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have adopted the Anti-Poligamy Resolution;
New York, 19uG; West Virginia,
ia07! Missouri, 1907; Delaware,
1907; Maine, 1907; North Dakota,
1907; North Carolina, 1307; Pennsylvania,
1907; New Jersey, 1907; South
Dakota, 1907; Washington, 1909;
Minnesota, 1909; California, 1910;
Georgia, 1911; Arkansas, 1911; Texas,
1911; Montana, 1911; Tennessee,
1911; New Hampshire, 1911; Nebraska,
1911; Oklahoma, 1911; Ohio,
1911; Vermont, 1912; Colorado, 1913;
Kansas, 1913; Oregon, 1913; Illinois,
1913; Wisconsin, 1913; Massachusetts,
1913; Michigan, 1913.
She also spoke against the Gothenburg
System or Disinterested Management,
of National Headquarters as a
memorial to Miss Willard, and ot the
Memorial Fund, and of the -n'ork
through its support in Alaska and at
Ellis Island.
Liquor advertising was the next
great question dwelt upon and of the
injustice of the U. S. Mails in being
used for that purpose.
The following are a few campaign
suggestions:
Public meetings in the church, hall,
and on the street are always in order.
We would urge the street meetings
especially after the campaign is well
under way. Several speakers with
short addresses are as a rule preferable
to a long address, unless the
speaker is attractive and distinguished
and the audience can be seated
Street parade or pageants participated
In by the Young Campaigners, the
Sabbath Schools, the L. T. L. and
public schools, with banners bearing
suitable mottoes—short and to the
point—floats appropriately decorated,
and patriotic temperance music, are
most effective. Whenever practicable
a public meeting with brief addresses
should follow the parade; if not on
the same day very soon after, while
interest is aroused. Automobile tours,
stereopticon displays and street addresses
are very desirable. Meetings
to great advantage can be held in
factories, workshops, and for the miners,
the quarrymen, the lumbermen
and others. Do not fail tc utilize the
children and young people. Their
power and helpfulness in campaign
work cannot be overestimated.
The public meeting and demonstrations
are desirable, but the quiet personal
work is of quite as much value.
The liquor element realizes this, and
during some campaigns they have directed
all of their strength to personal
interviews and to the scattering
and mailing of vast quantities of literature
fllled with their false statements,
and by the use of newspapers
«o far as they were able to control
them. All this has to be offset and
overcome. The newspapers and magazines
are becoming more and more
friendly to the temperance cause,
and as a rule if rightly approached
are not discriminating in favor of
the liquor forces except when money
influences enter in, and there are
many papers and magazines which
cannot be bought with liquor money,
but on the contrary, they lend their
aid to those who are promoting the
cause of temperance.
Literature bearing upon all phases
of the temperance question should be
the very have municipal that ty be fieely traffic hol, scribing people There conditions.
placed the street, interest people and been effective to with use disseminated—literature social, authorities.
the in issued no anywhere pass of poisonous factories, better relation posters. wealth political temperance and by way governmental and congregate. workshops, effect of These and to truths everywhere the reach property econom­
of poster.? should liquor than alco­
the de­
In
THE CHRISTIAN
The Panama Exposition claimed
some attention, as the forces of
strong drink and impurity will be
there in full force. "We must loudly
protest if the sale of liquor Is proposed
at the exposition."
The Publicity Bureau was commended,
and pathetic comments passed
about the meeting of the Veterans of
the Civil War at Gettysburg, of "the
gloom and the glory." "In Memoriam"
called forth some very touching references
to those bright spirits who
have "gone before'' from our ranks,
ending with
We think of these comrades and
friends as still ours—
"Ours by an ownership
Nor time nor death can free.
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUB­
For
LICATION,
God hath given
PHILADELPHIA.
to love to keep
Three
Its own
great
eternally."
mission books have
just been Issued from the presses of
the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
as follows:
1. "Hepburn of Japan." By William
NATlOiN.
more The richly Presbyterian and radiantly Board of Publication
than has that also, of the newly missionary." issued, a num­
blessed
ber of small but exceedingly beautiful
booklets, at 35c each, as "The
Arithmetic of Friendship," by Amos
R. Wells; "The Angel of God's Face,"
by Henry van Dyke; and "The Inn­
Elliot Griffis, D. D., LL.D. 231 pages.
Richly illustrated.
Frontispiece of Dr. keeper of Bethlehem," by James L.
Hepburn. $1.50 net, McBride.
postpaid. In the Sabbath School
Of the four great
Lesson XI. December 14, 1913.
pioneers of the
LESSON FOR THE CHILDREN.
gospel and Christian
civilization in
By Anna Pritchard George.
Japan, V e r b e c k.
The 'Sin of Achan.—Joshua 7.
Brown, He p b u r n
A bad boy says to you, "Take a
and Williams, this
penny. No one will ever know."
cursed thing shall be burnt with flre,
volume completes Satan tempted a man to steal in today's
lesson, and made Achan think hath transgressed the covenant of
he and all that he hath: because he
the biography of
Dr. James Curtis Hep- ^Hat one whO was "no one would ever know." But God the Lord."
burn at 95 years. second on the shows that is not true.
Lots are cast to see in which tribe
ground and possibly the flrstin general
usefulness.
mark where Jericho once stood. guides the casting of tihe lots, and
On the sand table these stones the guilty one is to be found. God
Few books written today are so calculated
to show old Japan in true Israel and these sticks the Jews at is set apart by herself, Achan among
These paper tents are the camp of the tribe of Judah is taken. Judah
colors and to reveal the amazing influence
and work of American mis­
Joe, what were the .Tews to do The lots are cast again to flndthe
Gilgal.
the others. He begins to tremble.
sionaries and teachers in the marking
family in the tribe of Judah. The
of the new Japan as is this volume.
Every consideration enforces the
wisdom of Christian people reading
this book—the Importance
of familiarizing
one's self
with all available
deeper and truer sympathy for them on their faces before the ark of the
may be realized." One delighted reader
of the volume says that it is a heads, and pray until the evening.
Lord as they throw dust on their
tonic for the jaded spirit.
Joshua cries to God. God replies,
3. "Inside Views of Mission Life." "Israel hath sinned, for they have'
By iMrs. Annie L. A. Baird. 35c net, even taken of the accursed thing;
postpaid.
and have also stolen, and dissembled
This valuable little book by Mrs. also, and they have put it even
iBaird, for more than twenty years a
Presbyterian Missionary at Pyeng
Yang, Korea, has been needed for a
long time for young and prospective
missionaries. It gives the human side
ot the life from a woman's point of
view and draws its illustrations chiefly
from Korea. Mrs. Baird tells of
the trials, the humors, the hardships
and the blessings of missionary life,
and closes with the sentence, "When
all Is said and done, there is no life
with the silver and gold and ruetal
vessels found in Jericho? "Save
them for God's house." All else was
Vol. 59.
among their own stuff. Up, sanctify
the people, and say. Sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow. There Is
an accursed thing in the midst of
thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand
before thine enemies, until ye take
aiway the accursed thing from among
you." Any tiny sin stands In the
way between us and God. So the
sin of one man stands between God
and all the Jewish nation.
All this night each one in camp
searches his own heart to see if he
has done wrong. Does Achan sleep
well, Ellsworth? "I guess he don't
sleep at all." He must be utterly
wretched. It is a wonder he does
not confesisl at once and seek forgiveness.
That is always the best
after we have once done wrong.
Maybe he thinks he will not be found
out. Satan still has him in his power.
In the morning, early, Joshua gathers
the tribes of Israel together. He
is in a great hurry to get rid of the
sin. All through the camip men call
out, "He that Is taken with the ac­
family of Zerahites—Achan's family
—is taken. Achan is greatly frightened.
Again the lots are cast, and
to be destroyed. Only one man disobeyed.
Achan, of the tribe of Judah,
found a beautiful cloak. Instead his household, are taken. It is get­
Zabdi, Achan's grandfather, with all
of burning it, he kept looking at it ting pretty close now. The men are
—wanting it for himself—and flnally brought forth, man by man, and Achan
himself is chosen. How he wishes,
took it. Next he found a wedge of
gold and two shekels of silver. What
had Achan been told to do with the
knowledge as to
what has been
now wben it is too late, that he had
done to win for|
obeyed God. Oh, children, if you do
Christ the wonder
silver and gold, Ruth! "Save them not wish to get in Achan's position,
ful people of the
for God." But after committing one do not let Satan get hold of you in
Japanese nation
sin, the second is not so hard. Achan the flrst place. 'Say, "No," when he
which 2. "Habeeb is so the rap­Beloved.idly S. and Nelson, steadily D.D. 102 pages. II- the silver and gold. If the other penny, or a cookie, or even a nut
By Wil- had kept the rich coat, now he keeps tempts you the firsttime to 'steal a
liam
forging to the - llustr ated. Jews see him with the stolen goods
from the grocer's stand where no one
front. And who is 75c net, postpaid.
Elliott Qrif-
them away." Achan does not want
what will they do. Buster? "Take
can possibly see—but God. Yes, God
better e q u i p p e d wiiiiam sees the tiniest theft, he hears the
for telling the story fin, D,D.. Memb LL.D. ers
tiniest lie. And, these tiny things
that. He sneaks away to camp and
tban Dr. Griffis, author of of "The the Mikado's
Empire"?
en a n t e r
the lie a (big one, and some day they
Cov­
grow till the theft is a big one, and
hides them in the ground under his
tent. He is sure no one will think
Church
will be sure to be found out when
of looking there, and he is right.
should eagerly
read
Joshua feels sorry for Achan. He
it is too late, as it is with Achan.
But who does know about Achan's
sin, Helen? "God knows."
this interesting
vol­
gloiy to the Lord God of Israel, and
says, "My son, give, I pray thee,
One day Joshua sends 3,000 men
to caipture the city of Ai. Pile these
ume, for it
make confession unto him; and tell
Is a graphic
stones around for the wall of Ai me now what thou hast done." There
Habeeb of riahardeh and delightful
picture of life in modern Syria by go up against Ai. The men of Ai Joshua tries to turn his heart to
northwest of Gilgal. Here the Jews is no hope for Achan on earth, but
a missionary of many years experience.
His thorough acquaintance they kill thirty-six Jews and chase heaven. Achan answersi, "I have
come out, and few though they are God, that there might be hope in
with the people has enabled him to the rest away. As the soldiers come sinned against the Lord God of Israel."
Then he tells all about U,
write a book which transports the running back, Joshua and the elders
reader to this Land of the Book. In of the Jews tear their clothes, fall and where the stolen goods may be
the preface Dr. Nelson says: "This is
found. Joshua sends messengers to
neither a biography nor a history. It
Achan's tent and they soon return
is, rather, an effort to picture the life
with the goods.
of Syrian Christians in order that a
your "and the that what west an's sins death, with Joshua wedge his be will sin the of all then Gilgal. has, our cattle, will silver, that flnd and of burn Golden flnd found to gold," belongs all us and this They you Israel out his him the his and Text? valley stone out." too. body garment, tent, his take him. of Achan "Be children, Yes, together and Bennie, Achor, Achan Ach­
sure our and
all