessons:
song by junior choir. My Mother
song: announcements; duet. son, Be-
hol1 Thy Mother" CMercadante); hymn.
I'VE Speak Of the Realms of the Blest'
song by junior choir. MY Mothers Pray.
err: solo, angels Ever Bright and Fair
(HandeD; hymn. Home. Sweet Home
PRAYER; occasional. Take Me Back 70
Home and Mother; pestlude. Pilgrims
Chorus (Wagnerl
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shall want TO be arrayed in the garment
or Christs Righteousness. If we go to
the Sunday drawer and examine We shall
find the pure white linen of that robe
sadly soiled and frayed with the rush
and toll of our lives. Is the rush and
toll going to help to mend it or to clean
1t? There, for instance, is that scholar
ship We have been working SO hard to
get, sitting up nights to study, going
without proper meals, or exercise, until
our nerves have come to the verge Of
endurance and we have snapped out
hateful replies to every word spoken to
us. Have We been right in making every
thing else subservient to it? There is
the whirl Of society that some of us
have been caught in. Did 1t help to put
new fringes upon the garment of your
righteous robe the day and week you
toiled SO hard to finish that new gown
for the club luncheon, and then grudged
the time you had to spend entertaining
that old friend Of your mothers who
took lunch with you one day? Even
the cake you baked for the last church
supper, How you fretted over the neees-
sity that kept you in the kitchen. when
you would rather have been Oh the cool
piazza in the hammock reading a new
book You made far more elaborate
cake than was asked for. too, Just be-
cause you wanted to have it better than
your neighbours. And YOU might have
given a dollar instead, for they needed
money ~ well an cakes, but you wanted
the dollar to put On the price Of your
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Avoiding Sins of the Tongue.

1t was the same Sturgeon who spoke
in homely fashion of the necessity for
another grace-the grace Of kindly, low
ing speech. IF We must talk at all. at
least let us be free from Islander; let us
not blister our tongues with backbiting
Slander may be sport to talebearers. but
II is death to those whom they abuse
We can commit murder with the tongue
as well as with the hand The worst
EVIL you can do q man ia to injure his
character; as the Quaker said to the dog.
IN not beat thee. nor abuse thee but
III give thee an i'll name All are not
thieves that dogs bark at, but they are
generally treated as If they were; for the
world for the most part believes that
where there is smoke there il fire. and
what everybody says must be true Let
us then be careful that we do not hurt
our neighbOr in tender a point as his
character. fol- il is hard 10 get dirt off
II II Is once thrown on; and when man
Is once in peoples bad booxs he Is hard
ly ever quite out of them. II we would
be sure not to speak amiss. it might be
Well To speak as little as possible; for il
all mems sins were divided into two bun
dies. half of them would be sins Of the
tongue. If any man offend not in word
the same is a perfect man and able also
to bride the whole body"
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Germ ourselves with what seems
to be primarily other folks
business. or with the affairs OF
the world at large? A pretty
delicate question There is usually a
sharp rebuke waiting for the man who
apparently interferes with matters that
are little outside the range of his i'm
mediate responsibility. l happen to know
a man who belongs to a club which. with
out being wildly socialistic. does what 1t
can to promise finer public spirit and
a better social order. Because the men,
bers seek to be somewhat idealistic in
their conceptions of life they were refer
red to recently as a group of high
proved individuals who rneddled with
other folks business" The man who
passed this facetious comment was con-
victed little later of renting his prop
erty for purposes contrary to law Per-
haps if one has to choose between high
brows and unclean hands the average
man would prefer the former.
An amusing story is told of the great
evangelist Dwight L. Moody. who had
the reputation in his native town of
Mortified. Mass. of being tremendous
used to drive about and catechise the
farmers as to their crops and stock, and
was not averse, now and then to giving
them a suggestion. One of these farmers
who had known him from babyhood and
who was an uncommonly shrewd and
blunt person, and q sufferer besides,
met him one morning and after exchang-
ing the time of day proceeded as fol.
lows:
'D-Dwight. you are m-mighty smart
f-fellow and you have travelled all over
the world. and you can do a l-lot of
things. but there is one thing, D-Dwight,
that you can't do, and that is m-mind
your own b-business." Mr.. Moody loved
joke SO we'll even when it was on him.
self that he burst into an almost uncon-
trollable fit Of laughter.
In that incident and the farmers frank
remark to his boyhood friend you have
the old New England, highly Individuals
tic. Independent. self-centered conception
of life. Noble though it is. necessary as
a part of the perfect philosophy of life.
it is woefully incon plete. OF course, Mr..
Moody couldn't mind his own business in
the sense that the farmer meant No one
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ess that shall win them instead OF an

ness that shall win them instead OF an
tagonize.
1nat other verse about our kindly con-
versation What do you suppose the salt
means in that connection? Christ said
we were to be the salt OF the earth. "
that is, the people who were to have
enough of His love to season the whole
earth with His goodness. What If 1t
means that We are to let the 'saltness =
the Christlikeress-be seen little in
our conversation? Not only by the kind
illness of its tone. but sometimes by men
tioning Him or His work in such way
that the gospel message shall he evident?
1t is just a suggestion. but really if we
are salt oughnf We TO try and season
those who lack it?
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while the great mass of even intelligent
people are strangely Indifferent to their
struggles They seem to be ignorant OF
the terrible sweatshop in which thousands
of the toilers are wearing out their lives
in the hopelessness of abject poverty. and
for whom the labor union almost single
handed is battling. in what is bound to be
winning fight.
Who is doing more for the woman that
toiIs? What institution stands more
courageously for squarer deal for our
sisters and mothers? Not in weak.
sickly, sentimental way, but with vigor
and a red-bloodedness that is sometimes
startling in it's persistency and in its eff
fectiveness.
Look through your telescope for lit
tie while-and forget the fly specks. No
body likes them. We can't get rid of
them altogether, but there Is something
else on the horizon.
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The Limits Of Ones Business


can who has felt the impulses of this
great age in which We live
rake the whole missionary business
at home and abroad. What is it but a
Hands off," says the pure individual
list, the man who prefers to sit down
IN MS own coy chimney corner and let
the world progress Or go to the devil
just as 1T pleases hands off, What's
the use OF disturbing the folks that
have other religions or no religion, it's
pure "butting in How would you
like to have the Buddhists or the Mo-
hammedans come over here and try
and convert US? Such talk as that
caught the vision OF a redeemed hui
manity.
Or take the movement for restricting
the liquor trafiic; plain invasion of
other people. And yet town after town
city after city, county after county
state after state. is tying stouter and
stouter cords about the vendors of in
toxlcatlng beverages. An altogether
wrong procedure on the supposition
that we must attend to our own bust
ness and to it alone
Or note the various checks upon bust
ness in general that have been devised
in recent years Measures restricting
ings. measures safeguarding freight
brakemen and factory workers meas
ures forbidding, except under specified
conditions. the employment of women
and children, have first been agitated
by a few. then demanded by the many
and finally enacted into law. If every
body had gone along all these years
Just minding his own little business.
just tending his own little dooryard,
just praying. BLESS me and my wife,
my son John and his wife. us four and
no more" this tremendous advance in
public policies would never have been
registered.
No, Mr.. Strict Constructionist. you are
entirely in the wrong and behind the
times. Never again try to injure a
man who is honestly trying to help the
world forward by telling him to go
about his business. This was the
angry suggestion which rich man
once made to his wife after Father
Taylor. the celebrated preacher to
sailors. had been interviewing her
about her soul. Husband" she replied,
IF you had heard him talk to ME you
would have thought he was about his
business.
Whatever relates to the lifting of
human burdens and to the suppression
of wrong is your business and mine.
friend, This altrustic age has settled
that point forever.
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the Hallelujah Chorus from HandePs Mes
siah and others. Forty favorite hymns
for use in congregational singing will be
printed i'm the official program In the
delegates meetings hymns for general
use will be carefully selected to get those
best known throughout the world because
of the many and varied nationaiities rep
resented.
One of the special features of the mu-
steal program will be the open-air praise
service held on the plaza at the east front
Of the Capitol at 3 pm. Saturday. May
~. The great chorus will be led Jointly by
Mr. Foster and Mr.. Excel. Nothing like
this has been seen in Washington since
the Christian Endeavor convention of
1896, when Mr.. Fosters chorus of nearly
5000 voices in four sections OF 200 each.
drew a crowd of 10000 persons to this
spot.
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~HE music will naturally be one
of the most important features
OF the coming worlds Sunday
school convention, which meets
in this city from May 10 to
"a At the eight mass meetings to be
held in Convention Hall a chorus of SOC
voices will be used. 1t would have been
increased in size to 1000 voices If avail
able facilities had permitted. 1t will be
under the direction of Percy s. Foster
of this city and E. o. Excel of Chicago
The members OF the chorus have been
secured from the various churches and
Sunday schools of the District. Many of
them have sung in the inaugural choruses
or in that which helped so materially in
the Gypsy Smith meetings two years ago
Rehearsals of the chorus are being held
each Wednesday evening at s o'clock in
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Application for membership can be made
to the secretary of the chorus, Edward
Tarring, or to Mr.. Foster
Members Of the chorus will enjoy many
convention privileges which the general
public will be unable to obtain, it is said.
In the mass meetings at which the
chorus will assist two high-grade pianos
and a large organ will be used. Mrs.
Grace Dufour Brown. organist at Temple
Baptist Church, will be the accompanist
and H. L. Amiss, organist at Foundry
Methodist Church, will be at the organ.
Another accompanist will be provided by
Mr. Excel, who is now leading the music
at a large series Of meetings now being
held i'm the large cities Of the United
States, preparatory to the convention.
Coronation Hymns. an entirely new
book of songs, recently published by Mr..
Excel, will be used by the great choir.
Copies of this collection have just been
received in Washington. In addition.
some of the splendid choruses by the
great masters will be rendered, including
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-08

DR.. Newman Hall told story about
a traveller who was overtaken by darl.-
ness upon a perilous mountain path. lie
dared not retrace the dangerous way by
which he had come, and the way upward
led over projecting rock which he was
too weary TO scale i'm the dark. The only
thing to do was to wait for morning, but
the place in which he found himself was
narrow with a steep slope to a precipice
beneath One careless movement might
dash him down TO death. Therefore. il
was absolutely necessary that he keep
off the drowsiness that threatened la
overwhelm him, and watch constantly.
stir up his mind TO a conviction OF tho
necessity of unremitting vigilance. Such
is the Christians position in this world
of sin.
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new willow plume that it might be a
trifle prettier than some ones else
And other people. how they have tried
you lately and torn away the last shreds
OF the Christian graees from your quiv-
crng consciousness till you fairly hate
the sight of them. And the end Of all
things is at hand! 1t is time to stop the
rush and consider what must be done.
There is one thing certain. II the end
of all things is at hand good many Of
the things We are doing SO violently now
may cease, for they are not helping, but
hindering our preparation for the end.
What saws our text? Exercise and
self-restraint.'' That touches on our
amusements, our ambitions. our whirl OF
work 1t suggests a calm. he SOBER"
the old version has 1t. Will it be possible
to cultivate sobriety in the face of the
mad rush of the twentieth century? Self
restraint and 'watehfulness'' must he
exercised that we may have Lime 10
pray" Strange calming thoughts. How
little time We have had for prayer lately.
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If We deliberately take the time, drop
some O. our engagements. give up trying
to get ahead of everybody else in appear
ance Or something else. and let our hearts
lie out before God, and look Him in the
face once mere. shall We remember some
Of our harsh judgments of nei3hbors and
friends? Some of the disasreeable words
and unpleasant actions o. which we have
been guilty lately. and which we have
excused because of others actions and
faults and hatefulnesses? What is that?
Very earnest love-" No, We haven't
had much love- of course. Love throws
veil over countless SINS Would that
he possible that We could love them
enough to not see those faults and hate
fulnesses?- All. Suppose we try to get
enough of His love into our hearts, to
love them as He has loved US who hid
our sins beneath His love.
Then, il we have to reprimand or ad-
wise come OTHER body. we shall be able
to go under the veil Of that love and do
our duty with a wisdom and harmless
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A. DAVIS, director of religious
work of the Y. NJ. G. A, has
been appointed general secre-
L. tary of the Y NJ. c. A. in Con-
stantinop,e. Turkey. and will
leave for his new post in September He
has been approached number of times
and asked to take up work in the foreign
field. but declined. When asked to go to
Constantinople. however, he felt he
should accept.
Mr.. Davis is a strong and picturesque
figure, having been a Syracuse Univer-
sfty athlete and an oarsman of ma
tional reputation. He is devoting his
life to religious work among men. 1t is
believed that the recent reforms in Tur-
key and the present evident spirit of
progress will enable him to establish and
maintain a Christian association on
broad lines which will be entirely sue
cessful and result in great good.
Mr. Davis has been in Chicago during
the past week attending the great worlds
missionary convention, to which he was
a delegate from the Washington Pres
bytery.
He will deliver an address on the sub
ject of the convention proceedings at the
Fourth Presbyterian Church, 18th and
Fairmont streets northwest, this evening
at o'clock. \ general invitation is ex-
tended by the brotherhood of the church
to all who care to attend and an inter
eeting program is promised.
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BISHOP HARDING TO
PRESIDE OYER SESSION
Thomas Nelson Page, Arthur S. Browne
and Blair Lee to Make Addresses. E.
Kramer, Treasurer, to Report-Lutherans
Preparing to Welcome Members of Their
Denomination to This City.

THE RI REV ALFRED HARD
ING, Bishop of Washington.
will preside over the Episcopal
diocesan missionary meeting to
be held in ST. Marks Church.
Capitol Hill. Wednesday evening at
O'Clock. The report of the board Of man.
ayers of missions in the diocese will be
treasurer. The speakers of the occasion
will be Thomas Nelson Page. who will take
for his subject The Work Of the Church
in the City; Arthur 8. Browne. who
will speak on The Work of the Church
in the Suburbs" and Blair Lee, on THE
Work of the Church in the Counties"
A large attendance is expected.
The diocese contributes annually about
$4,000 for support Of churches and chap
els not able to maintain services by the
support of their own congregations. BY
the means of this contribution the board
of managers is enabled TO augment the
salaries which the struggling parishes of
the country districts are able to offer to
the clergy This action of the board has
resulted in giving to all the country
clergy such a salary as to secure the
services of efficient men.
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two years without
success, he felt 1t his
duty to take his res
ignation to the mis-
sion house. When
this became known,
a delegation of ma
tives, composed of
heather as we'll as
Christians, went to
the mission house
with the plea that
this man remain.
And their argument
was this: He has
done us all more
good than any one
else I'm the mission.
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brave. when urged by his friends not
to go to Worms. when he felt it his
duty to 60. replied. Il will go to Worms
many devils as there are tiles upon the
housetops," and when told that Duke
George would strive to injure him. he
said. Il will go, though for nine whole
days running 1t rained Duke Georges!"
Sir John Eliot. Just before he was put
to death exclaimed, Ten Thousand
deaths rather than defile my conscience,
the chastity and purity of which 1
value beyond all this world
Courage in great things is fine. but it
is no less fine to have the courage that
In the little things. Many a child has
been laughed into wrongdoing. 1t often
requires the highest sort Of moral cour-
age to be true to the right when our
friends and playmates are persuading Or
haunting us to do the wrong. The life
OF many child has been blasted forever
because in some moment of temptation
he was afraid Of being laughed at.
Let 1t be our high aim to cultivate the
courage that will make US as steadfast
to the right as was Martin Luther when
US be obedient to those who have the
rule over us; let us strive to perform
faithfully each days duty. In this way
we will build up character that will
make us true and noble in after years,
when temptation may come to us. Do
not forget Wellington's pregnant words,
waterloo was won at Eton." Had he
been faithless at Elton he would have
failed at Waterloo
Comment on today's Junior Christian En-
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Talking 20 csS as to a Parent.

The best way to learn the unsslGsh love
that makes one welcome a[iition to
any company is by dwelling with God,
communing with Him as friend. pray
ing TO Him in the intimate way that the
great Sturgeon had The late Dr.. Cuyler
has told of a visit to the study Of the
London preacher They had prayed to-
gether. Spnrgeon was in such pain that
he could not even kneei down. He sat at
the end of the table, and dropped his
head between his hands and began TO
call or God like child at its mothers
knee. simple. fervent. grasping. glorious
When ne had done. DIR. Cuyler said to DR.
Newman Hall. who was with him. New
man. did you ever hear such prayer as
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From the Twentieth Century New
Testament. l Peter, 4:7-11:
However. the end of everything
is near. Therefore exercise self
restraint and watchfulness, to help
YOU to pray. Above all things, let
your love for one another be very
earnest. for love throws a veil
over countless sins. Never grudge
hospitality to one another. Use in
mutual service such gifts as you
have received. dispensing faithfully
Gods many-sided generosity IF
Any one has to speak, let him
speak as an oracle of God. If any
one has to act as an assistant Off
Ger. let him do so in reliance on the
power which God supplies: SO that
in everything God may be honored
through Jesus Christie whom be
ascribed all honor and might for
ever and ever. Amen"
Colossians, 4:6:
Let your conversation always be
kindly, and seasoned, as it were.
with salt"
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~ EEP down in the heart of many
men. women and children
throughout the length and
breadth of this broad land are
awakened today the strongest
and greatest of all human sentiments ana
emotions. for the second Sunday In May
is Mothers day." and it is dedicated TO
the memory of 1.-The best mother who eve-
lived-your own.
EVERYWHERE. in church and synagogue
in hospitals, asylums and prisons, In re-
fornatory institutions, at the headauar- .
tiers of every post of the Grand Army OF
the Republic and in clubs, organizations
schools and colleges, special observance
of the day will be mace and the white
carnation will be worn
Although the idea of Mothers day was
started only four years ago, by Phil
adeInhian, Miss Anna Jarvis, torn as she
was at the time by grief for the death
of her own mother, it spread swiftly 10
every corner of the United States. ana
..Nothers' day as a distinct holiday
bids fair within a very few years to as
sume international proportions.
Mis-. Jarvis at first told a few friends
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A fashionable teacher OF "tone-cu!ture"
made a contribution to this subject of
graceful speech when she said:
THE most charming voice 7 ever heard
is the possession of a woman who never
in her life took a lesson in eiocution or
singing or appeared i'm public. In fact,
she is dressmaker in rather humble cir
cumstances. Hers is what We call Z talk
ing voice. 1t is low and sweet and