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FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 1914
Thanksgiving Proclamation
President Wilson has appoint
Thursday, November 2tHh as a
time for National thanksgiving,
mill asks the citizens to assemble
and give thanks for blessing ex
tended. In his proclamation he
said things worth repeating and
remembering, hence, we repro
duce the body of it as printed
below:
"It has been vouchsafed to us
to remain at peace, with honor,
and in some parts to succor the
suffering and supply the needs
of those in want. We have been
privileged by our own peace and
self-control in some degree to
steady the councils and shape
the hopes and purposes of a day
of fear ami distress. Our people
have looked upon their own life
as a nation with deeper compre
hension, a fuller realization of
their responsibilities as well as
of their blessings and a keener
sense of the moral and practical
-significance of what their part
among the nations of the world
may come to be.
"The hurtful effects of foreign
war in their own industrial and
commercial affairs have made
them feel the more fully and see
the more clearly their mutual
interdependence upon one an
other and has stirred them to a
helpful co-operation such as they
have seldom practiced before.
They have been quickened by a
great moral stimulation. Their
unmistakable ardor for peace,
their earnest pity and disinter
ested sympathy for those who
are suffering, their readiness to
help and to think of the needs
of others, has revealed them to
themselves, as well as to the
world.
"Our crop's will feed all who
need food; the self-possession of
our people amidst the most seri
ous anxieties and difficulties and
' the steadiness and resourceful
ness of our business men, will
serve other nations as well as
our own.
"The business of the country
has been supplied with instru
mentalities and the commerce
of the world with new, channels
of trade and intercourse. The
Panama Canal has been opened
to the commerce of the nations.
The two continents of America
have been bound in closer ties
of friendship. New instrumen
talities of international trade
have been created which will be
also new instrumentalities of ac
quaintance, intercourse and mu
tual service. Never before have
the people of the United States
been so situated for their own
advantage or the advantage of
their neighbors or so" equipped
to serve themselves and man
kind. "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow
Wilson, President of the United
States of America, do hereby
designate Thursday, the 26th of
November next, as a day of
Thanksgiving and prayer, and
invite the people throughout the
land to cease from their wonted
occupations and in their several
homes and places of worship
render thanks to Almighty
God." .
The New Alabama
The operations of the German
cruisers Karlsruhe and Emden
bring home to us again the fact
that, of all the hiding places on
this globe, the sea is the best.
In their separate seas, these
cruisers have voyaged up and
down, chasing and sinking the
merchantmen of the enemy, cut
ting off provisions and supplies
from the ports of England and
France. They are the Alabamas
of this war. and the damage they
have wrought must already come
near to approximating all thut
done by the Confederate priva
teer. In the West Indies and
a'long the Atlantic shore of South
America, the Karlsruhe has bet-n
as much a terror to British ship
ping as the old-time buccaneers
were. In the East Indies and
the Bay of Bengali, the Emden
is sending a steamer to the bot
tom every few days. Both are,
of course, frantically pursued
There are probably half a dozen
cruisers after each one of them.
But so vast is the sea and so
wary are the Germans that, so
far, the Karlsruhe and the Em
den have sailed the oci-hii as,
seemingly, they blessed well
pleased.
The Alabama succeeded in
keeping the sea for more than
two years. Who knows but the
Karlsruhe and the Emden can
elude pursuit quite as long?
Toledo Blade. '
THE RURAL
THE FARMERS THE CUSTODIANS
OF THE NATION'S MORALITY.
Co-oprration of Church, School and
Press Essential to Community
Building.
By Peter Radford.
Lecturer National Farmers' Union.
The church, the press and the school
form a triple alliance of progress that
guides the destiny of every commun
ity, state and nation. Without them
civilization would wither and die and
through them life may attain Its great
est blessing, power and knowledge.
The farmers of this nation are greatly
indebted to this social triumvirate tor
their uplifting influence, and on behalf
of the American plowman I want to
thank those engaged in these high
callings for their able and efficient
service, and I shall offer to the press
a series of articles on co-operation
between these Important influences
and the farmers in the hope of in
creasing the efficiency of all by mu
tual understanding and organized ef
fort. We will take up first the rural
church.
The Farmers Are Great Church Build
ers. The American farmer is the greatest
church builder the world has ever
known. He is the custodian of the
nation's morality; upon his shoulders
rests the "ark of the covenant" and
he is more responsive to religious In
fluences than any other class of cit
izenship. The farmers of this nation have
built 120.000 churches at a cost of
$750,000,000, and the annual contribu
tion of the nation toward all church
Institutions approximates $200,000,000
per annum. The farmers of the Unit
ed States build 22 churches per day.
There are 20,000,000 rural church com
municants on the farm, and 54 per
cent of the total membership of all
churches reside in the country.
The farm is the power-house of all
progress and the birthplace of all that
Is noble. The Garden of Eden was
In the country and the man who would
H?t close to God muut first get close
to nature.
The Functions of a Rural Church.
If the rural churches tiMtey are go
ing to render a service whlah this age
demands, there must be co-operation
between the religious, social and eco
nomic life of the community.
The church to attain Its fullest mea
sure of success must enrich the lives
of the people In the community tt
erves; It must build character; devel
op thought and increune the efficiency
of human lite. It must serve .the so
cial, business and Intellectual, as well
ts the spiritual and moral side of life.
If religion does not make a man more
capable! more useful and aiore Just,
what good Is it? We want a practical
religion, one we can live by and farm
by, as well as die by.
Fewer and Better Church.
Blessed Is that rural community
which has but one place of worship.
While competition is the life of trade,
it Is death to the rural church and
moral starvation to the community.
Petty sectarianism la a scourge that
blights the life, and church preju
dice saps the vitality of many com
munities. An over-churched commun
ity Is a crime against religion, a seri
ous handicap to society and a useless
tax upon agriculture.
While denominations are essential
and church pride commendable, the
high teaching of universal Christianity
must prevail if the rural church ts to
fulfill Its mission to agriculture.
We frequently have three or four
churches In a community which Is not
able to adequately support one. Small
congregations attend services once a
month and all fall to perform the re
ligious functions of the community.
The division of religious forces and
the breaking Into fragments of moral
effort la ofttlmes little less than a
calamity and defeats the very purpose
they seek to promote.
The evils of too many churches can
be minimized by co-operation. The
social and economic life of a rural
community are respective units and
cannot be successfully divided by de
nominational lines, and the churches
can only occupy this important field
by co-operation and co-ordination.
The efficient country church will
definitely serve its community by lead
ing in all worthy efforts at community
building, In uniting the people In all
co-operative endeavors for the gen
eral welfare of the community and In
arousing a real love for country life
and loyalty to the country home and
these results can only be successfully
accomplished by the united effort of
the press, the school, the church and
organized farmers.
TAUGHT BY THE SWALLOWS.
How a Railway Tunnel Was Built
Through a Sand Bank.
A colony of bank xwullows taught a
young but olwervlng engineer bow to
build a tunnel tlmt tils more learned
superiors had refuxed to undertake.
North or Burlington, Vt., lies a
broad auud plain IiIku above the level
it Lake Chmnplain, throiiKh which the
Central railroad was to lie carried by
t tunnel. The Hand, dentltute of moist
ure, would not cohere, but crumbled
away as noon nx an excavation was
made. After several contly trials the
engineers decided thut the tunnel was
Impructlcnlile.
A young man In the engineer's office
said be could tunnel the snnd bank at
a small coxt. lie said he could build
the tunnel for so many dollars a run
ning foot, hut that be couldn't expect
the railway people to act upon bis
opinion when so many American and
European engineers had declared the
project Impracticable.
The mnnagcrM. bowever, gave him a
contract to build fifty feet of the tun
nel. On the face of the sand hank be
marked the line of an arch larger than
the proposed tunnel and on this line
drove sharpened timbers Into the tinnk.
Then be removed six feet of the sand
and drove In another arch of twelve
foot timbers, removing six feet more
of sand. " This process be repented un
til be had space enough to begin the
masonry. As fimt as the masonry was
completed the space nbove It was
filled, leaving the timbers In place.
He pierced the bank with the cheap
est tunnel ever built, which now
stands as firm as on the day It was
finished.
Be was asked whether there was
any suggestion of the structure adopt
ed by him to tie found In the books on
engineering.
"No." he mild. "It came to me In this
way: I was driving , by the place
where the attempts were made and
saw that a colony of swallows bad
made their homes In the bank. It oc
curred to me that these little engineers
bad disproved the asaertlon that the
sand hud no cohesion. As every swal
low's home Is a self sustaining tunnel
without masonry.' 1 thought that by
extending their method I could con
struct a larger tunnel. The bank swal
low Is the Inventor: I am simply bis
Imitator." Boston Post
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Church Directory
Evangelical Church
F. M. Fisher, Pastor.
Morning service at 11 :00 o'clock
Evening service at 7:30 o'clock
Sunday School at ' 10:00 a. m.
Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
H. F. Jones, Pastor.
Morning Service at 11.00 a. m.
Evening Service at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday School 10:00 a. m.
Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
G. A. Pollard, Pastor
Sunday School at 10:00, a. m.
Morning worship, - 11:00 a. m.
Christian Union Endeavor, 6:30 P. M.
Evening worship. . -. 7:30 p.m.
Prayermeeting Wednesday, 7:30 P. M.
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