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A r o u n d t h e O l d A r m ,;Chair.<br />
THERE'LL BE NO<br />
THERE.<br />
By Agnes Mcllroy.<br />
Tliere shall be no time of parting<br />
When we reach our home above.<br />
And obtain the full fruition<br />
Of the Father's changeless love.<br />
Nc more turning from the hearth stone<br />
^Yhe^e the cheerful home-fires burn.<br />
Going forth, the ioy or sorrow<br />
Of an untried way to learn.<br />
No more smiles to hide the heartache,<br />
No more hidden tears to flow<br />
YA'hen the call of duty summons<br />
And a dear one hastens to go<br />
But the joy of understanding<br />
When they come our home to share;<br />
Oh, there'll be no time of parting<br />
When we gather over there.<br />
Eere we haste to build a homestead.<br />
Fill it full of warmth and cheer.<br />
There we gather our beloved<br />
Fain to keep them ever near.<br />
Ah, how futile are our efforts<br />
While we gather round the hearth.<br />
On our lips the sounds of laughter.<br />
In our hearts the songs of mirth;<br />
Lo, a Presence comes among us<br />
Speaking to a loved one's ear;<br />
And our hearts with pain are quvering<br />
Tho' the words we may not hear.<br />
And our trembling lips are whispering<br />
It is well, for He does care-<br />
But there'll be no time of parting<br />
When we gather over there.<br />
A REAL HERO.<br />
The heroism of the sick-roomis<br />
often greater than that of the battlefield;<br />
the invalid may be braver<br />
than the man whom cheering<br />
thousands delight! to honor.<br />
A quiet young lawyer was dy-<br />
THE CHRISTIAN NATION. Vol. 59.<br />
is often vague, and consists in denouncing<br />
the cigarette without giving<br />
much reason why. Some<br />
PARTING pathies, and ready to lend a hand - . , cc.,^„r^/i in a<br />
' ' -^ good points can be secured m a<br />
wherever he could, he was,<br />
Mrs. Thompson. They enjoyed an ex-1<br />
tract issued by Prof. Wm. Mccourse,<br />
condemned to a life of almost<br />
complete inaction. Once he<br />
visiting old friends. They report a<br />
tended trip through Kansas and Iowa,<br />
Keever, Manhattan, Kansas. Send<br />
him ten cents and ask him to mail<br />
you his tracts. Several good tracts<br />
said, with his characteristic whimsical<br />
smile, "I guess about the only<br />
thing left for me to do is to be<br />
as pleasant as I can." Is not that<br />
are put out by the Sunday<br />
School<br />
Times Co. regarding the use of<br />
tobacco, all of which may be applied<br />
with greater emphasis to<br />
boys. The Anti-Cigarette League<br />
worthy to rank with the world's<br />
heroic utterances ? Especially as<br />
he lived up to it steadfastly, modestly,<br />
even gaily. Death at the<br />
is an enthusiastic foe of the cigarette.<br />
Send to Lucy Paige Gaston,<br />
at the League's headquarters<br />
last could only bring the crown to<br />
the victor.<br />
in The Temple, Chicago, for their<br />
God only knows to how many<br />
literature.<br />
other souls this man's achievement,<br />
far errander than the most brilliant<br />
Liform yourselves by all these<br />
professional success, has been as means as to what the cigarette is<br />
"a cup of strength in some great doing, and you will soon become<br />
agony.<br />
;,,g of tuberculosis. He had been<br />
would be no question as to the in- that open and welcome the cigarterest<br />
we would take in putting ette smoker, might bear the<br />
keenly ambitious in his profession<br />
and had measured its demands by<br />
the matter intelligently before names: Pool Hall, Livery Stable,<br />
the highest standards. His elders<br />
boys. Literature on this subject Saloon, A'audeville Theatre.<br />
at the bar had expected him to<br />
achieve distinction. Listead, came<br />
years of weakness and suffering;<br />
the bitter feeling that he had not<br />
had a fair chance to prove himself;<br />
agonizing fears for the fu<br />
r<br />
ture of his beloved wife, and a<br />
Clear perception tbat his end was<br />
steadily approaching. Idis apprehension<br />
was sharpened by the fact<br />
that he had seen other members of<br />
his familv die from the fame disease<br />
; in one case, from a very severe<br />
and distressing form of it.<br />
Eut with hollow, beautiful eyes<br />
that looked calmly 'beyond this<br />
world, he lived a daily triumph.<br />
EUs silent patience, his dignity,<br />
courtesy and humor, his simple<br />
faith and his chilldHke sweetness<br />
of temper, made him the light ot<br />
the household.<br />
Eut although tender in his sym-<br />
^Christian Instructor. enthusiastic enemies.<br />
A practical way in which the<br />
THE CIGARETTE. matter may be presented, is by<br />
By the Rev. \A' W. Carithers. writing to the Committee on Tem-<br />
As people are becoming awak- perance for posters on cigarettes<br />
ened to the destructiveness of the and tobacco and using these freecigarette<br />
habit on the bodies, ly in all public places. Another<br />
minds and morals of boys, they plan is to take a sheet of muslin<br />
are looking for means by which and have a number of doors printthey<br />
may combat this evil. While ed on it. This may be done by<br />
Anti-cigarette laws on the statute taking copies from a lumber catabook<br />
are good, no legislative act logue and printing them so they<br />
can meet the case with a certainty can be seen by an audience, the<br />
epual to that of a well grounded doors being' labelled. The first<br />
conviction in the boy's mind. We set—doors that are closed to the<br />
sbould make all use of both these cigarette smoker—might be markaids,<br />
ed; Railroad Office, Street-car<br />
Wt should consider it a duty to Employee, Department Stores,<br />
post ourselves thoroughly on the Baseball League, Tech. Training<br />
leffect of the cigarette, so there Schools.<br />
Another set, being doors<br />
Y o u t h f u l B e a u t y<br />
n<br />
will be untouched by advancing years if the care of the skin<br />
is given daily attention. The skin is always graduallv rene\ving<br />
itself, and, if you are careless of it, it just as gradually<br />
deteriorates in cjuality, color and fineness. By the daily use of<br />
Pears' Soap<br />
however, which cleanses, purifies and invigorates the skinsurface,<br />
the new skin is produced under such perfect conditions,<br />
that instead of deteriorating, it becomes soft, velvety,<br />
and of a natural, beautiful pink and white. Pears'is acknowledged<br />
everywhere to be<br />
I n Beauty . Soap of the World<br />
I l l<br />
ROBSTOWN, TEXAS.<br />
Our 1-ttle band of Covenanters here,<br />
in this Gulf Coast country, has been<br />
made glad by the return of Mr. and *<br />
good time wnue absent, yet are glad^<br />
to be baek again to enjoy home life, ,<br />
and the cool Gulf breeze of this de-<br />
I<br />
lightful country. While you in the<br />
North have been having extreme heat<br />
and sweltering weather, we have enjoyed<br />
lovely weather, made so hy the<br />
cool Gulf breeze which blows almost<br />
constantly upon us. We have had<br />
also a fruitful season, "filling our hearts<br />
with food and gladness." But we<br />
have enjoyed preaching service, prayei<br />
meeting and Sabbath school, along<br />
v/ith other spiritual blessings. God<br />
has been good and kind to us in many<br />
ways, for which we are devoutly<br />
thankful.<br />
Mr. Russell Lynn and family, from<br />
Lyford, Tex., have just moved to our<br />
midst. We are glad to have them<br />
with us, as it increases our membersh<br />
p. Friends in the North are writing<br />
to Us in regard to this country.<br />
And we would be glad to correspond<br />
With any who are thinking of changing<br />
their location.<br />
Our pastor has just built a comfortable<br />
home in Robstown and he and<br />
his family are greatly enjoying it.<br />
Four Covenanter families occupy<br />
homes of their own within a stone's<br />
throw of each other, all using water<br />
from the same well. Mr. Pattison,<br />
one of our oldest members, has a flne<br />
well end tank. He supplies us all witb<br />
pure well water.<br />
Ro'cstown is a growing town of<br />
some 1300 inhabitants, situated IS<br />
miles from the Gulf. There are two<br />
railroads here. There are three cotton<br />
gins, ginning some 5,000 bales of<br />
cotton annually. Hundreds of acres<br />
are being broken up and put into cultivation<br />
around Robstown. The moral<br />
tone of our town is as good as at<br />
least the most of Texas towns. On last<br />
Sabbath the Mayor ordered all the<br />
picture shows, meat shops, and drug<br />
stores closed. As a consequence, we<br />
had a very quiet town. No saloons<br />
cuise the town, as the temperance<br />
element is strong. There are three<br />
churcte? in town. Baptist, Methodist<br />
anil Christian, all exercising a good<br />
influence.<br />
We hope to build a church before<br />
long, but for the present are holding<br />
I ur services in the home of Mr. and<br />
l\'rs. Pattison, who are kindly letting<br />
rs use their front room.<br />
There is abundant opportunity for<br />
misson work among the Mexicans<br />
here. No church is doing anything for<br />
these neglected people. We would<br />
like very much to open up a mission<br />
r-niong them and will, if God wills.<br />
Ai.yone wanting to know more of this<br />
Gulf Coast country, chances for work,<br />
etc., should write to Mr. J. J. Thompson,<br />
Robstown, Tex., or Rev. W. S.<br />
Fulton.