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The Baptist Herald A DENOMINATIONAL MONTHLY VOICING THE INTERESTS OF THE GERMAN BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS' UNION

Volume Three CLEVELAND, 0., OCTOBER, 1925 Number Ten

R ev. ~lbert CSretschneider, ~wly elected Ge11eral Secretnry, Y. 'P. & S. S. W . U11io11

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What's Happening At the Conference in Pittsburgh sev­

eral things were found and not claimed. (A lady's gold pencil; a man's silver pencil with a Milwaukee advertisement and a lady's compact.) These art!cles will be sent to the owners by getting in touch with me. Address inquiries to Miss Frieda Sayenga, 2317 Almont Ave., Mt. Oliver P. 0., Pa.

The new officers of the Young Peo­ple's and Sunday School Worker s' Union of t he Central Conference are: Pres., Mr. E. W. Hoek; vice-pres., Mr. E. A. Bret schneider; secretary, Miss Gertrude Fetzer; treasurer, Mr. E. Glanz. Mr. W. F . Grosser of Oak P ark, Student W. 0. Makowsky of Rochester Seminary, Rev. E. R. Lengefeld of Chicago and Prof. L. Kaiser of Rochester were the speakers at the meetings of the Union at the r ecent Central Conference in Cleveland. An offering of $143 for mis­sion work in Siberia was made.

Rev. J. G. Draewell, pastor of the Ebenezer church, Detroit, Mich ., re­signed to accept the call of the church at Marion, Ka ns. He will close his work in Detroit the last Sunday in Oc­tober and begin his new charge early in November . Bro. Draewell has been with the Ebenezer church since 1914.

Mrs. Anna Schulz, widow of the Rev. Henry Schulz, a former pastor of the Temple church, passed away at her home in Pittsburgh on Sunday evening, Aug. 30, aged 74 years, after a serious illness of about three weeks. She had looked forward to the meet!ngs of the Conference with joy and great expec­tancy, but was not permitted to share in the meetings. The Lord called her to the assembly of t he Firstborn in heaven. She was a faithful and sincere Christian woman and a noble pastor's wife. Interment was made in Benton Harbor where her husband was buried 10 year s ago.

The General Conference was shocked to hear of the death of Mr. H. F . Muel­ler of Minneapolis, Minn., following an injury suffered in an auto accident while touring with his family. Bro. Mueller was a prominent member of our First church, St. Paul, a nd wellknown at our General Conference meetings. He was a generous giver t o many causes. Rev. C. F. Stoeckmann, his pastor, and Rev. H. Kaaz, a former pastor, officiated at the funeral.

At the annual meeting of the Detroit German Baptist Young People's and Sunday School Workers' Union the fol­lowing officers wer e elected: President , Edward W. Hoek; 1. Vice-President, Edwin Strauss; 2. Vice-Pre!iident, Chas. Lemke; Secretary, Celia Kose; Treas­urer, Albert Wolfe; Representatives: R. E. Nast, W. Pischke and B. Wagner.

Mrs. Emma B. Meier, who has been missionary at the Second Church, Phila­delphia, for the last six years, has re-

signed in order t o pursue a course of study in the Teacher's College, Colum­bia ·univer sity, New York City.

Rev. Samuel Blumhagen is the new pastor at Mcintosh and Selfridge, S. D. He has an extensive field of work and many young people. He is proposing to organize two young people's societies on his field.

The Methodist Episcopal Church in Germany has just celebr ated 75 years of exist ence. In 1849 Dr .. Jakoby went to Germany from America as t he firs t Method '.st and began to hold meetings in Bremen. Today Methodism numbers 52,000 members in Germany. There a~·e two separ ate conferences, the one m North Germany wit h 97 minis ters anti the other in South Germany with 104 ministers. The churches are most nu­merous in t he southern part. The sem­ina r y in Frankfurt a. M. has 80 men at present preparing for t.he ministry. A Tract mid Publishing hou5e is located in Bremen.

Mr. John Borchers of Columbus, Nebr., a member of the Shell Creek church and student for t he ministry at Rochester, has been t he supply of his home churcli t his summer during the illness of the pastor , Rev. H. Koch . Bro. Koch is r ecuperating in the Rockies in Colorado.

Our front page this month introduces the new elected additional gener al sec­r etary of our Young People's and Sun­day School Workers' Union, who will begin his new duties with January, 1926. Rev. Alber t Bretschneider was born in Cleveland, 0 ., 42 years ago. He s tudied in the German department of Rochester Seminary and at t he Uni­versity of Rochester from 1903-1912; was ordained in Cleveland in July 1912; ser ved as p astor in Evansville, Ind., from 1912-1913 and t hen studied in t he English Department of Rochester Sem­inary till 1916. In OctobP.r, 1916, he became pastor of the Clinton Hill Church, Newark, N. J. , which h e has served until now.

Rev. Elmer Baumgaertner and wife of the Spl'Uce St. Church, Buffa lo, N. Y., were in a n auto accident on their way to the General Confer ence. The car of Mr. Ter schliessen, one of Rev. Baumgaer tner's parishioner !; a nd with whom they were riding, met with an accident and turned over t wice. Mrs. Terschliessen suffered a broken collar bone and t he r est of the pa rty came off with minor injuries.

The W est New York, N. ]., church, Rev. John Lehnert, pastor, broke ground for their new house of worship on August 18. The edifice wi ll be of brick and will have a basement besides the auditorium. It is to cost $26,000. The location is on the northeast corner of 17th St. and Harrison Place.

Mr. J acob G. Rott, one of our s tu­dents of Rochester Seminary, has been supplying the church at P leasan t Val­ley and Carrington, N. D., during t he summer. Bro. Rott has done good work with this church and also for t he church. This was evidencerl among other things by Bro. Rott obta in'.ng 8 new subscribers for the "Herald." Thank you! We need more friends like that , who n1>t only praise the "Herald,'' bu t will work for it .

On Thursday, August 27, Miss Ade­lia Lipphard, youngest daughter of Rev. William A. Lipphar d, was married to Professor Ralph Hadley Bullard , Ph.D., of Geneva, N. Y. Dr. Bullard is Profes­sor of Chemistry in Hobart College at Geneva. The ceremony was performed in t he Chapel of t he Clifton Springs Sanitarium, at Clifton Springs, N. Y., by the bride's father, assisted by Rev. John Q. Adams, Chaplain 0f t he Sani­ta r ium. After a wedding trip to the Adirondacks and the Massachusetts Coast Dr. and Mrs. Bullard \viii be at home at the Pulteney, Park P lace, Ge­neva. Miss Lipphard grad uated from t he Clifton Springs Sanitarium as a nurse and served 7 more year s in that capacity in the institut '.on and stands in high honors with all t he doctors and the other nurses, proof of which were the rrrany doctor s, nurses a nd guests who fi lled the lar ge chapel of the Sanitarium to its capacity while t he cer emony took place.

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a diocesan inspector of religious knowl­edge put t his quest ion to a class of little girls: " If a ll t he good people were white and all the bad people were black, wha t color would you be?"

Some answered "white" a nd others "black." But little Ma ry replied : " Please, sir, I would be str eaky."

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The Baptist Herald The General Conference at Pittsburgh

T HE big meetings of the denominational repre­sentatives which occur triennially have come

and gone. They have passed into our history. But old conference attendants tell us the Pittsburgh Conference was the "best ever." Prof. L. Kaiser called it "one of the most uplifting and stimulat-ing conferences in my memor y." ·

What made it so? It was not t he largest in point of numbers. The attendance at St. Paul three years ago was larger. It was not because some great financial movement was begun in a wave of enthusiasm as in Chicago, six years ago, when the Million Dollar Offering was inaugurated

What characterized the Pittsburgh gathering in the mind of every one present as a fine conference, a notable one, one whose memory we will cherish without regret for a nything which took place there?

It was a Conference in w hich a spiritual a tmos­phere was notably preva lent. The splendid meet­ings of the Pre-Conference on Soul-winning which began on Monday evening and continue~ t hrough Tuesday, created a spiritual atmosphere and tone, which lingered with us . a ll the week and helped us to transact the business of the kingdom in the light of th e great and solemn tasks tha t wer e so forcefully brought befor e us in t he P~·e-Confer­ence.

It was a harmonious Conference. The spirit of peace and brotherliness was in t he air and per­meated our deliberations. Ther e have been some General Conferences of unhappy memory, where t her e was much strife a nd bitterness displayed and i t was born of suspicion a nd misunderstanding. The baleful after-effects of such meetings often c:ripple.d our work. The Pittsburgh Conference was happy in the lack of the spirit of distrust. It r ejoiced in the presence of the spirit of peace and harmony.

It was a conference in which the determination to go forward in our denominational work evinced itself strongly. We are not r etr enching in our work but rather stretching out in ma ny respects, both at home a nd abroad. In missions, in publica­tion work, in our seminary, in our young people's and Sunday sch ool work advance steps were d e­cided upon. W e are not facing a decline but rather the day of progress and ascendency. The German Baptist churches are still heeding God's call to "go for ward."

May the spirit of the Gener a l Confer ence at Pittsb.urgh dwell with us during the triennial per­i~d before us and inspire us in the achievement of our tasks.

The Young People at Pittsburgh

T HEY were t her e in goodly numbers . They brought the ha ppy infectious spirit of youth

into the gatherings. They helped to make the Con­ference what it came to -be by the grace and bless­ing of God. They were co-workers, from the boy scouts in the church check-room to the force of ·workers in the church offices, working for the con­Yeniences of the visitors, early and late. They were in the choir and brightened the services with ~ong and music. All honor to the cheery, busy force of the local Pittsburgh young people who so gladly and willingly displayed the spirit of service and spent themselves to make the Conference ar­rangements work smoothly and for our comfort.

The young people were there in encouraging numbers from our wider field. The nearby local conferences were of course more strongly repre­sented than the more distant, but a lmost every conference had some of its best young people's and Sunday school workers present. The newly elected council members wer e there or else had proxies present. The business meeting of the l lnion on Friday afternoon showed as many del­egates present as at any session of the conference, as large an audience as at any day meeting and every one was keenly interested in the issues brought up for action . It was demonstrated that the members of the Union know how to conduct their matters as well as any of the other organiza­tions of t he General Conference.

The Rally and Banquet of th e Union on Friday evening was one of the outstanding social gather­ings of the Conference time. The attendance was {lilly limited by the capacity of the dining hall. Many more w,ould have been with us, but no more t ickets could be sold. An informal, jolly, good 8pirit r eigned supreme. Songs and brief "peppy" talks by representative workers made time fly all t"oo rapidly. The Rally and Banquet was a success. It was the first of its kind but it will not be the last.

The Sunday afternoon meeting was one of the high points of the Conference. Those t hree after­noon addresses by Brethren Leypoldt, Hoek and Harms were of a high order and worked up to a fitting climax, leaving Christ, our Lord, our Leader , our great Example portrayed vividly be­for e us as our clbsing thought and impression.

Yes, t he young people made a real contribution to the success of t he Bundeskonferenz. We ex­pected to see them there. We were all glad to see th em there in such inspiring numbers. We believe their presence there will count for t h e local work in days to come. As we think of them and their meetings, we thank God and take courage.

Our New Officers and Council

0 UR new staff of officers, under whose leader­ship the work of t he Union will be carried on

<luring the next three years, is not composed· of novices in young people's and Sunday school work. Most of them have been tried and tested in the past, some in our general work and others in their state and conference organizations. \Ve believe they have been placed in these high positions of honor and responsibility because they have "made good" in the past and in other positions. We be­lieve they will give their best with God's h elp to the places which have now been entrusted to them.

Our President. Mr. Edward Walter Hoek, De­troit, Mich. He has been council m ember for the Central Conference and chairman of the Council for the last three years. He has been no figure­head but an active worker. He has deserved pro­motion to the presidency.

Our Vice-President. Mr. J ohn G. Lueheck, New Britain, Conn. He has been council member for the Atlantic Conference during the past three years and has been president of the Atlantic Conference Y. P. and S. S. W. Union. He has been an ener­getic booster for t he "Herald."

Our Recording Secretary. Miss Gertrude Fetzer, Cleveland, 0 . Miss Fetzer is th e daughter of the well known editor of the "Sendbote,'' Rev. G. Fetzer. Our day is woman's day in almost every sphere of life. Our Union recognizes this in elect­ing a young lady to the staff of officers. Miss Fetzer has been active in Guild work among young women. We welcome her in the wider group of our na­tional work.

Our Council Chairman. Mr. Adam V. Zuber, Fessenden, N. D. Mr. Zuber is a talented lawyer, a rising young man in his profession a nd also an active Christian worker. The combination is pos­sible. He is also a ready speaker with much wit and repartee. He has been in t he front in young people's work and Sunday school promot ion in North Dakota and the Dakota Conference elected him Council member to the Union last June.

Our other Council members are as follows : At­lantic Conference, Rev. Wm. L. Schoeffel, Hobo­ken, N. J . Eastern Conference, Rev. F. H. Will­kens, Buffalo, N. Y. Central Conference, Rev. Theo. W. Dons, Cleveland, O. North western Confer ence, Rev. Wm. E . Schmitt, St. Paul, Minn. Southwes­tern Conference, Rev. Chas. Wagner , Ellinwood, Kans. Texas Conference, Rev. J. Pfeiffer, Dallas, Tex. Pacific Conference, Mr. C. E. Panke, Spo­kane, Wash. Northern Conference, Rev. Niels Christensen, Leader, Sask., Can.

To the above, of course, the two general secre­taries are included. They are the active agents of the Union, devot ing all their time to the further­ing of the objectives of the Union.

Concerning our officer s, let us recall the first point in the closing address of Moderator von Berge at the General Conference and apply it spe­l'ifically to th em. He said: "Let us trust our lead-

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ers. If they are to ser ve well, they must know 1 hat we believe in them. Let us believe in their judgment. We need not only good leaders but good sportsman-like fo llowers." We will loyally support our officers and fo llow where th ey lead. May the three-year period just before us witness great achievements and record great victories!

Important Action at Pittsburgh

1. It was decided to publish the "Baptist Her­ald" semi-monthly, beginning with Jan. 1, 1926. The subscription price is to be $1.25 per year. Our subscribers will get twice as much as at present with only an advance of 25 cents in price. This step was taken because of the past success of t he " Herald" and to meet the repeated request from various conferences and young people's organiza­tions for a more frequent appearance. The goal for 1926 is 6000 subscribers. We ought to r each it with a semi-monthly "Herald" at such a reasonable :price. The low price is really a concession to the young peopl~ and Sunday sch ool workers, so that everybody will be able to subscribe without exces­sive cost.

2. The Young People's and SJ.mday school work ~'as. given a definite place in the General Denom­mat10nal Budget. The sum d esignated for our work is $30,000-or $10,000 per year for t he three y~ar~. Our work is r ecognized in a d~finite and c~1gn~fied Jllann~r as belonging to t he great and dis­tm~~ve denommational aims for which wie are a ll str1vmg an.a as one of t he component par ts which help ta ?mld up t~e kingdom, of God in our midst. This entire .sum will be needed in order to carry out our promotional plans. To obtain it a ll the present budget of the den?mination must be obt~ined . If our churches only raise 70 01.0 of t he b d t k ··11 I 1c u ge . our wor \ \I on Y get 70% of the $30 000 Th. h Id b t · t• • · IS S 0 U e a s rong mcen Ive for our societies and schools to work hard for the gener al budget It . our success. · s success 1s

3. In addition to th 1 . l"xe t· s t e re-e ect10n of the present , cu ive ecre ary A p M.h i;ialaried general sec ' · . · 1 m, as one of the also elected the R r etaries of t he Union , the Union of the Clinton Hil~vB Al~ert Bretschneider, pastor J

1 aptist church of Newark N .

., as genera secretary of th U . ' nounced his accept e mon. He h as an-new term of office a;ice of t he position. With the tive and associate ' an. 1! l926, t he terms execu­forth t h e two secre~ec!etanes fall away and h ence­r etaries" of the U a!1es ar e known as "general sec­signed to them f mo.n, who~e duties sh all be as-

r om time to tim b th C ·1 t whom t hey ar e res 0

. e Y e ounc1 , o will devote most

0f h7si~l e . Secretary Br etschneider

Mihm will devot t s time to fi eld work. Secretar y the editing of thee .. ; e ;.reater part of his time to in field work as m ~P ist ~erald" and participate mit. we gr eet ou1~~ as his other dut ies wm per­of th u · H . ew fellow-worker in th e work

e mon. e is well e . d . religious paedogo d q~ippe m t he field of has been active i~y Aan Christian education. He

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work in the Atlantic Conference and enjoys their confidence. The Editor pledges himself to work in harmony with Bro. Bretschneider and believes he will co-operate with the Editor in every whole­hear ted endeavor to achieve t he goals of the Union.

4. The Constitution of the Union was r evised in a number of important particulars. The revised constitution will be published in another number of the "Herald" soon.

Report of the Resolutions Committee of the Y. P. & S. S. Workers' Union

(Adopted at Pittburgh, Pa., Aug. 28, 1925)

1. In view of the growing need of carrying on t he work of tr aining and developing our Yo ung P eople's and Sunday sch ool wor k and in view of repeated r equests for another >vJOrker from vari­ous sections of our wide field, we r ecommend to the Union the election of another Secretary.

2. As some sections of the field wher e th e German language is still used to a great ex­tent, wish our Union to provide for suitable ma­terial on Young People's a nd Sunday school work, we would suggest to the Publication Committee that one or mor e pages of the "Sen dbote" be de­voted to supplying this need an d th at Bro. Theo. W. Dons be requested to supply this materia l for the "Sendbote."

3. The Council recommends th at the Union ex­press in a vote of tha nks to Bro. A. P. Mihm its appr eciation of his untiring effor ts during the past three years in the interests of the Young P eople's and Sunday school work through his efficient work in the fi eld and his capable editorship of the "Bap­t ist H er a ld."

4. Th e practical working of our Constitution during t he past three years has revealed some omissions in its provisions and also the fact that some changes should be made for t he better prac­tical working of our organization. The Council appointed a committee of three on revision of t h e Constitution. The r evisions will be pr esented and we r ecommend the adoption of the revised Con­f.t it ution by the Union.

5 . We express our great satisfaction that the Confer ence has adopted the recommendation of our Council to issue the " Herald" semi-monthly. We recommend a new goal of 6000 subscr ibers for the "Baptist H erald" for 1926. With the "Her­a ld" appearing semi-monthly in 1926 at $1.25 per year subscription pr ice t his goal should be attain­able and worked for with faith and assurance of success.

6. We greatly regret th e continued illness of our for mer Associate Secr etary of t he Union . Rev. F. A. Bloedow, and h er eby express to him. and his family our dee pf elt sympath y and wish for his re­covery and r ecommend that th e greetings and good wishes of t h e Union be sent to h im through our Recording Secretary.

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7. We r ecommend that the Union again adopt the goals formulated by our Council with regard to Bible study, Stewardship and Tithing, t he im­provement of our Sunday schools, the study and support of Missions, as well as extending our or­ganization wherever possible.

8. Realizing the great importance of assemblies and institutes for the tr aining of our Young Peo­ple's and Sunday school workers in Christian life and ser vice, we recommend that the Council and Secr etaries of our Union be inst ructed to plan and arrange and co-operate for the founding and h old­ing of such .assemblies a nd inst itutes in all of our confer ences during the next t hree years.

9. We express our selves as heartily in accord with t he prayerful desire throughout the denom­ination for a r evival of soul-wanning and evangel­ism and pledge our active co-operation . We urge our Young People and Sunday school workers to occupy fully th eir great evangelistic fi eld and to exert a great evangelistic force.

Editorial Jottings

DO NOT OVERLOOK the message of President Henry Marks to the Union at Pittsburgh on page 14. It contains som e telling points for Sunday sch ool workers.

" THE GIST OF THE GENERAL CONFER­gNCE" in this number of the "Herald" does not purport to be a detailed or complete r eport, but r ath er a condensed r esume of t h e things and im­pressions t hat struck us as important and valuable for our r eaders.

THIS NUMBER of t h e "Herald" might r eally be called a "General Confer ence number ." It feat­ures our doings at Pittsburgh. Natur ally some other articles and r egular d epartments had to giv~ way. But this may be pardoned once in three :•ears.

THE "HERALD" is to appear semi-monthly, twice as often as at present, in 1926. The sub­scription price is r aised only 25 cents. This is a bargain rate for our young people and Sunday school workers. We h ope our boosters everywhere will note this and lay early plans for a big cam­paign to r each the 6000 goal in 1926.

WE HA VE REFRAINED from publishing our own report as Executive Secretary and Editor to the Union at Pittsburgh in this number, either in whole or in part, on account of lack of space. The printed report was distributed in Pittsburgh. We have a number of copies still on hand and will be glad to mail a copy to all who are interested and apply. Address Box 4, Forest Park, Ill.

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The Gist of the General Con­ference

U The Pre-Conference on Personal Evangelism and Soul-winning was a notable success in point of attendance as well as in every other way. As some one said: "The program was splendidly planned, the subjects were vital, the speakers were persuasive and t he Spirit was present." Mr. Reuben Windisch and Miss Lydia Mihm furnished special music, which was highly a ppreciated. Bro. Windisch composed a song, "Some Soul I Might Have Won," especially for the conference and it was sung over and over again.

1f The United Choir of the Pit tsburgh verman Baptist churches was under the :!.!re.ction of Mr. Justus Kase of t he Temple Church. They ga ve a great feast of song and lifted our hearts again and again in worship and praise. Mr. Kase closed his Jong and h onored t erm of choir leader for 31 years at t he Tern~ ple Church with the conference period. His voluntary services during all this time have beeen highly appreciated by all. Many are the singers whom he has trained.

11 The new members of the School Committee for our Rochester Seminary are W. S. Argow, P. C. A. Menard, C. Dippel, J. G. Draewell, F. N iebuhr, J. Leypoldt und A. A. Schade.

11 The new Board of the Publication Societ y is a n amalgamat:on of the f or­mer Trustee Board and Publication Committee and consist s of 9 membe1·s. The members of the newly elected Board are 0 . E . Krueger, G. H. Schneck, D. Hamel, Prof. H. von Ber ge, E. B. Ho1·ne, J. W. Herschelman, W. J. Zirbes, O. Warga and P. H . Brandt .

11 The Housing Committee at Pit t s­burgh reported having taken car e of 502 people, delegates and vi sitors who registered and were lodged in th~ dor­mitories a nd private homes. There wer e a few in hotels and some visitor s who d!d not register . The total number of delegates an~ visitors was probably 525. 110 lodged rn homes, t he remainder in

t he dormitories. About half were del­egates. The General Conference did not convene so far east s ince 1907 when it met in Buffalo.

11 A compariso1~ of delegates a nd vis­i tors \vith the two preceding General Confer ences is of in terest. Pittsburgh, 1925-525; St . Paul, 1922- 849; Chi­cago, 1919- 694.

11 Constitut:on making and r evision was much in evidence. The Publication Society and the General Missionar y So­ciety presented new const itutions, which were adopted. The Orphr.nage Socie­ties and t he Young People's Union r ec­ommended r evisions of their present const itutions, which were also adopted.

11 A recommendat ion was passed that the Publica tion Board and t he General Missionary Commit tee confer on the practibility of the housing of both so­cieties in a new building, possibly in Chicago or vicinity. At the meeting of the two boards there was no sentiment for the proposa l and it was declared not feasible.

Ii Bro. G. Fetzer, Editor of the "Send­bote," and Bro. H. P. Donner, Manager of the P ublication Society in Cleveland, were unanimously reelected to their re­spective offices.

~ Letter s and Greetings were r ead from missionaries Rev. and Mrs. J acob Speicher, China; Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Geis, Burma; Rev. G. R. Kampfer, As­sam; Rev. J. Wiens, Far Eastern Mis­sion, Manchuria, und from Rev. H. Koch, who is in Colorado on account of his health.

11 The General Conference voted to guarantee $16,500 annually for the Sem­inary a t Rochester to take car e of the running expenses of the in stitution. The proposed r enovation of the "Student's Home" building was a uthorized as well as the building of a two-story annex to t he "Home." This will entail an expen­diture of $50,000. It is planned to have t he r e-dedication of the r enovated and enlar ged building in 1927, at the 75th jubilee anniversary of the 8eminary. A special committ ee was appointed to look after the r aising of t he necessary funds.

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11 The Committee on the Amalgama­t ion of our various Denominational Be­nevolent organizations, which has been wrestling with this question for sever al triennial periods, r eported t hrough Mr. H. Marks, Mr. H. Th. Sorg and Judge N. B. Neelen that it Wl\S inadvisable a_nd not feasible to form such r. corpora­tion at the present time. This ought to dispose of this question.

11 It was voted t hat t he Publication Society provide loan libraries for Sun­day school and young peoplC''s workers.

11 Prof. Lewis Kaise t· was reelected as ?ur representative to the Foreign Speak­ing Bodies affi liated w!th t he Northern Baptist Convention.

11 The Board of the Publ ication So­ciety was authorized to proteed with t he erection of a new building to provide for a printing plant which will enable t he society to print its own papers and ~ubl!cations. All commercial job work ts. to be eliminated. The new building Will cost $25,000 and t he installment of new presses will involve about $11,000. Funds for this expenditure !'lr e on hand. The present building on Payne Ave. will be entirely leased to other concerns and eventually sold after a few years. Prop­erty value on Payne Ave. arc increasing steadily. The Board was instructed by the Conference to sell a s soon as feas­ible.

11 Mr. J ohn Ehrlich of Rochester, N. y:., was re-elected treasurer of the Sem­inar y.

11 The next General Conference is to convene in Chicago, Ill., in the last full week of August, 1928. The sessions are to begin on Monday eveni ng and close on Sunday night.

Ii "?rof. H. von Berge proved a calm, cautious and capable moderator of t he Conference a nd was r e-elected for an­~ther _term by a large majority. Rev. ' · Kaiser was chosen as vice-moderator

and Rev. !-1. Steiger und Rev. E. Mueller we~e agam elected as recording secre­taries.

11 A resolution t hanking Rev. H. ~chwende~er, former General Evangel­ist , ~or _his devoted services to our de­nommation, was adopted and t he secre­tary of t he General Conference was in­st ructed to inform Br o. Schwendener of the above resolut ion.

. 11 The Ge~eral Secretary of the Mis­sion a;·y Society, Rev. Wm. Kuhn a nd the General Treasurer, Wm. F. Gr~sser wer e re-elected to the office~ they hav~ ably fi lled in the past.

11 The new comm it t ee on the M"i · t ' p · ms-er s ension Fund consist s of E. E l-mer Staub J E R h H Sor ' · · oc o, · Theodore

F gK, :i:tev. C. F. Stoeckma1:n and Rev.

. a1ser.

~ T~e report of t he Committee on ~g~~uar1es for t he triennium told of about fill d ~~~hers of our churches, who ful­. te eir earthly course and entered In o the rest that remaineth for the ~~ople of God. l 6 of them were min­is ers. The r eader of t he report, Rev.

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E. Mueller, struggled with his emotions while g iving it, he being one of the grief-s tricken ones, who mourned t he loss of his wife. The moderator mourned t he loss of his mother. The roll call of those prominent in t he wor k whom we missed, awakened ma ny tearful memories. It was one of the most touch­ing and deeply impressive moments of the Conference. Prof. A. J. Ra maker <>ave a brief eulogy and Brethren R. Hoefflin and F. H. Heineman led us in prayer.

11 The Commit tee on Resolutions for thanks covered the ground very nicely and r eported through Rev. S. Blum.

11 Rev. George W. Pus t of Dillon, Kans., brought a strong, helpful mes­sage at t he devotiona l introduction to the business meeting of the Y. P. Union on "Co-Workers with God."

11 The Denominat ional Finance Com­mittee for the three-year period ahead con sists of 29 members. In future it will consist of 25 members. The stat us a nd function of the committee were de­fined by additions to the constit ution of the General Conference. The commit­tee will henceforth be a regular part of the denominational organizrttion .

11 The Conference endor£ed t he rec­ommendation of the General Missionary Committee that General Secretary Wm. Kuhn make a trip of. inspection to t he countries of Southeastern E ur.ope with special r eference to Baptist work among the German speaking populations of t hese countries, and in order to confer with repr esentatives of other Baptist organization over there concerning our status in this mission work. Bro. Kuhn sailed from New York Sept. 5 on t he " Leviath an," accompanied by Mr. Chris­tian Schmidt of Newark and Mr. Joseph Conrad of Clifton, N. J. Br o. Schmidt is defraying the expenses of t he Gen­eral Secretary on this t rip.

11 Mr. W. A. Staub, chairman of the Finance Committee, presented the pro­posed budget of the Missionary and Benevolent Offering for 1925-1928. The total amount is $875,000, about $80,000 less than 3 year s ago. It a lso r epre­sents a quarter of a million more than was. actually r eceived in the past tri­enmum. The main it ems ar e $220,000 for Home Missions ; $200,000 for For­eign Missions ; $80,000 for Rochester · $60,000 for Minister s Pension; $40,000 for Support Aged Minis ters; $50,000 for Chapel Building F und and $30,000 for Young People's and Sun day School Worker s' Union. The Budget was adopted. The Finance Committee will be t he Denominational Promotion Com­mittee.

Ii The Conference went on record through t he adoption of a recommen­dation by a self-elected committee of laymen, that t he minimum sala ry of our pastors he $1500 per year wit h free par sonage.

11 The Outing on Satur day afternoon was a sight seeing tour of P ittsburgh .

About 70 machines were in the parade which was escorted by several motor­held in the Carnegie Music Ha ll, the cycle traffic officers. The new Liberty Tunnels, Mt. Washington, Point Bridge, North Side, Beechwood Boulevard and Shenley Park were some of the places included in t he trip.

11 The Alumni Banquet of the Min­ister s and their \vives at the Y. M . C. A. on Saturday nigh t was a gala night and an enthusiastic expresss ion of loy­alty to our Rochester Alma Mater. The ba nquet was choice a nd well served. The speakers were P rof. L. Kaiser and Prof. A. J. Ramaker; the oldest alumnus, Rev. R. Hoefflin; t he longest, W . S. Argow; the youngest, Rev. G. C. Schwa ndt. Rev. C. E. Cramer, A. J. Harm£, J . Liibeck and W. P. Rueckheim were received in our cir cle. Best of all $4360 were pledged by the pastor s for the Rochester building project. Now, let t he laymen step up!

11 The ser vice on Sunday morning was F irst Baptist church being engaged by another service. It was an agreeable variation in the meetings. Mr. Fred Staib brought out the qua lities of the splendid organ. Rev. J. A. H. Wuttke of Tacoma, Wash., preached a forceful sermon on "The Great Task of the Church Toward a Hungry World." His text was Mark 6 :37 : "Give ye them to eat." Rev. C. E. Cramer of New Kensington presided at this service.

fl The Conference meetings were held with one exception in the magnificent edifice of the F irst Baptist Church. It is a replica of a Gothic church in France and cathedral like in ~ts space and ap­pointments. Apar t from the main au­ditorium which was filled at most of t he sessions, sometimes ga lleries in­cluded, there were splendid lobby facil­it ies, committee rooms, etc. Bro. H. P. Donner had a fine book display. It was g racious hospitality and brotherhood t.o place this wonderful bui lding at t he dis­posal of th e General Conference for the meetings.

fl The daily bulletins which Rev. A. A. Schade issued wer e a welcome innova­tion and much appreciated by the dele­gates and visitors. Everybody was con­vinced t hat the Pittsburgh committee with Bro. Schade as chairman planned car efully and worked hard for the suc­cess of the Conference. They attained t heir goal and we congratulate t hem on the happy outcome of all.

11 Over 200 ladies attended t he ban­quet given in t he dining room of the F irst church at 6 P. M. following the meeting of the women in the audi­torium. Mrs. N. B. Neelen of Milwau­kee, Wis., was r e-elect ed Pl'esident of t he National F eder ation of Women's Societies (Allgemeiner SchwP.st ernbund) , Mrs. R. E. Hoefflin of New York, Sec­r etar y, and Mrs. Julius Kaaz of New Haven, Conn., Treasurer . Mrs. Louise Bra ndt will again edit t he "Miss!ons­P erle." Mrs. 0 . R. Judd of N ew York a nd others spoke at the Banquet.

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Sparkles From Some of the Speeches

Prof. A . J. Ramaker: I have been a Christian for 51 year s.

I always feel myself inwardly exalted "\"\- hen I am permitted to pray for other~ .

R ev. H. Ka,az : God would give us his gifts through

prayer. We must bring ourselves into harmony with his arrangement.

Bro. Kreiitter of Folsomdale. N. Y.: This is one of the chief · aims of a

Christian,- to tell what God has done for him.

E. E . Staub: We must do more t han en,~ oy the faith.

We must communicate it. And we must know a nd understand what we commun­icate. We must be sure of our personal faith in J esus.

Walter Grosser: Perhaps the hardest p lace for us to

witness for t he Lord is right in our own home. But there are oppo!'tunities for us laymen right in our own home. If we have no time for the Lord in the home we will have little time for him outside'. Witness in t he home for the children's sake.

" The world is a neighborhood. Make it a brotherhood." (Y. M. C. A. s logan.)

Let us look into t he face of God be­fore we look into t he face of man.

David Hamel: In Isaiah, chap. 6 we find consecrated

enlistment. Here we find a vision, a voice and a volunteer.

Prof. L. Kaiser : "Lord, give me the grace of kindness."

What we need is a baptism of kindness.

Prof. H. von Berge : We wish to be as efficient as possible.

But also as democr atic a s possible.

Rev. G. H. Schneck : To honor our father and mother a lso

means to honor our history. . Our Publication work prevented the

d1smemberment of our denomination. If we profit as m uch from the modern

principles . of r eligious training as our fathers gamed from theirs, we shall gain much.

Rev. A. B1·etschneider: What is the function of the Publica­

t ion Society? It is educat!onal. Not to make money but to make life; not to produce dollars but character.

R ev. J. A. H. Wuttke: "Sir s, we would like to see Jesus."

Not Jesus, t_he ethical teacher, or the mere prophet, but t he Son of God. This Jesus has been entrusted to the church and she must give him to the world. Prof. L. K aiser :

There can be no r elease of God's power unless ther e is a willing people at his disposal. God cannot accomplish the purposes of his kingdom except t hrough a nd by willing people.

Prof. H. von Berge : Let u s trust our leade1·s. Let u s trust

one another. Let us trust in our God. Are we all united on t hat? If so, let us say, Amen !

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The Enchanted Barn Grace Livingston Hill

Copyright, 19 17, by The Golden R ule Company - Copyright, 19 18, by J. B. Lippencott Company

(Continuation) CHAPTER XIII

It was beautiful to wake the next morning with the birds singing a matin in the trees, and a wonderful Sabbath quiet over ever ything. Tired out a s she was and worn with excitement and care, Shirley was the first to waken, and she lay there quiet beside Caro! for a little while, with her eyes closed, listening, and saying a prayer of thanksgiving for t he peace of t he place, a nd the wonder t hat it had come into h er life. Then suddenly a strange luminousness about her simply forced her to op1m her eyes.

The eastern window was across the room from her bed, and the sky was r osy, with: the dawn, and flooding the room. It was the first time in years she had watched the sun rise. She h ad almost forgotten, in the lit tle dark house, that there was a sun t o rise and make t hings g lorious. The sun had seemed an enemy to burn a nd wilt and st'fle.

But now her e was a friencl , a radiant new friend, to be waited for a nd en­joyed, to g ive glor y to all t heir lives. She raised her self on one elbow and watched until the red ball had risen and burst into the br ight ness of day. T hen she lay down softly again and listened to the birds. T hey seemed to be mad with joy over t he new day. P resently the chor us grew less and less. The birds had gone about their morning tasks, and only a single bright song now and then from some soloist in the big tree overhead marked t he sweet-scented s i­lence of the morning.

In the qu iet Shirley lay and went over events since she had first seen t his spot and taken t he idea of living in the barn. Her hear t gave thanks anew t hat her mother had not disliked it as she had feared. There was no sense that it was a stable, no odor of living creatures having occupied it before, only sweet dusty clover like a lingering of past things put away carefully. It was like a great camping expedition. And t hen all those flowers! The scent of the lilies was on the air. How lovely of t he young girl out of her luxury to think to pass on some of t he sweet t hings of life ! And the gracious, chivalrous man, her brother ! She must not let him think she would presume upon his kindness. She must not let even her thoughts cross the line and dwell on the ground of social equality. She knew where he belonged, and there he should stay for all her. She was heart-free and happy, and only too glad to have such a kind landlord.

She drifted off to sleep again, and it was late when she awoke the next time. A silvery bell from the little white church in t he valley was ringing and echoing distantly. Sabbath, real Sab­bath, seemed brooding happily in the very air. Shirley got up and dressed

hastily. She felt as if she ha d alrea<ly lost t oo much of t his first wonderful day in the country.

A t hrush was spilling his liquid not es in the tree overhead when she tiptoed softly into her mother's room. Doris opened her eyes and looked in wonder, t hen whisper ed softly : " Vat is dat, S'rley? Vat is dat pitty sound ?"

"A birdie in t he tree, <l t>arie !" whis­pered Shirley.

"A weel budie! I yantta see it ! Take Doris up, Sirley !"

So Shirley lifted the little maiden, wrapped a shawl about her , a nd carried her sof tly to the window, wher e she looked up in wonder and joy.

The boys came tumbling down from t heir lof t in a few minute~, and ther e was no more sleep t o be had. Carol was up and out, and the voice of one or t he ot her was continuously r aised in a shout of t riumph over some new delight.

" I saw a fish in the brook !" shouted H arley under his mother's window. "It was only a little fellow, but maybe it'll grow bigger some day, a nd then we can fish!"

"You silly !" cried George. "It was a minnow. Minnows don't g row to be big. They're only good for bait !"

" H ush , George, there's a nest in the big t ree. I've been watching and the mother bird is sit ting on it . That was t he father bird s inging a while ago." This from Carol.

George, Ha r ley a nd Car ol declar ed t heir in tention of going to church. That ha d likely been t he first bell that rang, t heir mother t old them, and they would have plenty of t ime to get ther e if they hur ried. It was only half-past nine. Coun tr y churches r ang a bell then, and anot her at ten, and the final bell at half -past ten, probably. Pos&ibly they had Sunday school at ten. Anyhow, they could go and find out . It wouldn't matter if they were a little late the first t ime.

So they ate some b~eakfast in a hur ry, took each a sandw!ch left from the night before, crossed the r oacl. climbed the fence, and went joyously over the green fields to church, t hinking how much n icer i t was t ha n walking down a brick-paved street, past t he same olc! g rimy houses to a dim, a r tificially ligh ted church.

Shirley took a survey of the larder decided that roast chicken, potato cro~ qu~ttes and peas would all warm up quickly, and, as there was plenty of ice cream left and. some cakes, t hey would fare r~yally Wlthout any work; so she sat beside her mother and told t he whole story of her ride, the finding of the barn, her visit to the Graham office and all that transpired until the pr~sent time.

'.!'he mothe~ listened, watching her child, but said no word of her inner t houghts. If it occurred to her that her

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oldest daughter was fair to look upon, and that her winning ways. sweet, un­spoiled face and wistful eyes had some­what to do with t he price of their sum­mer 's abode, it would be no wonder. But she did not mean t o t rouble h er child further. She would i nvestigate for herself when opportunity offer ed. So she quieted all anxieties Shir ley might have ha d about her sanction of t heir selection of a home, kissed Shirley, and told her she felt it in her bones she was going t o get well right away.

And, indeed, there was much in the fact of the lift!ng of the burden of an­xiety concerning where they should live that went to brighten t he eyes of the invalid and strengthen her hea rt.

When the children ca me home from church Shirley was putting dinner on ~he table, and . her mother was arrayed m a pretty kimono, a relic of bet ter days, and ready to be helped to the couch and wheeled out to the dining­r oom. It had been pleasant to see t he children coming across the g reen mea dow in t he d;stance, and get things all r eady for them when they rushed in hungr y. Shir ley was so happy she felt like crying.

After the dinner things wer e washed they shoved the couch into t he living­r oom among the flowers, wher e George had built up a beautiful fi re, fo r it was still chilly. T he children gather ed around their mother and talked mak­ing plans for t he summer, te!Jin~ about the ser vice they had attended, chatter ing l:ke so ma ny magpies. T he mother lay and watched them and was content. Sometimes her eyes would search the dim, mellow r afters overhead and glance along the stone walls , a~d she would say t o herself : "Thi~ is a barn ! I ~m living in a barn! My husband's children have come to this , t hat t hey have no place t o live but a barn!" She was t esting herself to see if t he thought hurt her. But, looking on t heir happy fa~,es , .somehow she could not feel sad.

Ch1ld7en," she said suddenly in one of the l~ttle lulls of conver sation, "do you realize that Christ was born in a stable? It isn't so bad to live in a ba.r n. We ought to be ver y thankful for th~~ gr eat splendid one !"

Oh mother, dear! It is so beaut iful of yo~ to t ake i t t hat way !" cried Shir ­le~, wit~ tears in her eyes. J Dor.is , you sing your little song about

es us . m the stable," said Carol. " I'll play 1t for you."

Doris, nothing loath, got a li ttle st ool, stood up beside her mother 's couch, fo lded her sma ll hands demurely and bega to · · ' n smg without waiting for ac-companiment :

"A way in a manger No trib /01· his h~ad

The litta Lord J esus ' Lay down his sveet head.

The tars in haaven Loo/c down vhere 'e lay­

T he litta Lord J esus As'eep in the hay.

"The catta are lowing The po01· baby wate~;

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But .the litta L ord Jesus No cwyin' he mates.

I tove thee, L ord Jesus; L ook down fmn the sky,

An' stay by my trib, W atching my lul-la-by !"

Sh:rley kissed Dor is, a nd then they began to s ing other t hings, all standing a round t he p iano. By and by that dis­tant bell from the valley. called again.

"There's vesper service at five o'clock. Why .don't you go, Shirley? You and Geor ge and Har ley," said Carol.

"Me 'ant do too !" declar ed Doris earnestly, a nd it was finally decided that the walk would not be too long; so the boys, Shirley and the baby star t ­ed off across the fields , while Carol stayed with her mother. And this time Mrs. H ollister heard all about Eliza­beth a nd how she wanted Carol to come a nd see her sometime. Heard, too, about the proposed dance, and its qu:et squelching by the brother . Heard, and looked thoughtful, and wondered more.

"Mother is afraid they are not quite our kind of people, dear! " she said gently. " You mustn't get your heart bound up in t hat girl. She may be very nice, but she's a society girl, and you a re not, you know. It stands to reason she will have other inter ests pretty soon, and then you will be disappointed when she forgets all about you."

"She won't forget, mother, I know she won't !" declared Carol stoutly. "She's not that kind. She loves me; she told me so. She wa nted t o put one of her rings on my finger to 'bind our friendship,' only I wouldn't let her till I had asked you, because I didn't have any but gr andmother 's to give her, and I couldn't g ive her that."

"That was right, dear. You can't be­g in t hings like that. You would find a g reat ma ny of them, and we haven't the money t o keep up \vith a l ittle g irl who has been used to everything."

Carol's face went down . Tears began to come in her eyes.

"Can't we have even fri ends?" she said, turning her face away to hide her quiver in her lip, and the tears that wer e rolling down her cheeks.

"Yes, dear ," sa!d the mother sorr ow­f ully, "but don't choose them from among another people. People who can't possibly have much in common with us . It is sure to hurt hard when there are differ ences in station l ike that."

" But I didn't choose them. They chose us!" declared Carol. "Elizabeth j ust went wild over us the first time she saw us, and her brother told Shirley he was glad, that it would do Elizabeth a lot of good to know us. He said, 'We've learned a Jot of t hings from you al­ready;' just like that, he said it! I was coming down t he sta!rs behind them when they stood here talking one day, and I couldn't help hearing them."

"Yes?" said Mrs. Hollister thought­fully. "Well, perhaps, but, dear, go slow and don't pin your heart to a friendship like that, for it will most likely be disappointing. Just be happy in what she has done for ns already, and don't expect anything more. She

may never come again. It may just have been a passing whim. And I don't want you to be always looking for her and always disappointed."

" I shall not be disappointed, mamma," said Carol decidedly. " You'll see!" and her face br ightened.

Then as if to make good her words a big car came whirring up the road and stopped in front of the bar n, and almost before she could get to the win­dow to look out Carol hear d E lizabet h's voice calling softly :

"Car oll Car-roll! Are you ther e?" and she flung t he door open and rushed into her new friend's a r ms.

Graham came more slowly up the in­cline, smiling apologetically and hoping he didn't intrude, coming so soon.

Carol led them over to the invalid and introduced her friend, and t he young man came after them.

"I'm afraid t his is r at her soon to obey your summons, Mrs. H olister," he said engagingly, "but E lizabeth couldn 't stand it without coming over to see if you really found t he ice-cr t>am freezer, so I thought we'd just drop in for a minute and see whether you were quite comfor table."

Somehow, suddenly, Mr s. H ollister's fear s and conclusions concerning these two young people began to vanish, and in spite of her she felt just. as Shir ley h ad done, that they wer e genu ine in their kindliness a nd friendship. Carol, watch!ng her, was satis fied, and a glow of t r iumph shone in her eyes. Never­theless, Mr s. Hollister gather ed her cau­t ion about her as a gar ment . and in dig­nified and pleasant phr ases thanked t he two in such a way t hat they must see that neither she nor her children would ever pr esume upon what had been done for t hem, nor take it for more than a passing kindliness.

But to her surpr ise the young man di<l not seem to be more t han half lis­ten ing to her ·words. He seemed to be studying her face with deep intent;on that was almost embarrassing. T he soft color stole into her thin cheeks, and she stopped speaking and looked at him in dismay.

" I beg your pardon," he said, seeing her bewilderment, "but you can't under­stand perhaps how interested I am in you. I am afraid I have been guilty of staring. You see it is simply amazing to me to find a woman of your refine­ment and evident culture ar.d education who is content-I might even say joyful -to live in a barn! I don't know an­other woman who would be satisfied. And you seem to have brought up all your children with just such happy, adaptable natures, t hat it is a great puzzle to me. I- I-why, I feel sort of rebuked! I feel that you and your chil­dren are among the great of the earth. Don't thank me and Elizabeth for the little we have been able to do toward making this barn habitable. It was a sort of-I m'ght say homage, due to you, that we were rendering. And now please don't think anything mo1·e about it. Let's just talk as if we were friends -that is, if you are willing to accept a

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couple of humble str anger s among your list of friends." c:::::::-

" Why, surely, if you put it. that way!" smiled the little woman. " Although I'm sur e I don't know what else we could do but be glad and happy over it that we had a barn like this to come to under a sweet blue sky, with a bird and a tree thrown in, when we literally didn't know where we could afford to lav our heads. You know beggar s shouldn;t be . choos­ers, bu t I'm sure one would choose a spacious place like this any day in pref­erence to most of the ordinary city houses, with their tiny dark rooms, and small br eathless windows."

"Even if 'twas called a barn?" "Even if 'twas called a barn!" said

the woman, with a fli tting dance in her eyes that reminded him of the girl Shir ­ley.

"Well, I'm learning a lot, I tell you!" said the young man. "The more I see of you all, the more I learn. It's opened my eyes t o a number of things in my life that I'm going to set right. By the way, is Miss Hollister here? I brought over a book I was telling her about the other day. I thought she might like to see it."

"She went over to the vesper service at the little church across the fields. They'll be coming home soon, I think. It must be nearly over."

He looked at his watch. "Suppose I take the car and bring

them back. You stay here, Elizabeth. I'll soon be back. I t hink I can catch t hem around by t he road !f I put on speed."

He was off, and the mother lay on the couch watching the two girls and wish­ing with all her heart t hat it were so that h er children might have t hese two fine young people for friends. But of course such things could not very well be in this world of s tern !"ealities and multitudinous conventionalities. What, for instance, would be said ;n the social set to which t he Grahams belonged if it were known that some of their intimate friends lived in a barn? No, such things did not happen even in books, and the mother lay still and sighed. She heard the chatter of the two girls.

"You're coming home with me to s tay over Sunday pretty soon. Sidney said he would fix it up with your mother pretty soon. We'll sleep together and have the g r andest times. Mother likes me to have fri~nds stay with me, but most of the girls I know are off at boarding-school now, and I'm dreadfully lonesome. We have tennis-courts and golf links and a bowling ally. Do you play tennis? And we can go out in the car whenever we like. It's going to be grand. I'll show you my dog and my pony I used to r ide. H e's g<:'tting old now, and I'm getting too big for him, but I love him just the same. I have a saddle-horse, but I don't ride much. I'd rather go motoring w!th Sirl- "

And so she rattled on, and the mother sighed for her little girl who was being tempted by a new and beautiful world and had not the wherewithal to enter it' even if it were possible for her to do so'.

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Out in the sunset the car was speed­ing back again witp the seats full, Doris chirping gleefully at the ride, for her fat legs had grown ver y wear y with the long walk through the meadow and Shirley had almost been sorry she had taken her along.

The boys wer e shout'.ng all sorts of questions about dogs and chickens and cars and a garden, a nd Graham was answering them all good-humoredly, now and t hen turning around to throw back a pleasant sentence and a smile at the quiet girl with t he happy eyes s itting in the back seat with her arm around her little sister.

There was nothing notable about the r ide to remember. It was just one of those beautiful bits of pleasantness th at fi t into the mosaic of any growing fr!endship, a bit of color with out which the whole is not perfect. Shirley's part in it was small. She said little and sat listening happily to the boys' conversa­tion ·with Graham. She had settled it with her heart that morning that she and the young man on t hat front seat had nothing in future to do with each other, but it was pleasant to see him sit­ting there talking with her brother s. There was no r eason why she should not be glad for that, and glad he was not a snob. For every time she looked on his clean, frank face, a nd saw his nice gray eyes upon her , she was sure that he was not a snob.

The guests stayed a little while aftei· they all got back, and accepted quite a s a matter of course t he dainty little lunch that Car ol and Elizabeth, slipping away unobserved, prepared and brought in on trays,-some of the salad left from din­ner, some round rolls t hat Shirley h~d brought out with her Saturday, cut m two a nd crisply toasted, cups of de­licious cocoa, and little cakes. That was a ll, but it tasted fine, and the two self-invited guests enjoyed it hugely. Then they ranged t hemselves around the piano and sang hymns, and it is safe to say that the guests at least had not spend as "Sabbathy" a Sabbath in a ll th ei r lives. Elizabeth was quite aston­ished when she suggested that t hey s ing a popular song to have Carol answer in a polite but gently reproving tone, "Oh, not t"oday, you know."

"Why not? Doesn't ·your mother like it?" whispered Elizabeth.

" Why, we don't any of us usually sing things like t hat on Sunday, you know. It does'nt seem l ike Sunday. It doesn't seem quite r espectful to God." Carol was terribly embarrassed and was struggling to make her idea plain.

"Oh!" Elizabeth said, and stood look­ing wistfully, wonderingly at her friend, and finally stole out a soft hand and slipped it into Carol's , pressing her fin­gers as if to make her know sh e under ­i;tood. Then they lifted up their voices again over t he same hymn-book:

"Thine earthly Sabbaths, L ord, we love, But there's a nobler rest above; To. that our longing souls aspire With cheerful hope and strong de site."

Graham lo?ked about on t he group as t hey sang, his own fine tenor joining in

t he words, his eyes lingering on the earnest face of his little sister as she stood arm in arm with the other girl, and was suddenly thrilled with the thought of what a Sabbath might be, kept in this way. It had never appealed to him quite like that before. Sabbath­keeping had seemed a dry, thankless task for a few fanatics ; now a new pos­sibility loomed vaguely in his mind. He could see that people like t his could really ma ke the Sabbath somethi ng to love, not just .a day to loll through and pass the t ime a way.

When they finally went away there was j ust a str eak of dull red left in the western horizon where the day had dis­appeared, and a ll the a ir was seething with sweet night sounds and odors, the dampness of swamps striking coolly in t heir faces as the car sped along.

"Sidney," said Elizabeth af ter a long time, "did you ever f eel as if God wer e real?"

"Why, how do you mean, kid?" a sked t he brother, rather embarra!:sed. These subjects were not discussed at all in the Graham household.

" Did you ever feel as if t here really was a God somewher e, like a person, that could see and hear you and know what you did and how you felt to him? Because they do. Carol said t hey didn't sing 'Tipperary' on Sunday hecause it didn't seem quite respectful to God , and I could see she really meant it. It wasn't because her mother snid she had to or anything like that. She though t so herself."

"H'm !" said Graham t.houghtfully. "Well, they're rather rcmarka!Jle people, I think."

"Well , I think so too, and I think it's about time you fixed it up with mamma to let Car ol come and visit me."

"I'm going to get mother to go out t here and call this week if I can," said · Graham after a nother longer pause, and t hen added: "I think she will go a nd I think she will like them. After that we'll see, kid. Don't you worry. They' rn nice, all right." He was thi nking of a look on Shirley's face as she sat at the piano pla ying for them all to sing .

(To be continued)

Young People at Northwestern Conference

The Young P eople of t he Nor thwes­tern Conference had a fine meeting on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 23, th<> last day of the Conference, held at Baileyville, III. After enjoying a one hour concert by the Sunday school Orche~tra of the local church, the meeting was opened by Rev. W. J. Appel of La Crosse, Wis., who presided as chairman.

Rev. H. P alfenier read the scr ipture lesson. After prayer by Re\·. A . Foll the nominating committee gave its report .. The committee, consisting of Rev. H. W. Wedel, Miss Hattie Tholen a nd Rev. Palfenier, submitted t he following names which were accepted as oflicers for the coming year : President, Rrv. W. J. Ap­pel, La Crosse, Wis.; Vice-President, L. Johnson, Steamboat Rock, Iowa ; Secre­tary-Treasurer, Benj. Zimmerman, Ba!­leyville, 111. The meeting was continued

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by a solo by Mrs. G. F . E in horn of Parkersburg, who sang "Have Thine Own Way, Lord." After a i"hort address of welcome by H. Zimmerman, pres ident of the _ local society, Rev . . t:.._ . P. l\Iihm, E xecut ive Secretary, gave a ver y inter­esting address: "Gr owing a nd Guarding a Christian Personality." His text was taken from 1 Tim. 4: 12, " Let no man despise thy youth; but be t hou a n ex-

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a mple of the bel'evers, in word and con­ver sation, in charity, in spirit, in faith ' in purity." '

After Rev. Mihm's address an offer­ing was r eceived which was followed by an address by Rev. W. E Schmitt of St . P a ul. H is t opic was, "The Wor th While Life." Both addresses were the means of a blessing to a large aud:ence of both young and old. The Motto for the year is that of Rev. Mihm's t ext : "Let no man despise thy youth."

May a ll the young people of t he Northwestern Conference pl:m and boost for ~ still gr eater and more helpful meetmg next year !

BENJ. ZIMMERMAN, Sec.

The Southwestern Conferen ce The College Ave. Baptist Church of

Kansas City, Mo., had the burden and the honor of entertaining t he Southwes­tern Conference this year . 1'he confer­ence. was in session from Wednesday evening, Aug. 19, to Sunday evening, Aug. 25. The attendance wasn't quite as large this year as in some of the former year s, but the fine spirit t hat prevailed more than made up for the lack of numbers. The prayer and t esti­mony meetings were especial ly inspiring. Everyone felt the presence of t he Lord and Master in a very real way, and each ~nd all solemnly r esolved to do more m the coming conference year for t he advancement of God's Kingdom and the salvation of immorta l souls than ever before.

One new feature of the conference was. the fact that about one-half of the

. serVlces were conducted in t he English language. Rev. H. R. Schroeder deliv­e1;ed _the J?issiona~y sermon on Thursday e\ ?mng 1~ Engh sh. Th~ ufl'ering on t his occas10n amounted to over $65. The Y?ung people's meeting on Fl'iday eve­ning, the Sunday afternoon meeting and t he closing meeting Sundny evening were ~~so conducted in English. It was surpnsmg as well as gratifying to sec ~hat eve~ the older people took a hearty mter est m these English services.

Another important featur<! of the con­ference was t he o;ganization of a Y. P . & S. S. Workers . Union. The Union h~d been tempor arily organized in Ma­r1orr last year, but now the organization was :per~ected and made permanent. A constitut ion was adopted and re ular officers were elected. The '·YOUng pegple's meeting on Friday evenfng.,_was perhaps the ~est attended of all the conference meetmgs. The church was crowded to t?e doors and everyone enjoyed the en­t! re program, but all were agreed t hat one nu~ber especially deserved unlim­ited praise, and that was the presenta­t ion of a missionary pageant, entitled

Oc tober , 1925

" Broken China," by the young people of the College Ave. church.

The following were elected as officers of the Union for the ensuing year: President, Mr. Chas. Zoschke, Junction City, Kans.; Vice-President, Mr. Fra nk Brueckman, Kansns City, Mn. ; Secre­ta ry, l\Iiss E sther Kaufman , Hillsboro, Ka ns. ; Treasurer, l\I 'ss Anna Seifert, :\1arion, Kans.; Coirncil mc·mbe1·, Rev. Chas. Wagner, Ellinwoocl, Ka ns.

It would be well if a ll th<' Sunday schools and B. Y. P. U.'s in the confer­ence would take notice of nne provis ion of the constitu tion, viz, the one per tain­ing to the dues. The Unil)n would like to undertake some definite missionary work either in our own conference or abroad, but such act'.on ca11not be taken until sufficient funds have heen secured. All Sunday schools and you ng people's organizations should, therefore. as soon as possible send a contribution of at least $5 to t he treasurer of the Union. If all will comply with this r equest, then g reater things can be undertaken when we meet again wit h the First church in Dillon, Kans., in 1926.

The young people of the Southwestern Conference feel t hat t hey have a respon­s ibil '. ty toward Christ and his cause in t he world; they are full of enthusiasm and eager to do their part. May God help them to go forwa rd in the name of the Lord! H. R. SCHROEDER.

Keswick Summer A ssembly

The Young People of t he Atlantic Conference enjoyed a very versatile pro­gram a t the Keswick Summer Assembly, which convened from August 1-10. Lo­cated in t he heart of the Pine Groves of New J er sey, Keswick proved not only an ideal place for hiking. boating and swimming, but due to its isolation from all disturbances, a n inducement to study and spiritual r econnoitering as well.

Much is being said in these days about the F our-Fold Life. Due to the splendid management of the Faculty and the Promotion Committee ou r Young People have t he r are pl'ivilege of hon­estly claiming the dis tinction of having lived a well balanced life for one week at least.

The classes were both interesting and instructive, a nd froni 8.20 t ill 12.20 of­fer ed ample opportunity for mental gymnastics. We could boas t of 9 teach­er s. When we say "boast" we mean just that. They were great. They will never know the extent of their influence on the pupils. The great :;piritual value of t heir teaching will only },e recognized when t he implanted principles begin to develop and bear fruit in daily living. The curriculum was va ried and offered severa l accredited cours<'a which were very popular.

The members of the faculty certainly showed the!r ability to excel, not only in the class-room, but in the r ealm of sports and recreat ion as ·well. What a good t ime we had, playing games, swim­ming, boating and hiking through the woods.

One phase of our recreation took us

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Students and Faculty, Keswick Grove, N . J.

<'leven miles from the Grove. However , we did not walk. Some of our more fortunate members covered that distance in no time with t heir machines and landed us in Lakeshurs t at the U. S. Aerial Sta t'on. We had th<.' privilege of surveying at close range th <.' Shenan­doah and the Los Angeles. It was awe­inspiring to view the results of human calculation and design, and to be re­minded of the greatness of our God in creating the human in tellect.

Down in the Sand-Hollow, l\Iiss Eich­stcad t, our recreational leader, built a roaring fire on Monday night, and we had a "Doggie Roas t." But we wer e not the only ones who enjoyed the eats. The New J ersey mosqu ;toes had a r egular banquet , and for t he next few days our d igits had a steady jot.

Tuesday night we had a Mu~ical Pro­g ram intersper sed with humor ous reci­tations. T wo of the vocal selections wer e orig inal (as to words) and one of them by common consent hccame our Keswick Song. Stunt night was greatly appreciated by all. The "Big Sing" took place down by the lake on Friday night . We all gathered around a large campfire, and the mosquitoes sated, for onre, left us in p eace, wh!lc ·we did the s inging for a change. Both English and Germa n songs were sung, and at t en o'clock we had devotion together under a canopy of stars.

The s tudents of Keswick were a self­governed body, under th e wise direction of Rev. G. H. Schneck. Herbert Kruse of Philadelphia was elected president and Mildred Ber ger from the same city was elected secretary. We are not per­mitted to publish all the weighty mat­t ers which we considered and wisely man­ager!. \ Ve chose as our Inst:tute colors Green and Tan, our Emblem is a clus­ter of Pine Needles, and our Motto " In His Favor I s Life." We a\·e sure that t he Institute will help us to remain in His favor.

Perhaps the most enjoyable and prof­itable hour of the day wa:; from 7-8 P. M. when we had our Vesper Service.

Rev. Schneck was the learlcr a nd cer­t a inly brought us face to face with some of t he most vital questions of life. W<.' were lifted into the ver y pres­ence of God and t her e recognized more clearly than ever before om duty and responsib' li ty as Christians. Surely the earnest wor ds spoken and the impres­sions r eceived through t he working of the Holy Spirit will endure and bear fruit through time and el!!r nity.

RUTH C. DOESCHER.

B. Y. P. U. Bethany, Kans. Another year, rich with blessings, has

passed for the B. Y. P. U . at Bethany, Kans. Although we h ave accomplished nothing unusual , or increased our mem­ber ship gr ea tly, we h ave t r ied to h elp our members both spi rit ually and so­cially.

In our society a program committee and pianist is appointed every three months ; during the past year this com­mittee has arranged the following pro­grams: 2 lit erary, 2 musical, 2 Bible contes ts, 1 ch aracter, 1 radio program, a Mother 's Day program and 9 Bible studies.

1:he first. Sunday in February Dr. Smith, president of the Ottawa Univer­sity, was with us. His addresses both morning ~nd evening, _inspired us to put our best mto the service of our Master . S~xteen o~ our young people joined t he !~!fe SerVlce Leagu~ that day, promis­mg to enter no calling of life unless it were God's leading.

On t he first Sunday in March a group of our young people went to Gaylord to attend the r evival meetin~s being held there at that t ime.

We are planning to celebrate our an­niversary by an all-day picnic.

We are now !oohing forward to an­other year of work and with God's help we hope to make it bet t er than the last.

META NrrscH, Sec.

• • • Mark Twain said: "One of t he most

striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.''

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Men's Bible Class Lorraine The Men's Bible class of t he Lorraine

Baptist church gave an out ing the aft er ­noon of Friday, July 17. T he occasion was in compliment to their instructor and pastor , t he Rev. Dr. A. J . Ha rms, who with his family wer e lea ving our community J uly 28 for the pa~torate of t he Oak Street Baptist Chur<'h . Burling ­ton, Iowa. The Lyons Y. M. C. A. ca mp, Camp Stahl, was the site chosen for the gather ing and !t was indeed a most en­joyable picnic ground. Cow Creek, w;t h tall , shady cottonwood t r cf!s along its banks, border s the camp s ite, forming an improvised amphitheater . The mem­bers of the class and their la dies a nd lady fr iends arrived in motor cars about 2.30 in the afternoon. Mr. Wa lter Mel­chert, Mr . Henry A. Froning and Mr. Louis Rolfs led the g roup in the most popular out-of-door games. These in­cluded t he more old-fashioned games, a lso some venturesome feats and cul­m' nated in dividing t he crowd in to groups and each group presenting a charade.

We had not iced t hat each arriving car stopped at t he entrance to t he cab;n and that parcels were being carried i nto the kitchen. Mrs. Paul Peters , Mrs. Wm. Schmidt and Mr s. Ed. Wilkens, wi th the a id of their husba nds, pres ided over t he work in t he kitchen . At 5.30 dinner was announced. The · g roup was seated around the t ables in t he <'abin. Dr. Harms gave the invocat 'on. Mr. Paul Peters , Dr. Wm. Schmidt and Mr. Ed. Wilkens, cla d in chef cost umes, ser ved the following menu to t he guest s : F ried chicken, buttered buns, potato salad, cof­fee, lemonade, ice cream, angel cake.

It was t hen in th e cool of t he evening , shadows were lengthening and one's t houghts were naturally tu rned to medi­tation. The group a ssemblr<l to t he benches under t he trees for a i:,ong ser v­ice a nd pr ogr a m. Mr. H enry Mollhagen, president of t he class, pres ided at t he meet ing. He a sked Miss Ruth Peter s to lead in the sing ing of several hymns. Dr. Harms gave t he operi '. ng prayer.

Bible Class, Lorraine, Kans.

Mr. Mollhagen gave a f ew introductory rema rks a nd then called on Mr. Ha rry Bronleewe for a several minute a ddress. Following Mr. Bronleewe, Dr. Stassen Mr. Oscar Wilkens a nd Mr. Henry A '. Froning ea ch gave a short address ex­pressing regret at the departu re of Dr. and Mrs: Harm~ from our community and stating their appreci:\tion of Dr. H a rms a s t heir Sunday school t eacher and pa stor and what he has meant to our chur ch and our community. Dr . Harms responded with a few remarks thanking the cla ss for t heir kind nes~ and expressions of good will ex tended to them. Mr. Mollhagen then asked Mrs. !"!arms to speak and she did so. Follow­mg her r emarks, the aud'.ence ar ose and t he Rev. H. J. F r oni ng asked t he bene­diction.

Convention of the Iowa Jugend­bund

!h.e Iowa Jugendbund met in its ~h1rt1eththannMu~l ~o~vention nt "Burling-on on e l 1ss1ss1ppi" when, the Ju-

gendbund was organized thir t y years ag o. About 170 delegates a nd visitors an~ ~ p~stors represented t he eleven soc1et1es m the J ugendbund .

In . the absence of the pres' den t, H . B. W1esley of Aplington, anrl Secr etar y­treasurer L. A. Johnson of Steamboat Rock, Vice-P resident c. J. Spieker of Geo1:ge, Iowa, took charge of the con­vention, and. a substitute was a ppointed to ;empo~·arily take care of Mr. J ohn­son s duties: However , thl! Jugendbund expressed i ts extended confidence in the~e t wo offi.cers by re-electing t hem to tfhe1r respective places of i·esponsibility or next year.

The mot to of t he J ugendbund " Sa d to Serve," was not loot · b t f . ve seven sessions of the, c s1g. t? m t he of t he m f onven ' On . All s inging ofee mgs were op(med by t he

ture emph ~o~gs of a di.sti nctive na-' ' a s1zmg some t f .

itual li fe and · Par 0 our sp1r-lowed by h t s~rv1c~ . T hese were fol­bers of sthoer d'ffevotionals , led by mem-

1 erent · t' which bus iness socie ies, after was taken up, or a n in-

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spiraf onal address list ened to, a s the progra m might dictate. These were in­ter spersed with vocal and im t rumental numbers by different societies.

Mr s. C. E. Hillis, known ~.nd loved by many Chr istian workers in Iowa a nd other states, was t he convention speaker . Mrs. Hillis illustra ted and in terpr eted t he Convention mott o, " T he Four­Square L ife," in a ser ies cf four ad­dresses in which she clearly indicated the right r ela t ionship of young people to their God and to their felluw-men in each of their four -s ided natures, the physical life, the mental, the social an d the r elig ious lif e. Of especia l interes t and inspi rat ion to per sona l worker s and others was the "Open Conference on Personal E vangelism" in which other s told how t hey had been won to Christ, or of experiences in bringing others ; and the "Call fo r Consec•:ation,'' just before the close of the la st meeting , which was answered by about 20 young pe0ple.

Other speaker s on t he progi-am were Rev. A. J. Ha r ms of Lorraine, Ka ns., s.uccessor of Rev. O. E. Krueger at Bur­lington, Rev. Bovell of Burlington, Rev. W. H. Roger s of Mu scatine a nd Mr . Hans Keiser of E lgin, a ll of whose ad­dresses helped t o make the program a successf ul one.

?n Wednesda y a fternoon everybody e!IJOyed an outing at Burlington 's beau­ilfu l. "Cra po P ark,'' a scenic spot over,~ look ng the grea t "Fa t her of W aters.

We do not want to forget to say th at that. the work of the Burlington society W~s t he "last word" in efficiency, ente~­tammen_t and hospitality. This was evi­~~n.ced m the homes, in the city, in t~e binm~ r oom a nd in general i.n .their eaut'..ful and pra ctical church building.

.T~e convention vot ed t o g ive $250 t o nu ssion work in China a nd $400 to the GC'ner al Mission Fund of our chur~h · ~he goal in r a ising fun ds in t he soc100 ties for Missions was a gain set a t $100 for next year .

H ERMAN L . Z I MMERMAN·

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Our Devotional Meeting October 11

They "First Gave Their Own Selves

2 Cor. 8 : 1-15

A Stewardship Meditation

It is bot h a privilege an°l an obliga­tion to g ive to the Lord. Ther e a re many people, however, who cannot un­derstand why they should give away a nyt hing for a ny purpose whatsoever . How entirely di ffer ent t he Macedon'an Christia ns wer e ! May their example stimulate our l iber a lity, a~ it did that of the Corinthians !

They gave out of deep poverty, v. 2. Thus they showed that pover ty is no reason for wit hholding our gif t s. The widow gave t wo ·mites which was "all her living" (Mark 12 :32-44). The Lord expects us to g ive in proportion to our income. (1 Cor. 16 :2. ) This, in many ins tances, may be ver y l!ttle; but, .if given with the r igh t motive, God will mult iply it. (Mat t. 14: 18-20. ) It may be easy t o plead pover ty ; b~t it is not a lways sincer e. Whether r ich or poor let us all honestly a sk: " How much owest t hou unto my Lor d?" (Luke 16 : 5.)

T hey gave beyond their abilit1!, v: 3. Measured by their r esources their g:fts were too large. But does not all well ­doing consist in str a in ing our power ? "It is in t rying to do what we cannot do that we do best what . w~ can ." How these Macedonian Chnstians pu t to shame so many of us who keep well within the limit s of our resources.

They gave their own se~ves, ".· 5. H er e lies t he secret of their h beral· t y. One that actually g ives himself t o th~ Lord does not consider his subst ance his own. H e is like a .slave whose hut . and gar­den and furniture belon g to !us n:a~ter . Of t h e a re manv Chr1st1ans

course, er · d · h "ft f themselves to the Lor is

w ose g1 o h I o are so just a s real a s t hat of t ose w 1 .

. d b p ul . but with tens highly commende Y a ' . t " It of t housands it is merely sent in:en · is useless for people t o talk or sing ab~ut belong ing to him, unless } hey ven fy their words by their deeds.

October 18 What Is Expected of a Christian

Citizen ? Mica h 6 :8 ; T it. 3 :1-8

(Cit izenship Day)

Befor e the la w of the land a Chris­t ian and a non-Ch ris tian citizen stand on equal terms . but oefore t lle bar of pubtc opinion ~uch more is expected of ~he Chr ist ia n. Micah's pronouncement 15 quite inclus ive.

W e should do justly. Above all, to God. H e wa nts our life and our love. (Mark 12 : 30. Rom. 12 : 1.) As our Creator, Ove~·seer and Redeemer h e

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must receive fir s t consider a tion. A na­t ural result will then be t o do justly to our fellowmen. Their person, their proper ty, their r eputation will be con­sider ed sacred. Before their face, be­hind their back we wm deal fairly with them. We will love them and do them good. (Tit. 3:2.) We will do justly to the government. (Tit. 3:1.) Pa ul's ad­monition becomes especially impressive when we consider the government under which he lived. Think of Ner o. And we will do justly to ourselves "Justice is the constant a nd perpetual will to render t o every one that which !s his own," declared Just inian.

W e should love 1r.er C1J. P erhaps we can define mer cy a s justi ce p!?1s. Mercy is so named from misery. A merciful man is touched by another 's misery. How t ha t reminds us of the world's mis­ery and Chr ist 's coming to save ! But a r e not all of God's gifts tokens of his mercy? He want s t o see i t in us. The world expects it. A Shylock dema nds his pound of flesh ; but a Christ!an cit­izen must love mercy. "Blessed are th e merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."

Walk humbly with thy God. This means companionship, converse with God in pr ayer , bring ing t o him our doubts, f ear s, tr ials and necessit ies. It means implicit obedience.

October 25 Our New Americans

How thEy Helv Us and How W e Can Help Them

Deut . 10 : 12-22 ; Luke 7: 1-5

How they help us. Freder ick J . Hop­kins ' book, " The Immigrant," contains t he following : "I am the immigrant. I have shoulder ed my burden a s the

American man-of-all-work. I contribute eighty-five per cent of a ll

the labor in the slaughtering and meat-packing indus tries.

I do seven-tent hs of t he bitum'nous coal mining.

I do seventy-eight per cent of all t he work in the woolen-mills .

I contribute n ine-tenths of nll t he la bor in the cotton-mills.

I make nineteen-t wentieth3 of all the clothing.

I manufacture more than half th~ shoes. I build four-fifths of all t he fur mt ure. I ma ke half of t he collar <>, cuffs a nd

shi r ts. I t urn out four-fifths of all the leather.

1 make half t he gloves. . I r efine near ly nineteen-twent ieths of

the sugar. . I ake half of t he toba cco anti cigar s. A:d yet I a m the great American pr ob-

lem." How iue can helv them. 'l'he " Chris­

t ;an Her ald" con~ains t he following in­terest ing suggestions:

" Teaching English to mother s in their homes. Bett erment of housing con­ditions by pressure on selfish landlords. Backyard playgrounds . . . under Amer­ican supervision. H elp t hrough the in­trid icies a nd official discourtesies of naturalization." " Preventing exploit a­tion by shyster lawyer s and quack doc­tor s. Bringing into t ouch 'vith district nurse." "Big Brother and Big Sister work." " When a fashionable church has been sun-ounded by an immigr ant community, bringing the n ew-comer s into church, ins tea d of selling t he structure to become a garage and building a new church 'uptown'."

What Theodore R oosevelt said. "If we do not see that the immigr a nt and the children of the immigrant a re r aised up, most assuredly the r esult will be that our children a r e pulled '.down. Either they \viii rise or we shall sink."

November 1 Can We Live by the Golden

Rule? Matt. 7 :12 ; Lev. 19 :18; Gal. 6: 1

(Consecration meeting ) The a pplication of the Golden R ule

mean s golden conduct. It docs not only ins!st upon justice ; but goe<; beyond it, leading u s into t he region of generosity or g race.

Some tes t question. Is i t possible for a man to be honest and uprigh t in all his dealings? Can we put the bes t, in­stead of the worst , construction on t he deeds of other s ? When one mu st lose in a business t r anaction , would you r ather be t he one instead of t he other f ellow? I s it possible t o "love your enemies," to " do good to t hem tha t hate you," and to "pray for them wh!ch despitefully use you"? Can we forgive "until sev­enty t imes seven"? In short, is it pos­sible for human beings to be unselfish enough to seek t heir f ellown1en 's best ? If not, wha t would be Christ's object in dema nding it? Did he ever demand any­thing t hat he did not expect? Does it not behoove us to cease our questioning a nd t o t rust him for t he n ecessary strength for t he fulfilment of his own demands?

The answer of Christi•1n missions. Why did Carey go t o India ? Living­stone t o Africa? P aton to the New Hebrides? Why ha ve men and women laid down their lives in service a nd in dea th in all parts of the world ? Surely not for the sake of adventure; but be­cause they desired t o free men from t he fetters of sin and disease and death. They did what t hey would have desired ot hers to do, had t hey been in sim!lar need. And the same spirit actuates thousands of men a nd women today.

The e.O'ect i,pon the w o?'ld. I f all men lived by the Golden Rule, there would be no more war s, no mor e strife be­tween emplyoer and empployee.

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Report of President H. Marks To the Young People's and Sunday

School Workers' Union in conference assembled at Pittsburgh :

My dear Friends : Since the organization of our Union

at St. Paul, three busy years have passed. One can hardly realize that the time of our Conference is again upon us.

It is with sincere regret that I am unable to be present in per:-on. My prayers and thoughts are with you 'Con­tinually. God grant a successful con­ference!

On account of the various duties cas t upon me, both in business and in char­itable work, I have been obliged to keep close to the office during many years past, and my only vacations, so called, have been spent at conferences, wit h the result t hat on two occasions, the last one this spring and summer, I have had to give some attention to my health. And during the preparation of this re­port, notice was served on me requiring my presence in Los Angeles on Septem­ber 1 · and 2 on important business af­fairs. So much as explanation for my absence.

It has been t he endeavor of your offi­cers to secure as large a subcription l ist to the "Baptist Herald" as possible, and we feel that the success of the paper is shown in the fact tha t in the third year we have had a larger subscription lis t than during t he t wo previous years. We desire to express our s incere thanks to all for the hearty co-operation shown averywhere, and in your effort s to make this paper a success. Without your help, this would have been impossible. We feel that the paper has done much to link up and keep t he young folks in various parts of our denominational field in touch with each other.

The pa per should be issued twice a month. I f eel that the dema nd for it is getting greater. Further efforts should be made to increase the wbscr ipt ions during t he coming winter.

Our goal in the past has been 5000. We a re near t hat figure. Why not set it at 6000 and plug hard to r each it? Representing as it does, t he Young P eo­ple a nd Sunday school worker s, it should be enlarged and increased to give ad­ditional information concerning t he pro­motion of Young People's and Sunday school work. I feel that !f t he service is given, t he subscriber s will gladly pa y the price.

We ha ve been handicapped to a g reat extent in t he past by t he f<lct t hat Bro. Bloedow, who was elected a~sociate sec­retary, became sick and incapacit ated during the first year. Our pr a yers have gone up to t he throne of Goe! for him and his family. Let us r emember him in t hese days.

Steps should be taken and ways and means provided for additiona l help for Bro. Mihm. To him we owe a special vote of thanks for the consistent, har d and successful work he has done in the past three year s. If t he "Herald" is t o be issued oftener , either some one else will ~ave to t ake over the edi torship, to permit Bro. Mihm to v isit t he fields, or

a pla n evolved whereby the work can be divided between t he two men. Some­t hing definite should be decided. We must have at least one other man for our work. vVe must go forward. We cannot stand s till. Standin~ still would mean sliding backward.

The interest for the work has been shown in the fact that during t he past three years a number of Assembl'es and Institutes have been in session each year in various parts of our country, wher e young folks have gathered to s tudy and learn of the problems confront ing our Sunday schools and Young People. Ad­ditional Jugendbunds and Sunday School Unions have been organized , and not in a long t ime past has our work in the Sunda y schools shown such upwa r d tr end.

The importan t thing for us to re­member is this : that our g-reat work lies in the Sunday school; that a g reat portion of our pr esent church member­ship has come from the Sunday schools, a nd that from 75 to 90 per cent of the Sunday school scholars whr. are mem­bers of our churches, have c0me into the churchmember ship before the 16th year .

If this is true, t hen it behooves u s to pa y special and particular attention to this branch of the work, and it will be food for deep thought, whether it will not be well to spend a litle more money to promote Sunday school work more earnes tly, with more vigor a nd with bett er r esults t han in t he past.

Several good pamphlets have been prepar ed by a number of our Council members and circula ted, showing us what should be our goals a nd stand­ards. Other s along the same line should be prepar ed and circulated.

And I feel further tha t a m'ss iona r y program could also be outli!1ed under which we could undertake to do special miss ionary work in the Sunday schools a t certa in periods of the vear and if we did this _prayerfully a·nd ~ni tedly, much good might be accomplished. . ~t is wonde1:fu! t hat we a re in a po­

sition to do m1ss1ona ry work in fore 'gn fields, and able to spend lar ge sums of money there. But please remember that we have a most wonderful mis~ siona ry field in our Sunday schools here which r equires pa r t icular attention at t he present time. Should we hesitate to go forwa rd in this direction, a nd ne!51ect the same . by lack of interest , by being t oo penur10us in this direction a nd sometimes overconfident and sati s~ fied t hat everything will go a ll right a nyway, we may find some day to our great disappoint ment that the Home F ield has been lost with t he attendan t and natu ra l result that the for eign field cannot be kept up.

In fact it has so oft en come to our attention t hat t he church has used t he Sunday school to a ssist it financially, in· stead of the church digging down in its coffer s to help the Sunday school. The expense of maintaining our Sunday schools has been only about 10 per cent of all other expenses of the church and that in t he face .of the fact that the gr eat er portion of our present chur ch

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membership has come from the Sunday school.

My dear fr iends, stop a nd think for a moment , how much would a live Ameri­can business house spend for advertising a nd promoting a certain branch of its business from which it could draw from 50 to 75 per cent of its business a nd profits?

Can you look these youngster s st raight in the face a nd say t hat you have t reated t hem fairly ? If not, then let's start now.

Because our Sunda y schools have done such fine t hings, in spite of the lack of na tional, co-ordinate efforts we owe a special vote of apprcciatio~ to t he local workers, and thnnks t o our H~avenly Fathe:·, but this does not per ­mit us to cont inue this course in t ho future. w .e owe it to God and to every­one to dev!se means and way~ to carry on a greater work.

Young America wants s9mething do­ing all the time. And Young America is found in the Sund~y school a s well as everywhere else. · It is up to us to offer Young America somet hing that is good; that is sound; that will keep its mind occupied a nd yet lead it to Jive a real, t r ue, Christian l ife.

Folks, I f eel !n my heart that you are wit h me in t his. Then provide and give us the means to do something.

God bless you all! Respectfully submitted by your

humble servant , HEN n Y MARKS.

The Young P eople's Banquet at Pittsburgh

It occurred on Friday, Aug ust 28, after t he business session of t he Y. P. and S. S. W . Union. It began a t 6 P . M. in the lower r oom of t he First Baptist Church. Over 300 were present. The sale of t ickets was limi ted to the ca­pacity of the number provided for.

It was a full hour a nd three-quar­ters. The song p rogram provided by t he local committee and the song sheet furnished by Secr etar y Mi)lm were both used to t he limit . The songs wer e lively, apt and appropria te. The young people and Sunday school worker s were gr ouped according to Conferences. Mr. Ralph Kuhn of Temple church acted as song leader . Executive Secretary A. P. Mihm was toast master.

After full j ustice had been done to the food, t he president of t he Temple Church Y. P. Society, Mr . Wm. H. Waugh, brought a wor d of g reeting for the Pit tsburgh churches. Mr. Ea rl T~~v:r, president of t he New York and V1c1~1ty Jugendbund, spoke for t he A t­lantic Conference young people · Rev. F . H. Willkens for t he E astern Confer ­ence; P resident E. W. Hoek for t he Cen­~ral Conference ; H . B. Wiesley pr es­ident of t he Iowa Jugendbuncl for t he ~orthwestern Confer ence. R~v. Chas.

agner told u13 what t he Southwestern ~on~erence intended to do, and Mr . A.

· u~er of Nor t h Dakot a in eloquent ~nd witty remar ks held up t he achieve­

ent s of the Dakota Conference The far north had as speaker Rev. j_ Ley­poldt of Winnipeg and t he Sunny South

October, 1925

spoke through Rev. J . P feiffer . The r e­sult of the af ternoon's elections were announced. The newly elected Secre­t,ar y A. Bretschneider was introduced and spoke from his hear t. Mrs. E. B. Meier gave a brief speech. Our miss ionary leader, Gener al Secretary Kuhn, was called upon for a closing wor d. Songs a nd quartettes and stunts of var ious kinds, society yells a nd confer ence slo­gans intersper sed t he speeches.

Ever y moment was crowded and elec­tric. Things moved at a rapid pace and a great deal was packed into that t ime from 6 to 7.45 P . M. Enthusiasm, loyalty, fe llowsh'.p, co-operat ion, love was in t he a ir and in our hea r ts. With prayer by Bro. Umbach we adjourned to the evening meet ing in t he audi­torium.

The Young People' s Rally on Sunday Afternoon

The spacious a uditorium of the F irs t church was fi lling r apidly when Bro. Reuben Windisch began to conduct a r ousing song service at 3 P . M. The Wind!sch Quar tet, composed of Miss Lydia Mihm, Mrs. E . B. Meier, Reuben Windisch and Robert Krogman, sang "Some Soul I Might Have Won." Vice· President A. A. Schade presided. Mr . Wm. H. Waugh r ead the l OOt h Psalm and Mr. Ralph Kuhn Jed in prayer.

The new officer s of the societ y, E. W. Hoek, pr es. ; J . G. Lucbeck. vice-pres. ; Gertrude Fetzer , r ecording · secretar y, a nd Genera l Secretaries Mihm and Bretschneider wer e introduced and in­ducted into office by past vice-pres­ident Schade. Brief r esponses were made by Mr . Luebeck, Miss Fetzer and Rev. Bret schneider .

Then followed three addresses of 20 minutes each. The firs t was g iven by Rev. J . Leypoldt of W innipt'g, Can., on "Our Young P eople and the Church ."

H e said: The church is divine in her mission and glorious in her destiny. She is preeminently a sp! r itual body. Her unique mission is threefold : she muse win souls for Christ , build up Christian char acter and equip other s for unselfish ser vice. What would our life be as young people wi thout t he moral and spiri tual influence of the church ?

The best way for a young Chr istian to serve t he church at lar ge is to ser ve t he church to which he belongs. Do not come to church for what you get out of it . Come to chur ch to put some­thing in to it .

Ther e ar e t hree classes of young peo­ple in our churches, the ver y faithful , the fai rly fa;thful and t he unfai thful. To which do you belong?

<?ur newly-elected president of the U nion, Mr. Edwa rd W. Hoek of Detroit, was t he second speaker and his topic emphasized : "Our Young P eople and Soul-winning."

He brought befor e us a vivid p ict ur e of the appalling school fi re some years ago at Collinwood, Ohio, wi th its ter­rible los of life and how; since that t ime ever y publ ic school in Oh;o is equipped with safety devices. To learn t hat les­son we had to pay t he price. We prize the value of a huma n life for t ime.

Young People's Society,

We labor incessantly to save a single life like Floyd Collins imprisoned in the Kentucky cave, a nd r ight ly so. But do we value an immor tal soul as we ought to? Are we soul-winners?

It was an impassioned plea for conse­cration to this supreme t ask and made a deep impr ession coming from a lay­man.

The t hird speaker of the after noon was comparatively unknown to many in the audience as he has not been long in our midst . He was Rev. A. J . Harms, former ly of Lorraine, Kans., now pastor of t he Oak St. Church of Burlington, Ia.

He based h!s address, "Our Young P eople a nd Christ," on the words of P aul in Phil. 2 : 5: " Let t his mind be in you t hat was also in Chr is t .Jesus."

Not the ~1ind of Pla to, Homer , P ytha ­goras, Anstotle or P ericles but the mind of J esus Christ .

Let t he mind of Christ r eflect i n you a nd let the mind of t he Master be mas­ter of your mind.

The content of the mind of Christ was then brought before us a nd defined by t he speaker as a gr eat interest in t he t r ansfor mation of lif e, a con suming p assion for pr ayer , and the courage of his convict ions.

The relat ionship of our life to t he life and mind of Chris t was persuasively a nd appealingly presented. This address formed a fi t t ing climax to t he af ter ­n oon. It left as t he last impr ess ion on our hearts the One who should have pre-eminence in all things. our Peer­less Christ.

Pleasant Valley Young People's Society

We wish to let the readers of t he " Her ald" know that we a re at work in P leasant Valley (P . 0. CSJ. rrington, N. D.). North Dakota is a great m!ssion field a nd a state where t he young folks especially a re interested in the great work of our Lord J esus Cfi r ist.

We young folks of Pleasant Valley are not independent, we accept mem­ber s, old and young, as long as they are

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willing to wor k hand in hand with us and willing to accept our constitution.

We ar e not a society wh ich meets only once a month and t akes a vacation dur­ing th e summer but we are a society which meets every Sunday evening and has ch ar ge of the Sunday evening serv­ices. Var ious progr ams are given to make the meetings inter esting. The programs a r e a s follows: The fi r st Sun­day in t he month devotional meetings. In case there are five Sundays in a month we have devotional meetings the first a nd last Sunday evening. The other Sunday evenings ar e filled out with Bible st udy, musical pr ogr ams and de­bates. The progr ams ar e planned in advance from three to six months and put on the bulletin so that every mem­ber knows what's coming the following Sunday evening.

The meetings are all held in t he Amer ica n language. On account of many wor kmen dur ing the summer and school t eacher s in t he winter who are not able to understand the German lan­guage we have our meetings in English to give our outsider s some spir it ual food.

Our society is growing from t ime tO' t ime. We have often from ten to twelve visitor s. It makes us feel happy to see visitors come into our society who are not member s of any other church nor of ours, but through this wor k they get in­terested in the wor d of God and t ho har vest seems to follow n at !.lrally.

Our officer s are a s follows: Mr. R. B. Siebolt, pr esident; Mr . F red Pepple, vice-president ; Miss M. C. Albus, secre­tar y; Mr. Chr ist Hertel, Jr., t reasurer.

It was my privilege as a student of the Rochester Semina1·y to be the stu­dent-pastor during my summer vaca tion here in Pleasant Valley. T he work has been very pleasing to me and we as a society work ha nd in hand with the church. May God bless t his society mor e and mor e as the time goes by and ot her societies with us! May God hear our prnyers so that we soon shall get a minister who will help us to make our societ y e successful one. J. G. ROTT.

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Book Review CH RIS T I AN FUND/\MENTALS

F OR ACADEMY ST UDE NT S by A. J . H a rms, M. A., Th. D. M. B. P ublishing House, Hillsboro, Ka ns. $1 .25. 159 pag-es.

cover all the points of Chr !st ian doc­t rine. It aims in a popular manner , avoiding a s much as possi h~e theolog ­ical and philosophical terms, to present in fou r main parts, a st udy of the be­lief in God, in J esus Christ, in the Holy Spirit and in t he Bible. Under the first part, t he ex;stence, t he spirit uality, t he personality of God, t he doctrine of the T r inity and t he a ttributes of God ar e treated. In the second pa r t is pre­sented t he historical fact of J esus, his incarnation, humanity , deit y , death, resur rection and exaltation. I n the t hird par t the per sonality and act ivity of the Holy Spirit and h~s relation to t he new birth and P entecost are handled in an illuminating way. The fourth part t reats of the value, the name~ and the in':lpiration of the Bible a nd its neces­sity in the home.

This book by the new r.~st6r of the Oak St. church , Burlington , l owa, will be g reeted with wide inter est in our cir~ cl es.

Dur!ng Rev. H arms' past•>ra te at Lor­r a ine, Kans., which recently clo::;ed, he lectured on the subjects of this volume before a class of high school student s. The book presents the f undamentals of the Christian r eligion as they wer e adapted to t hese students. The a uthor tells us in the preface tha t the stu­dents brought their own Bibles and looked up the Scriptur e !"cforences in connection with each recitation.

The book is not a complete compen­dium of theology nor does it attempt to

We have r ead this book through car e­fully and can hear ti ly recommend it to

OUR FUTURE Those of us who have been intimately associated with the affairs of our

Association believe that the Germ<m Baptis ts' Life Association has enor­mous possibilities for future development. Our financial s tability is beyond question. Our policy of paying all claims promptly and providing pensions for our aged members, together with other features, has given us the recog­nition and prestige that will continue to add greatly to our influence in our denomination.

The remarkable increase of our membership, when conditions were n ot particularly favorable, demonstrates condusively what the possibilities are w hen industry, capacity and devotion to one's work are combined and in­telligently applied by our representatives. The quality of our insurance, whether life, health, accident, disability or old age, is unquestionable. T he demand for sound insuraryce is greater than ever.. The business will be se­cured by those companies' who have the most capable field representatives.

In the development of our field work only those men will be retained who demonstrate capacity, combined with industry, and who actually produce the business that may be reasonably expected from their territories.

An Association like ours mus t, in the las t analy!>i s, depend upon its field force for its growth and development ; it is they who very largely determine the reputation and s tand of our society. It is therefore of the highest im­portance that the individuals , composing our field force, be men of integrity and character. They must be intelligent, knowing the fundamentals of legal reserve insurance, and able to meet the business and professional men of various communities who cons titute so large a part of their prospects.

In addition it is necessary that our representatives be thoroughly imbued with the spirit of our Association. Insurance is primarily a business propo­sition. Baptist life insurance, relief during sickness and old age pension is that and much more, because it purposes not only to meet all of its con­tractual obligations, but concerns itself with those who (through sickness or accident) become totally disabled, with the care of its disabled members and with the protection of its home and insuring its integrity. All these great purposes are specifically provided for in 'our six different forms of certificates and they are exemplified over and over again in our practice.

There is important territory -to be co-;,ered by district-superintendents. As rapidly as possible one position after another •Will be filled. Unusual oppor­tunities for the iuture await our representatives who will produce; then, with the enlargement of the Association, respons ible executive positions will be opened for advancement bound to develop.

Young men, acceptable to the executive officers, will r eceive a one or two months' t raining in field work, salesmanship, record keeping and organizing work.

Further inquiries should be addressed to F. W. Godtfring, J r .,

Agency Supervisor. GERMAN .BAPTI STS' LIF E ASSOCIATION,

19 Sprenger Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

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onr r eader s. I ts positions are scrip­tural , sound, sane. Its presentations are log:cal and lucid. The discussions a r e compact and clear. T he il!iJSt r ations, in t he main, a re fresh, fitt;ng and f as­cinating. While it t rea ts of the "Chris­t ia n F undamentals" of our r evered r e­lig ion, i t is not a cont rovrrs ial book. It p resen t s positive Biblical t ruth in a persuasive spiri t.

T his volume will awaken a nd strengthen faith. It will be r ead by all wt ih interest and pr ofit, but i t is espe­cially addressed to young people. We hope many will become acq:.1ainted wit h !t individually. It would also make a fine text -book for Bible study classes in our societies and organi?:ed classes of the Sunday school th's fall ar:d winter. Perhaps a special price could be quoted by Mr. H. P. Donner in quantites.

The Helping H and Society of the Oak P ark church, Rev. I-I. Kaa7., pastor , is a n organization of young women, many of whom have come from the old coun­try of late year s an~ _which _endeav~rs to be a social and spiritual aid to sim­ila r new arr ivals in the big cit y of Chi­cago. They number about 26 members a t present and meet mont hly. They a re splendid personal worker s a nd through their effor ts many young women have been won for Christ and thr. church. On Sept. 10 they h eld a luncheon wit h a bout 40 member s and guests pre.sent. Before a good sized audi~nce of fr1 en~s la ter in t he evening t hey presented m excellent manner a drama in 3 parts, " P roved by Fire," in Ger ma n, by ~ev. C. F . Zummach. Secr et ar y A. P . Mihm made a brief address. T he officer s ar e Mrs. E lsie Scharf, p resident; M~ss Ma r tha Dallmus vice-president; Miss M. G. Remmler, 'Secr etary ; Mrs. E dit h Ba uer sfeld, treasurer.

The church at Kankakee, Ill., Rev. Chas. F. Zummach, pa stor, ha d a fa re­well ser vice for seven of their young people, who a r e lea ving to r esume_ or take up their studies in various inst1t u­t '.ons of learning. Al together 8 young people from t his chur ch are study ing in higher instit ut ions of learning. Three a re in Wheaton College, one in De Pa uw University, two in Univers ity of Illi­nois at Champa ign, one in Normal, Ill., and one, Bro. Bla t t, in t he English De­par tment of Roches ter T heo!. Seminary.

The Knights of Honor of t he

German Baptist Church Tacoma Washington

Extend a W arm·Hearted I nvitation to all young men visit ing the Pacific Coast to join the class o f GOOD FEL LOWSHIP.

SPL ENDI D L ESSONS 9:45 A. M. every Sunday. So. 20 & J St.

WHEN IN BROOKLYN Do as t h e

CRUSADERS BIBLE CLASS d oes

These young m en m eet every Sunday at 2.30 P . M . fo r the Stu d y o f G od ' s Word n t the

Second German Baptist Church Woodbine St., cor. Eve rgreen Ave .

WELCOME WELCOME