The Moore Messenger. (Moore, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 12, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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the city bad agreed to anrrender the
elty to the enemy she lifted her heart
to God In prayer, knowing that he
could deliver. And When Ozlas, Cha-
bris and CharmU appeared before her
ahe said:
"Who are ye that have tempted God
this day, and stand Instead of God
among the children of men? And now
try the Lord Almighty, but ye shall
never know anything. For ye cannot
find the depth of the heart of man,
neither can ye perceive the things
. , „ . .... i that he thlnketh. Then how can ye
Ilasedon Apocryphal Hook of Judith. | ()Ut (}od ,hat ha(h ^ all
Judith's Bold
Venture
She Determines to Save Her
Beloved Jerusalem.
BY THE ' H1CHWAY AND BYWAY"
PREACHER
luue, tj> iu« Autb.'i, w . a kj.uu i
Chapters 19.
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Arfff/VCH WILAGE ALO/YC Oftt Or
Tff£ CANALS
"It is said of us French working-
men that we are opposed to religion.
That is not true. We are done with
an imposed religion, a religion of
forms and ceremonies; but we are
ready to hear if anyone will teach us
the true religion, the religion of free-
dom and earnestness."
The speaker, a French workingman
in his blouse, was standing at the cor-
ner of a Paris boulevard, talking with
a stranger, whom yet he had recog-
nized as "a Christian minister." It
was ten o'clock on a hot August night,
a few weeks after the suppression of
the Commune, nearly thirty-eight
years ago. The smoke of its fires was
still ascending, the bodies were hardly
•cold which filled those ghastly
trenches in Pere la Chaise, into which
thousands of Cummunards had been
,mown by the avenging cannon of the
army of the republic; the blood was
iliardly dry on the wall, not many rods
away, against which 40 priests had
bi>en stood and shot to death by those
jCommunards in their day of mad
power, for the sole crime of being
priests. Yet that workingman said
truly, writes Louise Seymour Hough-
ton, in the Christian Herald. That in-
furiated French mob had not been ani-
mated by a hatred of religion in itself,
hut simply by hatred of that "religion
of forms and ceremonies," because in
their inmost hearts they felt that it
had deceived and betrayed them.
The workingman disappeared in the
crowd of the Parisian boulevard, and
has never since been seen or heard of,
but his words have come sounding
down through all these years, and be-
cause of them hundreds of thousands
yes, a great multitude whom no man
can number, have been taught "the
true religion of freedom and earnest-
ness." For the words were spoken to
Rev. Robert W. McAll, then the pas
tor of a large church in England, and
their Immediate result was the begin-
ning of the work now known all over
the Christian world as the McAll Mis'
sion, but to the people of France as
"the Popular Mission," the mission to
the common people.
Readers of the Christian Herald
know how Dr. McAll left his comfort
able church and, without ever again
receiving a cent of salary, began
■work which, with its halls, its boats,
Its itinerant tract distributors, its col-
porteurs, its automobile and tent
work, has covered France from Calais
to Marseilles, penetrated into Tunis
and Algiers, and brought the light of
the Gospel to almost pagan Corsica-
Pages might be written of remark-
able incidents of tile boat and other
work of this great mission.
"Floating chapels," or "missionary
l)oats," are so well known to readers
of this paper that it will perhaps be
news to them that this form of evan-
gelistic work began with the McAll
Mission. All the rivers of France are
connected by canals, so that there are
20,000 miles of connected inland wa-
terways in France. About seventeen
years ago a floating chapel, Le Bon
Messager (The Good Messenger),
was built for the McAll Mission and
launched upon these inland water-
ways to carry the Gospel to as many
as possible of the villages and hamlets
not reached by railway, many of them
without even a Roman Catholic
church. A few years later, by the
generosity of an American lady, a sec-
ond mission boat, La Bonne Nouvelle
(The Good News), was launched. The
story of these two boats might fill
volumes. The people of many farm-
ing hamlets and waterside villages
have heard the Gospel for the first
time, and heard it "gladly." Night
after night the chapel, seating about
150 people, would be packed with 200
or even 250 people, wedged beyond
the possibility of the place, perhaps
as many more covering the roof of the
boat and the river bank and the bridge
connecting "twin" villages on opposite
banks of river or canal. When the
boat moves on to the next village the
people follow it, three miles, six. nine
and even 12 miles. But it is Impos-
sible, with only two boats, to visit all
the ri'-erside villages and hamlets of
Judith and th< flook of Judith.—The
j heroine, or Judith of the Htory related
: in the Apocryphal book bearing her nann*
appear* an an Ideal type of piety (Ju-
dith 8;#), of beauty (11:21), of courage atnl
rhaatlty <16:22). Her lupposml deecent
from Simeon (9:2), and the manner in
whleh she refers to his cruel deed ((Sen.
34:25), mark the coneeption of the char-
acter, which evidently belongs to a peri-
od of stern and perilous conflict. The
book, like that of Tobit. belongs to the
earliest specimens of historical Action.
The narrative of the reign of "Nebu-
chadnezzar, king of Nineveh," (20, 1:1), of
the campaign of Holefernes, and the de-
liverance of Bethulia, through the strate-
Bem and courage of the Jewish heroine,
contains too many ami too serious dif-
ficulties, both historical and geographical,
to allow of the supposition that It is
either literally tru*\ or even carefully
molded on truth. Thero are 16 chapters
In the book.
France, even once, much less to re-
turn for the ingathering of the spii>
itual harvest. It is impossible to
know in any detail what are the re-
sults of all this work. The majority «0..o .O\O\O iO\O\O'.O%OW,4O%«
of the French people seem to believe i ' O
that religion is the enemy of repub-
SERMONETTE.
licanism and that a republican form
of government cannot exist where re-
ligion is tolerated. And. in the minds
of the majority of Frenchmen, the
word "religion" is synonymous with
"Catholic."
But all this time the McAll Mission
has suffered under no such disability.
It is uot a church, but a People's Mis-
sion, and being by definition a friend
of the people it is therefore a friend of
the republic. "I like to come here be-
cause there is no religion here"—
meaning no ritual or ceremonial- is
frequently said in a mission hall. No
penalty, social or legal, Is visited jpon
the man who enters a hall of the Mc-
All Mission, or walks with one of its
missionaries, or calls one of them to
officiate at a funeral. To those who
know it, the mission Is a friend, an
agency for their instruction and for
the inoralization and the Bafe and in-
nocent recreation of their children.
NOT HIS, BUT WHOSE WAS IT?
Question of Street Car Ethics That
Has Proved a Great Puzzle to
Lucinda.
"Sitting opposite to me in the car I
went down town In this morning,"
said Lucinda, "was a man. No, noth-
ing remarkable about that, but
something happened presently that
made him of interest to me.
"On the same side with me but two
or three seats down sat a woman who
at the next crossing got up to leave
the car and as she left her seat and
started for the door the man sitting
opposite spoke to her:
' "Madam, is that yours?'
"He pointed at something In the
seat that the woman had just left; and
she looked around and looked at it
and said: 'No, that isn't mine,' and
passed on.
"What it was that he had thus
pointed out I couldn't see because
there was somebody sitting between
me and it; but in a minute the man
sitting opposite got up and came over
and got it and then went back with it
and sat down again in his seat; and
then I saw what it was. It was a
small pasteboard box. He looked it
over a little and then in a minute he
opened it and looked into it; and as
he held it I could see into it as he
opened it, and there were in it a few
candies. Somebody who had brought
this box into the car had eaten out of
it all the candies they wanted and
then had just left the box on the
seat.
"Then of course I wondered what
the man who had found it would do
about it; whether he'd keep it or leave
it or what he'd do; and in a minute
he laid it down on the seat beside him.
I didn't feel certain that he was going
to leave it there for good; and when
we came along to where I was going
to get off he sat forward a little, get-
ting ready to get up—he was going to
get out there too—and I thought I'd
wait and let him go first so that I
could see.
"When the car had stopped and we
were both standing up and 1 was hold-
ing back for him he held back politely
for me and I had to go first; but I
managed to look around enough as I
went to see him pick up the box. He
held it in his hand as he passed out of
the car, but when he had stepped off
he dropped it in his pocket.
"Now of course what he should have
done was either to leave it in the car
or hand it over to the conductor to be
taken to the lost and found depart-
ment. It wasn't his; but there it was,
left in the car by somebody who ap-
parently had got through with it. It
wasn't his, but it wasn't anybody's—
and he took it. What would you have
done about It?"
True piety finds expression In
heroic deeds.
The heart which beats true
with God fears not in the pres-
ence of the power of wicked-
ness.
A beautiful physique and a
beautiful heart form a combina-
tion which can work mightily
for God among men.
Too often It is true that beauty
proves a pitfall and a snare to
its possessor.
It I* a saying that "She is
too pretty to be good," and "She
is too good to be pretty."
But the commonest face and
form becomes beautiful In the
reflected light of the beautiful
deeds of heart and life.
However, vanity, frivolity and
wickedness are not necessary
corollaries of beauty of face and
form.
Adown history's pages have
come the records pf beautiful
women who have lived beauti-
fully and wrought magnificent-
ly, heroically,
Among such is this fair Jew-
ish widow, Judith.
The grace and beauty of the
visible were but the beautiful
setting for the purity of heart
and lofty ideals of the life
within.
She knew God and delighted
to serve him, and the beauty
and grace with which God had
endowed her, instead of turn
these things, and know his mind, or
comprehend his purpose? Nay, my
brethren, provoke not our God to
anger. For if he will not help us
within those live days, he hath power
to defend us when he will, even every
day, or to destroy us before our en-
emies. Let us wait for salvation of
him, and call upon him to help us."
"All that thou hast spoken with n
good heart, and there is none that j
may gainsay thy words, for this is not j
the first day wherein thy wisdom is j
manifested; but from the beginning of
thy days all the people have known
thy understanding, because the dispo-
sition of thine heart Is good," respond-
ed Ozlas, earnestly. "But the people
were very thirsty, and compelled us
to do unto them as we have spoken.
And this oath which we have spoken
unto them, saying that if deliverance
came not within live days that then
we would open the gates of the city
and surrender to our enemies—this
oath we cannot break. Therefore,
pray thou for us, because thou art a
godly woman, and the Lord will send
us rain to fill our cisterns, and we
j shall faint no more."
! "Hear me, ye rulers of the city."
i exclaimed Judith, as a sudden resolve
formed within her heart, "for 1 will
do a thing which shall go throughout
all generations to the children of our
j nation. Ye shall stand this night In
the gate and 1 will go forth with my
LABORER DOES BRODIE
tCI TO RESCUE HIT
GALLANT MAN JUMPS FROM
BRIDGE ONLY TO LEARN NO
WOMAN UNDER MILLINERY.
New York.—What looked like a
■cow containing a vegetable garden
and a fruit orchard, hut which was
really a peach-basket hat floated lazily
down the Harlem river the other aft-
ernoon. Oarsmen who saw the dere-
lict at close range hastily pulled out
of Its course, and it continued down
on the tide without causing any dam-
age to passing craft. But high up on
the Madison avenue bridge somebody
discerned the peach basket bobbing
on the waves.
"Woman overboard!" shrieked the
somebody, and instantly thero was a
BEYOND DOUBT.
■w;> ;/
: waiting maid, and within the five days
that ye have promised to deliver the
| city to our enemies, the Lord will visit
Israel by mine hand."
I "Nay," she exciaimed, raising her
I hand with an emphatic gesture, "in-
quire not ye of mine act; for I will
not declare it unto you till the things
J be finished that I do."
The puzzled looks upon the faces of
i the men before her gave place to one
I of confident expectancy as she tin-
ished speaking, and Ozias said:
! "Go In peace, Judith, and the Lord
; God be before thee to take vengeance
: on our enemies."
! Having thus spoken he, with the
i other princes, bowed themselves out
and returned to their homes.
Then Judith fell upon her face and
put ashes upon her head, and uncov-
| ered the sackcloth wherewith she was
I clothed, and about the time of the
evening sacrifice in the temple at
Jerusalem and the burning of Incense
; she lifted her voice in prayer and
W i cried:
ing her heart from him, became g | ,.oh God of my father Simeon,
the blessed instrument of deliv- g behold the Assyrians are multiplied
erance to her beloved city. ^ > jn ^eir power. They are exalted with
Whether the story is his- 6 I ,lorse aml man. They glory In the
£) strength of their footmen. They trust
g I in shield and spear, and bow and
sling, and know not that thou art the
$ Ix)rd that breakest the battles; the
O Lord is thy name. Smite by the deceit
It is such characters as this ^ j 0j my upS Break down their state-
a* thm x*mrlH in «v«rv % linegg by the han(J of R WOman. MakO
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7 V> c. i
tory or only fiction, this fact re
mains that womanhood Is here
exalted, and Judith becomes the
expression of all that is purest,
most sublime and heroic.
K that the world needs in every
5 age. Judith shines like a rare
gem from out a dark back-
0 ground. Blessed Is her mem-
K ory. And blessed is the mem-
6 jry of every true woman who in
the hour of great need, whether
& In the national life or the life of
^ the home, rises heroically and
j* dedicates her all for the help
and salvation of others.
Q Beauty that is only skin deep
0 is perilous. Beauty which
reaches to the inner heart and
i* life is the beauty which proves
ft a benediction upon the world,
fi Truly, the value of a "good
ft woman is far above rubies."
THE STORY.
"W'
1THIN five days!"
Judith repeated the words over
and over again to herself, and with
each repetition the terror of the situ-
ation grew upon her.
Holofernes, the powerful general of
the great king Nebuchadnezzar, had
many months before surrounded the
city of Bethulia, and had cut off food
supplies and water, until now the city
is in sore straits, and at last the gov-
ernor and officials had given their
word that If relief did not come with-
in five days the gates of the city would
my speech and deceit to their wound
^ 1 and make every nation and tribe to
acknowledge that thou art the God of
£ all power and might, and that there is
g none other that protecteth the people
of Isreal but thou."
The prayer ended, peace and confi-
dence came to her heart, that confi-
dence which comes from inner faith
that God has heard and will answer.
She arose and, calling her maid, she
went down into the house wherein she
had abode during the glad season of
the feast days. And she put off tho
sackcloth which she had on and laid
aside the garments of her widowhood.
And when she had bathed she anointed
herself with precious ointment and
braided the hair of her head, and put
thereon most gorgeous raiment,
wherewith she was clad during the
life of her husband, Manasses. And
she put sandals upon her feet and put
about her her bracelets and her chains
and her rings and her. earrings, and
all her ornaments, and she decked her-
self bravely, to allure the eyes of all
men that should see her.
Then calling her maid she com-
manded her that she should bring a
bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and
fill a bag with parched corn, and
lumps of figs, and with fine bread.
Thus adorned and accompanied by
her maid, laden with the provisions
He Turned a Double Somersault. j
rush for the starboard rail of the
bridge and everybody "rubbered."
Mike Conlln, a laborer, who labored j
even in his walk, saw the peach
basket top piece. Slowly he took off |
his coat, kicked off his shoes and ]
climbed over the rail.
"She'll never drown If I reach her,"
he said, and without further ado he
went into space. Mike may be a good
swimmer, but he wouldn't take a prize
at high diving. He turned a double
somersault and struck the water on
his back with a great splash. When
he came to the surface Mike had no,
breath left, and, remembering that
salf-preservatlon is the first law of na- I
ture, he let the peach-basket hat go
hang and started to save his own life..
When he did find his breath he
yelled. Two men In a rowboat pulled
up alonside and he explained between
gurgles that his wind had beer,
knocked out.
"Hut after you drag me in, you'd
better go after that drowning wom-
an," he said as they hauled him out
of the water. "She's keepin' up all
right, but I don't think she'll last
long."
He looked down the river and saw
tho peach basket still afloat.
"Oh, that's only a hat," answered [
his rescuers. "There ain't no woman |
under it. We seen it long ago."
"1 suppose you mistake me for a
fool?"
"Mistake you? My dear boy, I
know you too well!"
Starch, l'.*e everything else, Is be-
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
i ago are very different and inferior to
j those of the present day. In the lat-
' est discovery—Defiance Starch—all
j injurious chemicals are omitted, while
1 tho addition of another Ingredient, in.
j vented by us. gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
proached by other brands.
To Check Spread of Trachoma.
It has been reported that the din*
| ease known as trachoma, or granular
eyelids, has been spreading rapidly
among tho Indians. To che-k this
trouble congress appropriated $12,100
placing it In the hands of the commis-
sioner of Indian affairs, for the imme-
diate Investigation and treatment ol
the disease and to check Its spread.
Food^l
Products
Never Vary in
Quality or Taste
because the utmost
care is taken by Lib-
by's Chefs to select
only the choicest mater-
ials, and put these up in
the same careful manner
every time. You are
thus assured of uniform
goodness, and this is
the reason that the use
of Libby's gives such
general satisfaction to
every housewife.
Try these Ubby Foothti
DHod Boot
Mexican Tamale
Ham Loaf
OMU Oon Carno
Vienna Sausage
Cvmporated Milk
For luncheon,
spreads or every day
j meals, they are just the
thing.
Keep a sup-
ply in the houte.
You never caa
tell when they
will come in han-
dy. Ask for
Ltbby'm and be
be opened and they would go forth ! f°r their journey, they set forth and
Began to Be Worried.
Little George, who was four years
old, had been told many Bible stories.
Among them was the story of the
flood and the building of the ark by
Noah.
One day a storm threatened. The
clouds grew darker, the wind arose,
and suddenly the rain began to fall.
"Auntie," said George, "do you think
It is going to storm?" "Yes, I think it
will," was the reply.
"Do you think it will be a hard
storm?" asked the little fellow.
"Yes, I think it will be a hard
storm," the aunt replied.
"Well, don't you think some of U9
had better begin building an ark?" ho
staked.—Los Angeles Herald.
to become a spoil and a prey to Holo-
fernes and his army.
"Within five days!"
"Nay," exclaimed Judith, her dainty
■andaled foot coming with a sudden
emphasis to the ground. "Nay, it
must not be."
Then calling her maid she directed
that Ozlas, Chabris and Chamig, the
men in authority in the city, be sum-
moned to her presence. And with no
little wonder on thel. part they
obeyed, for the beauty and virtue of
Judith were knowu to all in the city,
and her influence was great, not only
among the poor to whom she minis-
. jred, but among the rich and power-
ful as well. Something over three
years before her husband had been
suddenly stricken while overseeing his
workmen during barley harvest, and
from that time she had not ceased
to mourn for him, and delighted to
came to the gate of the city, where,
according to appointment, she found
Ozlas and the other princes of the
city standing. And when they f.aw
her, that her countenance was altered
and her apparel changed, they won-
dered at her beauty very greatly and
said unto her:
"The God of our fathers give thee
favor and accomplish thine enter-
prises to the glory of the children of
Israel, and to the exaltation of Jeru-
salem."
And following this benediction upon
this lovely and devout woman they
fell upon their faces and worshiped
God.
"Command that the gates be opened
unto me," she directed, simply.
And when they had done so Judith
passed out, and her maid with her.
i And the men of the city looked after
I her until she had gone down the
use the gold and silver and the rich j mountain. 1 hen, with straining eyes
estates which he had left her for they watched her cross the valley and
the blessing of those about her, for at last fade from view into the hazy
she was a devout woman and sought niist of the far side of the deep valley,
with all her heart to serve the Lord "She is gone," they said with rev-
her God. So when this report had . ( rent upward look. "There is naught
reached her ears that Uie governor of , wo *an do but wait"
CAN CHARM EVEN GEESE.
Pennsylvania Girl Has Remarkable
Power Over Animals—Sister Is
Postal Rider.
Nlantlc, Pa.—The power to charm
animals even including geese Is pos-
sessed by Miss Stella, daughter of
Joel Weller of this place. She is a
sweet singer and has a remarkably
magnetic power over animals. With
a low, musical, whirring sound she
attracts and tames any fowl or an
imal. "Goosey," her web-footed pet,
needs but to hear that starnge sound,
far or near, and will flap Ills wings,
cackle and fly into the girl's lap.
Stella's sister Clara is a rural mail
carrier known all over this region.
She and her horse carry the mail be
tween this place and Barto, making
two trips each day, a distance of 27
miles.
During the past four years the per-
fectly fearless girl has traveled a trifle j
over 10,000 miles. Everybody along
tho route loves her and looks for her
cherry smile every morning. She is
a musician, too, playing the pipe or-
gan in church and Sunday school.
Ubby, MoNoill
& Ubby
Why? Ho sez
it helps his
stummick.
an'wots good
for him is
good for me.
PEPSIN GU
Rattler Stops Studies.
Moultrie, Ga.—The appearance of a
rattlesnake in the schoolhouse at Cen
tervllle recently started a panic. A
large five-foot rattler wriggled half
way across the school room, making
his way for a corner in which were
several children. The alarm was giv-
en and pandemonium followed. Teach-
ers and pupils vacated the room, giv-
ing it up entirely to the snake.
There are no large children in this
school, r'ld the teacher is a young
lady, so there was no one to challenge
the rattleF, Some of tho children ran
to the home of I). N. Thome, who,
heard the story with some misgivings,
imagining that a chicken snake had
frightened the children. He took his
gun, however, and went to the rescue
and found a sure-enough highland rat-
tler In the house and attempting to
get up on the seats In a corner of the
room. One shot from the gun dis-
patched the reptile, but it was not
possible to reorganize the school or
resume studies and recitations.
There's Danger
Ahead
if you've been neglecting a cold.
Don' texperiment with your health.
Get a remedy that you know will
cure—that remedy is
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It's safe. In the severest cases of
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most effective remedy known. It does
its work quickly, removes the cause of
the disease
Sold everywhere in three size
bottles, SI.00, 50c, 25c.
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