STATEMENT FROM REV. NEWMAN
He Tells What Was Said to the
Children and says it Had No
Application to Baptists
Dear Editor:
The .Journal of .June 15th pub
lished a communication from
Brother .1. K. Cossey which con
tains some misleading statements
which I wish to correct. Were it
not for those statements I would
pay no attention to his article, lie
would have you to believe the
school is a I 'nion Sunday School.''
But that is not a fact. The super
intendent is>elected by tin* Meth
odist quarterly conference; they
use the literature (quarterlies, les
son leaves, song books, etc.) pub
lished by our publishing house at
.Nashville, Tenn.. and hold forth
in a Methodist church house,
therefore it is a Methodist Sunday
•School. We welcome, as is our
custom, all who will take a part
with us.
The brother insinuates that we
receive babes in the church as
members. That is not the case.
They are not recorded or counted
hs members. Our church regis
ters have different departments as
follows: 1. Register of Pastors.
2. Register of marriages. 3.
.Register of infant baptisms (in
which the child’s name and the
names of its parents are recorded.)
4. Register of members, (no in
fants name is recorded here.)
Permit me to say that Children's j
Day, itself, is a child of the Moth
<*dist church. The Methodist Dis- j
cipline says that “The third Sun
day in May, or as near thereto us;
practicable, shall be observed as
Children’s Day throughout our
church with appropriate services.”
1 quote from Discipline 11)02,
the latest edition, page 103, para
graph 24N.
Wow let us he candiu about tins
matter. Was the recitation which
Brother Cosse.v published and com
mented on in the issue of The
Journal of .June 15 appropriate
for Children’s Day ? Let us bring
it home Brother Cossey. Suppose
some Methodist parent should
have taught his child a radical
speech on infant baptism and the
child have <?QUie into the Baptist
church and offered to deliver it Chi'
.some pubhc occasion. What
would you think of that.f Would
it have been delivered f Now, the
little child who delivered the rec
itation to which the pastor object
ed is a sweet little girl. She per- :
formed her part well and she
should not be criticised, for she
•lid only what her parents persuad
ed and hired her to do. As to
baptism, we do not consider it es
^ential to salvation, let it be per
formed as it may, then why take
up time to discuss the modei
Mr. Kditor, with your permis
tdon 1 will publish the speech 1 de s
livered to the children on Chil
dren's Day. I knew I would be
on the program for a short talk, so
on Saturday 1 prepared the fol
iowing:
“Now children, 1 wish to talk
to you for a little while on asso
ciation. Most of you are farmers'
children, and if you are not farm- :
ers’ children you know what a cun
ning thief the crow is. Well, here
is a crow story: A band of crows
one spring began to pull up a
farmer’s young corn, and he de- j
termined to put a stop to it. So ;
he loaded up his shotgun and slip
j>ed out along the fence prepared
to make it warm for them. Now,
it happened that the farmer had a
very sociable |>nrrot, who diseov-1
ermg the crows pulling up the
corn. Hew over and joined them.
The farmer saw the crows, but
did not see the parrot. He fired
among them and then climbed ov
er the fence to see what execution
: he had done. There lay three
dead crows, and his pet parrot
with rulHed feathers, and a broken
leg. When ike bird was taken
home the children asked: ‘What
did it. papa? W ho hurt our pret
ty poll?’ ‘Had company! Had
company!’ answered tin* parrot, in
a si I min voice ‘Y.-s, that it was’
said the farmer. ‘Poll was with
tl ose wicked crows when I fired,
and received a shot intended them.
“Children, beware of bad com
pany. Many u boy and girl has
gotten into trruale, not through
any evil thing which they did,
hut because of the company in
which they were found. People
will judge us by the company we
keep, for in the iong run the old
proverb is true, ‘Birds of a feath
er will flock together.’ It is nev
er safe for us to do anything, just
because a great many people are
doing the same thing. We must
be careful and know that the thing
that we want to do is right, and is
a good tiling to do, rather than
that there are many or few peo
ple who are doing it. Hoys and
girls of a sociable temperament of
ten get mad at their parents, who
are careful of the company they
k»ep, and think that the old peo
ple are too particular about it.
Louis Albert Banks lived in the
country in his boyhood days. A
new family had moved into the
neighborhood and there were two
boys about the age of Louis, and
they had a number of dogs and
Louis liked to go squirrel-hunt
ing with them One day he want
ed to visit the boys, but bis father,
who thought he was seeing more
of them than was good for him,
refused to let him go. At this
1-jouis burst out with a silly angry
speech. T never will amount to
anything for you and mother nev
er let me go into society at all.’
A little later his father saw the
bays coming across the pasture
ami called out to Louis: ‘You
needn't worry any more son; yon
der comes the society and all its
dogs.’
“The boy who is always run
ning with the crowd, and for no
better reason than becau.-e the
other fellows do it, will be sure to
come to grief, for rest assured,
that in many things modern soci
ety bus its dog1" and fleas to pol
lute and nag ^u.
“A writer in the Scientific
American tells an interesting story
about how an alligator gets his
food, lie says he is a lazy fellow
and instead of hunting for some
thing to eat lie lets his victuals
hunt him. That S. he lies with
his great mouth open, apparently
dead. Soon a bug crawls into it,
then a fly, then several gnats and
a colony of mosquitoes. The al
ligator does not shut his mouth
yet. He is waiting for a whole
drove of things. He does his eat
ing by wholesale. A little later a
lizard will cool himself under the
shade of the upper jaw, then a few
frogs will hop up to catch the
mosquitoes. Then more mosqui
toes and gnats v ill light on the
frogs. Finally a whole village of
insects and reptiles settle down
for an afternoon picnic. Then all
at once there is an earthquake
the big jaw fails, the alligator
blinks one eye, gulps down the
whole menagerie, and quietly
opens his great front door again
for more visitors. So let me cau
tion you, satan. like the alligator,
does his work by the wholesale if
he can. He will destroy one !h».y\
but prefers to destroy great num
bcrs of them at a time. Don’t go
with the crowd unless you have a
good reason for it. for the Savior
says: “Broad is the way that
leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat.”
Now, Brother Cossey professes
to think that in this little talk 1
BIG INCREASE IN TAX VALUATION
In 5 Years Assessed Valuation of
Property in .State lias In
creased $1,000,0111
According to figures c npiled
for the biennial report ol State
Auditor A k. Moore, tin* assess
ed valuation of property in Arkan
sas lias increased almost 50 per
cent in the las* five ye. . Since
| 1000, when the valuation was little
I more than $2,000,00o, (in- assessed
| valuation has in, re;, i almost
i $100,000,000. Tijis won rful in
crease in taxable vJu is due
probably to several ra chief
among which, however, is he rap
id stride toward dev. , at that
has been made in tin last few
years. About half >t ncrease
has been in the taw t o years,
since the last biennial prot of
the state auditor was i - : d. The
figures to be used in !’■ report
show the assessed valuation for
1005 was $200,428,009. A ue valu
ation for other years is given as
follows: 1904, $261,377.1*4; 1903,
249,777,108; 1902, 224.101,113;
1901, 225,207,081: L900. 201,908,
783
This shows a net gam n the val
uation in the 1903 a— nent of
$48,000,000 over the a anient of
1900. The assessm ,i or 1006
has not yet been e snip" ed, but if
| the same ratio of iner- is shown
| in this report the a--i ss. d valua
tion of the state at the present
time is far beyond $300,000,000.
To capitalists and <eh rs who
have been considering the proba
bilities of Arkansas t hi- biennial
report will mean much. It will
show them the rapid strides tow
aid development in the last few
years, and shew that Arkansas’
property as an investment pays
over ten per cent, even though it
remain idle. This will be one of
the big advertisments for Arkan
sas. The fact that the valuation!
has increased to such an extent in’
five years, without any perceptible;
change in the assessment of many
large corporations, shows that
farm lands and small industries of
the state have increased in value.
The increase is due to a great ex-1
tent, also, to the development of j
the mining sections of the state
and the lands now used for fruit
and agricultural pursuits which
were formerly considered practi
cally worthless.
BRAIN LEAKS.
(From Bryan’s Commoner:)
It is easier to laugh trouble
away than to cry it away.
You cannot down a fellow who
uses his failures for building
stones.
You cannot estimate the good a
church is doing by the heighth of
its spire.
Patriot
BETTER '
DORR MERC. CO.
Harness, : Arkansas
I called the Baptist church a society I
i and the member* of that church
! dogs and flea*. I made no such
an application, aa you can see
from the above, nor did 1 think of
doing such a thing.
C. 11. Nkwman.
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