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GETS ITS BIBLES
GREAT IDEA CRADLED IN
COUNTING -HOUSE.
British and Foreign Bible
Society Has Distributed
250,000,000 Copies.
Born in a Lower Thames Street
counting -house, and christened fn
London tavern, with a Welsh peasant
girl foe "Fairy Godmother" --such was
the romantic beginning of the British
and Foreign Bible Society.
It was towards the close of the year
1803 that the Society was founded in
NIr. Joseph Harcicastlo's counting-
house by a handful of earnest men.
And a few months later—on March
7th, 1804—the infant was formally
christened at a meeting held in the
old London Tavern, in Bishopsgate
Street.
Its real parent was Mary Jones, the
little Welsh girl whose fruitless tramp
. to and from Bala, to purchase the
Bible for which she had hoarded her
scanty savings, is historic.
The Welsh maid had one ambition
—to have a Bible all her own. .And
one caii almost weep in sympathy
with, her on learning, from the Rev,
Thomas Charles, of Bala, that there
was not a copy to be had.
It was the pathos of this story, as
told in London by Mr. Charles to the
Committee of the . Religious Tract
Society, that led directly to the found-
ing of the Bible Society.
Dearth cf Bieles in 1804.
How great the need was is proved
by the fact that, when the Society was
founded, very few families in the
Highlands possessed a complete Bible;
in Skye, with its 15,000 inhabitants,
scarcely a copy was to be found; in
Sweden there was nota single Bible
among 70,000 people; and in Iceland
there was but one to every thousand
who wished to possess it.
And with what joy the first copies
of the Society's Bibles were received!
When the news arrived at Bala of the
cart carrying the first precious load,
the Welsh peasants went out to meet
it, drew it into the town, and eagerly
bore off every copy as rapidly as they
could be distributed.
These, however, were days of small
things. The Society's initial capital.
was $3,500; - but in thirteen years its
income had grown to $5,000 a week,
and -by this time it. had sent out two
million copies of the Scriptures in
eighteen different languages, fnclact-
ing Ethiopic, Eskimo, Syriac, Manx,
and Gaelic.
In the first half -century of its life
the Society distributed nearly twenty-
eight million Bibles and was able to
raise a fund of $350,000; each year
since has seen its activities grow and
its scope widen.
During its first century the Society
issued copies of the Scriptures at the
rate of 1,652,000 a year, while in re-
cent years it has reached six million
copies,
In Four Hunred Languages,
Since the Society had its modest
cradling in 1804, it has distributed ap-
proximately 250 million copies of the
Scriptures in over 400 tongues the
very names of which are unknown to
many students of languages, Who,
for example, has heard of Sloven, of
Narriny ern, Neshga, Nyamwezi, Utkai.a,
Name, Sagala, Mbunda, Koi, Igbira
and countless other strange tongues,
which are spoken by millions?
The Society has produced the Scrip-
tures. in more than eighty African
tongues and dialects alone; and in one
recent year it sold Bibles in fifty-three
languages in Russia, aucl over fifty in
Egypt; while it took twenty years to
translate the Bible into one language
—Tahiti.
Of the aggregate work done by the
Society during its 116 years of ener-
getic life, it is not easy to give an ade-
quate idea. It may help us t0 realize
its magnitude if we say that three Hien
Could walk abreast on a pathway of
the Society's Bibles, all the way from
the Strand to the Vatican gates; and
that these copies of the Scriptures out-
spread would form a carpet on which
every man, woman and child in Scot-
land, Ireland, and Holland could stand
in comfort.
Rough on Browne.
The Browue family possessed a
'whole sheaf of umbrellas, but they
wore all in sad need of repair. One
morning oil his way to the office
Browne took then all to be mended.
At lunch time he_vrent into a restaur
• ant, and on leaving absentmindedly
walked off with a lady's umbrella;
'„She overtook him, he apologized pig-
xusely an reiuriied it:
In the evening he called far the Inn-
brellas again. Ile boarded ii ii} Qt
Car, and found himself sitting oil tush°
the lady of Mie Iunoh tinro episode.
She leaned over and whispered,
dramatically:—
"1
ramatic'ally:—
"1 say, you've had a geed day,
haven'4 you?"
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A Prayer icor Our House.
Thou, who did'st leave Thy beavett,
to tread
Earth's thankless sod—
No roof to shield Thy baby lead,
A borrowed' tomb to take thee dead,
A •homeless 'God !
Oh, make this house Thy blest retreat,
Thy Bethany;
And I will toil In service sweet,
Yet, lingering, wait beside Thy feet,
Worshipping 'Thee.
O Saviour, who did'st call to Thee,
The lone and sad,
Flinging Thy love gifts lavishly,
That souls outcast from joy might be
In Thee made glad;
Friend of the lonely, make our home
To tired Hearts. dear,
And grant that restless souls, who
roam,
May to our happy Portals. conte,
And find Thee here!
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BAH'S GREAT PAliGE
DURING ilOT IV ATR R
More little ones did during the 'hot
weather than at any other time of the
year. Diarrhoea, dysentry, cholera
infantum and stomach troubles come
without warning, and when a medicine
is not at hand to give promptly the
short delay too frequently means that
the child. has passed beyond aid.
Baby's Own Tablets should always be
kept in the house. where there are
young children. An occasional close
of the Tablets will prevent stomach
and bowel troubles, rr if the trouble
comes suddenly the prompt use of the
Tablets will relieve the baby. The Tab-
lets are sold by medicine dealers or by
snail at 25 cents a box from The Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
The Harvest.-
Others, I doubt not, if not we,
The issue of our toils shall see,
And (they forgotten and unknown)
Young children gather as their own
The harvest that the dead had sown.
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Lawn tennis only came into exist-
ence in 1874.
Keeping Desert Chiefs Friendly
• By her euocesstr.:l protection of the
•
caravan routes France has earned the
gratitude of the people of the regions
that border on the great Sahara. Many
of these great trade caravans are
literally moving cities. They sometimes
consist of 12,000 cancels, to say noth-
ing of horses, donkeys, sheep and
goats.
As showing the constant effort that
tho French, officials make to establish
friendly relations with the natives it
niay be mentioned that several tunes
each year the commandants of the
French posts along the edge of the Sa-
hara organize fantasias in honor of the
Arab sheiks of the region. The sheiks
come in to attend them followed by
great retinues of turbaned and splen-
didly mounted retainers, and with the
same enthusiasm with which an
American countryside turns out to see
the circus.
Races with valuable money prizes
aro arranged for the visitors' horses,
and before the sheiks leave they are
presented with ornate saddles, gold
mounted rifles and sometimes with
crc,sses of the Legion of Honor.
In return for this hospitality they
willingly agree to capture and surren-
der certain fugitives from justice, to
warn the more lawless of their tribes-
men that the plundering of caravans
must cease, to furnish quotas of re-
cruits for the native cavalry and to
send in for sale to the remount de-
partment a large number of desert
bred horses. Most important of all,
they go back to their tented homes
in the desert immensely impressed
with. the..power..and,.f:he; ,Eenereeitu ?f.
France.
Not content with theze manifesta-
tions of friendship, the French Gov-
ernment makes it a point to invite the
native rulers of the lands under its
control to visit France occasionally
as the guests of the nation. Escorted
by French officers who can talk to
them in their own language - these
Colonial visitors in their outlandish
costumes experience the delights of
Paris, are dined by the President of
the Republic at the Elyse° Palace, re-
ceive the freedom of the' city at the
Hotel de Ville and finally returu to
their own lands friends and allies of
Franco for the rest of their lives.
By a network of small oasis garri-
sons and desert patrols, recruited
from the desert tribes and mounted on
the tall, swift trotting camels known
as Mehari, France has made the Sa-
haran trade routes, if not as safe as
Fifth Avenue or Piccadily, certainly
very much safer for the lone traveller
than certain streets of Chicago and
Paris.
It has iong been the fashion to hold
up the Northwest Mounted Police as
the model for all constabulary forces,
just as it has been the fashion to extol
the English as the model colonizers,
but when you consider the smallness
of their numbers, the vastness of the
region which they control and the
character of the climate and its in-
habitants, it is contended that the blue
ribbon in this regard should go to the
loan, brown faced, hard riding camel
men who have carried law and order
into the furthermost corners of the
great Sthara.
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Many "Lost Arts” Are Merely
Abandoned.
doned.
Tradition credits the ancients with
many "lost alts," It is still common
to hear people say that means un-
known to us must have been employed
to erect the pyramids, that the Da-
mascus blade is beyond the power of
modern cutlers, and that the art of
hardening copper died with some little
brown Aztec.
In point of fact, larger stones than
any found in the pyraniic':s have been
quarried in America, carried across
the sea and eructed in buildings is
England and France. If any one cared
to pay for the cost there are plenty of
contractors who would build a dupli-
cate •ef the largest pyramid and not
take so very long about it. It is doubt-
ful, if a "Damascus blade" will stand
as much as a good modern band saw
or the spring of a cheap clock. Cop-
per can be hardened by modern meth-
ods to equal only specimen that has
beau left to us by the aucients.
Many arts that are said to be lost
are simply abandoned because there is
no modern need of cultivating. them,
and others not even abandoned, but
are employed every day and improved
upon.
• Sweet Potatoes.
The sweet potato may soon he a
much more commit: vegetable in our
markets than Heretofore. Its season
has been restricted by the chi liculty of
keer•ing it for any length of time in
storage. Unlike the white potato, it
began, to deteriorate as soon as it
cans/ oto of the ground..
This tiauble is understood to have
been overcome by new methods of
cure ;t; a_id plants specially designed
for tli est'ora to of awe- t potatoes have
iec,eest ; ^'been estnbizsizeci- +'..:»Ai:sc
points in the Southern States.
The sweet potato, of course, is not
really a potato at all, but a kind of
yam. It is, like the so -caned "Irish"
potato, an American vegetable by
origin..
Country Rest.
Not only in Ioud hymn and psalm
Is God's. love sung. Within the calm
Of hush upon the fields and moors
A holy anthem swells and soars!
Tired feet tread out a si eet delight,
When paths of moss cense into sight!
Spent hearts sing silently; dine cycs
Turn looks of praise to quiet skies:
And soma a -weary city -pressed
Send God dumb thanks for country
rest.
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Eking it Out.
Followed by seen sturdy and eager -
eyed children, the lady with the firm
lips entered the restaurant and looked
round for a suitable table.
An obsequious waiter showed her to
a comfortable corner and offered her
the menu, anticipating a large order
and a substantial tip.
"Let me see! Beefsteak!" murmur-
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turned to her eldest daughter. "Steak
for you, Bertha?" she asked.
"Yes, please, ma."
"You, Reginald?"
"Yes, please, nia."
And so on till her seven offspring
had plumped for beefsteak. Theis she
spite to the waiter:
"Bring me a nice, well -cooked steak
and eight plates, please!"
The'astounded menial—good phrase,
that! --gasped.
"Didn't you hear me?" she demand-
ed.
"Yes, ma'am!" he gasped. "Only I
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at that table next the lift and sniffed
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•
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four Irish comities,
ED. tt;.. ISSUE No. 34--'20.
FROM 14E1401U
Unjust Suspicion,
A proud young father telegraphed
the news of his happiness to his
brother in these words:—"A hand-
some boy has come to my house and
claims to be your nephew. We are
doing our best to give him a proper
welcome."
The brother, however, failed to see
the point, anti wired back: --"I have
no nephew. The young man. is an im-
postor,"
-Tripped the Traveller.
A. business man employed a traveller
who thought reports were of no ac-
count. He sent in one showing sever-
al calls that he had made.
When he got back to the head c^.re
at the end of the week his emplcyer
went thro-gh the reports with him,
and said, "I notice you called upon Mr.
Brown. Did you find hint. well? Is
his business prosperous?"
"Oh, yes," replied the traveller; "he
is looking well and seems to be doing
well."
"I am glad to hoar that," replied the
employer. "He was an old friend of
mine when he was alive; he died six
months ago and the business was
closed, You must have made' your re-
port from an old directory."
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"that's glue."
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