I REMEMBER that once a man came to our house red with wrath. He was boiling over with rage. He had or supposed he had a grievance to complain of. My father listened to him with great attention and perfect quietness until he had got it all out, and then he said to him, in a soft, low tone, “Well, I suppose you only want what is just and right?”
The man said, “Yes,” but went on to state the case over again.
Very gently father said to him, “If you have been misinformed, I presume you would be perfectly willing to know what the truth is?” He said he would. Then father very quietly and gently made a statement of the other side; and when he was through the man got up, and said, “Forgive me, doctor! forgive me!”
Father had beaten him by his quiet, gentle way. I saw it, and it gave me an insight into the power of self-control. It was a striking illustration of the passage, “He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.”—Henry Ward Beecher.
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Wasted Energy
MENTAL energy is the most precious thing we know anything about. We talk about wonders accomplished by utilizing steam and electricity, and dream of the greater things to be accomplished later, when the tremendous energy wrapped in the high explosives shall have been brought under human control; but after all, the power of the mind which has mastered and harnessed these material forces is greater than all of them together.
It is pathetic that energy capable of accomplishing so much is so frequently wasted. In hurry, in worry, in fretting and apprehension, some of us are using up enough energy to run a big business, or write a magnificent poem, or relieve any amount of suffering. Conserve your energy. Don't exhaust it in imagining troubles that do not exist, or in worrying over those which are real. Don't use in a fit of temper enough energy to make your day's work grandly successful.—Anon.
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Not how long you live, but how well, is the question.—Seneca.
Burma—Some Interesting Customs
By H. H. Votaw
BURMA has been known to many as "Farther India." It is a province in India of the great British Empire. But to think of it thus is almost sure to lead one to fail to realize its size and importance. I well remember that my first geography gave to the New England States a whole page of map space, to a group of five of the large States of the West a like amount of space, and to the great continent of Asia — the largest of the continents — the same sized page. It is true that the lettering in the corner of the page showed that a different scale was used; but what did this mean to me? I grew up with the mental picture of those maps in my mind, and to the present day I must think twice before realizing that the small territory of New England is not as great as Asia.
India as a whole is some two thousand miles in greatest length, and from fifteen hundred to eighteen hundred miles in width; yet again and again have I been asked whether I knew such and such an individual in India. And some who knew that Burma is separated from the main peninsula of India, seemed much surprised that there could be any one here that I do not know. Burma is as large as France. It is more than a thousand miles in length from north to south.
The climate is tropical. In Rangun, on the coldest night that we have ever experienced, the thermometer registered almost thirty degrees above the freezing-point. Farther up country it gets a little colder; but there is no place on the plains that it ever frosts, I believe. We do not have the great heat that is experienced in some parts of the great plain in India, but for months at a time it is so hot that one is in a bath of perspiration night and day. This is exceedingly trying to the nervous system. It takes more grace to be sweet-tempered than it does in a temperate clime.
Being especially well watered, the rainfall varying from about thirty-five inches, normally, in what is known as the "dry zone," to three hundred inches per annum in the wettest parts, there has never been a famine. Rice is the principal crop. Other things can be raised; but the natives are content with this grain, for rice with fish or vegetable curry forms the bulk of the food eaten. Teak wood, especially valuable because it will not rot in water and is almost proof against the ravages of white ants, is found in abundance. The forests of Burma are second to none, unless it be those of Java; and with the wise system of conservation now prevailing, the supply will probably never be exhausted.
Minerals of many kinds are to be found. Burma produces the finest examples of the pigeon-blood ruby. Gold dredging, silver mining, and petroleum producing are carried on all the time.
Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangun, the greatest Buddhist temple in Burma
Of late, wolfram has engaged the attention of many prospectors, for at the present market rates it brings large returns. Beautiful marble is quarried, the best in the empire. Jade is shipped to China, where it is especially prized.
Wild animals are numerous. It is but a few years since a large tiger was killed upon the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, right in Rangun. Now it is possible to find large game within thirty miles of this city. Elephants, water-buffaloes, wild cattle of huge size, tigers, panthers, etc., furnish sport for those who enjoy hunting. Reptiles are numerous. In our kitchen we have killed a Russell's viper, one of the most deadly of snakes; and in our yard a huge cobra, also very poisonous. Last month, while doing some leveling of the ground in front of our house, we killed nineteen scorpions within a half hour, and a little later killed four or five more. Yet we have never been stung by a scorpion, tho we have killed a number in the house at different times.
Compared with her neighbors to the east and the west, this land is sparsely settled. The average here is forty-four persons to the square mile. In Bengal there are nearly ten times as many, and in large sections of China the same congested condition prevails. Because of this, thousands of Aryans from the western neighbor, and thousands of Celestials from the eastern one, are domiciled here. These aliens exhibit such thrift that it has been necessary to pass some restrictive legislation, lest all the soil should pass out of the hands of the care-free Burmese. By the term with which they address him the Burmese recognize the Chinaman as a relative. The union of the two nations by intermarriage seems to result well. Not so much can be said in favor of the union of the Indian and the Burman.
The people of this land are the best liked of all Orientals, by travelers. They are a happy race. Nature has been kind to them. Worry concerning the morrow or a mad rush for wealth is unknown. They obey most literally the injunction to "take no thought for the morrow." Hospitality abounds. In every home enough is prepared for the stranger, and no rule of caste forbids them to let one use their dishes. We who live here know some of the things that they prepare for food, and consequently use a degree of caution. A friend of mine was offered a dog curry. Another was told that the snake curry was especially fine. Both declined the delicacies! Other meats may be preferred; but if not available, these are used. For myself I think I would prefer either of them to one of the most common articles of food. Ngappe is used by all. I almost fear to describe what I have seen and know about it, lest some might think I am exaggerating. It is, or rather was, fish. It is allowed to decompose until it is filled with maggots. I have seen a car loaded with the stuff having these larvae so numerous that the mass seemed to move. The juice was dripping from the car, and some people from the village near were catching it in sundry vessels, presumably for flavoring purposes. The stench was terrible.
Awful as this seems to you, it is a common thing for European residents to eat a preparation of this ngappe. Vinegar and cayenne pepper are added till the original taste is covered, and the whole is declared to be15delicious. Yet I have observed that those who eat such things, care but little for fruits and grains, declaring that they have no taste. Many would never think of eating any citrus-fruit at night, for fear of contracting a cold, and yet eat heartily of the thing I have described. At one time a worker was ill, and friends advised that we give no fruit, but a little "light food," such as rice and curry.
The Burman is not wanting in humor; and when we have remonstrated with him for eating ngappe, he has replied, "Europeans eat rotten milk (cheese), and we eat rotten fish; there is no difference." We thank the Lord for the principles of health reform which teach us to care for the body as well as the soul.
As the reader has likely guessed from the haughty titles of the Burmese kings, the race is a proud one. The coins of the realm bear a peacock with tail-feathers spread as the emblem of the kingdom. And the symbol is wonderfully suggestive. No matter how poor the home may be, it has some jewels kept for festive days. Sometimes we are filled with astonishment as we see some woman bedecked with diamonds come from a hovel. If but few jewels are owned, some are borrowed on special occasions.
Silk is the material used by both men and women for their lower, skirt-like garments. A cotton jacket reaches to the waist. The men wear turbans of silk, and the women wear scarfs of the same. They are adepts in blending colors. The most delicate shades are worn, and one of the most picturesque sights that can be imagined is a group of worshipers at some great shrine. It almost reminds one of a flower garden in bloom.
The Burman has excelled in the past in wood, ivory, and silver carving. His silk is surpassed by none in wearing qualities. But he is lazy. The people themselves admit this. The women are enterprising traders, and some observers have declared that they are the mainstay of the nation.
H. H. VOTAW.
Life in Giving
By Thomas Gibbons
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
But he who marks, from day to day,
In generous acts, his radiant way,
Treads the same path his Saviour trod —
The path to glory and to God.
— Thomas Gibbons.
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Bribery in the United States Senate
The June issue of the "Cosmopolitan" declares that the re-election of Isaac Stevenson, of Wisconsin, to the United States Senate, cost him $11,385.49, and declares that another investigation will have to be undertaken in his case. It was thought that expense like that would indicate that money was used dishonestly to purchase the seat. This is another item to show how the tendency of the world is downward. It is quite a serious question whether, if there were no laws against bribery, bribery would not be far more widespread than now.
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Our Question Corner
3500 — The Word "Nephesh;" 3501 — Elijah the Prophet. Mal. 4:4-6; 3502 — Circumcision; 3503 — Voting in Civil Elections; 3504 — Matt. 7:22, 23; 3505 — The Occurrence of "Ruach;" 3506 — Evil in the City. Amos 3:6
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The Gospel in Type and Antitype
He Is Worthy of Our Confidence
"By Grace Are Ye Saved Through Faith"
The Babylonian System (Studies in the Revelation)
The Day of Pentecost
Offered Through the Eternal Spirit
Editorial
True Temperance
Away from the Word
The Incubus of Intemperance
What Is the Reason?
Our Bible Reading
Man as a Sinner
The Outlook
Our European Letter
Notes
The Home
Letters to a Young Man
Entertaining Temptation
Self-Control
Wasted Energy
Missions
Burma — Some Interesting Customs
Poetry
True to God and Man
The Quiet Living for God
The Bright Side
Life in Giving
King George V
By Editor
If King George V reigns as well as did his father, and his grandmother, good Queen Victoria — and there seems to be every promise that he will — all, we are sure, can join with the English in singing and praying, "God save the King."
Where Do We Get Our Meat?
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The article on "Where Do We Get Our Meat?" by the editor of Life and Health, in that journal for July, is not pleasant reading, but it is timely and needful. There are other good things. The cover page is delightful and inviting. Price 10 cents. Address, Takoma Park, Washington.
National Educational Association Meeting
The National Educational Association, which meets in San Francisco July 8 to 14, will be the greatest meeting of that body that ever gathered. It is expected that there will be 50,000 teachers present, and San Francisco is doing its very best to make them welcome. Many thousand dollars has been expended for this purpose. The members of the association will be entertained by the teachers and citizens of California at the Palace Hotel during convention week.
Love for Christ’s Coming
If we love Jesus Christ now, we will love His coming. Think of a child saying, "I love my father," who might be absent, and yet never anxious to have that father return, never inquiring as to when he was coming, and, in fact, becoming offended or afraid if his coming is said to be imminent! Would we not say that such love consisted only in words? that there was no heart in it? And yet this is about the way that many professed children of Christ talk. "O, yes, I love Him," we hear on every hand; but if you love Him, you will desire to see Him. Love longs for the personal presence of the one loved. The two can not be separated. If we truly love Jesus Christ we can truly pray, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus," in response to His "Surely, I come quickly."
The Bible: Meat and Drink for the Spirit
Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of Johns Hopkins University, has this good thing to say, which we wish every business man could read, of the Bible: "I wish my voice could reach every doctor in the land when I urge them to take the Bible and study it. Do not be afraid of the higher criticism. I used to have theories in regard to the Bible, but I have none now. I simply know, as I know that food nourishes my body, that the Bible is meat and drink for the spirit. . . . After an active experience and practise of thirty years, I unhesitatingly declare to you that the example and religion of Jesus Christ is the one thing that ennobles and purifies, that gives a man a broad outlook and a broad love for his fellow men."
The Evil of Cigaret Smoking
The cigaret is an evil thing, always evil. Not one good thing can be said of it, unless it is desired to make men ineffective mentally, and shorten their lives physically. A Chicago banker recently said that smoking was not simply discouraged in his bank, but forbidden; and the Santa Fe Railway Company, since January 1, hold for instant dismissal those in all departments who are addicted to cigaret smoking. An increasing number of firms are adopting the same rule. In the schools the truant boys are almost invariably found among the cigaret smokers. The picture cards which are given by the manufacturers of cigarets sometimes are the very means by which boys are induced to smoke. In a careful study made of 500 boys in a number of private schools, a boy expert concluded that the use of cigarets among boys stunted the boys either physically or mentally, and usually both. The scholarship showing for the smokers ranged from ten per cent to seventeen per cent lower than the non-smokers. These are facts which ought to be kept before the boys.
The Great Bible Parade
Ten thousand men marched in the great Bible parade in San Francisco. They marched to the sound of bands of music, bearing transparencies and silken banners with texts of Scripture, singing sacred songs. It was a splendid sight. The Bible is worthy of all the honor they gave it; but all this will mean nothing — and it is a thought that is worthy of all emphasis — all this will mean nothing unless that Word is in the heart. Said the writer of the 119th Psalm, "Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee."
On Stockton Street, near Market, three great drays, loaded with Bibles, were stationed. These Bibles were the gift of the "Gideons," a traveling men's Christian organization. After using them in the parade, they were placed in the bedrooms of California hotels, for the use of the traveling public. May many souls find comfort and hope through this magnificent gift of this organization.
Ductile Tungsten
One of the great achievements in connection with electricity during the last year was the production of ductile tungsten. That rare metal has been known for a hundred years, and all attempts to produce it in ductile form have been defeated. American scientists have at last been able to draw it into a wire the tensile strength of which is superior to piano steel. This will be of great advantage in the manufacture of tungsten lamps. These new lamps are very strong.
Hunting Contraband Opium
Hunting contraband opium is a game of hide-and-seek with the United States customs officers and the smugglers. One of the last great finds was in the deep, dark forepeak of the Japanese liner America Maru, floating in tanks of water and accessible only through a small hole. Sealed tin cans to the amount of $27,000 were seized, aggregating $85,000 in the last six months.
Lawlessness in New York City
The "New York Times" of June 20 and June 21 draws some pretty hard pictures of New York City. It is a revelation of how lawlessness is increasing in our large cities. For instance, it tells of a gang of nine rowdies who assaulted a car-conductor, and when a policeman came to his rescue, beat the policeman. Finally six policemen came, and the gang fought the entire six; but were finally forced to succumb. It is a manifestation of out and out lawlessness. In fact, it would seem that some districts in New York City were controlled by thugs and outlaws — what the Times calls "open warfare against the police." "Rarely, if ever, in the past," says that paper, "have even the worst of them ventured upon as much as defensive warfare upon the police in a body; and that this week two of the gangs, on a single evening, should have gone so far as to have taken the offensive against the hastily summoned reserves, is something new, sinister, and if not exactly alarming, at least enough to give the municipal authorities a subject for very serious consideration." In one case the gang used a motor-car, put eight of their best fighters in that car, and attempted to rescue a prisoner from the police, which they would have done if the police squad had not been reinforced.
The California Climate
Vice-President McCormack, of the Southern Pacific Railway Company, referring to California climate, says, "Ten or twenty acres of California soil will produce as much as can be gotten from 160 acres in eastern sections." He says again: "The soil is better here, and the climatic conditions are such as to give the Californian fifty-five per cent additional energy. In the East forty-five per cent of one's energy is used up in fighting the elements, both in summer and winter." There is a great deal of truth in what Mr. McCormack says. One of the great blessings in California — especially in the coast sections — is the cool night air. Frequently one in the interior of the country swelters all night long in the humid, intolerable heat. But it is frequently the case in the California climate that one needs as much covering in the summer-time as in the winter. He finds the nights good nights in which to sleep, and thus restores wasted energy.
Remember the Maine
By Editor
"Remember the Maine"— Gen. W. H. Bixby, chief of engineers in charge of the work of raising the Maine, declares that no one will ever know what caused the destruction to the vessel, because that destruction was so complete that it is impossible to ascertain it. This, however, is shown: The greatest force was from the inside. It is intimated that it is possible that the explosion from the inside was a sympathetic explosion caused by a torpedo from the outside. Some may find a little satisfaction in the doubt.
