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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03
UPWARDS Of 100000 Americans,

UPWARDS Of 10000, 900 Americans,
native and foreign born, have
- allied themselves with some re-
ligious body, and to support their re-
Ifgions they give upwards Of $4OOOOO'-
600 a year, or an average Of nearly
$40 each. TO be more exact, the num-
Der of people enrolled as members OF
some religious body, Christian or jew
is about 38,20O,OOO. This is conslu5L
ably above one in three of the pOpuld-
ton. The amount Of money they alto-
gether give is not taken by census
enumeratOrs. These enumerators IN
almost everything else, some Inlu59
worth While and some not DuL
how leave out the tremendously IN t5L-
esting item of total gifts. These glLIs
have been carefully estimated at $3pu,-
100000 to 375,OOO,OOO year IH5y
are, however, increasing steadlly' IN
some bodies even rapidly. Last year
very unusual sums were put lnto usw
buildings, so that the total VIII press
the S400 00000 mark within year OF
two if it does not do so now.
Churches are Changing Methods.
Those who know say the most str1k-
ing feature of the year now ended,
among both PrOtestants and CaIholcsi
is the advance in methods or WORK As
in the industrial world, chuIeles are
wholly remaking their ways OF DONG
things Old WAYS are going into scrap
heaps, along with old industrial lAVeh-
tiOns and new ways coming IN that
produce larger results on less effort
The Christian associations are leading
in these new ventures. Churches are
quick. however, to pattern AFTER the
associations. While religious bodles,
and laree ones, like the Congregation
alists and the Disciples OF christ, are
remaking their machinery, InaJ IL may
be more effective and better meet
changing American conditions. me
year now ended has seen tremendous
strides in these and some other Dodles
in these matters of Official means to
ends.
Year in and year out Christian bod
les in America, save a few OF the small
ones. increase their membership about
two percent each z months Catho-
lies. Disciples of Christ, Llutherans, and
sometimes EpiscOpalians, do somewhat
better. Catholics always do. indeed, 50
great is the influx from Europe and
the natural increase. Disciples show
steady growth, rapidly forging ahead
of some of the old bodies, Presbyter-
ians North for example Congrega-
tfonalists Methodists South, Unfair
ians and some others do not reach the
two percent figure. But the two per-
cent is 20 percent each decade. and 20
percent is somewhat larger than the
growth in population. The larger bod
les grow more steadily than the
smaller ones. Baptists both north and
south are steady in their growth, and
maintained that steadiness last year
Increase in sunday Schools.
In Sunday schools there is the same
steady increase in numbers Of children
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

to do but lie here and wait for the
summons: but o. the THOUGHT of hav-
ing to stand before God empty handed,
when. if I had only used Alright the
strength which God gave, I might have
gathered, even in my brief life, many
sbeaves for heavens garner. Nv advice
to YOU Alice, and to all my girl
friends is, use your strength in such
way as to I'll you with joy rather than
sorrow, when you become conscious
that disease is rObbing you of the
strength which the passing years have
brought to you
Age Brings Clearer Vision.
But not only have our passing years
brought US strength of body, but
STRENGTH of mind as we'll. While ]
envy the babe lying in its cradle, its
rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, its in
nocency and purity; yet I do not envy
if its intellect. It knows so little.
thank God for the knowledge which
the passing years have brought to me
I know it is limited and imperfect, a
mere cupful compared with the ocean;
vet it has enabled me to see things in
a different light to what I saw them
in my childhood days. Then I saw
man only in his relationship to time
but now I see him both in his relation
ship to time and to eternity.
Then / saw the earth, a great fiat
surface stretching out to the horizon
the acme of creation; the object for
all created, whose mission was to
nurture and cherish it with Their ne
and light. But now I see the earth
merely as a diminutive cOgWheel in the
great mechanism Of the universe. The
primary room, as 1t were, where the
rudiments Of knowledge are given to
those who will receive them, fitting
them for the higher branches to be
given in the world to come.
Then l saw God as mighty mon
arch seated his throne 6nq ling
out justice only to sinful men; but
by means of the knowledge which the
passing years have brought me, I see
him now. not as a stern monarch. but
as a kind and loving father, seeking
in every way possible, save that of
coercion, the highest good Of man. A
God Of justice truly but Withholding
it until love, mercy and fatherly adj
mOnitiOn have first spent their force.
But our passing years have not only
given US a grander conception of God
but they have given as opportunity
for communion and fellowship with
him, and this opportunity, if rightly
met, will more than compensate for
the innocence and purity which our
passing years have robbed US Of
I love to watch the innocent child as
it plays around the room, apparently
intent on filling the home with sun
sight in all the world is to see man
or woman, themselves redeemed from
sin by the power of Christ's atOning
blood going about in blessed fellow
ship with their Lord, lifting burdens
from sorrowing hearts, relieving the
distressed, cheering the discOnsOlate
an6 leading the lost into the way OF
light and life. The opportunity for
such a blessed service in fellowship
with God is one Of the blessings which
the passing years have brought US and
happy the man or woman who en-
braces it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

enrolled. Catholics are multiplying
their schools, and adopting pedagogi-
cal methods. They are also introduce
ing the system Of classes and teach
ers. Organized Sunday school work
of the world, having its strongest cen
ters in America, held a world conven-
ton during the year, and made big
plans for growth Educational meth
DDS are put on better lines and there
is better organized machinery for
starting new schools America IS car
rying the Sunday school system INTO
the very corners Of the earth, 1ncluU-
ing some of the distant parts OF SCUM
American countries. Speaking OF lne
latter countries, PrOrestantS IN the
United States made many preparations
during the year to extend sunday
school work along the west coast the
Panama canal helping to reacn Ihas
section.
Mission Contributions
Mission contributions Of all Protest
ant societies. reached last year $685.
600, 000 No other country compares
with America. England IS second DuC
are relief. SO vast are demands Of the
suffering poor Americas gifts 90 al
most wholly to religious causes Ihe
sum named should be increased by
100000 TO S5,0O0,OOO If Catholic mis-
sions are included This sum IS eX-
elusive of gifts to Catholic orders, OF
which no record is available. Protest
ant foreign mission gifts for the first
time passed the 100000 mark, the
largest from any country, and a new
report, soon to be made, viii not IN
crease it much, owing to dull times 90
tanning in the financial world during
the last half of the year now ending
Protestant home missions are $4,000
0O0 with a steady gain in amount and
a better system for its distribution in
large cities and in towns Of the FAR
west.
Take Up Eugenies.
Eugenics came to the fore In Chris
tan affairs during the year as never
before. 1t started in Chicago, and was
taken up throughout the country With
it came a new interest in all social
questions The Federal Council Of
Churches pushed the one days rest in
seven and made plans to prevent com
merciaIized vice in san Francisco as
much as possible during the Panama
exposition. Several bodies recon
structed both local and general social
inveighed against evil in the home, on
the stage. in politics, in business. The
church all names, took such active
hand in social questions as it never
took before. Several bodies have put
such work on the same organized
basis as missions and religious edu-
cation Perhaps this social crusade
next to the better method plans, IS the
most marked feature Of the year.
There came in cities, especially in
the east, great increase IN the num-
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03
Plan to Get Everybody
In Line For Next Sunday
Campaign Is Being Pushed Among All Glasses; Week of
Prayer to Be Observed in New Way in East El
PasO; Special Meeting at the First Presbyte
rian Church to Start January IA; Mis-
sion Society to install Officers.

given and the newly elected officers
viii take their places.
VIII Entertain study Glass.
Friday evening, January 9, Mrs. @.
I. Jones will entertain the young peo-
pie of the Mission Study class of Trim
ity Methodist church at her home, 1905
North Kansas street The class is
studying Mexico at the present time.
Circle No. to Meet
Circle No 5, of the Aid society of the
First Methodist church, will have a
meeting at the home Of DR.. G. n.
Thomas, 1901 Montana street, on Wed
uesday at $3.50 o'clock.
To Give Nut and Joke Crack.
Under the auspices of the Big Broth
er club, of the First Methodist church,
a stag Nut and Joke Crack" will be
given in the parsonage of the church
on Friday evening, January 9, at
o'clock. Every man attending will be
permitted to crack his best joke and
any man failing to laugh will be fined
IS and costs.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03
Is the Day For Big Things
Missionary Work Can No Longer Be
Held Within Small Activities
Is a Great Undertaking.
-Hy William T. Ellis.
THIs is the day of big things. Gu

THIS is the day of big things. Our
times exuIt in magnitude. Mere
size is counted virtue. To such,
the dimensions of the missionary
propaganda should commend this
world work of the Christian church.
With 100000 600 a year being spent for
foreign missions by the Protestant
churches of the world, and with an
army of about $4,000 missionaries on
the field, this enterprise deserves to
rank as really the greatest undertake
ing of our time, apart altogether from
its spiritual significance.
Judged by its fruits-and is there
really any other way to judge any
thing?-the work of missions has been
a huge and staggering success. It
has made over in the new myriads Of
men and women, transforming the
deepest springs of their character. So
cial and political and educational
uSages, hOary with age, have been
superseded by Christian standards. The
very form of great nations has been
changed An era of world unity has
been brought into existence. The
Christians have been written into the
statutes of the states, into business,
into social relationships and into in
ternatiOnal relationships. Whenever
any far-VisiOned statesman views the
whole horizon Of our time he gives
honor to the influence of Christian
missions.
One of the advantages of member
ship in Christian church is that every
member has share in the worldwide
work Of the whole body. 1t is no
small boon to be a factor in the trans
formation of China, the uplift of India,
the revivifying of Japan, the making
over of Turkey, the emancipation of
Persia, and the civiIizing of tropical
Africa. The swiftest, shortest, cheap
est and easiest way of becoming a fac
tor in the big worlds progress is to
aid in the cause Of Christian missions.
The largeness of the churchs work
abroad helps deliver from the small
ness Of some of our ideas at home
Relatively, the greatest trfumphs Of
the church are being achieved on the
foreign mission field. Like a great
commercial house which is doing its
best business in its newest branches,
the church has found that she gets
results more quickly, and accOmplishes
her historic work more distinctly amid
the nOn-Christian peoples to whom
than is the case in the so-calIed Chris
tan lands.
.Jadedness and ennui have come to
many lives from lack of an adequate
life interest Foreign missions supply
that interest to all who are alert
enough to pursue the subject Athrob
with life with human nature, with
conquest thrills, and with the attrac-
ton of strange lands, peoples and Gus
toms, the cause of missions also ex-
tends into the broader fields of world
politics, of social problems Of racial
relationships, of civilizations advance.
and Of all the sciences that have a
human side.
EI Paso Optical Co., Inc. opticians to
the est-Advertisement.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

For the former things are passed
away, Rev S1-4; subject ..Our Passing
Years. How They Rob Us and En-
rich Us.o
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03
City Churches Boost Go to Church Day
Religious Progress Great
During the Year of 1913

Most Striking Feature Of the Year Has Been the Change
in Methods of Large Church Bodies; Sunday Schools
Show Remarkable Increase in Attendance; Jew
ish Bodies, Orthodox and Reform Active.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

Ell PasO Optical Co., Inc. opticians to
the hwest-Advertis
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

CONTINUED on next page column .
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

The teachers of the First BAPTIST
church viii have a meeting on Fri
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Fred
Weckerle, on POrfirio Diaz street
To Make Yearly Reports
The WOmans Missionary society Of
the Trinity Methodist church viii meet
on Tuesday afternoon at $3.50 at the
church Reports for the year viii be
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

By Rev. J. H. ALLEN, Austin Park Christian Church
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03
Public InstBlatiOn.

The public installation of the Trim
ity Methodist church Home Mission so
ciety Officers viii be held Sunday even
ing. The morning service viii be de.
voted to the communion services.
New Officers to Take Charge.
At the Calvary Houston Square Bap
list church Sunday morning the Off
GERS and teachers Of the Sunday schoo
viii be installed. The officers Of the
B. y p. TT. VIII be installed at the
aWanina- earwlra
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

The regular business meeting Of the
Aid society of the First Baptist church
viii meet on Tuesday afternoon at g
o'clock at the church.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

The young people Of the East Ell Pa
Baptist church held a social at
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed i. Millic
Friday evening
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

The Woman's Missionary society, OF
the First Christian church, will hold
its regular monthly meeting at the
home Of Mrs. w. H. Elliott, Gil North
Oregon street, Tuesday evening, from
TO 3. The Aid society viii. hold its
regular business meeting a the church
on Thursday afternoon The business
meeting VIII be followed by social
hour, when refreshments win be
served
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03

In Sunday schools there is the same
teady increase in numbers Of children
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28

at Orrs Island. yelorus T. Shaw at
Prout's Neck, Lemuel Rich at Sebago
Lake, Edison E. Jones at South Free
port, Henry H. York at Walnut Hill,
and Arthur s. Moves at West Fall
mouth, all Cumberland county; Clar-
ence d. Turner at Haul; Fred
erfck H. Macomber at Seal Harbor,
and Dyer J. Curtis at Surry, Hancock
county: Marilla H. Palmer at Carroll,
Joseph w. Harding at Dixmont, Alva
l.. Sylvester at Etna, Arthur w.
Braithwaite at Hampden, Winfred H.
Smart at Rowland, Leroy H. Bemis at
Levant, William e. Walcott at Lincoln
Centre, Joseph Spruce at Milford,
Lloyd c. Hathaway at Passadumkeag,
Andrew p. Lean at Sherman Station,
Lizzie e. Kinds at South Orrington,
and William E. Clendenin at Winn,
all in Penobscot county; Theodore H.
Wyman at Sebec, Edward p. Blanch-
ard at Blanchard. and Lucy A. White
house at wellington, Piscataquis
county: David H. Smith at Dark Har-
Dor, and Edmund B. Elwell at North
port, Waldo county.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28

when the disease is in an advanced
stage, and, as a matter of fact the
disease is not permitted to pass into
an advanced stage, as any stricken
animal Is at once slaughtered
Men who come in contact with dis
eased animals may also become in
fected. In adult human beings the
contaglon causes such symptoms as
sore mouths, painful swallowing, few
er, and occasional eruptions on the
hands, finger tips, etc. While causing
considerable discomfort, however. the
disease is rarely serious Where 1t
is very prevalent among animals.
some authorities believe that 1t is
fairly general among human beings,
but that the disturbances it causes
are usually so slight that they are not
brought to the attention of the family
physician. There is, however, a very
good reason for everyone giving the
diseased animals as wide q berth as
possible. namely, that otherwise they
may easily carry the disease to per-
fectly healthy herds. Federal inspect
ors engaged in the work of eradicating
the pestilence are thoroughly equipped
gloves. which may be completely dis
infected; and others who lack this
equipment are strongly urged not to
allow their curiosity to induce them
TO become a menace to their own and
their neighbors' property.
The disease, in short, is dangerous
because of the loss that 1t occasions
TO property, and not because Of its
effects upon the health of mankind.
At present all infected herds are being
slaughtered as soon as they are dis
covered, the carcasses buried, and the
premises thoroughly disinfected. Until
all danger of infection has been re-
moved in this way, the local authori-
ties quarantine the milk.
Those who wish additional precau-
lions are recommended to use pasteur-
lied milk, but as has already been
said, this recommendation holds true
whether or not there Is any fear Of
the foot-and-mouth disease.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28
THREE BRISK FIRES
interrupt Presque Isle Firemen While
at Their Annual Ball.

+ Pressure Isle, Me-, Nov. 27-The
firemen's annual ball here Thursday
night was interrupted by three fires.
The first was in the barber shop of
George Bouchard. supposed to have
been started from a gasoline explosion.
Chief Pipes and his company left the
ball room to attend to their duties
and returned. In short time they
were called again and returned
An hour later fire was discovered
in the James H. Deasy's hardware
store. This is on the east side 81
Main street, half a block away. The
store and stock were entirely des-
troyed, more damage being caused by
water than by fire.
The offices of j. Allen Smith. Esq.
Phil d. Phair, Attorneys Green and
Beck, Lawyers d. w. Corey, Hoyt and
Smith all were damaged by water
On the west side of Main street in
the Kline block, where the first fire
started the stores of B. s. Green
Brothers We're badly damaged by
smoke, also Coy's shoe store and z. r.
WaddelPs jewelry shop.
The origin of these fires are as yet
unknown, but it is suggested that the
fires in Deasy's caught through goods
that were carried from a previous fire
into the building occupied by him. The
loss. not estimated, is partially COW
cred by insurance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28
ALBION

Clarence Coffin. Peter Taylor and
Adelbert Stratton, on their return
from a hunting trip established a new
pace in local pedestrianism and would
perhaps be open to engagement for
Marathon races. They made the dis
lance from Benton Falls to Albion
postoffice, a distance of eight miles, in
one hour. and &c minutes. and Albion
thought 1t had good walkers before.
Everett Kimball, who has been
teaching in Mt. Vernon, is at home for
Thanksgiving week.
c. e. and Geo. Wilson returned
from Shirley Wednesday
Lena Kimball. who taught in Range
ley during the fall, is at home.
The G. E. Society at its Tuesday
meeting took special offering for
Franklinton.
]. F. Kimball, who has been away on
visit to his brothers, returned home
Tuesday.
Adelbert Stratton, Peter Taylor,
Clarence Coffin and Frank Walcott.
returned from hunting trip to Bak-
ers Siding, Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28

relating to the manufacture, sale and
use Of poisons or of articles that may
contain poisons. and the desirability
of having the various state laws con-
form in their general requirements,
at least, to the corresponding require
ments of Federal laws.
1t has been pointed out that the sew
eral State food and drug laws while
following the same general pattern
usually differ to some extent and these
differences particularly the paragraphs
relating to the labelling of prepara-
tions have come to be a constant an
noyance to the manufacturer, the job.
Der, and the retailer. The jobber and
the retailer are more directly inter-
ested as the manufacturer having lab
elled his products in accordance with
the Federal law may ship them into
any State regardless of the special
requirements of the State law, thus
making the other branches of the trade
liable in the event that the goods do
not comply to the provisions of the
local requirements.
Greater uniformity is also desired in
connection with the laws and regula-
lions designed to restrict the sale and
use of poisons. and manufacturers
and dealers doing an interstate bust
ness are at the present time agitating
for the enactment Of a national poison
law which would serve to provide reg
ulatfons for interstate traffic and
would also tend to arouse renewed in
terest in the nature and object of local
laws and would possibly lead to their
more efficient enforcement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28

l. That there was a fatal variance
between the first alleged misrepre-
sentation and the evidence. The al
legation was that the defendant stated
that one Haggett had sold one hun
dred copies of the plaintiffs song
when demonstrating in Lewiston,
while the evidence only showed that
the defendant said he had received n
letter from Haggett to that effect.
2. That the second alleged false
statement, viz: that the defendant
agreed that the second lot of one
hundred copies should be sold only in
Lewiston, while the said Haggett was
demonstrating there. and only for ad-
vertising purposes" related not to
some material existing fact. but to a
promise for the future, and therefore
was not properly a representation, but
an agreement.
8. That the plaintiffs remedy. if
any, is in contract and not in tort.
Exceptions sustained.
Received Nov. 4, 1914.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28
POIS0NS AND HABIT-F0RM|NC
DRUCS--THEIR USE AND SALE

In the Health Reports issued by the
United States Public Health Service
| this week there appears discussion
and digest of recently enacted State
laws regulating the possession, use,
sale and manufacture of poisons and
habit-forming drugs. With them are
presented a compilation of the laws
and regulations on the subject recent
ly enacted in 80 States.
This compilation of laws emphasizes
again the frequently made observa-
ton that the average American has
an abiding confidence i'll the possible
value of statute law. 1t also suggests
that the laws relating to the manu-
facture, sale and use of poisons, while
numerous, are not effectual largely be-
cause of the inability or unwillingness
of the proper authorities to enforce
them. s5 -s.. s
Much of the difficulty encountered
in enforcing laws relating to poisons
is due to the fact that we have as yet
no popularity acceptable definition for
poison. individuals generally feel
that they understand what is meant
by "a poison" but efforts to salts
factorily limit this meaning have
signally failed. This is SO largely be-
cause Of the fast that by far the
greater amount of the material that
may be classed as poisonous is sell
dom recognized as being menace to
human life.
Considerable interest is evidenced at
the present time in discussions on the
need for greater uniformity in laws