Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 20, 1915, Page 4

THE CHURGH AS ASOGILCENTER A Broader Sphere for Religion—New Field for the Rural Church. By Peter Radford H Lecturer National Farmera’ Unton The social duty of the rural church Is as much a part of its obligations a8 its spiritual side. In expressing its social interest, the modern rural church does not hesitate to claim that #t is expressing a true religious (n-l stinct and the old-time idea that the | social instincts should be starved ; while the spiritual nature was over- fed with solid theological food, is fast glving way to a broader interpreta- tion of the functions of true religion. We take our place in the succession of those who have sought to make the world a fit habitation for the children | of man when we seek to study and understand the social duty of the rural church. The true christian re- ligion is essentially social—its tenets of faith being love and brotherhood and fellowship. While following after righteousness, the church must chal- lenge and seek to reform that social order in which moral life is ex- pressed. While cherishing ideals of service, the rural church which t- tains the fullest measure of success Is that which enriches as many lives a8 it can touch, and in no way can the church come in as close contact with its members as through the avenue of social functions. The country town and the rural community need a social center. The church need cffer no apology for its ambition to fill this need in the com- munity, if an understanding of its mission brings this purpose into clear consciousness. The structure of a rural community is exceedingly cor- plex; it contains many social groups, ; each of which has its own center, but | there are many localities which have but one church and although such & church cannot command the inter- est of all the people, it i relieved from the embarrassment of religiously divided communities Soclal Needs Imperative. The average country boy and girl have very little opportunity for real enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a vague conception of the meaning of pleasure and recreation. It is to fill this void in the lives of country youth that the rural church has risen to the necessity of providing entertain- ment, as well as instruction, to its membership among the young. The children and young people of the church should meet when religion is not even mentioned. It has been found safest for them to meet fre- quently under the direction and care of the church. To send them into the world with no social training exposes them to grave perils and to try to keep them out of the world with no social privileges is sheer folly. There is a soclal nature to both old and young, but the social requirements of the young are imperative. The church must provide directly or indirectly some modern equivalent for the husk- ing bee, the quilting bee and the sing- ing schools of the old days. In one way or another the social instincts of our young people must have oppor tunity for expression, which may take the form of clubs, parties, pic- nics or other forms of amusement. Orxe thing is certain, and that is that the church cannot take away the dance, the card party and the theatre unless it can offer in its place a sat- {stying substitute in the form of more pleasing recreation. Universal Instinct for Play. In providing for enjoyment the church uses one of the greatest meth- ©ods by which human society has de- veloped. Association is never secure until it is pleasurable; in play the in- stinctive aversion of one person for another is overcome and the social mood is fostered Play is the chiet educational agency in rural commun- ities and in the play-day of human childhood social sympathy and social habits are evolved. As individuals come together in social gatherings, their viewpoint is broadened, their ideals are lifted and finally they con- stitute a cuitured and refined society. It is plain, therefore, that the church which aims at a perfected so- clety must use in a refined and ex- alted way the essential factors in social evolution and must avail itself of the universal instinct for -play. It the church surrounds itself with social functions which appeal to the yoyng among its membership, it will fill a large part of the lamentable gap in rural pleasures and will reap the richest reward by promoting a higher and better type of manhood and womanheod. The latest official estimate gave Australia a population of 5,000,000. MultiKopy CARBON PAPER Any Color 108 Sheets to -Box PRICE $3.00 BEMIDJI PIONEER PUB. CO. : MINN. Everybody 'in’ these dollarful days of sport seems to be a lightweight. Ex-champs are coming back, ditto ex- second raters, and a whole crop of young blood who scrap around the 133-pound mark are trying to bing itheir way to fortune viathe califiower iear route. The reason, naturally, the cash. The public apparently has tired of in- ferior milling by lumbering ‘heav- ies,” the middleweights until recently have not excited much interest and the feathers and bantams have been ikeeping unmercifully quiet. The lightweights, around such box- ing centers as New York, Milwaukee and New Orleans, seem to be getting all the coin. Aside from the fight fans’ interest in a lightweight mill because more cleverness is usually shown than in encounters between heavier boxers, it is a fact that the present crowd of lightweight enter- tainers is about the best in several years. Perhaps not in many seasons has the fight ring seen such equally matched talent as Freddie Welsh, |Charley White and Young Shugrue, with Willie Ritchie, Ad Wolgast, Leach Cross and Johnny Dundee hov- ering around the fringes of the same championship class. Below this crowd is a host of other “lights” capable of giving any crowd its money’s worth. Speaking of lightweights, you can’t let Bat Nelson of Hegewisch, IIl., drop completely out of your mind. Bat won’t let you. Having tackled a fresh break into vaudeville, the ex- king of lightweights offered to lick everything in sight and particularly to trim Ad Wolgast “just for fun.” Abe Attell also is in vaudeville. Consequently it is nof peculiar that Abie breaks into print. He bites off a section of the battling Dane’s sweeping challenge and offers to beat him “if he weighs a ton.” Come on Oscar Nelson—come on. SLASH DISPOSAL NEEDS MUCH CARE (Continued rrom Page 1.) show that 25c is a fair average cost for burning of slash at time of log- ging, to say nothing of the increased benefit to skidding and to the opera- | tion as a whole. MUSCEL SHOALS TO BETTER NIAGARA RECORD (Continued from Page 1.j al would be one of the biggest in- dustrial booms the south could have. He scoffed at contentions of Rep. Frear of Wisconsin that the proposed appropriation would mean a gift on a silver platter to the electric com- FAMOUS phar- maceutical house noted for 50 years for its inflexible high quality standards has perfected a toilet cream that completely justifies our strongest praise. It is an exquisitely prepared vanishing cream, .~ Delicately perfumed. White and pure as snow—our customers who have used Webster’s Toilet Cream are delighted with it, ‘Women who cannot use oily types of creams — or those whose_sensitive skins cannot ‘‘stand’’ massage creams, find Webster’s Toilet Cream a won- derful toilet aid. It isa disap- pearing cream that preserves the soft, satiny skin-texture, An. ideal basis for powder., Forms a protective film that prevents sunburn and chap- ping. _In. dainty aluminum capped jars—25 cents. CityDrugStore E. N. French & Co. Presbyterian Cook Book.. . The Pioneer has just completed the publishing of a splendid 175-page cook book issued by the ladies of the Presbyterian church of Crookston, and will retain a few copies to be sold at G5Oc. Better reserve one by telephone. Phone 31.—Adv. HARNESS We want to sell a few Work Har- nesses Cheap to.advertise them. Call in and see them. Ziegler’s Second Hand Store FOR SALE Seasoned Jack Pine Wood, 4-ft., $3,50 per cord; short $1.50 per load at The Cash Fuel and Feed Store. Phone 228-W . Notice to Water Consumers. Remember, Wednesday, Jan. 20, is the last day. of discount on - Water Bills. GEORGE KIRK. G panies. Frear's contention that the Shoals are deteriorating from a navi- gation standpoint was admitted by Underwood, but he argued that the ;|sovernment ought to lend its aid to ~ja ‘proposal that ‘ment as much as this to the south as to the farming ipdustry throughout fhe land. To drink or not drink. And wheth- er to follow out the rules of the high lord of the admiralty and thereby thirst nigh unto death, or by merely infringing on said rules, break them and quench aforesaid thirst. Yep, mates, that's what congress is think- ing nowadays in view of the fact that arrangements are under way at present to carry a large portion of the congressional membership through the Panama canal to Frisco when the president goes in March. There is more than a bit of dis- cussion in cloakrooms as to whether the Daniels “dry navy” order will apply to congress. And ineidentally —and strictly privately—the mem- bers are saying that they want this trip engineered by somebody who be- lieves that a congressman may if he chooses absorb something stronger than ozone of grape juice. This, however, is no ordinary “jun- ket.” Everybody pays his own ex- penses, consequently every congress- man can have his little nippie if he likes it. Rep. Khan of California, genial booster of the Pacific coast and its charms, is a sort of personal conduct- or for the expedition and he gives members of congress guarantees that they’ll be used all right on both ship and after they hit the Golden Gate. COST OF ALL TO YOU..... If you take The Daily Pioneer for six months, or COST OF ALL TO YOU. If you take The Weekly Pioneer one year Saltiest Lake In the World. This is Lake Urumia, in Persia, sit uvated more than 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. It contains 22 per cent of salt as against 8.6 per cent in the Dead sea. The lake 13 eighty-four miles long and twenty-four miles broad, and its northern coasts are in crusted with a border of salt glitter. ing white in the sun. No living thing can survive In it except a species of very small jellyfish. Deafness and Rumbling. Speclalists bave discovered that any one who is partially deat can Dear Dest when riding in a train. The rumbling of the heavy wheels on the track causes the drum of the ear to vibrate and in this way excites the capacity to bear.— Eschange. % Corrected. Mother—tercy. | told you you could oot go playing in the racant ot and | now observe that you have. Percy— My dear mother, you used the wrong verb. - You stiould have told me that | “must” not go there, not that 1 “could” not. L4 The Raven. The anclents credited the raven with anusual longevity. but modern Investl- pation shows that it is not warranted. ‘The bird rarely lives more than seven- ty years. Our Natural Bridges. There are ten bridges formed by na- ture in the United S‘ates. Their for- mation s caused by the current of streams running through rocks. = She Knew. Sunday School Teather—Can you tell me who dwelt in the Garden of BEden? Little May- Yes, ma‘am; the Adamses.-- Excuange. A want ad will sell it for you. Address All Communications to The Bemidji Pioneer Pub. Co‘.,~Bemidj‘i, Minn. Bimple yet effective aids to sight were used long before any form of lens bad been devised. Spectacles first be- came known about the beginning of the fourteenth century, and an inscrip- tion on the tomb of a nobleman of Florence, Salvinus Armatus, who died in 1317, states that he was the inventor. ‘The earliest form of an instrument to aid the sight was a shield for the eyes. a very small opening -admitting the light. Emperor Nero was shortsighted and employed ~what contemporary writers called a “mirror,” which In reality was an emerald reduced to & plane surface. In his “Voyage to Hudson’s Bay” Bl- is tells how the Eskimos, in order to prevent snow blindness, covered their eyes with pleces of wood or ivory prop- erly shaped and having in them a nar row slit the length of the eye, through which they looked out. Not only did this- device prevent the terrible snow blindness, but witb its aid objects could be seen at a surprising distance, and the natives used them in the man- ner of telescopes even when there was no danger* of snow blindness.—New York Tribune. Argentina is one of ine few import- ant countries in which no coal is mined. . ADDITIONAL WANT ADS T00 LATE TO CLASSIFY FARM FOR SALE—160 acres fine land, located near a beautiful lake; about 6 miles from town, on good road.. 10 acres under cultivation, and 120 acres timbered with pine. $800.00 cash takes it, balance on easy terms. Address E, clo Pio- neer, WANTED—Lath puller. B. B. Lund- gren, labor agency. HERE’S THE CLUB OFFER FARM AND HOME, subscription price per year ... 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