THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
THE
RODNEY ALDRICH HAD NEVER REALLY THOUGHT MUCH
OF GETTING MARRIED UNTIL HIS SISTER "PUT THE
BUG IN HIS EAR" THEN HE -THOUGHT FIRST
OF PRETTY ROSE STANTON
SYNOPSIS. Itoso Stnnton, student nt the University of Chicago,
Is put olt a street cur In the rain uftor nn argument with the conduc
tor. She Is accosted hy n nice young mun who offers to flic a com
pliant with the company nnd who escorts her to another car line. An
hour Inter this man, Itodney Aldrlch, appeared snaked with rnln nt the
home of his very wealthy married sister, Mrs. Martin Whitney, to at
tend a birthday dinner In his wmg. Mrs. Whitney had schemed to
irnke a marriage mutch between him and Hermlone Woodruff, a di
vorcee, but the plun fulls at the dinner.
CHAPTER II Continued.
2
Sho cunie up to him and, ut arm's
length, touched him with cautious
finger-tips. "And do, please, there's a
dear hoy," she pleaded, "hurry as fust
you can, aud then come down nnd
be as nice as you can" she hesitated
"especially to llermiono Woodruff.
She thinks you're u wonder' and 1
don't wunt her to be disappointed."
"The wlddy?" ho asked. "Sure I'll
be nice to her."
She looked after him rather dubious
ly as he disappeared in the direction
f her husband's bathroom. There wus
a sort of hilarious contentment about
him width filled her with misgivings.
Well, they were Justified I
According to Violet Williamson's ac
count, given confidentially In the draw-Ing-roora
nfterward, It was reully ller
mlone's fault "Sho Just wouldn't let
Rodney alone would keep talking
bout crimes nnd Lonibroso and
psychlutrlc laboratories I'll bet she'd
got hold of a paper of his somewhere
ml read it Anyway, nt Inst she
said, 'I believe Doctor Ilandolph would
grec with mo.' He was talking to
me then, but mnybe that isn't why
she did it. Well, nnd Itodney straight
ened up nnd said, "Is that Randolph,
the alienist? You sec he hadn't
caught his name when they were In
troduced. And that's how It started.
Hcrmlono was game I'll- admit that
She listened and kept looking inter
ested, nnd every now and then said
something. Sometimes they'd take the
trouble to smile nnd Jiny Yes, Indeed !'
politely, you know, but oilier times
they wouldn't pny nny attention nt all,
Just roll along over her nnd smash
Ber flat like what's his nume Jug
gernaut." "You don't need to tell me that,"
suld Fredericn. "All I didn't know
was how it stnrtcd. Didn't I sit there
and watch for. a mortal hour, not nhlo
to do a tiling? I tried to signal to
Martin, but of course he wasn't oppo
site to mo, and . . ."
"lie did all he could, really," Violet
assured her. "I told him to go to
the rescue, and he did, bravely. But
what with Ilcrmione being so mlffy
bout getting frozen out, and Murtln
himself being so Interested in whnt
they were shouting nt ench other
becauso It was frightfully Interest
ing, you know, If you don't have to
pretend you understood it why, there
wasn't much he could do."
In the light of tills disaster, she
was rather glad the men lingered In
the dining-room ns long ns they did
glad that llermiono hud ordered her
car for ten and took the odd girl with
her. Sho made no effort to resist the
departure of the others, with reason
able promptitude, In their train.
When, after the front door hud closed
for the Inst time, Murtln released a
long yawn, she told him to run along
to bed ; she wanted to tnlk to Itodney,
who was to spend the night while bis
own clothes were drying out In the
laundry.
"Good night, old chap !" said Martin
In accents of lively commiseration,
"I'm glad I'm not In for whnt you are."
Itodney found u pipe, sat down
stride a spindling little, chair, settled
Ms elbows comfortably on the back ot
It, nnd then nsked his sister whnt Mar
tin had meant what wns h in for?
Fredericn, curled lip In a corner of
the sofa, looked at him at first with a
wry pucker between her eyebrows,
then with a smile, and finally answered
his question. "Nothing," she suld. "I
mean, I was going to scold you, but
I'm not."
Then, "Oh, I wns furious with you
an hour ago," she went on. "I'd made
such a renlly beautiful plan for yon,
and then I sat and watched you in that
thoroughgoing way of yours kicking
It all to bits. The plan was, of course,
to marry you off to Ilcrmione Wood
ruff." He turned this over In his deliberate
way, during- the process of blowing
two or three smoke rings, began
gradually to grin, and said at Inst:
"That was some plan, little sister.
How do you think of tilings like that?
Ton ought to write romances for the
autga zincs."
"I don't know," sho objected. "If
reasonableness counted for anything
in things like that, it wns a pretty
good plan. It would hnve to be some
body like Hermlone. You can't get
a at all with young girls."
"I don't know," said Kodney,
"whether Mrs. Woodruff knows what
he wonts or not, but I do. She wants
run for her money. And she'll wnnt
nice, tame trick husband to miinujre
things for her and bo Johnny-on-the-spot
whenever she wants him. And
If the man happened to be me . . . I"
Fredericn stretched her slim arms
ntward. Thoughtful-faced, Bhe mnde
m comment, unless there wns one In
the deliberate way In which she turned
Iter rings, one at time, so that the
ViUlant masses of gems were Inside,
REAL ADVENTURE
By HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER
Copyright 1916,
nnd then clenched her hands over them.
lie hud got up nnd was ranging
comfortably up and down the room.
"I know I look more or less like a
nut to the people who've always known
.is. But I give you my word, Freddy,
thiit most of them look like nuts to me.
Why a man should load himself up
with three houses nnd n yacht, a
stable of motorcars, and heavens knows
whnt besides, is a thing I cun't figure
out on any basis except of defective
Intelligence. I suppose they're equally
puzzled nbout me when I refuse a
profitable piece of law work they've
offered me, because I don't, consider
It Interesting. All the same, I get
what I want, nnd I'm pretty dubious
sometimes whether they do. I wnnt
space comfortable elbow room, so
that if I happen to get an Idea by the
tail, I can swing it round my bead
without knocking over the lump."
"It's a luxury, though, Rod, that
kind of spaciousness, and you aren't
very rich. If you married a girl with
out anything . .
lie broke in on her with thnt big
laugh of his, "You've kept your sense
of humor pretty -well, sis, considering
you've been married nil these years
to a man a rich as Martin ; but don't
spring remarks like that, or 111 think
you've lost It. Lf a man can't keep
an open space around him, even after
he's married on an Income, outside of
what he enrns, of ten or twelve thou
snnd dollars a year, the trouble Isn't
with his income. It's with the content
of his own skull."
Sho gave a little shiver and
snuggled closer Into a big down pillow.
You will marry somebody, though,
won't you, Boddy? I try not to nag
at you and I won't make any more
silly plans, but I can't help worrying
about you, living alone In that awful
big old house. Anybody but you would
die of despondency."
"Oh," he suld, "that's whnt I mennt
to tnlk to you nbout ! I sold it todny
fifty thousand dollars Immediate
possession. Man wants to build a
printing establishment there. You
come down sometime nest week nnd
pick out nil the things you think you
und Harriet would like, and I'll auction
off the rest."
She shivered ngaln nnd, to her
disgust, found that her eyes were
blurring up with tears. She was a
little bit slack and edgy todny anyhow.
Whnt he hnd Just referred to in a
dozen brisk words, was the final dis
appearance of the home they had all
"The Plan Was, of Course, to .Marry
You Off to Hermlone Woodruff."
grown up In. Their father, one of
Chicago's great men during the twenty
odd yenrs from the Fire to the Fair,
had built It when the neighborhood
Included nearly all the other big men
of that robust period, and bad always
been proud of It. Of course for years
the neighborhood had been impossible.
Her mother had clung to it after her
husband's death, but Itodney had sim
ply stayed on, since her death, watting
for an offer for it that suited him. His
curt announcement that the long-looked-for
change had come, brought
up quick, unwclcomed tears. She
squeezed them away with her palms.
"Is that," she asked, "why you've
been looking so sort of gay, all the
evening as If you were licking the
lust of the canary's feathers off yo.ur
whiskers?"
"Perhaps so," he said. "It's been
a pretty good day, take It nil round."
She got up from the couch, shook
herself down Into her clothes a little,
'HI' I .
Bobbs - Merrill Co.
and came over to him. "All right,
since It's been a good day, let'a go to
bed." She put her hands upon his
shoulders. "You're rather dreadful,"
she said, "but you're a dear. You
don't bite my head off when I urge you
to get married, though I know you
want to. But you will some day I
don't mean bite my head off won't
you, Rod?"
"When I see nny prospect of being
ns lucky ns Martin And a girl who
won't mind when I turn up for dinner
looking like a drowned tramp, or kick
her plans to bits, nftcr she's tipped me
off as to what sho wants me to do . ."
Fredcrlca took her hands off, stop
ped back, and looked nt him. There
wns nn Ironical sort of smile on her
lips. "You're such an Innocent, Roddy
dear. Don't think the girl you marry
will ever trent you like that."
"But look herel" he exclaimed.
"How In thunder am I going to know
nbout the girl I get engaged to, before
It's too late?"
"You won't," she said. "You haven't
a chance In the world."
"Hmi" he grunted, obviously struck
with this Idea. "You're giving the
prospect of marriage new attractions.
You'ro making the thing out an ad
venture." She nodded rather soberly. "Oh,
I'm not afraid for you," she said.
"Men like adventures you more than
most. But women don't. They like to
dream about them,, but they wunt to
turn over to the last chapter and see
how It's going to end. It's the girl
I'm worried about . . . Oh, come
along! We're talking nonsense. I'll
go up with you and see that they're
giving you pajamas and a tooth-brush."
She had accomplished this purpose,
kissed 1dm good-night, and turned to
leave the room, when her eye fell upon
a heap of damp, warped, pasteboard
bound notebooks, which she remem
bered having observed In his side pock
ets when he first enmo In. She went
over and picked them up, peered at the
pnper Iubel that had half peeled off the
topmost cover, and read what was
written on It
"Who," she asked with considerable
emphasis, "is Rosalind Stanton?"
"Oh," said Rodney, very casually, be
hind the worst Imitation of a yawn
she had ever seen, "oh, she got put off
the car when I did."
"That sounds rather exciting," said
Fredcrlca behind an Imitation yawn
of her own but a better one. "Going
to tell me about It?"
"Nothing much to tell," said Rodney.
"There was a row about a fare, as
I said. And then, we both got put off.
So, naturally, I walked with her over
to the elevated. And then I forgot to
give her her notebooks and came awny
with them."
"What sort of looking glrlT asked
Frederlca. "Is she pretty?"
"Why, I don't know," said Rodney
Judicially.- "Really, you know, I hard
ly got a fair look at her."
Frederlca made a funny-sounding
laugh and wished him an abrupt "good
night."
She was a great old girl, Fredcrlca
pretty wise about lots of things, but
Rodney was Inclined to think she was
mistaken In saying women didn't like
adventures.
"You're a liar, you know," remarked
his conscience, "telling Frederlca you
hndn't a good look at her. And how
about those notebooks about forget
ting to give them to her I"
CHAPTER III. .
The Second Encounter.
Portia Stanton wns lnte for lunch;
so, after stripping off her Jacket and
gloves, rolling up her veil, and scowl
ing at herself in nn oblong mahogany
framed mirror In the hall, she walked
Into, the dining-room with her hat on.
Seeing her mother sitting at the lunch
table, she asked, "Where's Rose?"
"She'll be down, presently, I tlujik,
her mother said. "Does your hut
mean you're going back to the shop
this afternoon?"
Portia nodded, pulled back her chair
abruptly, nnd sat down.
"I thought that on Saturday . . ."
her mother began.
"Oh, I know," said Portia, "but thnt
girl I've got Isn't much good."
You'd hnve known them for mother
nnd daughter anywhere, nnd you'd
have had trouble finding nny point of
resemblance in either of them to the
Amazonian young thing who had so
nearly thrown a street-car conductor
into the street the night before.
The mother's hnlr was very soft and
white, nnd the care with which it as
arranged Indicated a certain harmless
vanity In It There was something a
little conscious, too, nbout her dress.
If you took it In connection with a
ccrtnin resolute amiability about her
smile, you would be entirely prepared
to hear her tell Portia that she was to
talk on "Modern Tendencies" before
the Pierian club this afternoon.
A very real person, nevertheless
you couldn't doubt that The marks of
pnsslonately held beliefs and engerly
given sacrifices were etched with un
deniable authenticity In her fnce.
Once you got beyond a cntalogue of
features, Portia presented rather a
striking contrast to this. Her hair
was done with a severity thnt wns
fairly ' hostile. Her clothes were
brusquely worn. Her smile, lf not ill
natured it wnsn't that wns distinct
ly ironic. A very competent, good
looking young womnn, Just now droop
ing n little over the cold lunch.
"So Rose didn't come down this
morning ot all. Nothing particular the
matter with her, Is there?" asked Por
tia. There was enough real concern In
her voice to save the question from
sounding satirical, but her mother's
manner was a little apologetic when
she answered it
"No, I think not," she said. "But
she was In such a state when she
came home last night literally wet
through to the skin, and blue with
cold. So I thought it wouldn't do uny
hunn. . . ."
"Of course not," . said Portia.
"Rose Is all right She won't spoil
badly."
"I'm a little bit worried about the
loss of the poor child's notebooks,"
said her mother.
"I don't believe Rose Is worrying
her head off nbout them," suld Portia.
The flush In her mother's cheeks
deepened a little, but it wns no long
er npologetic. "I don't think you're
quite fair to Rose, nbout her studies,"
(she suld. "If she doesn't seem always
to appreciate her privilege In getting n
college education ns seriously us tdie
should, you Bhould remember her
youth. She's only twenty."
"I'm sorry, mother," Portia Inter
rupted contritely. "I didn't mean any
harm anyway. Didn't she say the
mnn's name was Rodney Aldrlch?"
"I think so," her mother agreed.
"Something like thnt." .
"It's rather funny," suld Portia.
"It's hardly likely to have been the
real Rodney Aldrlch. Yet It's not n
common name."
"The real Rodney Aldrlch?" ques
tioned her mother. But, without wait
ing for her daughter's elucidation of
the phrase, she added, "Oh, there's
Rose I"
The girl enme up behind Portia nnd
enveloped her In a big, lazy hug. "Back
to work another Saturday afternoon,
Angel?" sho asked commlseratlngly.
"Aren't you ever going to stop nnd
have nny fun?" Then sho slumped
Into a chair, heaved a yawning sigh,
and rubbed her eyes.
"Tired, dear?" asked her mother.
She said It under her breath In the
hope that Portia wouldn't hear.
"No," suld Rose. "Just sleepy!"
She ynwned ngnin, turned to Portia,
nnd, somewhnt to their surprise, said:
"Yes, what do you mean the real
Rodney Aldrlch? He looked real
enough to me. And his arm felt real
the one ho was going to punch the
conductor with."
"I didn't mean he was Imaginary,"
Portia explained. "I only meant 1
didn't believe It wns the Rodney
Aldrlch who's so awfully promineut;
either somebody else who hnppened
to have the same name, or somebody
who Just said that was his name."
"What's the matter with the promi
nent one?" Rose wanted to know.
"Why couldn't It have been he?"
Portia admitted that It could, so far
ns thnt went, but Insisted on nn In
herent Improbnblllty. A mllllonnlre,
the brother of Mrs. Murtln Whitney,
wasn't likely to be found riding in
street cars.
"Millionaires have legs," said Rose.
"I bet they can walk around like any
body else. However, I don't care who
he Is, lf he'll send back my books."
Portia went bnck presently to" the
shop, and it wasn't long after that that
her mother came downstairs clud for
the street, with her "Modern Tenden
cies" under her arm In a leather port
folio. Her valedictory, given with
more confidence now that Portia was
out of the house, was a strong recom
mendation that Rose stay quietly with
in doors nnd keep warm.
"I was going to, anyway," she said.
"Home nnd fireside for mine today."
The house was deserted except for
Inga In the kitchen, engaged In the
principal sporting event of her domes
tic routine the weekly baking. Rose
hndn't mennt to go to Bleep, but the
detective story she tried to read wns
so flagrantly stupid thnt presently she
tossed the book asldo and begun
dreaming one of her own In which the
heroine got put off a street-car in the
opening chapter.
The telephone bell aroused her once
or twice, far enough to observe thut
Inga was attending to it, so when the
BABIES MURDERED IN CHINA
One Mother Laughingly Admitted She
Had "Disposed Of" Seven of He
Nine Daughters.
A Chinese mother told me the other
day that she had disposed of seven of
her own daughters. She told It with
n lnugh! She hnd borne nine; hnd
given nwny two, nnd had drowned the
other seven In the slop bucket
When I tried to find somo appeal to
conscience to a sense of wrong it
simply was not there. And the pas
tor's wife, who was with me nt tho
time, when I asked her what these peo
ple do regard a sin, said, "Why, noth
ing! They do not think anything Is
wrong! If they carry the Idols round
twice a year they may do as they like."
I went home with this murderess and
found her sweet, young daughter-in-law,
who has Btudled a little In our
schools, very sad and heartbroken be
cause her two little daughters hnd been
killed nt birth or thrown away by their
futher. Of course, the mother-In-luw
hnd also insisted upon this. Her one
son had been killed when five dnys old
by the malpractice of the midwife, who
had taken him In hand when some
baby ailment developed, and burned his
head, hands and breast with live coals.
So the poor little mother was left
childless.
"My little baby girls cling to my
heart night and day I" sho cried. "1
don't know what became of them. 1
loved them Just as I loved the boy, all
the time they were with me before they
were born. I wanted them sot But
he was unwilling, so they had to die,"
and she burled her face In her'hands.
Evelyn W. Sites, In World Outlook.
front-door bell rang she left thnt to
Inga, too didn't even sit up and
swing her legs off tho couch aud
try, with a prodigious stretch, to get
herself awake, until she beurd the
girl say casually: ,
"Her ban right In the sitting-room V.
So it fell out that Rodney Aldrlch
hud, for his second vivid picture ot
her the first had been, you will re
member, when she bad seized the con
ductor by both wrists, and had said
lu a blaze of beautiful wrath : "Don't
dare touch me like that!" a splendid
lazy, tousled creature, In a chaotle
glory of chestnut hair, an unlaced
middy-blouse, a plaid skirt twisted
around her knees, and a pair of ridic
ulous red bedroom slippers, with red
pompons on the toes. The creature
was stretching herself with the grace
of a big cat that had Just been roused
from a nap on the hearthrug.
If his first picture of her bad been
brief, his second one was practically
a snapshot, because at sight of him,
she flushed to her feet
So, for a moment, they confronted
each other about equally aghast,
flushed up to the hair, and simultane
ously and Incoherently begged each
other's pnrdon neither could have
said for whnt, the goddess out of the
machine being Inga, the mald-of-all-work.
But suddeuly, at a twinkle sho
caught in his eye, her own big eyes
narrowed nnd her big mouth widened
Into a smile, which broke presently
Into, her deep-throated laugh, ' where
upon he laughed too und they shook
hands nnd sho asked him to sit down.
"it's too ridiculous," she said. "Since
lust night, when I got to thinking
how I must have . looked, wrestling
A Splendid, Lazy, Tousled Creature.
with thnt conductor, I've been telling
myself thnt If I ever saw you agnln,
I'd try to act like a lady. But It's
no use, Is It?"
He snld thut he, too, hnd hoped to
make a better Impression the second
time than the first Thnt wns whut
he brought the books bnck for.
"I'm awfully sorry mother's not at
home mother nnd my sister Portia.
They'd both like to thnnk you for
looking after me last night. Because
reully you did, you kuow."
"There never wns anything less al
truistic in the world," he assured her.
"I dropped off of that car solely In
pursuit of a selfish aim. I'd enjoy
uicetlng your mother nnd sister very
nuch, but what I came for was to get
acquainted with you."
She flushed nnd smiled. "Why, I'm
nobody much to get acquainted with,'.'
sho said. "Mother's tho interesting
one mother and Portlu. Mother's
quite a person. She's Naomi Rut
ledge Stanton, you know."
"I know I ought to know," Rodney
said, nnd her quick appreciative
smile over hl3 candor rewarded him
for not having pretendid.
The "bee In hla bonnet"
worked rapidly on Rodney and
his acquaintance with Rose de
veloped with much speed as de
scribed In the next installment
(TO Bli CONTINUED.)
EASY TO HANDLE BIG LOADS
Attachment Devised for Trucks Makes
the Work of the Wheeler 50
Per Cent Easier.
In order to muke It possible for L
workman to manage a heavily loaded
two-wheeled hand truck with less phy
sical exertion thnn Is ordinarily re
quired nn attachment has been devised
which holds the cargo in place, allow
ing the mass to be tilted forward until
Its center of gravity is over the wheel
axle.
When wheeling on level flooring a
man is thus relieved of the weight of
the article he Is moving ; his concern Is
merely to maintain its balance while
propelling the truck.
The device consists of an anchor and
chain attachment, housed In a tube,
which Is attached beneath a truck. By
tipping the latter forward against the
object it is to carry, the chain is drawn
out to the required length, locked by
dropping one of the links Into a narrow
slot In the neck of the tube and the
hook engaged at auy convenient point
Promoting Thrift In Colombia.
The Colomblnn congress has adopt
ed a measure providing for the ap
pointment by the minister of public
Instruction of a commission to Investi
gate methods for promoting saving
throughout the country. This commis
sion will work out a general plan of
organization of public and school sav
ings banks, retirement funds, and so
cieties for mutual aid and co-operative
buying.
The water of the Antarctic ocean U
colder than that of the Arctic
How to
Encourage Bible
Reading
By REV. HOWARD W. POPE
Moody Blblt lojtituU,
Chicago
TEXT-Preuch th preaching that I
bid tliee.-Jonah 3:12.
Early In his ministry the writer was
led to begin preaching on the books of
the Bible. It
came about In
this way: Our
Sunday school for
many years had
been giving a con
cert each month,
consisting of the
u 8 u a 1 readings,
recltutions and
singing by the
school, and clos
ing with a short
address by the
pastor. I decided
to substitute for
tho pastor's ad
dress a brief
study of the books
of the Bible, beginning with Genesis.
1 tried to give each book a character
istic name, for instance, Genesis Is tho
book of beginning, because It de
scribes tho beginning of the universe,
tho beginning of tills world, the be
ginning of man, tho beginning of luii-
guuge, the beginning of the Sabbatii,
the beginning of sin und the beginning
of grace.
As a largo part of my congregation
consisted of children and youths, It
was necessury for me to preach the
subject in a popular rather thnn a
scholarly way, and above all to make
It exceedingly Interesting. I tried to
explain what tho author's purpose was
in writing or compiling the book, nnd
what were the probublo sources of his
Information.
Without going Into the subject in nn
exhaustive way, I tried to tell tho
story of creution In a popular style and
at the same time to show how the pic
ture accounts compared with tho facts
of modern science.
The temptation und full of man
opened up the subject of origin of Bin,
und the story shows the effect of sin,
not only upon our first pnrents, but
upon the race as a whole, nnd there
fore It bus a prnetlcul application to
everyone.
Genesis.
As the first two chapters of Genesis
deul with generation, the third chapter
takes up the subject of degeneration,
and tho remainder of the Bible, us
someone lias said, Is devoted to the
subject of regeneration.
The story of the flood opens up a
new theme of exceeding Interest, and
Noah's deliverance Is a splendid type
of salvation. Babel with its confu
sion of tongues, suggests Pentecost,
where people of nil tongues understood
God's message, and the coming day
when ail God's people shall use the unl
versai language. Thus I went on
touching tho points which bud the
grentest practical value.
Then briefly reviewing the book I
culled attention to the three principal
characters Adam, Noah and Abraham.
From them we can learn three prac
tical lessons. From - Adam we can
learn to obey God ; from Nonh to talk
to God ; from Abraham to trust God.
At the close of the service I guve
to ench person In the nudlence a .four
pago folder, containing a brief outline
of my address, Including tho principal
facts, dates and outline, together with
the Sunday school lessons drawn from
tho study of the book.
I nsked tho people to reud the book
of Genesis through, and nt our next
meeting to come prepured to puss nn
exnmlnutlon upon the outline I hnd
given. At tho next service I would
spend ten or fifteen minutes In ques
tioning the congregation upon the book
of Genesis, briefly reviewing whnt we
hnd gone over before. Then I took up
the book of Exodus and guve an ud
dress on thut '
The Results.
At once there wns a perceptible In
crease In the size of the congregation,
nnd In a short time the attendance on
the night of the book study wns the
lnrgest during the whole mouth. Peo
ple began to rend their Bible more,
nnd to talk about It more, not only dur
ing my social calls, but In the mid
week service, and young people's
meeting. The young folks especially
were eager to get the monthly fold
er containing the outline Bible study,
nnd If obliged to be nbsent they were
sure to send by someone else to secure
n copy. These Ihey stitched together
as the months went on, making them
Into a little book.
Fruit of Bible Reading Habit.
The habit of reading the Bible con
stantly, hovVever, proved of grent
value. It kept me full of texts and
themes nnd Scrlpturnl Illustrations. I
hnd no trouble In finding topics for
sermons. My grentest difficulty wns to
find opportunity to use the wealth of
material which was constantly accu
mulating. Moreover In a few months
Ood gave us a season tt spiritual re
freshing which Increused the church
membership about CO per cent.
Moving to another church later, I
begnn the snme method of giving a
book Bfudy once a month, asking the
congregation to rend It In ndvnnce. I
begnn this time with the New Testa
ment, nnd found the results to be prnc
tically the same as before. And ngnln
In n few months there followed a re
vival which transformed tho church,
and added grently to Its usefulness and
power.
Doubtless I have mnde as many
mistakes nnd blunders as the average
pastor, but as I look back over a long
nnd happy ministry I can see that my
highest enjoyment and what little serv
ice I have been nble to render to the
cause of Christ, Is largely due to the
book studies which I began In my
early ministry.
Words of Inspiration.
I am determined to sacrifice estate,
ease, Health, applause, and even life,
to the sacred calls of my country.-
James Otis.
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