The Parish Monthly from Powhattan, Kansas • 3

POWHATTAN ADVERTISEMENTS. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL PURKHISER FORCE, General Only six countries in the world are without Christian Endeavor societies. The Endeavorers of New York City have organized the Tenth Legion. It has no constitution or officials.

The names of the members are not made public. Rut eac.i The following is a suggestive 1 a 1 1 of study for Sunday School teachers: Have a definate time In which to study the lesson. (20 minutes per day.) sr day, p. m. Read intervening chapters, and the lesson.

Use Bible only. Compare lesson with golden text. Monday Fix connecting links clearly Merchandise. of them agrees to set apart Tne-tenth of I his income to good works. Their motto is We carry the largest stock of General merchandise in Brown county and sell at the lowest prices.

Call and see us. "Unto God what is God's." The United Society has adopted the idea, and the next generation will have abetter training in this direction. Missionary lieview. The Restitution of the Sabbath. It is nothing hut dishonesty to take a holy day that religion has won for us from the grasp of greed and turn it into 8.

T. HOLCOMB, DEALER IX Hardware, in mind; such as time, place, authorship, persons and rulers. Tuesday Read parallel passages and marginal references. Wednesday Read the lesson over until you can re state it. Thursday Analyze the lesson as to teaching points.

Write them down. FRIDAY Secure illustrations to aid in teaching the lesson. Scriptural illustrations If possible secular and historical also. Select but few and have them simple. Saturday Use commentary and special helps, make outline of the order to be followed.

Select applications for individual scholars. Sunday a. m. Spend 30 minutes in prayer and meditation. Apply the essential truth of the lesson to your own life.

Pray for lie guidance of the Spirit, "He Buggies, a holiday tor amusement. If we must have recreation, let us set apart a day for it say Saturday but let us not rob devotion to pay diversion. Fun mid frolic are necessities, hut they are not worth the destruction of reverence. Frank Crane, Wagons, Farm Groceries: and Notions. Your patronage solicited.

The condition of many churches was depicted in a true though homely way by a colored preacher's description of his own llock. The editor of the Hible Reader in answer to a question as to the condition of A. a DAVIS CO. Grain, Highest Market Price Paid at all times. Farmers We want a part of your trade.

Call in. Your company is always welcome. Will meet you cordially and deal with you straight. Thanking- you for past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same, I am, Yours Truly, J. A.

Agent. the church received the answer. "Mighty poor, mighty poor, hrudder." We ventured to ask the trouble, and he replied. "De cieties, de cieties. Dey is just draw in' all de fatness an" marrow outen the body and bone of the blessed Lord's body.

We can't do nutliin without the 'ciety. Dar is the Liiicum "cieiy, wld sister Jones an' Brudder Brown to run it. Sister Williams miis1 march right in front of de Daughters of Rebecca. Den dar is de Dorcases, de Marthas, de Daughters of Ham and de Liber Ian Ladies." "Well you have your brethren to help in church?" we suggested. "No, sail.

Dar am de Masons, de Odd Fellows, de Sons of llamand de Oklahoma Promts' Land Pilgrims. By de time the bladders an' sisters pay all the lines dere is nuffiin left for Mount Pisgah church but de cob. De co'n has been all shelled ofl an' frowed to the speckled chickens." L. BENDER, TN will bring all things U) remembrance." W. S.

ALLBN. More than any other one thing, the measure of man's power, the criterion of the amount of effect that he will likely produce in the world, will be not the brilliancy or the impetuosity with which he takes hold, but the holy doggedness with which he holds on after he has taken hold. Every once in a while 1 am told that such and such a young man or woman has come into our congregation, and that he or she will be likely to prove a great acquisition. 1 confess that it is a bait at which I nibble less than I used to do. If I want a light to read by, I would rather have a good long tall nv dip than a streak of lightning.

A very small river will carry a great deal of water lo the sea if it keeps running. Patient continuance in well doing is the art of great living it makes the man him self great; it ennobles the world he lives in; it leaves behind a bequest that can never be diverted to unintended purposes, and and it puts a man distinctly upon the track of having fulfilled to him the promised award of the Lord: "Well done thou good and faithful servant: thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Char lea II. Parliliurst, Hardware, Tinware, Implements. Shelf hardware of all kinds. Tinware repaired.

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-Salt Cellars. Published every Friday at Powhattan, Kansas. IT. J. Calnan, Editok.

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