Show THE NATI NATIONAL NAL GAME The The chief business of the present week ought to supply hints t to all classes of people and all classes should be asking themselves What game can call we invent to awaken people and cause I them to draw attention to our business eVen ren as baseball does The minister of the gospel can reflect th that t if by by some magic magi people cou could d be awakened in regard to their souls a as people ar are awakened about a game being played 2000 miles away the world word would Qt l be conver converted ed in the next forty-five forty days The merchant looks out upon the the yelling crowd with eyes fixed on the bulletin board and hd recognizes at a glance that had he some hidden charm to attract people to his stock as they are attracted on the street he would have bare shelves and a safe filled fined with money in a day The lonely old time sport looks on and sighs in the paus pauses s If I but had a game like that I It runs ns the gamut of all aU classes The excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment is irrepressible and never grows stale If possible it increases every every year year year-it it is the fhe great greatS S national g game me The old world to the west does not take much to it but little Japan does and we suspect that in another five years she will challenge challenge challenge chal chal- lenge the world for a trial When we consider the requisites necessary to play splendidly the great game we are bound to admit that the Japanese have the qualifications the the alertness the quickness the courage the control of of every nerve the sub subtle le intuition to know what is to come next and in what form and nd the promptness and exactness to to meet it their attributes become formidable at t once Then the art of placing the 1 on canvas while t the e game is i in it l progress 2000 miles away away is wonder When China settles d down to her lier er ancient q quiet iet and this feature ca be introduced introduced intro intro- there then the Chinese hive will fully swarm swarm for no people are as crazy over moving pictures tures as the Chinese Chines This his fact awakens the thought that possibly baseball m may y after all be bethe bethe bethe the evang evangel l to call all the nations of the world into closer loser walk and that is the first element needed in the worlds world's regeneration and and conversion j L L In Jn this view the ga game e takes o on new dignity f May lay be it was foreordained It needs a club to soften often some hearts may be the baseball club is S the one that has been set apart for that purpose purpose JJ i When the shots were fired that were heard round the th world the event went Yent into history as asa asa a sublime example of a people moved to the last extreme under the inspiration of the determination tion Uon to be free But after all aU but a comparatively few of the whole hole were stirred But the bat batting ng of a baseball baseball baseball base base- ball in a national game is not only heard round the he world but every ear cal among all aU classes is on the al alert t to hear ear it and the interest is not dimmed by the years but grows stronger and stronger tron er Who can measure the scope of the make clear the fascination game ame or |