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Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19
ARKLE NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Hutton. Of
Harlan. have moved to Ankle where
Mr.. Hutton is working for the Rich:
land Coal Company. .. "~..
Mrs. Martha Peuler, of Ankle, has
been the guest OF her brother-in-law
at Four Mile, Ky. '@'"e
Mrs. Agusta Eagle has been visit
ing her mother at Emanuel over Sat
urday and Sunday
Miss Sarah Shelton, of Elys. is Wis
iting her folks at Ankle and Rossland
Everybody Is invited TO the box
supper at the graded school near
Grays, Friday afternoon. 3
Elisha Vaughn, of Fittsburg.' is
working at Ankle for the Turner
Jellico Coal Co.
Mrs. Martha Vaughn, of Pittsburg,
was the guest of Mrs, Ell Anderson,
Of Emanucl,Ky. =, y: -
Mr.. and Mrs. WE. Gibson, of
ROssland, Ky. have been visiting, Mr.,
and Mrs. George Martin, of Crawiish,
for the past week -" -
Everybody has a dry time for fod-
dering. d.
4
Mr.. and Mrs. Marcia4snderson, Of
Virginia, are visiting the latter's
mother at Ankle.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19
AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 81

Bible School at 9:45. The usual
services at 1850 a. m. Sermon by
the pastor: Jesus, Author and Fin
.isher" .,-a.
Attention is called to an open ses-
sion of the c. W. y. NJ to be held
in the church Wednesday evening
Sept. cath at s o'clock.
Every member of the church and
Bible School is urged to be present
Sunday, morning to participate in
the launching OF our Fall Campaign
of Bible work.
Thos. j. Belcher.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.

InalnDcflaln cough remedy.
This is not only one of the best
and most efficient medicines for
coughs, colds, Group and whooping
cough, but is also pleasant to take,
which is important when a MEDICINE
must be given to children. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy has been
in use for many years and has met
with much favor wherever its good
qualities have become known. Many
mothers have given it their unquali-
fed endorsement. VIM. Scruby,
Chillicothe, Mo-, writes. II have
raised three children, have always
used Chamberlain's Cough. Remedy
and found it to be the best for colds,
coughs and Group. 1t is pleasant to
take. Both adults and children like
it. My wife and have always felt
safe from Group with it in the
house. ,, Chamberlain Cough Re-
medy contains no. opium or other
narcotic.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19

Mrs. Sallie Smith is very low al
this writing with typhoid fever
Her husband died two weeks ago.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19
CIVIC LEAGUE :

The Ciyic League will meet with
Mrs. .casteIlow ON Thursday, Sept.
18th, Owing to the torn up condi-
ton Of the streets not mich has
been ssne by the orgahization, tbut
full attendance of the membership
is necessary y, TRANSACT important
business and diseuss plans for future
work. 49, Val $.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19

Mrs. John D. Hensley and child
rem were the guests of her sister
Mrs. Mollle Carnes on Sunday.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19
Statesmen WANTED

To solicit orders for lubricating
oils. greases and paints. Salary or
Commission. Address, THE LEN
NoN OIL & PANT CO., Cleveland.
Ohio. + 45-2t
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-09-19
MARRIAGE LICENSES

|. Charley futile. Cannon, and Liz
zie Foley Lancaster, Ky.
Joseph EamAegtsggds Josephine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-04

last October, he writes Interestingly
 of West Africa
 T am sorry" said he in his letter, "to
 have missed you when you returned to London. The last letter I had was dated November 22. Away here in the wilds mail is very rare.
 'I sat down at Lokoja for sometime and am now up the River Benue at Abinsi and leave next week for Yola. Lokoja has about 30 whites and 5000 to 1c,000 colored--there is no way of getting correct census. All tribes of , Africa are to be found, since it stands on the Niger at the confluence with the Benue, being trade center. We have all native soldiers. so one sees few white men. Abinsi Is about 175 miles up the Bernue and took me 13 days to reach in a barge propelled by poles; at night we stopped on sandbanks, of which the river is full I had some fine shooting in the evening, but failed to get any beef, such as bush COW tbison). hartebeast and gazelle or kob. However. there are plenty of duck to keep us busy
 "Abinsi is in the heart of the Munchi country, one of the most warlike tribes we have in Africa. The majority sharpen their teeth, but there is really nothing to worry about since white man Is very indigestible Besides this a white man is greatly respected and is believed by the native to have a Juju, which can let loose evil spirits if annoyed. Here at Abinsi we are five whites among Gods own quantity of natives. Yoia is another 300 miles fur ther in and takes about four weeks by barge, being not too far from Lake Chad. Up there I get really Al shoot ing and big stuff, lion, leopard, ele- phant and giraffe.
 The natives are rather good looking. especially the Filanis, though the cut ting of the face spells it slightly; need less to say thee lothes are as a rule conspicuous by their absence, but one falls immediately into the country's- customs, so much so that natives dressed in European clothes are an eye sore"
 "I have very little work to do and very soon devoured all the available literature had The climate makes one very 1ethargic and I am very worried less I lose all my pep. I try to keep alive by writing an account of all my doings, and views on the country. I am gathering useful information which, when I leave here next December, may find its way into print. The country is only 20 years old and is suffering from the lack of cap ital. It is very rich and needs a lot of developing. The climate will with devel- opment cease to be the white mans grave The flies are responsible for the trouble. mosquitoes for malaria and tsetse for sleeping sickness; the sandfly for bad language. The sun has to be treated with the greatest respect and causes many deaths to the careless. The food supplied and housing for whites is crude.
 'I am proud of America and all she has done; at the peace conference look to Wilson to fight for idealism and to restrain any attempt to let loose the wolves onto the vanquished I do not say that the enemy should escape pun ishment, oh, no. by all means, only let there be just punishment. We are at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-04
w. H. sToC KHAN CONFERENCE DIRECTOR

all come in for their share of our educaJ tional work; especially is Mexico to b. looked after. since 90 per cent of it's peo China and South America are frightful Eighty per cent of the children die be cause of ignorance in the matter of train irg. medical authority and simple homelI truths. By education, these children cal be raised and raised to be better citi zens and members of society. The lat beloved Bishop Mccoy said in one of hi last sermons:
 Only in Christian countries, where tn Christian religion prevails do these grea works of aleviation exists
 Our Red Cross and T. M C. As am other similar organizations" said MI Stockham, are merely expressions 0 our Christian civilization.
 ''Tile Centenary desires to bring abou a world consciousness of the worlds wei fare, taking the gospel to the devastate countries of Europe and helping thes people Teligiously as we'll as rnater4ally The Centenary will enable us to carr, the Protestant religion into all foreig9 countries; into the devastated countric Of Europe. where the war swept peopb are going back home, where everythinl has been torn asunder and ernofished. churches, schools, hospitals, homes-at,i we want to establish the Methods church in these devastated countries g that their people may have the princi pies of religious freedom as well as ciyb freedom t
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been established for the healing of the nations. The task is great but our great Leader declared that all things are possible with God.'
 There has never yet been negative vote in any body on any important question concerning the Centenary movement Conferences of presiding el- ders have been held at Lake Junaluska, St. Louis and Dallas in an effort to reach and enlist in all the plan ali these lead- CTS. The utmost enthusiasm prevails among them. Already they are raNying their districts and mobilizing for tho campaign. The actual campaign will be- gin with the Centenary Day in the as- nual conference designated by the ac- ton of the general conference, and will run to May, 1920. The five-year period for the financial plan runs from JanlN ary. 1919, to January, 1924, and all special Centenary pledges may be so made if de- sired
 The purpose held constantly in view is preparation, rather than glorifcation- We are facing the future rather than the past. The Centenary is to be a call to the church for awakening and preparation for the most stupendous responsibility, and the most severe test christianity has faced in many centuries. God com- mands again
 Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward"
 It is the purpose of the commission to secure the cooperation of every or gaEization in the church. Already boards of missions, church extensions, Sunday schools and Epworth leagues and the wcman's missionary councils are enthu- siastically enlisted
 The plan of organization and campaign reaches from the Episcopal district to the remotest rural church and the farth est mission station. We are assured of the church by 3 swelling chorus from one end of the church to the other.
 The task requires first of all moro tifan human cooperation. It will require su- perhnnan power. This waits on prayer God cannot use, people who will not pray; He cannot help using a people who will. This is why we put prayer first. First of all--pray. And in the lis- tening stiffness of prayer we will hear the ancient trumpet blast Awake, awake. 9 Zion. Put on thy strength"
 I have produced verbatim the words of Dr. Pinson, feeling that many will be interested in the first clarion call is- sued to the Centenary movement and localizing the work, asked Mir W. H. North Alabama conference, to bring the matter up to date, as it were, and tell of the preliminary work accomplished between the annual meeting of the north Alabama conference last November up to tho eve of Centenary week bginning on Sunday, May IS.
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Speeding the Mails

Aerial postnen serving route aeros. the continent and down the Atlantic coas to Key West. Cuba and South Anlerici is not a visionary scheme. The postoffici department is working out the plans al commercial advantage in reducing tn, time between the United States and Latii America Time between New York an, Washington was cut down three hour by the aero mail. Between New Yorl and Chicago daily nine-hour schedtn is soon to be maintained, as compare. with the 21-hour schedule of the tastes train, and by feeder routes mail to tlai west and southwest is to bo advance1 from 12 to 14 hours The Chicago-Sai Francisco route iSf to be worked out dur ing the year, and then the flights acrofs the Gulf of Mexico via the West Indie will be undertaken. There is more to thu protected transatlantic flight than tn mero adventure. Once the feasibility 0 such trip is established. the develop nent of an adventurous achievement int 8 commercial proposition is only ques ton of time. Sixty-six thousand one hun dred and fifty-f1ve tons of mail were car ried on the New Washington aeria route during the first four and one half months of it's operation at a cost o $5.S5 per ton
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l branch of church work" he continued.
 Tn the Sunday school. the Epworth league, the missionary societies and
 Sunday school attendance has increased 100 per cent the First Methodist Sun
 day school going from 759 to 1150; the
 Highlands Methodist Church Sunday
 school has made large increase also,
 as we'll as other Sunday schools in the
 district.
 'Tn relation to the money end of the centenary, when reduced to individual
 subscription. it amounts to less than . cent day for the five years for each Methodist in the conference" said MT. Stockham. "The amount seems colossal when spoken of in terms of millions, but when reduced to exact figures it amounts to Fe; y little fndi- vidually. But as I said before, this is the least important phase of the cen tenary. The work of the Sunday schools. Epworth leagues and mission ary societies is really what will count So far, since the work began, over 50 new Epworth leagues have been formed in the North Alabama conference, and more than 50 new missionary societies among the women Some of the Wo- mans Missionary societies have in creased in membership from to 50, while the increase in pledges for mis- sions has been epochal
 Another fine development of the centenary" MT. Stockham said, lis the great number Of Methodists who have been impressed with the idea of their responsibility as stewards of the church; these have signified their in- tention of giving more generously tithing-giving 10 per cent Of their in- come to the church. That influence is spreading also among non-church mem bers and promoting the spirit of giv- ing.
 ''The centenary calls for q personal SD subscription for every Methodist man and woman, boy and girl, and while it Is difficult to reach many of those who live in the outlying districts, the rural sections. far from the railroads and modes of locomotion. still they
 must be reached so as to inspire them with a responsibility of their import
 ance to the work, making it 9 duty so
 that none can say in years to come
 that he had no part in tho great cen-
 tenary movement
 Especially will the centenary try to
 touch the man of wealth. said Mir
 Stcckham,' and visualize his duty to
 him in the matter of giving for it appears
 that the more money a man makes. the
 moro difficult it Is for him to give.
 The Centenary has many interesting angles" MT. Stockham continued. f.The
 eVangelistic, the aileviative, the educa-
 uonai and others. Mexico, China, India,
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our commission for joint commits sion, and the M. E. church was asked to appoint a similar number, which they promptly did. The first meeting of this joint commission was held in Baltimore in April. 1916. Since that time cooperation between the two churches has gone on with beautiful harmony and helpfulness-
 In September, 1917. our college of bishops took the following action rela- tive to the matter: "The college of bishops is in the heartiest sympathy with the movement, under the direc- ton of the board of missions, to cele- | brate, in conjunction with the Metho- dist Episcopal church, the one hum dredth anniversary of the beginning of foreign missions by the Methodists of the United States, and this college will do all within it's power to advance the work throughout the church."
 The centenary commission undertook survey of the fields we occupy in or der to determine the nature and size of our providential task and what was needed to put the church abreast of h ts world programme. The results of thu, survey were presented for the first tirno to committee of one hundred which met in March, 1918, in Memphis. Tenn.
 This representative group definitely agreed. after much prayer and consulta- ton, that southern Methodism should celebrate this centenary of Methodism in a way worthy of her past and com mensurate with her manifest responsi- bility. They first laid emphasis on the spiritual resources of the church, with special reference to the practice of in- tercession, followed by promotion of the recognition and practice of steward : ship of life and substance and a defi- nite campaign to raise in tho next five years sS5,ooo,o 900, including the regu- lar missionary income.
 It was q thrilling and historic hour when the last general conference of our church after pausing in it's bust ness for an hour of prayer. gave it's unanimous indorsement to the cen- tenary. This action represents the high water mark of missionary enthus- iasm and calls the church to it's most daring overture of faith and oonsecra- ton.
 The report of the committee which was adopted was ringing call to the church.
 It contains these stirring words:
 The hour has struck for mighty things. The time is at hand when the church must step forth in power witt, a holy enthusiasm. We appeal to all of our people, small and great, to rally to this centenary movement and dem onstrate that the church of God has
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 N Catarh should be treated first blood tive then addition the should be washed with Sages Catah Remedy which can be had at drug
 Fairbn, Gd-1 just enjoy recommending Dr. Perces
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veloped into remarkable facts in the spreading of the gospel since the cen tenary movement began. Here the workers are few and frequently the word of God is heard only at intervals of weeks apart: approximately there are 750 churches in the North Alabama conference, with only about 270 preach CTS; 1aymen have been sent out to these pulpits.
 Especially significant is the Haley vile district, where a tremendous re- ligious enthusiasm has accrued; also in the Tuscaloosa district---nearer home we find the centenary spreading it's sheltering wings and bringing into the fold encouraging reports; not less re- mote is the Huntsville district--which edges very near to the Chattanooga line where the backwaters of the river streams keep the people from atterd- ing services--wflen there are services to attend-which has been visited by the centenary movement--with satis- factory results.
 The sending of laymen to these dis- trict churches where there are no min- isters, prominent men, such as Gov. Nathan l.. Miller, from the Highlands Methodist church. and Judge Hugh Locke, from the First Methodist church. any many others who have gone into the remote districts to deliver the message of religious love and benign benediction. has proven of incalculable good
 From such districts,7 Mir. Stockham said. in talking about the work, i've have drawn many of our representa- tive men. I may cite Governor Miller, who told me when we went up to De- catur together not long since, that he ran about those old Alabama hills as barefoot boy, and we owe these dis tricts a debt of gratitude for furnish ing us with such splendid men-and so we are endeavoring to carry the gospel message back to those who are remote ly situated where modern religious fervor scarcely touches."
 When we started our centenary work just after the meeting of the North Alabama confetence last au- tumn," MT. Stockham said, i've were very uncertain what we were to do- Our organization, known as the Con- ference connission,' had very little idea of the qualifications and angles of the centenary, but as we talked the subject opened up and we saw the splendid opportunities offered.
 "Fhe big task of raising one and half million dollars in the North Ala bama conference,' said Mir. Stockham, 'is the smallest part of the work, the greatest being to develop the intereat of the church, it's enthusiasm, it's zeal.
 Since we began our work there has been a wonderful increase in every
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BY R}RNG NpHI THE CENTENARY THUS GTyEs EVERY MAN IN

6H . "reminisce" bit one has tc
 glance over the announcement Jl made by "The Centenary oi
 American Methodist Missions 1S1s-1S19." and see what pr. W. W. Pinson says about the growth and the far reach ing influence of this branch of church work.
 Says pr. Pinson:
 Tn 1S19 the first American Methodist Missionary society was organized. In 1913 both branches of Episcopal Methodism will unite to commemorate the close of a century of missionary history.
 The first missionary society, known as the parent society,"" was organized in New York. April 5, 1919, and this par ticuIar date in 1919 should be a red-letter day in American Methodism to be ob- served in all churches.
 There were great names connected with the first organization: William McKen- dree, Enoch George, Robert R. Roberts, Nathan Bangs. Joshua Soule, Joshua Scule, the far-sighted ecclesiastical statesman, said in an hour of discourage ment: s@The time will come when every man who assisted in the organization of this society and persevered in the un dertaking will consider it one of tho most honorable periods in his life"
 The general conference unqualffiedly indorsed the society. From that time the New York society became the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church in America" The department of missions was fairly incorporated among the organ izations of the church, and Soule's words began to become true.
 At the end of the first year of this early society the income was sN0 The fn- come of American Methodism the last year of the century will not be less than S7,0o0,00o for the same purposes an in crease of ten thousand fold. or 10000 per cent
 The membership of the church at that time was a few thousand. Now 1t mum pers nearly 7.000,000
 Then there was not passenger train nor steamship nor a telegraph line fn the world The first steamship was launched that year. There was not col lege for women in the world
 What a century this has been.
 At it's annual meeting in l916 our board of missions adopted resolutions proposing that this centenary should be appro- prtately commemorated. the celebration to be nationwide and to include all branches of American Methodism- A committee was appointed, since enlarged into the Centenary commission An invitation was extended to the general conference Of the Methodist Episcopal church. then in seS- sion at Saratoga, to unite in a joint cele- bration, and this invitation was accepted with enthusiasm
 Three members were appointed by
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surrounding the room were few black slaves among the white women who were
 eisurely changing their outer garments for those of the bath. The hum of many voices drowned the pleasant sound of water bubbling at fountain in the cen- tre- Though dimly lighted, the scene was bewildering display of color, for every woman, young or old, black or white, vied with her neighbor in the brilliancy of her towel and her covering 'burnous'' and the fine rugs brought by some of them to sit upon.
 The hot rooms were dimiy lighted and the air laden with steam, and it was some moments before we could distin- guish the beautiful blue tiles of the wall out of which ran the little fountains of water, both hot and cold from natural clear springs. In the center of an oc- tagonal room was broad round basin more than twenty feet across, in which