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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-04
Murrette
SATURDAY.

nosed cow-pony. A hundred head OF
cattle are rounded up for beef to be
shipped alive to Chicago. Ben and his
master. with Segundo Jim, are put IN
charge. In the Chicago stock-yards,
men who don't know range-bred cat
tie from herd Of mountain goats,
calmly inform Jim and Ben's master
that the steers are to be driven into
the pig pen. At the same instant,
two or three stock hands run behind
the herd and begin shouting and wav-
Ing their arms to start the cattle
SUNDAY.
"Snapshots"-George Waite, banker
In small town, steals the funds en-
trusted to him. He Is abetted by
Charles Sibley. the cashier, who bar
gains, In return, for share of the
spells to nee to South America, thus
accepting the blame of the theft. The
only person who suspects the banker
himself Of completely Is Henry Spear.
editor Of the local paper. He attacks
Waite In his columns. Waite sends to
him an emissary with false express
sfons Of sympathy. Spear has no mo-
ton that this man comes from the
banker.
TUESDAY.
Poor Damp Cow"-Professor Lean
der, we'll known character In his small
city, 10 an inveterate curio collector.
He keeps his treasures in a vault I'M
der one Of his rooms. The papers an
nounce that Leander has fallen heir
to q gem OF great price, which he Is
expecting daily from the west. When
the gem" actually arrives 1t turns out
to be prize cow. The professor is
overcome with disappointment. He
tries his best to rid himself Of the ami
NAL, but in vain, and hoping to drown
his sorrows. he takes several drinks
The COW, meanwhile, has been teth-
cred to the front porch. A storm
comes up. The professor, his dispo-
sition more mellow now, brings "the
poor, damp COW" in out of the rain.
,.. WEDNESDAY,.
mysterious Profession" Tom
Blake's curves have baffled hundreds
Of batsmen. He finds. however, that
he must keep his profession a secret
II he wishes to board at the house Of
Cynthia Hodges maiden aunts. The
aunts are terribly opposed to baseball
and Blake Is in love with their
niece. While tidying up Toms ROOM,
Aunt Angela discovers a pair of spik-
ed shoes. She infers that the new
roomer is a porch climber. Tom Is
questioned, and he tells them that he
is q pipe organ salesman. However.
the mystery Of the spiked shoes and a
hickory stick, discovered by Aunt
Priscilla, cannot be explained away.
1t is decided that Tom must go.
THURSDAY.
Shocking Stockings"-Ed, in his
.eagerness to rescue Fay from her
papa and show her sights at the beach
persuades that young lady to come out
Of the sand, where she has petulantly.
buried herself, and let him substitute
for her pair. of wooden legs wearing
stockings exactly like Fay's. Papa is
duped by the shocking stockings-and
Fay and Ed escape They start of in
the ferris wheel. but are frustrated in
their JOY by Chester, the villain, who
carries of Fay and sets out to sea
with her in a row boat The ferris
wheel is stuck In mid-air Ed, frantic,
leaps out of the wheel into the ocean,
rescues Fay, and wins the everlasting
gratitude of papa.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-04

That Ostriches once grew grew fif
teen feet In height Is shown by re-
mains found in the Island of Madagas.
car.
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what to think Of them. wonderful.
beautiful. extraordinary. and er.-well
all the adjectives you can think OF.
Scotch shipwrights earn - week.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-16
Chapman
AND
Alexander
The Men and Their
Message
By
], Kennedy Maclean

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-16

work, if success were expected. This En-
glish girl was Miss Helen Cadbury Her
father was Mr. Richard Cadbury of Bir-
mingham, England In her young woman
hood she became the wife of Mr.. Charles
NJ. Alexander, my esteemed and honored
associate in evangelistic work.
The Pocket Testament League was start
ed as a soul-winning agency. Mrs. Alex
ander wanted to win her girl friends to
Christ, and she knew that she must have
Gods word with her to make the way
plain, and so she began to carry Tesla
ment. Other Christian girls did the same
thing and they worked together seeking to
win others, and thus without their reaiZ-
ing it the Pocket Testament League came
into existence. 1t has been widely pro-
NOTED by the Rev. George I. B. Davis,
who has labored under the direction of Mr.
Alexander personally for many years, and
has also been associated with Mr.. Alexan-
der and myself in our evangelistic work
in many lands. Mr.. Davis practically be-
gan the league work in approaching a po-
iceman in Birmingham. He offered him a
Testament, and because there were pic
lures in it, the policeman gladly received
it and promised to read chapter a day
In a very short time it was the means of
his conversion, and he gave living testi-
mony of this fact in the presence of Mr..
Alexander.
In Australasia, China, Japan, Korea, the
United States and Canada, England, Ire
land and Wales, Mr. Davis has labored.
He is now busily engaged in presenting the
league to the British soldiers, and as re-
suit of his work, literally thousands have
accepted Christ While travelling back and
forth on the steamships he has labored
tirelessly, and it is interesting to know
that during a recent voyage from America
to England on the 'Lusitania," 154 per-
sons joined the league including over 100
members of the crew. | have no question
at all but that some of the crew who went
down on the Lusitania recently, went
down with their Testaments in their pock-
cts, as well as having its truth in their
hearts.
The league appeals to all classes Among
the enthusiastic members of the move
ment are policemen and preachers, soldiers
and evangelists, sailors and professors,
railway men and business men, street car
men and members of professions, journal
lists, singers, writers, poor and rich, people
of high social standing as well as dwellers
in slums. 1t is hard to state whether it
has aroused the keenest interest in Eng
land or America, in Australia or China, in
Japan or Korea. Because it is simply
plan to make Gods Word a more vital fac
tor IN the daily life of every believer, its
appeal is as universal as the human race.
1t was during the Chapman-Alexander
mission in Philadelphia in the spring of
1908 that the Pocket Testament League
was made worldwide movement. For
years Mr.. Alexander had watched with
keen interest the far-reaching results
which had come from the quiet working of
the league In England. 1t was now felt
that the time had come to make the plan
an international movement. During the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-16

if he viii keep in mind three things.
l. The unsaved about us are in need of
Christ and we do not know but that God
intends that we shall be the medium
through which He would work to win the
unsaved people whom we know to Christ.
2. Careful waiting before God in the
matter of prayer, with Willingness to be
taught to the one to whom should
speak, as to the time when we should
speak, and as to the way should speak,
is most important 1t is by the Spirit of
God that men are convicted of sin, con
WINGED of their need of a Saviour and
finally converted. Any Christian may be
the channel for His work If he will but
meet Gods conditions; the sum of all His
conditions is absolute and unconditional
surrender to His will
B. The proper approach to people is
most important We can hardly speak alb
Tuptly to them lest we should offend them;
we cannot easily approach entire strangers
lest they should resent our appeal to them
we cannot always effectively approach even
those whom we know best It is the first
step that is difficult, the first sentence or
two which we must speak that is the hard
est.
The Pocket Testament League helps us
IN this emergency; inasmuch as it is Gods
word, 1t provides us spiritual equipment,
suggests to us the deepest spiritual teach
ing, and does its own work when It is
gwen fair chance. 1t is ife-giving and
notwithstanding; it breaks down barriers
which otherwise would be before us when
we attempt to do personal work, and re-
moves the spirit of opposition which is so
often found on the part of those who
ought to be Won for Christ, and who must
be won by personal effort if they are won
at all
After studying the Pocket Testament
League for more than seven years unhesi-
tatlngy say that it is the greatest agency
know for effective personal work and
the mlghtIest force at our command to
make this work easy and successful. /
pass 1t on to Christian workers, because
rightly used have never known it to fail.
Lake other great movements, the Pocket
Testament League had a comparatively
small beginning 1t was born in the heart
OF an English school girl and she really
had no idea as to the greatness of the
movement which in her girlish effort she
was starting, nor did she for moment
realize that it was to be worldwide in its
sweep and power.
This young girl was born in one of the
best OF English homes Her. father was a
distinguished philanthropist man of God
and known throughout the British world
as one of the great leaders of men in doing
great things to advance the interests of the
kingdom. Her mother was the highest
type OF an English lady, consecrated and
nntlring in her devotion to Christ. The
atmosphere of this young girls home was
indescribably beautiful, and it was quite
natural that child reared under such cir
cumstances should be early taught to rev.
erence Gods word, and to know that ii
quite essential to use it in Christian
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A Story of a Thrilling Escape.

NNO4S VI q L III ming 1LSCd Pc
The mission in Swansea, Wales, was
remarkable for the emphasis it laid on
personal work-the definite effort on the
part of individuals to win other midi
viduals to saving knowledge of Jesus
Christ. Every Sunday morning at 8
o'clock meeting was held at public
building in the city, when testimonies
and experiences of the workers and
converts We're told. Many striking sto-
rles and incidents were related. People
had been reached in various ways Some
had been won by personal appeal; 9th
ers had come under the convincing pow
er of a sermon; the hearts of some had
been touched by the message in hymn.
Christian workers expressed the joy
they had found in this definite effort to
win others for the Kingdom
1t was at one of these testimony
meetings that man arose, and told a
thrilling story of a wonderful escape
from sudden death. He was working in
the hold of ship in the Swansea dock
only day or two before, assisting to
load the cargo. This cargo consisted of
patent fuel, which was packed on to
trolleys, then lifted from the dock by
crane and swung down into the hold.
When a loaded trolley went down an
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-16

empty one came up to be reloaded.
The man had been at this work all
the morning, when, after adjusting the
rope around one of the empty trolleys
he gave the signal to lift. All I'M
known to himself he had fastened the
heel of his boot in blight of the rope,
and when the engine was started he
found himself ierked from his footing
and swung aloft to height of 40 feet.
The driver of the crane engine did not
notice anything amiss unt7f the trolley
with its human freight had reached the
jib head. Then. he got frightened and
stopped the engine.
The man s mates were terror-strieken
as they gazed at him hanging head
downwards beneath the heavy trolley.
They realized that at any minute his
boot might slip from the grip of the
rope, and the man come hurting to the
dock. But a merciful Providence was
watching over him; the trolley was
slowly lowered to the dock, and he was
rescued from his perilous position. His
mates were not little astonished when
he began calmly to set about his
work once more. They thought the shock
would have completely unnerved him.
:" Are you not going homea" they asked.
No. he said, Il am all right. / am
Christian, and God has saved my life.
This week l have been singing He
Will Hold Me Fast, and you see He has
done it.
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women and in her messages to the older
women in the drawing-room meetings and
in the churches, is making very great i'm
preston, even though her stay in Brattle-
boro, because of her illness in Asheville,
is very short Mrs Chapman, while she
does not speak in public, presides at all the
meetings conducted by Mrs. Alexander,
and gives all the time at her disposal to
pushing forward the interests of the work
in behalf of the women and the young
women. Both Mrs. Chapman and Mrs.
Alexander are tireless in their personal
work. 1t is not altogether an easy thing
for them, being comparative strangers, to
move through an audience and address
individuals, but they do it courageously
and effectively
Mr.. Albert Brown, the Soloist, has !
voice OF wonderful power and sweetness.
He student of the Royal Academy
of Music in London, and inasmuch az IL
has devoted all of his great talents to the
singing Of Gospel songs that he may win
people to Christ, the impression he makes
upon an audience is strong indeed.
mist of great attractiveness and force. He
is highly trained musician. He watches
Mr.. Alexander's every move, swiftly
changes from one key to another in his
playing when this is required, and has the
honest conviction in which he is justified
that in his playing he may be personal
worker too.
Mr.. L. NJ. Potts, DIR. Chapman's secre-
tary, while engaged in the more direct
personal assistance rendered to DR.. Chap
man, is always in every spare moment at
work in the meetings. So also is Mr.. Mills,
who is Mr.. Alexanders assistant
DR.. Chapman repeatedly says that
while the other workers receive less atten-
ton than Mr.. Alexander and himself, yet
they both realize that all who are asso-
ciated with them contribute in no small
way to the success of the meetings in
which they are engaged.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-16

Philadelphia mission | called together the
evangelists cooperating in the campaign,
and one afternoon on the platform of the
heartily endorsed and started on its world
wide career. A few days later the league
was formally launched at a meeting, which
was attended by prominent Christian
leaders and by representatives of the secu-
lar and religious press.
The membership of the league has gone
forward by leaps and bounds | have no
hesitation at all in saying that throughout
the world there must certainly today be
total membership of million and half
OF people who have agreed to carry Gods
word with them, and to read a chapter
day, and each month the numbers are mar
velously increased. In Great Britain at the
present time the work is really the most
remarkable because it is being carried on
in the interests of the British soldiers, and
through the generosity of Christian
friends the Testaments are given away to
the men who are going to the front, and
when they accept the Testament, an APP
peal is made to them to accept Christ as
well. 1t is said by those who are carving
on the work that there has been no such
record of conversions in any evangelistic
effort in Great Britain for years
Any Testament will do Carry the Tes-
lament your mother gave you, or the one
which has sacred memories bound up
with it, only let it be known that you are
in the league, and that you are determined
to fulfill its conditions. The membership
card is as follows:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-16

membership of the church was trebled
l once gave Testament to business
man in New York, and some little time
afterwards | heard him say that it had
influenced him profoundly, for said he:
There are many things you can't carry
in your pockets when You have a Tesla
ment with you, and there are many places
you would not want to go when you had
Gods Word about you" If minister
were to preach on this general subject, and
urge his people to begin the carrying of
Gods Word and reading a chapter daily,
a sufficient number of Testaments could be
secured and they could be sold at the close
of the prayer meeting service 1 know
that almost Immediately the effect of the
league would be seen in the lives of the
church members, but the league is not
only for church members, it is for every
body
All classes of people have responded to
our appeals to become members of the
Pocket Testament League. In Melbourne
and Sydney, Australia, hundreds of street
car men became members and out of the
Pocket Testament League grew great
evangelistic party. This movement was
born during our first visit to Australia,
and when we returned three years later,
the street car men had won no less than
5000 other people to Christ. In Birming
ham, England, all of the police officers In a
certain station or district were won to
Christ by means of the league In Char
lotte, n. c., all of the fremen of the city
became members of the league, and many
who We're not Christians, accepted Christ.
All of the policemen in the same city be-
came league members.
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The Pocket Testament
League

One of the most important features of
the work of the Chapman-Alexander Cam
paign is the presentation of the Pocket
Testament League 1t is worldwide in its
sweep. 1t was founded by Mrs Charles NJ
Alexander when she q school girl in
Birmingham, England Dr. Chapman and
Mr. Alexander determined ia 1903 to make
1t II worldwide movement 1t has accom-
pished marvellous things 1t has been esti-
mated that at least two million people, per-
haps more, have joined this League They
represent all parts of the world. It is now
being presented most effectively to the
British and French soldiers and is pro-
foundy influencing their lives. Concern
ing the Pocket Testament League, DIR.
Chapman has said =
/ have found what ] consider to be an
invaluable aid in personal evangelism, and
because / believe it to be such l pass it on
to Christian workers generally, and ask
them to give it careful and prayerful con-
sidelation, and | believe they will agree
with me that of all the helps given to us in
the winning of others to Christ, this is one
of the. best, if indeed, it is not the very
best that has been found. -..... ..
The Pocket Testament League is not
new organization having officers, stated
meetings, dues, and other encumbrances
voluntary association of people, who be-
lieVe that to carry portion of Gods word
with them is good thing, and to read
chapter of Gods word daily is better
thing, and who also believe that there is
no influence for good comparable with
that which comes to us directly or Indirect
ly from the word of God Personal work
is not always easy; that is, the first APP
proach is not easy and sometimes people
fail in this particular line Of service be
cause they shrink from the first STEP and
failing here the work becomes impossible
The tmid Christian, believe, makes the
best personal worker, because he is the
more inclined to rely upon Gods help and
rarely, if ever, becomes over-conhdent in
himself
When personal work becomes mechanical
it loses its spiritual force.
There is no greater fallacy than this that
Just because we know a few verses of Scrip
ture, have studied carefully the methods of
other people, and find it comparatively
easy to approach others on almost any
subject that we may become successful
personal workers.
When one moves forward prayerfully
and follows most carefully the direction OF
the Spirit of God, not only as to the one
whom he may approach, but as regards
the message which he is to USE the best
sort of personal work is possible.
No timidity of disposition, no shrinking
back because of temperament, no con
scieusness of self-weakness need stand. il
the way of the successful personal work O.
any one who has found Christ for himself
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y QUESTION.

"What VIII You Do With Jesus?''
What will you do with Jesus?'
must answer it. You must answer it.
You can not escape from it. Neutral
YOU Can not be. :" Some day, some time
you must face this aquessionsf and
your answer will determine where you
will spend eternity. The hymn is the
best Miss Stocks has ever written. The
words are beautiful. The whole hymn
is an appeal, an invitation. 1t brings
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-16

YOU face to face with a crisis, "What
will you do with Jesus?' 1t is a def
mite question demanding a definite
answer.
What will you do with Jesus?' You
are asked the question now. You can
answer it now. Accept Him:
- What will you do with Jesus?
Neutral you can not be;
Some dAgsyour heart will be asking
What win He do with me?'
49,
Copyright by Chas. NJ. Alexander.
International copyright secured.
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The Evangelistic Party

There is one noticeable feature in con-
nection with the Evangelistic Party which
must have deeply impressed all the people
in Brattleboro who have taken note of it,
and that is that every member of the
party, in whatever capacity they may be
laboring, is putting forth the very best
effort to make the meetings success.
DR.. Chapman and Mr.. Alexander are rem
dered invaluable assistance by their wives
Mrs. Alexander in her addresses to young
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Address
Address 49,.
Request for Daily Prayer.

Before after reading Gods Word
please pray daily:
For members of the league that they
may be faithful to their covenant For
the unsaved members that they may be led
to Christ. For the rapid spread of the
movement in your own community and
throughout the world
1t viii pay any minister to introduce
this league in his church and congrega-
ton. In one of our conferences | heard
young minister say that during one of his
vacations he had charge of little church.
He said he knew he could not preach well,
SO he determined to give the people Gods
word. After three months of hard work
he had saved up fifteen dollars. With this
he purchased New Testaments and pre-
sented one to each member of the church,
and each scholar of the Sunday school.
The result was that in six months the
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POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE
Membership Card.

hereby accept membership in the
Pocket Testament League by making it the
rule of my life to read at least one chap
ter in the Bible each day, and to carry
Bible or Testament with me wherever l
go.
Name NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ..........