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DEDICATION 
 TO 
 
 All mankind in every land, struggling against 
 a foe on every hand; to my fellow - worker 
 in church and home ; to the patient, hard 
 working toilers wherever they may roam, and 
 even those who do not appreciate a home 
 This Book is affectionately dedicated. 
 
 281818 
 
THE AUTHOR 
 
THE SEARCHLIGHT. 
 
 The searchlight of the twentieth century, the gem of great 
 price, which we hope will be the means of opening the eyes of 
 multiplied millions to their spiritual needs. 
 
 God moves in a mysterious way, 
 
 His wonders to perform, 
 He plants his footsteps on the sea, 
 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
 The most of this book has been composed and written by 
 Mrs. Daniel L. Graham with the exception of a few rich sayings 
 of the wise and noble God s chosen and elect vessels fitted 
 for His use. 
 
 This book has been written by inspiration, has been guided 
 by the holy hand of God, line by line, precept upon precept, 
 here a little and there a little, the essence of God s divine 
 word, the word which says "without holiness, no man shall 
 see the Lord." 
 
 The writer was born near a village called Amity, in Brown 
 township, Knox County, Ohio. Her maiden name was Rachel 
 Jane Hall, known as Jane Hall, the country maid. Raised in 
 the forest with no advantages, save hard work, my life was a 
 struggle, monotonous and hard, with very little sunshine, until 
 I found the way to the cross. Then I learned that the way to 
 fame was by the thorn road and by no other is the mount of 
 victory won. Come and tread it, my dear brother and sister. 
 
 Christ has trod it, press thou on, 
 
 Onward, upward, like the eagle, shall thy way in faith be born, 
 Soaring high above the troubled scenes of this short life, 
 
 And all we here have won. 
 
 The path of the just is as a shining light which showeth 
 more and more unto the perfect day. 
 
 Praise God from whom all blessings flow, 
 Praise him all creatures here below, 
 Praise him all ye hosts of heaven, 
 For the blessings he has given. 
 
 MRS. DANIEL L. GRAHAM. 
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BEER AND SALOON BUSINESS 
 
 [It appears that this anti-saloon contest is to be fought out 
 in rhyme to some extent at least. The saloon side has out a 
 "poem" telling how workingmen must "stand hand in hand 
 for that dear old saloon. " Here is one that is different.] 
 
 By A, Felton. 
 
 A little town in a distant state 
 
 Was suddenly seized with a wish to be great ; 
 
 And lest their greatness should be delayed. 
 
 They organized a board of trade 
 
 And held a meeting, and every man 
 
 Was trying hard to devise some plan 
 
 To increase the business. 
 
 The town was pretty and clean and neat, 
 No turmoil disturbed its quiet street ; 
 Amusements were there for old and young, 
 Good plays were acted and songs were sung ; 
 No children wandered about half-clad 
 For all had plenty and few were sad, 
 Or worried with business. 
 
 The men who formed this board of trade 
 
 Were energetic and undismayed ; 
 
 And from what they heard or what they read 
 
 Were firmly convinced (or so they said) 
 
 The town could never enjoy a boom 
 
 Without at least one good saloon, 
 
 To enliven business. 
 
 The women feared for the boys and men, 
 When such temptation were given them ; 
 But men said those who wanted beer, 
 W T ere sure to get it from far or near ; 
 In jugs and kegs from where it was made, 
 Thus another town would aid 
 To increase its business. 
 
 One man in town, a wretched shirk, 
 Too proud to beg and too lazy to work, 
 Obtained a license to start a saloon 
 And had it running all too soon. 
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And men who would ne er even think 
 Of wanting liquor, oft stopped to drink. 
 Well just to help business. 
 
 The license said that he must not sell 
 To intemperate men ; but who can tell 
 Of a dealer who cannot get around 
 All limits with which his papers abound? 
 He sold enough on Saturday night 
 To last till Monday about daylight, 
 Then resumed his business. 
 
 A brewery next was established near, 
 
 To supply the trade with home-made beer. 
 
 Saloons were started, some three or four, 
 
 But they only created demands for more. 
 
 Policemen, hired by night and day, 
 
 And "drunk and disorderly" fines to pay, 
 
 All helped the business. 
 
 One fourth of July a rough crowd, they say, 
 Had taken their beer and gone out for a day. 
 The picnic ended, of course, in a row, 
 Arid one man was murdered, nobody knew how. 
 A youth was arrested and taken to jail, 
 Where, thoroughly sobered, with a pitiful w r ail 
 He acknowledged the business. 
 
 The trial then lasted some nine days or ten, 
 
 And several lawyers, all eloquent men, 
 
 Made speeches for hours as if paid by the word; 
 
 The people listened, the jurymen heard. 
 
 It mattered not which side won or lost, 
 
 The county would have to pay the cost 
 
 For that was its business. 
 
 The judge, with a wisdom-filled gray head, 
 
 Had granted a license which plainly said : 
 
 No liquor to minors must be sold. 
 
 But to this boy who by liquor controlled 
 
 Unconsciously entered the terrible strife, 
 
 He gave the mild sentence, "To prison for life." 
 
 And continued his business. 
 
 As the antidote grows near the rattlesnake s den, 
 So these law-makers, w r onderful men 
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Built a Keely-cure for the drunkard s ills. 
 And taxed the people to pay the bills. 
 While across the street hung a bright sign "Beer, 
 Which said so plainly "We make drunks here, 
 Tis our lawful business." 
 
 That little town you would hardly know, 
 Its wished-f or boom has changed it so ; 
 No beauty is there for the drunkards wives; 
 Only sorrow and care throughout their lives. 
 And grocers, bakers and butchers found 
 Saloons and breweries all around 
 Didn t help their business. 
 
 Fond parents now mourn a promising lad, 
 
 In prison garments forever clad. 
 
 Husbands and fathers once kind and true, 
 
 Are selfish and cross and cruel too. 
 
 Young lives are wrecked and homes are spoiled 
 
 For which the parents and grandparents toiled, 
 
 And beer made the business. 
 
 Arise, arise, good Christian, 
 
 Let right to wrong succeed ; 
 Let penitential sorrow, 
 
 To heavenly gladness lead : 
 To the home of fadeless splendor, 
 
 Of flowers that bear no thorn, 
 Where they shall dwell as children, 
 
 Who here as exiles mourn. 
 
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 Strive, man, to win that glory; 
 
 Toil, man, to gain that light, 
 Send hope before to grasp it. 
 
 Till hope be lost in sight. 
 
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WHAT S THE MATTER WITH THE PEOPLE 
 
 IN THIS ENLIGHTENED DAY, 
 WHEN THE PEOPLE HAVE SUCH WISDOM, 
 
 SO THE PEOPLE SAY? 
 
 There has been much said about the sin of intemperance, 
 
 To which men are giving their approval, support and defence. 
 
 Now what under these circumstances can be our hope of a 
 
 happy reward or recompense? 
 Does it look like we were using our God-given sense? 
 
 Why do we weep and mourn for our boy, 
 
 When we give the saloon the right his soul to destroy? 
 Why do we murmur and complain, 
 
 About the dens of wickedness and those that are slain, 
 When we give them the license to carry on the crushing shame ? 
 
 Now who do you think is most to blame 
 
 Those who sell the deadly stuff, 
 Those who never get enough, 
 
 Or those who give the right away 
 To do his neighbor wrong from day to day ? 
 
 You cannot help but see the blight and stain 
 
 Which we have suffered to degrade and mar the souls of men, 
 Whom we should have rescued from the depraved and oppres 
 sive hand, 
 
 In this once glorious freedom s land, 
 And now are in shackles 
 
 From whiskey and taxes. 
 
 Now may God open our eyes to see 
 
 That we must awaken from our stupidity, 
 Which brings to us such misery. 
 
 We should put on the whole armor of faith and good works 
 
 at God s Command; 
 Who promised his chosen ones they should inherit the land, 
 
 If they would obey at his command. 
 
 He said to Joshua, "Go break down the idols and clear away 
 
 the Groves, 
 
 And make place for God s grace against all his foes. 
 The people claim that Temperance is so weak it never can win, 
 
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J^ecause the world is so hard and corrupted with sin ; 
 And Christian Professors so often fall in 
 With the political whiskey ring scheme. 
 
 That s the way things are running today, 
 
 We vote for them but have nothing to say, 
 As though they were all right doing nothing out of the way, 
 
 And so they say, 
 It cannot be helped we must obey. 
 
 So they set their traps and catch us like rats. 
 
 Then say for a complaint, we are blind as bats. 
 They always have an ax to grind, 
 
 And we w r ill turn as long as we are party blind. 
 
 So w r e d better get the scales from our eyes, 
 
 And prove to the world we ve grown more wise ; 
 
 For they make us their by-word all the day long, 
 Saying we are political hypocrites, 
 
 And have lost half our wits, 
 
 Or we would not dance to their song. 
 
 We are blinded by party and lacking in grace, 
 
 Who ever heard of such things in a civilized place / 
 
 Then call this a christianized race! 
 
 With a yoke on our necks and an empty purse, 
 What condition in life could possibly be w r orse? 
 
 Men voting, against their own interests, for knaves ; 
 
 Supporting a traffic that makes themselves slaves ; 
 Causing starved children and widows to die ; 
 
 Yet we fold our arms and pass these things by. 
 
 Unheeded, uncared for, while we remain deaf, 
 
 Caring nothing for Christ s teaching, which is pleading relief, 
 To deliver the outcast, rescue the crushed, 
 
 And we do nothing to have their cries hushed : 
 Nor nothing to have this infamous iniquity crushed. 
 
 Xow if we women had any say, 
 
 We should see that demagogues were put out of the way ; 
 We d be nobody s machine 
 
 To yield to their scheme, 
 Or be bought and sold for whiskey or gin. 
 
 And anyone who would sell his vote, 
 
 We would put him in the pond and there let him croak. 
 
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The bank robber and treasury thief, 
 
 We would not exalt and make him chief, 
 We d bring him to justice. 
 
 You need not doubt a word that we say, 
 
 For you would soon find it out. 
 We are tired of every political scheme, 
 
 Of party ring, whiskey sling, 
 And every other abominable thing. 
 
 We have advantages and ought to be wise, 
 For God has given us light and given us eyes. 
 
 Given us knowledge to comprehend, 
 
 And given us grace which we all should defend, 
 
 And not have it tramped under foot by whiskey knaves, 
 Who are nothing but tyrants and make us their slaves. 
 
 We are short-sighted and no mistake, 
 
 And God will give us trouble and make our hearts ache ; 
 For supporting such creatures is like warming a snake, 
 
 When it can crawl it will teach us with vipers not to partake. 
 
 Now this is a question on which all men should vote, 
 
 For the elevation of mankind lies in the power of that little 
 note, 
 
 Which, when placed in the ballot, must count for us all. 
 It must count for our rise and count for our fall ; 
 
 It must count for reformation, 
 Or count for degradation. 
 
 Now, brethren, when you give us women the right to vote, 
 We worn out mothers, kept at home to mend some ragged 
 
 old coat, 
 Cook, sweep, wash dishes and prepare plenty of good things 
 
 to eat ; 
 
 Then there are the children to be watched night and day, 
 To keep them at home lest they wander away ; 
 
 We must take care of the milk, the skimming of pans, 
 Which must all be kept clean by one pair of hands. 
 
 Then we must wash and iron, darn and sew, 
 
 Which ought to give us plenty to do, 
 To say nothing about scrubbing and churning, 
 
 The cleaning of lamps and to keep the fires burning. 
 It has got to be done all nice and clean. 
 
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remaps only by one, 
 
 But that s all the same, 
 For that s all we are good for when that s said and done; 
 
 So the sooner the better our race is run, 
 A pity sometimes that it ever begun. 
 
 A pity it would be for us indeed, 
 
 If we had in this way long to proceed. 
 So you see we have had no time to go to the polls, 
 
 No right, if there, to vote for souls ; 
 That would spoil politics, 
 
 And all her game tricks. 
 
 It would play smash, 
 
 And bring out the cash, 
 To support our schools; 
 
 Which is used for bribery and buying of votes, 
 To elect outlaws and supporting of bloats, 
 
 Who ought to be in the pen with the shotes. 
 
 Now when we women get in power we will renovate, 
 
 Reform, resolve to make everything over and have it straight, 
 
 Revolutionize such affairs of state. 
 
 And then begin to cultivate virtue and purity, 
 Until we would have some security, 
 
 For the young and innocent one. 
 This is the way things will be, 
 
 When we are all filled with spirituality. 
 
 Instead of shame and disgrace, 
 
 Filling every corner and space, 
 Where can be found a vacant place, 
 
 Which all know is a disgrace, 
 To any country or civilized race. 
 
 Now, brethren, don t be pulled about, 
 
 For God in his wrath will find you out, 
 Like he did Jonah, who ran away, 
 
 When sent to preach to the Ninivites that day. 
 But persisted to disobey, 
 And went where a great fish caught him and kept him at bay, 
 
 Until he repented and there did pray, 
 Saying, "Yes, gracious Lord, I will go back, 
 
 And take the right track, 
 And do as you say." 
 
Now it may not be the same kind of a fish will swallow you, 
 
 Because you are not true ; 
 
 It may be a baboon who runs in your city, your fine furnished 
 Saloon, 
 
 Which you have helped to furnish, 
 By neglecting and impoverishing your own home. 
 
 How blessed you would be to learn to do 
 
 As the Golden Rule has instructed you. 
 To love your own, 
 
 And care for your home, 
 Is the rule laid down for you. 
 
 It is the vote that tells the character of a man, 
 
 That speaks and counts more than anything else can. 
 
 What he says blows away, 
 What he does is going to stay, 
 
 And count at the great judgment day, 
 
 If right ; if not, it will be too late to pray. 
 
 So we had better act as well as pray, 
 
 In a consistent common sense kind of way, 
 So the people will have some faith in us after the coming elec 
 tion day. 
 
 The scriptures tell us that no drunkard can enter the king 
 dom of Heaven. 
 Then what of those who sell the criminal stuff, 
 
 Or those who give the right away, 
 To do his neighbor wrong from day to day ? 
 
 Crushing and degrading, destroying and imprisoning, de 
 ranging and impoverishing humanity so terribly that it cannot 
 be described for its misery, torture and grief. 
 
 Now we should be children of God s heritage, heirs to his 
 kingdom, living so his holy spirit would dwell in our hearts, 
 which then would guide us into the light and truth of the 
 Gospel and teach us better things than to devour one another 
 for ill-gotten gain, profiting no one and only proving a curse 
 in the end. 
 
 How can any man be a member of civilization and go to bed 
 and rest under such appalling conditions? Can he be made in 
 God s image and not have eyes to see his surroundings nor ears 
 to hear the cry of the wives, mothers and starving children 
 all over this beautiful land which would be like the garden of 
 Eden were it not for this blackest of iniquities? 
 
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Look at the millions of women and children in thousands 
 of factories worked beyond all reason till strength is exhausted 
 and they are complete wrecks. What is the cause? The rum 
 traffic. 
 
 When men spend their money at the saloon women and 
 children must earn the living for themselves and often also for 
 the father who has been enticed into the trap laid to catch 
 weak-minded men who are not wise enough to understand the 
 game. Who is going to be responsible at the day of judgment? 
 Do you believe those in power will be excused and go unpun 
 ished ? O cannot you see where we stand ? Are you still going 
 to suffer this state of things to continue and still give the mon 
 ster of iniquity the right of way ? 
 
 God told his chosen people way back in ancient time that 
 to make a league with heathen was a forbidden crime and if 
 they did they should be their servants all the rest of their life 
 time. True they found it so by sad experience, then as we do 
 surely know that we shall always reap the very things we sow. 
 
 The precious Christ said, "Let your light so shine before 
 men that they, seeing your good works, may glorify the Father 
 Who is in Heaven. He, the Holy One, whose word cannot fail 
 said, "I will reward everyone according to his works." He 
 said to deal justly, love mercy and to walk righteously and 
 humbly before him that it may be well with you. Then ye shall 
 go in and possess the good land which the Lord thy God hath 
 prepared for those who obey. He said, "Ye are mine if ye do 
 whatsoever I command you." Also, "He that knoweth his 
 Lord s will and doeth it not shall be beaten with many stripes," 
 and again he said, "Where can wisdom be found, and where 
 is the place of understanding." Man knoweth not the price 
 thereof. The value of knowledge is, to know God s will, and 
 wisdom is to do it. 
 
 The mystery of unspeakable value is to love the Lord thy 
 God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength, and thy neigh 
 bor enough to rescue him from a felon s cell. He was put there 
 by our giving the right to the real perpetrator to put him in the 
 condition to commit the evil deed. For this every voter who 
 has tolerated the open hell for weak humanity to be trapped in 
 must some day pay the debt for the suffering, injustice and 
 heartless cruelty caused. 
 
 Suppose it was your son who had been coaxed into the snare 
 and then had to pay the penalty of an unjust law ; a law made 
 only for the poor and weak who, unconscious of the danger 
 until it is too late, are like the silly fly caught in the spider s 
 web. 
 
you poor blind creatures, to whom God has offered heaven 
 if you would put away evil, are going to have to stand before 
 God and render an account for mercies abused. 
 
 Religion what treasures untold reside in that heavenly 
 word ; more precious than a world full of gold or all that this 
 earth can afford, for we must all leave these temporal things 
 and give an account for how we have used them. These bless 
 ings are only loaned to us. We cannot take them with us. We 
 can only take character after all the dross is taken out of the 
 gold and made fit for the refiner. 
 
 MRS. DANIEL L. GRAHAM. 
 
 JOHN BARLEYCORN 
 By Berton Braley 
 
 He s just around the corner, he s just across the street; his 
 voice is warm and comradely, his words are soft and sweet. 
 He poses as ADVENTURE, all debonair and brave, though all 
 the deeds of Barleycorn lead only to the grave ! 
 
 He comes to you with laughter, 
 
 He comes to you with song-, 
 With soothing lies to trick the weak 
 
 And glamor for the strong, 
 Along the road that you must tread 
 
 Wherever you may fare, 
 At every turn or resting place 
 
 John Barleycorn is there ! 
 
 He masquerades as valor, he swaggers as Romance, and 
 down the road of broken hopes he leads the merry dance. His 
 eyes are red and gloating, there s poison on his breath, for call 
 him any name you will, JOHN BARLEYCORN IS DEATH ! 
 (With acknowledgments to Jack London) San Diego Sun. 
 
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A SALOON SPORT. 
 
 There is a monster in our town who thinks he is wondrous wise, 
 He is making love wherever he can with his corrupt and evil 
 eyes. 
 
 It matters not how old or young the maid he chance to meet. 
 Widow, wife or anyone he ll win her heart complete, 
 
 If he is only sure her mind is weak. 
 
 But he is very careful what to say, 
 
 When pious people are in the way. 
 With artless intrigue and effect, 
 
 He can deceive the very elect. 
 But time is God s and will bring to light 
 
 The hidden secret of the right. 
 
 Now what can be done to check this w y retch and rescue girls 
 
 so young, 
 From the jaws of vice and shame and sin to which he leads 
 
 them on, 
 Corrupting their pure minds at will and none to plead their 
 
 cause ? 
 What can be done to rectify and execute our laws? 
 
 This chief of sinners talks so loud about the hipocrite 
 
 Who will cheat and lie and then deny when he the shoe 
 
 will fit. 
 He never learned the lesson our S vior taught and gave 
 
 When he said get the beam from your own eye and your 
 
 brother you can save. 
 Instead of making him as low as yourself, you wretched sot, 
 
 Go lift him up and help him on to do the thing he ought, 
 By walking in the light yourself and showing him the way. 
 
 That leads to peace eternal, the life of endless day. 
 
 He never had the common sense allotted unto man 
 
 But always craved some wickedness to carry on his plan. 
 His broken-hearted wife still lives, a witness to his shame, 
 
 And wonders how a man can give his life to curse his name. 
 Her grief while here can not be told from sorrow s crushing 
 
 sting, 
 
 Which fills her life with pain and strife and leaves no peace 
 within. 
 
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He hates her like a rattlesnake, 
 
 Hates the sight her presence makes, 
 A thin and haggard wreck is she, 
 
 Dragged down by wrong and misery. 
 
 Her life has, been a living death, 
 
 Her food is sorrow and distress. 
 Year after year it wore away, 
 
 Which showed the sorrow s deep decay, 
 Upon her pallid cheek which once was rosy as the bloom 
 
 Of Eden s flowers of rich perfume; 
 But alas, alas, how very soon 
 
 That flower did decay and dropt its leaves no more to bloom, 
 While here on earth to stay. 
 
 Yes, see her now, that haggard form, 
 
 Which once was blithe and gay. 
 But stinging wrongs untold, 
 
 Which did unfold 
 To her each night and day, 
 
 And brought such grief, 
 With no relief, 
 
 Which wore her life away. 
 
 That wife, so tender, kind and pure, 
 
 Has tried these troubles to endure, 
 Until she found there was no cure ; 
 
 For nothing on this earthly sod, 
 Except the heavy chastening rod, 
 
 At the hand of the Almighty God, 
 Can check his wild career. 
 He has grown old in sin and crime, 
 
 Yet still pursues his course, 
 He loves it better than the crown 
 
 That s purchased by the cross. 
 His head and hands so full of sin, 
 
 His heart so full of dross, 
 He cares not for the cross or crown, 
 
 Or any other loss, 
 If he can only have his way, 
 
 In this dark world of sin, 
 And grovel in its dark decoy, 
 
 With all he hopes to win. 
 
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He has many brothers just the same. 
 
 Running round and hunting game, 
 Which they will drag to endless shame, 
 
 If not arrested soon. 
 They all seem trying hard to see 
 
 Who will win their master s seat, 
 Dethrone him here, 
 
 And make it clear, 
 That his is sure defeat; 
 
 For when they are around, 
 He must leave the ground, 
 
 And take his place beneath ; 
 For they each seem heir, 
 
 And bound to share 
 Old Satan s crown and seat, 
 
 For their lives are full of darkest deeds, 
 And black with dire deceit. 
 
 They should have learned the lesson a sailor once received. 
 
 Who was giving his hard earnings a bad one to relieve. 
 He said she loved him dearly, 
 
 A fool, he proved to be, 
 When a friend of his showed clearly 
 
 The light he could not see, 
 And said, "She is only robbing you, a wretch of low degree." 
 
 "Go prove," he said, "her faith to you by testing her strong 
 
 love, 
 And you will very quickly see that she is not your turtle dove." 
 
 "Now go to her in rags," said he, 
 
 "Tell her you have been wrecked at sea, 
 And need her deepest sympathy, 
 
 Then you will see how kind she ll be." 
 
 And so he went a test to make, 
 
 Upon his love which made him shake, 
 And made his wicked heart to quake, 
 
 When he received the summons strong, 
 "Begone, you dirty dog, begone. 
 
 You re nothing but a brute," said she, 
 To come in such a plight to me." 
 
 "Now go," he said, "and test your wife, 
 
 Tell her the troubles of your life. 
 Tell her you have been wrecked at sea, 
 
 Have nothing left but misery. 
 
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Then you will hear her quick reply, 
 
 Come to my arms, you darling boy. 
 You are spared, that s quite enough for me, 
 
 To know that God did rescue you from sea. 
 Nor will I murmur at the loss 
 
 Of finance trials, nor any cross, 
 Since God in goodness spared to me 
 
 My darling one from the deep sea . 
 
 Now the world is full of just such shame, 
 
 For which, I fear, we are much to blame. 
 We favor men that are black with crime, 
 
 But women we shun, 
 For the wrong that they have done. 
 
 Composed by Mrs. Daniel L. Graham, instructed by the 
 divine guiding power of the sacred spirit. 
 
 THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. 
 
 Father c x f mercies ! in Thy Word 
 What endless glo^ shines ! 
 
 Forever be Thy name adored 
 For these celestial lines. 
 
 Here the Redeemer s welcome voice 
 Spreads heavenly peace around ; 
 
 And life and everlasting joys 
 Attend the blissful sound. 
 
 Oh, may these heavenly pages be 
 
 My ever dear delight; 
 And still new beauties may I see, 
 
 And still increasing light. 
 
 Divine Instructor, gracious Lord, 
 
 Be Thou forever near; 
 Teach me to love Thy sacred word, 
 
 And view my Savior there. 
 
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A QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED. 
 
 Say, cannot we all see the marvelous changes and vast im 
 provement in every way since so many have accepted the true 
 light of the Gospel and are shedding it far and wide? Look at 
 the advantages we have above the dark ages when people w r ere 
 not allowed to study the sacred volumes and, sad to say, some 
 today are not allowed this blessed liberty, therefore do not 
 advance but remain the same as in the beginning. But in this 
 age we must advance or go backward. We cannot stand on 
 a narrow belief but must advance, must seek for spiritual light 
 as for hidden treasures, must seek deep, for valuable things 
 are not found on top of the ground. Jewels, precious stones, 
 and gold and diamonds are not found without great search. 
 We cannot advance and live like monks and accomplish any 
 thing worth while. 
 
 When progression ceases, I mean spiritual progression, then 
 it is time to dig our own graves and toll the death knell, for 
 God is done with us poor blind pensioners. The precious God 
 pity any people who cannot see these truths and make them 
 wiser and nobler and more useful. We are put here to seek 
 light through the inspired word of God, then to use it in God s 
 service, as our Lord has taught, for high aims and noble pur 
 poses. Then go home and enjoy the interest in that peaceful 
 habitation of rest and joy unspeakable and full of glory. 
 
 How can we feed on the bread of life, which is the word of 
 God, which is the food to the soul, except we read reverently? 
 Then how beautifully it unfolds the true light to every sincere 
 worshiper. Study God s word with a zeal and you will soon 
 be zealous of his cause and the sacred inspirations given to win 
 us to live righteous lives. Then the partition walls of prejudice 
 will begin to crumble and your faith, strengthening in love to 
 God and the human race, created in His likeness, to be heirs of 
 His Kingdom redeemed by the cost of his pure life. What 
 excuse can anyone make for neglect under such circumstances? 
 What excuse for not accepting His terms, complying with his 
 conditions instead of getting up some hobby to ride to destruc 
 tion? Can anyone who has reason not grasp these truths so 
 profitable, so plain? 
 
 Now anyone who has been teaching the people error or 
 erroneous doctrine and leading them away from God s sacred 
 word, deluding and deceiving without thinking of their own 
 loss of Salvation, would be wise to consider whether that is a 
 profitable course to take or not. What will it count you in the 
 end? don t tamper with God s golden hours. They are only 
 loaned to you for a short time to prepare for eternity. Re 
 
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careful, then, lest you grieve away the divine spirit and sin 
 away your day of grace and, when weighed in the balance, 
 will be found wanting. What will you do then, when it is too 
 late, to right these wrongs? 
 
 Do you think anyone else can work out your salvation for 
 you and you continue in sin? Paul, our greatest evangelist, 
 said, "God forbid." Then he said, "Can we continue in sin 
 that Grace may abound! God forbid. But that we should 
 put it away and run with patience the race set before us, look 
 ing unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who en 
 dured the cross and bore the shame that we might be re 
 claimed." 
 
 Why is not God s cause first in our hearts to Avill and to do 
 his good pleasure, which would in time bring us the fruits of 
 our labor, terminate in our own glory and happiness a million 
 times multiplied? This is the teachings of Him who spake as 
 never man spake. O the depths of His goodness and mercy 
 which is past finding out. It is blindness to neglect the greater 
 duties for the lesser, neglect the spiritual for the temporal 
 which may not last a day. 
 
 If we could realize how our little petty faults hinder the 
 growth of the good seed sown in the heart, we certainly would 
 try hard to get rid of the pesky, little, ruinous habits, that we 
 so often cherish and nourish, such as envy, conceit, which go 
 hand in hand and work harmoniously together. But what will 
 be the result? Loss of influence, loss of trust, loss of God s 
 guidance, which is the saddest loss. When we get the big head 
 and want to be most popular, receiving the highest praise or 
 position from men and try to put others down, thinking to 
 elevate ourselves, then is when we, like Haman, are liable to 
 be brought low, for Christ said, "He that exalteth himself shall 
 be abased, but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." 
 
 These should be profitable warnings to all, written for our 
 admonition, written from the sublime word of God which is 
 able to save to the uttermost all who will come unto Him. 
 
 A few lines more and I must close, but must first say, we 
 surely are on the verge of despair. We through our neglect 
 have certainly brought ourselves to an awful crisis, and it is 
 high time the problem of cause and effect should be the essen 
 tial theme of our lives. It is effort that leads to fame or to 
 the most appalling despair. We must get down to the dregs, 
 analyze and take away the poison venom that has so crept in 
 unawares, like a deadly disease, and now we want to cry unto 
 God to give us wisdom sufficient for the task. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
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KEEP THE GOLDEN RULE. 
 
 If we would only keep the Golden Rule what a power we 
 would be. Then we would be improving God s golden hours 
 which he has loaned to us to build for eternity. 
 
 Paul, the greatest evangelist that was ever chosen of God 
 to warn all to repent, put away sin, and take on the higher 
 life that it might be well with us in eternity, he said he dare 
 not neglect to do the whole council of God lest he himself be 
 come a castaway. Then what about the rest of us? Have we 
 nothing to do but live from the bountiful blessings of God and 
 return no service, no gratitude, nothing to recompense for so 
 many multiplied innumerable favors too great to comprehend ? 
 It is appointed unto man once to die. Then after death the 
 judgment. 
 
 When wickedness is exterminated then righteousness will 
 flourish and cover the earth as the waters cover the deep. 
 
 God moves in a mysterious way, 
 
 His wonders to perform ; 
 He plants His footsteps on the sea, 
 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 His purposes will ripen fast. 
 
 Unfolding every hour; 
 The bud may have a bitter taste, 
 
 But sweet will be the flower. 
 
 Let us all learn to be loyal, keeping the Golden Rule in prac 
 tice every day. Then strife will cease and harmony will prevail, 
 selfishness and envy and all evil speaking be put away. 
 
 Get the love of God so established that you will turn a deaf 
 ear to all kinds of gossip, which has always been such a hin 
 drance to the progress of Christian work. No true Christian 
 will slander his or her neighbor, but will go to them and show 
 them their fault and by this their souls may be won. 
 
 Once a minister went into a gossiping neighborhood \vhere 
 he saw at once that nothing could be done to win souls for 
 Christ until this evil was removed. So he determined to root 
 it out. The first evil story that was brought to him he said, 
 "We will go to the accused party and talk the matter over 
 with them and show them how they should live;" but the ac 
 cusers refused to go and face what they had said. So the min 
 ister knew who was the guilty one. 
 
 Not long after he had another similar case which he treated 
 
in the same way and he kept this up until the strife had ceased. 
 He continued to give them their medicine until the disease 
 was cured. 
 
 Such cruel sin does really become a loathsome disease 
 for which there is but one remedy and that is conversion. To 
 be born of the Holy Spirit of God, which is putting off all the 
 old natural sins and putting on the new life, renewed and 
 cleaned by regeneration, to be born of water and of the Holy 
 Spirit. Repent and be baptised, every one of you, for the 
 remission of sins. Then ye shall receive the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Water is the emblem of purity, the proof that we have come 
 out of the world, separated ourselves by baptism and taken 
 on the new life prepared for the master s work which counts 
 more than all other work as much more as eternity is longer 
 than time. There is nothing lost that is done for God. So let 
 us work with a zeal, w r ith an eye single to God s glory. He 
 said that all things must work together for good to them that 
 love God, and that not one jot or tittle shall fail from the law 
 until all be fulfilled. So let us be up and doing. By and 
 by will be the harvest where we shall reap, if we faint not, 
 when our labor is ended. Then we shall go to one of those 
 mansions which our dear Lord spoke of to his disciples. So, 
 
 Be wise today, tis madness to defer, 
 Next day may come the fatal blow 
 That ends life s pleasures here below. 
 
 But what if not prepared to meet thy destiny? Where 
 wilt thou go? What wilt thou do to end thy woe in vast 
 eternity? What wilt thou do to mend thy wretched state if 
 thou hast failed below to make thy peace with him who led 
 the way to victory the Holy One who left his throne and laid 
 his robes aside that we might taste his joy and be transformed, 
 cleansed and made new creatures, fit for his Holy Spirit to 
 dwell in, prepared for the master s use that we might be par 
 takers of His Holiness? 
 
 Did you ever consider what it cost the Father and the Son 
 of Immortality to redeem our souls, man s only prize onto 
 which he can hold? All else must perish, must vanish and 
 disappear like frost before the sun. What then will we have 
 left? It will be then that we will realize that eternity was 
 worth looking after. Is time granted to us only to please our 
 fancy or to lay in rich treasures for the eternal harvest ? What 
 think you? Have we nothing to do but to eat and drink and 
 spend our days as a tale that is told, receiving all these bless- 
 
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ings from God s bountiful storehouse and returning no grati 
 tude, no service, but accept it like swine, and then trample 
 all His sacred warnings under our feet and go on in sin like 
 the ox to the slaughter, heeding nothing to which we can 
 cling? Is this wise or intellectual or prudent? 
 
 If we continue at this rate, 
 
 What, then and there, will be our fate, 
 When we have found it is too late, 
 
 To make amends for wasted time? 
 This inconsistent, shameful way, 
 
 We have of doing things today. 
 Is madness to endure, 
 
 And live like those in blindness, 
 
 And say there is no cure. 
 
 Are we so stupid we can t grasp the meaning of the times? 
 That which shows the danger of God s wrath upon us like the 
 Niniviter, \vhen Jonah was sent to warn them against their 
 practical wickedness. But they were wiser than we for they 
 took the warning and fasted and prayed for mercy. God for 
 gave them at that time and spared their city, but, later on, 
 they rebelled and went into idolatry, and were overthrown. 
 This is what I fear, for God will not always strive with man. 
 and with us as a nation. We have no excuse for we have been 
 favored of God above other nations and still there are thou 
 sands who have not accepted the Gospel as their guide ; this is 
 why we have so much sin and contention. For example, we 
 will take the prisoners. They claim that if they had been 
 taught the word of God, as written in his sublime volume and 
 taught in Christian homes, that they would never have gone to 
 a felon s cell. Only think of the excruciating misery and woe 
 we have filling our land which ought to be like Paradise for 
 purity. And 0, how the awful sadness of neglect brings about 
 the saddest results. 
 
 And you, brother Catholics, your prisoners as well as ours 
 claim the same thing. Now why withhold the sacred, sublime 
 Word from your people which they need so much, just as much 
 as we need daily food, for this is the only food we have for the 
 soul. May God help us to see these truths and improve them 
 while we may, for time is fleeting and won t wait for us to play 
 away golden opportunities. 
 
 Remember the saloon is another tragic traffic that sends 
 thousands to our prisons, while the very ones who ought to be 
 there go free. Things are in a terrible condition today Thou 
 sands on account of them are going without bread while these 
 
monsters of iniquity are often overfed, while by their cursed 
 traffic our darlings are often led into felon s cells, and we fold 
 our hands reconciled to their fate. I fear we will cry when it 
 is too late. What kind of an eternity can we hope for and let 
 things go on at this rate? What can be our fate? We act as 
 though these were trifling matters so long as the saloon pays 
 our school tax, and we save that much in dollars and cents, it 
 doesn t matter how many thousand mothers sons are bound in 
 a felon s cell. That doesn t matter so long as it pays our school 
 tax to educate what s left. It will cost less and the license 
 won t need be quite so high and they won t have to drug quite 
 so much or else make more profit and put less salt in their 
 crackers. 
 
 Say, clear Christians, do you know that those dens are open 
 at five o clock or earlier, and the first slave to drink that goes 
 there in the morning gets his drink free? This is done to get 
 the last dime from the poor maniac before he goes to work. 
 In this way they form his appetite for the day and often for 
 life, keeping his head full of evil, his pocket empty. 
 
 Now, dear voters, how would you like your son treated in 
 this way until helpless and drove to steal for a living, then 
 murder in a fit of drunkenness and have to go to a felon s cell, 
 and the perpetrators of all vice and crime go free to continue 
 his cursed business in pomp and grandeur, having the best of 
 the land as his reward here. But what of the hereafter? Can 
 any one know these things and believe there is no future pun 
 ishment? Not and believe there is a God who has required 
 His subjects to clean up the ground that the righteous seed may 
 have a chance to take root and bring forth fruit to the honor 
 and glory of God and salvation to men. 
 
 How can we go to sleep at night and know the truth of such 
 a state of appalling, despairing tragedy ? We ought to rise like 
 an army in defence of our boys, our country, our rights, which 
 are trampled under foot, and relieve our captives made so by 
 drink. This crime has caused much sorrow in this beautiful 
 country, which cost our forefathers their lives to make us free 
 from oppression. If our prisons were thrown open and work 
 furnished their inmates I don t believe they would do us half 
 the harm that the whiskey traffic is doing. There is nothing 
 surer than that we are bringing dire doom upon our nation by 
 this blackest of all vices, which proves our weakness. 
 
 If we would read history, we would know that the rise and 
 fall of nations came from holding on to or letting go of God. 
 Read the rise and fall of nations in ancient times, and you will 
 be fully convinced that we have everything to do with the 
 
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Holy Hand of God. We can mwve God either to love or wrath. 
 He is a tender, loving father when we obey but we can turn 
 him away and bring his judgment upon our temporal affairs 
 as well as our spiritual. Read the word of God and you will 
 get light on these truths. Read how God brought down the 
 mighty in sin by his Almighty power ruling in this world, 
 Whom we should all fear to offend or disobey. I think if we 
 all. as rational beings, would bow the knee in submission to 
 his required will and not be trying to excuse our negligence, 
 but spring to the front saying like Isaiah, Here am I. Take 
 me, Lord, and handle me for Thy glory." If we knew the 
 joys laid up in heaven, for such who are waiting to be sent of 
 God into his great field of labor, we would be up and doing 
 everything we could to down crime and exalt righteousness, for 
 the harvest is great but the laborers few. 
 
 Now may the good Lord help us to see the great need of 
 true workers that will grasp every opportunity to snatch souls 
 from the jaws of the oppressor. How appalling to behold the 
 situation. Saloons everywhere as though we had to have them. 
 What for? Do they make people Godly? Are they of a refin 
 ing advantage? Who do they benefit? Are they an honor to 
 society, a blessing to Christianity? Do they fit anybody for 
 heaven? If not, then what are they for and w T ho placed them 
 among us, and for how long? What a condition. The inferior 
 ruling over the superior with a high hand and nobody able to 
 strike off the shackles and say, "By the grace of God we will 
 have freedom, Christian freedom, and will no longer be slaves 
 to this enormous crime, but prove to the world our talent, our 
 culture, our heroic character and power, and will no lonsrer 
 bear the yoke of tyranny and submit like helpless slaves." 
 
 What can other nations say for us, boasting of our advan 
 tages, which are so superior in many respects to other nations, 
 and for which we owe so much reverence and praise to our 
 Great Creator for so many special favors? Then to allow our 
 country to be polluted, contaminated and flooded with the 
 blackest crimes, until I fear we shall bring the judgment of 
 God upon our country for our sin of omission. Since we will 
 not obey His sacred requirements He has to chastise us with 
 the rod, and will, until He takes out of us by affliction, sorrow 
 and disappointment, for we must pay the penaltv for disobedi 
 ence or receive our dues on the other shore of vast eternity, 
 for no unclean thing can enter heaven. 
 
 If we were w r ise enough to search the Scriptures, we would 
 understand how much more interest we would get out of our 
 earthly possessions if we invested in spiritual work, evangel- 
 
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izing the world, building up of Christ s Kingdom in the hearts 
 of the people, instead of investing so much in the things we 
 must so soon leave to give an account of how we have used or 
 abused our opportunities. 
 
 Paul, the greatest evangelist ever chosen of God to warn all 
 to repent, put away everything that would hinder the progress 
 of true and undefiled religion, take on the higher life that 
 leads to peace and life everlasting. He said he dare not neglect 
 to do the whole council of God lest he himself become a cast 
 away. Now we have the proof that Christ communed with him 
 at various times, giving him encouragement each time to press 
 right on ; that nothing else was of such vast importance and 
 that he should receive the glory awaiting him. So he got so 
 exultant over the work left to him that he cared nothing for 
 persecution, for he said, "It will bring me a far more exceeding 
 and eternal weight of glory beyond this world of suffering 
 and wrong." Now if Paul had a work like this to do what 
 about the rest of us? Have we only to enjoy God s bountiful 
 blessings and return no thanks, no service? Is there nothing 
 for us to recompense ? The sacred scriptures say it is appointed 
 unto men once to die, then after death the judgment. Then 
 is it not important to search God s Holy Word, to know his 
 requirements and do them? For they are the only light to 
 life eternal. It will take fortitude with God at the head to 
 lead on to victory. Like King David when he went out to 
 defeat the Philistines, first taking their leaders. That is just 
 what we, as intelligent Christians, must do or we can never 
 change the course of things. The enemy has got the inside 
 track and they work while we sleep, when we should be up and 
 doing. 
 
 Now, dear, precious ones, get out and work for humanity, 
 for Christ s sake and your own souls sake don t cloak nor 
 sugar-coat crime any longer, but stand firm like men of God, 
 men of character, men who want to see purity reign and our 
 churches filled with holy men and women, raising children who 
 will make laws of justice and who will imprison the right one 
 if need be. I believe the day is dawning. I believe God has a 
 host who will stand to their post when they are convinced of 
 the error we are committing by remaining silent. So let us all 
 be loyal to our trust, keeping the Golden Rule before us with 
 the ten commandments, winding up with the apostles creed. 
 Then with a Halleluiah give glory to God in the highest, peace 
 on earth, and good will to men, closing with our precious Lord s 
 prayer, who has given us such marvelous light and inspiration 
 in his sublime word, which speaks with majestic power until 
 
angels rejoice and myriads wait for His Word. He speaks 
 and eternity is filled with his voice, re-echoes the praise of our 
 Lord, who has promised to be with you in your troubles and 
 sanctify to you your deepest distress, if you are true to your 
 trust. Now what more can He say to you than He hath said I 
 To you, who to Jesus for refuge have fled, he said : 
 
 Fear not, I am with thee, be not dismayed, 
 I am thy God and will still give thee aid. 
 
 I will strengthen thee, help thee and cause thee to stand, 
 Upheld by my own omnipotent hand. 
 
 When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, 
 My grace all sufficient shall be thy supply ; 
 
 The flame shall not hurt thee, I only design 
 Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine. 
 
 The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose, 
 I will never, no never, desert to his foes. 
 
 Savior, visit thy plantation, 
 
 Grant us, Lord, a gracious reign, 
 Or all will come to desolation, 
 
 Unless Thou return again. 
 
 Keep no longer at a distance, 
 
 Shine upon us from on high, 
 Lest for want of thine assistance, 
 
 Every plant will droop and die. 
 
 Once, Lord, thy garden flourished, 
 
 Every plant looked fresh and green, 
 Then Thy word our spirits cherished, 
 
 Happy season have we seen. 
 
 But a drought has since succeeded, 
 
 And a sad decline we see ; 
 Help, Lord, is greatly needed, 
 
 Help can only come from Thee. 
 
 Let our mutual love be fervent, 
 
 Make us prevalent in prayer, 
 Let each one esteem the other, 
 
 Shun the world s bewitching snare. 
 
 Break the tempter s fatal power, 
 Turn the stony heart to flesh, 
 And begin from this sad hour 
 To revive Thy work afresh. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
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THE SALOON INFLUENCE AT THE BOTTOM OF 
 ALMOST EVERY CRIME. 
 
 The more I think of this evil of all evils, the more desperate 
 I become and the less patience I have to bear with the instiga 
 tors, perpetrators, traitors to all that is pure and right in the 
 sight of a Holy God. And I want to say right here, that all 
 women who dare vote for a murder den like the saloon, ought 
 to be put where many a good mother s boy has been put on 
 account of the vice, of all vices the most deadly on the face 
 of the earth. 
 
 Who can describe the depths of its horrors the starving, 
 ragged, uncared for, innocent children, made in the image of 
 God, for God s divine spirit to dwell in, yet tortured, degraded, 
 demoralized instead of Christianized, and we not accountable? 
 Are we insane, blind, deaf, demoralized so that we cannot com 
 prehend the situation? What does the world at large say of us? 
 
 It is true we have been highly favored of God, as a nation, 
 but so were the Jews, at one time. But now are they not scat 
 tered like lost sheep for rebelling, for profaning God s sanctu 
 ary, violating His holy laws? And, just like them, we shall 
 reap as we have sown and pay the penalty of suffering, starved 
 humanity, caused by this awful traffic, set up to rob and ruin, 
 and separate man from God, separate men from their wives, 
 fill orphans homes with half-fed children, fill the asylums with 
 abused women. 0, God only knows the depths of its indescrib 
 able misery and woe. 
 
 Don t think, dear voters, that you are going to sail into 
 heaven over a land like this filled with crime, which God put 
 you here to remove. Now think of these things before it is too 
 late, for as sure as you live you will meet your fate, which 
 will be according to your works. Your record will not be 
 according to your appearance. That is not the way God keeps 
 record. So beware lest you deceive yourself and, when weighed 
 in the balance, will be found wanting. 
 
 Vain man, thy fond pursuit forbear, 
 
 Repent, thy end is nigh. 
 Death, at the farthest, can t be far, 
 
 O, think before thou die. 
 Reflect, thou hast a soul to save, 
 
 Thy sins, how high they mount; 
 He, the holy One, calls thee hence, 
 
 How stands that dread account? 
 
What is the matter with trie people? Cannot you see how 
 much richer and grander this glorious country of ours would 
 be if we would wipe out these curses that crush so many mul 
 tiplied thousands of homes, leaving them destitute, and hun 
 dreds of thousands in State prisons who might be caring for 
 their families were it not for these traps, which are set only 
 as robber dens to tempt the appetite of the weak, while their 
 wives at home many of them doing washing and raising 
 babies on a mere starvation mite they can make and pay the 
 rent. Is this a proof of intellect or of sympathy? Pity the 
 man or woman that can t weigh such matters and judge accord 
 ingly. It looks to me like apes ought to know more than we 
 seem to know in many respects. 
 
 It is really a matter that has puzzled all intelligent human 
 ity, that we allow these terrors to go on from generation to 
 generation, a detriment to all morality, hindering the spread 
 of righteousness, for right living means righteousness. We are 
 encouraging the very thing that hinders the spread of the 
 Gospel and allow men to rule over us who are so inferior that 
 we would not be seen with them anywhere, and yet w r e, with 
 all our advantages, are no better or we would not be their 
 supporters. Shame on the man that has not got principle 
 enough to stand by the right and resist the foe. We would be 
 very brave if some other nation were to come and try to usurp 
 our government, but they can usurp our boys by the million, 
 and no account is taken of that. 
 
 The saloon traffic is like an army with sword in hand that 
 smites all who come in contact with it. You say, pay us the 
 price and you have the right of way ; you can slay all who 
 come under your influence. They are like lariated vipers, 
 given all the rope they want to reach to the extent of their 
 ability, a pretended checkrein, that only checks when some 
 thing very serious has happened. 
 
 Now, brethren, don t allow them to blindfold you any 
 longer, but arouse to your spiritual interests, as well as tem 
 poral, and count the cost. How much does it cost to run the 
 police force of the United States? What does it cost to run 
 our courts, pay lawyers to cover crime, pay for keeping all 
 the paupers and criminal houses of different branches? One- 
 tenth of these buildings would be sufficient to supply the 
 demand were it not for the rum curse. 
 
 Can we, w T ho claim to have the light of God s spirit shining 
 in our hearts, tolerate or vote for these conditions? Can we 
 fold our arms and let the rattlesnake charm, entice, coax and 
 
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persuade those whose minds are weak and appetite strong, 
 just to get their last dime, then send them home to an empty 
 cupboard, half clothed, half starved children, and a wife wasted 
 to a skeleton for the want of home comforts ? There is no mind 
 that can picture the terror of such homes. Are we going to 
 let this power rule, or are we going to strike off the shackles 
 that bind men like fetters of iron to the stake, to become mar 
 tyrs to the last endurance ? 
 
 I see but one way this- monster of tyranny can be success 
 fully handled, and that is to handle it as the coinage is handled. 
 There should be but one brewery in the United States and only 
 enough intoxicants made to fill the demand for medical pur 
 poses. This could be done if those we place at the head of 
 government would work for it as they work for partyism. 
 If every voter knew his own interests they would soon exter 
 minate the murder dens. 
 
 So be wise today, tis madness to defer. Next day may 
 come the fatal blow that ends all chance to right these neg 
 lected wrongs or neglected rights. We may not have much 
 more to time to play away, for it is allotted unto man once to 
 die, then, after death, the judgment. We can escape duty, but 
 not judgment. We are commanded to look after our brother s 
 welfare, do as we are done by and so fulfill the law of Christ, 
 for he said, "Not one jot or tittle shall fail from the law until 
 all is fulfilled." 
 
 So let us get off the fence and go to doing something that 
 will count in judgment as well as here, or our efforts to spread 
 the Gospel will be in vain, our labors fruitless. It will be like 
 sowing good seed among thorns, where the ground has not been 
 cleared off nor broken up. You know in order to have a garden 
 we must get the ground clean and the soil ready and then 
 keep down the weeds. Then nourish and protect it from 
 damage, giving it the proper elements, which, in comparison 
 to the spiritual work, must be love and attention out of a pure 
 heart. It must then bring forth good results, sixty and a 
 hundred fold to the glory of God and the salvation of many 
 souls. He has promised, if we would sow good seed and keep 
 do\vn the weeds, that He would water and bring forth the 
 increase. Then truth would spread like the yeast in tb** meal, 
 until all would be raised to a higher standard of living, of 
 usefulness, serving God as stewards. Then we would all have 
 an influence worth while and the world would soon be evangel 
 ized. We are said to be God s offspring and should be profit 
 able servants, shining as gems, chosen as God s elect and pre- 
 
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r 
 
 eious. He said we should be the salt of the earth ; but if the 
 salt has lost its saving power it is good for nothing but to be 
 trampled under foot of man. 
 
 We could have things our own way if we were true to God s 
 call. Then we could accomplish that whereunto we are sent. 
 Then we do know that we would walk the golden streets of 
 the New Jerusalem and be worthy to sit down with the chosen 
 of God. But we cannot have any hope of nor claim on a happy 
 home on the other side and allow this condition of things to 
 continue. God help and pity ns all, for we know not what we 
 do. We ought to know that ye are making for ourselves a 
 dark future. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 THE PRODIGAL SON. 
 
 Brother, hast thou wandered far from thy Father s happy 
 
 home, 
 With thyself and God at war ? Turn thee, brother, homeward 
 
 come 
 
 Hast thou wasted all thy powers, God for nobler uses gave, 
 Squandered life s most golden hours? Turn thee, brother, God 
 can save. 
 
 Is a mighty famine now in thy heart and in thy soul, 
 Discontent upon thy brow? Turn thee, God will make thee 
 
 whole. 
 He can heal thy deepest wound, He thy humblest prayer will 
 
 hear, 
 Seek him while He may be found, call upon Him while He s 
 
 near. 
 
 Come now thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free 
 From our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee. 
 Israel s hope and consolation, hope of all our souls thou art, 
 Sacred desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart. 
 
 Born thy people to deliver, born a child and yet a king, 
 Born to reign in us forever, now thy precious kingdom bring. 
 Let thy own eternal spirit rule in all our hearts alone, 
 Be thine all sufficient merit, raise us to thy glorious throne. 
 
 Writer unknown. 
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LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 
 
 Dear ones, how I wish I could impress upon your minds 
 the importance of living a Christian life. God s word says, 
 work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Then 
 He says whatsoever we sow, we shall reap, if only to this tem 
 poral life, or to our earthly interests, or to the flesh, we shall 
 only reap corruption ; but if to the spirit, life everlasting. 
 
 What profiteth it us, if we could gain the riches of the 
 world? We cannot stay with them nor take them with us on 
 the other side where we must go to receive our reward, which 
 must be according to our works. We will not be judged there 
 as man judges, from outward appearances, but from the lives 
 we have lived. We all make our own eternity. God says work 
 out your own salvation through obedience to His sacred written 
 law. Then he says strive to enter in at the straight gate, for 
 many will strive and not be able. Why? Because they are 
 taking their own way instead of God s way; trying to go in 
 on their good moral deeds, which is only service to man. 
 
 Do we owe service or honor to man more than to God? 
 Morality is just like the dough before the yeast or leavening 
 is put into it. 1 say, morality alone, is just like the dough be 
 fore the leaven is put into it. We know it cannot be used. 
 Just so with the moral person. God cannot use them because 
 the spirit that raises us all to action, to a higher state of living, 
 is not there : consequently we cannot be used by the Great Mas 
 ter. But when we are converted, and have fulfilled all right 
 eousness, then we take on the spirit of God, have passed from 
 death unto life, born into the Kingdom of God s grace and 
 have become heirs to His promise. Who never said, seek ye my 
 face in vain, but did say that all things must work together for 
 good to them that love God. Then He said, "If ye love me, keep 
 my commandments. Why ? That it may be well with you. 
 Then ye shall go in and possess the good land which the Lord 
 thy God hath prepared for them that obey. 
 
 So remember, dear ones, that your heaven will be just what 
 you make it. Your harvest will be according to your sheave- 
 gathering. It makes no difference what the people are saying 
 about you. They may say you are a good fellow, but that 
 won t stand the test in judgment. God has made this great 
 world and filled it with every innumerable blessing, every con 
 ceivable thing that man can use, or convey into use. Then 
 given us such miraculous intellect, such a wonderful material 
 
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make up, so great that men can never conceive, nor compre 
 hend, nor fathom. We are a wonder to ourselves, a mysteriovis 
 wonder. And the more we try to look into the depths of His 
 Great Power the more we are confused and dumfounded, for 
 His wisdom is past finding out. So, since we cannot understand 
 His Great Power, let us be wise and accept his kind offer of 
 salvation, which cost him so great a sacrifice, proving His un 
 told love and mercy to an ungrateful, dying world of sinners. 
 
 Why not be glad to accept his terms and not try to get into 
 heaven with empty lamps, like the five virgins ? They had faith 
 but no works. The scripture says, believe on the Lord Jesus 
 and thou shalt be saved. Is just believing sufficient? Let us 
 see. Christ said "the devils believed and trembled." What 
 do we understand by this? They knew their time had come. 
 That Christ s coming would destroy their power. God has done 
 everything to destroy the power of sin and now leaves it with 
 us to make our choice. Shall we choose the road to peace and 
 joy or go down in despair, willfully, when such riches are 
 offered unto us? Eternal riches, which this world cannot give 
 nor take away. 
 
 God says He will not withhold any good thing from them 
 that walk uprightly. Then how can we accept so many bless 
 ings from the All-bountiful Giver and return nothing? How 
 can we abuse such mercies? How can we, as rational beings. 
 turn away from His pleading voice Who said, "all things must 
 work together for good to them that love God"? Hasn t He 
 done enough for us all to win our love and make us say like 
 Joshua, "Let others do as they will; as for me and my house, 
 we will serve the Lord ? We all owe our service to Him which 
 is very little compensation in return for the millions of favors 
 we are continually receiving from His bountiful hand, which 
 we should appreciate and return in obedience and service. Do 
 you ever think how the golden opportunities are slipping away ? 
 Time is fleeting, life is uncertain. We have no claims on that, 
 for time belongs to God and is only loaned to us to prepare to 
 meet him, so sacred and holy, and it is only through his mercy 
 we are spared from day to day. It is not because we are profit 
 able servants but because of His great love, and when we neg 
 lect to grasp these truths we cheat ourselves, for God said, "I 
 will not always strive with man." The day of grace will not 
 always hold out. You may have had the last opportunity to 
 turn your back on sacred duties. God said if we would live 
 worthy we should eat of the tree of life which stands in the 
 Paradise of God. Then He said we should also eat of the hidden 
 manna. Then He has offered us the bread of life and to drink 
 
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at the fountain head and have all of heaven that we can enjoy, 
 if we will heed his warning voice. Now is not this enough to 
 make us fall at His feet and say, "Yes, gracious Lord, I am not 
 worthy, but will obey and do the best I can, not through fear, 
 but through love, and say, "0, for a closer walk with God." 
 Everything else is presumption. 
 
 Dear Lord, pity us. We know not what we do when we sin 
 against Him and our own souls. So pray much and fast for 
 the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to be poured out upon the 
 people. 
 
 God helping us all to do our part and then He will come to 
 the rescue. May not our efforts return unto him void, but may 
 they accomplish that whereunto He has sent us. 
 
 Knowledge is to know the will of God and wisdom is to do 
 it with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 CHILD S PRAYER. 
 
 Jesus, tender Shepard, hear me; 
 
 Bless Thy little lamb tonight; 
 Through the darkness be Thou near me; 
 
 Keep me safe till morning light. 
 
 All this day Thy hand has led me, 
 And I thank The for Thy care ; 
 
 Thou hast warmed me, clothed and fed me ; 
 Listen to my evening prayer. 
 
 Let my sins be all forgiven; 
 
 Bless the friends I love so well : 
 Take us all at last to heaven, 
 
 Happy there with Thee to dwell. 
 
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MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT RHYME. 
 
 I had been requested to write a poem without any knowl 
 edge of what to take as a subject, so I decided to take the story 
 of Saul of Tarsus, his miraculous conversion, as we read it in 
 God s divine word. So I looked to God for guidance and this 
 is what He gave me : 
 
 I know nothing of Damascus, only, 
 
 That the Saints were gathered there, 
 Which speaks the highest praise 
 
 Of a city anywhere. 
 Paul, going to Damascus, 
 
 The Christians to molest, 
 For he was then a persecutor 
 
 Of grace and righteousness; 
 But Jesus met him on the way and said, 
 
 "Enough of this, dear Paul, 
 You stop right here, 
 While I make clear 
 
 The mystery to you all." 
 "Arise," said He, "and do not wait, 
 
 Make right your wrongs before it is too late, 
 Be up and doing while it is day, 
 
 For soon the time will pass away. 
 Now I will show you what to do, 
 
 Now go away and thus pursue 
 The work I ve left to you 
 
 Tis not a little you will find, 
 When you re restored, for you are blind. 
 
 Now hurry on and thus make haste, 
 Make up the time for years of waste, 
 And do the work you re fitted for 
 Instead of always making war 
 Upon the saints while here. 
 Go, prove to them and make it clear 
 That you re a chosen vessel here, 
 To bear the gospel truth the world around, 
 
 That you re transformed and must abound, 
 In greater work than any found, 
 And never to shrink, or shirk, 
 As long as time gives place for work." 
 
 This shall be my mission, thank my God for the light of 
 revelation through His inspiring word, so precious and sub 
 lime. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
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HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED THE COURSE OF JUSTICE 
 
 Fifty years ago, how we were crying freedom for the black 
 race and now we can close our eyes and have half a million of 
 our own race in bondage from the drink habit and another half 
 million locked in prisons, half fed and required to work beyond 
 their strength, not allowed to speak until their togue grows 
 to the roof of the mouth. Who cares, so long as it is not any 
 of their family? We don t allow the Indian to have rum lest 
 he make us trouble, but our own white slaves we can pound 
 over the head because they are not so strong and resentful as 
 the Indian ; not so capable of standing for their rights, and we 
 call this a Christian nation. 
 
 The good Lord pity us and teach us wisdom, light, reason 
 and morality for heaven s sake and our soul s sake and help us 
 to pray to know the will of God and do it before it is too late. 
 
 Every one who votes in favor of the saloon curse ought to 
 be in the state prison for just one year and fare as they do 
 who have been put there for years for committing crime when 
 drunk. If this could be brought about there would never be 
 another saloon opened up as long as the world stands. 
 
 God put us here to rale in righteousness, saying, "Go, evan 
 gelize all nations." This is His command, not to enslave them. 
 I am afraid we are unprofitable servants. We have rule and 
 authority and can have right or wrong prevail just as the rulers 
 wish. But what will it cost in the end should be the question 
 of every intellectual being. Who w T ill pay the cost in the end? 
 
 I hope the time is at hand when God will put His Holy Spirit 
 upon His people ; when there will be a mighty reform every 
 where; when men and women will cry out, "What shall we 
 do to be saved from the vengeance of God for the evils we 
 have hugged and nourished blindly?" My prayer is that God 
 will send us prophets like Daniel, Elijah, Jeremiah; men full 
 of good works like Cornelius; men who love to do the will of 
 God through reverence like Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Joseph, 
 Nehemiah. 
 
 How I wish men of great fortunes would have these books 
 printed by the million and put in every home as far as the 
 curse is found, that humanity may be lifted up and God hon 
 ored, exalted and glorified: Oh, what a heaven on earth we 
 could have then. Men praising the Holy God instead of blas 
 pheming that Holy Name. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
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AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEPEST AND ARISE FROM 
 THE DEAD AND CHRIST WILL GIVE THEE LIGHT 
 
 Dear friends, I pray you, take the word of God and make 
 it your guide, your light, your salvation for time and eternity. 
 Tt will reveal marvelous truths and will inspire you with new 
 zeal, lift you above temporal and unprofitable desires and tasks 
 which will count nothing in the future. It is the leading hand 
 that will lead you to a higher standard, above the little, petty 
 hindrances which so hinder the progress of the building of 
 Christ s Kingdom everywhere. 
 
 When we can see ourselves how helpless and insignificant 
 we are at best, then God can use us for His glory and not until 
 then are we sufficient for the work. We must be humbled, 
 brought down to see ourselves as nothing and Christ all in all. 
 When we will begin to hold up Christ to the world and talk 
 only of eternal things then something worth while will be done 
 and not until then will we accomplish that whereunto \ve are 
 sent. So let us show to the world that we have ability sufficient 
 for the task. We have the sweet assurance that Christ will be 
 with us when we strike the blow, with our vote, to down the 
 curse which has come down upon us like a death knell, shroud 
 ing our land with the appalling crime crime for which we are 
 responsible today. No wonder our cities are swept away with 
 tornadoes, floods and fire, when we will have more deathtraps 
 than churches. But churches count nothing unless the mem 
 bers are born of the spirit of God, which is to put off or put- 
 away all sin that hinders the spread and power of Christ s 
 teachings. To be a Christian means to be converted, to live a 
 pure, clean life. 
 
 No one is a Christian until he puts on a Christ-like life. 
 Neither can they have any hope of heaven until they are 
 cleansed from all unrighteousness. God made this beautiful 
 world ; fitted it with everything but sin. Then, while we were 
 taking our ease in Zion, the devil came and sowed tares which, 
 just now, seem to be filling the land with the fruit of crime, the 
 blackest, excruciating misery and woe. This is w T hat has swept 
 in upon us while we have been seeking for the unprofitable 
 gain, which only mars the souls of men and leaves a guilty 
 stain, while we are filling this God-given land with the graves 
 of broken-hearted mothers, starved wives and frozen, unfed, 
 unclothed children, which can never be described on this side 
 of eternity, where we must reap as we have sown. 
 
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You dear people who can support a million saloons ought 
 to be able to build work shops enough to supply idle men with 
 labor. There will be more than a million idle before the close 
 of another year, and what is going to be done with the starv 
 ing multitudes? 
 
 Let them perish with their families and still support the 
 saloons? MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 THE IMPORTANCE OF HOME DEPARTMENT WORK. 
 
 I have been handling the Home Department Work and can 
 assure you that it is one of the most fruit bearing of any work 
 which can be handled to the glory of God and the salvation 
 of souls. 
 
 My dear Christian people, I rejoice that I can bring you 
 encouraging word concerning the Home Department Work. 
 T realize that the Home Department Work is of much more 
 importance than generally supposed to be. It will reach a class 
 of people, if handled with interest, that otherwise is not 
 reached, therefore we cannot give it up. I have placed it in 
 several Catholic homes who have become interested, and not 
 only appreciate the work, but have given money to forward 
 the cause, that those who are not able to take part in it might 
 be supplied with Quarterlies. So we have much to be thankful 
 for in this direction. I am sure that many Catholic people can 
 be won in this way, for many of them are hungry for divine 
 food, the manna that feeds the soul, the holy inspired word 
 of God, which must be spread until it reaches all the king 
 doms of the earth. So let us be up and doing with a heart for 
 the work that will count most. 
 
 God, helping us to be faithful like Paul of Tarsus, that we 
 may have something to rejoice over when we are done with 
 time and earthly things. So may our whole aim in life be for 
 the glory of God and the salvation of souls who are tossed to 
 and fro by every wind of doctrine which leads them away from 
 Christ, and the true light of the gospel. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
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SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM. 
 
 Our heavenly Father has given us rules, laAvs and command 
 ments, 
 
 Which we should not abuse but strictly obey, 
 And listen to his warning voice, 
 
 And hear what he would say, 
 Then we could walk the golden strand, 
 
 In the faraway home on that shore, 
 Where all is peace in that heavenly land, 
 
 In the home of the soul ever more. 
 
 If we would keep the golden rule in practice every day, 
 
 Its glowing brightness would not rust and crumble with 
 decay. 
 
 It should be kept before the mind that we are not here to stay. 
 Then let it be our motto here, 
 
 To hold the interests of others dear, 
 And be careful of what we say. 
 
 Then charity with her golden crown, 
 
 Richest in grace and glowing renown, 
 Comes humbly in to find a place, 
 
 To prove her love for the human race. 
 So listen to her sacred voice, 
 
 Pleading with each one to make her virtues their only 
 
 choice, 
 And put her garments on, 
 
 The righteousness of faith and love which we ve been 
 taught so long. 
 
 Then light appears impatient to reveal 
 
 The truth which we should learn, 
 Has waited long with pressing zeal, 
 
 To impart to us in turn. 
 She appeals to us to accept her plea, 
 
 Which she will gladly give 
 To every one who seeks the right 
 
 That they may look and live, 
 Beyond this world of trials here 
 
 We have a higher home, 
 Where we by faith can realize 
 
 The glories farther on. 
 
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Then let us all like Paul press on, 
 
 To the higher calling there, 
 And never mind the awful wrongs 
 
 Which we are called to bear, 
 That will make us far more grand to enjoy the blessings there. 
 
 So fight on ye ransomed soldiers, 
 A victory you shall win, 
 
 When you have conquered Satan 
 And triumphed over sin. 
 
 Then knowledge comes hastening in to speak a word in season, 
 
 It pleads with all, on that power to call, 
 And use some common reason, 
 
 And not be gossiping around, 
 But strive for truth let that abound, 
 
 Exalt her while she may be found. 
 
 Then truth came weeping with bowed head, 
 
 And claimed there are few who care for all she s said. 
 
 Her heart is wrung from wrongs like these, 
 
 For there are few on earth that she can please ; 
 
 Her story has no place they claim, 
 
 Because, in this age and day, truth cannot reign. 
 
 Composed by MRS. DAN. L. GEAHAM. 
 
 My God, I thank The, who hast made 
 
 The earth so bright ; 
 So full of splendor and of joy, 
 
 Beauty and light; 
 So man3 r glorious things are here, 
 
 Noble and right. 
 
 I thank The, too, that Thou hast made 
 
 Joy to abound ; 
 So many gentle thoughts and deeds 
 
 Circling us round, 
 That in the darkest spot of earth 
 
 Some love is found. 
 
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THE MARVELOUS AND UNFATHOMABLE LOVE OF 
 OUR GREAT CREATOR. 
 
 The goodness of God should bring men to repentance, which 
 is only common sense if we could realize that we have done 
 nothing to merit God s favor. He is under no obligation to us 
 disobedient rebels, who provoke Him continually and some 
 times gloi\s in ignorance, having neither gratitude nor fear 
 toward Him, Who holds all things and by His majestic power 
 can save or destroy. Now God has put us here to evangelize 
 the world and we must get up and act as if our lives depended 
 upon it. Now unless we do this there will be little accom 
 plished, for, so long as we depend on some one else to do the 
 work left to us, the work will diminish instead of accomplish 
 ing that whereunto we are sent. The question is, shall we 
 despair, give all into the hand of the enemy, letting them rule 
 in triumph while we sit down and fold our arms in helpless 
 despair? What does this say to the world? What for our 
 religion? Shall we suffer these things until God blasts our 
 nation with war or pestilence, drought or flood or tornadoes? 
 For it is sin which brings the wrath of God upon the children 
 of disobedience. 
 
 Consider how God has blasted the prosperity of nations in 
 the past for their persistent wickedness. We ought to be afraid 
 when we think how great is the wickedness in the cities in our 
 midst, almost like Sodom for abominations, and we take it as 
 a matter of course. How blind and stupid we are to our own 
 interests. Ji the money that is wasted for intoxicants was 
 used to decorate and beautify our country it could be made 
 like the garden of Eden a perfect Paradise. Then every 
 body s heart would be full of gratitude and praises to their 
 blessed God, instead of so much blasphemy, infamy and ingrat 
 itude to the All-Seeing Eye, Who is taking account of all our 
 doings. 
 
 We often see these sweeping storms which God sends in His 
 wrath to warn us. Then how often we see the mercury go 
 down, and the wind rise up, while God pours out his wrath in 
 an unmeasurable cup. We get drought, then floods with all 
 kinds of disaster, yet men will harden their hearts and persist 
 in evil doings as though they expected to remain here through 
 all eternity, without ever receiving the reward of their doings. 
 Strange that men will w r aste this fleeting life in avaricious 
 desires for gain, which they can neither stay by nor take with 
 
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them when they leave this wicked world, made so by the injus 
 tice of man, which is all contrary to the teachings of the Divine 
 Guide. 
 
 Why do we waste our time for that which cannot profit nor 
 benefit any one but only mars the soul for eternity? Our 
 heavenly Father has promised us so much if we would hearken 
 to His pleading voice to come out of darkness into the light of 
 His glorious Gospel which will bless and sustain us through 
 all the trials in life and give us that peace and consolation at 
 death which passeth all knowledge. He, the Holy One, says, 
 "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into 
 the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them 
 that love Him." 
 
 Has not Christ offered us enough to win our attention, our 
 service? What more can He do than He hath already done, 
 and yet promised us a thousand times more if we would live 
 worthy and fill our mission? 
 
 Think of the children in factories, worked to death to sup 
 port drunken parents, and who is to blame ? All who can vote 
 the curse down. Can the depths of misery and woe ever be 
 known until we are called to give an account of how we have 
 used our advantages which should be used for the glory of 
 God by rescuing the helpless, innocent victim, crushed under 
 the rum traffic ? 
 
 How bravely we fought to free our black slaves from bond 
 age, but suffer our own flesh and blood to be bound in chains 
 of vice, which we could move from our land if we had as much 
 love for God and humanity as we have for money. We, as a 
 people, worship money but don t understand how to apply it 
 to good use. It is not saving money to have the saloons pay 
 our taxes. It takes five times as much to keep up public 
 expenses caused principally by these curses. Would that we 
 would all arise in the name of God, like King David when he 
 went to slay Goliath, and join hand in hand and say, by His 
 Grace we will put down this monster of iniquity and set the 
 captives free. If we as Christians would work as the enemy 
 does, righteousness would cover the earth as the waters cover 
 the deep. But, while we are folding our arms with indiffer 
 ence, they are setting their traps working underhanded to 
 overthrow our efforts before we get them established. 
 
 I think if our churches had the spirit of our forefathers and 
 were as determined to overthrow the evil and stand by the 
 right, like Washington and Paul Jones, one of his great leaders, 
 who declared that, with the help of God, they would never 
 take down the flag which is so dear to us today but would 
 
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give his last drop of blood to save it. You know the results. 
 If we had the same spirit living in us we could conquer every 
 thing that hinders the spread of the Gospel. How did Wash 
 ington lead on to victory? Through prayer and close commu 
 nication with his Creator, never trusting to his own strength 
 hut always leaning on the everlasting arms, which will sus 
 tain us under all trials and bring us through more than con 
 queror. 
 
 Now, if we belong to God s chosen, let us show it by our 
 devotion and fidelity. 0, if we were only true to God, we 
 would have less earthquakes, less tornadoes, less pestilence, and 
 none of the extremes of heat and cold. It is our disobedience 
 that brings the judgment of God upon us. We had none of 
 these triais and contagions until our ancestors rebelled and 
 provoked the Holy Giver of every good and perfect gift, for 
 which we owe reverence and obedience, service and gratitude, 
 and these we must render if we want the favor of our Great 
 and All-Seeing God, from whom we can hide nothing. By and 
 by will be the harvest w r hen our labors here are ended. Then 
 and on the other shore we shall reap as we have sown. Say. 
 will it pay to gather sheaves for the great harvest ? 
 
 Let us have every sacred profession spotless and harmo 
 nious and oi such character the world will discern between us 
 and those TV ho live half-hearted lives. Live so they w r ill say the 
 union bands are meeting to praise King Jesus. 
 
 The union bands are meeting, 
 
 I have them in my view, 
 I want to see them join 
 
 In union sweet, and love divine, 
 And glory through the churches shine, 
 
 A.nd gentiles crowding to the sign, 
 To give to Jesus glory. 
 
 Then we can sing; 
 
 The midsummer sun shines but dim, 
 While sweeter than music His voice, 
 
 His presence dispenses my gloom, 
 And make all within me rejoice. 
 
 Say, my dear brethren, shall we vote for the rise or fall of 
 our nation, for light or darkness, for freedom or bondage, for 
 wicked oppression or righteousness, for purity or degradation ? 
 What will be our hereafter, both here and for eternity? Some 
 of us are living in pomp with every luxury, enjoying every 
 
good thing that earth can afford, but in danger of having the 
 pearly gates closed against them. 
 
 God pity those who stand in their own light. They know 
 not what they do. Would it not be well to examine ourselves 
 and see where we stand? Whether we are in favor with God 
 or have lost all influence to save and rescue men from the 
 rattlesnake s den? These dens never before had so strong a 
 hold on humanity, which is our faul-t, for we have let them have 
 their own way while we, so timid, had nothing to say. That 
 is the way things go when we play. We kept hands off as 
 though we were destined here to stay, as though men were 
 not worth looking after, until our land is filled and black with 
 crime from one end to the other. This will grow worse and 
 worse as long as we suffer the foreigner to come here arid set 
 up the rattlesnake s den to charm our weak ones, void of intel 
 lect, who know not the worth of money or character. 
 
 Why do we cloak anything so black with crime? 
 
 We should go to work at once and build work shops enough 
 to give employment to every idle man or woman. Then set 
 free every man that has committed crime under the influence 
 of drink, for it is our fault that we have murder dens all over 
 this fair land of too much freedom. I do not say this because 
 I am interceding for relatives or friends, for I have not a rela 
 tive on earth, nor never did have, so unfortunate as to get in 
 the penitentiary, jail, asylum or poor house. I was born of 
 better ancestry, thank the Lord. My mother was a Quakeress 
 and all her people as far back as we can trace them. My 
 father was a Methodist and so were all his people. He hated 
 the rum traffic far worse than he hated highway robbery. He 
 said highway robbery was not to be compared to it. Bait men 
 into a trap, then put them in state prison for life. 0, may God 
 help us to tear off the shackles of tyranny and let the captives 
 go free whom we have helped to put into bondage, who would 
 make great armies if free again. Half of them have more 
 honor no doubt than those who run the trap. The man catcher 
 and some who give them the right-of-way, I fear, will never 
 see the light of heaven. 
 
 I hope and pray that every woman will vote, as conscience 
 dictates, for the upbuilding of Christ s kingdom in the hearts 
 of the people. But the way must be cleared, the briers and 
 thorns must be gotten out of the way. We must go to the leg 
 islators, and all in authority, and plead and pray with them. 
 So let us work with a zeal, each one as though our lives de 
 pended on its success. We have got a big job on our hands 
 because the adversary has the inside track, but with God to 
 
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lead out we can conquer every foe. He is only too willing to 
 lead us on to victory when we strike the blow for liberty by 
 our vote. These I hope will be millions more than we need, 
 showing the noble wisdom and fidelity of every true citizen, 
 every human who feels for fallen humanity. Then \ve can sing 
 "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," with a new T mean 
 ing, a heart of gratitude, which will sing like a silver bell from 
 clean hearts renewed and made new and clean by a new deter 
 mination to stand for the right, for purity, for everything that 
 will count in eternity. 
 
 If we do not lay hold of the valuable riches of eternity 
 while we are here, our gain here w r ill all be loss over on the 
 shores of vast eternity to which we are so fast hastening. 
 
 Dear brother, now if you think that closing the saloon is 
 going to hurt your financial business, just try it and you will 
 find it the reverse, for then there \vill be a chance of your get 
 ting a good share of what is spent at the horrible, consuming 
 place, which is like a consuming fire, swallowing everything 
 coming in contact with it. You ought to know this is the con 
 densed truth which would bring you a million times more in 
 eternity, if you are faithful to your trust. Now if you will not 
 see these truths in time then you must learn the value of them 
 by dear experience when it is too late to profit by them. God 
 help you and turn you to Christ, the only help in every time 
 of need, who has said I will never leave nor forsake them that 
 are true to their calling. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 O Word of God incarnate, 
 
 O Wisdom from on high, 
 O Truth unchanged, unchanging, 
 
 O Light of our dark sky; 
 We praise Thee for the radiance 
 
 That from the hallowed page, 
 A lantern to our footsteps, 
 
 Shines on from age to age. 
 
CHILD LABORERS. 
 
 (By Elizabeth Tousey, in The Woman s Journal.) 
 
 Night is past and da} 7 is dawning, and the world awakes and 
 
 stirs, 
 
 Rises at the call of battle, meets the struggle, his and hers ! 
 Man and woman join the army. Man and woman, did I say? 
 But I see the ranks increasing boys and girls in close array ! 
 
 Surely not to grinding labor? Judging by their years and looks, 
 They are off to desk and schoolroom, spelling-match and writ 
 ing-books, 
 
 With a merry time at recess and an afternoon of fun, 
 Whether in the lane or alley, children love to play and run. 
 
 No, for eight or ten long hours they must ply their weary tasks, 
 Strain their sight and sap their vigor, till their faces grow like 
 
 masks, 
 
 Lacking lustre, joy and spirit, while their tired bodies bend 
 And their patient, unskilled fingers keep on working to the end ! 
 
 Unskilled, patient! There s the reason, there s the crime, and 
 
 there s the sting 
 
 That the weak and the defenseless must endure this cruel thing ! 
 Innocence and blind obedience, which should shield them from 
 
 all wrong, 
 Hold them slaves to kin or stranger, the unscrupulous and 
 
 strong. 
 
 Can we profit by the labors which their task-masters have 
 
 wrung ? 
 
 Can we count our gold and silver in the sorrows of the young? 
 Can we guard our health and comfort while disease and toil 
 
 and pain 
 Warp their minds and mar their statures? Perish such a 
 
 ghastly gain ! 
 
 Look upon the dumb creation, even it can guide and teach ! 
 Does the swallow force its fledgling far beyond its strength and 
 
 reach? 
 
 For the hours she has brooded does she clamor for return? 
 Must the parent and the nation seek her twittering nest to 
 
 learn ? 
 
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Shall the painted savage tell us that such things ought not 
 
 to be? 
 
 Shall we yield to the blinded heathen his superiority ? 
 Has Industrial Ambition graved an idol, reared it Mgh, 
 Fallen to the earth in worship, made God s truth appear a lie? 
 
 No, the mill must be deserted and the factory must fail 
 
 Ere our country s great investment shall grow feeble, dull and 
 
 pale. 
 
 By the promise of our fathers, by the standards they have set, 
 Wrongs like these no more shall flourish we can never quite 
 
 forget ! 
 
 Quite forget the price that bought us, planted us upon this soil ; 
 Quite forget the prayers and perils, sarificial blood and toil, 
 Which established our republic, flung its banner to the wind, 
 Held it forth the hope and refuge of a storm-tossed human 
 being. 
 
 Let us take to heart the lesson taught by England years ago, 
 Lest we reap the bitter harvest that once brought her pride so 
 
 low; 
 
 Let us heed the wiser counsel of those peoples o er the sea, 
 Who have sown a better seed, now ripening for posterity ! 
 
 By those memories of childhood, safe and happy, free and blest ; 
 By those ties of human nature, strongest, deepest, tenderest ; 
 By our love for our own children and our longing for their weal 
 May we not forget the others may we understand and feel ! 
 
 By the Child, divine and human, smiling in His manger-bed; 
 By His calling of the children and the gracious words He said ; 
 By His parables of judgment and the warnings which He spoke 
 To the shame of their offenders, up and break their heavy 
 yoke ! 
 
 As when the weary traveler gains 
 
 The height of some commanding hill, 
 His heart revives, if o er the plains 
 He sees his home, though distant still. 
 
WHAT IS THE GREATEST NEED OF ALL NEEDS, IN 
 ALL LANDS OVER THE ENTIRE GLOBE? IT IS 
 THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING THE CONTENTS 
 OF THE BIBLE, WHICH WOULD LEAD MEN IN 
 THE WAY OF LIFE EVERLASTING. 
 
 Dear friends, I feel that I must awaken to a sense of activ 
 ity. I have been a long time down in the valley of humiliation 
 as one dead to the world. No one can ever know what I have 
 suffered, but I find that yielding to sorrow does not advance 
 the Christian cause, so I must plainly tell you that unless we 
 take up the work in a different form we might just as well 
 close the doors of the church. 
 
 The Word of God is power, wisdom, light and inspiration 
 and is able to save to the uttermost all who will live by its 
 teachings. How are we going to reach the masses unless we 
 carry God s Word to them and get them to take an interest 
 in the Sacred Volume? Therefore I know there should be Bible 
 readings in all the homes that can be reached, for as long as 
 we are indifferent there will be nothing accomplished, no gath 
 ering in. Where will be the sheaves for the harvest and what 
 will be our reward for duty neglected? 
 
 When we awaken to the importance of shedding the Divine 
 Light there will be some things worth while accomplished, for 
 the people will soon become interested not only in their own 
 welfare but that of the church also as well as the people. 
 
 The blessing of God always goes with His Word which 
 alone can convince them that there is no other way whereby 
 we can be saved. 
 
 Ezekiel said God made him a watchman to warn the people 
 from danger, and, if he failed to do his duty, God would re 
 quire their loss at his hand, so if we have the spiritual light 
 and don t shed it we shall be responsible for lost souls and 
 there is no way of getting around it. 
 
 What is the use of sending the Gospel to other lands and 
 letting our own dear ones, or rather our own moral people, 
 wrapped up in their good moral deeds, which is only of service 
 to man expecting to be recompensed in return by man. 
 
 But what does the Sacred Word of God say? Ye must be 
 born again, born of the spirit, born into the Kingdom of Grace. 
 What is that ? Born into the love and communion of God, that 
 
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we may be partakers with His Son who redeemed us with His 
 precious blood from the world and the sins of the world to 
 be co-workers with him, not giving up to the petty trifling 
 things but seeking to win souls into the Kingdom at "any cost, 
 So let us be up and doing, 
 
 With a heart for any fate, 
 Still achieving, still pursuing, 
 
 Learn to labor in God s vineyard and to wait. 
 By and by will be the harvest, 
 
 When our labors are ended here, 
 And we shall reap the golden grain, 
 
 Seeing then the fruits of labor 
 Which will never be in vain. 
 
 God has intrusted us with the most important of all things, 
 His great spiritual work, which is, of -all things, the last that 
 should be neglected. The Christian people make the Word of 
 God of non-effect by their thoughtless indifference. If religion 
 is not of all things most important why was it necessary for 
 Christ to suffer so much to bring us into the light? 
 
 Religion, what treasures untold reside in that heavenly 
 word. More precious than silver or gold or all that this earth 
 can afford. Then why do we waste our years as a tale that 
 is told? 
 
 We are not going to heaven on flowery roads of leisure or 
 ease while others fought to win the prize and sailed through 
 bloody seas. But through tribulation ye shall enter into the 
 Kingdom of God for we, if faithful, are promised a crown of 
 rejoicing when God gathers home His jewels. 
 
 Only think what Christ suffered to bring us into service 
 that we might be crowned heirs of salvation. He speaks and 
 ten thousand angels rejoice and myriads wait for His word. 
 He speaks and eternity is filled with His voice, re-echoes the 
 praise of our Lord. 
 
 Once, Lord, thy garden flourished. 
 Every plant looked fresh and green, 
 
 Then thy word our spirits cherished, 
 Happy seasons we have seen. 
 
 But a drought has since succeeded, 
 
 And a sad decline w r e see, 
 Help, Lord, is greatly needed, 
 
 Help can only come from thee. 
 
 Let our mutual love be fervent, 
 Make us prevalent in prayer, 
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Let each one esteem the other, 
 
 Shun the world s bewitching snare. 
 
 Break the tempter s fatal power, 
 
 And may we cease from being rash, 
 
 And begin from this sad hour 
 To revive thy work afresh. 
 
 God forgiving and helping us all to improve the future and 
 respond to His call for the welfare of souls. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 A REMEDY. 
 
 Dear people, who are looking for remedies to heal your 
 diseases, which you are far more interested in than your 
 eternal interests, which are a million times more profitable, 
 I will give you the best remedy now known. 
 
 First stop hugging and petting your diseases. Let go of 
 them and go in Christ s name and begin to work for the inter 
 ests of others. Work diligently and faithfully and you will 
 be well before you know it. 
 
 Another splendid remedy is putting off selfishness, getting 
 rid of envy, prejudice, gossip and everything that hinders the 
 practice of the Golden Rule. You don t know your worth 
 until you start out with a determination to do nothing that 
 hinders Christ s work. When you make this a specialty you 
 will be surprised at the knowledge and light you will obtain 
 and how, by faith, you will mount up so far above, these tem 
 poral desires that you will count them as nothing to compare 
 with the spiritual work. Then you will sing : 
 I have a faith that satisfies, i,, 
 
 Since I have been redeemed to do His will is my highest prize. 
 That faith, that hope, unseen, 
 
 Is w r orth more than all this life to me. 
 Of all the fleeting things I see, 
 
 Cannot compare with eternity, 
 So vast, so real, so grand to be. - < ; 
 
 Y/hat then is all this vanity worth to one who, by faith, 
 can see and solve the greatest mystery? Success or failure all 
 depend upon good sense to solve the problem^ weigh the 
 matter, balance accounts. Launch out into the abyss with 
 two good oars which should be fidelity, pure Christian devo 
 tion, with cause and effect as the problems to be kept before 
 our minds. With God at the helm, we do know that we shall 
 be led on triumphantly to victory by Him whose word cannot 
 fail. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
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REDEMPTION LIES WITH US. 
 
 We have often to witness such terror from cruel practices 
 and are often so heartbroken and discouraged at the thought 
 of the suffering caused by evil for which we as a community 
 shall be responsible and we must pay the penalty for allowin g 
 humanity to be crushed under the heel of tyranny. 
 
 When discouraged remember Christ has said, "I will never 
 leave or forsake my OAVII." If Christ forsakes us it is our own 
 fault. It is because we have not been faithful to our trust. 
 It is through sorrow that we are cleansed from the dross. The 
 dross must be taken from the gold or it would never be fit 
 for the refiner and so we are chastised often for our negligence 
 and disobedience. 
 
 Our thoughts should be centered more upon eternal things 
 and not so much upon these things that perish ; then we would 
 have sweet peace that passeth knowledge. The great mystery 
 is why do men neglect their soul s interest, seeking this world r s 
 possessions which they can have no claim on only for so short 
 a time when they might claim eternal bliss if Christ s voice 
 they would obey, but no they seem possessed to stray the 
 other way, not realizing that there will come an awful day 
 when we all must sum up our account, meet our record, receive 
 our destiny, which will be our reward according to our works. 
 How strange that the world seems to be running over with 
 everything but religion. 
 
 So many are contented with a kind of moral life which i , 
 only service to man. Some in the church haven t even got that. 
 They are busybodies looking more after their neighbor s faults 
 than after their own; consequently they are the tares that 
 destroy the wheat. Their highest mission is to get others on a 
 level with themselves. The church would be better without 
 such, but we cannot get rid of them without injuring the 
 wheat, so the Savior said, "let them alone." They will be 
 separated at the great final day of Judgment. 
 
 The worldly disobedient have these things for an excuse, but 
 how much better are they who trample the blood of the cov 
 enant under their feet, cast the sacred, inspired word of God 
 behind them, saying they can live without sacred things. But 
 what if God does not suffer them long to continue? How 
 will it be when time is taken from such and they must meet 
 death and Judgment? What will be their boasting then? Oh, 
 for common sense to be used before it is eternally too late 
 
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God said, "Ye shall not live by bread alone but by every 
 word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. These things 
 are only material, only to sustain our temporal existence while 
 we are here to be schooled for the higher life of our eternal 
 souls. 
 
 Why do we prize so highly the perishable things we cannot 
 stay by, nor take with us when we must go to give an account 
 of how we have used these material things which are only 
 loaned to us for the present use and which often become a hin 
 drance to our spiritual welfare? Are we blind to our spiritual 
 welfare? Are we just drifting with the tide that will soon 
 carry us beyond hope and the reach of help ? Is the desire for 
 avaricious gain taking away our interest in eternal blessing? 
 The Savior said, "Ye must be born again." He said, "except 
 ye be born of the spirit, ye cannot see the kingdom of God." 
 Then he said, "If I have told you of earthly things and ye 
 believe not, how shall you believe if I tell you of the heavenly?" 
 He said, "This is your condemnation, that light has come into 
 the world and that men love darkness rather than light; be 
 cause their deeds are evil ; for everyone that doeth evil hateth 
 the light lest their deeds be made manifest. " 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, 
 
 Due descending from above 
 Breath of life, and fire of love; 
 
 Hear us, Holy Spirit. 
 
 Source of strength, of knowledge clear, 
 
 Wisdom, godliness sincere, 
 Understanding, counsel, fear; 
 
 Hear us, Holy Spirit. 
 
 Source of meekness, love and peace, 
 Patience, pureness, faiths increase, 
 
 Hope and joy that cannot cease; 
 Hear us, Holy Spirit. 
 
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WHAT I WOULD DO. 
 
 As T passed by the White House the other day, 
 
 Where the President lives, you know, 
 I saw him walk out through the gate and away 
 
 Down the avenue, stately and slow ; 
 And I said to myself, "Mr. President, if 1 
 
 Were chief of this glorious land 
 And lived in the White House (I may by and by), 
 
 I d write with a resolute hand 
 This message to Congress, on one special theme, 
 
 To which not a President, sir 
 From Washington down, very strange though it seem, 
 
 Has cared or dared to refer: 
 
 "To the Senate and House of Representatives: 
 
 Since figures and facts that are plain to all 
 Do show that strong drink is the cause 
 
 Of nearly three-fourths of the crimes, great and small, 
 That violate God s and man s laws; 
 
 Since millions of bushels of fruit and of grain 
 Are rotted and spoiled every year 
 
 To make fiery stuff that burns body and brain. 
 While thousands are starving, tis clear 
 
 That prompt legislation is needed to save 
 The people from this deadly foe; 
 
 For numberless thousands go down to the grave 
 Each year as its victims, we know. 
 
 "In view of these facts, I do now recommend 
 
 That Congress, without more delay, 
 Our great Constitution proceed to amend, 
 
 Prohibiting in every way 
 The making, importing, and selling of all 
 
 Strong drink in the nation s domain, 
 With punishment stern behind strong prison walls, 
 
 If need be the law to maintain. 
 I now leave this very grave question with you. 
 
 You earnest attention to gain. 
 Executive Mansion, March 1, Nineteen twelve, 
 
 By the President, Walter McLane." 
 
 Now I ve said what I d do if I were a man 
 And ruled in the White House today ; 
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But as I m not there, I will do what I can, 
 
 In. my earnest ard boyish way, 
 To fight this drink business ; and if all the boys 
 
 Would make the same promise this hour, 
 I tell you there d be such a teetotal noise 
 
 The people would call us a power. 
 
 Nellie H. Bradley, in National Educator. 
 
 A GREAT MYSTERY. 
 
 One of the greatest mysteries, the hardest problems to solve, 
 is how the world at large can receive so many multiplied bless 
 ings at the hand of God and return so little gratitude for such 
 extended mercies and unfathomable love, seeming not to com 
 prehend, much less to appreciate, nor to realize from whence 
 they all come. 
 
 The apostle Paul said, "What is man that thou art mindful 
 of him?" 
 
 W T hat are we that one so high and holy should take account 
 of us miserable unworthy mortals? Disobedient, fault finding, 
 murmuring, short sighted are we at best. How many blessings 
 we lose by not living up to our highest provileges. How we 
 cheat ourselves and lose so much of the promise by not heed 
 ing the still small voice of the spirit. When we think how 
 God in His infinite love has made all things for us who are 
 too slow to comprhend. Then given us dominion over all, not 
 even sparing His holy precious Son but delivered Him up for 
 us all that He might bring us to the true light of the Gospel 
 wherein we should walk by faith, which it is impossible to 
 have except we have obeyed ; for obedience to the divine law 
 is the germ of faith which, through that hope unseen, is an 
 anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, which will be 
 revealed in due time. 
 
 The more I think of these heavenly mercies the more T am 
 inspired to seek to know what the will of the Lord is. 
 
 I fully realize that we are here to be schooled for eternity 
 and our highest ambition should be to bring as many as possible 
 to the light. We have no time to lose, as time does not belong 
 to us but is only loaned to us for a few fleeting years, to pre 
 pare for a high and holy life beyond this vale of tears. 
 
 Strive to enter in at the straight path that leads to that 
 City whose builder and maker is God. 
 
 MRS. DANIEL L. GRAHAM. 
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TO A BOTTLE OF WHISKY 
 INQUIRER: 
 
 What dost thou contain, little bottle demure, 
 With the clear amber liquid transparent and pure? 
 Full a quart of your contents is herewith enclosed 
 And the strength they contain is much better exposed. 
 
 You are labeled just "Whisky;" now what may that mean? 
 For a thing so much talked of, you really do seem 
 Very meek and subdued in appearance ; and yet 
 I demand you tell all, that I never forget. 
 
 WHISKY : 
 
 I am essence of misery, lord of a slave ; 
 I m the quickest, precipitous path to the grave; 
 I am liquid of fire, that the entrails shall burn ; 
 I am loved of the devil, while angels do spurn. 
 
 I am friend of the murderer, friend of the thief; 
 I m the shortest and easiest route unto grief; 
 I m the scapegoat for weak men to lay on the blame ; 
 Reliable guardian ever of shame. 
 
 I ve been told I m enticing, and cheering, and good, 
 And a fine appetizer before taking food, 
 Though I think that the stomach is somewhat passe 
 That requires a preemptor to burn out the way. 
 
 I retard education ; and foster the taste 
 
 For impurity, ignorance, slothfulness, waste. 
 
 I m an enemy strong of all culture and wealth ; 
 
 I have ever crossed sw r ords with all study and health. 
 
 I am foe to all virtue, and friend to all vice ; 
 
 And I tell all adherents to never think twice ; 
 
 But to strike when in humor, and do what they please 
 
 That the world is their own for pleasure and ease. 
 
 Then at times I am jocose, and teach in my school 
 How to make of a wise man a humorous fool ; 
 And I laughingly whisPer to poor men, "You re rich," 
 And I artfully trip them forthwith in a ditch. 
 
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I m tormentor of home ; I am poverty s clerk; 
 And while virtue is sleeping, I vice never shirk. 
 I m awake with the owl, I am up with the lark ; 
 And I gather my victims in daylight and dark. 
 
 I am tireless and thrifty in plying my trade ; 
 Those who dance me attendance, the price have oft paid. 
 There are those who ignore me, and those who deplore, 
 There are those who half love me, and those who adore. 
 
 I have wrecked human happiness, tortured the good ; 
 I have robbed little children of clothing and food ; 
 As promoter of evil, my praises I sing; 
 After Satan, good sir, I am Satan s first king ! 
 
 Ella Costello Bennett. 
 
 When, doomed to death, the apostle say 
 At night in Herod s dungeon cell; 
 
 A light shown round him like the day, 
 And from his limbs the fetters fell. 
 
 A messenger from God was there. 
 To break his chain and bid him rise ; 
 
 And lo! the saint as free as air, 
 
 Walked forth beneath the open skies. 
 
 Chains yet more strong and cruel bind 
 The victims of that cruel thirst ; 
 
 Which drowns the soul, and from the mind 
 Blots the bright image stamped at first. 
 
 O God of love and mercy, dein 
 To look on those with pitying eye 
 
 Who struggles with that fatal chain, 
 And send them succor from on high ! 
 
 Send down, in its resistless might, 
 Thy gracious Spirit, we implore, 
 
 And lead the captive forth to light, 
 A rescued soul, a slave no more! 
 
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THE STORY OF THE THIEF ON THE CROSS. 
 
 Dear Friends : 
 
 As so few seem to understand the story of the thief on the 
 cross I will try to explain the truth and show to those who are 
 hanging their salvation on a death bed repentance the danger 
 of waiting and neglecting the all-important theme of their lives. 
 
 The reason Christ showed so much mercy to one who suf 
 fered with Him on the cross, the one called a thief, whom 
 Christ gave such hope, was because he was a boy nineteen 
 years old who had been pressed into the service of robbery by 
 a robber who stole him away from his home when a little 
 child. He was the son of the priest who had Christ and the 
 malefactor hung on the cross. The boy and his nurse were 
 stolen when the child was quite young and the little fellow was 
 taught by his nurse that Christ was indeed the son of God. 
 
 How I wish that every minister understood more of history. 
 If they would read the book of Maccabees they would get ex 
 planations which would throw light upon the Scriptures and 
 give people a truer sense of the meaning. The way some handle 
 this subject drives people into the dark and gives a tendency 
 to make them more indifferent in regard to sacred duty, living 
 a dangerous life, risking their soul s interest, putting off till 
 a_dying hour, Christian duty. 
 
 There is nothing so sad as for people to neglect their soul s 
 interests which God said, I will reward every man according 
 to his works." He that soweth sparingly to spiritual things 
 must reap sparingly. 
 
 Then again, if we sow bountifully and reap and do not 
 gather in the sheaves where will the harvest be? If a shep 
 herd does not gather in his flock while it is in sight when can 
 he gather it? I think in two or three months it would be hard 
 to find them. If the smith did not strike his iron while it was 
 hot I think his moulding would be in vain. There is a right 
 time for everything. 
 
 If a farmer did not gather his hay when dry it would not 
 be worth gathering, and so it is in spiritual things. Time 
 thrown away is lost forever. We shall get in eternity just 
 what we have lived for here. We shall go there to claim just 
 what we have laid up in Eternity. There we can only claim 
 our own. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
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WE ARE NOT ALL BARBARIANS. 
 
 We are not all barbarians or cannibals that we should allow 
 one half to consume the other half by oppression. We who a 
 few years ago were in sympathy with the black race ought to 
 go to New York in the winter time and witness for ourselves 
 the situation and suffering. Slavery in the South was not to 
 be compared to the horrors of the suffering in our cities at 
 the present time. Go and see for yourselves. Then you will 
 know what torture and wicked hard-heartedness mean. Go to 
 the slum districts. Visit those districts every day for a month 
 and see the appalling conditions, indescribable for their misery 
 and woe. There you can see families turned out in the storm, 
 every day, to wander without bread or shelter, crawling away 
 to some shed or cellar steps to freeze, unnoticed and unknown. 
 Nobody cares. They have got so hardened with these every 
 day scenes that no account is taken of them. Now what is at 
 the bottom of this degradation and appalling state of things? 
 You well know the curse and the causes. Who is going to pay 
 the cost at the day of judgment, when we must sum up our 
 account, and receive our just dues for upholding and pro 
 tecting such monstrous crime, a sin that has driven multiplied 
 millions to despair and filled our prisons with some of our noble 
 youth? And we deem these trifling things. 
 
 Now I warn you, my brother and sister, to not trifle any 
 longer with the mercies of God. Oh, look at the awful storms 
 that are sweeping the earth, which should be a warning to all 
 who are so resigned, so unconcerned about the millions who 
 are agonizing in despair from the cursed traffic which is too 
 intolerable to ever be described. 
 
 And if the ruler at the head of the government fails to 
 exterminate the destroyer of millions, the saloon traffic, I hope 
 it will be the last political ruler we shall ever be pestered with. 
 If they cannot better conditions what is the use of putting 
 men in authority? Only to fleece us poor laborers and keep us 
 under the yoke of tyranny? It is time we came to our own 
 rescue by voting common sense. God help us to put Godly, 
 conscientious men over us as rulers. We have been acting 
 just like the Israelites when they chose their first king. They 
 must have a king like the heathen round about them, not 
 withstanding the prophet warned them and said they would 
 be a burden and a great detriment. But they would riot 
 hearken, so had to learn by dear experience the sad lessons 
 
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of disobedience rewarded according to their works. This is 
 just as sure as our existence. We build our own future. 
 
 So, God helping us, from this time on, to vote for Godly 
 men, men who keep their pledge made in honor to God, and 
 the interest and welfare of the human race, as they have sworn 
 to do when they press those solemn and sublime truths to 
 their lips, confirming their oath, making it sacred as God him 
 self, which links us so close to heaven. How thinly the veil 
 would intervene between that holy city and ourselves if we 
 Avould only be faithful to our trust which God entrusted to 
 our care ! These rulers take the sublime, inspired word of God 
 to bind the oath of allegiance, to confirm their pledge that 
 they will be true to their trust and faithful in all the affairs 
 of the interests of the people. They take this God inspired 
 word and press it to their lips, declaring to take it for their 
 guide. So we all had better beware how we deal with the 
 covenant of God, for it is the light of the world. It was once 
 flesh and dwelt among us, and is and ever shall be, the light 
 to illuminate our pathway, the bread of eternal life, manna to 
 the soul, which always gives that assurance that Christ Avill 
 never leave nor forsake those that are true and faithful. 
 
 Now, while I am writing this book, I am doing my house 
 work, receiving company, corresponding with many. Have 
 not changed my course of life nor neglected duty in any way, 
 but have written these lines between intervals when I had 
 nothing else pressing me to be done. 1 have fasted and prayed 
 that God would endow me with spiritual light and handle me 
 for his glory and the salvation of the human race, and it is 
 wonderful how the divine light has dawned in upon my uned 
 ucated mind, praise His Holy Name, who has chosen a humble 
 servant like me for a work like this, which depends so much 
 upon the guiding hand of Him Who gives light when w r e seek 
 light. But it is only a fulfillment of His inspired word He, so 
 w r onderful in majesty, said, "I have chosen the weak things of 
 the earth to confound the mighty." So my whole aim in life 
 is to be consecrated to God s work. The reason I have men 
 tioned this is to encourage those far more fitted to take up a 
 work that will vastly count more in eternity, as well as here, 
 than anything else can possibly count. 
 
 So, dear sisters, you have so much more time for service to 
 God than the brethren, for they must earn for us the home 
 comforts of life, while w T e often w r aste our, or God s precious 
 golden hours, to make unnecessary things we don t need, 
 simply something attractive but not profitable. Now, dear 
 
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ones, we cannot afford to use God s fleeting hours in this way. 
 Time is too golden, too precious, too valuable, and so, if you 
 have received much at the hand of God, much will be required 
 of you. So, precious ones, you who have received so much at 
 the hand of your Creator, do put away the unnecessary things, 
 the things that will not profit at death, and take on the whole 
 armor of God, that you may stand against the adversary and all 
 that hinders the Progress of development. Like our dear old 
 Paul, who said, "I dare not neglect to do the whole council 
 of God, lest I myself become a castaway." 
 
 Is not the work just as important today and more so? Yes, 
 far more so, because there are more to reach. 
 
 Now, you who have taken the oath of the covenant, band 
 yourselves together, that you will work for God and the down 
 fall of the saloon traffic and everything that infests this beau 
 tiful land and injures society and, above all else, that hinders 
 the spread of God s divine truth. 
 
 MRS. DAN L. GRAHAM. 
 
 Holy Father, cheer our way 
 With Thy love s perpetual ray : 
 
 Grant us every closing day 
 Light at evening -time. 
 
 Holy Savior, calm our fears 
 When earth s brightness disappears 
 
 Grant us in our later years 
 Light at evening-time. 
 
 Holy Spirit, be Thou nigh 
 
 When in mortal pains we lie; 
 Grant us as we come to die, 
 Light at evening-time. 
 
 Holy, blessed Trinity, 
 
 Darkness is not dark to Thee: 
 Those Thou keepest always see 
 
 Light at evening-time, 
 
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WE MUST REFORM. 
 
 The Fourth of July is a great day for the American people, 
 and should be, so long as the country for which it is so highly 
 celebrated stands free. But I sometimes fear that the freedom, 
 of which so many boast, has become a curse, in many instances, 
 instead of a blessing, and proper freedom is trampled under 
 foot, while a slavish, tyrannical oppression has taken her place 
 and brought to shame the grandest country on the globe and 
 the very name of liberty, crushing the very vitals of justice 
 and purity. 
 
 And those who should be in authority folding their arms, 
 sitting down reconciled to their fate, too weak and powerless 
 to claim their rights or resist their foes. Are these the exam 
 ples our forefathers set who fought, bled and died under the 
 most trying circumstances that we might be crowned heirs to 
 liberty ? Not liberty with mercies abused such as we are slaves 
 to, and too helpless to put forth a hand to remove. Did not 
 they arise, saying that, with the help of God, they would resist 
 oppression or die in the attempt? And what was the result? 
 The greatest victory ever won save that on Calvary s cross, 
 when God gave his own beloved son to redeem us from the 
 curse of sin. 
 
 Now can we be the descendants of such courage, character 
 and blood as that shed on Bunker Hill and allow the wicked 
 oppressor to rule with a high hand and we hold our Peace when 
 there is no peace? 
 
 This state of things looks like we had dlgeiierated in many 
 respects and especially in courage. 
 
 Now what is to be done with such a state of things ? Throw 
 out the oppressor, commencing with the whiskey ring leaders, 
 who will soon bring dire doom to our once free and beloved 
 country for which every true American would lay down his 
 life. 
 
 Why do we so willingly hand it over to. the enemy of all 
 justice, purity and sacredness, only to lay ftieir traps to catch 
 our darlings before their minds are developed sufficiently to 
 know that they are their deadly enemy? This is a greater 
 bondage than being tributary to another nation and yet we say 
 little about it. 
 
 But talk will accomplish little if we do not act in the matter. 
 I have to acknowledge that I am too short-sighted to compre 
 hend the great mystery of the times. It is a hard problem to 
 
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solve how the people will receive such manifold blessings from 
 God, then persist in breaking His laws which He laid down for 
 our good and admonition. 
 
 Will you who are intelligent please explain to me how it 
 is and why it is that license is granted, at any price, to carry 
 on crime, to blight and destroy sacredness? 
 
 Is the price of license the price you put on your boy s soul? 
 
 How can we stand before God with a conscience black and 
 polluted by the crimes we should have removed by our vote? 
 
 I believe in the sight of God, the sin of omission is about 
 the same as that of commission. We ought to know that we 
 shall be responsible for every sin that we uphold, that degrades 
 humanity. This crime, which is at the bottom of all vice, 
 could be annihilated if men would stand by what they profess, 
 when in church, at the polls as they do in church. We are 
 commanded by God to deal justly, love mercy, walk righteously 
 and humbly before Him, that it may be well with us, as He 
 has said, * If ye love me, keep my commandments. Then I will 
 be your God and ye shall be my people/ He also said if we 
 make a league with heathen He would make them as thorns in 
 our sides. That is now our experience for disobedience to His 
 sacred laws which He says shall not fail until all be fulfilled. 
 He also said that whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also 
 reap; if to the flesh, corruption, if to the spirit, life everlasting. 
 Re not deceived, ye have the law and the prophets but, greatest 
 of all, our precious Savior, who gave His holy life to redeem 
 us from the curse of sin and show us the way to salvation. He 
 sends His spirit to guide us if we will only hear Him. 
 
 Now why not accept Him and put evil out of our midst? 
 He said we should love the Lord our God with all our heart, 
 soul, mind and strength and our neighbor as ourselves. Can 
 we love our neighbor and see benighted heathen rob him of 
 sense and purity and peace both here and hereafter, to say 
 nothing about the money which should support his loved ones, 
 which decent people are often burdened with ; besides there are 
 the millions used to support the prisons, poorhouses and dens 
 of vice and crime everywhere, which are swallowing up and 
 consuming everything and we take little or no account of 
 these awful things because it might interfere with our beloved 
 party. 
 
 God pity such blindness for they know not what they do. 
 May the scales be removed from their eyes as from Paul s 
 that they may see what God would have them do, and then do 
 it or cease to name His name so sacred, for it is mockery to 
 profess and not practice no*- DOSSCSS. The present state of 
 
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things is a disgrace to moral, cy, would be where Christianity 
 is not known. 
 
 Religion, what treasures untold reside in that heavenly 
 word, more precious than silver or gold or all that this world 
 can afford. 
 
 If such experiences as we have at the present time are the 
 expressions of religion then let that holy word, which should 
 be so highly esteemed by every true citizen, be forever erased 
 from the pages of history and not polluted with corrupt in 
 temperance which is so fast hastening the dire doom of this 
 once glorious and free country bought at so great a sacrifice. 
 Any man who will violate his conscience and sin against his 
 Creator, break his church vows, violate the ordinances of God 
 for the sake of party, has no religion and is deceiving and 
 cheating himself out of God s promise, for every church mem 
 ber should vote for the upbuilding of God s Kingdom in the 
 hearts of the people. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM 
 
 The spacious firmament on high, 
 
 With all the blue ethereal sky, 
 And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
 
 Their great Original proclaim. 
 The unwearied sun, from day to day, 
 
 Does his Creator s power display, 
 And publishes to ever_v land 
 
 The work of an Almighty Hand. 
 
 Call them in! the poor, the wretched, 
 
 Sin-stained wanderers from the fold ; 
 Peace and pardon freely offer! 
 
 Can you weigh their worth with gold ? 
 Call them in! the weak, the weary, 
 
 Laden with the doom of sin; 
 Bid them come and rest in Jesus ! 
 
 He is waiting : call them in ! 
 
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SHALL I VOTE TO LICENSE LIQUOR? 
 
 Shall I vote to license liquor? 
 
 When I cease to sense the heartaches 
 
 That are weighing millions down ; 
 When I cease to feel the sorrows 
 
 That a million hearts would drown ; 
 When my heart is no more tender 
 
 For the woes of those who mourn, 
 And I gloat upon the ruin 
 
 Of the wretched and forlorn, 
 Then I ll vote to license liquor, 
 Not till then. 
 
 Shall I vote to license liquor? 
 
 When my soul is seared and cankered 
 
 With the rust of lust and greed, 
 And from every sense of justice 
 
 And of virtue I am freed ; 
 When the anguish and the heartaches 
 
 Of a stricken world I see 
 As a cause for joy and gladness 
 
 And a blessed boon to me, 
 Then I ll vote to license liquor, 
 Not till then. 
 
 Shall I vote to license liquor? 
 
 When God shows me that the drunkard 
 
 Is the highest type of man, 
 And that slavery to passion 
 
 Is his purpose and his plan ; 
 When our womanhood is safest 
 
 Where the drunkard freest goes, 
 And our children best protected 
 
 Where Rum s river freest flows, 
 Then I ll vote to license liquor, 
 Not till then. 
 
 Shall I vote to license liquor? 
 
 When the prisons all are emptied 
 Of the hordes Rum drove to sin ; 
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When the brothels are abandoned 
 
 By the painted slaves within ; 
 When no more the drinker s children 
 
 Cry for clothing and for bread, 
 And the demon in that liquor 
 
 Has been numbered with the dead, 
 Twill be time to talk of license, 
 Not till then. 
 
 Shall I vote to license liquor? 
 No! 
 
 Gold can never right the ruin 
 
 Eum is causing in our world, 
 Turning humans into demons 
 
 Where its banners are unfurled. 
 Day by day the list increases 
 
 Of the numbers of its slain ; 
 If I license that dread business. 
 
 I shall bear the brand of Cain. 
 Shall I vote to give it license? 
 
 Not till I have lost my brain. 
 
 Shall I vote to license liquor? 
 No! 
 
 Every little child that prattles 
 
 On the knee of parenthood, 
 Every trusting wife and mother, 
 
 All things noble, all things good, 
 Plead with manhood to be manly, 
 
 Plead protection at our hand 
 From that King of Degradation 
 
 That has ruined every land. 
 
 Shall I vote to give it license? 
 Not till God gives His command. 
 
 C. M. SNOW. 
 
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TO THE UNCONVERTED. 
 
 My dear unconverted friends : 
 
 I would like to show you that you are standing on the 
 brink of eternity. Do you not realize this? Are you willing 
 to lose the blessings of eternal life for the perishable things of 
 this life from which you may be so soon called to give an 
 account of how you have improved God s time which He has 
 given you to work out your salvation by keeping His holy 
 law which says come unto me all ye ends of the earth and be 
 saved, saved from sin which leads to eternal death. 
 
 But not like the rich man who said, "I will tear down my 
 barns and build greater that I may have place to store my 
 goods." That night the spirit voice said, "Thou fool, this 
 night thy soul shall be required of thee ; whose then will these 
 things be?" So it will be with everyone who loves the things 
 of this world and is not rich towards God. 
 
 Now come, my dear ones, do not grieve away the Holy 
 Spirit like the Jews who would not accept Christ s teachings 
 when he pleaded with them saying, "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
 thou that killeth the prophets and stoneth them that are sent 
 unto thee. Gladly would I have gathered thee as a hen gath- 
 ereth her brood under her wings but ye would not. Behold 
 your house will be left unto you desolate. And so it was. 
 
 How many warnings we have received but will not heed, 
 notwithstanding we are shown that not one jot nor tittle will 
 fail from the law until all be fulfilled. 
 
 Is it in reason that Christ should suffer so much and the 
 world go free? Have we nothing to do but enjoy his millions 
 of blessings and return no service? Is that in reason? No, 
 there is a cross for everyone and the more faithfully we carry 
 it the more our blessings in eternity. We are to bear trials, 
 suffering and wrong ; in other words, to go through the furnace 
 that all the dross be taken out and the gold fitted for the 
 refiners. 
 
 How marvelous and strange is God s plan of salvation. No 
 matter what we suffer here it will all work out for good, to 
 them that love God. 
 
 Like Job, all things must work together for good to them 
 that love God. MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
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A SUMMONS TO DUTY. 
 
 Tis not in title nor in rank, 
 
 Tis not in wealth like London bank. 
 
 To make us truly blessed; 
 
 If piety has not her seal and center in the breast 
 
 We may be wise, or rich, or great, 
 But never can be blessed. 
 
 Lives of great men all remind us 
 
 That we should make our lives sublime, 
 And departing, leave behind us 
 
 Footprints on the sands of time. 
 Footprints that perhaps another, 
 
 Sailing o er life s troubled main, 
 A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, 
 
 Seeing may take heart again. 
 
 Life is short and time is fleeting, 
 
 Is our destined end and way. 
 Act, act in the living hour, 
 
 For tomorrow may not find us on the way. 
 
 The goodness of God should bring men to repentance, which 
 is only common sense. What will it profit a man if he could 
 gain the whole world and lose his soul? 
 
 Vain man, thy fond pursuit forbear, 
 
 Repent, thy end is nigh; 
 Death at farthest can t be far, 
 
 think before thou die. 
 
 Reflect, thou hast a soul to save 
 
 Thy sins, how high they mount. 
 He in a moment calls thee hence, 
 
 How stands that dread account? 
 
 Prepare to meet thy God, 
 
 For we have no claims on life, 
 Nor on the golden hours of God s mercies. 
 So grieve not the Holy Spirit of Omnipotent grace. 
 
 But seek His approving, smiling face. 
 
 We cannot afford to sin against our own souls, 
 Striving for gain, popularity and fame, 
 
 Which cannot profit us not even in this short life, 
 Which we have no claims on not even for a day ; 
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But we can claim eternal bliss, 
 
 If His laws we obey, 
 Who said, "Let there be light, and there was light," 
 
 He spake and it was done. 
 
 He commanded and it stood fast. He said also that we 
 should let our light so shine before men that they seeing our 
 good works would glorify our father in heaven. There is no 
 peace to the wicked sayeth God; but the Savior said, "Eye 
 hath not seen nor ear heard; neither hath it entered into the 
 heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them 
 that love Him." Then He said, "If ye love me keep my com 
 mandments. Then I will be your God and ye shall be my 
 people. But if ye disobey and break my covenant, I will pour 
 out my wrath upon you until ye are consumed." 
 
 We often see the mercury go down and the wind rise up, 
 while God pours out his wrath in an unmeasurable cup. We 
 get drouth, then floods with all kinds of disaster. 
 
 Still men will harden their hearts and persist to disobey, 
 
 As though they were destined here to stay, 
 And had secured their right of way. 
 
 They drink at the saloons as though they were trying to 
 
 drink them dry. 
 Then the keeper will kick them out on the commons to die. 
 
 Then they will rise and vote again, 
 For that class of criminals who call themselves men. 
 
 There is a place where saints do rest, 
 
 An immortal home for all the blessed, 
 Where we shall some day go, 
 
 When we are done with time. 
 
 On this promise my hopes are stayed, 
 
 My heart and my treasures are there ; 
 If faithful, the angels will favor our flight, 
 
 And waft us in peace to that shore. 
 
 What is religion? Righteous living. Not Creedism but a 
 pure, clean conscience before God. Charity, pure, free from 
 every sin, from backbiting, gentle, liberal and kind, seeking 
 always to lift up humanity, that they may honor God, and 
 learn to appreciate the goodness of the sacred one who created 
 us all to be heirs to His Kingdom. 
 
 Now I don t know of anything that a man could do to win 
 the favor of God and man more than to take up a work like 
 this. I wish there could be millions of these printed and bound 
 in a book with a number of similar pages, quite as important, 
 
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and circulated all over the globe where our holy God might 
 be exalted, honored and appreciated by the nations as well as 
 individuals. Then peace that passeth knowledge would reisn 
 triumphant. 
 
 Composed by the guidance of the holy spirit to the writer 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 TEACH THE BOYS TO SHUN ALL EVIL. 
 
 The boy that gets his lesson is the boy that wins the prize, 
 The boy that shuns all evil will be noble, pure and wise 
 The boy that always speaks the truth will rise above the skies. 
 
 And he who never swears nor chews the filthy stuff 
 
 Which is conveyed to cigarettes, which naughty boys do 
 puff, 
 
 Which ruins manhood, mind and health, 
 
 Destroys his strength, consumes his wealth, 
 
 Makes him a pauper and a slave, 
 Fits him for an early grave. 
 
 It is for want of knowledge they practice all such things, 
 
 Which brings them untold sorrow and leaves such lastin^ 
 
 stings. 
 
 When they should save their money to spread the gospel round 
 And help to build Christ s kingdom that grace mi "lit more 
 abound, 
 
 Then they would be building each day for future life, 
 As well as for eternity in this great world of strife. 
 
 Striving for popularity, striving for fame and gain, 
 
 Which often mar the souls of men and leave a guilty stain 
 The boy that shuns all evil will arise to honored fame. 
 
 Then let us seek for wisdom, that wisdom from above 
 Which crowns all majesty with purest Christian love, 
 
 Hie boys who never enters a saloon nor any den, 
 
 Where evil deeds are practiced to slay the sons of men, 
 u^ Wl11 nse to eminence and then beat down the sin 
 Which has enslaved so many homes where she has entei-d 
 m. 
 
 That brings to us such bondage, and all we ought to win. 
 bo let us be up improving the time that counts today, 
 or death is fast approaching, and will soon carry us awav 
 Where we must meet our destiny. 
 
 Composed by MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM 
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A REQUEST. 
 
 Dear Catholic Friends: 
 
 You should join us heart and hand to exterminate the saloon 
 which has been the cause of hundreds and thousands of your 
 men and boys, as well as our own, to be dragged into cruel, 
 torturous prisons, there to waste away in grief and pain such 
 as no one can describe, unless they have been there. 
 
 I wish those who are perpetrators and instigators of such 
 crime as giving demons the right of way to curse his fellow 
 man, I say I wish they would have to hear the cries of mothers, 
 wives, sisters and children of those poor boys, first made drunk 
 by those who have the right to make as many criminals as 
 they can entice into the viper s den for only one purpose and 
 that is to get their last dime and send them out to commit 
 crime in a condition they know not what they do. But the 
 lobber that robs them goes right on repeating this tragedy 
 until he fills our prisons, orphans homes, asylums and poor 
 houses with the broken hearted who have been starved and 
 distressed beyond the limits of endurance. 
 
 God only knows the depths of this indescribable sin and 
 misery and we act as though we knew nothing about it and 
 cared less. 
 
 Tell me, can anyone who believes in a just God do that 
 which he knows is destroying human beings by the millions? 
 No. A creature that can harm his fellow man is an unbeliever. 
 He is void of conscience and is taking no interest in his own 
 soul. Did Christ die that sin might abound or that we should 
 put it away? 
 
 Paul said, "God forbid that we should continue in sin If 
 Christ died that we might continue in sin then He died in 
 vain." But thanks be to God, He has shown us how to live 
 that we may escape His wrath by putting down sin and exter 
 minating it and exalting righteousness by rescuing those who 
 are in danger of being led by the snares of the enemy of all 
 righteousness. 
 
 So 1 plead with you to join us heart and hand to extermi 
 nate this den of robbery which is at the bottom of almost every 
 crime and often the cause of railroad wrecks, sinking ships, 
 strikes, disasters of all kinds. 
 
 How can a Holy God endure such things after giving us the 
 light of His holy sublime word and requiring us to go and 
 
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evangelize the world ; but instead of obeying we have let the 
 enemy in, ruling in triumph, until he is running everything 
 pure and right into the ground ; given him the right of way to 
 set up these traps of perdition all over our beautiful land 
 bought at the price of blood by our forefathers who suffered 
 all kinds of privations to secure a home for us, and now we 
 have proven ourselves unworthy of the merit or victory won 
 at such a cost. This was done for our liberty and now we 
 have allowed the oppressor to invade and shackle us with 
 such untold bondage. 
 One critic said that, 
 
 "Old Satan flew from north to south, 
 
 And took the hypocrites all in his mouth; 
 And when he found they were such fools, 
 
 He left them in the cities to run our schools. 
 Now he must have been an awful naughty man to make 
 such an assertion as that about our refined citizens, but it is 
 a kind of a free country for everybody who stays sober but 
 look out you poor weak fellow that you don t get too much 
 and have to spend your days in a prison cell. 
 
 Now I think what ought to be done is to exterminate the 
 saloon; then build workhouses in every city to give employ 
 ment to the idle ; then after those dens death traps are 
 driven from the earth and man lifted to a higher standard 
 and made to know the power of the gospel, then open the prison 
 doors and free those poor boys that we put there by our per 
 petrating and blindly granting such an iniquitous sin the most 
 monstrous in the universe. 
 
 Now lest we receive judgment at the hand of God, like the 
 ancient cities brought down in ruinous heaps, some destroyed 
 by nre, others by earthquake like they had in Italy a few 
 years ago, there is no question but that we will bring the judg 
 ment of God upon the nation if we continue at this rate for 
 Sodom or Babylon or Tyre, Ninevah or Sydon were any 
 worse, they were to be pitied, for they did not have a spark 
 light in comparison to what we have, therefore would not 
 be half so responsible. 
 
 Now I plead with you and warn you, like Noah warned 
 the people before the flood, to repent and put away their sins 
 them if 7 " n0t hearken S the flood carne and swallowed 
 We have no excuse. God has given us intellect and we do 
 sin against God and against our fellow being to allow anythino- 
 to exist that is an injury to our race; anything that destroy* 
 
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God s grace and breaks up and impoverishes hundreds of thou 
 sands of homes. 
 
 Is not the sin of omission equal to the sin of commission? 
 
 So where can we go to escape the vengeance of God when 
 He takes us into account for our inconsistency, our indifference 
 in regard to suffering helpless humanity? 
 
 You will say that to take away the saloon is taking away 
 a man s liberty. No, it is not, for there is no man in a drunk 
 ard, nor in any one who supports the traffic ! he is a beast of 
 the lowest type, not fit to have a say in anything. 
 
 You would not vote to have a lot of wild beasts running at 
 large not knowing who they will devour. 
 
 It is no doubt this curse which causes so many auto wrecks 
 and every other kind of wreck; but the worst wreck is the 
 wreck of mind. The mind is generally wrecked before the 
 other wreck occurs. Then the second wreck wrecks wives and 
 children and often makes untold wrecks of millions, and so it 
 goes on and on as a little thing of no consequence, not worth 
 anybody s notice. Then call this a Christian ration and 1 
 doubt if the Hindoos do worse. 
 
 Let Satan s host rule in making criminals and then hire a 
 million policemen in the United States to keep them straight 
 and in order. First give them the drug, then the club. 
 
 Haven t we got lots of culture to boast of? How wise we 
 are, and I think we have more wisdom than courage. The dear 
 Lord pity us for we know not what we do ; but one thing we 
 are sure of, and that is the vengeance of the Almighty God for 
 allowing so much tyranny and starvation to come upon the 
 helpless innocent which God left in our reach to rescue and 
 enlighten and we fail to do it at our ow r n cost. 
 
 There never has been a time when God showed us so defi 
 nitely the corruption of politics and the need of righteous 
 living. I have known for years that it was only a scheme to 
 cloak fraud, a hobby to ride into office on and get where they 
 could handle our tax money to their liking. Instead of hand 
 ling it for the benefit of the individual as well as the nation it 
 is handled to buy votes and benefit a few at the head of the 
 government and we so blind we cannot see through these things. 
 
 Now you have seen all this and felt the enormity of it in 
 taxpaying, realizing that a man is better off who owns nothing ; 
 then his tax won t consume all he has with himself thrown in 
 to make good measure, and then they have not got enough to 
 run the schools but must run rattlesnake dens to support our 
 schools. 
 
 What do you say to this, you Christian voters who have 
 
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children in the schools and boys in the penitentiary? If you 
 have not, your neighbor has> and if you ever expect to see the 
 light of heaven you had better go and get him out just as 
 soon as it can be done, for you were put here to look after 
 your brother and never speak of religion until this is done 
 lest God smite us with a curse. 
 
 How Christ must be weeping over us, as He did over Jeru 
 salem when He said, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, gladly would 
 I have gathered you as a hen gathers her brood under her 
 wings but ye would not. Behold your house will be left unto 
 you desolate," and so it was. There was a great army came 
 and besieged it and destroyed hundreds of thousands of those 
 rebels who would not hear the voice of God nor repent and be 
 saved. 
 
 Stubbornness is presumptive disobedience and never fails 
 to bring the judgment of God, and who can wonder when we 
 realize his blessings which are so little appreciated by the 
 masses. 
 
 Instead of living so Christ could handle us for His glory 
 and our salvation and living so we could always sing, 
 "On Christ the solid rock I stand, 
 All other ground is sinking sand," 
 
 which we all will find out some day and it won t be long with 
 some of us. Then we will wish we had not sinned against God 
 and played away our days of grace. Then we will wish we 
 had let our light shine before men through our good works 
 that they would glorify "Our Father who art in heaven" also 
 
 People are not put here to rob and plunder. That was not 
 God s design in making man so like himself. He made us to 
 be His heirs if we would fill the conditions, but He never prom 
 ised anyone eternal life and peace unless they accepted His 
 terms. 
 
 We cannot serve Satan all our lives arid then measure up 
 to the standard mark required. If we undertake this we will 
 find ourselves like the five virgins with their empty lamps for 
 you have no excuse. You have Moses and the prophets the 
 sublime word of God, which should be your guide your light 
 your all. It will bid all your dark forebodings* cease and 
 through the thick and dangerous thrall it will lead you to the 
 port of peace. 
 
 Now it is not necessary for me to dwell on these truths 
 which you would understand perfectly if you study the sacred 
 volume as God intended we should. Then it would be our wis 
 dom for there is more in it than there is in the world beside 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM 
 
THE CHOSEN OF GOD. 
 
 Whom do we choose as gentlemen? 
 
 The knave, the dunce, the galoot, 
 If they but own a stock of gold, 
 
 Or wear a broadcloth suit. 
 
 The parchment scroll of titled line, 
 The exalted name it may be, 
 
 Can that suffice to ratify 
 Or grant a high degree? 
 
 Know God with matchless hand 
 
 Puts forth His noble born, 
 And laughs the paltry attributes 
 
 Of wealth and rank to scorn. 
 
 He molds with care a spirit rare. 
 
 Half human, half divine, 
 And shouts exulting, Who can make 
 
 A gentleman like mine?" 
 
 He may not spend His glorious skill 
 
 Upon the outward part ; 
 But showers beauty, grace and light 
 
 Upon the mind and heart. 
 
 He may not choose ancestral fame, 
 
 His pathway to illume, 
 The sun that sheds the brightest ray 
 
 May rise from mist and gloom. 
 
 Should fortune with her welcome store 
 
 And useful gold abound, 
 He shares it with a bounteous hand, 
 
 And scatters blessings round. 
 
 The treasures sent are rightly spent, 
 And serve the end designed, 
 
 When held by God s own gentlemen, 
 The true, the pure, the kind. 
 
 He turns not from the cheerless home 
 Where sorrow s offspring dwell, 
 
 He greets the peasant in his hut, 
 The culprit in his cell. 
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He stays to hear the widow s plaint, 
 Of deep and mourning love, 
 
 He seeks to aid her lot below, 
 And prompt her faith above. 
 
 The orphan child, the friendless one, 
 
 The luckless and the poor, 
 Will never meet his spurning frown 
 
 Or leave his bolted door. 
 
 His kindred circles all mankind, 
 
 His country all the globe, 
 An honest heart, the jeweled star, 
 
 And truth his ermine robe. 
 
 He wisely yields his sentiments 
 
 To reason s firm control, 
 His pleasures are of crimeless kind 
 
 And never taunt the soul. 
 
 He may be thrown among the gay 
 
 And reckless sons of life. 
 But will not join the revel scene, 
 
 But shun the brawling strife. 
 
 He wounds no breast w r ith jeer or jest, 
 He bears no flattering tongue ; 
 
 He s social with the gray haired one. 
 And merry with the young. 
 
 He gravely shares the council s speech, 
 
 Or joins the rustic game, 
 And shines as God s own gentleman, 
 
 In every place the same. 
 
 No haughty gestures mark his gait, 
 No pompous tone his word ; 
 
 No studied attitude is seen, 
 No palling nonsense heard. 
 
 He ll suit his bearing to the hour, 
 Laugh, listen, learn or teach, 
 
 With joyous freedom in his mirth 
 Or candor in his speech. 
 
 He worships God with inward zeal, 
 And serves Him in each deed ; 
 
 He would not blame another s faith 
 Nor have one martyr bleed. 
 
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Justice and mercy form his code, 
 
 He puts his trust in heaven, 
 His prayer is, "If the heart be right, 
 
 May all else be forgiven. 
 
 Though few of such may gem this earth, 
 
 Yet such rare gems they are, 
 Each shining in his hallowed sphere, 
 
 As virtue s polar star. 
 
 Though human hearts are often found, 
 
 All gross, corrupt and dark, 
 Yet still some bosoms breathe and burn, 
 
 Lit by celestial spark. 
 
 There are some spirits nobly just, 
 
 Unwarped by pelf or pride ; 
 Great in the calm, but greater still 
 
 When tossed by adverse tide. 
 
 They hold the rank no king can give, 
 
 No station can disgrace, 
 God puts forth his gentleman, 
 
 And monarchs must give place. 
 
 This blessed poetry was written by one, chosen of God 
 who 1 ? we do not know. 
 
 If things were as they should be, this country could be 
 made like the garden of Eden for beauty, and purity, and 
 when we can have the right influence thrown over the people 
 the right kind of voting when men will prove themselves 
 to be converted, born of the spirit of God, then we will have 
 harmony, just and righteous dealings. There will be little need 
 then for almshouses and state prisons. 
 
 Life passeth soon; 
 
 Death draweth near: 
 Keep us, good Lord, 
 
 Till Thou appear; 
 With Thee to live, 
 
 With Thee to rein 
 Through eternity! 
 
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OUR FUTURE HOPE. 
 
 1 have great hope and comfort in believing that we are 
 going to have a wonderful change for the better, for I believe 
 now that we have God-fearing men at the head of the govern 
 ment ; men who will not dishonor God and themselves to put 
 blood-stained coin into their pockets, which must be made at 
 the cost of starving widows and orphan children whose fathers 
 are in a felon s cell. We have been supporting such corruption 
 cloaked with politics, to deceive and get us where they could 
 rob us, not only of our money but of our boy also, which is a 
 thousand times worse. They who are now in authority cer 
 tainly do not realize how much they do need the guidance of 
 heaven, with the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Samson, 
 the mind, fidelity and grace of Washington and the heroism of 
 Paul Jones. I believe we have that spirit still living today, in 
 our noblest heroes, which must be put to the test, but we hope 
 in a milder form, God leading on to victory. 
 
 These grandest heroes here mentioned were praying men, 
 who had more sense than to trust to their own strength. If 
 they had not we would not own this country today. It was 
 bought at a great sacrifice then, founded upon the highest 
 Christian principles, from which we have fallen, with all our 
 advantages, by letting go of the main strength, the sure and 
 only hope to fame, the power that will never fail us, if we hold 
 out faithful. 
 
 When we look around us and see the saloons, automobiles, 
 motorcycles, chasing as though their destiny depended upon 
 the race they were trying to win, it makes us stop and wonder 
 whether it is worth our while to try to live any longer. If you 
 decide it is not worth while to try just get your life insured 
 and then undertake to cross a street anywhere where saloons 
 have the right of way. You will find that you are liable to 
 be marching to Zion almost any day, that beautiful city of 
 God, providing you have been traveling the right road here. 
 These could be run safely if it were not for the saloon effects 
 running them to the distraction of thousands. 
 
 Now I leave you this book of instructions, a book of great price, 
 Which will be a great blessing to all who read it through twice. 
 It shows how God offers consolation to weary hearts that bleed ; 
 It offers invitation to Christ but not to creed. 
 This He offers for your salvation and all that you may need. 
 
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Are you ready and waiting for the coming of the Lord ? 
 Are you living as He bid you in His sacred, solemn word ? 
 
 Are you walking in the light? 
 
 Ts your hope of heaven bright? 
 Could you welcome Him tonight, 
 
 Were He now to come and call? 
 Have you heard the joyful sound, 
 
 Jesus saves? 
 So let us then where sin abounds, 
 
 Go spread the tidings all around 
 
 That Jesus saves. 
 Bear the news to every land, 
 
 Climb the steep and cross the wave, 
 Onward, tis the Lord s command, 
 
 Jesus saves. 
 Waft it on the rolling tide, 
 
 Jesus saves. 
 Tell to sinners far and wide, 
 
 Jesus saves. 
 Sing ye islands of the sea, 
 
 Echo back ye ocean caves, 
 Earth shall keep her jubilee, 
 
 Jesus saves. 
 Sing above the battle strife, 
 
 Jesus saves. 
 By His death and endless life, 
 
 Jesus saves. 
 And thus declares that some will enter 
 
 By and by the pearly gates, 
 Taste of the glory that there awaits, 
 
 Shall it be you or I? 
 Some will travel the streets of gold, 
 
 Beautiful visions there behold, 
 Forever enjoy the pleasures foretold, 
 
 Shall it be you and I? 
 
 Now may the spirit of truth stamp these realities upon your 
 hearts, one and all, now and forever. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
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COME, HEED THE WARNING. 
 
 As I have said before so say I again, that we shall be 
 shrouded in blood, pestilence and famine for our inconsistent 
 ignorance, unfeeling heartlessness and neglect. It is so hard 
 for any one who weighs these appalling truths to endure the 
 outlook. Brutal beasts, coming home drunk, beating their chil 
 dren to death with stove wood, beating their little tender heads 
 into jelly, often setting their homes on fire to cover their crime, 
 and we call these "little every day occurrences" and take no 
 account of the cause. 
 
 my God, what can we say w r hen we must stand before 
 Thee and be judged at the final day? Can we fare better than 
 those who have committed these crimes? No. Impossible, for 
 we have laid the foundation and they have built upon it to 
 their own destruction and ours. God only knows how my 
 heart goes out to the criminal who ought to be free and we 
 w r ho are the perpetrators, the instigators of the curse, put 
 there in their place or stead. We are building for ourselves a 
 fearful eternity as well as an appalling present. 
 
 Now it is you who have influence and power who must 
 decide this terrible problem; for it is you who must pay the 
 price which will cost you a million times more than you can 
 make out of it in dollars and cents. Now hearken before it 
 is too late, for it is written in the Word of God, "Vengeance 
 is mine," sayeth the Lord, "and I will repay." So this is writ 
 ten for a warning to all, for the benefit of all, for Christ s sake 
 and humanity s sake. 
 
 Now I leave you here this little book that you may look 
 upon, that you may see my homely face when I am dead and 
 gone, all for the hope of heavenly things for you and I, while 
 we do here remain, I give over all, these golden warnings to 
 rescue you from shame and to deliver you from blame. 
 
 Now may the richest blessings of God inspire you with 
 zeal, to work, for the night is coming w r hen we will be shrouded 
 in blood. Work with power, improve every flying hour. 
 
 With a hope I now leave you in that faith which is unseen, 
 an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast. I leave you to 
 question yourselves concerning our present and future wel 
 fare. Take these truths to heart ; like Queen Esther did when 
 her people were to be destroyed at Hamon s command, who 
 was afterward hung on his own gallows. That same condition 
 can be brought about by the faithful if they will only be true 
 to God and conscience and step out on God s promises, like 
 
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King David when he went to slay that giant Goliah. He said 
 in the name of the living God he would do it. 
 
 We have been playing with sacred things and trifling with 
 the most monstrous sins until God is ready to cast us down 
 and out, like He did Adam, out of the garden of the Lord, that 
 beautiful garden of Eden which our America almost represents, 
 and would be similar, were it not for the dens of vice and 
 crime taking us almost root and branch and fastening their 
 fangs into our very vitals with a grip not easily got rid of. 
 But, with true, practical, earnest, sincere, influential leaders 
 at the head we shall break the bands of tyranny, throw open 
 the prison doors, arrest the perpetrators and put them where 
 they belong. Then sweet peace, love and harmony will reign 
 supreme and God be honored and glorified. 
 
 This is my prayer, my brother whose kindred circles all 
 mankind, whose country is all the globe. This is my prayer 
 without partiality to any ; but, for Christ s sake, would gladly 
 bring you all into the Kingdom, Jew and Gentile, bond and 
 free, rich and poor, honored and despised. 
 
 Christ said He came not to save the righteous but to bring 
 sinners to repentance. He said, they that are whole, or, as 
 we would term it, well, need no physician. 
 
 if people would only read the wonderful, sublime, inspired 
 Word, so rich, so instructive, so mighty in power, which would 
 save and keep them clean; if we would only heed the warnings 
 contained therein and pray only for light and a closer walk 
 with God ; pray to arise to a higher plane and rise up by faith 
 as on eagles wings and soar away to meet Him, Who is 
 supreme over all, Him Who the winds and waves obey, Him 
 Who commands the waters to part and stay until His chosen 
 people passed over safely to the other side of Jordan; then 
 gave Elisha the same power ; only observe and consider what 
 miraculous power He will give to His faithful ones in whom 
 He can trust. 
 
 O may the Holy God kindle a flame of sacred love in these 
 cold hearts of ours for Jesus sake and humanity s sake, now 
 and forever. 
 
 Now may our song every day be, 
 
 Nearer, my God, to Thee, 
 
 Nearer to Thee, 
 E en though it be a cross 
 
 That raiseth me. 
 Let all our life s pleadings be, 
 
 Only nearer my God, to live nearer to Thee. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
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A HINT OF COMING EVENTS. 
 
 Unless there is a great change soon, which we pray that 
 God will bring about through the change at the head ol our 
 government, we must plead to the Lord God Almighty, know 
 ing there is none beside Him, ruling, reigning triumphantly 
 over earth, sea and sky, seraphim and cherubim falling down 
 before Him, Who wert and art and evermore shall be, through 
 all the ages of everlasting eternity ; to Thee we plead to break 
 the bands of tyranny and set the captive free as Thou didst 
 in 1865 when principle was still alive. 
 
 But long since then it is laid aside, 
 
 While graft, greed and dishonor 
 Have separated us from all natural pride. 
 
 From justice and all purity, 
 And, worst of all, 
 
 From our supernatural guide, 
 From whence we have drifted far and wide, 
 
 And now are serving on the other side. 
 
 In 1865 we freed the blacks and now we protect them and 
 the Indians, which is right; but our own flesh and blood go 
 unprotected into the death trap set for them, like the idols in 
 the heathen land, made to burn their children in. Are we 
 setting up these dens of crime to make a sacrifice of our chil 
 dren, like the heathen when they throw a child into the mouth 
 of a crocodile as a sacrifice for their own sins? This distress 
 ing state of facts will never compensate for our enormous guilt 
 and perpetrated crime as a nation. 
 
 We are supposed to be a spiritual, intellectual, moral people, 
 but I fear we have lost sight of these sublime attributes and are 
 drifting into infidelity or non-consciousness of the real emblem 
 of right. Now in order to win the confidence of the world we 
 must break the demon s chain that binds us like martyrs to 
 the stake, and prove to be a people capable for the task, 
 a people chosen of God to right all wrongs that degrade and 
 mar the souls of men and fit them for a felon s den. We must 
 work like heroes, work like Paul for the prize of the high 
 calling, with an eye single to God s call as well as our own 
 temporal prosperity. If we don t we are going to reap what 
 we have allowed to be sown by the enemy and will reap the 
 judgment of God upon our violations of " His divine law for 
 
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abusing His mercies. As we have received special favors from 
 Him just so shall it be required of us. 
 
 Christ said, "As you do good to one of the least of these ye 
 do it unto me." He also said it were better for us if a stone 
 were hanged about our necks and we cast into the sea than 
 that we should offend one of these little ones that believe in 
 Him. So we had better be careful who we offend. Christ said, 
 "search the scriptures;" for in them ye find eternal life, for 
 they testify of Christ and lead us into the light and life eter 
 nal. Read the book of Jeremiah, the book of Esther, then 
 Malachi. Read the book of Acts. Turn to the 9th, 10th and 
 llth chapters of Acts and you will be fully convinced that we 
 all have something to do besides down and ruin our fellow 
 man because we have it in our power so to do. Study the 
 word of God and see who will be the greatest loser in the end. 
 That sublime truth will show you whether you can afford 
 to crush humanity under your heel to gain which will only ln> 
 a curse to you in the end. 
 
 If we would work like the adversaries, day and night, to 
 carry out their plots against us, then we would soon do some 
 thing w T orth while, would accomplish that whereunto we are 
 sent, win for God and every creature victory triumphant over 
 all, and would all be singing Hallelujah to God and the Lamb. 
 
 Long I have waited, long I have sought, 
 For the truth that light has brought, 
 
 For the inspiring light now given 
 To illuminate our path to heaven. 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 A few more years shall roll, 
 A few more seasons come, 
 And we shall be with those that rest, 
 
 Asleep within the tomb; 
 
 Then, O, my Lord, prepare 
 
 My soul for that great day; 
 Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood, 
 
 And take my sins away. 
 
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CHRIST BEFORE PILATE, AND PILATE BEFORE CHRIST 
 
 When Christ, the King of glory, 
 
 Stood in man s judgment-hall, 
 "What shall I do with Jesus?" 
 
 Said Pilate to them all. 
 
 They said, "Release the guilty, 
 
 And Christ we 11 crucify. 
 A robber was acquitted 
 
 The Prince of Life must die. 
 
 "I ll wash my hands," said Pilate, 
 
 * To free myself from guilt ; 
 I will not be responsible 
 
 When Jesus blood is spilt." 
 
 But when the Judge immortal 
 
 Who stood in Pilate s hall 
 Shall sit upon the great white throne, 
 
 To judge both great and small, 
 
 Then Pilate shall be summoned 
 
 From death s deep shades of gloom, 
 
 To hear his own dread sentence 
 The Christ-rejecter s doom. 
 
 Oh, with what bitter anguish 
 
 He then shall meet those eyes ! 
 How will yon scene of judgment 
 
 Afresh before him rise ! 
 
 W^hen Christ shall ask of Pilate, 
 "What have you done with Me?" 
 
 Oh, in that solemn moment, 
 What will his answer be ? 
 
 What have you done, my reader, 
 With God s beloved Son? 
 
 Have you received His mercy? 
 Or are you still undone? 
 
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Are you, along with Pilate, 
 
 Selling the Christ of God 
 For the world s fleeting honors, 
 
 With those who shed His blood? 
 
 If you thus treat the Saviour 
 
 Whom Pilate crucified, 
 Amid eternal darkness 
 
 With Pilate you ll abide. 
 
 Oh, heed the words of warning, 
 
 To Jesus bow, and live, 
 While yet the chief of sinners 
 
 He s ready to forgive. 
 
 C. C. Crowston. 
 
 THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 
 
 How bright it shines o er all the earth; 
 Since first it marked the Saviour s birth! 
 How many travelers from afar 
 Have sought the guidance of that Star! 
 The bright effulgence of its light 
 Pierced e en the darkness of earth s night. 
 
 Its radiance, dimmed awhile, shone clear, 
 Pointing the Reformation near. 
 And now once more the heathen night 
 Is full illumined by its light, 
 Proclaiming, "Christ will soon appear, 
 Herald the King whose reign is near!" 
 
 Instead of manger now a throne ; 
 For humble birth, a Prince well known; 
 Instead of thorns, a crown of might ; 
 For seamless garb, a robe of light. 
 
 O Bethlehem s Star, thy rays have pierced 
 
 The limits of the universe ! 
 
 Our hearts a loyal tribute bring 
 
 To Bethlehem s babe encrowned King. 
 
 Worthie Harris Holden. 
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THE DAYS IN WHICH WE LIVE. 
 
 These are days of wild excitement, 
 
 Mobs arise beyond control. 
 Lynch law reigns without indictment, 
 
 Tho it scars the human soul. 
 In the fever of a moment, 
 
 In the furor of a fray, 
 In the silence of long torment, 
 
 Men cast hope and life away. 
 
 These are days of fierce achievement, 
 
 Competition s race begun, 
 Click of hammer, no relievement, 
 
 Hot. the toiling wheels whirl on, 
 Rush of cars in webbed commotion, 
 
 Men are running to and fro, 
 Strain of nerve and keen emotion 
 
 Is the whole worlds undertow. 
 
 These are days of hard contrastings, 
 
 Rich in lavish luxury, 
 Poor in bitter, sad recastings, 
 
 Under goad of penury. 
 Beggars, menials, workmen, languish, 
 
 Pressed by heartless grasp and cold, 
 What to those who gain their anguish? 
 
 Men grow calloused as their gold. 
 
 These are days of world-enthronement, 
 
 Lust of eyes and pride of life, 
 Days when self hath great endowment 
 
 To attain the end of strife. 
 Days of epicurean festal, 
 
 Days of fatness for the J*wd. 
 Days when men grow coarse and bestial 
 
 From the slaughter of the good. 
 
 These are days of warring nations, 
 Armies, navies blast and boom; 
 
 Picked, the flower of rank and station. 
 Facing deathward for their doom ; 
 
 Hearts defiled and homes dismantled, 
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Earth s a charnel-house of dust. 
 Is there aught for man implanted 
 To survive the reign of lust? 
 
 Yes, my soul, behold, above you 
 
 Flies an angel with a scroll 
 Written on, "The Father loves you, 
 
 He will save the seeking soul;" 
 Flying, crying as he passes, 
 
 "Turn to Christ and Calvary," 
 O awake the frenzied masses, 
 
 Ere time strikes eternity. 
 
 In these days of swift probation, 
 
 join all, ye hearts that ken, 
 Publish out the great salvation, 
 
 That still waits repentant men; 
 For these days are of decision; 
 
 Souls to lasting choice are driven; 
 Swiftly comes the just concision, 
 
 Hate to doom, and love to heaven. 
 
 Frances E. Bolton. 
 
 We love Thy holy word, 
 The lamp Thou gav st to guide 
 All wanderers home, O Lord, 
 Home to their Father s side. 
 
 Then let us sing the love 
 To us so freely given, 
 Until we sing above 
 The triumph-song of heaven. 
 
 I thank Thee, Lord, that Thou hast kept 
 
 The best in store; 
 We have enough, yet not too much 
 
 To long for more: 
 A yearning for a deeper peace, 
 
 Not known before. 
 
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THE MASTER IS COMING! 
 Or, How to Entertain the King. 
 
 They said, "The Master is coming 
 
 To honor the town today, 
 And none can tell at whose house or home 
 
 The Master will choose to stay." 
 And I thought, while my heart beat wildly, 
 
 What if He should come to mine ? 
 How would I strive to entertain 
 
 And honor the Guest Divine ! 
 
 And straight I turned to toiling 
 
 To make my home more neat; 
 I swept, and polished, and garnished, 
 
 And decked it with blossoms sweet ; 
 I was troubled for fear the Master 
 
 Might come ere my task was done ; 
 And I hastened and worked the faster, 
 
 And watched the hurrying sun. 
 
 But right in the midst of my duties 
 
 A woman came to my door ; 
 She had come to tell me her sorrows, 
 
 And my comfort and aid to implore. 
 And I said, "I cannot listen, 
 
 Nor help you any today ; 
 I have greater things to attend to," 
 
 And the pleader turned away. 
 
 And soon there came another 
 
 A cripple, thin, pale, and grey 
 And said, "Oh, let me stop and rest 
 
 Awhile in your home, I pray ! 
 I have traveled far since morning, 
 
 I am hungry, and faint, and weak ; 
 My heart is full of misery, 
 
 And comfort and help I seek." 
 
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And I said, I am grieved and sorry, 
 
 But I cannot help you today; 
 I look for a great and noble guest," 
 
 And the cripple went away. 
 And the day wore on more swiftly, 
 
 And my task was nearly done, 
 And a prayer was in my heart 
 
 That the Master to me might come. 
 
 And I thought I would spring to meet Him 
 
 And serve Him with utmost care, 
 When a little child stood by me 
 
 With a face so sweet and fair 
 Sweet, but with marks of tear-drops, 
 
 And his clothes were tattered and old, 
 A finger was bruised and bleeding, 
 
 And his little bare feet were cold. 
 
 And I said, I am sorry for you ; 
 
 You are sorely in need of care, 
 But I cannot stop to give it 
 
 You must hasten otherwhere." 
 And at the words a shadow 
 
 Swept o er his blue-veined brow ; 
 "Someone will feed and clothe you, dear, 
 
 But I am too busy now. 
 
 At last the day was ended, 
 
 And my toil was over and done ; 
 My house was swept and garnished, 
 
 And I watched in the dark alone 
 Watched, but no footfall sounded, 
 
 No one paused at my gate, 
 No one entered my cottage door; 
 
 I could only pray and wait. 
 
 I waited till night had deepened, 
 
 And the Master had not come ; 
 "He has entered some other door," I cried, 
 
 "And gladdened some other home!" 
 My labor had been for nothing, 
 
 And I bowed my head and wept. 
 My heart was sore with longing, 
 
 Yet, spite of it all, I slept. 
 
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Then the Master stood before me, 
 
 And His face was grave and fair ; 
 "Three times today I came to your door, 
 
 And craved your pity and care ; 
 Three times you sent me onward, 
 
 Unhelped and uncomforted, 
 And the blessing you might have had was lost, 
 
 And your chance to serve has fled." 
 
 O Lord, dear Lord, forgive me ! 
 
 How could I know it was Thee?" 
 My very soul was shamed and bowed 
 
 In the depths of humility. 
 And He said, "The sin is pardoned, 
 
 But the blessing is lost to thee ; 
 For, comforting not the least of Mine, 
 
 Ye have failed to comfort Me." 
 
 R. MAY. 
 
 Love divine, all love excelling, 
 Joy of Heaven to earth come down! 
 
 Fix in us Thy humble dwelling, 
 All Thy faithful mercies crown. 
 
 Days and moments quickly flying, 
 Speed us onward to the dead: 
 
 Oh, how soon shall we be lying 
 Each within his narrow bed! 
 
 Fear not, I am with thee; oh, be not dismayed! 
 
 I, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; 
 
 I ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to 
 
 stand, 
 Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 
 
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THE PRESIDENCY. 
 
 What is a thoroughgoing American viewpoint of the rivalry 
 expressed in presidential elections comes from Chicago, in th- 
 Record-Herald, from the pen of one of Chicago s best known 
 writers of verse and social commentary. Wilbur D. Nesbit 
 may be called the successor of Eugene Field in his sunny Amer 
 icanism. He writes also in a helpful and characteristic way 
 on current events and may fairly stand as an exponent of the 
 philosophy of Americanism. 
 
 It is a higher, nobler thing by far 
 
 Than any transitory meed of fame. 
 It is too great for us to sear and scar 
 
 By heaping up our petty hate and blame. 
 Built on the olden hope and sacrifice, 
 
 Shaped of the soul-born faith that m 
 It is above all favor and all price 
 
 That any man among us may commanu 
 
 They gave their all that this high place should ^ 
 The symbol of the patriotic pride 
 
 That warms the very souls of you and me. 
 It was not made to be a pledge or pawn, 
 
 It was not made for barter in the street 
 It typifies the trust of days agone 
 
 That liberty with justice fair should meet. 
 
 It means all that we hold from all the years, 
 
 It means all that is splendid in our age ; 
 Its story has been writ in blood and tears 
 
 Upon Time s never-fading, widespread page. 
 And it means more it means that you and I 
 
 Have here a heritage that is a bond 
 Which binds us now as under that blue sky 
 
 Which told the world that Freedom s day had dawned. 
 
 Ah, out upon the mean and scowling spite, 
 
 Have done with all the bandying of words ! 
 The years shall try our deeds and mold the right 
 
 And break the wrong into a thousand sherds. 
 It is no gift, it is no thing of price, 
 
 It is no bauble passed from hand to hand 
 It marks the olden hope and sacrifice, 
 
 It shows the soul-born faith that made our land. 
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FROM GREENLAND S ICY MOUNTAINS. 
 
 From Greenland s icy mountains, 
 
 From India s coral strand, 
 Where Afric s sunny fountains 
 
 Roll down their golden sand; 
 From man}" an ancient river, 
 
 From many a palmy plain, 
 They call us to deliver 
 
 Their land from error s chain. 
 
 What though the spicy breezes 
 
 Blow soft o er Ceylon s isle; 
 Though every prospect pleases, 
 
 And only man is vile: 
 In vain with lavish kindness 
 
 The gifts of God are strown; 
 The heathen in his blindness 
 
 Bows down to wood and stone. 
 
 Can we, whose souls are lighted 
 
 With wisdom from on high; 
 Can we to men benighted 
 
 The lamp of life deny? 
 Salvation, O salvation! 
 
 The joyful sound proclaim, 
 Till each remotest nation 
 
 Has learnt Messiah s Name. 
 
 Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, 
 
 And you, ye waters, roll, 
 Till, like a sea of glory, 
 
 It spreads from pole to pole: 
 Till o er our ransomed nature, 
 
 The Lamb for sinners slain, 
 Redeemer, King, Creator, 
 
 In bliss returns to reign. 
 
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ADVENT. 
 
 Hark! the voice eternal, 
 
 Robed in majesty, 
 Calling into being, 
 
 Earth and sea and 
 Hark ! in countless numbers 
 
 All the angel - throng 
 Hail creation s morning 
 
 With one burst of song. 
 High in regal glor\ r , 
 Mid eternal light, 
 Reign, King immortal, 
 
 Holy, infinite. 
 
 Bright the world and glorious, 
 
 Calm both earth and sea, 
 Noble in its grandeur 
 
 Stood man s purity. 
 Came the great transgression, 
 
 Came the saddening fall, 
 Death and desolation 
 
 Breathing over all. 
 Still in regal glory, 
 
 Mid eternal light, 
 Reigned the King immortal, 
 
 Holy, infinite. 
 
 Long the nations waited, 
 
 Through the troubled night, 
 Looking, longing, yearning, 
 
 For the promised light. 
 Prophets saw the morning 
 
 Breaking far away, 
 Minstrels sang the splendor 
 
 Of that opening day. 
 Whilst in regal glory, 
 
 Mid eternal light, 
 Reigned the King immortal, 
 
 Holy, infinite. 
 
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Brightly dawned the Advent 
 
 Of the new-born King, 
 Joyously the watchers 
 
 Heard the angels sing. 
 Sadly closed the evening 
 
 Of His hallowed life, 
 As the noontide darkness 
 
 Veiled the last dread strife. 
 Lo! again in glor\ r , 
 
 Mid eternal light, 
 Reigns the King immortal, 
 
 Hoi} 7 , infinite. 
 
 Lo! again He cometh, 
 
 Robed in clouds of light, 
 As the Judge eternal, 
 
 Armed with power and might. 
 Nations to His footstool 
 
 Gathered then shall be ; 
 Earth shall yield her treasures, 
 
 And her dead, the sea. 
 Till the trumpet soundeth, 
 
 Mid eternal light, 
 Reign Thou King immortal, 
 
 Holy, infinite. 
 
 Jesus, Lord and Master, 
 
 Prophet, Priest and King, 
 To Thy feet, triumphant, 
 
 Hallowed praise we bring. 
 Thine the pain and weeping, 
 
 Thine the victory ; 
 Power, and praise, and honor, 
 
 Be, O Lord, to Thee. 
 High in regal glor} 7 , 
 Mid eternal light, 
 Reign, King immortal, 
 
 Holy, infinite. 
 
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INFIDELITY. 
 
 As I look around, take in the situation of present events, 
 which mainly comes from unbelief, which is termed infidelity, 
 1 don t wonder at present conditions sweeping the country 
 with all kinds of undescribable crime and disbelief in God, 
 which never fails to leave its brand wherever it trails. 
 
 It is a pitiable reality to know that men will lose sight of 
 God, the God that made them, the God in whom they live, 
 move and have their existence. I feel sorry for the unbelievers 
 who have nothing to base their hopes upon, and know they are 
 rot here to stay. They certainly must, in some way, be de 
 praved, deficient in intellect, which often comes from an im 
 moral life, some unknown cause, which leads them to grope in 
 the dark; for men would not love darkness rather than light, 
 except their deeds were evil. We never see any true person 
 seeking for darkness. Darkness always goes with dark deeds. 
 When you hear men say they don t believe in God, you can 
 depend that they have the mark of Cain upon them and are 
 deficient in intellect and morals as well. Unbelief has filled 
 our land with disease for the reason that so many have turned 
 their backs on the Great Physician ; consequently are suffering, 
 reaping the fruit of their doings, as the result of just what 
 they have sown and are too ignorant to know or realize these 
 truths. 
 
 How can anyone, who knows anything, fail to realize the 
 harmony, the order set forth in God s plan of the universe, the 
 seasons so regularfi so wonderfully planned, the heavenly orb 
 or canopy above our heads, so mysteriously, so magnificently 
 planned and controlled by the high, majestic, holy hand of 
 Providence, all for us unworthy to enjoy, and some who are 
 scarcely human? Then think of the great deep filled with coral 
 and crystal, then the ground containing everything that man. 
 unworthy man, can make use of. Then the top of the ground, 
 covered with fertile soil that, we so undeserving, may raise 
 our bread and much more that we can turn into money, all for 
 which we should be thankful and praise and serve the bountiful 
 giver, instead of blaspheming and denying His supreme exist 
 ence and power. 
 
 How dare anyone deny that all that they cannot see with 
 the evil temporal eye when we cannot understand the visible 
 things we behold every day? You poor idiot, who disbelieves 
 
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iii God, cannot tell why your hand moves at will, nor from 
 whence comes your sight or hearing or taste or what keeps 
 ;p all your mysterious makeup, and then try to think there is 
 no superior, miraculous power managing everything in His own 
 wise way. Anyone who is too weak to comprehend these plain 
 truths should keep still and not expose their ignorance, for 
 there is danger of bringing immediate judgment from Him 
 Whom you deny. MRS. D. L. GRAHAM. 
 
 POEM ON SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK. 
 
 We are a little band of pilgrims which God has stationed here, 
 And Jesus is our leader and we re bound to persevere ; 
 
 We are holding high His banner, His royal name to honor, 
 His work shall be our mission, while life to us He ll spare, 
 
 And happy would we be if our blessings you would share. 
 
 We are bound for the land of Canaan, though desert be the way, 
 We ll feed upon the manna and w r e will watch and w r ait 
 
 and pray 
 Until our blessed Redeemer calls us from this sinful world 
 
 away. 
 We want to go to heaven but not to go alone, 
 
 We want to bring the children to sit around the throne, 
 For our dear Lord has said that of such should be His own, 
 He said except we be converted to heaven we cannot come. 
 
 Now we are needing helpers to labor with us here, 
 
 That they may reap the harvest which the faithful ones 
 will share. 
 
 Now come accept the offer and a crown of life you 11 wear, 
 On the happy shores of Eden, in eternity so fair. 
 
 I am bound for the kingdom, will you go to glory with me? 
 Hallelujah, praise ye the Lord, 
 
 Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word, 
 Just to lean upon His promise, 
 
 Just to obey, "thus saith the Lord." 
 
 MRS. DAN. L. GRAHAM. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Introductory, "The Searchlight" 5 
 
 Beer and Saloon Business.- - 6 
 
 What s the Matter With the People 9 
 
 John Barleycorn 15 
 
 A Saloon Sport 16 
 
 The Holy Scriptures 19 
 
 A Question Asked and Answered 21 
 
 Keep the Golden Rule 22 
 
 The Saloon Business at the Bottom of Almost Ever} 7 Crime.- 29 
 
 Live the Christian Life 33 
 
 A Child s Prayer r5 
 
 My First Attempt at Rhyme 36 
 
 How Times Have Changed the Course of Justice 37 
 
 Awake Thou That Sleepest P8 
 
 The Importance of Home Department Work 39 
 
 Seek Ye First the Kingdom 40 
 
 The Marvelous and Unfathomable Love of Our Creator 42 
 
 Child Laborers 47 
 
 What Is the Greatest Need of All 49 
 
 A Remedy 51 
 
 Redemption Lies With Us 52 
 
 A Great Mystery ... 55 
 
 To a Bottle of Whiskey T6 
 
 The Story of the Thief on the Cross 58 
 
 We Are Not All Barbarians 59 
 
 We Must Reform 62 
 
 Shall I Vote to License Liquor? 65 
 
 To The Unconverted 67 
 
 A Summons to Duty 68 
 
 Teach the Boys to Shun All Kvil 70 
 
 A Request 71 
 
 The Chosen of God 75 
 
 Our Future Hope 78 
 
 Come, Heed the Warning 80 
 
 A Hint of Coming Events 82 
 
 Christ Before Pilate 84 
 
 The Star of Bethlehem 85 
 
 The Days in Which We Live 86 
 
 The Master Is Coming! 88 
 
 The Presidency 91 
 
 From Greenland s Icy Mountains 92 
 
 Advent 93 
 
 Infidelity 96 
 
 Poem On Sunday School Work 96 
 
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