American messenger . SaysSmokey Joe Wood, crack pitcher:The only secret I know anything aboutis that of control. It makes or unmake?every pitcher. I know many a pitcherwho has more speed than I have, and ofcourse, plenty of them have curves. Butthey are unable to make the ball breakand pass the hatter where they wantit to. A temper controlled and directed toworthy ends is a great possession. Beye angry and sin not, says the Scrip-ture. One can be angry in a con-structive helpful way. He may set hisface against wrongs still allowed underthe permits. To turn ones wrath stead-ily again
American messenger . SaysSmokey Joe Wood, crack pitcher:The only secret I know anything aboutis that of control. It makes or unmake?every pitcher. I know many a pitcherwho has more speed than I have, and ofcourse, plenty of them have curves. Butthey are unable to make the ball breakand pass the hatter where they wantit to. A temper controlled and directed toworthy ends is a great possession. Beye angry and sin not, says the Scrip-ture. One can be angry in a con-structive helpful way. He may set hisface against wrongs still allowed underthe permits. To turn ones wrath stead-ily against these things is to play anoble part. The man of patience andof righteous purpose accomplishessomething worth while when he getsangry. Every ounce of his energy isgathered and directed toward a goodresult. It is the moral steam controlledand made to hit a definite piston thatsends this old world upward and on-ward. —EXCHANGE. Go ye into all the world and prccch the Gospel to every crsature IN THE MISSION FIELDS S. NATIVES POUNDING CORN IN OLD LMTALI LAND In Old Umtali Land A striking scene is presented to us inthe picture that appears on this not only illustrates the native methodof preparing one of the staple articlesof food, but it also shows us the styleof dress and the kind of houses thatare found among the people of OldUmtali Land. Old Umtali Land is in is a part of British Africa, ofwhich Mr. W. T. Stead once wrote:British Africa is the product of threeforces—British conquest, British tradeand British missions. And of the threeforces the first counts for the least,and the last for the greatest factor inthe expansion of Britain in missionaries have been every-where the pioneers of empire. TheBritish frontier has advanced on thestepping-stones of missionary the missionaries from the sumtotal of the forces which have coloredthe African map red from Table Moun-tain to the Zambezi, and the empire dis-appears. It was
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