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Show am'waw riftotf fhaii Hrnw rffi t iri fnrwr THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON, UTAH Too Much Selfish Employment of Religion for Personal Comfort a Ey REV. HARRY EMERSON F0SDICK (Baptist), New York. ELIGTON, like love, can be utterly selfish. Love gives and love wants. There are always two sides to it, and a love where the one side overbalances the other side can be disastrously ruinous. Even mother love can be a destroying angel. For what some mothers mean when they say I love him, is I want him ; I will not let him be anybody else's but mine. More than one young man has poured out to me the story of a blasted life, and the cause, strangely enough, was a loving mother. For when love becomes selfish it can do more damage than hate. So it is with religion, for religion has comfortable aspects. It is easy to get religion for comfort only. A man can love his family primarily for what he gets out of it. A man can love his country primarily for what he gets out of it. A man can love a friend and squeeze him like an orange into his cup, and a man can love God for what there is in it. There is a lot of that kind of religion today. Some of our most prominent modern cults face the tremendous temptation to be religious for comfort only. It is dreadful to be really irreligious, to think that creation has no spiritual origin, meaning or destiny, that the creative power cares no more for us than the weather for the grass. One flees from the Arctic cold of irreligion to the gracious warmth of faith in God and Ilia goodness and to the comfortable and sustaining power of Iiis fellowship. If I did not believe in missions for any other reason I would believe in them because they keep alive the heroic tradition of a sacrificial Christianity. They do at least challenge our easy consciences with the conviction that Christ came to get some great business done on earth and that it costs to do it. i-- v pot see if a headache will wear off. Why suffer when theres Bayer Aspirin? The millions of men and women who use it in increasing quantities every year prove that it does relieve sucli pain. The medical profession pronounces it without effect on the heart, so use it as often as it can spare you any pain. Every druggist always has genuine Bayer Aspirin for the prompt relief of a headache, colds, neuralgia, lumbago, etc. Familiarize yourself with the proven directions in every package. JEVER wait to IN Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacturi of Mouoaoetic&cidcstcr of balicylicacij Nation Can Have No Greater Concern Than For Wounds and Sore Development of Its Youth By OSCAR LEONARD, Hanfords Balsam of Myrrh Bnai Brith Leader. Honey back for first bottle if not suited. onstinate The problem of American Jewry, in common with that of America itself, is that of its youth. The greatest concern of any people must be its youth, because that is its future. Ilut this is truer of Jews, since we are a minority group. We must do something to save the Jewish youth barn by a sergeant named Boston Corbett. Wilson states that when tlie burn wus tired Booth determined to rush out of It and try to shoot his way through the cordon of soldiers sui rounding it. lie hud gone but a few steps wlicn he realized tlie futll ity of the attempt and, preferring death to capture, tie determined to end Iiis own life and shot himself For policy's sake, Boston Corbett wa permitted to have tlie credit for liav booth- -' CAPTzmjc 1 Booth pldurfu, cotirtay Houghton- ing shot him. Secretary Stanton line' M tf I it co m p h y . By ELMO SCOTT WATSON but one purpose in regard to Booth IT Is true that the shot.j, and that was to deprive those who fired near Concord bridge might applaud Booth's deed of tlie zens North and South. In Massachusetts one mornlie thought that lie wus a martyr who ing In April of 1775 was lias Invaded a field poisoned by more had cheated the avengers of Lincoln's heard round the world," timn half o century of defamatory death by committing suicide. then It ts equally true that propaganda and emerged triumphant. Various fantastic tales have been Wtiile there can he no justification a shot fired In Ford's thetold about tlie disposal of Booth's for John Wilkes Booth's crime, there ater in Washington, D. body but these Wilson sets at test by one evening In April 00 can he an explanation of it. There of his burial In tlie peniten telling years later seems likely to is no doubt that Booth was a morbid in Washington and the tiary grounds minded fanatic who believed himself echo down through history Identification of subsequent positive for all the years to come. actuated by a high nud noble pur Ills remains when the body was ex For It was the shot which ended the pose lu planning his deed. That hunted in 18(59 for reburial In the life of one of the greatest Americans, deed, incidentally, Wilson's book Booth burial plot in Baltimore. But wus originally planned as one just at a time when the nation need more important stilt this hook lays ed most of the wisdom, the patience of ubduction rather than assassinafor all time the ghost of John and the sane moral courage which tion. Booth, a strong southern symWilkes Booth which for the last fifty were his, and the leaden missile which pathizer, believed that If he could ab has bobbed up at various times cut the thread of his life at the same duct tlie President and hold him a yearsIn various places in the forms of and time shattered the hopes and (nippicaptive, he could dictate the terms different persons who claimed to be ness of countless thousands of his for his release an abrogation of Booth. There have been a number ol countrymen. So the tragedy of the Grant's order forbidding tlie exthese fake "John Wilkes Booths," bur assassination of Abrahum Lincoln by change of prisoners (an Important perhaps tlie most famous one was tlie John Wilkes Booth has a sorrowful factor In tlie war us tlie South's man central figure in a book written by fascination about it which makes li power dwindled), a strengthening of L. Bates of Memphis. a certain-Finithe cry of tlie northern Democrats Tenn. Bates became unforgettable. acquainted with The story of that dark deed and that "the war Is a failure, an aca house painter named John St. Helen the retribution which so speedily knowledgment of tlie Independence of who confessed to him that lie was overlook the perpetrator !s a familiar the South and an end to the war." John Wilkes Booth who had survived one to most Americans but it Is one Be had been planning the abduction the pursuit by tlie soldiers after Lin In which fuct and fiction became in for several months, as shown by a coin's assassination. St. Helen was separably Interwoven In the years letter written In November, 1SG1, to name of David E tlie under living which have passed since it took place John S. Clurke, his brother-in-law- . In he died In Oklahoma when George That tills should lie so Is not diliicuit which tie said, "Nor do I deem it a Bates discovered that tlie embalmed to realize If we cun reconstruct I tic dishonor tn attempting to mnke for body of George was in Enid, Okla atmosphere of hatred, suspicion and her (the South) a prisoner of this He took ctinrge of It and carried tt to political vindientivencss which premen to whom she owes so much mis his home In Memphis. He then wrote vailed at the close of a great civil ery. But when Lee's surrender tils hook to prove that George realty In such an atmosphere it Is marked tlie conflict. beginning of the end and was Booth and made repented atnot to be wondered at that facts Booth heard Lincoln speak to tlie $100,-00should be distorted and that the crowd that gathered before the White tempts to collect the reward of federal which tlie government story of Lincoln's assassination which House upon his return from the had offered for the body of Booth has been handed down to us should front, suggesting enfranchisement of after the assassination. contain as many and nonegroes who bad served as soldiers, As Inte as 1025 another fake Booth truths as truths. a more dangerous Idea was born in showed up tn Minneapolis, where, acIlecently there has appeared a book his mind. This is the last speech cording to the story, he called upon which sheds much new light on that he will ever make," Booth muttered Blanche de Bar Rooth, daughter of famous tragedy and from which it Is to Lewis Payne, his companion, and a Junius Brutus Booth, the younger, a possible to know what actually took follow conspirator In the plans for brother of Edwin and John Wilkes place on that historic Good Friday tlie abduction of Lincoln. Booth. Knocking on her door at the and during the days of wild exciteThe details of the assassination It- hotel and speaking from the outside, ment that followed. It ts "John self and the pursuit and capture ot lie said: Blanche, don't you want to Wilkes Booth Fact and Fiction of Booth ts so familiar to most Atnerl see Johnne" Believing that it was Lincoln's Assassination, published by cans as to need no repetition. One the work of some practical Inker, she Houghton Mifflin company, and writof the services of Wilsons book Is refused to see him, and after leaving ten by a veteran of the stage, Frauds to correct some of the erroneous Ideas a card bearing the name of John Wilson, who knew many of the memabout both. The usual story has Wilkes Rooth, he departed, saying that bers of tlie east wtio played with Miss Rooth leaping to the stage from the lie would call again. He did not show Laura Keene at Fords theater that box in which the President sat. aftei up again, however, and although some jilglit as well as members of the he hud shot Lincoln, brandishing a newspapers made much of tlie InciBooth family, notably Edwin Booth. dagger and shouting "Sic semper ty dent. nothing further ever came of it. Wilson, according to one reviewer of rannis ! Tlie fact is that Rooth For the truth is, as Wilsons book his book, writes not In Justification shouted those words before he tired Wilkes proves conclusively, John of murder, much less In Justification and that lie did not speak after Booth died In the burning ham. prub leap of that monumental crime. Ills task trig to the stage. Tlie commonly ae ably by his own hand, and all wlto Is the thankless hut Important one cepted version of Rooth's death Is later claimed to be the assassin were of telling the truth to his fellow-cit- i that he was shot down In the burulng rank imposters. JT,, m? ;am of I IF ! ... -- for the Jewish people. We must give them something of the ideals which have animated our people through the ages. For a time we were so busy finding our place in America that we almost forgot our youth, and particularly our intellectuals. The result being that many of them left us, or were about to leave us. It was Frof. Chauncey Baldwin, a prominent Christian at the University of Illinois, who called the attention of the Bnai Brith to this peculiar situation The Bnai Brith, with its record of more than four score years of service, took up this work first in Illinois. The Bnai Brith Ilillel foundation was established there. This work was so successful that requests came from other universities for similar foundations. Where established, the foundation gives Jewish university students the opportunities to meet together for social, spiritual and intellectual purposes. Medical Profession Must Find Methods of ing Proper Care to the Needy. (, s half-truth- s Crank Held Car Due to a rainstorm and Its effects a woman driver at Iiatnville, Conn., rammed a tree head on with tier car. She was not badly Injured, bin when she attempted to back out from the tree, tlie car wouldn't move. She called for a wrecking crew, and they found Hi, at the ear was held fast by the crank which had been left In the front of her car. It had been Crimea into the tree as far as the end of the handle and the wrecking crew had to saw off the handle before they could separate the car from tlie t roe. Mad bridge player about town was playing at a very nice club when his partner, for reasons we shall not attempt to go Into, threw all tits thirteen cards at him. This insulted Mr. Jones, as we shall call him, and lie left tlie room. Flushed and nervous, lie paced about, and In so doing came upon one A of the board of governors. He told him wlinf had happened and demanded that some sort of action tie taken. My good fellow," said the governor, who was not one of the more dynamic governors, how fortunate that you were not playing quoits! No Help for It Mrs. A. You say you were up half the night with thp baht. What was tlie trouble? Mrs. a trip. B.--- My husband was away Giv- By DR. MALCOLM M. HARRIS, Chicago. the medical profession adopts methods of caring for need) medical foundation societies will. This will be to the detriprofession. Millions of dollars are being endowed to foundadoctors in them work on salaries. The idea is advanced that the patients are patients, first of the hospital, second of the doctor. It is the belief of the people that the medical profession is charging prices so high as'to make its services available only to the rich, that it is The people are providing this other failing to fulfill its obligations. method. Exorbitant charges by surgeons are crimes against society. No physician, no matter how eminent, i3 justified in making such charges. Charges must be fair, honorable and just. They must not be greater than the financial status of the patient justifies. County medical societies should' include every reputable physician and should create institutions for the care of persons of slight means, with every physician pledging a certain amount of time to the institution. Only persons of limited means would be treated and they would pay according to their means. Unless patients the ment of the tions. The All defers. Taka Natures Remedy tonight. Your elimin&tive organs will be functioning properly by morning and your constipation will end with a bowel action as free and easy as nature at her best no pain, no griping Try it. Mild, safe, purely vegetable At Druggists f t , w only 25c Choose a Profitable Vocation Learn the lie&aty Culture Courso riven by a man that has taught 8S8 students bow to eamUiti MONEY. Catalog sect on request UTAH niGH SCHOOL OF BEAUTY CULTURE 831 Clift Bldg, bait Lake City Fish Prevent Mosquitos Fish in the water pool will prevent breeding of mosquitoes, says Edward C. 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Christianity is committed to fundamental faith in man and encom ages men to see submerged possibilities in the most insignificant human through the power of Christ in their lives. Ilonor All Men is the ver essence of Christianity. Belief in Cod and belief ki man are inseparable A thorough belief in man is manifestly not easy. In fact, it is not much easier than a belief in God. It takes a great soul to believe in God. It is about the largest achievement of the human spirit. Next to that F belief in man. It takes a great man to sense the greatness of all men, t work your way down beneath the overlay of circumstances, the apparent limitations, the puzzling inconsistencies, below the commonplace and the vulgar and the banal, and to appreciate the splendor, the tragedy, the majesty of humanity that is the achievement of a great soul Christianity is firmly committed to a fundamental faith in man. It views man not at all with blind eyes. 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