Wichita District Advocate from Wichita, Kansas • 1

four years fighting Indians on the western plains, almost half the time being spent within the territory now comprised in our conference. His beloved brother was slain in a battle fought within what is now the Lamed District, and lies buried there in an unmarked grave. These articles alone will be worth five times the price of the paper. The first of the seiies will bo published in the June number. Please tell your friends about this and induce them to subscribe at once.

UHitliila jp'ifrut dcorate. ISSUED MONTHLY. J. D. BOTKIN, Editor.

CEO. W. BROWN. Publisher, 155 N. Main Street, Wichita, Kansas.

matter for publication or relating to subscriptions should be addressed to the Editor. All matter pertaining to advertisements should be addressed to tlio publishei TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Single copy, one year, 33 cents; in clubs of ten or more to one postoilice, 25 cents. Anyonesend-twentv or more names, ami 25 cents each, will reoeive a copy free. gives any one one of its high officials a salary of from $2,000 to $5,000 a year, and then grudgingly squeezes ont $10 or $15 a year to support his pastor whose salary he tried to whittle down to $000 or $800, sim-simply ought to be ashamed of himself, and should never affirm that he loves God or the Church, for no one can believe such an affirmation.

We have no word of censure to utter against secret societies or their officials, but we boldly affirm that the Church of God should take precedence of all other institutions in the affections, thoughts, labors and sacrifices of mankind; and that the true minister of the Lord Jesus, lie his talents great or small, is of vastly more consequence, whether considered in the dignity or the importance of his calling, than any officer in any merely human organization on the face of the earth; and, further, that he earns and deserves the hearty financial and moral support of every member of the community in which he labors. TO PASTORS. of the rapid growth of the population of this western country, and the consequent need of increased help in its postal service. At all events some of our offices, notably that in this city, are piled full of mail matter that cannot be disposed of for want of more laborers. In many cases our daily and weekly papers are not delivered until some days after they are due and some times not at all.

We are exercising great care with our mailing list and if you fail to get your paper, please charge it up to the horrid postal service of this country. The liquor dealers of Louisville subscribed $4,000 in one day to help defeat prohibition in Texas, and those of other cities are expected to come down with proportionate amounts. S. II. Madden, the solititor of Liquor Dealers National Protective Association, is in New York asking help to keep Tennessee and Texas from going dry.

He says they dont care anything about the high license movement. Stafford Republican. Of course they dont care anything about the high license movement. Why should they? It does not interfere in the least with their business. It only chokes off a few of the insignificant dealers or drives them into the illicit traffic.

The same amount of liquor is sold under high license as under low license or no license. There is just as much death and destruction in the gilded palace of hell as in the low doggery. Then the gilded saloon, such as exists under high license is far more successful in training new recruits for the army of topers than the low down den, for respectable young men and boys may be enticed into the former place but never into the latter. But is it not strange that liquor dealers spend so much money and breath fighting prohibition, since prohibition does not prohibit? In other words they and their friends declare that just as much liquor is sold and drank under prohibition as under license. That being true of course it does not interfere with their business.

Why, then, do they fight it? The true temperance man always opposes the liquor dealers in everything. TAKE NOTICE. The Advocate is designed to accomplish a work of enlightenment, correction and helpfullness in every home which it enters, that cannot otherwise be accomplished. And we are pursuade from all we have heard that it does not wholly fail of its design. I know from personal observation and study that the paper is able to perform important work in every charge in the Wichita District, if the pastors will but help put it into the homes.

But it turns out that in those charges where the greatest need and opportunity lor this quiet work exists, the pastors lack either the time or disposition to give their people an opportunity to take the little paper. I know The Advocateis a quiet little thing; but please remmember that the mightiest forces of nature are the silent forces. Dear pastor, you who imagine that it would be a waste of your time to recomend the Distriot paper to your people. I beg of you to waste that time aud send in a list of subscribers. Please dont do this just to help this enterprise.

The paper will be published this year out, if I live and have good health, whether you send a list or not. But I am consumed with a desire to help you in your work and your people as I can not hope to do by a quarterly visitation, especially as the District is so large I can only spend a few hours with you on each round. Besides, bear in mind that there are a hundred little things in your charge that need correcting, things you can not attempt to handle, and that I dare not attempt to handle in a direct way from the pulpit, that nevertheless can be reached through the silent forces of this little paper Give me an opportunity to help you and your people by putting this paper immediately into the homes of your cliarg. J. D.

Botkin. SUPPORT THE CIIURGII. Cultivate the habit of prayer. Let not your religious ardor grow cold during the hot weather. Write names of subscribers and addresses plainly.

Otherwise we shall not be re-spondsible for mistakes. Correspondents should bear in mind that all communications must reach this office by the first of the month. Some persons are subscribing for Tiie Advocate for their friends back east. Many others should do likewise. Send in the names and money at once.

We are using more costly paper for this issue than we can afford, but it all we could get. Show tho paper to your neighbors and induce them to subscribe. Renew your own subscription without delay if you have not aready done so. We are greatly delayed with this issue, partly on account of our indisposition, which hindered the editorial work, and partly because of a lack of help in the publishing department. We feel safe in promising our readers that no such delay shall occur again.

Help to circulate The Advocate. We have received a four-paged monthly, each page being about six by eight inches in size whose subscription price is 50 cents per year. The Advocate, you will observe, is a four column, eight-page paper, and costs but 35 cents a year. Let every one who reads this subscribe for our paper and secure a list of names for us. Some of our friends who have sent us lists of subscribers seem to have forgotten that our terms are inveriably 35 cents for each subscription except where clubs of ten or more are sent to one post office.

In sending less than ten names therefore let the full amount accompany the order unless you are quite sure of increasing the list to ten. We spent a week and a half with our family at Geuda Spiings daring the month of May. The rest from labor and care, together with a bountiful supply of the wonderful medicinal waters for drinking and bathing purposes, wrought a marvelous change in our physical condition. Constipation, indigestion and malarial difficulties had well nigh overpowered us, hut from all these distresses we were delivered and for a few weeks we have been doing full work. Our advice to those afflicted as we have been, is to go to Geuda Springs.

At the Central hotel, conducted by Mr. Love, of Newton, you will find excellent accommodations at fair prices. The postal service of this country is in a wretched condition. The authorities do not seem to know, and will not be convinced, TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. Some of our friends do not yet understand our plans.

During the fall and winter, quite a number of subscribers were obtained at ten cents each. Some of these supposed they were to receive the paper for one year. That was a mistake. We only set out to publish the paper till March, at which time all subscriptions ceased. With the April number the new volume began, but we sent that number as we shall send this to all old subscribers.

This, however, is the last paper you will receive unless you renew your subscription. Send us your name and addiess plainly written, and 35 cents and we will send you the paper until next March. Quite a number of our new subscribers have so far failed to send the money. These names will bo dropped from our list if the money is not soon sent. We have pu the subscription price at the lowest possible figure at which the paper can be made to pay its necessary expenses without allowing us a dollar for our labor, and no other paper of its size and make-up can he found anywhere with a subscription price so low.

You will readily see, therefore, that we need and must have every cent that is coming to us. If you owe 35 cents buy a postal note aud send it to us. A few persons have told us as we have gone around among the charges that they gave the money and their names to their pastor. Permit us to say that every name that came to us was promptly put upon the mailing list and the papers were certainly mailed to all such, although up to this date we have failed to get all the money that those names represented. But of four things ye editor is absolutely certain, viz: 1.

He performed a hard years work; 2. He got not a cent for it; 3. He paid outoof his own pocket more than fifty dollars to support the enterprize; 4. Unless names and money are sent in more promptly and in greater numbers in the near future than in the past two months the eaterprize will cost the editor twice as much this year as last. But even this does not deter us from the lication of the paper, for we have never thought of making it a financial enterprise.

We do not want to make a single dollar out of it. We only want a chance to do a work in the charges and in the homes of this district and in the regions round about that can not otherwise be accomplished. Will you help us to introduce the paper into the families of your neighborhood. All our friends should carefully read the article on this page entitled To our subscribers; and all who read it should at once renew, if you have not alieady done so. Raise a club of ten or more in your neighborhood and you will get the paper at 25 cents.

There must be at least ter. subscribers at one postoffice. POLICE COMM1SIONERS. Under a wise provision of the Statute Governor Martin has appointed police commissioners for the city of Wichita. Those appointed are J.C.

Rutan, 0. D. Kirk and W. B. Jones, three very reputable citizens.

We never believed in the doctrine of states rights, and so when a number of the states seceded we believed the national government had the right to whip them into the traces. So now we hold that when any city in Kansas is found in open rebellion against the state law the state governm ent should whip it into line. The only thing we are mad about is that the state authorities have been too slow about it. There are many strange notions concerning the obligations one takes upon himself on becoming a member of the church. Not a few people act as though they think the church is an institution which does not need or deserve their support.

On the contrary it needs and deserves all the support, moral and financial, of every one of its members; and no one is worthy of church membership who does not cheerfully support the Gospel and the various benevolent enterprises of the church, according to his ability. This is one way to exhibit a true affection for the church. The man who attends a lodge of any kind and remains till midnight or thereabouts, once, twice oa thrice a month, and then stays away from prayer meetings and all night services in the church on account of his health or the condition of his family, simply evinces a greater degree of devotion and love for that lodge than for the church our Savior purchased with His own precious blood. And that Methodist who pays from $5 to $25 annually into a lodge that READ THIS. We have arranged with a member of this conference for a series of articles on reminiscences of his army life which will be of untold interest to all of our readers, especially to the young.

This minister spent.