St Croix A
tOTH
YEAR.
HRISTIANSTED,
V.l U.S.
A.,
MONDAY,
26tH
JANUARY
1920.
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they
joined
‘he
ramily,
parto kof
the
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homely
meai,
and
spoke
of retiring
to
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pest,
.
i
The cld
man
said
it had
been
his
prac-
tice in better
times,
and
he, continued
it |
'
still
before
his family retired,
to
‘com-
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'
mend
them
to God,
and if the
strangers
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’
had
no objeciion
he
would
do
so
now.
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1
The Chrisiian
rejoiced
to find
a brother
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.
In tke wilderress,
gnd
even
the
sceptice
t
could
not
con:eal
lis
satisfaction
at the
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rroposition.
‘The
old
man
then
took
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.
en,
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.
down
a
wel-worn
Bible
on
which
no
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dust
hac
gathered
though
age
had
|
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marked
it,
and
read
with
emphasis
a
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portion
of
the
sacred
Scriptures.
He
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.
(the old nMn;
then
supplicated
the
Di-
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vine protection, acknowledged
the Divine
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goodress.
and
prayed
for
grace,
guid-
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ance,
and sa'vution.
He prayed,
too,
for
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the strangers;-
that they
might
be pros-
!
pered
in
their
journeyv, and
when
their
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earthly
jourrey
vas
done,
they
might
i
'
have a home
in heaven.
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He was evilently
a
man of prayer,
and
.
that humble.
vottage
was
a
place
where
|
'
prayer
was
wvont to
be made.
The
tl2-
|
vellers retired
to their appartment.
,Ae-
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co.ling
to their
arrangement,
the
scep-
tic
vas
to
Yave
the
wateh
during
the
|
night; bur, irstead
of priming his
pistols
and braci g liis
nerves
for an attack,
he
was for lying down
to sieep
as quietly as
'
if he had
never thouzht of danger.
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‘
His
friend remini:d
him of their
en-
|
gagement,
and
asked
how
he
had lost
|
his apprehension
of danger.
The
infidel
|
{felt the forge
o( the
quesiion
andall
it
|
implied, ag?*i\ad
the frankness
to
con-
|
fess
that hd*could not
bui feel
as safe
as
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ata New-En?*! 1 fireside,
in
any
house
or in any foryst
where
the Bible was read
|
as
the
old
man
read
it and
prayer
was
|
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offered
as
that
old
man
praye
.—Con-
tributed
i
;
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Eomente
o SRR
eL
THE
Promatars,
Former
diembers,
and
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i
Persons
desirous
of
pariecipating
in
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the Horse Recing
to
be
held
on
Estate
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“Manning’s Bay’’ on Easter Monday,
as
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|
well
as
those desirous
of becoming
Mem-
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'
bers of the Saint
Croix
Racing
Associa-
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tionare cordially invited to attend
a meet-
i
'
ing at Kings Hill,
on Sunday,
25th inst.
g
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at
3 o’clock .
m.
.
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Subjeet:
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I
Membership;
l
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Electionof Officers,
;
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For the St. Croix Racing
Association
Signed:
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A.DpE CHABERT.
K. HENDERSON,
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W.
H. FLEMING,
E. L. BROWN,
;
CORNELIUS
PENTHENY.
:
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SCEPTIC
AND CHRISTIAN.
A story
is .lO]d
ol
two
men
who
were
once L:raveining
in the far waet of Amer-
ica —oue
a sceptie,
the
nther
a chr-istian.’
T'he former
was
on every occasior
ready
to denounce
religion
as
an imposture
and
*its
professors
as
hynoerits.
Ac:ording
to his own aceount
of
the
matter.
he
al-
wavs
suspecled
those
who made
oreten-
tions
to piety,
felt
particularly
exposed
in
the
company
of
Christians,
ard
took
specia.
2are of his horse
and
watc)
when
any
suzh
(Christians)
were
aro%.d him.
They
(the
two
men
mentioned
above)
had
travelled
late
one
evening
ard
were
in
the
wilderness.
They
at
las:
drew
near
to a solitary hut,
and rejoicz
at the
prospect
of a
shelter.
Taey
asled
ad-
mission
and
obtained
it.
But
it
was
al-
mosc
&5 dreary
and
comfortless
within
as withouc,
and there
was nothing
pre-
possessing
in the
appearance
of i's
(the
hut’s) inhabitants.
These
were
a.a
elder-
ly man,
his wife, and two sons,
suiburnt,
hardy,
and
rough.
They
were
appar-
ently
hospitable,
and welcomed
our tra-
vellers
to such
homely fare
as
the
fo-2st
afforded; but this air of
kindness
mizht
be
assumed
to
deceive
them,
and
tne
travellers
became
seriously
apnr:nen-
.sive
that
evil
was
inteided.
It
was
a
lonely place, well suited
tH> 1::ds
of rob-
berv and blood.
No
help
~v.3
ut
hand.
The
two friends
communicated
to
each
other their suspicions,
and resolved
that
on retiring
o their part of
the hut
they
woird barricade
the door against
the
en-
trance
of
their
host,
that
they
would
have
their weapons
of
defence
at
hand,
that they would be alternate
in watching
so tha: one
should b 2 constantly
on
his
ouard
while his
companion
slept.
Hav-
ing
hastily
made
their
arrangements,
No.
20.
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°
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no-
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that
the_
Government
has,
this date, authorized REV: MAR’ll}\’
F.
MULLIGAN to perform
civil-
religious functions
in
the
Munici-
pality of St.
Croix.
Governmert
of the Virgin [slands
of
the
United
States,
St.
Croix,
January
13,
1920.
C.
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Government
Secretary.
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