Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1902 Page: 1 of 16
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Dallas, Texas, Thursday, October 9, 1902.
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his manhood, his teachings, his miracles, his
broken hearts, to dry their weeping eyes, to
toward the sunrise and bid them take heart
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one of them. He made their poorly fur-
nished homes his abode, partook of their
frugal fare, talked with them on the high-
way, observed them in the market places,
healed their diseases and took their children
up in his arms and blessed them. No won-
der that it is said "the common people heard
can be heard and their distress can be seen
if we will cultivate the habit of listening
and seeing through the ears and the eyes of
Christ. Then if we are moved by his heart
the needed relief will be forthcoming.
and live. All about us their mute appeals up of the results of his preached truth
did the menial work of men. Christ is the
first teacher of note in that day who held
out any hope to icommon humanity. He
“Blessed are the merciful,” for mercy is
one of the attributes of God. He exercises
this attribute toward those who repent and
ask for pardon. To be merciful, therefore,
is to be like God; and when we exercise this
boon toward others we will always receive
mercy from our Father in heaven. The man
who has none of the elements of mercy in
his nature has a heart of adamant and can
not be touched by the infirmities of his fel-
lowmen. . He is inhuman and has no right
to look for mercy from the Father above.
for a surplus, It requires all they receive
during the year to meet their actual expense,
and in order to do this they have to practice
A real earnest and vital prayer-meeting
is a wonderful help to religious people, but
a dead prayer-meeting helps nobody with
its service. It only stupefies and brings, into
kinship with itself the spirit of those who
manage to drag themselves out to it. There
is no excuse under the sun for a dead prayer-
meeting except a dead preacher. If he will
get life into his method of conducting his
midweek meetings, he will vitalize all his
forces and his prayer-meeting will refresh,
lift up, inspire and edify all who attend it.
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THE INFLUENCE OF A GOOD BOOK.
In early boyhood we lived in the country
and worked on the farm, and while we had a
comfortable living as the result of hard la-
bor, yet the luxuries of life were unknown.
Outside of the Bible we had access to but
very little literature and reading matter was
very scarce. But in some way or other there
fell into our hands Fleetwood’s Life of
Christ, a book that will not compare favor-
ably with more recent books on that sub-
ject, nevertheless we found it to be a volume
of rare interest. Every spare moment we
delved into the pages of that old book until
its contents became as familiar to us as
Webster’s old blue back speller. It brought
before our mind the life of our Lord as that
life was seen and studied by the author in
such a way as to fascinate and inspire us.
He told the story of his birth, his boyhood,
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came to minister to them as a friend and a the most rigid economy. But very few of
brother. He lived with them, for he was ; them receive enough beyond a Aiere sup-
port to lay anything by for a rainy day.
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And when they grow old and have to
retire, they are often cramped with want.
Hence, they look to this fund for a lit-
tle help. But if instead of growing old
and infirm they die in the harness, then
their wives and children are often left pen-
niless, and this fund is a great help to them
in the midst of their pressing needs. There-
fore, no active preacher can afford to come
up one dollar behind on this sacred assess-
ment. We are glad that at the instigation
of a worthy layman our late General Con-
ference adopted a plan for raising an en-
dowment fund for these claimants, and that
its organization was recently perfected at
Nashville and put to work in this behalf.
It ought to succeed on a very large scale.
But in the meantime let our pastors look
with scrupulous care to our conference
claimants’ fund. They ought not to stop
with the assessment, but go as far beyond
it as possible. Let us make it large and
overflowing.
No class of our membership need the in-
struction of the Sunday-school more than
the adults. Yet there are fewer of these
than of all others in the Sunday-school. A
great many of these older people do not
read the Bible to advantage, and the little
of it that they do know they got out of
the Sunday-school when they were young.
Now as they have grown older they have
become rusty in Bible knowledge, but if
they were in the Sunday-school they would
be fresh and up-to-date Bible readers and
students.
throughout the world until our faith was
strengthened, our experience enriched, our
hopes lifted up and our desire to follow
Christ greatly stimulated. The fact is, God
used that old book to lift us out of the
channel of secular life into that of the life
of a minister of the gospel. And if we
amount to anything to-day, in any humble
measure, as a factor in pointing sinners to
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
of the world,'much of it is easily traced to
that old book. Now we have reproduced
this story as an encouragement to parents
to put good and helpful books into the hands
of their children. Let them have the oppor-
tunity to commune with great minds and to
come into touch with great souls whose
thought and spirit breathe through the
printed page. Out of these books they will
gather the materials out of*which solid char-
acters are made and useful lives are shaped.
Great and good books are now within the
reach of even the poorest of our people, and
their ch-lren oughmto hare thmaumnitase.
of them. Througltpse ardent and inspir-"
ing thoughts your boys and girls may get
an inspiration that will send them to the
front in the great work of life. Let them,
therefore, feel the throb of the great souls
embodied in many of these splendid books
which may be obtained for a mere song.
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him gladly.” He was the only one who had
a message for them. His eyes saw their sad
estate, his heart felt their woes and his
hands made provision for their wants. And
“when he saw the multitudes he was moved
with compassion for them because they were
distressed and scattered as sheep not having
a shepherd.” They did not have to put
.their distress into articulate speech in order
to call forth his compassion. He looked
into their wistful eyes, saw their gaunt
forms, beheld their scant apparel, and these
mute conditions told him of their soul-hun-
ger and their deep spiritual poverty and
need. And his compassion, without waiting
for words and lamentations, went out to-
ward them with its sympathetic ministries.
•Their sore distress appealed to his great
heart more earnestly and powerfully than
the loudest of’ human words. And while
under the wondrous tuition of Christ’s gos-
. pel the impoverished conditions of humanity
have steadily improved as the years have
receded from his day, yet the world is still
full of human woe and want, and among
certain -classes of the great multitudes there,
are those who are still appealing to us out
of the silence of their hungry and needy
souls for a word of sympathy, for the hand
of help, for a little brotherly counsel, for
a word of encouragement and for the heart-
comforts of the gospel. Christ is still their
friend and Savior, but he depends upon his
followers to communicate these great facts
and to extend these needed helps to the suf-
fering and down-trodden sons and daugh-
ters of men. In his name it is our duty to
lighten their burdens, to bind up their
OUR CONFERENCE CLAIMANTS.
The year is coming to a close and the col-
lections are being made for the winding up
of the year. Among these is one that ought
to have the pre-eminence, and that is the
assessment for our worn-out preachers and
the widows and orphans of deceased preach-
ers. These worthy claimants are looking
anxiously to these small amounts for a lit-
tle money with which to help tide them over
the rain and cold of the approaching winter.
Preachers as a rule are not money-makers,
and if they had special falent in this direc-
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and now there is nothing left for us but to
put it in shape for a mighty forward move-
ment. Heretofore the University has been
slightly inaccessible because of the fact that
it was situated on a branch railway, but now
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
has perfected its plans to pass through
Georgetown, and this will give to the insti-
tution all the facilities for reaching it that
can be desired. And the people of George-
town, according to their ability, have done
a good part by the University and they de- l
serve praise for their liberality. The facul-
ty is composed of men who have given their
lives to the school, and they have so devel-
oped its course of study that they have
placed it alongside of the best schools of the
State. In the faculty are found men who . .
in point of scholarship and ability" will
compare favorably with the best teachers
in the land. And last, but not least, the
Board or Curators and the Board of Trus-
tees are capable men, and they have the weal
of the University at heart, and when-, the
conferences meet, these officials will have
a matured plan of action ready to submit to I
the Methodism of the State which, if adopt-
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HUMANITY’S SILENT APPEAL.
At the time Christ lived upon the earth
humanity was in a fearful condition. The
great masses of them were exceedingly poor
and greatly oppressed. They had scarcely
enough to keep body and soul together, and
they were taxed beyond endurance. Nobody
sympathized with the poor. Benevolent in-
stitutions were unknown and hospitals were
undreamed of. There were no asylums for
the blind, or the deaf, or the maimed, or
orphans. Such unfortunates were! without
organized assistance. Their condition was
wretched in the extreme. Those who were
able to work were regarded as beasts of bur-
den, and they had no rights that anybody
was under obligation to respect. And the
condition of women was even more pitiable.
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY EN-
DOWMENT DISCUSSION.
The discussion concerning the endowment
of Southwestern University has been carried
on for several weeks in the columns of the
Advocate, and nearly every phase of the
question has been thoroughly examined. The
purpose underlying this discussion has been
to create sentiment and to prepare our peo-
ple for a definite plan of action. In a large
measure this has been accomplished, in that
the Board of Curators met last week, went
thoroughly over all the ground and adopted
a measure, which will be made public in due
time, for reducing the effort looking toward
the endowment to a practical basis. There-
fore, the time for action has come and the
occasion for further discussion, for the
present, is past. And notwithstanding the
fact that we have on hand a number of well-
written communications, it is deemed best
now to bring the discussion to a close. So
that with this issue, which contains an au-
thorized statement by the Board of Cura-
tors, we will dismiss the matter and turn our
attention toward more work for the Univer-
sity and less talking and writing. We trust
that as the imperative needs of the endow-
ment of the University are fully under-
stood, we will have perfect unanimity of ac-
tion on the part of Texas Methodism. Let
all hands join in one tremendous and per-
sistent effort to make the plan outlined by
the Curators a great success. It can and
must be done, and the time for aggressive
action is upon us. We have the building,
and it is permanently located at Georgetown,
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Rankin, George C. Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1902, newspaper, October 9, 1902; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1594151/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.