Marion Journal from Marion, Kansas • 4

MARION JOURNAL Vm, BOND Publisher. AUGUST, 1895. Published Every Month. rubtiihed In the V. M.

G. A. Building. knees shall bow. and all tongues shall confess Him.

After the sermon, remarks by the chairman Dr. Fulton. Then the letters from the Churches were presented, and read. By vote of the assembly the Baptist church at Galva, wns received into the Association, and the right hand of fellowship extended by Dr. Fulton.

During the afternoon session, af-the letters were read, the annual election of officers took place. Dr. Fulton was the choice for Moderator and Rev, RtP. Stephinson for secretary, After the election of officers, a sermon by Rev. Phelps.

His subject was "Being and Doing." The evening session was opened hy devotional exercises, at 7:30. Then a sermon by Rev, E. B. Meredith, of Topeka. The attendance was good throughout the day, and great interest was manifest, by all present.

J.A.K. Notice! I came. We are determined to burn out I to its last infectious atom the stench of the slums and the supreme temptation to a bad life with which poverty haunts the dreams of babyhood, handicaps the purposes of youth, and enthralls the life of manhood. "And yet, full well I know that a majority of those who read these lines will first of all call me a crank. For myself, 21 years of study and observa tion have convinced me that poverty it a prime caute of intemperance, and that misery is the mother, and hereditary appetite the father, of drink hallucination.

"We once said. intemperance was the cause of poverty now we have completed the circle of truth by toying that poverty cautet intemperance, and the underpaid, under-fed, under-sheltered wage-earn ing teetottaller deserves a thousand times more credit than the teetotaller who is well paid, ell fed and well cared for. "Ten years ago 1 could not have said it honestly five years ago I could not have said it helpfully but now I fearlessly declare that I believe it to be the right and duty of white-ribbon women to help abolish poverty in the largest, senpe of that great phrase." Don't forget the great Convention of Epworth Leaguers in Central Park next week. Eight or ten noted workers from abroad. Services forenoons, afternoons and evenings.

Everybody invited. Opens Tuesday and continues six days. Our citizens should encourage this movement and thus make it a permanent annual affair, and a focal attraction for all Central Kansas. DIED On last Monday evening about 4 p. m.

Stephen Shipley, an old resident of Wilson township, of Dropsy of the heart. Mr. Shipley has been living in Wilson township ever since the year 1870, He was a good citizen and all those who knew him have the greatest respect for him. He was a member of the Christian church of Marion. The funeral services were conducted in the Claney school house by David Wheeler of this city.

Mr. Shipley was 79 vears and 6 mos. old. The Rev. M.

F. Childs, Elder of the Oklahoma district, will preach at the Free Methodist church Sunday morning and evening. A number of the other paeachers and delegates to the annual conference will also be present. Come and enjoy a good day with tra, G. WiNAns, Pastor.

TFreng Grore, The picnic at Wren's Grove, was wtll attended considering the threatening aspect of the weather. About two o'clock Prof. Knowles commenced his address, but as the clouds gathered up black and fast, he thought best to close much to the regret of all. Prof. Knowles had proceeded with his address far enough to get everybody interested, and to wish for all of it, A number of excellent papers were prepared but the storm prevented their reading.

There should oe another day set so that the original program may be carried out. FLASH LIGHT. Mies Francis E. Willard, long time president of the W. 0.

T. in a re cent address in London before the world's convention of that association, made some startling statements Among other things she said "Under the searchlight of knowledge in these latter days it is folly for us longer to ignore the mighty power of poverty to induce evil habits of every kind. It was only our ignoranee of the condttion of the industrial classes that magnified a single propaganda, and minimized every other, so that the temperance people in earlier days be lieved that if men and women were temperate all other material good would folio iv in the train of that rreat grace. "Poverty and dependence are the curse of women and all the world. Very few women ever sink so low that the virgin dies out of their hearts.

When they moet one whom they deem worthy to bo the father of that future child, for whose sake every woman is, in the thought of every reputable man, a Madonna, either actual or potential, they have risen rather than fallen. It is the hunger that cries out for bread, and the cowardice that cannot cope with death, which lead women to that awful commerce so much worse than death could be, which is the fountain of disease and diabolism to men and women both, as they find out, and which is far worse even than that aw ful bight of Arican slavery, which was characterized by Doctor Livingstone as 'the great open sore of the world "For this reason I am an avowed ad vocate of such a change in social conditions as shall stamp out the disease and contagion of poverty, even as medical science Is stamping out leprosy, small pox and cholera. And I believe the age in which we live will yet be characterized as one of those dark, dismal and damning ages when some people were so dead to the love of their kind that they left them in poverty without a heartache or a blush. "I know that this position which I take with a full understanding of the criticism it must involve in certain minds, will be controverted by the statement that the alcoholic insanity, the opium craze, and the folly of bise amusement, are not conflnded to the handworkers of the world. But it has passed into a proverb that the unemployed rich and the unemployed poor live along strangely parellel lines in respect to their indulgences and tastes, but the plutocrats form a very small group compared to the great army of and it is universally admited that the habit of drink, and Jother disintegrating modes of living, are slowly dying oat among the intelligent and fairly comfortably classes that live in the temperate zone between the two extremes.

"Nothing short of willful ignorance can account for the continued ignoring of poverty, as perhaps the chief procuring cause of the brutal drinking habits with which whole areas of population are distempered throughout the English speaking world. Those words of Holy-Writ are ominously true in the present condition of things: 'Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no "Poverty is disease it is degradation, it has no right to be and, when men and women wake out of sleep and see themselves as the criminals they are. nothing in the world will be so sure of actual extermination as that cursed thing called poverty the cradle of crime, the father of filth, the mother of misery. In the past we have comforted ourselves with looking upon it as the effect of wrong-doing, but have now aroused ouselves to a study of it as a Mrs. Dillingham, mother of Mrs.

Jerry Whaler, who resides East of Marion, died on last Monday evening. It is now known that the wheat crop the world over will be short. Our farmers should note this and hold for better prices. The Evangelical church people will hold their services in the building immediately West of the the Rock Island railroad until further rotice. To the friends and neighbors who kindly assisted us dnring the sickness and death of our mother, we extend our heartfelt thanks.

J. F. Whaley, Laura Wiuley. There is something wrong if we stop rejoicing in the Lord as soon as our sky begins to cloud up. Rams Horn.

There is evil enough in man, God knows! But it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity. Dr. John Hall. The Rev.

Dr. Fulton of Mc-Pherson preached both morning and evening in the Baptist Church on the 21st of July. The Dr. is an able speaker and has a host of friends here who are always glad to see him. If asked what is the remedy for 41ie deepest sorrows of the human to sustain a man under trials and him manfully to confront iiis afflictions, we must point him to something which, in a well 7known hymn, is called "The old, -did, told of in an old, old book, which is the greatest and 1 best gift ever given to man-kind.

William Gladstone. One of the greatest evils of our 4ay is poor literature. Nothing lias more influence over the minds of the young ithan the books and jpapersithat 3feey read. Nor are people proof against this iinflaence. We can not expect a child to have a liking for good, pure books and papers if their minds have become filled with light, trashy and often impure reading- Parents and teachers should see to it that they are provided with suitable reading, something that is pure and clean and at the same time lively and interesting enough to hold their attentions and amuse them.

The Kansas Childrens Home Society (national) seeks to find homeless and neglected children and to place them in suitable homes with the least possible delay, to exercise such watch-care over them as will insure their future welfare. In March a Local Advisory Board was organized in the Presbyterian church in this place. President C. Coble, Vice-Pres. Mrs.

Anna E. Dudley, 2nd Miss Eva E. Moulton. Treas. Jas.

H. Hoch, Sec, Alex. E. Case. Last Sunday evening a similar Board was organized in the Methodist church.

Pres. Zack Taylor, Vice-Pres, Frank Bower, Treas. Mrs. Wm. Sham baugh, Sec.

Mrs. E. D. Bowlby, Persons wishing to adopt and kindlv treat a little, homeless girl or boy will please apply to either of these boards. Eighteen states are regularly organized in this state, having branches in every State in the Union.

State Sopt. Rev. 0. S. Morrow, 621 Kansas Topeka.

Diet. Supt, Rose P. Thrall, Wichita. Card of Thanks. McPherson, Kan.

Auff. 15 '95. The annual conference of the Central Kansas Baptist Association convened at the Baptist Church of McPherson, Kan. on Wednesday morning Aug. 14 at ten o'clock.

The annual sermon was preaebed by Rev. R. P. Stephinson, of Salina. He chose for his text, Acts, 7.

His topic was "Jesus our King, and the' King of the Nations. The Kingship of Jesus declared at his birth, by the wise men. He is born a king. Jesus taught in the parables be spoke, that he is a king. He claimed his kingship before Pilate, He claimed it after His resu-rection.

If a King He has a kingdom. The Church, the body of believers do not constitute this kingdom. His kingdom is the Nations of the world, Christ is King over all, blessed forever. If He is not king over all, His words, ''To me is given all power in heaven and in earth' are not true. He shall reign until He subdues all, and brings all His enemies to His feet.

For in His name all We desire to extend to the friends and neighbors of our community our heartfelt thanks for their kind care and sympathy in the sickness and death of our. husband and grandfather, Mrs. Shipley, Elmer Adams..