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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-22
2FMINISCENCES OF
OLD-TIME CAMPS

pe,er Farley has said, in substance, his
=, NAV be likened to an old man full
lars and honors, who has seen king
- rise and flourish, who has witnessed
TASTES fall and decay and sits down to
n his children all about them.
This communication will deal with two
,+mer camp meeting grounds, and Incl
srts Of history pertaining thereto.
us1f a century ago, when FELTON, was
its swaddling clothes, there grew about
III and one-h half miles, respectively, or
oit,,av between Frederica and FELTON,,
81 Branch and Spring Branch Woods,
+nowu for many years as Pratt s Branch
smD Meeting Woods, and Spring
sranch Camp Meeting Woods, " as camp
,eetings were held in these woods alter
stelv as the years passed. Those were
land old times, as seen now through
II mist of memory of half a century.
r. old preachers of those days were not
\ well versed in theological lore as the
,,1nit orators of to-day; but, what they
kcked in brain power-it anything
rade No in spiritual fervor the best
sset those old preachers possessed, and
hey had plenty of it, and did what they
,ould to impart it to others. Many of
In preachers of that time we yet re
Sember. although they have long since
.rossed the Swelling flood, % and have
ZONE TO Join the fruition of that land they |
reached to others, while in the taber |
acle Of the body.
One ofthese old characters was Billy" !
barnes. of Irish extraction, and possessed !
a the wit of his race and he is doubt /
Isss remembered by many persons yet |
living. On one occasion when he was I
Ioinp to preach, in the afternoon, he be-
eme impatient, and long before the
reaching hour he walked up and down
liz pulpit stand, until he could stand it
IA longer. when he suddenly stopped,
tamped his foot and exclaimed, blow
e horn, or I shall bust" Such was his
eal and enthusiasm for the cause he rep
tesented. The camp meetings on these
no historic grounds were always charac-
erzed by spiritual fervOr on the part of
.oth the white and black people. II was
be custom for the colored people to tent
the ground at the same time as the
shites. They pitched their tents, or
nlt them, Just back from the white
leople tents; and, after the services of
he white people had closed, the colored ,
eople took up the refrain, and any one .
no knows what grand singers the col ,
led people are, as a rule, can imagine
Be result; and their worship was contin- I
ed, often all night and into the morn
be. 1
"Old Father Hersey" was another of c
bose old-time preachers. He was not t
D vivacious and enthusiastic as some ]
the1s, but asceticism and austerity of a
banner was such as to attract wide at Il
ention. He preached and practiced what a
d preached, that it was wrong to wear b
nything that was not of use and con- Il
nctive TO bodily comfort. He wore no d
nttons on the back of his "shad- bellied
Bat " and would not sleep on a feather e
ed; and taught many other freak limo $,
atons, that the people of to-day think il
bsurd--and many ofthat day also thought d
Be same. is
These camp meeting woods were held
great veneration by many people. Al
ANY years ago when was quite young, n,
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-22

themselves have changed most Of all
they have gone on ahead.
In the old church yard in the valley Ben Bolt.
In corner obscure and alone.
lhey have carved out a slab in the granite so gray
And sweet Alice lies under the stone
D. A. c.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-22

Get Blank Deeds and Mort
cages at the Chronicle Office.
Sold in wholesale lots to deal
ers.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-26

kind of man have been produced by our
methods. 80 to get one man in our foreign
employ we have discouraged nine. The Apos-
tie Paul would have set all ten of these men
to work, In their spare hours, for Christ and
would not have paid any of them. And how
much better for the character and Christian
growth of all ten of them Pauls method
would have been
Take this principle and push it through all
the phases Of our work. We furnish church
buildings, school buildings, hospitals. preach
ers, teachers, doctors ETC. It is all paid for bv
foreign money. We take a small percentage
Of the church and train them more or less.
at our expense and put them on the foreign
pay roll The Christians that are not on the
pay. roll IN the vast MAJ ority of cases want to
be for they are poor and the pay is good, from
their standpoint, and it is regular, rain or
shine. What is the result? Well human
nature is human nature, and the Gins"
are inclined to think they have
good thing Of it. The ''outs'' think
the same thing and they do not see why
they should do Christian work for nothing
while the Gins" are getting good foreign paw
SO they do nothing. The result is that all the
Christian work that is being done by this
foreign machine. The native Christians who
are "outs" do little or nothing They leave
it for the foreign machine to do. And the
cost of this machine grows greater and greater
as the work spreads and native effort will
not catch up in thousand years at the pres
ent rate.
Now what want is to try Paul's plan and
see if we cannot make this work indigenous,
make the natjOe churches feel their RESPONSE
6iz5ty, get them to see this IS their affair and
not ours. 1t is late in the day to try New
Testament methods now as Mr. Allen said
IN his book, but we must get back as far as it
is possible"
Our space will not allow further quota
tions from Rev. Dr. McCrea's "Open Letter.
in this issue of our paper.
In other issues, [ will let this honest Bap-
fist Missionary tell his oaon personal e~pe95-
e7ace with the naughty aristocracy which is
trampling out independence and the freedom
of speech in our Baptist churches.
1t is story that will amaze you. and make
your blood boil.
AppareratIy, there are other people besides
Joe SartO, eoh0 ao0nt to be p0pe8.
It's a high old come off. in Baptist politv.
when clergymen of the highest standing are
muzzled by such small potatoes as the Index
bunch and that Richmond Board
Why should the Christian index muzzle
those foreign missionaries who agree with
Adoniram Judson?
Why should the pampered aristocrats be
encouraged to bleed our people out of another
million dollars to build more of those luxuri-
GUS stations which Judson condemned?
If scores of the most devoted of foreign
missionaries are asking for space in the
church papers to tell our people, in substance,
that Watson as right IN this matter, why
should DR.. w. H. Smith, and Messrs Bell
and Graham arrogate to themselves the right
tC suppress those missionaries?
Is the popish doctrine of Instability get
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-26

The Handbook of Politics by Thos E.
Watson, is book every American citizen
should read. Contains every party platform;
fourth edition almost exhausted. Price SOC,
postpaid. The Jeffersonian Publishing Com
pany, Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-26
Papa and His FOOt-KisserS Are
Trying TO Carry Us Back TO
the Dark Ages.
PAGE SEWN,


magnificent empire of the Caesars, they abol-
lshed Vestal Virgins and instituted nuns:
they swept away the priests Of Jupiter and
replaced them by shaven-headed monks: they
obliterated the Pontifex Maximus and sub
stituted the Roman bishop, calling him Pom
tifex Maximus, and kissing his toe, just as the
pagans had always kissed the toe of the
pagan pope.
TO cloak the vast fraud and imposture Of
changing Chrlsts simple, outdoor religion
into an elaborate machine, with palaces, COR
geous temples, heather rites, one-man power,
&c, these Roman bishops destroyed all the
ancient literature they could lay their hands
on, closed all the schools, hid the Bible from
the people. and commanded that every Chris
tian should look to the Pope for the law
about everything.
Those who would not obey were prosecuted
and destroyed. To this very day, the cardi-
nals archbishops, and bishops of this usurp-
ing pagan people are compelled to take the
very same oaths that led to the Massacre Of
St. Bartholomew, the massacre Of the Wal
denses, the massacres of the Albigensians,
and the countless deviltries of the popes
Inquisition.
The Roman bishops did not get any of this
horrible wickedness from the teachings of
Christ. They did not find any warrant for it
Il L
that they made 1t q crime for the people to
read the Bible.
Looking over the latest issue of the maya
zine, Electric Messages, printed in the Orient
where the religion of Buddha fourishes, [
find this passage:
Almost everything that is distinctive in the
Roman Catholic form of Christianity is to be fund
in Buddhism images, pictures lights affairs
incense, W9VSido
mcnasteries, nunneries, celibacy, fastings vgils,
retreats pilgrimages, mendicant vows, shorn
heads, orders, habits, uniforms, nuns, converts,
purgatory sanity and priestly intercession indu-
gences works of supererogation, pope archbish-
ops, abbots ADDRESSES monks, neophytes, relics and
rellc-Worshlp, etc., etc. Griffis.
Precisely SO. Buddha founded his religion
long before Christ came; and the Roman
bishops were so eager for power. wealth and
the ensavement Of the human mind that they
copied partly from the paganism of Rome,
and partly from the religion of Buddha
To Keep the people from finding this ont,
the Roman pOD6s burnt the books, shut ND the
schools, hid the Bi6le-and killed those who
tried to tell the people of Europe how the
pOpes had erch0nged the simple religion of
Christ for the elaborate impOstaweS Of heath
eniSm.
Christ did not endow any priesthood. or
empower anybody to organize brokerage
between God and man
Christ left every man face to face with his
Creator, and encouraged the individual pub
lican to pray
"Lord be merciful to me, a sinner!''
Christ never commanded anybody to 90 to
the middleman, the priest, and to negotiate,
through this broker, a peace between the sin
ner and his Lord. Never
CHANGING over The Ne1o World, the Popes
Chicago newspaper, [ find that Archbishop
James Edward Ouiolev has been tellino the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-26

STOP, Look, LiSten-Then
Think!
WHILE our beloved Methodist brethren
are briskly circulating Bro Harris's
booklet exposing this poor old publican. [
have been glancing over another Open Letter
which the honest foreign missionaries are
trying to get before our people.
Anybody can secure any amount of space
to publish stuff that favors our missionary
0rist0cr0cg.
But if some Of the foreign missionaries ask
to be heard in behalf of Gospel Missions, they
knock at the door in vain.
That isn't the kind of talk the aristocracy
want.
Read these extracts taken from the letters
OF honest foreign missionaries. ouh0Se letters
the Boards and their papers dare not pub
Esh:
CAS- result Of the expenditure of many mil
lions Of American and British money in this
kind OF mission work, to say nothing of the
thousands of precious lives, the Mountain
brings forth mouse. After over century
Of work, we have 100000 Protestant church
members in a population of 400 million, and
these largely In such pauperized condition
that they are doing little or nothing to spread
"C0 OOopoO U"OOICy O/CGuI p0OpC63 O6CUUS6 UU6y
haze been taught to let the foreigner do 1t
and pay for ii.
few days ago missionary who has been
In China 81 years, and was for long time a
co-laborer of Hudson Taylor, said to me- and
gave me liberty to quote the remark, that it
is his conviction that if the foreign mission
airy staff should be withdrawn, most Of these
church members q0oa1zd rovert into heathen-
ISM. | have heard other missionaries of long
experience make the same statement
According to DR.. Faunce English western
education has produced in India class of
denationalized anarchists. It is just as easy
to see that in China our western education
has produced a class of denationalized
chronic rebels. This comes from putting
qoesterm educatiom before the preac7Sing Of the
Gospel, mentality before spirituality.
This is the general education situation in
China today. Those who have already heavily
invested in it are deeply disappointed as to
the results"
Speaking of putting the heather converts
on the pay-rolls, where they regularly get
your money! DR.. McCrea says
"But, in the third place, oppose the custom
principally because of the effect upon the
unemployed Christians. For example, let us
say there are two men in certain congrega-
ton, Ii and Wang, with about equal New
Testament qualifications. [ want a helper
but only one Both Of these men are willing
to take the position. [ decide that Ii is the
man [ want. He may become good worker
and do a fine work but the effect upon Wang,
the other man, has been disastrous. He looks
upon this whole propaganda as matter that
Douglas Island news., 1914-08-26
NOTICE oP MARsHAL's SALE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, lss.
 Dry. NO.1, DISTRICT OF ALASKA N''

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ga. DTv. No. l, DISTRICT OF ALASKA
 Public notice is hereby given, that by virtue of writ of execution, dated July 8lst. A. D. 1914 issued out of the District Court for the First Division, in District of Alaska. on a judgment rendered iu said Court on the 28rd day of July, A. D. lgl4 in favor of Charles Rudy and aga inst Denny Orfauos and Zoe OrianOs, J have on this First day of August, A.. D. 1914, levied upon the following described real estate. situated in the City of Douglas and District of Alaska. tO-wit.
 A certain piece of land about 60X80 feet, with small dwelling house and cabin thereon, situated between the upper and lower tracts in the town of Douglas; also a certain piece on. parcel of land seyeuty-seven (lD feet wide running along the A. T. G. NJ. Cos k. R. track and SO feet deep, running back from said R. R. track toward the channel; this land is almost directly opposite from the Congregational church, and lies iu Che form of % square;
 And that ] will accordingly, offer said real estate for sale, ut public Veudue GO che high est and best bidder, for cash, on the lth day of Septem ber, A. D. 1914, at clock D. m, on the premises, in the town of Douglas, Alaska, Dated, Douglas, AlaslSa, August ], A.D. lsll.
 "A. BISHOP. U. S. Marshal, lst Div, District of Alaska
 By WM. FELs Office Deputy. First publication, Aug
 Last publication, Sept. 9.
Douglas Island news., 1914-08-26

Never in the history of WhitehoFse, says the Stary have house flies been so numerous as at present, although they gre nothing here as compared with what most people have seen in the east and south. Indians say house flies at this season of the year means a late, warm fall. As Che Boss Family book is not in town at present, it's birch bark pages have not been consulted 0n the ay question, but it doubtless treats on the subject.
Douglas Island news., 1914-08-26
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY

Just now men, born in foreign lands, are quitting good jobs in Alaska that they may travel to the other side of the globe Co cast their lives into Che deadly maelstrom in defense of their native country. And we sometimes call these men ignorant foreigners, when without doubt they have at. tained a degree oi personal patriotism seldom eQualled in this land of the free and home of the brave. They go 60 offer their lives on the altar of the home land. What a deep lesson there is in their brave sacrifice. To the American citizen who holds himself in high esteem as a citizen of a great aud glorious republic, comes the question: What disiuterested act have you ever performed for the benefit of your town, TOUT state or the uatiou2 We brag sometimes
Douglas Island news., 1914-08-26

What Alaska has already meant 70 the whole world as a seenic attraction is beyond measure. Unique iu its physical beauties, the Northern terri
 tory can discount any of the wonders of Switzerland, or Norway and Sweden. What is more 1t combines the wonders of them all Mt Blanc, Che JCnggrau and the Mstterhorn are outtopped by Alaska's mountaius5it has glaciers that make puny those far famed ones of Switzerland, and thege is nothing in the iords of Norway that cannot be squalled along the Southeastern archi- pelago. The great glaciers, falling in glittering ayalauehes as they are under miued by the waves, yet eternal as the mountains themselves, tower within sight of the steamships, almost, in fact, within touch. Nowhere else in the world is a like sight to be had from the comfort of steamship decks. Where elsewhere do such glaciers neighbOr with volcanoes2 Risiug majestically, 5000 to 10000 feet directly above the ocean, MakushiD, Progrommi, Shishal- din, Pavlof, Katmai, Sivauoski, Illiamua and Kedoubt- with many lesser smol- derlug giants, tell of nature at work in her laboratory-the wonder of eternal fires elevatiug and sUbmerging islands and continually changing the shore line. The erowning glory of Americas mountains, MoCnt Mckinley, Mount St. Elias and Mount Fairweather, a mile higher than the topmost peaks of Switzerland, arc the eliminating pie lures of the vastness that is character istic of a land of greatness-great in area, great in mountains, great in its rivers, great in its minerals, great in it's fisheries and destined to be great in it's industry, its agriculture and commerce. As an aid toward graspiug the great ness of Alaska's area, it may be pointed out that in sguare miles it is larger than the thirteen original states, with Maine, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Ton nessee, Kentucky and Michigan added. Norway, Sweden, Finland, England, Scotland and Ireland, totaled, fall some 25,0OO miles short of Alaska's 5S6,4OO square miles. Germany, France and Spain combined are only some 24O0O square miles larger. And when attempt is made to generali2e regarding Alaska, either as to products or climate it is we'll te remem Der that they are as diversified in this great Northern country as in any of these other com binations of states and nations with which Alaska is thus compared-O. L. Sommers, in See America First"
Douglas Island news., 1914-08-26
Juneau Wins Championship

The fteenth game of the most re-. markable series of baseball games ever played in this part of the great North. west was won by the Juneau team at their home grounds last Wednesday evening, and the score was to O. This was also the deciding game of the series, each team having previously won seven.
 All through the summer the two teams have struggled for supremacy, first one winning and then the other, keeping the fans in a fever of excite ment as to the probable outcome of the series. The Juneau team was composed for the most part of semiprofessional players from the Pacific coast leagues. The Island team was largely made up of college boys employed around the mines at Treadwell.
 PITCHERS RECORDS
 Ford won seven games and lost six; pitched IA innings, during which he struck out Al batsmen, allowed 65 hits, 38 bases on balls, hit { men, made 8 wild pitches; opponents scored 5l runs; an average, per 9 inning game of 1L2S strikeouts, 5.13 hits and 4O2 runs.
 Johnson won three games and lost three; pitched 56 innings, struck ont 45, allowed 39 hits, IA baaes on balls, hit men, made 1 wild pitch; opponents score 2l; an average per nine-inning game of 724 strikeouts; 626 hits and 33S runs.
 Pittmau won four games and lost five; pitched "A innings; famed p, al- lowed g hits, 30 bases on balle, hit 4 batsmen, made 8 wild pitches; op. ponents scored 2 runs; average per nine innings of 8.75 strikeouts, 45 hits, SIS runs. lThe "runs" mentioned are not of the learned" variety}
 TEAM BATTING
 Douglas Islaud-At bat, 482; hits, "A; runs, 50; average, .l04.
 Juneau-At bat, 467; hits, 76; runs, 48; average, .163.
 TEAM YIELDING
 Douglas Island made 300 put outs; I65 assists; 4S errors; average .920.
 Juneau made 393 put outs; l59 assists; 5l errors; average, .9l5.
Douglas Island news., 1914-08-26

Surely the people of Alaska have now right to complain. For years they have listened to the story of the great deposits of coal, high and low grade, to be foaud in Alaska. Through a bungle of tbe departments of the federal government this cool has been tied up for years. h was no fault of the people. We have gone right on buying inferior Canadian coal ct ex- srbitaut prices. Again and again has the promise gone forth that soon we should be allowed Co mine and Dse our own coal Now comes a war that may st any moment shut o6 the Canadian supply, and still the Alaskan supply is tied up. This surely is an emergency which would justify the chief executive of the nation in issuing an order open ing at least a part of tbe eOal lands at once. Or woold it be better to wait until the industries of the North ere completely paralyzed and the people freeze Co death.
Douglas Island news., 1914-08-26
The Douglas Island News

Entered at Douglas Post-ofhoo as Second
 Class Mail Matter.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-11

day his people acclaim him with
genuine warmth.
Another reason In that william
II. In PHYSICALLY BRAVE as
we'll aH morally.
One day-he had been then but
three years emperor-he asked me
10 walk with him all tho way from
the Ncue PnlRis 10 the Marmor
Palais. n distance OF several miles.
In the course OF which We had 10
pass tho whole length OF Potsdam.
Kaiser 10 Fearless
n was market day. The rain
was falling. We were constantly
pushed from tho sidewalk by ges-
ticulating peasants eager over n
bargain.
Sometimes we were In the mud
OF the road and sometimes crowd
ed amidst hand wagons.
The emperor was dressed In
plain officers uniform and was
deeply absorbed In conversation.
Two aides followed. but so far
behind aa 20 be well out Of ear
shot. and. NO far MS the public was
concerned. they might have passed
for couple OF PrusHian officers
taking stroll independently.
We talked much OF Russian nj.
fairs. for had just come from
kieff and Warsaw. and incidentally
the subject OF assassination was
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-11

preached and referred TO the un-
protected nature OF his person in
case anyone chose to do him harm.
No Time for Such Thoughts
He asked what I meant Said I:
III you were the Russian car you
would imagine there was bomb
under that next sewer plate,"
The emperor laughed and slam.
med his foot down loudly on the
sewer plate and then. turning full
upon me. he said seriously:
"If had TO think Of such things |
could not get through my days
work."
Here you have key to his com.
pick character.
In these days OF seltadvertise-
ment and pandering to political
parties the German emperor is
woefully misunderstood merely be.
cause he tells the truth without
hintergedanke (hind thought.
He has honorably sought to main.
tain peace, even when he knew
that he was strong enough to crush
the antagonist that was so foolish
as TO insult him.
Russia Eggs Him On"
Russia for 20 years and more
has treated William II. and his
government with marked dlsre.
spect.
The first visit OF the present
car TO Germany was made In a
manner that would have been fol.
lowed by war had the host been n
Frenchman.
William II. has submitted to
many affronts from Russia because
on his death bed the venerable
William |. entolned upon his grand
son the Importance of close ALI.
ance with the court OF st. Peters
burg.
In the early '9os Russia sys.
tematicaIly attacked the German
schools. the German language and
the Lutheran religion in Russias
old German Baltic provinces.
Refused TO Go to War
The Germans appealed to vii.
liam for protection. The Poles
we're ready to rise at his orders
and expand German territory to
the eastward.
The German general staff was
ready.
German public sentiment was at
his back.
NO" said the emperor. Il can
not break the word gave to my
grandfathcrl"