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THE ANN ARBOR BAPTIST.

VOL. 2.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

-OF

ANN ARBOR, MICH.

CHURCH DIRECTORY.

REV. A. S. CARMAN,

No. 71 E. Washington Street.

DEACONS.

ANN ARBOR, MICH., JANUARY, 1890.

PASTOR.

Paul Snauble, W. H. Dorrance, V. M. Spalding, J. B. Cady, W. F. Bird, George Jacobus.

TRUSTEES.

The pastor will gladly receive at his home or religious matters, or those in trouble or affliction,

visit at their homes those wishing counsel upon

or strangers, whether members of the church or

not. His mornings are reserved for study; his
afternoons and evenings usually devoted to call-
ing or to the meeting of appointments at his

home.

Ann Arbor's Responsibility.
Every town has
bility for its own.

The Deacons, and W. W. Beman, J. G. Patten- important parts of that responsibili

gill, H. N. Chute.

SCHEDULE OF BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS.

Second Sunday in June subscription for Min ister's Home, payable first Sunday in July.

Second Sunday in September, subscriptions for State Missions, payable first Sunday in October

Second Sunday in November, subscription for

Home Missions, payable second Sunday in De cember.

Second Sunday in January, subscription for Foreign Missions, payable second Sunday in February.

Second Sunday in March, subscriptions for Min

isterial Education, payable second Sunday in
April.
Last Sunday in each Month, collection for ex-
penses of the Sunday School.

No. 3.

great for them to bear alone. Upon these churches should fall the largest part of the spiritual care of from 300 to 500 students each. How can any of our churches unaided rightly accomplish this task? Why should anyone expect them to do so? Apfirst a responsi-parently they are not to be long exOne of the most pected to work thus unaided, for the beautiful and complete building erected by the Episcopalians of Michigan under the lead of Bishop Harris is to be matched soon by a similar building erected by the Methodists of the state, and the funds which have been accumulating for a Presbyterian Hall have been increased just now by the promise from Senator McMillan of $15,000 or $20,000 for the erection of a suitable building for Presbyterian students. All these contemplate reading rooms with denominational literature and lecture courses endowed so that the ablest representative men of the denomination may be brought frequently to Ann Arbor, in addition to the provision of social advantages which have not heretofore been otherwise provided.

ty is the care for its young people.
the most difficult part of the care is
that for the boys and young men.
Ann Arbor with the tremendous re-
sponsibility placed upon it of caring
for young people, numbered not now
by the hundreds but by the thou-
sands, from all over the land, finds
it difficult to provide for the poorer
class of boys and young men living
There has been gathering,
however, the nucleus of a fund for a
reading room for the town boys and
young men which it is hoped will
lead to a satisfactory provision for
this want.

here.

It remains true, however, that
Ann Arbor's chief responsibility is
for the great body of young people
who are here for the purposes of
study. All that our town possesses
of material prosperity and of fame
is due directly to the location of the
University here, and even if it were
not so, the very fact of the opportu-
nity which Ann Arbor and its church-
es have for influence upon the larg-
est body of students in America
would hold them responsible for
making this influence the strongest
possible for the highest good of
these students. It is believed that
our town and our churches realize

this responsibility in large part, and
are endeavoring to discharge it.

But the responsibility resting up-
on our churches is something too

students who should be under the There probably not far from 350 direct influence of the Baptist church here. The pastor, with very inadequate means of investigation, has

the names of more than two-thirds of that number. Is it wise to expect the pastor to care for these young people in addition to his care for a church of nearly 400 members, without some special provision for nomination to leave the provision the purpose? Is it wise for our defor one of the largest bodies of Baptist students in the country to unaided care of a church which is

with difficulty financially able to hold its own in the community?

The questions are proposed for the serious consideration of Baptists everywhere,

Ask much, ask much. I love gen- will. I will bring round thee all erous souls, who forget themselves who will be necessary to thee. Be tranquil.

To-day what wilt thou have, my child? If thou knewest how I long to do thee good! Hast thou plans that occupy thee? Lay them all before me. Do they concern thy voArt thou resolved no longer to cation ? What dost thou desire? expose thyself to this temptation, Dost thou wish to give pleasure to thee to evil? to give up this object which leads Not to finish this thy mother, to thy family, to those book which excites thy imagination? on whom thou dost depend? What wouldst thou do for them?

Dinah Muloch Craik.

Wherever the English tongue is spoken and loved, and wherever Saxon womanhood is honored-there the name of Mrs. Craik is also honored and loved; for she truly stands a type of the "ever womanly."

would wish to build into a home of her own, should it ever be given to her to make one. In the house there was one charming room that served for library, music room, and parlor, filled with books and choice pictures, but chiefly beautiful because of the presence of its mistress, as she brought her work basket out for a quiet talk with her friends. Over the mantel of the dining room was the motto, "East or West, Home is Best," which pleasantly gave the spirit in which Mrs. Craik lived in her home, for she used to say that

accordance with artistic rules; that
her limitations are more apparent
than her excellencies; that she is
too narrow, and confines herself too
closely to one class of readers to
be truly an artist." But what if
critics do say these things? Emerson,
our own poet and philosopher, has
said, "The true question to ask re-
specting books is, 'Has it helped any
human soul?" Ask this question
respecting "A Life for a Life,"
"John Halifax, Gentleman," or those
sweet verses, "By the Alma River,"
"All Saint's Day," and a whole host
of men and women, who through home-keeping was more to her than
them have grown nobler and purer, story-writing, and she often got only
will rise up to witness to the good one hour a week for her pen.
they have done, and to call her
blessed who wrote them. What
matter if she is not amenable to all
the rules of art, she could put into
living words the wail of a broken
heart, "Do you know all, up in
Heaven, Douglas, Douglas, tender
and true?" She could tell the wonder-
ful story of "a man's love and a
tenderly, more
purely than any other English writer;
she could show to thoughtless girls
and scoffing men the divinity of
love, the beauty of sacrifice, the
grandeur of true living.

Dinah Maria Muloch was born at Stoke-on Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1826. Her father was a clergyman of the Established Church and died when she was quite young. Her mother soon followed him, leaving to Dinah the care and sup. port of her two younger brothers. Always ready with her pen, she now used it as a means of support and succeeded well. Her earliest books -as also many of her latest-were written for children and youth. Her first novel, "The Ogilvies," was published in 1849, and its popularity gave her a fair start in the literary life. She wrote incessantly, producing book after book-each one seeming to give her a little firmer hold the minds of her readers woman's," more upon -until 1857, when "John Halifax, Gentleman," her most popular work appeared. She always wrote with a strong purpose in view-as not cnly "John Halifax"-but also such books as "A Life For a Life," "The Woman's Kingdom," and "A Brave Lady," will attest.

She took much interest in travel, especially in her Irish journey of 1886, which is the subject of her book, "An Unknown Country."

In 1865 she was married to George Lillie Craik, the younger, a member of the publishing house of MacMillan & Co. The home they built for themselves is said to have been one of the most charming about London, across "the lovely Kentish As a poet Mrs. Craik won a last-meadows" at Shortlands, ten miles ing though rather a humble place. southeast of London. Outside the Her most pleasing lyrics are "Roth-house toward the garden, was a litesay Bay," "By Alma Alma River," tle recess called "Dorothy's Parlor," "Douglas, Tender Tender aud True," where Mrs. Craik was fond of taking "Plighted," "The Unfinished Book," her work or her writing on a Sum and "Philip, My King," which was mer's day. It was named for the written for her god-son, who after- little daughter they had adopted ward became known as "the blind years before and who was the sunpoet," Philip Bourke Marston. shine of the house up to the time of her foster mother's death. Within the recess was the Latin motto "Deus haec otia fecit" (God made this rest), which Mrs. Craik once said, she selected as the motto she

In 1864 her literary efforts received for her an annual pension of £60.

"Critics say that she was not a poet in the true sense of the word; that her novels were not written in

Mrs. Craik died October 12, 1887. Some one has said that her passing away was like the falling asleep in death of John Halifax, or like the the translation into the Heavenlies of Ursula, his wife. Her only desire was to live long enough to witness the marriage of her adopted daughter. When this could not be, she murmured: "No matter, no matter," a fitting remark from the lips of one who had once penned these words, "Whether we see it or not, all is well." The Sunday after her death, in the church she had attended at Shortlands, Mr. Wolley, in his sermon, introduced this stanza from one of her poems:

"And when I lie in the green kirkyard,
With the mold upon my breast;
Say not that she did well-or ill.
Only, 'She did her best.'

J. E. M.

A beautiful feature of the order of King's Daughters is the "Prayer of Consecration" which each King's Daughter offers every morning upon rising: "Take me, Lord, and use me to-day as Thou wilt. Whatever work Thou hast for me to do, give it into my hands. If there are those Thou wouldst have me to help in any way, send them to me. Take my time and use it as thou wilt. Let me be a vessel close to Thy hand and meet for Thy service, to be employed only for Thee, and for ministry to others 'in His name.""

Topics of the Times.

STANLEY.

evil around them, cannot devise any expedient to relieve him. They are surrounded by cannibals, and poisonWith what a glad thrill Christen tipped arrows thin their numbers. "Meantime, I, in command of the dom read, for a verity, of Stanley's safety and his return out of the Dark river column, am anxiously searching Continent. He seems glad also that up and down the river in four differhis labors for a time are over, for hent directions; through forests my men are seeking for them but not until the sixth day are we successful in finding them.

says:

"I feel like a laborer of a Sat urday evening returning home with his week's work done, his week's wages in his pocket, and glad that to-morrow is the Sabbath." Here are some of the experiences of which he writes to the New York Herald:

was

duties as the strictest honor would
compel. My faith that the purity
of motive deserved success
my
firm, but I have been conscious that
the issues of every effort were in
other hands.

"Not one officer who was with me

will forget the mis-ries he endured. Yet every one that started from his home destined to march with the advance column and share its won

derful adventures is here to day

sound and well.

Lieut.

"Taking the same month and the same date in 1888, a year latter, on "This is not due to me. Aug. 17th, I listened horror-struck to the tale of the last surviving Stairs was pierced with a poisoned officer of the rear column at Banalya arrow like others, but others died The poisoned tip and am told of nothing but death and he lives. and disaster, disaster and death, came out from under his heart 18 I see nothing months after he was pierced. Jephdeath and disaster. but horrible forms of men smitten son was four months a prisoner with with disease, bloated, disfigured and guards with loaded rifles around bim. That they did not murder scarred, while the scene in the camp, infamous for the murder of poor him is not due to me. Barttelot barely four weeks before, is simply sickening.

"On the same day, 600 miles west of this camp, Jameson, worn out with fatigue, sickness and sorrow, breathes his last.

"This has certainly been the most extraordinary expedition I have ever led into Africa. A veritable divin ity seems to have hedged us while we journeyed. I say it with all reverence. It has impelled us whither it would, effected its own will, but nevertheless guided and protected us. What can you make of this, for instance? On Aug. 17, 1887, all the officers of the rear column are united at Yambuya. They have my letter of instructions before them, but instead of preparing for the morrow's march, to follow our track, "On the next day, Aug. 18, 600 they decide to wait at Yambuya, miles east, Emin Pasha and my of which decision initiates the most aw-ficer Jephson, are suddenly surroundful season any community of men ed by infuriated rebels, who menace ever endured in Africa or elsewhere. them with loaded rifles and instant The results are that three-quarters death, but fortunately they relent of their force die of slow poison. and only make them prisoners to be Their commander is murdered, and delivered to the Mahdists. the second officer dies soon after of "Having sived Bonney out of the sickness and grief. Another officer jaws of death we arrive a second is wasted to a skeleton and obliged time at Albert Nyanza to find Emin to return home. A fourth is sent to Pasha and Jephson prisoners in daily wander aimlessly up and down the expectation of their doom. Congo, and the surveyor is found in such a fearful pest-hole that we dare not describe its horrors.

My

"Jephson's own letters will describe his anxiety. Not until both were in my camp and the Egyptian fugi"On the same date, 150 miles away, cives under our protection did I be the officer of the day leads 333 men gin to see that I was only carrying of the advanced column into the out a higher plan than mine. bush, loses the path and all con-own designs were constantly frassciousness of his whereabouts, and trated by unhappy circumstances, every step he takes only leads him I endeavored to steer my course as further astray. His people become direct as possible, but there was an frantic, his white companions, vexed unaccountable influence at the helm. and irritated by the sense of the I gave as much goodwill to my

"These officers have had to wade through as many as seventeen streams and broad expanses of mud and swamp in a day. They have endured a sun that scorched whatever it touched. A multitude of impediand ments have ruffled their tempers harrassed their hours. They have been maddened with the agonies of fierce fevers. They have lived for months in an atmosphere that medical authority declared to be deadley. They have faced dangers every day and their diet bas been all through what legal serfs would have declared to be infamous and abominable, and yet they live.

"This is not due to me any more than the courage with which they have borne all that was imposed upon them by their surroundings, or the cheery energy which they bestowed to their work, or the hopeful voices which rang in the ears of deafening multitude of blacks and urged the poor souls on to their goal.

a

"The vulgar will call this luck, unbelievers will call it chance, but deep down in each heart remains the feeling that, of a verity, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in common philosophy.