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Revelations of Jesus.

Jesus loved the free. open air, the
bIue sea. the mountains and the val
leys, He spent much of His time, dur
ing His ministry, in walking ABOUT
He taught His disciples on these walks
and revealed Himself more and more to
them as they journeyed about he
preached to the people in the open ar
He fed the five thousand one time, and
the four thousand another time. out IN
the open: the transformation was on a
hilltop: and in the night when the ais
ciples were in fear Jesus came walk
ing to them over the sea.
The PRAYER closet of Jesus was the
night. Did you ever pray. looking VI
at the stars, or out over the sea, OF
across a great valley from a mountain
top? Prayer is not smotherlnS proc
ess of hugging up all your niue cares
and worries and chickering's and bitter
nesses within your soul. and tinkerine
and pottering and patching on them
Prayer is a going out into largeness
and space, and glory, lifting-o1 inc
soul, until all the little things DROP
away, You will get a new experience
if you will try praying in the open
with your eyes on some great handl-
work of your Lord.
Have you seen Mirror lake. in the
Yosemite. at sunrise? or the sunset
over the Grand Canyon of the Color
ado or the colors of dawn on Mount
Shasta? or the path of phosphorescent
glory left by the wake of a ship, all
silver and opals. in the moonlight! OF
any other of the marvels Of the Great
Creator. and felt His presence in the
awe-inspiring beauty and majesty OF
HIS wonders?
Prayer is the link of fellowship with
Jesus through which we receive, as
John did that morning on Galilee lake
the revelation of the Master. We must
keep the connection with Jesus strong
and constant, if we want to have the
vision of faith, by which the Master Is
revealed to US.
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ward one object, and that that object be
in agreement with our dictates OF rlght
and our highest aspirations God alone
is such an object Only the soul that
makes God the center of its arections'
the study of it's thoughts, the law of its
activities, is strong and happy:
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on Thee. Isaiah.
26.3.
! To consecrate our purpose IN the
Christian life we must understand the
spirit of conservation. commence III
God is it's basis and inspiration. 1here
must be clear conception OF GOD
wonderful and mercalful dealing with.
and of His generous thought toward
men. before the spirit of conservation
can be awakened.
Unless we realize that God is worthy
of all honor and all service we can have
no inclination to dedicate ourselves to
Him. We must know that reverence is
due before II can be given.
We must understand. as David did.
that Many. o Lord, my God. are Thy
wonderful works which Thou hast done.
and Thy thoughts which are to US
ward They cannot be reckoned up in
torder unto Thee: II would declare and
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AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
WITH THE WORD OF LIFE
Bible Societies Invade Every Land-Carrylng the
Gospel to Crusoe's Island barrow Loads OF
Books in Chna-Belgians Selling Copies IN
Brussels-Queer Commodities Given in
Exchange-Tales of Hardship, Etc.

many Christian communions. but they
are all lovers of the Bible.
Throughout last year more than a
thousand of these humble. faithful men
were busy along the roads and rivers
of their native countries. passing from
town to town and from door to door.
offering their cheap little books at
prices which peasants and coolies can
afford to pay You find these men in
the rubber plantations of Java. in the
lumber CAMPS of Ontario. in negro huts
in Yorubalard, at pilgrim shrines in
Bengal. They meet the trains at rail
way stations in Serbia: they call from
house TO house in the cities of Japan.
~ blue-gowned colporteur in China
trundles his barrow load of books along
narrow tracks between the rice fields.
A white turbaned Arab colporteur
whose name means the slave OF
Christ" sells Amharic gospels to Abys-
sinian traders on the upper Nile. 900
miles south of Khartum.
Their hardships and perils and perse-
BUTTONS furnish fresh chapters to the
history of Christian heroism. During
the past year Belgian colporteur con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-08

A most interesting and picturesque work
for the welfare of the North American
Indian is that conducted among the Nav
ajos by the Hospital of the Good Shep-
herd Episcopalian mission at Fort
Defiance, Ariz Opened twenty years ago
by Miss Eliza Thackera. it is still under
her charge. and year by year gains in
patronage and usefulness Owing to the
great prevalence of trachoma (granu-
lated eyelids) among the Navajos. the
hospital devotes itself largely to the
treatment of diseases of the eye and never
lacks patients
Miss Jane Il. Teal. recent visitor to
the institution. tells in an interesting way
Of its work:
IF ! could only make you see it, A
fine, large. light room. with surgical
tables. cases of shining instruments and
all the best and most modern apparatus.
Around the wall on low benches the pa
tients-Indians from five to sixty-five-
all waiting calmly to be tortured. for the
trachoma treatment is very painful. The
first patient climbs on the table. DR..
! Wiaeiesworth turns back the Indian :
cyelid with def fingers and applies the
! copper SUCK. Inc patient usually lies
motioniess. with unchanging expression
/ while the eyes burn fiendishly. The women
are even more stoical than the men the
children cry sometimes. but half from
nervousness. Under the old conditions
the Navajos would have had no hope OF
a cure, while now there are literally thou
sands who owe their sight to the Hospital
of the Good Shepherd. II this is not
practical Christianity. then there is no
such thing in the world
CHI eraCf-
ed in memory of Miss Cornelia Jay. where
religious services are regularly conducted
, by Miss Thackera. and where the bishop
comes once a year to administer the rites
/ Of baptism and ordination. There is a
! sincere. genuine religious atmosphere
about the place, the pure air of consecra-
ton and service, the practical evidence
! of the best sort of Christianity.
= THE scourge of trachoma is decreasing
| because of treatment instituted at differ
! ent points. particularly at the Hospita
! of the Good Shepherd also because OF
"A better understanding of the disease by
the natives
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alive organization of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Miss X. f.
Pritchett, director of domestic science
and extension service, and o. NJ. kile
of the soil improvement committee of
the National Fertilizer Association.
Various ministers of the District. 1T
is pointed out, and environs heartily
indorse this new attempt to aid them.
DIR. George S. Duncan, pastor of Pres
byterian churches at Cabin John, and
Cropley and of the canal mission at
Willards Lock, is very active in work
ing up attendance. Recently, he said :
The college is to be congratulated
upon the feast it has provided. There
are six reasons why every country min
lister should attend. 1t gives a vacation
and a rest, social contact, Interdenornl-
national good fellowship, leading to-
ward Christian unity, a new vision and
knowledge of the minister's work
that Jesus came to save man, not SIM
ply mans soul-and an example to
ones congregation in stimulating them
to take part in a good movement.
Rev. Dr. Robert A. Dawson of Falls
Church, Va. who has spent over forty
wears in the ministry, is equally en-
thusiastic Il was present" he says,
"at all the meetings last year l great
" enjoyed them and was greatly bene-
fIted They opened up a new world to
me and new lines of thought. l have
felt the beneficial influence all through
the year l would earnestly urge all
ministers, especially those in the coun.
try, to attend the College Park school
and conference It stimulates thought
and strengthens enthusiasm Tor the
great work of the ministry"
Rev u l., Blakemore, pastor of St
Paul NJ. E. Church South, and Rev. Par
ker p. Flournoy of Bethesda, Md, ex-
press themselves in like manner. as
serting that the country ministers es-
pecially should rally to the call of the
school. both for what they can get
and what they can give.
Rev A S. Mowbray. dean OF the
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GENERAL CHURCH ACTIVITIES.

| said sneerinsly, And so. Morrison you
really expect that you will make an
| impression on the idolatry of the great
! Chinese empire" Morrison replied: NO,
| sir; l expect God WILL
| * & @
Voitaire, the French infidel. once
said: In a hundred years from now
/ the Bible will be unknown book"
/ And how has this prediction been full
| hiled? After hundred years his house
/ in Geneva was the branch office of the
| British Bible Society. In Noltaire's
time not one Bible society existed
/ in the world: today we have seventy
three. In 1908 the American Bible So
all Bible societies together publish
! ed 11.31S,9J4 copies. II we add the
products of all the Bible societies we
have the enormous sum of 100000, 900
! Bibles published in the nineteenth cen
| turY.
In Noltaire's time the Bible was pub
lished in 3S languages: now it is in
| 1876 languages
a. So 50 &
A teacher in McTyeire School for
Girls, a missionary institution in
Shanghai. recently made the statement
that she had known but one pupil to
graduate from McTyeire who was nor
church member. and she was conf
dent that this girl was a sincere Chris
tfan.
% % II
Rev. w. A. Wilson of Okayama. Ia
pan. writes as follows to his board IN
this country: Our work here is very
good and we have everything to en-
courage us. Keep on sending us mis-
sionaries. Hesitation now will cause
the tide to turn against u.s.
is n A S
Bishop Bashford recently declared
that in the eleven years Of his stay
in h he nod
vitation to come to Christ that the
invitation had not met with definite
response.
IL az IL Ss
Robert Morrison went to Canton
China. in 1907 and worked seven years
before he won his first convert TO
Christianity. But il Morrison had lived
a hundred years in the year 1913 he
would have had the joy of attending.
in that same city of Canton, a reli
gious service in which there were $500
persons gathered to hear a Christian
speaker from America
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DIR. Henry c. Adams of the Univer-
sity of Michigan. now adviser to the
commission of the Chinese republic on
Standardization of railway accounts, at
Picking. said recently:
when l came out to China l did not
think much of foreign missions or for
eign missionaries, but now l take loft
my hat to the missionaries. l have
never contributed much to foreign mis-
sions, but when ] get home ] shall put
everything that | can spare into the
foreign missionary collection. They
are a noble lot of men and women and
are rendering very great service to
the people of China
81 So Sc ~
Led by the social service committee
of the Y. NJ c. A, $50 men took part
recently in the distribution of anti
tuberculosis literature. Some was sold
and some was given away writes Mis-
sionary James NJ. Yard of Chengtu,
telling what to do to prevent tubercu-
losis. Every street in the city was COW
cred in our campaign.
1T was fine to see the students will
ing to carry big bundles of tracts under
their arms and to sell them on the
streets They were serving society, as
they expressed il. But that sort of
thing is new in China. Such men have
been brought up on the gospel
Is - rs Is
Bishop Bashford OF the NJ. f. Church
says that the Chinese Christians are
undoubtedly making a distinct contri-
button to Christianity.
s IS ~ Is
Rev. J. Sundstrom. Southern Bap-
fist missionary in Kong Moon. China,
tells of very encouraging progress in
the direction of self-support on the part
of Chinese churches. He says:
Il am pushing the matter of self
support and can report good progress
along this line. The churches at Ku
Using and Hokshan will be entirely
self supporting during the year 1916.
and another at Nan Tung will soon
take the same step. Many of the mem
bers of these churches are in the United
States, but send back money literally
to the support of their churches here.
The liberal gifts of the Chinese will
enable me to push the work into still
unoccupied places, of which there are an
abundance in this field. ! ought to
open chapels in a dozen places right
now"
Is = = =
When the ship owner In whose ves-
sci Missionary Robert Morrison sailed
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Reason for Conservation.

The reason for conservation is found
in the first and great commandment:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul
and with all thy mind
The observance of this commandment
is impossible in the unconsecrated life,
and the most devout and sincere Chris
tians realize that their conservation to
Gods service is very imperfect; yet that
does not release them from pressing to-
ward this high calling of God. Conse-
Grafton means that we must be willing
to be, to do and to suffer all that God
requires, and He does not ask for more
than. we are able to stand.
Our purpose should be in line with
Gods purpose for us as revealed in His
inspired word. and our conservation to
that purpose should be entire
Take my life and let 1t be
Consecrated. Lord to Thee.
Take my moments and my days.
Let them dow in ceaseless praise.
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BISHOP NJ. c. HARRIS.

ranged invited the retiring ambassador of
Japan, Viscount Chinda, and his embassy
staff to attend the service. The ambas-
sador however. is sailing for England
today. but the invitation was accepted by
the embassy staff.
Bishop Harris will preach the sermon
Of the occasion. which will be attended
by his two surviving sisters, Mrs. Emily
Harris Mcintosh and Mrs. Jennie Harris
Rud. both of this city. The women of
the missionary societies of Metropolitan
Church plan to present the bishop with
bouquet of seventy roses during the serv-
ice.
The bishop was born near Bealesville,
Ohio, July 9. 1916. There were seven sons
and three daughters born to his parents
and himself and two sisters, Mrs. Mcln-
tosh and Mrs Rud, are the only survivors.
During a special meeting held by his
brother five miles from the old home the
boy, who afterward became the Bishop
of Japen. was converted.
He Immediately entered upon the activi-
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Rev. DR.. NJ. c. Harris. missionary
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Japan until his retirement at the re-
centcgeneral conference of his church held
in Saratoga Springs. n. Y. is to cele-
brate' his SEVENTEEN birthday anniver-
earYs at a special service to be held in
Metropolitan NJ. E. Church tomorrow
morning at II O'Clock.
During his missionary residence of fifty
years in Japan, it is pointed out that
DR.. Harris won the love and veneration
Of the japanese people. the emperor hav-
ing decorated him on three occasions, the
last ctime giving him the highest honor
ever conferred on a foreigner not in the
employ of the government.
With this thought in mind Dr. Harry
d. Mitchell. pastor of Metropolitan
Church, when the service was first ar
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&pmortt,. league Disfussion

and serving Christ on a vacation or
anywhere else. 1t took that disciple
whom Jesus loved and who loved
Jesus to recognize the form that was
half lost in the morning mists
So today, it takes the disciple who ex-
periences fellowship with his Lord to
see Him amid the mists of life, but If
we are in intimate touch with Christ
we may 90 where we will this summe,
for our rest and We will see Him every
where If not, we will dawdle through
a month in one way or another and
come back home farther from Him than
hen We went away.
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Most Rev. John Joseph Keane. D. D.,
the retired Archbishop of Dubuque,
Iowa, and former rector of the Catho-
lie University, quietly celebrated there
on Sunday the fiftieth year of his ordi-
nation to the priesthood. In Difference
to his wishes there was no public ceie-
bration of his golden anniversary.
Archbishop John Joseph Keane was
born at Ballyshannon, County Done
gal, Ireland. September u. 1899, and
came to America in his seventh year.
He was educated at ST. Charles Col
lege and st. Mary's Seminary. Balti-
more, Md. being ordained July .. 1865
His first priestly work was as assist
ant at st. Patricks Church here. On
August IS, 1878, he was consecrated
Bishop of Richmond. He was a lead
ing member of the third plenary coun-
Gil of Baltimore, 1884. and was noted
for his activity in organizing and pro-
noting Catholic societies throughout
the country. In 1888 he was transferred
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The Ideal Vacation Trip.

What is vacation trip for?
Not merely indulgence in selfish pleas
ures. but to afford such change of in
terest and activity as will recreate the
body, mind and spirit. Any trip will in
volve a change of physical surroundings,
and most people at once think of the sea-
shore, the mountains or the country be-
cause of their health-giving qualities A
few consider also the change in mental
Surroundings or activities, and fewer still
take into consideration their, need of
spiritual recreation. Yet the ideal vaca-
ton trip should surely combine the best
changes possible for the spiritual and
mental as well as physical recreation.
1t may take more planning to arrange a
trip that will meet all these tests. but the
ideal trip cannot fail to meet them.
Did you ever hear of an Epworth
League Institute?
Do you know that the Baltimore con-
ference Epworth League. which consists
of Washington, Frederick. Baltimore.
East Baltimore and West Baltimore Dis
trict Epworth Leagues. will hold an in
stitute at Mountain Lake Park, Md. Au-
gust $40. inclusive. and that fully 300
young people from Maryland, Virginia.
West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the
District of Columbia are expected to at
tend?
If you don't know about this you had
better find out the particulars. for it
offers the ideal vacation trip. in that the
triple guarantee is made Of inspiration
education and recreation.
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ties of Christion life. and at twenty
years of age began to preach. He heard
the call of his country, and in 1853 joined
the Union army and served until the
close OF the war. being mustered out in
1865. At that time he had the conviction
that he ought to go to foreign fields a
missionary. He entered Allegheny Col
lege, where he was prepared for this
work
October %, 1873 he married Miss Flora
l.. Best and they Immediately started
for Hakadoto. Japan. where for forty
three years he has labored with success.
He was made Missionary Bishop of Japan
in 1904. At the last session of the General
Conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church. held al Sara toga Springs, N. Y.
he retired at his own request, having
served the church for fifty years. Bishop
Harris will return to Japan. where he
hopes to spend his remaining years and
to be buried by the size OF his wife and
only child. whose remains rest in Aoyama
cemetery in Toxic.
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THE WRONG LEARNING.
ss - S ~

man may know all about the rocks and his heart
as hard as they He may know all about the Winds and be
the sport of passions fierce they He may know all about
the stars and be meteor whose end after brief and
brilliant career, is to be quenched in eternal night.
He may know all about the sea, and his soul resemble its
troubled waters which
man may know how rule the elements, yet not know
how to rule his own spirit.
He may know how aside the flashing thunderbolt
but not the wrath of God from his guilty head.
He may have all the knowledge of Newton Lapace.
Watt; he may know many mysteries and understand many
hidden things.
But if he has personal knowledge of the love of Cod
brought near to sinful men Christ what shall it avai9
What shall it profit man, if he shall gain the whole world
and lose his own soul? what shall give exchange for
his soul?" Mark 8.35,37-Seleced.
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Test of Christianity.

These words show that his soul was
concentrated on Christ. and to do His
will was his only and all absorbing
purpose This is the highest type of
Christian conservation. 1t is the SUI
preme test of character. What is our
one object? What is the one purpose
above all others? What is y that en-
cages the most of our thoughts. the
most OF our time? This is the test of
our Christianity.
Is it not true that II God is not the
great object of our hearts desires and
His law not ID controlling influence
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planted in the mind. as seed into the
ground. TO grow independent of men
tai cultivation.
Character does not come to any one
fog something without. but from the
'.rftiDg OF powers within.
Tie figure Paul employs in the con-
=. 81 his words just quoted shows
til, tJhere must be personal activity in
. J. ALTERS. % true religion. The contest
sHtiin the Olympian games must have
every power engaged to win the prize.
I He must press with utmost energy to
lie frs, II the goal. And SO Paul says
81 press toward the mark for the prize
o. &C., high calling OF God in Christ
Jesus.
3.jruly religious soul is one filled
with absorbing carnestness OF purpose
and with every POWER on the stretch.
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The need of recreation, and perlohical
re,ease from the routine OF NE. IS
being recognized more and more uhi-
versaIlv as civilization progresses anu
The most popular form of recreation
is the vacation trip.
rb;s is the season when most people
especially Washington people--are
planning to take their vacation trips
MANY have the idea that the vacation
must be purely selfish proposition
and that they are freed from the obli-
cations of service to others during their
recreation periods. Is this idea cor
rect or are we to "be instant in sea-
son and out of season" as Pau urged
Timothy to be?
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Vacation Service.

Necessary as is the faith by which
the revelations come, we must remem-
Der Paurs injunction that faith with
out works is dead"
John was the first to perceive Jesus;
by his faith and love he first recos-
uized the Divine Master and told the
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sify OF ACTIVITY
The one thing as "a
purpose is inetfi =
cient without ear
nest activity in
promoting it. Many
have purposed in
their thoughts to
do great things and
yet accomplished
nothing b e C a u s e
they did not use
their powers. Holy
PURPOSES are not
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MANY things having full reference
To one consent may FORK contraricusly:
As niany loosed several ways.
FlfJto mark.
As many several ways meet IN town:
As many fresh streams in one self sea,
As mnny lines close in the dial's center;
So many thousand actions afoot.
End in purpose, and lie all well borne
Without defeat. Shakespeare.
Concentration of purpose is an essen
tiai Element Of it's conservation.
TAis one thing l do. said Paul
The word do teaches US the neces
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SAVING THE SIGHT
OF NAVAJO BRAVES

Picturesque Mission to Pictur-
esque People-Good shep-
herd Hospital Saves Thou
sands From Blindness.
How the Indian Endures
Pain-Scourge of Trachoma
Decreasing.
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of our lives we are outside the pale Of
true religion?
Lack of conservation is the explana-
ton for the evils in the church. Want
of power is the great evil. and the alb
sence of power is because of the lack
of unity of purpose. Processing Chris
tians are continually complaining of
their weakness. of their inability to
discharge their Christian duties. This
is all because of a divided heart, which
occasions not only moral feebleness.
but another great evil. want of peace.
All the restless dissatisfaction among
avowed Christians arises from division
! of soul. the want of concentration or
purpose in Gods work.