same, with one notable exception. "After all," he said, "for the possession of the ideal quality of the soldier, for the grand essential, give me the Dutchman—he starves well."—Donald Sage Mackay.
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Hurry—See Haste Without Self-control.
Husband and Wife—See Marriage Relations
in the East.
HUSBAND AND WIFE, RELATIONS BETWEEN
We hold certain views with regard to what
is proper between husband and wife. Those
views are not held by the nations in general,
and missionaries need to be very particular
about offending. For instance, a husband goes
away, and when he returns from his tour
and gets into the yard, the usual Oriental
crowd follows. His wife rushes out to greet
him, and very naturally they kiss. Like
Judas, they are betraying the cause by that
act, because it is most unseemly to do such
a thing as that openly in certain countries.
A missionary friend from Central Africa
tells of a tribe that he had labored to influence
and had partially succeeded. When
he was leaving for further touring and was
sending his wife back home, he kissed her.
Immediately the two hundred men present
burst into long and uncontrollable laughter,
not because it was new to them—for they
kiss on both cheeks—but because no man
ever thought of doing so in public. My
friend lost more respect in a second than
he had won for himself by his laborious cultivation
of the strange tribe.—H. P. Beach,
"Student Volunteer Movement," 1906.
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HUSBANDRY, SPIRITUAL
The orange men in California sent an expert
all over Europe to find an enemy of
the scale that was destroying the fruit-trees
of California. One day, in Spain, he found
a tiny creature which he named the lady-bird.
It has a sharp lancet that it thrusts
into each insect. It goes over the tree with
inconceivable rapidity. When it finds the
scale under the bark it thrusts the sword
down, and now the lady-bird is working together
with the husbandman, amid the prune- and
orange-trees of California. Cockle-*burs
are foes of corn, but a hoe has a sharp
edge. Ye are God's harvest field. Hate is a
weed, envy and jealousy are sharp thorns.
Selfishness is a poison vine. Surliness is a
fungus growth; lurking evil is the deadly
night-shade. But love is a rose, joy is like a
tiger-lily; peace is the modest arbutus. Contentment
is a sweet vine that grows over the
door of the house of man's soul. Honesty
and industry are the goodly shocks and
sheaves; these homely virtues are food to
the hungry. God is a husbandman.—N. D.
Hillis.
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Husband's Disloyalty—See Saloon Effects.
Hygienic Conditions—See Health, Economics
of.
HYMN, A GOOD
The occasion of the hymn, "Just as I am
without one plea," by Charlotte Elliott, and
perhaps her masterpiece, is full of interest
as interpreting its spiritual significance to
the soul hesitating in its penitent approach
to Jesus. Dr. Cæsar Malan, of Geneva, was
staying at her father's house, and addressing
himself to Miss Elliott, who was a stranger
to personal religion, on this vital subject, the
young lady resented it, notwithstanding that
the clergyman introduced the matter in his
gentlest manner. Upon reflection, however,
she relented, and with real concern, added:
"You speak of coming to Jesus, but how?
I am not fit to come." "Come just as you
are," said Dr. Malan. (Text.)
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HYMN, AN EFFECTIVE
It is told of John B. Gough how, seated
one Sabbath in a church service, a strange
man was ushered into the pew at his side.
Conceiving a strong dislike for the man
from his mottled face and twitching limbs
and mumbled sounds, Mr. Gough eyed his
seat-mate, when, during the organ interlude
in singing the hymn, "Just as I am without
one plea," the stranger leaned toward him
and asked how the next verse began. "Just
as I am—poor, wretched, blind," answered
Mr. Gough. "That's it," sobbed the man,
"I'm blind—God help me," and he made an
effort to join in the singing. Said Mr.
Gough, in telling the incident, "After that the
poor paralytic's singing was as sweet to me
as a Beethoven symphony."
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Hymn-making—See Challenge.
HYPNOTISM AND CRIME
Hypnotism as an aid to crime has been
variously discust in France from both the
medical and the legal side, with the general
