Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 19

OMAHA DAILY SIMON ON SABBATH SCHOOLS Conclusion of the Paper Read at the Bt Louis Oonference. B NDAY Bennett’s Trustee Sale THERE ARE RUMORS IN THE AIR THAT A SALE WILL BE MADE BEFORE THE TIME SET BY THE COURT, AND THAT IT MAY OCCUR AT ANY HOUR. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE SALE TO LAST EVEN FOR A DAY, STILL WE WILL OPEN MONDAY MORNING WITH A LOT OF FRESH SURPRISE BARGAINS THAT YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS. Women's Wear Kid Glove Sale Golf Skirts—We want you to consider Our entire stock of imported French this figure—Golf skirts, marked $16.50, Kid Gloves, always sold at $1.25. Every go at pair guaranteed and fitted—on sale +Golf Skirts, marked $22.50 .....15.00 Monday at vesnsssesssness s 8O0 Golf Skirts, marked $25.00 .....16.67 Golf and Cashmere Gloves and Mitts be —an immense table of them, worth up Dress Suits to 50¢c, all, at... voo i B0 An elegant suit for house or street Neck Fuffs, silk chiffon, Liberty silk wear—all the very latest styles. and feather ruffs—all on sale at half Zibeline Suits, $12.50, for ........8.34 the marked prices. Novelty Suits, $19.50, for ......13.00 Zibeline Suits, $20.00, for ......13.33 corsets Etamine Suits, $25.00, for ....16.67 We will sell our stock of the W. (. O. : Corsets, including all the best numbers Linen- Sale of that celebrated make, at a discount of 20 per cent from the regular price. We have added two cases of new pe g : linen to our already enormous stock, and all will be displayed on a bargain Belts table Monday. We will clean up every belt in the Napkins, Cloths, Brown and Bleached stock—some of them sold for $1.50 Damask, Tray Cloths, Doylies, Center €ach, &t .......ooiviiiiiiiienees 25¢ Pieces, Tea Cloths, ete. Muslin Underwear These goods will be offered at im- ported cost. Our stock of women’s Night Gowns, Corset Covers, Drawers, Chemise, etc., COH]fOl'tS are all on sale at about manufacturer’s Three cases of fine Comforts that sold COSt. w gmionday st 19 Chitdren’'s Wash Dresses StOCklngs Our entire purchase, nobby little Women’s Burlington fast black seam- styles, from 1 to 14 years, all on sale less stockings, worth 33c, at ......23¢ Monday at cost. to iaks them. They go on sale Monday morning at about the price Cleaning-up Sale of Wall Paper, Room Moulding, Paper Cleaner Never before had you the chance of Wall Paper Remnants ] . PR 4 9 o aki N () ‘4l such values as we are making NOW! In bundles, containing from 6 to 20 50c to 75¢ Wall Paper, at roll.....20C 14q including border and ceiling, and 25¢ to 50c Wall Paper, at roll .....15¢ combining all grades of wall paper from 10c to 25¢ Wall Paper, at roll ......8¢C the cheapest that's good to the good Other values, 5¢, 43¢, 4c, 33c, 3¢, 24¢ that's cheap—up from, per and 2c¢ per roll. bundle . FEBRUARY 8 by accldent or fliness can no longer sup- port himself and family, or, in case of a member's death, to do the same for the widow and orphdns, thus offering one of the best kinds of life and accident insur ance, because a home and employent is of | more value than a lump sum of money which may be stolen or wasted. So far but one person has taken advantage of the insurance feature. This obligation is made & part of the benefit certificate issued to every member on Jjoining. Nonresident members, other than those taking advantage of the lasurance, become resident members on application to and acceptance by the board of directors, and so long as they UNIQUE CO-OPERATIVE COLONY Working Peatures of a Secialist Community in the Btate of Washington. FORMER QMAMA MINISTER IS PROMOTER PROBLEMS FOR THEVYEACN[R TO SOLVE How the Colony is Managed, the Rights and Privileges of Members Their Religlous Te Importance of the ¢ and Religions sisted Upon and Spec Instruetion 1 Train- ing Urged as Necessary. choose and are obedient to the by-laws and remain in a Co-operative Brotherhood col- | In the activities of satd | | | Rev. W. E. Copeland, formerly of Omaha, fow a member of the Co-Operative Broth, hood Colony at Burley, Wash., and editor of its organ, the Co-Operator, contributes to the New York Independent an interest- Ing account of the, organization, purpose and development of {he colony. He says in part On one of the fingers of Puget sound is Carr’s Inlet, at the end of which is to be found a village without church, saloon, jall, almshouse, bank, money or police. This town is Burley, 8o called from Burley creek, a famous trout stream, at whose mouth is bullt the first industrial center of the Co-Operative Brotherhood, a bene- ficlal organisation which insures against accident or death by providing homes and employment for its members who by acel- dent or iliness are incapacitated from pur- suing an avocation which will give them support. To reach Burley one takes a steamboat from Tacoma, and after a lovely ride of about an hour, enters Gig harbor, one of the numerous bays of which Puget sound bas so many, none more attractive than this land-locked harbor to which entrance scems impossible and yet which can be entered by large ships. The visitor taking the morning boat meots the mail wagon from the colony at Burley, sometimes a farm wagon, and sometimes a covered hack and sometimes a buckboard. A drive of six miles through the glorious woods of wes ern Washington and along the shores of Henderson bay brings the visitor to the colony. Near the entrance gate Is to be seen the mill, where logs are made into lumber, sningles and boxes, these being the branches of manufacturing in which the colony is now engaged. Driving through the grounds the visitor sees. on the left & blacksmith shop, a two-story building used for a printery, carpenter's shop and gen- eral offices, a cluster of houses known to the colonists as Circle City, and straight shead another two-story building, in which 18 the postoffice, store, dining room, kitchen and rooms for single men. Clustered around the hotel are a cigar factory, milk house, laundry, root house, shoe ahop and several cottages. All these bufldings are plain, mostly covered, both roof and sides, with shingles. In Circle City is a school house, whero there is a district school for nine months, where preaching is to be heard on Sundays, and dancing music frequently on Saturday nights, and where the resident members or co-operators hold their meet- ings. In its last Sunday issue The Bee printed the opening portion of the paper on Problems of the Jewish Sabbath Schools,” | read by Rabbi Abram Simon at St. Lous The concluding portion of the paper fol- lows (b) The real, serious business of Sab- bath school instructions begins with the for those who wish to reeido | second class of children ranging in years in a colony. All the work done by the res- | from 8 to 13. The child has by this time ident members 1s for the benefit of the | grown from his instructive lite into that of whole brotherhood, to whom as a whole be- | the sensort-motor phase; reflex action is| longs all lands, houses and machinery, and | slowly developing into reflective. The | all of which at the end of ten years are | child lives a life of the senses, reveling entitled to residence in some colony be- | in feats of strength, trials of skill and dis- lonking to the corporation, provided housce | play of force. Heroes and demigods, with are ready and employment ran be secured. | their thrilling and dramatic experiences, fill in his world of ideals. Israel's epoch from the patriarchs through Moses, Joshua, the Judges and the first three Kings corr sponds to this stage in child-life. The teacher's art is here put to the test. It is not a matter of text book, but of talent. He must know the art of story-telling; not with the avowed object of adorning it with | a moral, often forced and far-fetched, but | for the worth of the tale itselt. It well told, the child graspe the moral at a bound and the losson becomes the deeper im- printed on his mind. The child should ex- tract the moral, not merely repeat what the teacher said. The child's semse of per- | sonality, growing more Intelligent and purer with maturing years, plays and | twines itself about these heroes and at- taches Itselt to them in accordance with the special qualities they display to the child-interest. Religion can best be taught | by means of these biblical characters. But | the essential idea must be pre: d home that thede heroes act thus through God and | perform their mighty acts of valor and of | glory with God's help. Physical prowess | will form a leading attribute of God at this period. Soon a quality of marked value comes to the front and, uniting with strength, forms a new ideal of God. I refer to justice. Fair play is the insistence of every child. His heart {s with the weaker party, especially when in the right. He applauds the divine aim of David's sling and glories In the trealment that the Egyptian bully recelyed at the hands of Moses. He cannot appreciate the seeming injustice that the Promised Land should be withleld from the great law-giver. He acts on the principle of eye for eye and lives in the Law rather than in the Prophets. The Ten Commandments, the “shalts” and “shalt nots” and mighty words against theft, murder, impurity, the irreverent use of God's sacred name, whose reckless utterance becomes a sacrilege and whose holiness shall inhabit the heart rather than be bandied on the lips, are the ripe fruits of this stage. His ethical stand- ard takes on this new emphasis. Note his self-assertion and violent individualism! Do they mot correspond to Israel's past when “each man did what was right in his own eyes? It marks the inward combat between self and not-self—between the carnal and the divine word. Toward the thirteenth year the passions and proctivi- ties become organized and a more orderly regime of life prevails, more nearly analogous to the reign of the Kings when political lite was centralized. Sentiment of Patriotism. Note also that it reminds one of Israel's age of growing nationality. Patriotism is the new sentiment and pride deepens con- sclousness of the people, Here let patriot- ism beget its religious saturation as loy- alty to God and to Israel's cause. The teacher must bring home to the child how God’s hand led His people to Canaan and how He stirred leaders to fight their bat- tles and how they prospered as they obeyed His laws and suffered as they broke the covenant. It is the idea of God in history, in our history, that is the most helpful les- son for a child at this age to get. In this manner, the bible, taken from race-his- tory and developed in keeping with the unfolding child—consciousness can be made to teach a gradual and slowly advancing ony, taking part | colony. The nooresident members furnish the working capital to enable the settlements to develop their resources, and the resi- dent members furnish the labor for such development and for their own support while making ready homes and preparing employment - Remnant Sale Our great Trustee Sale has accumu- lated an endless lot of remnants that are gathered on our bargain center, at about half pric Printed Drapery Elegant designs, worth 25c—Monday 9¢ Selecting Membe: No fixed rules deciding fitness for mem- bership have yet been adopted, each case | standing on its own merits, and the board of directors, from the best information ob- talnable, deciding whether the applicant will be desirable. At the present time large families are not wanted, nor any over 60, unless exceptionally strcng and vigor- ous; this because Burley, the only colony is etil]l in the ploneer stage. Each appli- cant for membership is expected on honor to give as full a description of eelf and tamily as ia,possible The resident members or co-operators decide in mass meeting as to the number of hours which shall constitute a day's work At present ten hours is the number, but no one except those employed in the mill is obliged to work full time. Each co-uj erator reports to his or her foreman the number of hours worked and obtains pay for each hour. Women receive the same pay per hour as men. Most of the women, however, find full employment in carlng for their households; all having familles pre- terring to live in cottages rather than at the hotel. The women who remain at home are not paid for housekeeping, though in the ideal commonweaith this will bs the rule. 3 Bach co-operator is placed by the super- fgtendent in some one of the departments —milling, "logging, printing, agriculture, office, cigarmaking or domestic economy— and does the best he or she can In the place assigned. There are misfits which delay the work, but as rapidly as possible each finds the proper place where the work is congenial. Neither anarchy nor free love find any sympathy at Bufley; nor s there any reli- glous bond. Some of the residents are church members, others belong to no church; some are spiritualists and others materialists; some are orthodox, others heterodox or Interested in some form of new thought. Religious services are held every Sunday night in the schoolhouse, at which the attendance s emall; the resident ministers (Unitarian) taking turns and sometimes being helped by strangers of other denominations. A few have come to Burley because they pected to find life easfer than on the out- alde, others because they belleved in the plan adopted by the Co-operative Brother- hood, and the longer they remain the better they are pleased. Members in Good Standing. At the present time there are some 300 members in good standing, of whom about thirty reside at Burley, some with and some without their families. These resi- dent members or co-operators, as they are called, are working to improve the land, build a town and accumulate wealth. What they produce each month, after making ad- ditions to the permanent improvements, is divided pro rata among the workers ac- cording to the number of hours wotked, and provides a lodgfng, plain food and the necessary clothing for comfort. As more land is brought under cultivation and mory fruit comes into bearing, and as the indus- tries are further developed, the dividends will be larger, and not only necessities but luxuries will be provided. As with all pioneers In western Washington, where a home has to be hewn out of the forest, con- at feceres mecaseanes . Women's Waists Nearly 50 dozen, worth $1.25 each, at, y 89¢ Boys Waists in percale, outing flan- nel and flannel cloth, prices 25¢ and 35¢ —Monday at .... ..19¢ Women’s Cloaks Velours velvet, a perfect dream of style, $47.50—Monday at .....23.75 Capes Black boucle cloth cape, Persian lamb collars and front, handsome fine lining, $37.50, Monday at.......18,75 Saltz Plush Capes, brown marten fur trimming, $10.75, Monday at ....5.38 Alaska Beaver Capes 30 inches long, 100-inch sweep, $110 —Monday at .. .. ..55.00 MINK CAPES—Tail trimming, silk brocade lining, $219—Monday.109,50 The Colony Farm. West and northwest of these buildings Ne the cclony lands, of which there are 204 acres of rich land, known to settlers in Washington as beaver bottom. Of this land some seventy acres have been logged, fifteen acres cleared and planted, forty acres under fence and partially eleared. This land rises in bunches from the creek and on the part immediately west of the present village is to be built the perma- nent town, which will have the advantage of good drainage and shelter from the routhwest winds, which during the rainy eason are far from pleasant. On the side- hill facing east will be the orchard and beds for small fruits, all of which can be frrigated from abundant springs, which lat- ter will also give a plentiful supply for the town. Last spring on a third of an acre poorly cultivated, from lack of the meeded belp, a ton and a half of strawberries were picked. So plentiful and fine are the wild berries, including raspberry, red and black, huckleberry, blackberry, ~salmon berry, salol berry and mountain raspberry, that the Indians called the nelghborhood Olalla or berry. The lands of the brother- hood stretch from the mouth of Burley creek on both sides of the beautiful stream for a mile and & quarter, furnish- Ing a good water power and an abundance of alder lumber—the alder growing here to be trees from thirty to forty feet high— with a considerable quantity of cedar and small fir. Nearly one thousand dollars worth. We were forced Room Moulding Gilts and Tapestries—the en- 3 tire lot must go, per foot ....... C Wall Paper Cleaner The only reliable cleaner on the mar- ket—a 25¢ can—we sold tons at that price—for lsc NOTE—No paper trimmed during this sale. Purpose of the Brotherhood. The Co-operative Brotherhood was or- ganized In 1898 as an outgrowth of the Social Democracy (founded by Eugene V. Debs) and in the month of September of the same year the clearing at the wouth of Burley creek was begun in the midst of a thick undergrowth, The Co-operative Brotherhood was fn- corporated urder the laws of the state of Washington. Members were solicited and jolned from all parts of the United States. Of these members there were two classss, vonresident and resident. The nouresident members pay dues for 120 months or the eum of $120 in a shorter time if desired. After the payment of five years' dues (360 at present, though liable to an incresse In the near future), the Co-operative Broth- erhood agrees to furnish a home and em- ployment for any nonresident member whe 'REAL ENJOYMENT. The woman who reads this will under- n.;:d c:h:he fall wh:( Mrs. Tipton meant when says: “I am enjoying good health.” 1t takes > - who has been made wretched by sick- Bess to unde; stand the joy health. There are very many women who gfler as did Mrs, pton, who might be cured nn"dw 'was by the use of Dr. Pierce's Fa- vorite Prescri tion. It esta lishes ity, dries the drains which weaken women, heals in- flammation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. It makes weak women strong, sick women well. edicion.® whites Mye: Nora Tiptos. of Sopper = e {Cropper Station). Sheiby Co. Beubicky. Thou yemember my case was oue of female weakness and weak luags. 1 bad no appetite and would often spit blood ; was confined to my bed almost haif of the time and could bardly stand on my £t at times for the peins through my whole Lody and system. My hushand had to pay large doctor bills for me. but since 1 have taken four botties of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov- ery, four of ‘Favorite Prescription’ and three vials of * Pleasant Pellets’ we paid amy more doctor bills. It had been seven mouths since 1 stopped using Dr. Plerce’s medicines and Ihave been enjoying good health all the time can uever praise ‘medicines too highly 1 have received so much benefit 1 pray thai who suffer as 1 did will D Perce mes. 1 am dure U wure when given o fair trial me 1 look better than they wure 1 feel better than I ever did before.” *Favorite Prescrirtion” has the testi- mony of thousands of women to its com- plete cure of womanly diseases. Do not arcept an unknown and unproved sub- “ditute in its place. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a Tadies’ laxative. ici same number of worker: could have done, ,'each for himself, in the big woods to abandon their claims, borheod of Burley give evidence. furnished at 10 cents. trustees, ber in good standing can vote for the trus- tecs, who by the deed of trust are forbid- den to mortgage or dispose of any of the property except with the consent of two- thirds of the entire membership, which plan it is hoped will protect this woclety from | the fate which has befallen so many other colonies. The affairs of the brotherhood are man- aged by a board of twelve directors, a part of whom are nominated by the residents at Burley, and all of whom are elected by the board of trustees at its andual meeting in January. This board of directors meets monthly at Burley to transact the business | ditions are hard. But in.four years much bas been accomplished, far more than the and then the workers have been relieved from that terrible lone- Iiness which has caused so many ploneers of which the deserted cabins in the nelgh- By co- operation the price of living has been re- duced to a minimum and good meals are The Co-operativé Brotherhood in its first colony at Burley has organized a people’s trust, and to prevent future trouble all the property is placed in the hands of twelve three of whom are elected an- nually to serve for four years; every mem- home as a sentimental tion and religious value of the study of the Hebrew language lies in linking it with God and His providence over Israel. violence is done to a child's mind in hav- ing tongue that the sublime Revelation found volce in its sacred accents. of the my hearty approval in Sabbath school cur- riculum. that may come before it. Its secretary and treasurer are under bonds and all expendi- | committee of three before authorized, while the books are open at all times for inspec- tion by & board of managers, comsisting of the | logging, printing, agriculture and office— | and the superintendent of industries. The | workers in each department present sev eral names for foreman, from which list the superintendent chocses one. The rési dent members select the superintendent This frst colony of the Co-operative existence with better prospects than ever | of carrying out the design of its founders, | which was to build a town whose inhab- | itants should own the land, the means of | production and the products of their indus- | try, thus frecing the inhabitants ct Burloy from the worry of rent, interest and lack of employment. While mot claiming to have solved the social proflem, so com- plex and so confusing, we do think we have found a way by which industrious, honest and energetic men and women may | secure homes, employment and & good re- | turn for their lebor. “How far are we from Chicagn?’ asked the passenger with the skull cap, wiping the molsture from the windows of the sleeping car and glancing out. The passenger with the cropped beard raised his head and soiffed the air “About forty miles, I judge,” be said.— Chicage Tridbuue, posed of children from 13 to 16 years of age. tures are carefully scrutinized by a finance | goun s "oy et L T ers Int puberty. Heightened The local affairs at Burley are controlled | 4o oo emotion heads of the various dejartments—miUDE. | 4,00t into channels of healthy thought and | evaporation of all sentiment or an over- who 18 confirmed by the board of directors. | i h o cpon e ¥ ¢ itg |DAQ thelr ceremonies of initiation Brotherhood starts on the Af(R year of S |y p . Burham has shown how they cele- belfef in God and at the same time create holy yet human types for imitatien and stir a fount of valuable sentiment. To be sure, the Mosaic laws of justice, slavery, charity and the holidays should form a part of the curriculum in & study of the fore- golng. All facts considered, I should claim this school period as the best for teathing Hebrew. The memory-sense funotions at its highest, storing away facts becomes an easy matter and the grasp of languages is especially firm and quick. Language goes band in hand with nationality and the de- velopment of the Hebrew language is synchronous with the Exodus and its sub- sequent history. Here lot me insist that Hebrew be not taught as a mental arill; rether would I urge that it be pressed thrill. The educa- No it feel that God spoke in this holy through inspired messengers and It is for the deepening Jewish consclousness that it wias Age of Development. (¢) We advance to the next grade com- Both physically and psychically pro- The soul is a ferment of con- emotions, impulses and dreams. | vitality is especially in evi The youth is a veritanle Niagara of which to (wisely) economisze and flicting resolution becomes the supreme task. Un- less this is dome, there develops either an saturation of sickly emotionalism. Every nation has recognized the serious- ness of the new psychological and physi- indeed all primitive races wil- | brated the advent of adolescence with joy- ous feast and mystic rite. The Roman cus- tom 1s evidenced by the feast of Liberatia when the youth of 15 wi invested with the toga virilis. ] We can readily understand why religious education has seized upon this period for its greatest work. The confirmation age is religlon's gojden opportunity. The Jew has not been slow in appreciating this spiritual crux. The Bar Mitzvah as an in stitution may only be & few centuries old, but its spirit antedates the Jew. Confirma- tion is only & more recent appreciation of this truth, puberty in our civilization be- ing & later ripening. Being at once an in- itiation and a consecration, its rites should be given only to those who are mature enough. 1 consider our confirmation the most successful and effective religious ex- ercise which the modern Jew possesses. The abuses that formerly characterized it are fast passing away. Its success is de- pendeat on the seizing of the goldes bour |1t shan when the soul-activities are on the “qui | vive,” 80 to speak, when like so much inflammable material waiting for the happy | spark to set it all aglow with Teligious | fervor and enthusiastic loyalty. The | months of active waiting flled with dreams | and high hopes of prospecilve youth, the public exercises, the confessions and re- liance upon God, the blessing of the class in their hour of soul-exaltation unite to stir the being as it has never been energized before. It is the age of vision. | ‘Without vision a people remains unruly.” Study for This Perlod. In maping out & course of Instruction for | the confirmation pupils, we must again follow the plans as before sketched. This | age of youthtul visions is highly suggestive of the Israel's golden age of prophets and | psalmists. Prophecy was a child of strug- gle and was called into being as a social factor to revolutionize morals and re- ligion. Though born in pessimism, it has the most hopeful message ever given the world. It is the second sublime Revelation —the Revelation of Consclence. Prophecy and psalmody embody our richest treasures. The Jewish confirmanent must feel this to the core. These mighty genluses of the soul preach for the first time a message of individualism. They are the first to launch the personal appeal. Righteous- ness is a demand on each life. Religlon must be a personal matter. The question of uppermost moment s, “What does God k for you?" Jeremiah and Ezekiel break with the past community respeet- ability, by insisting. “The soul that sinneth, dle.” Here we have personal a social force at its best. We come upon & grander attitude toward life. The proper sphere of ceremony, the superlority of the spirit over the letter, the glory of sacrifice, the jmmanence of God! Masculine justice finds a worthy helpmate in feminine love. The confirma- tion ideal becomes “God in personal life.” God must be = living, loving Delity. The association of the age of adolesence with & full appreciation of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man is therefore every apropos. The bible should now be reviewed from this point of perspective. It s & study of God in nature. God in history, God in consclence and in personal life For the More Advanced. religion (d) On the basis of & post confirmation class being organized from youths of 16 10 20 years of age. past biblical history was omitted In the foregoing outline. 1 consider post-biblical and middle age Judaism to be possible of clear comprehen- sion only by older puplls, such as we in- clude under the term “Adolescent: The scholar having been confirmed in the Law and the Prophets should advance to Israel's Prayerbook. The child has passed from its sensart-molor to & highly reflec- tive period. The intellect is dominant and dominecring. Where in the previous years there seems an individualism run mad, it belongs more properly to the emotional line. Here, on the coutrary, it is an individual- ism o which the intellect is leader. One can readily notice the bravado and impetu- osity of youth trylng to leap the social and religlous traces with a self-assertion and a rabid independence to be a law unto itself. The youth chates under the re- straints of soclety, authority and religion The talmud ig the age of the rabbis and of the intellectual mscension followed in the- course of centuries by the flowering of Jewish Intellect in the philosophers of the middle ages. Running parallel with this stream Is that of the prayerbook. The bible bullds about the temple; the tal- mud centers In the academy; book revelves around the synagogue. Here we find religion a steadily progressive fac- tor. It has proven itself able to survive & national sanctuary and a special land. It has demonstrated its power of independ- ence of national and political ambitions. This is Judaism. ‘With the loss of the sacrificial temple, is developed the vicari- ousness of charity and the beauty of prayer. The synagogue becomes the rallying ground. 1 suggest, therefore, that the post-confirmation curriculum include four courses of study. (A) The talmud, a familiarity with the lives and works of the great rabbls and thelr place in the development of Judalsm; the study of the social life of our people during the period covered by the second century, B. C., to the fifth century, A. D. a study of the politic, religious struggles of that eventful epoch between the Phari- sees and Sadducees, Essenes and Hellenes and the rise of christianity (B) A familiar acquaintance with the prayerbook. Paraphrasing a well kwown proverb, 1 should say, “Let me make & Da- tion's prayers and I care not who makes Its laws.” The prayerbook represents the re- ligious history of the Jew for many centur- fes. He was at his best in his prayers. Yea, the Jew was born with a prayer upon his lips. He took God into his confidence. nor ever thought of asking whether that con- fidence was misplaced. He was spiritually intimate with God and thus his every prayer is a soul-revelation. Thus, to apply the race history idea the post-confirmation should be marked by the entrance of youths in the synagogue-lifc and by a careful un- derstanding of the duty, beauty and efficacy of weekly and dally worship. Lectures on “Gems of the Hebrew Prayer Book” would be a very helpful education. ¢ (C) A third interesting course of lectures | might be devoted to & historical treatment of “Places of Worship." The advance of the religious spirit from the simple stone to the altar, from the temple to the syna- gogue, should be studied in connection with similar movements among contemporane- ous religions. (D) In addition to what has already been said, the history of the Jew unte the pres ent hour should be systematically taught from the modern standpoint. What the Teacher May Expect. Just a final word as to the Problem of the Teacher. Our mistake has been & fall- ure to estimate the Sabbath school Leacher the prayer | | of education! as of equal worth with the public school teacher. We have not dignified him enough. We have not yet raised him to the ranks of the professionals. Sabbath school teach- ing is an art, why not also a sclence? A Sabbath school teacher should be trained for his task. We are not clamor- ing for text books. A good text book s a poor teacher’s fetich; the worst book can be safely cntrusted to a good teacher. But how secure these teachers? How raise the standard and the ecalling of the Jewish Sabbath school teachér; how give him the necessary training—how? By placing In back of him an institution like the board We Jews have successtully systematized and united our charities. Conditions seem favorable for a similar coalescence of our higher educations or- ganization. Has the time mot come for pooling our Sabbath school interests and problems? Why may not a religlous board of education, composed of a dozen of the most enthusiastic members of the various Sabbath school boards in & city, to whom 1s intrusted an endowment fund for the train- ing of special teachers; In whom is vested the task of choosing the teachers, making attendance compulsory, arranging uniform courses of study, be after all not such & foolish vision? Why may not a chalr of re- lgious pedagogy be established at the He- brew Union coliege and New York Theolog- ical seminary? The day of specialists Is at hand. Cannot this union send forth its strong insistence that the Sabbath school teacher is and must also and always be & specialist? I feel only too keenly the inordinate length of this paper and my confession i candidly made that I am only feeling my way, walking at times stumbling here and there upon places that emit a bright glimpse of light. I have tried to follow the few streaks and I trust 1 have not gone far out of the way. And'if they have afforded you even the faintest ray of light and guidance, I shall feel highly gratified and amply rewarded. Amother! Miss Jellus—“Your bedroom must be a very healthy place, dear. Miss Prettyface—What makes you think so? Miss Jellus—Because I have noticed that when you are downstairs sometimes’ you are dreadfully pale; but if you go up to your bedroom for a short time you come down with a beautiful color.—Judge. The Next Yacht Races. It is pleasing to learn that there will be another attempt made by the English people to recapture the cup this summer. A new challenger is being bullt on secret line which is claimed will develop remarkable speed. The most remarkable family medi- cine today is the old reliable Hostetter's Stomach Bitters becagise it cures when other remedies have failed: If you are a sufferer from insomnia, mervousness, chills, indi- gestion, dyspepsia or liver troubles, be sure to try & bottle. It will cure you. in the dark, yet | PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Teacher—Can any little girl tell me who was Columbus? Sadie (rantically suapping her fingers)— 1 know. Teacher—Well, Sadie? Sadie—Columbus, the gem of the ocean. “Do you know," sald the Sunday school teacher, addressing & new pupil in the in- fant class, “that you have a soul?” ““Course 1 do,” replied the little fellow,\ placing his hand over his heart. “I can teel it tick Johnny—Aunt Martha won't play puss in the corner with me. i Mother—But perhaps Aunt Martha doesn't know how to play it, Johnny. Johnny—Oh, but she must know how; I heard papa say she was an old cat. Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington in an address st the opening of St. George's home for deaconesses in New York City told about a Grace church Sunday school teacher who conducted her class in a friendly, informal day. One day when she sald, “Let us new little girl piped up cheerfully, Let's!” She was willing to try the game, anyhow A little girl, a newcomer fn the class, listened with more than ordinary interest, and after the teacher had. finished a talk on Samson the child lifted her hand for permission to speak “Well, Ethel,” asked the teacher, “what is 1t “Samson wasn't as strong as my papa - “Is your father so surprisingly strong?" queried the teacher, emiling. “Oh, my papa's orful replied Ethel, with emphasie I heard mamma eay that he had a ellyfant on his bands. Margery’s cousin, Cecilia, was 15 and pretty, relates the New York Times. Sho was also devoted to music &nd spent hours practicing on & large pipe organ. This, to- gether with the fact that she invariably wore a wrapt expression when 8o engaged, earned for her the nickoame of “Saint Cecilia.” It happened that Margery's mamma wes called to town and left her b-year-old daughter in charge of an obliging neighbor, This woman undertook o amuse her young guest by showing her a collection of prints, among which was & copy of the famillar presentation of the patron saint of music seated at the organ. sald the obliging hose Is a pleture of 3aint Cecilia “It doesn't look a bit like her,” spoke up the tiny visitor. “Why, how do you know? astonished owner of the print “How do I know?" returned the equally astonished Margery. ““Why, ‘S8aint Cecllia® is my own first cousin. She teached me | my prayers an’ bow to play jackstones.” Inquired the