Church Worker from Chase, Kansas • 1

Vol. 1. CHASEKANSAS, FEBKUARY, 1894. NO. 7.

Our Fourth Quarterly Conference. On Saturday evening, January 13, the presiding elder, Rev. II. Waitt, held our last quarterly meeting. After a brief sermon by large placard, hangingunder the east, gallery.

Several Sunday school items were printed upon this chart. While Moody was bustling around, trying to get the immensethrong comfortably seated before his sermonshould begin, we hastily jotted down a few important figures. The worldcontainsJ Sunday schools, with teachers, and.20,2G8,923 schol-lars. Of these numbers the United States claims 121,797 Sunday schools, with 1,303,254 teachers, and scholars. Our country therefore supports nearly one half the Sunday schools in the world.

Around Home. The Sunday shool board, comprising the officers, the teachers and the commitee, met at the parsonage on Friday evening, January 12, for the purpose of choosing teachers for the coming year. Fifteen teachers were selected. Miss Olof Krarer, the native Esquimaux lady, will deliver her celebrated le cture on "Life in tho Frozen North, on Saturday, March 17. Prof.

G. W. Hill, by whose ellorts the- lecture has been secured, will arrange the details in due time. The little lady is said to be a fine speaker. Our new trusteees were elected on Thursday evening January 25, as follows: Dr.

N. M. Smith, J. Christopher, Wm. Doran, I.

N. Smith and ILL. Marshall. The board proceeded to organize at once by electing Dr. N.

M. Smith president, and II. L. Marshall secretary and treasurer. These five brethem will serve during the year 1894.

A Christ ion Endeavor Society was organized at the Christian church, on Wednesday evening, February 7, with the following olliccrs: President, Nettie Spiers; ice President, Kate Cox; secretary and treasurer, Grace McArthur. The society will hold weekly meetings on Sunday afternoons, at four o'clock. Bible study will be their chief work. Arrangement have been made to union revival services, in Chase, should the weather not be too unfavorable. They will begin the presiding elder, the conference was called to order.

Nineteen ofli cial members answered to the roll call, the other three being absent. The stewards made a most excel lent report. Of course they were all re-elected. The trustees an nounced the incidentals settled up to date. The Sunday School re an average attendance of one-hundred-and-twenty for the quarter.

The class leaders reported an average attendance of thirty at class meeting. The Epworth League was declared to be in fine running order. The Junior League reported an average attendance of twenty-seven. He v. F.

J. Grifiith announced five sermons preached. The pastor announced twenty-sly conversions, twenty-nine ollicial church papers taken, seventy-seven pastoral calls benevolences nearly full, and an average attend arico of thirty-eight at prayer meet ing. Bro. J.

K. Hopkins was rec ommended for license to preach On the following Sunday morning llev. Waitt preached an excellent sermon on "Light." After the sermon, the Lord's supper was administered to onehundrcd-nnd-twenty-four persons. The auditorium was filled to its utmost ca pacity, our sister churches having furnished largo numbers. The presiding elder's last visit to this charge was a profitable one to up, and doubtless a pleasant one to him.

LOOK OUT! What About Woman Suffrage? borne Views From High Sources. Justice is on the side of woman suffrage. Wm. II. Seward.

In the progress of civilization, woman suffrage is sure to come. Charles Sumner. Woman suffrage is undoubtedly coming, and for one, expect a great deal otf good to result from it. Henry W. Longfellow.

I believe that the great vice3 in our large cities will never be conquered until the ballot is put into the hands of women. Bishop SiMrsoN. I go for all sharing' the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding the women. Abraham Lincoln. I think that there will be no end to the good that will come by woman suffrage, on tho elected, the elections, on government, and on woman herself.

Ex-Chief Justice Chase. Women have quite as much interest in good government as men, and I have never heard an)' satisfactory reasons for excluding them from the ballot-box. Geo. Wm. CRT is.

I fully believe that the time has come when the ballot should be given to woman. Both her intelligence and conscience would lead her to vote on the side of justice and pure morals. Bishop Hurst. Laugh as wc may, put it aside a jest if we outof congress or political the woman question is rising in our horizon, larger than the size of a man's hand, and some solution, erelong, mint be found. James A.

Garfield. For over forty years, I have not hesitated to declare my conviction that justice, and fair dealing, and the principles of our government, demand equal rights and privileges of citizenship, irrespective of sex. I have not been able to see any good reasons for denying the ballot to women. Jonx G. Wiiittier.

Another Whisky' fiend. Mrs. Martin Howley, an aged Irishwoman, living in Bowery Quarters, Fort Wayne, Indiana, was found in a pool of blood at her home on the night of Janurry 8. She died at one o'clock in the morning. The dead woman's son, Martin Howley, had quarreled withjmother young man, both of whom were crazy drunk.

The old woman, while trying to separate them, was stricken down by her son, and kicked and beaten until she became unconscious. Howley is about thirty years old, and a married man, but his poor old mother has supported him in his idleness. He was arrested fcwhile leaning over his mother's corpse. New York Voice. Soundly Converted, An Iowa joinlist was recently brought to Chiist in a revival meeting.

He ii.vitcds'thc people to come together at the city park at a given hour to witness the destruction of his diabolical About 1000 people were present, and, after prayer had been offered, he fired the pile. While it was being consumed, another convert made a flaming temperance speech. Conversion meant something in this man's case. Gospel Gleaner. Talmagc's Father.

Starling every morning with a chapter of tho Bible, and his whole family around him on their knees, ho forgot not in the excitements of the world, that he had a God to serve, and a Heaven to win. The morning prayer came up on one side of the day, and the evening prayer on tho other, and joined each other in an arch above his head, under the shadow of which he walked all through the day. ncv.T.l)eWittTalm.ige. on next Sunday evening, February 25, in the Congregational church, where they will continue till the following Sunday, when they will be moved to the Methodist church. The two pastors will preach alternately.

May God blcs our efforts, for ho alone cm give tho increase. Tho Strip opening will tubtract about twenty members from our church in the spring. So far as wc have been able to learn the following comprise the list: W. II. Ernst, wife, and Ansel, F.

M. Mathews, wife, and Donnie, Chas. Grove, and wife, F. M. James, and wife, Mattic and Nettie Lewis, II, B.

Fnficld, F. M. Wilcox, wife, Lcssie, arid Pearl, Nannie Jones, J. K. Dowler, and wife.

While they will bo greatly here, we wish them Hod speed in their new homes. Life is so short, its inevitable sorrows so many, its responsibili-' tics so vast, so numerous, so solemn, that no time remains to be spent in creating discord, or making mischief. We need every moment of time to do tho work which God has assigned us. Whili the church, and good men, and good women arc wrangling, Satan is working, sinners are disgusted, dying, lost. J.

T. Haxxa, Presiding Elder, Newton District. What hath God Wrought? While veiling the Worlds Fair in October, we often spent an evening at Moody's Model Sunday School building. just outside the walls, opposite the California building. 'Shortly aflcr entering the audience room for the first time, our attention was attracted to a Why Not? A small boy in a small town 6 wallowed a penny, ''Kitty," called his alarmed mother to her sister in the kitchen," send for the doctor! Willie has swallowed a penny "No, mamma," shouted the terrified victim, "send for the preacher." "Why?" fnltcringly asked his mother.

''Because I heard papa say that our minis'cr can get money out of anybody.".