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TU Iff iyi 1 ' . a If -it 'If X CopyrIsht. 1916. by Frank G. Carpenter.) NOME. Alaska. I have just re turned from a ride on the pup mobile over the Dog Car rail road that carries one from Nome across the gold-bearing plains into the moun tains of the interior. The track is a narrow-gauge, built for steam engines by Charles D. Lane in 1900. The Gov ernment tax on Alaskan railroads was too heavy to keep the cars running, and the road has now been given over to little cars drawn by dogs, the only cars now remaining on Seward Penin sula. These cars are known as pup mobiles. Each consists of a platform on wheels with one or two rough seats fastened to it. The motor is a team of from seven to 15 dogs, who are har nessed to the front of the car by means of a long rope, and directed by the voice of the driver, who calls out "Gee" to turn them to the right, "Haw" to turn them to the left, and "Mush" to make them go faster. At the front of the team is a leadeV, whose traces are fastened to the end of the rope, and be hind him. two abreast, come the rest of the team, their traces tied to the rope at intervals, the last two being per haps eight of 10 feet from the car. Each dog has a harness much like that used for a horse, except that it just fits the dog. The collars are of soft leather, beautifully padded, and the tough leather traces are fastened to the collars and upheld by straps which run across the back of the dog. There are no bridles nor halters, and the sole di rection is by the voice of the motor man. The dogs obey quickly, they are eager to go and seem to enjoy pulling the car. Our ride was out over the tundra which lies between the foothills of the mountains and Bering Sea. The per- sonal conductor was Fred M. Ayer. of the Wild Goose Mining Company, who is noted as a mining engineer and also as a dog fancier, having the distinction or owning some or the best racing and freight dogs in this part of the world. The tundra consists of the decomposed vegetation undef which is two or three feet of ice mixed with muck and blue rlay. The blue clay makes it impossible to thaw out the ground, as is done at DowBon. There are many soft spots in the tundra filled with water, and many niggerheads. or round masses of 'vegetation that turn as you step on them. The railway is drained, but in many places the roadbed has sunken, and water covers the track. At such Places the dogs ran out on the bank to keep out of the water, and sometimes ARRIVAL OF CHRIST AS OUR SAVIOR IS PICTURED IN SERMON Father O'Hara Points Out That Only as Little Children Can Entry to Kingdom of Heaven' Be Effected. "And the angel said to them: 'Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that Khali be to all the people. For this day is born to you a Savior who is Christ the Lord." " LET me recall for you the scene enacted in the hill-country of Judea on the first Christmas night. To Bethlehem came Mary -and Joseph to 'be enrolled in the census. Finding no room in "the inns, they sought shelter in the outskirts of the town in an earthen cave which served as a stable. There, at the hour of mid night, in an atmos phere heavy and frosty with the breahing of cattle, was born a child whose life was to renew the face of the earth and whose death would fling open the gates of heaven to the chil dren of men. Bushnell Photo Father O'Hara To the humblest of the poor, to ob scure shepherds keeping night watch over their sheep on the neighboring hillside, came the message of the angel: "I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people. For this day is born to you a Savior who is Christ the Lord." And suddenly there was with the'angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God and say ing, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will." The same good tidings of joy and hope and peace are brought with each recurring Christmastide to every soul that will receive them. Christ comes today as our Savior. Me comes to lift . us above our sordid surroundings; to liberate us from the tyranny of our passions; to free us from the bondage or sin. Borden Is Found Heavy. The burden of our material surround ings lies heavily upon us. Nor while we are in this world can we hope wholly to escape its depressing influ ence. Vast multitudes struggle from break of day until well into the night for the bare necessities of life, and many hardly attain even to these. The specter of poverty has become an oDsession naunting tne guilty con science of the modern world. To be poor is the only sin In the world's catalog. In the view of materialism, sordid and soul-shrinking, poverty alone 13 a crime, and the state of the !rWUWWJJk,-llu-JJiJtf-J.'Jii.MWWUll5 7 : " iVu' they made their way through the ehal lower pools, dragging the car. Now and then they broke into a gallop and we fairly flew over the rails. I am told they go twice as fast on the snow dragging a sled. -', The names of the dogs were: Rover, Blizzard, Leo, Bub bles, Ginger. Arrow and Ring. All were picked animals and all have taken part in the great races that are annually run to Solomon and Candle. The dog races of Nome are the great sporting events of the Far Northwest. They are to Alaska what the Derby is to England. They are talked of from one year's end to the other and, as the time approaches, the dogs which are to compete are the subjects of never-end ing discussion. Thousands of dollars are put up on the races in the shape of bets, and nearly every one, man and woman, hp a wager of some kind or other. The whole country turns out to see the start and finish, and the winners are the heroes of the time. The great race is the all-Alaska sweepstakes. which is run from Nome, on Bering Sea, to Candle City, on the Arctic Ocean, and return. I am told that as much as $200,000 has been put up on that race. and that the prizes have ranged all the way from 41500 to 10.000. At one time, when the prize was 110,000 in gold, the money was presented in a massive sil ver loving-cup, and the tradition is that the owner of the winning team poured the coin into the lap of the driver, keeping the cup only as a souvenir of the event. That was eight years ago, and since then there have been races every April from Nome to Candle City and return. The distance is 408 miles and the usual winning time is between three and four -days. In 1910 it was made by Colonel Ramsey's team in 74 hours, 14 minutes and 42 seconds, and in 1913 by the Bowen-Delezene team in 75 hours. 42 minutes and 27 seconds. In addition to' the all-Alaska sweep stakes there are annual races every March from Nome to the Solomon River and back. This is known as the Solo mon derby. It in for a distance of 64 iles. Last year that race was won y Mr. Ayer, whose dogs made the trip in six hours, making an average of about 10 nVles per hour. Said Mr. Ayer: "We made the trip of 32 miles to Solo mon in 2 hours and 55 minutes, and it took two men to Hold the team when they were turned around at Solomon. They wanted to start right back, not withstanding they had been running steadily at the rate of almost 11 miles an hour. The prize for that race - was 150." Among other features of the Solomon poor without hope, their path without light, their life without joy. To the great mass of humanity to whom materialism presents this dreary and hopeless gospel, the new-born Christ sends his message of sympathy and cheer and joy. Being infinitely rich, he became abjectly poor. He chose to be born into a home of pov erty, not even a human habitation, but In an earthen cave where the beasts of burden were sheltered from the chill ing winds of Winter. His first mes sage was to the poorest of the poor. He sent no ambassadors to kings and magnates, but to the simple obscure shepherds following their hard ayoca tion on the unsheltered hillside. ' Christ sanctified poverty by being poor, and for those whose eyes are not holden poverty may be the means of becoming more Christlike. This was the lesson learned by St. Francis of Asissi, whose chivalric devotion to his Lady Poverty made him at once one of the greatest saints and most suc cessful of social reformers. Not great possessions, but peace and contentment with little is the highest wisdom. "We dare be poor" was the -defiance of the poet who realized that plain living and high thinking are inseparable com panions. Poverty Maintained in Honor. The poverty which Christ chose at his birth he maintained in honor until naked and wounded on the cross he purchased for mankind the inestimable treasure of an heavenly inheritance. The story of his life is recounted in his answer to the question. Master where dweilest thou? "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests. but the son of man hath not whereon to lay his head." Not to the poor alone did Christ bring liberation from the heavy bond of ma terial circumstance. It is as great i test of character to stand prosperity as to withstand poverty. How many temptations' ,eome with the opportunity of satisfying desires. Money can buy the gratification of every whim, the satisfaction, of every degrading passion. The poor man is removed from any temptations that come to his richer brother. Lead us not into temptation is a prayer often answered by withhold ing the means ot dissipation. How the possession of wealth tends to corrode the heart. See the rich young man who came to our Lord. Endowed with every nat ural virtue, he finds his wealth t stumbling block to his salvation. He cannot think of separating himself from it though he knows that one day he will , be stripped of it all. And his unfortunate spiritual state calls from our Lord that pathetic warning: "How TnE SUNDAY OltEG - XL ?: VUMl the dogs ran 75 miles, carrying one passenger and 50 pounds of baggage. The passenger in such cases is usually a woman, the wife, daughter or sweet heart of the owner or driver. Last year the 75 miles was made in 8 hours and 5 minutes. The year previous it was made in lees than eight hours. Another burden race is run to Council City. 86 miles. rnis ends in a ball, the ladies being carried on the sleds by their best beaux to the dance. I asked Mr. Ayer how the dogs were prepared for the race. He replied: "They are trained, groomed and care fully fed for months beforehand. The owners know, just ha( is needed to put them in the pink of condition. A part of the diet is fish, fresh mutton and eggs, and during the race they get one meal of hamburger steak per day. Camps for food and water are estab lished along the road. For three days prior to the race they are- not taken out of the kennels. nd for three weeks betore that time they are exercised to long distance runs." Continuing, in response to my ques tions, Mr. Ayer said: "I do not think that the native Alaska dogs are the fastest or best for racing purposes. My team is mostly made up of fox hounds, and, as a rule, they can beat the malamutes both as to pulling and in endurance and speed. 1 never carry a whip and do not yell at -the dogs. They will respond to a word, and it is easy to keep them at a speed of from 11 to 14 miles an hour. They enjoy the race and seem to realise what is expected of them. They will run 50 miles and be as fresh at the end of it as at the beginning. I have pulled 1800 pounds up grade on this track with nine dogs, and that - for a 30-mile Journey." The most of the racing of Alaska Is under the direction of the Nome Kennel Club, which was founded by Albert Fink, for the purpose of Improving the dogs used to transport miners and sup plies from one part of the country to another. This club was organized be fore racing was thought of, but the sport is doing much to Improve the character of the animals. Of late years, many Russian staghounds. Great Danes and Missouri birdhounds have been brought in. These are crossed with the native dogs, and the result tends to produce animals of endurance and speed. There are a large number of Siberian dogs here, they are- smaller than the malamutes, and look like wolf dogs in miniature. They are noted for their endurance, and are able to make the all-Alaska sweepstakes race witn only two or three hours of rest. Most of the races so far held have hardly shall a rich man enter the king-i dom of heaven?" Christ teaches from the crib of Bethlehem what a fearful responsibility comes with the posses sion of riches. We are but stewards, not absolute owners. Accounting to Be Asked. We are given the administration of a trust; one day the summons of the master will ring in our ears: "Comei render an account of thy stewardship, for now canst thou be steward no longer." What an example is the pov erty of Christ to those who clutch their wealth closer to them as the years go on, as though they could take it with them-through the portals of the grave. What a lesson on the use of wealth is taught by the Infant Savior, who, being infinitely rich, became poor for our Bakes, that through his pov erty we may be enriched. Their des tiny is prefigured by that of the pros perous man in the gospel who com muned with his soul: "Soul.-thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take, thy rest, eat, drink, and make good cheer." But God said to him: "Thou fool, this night they do require thy soul of thee. And whose shall be those things which thou has provided? Then' will relatives quarrel over the inheritance; ill-will and hatred will be bred between those who should be united by special bonds of affection. Young men will Inherit it who would be infinitely bet ter off if they had to work for a living, and young women wSlI be enabled by the inheritance to devote time and means to dress and ostentation setting false standards for the multitude to their own destruction and the ruin of society."- ' Christ came to save us. not merely from the depressing effect of our . en vironment, but to set us free from the tyranny of passion. Liberty is the watchword today. Freedom is the cry on every lip. How jealously it is prized! Free thought; .free speech: free life; free love; free thought! Why should I Be a slave to any man s opin ion? Free - speech! My lips are my own! Free life! Time is short. Gather roses while we may. Manacle of Slavery Perceived. But who is free? Is he free who can not banish the indecent and bias phemous word from his lips? Is he not a slave to whom the cigaret or the wine glass are an insistent necessity? is tnere a serioom more debasing than that which enslaves body and soul in the bondage of lust? Is she free whose ambitions are dominated by the fash ion plate and whose life 'is tethered within the narrow circle of social inan ities? What is freedom? It is the right to think what is V ONI AN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 24, 1916. v ' y , - ; C i ?cta-rrt 'a been noted for their fairness and free dom from trickery of any kind. The contestants have been real sports,- and the best of feeling has attended the several events. The only case in which an attempt was made to beat the favor ite team by fraud was that in the Can- , die race of 1914, when a blanket filled with upright porcupine quills and tacked'to rubberoid roofing was laid on the track so that the quills stood up right The blanket was spread out over the road and lightly covered with snow. It was so arranged that the dogs of any team that ran, over it would have had their feet pierced" by the quills of the porcupine and been lamed. The plotters had directed their teams to go out of the course to avoid the blanket and they would have bees sure of winning had not the blanket been found just in advance of the race. The fraud is supposed to have been perpetrated by some of the natives at the instigation of white men wli had bet large sums of money on the event. The blanket with the quills in. it was brought into Nome and shown around the newspaper offices. The people here feel very bitter that a fraud of any kind should have arisen in connection with the race. Dogs have always been a very impor tant part of the traffic of Alaska. They are to be found in and about every mining camp, and there are hundreds of them in every town. They are used in carrying the malls. During the' long Winter every postal card and every let ter, newspaper and magazine that comes to Nome has to be brought over 1500 miles of ice and snow by dog teams. The mail is taken from Fair banks to Ruby. Idi tared and Fort Gib bon by dogs, and. in fact. the. whole of the interior of this great territory is dependent upon dogs for Its Winter transportation. In the Summer the- dogs are sometimes used bv the pros pectors as pack animals and at the time of a gold stampede they rapidly rise in value. This fs especially so if a stampede occurs during the Winter. In the Summer time you can get . a good dog for $25. In the Winter you may have to pay $100 for the same animal. A man told me how he had bought what is true; to live what is right and to love what is good. It is the power to say "I will not," to the behests of passion, to the promptings of selfish impulse, and to the cravings of inordi nate appetite. , This is the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free. How" beauti ful is the freedom of the children of God. To be the slave of no passion: to bf shackeled by no error; to be in bondage to no vice! to walk erect in the exhilarating sunshine of God's friendship, our consciences reflecting the truth of God's law; our hearts throbbing with devotion to God's will and our souls become again as inno cent and humble as those of ltttlnJ children, making merry with the little babe of Bethlehem whose coming to day proclaims glory to God and peace to men of good will. Christ comes to liberate us not merely from the tyranny of passion but from the bondage of sin. What a crushing load is the burden of sin. He that committeth sin hateth his own soul. To what a state of degradation does it reduce him; the heavens turned to brass above him; his conscience be coming the worm that never dieth, tormenting him. the weight of his in iquity bowing him down until he who had angels for his friends, hath but the brutes for kin. To lift this bur den of the human heart wasnthe mis sion of Christ. "I come to save not the Just, but sinners." "Son, b of good heart, that sins are forgiven thee: go thy way and sin no more." "If your sins be red as scarlet I will make them as white as snow, and if they be red as crimson, I will make them white as wool." Childhood Innocence Recalled. Christ comes as a little child to show us the way to his kingdom. Except you become as little children you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. What a flood of memories comes with the thought of our childhood's inno cence! Never more gladly than at Christ mas would we pray: Turn backward, turn backward. O time in thy flight and make me a child again Just for to night. Christmas is childhood's feast. It is a time fqr us to become children again in spirit. putting away the complex sophistications of our ma ture -life, stripping ourselves of the habits of sin, purifying our hearts with penitence as gold is purified in the crucible. .Today Almighty God comes to dwell with us in the form of a little babe. ' Truly no people, have ever had Goda so near as we have. His delight Is to be with the children of men. He wisnes his people to approach his manger- t V. r I V. thsff ,iinnliiatinnii nnri their - adorations j each for them. The following Spring he sold one for $15 and later on. when the Chisana gold mines were discov ered, he tried to buy back the same dog for $90, but was refused. There is a regular business in many of the towns of boarding dogs during the Summer Each place has its dog pound, and the owners get from $2 to $3 per month per dog. I visited such a dog boarding house at St. Michael. It was not far 'from the hotel, and it consisted of a score or more of kennels out in the open. The men In charge of it were Eskimos, clad half In fur. half in cloth. Their copper-colored faces shone out of fur hoods, and they looked like the Mongo lians one sees north of the Great Wall of China. I watched the Eskimos feed ing the 'dogs. The animals were fas tened by strong chains to slakes. The food was cooked on a rude furnace-like stove, made of a gasoline tank set on end. On the- top of the stove was a soup kettle, as large as that used for making apple butter.-. This contained a stew of fish and rice, which was ladled out into a motley "collection of bowls and basins. Including oil cans. tin boxes and t m wash basins. Each dog had his bowT or basin and he watched the Eskimo as he poured out the soup. He went almost crazy as the man brought it to .hint, and at the same time the other dags, not yet served, tugged and pulled at their chains and howled. Just as the man was ready to begin feeding one of the dogs broke loose and made for the soup " kettle. At this the other dogs went mad. They snapped at the loose dog as he passed, and one of them caught him by the leg and rolled him aver. They continued their howling and snapping and tug ging until the Eskimo cuffed the in truder, and ledjhim back to his place. The carrying (ft the Winter mail and express of Alaska is a regular business. There are men in every large town en gaged in it. and there are some who di nothing else but drive dog team's over the country. One of these men tells ' me that the Winter freight is taken across the country on narrow sieds; r about 16 feet long. Such a sled will hold and stand up under a and their pleas for mercy. Ask today and you shall receive. Our Lord would teach us to storm the very courts of heaven with sincere and persevering prayer. For" there are more things wrought by prayer ' than this world dreams of. Many a victory over self many a henoic resolve will be gen erated by silent prayer .before the crib of the infant Savior. Many a vow pleasing to God will '.be registered be fore him as he sits enthroned in the arms of his virgin mother. Many a heart crushed with sorrow and afflic tion will wrestle here with God in the twilight and the sweetness of God's consolation shall distill like the balm of Gilead its healing essence, in the wounds of the souL Tears of contrition shall steal down the cheeks of the penitent and where the spirit knew nothing but bitterness and gall there shall come the refresh ing grace and peace of Christ. The sinner will hear within his heart the echo of his childhooo: Innocence and he TRAINING OF NEWSPAPERMAN THREE SIDED, SAYS MR. ALLEN Oregon Professor of Journalism at Missoula Meeting Says Business as Well as Literary Education Is Necessary. MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 23. Jour nalism is not altogether a pro fession, and the universities have no right to give a young man a purely literary and professional training and turn him out to grapple with the prob lems of the newspaper world, according toEric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism of the University of Ore gon, who gave the presidential address at the opening session of the Western Association of Teachers of Journalism last week. Besides being a profession, Mr. Allen maintained that journalism is, on the one hand, a business, and on the other, an opportunity for public service. The road to the highest places in the news paper world is barred, he maintained, to the man whose training and experi ence is limited only to one or two of the three phases of the work, and he reported that the last ten years have demonstrated that the schools of jour nalism can fill a definite need by pro viding a three-sided preparation which it has been dificult for a young man to get in the old way in the newspaper office itself. "Journalism, like Gaul' Is divided into three parts," he said. "The universi i from 9 to 19 dogs to haul it, accord in to the load. The mail is usually curried on sleds of that kind. The mail contractors are paid by the month, some of them making as much as $10 a day. This man says that the Mackenzie River husky 'is aUout the best all around trail dog to be found in the North. The husky, like the malamute, is a crofs between a. dog and a wolf, an animal long known in Alaska. It was used by the Indians before the Hudson Bay Company came to the Northwest, and that was three centuries aco. The husky is very hardy, and it is noted for its good disposition. Said the mail contractor: "I once met a team of five Mackenzie River huskies on the route from Nome to Skagway. They were then near Lake Bennett, and had al ready traveled 2400 miles, dragging a slei carrying the driver and his outfit. Nevertheless, they were in perfect con dtticrh. and were galloping along. That was at the time of the great gold ex citement. The man sold his team at Lake Bennett for $1000, or for $200 per dog." "Tell me something about handling the dogs on the trail'.'" "Each driver has his own methods of handling his dogs," was the reply. "It is very important that they be treated just right. If the trip is to be long and hard, the dogs should be favored for two or three days at the start. This is to get them seasoned so they will last t nroughout the journey. A good driver will save his team in every pos sible way. He will ride on the sled only when going dow'nhill. and .most of the time he will run in front of the sled, or between the dogs and the sled, keeping the sled in the. trail by what is known as the ge-pole. During cold weather onc.would rather run or walk than ride. I have driven 54 miles in a day with the thermometer 53 degrees below zero. I ran almost the whole day, and at the end it seemed to me as though my lungs were scalded from top to bot tom. I have traveled when the ther mometer was 72 degrees below zero." "How many hours can you drive in a day?" 7 who had been a stranger to religious sentiment and had vainly striven to satisfy the hunger of his soul with the husks of sensual enjoyment will rise to se!f-coniuest with the words: 1 will arise and go to my father's house and I will say. "Father. I have sinned against heaven ami before thee: make me asain as a little child that I may enter thy kingdom!" Today there is born to you a Savior who is Christ the Lord. Christ liber ates us from the bondage of our ma terial environment: he frees us from the tyranny of passion: he delivers us from the slavery .of sin; he is able to save us because he comes from above. Human nature can never be lifted out of its infirmities by merely natural power. It requires the condescension of God. See a mighty cataract. a Niagara, pouring its flood downward hundreds or feet from a precipice. It is harnessed to turn the dynamo and generate the electric current. Its pow er will light the cities and draw the ties, like Caesar, must try to put it to gether again. One-Slded Man Falls. "Train a young man exclusively as a writer and what happens? He gets a good salary and leads a most interest ing life, but when he sets to be 35 or 40 years old he finds that promotions are few and money reward stationary. He sees small hope of a leisured and comfortable old age. "A manwith a purely business train ing will do no better. He is not equipped to direct this peculiar insti tution, the newspaper. He will cast his fortune into a bottomless pit to join the wasted money of many able finan ciers from Jay Gould down. And a newspaper run solely and purely as a business is a pretty discreditable sort of business at that. . "Nor is the social idealist of much use in journalism, unless he can back up his ideals with professional ability and fortify his independence by meet ing his payroll, paying his bills, and having a little margin left over for self-confidence. "It is the duty of the School of Journalism to weld these three abilities and at the present stage of our de velopment the nost urgent of these is 3 cft-ce-s? VcPcsc ?. but it is often best to drive only six. The stoics have to be made according to the trail and the roadhouses. We al ways shelter the dogs at night, if pos sible, and most' of the roadhouses have kennels for them. If there is no shelter the native dog will bury him self in the snow, or climb upon some thing above it. He will choose the best trail and bite the icicles out ot his toes when he .stops for the night. The feet of a dog are a'importnt a factor in traveling as the feet of a horse. A close-built foot with good, round balls and thick skin on ' the balls is essential to a trail dog. There must also be a very little hair between the toes, otherwise the snow catches there. and balls up and forms icicles that lame the tlog." "What do you feed the dogs on such trips?" "We usually carry dried salmon along to feed on the trail, and, at the end of the trip, give . them cooked meals of rice, tallow and fish. They get but one meal a day, unless the running is hard, when they have a lunch of dried salmon at noon. In the) latter case it is necessary to let them rest two hours after lnch. otherwise they get sick." The stories of Alaskan dogs are le gion, and their deeds surpass those of the famous St. Bernards of the Alps. There are huskies and malamutes' which have traveled tens of thousands of miles in harness, and I hear legends of how they have saved the lives of their owners when almost frozen to death, or lost in the snow. One of these stories relates to Baldy, of Nome, who saved the All-Alaska Sweepstakes for Scotty" Allen, a famous driver in one of the great races to Candle City. Baldy was the leader of the team. During the race he felt that the sled was running light, and. looking back, could see no signs of his master. He thereupon, of his own accord, .turned the team and went back over the trail several miles, where he found Scotty lying pale and unconscious on the snow.- He had been struck by one of the iron posts put up ly the Government to mark tho trail. The dog, Baldy. stopped and licked the palid face of the" senseless man. He then set up a howl and S'-vatched away at Seotty's breast until . the man came to. and. crawling back on the sled, motioned him to go on with the race. Tills Baldy did. and canio out ahead. The story of this dog has been told in a pretty little book entitled "Baldy. of Nome." written by Mrs. Esther Bird sail Darling, who lias, better than any other writer, commemorated the virtues of the Alaska dog. Mis. Darling lives at Nome, and she has owned several teams that have won the AU-Alaaka Sweepstakes. I close my letter with one of her poems describing the dog as a friend. It will be appreciated by dog lovers wherever this letter is read: Sometimes when life, has gone wrynn with ou And tile world see?n r dreary plare. lias your dOR ever silently 'i-pt to Jour ft-t His yeiirniug v turned to your fae- Has h- n.ade you fe.-l thnt he understands. And rI! that lie aks of otj Is to fhare your lot. l.e ft pood or 111. With a 1-hnnc-p to be loyal unit true Are you branded a failure? He docs not know A siniiei lie does not care You're nmhter to him that's all that counts A word, and his day is fair. Your Ijrth and your station arc nothing to rim A palue and hut are tho name: And his love is yours in honor and peaKe. And It's yours through disaster and shame. ThoiiKh others forcpt you and pass you by. He in ever our faitl ful trlend Ready to Rive you the test, that is his. 1'nself iahlv. unto tho end. cars and cut the tunnels and heat the homes of men. The river rolling lan guidly -on the plain will never gener ate such power. But see the mighty flood leaping 'from the dizzy height and you have potential energy to drivo the mills and bear the freights oft hundred cities. So Christ has power to save because be is more than man. He comes from the royal heights of heaven with infinite power and merci fully raises fallen humanity to the dignity of the children of God. He comes today to brine to your hearts a peace which the world cannot give: ho comes to lift you above your dally material cares; to rescue you from passion and sin: to give you strength to bear the burdens of life. And he Is our Savior for he has strength to save, for being the holiest among the the mighty and the miurhtiest among the holy, he has raised with his infant arms empires off their hinges, turni-l the course of centuries out of its chan nel and still Roverns the ages. business. There is no occupation today that furnishes the opportunities that the newspaper is offering the man who understands news, business man agement and honest community leader ship, all three. It is just because this three-sided development is so rare that one can now buy a small newspaper cheap, and if he knows how. can in a few years turn it into a valuable, property and a power for good. "IMtilcBs Publicity" Not Always Good. "Journalism has the hardest ethics and the hardest to live up to of any of the professions. The newspaper man try ing to do right gets little sympathy and no understanding outside) of his own profession. The other powers that make for righteousness ore often found with perfectly clear consciences but im perfect knowledge urging him to do what he alone knows would be wrong. "'Pitiless publicity' is more popular in theory than in practice. I dare say that there is scarcely a prominent clergyman, educator, or political re former Inflhe land who has not at some time tried to divert some newspaper from that even-handed Justice which is our ideal. And the paper Is then excoriated for 'attacking' the church, the college, or the reform movement.1 "The newspaper of the future, the newspaper we are working toward, will be financially strong, paying good wages and high salaries, and maintain ing its independence; strong in its news, telling the truth without feur or favor; strong in its leadership, work ing for the economic and spiritual wel fare of the common man and boldly standing up against the forces that would demoralize his mind or exploit the products of his Labor."