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THE POWER OF LOVE BY W. A. KENNON, Lake Charles, La. Jesus' choice of love as the power to remake life and glorify it commends itself, when we think of love's despotism over the race, and note how many of the hard tasks of the world are done in its name. One might hastily condemn the common work of the world, from that of the weary workman who digs, to that of the artist who paints, by saying it is done from sordid and natives, but oftener than most workers of the world toil; they are they love.

There wears his life out drags his weary going through days and years toMothers giv and sisters and the pictures with you, or to die for you, do not invite it, do not demand it, get him to love you. If you want to mould him, to transform him, to save him, or to destroy him, do not instruct him, do not entreat him, do not promise to reward him, just get him to love you. Love is transforming. Love overcometh all things. It is the law of love that we become like those we love.

He, therefore, is our Saviour or destroyer whom we love. This transformation wrought by love, all must have witnessed. Who has not known some refined, sensitive creature to go down at last into coarseness, hardness, vulgarity? She came to her depth of degradation. Who could not name the cause cf the terrible transformation? For many years she lived with, and with utter devotion she had loved, a brute. Who has not seen some vulgar, frivolous, worthless creatures take on culture, seriousness, greatness? Oh, it often happens! More times than we can think, the cause is this--he is walking through life hand in hand with an angel, and his love for her is making in to her likeness.

Assuredly one could save the world or destroy it, if only the world loved him. Even a casual reading of the biographies written by the four friends of Jesus, and standing first in our new Testaments, ere ates the decided impression that Jesus despised the current methods of establishing a cause and gaining disciples. One is amazed that he seemed so 'indifferent to what men did--that he sc seldom spoke in commandments. Yet it is clear he had an authority that could have passed unchallenged. He never rebuked ignorance, though he himself was the wisest the world has known.

He made no code of laws, he wrote no books, he founded no schools; he enshrined himself in the hearts of the people. When he is about to go away, and feels to assure himself that his cause shall succeed, he breaks through a reserve that conceals an anx present from the first, and puts the crucial question-lovest thou me? The rough, unpromising character of Peter becomes as his Master's; at the last Peter gives himself a martyr for the cause of Christ; his sacrifice IS counted as an offering to his friend. He answers, Lord thou knowest that love thee. -Selected. FROM FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.

Editor Western Index: We are here again asking for space in your most valuable paper. We have made a very nice start for this Conference year, under our new leader, Rev. G. M. Harrell.

All the departments of the church are at work. Notwithstanding the few we have to work. On Saturday, Dee. 6, 1913, the Missionary ladies met at the parsonage, quilted one quilt and tacked one comfort. Dinner being served a at the parsonage and all present enjoyed themselves to the highest.

The pastor did not have much to say, only wore a broad -smile all day because he knew the why of the quilt and the comfort. Those present: Mrs. Carrie Whitener, Mrs. Martha Killion, Mrs. Bell McConico, Mrs.

J. C. Pendergrass, Miss Elvy Johnson, Mother Goodall, Mother Sexton, Mrs. V. A.

Taylor, Bro. J. C. Pendergrass, Mrs. Rosa Simmons and Bro.

E. W. Taylor. We are all working with a will doing with all our might what our hands find to do. V.

A. Taylor, Agent. PAXICO NOTES. Mrs. Hattie Hall and Mrs.

Mittie Douglas gave a surprise party on their mother, Mrs. A. J. Pride, last Monday evening, which was indeed a swell affair. Those present were: Mrs.

Sey Nichols, Mrs. West Owens, Mrs. Jane Codwell, Mrs. Geo. Hall, Mrs.

Martha Buck, Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Mr. Bolden of Maple Hill, Mr Arthur Scott, Mr. Henry and James Nichols, and all the family.

They also welcomed their father, Mr. A. J. Pride, home again, who has been away for some time. Mr.

Pride spent several weeks in Nashville, Tennessee, visiting hie sister. He reports very nice trip in Nashville and is pleased with the progress of the Negroes of the South. He also spent some weeks In Chicago visiting his daughter and was very much pleased at the busithe Negroes are doing in Chicago. He told one negro baying a piece of the cost of $65,000.00 and for Mr. Pride a and is Ingeneral interest.

needed rest. patting forth Old Tole and they know how to do in good style. They are among on the few young ladies who take hold of things for the uplict of the church and push them on to suecess. These young ladies should be encouraged. They are as willing to work as if they were members of the church.

If young ladies who know not Christ will take hold of things and work for the church as they do, what should church members do. God bless these young ladies and may the time soon come when they will come into the fold. The pastor is well pleased with the Board's promise this year. Let each do what he can to make this one of the best years in the history of Paxico. Mr.

Ned Scott is man that all the people love at Paxico, and you can always bet on him for anything that is for race uplift. Mr. John Medley has started out this year to work for the church as never before. FILLERS OF ALL KINDS. Steubenville, Ohio, is the latest big town to go dry.

Fifty saloons go out. Youngstown, Ohio, is said to be on the verge. Fort Smith, Arkansas, women are vigorously continuing the fight against saloon petitions. It now looks as if the enemy has no chance. HOW THE LIQUOR PRESS LOOKS AT IT.

Enlisting of women is to be continued by the United Societies as an offset to similar action by antagonistie bodies. Organizer Leopold Neumann reported that 6,306 German women have become affiliated with the organization since the last meeting of the executive committee, increasing the total to 604 now on the -Champion Fair Play (Chicago.) 4 The call for a special session of the Ohio legislature will probably not be issued by Governor Cox until after January 1, but advance information states that i it will cover many subjects. Whether the governor will include in his list anything pertaining to the liquor traffic has not yet been declared, but there are are those who think perhaps some features of the Greenlund license law may be taken up and perhaps a few changes made in that -The Liberal Advocate (Ohio.) "4 If insignificant groups of emotionalists and sentimental ignorami can sway the national Legislature of the American people, we should judge that an eminently social and economic factor like the brewing industry would always be able to prevent its interests from being jeopardized by a voting machine composed of individuals who always consider their personal interests before they think of the welfare of the nation. But such prevention is only possible through the determined, sistent and ever-watchful action of an organized body of intelligent Brewers' Journal. "Instead of allowing nature to proceed in a selective way to eliminate those possessing neuropathic dispositions and that lack resistance to alcohol, people have been taught to place him who abstains upon a pedestal, to worship as a virtue that which is often merely inherent weakness, and develop that element of the race which possesses the very properties which nature has been for thousands of years seeking to -American, Brewers' Review.

Liquor cannot be obtained in any way in Kansas, except by the methods of the meak thief or the midnight marauder. -L. A. MAYNARD. There's 8 movement on foot to erect monument to Adolphus Busch in St.

Louis. This is opposed by the Young People's Federation which is made up of number of church members and other sniveling according to the organ of the United States Brew. ers' Association. How the liquor men are grasping at straws is illustrated by the fact that the law. providing for the closing of saloons on Sunday has been temporar41y hold up at Santa Monica, California, because 15 per cent the married women who signed the petition used their husbands' names with the prefix Mr.

The canteen is zone, and the old army has with 16. 4 There tainly a difference in the men of the United today and those A NEGRO LEADER SEES LIQUOR AS GRIME CAUSE Booker T. Washington Finds Where Prohibition is Rigidly Enforced Negro Crime Decreases. Gives Some Interesting Facts From Southern States. "Prohibition, when enforced, is a valuable aid to law and declares Booker T.

Washington, the great negro leader, in a letter to the Methodist Temperance Society. The letter to the Temperance Society was in response to an inquiry regarding the following, which appeared in the American Brewers' Review for Novem. ber: "In this connection we may point out that Booker Washington, writing in the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, of September, 1912, on "Negro Crime and Strong Drink," analyzes the replies he received from the sherIf of the different counties in Alabama and Georgia in answer to his inquiries as to relation between crime and drink among the Negro race. The rural districts report that crime increased under prohibition, because of -legging," whereas the city districts maintain about the same ratio under prohibition as under license. Crime among negroes when related to drink is, in the opinion of Mr.

Washington, due entirely to the drinking of whiskey and other strong drinks." 44 The statement in the American Brewers' Review for November, I quoted from the recorder of the police court of Selma, Alabama, writes Dr. Washington. "Prohibition, when it closes up the and prevents the sale of liquor, helps my STRONG DRINK, ONE OF THE CHIEF CAUSES OF CRIME AMONG NEGROES. "When all the facts are considered, strong drink, I believe, is one of the chief causes of Negro crime in the South, It appears that where prohibition has really prohibited the Negroes from securing liquor their crime rate has been decreased. On the other hand, it appears that where the prohibition law did not prevent the Negroes from securing whiskey there has been no decrease in the crime rate; in fact the introduction of a cheaper grade of liquor has apparently had a tendency to increase the crime rate.

In every instance, however, where the prohibition law has been rigidly enforced and the Negroes have been unable to get liquor, there has been A decrease in the crime rate. "This is the case in Macon County. Alabama, where I live. In this county there are about 22,000 Negroes and 000 whites. The sheriff of my county recently reported that he had only one deputy and did not -have enough work to keep him busy.

Sentiment has a great deal to do with the enforcement of the prohibition law and indirectly with the increase or decrease of the crime rate. In my own county there is a healthy sentiment both among the whites and the Negroes in favor of prohibition. There is published in the county a Negro farm paper, the influence of which been very helpful in aiding the prohibition effort. Another thing that has helped has been the attitude of the Negro ministers. All the Negro ministers in the county are organized into an undenominational asso: ciation.

This association has given. its support to the enforcement of pro hibition law and has even gone so far as to organize a Law and Order League to work in co-operation with the officers of the law. Although this League as such has not accomplished much, yet the moral effect on the people of the county has been very salutary. Another Proof. "A further proof that prohibition when enforced does cause a decrease in crime is shown by the reports that came from Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama.

During the first two months that prohibition was in effect in those cities there was remarkable decrease in crime. At the end of the first month in Birmingham, Judge B. Feagin reported te the mayor that the decrease in arrests averaged about follows: In comparing January, 1908, under prohibition, with January, 1907. with saloons, aggregate arrests decreased 33 1-8; for assault with intent to murder 22 per cent; gambling 17 per cent; drunkenness, 80 per cent; disorderly conduct, 85 per cent; grand lar. cony, 33 per cent; vagraney, 40 per cent; wife beating, 70 per cent, The Birmingham News, In comment ing upon the first effects of prohibition said: For ten years har not enjoyed so orderly has since the 1st of January The moral improvement of the been marked since went into An Extraordinary Showing.

"In Atlanta there was a more extra ordinary decrease in crime than in Birmingbam. During the month of January, 1907, 1,653 cases were put on the docket of the recorder's court. During the month of January, 1908, there were but 768 cases on the docket, a decrease of considerably more than 50 per cent. During January, 1907, there were 341 cases of drunkenness tried, but than in 80 1908 only 64, a decrease of more per cent. "'A further confirmation of the fact that prohibition tends to reduce crime is shown by the statement of Chief Justice Walter Clarke of the State of North Carolina, who says that since prohibition has gone into effect in the state the general crime rate has been reduced by 50 per cent.

Murder in the first degree has decreased 32 per ent; burglary 20 per cent; attacks witr deadly weapons, 30 per cent; larceny, 40 per cent; manslaughter, 35 per cent; murder in the second degree, 21 per cent; minor crimes from 25 to 55 per cent. Justice Clark, I understand, has prepared a five years' comparison which shows that some crimes have decreased more than 60 per cent since the saloons have been abolished. According to his report in five years there had been only two lynchings in the state of North Carolina and none in the last two years." PROHIBITION AGREES WITH JACKSONVILLE. Getting Prosperous, and Evil Languishes. That Jacksonville, Illinois, which again voted dry in November, knew a hawk from a handsaw, is abundantly evidenced by the remarkable prosperity the dry regime has brought to that town.

"We are only preparing to give onehalf as many dinners this Christmas as we used to do during the reign of says Captain Pinkston, the Salvation Army officer in charge in Jacksonville. "We have now one-half less calls on us than before the saloons were I abolished." The Associated Charities, through Miss Emma S. Weller, says, "We have far fewer complaints of cruelty to women and children, fewer cases of drunken women, and fewer cases of destitution in the families of men who drink than when the town was Some Comparisons. Jacksonville first went dry in 1906. For July, August and September in 1906, the total arrests were 361, 127 of which were for drunkenness.

But despite the growth in population, the same three months in 1913 showed a total of only 97 arrests, 18 of which were for drunkenness. In that time, postoffice receipts increased 45 per cent, and bank clearings 16 per cent, although during the past three years, crop conditions 1 have been far below normal. In 1906, there were seven vacant storerooms on the square, and today there is only one. Real estate men are practically unanimous in declaring that modern residences rent much more easily than when the town had saloons. Under the old order of things, the city had twenty-seven places where liquir was sold, and hardly one of them pretended to obey any regulation law, but a recent investigation by an AntiSaloon League detective, afterwards followed by a United States government officer, operating under the Mann Act, disclosed the fact that there were only four booze joints, not one gambling hell, and only fourteen prostitutes.

'In 1906 there were a dozen wideL open and prosperous disreputable houses. There is not a cleaner city of its size in the United States," boasts a prominent citizen in calling attention to these facts, "and there will not be 90 long as saloons are kept out of Jacksonville. '1 NO MORE BEER-WAGONS TO BE ALLOWED IN KANSAS. Hereafter Missouri breweries are to be enjoined from advertising, soliciting business or collecting in Kansas, if a proposition made by Judge Pollock, of Kansas City, Kansas, is accepted. The Judge agreed to enjoin the city from interfering with deliveries, if the breweries agreed to the injunction against advertising, etc.

The conflict between the Missouri beer-makers and Kansas City, Kansas, began mouths ago when the Kansas City officials began to nab every heerwagon they caught using the streets of the dry town. It was found that brewers from Missouri were using their wagons in every possible way to break down the prohibition law and Mayor C. W. Green decided that the Webb and Mahin laws permitted him to shut them out altogether. Judge Pollock has now offered to compromise the case by issuing a reorder to both sides, which allow the brewers to deliver liquor for personal consumption where the transaction was completed On the Missouri side, but which will forbid them to solicit business or collect for shipmente on the dry side of the river.

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