Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1904 Page: 2 of 16
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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
December 8, 1904.
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No peremptory call to office or school
room, or workshop, call him from his
devotions in private or in his family.
He can read and study his Bible. His
mind may not be as strong as it once
was, but the Psalms and the Gospels
and the words of prophecy are still as
speech, makes half the body helpless,
and leaves the other in good condition.
one recovers partially from it, so as to
be able to hobble around; sometimes
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sometimes, when the spine is only in-
volved, the mental powers are active
and unimpaired. In all cases there is
serious disability, and in some entire
helplessness. As a rule, however,
persons who are paralyzed and until
the final stroke, which proves almost
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much pain, and, unlike those who have
softening of the brain, are generally
free from mental depression. The
emotions, especially the tender emo-
chamber, is the most serious effect.
Many men who were unable to walk
have done efficient work in literary ELEVENTH STREET M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, CORSICANA, TEXAS.
equipped for their
In spinal disorders the only-very se-
rious trouble is in locomotion. The
confinement to the bed, or to the
tantism must stand, not only for an fault is in the Sunday-school organi-
open Bible, but for a known Bible as zation; that the machinery is tedious;
well. These facts greatly emphasize that the officers and teachers are not
affected, and
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student he can in the quietness of his 1. The loss of the S undayischool generation first marked out. But such can ground and thus have come in ----------
retirement keep up his studies. His hold upon adnleseentch V a thorough schonlsnamssurep.aresthesexception earnest sympathy with that field of THE BEAR HUNTER,
boxsarana thesecompanions arTab knowledge of the Bible on the part are generally active progressive bush I nstranewrorsnanstn foragecaua. If I should meet a grizzly bear
ways in reach. and he need never be of those who have been in regular ness or professional men; men of in the work of our common Master. A-roaming from his mountain lair
lone’y. Bunyan, Baxter, Wesley, attendance at the Sunday-school. sound judgment, large information and I have frequent tidings from them and I’d just get down on hands and knees
Vincent. Luther, Calvin, Knox become If these observations be correct spiritual zeal. The great majority of know something of the details belong- And , rund among the trees
associates. He travels through Judea there must be some serious defect the teachers are men and women of ing to that kind of service—details 8 1 around m gee.
and Egypt. Sees Babylon and Petra as in our Sunday-school work somewhere, piety and sense, of worldly and spirit- that come home to my own mind and Len mv prwling didn’t scare
they were: sees Palmyra and Damas- which Sunday-school workers and ad- ual wisdom; many of them are among heart in forms peculiar to the relations y 8no"8 d 15
cus, walks through the streets of vocates should seek to discover and the most successful teachers in the which these loved ones and ourselves That great ferocious grizzly bear,
Athens and stands amid the ruins at remedy. secular schools of the country. (These in the home land bear to each other. I‘d sing a song and, at my ease,
Ephesus; sees Rome and Naples and It must be apparent to most Sun- latter will, I believe, agree with me, I have never “wished that I was a Just try my best the bear to please.
Paris and London, climbs the Alps and day-school workers that when young in the main, that the poorest results boy again,” but it seems to me that if —Charles Keeler,
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not protected from the assaults of
their foes by weakened powers and
quiet seclusion. He has time to pray.
A FIRESIDE SERMON BY GEORGE wanders through the Highlands, visits people reach the ages of fourteen to they get in all their teaching follow I were, I should be drawn to the
eMI-g all lands, and sails on all seas, and sixteen they seem to lose interest in their efforts to teach the Bible to Mexican field.
does not leave his chamber. He has the Sunday-school, and there is conse- their Sunday-school classes.) When my son wrote me fiom Zap-
'------ lost much; he has much he would not quently a great falling off in the at- While there may be weaknesses and atlan, where he slept within a few feet
A Word of Comfort to Paralyzed have had had he been in the world of tendance. Few Sunday-schools that deficiencies in these various factors of where our missionary, Stephens, was
People. activity. He is tempted to depression; have come under my observation show that enter into the Sunday-school work murdered by a fanatical mob, led by
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years, and was sick ot the pa y, him. No Peter comes to call him from attend seldom come from any inherent day, and that is in what may be term- rather than prove false to our Great
Peter. said_unto.l whole ” his bed, to release him from his prison, interest in the lesson, but are present ed the “plan of attack,” or the method Leader-my mind ran over the same
Chhav? tried to sneak a word of com- but God’s good Spirit is cofined to no at the urgent solicitation of faithful of study adopted. general field of to-day and compared
fort to the blind the lame the deaf, one place, and he can make the bed of parents, or, perchance, from their own in the first place, it may be serious- the present Mexico with e i exico
fort I now will saV somethin those the invalid to him a throne of victory, sense Of fidelity to the Church. By ly doubted whether a series of lessons only half a generation ago. How the
who like Eneas have lost the use of Do not, my brother, allow gloom to the liberal use of blackboards, charts, well suited to mature Bible classes Lord has been opening up o our .
their limbs and’ are confined to their settle around you. Do not ask why, picture cards and illustrated lesson pa- can be adapted to the capacities and ers a V ast le d comprising a ig y
their.m ‘tn to5tEeir leds. nor murmur, nor complain. From the pers a fair degree of interest is gen- needs of primary pupils. Different work. Fanatical foes have go to be
Paralvsis is common to all lands and days when the man was borne of four erally maintained in the primary and parts of the Bible are suited to differ- careful how they waste t e i °
to all Sses and is a physical ill, to the Savior, from the days which the lower intermediate classes; but above ent ages and stages of mental and God s people now, for a stro g g -
whicVs almost universally without cripple lay at the pool till now, men this interest dwindles and dies. spiritual development. Who ever saw ment wields an effective power now
cure. It is sometimes from the brain, have been helpless and dependent. It Again, it is a source of common a child that did not delight in the. tor gooa.
somtimesfromethespinep sometime ltS *■»-not ody by but by toZe°Cnrasechaaz Anthere S Which ’to persecute God’s people’ But -
it affects the mental po and. with their valuable lessons impressed the strong arm of the law is alert to
upon the young minds and hearts of keep fanatical forces within bounds,
the children will become an insepa- Once when I was walking with a mem-
rable part of their characters and ber of my son’s family a rock came
lives; but they would get little benefit whizzing along and struck my neck
from a labored effort to understand collar. It yas so stiffly laundered
the vague and figurative visions of that the missle fell harmlessly to the
Isaiah, or the abstract and doctrinal ground. At another time a rock was
teachings of St. Paul. Would it not hurled to the gallery of my son s resi
be feasible to arrange a series of les- dence, where it struck my little grand-
sons suitable for each of the three child, in its mother’s arms. For a
departments of the Sunday-school? while they thought the baby was dead.
In the next place, our present meth- I could tell you of many similar acts,
od, if method it may be called, lacks but if the offender were detected he
in continuity and logical sequence, would be severely dealt With.
We take, perchance, a few lessons As I was travehng with my son in
from the life of Christ; then we jump 1902, from Mexico City to Ocumbo, he
back to the middle of the history of pointed out to me a little town near
the Jewish nation for a dozen or two thezrailroad, and.said.. That iS4
of lessons; then we revert to the lives Methodist town. That little chinch th t
of the early apostles for a few les- you see there is a Methodist church
sons; then, mayhap, we go back to There .is a set of live church members
the time of Noah and pick up a few in that town and these other two towns
incidents from that period of the are very fanatical. A young man from
11, Lisory one of these fanatical towns got in
" SL i in the Sundav-school the habit of visiting that Protestant
If Bible study in the bunday school town. He fell under good influences
e base up n,the yPothes of hat and became an earnest Methodist. He
pupils have a fair knowledge of the the ce to attend
Book, and need only a rapid review, the meetings. But one night as he was
on the way home from meeting he was
murdered.”
It was never learned by the authori-
always fatal, have a limited use of
their faculties. They do not suffer
are almost abnormally
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fields, and have even been noted for Three years ago the conference sent The building is not yet completed on then the present plan may answer
eloquence in speech in public a 55 to us Rev. J. B Berry to take charge the inside. Will require $1500 more. the purpose. Or if the purpose of
es. It would seem to an active man "ivent, sree ML; cirI Then we will have a property worth the Sunday-school be to select cer-
thotengeauamitancoude Uken Portwoeyearstnespreacthedinarenda $10,000, whenefurished, with a mem tainttaxtzfretghtad, with “ ties who was the murderer, or ne
thaheiamoa 5 andnsonrncdntova building, with sixty members. In the we consider this an extraordinary homiletic discussion and application vertand,axerdeandptnere,ea. cAnmuth
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all cases the religion of Jesus risti purchased two lots, which cost $300. have to give him up, as he goes down our young people with anything like . affiliations but Protestant influ
a sufficient provision against every They then subscribed $1000 toward the to Granger. a thorough knowledge of the Scrip-
thing like hopelessness. He ca t $8000. The Church Extension Board We welcome Bro. Moore, who comes tures our method of study may cer- enes a egaining headway-continu
hopeta fnarysreagerftene’ recow made a gitt of $450.00 as astimulantto upto Eleventh Street Church. tainly be improved. and made to con- thpe ops or that reglon live in towns,
reached a certa g , this mission work. First Methodist Our best wishes and prayers go with form to the principles of pedagogy one sedom finds a family living in a
gry.ofethe xoungisbyano meansfomt-Ceegobome-+=as made a contribution Bro. Berrand toon, ttheir Rew ap-EAat underlie good instruction: Slated sSiatlob, as we dc in "the
can of what is left. He is, like Bun- ° ‘ pointment. ABE MULKEY. The Bible is largely an historical United States.
yan, a prisoner, and his prison is often —■ book, and as such its events have a Such has become the Protestant
more comfortable, but his jailer is counts. It is not a trial to be volun- intelligent laymen as well, that the natural chronological and logical se- strength of Mexico that Protestantism
more inexorable, for Bunyan s jailer tary wasted, but it is not a proof that younger generations, even those who quence. What teacher of history has become thoroughly organized,
did sometimes let his prisoner go free God does not love and life is vain that have been regular attendants upon the would give his class a half dozen les- They have their young people’s socie-
for a time; but paralysis, or parapie- the doors of your prison have closed Sunday-school for years, have a very sons upon the time of Julius Csar, ties, about upon the same lines that
gia, do not, except in a very few cases, upon you. The greater the trial, the scant knowledge of the Bible. Not- then turn to Alfred the Great and we do in our own country. These so-
relax their hold, and their victim is richer the grace. God can bring a withstanding the fact that, in addition study his career for a few lessons, cieties of the different denominations
kept confined. It would be needless to blessing out of every ill, even this one. to the regular study in the Sunday- then pass back to Alexander or Da- come together in state conventions and
tell of the discomforts and limitations “Then praise him for that which is school, it occupies a prominent place rious, without any principle of. se- in a national convention every year,
of a life like this, but there is another past, . in every home and is, presumably quence? The effect of this promiscu- These gatherings are largely attended,
side, and to a good man this condition And trust him for all that’s to come.” read more or less—generally less ‘ ous skipping about of the Internation- and are both very pleasant and highly
is not devoid of compensations. To a ••* that it is freely quoted in almost everv al Lessons is indicated in the state- useful. The meeting of the convention
man without God I can conceive of few THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL AND BIBLE other book of merit and that it is ment of an intelligent young lady of of the State of Jalisco was recently
things more distressing than to b STUDY. - read and expounded’from the pulpit eighteen, a student in one of the sec- held at Atoyac, where we have a nice
paralyzed; buttoachristanthereare The Sunday-school vitallv imnor twice every week, no hook, perhaps, ondary schools of Texas, and a regu- church, a live membership, and a pro-
many things left. He hs e inception as an arm of in all the realm of first-class literature lar attendant at Sunday-school who gressive working pastor. From Atoyac
Christians have, a faith inGod, atrust t t ts vrptinns4ssmnuarm o is so little known. To what book is said that she did not know that there my son, F. s. Onderdonk, under date
in Jesus Ch.nst a.consciousindwelting importance as oustsnoreasesin 80 much time given with such meager was any real connection between the of October 31, writes as follows
of the Holy Spirit, a hope of a joyful importance as people deveoP in in- 6 6 events of Genesis and Exodus; that “Last night closed our District Con-
immortality but there arasspecialten tenigencenand mhinskingopowerThe K as I believe, one of the chief Ob. she thought one could pick out a chap- ference and YoSg People Conven-
3 ™ Which.one are not to beuti were content to accept their reMous jects of the Sunday-school is to give ter anywhere in the Bible and under- tion. Both were a howling success. I
children and snecial benedictions of teaching directly from the lips of the to a^> young and old, a thorough stand it just as well without refer- have been here a week, in the midst
dervalued and spec 4x0 8, e.5 1 PS.’ • knowledge of the Bible then its sue- ence to what precedes or follows it. of labors abundant, some persecution
great value. A "shut-in" who does not priests, and the time when action in X is certainly not gratifving If we are to expect the attention and much joy. The house was stoned
suffer agonizing pain cannot go out matters of religion was chiefly the cess 1S certain.y not gratitying. interest of real students we must the second night but no one was hurt
into the world, but the world comes to result of emotional impulse have both But.whereis the trouble? If we approacn them with a student-like Weappealedto’theJefePoliticoand
him His daily paper or his semi week- gone. A people who think in world y agree that the patient is sick we may method of study; a method that he sent a squad of soldiers to
ly gives him all the secular news. His things are a people to whose intelli- not agree to the nature or the cause peals to intellectual interest, and that us. No more disturbances. Our new
Advocate keeps him in contact with gence religion must appeal, and who of the disease. Some one may say follows the laws of mind growth and church was crowded to its full capac-
the Church in all her work He can- will, act from motives.of settled con- that the Bible is a dull book and that development. During the last century ity> and souls were born to God. Yester-
not mingle with.men,butthe,hoos viction and fixed training rather than young people can not be interested in some of the world’s greatest minds day was a feast .of good things from 6
on his shelves, the memories of those from mere passing impulse or tern- it but this charge will hardly hold, have been devoting themselves to the a. m. to 9 p. m. This evening the dele-
he has knownsuppyhir those porary emotion. Hence, while we may Literary critics are agreed tha as task of discovering the best and most gates and preachers are about all gone,
panionship. He does not have those not limit God’s power to save any pure literature it surpasses all other natural methods of teaching geogra. I go south this evening to Zapatlan.
personal collisions which men in ac person anywhere, we may reasonably books. Its history its biography its phy, history, botany and other sci- ThreeofourZecolatlanmemberswalk-
tivelife, musthave. He,d of no. expect that the conversion of the ma- poetry, its ethicalteaching are all par ences Might not some theological ed a three days’-journey to the Confer-
have the engrossing cares of the ture man, trained under evil influ- excellent. Its pictures ot human life pestalozzi, or Froebel, or Horace Mann ence. Two of them were women. I in-
worlds affairs, he realizes the fact ences and established in sinful habits, and character are real, its stories are be found who can give us a natural tend to write it all up soon for the Go
that he is a disabled soldier, retired by will be more and more the exception; replete with human interest; its moral and logical method of Bible studv Forward if I can get time”
his Captain's order, and he must leave and we must depend for the growth teachings are simple, dear forcible; that atepted to the Jeede of MIhave attended twotomtese Nation-
to others the work of managing the and prosperity of the Church more its style is matchless. No, the fault our Sunday-schools? al Protestant Conventions. They do not
world. He has none of those fierce and more upon careful attention to can not be in the book. ...... J E BLAIR wear their denomination dresses at
San Marcos Texas these gatherings. No one could distin-
guish one denomination from another
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OUR MEXICAN MISSION WORK, tists and Quakers, all blend into one
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