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MESSENGEI~.PUBLISHED BY THE LFTHERAN ORPHAN HOME.

Vol. Xll1. Salem, Virginia, Octob~r, 1912. NOe 9.HOME DIRECTORY.._--.•.•..----_. ORPHAN HOME IN JAPAN:-

In the year 1907 the Canadian Meth-odists started an Orphanage in far-off Japan. It has done good work,and, at present has 42 children in itscare.

PItJ£S. OF BOARP, REV. L. A. Fox, D.D.SAL1£M, VA.

V1CE PR ~:8IDEN'l', COL, A. M. BOWMAN,SAhu;M, VA.

81£C. 0:::' BOARD, R. W, Kime, 1£sq. SA-LEj\I. v s,

·.cREAS. OF BOARD, Mr.IYA:K V. YONCE, •SALEM,VA. ORPHANAGE GIFT:-Mrs. M

SUPERINTENDENT, J. T. Crabtree, AA- J. Jackson, of Kingston, N. C. hasLEM,VA. I . h G C

D. recent y gIven er reene ountyMATRON, Mrs. ~l. D. aV1S.

ASST., Miss M. McSherry. farm,valued at$ 10,OOO.,tothe Meth-HOUHEK1£EPER, Miss Dora Barrier. Iodist Orphanage in N. C. It hasTEACHER,Mrs. G. V. Ruhl. . .PRIMARY TEACH1£R,;\irs. K. 8. Crabtree been but a short time since Mr. &8EWING 'l'EACHER, Miss Clem. Rellar~. Mrs. W. L. Kennedy, of the sameHELPER, Miss Mary Crabtree. f I blcounty, gave a ar more va ua e

farm to the Baptist Orphanage, atThomasville. N. C.

A $500. PLEDGE;:At the meet-ing of the New River Baptist Asso-ciation, held at Oak Hill BaptistChurch, Mouth of Wilson, Graysoncounty, Va., the latter part of Au-

And this is October again.Fruits:Blessings: Harvest Home. As theforests become tinged with gole! andbrown, they invite us to"Stop :Look:Listen:" The Year is waning: Lookat its mellowing tints and gorgeousbeauties: Listen to its call to us. Poyou hear the voice? What does it

t ? gust, the sum of $500.00 was report-say 0 us. .• ! ed as pledged to the Salem Baptist

FEGHTLY HOME:- The Fegh1-1 Orphanage.ly Home for Aged and Infirm lad- NEW MARKET'-"M' Z' kl .. C' Ohi . ISS ir e, niceies,located at TIppecanoe ity , 10 1 t f"P' ." h t d th thio 0 ICnIC a san 0 er mgs,is now reported to be full to over-flowing, and there are other appli- SALEM:- Mr. Lambert 8 bu to-cations. There is need for enlarge Imatoes ; Mr. & Mrs. Henry Hund-nt, ' ley, T bu grapes.

this matter and get ready to do! some thing worth while. One of the

------------- ilhealthy signs of the times is that so

p__11_0_li_s_h_e_d_m_o_n_t_h_ly_b_y

1many people all over the land are

THE LUTHERAN ORPHAN HOME turning their attention to the

I necessity of making better arrange-SALEM, VIRGINIA.________________ I ments for the care of Orphans, and

I of other poor and needy children..25 i Speed the day of better things.

I - -.20 IORPHANS' HOME IN LA.:- theor I Bethlehem Orphan'sHome of New

Orleans,La. under the care of theMissouri Synod, held its 31st Anni-versaty the latter;art of July.Therewas a large attendance and much

Entered at the Post-Office in active interest in the work.SALEM,vA., as second class matter.

THE KESSENGER.

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thc Supt.,giving an accurate list of ar-ticles and names of donors (no atten-tion is paid to names on packages, etc.To get free transportation over theSouthem R'y and Atlantic Coast Lineaddress the Supt. at least ten days prev-ous; or apply to local agent. The N.& W. give half rates when not prepaid.Express Companies do not give any re-

'duced rates at all.

NEW ORPHAN HOME BUILD-ING:-"The Danville ConferenceCottage" is the name given to theCottage for Infant Orphans in theGood Sheperd Home for CrippledChildren at Allentown, Pa.We learnthat this name has been given be-cause this Conference has assumedthe cost of erecting the buildingwhich is $4000.00. Let the goodwork go on.

".-FRUITS AND BERRIES:-Say,- STAND ASIDE

did you think of us orphans 'when Just stand aside, and watch you ryou were putting up your winter i self go by;fruits and berries? you did?That's: Think of yourself as "He", insteadgood. Just ship them along with: of "1".the other things that you are going: Pick Ilaws-; ;ind fault, forget the'to send us. We can use green apples: man in you,in considerable quantities.O,if we ~And strive to make your estimateonly had some of the 'fruit that is; ring true,

. . f h 'gomg to waste m some ate I The faults of others then wil: dwarforchards of the readers of these' and shrinkr B k . t 'meso ut we now you are gomg a Love's chain grows stronger by onesend us some. mighty link,TALK ABOUT A NEW BUILD- When you.with "He" as a substi-

ING:- We are waiting,- patientlY! rute for "I",waiting for the friends. of our Have stood aside and watched your-

,.::c f;':" ~:::'0)]Jha;n ligwe---JYR.r;-li:;;to; thtnkj!-bqut ~;± '!' ~sel-f go by.~t 7: :;:. ;~ 1/' '\. ;J '~. .: _ /' J'. '. ' ), 1 ~--" • r:

Back Home. GIFTS IN KIND.

Back home,-what memories it MOUNT PLEASANT,N.C. Masterbrings, C. F. Weiser, 1 Incubator: Mothers'

What visions of familiar things: Thank-offering&Memorial Fund$2.ThE old frame house, the pasture 50.

green, LEXINGT.ON, S.C.:- NazarethThe wheat-field, golden in sheen Church .:-J.B. Waite, 7SCj Mrs.], B.Of warm sunshine.the barn-yard too, Waite,4oc;Rev.P.DRisinger,IscjJ.F.And orchard \ where sweet apples L W D C t J T Sh Iown,27c .. rou ,2SC; .. ea -

grew; ley, 25CjJ'C' Balington, SOCjJ .P.The old fOOL path with winding ways Corley, 25c; Mrs. Lydia Corley 10;'I'hi ough peaceful scenes to where Ida Addy.ajc.

the haze ------------Of twilight touched the h ills.-> SPLINTERS IN CHILDREN'SBack home!-the very mention fills FEET.The heart, and makes it overflow To-day (Sept. roth ) just as theWith memories cf long ago. last dinner bell was ringing and I

-G. B. Staff was passing by the little girls' Play-• room door, one of the little ones

HOME FOR CRIPPLED OR- cried out, "0 come quick, BlankiePHANS. has got such a big splinter in her

The Fourth Anniversaryof the foot." The "splinter tweezers" wereHome of the Good Sheperd for crip- promptly brought into work,andpled orphans at Allentown, Pa. Rev. the splinter, fully a half-inch long,J. H. Raker, Superintendent, was was taken out to. the great relief ofobserved on Labor day with special the child. This subject of "Splinter"Exercises held in the forenoon and Iis a serious one to us. The pine-boardin the afternoon. Over 3,000 persons Hall floors are so worn that splint-attended the Exercises. A movement Iers frazzle up eveywhere,and splint-was proposed to raise $100.000 for er pullers are always carried readyequipment, enlargement and main- for instant use. These floors are atenance. May the good work go on. serious concern to all of 113. We

• have samples and prices of an extraTA~lE IT :BRIrJl_E 1'1'. heavy Ruberoid Hall covering,

Fur ev-ry kind of bea-rs and hit (L one and a half yards wide. If we hadand of "e pentv, and of thing~ in th - the money we could get this Halls -a, 'S tamed, and hath been tamed covering, at a cost of 50 cts perof mankind .but the tongue can 10 running yard. The material is saidman lame; It i- ".11 uur uly e vI, (,I'j to be very durable, -but it will takeof de aul y p.iiso« Th ercvit h b'e s 350 running yards to put a strip onweG d,evt~ll\he FZI.lh,r;aiilithe " all the Halls. One Dollar buystwowi+h c!;r c w e rn- n , wh ic ': a:e m,' yards, five dollars buys 10 yards.af ter the lik e <'S of God. Out of Who feels like protecting our child-the -arne mouth c.»uet h f (d th bl-ss ren's feet from the Hall spl inters?ing- and cu r -i ng, \1) brethren, t hvse IWho feels like it to the 'extent ofl:l1ng~ousht not so to be. $2$~~"--_

"OUR BROTHER'S BROTHER."One of the striking mottoes on

the walls of Carnegie Hall duringt}he Conservation Congress of the11:en and Religion Forward Move-ri lent was "Not 'Our Brother's Keep-e r,'but 'Our Brother's Brother.' " Ith; remarkable how the new spiritembodied in this motto is takingh old on the thought of the Christ-i.rn world, even where the mottohas not been heard. The interest intl ie rights of the workers, particu-Ie irly in the women and childrenw-orkers, of the home-lands, theeffort to give every child its chance,a nd the feeling of responsibility fortile old, the sick, the incompetent,rl ie ~nemployed, is all a part of therr.ianifestation of this. new realiza-ti on of the Christian message, andis, at the bottom of the agitationfor better conditions and laws to THE LUTHERAN HOME form.eet present needs-not merely to I the Agpd, at Eri , Fa, has 29 r esi-to control, but to help and to de-I dents and il[l ex pe nse of $13· aS perv.elop. Imember, per nonth.

BARBER, N. ·C.-Th~ Lebanon THE WARTBURG ORPHAN'ongregation. four boxes, contain- II HOM ]~i.. received ~fSoo. frr.m the

inrg 2IO cans of peaches, tomatoes late MI"s Charlotte C. Wills, ofai id apples. Brooklyn.

--- ..•...---RURALRETREAT:-MisCarriel IS THIS TRUE?

Brown and Brother, I crate cabbage, IThe sun g-ives ever; so the earth-

IWhat it. can give so much 'tis wor t h ;

The Pilgrim Soul. The ocean give" in many ways-M[arch on, my soul, nor like a lag- GIVe·, b.i I hs, givi s fishes, r ivers,

gard stay! I ba vs:M:arch swiftly on, yet err not from So, too, t h-- air, II gives us brca th.

the way I .\ hell It <t op- gi·VI,lg. comes ill

\\ There all the nobly wise of aiel have I CI.; t I,

trod- • Give, give, be always giving;T he path of faith made by the sons Who gives n l, is not living;

of God. The m. re you !!IVeThe more you live. -I\non.

better yet;Press on.and prove the pilgrim hope

of youth-That creeds are milestones on the

road of truth.- Henry Van Dy ke-•

THE' WIDOW;:;' MEMORIALHOME for the crippled children hasreceived an endowment ·of !4, 000,000. from Mr. P.A.B. Widener, ofPhiladelphia.

THE HOME FOR THE AGED,at Buffalo, N,Y., maintained 40 oldfolks last year, at an expense of $7,058. That was $14. 70 per memberper month.

THE OLD PEOPLES' HOME,Pittsburgh Synod, has I9 resident s,With an expense of $3 267. and adeficit of $786. ThIS was $I4.80per member, pe m nth

5, ::>mething to learn, and somethingto forget:

B [old fast the good,Don't complain when things go

and seek he wrong; right them up and go ahead.

CA '.3" WE"USE POT ATOES?- A s~ to them. If you lived in angood friend wants to know if we can IOrphan Home how would youuse potatoes. Indeed we can,- like for outside Christian people to"Sweets", or Irish. Potatoes are a! treat youin the matter of support-great help to fill up our list of. ing the Home?supplies. It is very hard to do with- I •

out them. TRUB RELIGION: The Apostle-~. -----~-."- James says, "True religion and

THE DAMASCUS S. SCHOOL: undefiled, before God, the FatherIf all the Sunday Schools of the is this, 'T0 visit the Iatherless andUnited Synod were to have a plan widows in their afflictions, and toof helping the Orphan Home like keep himself unspotted from thethis little school, there would be world.very little want for supplies. This -- __•..•..---school gives one Sunday's Collec- LOST:-There are FOUR thingstions each month to the Home, and, that come not back: the spokennever forgets it- ; word, the sped arrow, the past life,

, I the neglected opportunity ..-You.~ LEADE~.;; A~T~.D:-A I have the opportunity of doing "Or-

Friend recently said, Well, If each I phan Home work-'Sunday-School and Congregaticnhad one LEADER who would simp-Jy lead in the matter of getting upcoil> ctions of money and especiallysupplies of all kinds for the HomeYI}U would have all you would needfor use in the Home." On thinkingabout the matter we believe he isright. The people are willing andready to help, and it some one justtakes the lead and says "Let's makel.~ a shipment: bring things in on ac("1'tain day and let us pack up, sackup, or box up and send things tothe Homev.nearly everyone willcheerfully respond and an abun-dance will be sent In. Let tbe con-gr~g.ltio~ s and Schools select aLeader aud then cheerfully andpromptly tollow in this work.

ASK and ye shall rec ...ive: SEEKand ye shall find: KNOCK. and Itshall be opened unto you. freelyye have received,-freely gIve.

•WHATSOEVER ye would that

men should do to you, do ye even

CA \{PAIGN FUNDS:While somany are coming forward withliberal contri butions to "The Com-paign," ,-and inasmuch as the Banks,all over the country are offering toreceive and transmit funds for'Campaign Purposes ." we take theopportunity of saying that ourOrphan Home will be glad to act asa "Dep0i'itary" of the funds of anyand all who desire to contribute toour Campaign. We mean,ot course,the campaign against distresspoverty and want of dependent andhelpless children. Send us what youdesire to cheerfully contribute tothis work (for the Lord loveth acheerful giver) All amounts willhelp.vones, five, tel'S twenty-fives,fifties,hundred",thousands,can be so",en used in Support, Repairs, andf<·.nlargement.

-.' .SALEM, VA.:Prof. Cannaday, 4Yz

bu nice grapes; Mr L Marcus, 6 buapple".

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FOR CHARITY. The Will ofNathan Hetman, dean of the N. Y.Cotton Exchange, who died recent-ly, gives $100,000. to Charity.

good act."

wrong,And remember, by breaking an egg.boys,We may lose a bird with a song,

When careworn, weary and I -nel y,Some day, as you're passing along,

You'll rejoice that the egg wasn'tbroken,That gave you

song.

CASH RECELVFDFrom August 27th to Sept 27th

19T 2.

M.L. Pettyjohn. 17 oo;Mrs. W. J.Winesett, 100; John Englehard.s s-50; St. John's Charleston, 34.10;Jesse B. Mays, Tre as S.S .Churchof the Redeemer, Newberry, S.c. 6.oo;St. John's S.S. Wytheville, 3.25;Chas. R. Goodm an.Mt , Ulla.N. C 3.00; E.H Kohn, Treas .-Grace S. S.,9.75, Ebenezer S.S ,11.05. G aceS.S. 8 75. St. Paul's S.S. ,Pomaria, 3.90, St. Paul's S.S .Columbia.r a.Sg ;St. Mark's S.S .Roanoke.jxaj Mr«.

and heartless and W P. Co vc r.r o 00. Miss. MaudCrabill, 1.00; Mi-s. Kate Evans, 100;Mr5 Belle Agee. 25<'; Mock'sChapel S.S·,3 6I;C.E. Jennings.8 5');W. H Wood:7ard. 25.50; NazarethChurcb.t Lexing ton, S.C. 3 02; MountPleasant Mur her 's Thank offeI"lng&Memorial Fund,2.50; M.L. Rudrsil :Cherryville,s· 00; ~'!ock's Chapel

the bird with its S.S. I.83;Rev. Dr. W.C. Seidel 25 00;J E. Larson, 25.5o;M;ss Kate

-Farm journal. Burkett, Forestville, 3.00;Mrs LydiaTrlE TIM-E-I-S-~-HORT:Liste'l T. Burkett, ,co;:vr:ss Grace M.

h h Id h h M Burkett, r.oo.F. 11. Kessler, 500;to w at t e 0 eat en, arcus ,A I· id "D t f Rent .t a.ooyb'red Groebler, 22.50;ur e rus.saru: 0 no act as I vou .h d I d h· Mr.& Mrs.O.G. Borden 5·00;S. M.a ten tnousan years to trow .

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BOWman.5.00;M.L. PettYJohn,17.00;away. eat sran s at your e ow. •Be good for something while you SALEM, VA.:.Mr. Walter, Goode,ive.and it. is in your power to do a 3 I-horse loads apPles.~ i':~~~_~.~r;.;.: :7 If ~; iPi .:' ~ i". ~ J f ~ ,r. ~. .: '.'

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•REPUTATlON AND CHARAC-

TER:-Reputation it:; what men andwomen think of us;Character iswhat God and the Angels know ofus.

WHAT A PITY IT IS: Isn't ita pity that many of the thousandsof dollars that are annually wasted,-and worse than wasted,-could notbe turned to the better purpose oftaking care of helpless, needy chil-dren. All over the country the crygoes up from the Orphan Home","Full to over-flowing", and "Needenlargement" and "Support Need-ed." At the same time the dailypapers teem with reports of thou-sands, and even millions,-squan-dered, embezzled, wasted on fol-lies and selfish ambitions. Isn't ita pity that some of this wastedwealth conld not be turned to bet-ter uses?

St. Paul's Congregarion, Wythecounty,Va., recently held a "Chil·dren's Day Service"and raised aCollection of $15.03 for our Horne.

DON'T ROB THE BIRDS,BOY .Don't rob the birds of their egg~,boys.It is cruel

An Admirable Form of Bequest.The late Capt. John C. Seegers,

of Columbia, S. C. (father of theRev. Dr. Seegers, of Reading, Pa.),has set an example in the makingof a will which it were well for othersto follow. Besides bequeathing$s,oooeach to the Lutheran OrphanHome of Salem, Va.,and to the The-ological Seminary at Columbia, herequests his children to keep the es-tate intact for a numher of yearsand to devote ten per cent. of itsincome to religious and charitablepurposes. While a request is not abequest, it .in this instance, has avalue far greater than the mere de-vising of certain sums of money tothe Church could have; for here isexpressed a desire that what hasbeen the life-long practice of a fa-ther who was devoted to the Churchnay become the practice of hisehildren also. It is in reality an ef-fort to bequeath a spirit of bene-volence to those who come after.Technically, and in the eyes of thelaw, such a will has little bindingforce; but morally it speaks louderand more effectively than any well-drawn-up legal paper could speak.There is all the difference in theworld between bequeathing moneyand a spirit. If Christain parents didmore to perpetuate through theirchildren the spirit of giving, therewould be fewer estates for heirs toquarrel over. Here is a beautiful ex-am pIe of a pious desire to handdown to posterity a spirit and a re-sponsibility as well as a legacy.

-The Lutheran.•

A TRUE HEROINE.(J. A. M.)

The world is always praising all the

great folk of the time;The artists and the sculptors and

the orators sublime,But to earth's greatest heroine they

seldom cast a look,I'll tell you who she is at once-the

blessed household cook!

We hear a lot of lauding for the manwho goes to war,

For the doctor and the lawyer andthe prophet's wondrous lore,

Engineer and decorator and the au-thor's famous book,

But we seldom hear a word about theblessed household cook.

Perhaps you think she isn't worththe praise that I would give,

But without her ceaseless kindness-es.pray.how long would we live?

We all would soon expire if of foodwe ne'er partook

So I raise my hat in honor to theblessed household cook!

She saves the lives of thousands byher duties every day

Though she does it in a simple andunnoticed, quiet way;

And when I am an author I shallsurely write a book

About the queen of womanhood-the worthy household cook!

-Fruit Magazine.•

WHR E WE ARE EXPECTE D

"A crowd of troubles passed himby,

As he with courage waited.He Slid: 'Where do you troubles fly,

When vou are thus belated?"'We go, "thev said. ' to those whomope,

Who IO<Jk on life dejected;Who weakly say goodbye to hope;

We go where we're expected .'

LEGACY TO ORPHAN HOME-The late John G. Hees, in dispos-ng of an Estate valued at $20,000,eft $1,000 to the Orphan-Horneand Asylum at Germantown, andthe same amount to the GermanHospital. The Samaritan Shelterreceived $200. Several non-Lutherran Institutions were also remembered, and the residue of his estategoes to relatives.

•LIBERAL BEQUESTS:- the

president of Joint Synod of Ohiorecently reported the followinggifts:-$28,000 and home, the Rev.Geo. Baughman estate, Easton,Ohio;$60,000 from the estate of G. D.Simen, Pittsburgh ;$27 ,600 from J.A. Schultze estate Columbus, O.Un-narned bequest 9,200; also 2,000from the H. J. Hospenhelde estate

DO YOU SYMPATHIZE WITHTHEM?-Say, kind reader Perhapsyou were a "small boy" once.sandhad the experience of having anugly old thorn run into your barefoot.- Of. kind lady reader,perhaps YOu have similar"delight:·ful recollections of your small girl-hood days,-or boys and girls ofto-day:- have any of you recentlyhad any such experiences? Well,-ifyou have, -you know how tosympathize with our children when,almost every day some one or ruo regets a pine plank splinter" in theirbare feet on our Halls. Do yousympathize with them? How much? IOne dollar's worth? Fifty Dollar'sworth? How much?

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Into use, but were found to be toow eak to hold it. A pair of "Crane-bill" nippers was hastily got tenfrom "up-stairs", and after a sharppull, a splinter just three quartersof an inch long, by careful mea-surement, was extracted. ,and abandage, saturated with spts turpen-tinewas applted to the foot.

•YOU WILL NEVER BE SORRYFor doing your level best,For hearing before judgingFor thinking before speak ing,For standingby your principles,For being generous to an enemyFor promptness in keeping pro.nises

•STRIVE TO CLIMB

Better strive and climb,And never reach [he goal,

Than to drrf t along with time,An aimless wo rthl ess soul.

Ay, better to climb and fall,0, sow, though the yield l.e small,

Than to throw away day after day,And never strive 'It all.

•DO YOU.a. BEST

Give to the world the best vou have,And the best will come back to

you.Give love and love to yom lift>will

flow,A strength in your sword and deeds

Have faith and a score of heal ts willshow

Their faith in "syour word anddeeds

MADELINE S. BRID(',ES

RURAL RETREAT, VA.:-W.BBuck, I crate cabbage .

ANOTHER SPLINTER:-On Sept. BRISTOL, TENN. :-w. G. Crum?aoth, Just after breakfast ,another ley, I brl apples.child said, 'Ruth has got s big _splinter in her foot. "The" Pocket ROANOKE, VA. :-Mrs. Hettel'S,twe ezr rs' were immediately brought I doz owels, 4·prs hose.