Som FFF 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL: DEVOTED-TO-THE: BEST: INTERESTS:-OFTHENORTHSHORE 
Vol. I. No. 40 
BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1905 “| 
Three Cents 
John o’ the Tubs. 
BY JOSEPH A. TORREY. 
A little yellow man from far Canton, 
Is living near me, just across the way— 
What tho’ I rise betimes at break of day, 
Earlier Wah Lee anticipates the dawn, 
And rubs and scrubs while day to night 
wears on. 
Late homeward faring from the ball or 
te aan . ; 
His lighted window guides my devious 
way, 
For at his tubs still rubs and scrubs my John. 
Perhaps you think I mean to moralize, 
And quote the ant, the beaver and the bee 
With sundry maxims, wise or otherwise, 
Concerning thrift and virtuous industry. 
Jess so! No doubt that way my duty lies ; 
But then, too muchee work no catchee me. 
“A SIMPLICITY OF 
WHAT JESUS TAUGHT,” 
We Need to Come Down to This, Says Chel- 
sea Pastor in Manchester Church. 
A Little More Clearness 
of Thinking. 
Rev. Arthur Peabody Pratt of the 
Third Congregational church of Chel- 
sea, preached in Manchester last Sun- 
day evening as a candidate for the 
vacant pastorate of the Congrega- 
tional church. A goodly number were 
out, and Mr. Pratt left a most favor- 
able impression with the people. He 
is, in fact, one of the most favorable 
candidates thus far heard. 
He selected for his theme ‘ The 
Church,’ emphazing the need of new 
life and a coming back to a simplicity 
of Jesus’ teachings. 
“This is a great mystery: but I 
speak concerning Christ and the 
Church,” was the text, selected from 
Eph. 5:32. He said in part: 
“We are hearing so much said 
these days about evangelism and re- 
vivals, I take this chance to say a few 
words regarding the Church. If it 
were possible for us to go back to the 
time of Paul at Ephesus we should 
find much not clear to us. 
“Tt would seem as if Jesus were 
standing against a background of 
clouds, and in the foreground he could 
see his cross when he said, I am going 
to build a church against which the 
gates of hell would not prevail. 
“When we talk of revivals and the 
need of evangelism, we must first 
REV. ARTHUR PEABODY PRATT, 
OF CHELSEA. 
realize that the base of the Church 
is: I am Christ, the son of the living 
God. 
“The one supreme thought upon 
which the Church must be founded is 
that of confession to God. Jesus went 
to the afflicted, the poor, the blind, 
the downtrodden, and ‘Out of you,’ 
he said, ‘I will build a Church.’ 
‘* All of our failure can be accounted 
for in that we have forgotten this con- 
ception of God. _Christ’s conception 
of the church was to have a mediator 
to attract men. We fail when we do 
not recognize in Christ the Mediator. 
‘The purpose of Christ the Living 
God may be summed up in two words, 
peace and light. The purpose, first 
of all, is to bring peace into the world 
and to bring light with it. When the 
church fails of these two, she is not 
accomplishing her purpose. 
“Men say the world has changed 
and we need epistles suited to the 
times. Yes, the world has changed. 
Then boats were propelled by oars, 
now wehave steam ; then men rode 
in chariots, now we ride in steam or 
electric cars, etc. In all the change 
one thing has remained constant, and 
that is the human heart and its crav- 
ing for sympathy. 
«« We need to come down to a sim- 
plicity of what Jesus taught in his 
time, and that it means today just 
what it did then. 
“Tf you think sin, you sin; and 
man hasn’t altered much from the 
time of Christ in that regard. Men 
don’t grow good all at once. They 
don’t go to bed sinners and wake up 
saved. 
“If there is anything that we need 
it is that we come back to the simple 
translations of the teachings of Christ. 
We need a little more clearness in 
thinking. 
“Our churches are so filled with 
clubs in our day, I wonder they live. 
They use up the life of the church in 
organization. 
“There is such a thing as a society 
being over-organized and its members 
using up all their organization there. 
It is the purpose of life to take the 
man so as to make him worthy of 
leaving it—and that should be the 
aim of the Church.” 
Horticulturalists Appeal 
to Property Owners. 
To the Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
The brown tail moth committee of 
the North Shore Horticultural society 
request property holders to read the 
following article, copied from the 
Youth's Companion in part as fol- 
lows : — 
‘It is a queer coincidence that two 
of the most notorions pest-insects ot 
Europe have been colonized side by 
side, within five miles of each other, 
in eastern Massachusetts, while the 
rest of the United States has so far 
escaped them. 
“For a dozen years the Bay State 
has fought the first of these, the 
