boys' club, secular or spiritual, on its negative, but a most important, side. If the club simply keeps the boys off the streets at night, it does much more than enough to pay for all it costs.—George G. Bartlett, "Proceedings of the Religious Education Association," 1904.
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Boys Contrasted—See Early Habits Tell.
BOYS' MISSIONARY EFFORTS
Eight boys in a Sunday-school class in
one of our churches, following the suggestion
of their teacher, decided to send Christmas
remembrances to eight boys in a mission
church in the far Northwest. They set aside
five cents each week for seven weeks and
purchased knives of much greater value than
thirty-five cents each, through the kindness
of the merchant who was informed of their
purpose. Each boy wrote a personal letter to
the boy who was to receive his gift. The
eight knives went on their way before Christmas
to the care of the minister of the mission,
who wisely required his eight boys to
write personal letters acknowledging their
gifts and telling something about themselves,
before they received the knives. So eight
choir-boys, close up to the Canada line in the
Northwest, received these Christmas gifts.
The letters received here were said to have
interfered for a Sunday or two with the
regular lessons. With their accounts of
hunting rabbits, etc., they made Newark boys
feel that all the advantages of life are not
found in New Jersey. The plan here described
was suggested incidentally by the
work of the Church Periodical Club, which
has done a great deal to brighten the lives
of our missionaries and their people.—The
Newark (N. J.) Churchman.
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Boy's Religion—See Early Religion.
Boy's Trust in Father—See Confidence.
BOYCOTT, ORIGIN OF
Boycotting did originate in America, but
it was started long before the slavery troubles
became annoying. The boycott originated
with Thomas Jefferson. It will be remembered
that by the embargo we boycotted
every species of English goods; we neither
bought of that country nor sold to her. The
ships of New England were suffered to lie
rotting at the wharves, and American foreign
trade was at a complete standstill. The
Hartford Convention was the result of that
boycott, and the lukewarmness of the East
in the war of 1812 may be traced to it. It
was not a highly successful boycott, but it
occupied a pretty big place in history.—Detroit
Evening Journal.
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Brag—See Pretense.
BRAIN IN MAN
All, if not most animals, have brains. Man, in common with his kingdom, has a brain; but because of its greater weight and perfection, scientists see in it an illustration of man's vast superiority over all below him.
Note has to be taken among the mammalia
themselves, from the marsupials to man, of
the presence or absence of one testing character,
and that the chief—the perfect brain.
This is found in one creature, occupying, as
it were, the inner ring and core of the concentric
circles of vitality, and in one alone.
In the lowest variety of man it is present—present
in the negro or the bushman as in
the civilized European; and absent in all
below man—absent in the ape or the elephant
as truly as in the kangaroo or the
duckmole. To all men the pleno-cerebral
type is common: to man, as such, it is peculiar.
And till we hear of some simian
tribe which speculates on its own origin, or
discusses its own place in the scale of being,
we shall be safe in opposing the human
brain, with its sign in language, culture, capacity
of progress, as a barrier to Mr. Darwin's
scheme.
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Bravery—See Loyalty.
BRAVERY OF WOMEN
Henry Savage Landor, one of the many passengers on the Baltic, added chapter after chapter to the good story of the bravery and coolness displayed by men and women when the Republic was struck, and throughout the hours of waiting and of rescue:
In all my travels through the countries of
the two hemispheres, never have I seen displayed
a spirit of womanhood that could be
better in such an extreme than was that of
the women of the Republic. When we of the
Baltic met them, it was as they were being
brought to our vessel in a tossing sea in
