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Bird Member for same Lunney) got 2 votes.
Substitute.
II voting tickets were handed in.
Bird Member for Frederiksted Country
District Quincy got Z votes.
1st Member for same (Fleming) and 4th
Member for same (Smiih) got 5 votes re-
spectively.
AS none had absolute majority a new voting
had to take place.
II voting tickets were handed in.
Elected was lst Member for Frederik-
/. sted Country District (F2eming) with 9
votes.
3rd Member for same Nunney) got
7 votes and 4th Member for same (Smith)
got l vote.
ITEM 3.
Election of Members of the Public
Cemeteries Commission.
For Christiansted.
II voting tickets we're handed in.
Elected were: 1st. Member fW Christian
sted Town (Stakemann) aud 3rd. Crown
Member (Pretto) with IA votes respectively.
2nd. Member for Christiansted Town (Can.
eoater) got 2 votes and Bird. Member for
same (Nielsen) got l vote.
list. Member for Froderiksted Town
fCooulter) entered the Meeting.l
For Frederiksted.
16 voting tickets were handed in.
lst. Member for Frederiksted Town (Coul-
ter) got Is votes.
LIST, Grown Member (MacFarlane) got 8
votes; 2nd. Member for Frederiksted Town
fMerwin) got 6 votes; 4th. Grown Member
(Lawaetz) got 2 votes and Emu crown Mem
(Bierg) got l vote.
1st> Member for Fredeliksted Town (Coul-
ter) was elected, but as none of the Others
had absolute majority a new voting had to
toke Mace for one member.
l6 voting tickets were handed in.
Elected was 1st Grown Member (Mac
For1aoe) with 8 votes.
2nd Member for Frederiksted Town (Mer-
winl cot 6 votes and 4th Grown Member
(Lawaetz) l vote.
Item 4.
Election according to Ordinance of
18th July 1907 3 of 4 Members to
enter into the Militia Commission.
For Christionsted Town and Christlnnsted
Country District,
Is voting tickets were handed in.
Elected we're For Christiansted Town,
2ud Member for same (~C01a9eg0tG) with IL
votes.
For Christiansted Country District. 2nd
Member for same (Neuhropp).
3rd Grown Member (Pretto) got 2 votes;
1st Member for ChristianSted Country Dis.
trict (Mackay) and End Member for Freder-
iksted Country District Nordby) got | vote
respectively.
2 voting tickets were void.
For Frederiksted Town and Frederlksted
Country District.
IA voting tickets were handed in.
Elected were: For Frederiksted Town
LIST Member for same (Co@Her) with s votes.
For Frederiksted Country District. 4th
Member fer same tSnaith) with 8 votes.
End Member for Frederiksted Town (Mer-
why got 3 votes; 4th Grown Member
(Lawaetz) got 2 votes and LIST Member
for Frederiksted Country District Fleming)
got l vote.
3 voting tickets were void.
Item s.
Election according to Ordinance of
18th January 1908 S 6 of one Member
to enter the Board of Management Of
of the Asylum for Lepers etc.
The Chairman (~Stahendnn) elucidated,
that he could not be voted for as he as
Chairman of the Council ex officio was mem
Der of the Board and likewise 4th Member
for Christiansted Country District (Schmie-
gelow) could not be voted for as he was the
representative in the Board for the Odd
Fellows.
ne vatino tickets were handed in.
, 1916-06-07
HE AVIS.
UAeigtiansted, st. GceiK.
Wednesday, 9TH June, 1916.
The Factory Sugar Price

was fxea on Monday ut $4.49 per 100 Tbs.
sugar, which gives 24.70 cents per 100 lbs
of canes.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

souls for Jesus Christ. depends on
whether or not YOU do your duty.
7 "Some people pretend % believe.
but they never work AZ II,
Christianity consist i'm neither
believing alone or doing alone. but
ia both. II YOU believe. wake up and
do something Show you believe by
| what toa do James said Faith
without works is dead In other
words. I'm from Missouri; come
across; let me see
III YOU believe. work out your sal
walton with fear and trembling !
have got salvation through Jesus
Christ. now that | have got IL. let
me work il out. Don't alt around
and rap The most successful preach
crs against Christianity are not the
saloonkeepers, but Inconsistent pro-
fessOrs OF Christianity.
"The bad sermons YOU preach with
your life are more powerful than the
most oyer-mastering sermon that
any man can preach with his lips.
You pray with your lips. and cheat
In horse trade. You kneel al a
communion table and then you op.
press the poor and make them live
bcfuw tho hunger finc You sing for
the glorifcation OF God and then you
put the wrong figures In the day
book.
What a. tho inducement that
makes student stick TO his books ?
Graduation day Why do men prac-
tice law or medicine? To be paid
for their skill 1.-The skill he has ac-
quircd AZ law or medicine by years
of study and practice.
1T is said OF Louis Kossuth that
he made mp his mind to spend a
year in sunny southern la belle
France. When the government learn
ed Of his decision they sent n courier
out into the bay 10 refuse him the
permission TO land Thousands and
thousands OF people had assembled
AZ Marscilles to bid him welcome.
and when they learned OF the de-
cision of the government they were
disappointed and their disappoint.
ment knew no bounds There was
one Frenchman who was not 10 bG
discouraged or outdone even by the
government. and he jumped into the
bay and swan a mile out into the
bay and clambered up the rope lad-
der and stood dripping and shiyerihg
IN the presence OF the great exile
Kossuth kossuth said 10 him. How
In the world did YOU ever manage 10
reach this vessel He replied
There are no difficulties 10 him that
wills Kossuth said Say that
again He again repeated. There
are no difficulties 10 him that wills
Kossuth said 70 him: Thank YOU
FOR coming That shall be- my motto
as we'll as an inspiration for all my
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18
ETRoiT TIM Z s
Jesus Said I'm From Missouri Come AcrOSSShoW Me- According to William

any hog can root into the church Il
he has a word OF orthodoxy and fom
suits OF clothes.
1T cost $500 for every soul thai
Joined the church I'm Indianapolis.
New York. S545; Boston, $3.50: Den
yer. $i25; Chicago, $500; New or
leans. $50 Atlanta. Ga, SIS; Louis
vile, Ky, Sos; Philadelphia. SOS
Ftfty-twO percent Of the men who
live south OF the Mason and Dixon
line are processing Christians. NORTH
Of the Mason and Dixon line "A per
cent, along the Pacific coast only 1
per cent, and YOU can put a question
mark after the names Of most OF
them. n there's anything this side
OF hell they haven't got a slice OF
ont on the coast. | want 70 know
what il is.
There are three kinds OF people
In the church. the | Wills, who try
TO accomplish everything: the won Is
who oppose everything. the can'ts
who do nothing Hear me! The
world wants men and women with
nerve and grit, who will work and
walt whether they are applauded or
whether they are Kissed. Chiseled
on the monument of Miss Lyons. who
founded the school for girls al Mount
lIolyoke. Mass. there is this inscrip
ton; There is nothing in the uni
verse that fear except that | may
not know my duty, or, knowing my
duty ! may not do il.
Reveals Critics Character.
There is nothing in this universe
that | am afraid OF except that MAY
not know my duty, or. knowing II
u may not do it, The people know
what 10 do, but they do not do 1t
The people had a mind to work.
Every time a lazy man looks up into
heaven | think that God closes thu
windows
The people had mind TO work
not to criticise, and they did work
Whenever,s1ou begin any work o.
this kind there is opposition; that's
always the WAY. The devil is always
on the job with his gang of maraud
ers ana rag babies. Start 10 dc
something for God and see how the
devil begins 10 howl. That is tn,
best evidence in the world that yol
are hurting his business.
Listen TO me. A mans criticism
is revelation of his own degrade
tion Of the one whom he criticises
Listen 10 me-. Criticism Is a public
revelation / will put il this way
is public revelation OF the mora
latitude and longitude of the critic
and it will give you an insight into
his character Criticism, my friends
e. public revelation OF the char
acter OF the one that does the knock
ing. The people had mind to worl
and not 10 criticise
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

him and for all the community is 10
take him TO heaven But Brother
Brown jumped up and said. I won't
so. | won't go, | won't go
Be a Booster Rooster.
After a while another fellow got
up and said. Lord. we think the best
thing YOU can do is 10 take him to
hell Somebody got up and said.
What do you want to make a prayer
like that for? He said. ri tell yaE
If the devil got him in hell. he'd
either run hell or break il up. one
or the other. Every preacher mas n
few members that he wishes were in
one place or the other. Ill tell you
that.
The people had mind to work.
Don't you know there are a lot OF
people who sit around grumbling and
growing like bTOoding chickens,
knocking every good thing down:
don't be that kind OF cattle no.
they're no use on earth-be a booster
rooster. crow and boost for an rou 20
worth. Your town needs the best
booster don't hold back and see II
some other fellow is willin', jest sail
| lili AHlN tbuuAlN tree.
"A working Christian never has
any doubts YoU SO up 10 n man
and ask him, Are YOU a Christian p
| Yes, thank God. | am Go up 10
another Are YOU a Christian Well,
hope so, Brother sunday, in my
weak way am trying TO serve the
Lord. Pray for me, IL some one
asked, Mr.. Sunday. are you mar
ried?' Yes, | hope so. | am trying
| TO be And yet | am just as sure
/ that | am a Christian as that | am
married What sort Of mutt would
! be if said | am trying to be mar
ried. Here Is song Christian
ought never 10 sing:
/ TITS a point | long TO know;
Much n gives me anxious thought;
| DO |. 1--we tho Lord or no?
Am | His or am ! not2
A Christian ought never 10 sing a
! song like that. know Him in
whom | believe. like that kind Of
religion. will give you recipe.
Make out a prayer list before you
go 10 sleep tonight, write down the
! names OF every man or woman,
| every boy or girl. make list OF %
or 20, OF 80, and pray for them; be
fore you know II that cold feeling
has gone and you are up to the face
Of God with 20 or 30 souls. praying
for them day and night.
"A woman came up TO me one day
and said; Mr. Sunday, have you
read this novel; | said No She
said, you ought to read it, | said,
I can't, haven't got time She
asked II | had read when knight
hood Was in Flower No Have
YOU read The Crisis by Winston
Churchill No Have you read
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

through human hands. Some one
must carry the message 10 the con
vert. II a thing is desirable or un-
desirable. il will meet with results
II we work for Il. LObk az the liquor
traffic. Does IL succeed because II r.
desirable. are any OF it's purified,
vomiting. ill-smelling saloons. brew.
cries, fashy bartenders, cursing.
broken.down wretches, subsidized
politicians, all working for the over
throw OF good are any OF these
things desirable? No, it's because
that bunch works for its results. II
family institution like that gets
along by working, what can't We do
for Christ II we work?
God Wants Workers.
God demands human laborers. He
could have sent an angel here 20
preach That Is not Gods way. God
said. Bill, want you TO do it, God
could have sent the angel Gabriel
down here to lead. but God said.
'Rody, you do It. God could have
sent angels for this choir TO do the
Job, but that is not Gods way of do
ing. God wants workers, not critics ;
he wants builders. not wrecking
crew will tell yeu folks there Is
a crying need today for leaders who
will lead, preachers who can preach,
teachers who can instruct in the ire
mendous odds that confront us.
Membership cannot be depended
upon. All denominations are failing
TO reach the great. rushing seeth-
ing teeming unchurched multitude,
rushing TO hell like cattle.
Last year 1900 churches made re
ports not one accession on confes-
sion OF faith. Any of your churches
among that number? II that is not
an insult 10 the grace OF God, you
come and show me. Young men
are leaving the ministry. Mighty
few young men are entering the semi
naries. The seminaries are w
against Il. Take one instance: I'm
1910 thirty-three Congregational
churches in Boston spent 5000. 900 for
expenses they had 420 join the
church in the course Of the whole
year. In Chicago the Congregational
churches. numbering 70. spent for
current expenses s250,000, and they
had $40 join their churches for a
year All the Congregational churches
in Boston and Chicago had in one
year 1906 come into the church.
"In one year there were only 1905
come into the churches, andI saw
over 2000 people take their stand for
Jesus Christ in one day in Columbus,
O. Oh. OF course. ! am crude and
illiterate. and there is n safe and
sane evangelism that we hear so
much about nowadays.
When see what I'm up against,
it's wonder I'm so easy. Almost
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

mo sooner does the work begin
than criticism and opposition arise.
Emergencies not only make men, but
make eNpediencies as well. We
didn't make Roosevelt; didn't make
Schley; didn't make Admiral Dewey:
1t simply gave them a chance TO un-
veil themselves TO the world.
In Australia everything Is back
ward. When YOU go north you are
going south. Christmas is the hot
test day OF the year and the Fourth
OF July the coolest. Somebody once
said Australia was a land that God
started. but got called off the Job
before he could finish IT,
They tell a story OF Michelangelo ;
he went into a building where Raph
ael had painted some cartoons. and
Angelo looked at them, and his prac
ticed eye told him that they were
too large for the wall space; they
were out of proportion. and he took
his brush and dipped II in the paint
and painted a cartoon OF the size
which he thought il ought to be. And
some one said Why did you dc
that? Why didn't you call Raphael
attention TO it?' And he answered
and said. L. Angelo. criticise by crea
ton, not by finding fault So. II any
of you here tonight think YOU car
preach a better sermon than I. but
in here and I'll get Off the job. Il
some old elder or deacon thinks yol
can do the job better than the preach
or, than ask him to resign and 20,
climb up in the pulpit and do IT, ANY
OF YOU can criticise, but IL requires
brains to do things. II you don
like il, go home. II you put anything
in the collection, I'll give II bacl
to you.
81 was in Connecticut one time
New London, and met n prominenI
man who told of man they had haC
in their church he was always
grumbling and complaining, ant
thing; he didn't like the sermons and
he never did anything. So al a church
session some one said: What will
we do with Brother Brown Some
one else said: Have him prayed
for. Brother, will you pray for him :?
Not on your life Brother, will you
pray for him. No. Finally they
found one fellow to say he would
They agreed that he would do il on
Wednesday evening. and when Wed
nesday evening prayer meeting came
he got up and cleared his throat and
said: Lord thCrciS Brother Brown
who does nothing himself but is al
ways grumbling and complaining. al
ways growing and finding fault. and
oh, Lord, we have given the matter
earnest consideration. and we have
come TO the prayerful conclusion
that the best thing YOU can do for
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18
sunday AfternOOn sermon.


Work was the subject OF IN,
Sunday afternoon sermon.
in the Book OF Nehemiah, fourth
chapter. sixth verse. THE peopl,
had a mind to work.
Nehemiah was the cup bearer "a
King Artaxerxes. and he heard that
the city was In deplorable and di
lapidated condition. his beloved Jer
usalem. This news was brought "a
him BY friend. who had been 10
Jerusalem and seen for himself
When he walked into the presence
OF the king the old monarch noticed
that his countenance was sad and
troubled, and he asked him what was
the reason, and he told him II was
because he had learned about Jer
usalem. and he asked the permission
OF the king TO return to Jerusalem FOR
the purpose OF rebuilding the walls
The king not only readily consented
but gave him an order upon his for
est for timber and upon his quar-
ries for stone.
He got / 800 men and returned "a
Jerusalem, and in ahe seemingly in
credible time OF 90 days the walls OF
the city had been rebuilt and the
gates hung upon hinges. and this was
accomplished because OF the words
found In my text. There were no
loafers on the job. The people had
mind TO work There were others
In captivity who knew as much about
Jerusalem as did Nehemiah. but they
were not concerned about A. En-
thusiasm for God is like the measles
or the smallpox you've got II
somebody else will get II II they 60
near YOU
'lt is one thing To know what to
do and another thing TO do II. The
trouble IL that the people know what
10 do. but they do not do II because
they are too lazy 10 do IL Know
ledge is OF no value unless YOU use
Il. IL Is useless TO those depending
upon you for bread and butter un.
less YOU use your knowledge You
may know about God. yet your know.
ledge OF God and Gods cause Is no
good unless YOU take the knowledge
and put IL into practice. Religion
IL the most common-sense thing In
the universe
who YOU are and what you Do
Is OF vastly more Importance: not
what you know. N YOU simply use
the term knowledge in the abstract
Must Believe Work
THE world isn't slow To discover
a fraud. Whether or not the church
meets its purpose, and thar Is 20 save
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

Ships That Pass In the Night" MI
Beatrice HarradenT No. Have yoo3
read Marie Corelli? No. May n
ask why2' Yes. | haven't got time
OF swim through so feet OF sewae1.
to pick up one sointilla OF truth
when you pray YOU must hav0n1
faith. The farmer has got 10 have
faith when he plows his field. pIantq
his seed. he's got 10 work III he evo{
sets a crop. You can't make thu
plan OF redemption; and all you cal
do il TO encourage others. and yes
can do your part ca
II would rather have standinRI
room in heaven than own the earth,
IL you have the slightest regret fo13
your worthless life ii is worth mo063
in the sight of God than all the mons
ey coined at the mint.
What Work Has Done.
Some churches get good preach.'
crs. but they won't let them preash.i
When a preacher starts TO sink Code
scalpel into your putrefying absces<.
SEES YOU put up howl and flake him
quit There are the stewards ar
ways stewing and making a messy
and the deacons that never deaos'
Thank God here's one you can't sub.
sidiZe, YOU G0dfOTsakeU NUTS. Z
~ dreamer saw imprisoned In the
yapor "A power, from which a locomo-.
| tive came out OF his mind. and Wa
have the putting. fiery steel-bound
carrier which hurries across oliy%
/ land on the steel rails like mid
night messenger sailing through the
IL k.Fx<
| Christ was born an old Greek discov-7
cred electricity by rubbing two
pieces of amber together, and he put
It in a pigeon hole and II slept fox
thousands OF years until one morn4.
ing il awakened in the brain OF Gal-
wanna and Volta and Ben Franklin.
Tonight ii / would 80 10 the Vest
ern Union or the Postal Telegraph
office. / could fash message TO-
some land had never seen and gee
an answer back before ! order my
breakfast-from across the contis
nent.
What did all that? Work. Work
Work | would not be surprised "a.
wake UP some morning and read IN
the paper where some fellow had
seized the laws of nature and forced
them into compliance with his ever
active fancy, like Edison and Mar.
conf and until some day we would
have n grapho-love-o, hss-o. tele@
phono that would make IL possible
for some fellow in Detroit TO stand
in front of the instrument and love
his girl in New York with all the de-
lightful sensations that are mani-
tested and accompany 1t. don
know what will happen"
Copyright, William A. Sunday <
The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

life until I die Apply that more
20 your religion and you will have
the devil In the hospital with peri
tonitis.
Work Here for Every One.
"Here are some tremendous facts:
There are 100000 churches in the
United States: about 2G.000.0 900 com
municants in the churches equally
divided between the Catholic and
Protestant: there is a seating capa-
city for 65.000.000 in our churches
In America. already one-third OF the
people are processing Christians, not
quite. but nearly that. and all they
would need 10 do would be for each
one to win two souls 10 God In a
year: 5000 900 people In this country
who are not members OF any church.
We talk about My Country IT'S of
Thee We stamp In God We Trust
On our coins. That's hot air.
at Is downright hypocrisy 10
pray for thing and not be willing
to work for II. Your prayers are
worth no more than you are willing
am not going 10 keep anything back
in this city for fear OF anybody In
this place.
Listen 10 me. have a tribunal 10
which I must answer when I am
through with this world, and that's
God Almighty and the word
Not a Magician.
81 tell you YOU have got too many
folks that call themselves Christians
because they belong TO a church. |
am told YOU can pack a room or an
auditorium II YOU announce a min
strel show. a cantata. or dance.
while If you can scare up dozen or
two az prayer meeting you think
you are going some.
II am no magician or sleight-of-
hand performer. I'm just an old
fashioned preacher OF Calvary. Don't
think you'll have good revival by
Just weeping and praying. Get out
and do some work When you think
OF all the drunkards in the streets
OF this city: all the hell-holes and
rotten dens Of vice. the rum-soaked,
miserable wretches and drug hends.
all the RIGHTEOUSNESS, all the graft
and greed that permeates this city;
get out and do something.
They can't be moved by little
bit OF weeping and hoping. Take a
piece OF chalk and draw ring
around yourself and say: Here God,
start with this lobster in the ring.
It's hypocrisy 10 pray God for some
thing and not work for It.
Gods hands are tied and Gods
chariot wheels are clogged through
the indifference OF the church today.
The people had a mind to work.
God could convert any one he
wanted, but he prefers 10 work