The Oklahoma Christian. (Mulhall and Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1901 Page: 2 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN
THE OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN.
Published weekly iirth'e interests
til (he Churches of rill ixl of Okla-
homa.
CHARLES HA/.KLHIGO
Editor mid I'ublUbei
VIKTKS WILLIAMS
Field Kdltur
Nultacrlptliui Kalen;
Single Copies 60 cents per year
THURSDAY, FtHKUAKV stl. I HOI.
Entered In the postoffice at Mulhall. O. T..
at* K«cond '■!««» mail matter.
l'lacf of Publication: W<H>«l«y llrol her*,
Mulhall. O. T.
Voir don't have to go into the states
to lind all the kind hearted people.
Von will run across them right here
in Oklahoma. Read the following
which is copied from one of our terri-
torial dailies: "A hotel p >rter died at
Oklahoma City, leaving in a Missouri
town two destitue little children who
said in a letter to him that they were
often cold and hungry. Guests at the
Lee hotel made up a purse to bury the
body, but the undertaker refused pay
for the coffin; the sexton made no
charge for digging the grave; the ceme-
tery association would accept no
money for the lot, and the clothier re-
fused to take money for the shroud—all
for the purpose that the fund might
i>e sent to the little tots in Missouri."
Territorial Board.
Pick T. Morgan President, Perry.
Votes Williams
Corresponding Secretary, Stillwater
J. E. Brewer Treasurer, Guthrie.
jl km be us of boakd.
W. A. Humphrey Guthrie;
J. T. Ogle Guthrie
C. II. Everest Oklahoma City j
(). I) 11 alaell Oklahoma City
Dale Lvtton St ljl water 1
John Franiiing Norman
C. M. Jackman El Reno
Superintendent of Bible School Work
H. L. Hutchinson. Perry
Superintendent of Christian Endeavor
Misa Nellie F. Whitfield, Kildare
President Christian Woman's Board
Misaioua
Mra. J. Mouroe, El Reno
Word comes from Evangelist Sco-
ville's great meeting with the Central
Christian church, Des Moines, Iowa.
In twenty-live days 247 had united
with the church. In one day 40 were
added. Since the first of January
have taken membership at the
Central.
Kansas is being wakened by the
temerance hatchet of Mrs. Nation,
and now that fearless woman has been
lodged behind the bars. There is a
deep significance in the reproach
which she poured upon the policemcn
who arrested her together with a
drunkard. She twitted them with
their cowardice, as being afraid to ar-
rest anything but women and drunk-
ards. When we reflet that the saloon-
keepers go free, and are unmolested,
though greater lawbreakers than the
lone woman who opposes them or the
drunkards whom they make, we can
not think but that the taunting thrust
of Mrs. Nation must have I)een felt
even through the heavy ulsters and
storm coats of the "coppers."—The
Lookout.
Word reaches us through Brother
Coats that Brother Puckette hus{
passed through the danger period of
his sickness and is now on the mend.
Many will rejoice to hear this. We
pray for his early recovery to health,
and that he will be able to minister to
his congregations as of old.
Wk welcome to (air table the Chil-j
dren's Home Finder, the medium and
organ of the Oklahoma and Indian
Territory Children's Home Society of
Guthrie. It is an excellent little pa-
per and is devoted to a most excellent
purpose. Send for a copy and learn
what this society is doing for homeless
children.
Drakk Univkksity might well lie
classed as one of the leading institu-
tions of learning of our great brother-
hood. Its enrollment for the present
college year will reach beyond 1,700.
The value of the w hole property is
placed at 8400,000. A movement is to
lie inaugurated to increase the endow-
ment a half million dollars. Drake
always has mammoth achievements in
view.
A ckiitain infidel not long ago re-
ferred to the Christian as being the
one who lived in the constant fear of
death and hell. The fact is, he is the
only man in the world who has not
any reason to fear either one. While
the Christian can't waste his time,
liecause {lie alone has discov-
ered it.s possibilities, he is the only one
who knows what actual rest means.
The virgins whose lamps were well
provided for lay down and slept. They
could afford to do it. To know that
the future is provided for is to know
what it means to rest in the Lord.—
The Lookout.
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Thk following is from the Carter
County, (Kv.) Bugle. When we read
it we wondered if the preacher referred
to was not our good brother, R. B.
Neal, the mountaineer preacher and
Mormon fighter. "We have just
learned of an original act of a little tot
on Christmas eve at the exercises of
the Christian church in town, w hich
we think worthy of a place in print.
Thurza, the 3-year old daughter of Dr.
W. A. Horton and wife, being the last
to respond to a general invitation to
speak, got up. made her bow and said:
'I had a white chicken that sat on
the fence: Brother Neal came around,
and I haven't seen it since.' To say
this little speech took down the house
is not strong enough expression, for
we're told that the bald-headed
preacher jumped up and down and
slapped his hands. The best part of it
is, so we are informed, that the verse
was entirely original with the little
lady."
T. N. Kincaid, minister at Hot
Springs, Ark., and a number of sub-
stantial people have banded together
to build a Christian home at the great
health resort. It is the purpose to
open, In connection with a hotel, a
free sanitarium for poor and worthy
Christians. All money accruing from
the rooming and boardit^and bathing
departments will be applied toward
the carrying out of the benevolent
sanitarium idea just mentioned. The
brethren believe that the patronage
that might lie secured at moderate
rates would go far to help a large num-
l>er of afflicted people not able to bear
1 the usual expense connected with the
journey to and stay at the springs.
From lifty thousand brethren it is de-
sired to secure at least one dollar
apiece for this enterprise, which will
take $75,000 to put in proj>er shape.
Offerings from churches and auxiliary
church societies are solicited. Address
T. N. Kincaid, Pres., Hot Springs,
Ark.- Christian Standard.
THE twentieth century evangeli-
zing campaign of the Washington 1
V. M. C. A. was opened with a men's
mass meeting, from which many hun-
dred had to be turned away, although
a hall had been secured which it was,
thought would accomodate all who J
wished to attend. This was the first
of a series of similar meetings which
are to be held weekly. The most
striking features of the meeting were
an address by Mr. William Phillips
Hall, of New York, widely known as
the business-man evangelist, and the
music, under the direction of Prof. F.
H. Jacobs, of Brooklyn, who was for
seven years associated with the late
Dwight L. Moody in evangelistic
work. Mr. Hall, who has an original
way of presenting his ideas, took his
text from the sermon on the Mount—
•'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and
all things necessary shall be added un-
to you"—words which he said ought to
be the mofto of the Christian church
for the twentieth century. Ilis word-
pictures were mostly such as are
heard in business circles. For instance,
he said: "The most profitable invest-
ment in the world is a partnership
with God, which can be secured by fol-
lowing the words ot the text, and the
firm of Jesus Christ and company nev-
er goes bankrupt."
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Another innovation of the Y. M. C.
A., this week, was the first of a series f
of receptions to men of the various,
sections of the country. The New1
Englanders were the first guests of t he
association. This idea had the en-
dorsement and assistance of such
prominent men as Admiral Dewey, j
Senators Frye, Hale, Hawley, Lodge, |
Wetmore, Piatt and Dillingham, and i
Representatives Fitzgerald, Greene, j
Burleigh, Roberts, Gillett, Hill, Thay-
er, Lawence, McCall and Moody. Com-
missioner MacFarland, one of the vice-1
presidents of the association, delivered
the address of welcome, and Senator j
Frye responded on behalf of the j
guests.
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Dr. A. Rudisill, once a member of
the Baltimore M. E. conference, but
for many years an active mission work-
er in India, has been telling the peo-
ple of Washington some interesting
things. For instance, he said: "1
believe that every cent you send to
the famine sufferers in India goes in-
to the pockets of the Bramins. The
famines which have continued in In-
dia forages can be averted, and in a
few years India could be placed where
she would never again be in fear of a
famine. In the north of the country
are the lofty Himalayas, covered with
snow. The lower snow-line only is
melted by the sun, and the great riv-
ers of India are fed by the waters so
formed. The government surverors
know every inch of India. They
know every ounce of water that is car-
ried to the different seas. One hun-
dred cubic miles ofwaterflow annually
to waste, though the ground Is so fer-
tile that one but needs to 'tickle it
with a hoe to have it spring into har-
vest,.' If the water now wasted were
carried in canals and used for irriga-
tion purposes, there would be two or
three crops each year. The people
won't do it. It would cost a few bil-
lions and Britian won't spend the
money. The gospel in India is making
homes and lifting souls from darkness
j to light. It is the water flowing from
all the churches that is making a gar-
den spot in the desert."
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Chaplain Miller, in his address to
the Home Missionary society of the
Church of the Covenant, said perti-
nently: "It is important that our
army shall be supplied with proper re-
ligious teachers, for the native gets
his first idea of the Americans from
the soldier. The soldier is the first
missionary; our army is the support of
Christian civilization. We need mis-
sionaries among our soldiers. Even
with the fifty-one chaplains provided
for recently by Congress, there are
many soldiers scattered throughout
the Philippines who cannot be reached.
In the onward march of time we must
be up and doing. Our opportunity
has come. We must preserve the
Christian army, that the army may do
its patriotic duty. First impressions
are of decided importance, and if the
chaplains and the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association are not supported in
a proper manner, we are going to de
lay the work of the missionaries many
years. If our soldiers make a wrong
impression it w ill take years to undo
it."
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Dr. Bristol said in a lecture compar-
ing Moses and Tyndall: "The more
scientific an age becomes the closer
will be its walk with God Nature in-
terprets the divine mind, or in the
language of Aristotle, "is a transcript
of the ideas which are in the
mind of the first being,' and science is
an interpretation of nature. He who
makes us understand a flower, a crys-
tal, a ray of light, a grain of life is a
brother teacher with him who ex-
plains for us a passage ot holy writ.
Why speak of the'Holy Bible,'and not
of'holy nature?' Is there not divini-
ty in the stars as well as in the psalms
of God ? Has not the mutist and the
minutest atom an evangel of omnis-
cience as necessary to be learned as
any rising from the lips of the might-
iest chanting angel of the skies?
Why, except that we are unbelieving
and even atheistic in a measure, do
we close our ears to the ten thousand
times ten thousand voices that would
tell us greater things of God than we
have ever known ? Look through the
microscope, look through the tele-
scope, and find a greater standard by
which to measure t he power and wis-
dom of God. Listen, listen and catch
'the murmur of the outer infinite' and
begin to worship t he Creator of a 'ma-
jestical universe.' When Jenny Lind
first saw Niagara she fell upon her
knees in adoration of the Creator.
When I'ythagoris discovered that the
squareofthe by pot hen use of a right
angle triangle was equal to the sum of
its two sides he rose from his study,
went to the alter and in a devout spir-
is sacrificed an ox. Why should not
every discovery, every new revelation
of the marvelous structure of the uni-
verse till us with a more profound
reverence for its Creator? And why
should not worship grow with sci-
ence ?"
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Pastor F. D. Power, of the Vermont
Avenue Christian church, says
the Bethany C. E. Reading Cir-
cles for January, February and March
will devote their attention to the
stndy of our own principles and peo-
ple. He ads: "Our old people are
passing away. Our yound men and
women are coming to their places.
How many of the rising generation
can answer intelligently the question,
'For what do you stand ?' How many
of the young people of the average
congregations among us can give a
clear statement of the origin and
principles of the nineteenth century
movement for the restoration of apos-
tolic Christianity ? Let the preachers
answer." c. A. s.
Wahiiinoton, I). C., Feb. 13.
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Hazelrigg, Charles. The Oklahoma Christian. (Mulhall and Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1901, newspaper, February 21, 1901; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc305645/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.