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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

people who cannot produce the sleep
er.' God never has TO go into re.
pairs.
We have not passed this way
Notwithstanding, ! take II, that
everything rs now to be new differ.
ent from anything they had previous.
ly known.
The people believe il. and soon
there was great commotion in the
camp. There was the busy hum of
preparation. People worked with a
will. They talked with glowing faces
Of the mighty God OF Jacob and what
He was going To do.
They were looking for greater
thlngs-far greater than ever. Yet
they had seen great things.
Most OF them were children when
they came out OF Egypt. They had
seen the destroying angel come
through the land and Stay the first
born In every home where the blood
was not on the doorpost. They had
seen mamma rained from heaven
every morning for 40 years.
They had seen the mighty hand
Of God roll back the waters OF the
Red sea. They had seen the waters
rush out OF the rock as the rod OF
Moses struck II. They had seen the
rod of Aaron blossom and bear al
monds in a night.
They had seen the cloud OF quails
come up and feed them until they
loathed the meat They had seen the
dying spring into life with one look
al the braZen serpent. They had
seen the ground open and swallow W
the stiff-necked rebellious They had
seen the pillar of fire lead them by
night and the cloud by day But
now there were greater things!
There would be more and greater
revivals II the people and the preach
or expected something The man
with a little faith deserves a little
God. The man with mountainmov
ing faith gets earthquake results
EFF our faith is puny, so we-are
never able 10 make more than a
gimblet hole in the dome above US ,
We will never hear the sound of a
going in the tops Of the mulberry
trees nor "a sound Of abundance Of
rain
mo depositor will ever know very
much about the stability OF bank II
he only checks out ten cents at a
time. II we all expected more from
God. there would be fewer dsap-
pointments! The measure with which
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
DETROIT FOLK
JOIN THE HUGHES
COLLEGE LEAGUE

The following Detroiters have en-
rolled with the Hughes National Col
lege league, with headquarters at
No 51l Fifth-ave.
Samuel Weiss. Harry Goldberg, Ed
ward \. sumner, Robert W STANDARD,
Ir Barnard &. Luce, stephen NJ.
Wirts. +. j. Haynes. Howard Bon
bright. Edwin j Haywood. George
u Huntington Howell =. England, G.
Il Chapman. Joseph A. Cook. Charles
4, PARCELS, Arthur + lngersoll, Mark
w Allen. Leon NJ. Brusstar, John II.
Scales, +, l. sutherland. Grange
Whitney. Kenneth /. Moore. the RCy'
Pierce NJ wood. NJ. a. Beltaire, VIM.
d Maxon. T.. W. Hiestand. AleNan-
der X Gage. J r Williams, Chas. u.
Aaron, VIM. r. Gage. Frederick w;
r. Ice, Edison II Smith. + + Bonte-
cou. Seymour : Rutherford. oliver
Phelps. George l.. Mccain, Chas. IL.
johnson, Chas. DENLY. ". y. Torrey,
Chas. *. Munns. Ernest Fuller Her
bert Il. IlelbiK. c. L Christie. Arthur
G. Walser, Chas. Wright. Jr., Clar-
ence VI barber, Robert NJ Chamber
lain. Raymond II Drake, " w. Gro
well, Henry II Wright Thos. J. VII
lers. ! T. Norris, G. r. Murphy. Al
j. Jennings, Neil T. Reid. John ~.
Curri-. e. ~ fiunth, Herbert e. HHm-
ilton, Robert ] Davies. Israel T
Cowlcs VIM, + McCorklc. VIM. l..
Snyder. u Frazer whitehead. Currier
Il, Marshall. \ W Mellowes NJ J..
Beand. = l. Emerson, Guy l. Com
nor, r. r Heyerman. Malcolm Nc
Kirnon Frank Y. Sauor. Chas. y.
King, John " slovet. VIM +. Davis,
Lem w. Bowen. l. r Bissell. Virgil
Oldbtrg. Kenneth " Holpin 4 n. Ly-
ons/ George VI Randall. n .. Lenh-
nc1 bradford !. Reynolds. II VI.
Schultz
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

is Indeed desperate In his telegram
OF acceptance 10 Chairman Hard
ing. he said that nothing but a grave
national crisis would lead him to
forsake his work on the supreme
bench and become candidate for
president What has become OF
Mr. Hughes crisis. when he now de
clares the railroad strike settlement
the paramount issue OF the cam
paign? Mr. Hughes very much re-
sembles a drowning man clutching
at a straw.
The outlook for the election OF
President Wilson and n Democratic
congress could not be better. | base
my statement not upon newspaper
stories but upon personal talks with
the people themselves. and upon
polls taken by men OF Judgment and
discretion. Any man who will take
the time. as have done. to go out
among the people themselves, on
the farms and in the factories. will
return with an absolute conviction
that the Wilson tide is irresistible.
81 am not disturbed by the betting
odds In New York city The great
political imbecile in America is the
Wallst gambler, who still thinks
the sun rises in New York and sets
in Tonawanda He Is the same fell
low who three months ago was bet.
ting that Roosevelt would get the
Republican nomination for the pres
idency.
THE people are going 10 vote for
peace and prosperity. and have
not the slightest doubt OF the re-
election OF President Wilson. and
that the Democrats will control both
branches OF the next congress"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
Predicts Party Will Be
In Control of Next
Congress
HOLDS WILSON
SURE WINNER
Likens Hughes Plight
To Drowning Man
Clutching Straw

CHICAGO, Sept. 20-(Speciai)--
President Wilson will be reelected
and the Democrats will again con
troll both branches OF congress, as
serted Congressman Frank r Dore.
mus, chairman OF the Democratic
congressional campaign committee,
here today.
Mr. Doremus came TO Chicago for
a conference with Senator Thomas
] Walsh manager OF the Wilson
western campaign headquarters The
Detroit congressman declared that
his reports were OF an optimistic
character.
Mr. Doremus said that neither he
nor other Democratic leaders had
any fear Of the elghthou issue,
raised by Gov Hughes He ex.
pressed the view that the bitter as
sault now being made upon the ad.
ministration would shortly react
against the Republican candidate.
THE Hughes attack upon the set
Element OF the great railroad strike
Is costing the former supreme court
Justice votes every day Mr. Dore-
mus said. The people recognize
in his utterances the same old fight
between property rights and human
rights Let Mr. Hughes rally his fol
lowers 10 the side Of the railroads
whose earnings last year were $751;
600. coo moro than they were during
the same period under Taft. We
take our stand with the millions of
men. women and children In this
country who within one week after
the strike was called would have
been suffering the paHgs Of hunger
and with the 200 600 American boys
on the Mexican border who would
have been facing starvation but for
Wilson's prompt action.
"In Detroit potatoes arc now sell
ing for g. bushcl II President VIII.
son had not averted this national
tragedy. the people would have had
no potatoes AZ all The same ~
true OF bJn'I lN'h I''N''''"'
Hughes would have arbitrated and
looked into the facts while the peo
pie went hungry
I'm the period preceding the
French revolution word came TO Ma
RE Antoinette that people In ny
streets were crying for bread, Be
rcnlied Lot them eat cake
'The kings cousin said, Let fhem
eat grass
Candidate Hughes, wb+fe the pco-
pic were crying Tor bread would
feed them the facts. Wilson mad"
sure Of the bread first and proyid
ed for getting the facts by an i'm
partial board afterwards.
THE plight OF Candidate Hughes
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

see what they have on hand to bgkin
business with the new year. BY ros'
viewing the past they prepare IL.
the future.
Before you take n new step. ~,
sure you have not stumbled too much
in the old ones, What a merchsnt
does in cold, practical business
way, we would get on better With
God-make more progress-if We
would take our bearing oftener.
I've have not passed this way
heretofore
"Is God with us where we standf
Has He brought US to the place
where we stand? Can we count a.
His help in what we are doingf
Think OF this when you are about
TO go home--when about to enter =
place where no child of God should
be found dead-when about to do
something that will not stand the
test OF the golden rule--when you
are about to crowd some unfortun-
ate to the wall--when you are about
10 say something about another that
YOU know is a lie.
Can you pray for God to help you
to do what you are doing. with the
assurance that He will help you do
IL? II that is true, then nothing on
earth can block our way, any more
than the rushing, unbridged river
Jordan could keep the sons of Jacob
out OF the God-given promised land"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

What queer way he led the
prayer meeting
Gods Man Never Falls.
Il imagine the people uuarreling
and finding fault with Joshua.
What in the world is Joshua try
ing TO do now? Going out against a
walled city! Who ever heard OF such
"A thing! Moses would never have
taken Us on such wildgoose chase.
don't believe in going 10 war this
way! Like 10 see things done de-
Gently and in order, Just because he
has got up there he wants TO show
off He thinks he Is a bigger man
than Noses Who ever heard of
taking priests into battle? Moses
forgot more than Joshua ever knew,
whose rams horns he lacked
IL suppose nobody ought TO be
guilty OF originality even when II
comes 10 knocking down the police
and pushing over ushers or breaking
windows.
"All have witnessed just such
scenes when an effort Is made to-
ward revival of religion.
Some say, oh, he breaches too
much hell
Some may say he doesn't preach
enough hell Well. believe me. I'll
give you enough hell before I'm
through. All the hell's In the Bible.
Others say. He doesn't preach
enough
Some say. He is sensational
Others say. %, he is vulgar
Some say. We have too much
music,'
But the man that God sends never
fails.
Had the walls of Jericho been a
mile thick and ten miles high Joshua
would have gone against them with
the same holiness. He was not de-
pending on nis soldiers. nor the
priests, nor the weather. nor the
rams horns. nor himself nor his
feeling, but the word OF the living
God.
The wilderness worn veterans are
now about 10 take the step that
would make them a great nation
people with God-chosen destiny
people under the Almighty's espe-
cial care.
Before they set foot in that raging
river they had to do more hard think
ing than they had ever done. In the
years agone they had done lots OF
foolish things impulsively. That is
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
House
Landlords Are Too
Fussy, Judge Holds

DO Won live in an apartment house
and like 10 play cards until the
time-honored "wee sma' hours p
II you 40 it's all right and If the
janitor interfercs YOU can tell him to
cheat it" with impunity, according to
Police Justice Christopher Stein, be-
fore whom this question was thrash
ed out in police court Wednesday.
II would not be advisable, however,
TO 20 as far IN your resentment
against the interfering ianitor as
did one Gordon Dobie. Of the Orr
apartments, No. Is Willis-ave. east
whose resentmcnt moved him to
blows, thereby mountaineering him
to the extent TO having TO go TO po-
lice court to answer to charge of
disturbing the peace.
Dobie. with Mrs Dobie and anoth-
or married couple, sat in their apart
ment playing a friendly game of
cards, Tuesday night When the
clock struck /. the house phone rang
and the Earring voice Of an angry
tanitor poured yociferous protest into
the ears of Mrs. Dobie, who answer
ed the phone. Mrs Dobie told Mr..
Dobie and Mr. Dobie visited the
Jauitor. The janitor. J. A. McCand-
fish. was the complainant in police
court Wednesday, and told the judge
that his nose still panied him.
at hardly looks like a serious
cffrnse to me-" quoth the justice,
you can go, Dobie. Apartment
house landlords are getting altogeth-
or too fussy anyway, nowadays.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

1T is a great thing TO discover
that God never wears out-that He
never comes 10 place where He
cannot transact all the business that
Is required OF Him!
THE man who needs a great saliva.
ton must be convinced that there Is
God mighty TO save. A helpless
man must have mighty Saviour or
none
zone reason why some preachers
are not able TO bring many sinners
10 repentance is because they preach
OF God so impotent that He can
only throw down card houses when
all the signs are right. They decline
TO magnify His power for fear they
will overdo IL,
And IL they accidentally make a
strong assertion as to His power.
they Immediately neutralize II by as
II were or in a measure. perhaps
Faith That Christians Need.
at the time OF an earthquake,
when the trees were being uprooted
and the hills melting away and
houses falling, an old woman jumped
up and down. clapped her hands and
cried That's the kind OF God
believe mistakes things. IL He
wants to-
THAT was the kind of God
Joshua proclaimed-a God who would
overwhelm them with astonishment
az 10 the mighty display of His pow
err! So the people began TO stiffen
up their spines and throw back their
shoulders and expect something.
Faith is the biggest word in the
lexicon OF Christian. II is the
countersign that admits you 10 the
inner circle Of power. Doubt and
timidity are strangers TO man Of
faith
THE man of faith is magnetic
galvanic--energetic. the man OF
faith does not droop nor sag in the
middle, His enthusiasm Is as in.
fictitious Az the smallpox or the laugh
ter OF little children! Faith puts a
song on his lips-fire in his blood
cement in his backbone! He puts the
ball over the fence when there are
three men on bases the last half OF
the ninth inning. two out and you
need four runs, and YOU are up!
Don't think that God has ever
been all in. He never has been and
never will. He IL not like lot Of
people who can spar well. but who
haven't the punch. He is not like the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
w. X. Burns, of NUNS
ing, Through With
Booze Crowd
CONVERTED BY
LIVING IN SOUTH
Experience In Ala
bama Changes Views
On Liquor

NUNS NG. Mich, Sept. 2l.-W.
X Burns, eYmayor OF Munising, and
for two sessions one of the wet
leaders in tAe state Legislature. has
divorced himself from his former
allegiance with the liluor interests
and is out for statewide prohibition
The former state legislators about
face is due, he says, TO the obsorva.
tions he has made in the past sew.
eral years Of conditions IN Alabama,
which is Dry.
Mr. Burns. whose home is in
Munising, owns telephone system
in st. Clair county, Alabama, where
he spend the winters.
Heretofore, | have always been
a wet and honestly So he said,
but during my several winters resi-.
dence in Alabama. have been thoro-
~ converted. want to be
classed now as a prohibition
fanatic
"As a member OF the legislature
from the Alger-Schoolcraft district,
my vote and my influence were al
ways with the wet interests, but /
have since discovered that | made
great error in judgment in support
ing the liquor cause.
From observations which | have
made ir the south, | have become
convinced that prohibition has
brought the southern states great
economic and moral benefits In the
light Of what | have learned think
would be an unworthy citizen IL
failed 10 acknowledge my past error
in my view OF the question.
"All this talk 10 the effect that
'prohihition does not prohibit have
proved to my own satisfaction TO be
sheer nonsense. During my trip. b.
auto, thru Alabama, Georgia ami
South Carolina all prohibition
states-I frequently tried to pur-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
MAY
BE USED FOR
SCHOOL ROOMS

The Detroit public library com
mission has adopted resolution of.
fering the use Of all branch library
auditoriums foc public school SEES
sions. in the hope Of relieving con.
gestion in school thruout the city
In the case Of two west side
branches, IT is said, the board of
education will accept the offer at
once.
There are 10 branch Libraries with
auditoriums and club rooms that
are available for use as school
rooms.
Enrolment figures which are be
ing received at the board Of educa-
ton indicate that the congestion in
the schools is more acute than was
anticipated.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

1--WE receive is the same as that with
which we believe, According 10
your faith is the key with which
the angels open the windows OF
heavenl
Choirs Need More Prayer.
We have not passed this way
heretofore,' shouted Joshua's preach.
ers.
1T was the priests who blew upon
the rams horns-not the lepers and
camp followers, Heart power and
singing cannot be printed in notes
A painted fire will never boil an
egg,
Too many choir singers do not
know any more about the gospel
they sing than the town pump does
about the taste OF water One of
the greatest needs is more prayer
and less nonsense in our church
choirs more praise and less back
bting-more love and less faultfind-
ing-more reverence and less frivol.
ity-more OF a desire to honor God
than 10 give a concerto
O. 'Ye have not passed this way
| heretofore
This proclamation was made that
the weary sons of Jacob might take
a long look back and a long step for
ward. To stand on new ground, he
makes all consider.
You have never stood where you
stand today. Never have you had so
much behind you. Never have you
stood so near the grave. You never
have had so much'to be thankful for
|
greet. You never have had so much
TO enlighten or disgrace you.
There are times in the lives OF all
of us when VIC need 10 have that
thought take hold upon us. Stop and
think then take new grip on life.
"Will YOU make better use OF the
I future than you have OF the past =?
/ What have you learned from your
mistakes and blunders? Are you go
ting to keep on SHINING the same old
! sins-going 10 continue to be the
| slave Of the same thanksgiving to
| keep on stumbling over the same
mines of opportunity and never pick
up nugget?
Are you going TO keep on hearing
the gospel and still allow yourself to
so TO he'll? Are YOU going TO keep
on hanging around the same old
haunts, and committing the same
sins? Shorten your course 10 Christ
The railroads spend millions OF dol
lars to shorten their trackage Why
don't YOU spend some time and en-
ergy TO straighten out your course
10 glory?
Rub your eyes and take good
look
Go back over the winding, aimless
Journey that has brought you here;
notice how many chances you have
had 10 shorten your course.
you are standing on higher
ground than ever: You ought TO be
able to see farther. Look back, and
consider how graciously God has
dealt with you. II you have never
done any serious thinking before. do
some now. just as the Children Of
Israel did when they pitched their
tents on the banks OF the Jordan.
Gods Promise Shown by Blessings.
AS they called up from the past
,all they had experienced in the 40
! years Of wandering, how much better
! God had dealt with them than they
deserved! His faithfulness, in spite
/ Of their unfaithfuness was evidence
that He would stand by them all the
way
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
Thursday Afternoon Sermon.


Likening many Christians In their
quest for salvation TO the army OF
srael In its wanderings, Billy Sun
lay, Thursday afternoon. counselled
lis tabernacle audience To "straigh-
en- out their course TO glory"
Mr.. Sunday said:
THE great army OF Israel. under
Joshua, was encamped on the hill.
ndes above the Jordan, where they
rad been brought TO standstill by
he raging river. which was fioodtide
md out OF its banks.
AT last the 40 years OF wandering
n the wilderness had come TO an
md. The time had arrived for the
.ribes TO take possession OF their in
leritance In the promised land
Three days were 10 be deyoted to
est and preparation for the greatest
achievement ever undertaken by the
Jewish nation. From headquarters
officers were sent thruout the
lamp TO inform. instruct and prepare
he people Perhaps trumpeter
went with the herald 10 sound the
ougle 10 call the people together.
Speeches were made giving full
Information concerning the move
nent OF the army Each officer would
explain what was expected OF every
nan and full information given as to
he manner and time when certain
Kings happened that were the signal
'or something else 10 happen.
AS commander. Joshua was new
and untried Nobody knew anything
about his ability He had never OPP
Grated an Independent command up
until this time He had no past sue
cesses as a prestige TO give the PEG.
pie confidence.
The people had known no great
commander up 10 this time but Moses
and IL was natural that Joshua would
suffer from comparison-hi appear
ince--language- orders--new way OF
ioing things. When a new preacher
assumes charge Of church. he is up
against the same difficulty He is
contrasted with his predecessor.
And that's the trouble, | guess.
whenever wife married a second
lime. she's UP against the same sort
Of a proposition.
You hear:
HE doesn't preach like Brother
Barker used to-
Land sakes' Did YOU ever
hear anybody pray like that
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

why they had Deen trhmplng fOfty
years and never reaching the prom
ised land!
IF they had all been as level-head-
ed AZ Moses. Caleb and Joshua their
Journey would have ended in 30
days and here they had been a gen
Grafton in reaching the place where
they now stood.
And IL was all because they had
not tried 10 get anywhere,
The man God sent never fails.
THE man who has no purpose in
life goes about tired because he does
his climbing In treadmill. He is
always zigZagger. And for every
inch OF Roadway. he goes mile
Without definite aim, he will
never travel In an airline. The bee
goes straight only when flying TO its
hive. The man who turns the world
upside down does IL because that is
his sole business in life.
Man With One Idea Succeeds.
THE man who undertakes to do a
thousand things will never amount
TO hill Of beans. The man who di-
yides his time and skill and energy
20 doing one thing will stand before
kings
God was not to blame then for
mans faults any more than he is
now. any more than God is TO blame
for the condition of the church to-
day.
Paul said, This one thing 10 do.
Keep your eye on that man! He will
move every mountain and pull up
every tree that is in his pathway.
Nothing can chill his ardor nor cool
his courage. He keeps on going and
growing, no matter what interferes
THE Christian life needs TO be en-
tered upon IA thoroly and definitely
az the sun-browned pilgrims went
into Canaan. Let a man get his
start in that way and he will not
throw away his Bible when he strikes
hard place.
The men who had wandered aim
lessly are at last brought to the place
where they expected great things
from the God who had brought them
out OF Egypt The officers who had
gone throughout the camp-plain-
spoken and direct in what they said
were made 10 understand that the
God who had spoken amidst the
thunders of Sinai had not exhausted
himself. and that He would astonish
them with great display Of His
wonderful power.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
LABOR URGED TO
TAKE DRY SIDE
Resolution introduced Before
Michigan FEEDER
alton

SAGINAW. Mich, Sept. 21.-A
resolution advocating the indorse-
ment of statewide prohibition, was
the first to be introduced at the
convention of the Michigan Fedora
ton OF Labor which opened here
Wednesday afternoon.
G.. w. Finch. who introduced the
resolution, also asked the state fed
Grafton TO urge the American fed
Grafton to investigate The shortage
OF white paper which is affecting
employment conditions in the print
ing trades.
The resolutions will be acted upon
in the regular order OF business.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21

Former Gov Allen NJ. Fletcher, Of
Vermont, and Horace Fletcher "the
father OF Fletcherism," are among
the notable guests expected In Bos-
ton today for the annual reunion Of
the Fletcher Family Association of
America.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-21
Nenro Slain in Windsor.

Frank Weston, 30 years old, Negro
JIck hand, of Windsor, was shot
Through the heart and instantly kill
cd Wednesday night. about 1880
o'clock by apother Negro deck en-
ploye. Charles Brown, aged rs years.
Tie shooting occurred at No. 80 Ar
hurst. Windsor. following a guar
rel between the men. The slayer es-
capped