THE KING’S BUSINESS
6b have often had your feet on me.” He finally made application to the Presbytery of Monroe, and was ordained on October 10, 189S. No man in Adrian was more highly re spected than he by people of all classes. To the last he was active as a soul-winner. When he was able, if not in his pew at church on Sabbath, he was some other place, where he was needed, at the Salva tion Army, or at a colored church, or at a mission, telling the story of Jesus and His love. Everybody recognized him as a man of God. A letter came to the Adrian post- office, addressed to “The Man of God.” The letter was promptly delivered to the Major, and he was the one for whom it was intended. T here is a loud call for Gospel workers in Alaska, with unlimited opportunity to leave one’s piark on a great and growing country in the name of Christ, and with the joy of service and suffering. We clip this interesting item: “Dr. Ernest N. Bradshaw at Ruby, Alaska, is following in the footsteps of Dr. S. Hall Young, the pioneer Alaskan mission workefr. The trails along the creeks in thq country about Ruby are very poor. But as there is a great deal of mining and prospecting along these waterways, Dr. Bradshaw tries to visit the different camps whenever possible. On a recent tour he left Ruby on foot early in the morning. The first three miles lay along a good gov ernment dirt road. After that it was neces sary for four miles to splash through water and over wet, marshy moss, sinking deep into the spongy earth with every step. To add to the unpleasantness, thick clouds of gnats and mosquitoes circled about the missionary, until, as he expressed it, there seemed ‘quintillions of them,’ and he was ‘snorting like a giraffe and perspiring like a darky in the harvest field.’ “Dr. Bradshaw spent ten days visiting the miners and prospectors. He went into the drifts to see how the men worked,
nia, express regret, surprise, and indigna tion that Dr. Parkhurst should align him self with the aforesaid forces, and thus do violence to the cause of humaji welfare and bring reproach upon the«Church of Jesus Christ.” Dr. Parkhurst lags behind not alone the common Christian sentiment on this wine question but that of the pre-Christian civil ization. Dr. Marvin R. Vincent comment ing on the Greek word rendered “corrupt” (2 Cor. 2:17) says of the Greek usage: “The term . . . was especially applied to retailers of wine, with whom adulterations qpd short measures were matters of course. These . . . had capeleia wineshops all over town where it was not thought respectable to take refreshments. The whole trade was greatly despised” . . . So Plato, speaking of the evils of luxury and poverty, says: “What remedy can a city of sense find against this disease ? In the first place, they must have as few retail dealers as possible.” Plato and Parkhurst differ, at least on the question of “retail” wineshops. R ev . J ames H enry C ole , the evangelist, died at his home, in Adrian, Michigan, on Friday evening, October 30th, in his seven ty-ninth year. He has
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs