BENEFITS OF ADVERSITY Jr. Talmage Says We Most All Oo Through Some Kind of Thrashing Process for Our Own Good, frlanpk Always Comet Alter Misfortune (treat Need It Solace. ' Wasiiisoto, D. C From a process familiar to the farmer Dr. Talmuge draw lessons of consolation and encouragement for people in sorrow and adversity. The text ia Isaiah xxviii, 27, 28: "for the Btches are not thrashed with a thrashing Instrument, neither ia a cart wheel turned shout upon the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cum din with a rod. Dread corn ia bruised be cause he will not ever be thrashing it." Misfortunes of various kinda come upon various people, and in all times the great need of ninety-nine people out of a hun dred ia aolace. Look, then, to this neg lected allegory of my text. There are three kinds of seed men tionedfitches, cummin and corn. Of the last we nil know. But it may be well to Itate that the fitches and the cummin were mall seeds, like the caraway or the chick- lea. When these grains or herbs were to ie thrashed thev were thrown on the floor, and the workmen would come around with staff or rod or flail and bent them un til the seed would be separated, hut when the corn was to be thrashed that was thrown on the floor, and the men would fasten horses or oxen to a cart with iron dented wheels; that cart would be drawn around the thrashing floor, and so the work would be accomplished. Different kinds of thrashing for different products. "The fitches were not -thrashed with a thrashing instrument, neither is a curt wheel turned about upon the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a roil. Dread corn is bruined because he will not ever bo thrash ing it." - The great thought that the text presses upon our souls is that we all go through some kind of thrashing process. The fuel that you may be devoting your life to hon orable and noble purposes will not win you any escape. Wilberforce, the Christian emancipator, was in his day derisively called "Doctor C'antwell." Thomas Bnb ington Macauley, the advocate of nil that wna good, long before he became the most conspicuous historian of his day, was cari cntured in one of the quarterly reviews as "Babblctonguo Macaulay." Norinun Mc Leod, the great friend of the Scotch poor, was industriously maligned in nil quarters, although on the day when he waa carried out to his burial a workman stood and looked at the funeral prnec.iHion and said, "If he had done nothing for anybody more than he has done for me, he would shine as the stars forever and ever." All the mall wits of London had their fling at John Wesley, the father of Methodism. If such men could not escape the malign ing of the world, neither can you expect to get rid of the sharp, keen stroke of the tribuluin. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Dcsides that, there are the sicknesses and the bankruptcies und the irritations nnd the disappointments which nre ever putting a cup of aloes to your lips. Those wrinkles on your face are heirnglyphics which, if deciphered, would mtike out a thrilling story of trouble. The footstep of the rab bit is seen the next morning on the snow, and on the white hairs of the aged nre the footprints showing where swift trouble alighted. Even amid the joys and hilarities of life trouble will sometimes break in. As when the people were assembled in the Charles town theatre during tho Revolutionary War, and while they were witnessing a force and the audience was in great gratu latum the guns of an advancing army wcro heard and the audience broke up wild panic and ran for their lives, so oftentimes while you are seated amid the joys and festivities of this world you hear the can nonade of some great disaster. All the fitches and the cummin and the corn must come down on the thrashing floor and bo pounded. My subject, in the first place, teaches us thit it is no compliment to us if we es cape great trial. The fitches and the cum min on one thrashing' floor might look over to the corn on another thrashing floor nnd Bay: "Look at that poor, miserable, bruised corn! We have only been a little pounded, but that has been almost de stroyed." Well, the corn, if it had lips, would answer and say: "Do you know tho reason you have not been as much pounded as I have? It is because you nre not of so much worth as I am. If you were, you would be as severely run over." Yet there are men who suppose they are the Lord's favorites simply because their barns are full and their bank account is flush and the.'e are no funerals in the house. It may be because they are fitches and cummin, while down nt the end of the lane the poor widow may be the Lord's corn. You are but little pounded because you ore but little worth and she bruised and ground because she is the best part of the harvest. The heft of the thrashing ma chine is according to the value of the grain. If you have not been much thrashed in life, perhaps there is not much to thrash! If you have not been much shaken of trouble, perhaps it is because there is going to be u very small yield. When there are plenty of blackberries, the gatherers go out with large baskets, but wh.'n the drought has almost consumed the fruit, then a quart measure will do as yell. It took the venomous Bnake on Paul's hand, aud the pounding of him with stones unti1 he was taken up for dead, and the jamtning against him of prison gates, and the Ephesian vociferation, and the ankles skinned by the painful stocks, and the foundering of the Alexandrian corn ship, and the beheading stroke of the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his proper develop ment. It was not because Robert Moffat and lady Rachel Russell and Frederick Ober lin were worse than other people that they had to suffer. It was because they were better, and Cod wanted to make them best. Ily the,.carelessness of the thrashing you may always conclude the value of the grain. Next, my text teaches us that God pro portions our trials to what we can bear the atari for the fitches, the rod for the cummin, the iron wheel for the corn. Sometimes people in great trouble say, "Oh, I can't bear it!" But you did bear it. Ood would not have sent it upon you if Ha had not known that you could bear it. You trembled and you swooned, but you got through. God will not take from your eyes one tear too many nor from your lungs one sigh too deep nor from your tem ples one throb too sharp. The perplexi ties of your earthly business have not ia them one tangle too intricate. You some times feel as if our world were full of bludgeons flying haphazard. Oh, no: they are thrashing instruments that God just suits to your case. There is not a dollar of bad debts on your ledger or a disap pointment about goods that you expected to go up, but that have gone down, or a swindle of your business partner or a trick on the part of those who are in the same kind of merchandise that you are, but God intended to overrule for your immortal lielp. "Oh," you say, "there is no need talking that way to me. I don't like to be cheated and outraged." Neither does the corn like the corn thrasher, but after it has been thrashed and winnowed it has a great deal better opinion of winnowing mills and corn thrashers. "WeM," you say, "if I could'choose my troubles, I would be willing to be troubled." Ah, my brother, then it would not be trouble. You would choose something that Would not hurt, snd unless it hurt it does not get sanctified. Your trial perk Bps nisv be childlessness. You are fond of chil dru. You say, "Why does God send children to that other household, where they are unwelcome and are beaten and Ibanged about wheu I would have taken them Ml the arms of my affection?" You say, "Any other trial but this.'" Your trial perhaps may be a disfigured counte nance or a face that is easily caricatured, and you say, "I could endure anything if only I was good looking." Aad your trial psr)iai is a violent temper, and you have i to drive it like six unbroken horses aiuid the gunpowder explosions of a great holi day, and ever and nnon it runs away with you. Your tnul is the asthma. You say, -ff. .'t .were rh.ouruuli.un or ueuralgic, or erysipelas, nut it is this asthma, nna it is such an exhausting thing to breathe." Your trouble is a husband, sharp, snap py and cross about the house and raising a small riot because a button is off. How could you know the button is off? Your trial is a wife ever in contest with the ser vants, and she is a sloven. Though she was very careful about her appearance in your presence once, now she is careless, because, she says, her fortune is made! Your trial is a hard school lesson you can not learn, and you have bitten your finger nails until they are a sight to behold. They never cry in heaven because they have nothing to cry about. There nre no tears of bereavement, for you shall have your friends all round about you. Thera are no tears of poverty because each one siti nt the King s table and has his own chariot of salvation and free access to the wardrobe where princes get their array. No tears of sickness, for there are no pneumonia in the air and no malarial ex halations from the rolling river of life and no crutch for the lame limb and no splint for the broken arm, but the pulses throb bing with the health of the eternal God in a chmite like our June before the blossoms fall or our gorgeous October before the leaves scatter. In tuat land the souls will talk over the different modes of thrashing. Oh. the story of the staff that struck the fitches and the rod that beat the cummin and the iron wheel that went over the corn! Dan iel will describe the lions and Jonah levia thian and Paul the elmwond whips with which he was scourged, and Eve will tell how aromatic Eden was the day she left it, and John Rogers will tell of the smart of the flame and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeled him up the skv steeps and Christ of the numhncna and the paroxvsms und hemorrhages of the nwful crucifixion. There they nre before the throne of liod on one elevation all those who were struck of the rod. on the highest elevation and amid the highest altitudes of heaven all those who were under the wheel. Ho will not ever be thrashing it. Is there not enough salve in this text to make a planter lin-ge enough to henl nil your wounds? When a child is hurt, the mother is very opt to sav to it, "Now. it will soon feel better." And that is what J.od says when He embosoms all our trou b'e in the hush of this great promise. Weeping may endure for n night, but joy cometh in the morning." You mav leave your pocket handkerchief sopping wet with tears on your death pillow, but you will go up absolutely sorroivless. They will wear blnck, you will wear white; cy presses for them, palms for vou. You will say: "Is it possible thnt I am here? Is this heaven? Am I so pure now I will never do anything wrong? Am I so well that 1 will never be sick again? Are these com panionships so firm that they will never ngain be broken? Is that Marv? Is that John? Is that my loved one I put away into darkness? Can it be that these are me tacts of those who lav so wan nnd emaciated in the back room that nwful night dying? Oh, how radiant they are. Look at them! How radiant thev are! hy, how unlike this place is from" what I thought when I left the world below. Ministers drew pictures of this land, but how tame compared with the reality! They told im on earth that death was' sunset. No, no! It is sunrise! Glorious sunrise! 1 sco the hsht now purpling the hills, and the clouds (lame with the coming day." Then the gates of heaven will be opened, and the entranced soul, with the acutencss and power of the celestial vision, will look thousands of miles down upon the ban nered procession, a river of shimmering splendor, and will cry out. "Who are they?' And the angel of God, standing c.cne by. will say, "Do you not know who they n.e?" "No," Fays the entranced soul, "I cannot guess who they nre." The angel will sny. ''1 will tell you, then, who they are. These are they who came out of great tribulation, or thrashing, and their robes washed and made white in the blood of the lrmh." Would that I could administer some of these drops of celestial anodyne to these nervous and excited souls. If you would take enough of it, it would cure nil your pangs. The thought that you nre going to get through with this after awhile, all this sorrow and all this trouble. - We shall have a great many grand days in heaven, hut I will tell you which will be the grandest day of all the million ages of heaven. You say, "Are you sure vou can tell me?" Yes, I cau. It will be the day we get there. Some say heaven is growing more glorious. I suppose it is, but I do not care much nbout that. Heaven now is good enough for me. History has no more gratulatory scene than the brenking in of tho English army upon Lucknow, India. A few weeks before a massacre had occurred ut Cawnpur, and 261) women und children had been put in a room. Then five professional butchers went in and slew them. Then tho bodies of the slain were taken out and thrown into a well. As the English army came into Cawnpur they went into the room, and oh. what a horrid scene! riwo.-d strokes on the wall near the floor, showing that the poor things had crouched when they died, and they saw also that the floor was ankle deep in blood. The soldiers walked on their heels across it, lest their shoes be submerged of the carnage. And on that floor of blood there were flowing locks of hair nnd fragments of dresses. Out in Lucknow they had heard of the ftiassacre, and the women were waiting fot the same awful death, waiting amid anguish untold, waiting in pain und starvation, but waiting heroically, when, one day. Have lock and Outrum and Norman and Sir David Baird and Peel, the heroes of the Knglish army huzza for them! broke in on that horrid scene, and while yet the juns were sounding, and while cheers were issuing from the starving, dying people on the one side and from the travel worn and powder blackened soldiers on tho other, right there, in front of the king's palace, there was such a scene of handshaking and embracing and boisterous joy as would ut terly confound the pen of the poet and the pencil of the painter. And no wonder, when these emaciated women, who had fullered so heroically for Christ's sake, marched out from their incarceration, one wounded Engluh soldier got up in his fa tigue and wounds und leaned against the wall and threw his cap up and shouted, "Three cheers, my boys, for the brave women!" Yes, that was nn exciting scene. But a gladder and more triumphant scene will it be when you come up into heaven from the conflicts and incarceration of tins' world, streaming with the wounds of bat tle, and wan with hunger, and while the hosts of God are cheering their great ho Banna you will strike hands of congratula tion and eternal deliverance in the presence of the throne. On that night there will be bonfires on every bill of heaven, and there will be a candle in every window. Ab, no! I forget, I forget. They will have no need of the candle or of sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for ever and ever. Hail, hail, sons and daugh ters of the Lord God Alinightyt (Ooprrirut. 14, L. Kloptok.1 The HuJy as s'Raronstta The body glvea many indications of approaching rain. Rheumatic Joint always begin to ache when rain la coming on. This la due to the damp ness of the air. Those who curl the balr can Invariably predict wet weather by the fact that the hair geta out of curl. Eaat wind has a peculiar effect on the temper. If you are of an Irritable disposition, whenever you feel particu larly exasperated with everything and everybody, ten chancea to one the wind la In the east. Or you can Infal libly apot an east wind by your neu ralgic palna It you be an unfortunate sufferer. On the other hand, If you are of the nervous temperament, you can foretell twenty-four hours In advance of a storm from the south or southwest, with Its muggy weather. Even when the aky la blue and the aun bright nor Toua people feel the approach of a, southwestern gale. This Is very re markable, for the storm may be 1,000 miles away. ' -' Ood haa' no sleeping partners. Here are some of the things you Should never sny to the buby's mother: THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For March 30. Review of the Flrit Quarter, Acts I, t-M; U, 1-4 Goldea Test, Acts II., 3c Topic: The Power ef Ood Summary of the Preceding Lcisois. Introduction. In the lessons this quarter we see very clearly what God is able to do through His people. At the very begin ning of the new dispensation they received a baptism of fire and power which enabled them to triumph over every foe. Miracles were wrought, hypocrites were discovered and punished, and even in the midst of persecution and death His name was mag nified and His glory revealed, so that even the sufferings that they endured tended to the advancement of the cause. Thousands were brought to believe in Jesus. The supreme promise of prophecy and the climax of gospel fulfilment is tho bestowment of spiritual power. This is the central thought of the lessons of tho quarter. About this thought they mny be grouped as follows: Power promised, les son 1. Power possessed, lessons 2, 3, Power exercised, (a) in blessing, lesson 4; (b) in punishment, lesson 6. Power op posed, lessons 8, 7, 10. Power prevail ing, lesson 11. Power practiced, lesson 12. Summary. Lesson 1. Topic: The com ing kingdom. Places: Mount Olivet and Jerusalem. Luke the author of the Acts; Jesus about to leave the disciples; they were commanded to return to Jerusalem nnd wait for the promise of the Father; thev asl: Jesus if lie will restore again the kingdom to Israel; He promises the Holy Spirit to them; they arc to be wit nesses in nil lands: Jesus ascends to heaven; angels appear to the disciples; they return to Jerusalem and continue in earnest prayer. , II. Topic: The Pentecostal outpouring. Place: In an upper room at Jerusalem. At the feast of the Pentecost; fifty days after the Passover; the disciples assembled in nn upper room; with one nccord; sud denly n sound from heaven; tongues "like ns of fire" sat upon thnm; they were filled with the Holy Ghost; spake with other tongues; the multitude heard the sound nnd came together; Joel had prophesied concerning this outpouring. III. Topic: The effect of gospel preach ing. Place: Jerusalem. Peter continue.! his sermon begun in last lesson; showed how grent a person Jesus was; the peo ple were pricked to the heart; they saw their sin in crucifying Christ; Peter calls upon them to repent; they were promised the gift of the Holy Ghost; three thou sand believed in Christ and were added to the church; the apostles did many signs nnd wonders; those that believed sold their possessions and had all things in com mon; they continued daily in prayer in tlie temple. IV. Topic: The power of Jesus Christ. Place: At the temple in Jerusalem. Petor nnd John going into the temple see a lame man; he asks an alms; they ask him to look on them, they do not give him money, but command him to rise up nnd walk; the man was healed and went leaping and praising God; the people came together in Solomon's porch; they were filled with aina iement; Peter preached to the people; asked them why they mar veled; said God had glorified Jesus whom they had killed; and had raised Him from the dead. V. Vopic: Jesus Christ, the corner stone. Place: Jerusalem. While Peter nnd John were preaching the authorities came upon them; they were grieved be cause they preach,. 1 Jesus and the resur rection; the apostles were arrested and put in prison; many that heard the word believed; the next day the rulers nssembled nnd Peter and John were set in the midst; Peter spake to them and ngain preached Jesus; the Sanhedrin con sidered the case and decided to threaten them nnd let them go; Peter and John would not promise that they would stop preaching in the name of Christ. VI. Topic: The trials of the early church. Place: Jerusalem. Those who believed were united; they sold their pos sessions and had all things common; no one lacked nnything; Barnabas sold his land and laid the money at the apostles' feet; the apostles witnessed of toe res urrection of Jesus with great power; An anias and Sapnhira sold their possessions; they tried to deceive tho apostles and kept bnee part of the price; the Lord is not mocked, and ns a punishment for their sin they both fell down dead at Peter's feet; fear caine upon the church. VII. Topic: The impossibility of sup pressing tho gospel. Place: Jerusalem. Such great numbers wcro added to the church that the rulers nnd Sadducees de termined to stamp out the new religion; the apostles were arrested and brought before the council; Peter preached Jesus to them; they were cut to the heart nnd "took counsel to alay them:" Gamaliel's speech saved their lives. VIII. Topic; Choosing the seven dea cons. Place: Jerusalem. Tho number of the disciples wus large and the ntiostlcs could not properly uttend to all the worthy poor; a general meeting was called nnd seven men were chosen to attend to that business. IX. Topic: Stephen's death. Place: Jerusalem. Stephen still before tho San hedrin; makes u long address in which he shows thnt their charges arc false ; they cried out against hiin; cast him out of the city and stoned him; Saul consented to his death. X. Topic: Preaching to the Samaritans, rince: A city in Samaria. Saul perse cuted the church greatly; the disciples were scattered abroad and went every where preaching the word. Philip preached in Samaria; many were healed; unclean spirits wero cast out and there was much joy in the city. Simon the sorcerer pre tended to be converted. XI. Topic: Salvation through Christ. Places: Gaza. Caesarea. Azotus. Philip is directed to go south of Jerusalem into Gaza; he draws near to s man of Ethiopia who is reading the Scriptures; Philip asked bim if he understood the passage he was reading; tho man did not, where upon Philip was invited into the chariot; the place he read was Isaiah 53; Philip preached Jesus to the eunuch. Xn. Topic: The godly walk of the Christian. Place: Rome. Christiana should walk in love, avoid all. unclean ness, covetousness, foolish jesting and idolatry; have no fellowship with the un fruitful works of darkness; reprove sin: walk in the light; awake from spiritual lethargy; be not drunk with wine; be filled with the Spirit; give thanks to God; submit to one suotfier. Stniple and Amusing lis me. A email feather with a very little stem must be produced to play the feather game; also a tablecloth or small aheet. The feather la placed upon this, and the company stands in a circle, holding the sheet. Some one gives the feather a blow, and the object of the time la to pre vent It from touching any one. Each one gives the feather a puff whenever It comes near him, and over It goes to the other aide again. The excitement produced la very great, and It la always a most amusing spectacle, the onlookers enjoying It almost as much as the players' themselves. AdsIous to Pay Tbslr floes. Among the anomalies which the pro hibition law has given rise to In Kan sas la a fervont desire on the part of certain law breakers to pay the penalty of their crime. At Wellington the temperance folk started to get out an Injunction prohibiting the city treas urer from accepting the fines which were Imposed on Jolntkeepera every month. And the Joiutkeepera beat this game by rushing In and paying their tines, 300 each, six months ia advance. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. I'nemi The Lovo ol God A Parable. De signed to Illustrate That Man Cannot Pay Too High a Price Ftir Eternal Lire .Common hrnse and tho lllble. God's boundless love ond arching sky Above us when we wake or sleep. Above us when we smile or weep, Above us whss we live vr die. God's tireless love! Beside the cot, ' Of her sick child the mother slees; The Heavenly Father ever keeps l;nweary watch He ((lumbers not. God's patient love! Misunderstood By hearts thnt suffer in the night; Doubted yet waiting till heaven's light Shall show how all things work for good. God's changeless love! The wandering one Forsukes, forgets, dishonors, yet. Repenting, going home, is met With no reproach "Welcome, My rou." God's endless love! What will it bo When earthly shadows flee away, For nil eternity's hrig'it day, The unfolding of that love to see? Mnltbie 1). ltabcock. The Parables. To the Editor Please explain Matthew 1:1: 4". Win is the merchantman, and who are the pearls? Header. The parable of the merchantman nnd the pearl of great price nnd the parable of the treasure hid in a field were both designeil to illustrate the teaching that man cannot pay too high a price for eternal life. It is the same truth that Jesus, taught in a still more pointed way when a very rich young man who was also a very good younii man, up to tho measure of his understand ing of life's obligations kneeled before Him on the public road and asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus said, "Sell whatsoever thou hast, nnd give to the poor, nnd thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cros nnd follow Me." (Mark 1(1: 21). And He taught, it again when Ho said, "li thine eye t-nuse hee to stumble, cast it out; it "if good for thee to enter the kingdom of God with one eye rather than having two cyos to be cust into hell." It is not worth while to debate over th( symbols used in our Lord's pnrablcs. One man might attach one meaning to one ol the symbols and another another, nnd yet they might be both right or both wroiip in their interpretation of the parable as whole. The important thing in each case is to get at the truth whirh the parable was intended to set forth, nnd that is usu ally q iite easy if we look directly and sim ply at the picture presented by our Lord ami no not try to exercise our ingenuity ir. thinking up hidden or unlikely mean inns to try and make the parable agree with our ideas of truth. The parables of our Lord were not in tended to be interpreted literally or tc l'i:ve a meaning attached to each sentence Jv-.'-h' parable is designed to set forth soni great truth in regard to the kingdom ol heaven which Jesus had come to set up on earth, uud the whole parable should b read in its relation to that truth. Other vise- very false ideas with regard to the character and manner of the kingdom wil! inevitably be found in the parables. Tor instance, it is easy to make the para b'.e of Dives und Lazarus teach that hell, or purgatory, is n place purilicntinn; foi the rich man, who was utterly selfish on earth, is represented as having developed a missionary spirit in hades. In like manner, the parable of the "Un just Steward" might be made to teach that righteousness is not so important nt shrewdness; for it is written that "hii lord c mimended the unjust steward be cause he had done wisely" although hif wisdom consisted in swindling his lord. Or again, the parable of the "Importu nate Widow" might be used to teach that God grants prayers only to get rid of tht petitioners without any regard to the qual ity of the prayer. And the parable of the "Laborers in the Vineyard" might easily be used to prove that it would make no difference to a man in the end whether he had served God al' his life or had only begun in old age. Common sense must always ho used in the interpretation of the Bible if we want to have un intelligent comprehension of it teaching. The Bible was intended princi pally for simple-minded folk; not to give ingenious pec pic nn opportunity to display their ingenuity. Some religious teacher get great credit for knowledge nnd under Ktimding of the Scriptures, because they bring new ideas out of them. And there i n class of religious people who nre nlwnyr running after such teaching, and win. whenever they get a new thought which pleases them say they have "got such o blessing" from the sermon or address tr which they have been listening. These people have nn altogether erroneous idei of the religion of Christ, which does not consist in ru ining after new ideas, but ir doing new works. New York Wttuess. Let Your Hearts Ue Openod. Take a stone. i!nh it over a vessel of water; then with n sledge break open that stone. How much moisture will you fiiui within? Is it not as e'.ry as though the sun had spent his hottest beams upon il for a century? And when our Lord'i ringers are still moist from the shower ol blessings Ho l as poured upon us -nnd Hii word still l ings in our ears how much has our heart absorbed and appropriated foi its own salvation? We are rich in spirit ua) things not in proportion to the seed that has been sown, but proportion to thai seed that-has found u hiding place in tlx soil of the human soul, where it can be nourished and finally wave in harvests ol Christlike character. Kev. C. P. Wiles. Lutheran, Pittsburg. Why We Fall of Happiness. .The Christian who fails of happiness and joy in this present world meets with sucr failure only because he has never by faith laid hold upon this sublime assurance. It is true that few of us ever reach the height of perfect confidence in God's manipula tion of every event to brir.g about blessing to the believer, but our real comfort wil always be a direct ratio to the complete ness of our abandon of trust to Him win gave Himself for us. Bishop Charles Kd ward Cheney, Reformed Episcopalian, Chi cago. No Boul Favoritism. Christ's gospel of democracy knows nn soul favoritism. All men, as sinners stand in need of God's mercy. All mils! repent. There is no gospel fur u class,-mi compromise with unrighteousness because of high position. The rich man who steals is a thief as surely as the poor man. Rev K. L. Powell, Christian Church, Louisvii' The Uses of Adversity. Afflictions develop new graces of charac ter and make us near like Christ, who is the perfect man. Why should we not be con tent to suffer with faith and hope in Christ that we may gain the crown of righteous ness that fadeth not sway? Rev. Dr. J. H. Munro, Presbyterian, Philadelphia. The Two Worlds. Thus are the two worlds in juxtaposition. They overlap each other. Eternity and time are so mingled that we cannot tell where the one ends r.nd the other begins. Rev. Dr. George H. Hepworth, G'ougre rationalist, New York. - Don't Mind Heat or Cold. The native camels of Siberia are a aource of constant wonder to travelers. On the Mongolian platoau, for Instance, the thermometer often registers a tem perature of 40 degrees below aero, but the camels do not mind It at all, walk ing about as blithely aa It the weather were aa balmy aa spring. On the other hand, .the temperature on the Gold Deanrt In summer la sometime 140 de grees abpve aero, and the beasts mind that heat JtiHt aJ little as they do the extreme cold. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS, March -"Tht Rlaea Life; Christ's: Oar" Lake ixlv, 1-12; Col III, MO. (Easier Service.) Scripture Verses Mark vl 11. 34, 35;' Luke Ix. 23. 24; Acta xv. 25, 26; xx. 24; Rom. vl. 10, 11; 1 Cor. x. 31; 11 Cor. V. 15; Phil. I. 20, 21; Rev. v. 9, 10; xil. 11. Lesson Thoughts. Christ's resurrection from the dead Is not only tho fulfillment of the proph ecy concerning him, but It? la the only foundation of our hope of a risen lifo with him. One test of our risen life Is its power of growth. If we are alive In Christ, we are growing up Into the mature of Christ. No Christian has begun to live till he has begun to die only as the old life of sin has been destroyed can the new life of grace Increase. Selections. 0 happy Easter lilies, standing Bweot and white Like tall and fragrant randies that make the altar bright! 1 long with the soaring mimic, with the -day's thought In accord, To be pure as an Easter Illy, and to give myself to the Lord. ' The man of the world, who Is liv ing a selfish life, has nothing he can call his own, for he knows not the hour when he shall be separated from his earthly treasures, and bo has no treasures In heaven. The man Hint is living the Christian life can say, "All things are mine, and I am Christ's, and Christ Is God's." "Ho that hath the Son bath the life," and having It la resistless evi dence that Jesus rose from the dead. Thoso who make that life known will find constantly new and Joyful evi dence of his living presence and of their immortal life in him. Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not In books alone, but In every leaf In springtime. The shortest life Is long enough if It lead to a better, and the longest life la too short It It do not. Suggested Hymns. As lives the flower within the seed, Christ has risen! hallelujah! The call of God Is Bounding clear. Take my life and let It be. He dies! He dies! the lowly man of sorrows. He lives and loves, our Savior. BP WORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS March 30 Th: Risen Life, Christ's Ours Luke xxlv, 1-12; Col. HI, 110. Next to the death of Christ Itself the resurrection wa3 considered by the apostles the greatest fact In Chris tianity. What Paul makes so much o! there again and again recurs through out his epistles, always to be em phasized as an event of Biipremo im portance. How encouraging to think that the rise and fall of God's king dom Is not left entirely to our falter ing faith and fickle service! The an gel of his presence is always ahead, beckoning us on. It is sympathetic, comforting, inspiring. It proclaims light out of darkness, joy in sorrow, hope In despair, aud urges to a great forward movement out of a seeming collapse of the kingdom. Thus the resurrection became the great watch word of the Church and the most won derful sympol of the power of God, of the transtorming nature of his grace and of the Christian's certain victory. In the Colosslan epistle Paul uses It as the most fitting Illustration of the new life in Jesus. In chapte.-u 1 and 2 he shows that when his readers be came Christians, by faith In Jesus, they died with hlm( II, 20), wcro bur led, then raised and made alive to- , gether with him (ii. 11-13; Rom. vl, 1- 11). Thus they were restored to peace and favor with God (I, 21-23), were severed from their old life of sin (11, 11), and were set In the path of holiness (1, 22). Eelng thus dead and risen aealn with Cluiat, tho only rational thing was "to seek thosu things which were above;" "to set their minds on heavenly thingB" (HI, 1). The present developing life of the Christian in union with the hidden Christ Is the type and the pledge of the future consummate flower of tho Christian life, in union with the glor ious manifested Saviour. Paul, the apostle, believed thai when a man exercisea earing faith in Jesus ho is joined to him in such a way that ho is separated from his former self and made "dead to tho world. Considered with reference to what a man has ceased to the chonge may be called death. He kills off uniieanneiss, anger, passlou, filihy desire, covetousneHs. mullco, lazinesa and all such; he closes up every me-uns of his soul slnv.ard. Considered In the light of what tho man becomes, It Is resurrection. It is a uew life la which be puts on all noblo and Gtid like qualities and becomes like Christ. There is an lmpartatlon of lifo by union with Christ, which is not Inaptly compared to a resurrection, and this life Is hidden with Christ In Go. Above the more- boelily or Intellectual life there 'Is a spiritual or emotional living In which the aoul la conscious of God and touches him by aspiration, faith and love. This Is the loftiest lite. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. HERE are still a few men who scat ter alma and sound their troumpets be fore them. The hand of of ficialdom cannot save the world. The Boundcflt fruit will be on the tempest-torn tree. It we prayed as long as God would listen we would never cease. The diamonds of truth are more easily lost than the pebblea of error. It 1b not wise to aet the house on fir to thaw the troten wator-plpea. Will, Be Given Fats Teeth. The dentists Bent to the front by the British war office have proved Bueh great boon to the troops In South Africa, that It has been dectdtd to augment their number, and Bis more are under orders to proceed. It has been found that many of the recruits have been neglected because of bad teeth, and It 1 proposed to equip de ficient recruits with seta of teeth at a coat of $5 each. 5li.W" THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poem: ,m rt Me-A Los-leal St.,elneat ofthe Reasons Why Every Voong Man lionl.l Abataln Prom Intoxicating Llqnors-Whlsky Mocks Hideously. Tho story, sir! why, really, I haven't much to say: If you had called one year ago, and then attain to-day, Ao need of anv word to tell, for your own eyes could see Just what the Temperance Pledge has done lor Jim and me. The pail that holds the milk, r,ir, wc med to fill with beer, ut we haven't spent a cent for drink for now nearly a year. Vte pay our debts, we're well and strong, fand kind as men can be, ' That i what God and the Temperance Pledge has done for Jim and mc. We used to sneak along the street, feeling so mean and low We always felt ashamed to meet the friends we used to know. We look the world now in the face, nnd step off bold and free; That's what God and the Temperance Pledge has done for Jim and me. Temperance ilanuer. Af9- A Warning;. ITenry Ward Ileecher, wlioae sermons on tempernnre every young man should rend, said this: "If you say, 'Yes, I have a natural crav ing for it, ond then to you I sav, 'That is the very reason why you should not take it. If you have no craving for it why should you peril yourself by it? And if you hnvo such a crnving. surely, if you are wise, you will not put yourself in danner by indulging it.' " Look nt the thing from the viewpoint of your own intercut. If you had to employ youn,i men to work for you you would avoid drinking men. Then don't drink whisky yourself. Don't give every successful, conservative man the best of reasons for mistrusting you. Very often moral cowardice underlies the beginning of n drunken career. There are ideas of good fellowship r.sMjeiated with drinking. , A hundred thousand voung men drink every day because they nre afraid people will think they are not "good fellows." Have the courage to be a good fellow of the kind that is not pickled in whisky. hen n man wonders at your ordering f-onie hnrmlciH stuff, something free from alcohol, point to trie drunkard at the other end of the bar ond say: "That man once thought that a bracer would not hurt him. I am modest enough to believe thnt what hurt him mav hurt me. I shall need all niv feeble ability to compete with such geniuse as yon other fellows. Therefore I propo.se to keep in tact my brain and the- mucous membrane tint lines mo." Remember above all that the truest thing ever said of strong drink is that it is "a mrcker." Kvery sensation that comes from whisky is a mockery. Everv promise based on whisky is noe-kery. The strength of whis ky is niiick strength. The friendships of whixky are mock iriend.ihitis. How often have vou seeu such hideous mockeries of friendship drunken men with amis around each other protetintr friendship etern.il? Whiskv mocks hideously all the sacred feelings in life, and it destroys them all. Has whisky no work to do? Yes. it has an important work. It is the policeman, the executioner among human beings. It wipes out the unfit nnd softens the pain of their destruction. It wipes out families unfitted to survive. It shortens the hnrm ful career of the spendthrift and of the man squandering inherited money. It has its place in medicine, uloi.g with strych nine, arsenic and the other poisons. It has no place in the constitution, the dailv life, the social pleasures of a normal, set' rcspe;ting man. New York Journal. Three Kvll Practices. In behalf of temperance there are seme simple things which mav be advocated with good results. Practical business men gen erally agree that a large part of nil the evils of drunkenness are caused by three practices, namely, drinking at bars, drink ing in business hours and the habit of treating. It is generally agreed bv com mercial travelers, and all who in. active lifo see human nuture at al angles, that more temptntion comes out of these three prac tices than from any other source. Treat ing, especially, is resnnnsililR for mnnv evils. It not only leads to drinking in bnr rooms and in business hours, but it is al most the sole cause of the excess which, practiced indefinitely, finally becomes a habit always difficult to overcome, some times impossible, liusinees men are more and more coming to tho decision that drinking in business hours must be abol ished. I5y and ty they will go further nnd characterize the habit of treating as per nici ins nnd therefore u igentlenianly, un social and undesirable. The habit of treat im; has a ridiculous side. If that could he fully recognized, the pernicious habit might be laughed out of existence. An Expert on Drink. r-eved Ribbing, the famous professor oi medicine at the Swedish University oi Lr.nd, makes these remarkable statements in concluding an address ou one phase oi the drink curse: "How large a per cent, of moral down falls arc caused through drink 1 am unable to say, but certainly it is not infrequent that you hear from many a questioned youth for an answer, 'I was somewhat un der the influence of liquor.' Through drunkenness and in drunkenness one ac customs himself to conditions which, un der ordinary circumstances, would be re ligiously shunned. In course of time the sense of shame is overcome, and silenced, and the evil habits are looked upon as an every-day necessity. The cases when a young man will in cold-bloodedness and with a clear head and with decided inten tion threw himself into the arms of pros titution are very seldom in comparison with those that happen under the influence cf liquor. An English army physician has shown figuratively that sickness in a troop is much less among the tot.il abstainer than with the balunce of the Lieu." Ham's Horn. Require Total Abstinence. As a result of Carrol D. Wright'j labor bureau investigations it appears that more than seventy-rive per cent. e.f the employ ers of skilled labor in the United Slates require total abstinence of their employes, and lif ,y per cent, of the employers of un skilled labor demand the same. The Crusade In Brief. There is a growing tendency among wom en to the indulgence of alcoholic beverages. The clergy could not do a better work than to lead off iu a pledge-signing temper ance crusade. So serious has tho drawback of beer drinking workiugmen in Germany become, and so thoroughly is it recognized, that movement has been started to exclude the drink from factories. In the struggle for life which social in dependence engenders there is often the clement of failure or overstrain, and wom en, too weak in many instances to bear th strain, resort to stimulants. In England the habit of alcoholic indul gence among women of the lower classes is much greater than in America. If the State will only educate the chil dren against strong drink, England, com mercially, may even yet be saved. Dr. Hewwood Smith gives as reasons for nlcohuhsin among women the increasing in dependence of women a liberty which some of tlinn interpret as license for self indulgence iu accordance with their incli nations. The Executive Committee of the last Knights Templar parade at Louisville, Ky., requested all citizens wh(t!jve liquid to the nisrchiug columns in tbpmude not to dispense twer or spirituous liquor that would imperii the health of iliote) parading. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Ocoerat Trade Cenditkas. R. G. Dun & Company' "Weekly Re view of Trade" says; "Consumers of iron and steel products are still anxious; regarding conditions during the nU threee months. After July I it i- b licved that deliveries will be ample. Ac cording to the 'Iron Age' the weekly cm pacity of pig iron furnaces in blast ost March I had declined to 330,710 tons, of, about ten thousand tons from the pro duction on February I. All records Brio to February I are still eclipsed and ttt resumption of many idle plants thi month practically assures new high watr marks in the near future unless some uiw foreseen interruption occurs. Official in dications of farm reserves on March a were not surprising as to corn, but th statement that 23 per cent, of the enor mous wheat yield remained in farmers hands was not calculated to sustain values. Needed rains in the Southwest, made the outlook more favorable for the next crop and further weakness in (rnota tions developed. A sustaining feature was the interior movement of only 2fibif 891 bushels, against 3,152,650 last year. "Failures for the week were 232 in thty United States, against 209 last year, an 34 in Canada, against 33 in loot." LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Best Patent, $400; High Graefer Extra, $4.40; Minnesota Bakers, $3-75 3-85- Wheat New York No. 2, 8sc; Phil adclphia No. 2, 85' ja86c; Baltimore No 2, 84-)4c. Corn New York No. 2, fx)lic; Phila dclphia No. 2, 65a65l4c; Baltimore No 2, (7'Ac. Oats New York No. 2. 52c; Fhiladel phia No. 2, sic; Baltimore No. 2, 49350c. May No. I, timothv large bales $ 15.0 aij.so: No. 2 timothy, $14.00314.50; Ncu 3 do, $i2.ooai3.oo. Green Fruits and Vegetables Apple ' New York, assorted, per brl., $37534.50; York Imperials, per brl., $J 7534.001, Beets Florida, new, per crate, $3.00 4 00. Broccoli Norfolk, per brl., 7oa8sc Cabbage New York, large Danish, per ton, $i8.ooaig.oo; do, small Danish, per ton, $i6.ooai7.oo; do, new Flnriela, per crate $1.503175; do, Early York, pet crate, $2.0032.25. Carrots Native, per bti. box, 45350c. Celery Nstive, per hunch, 283c- Eeirplants Florida, prt crate, $3.5034.00. Grape fruit Floriela. per box, fancy, $3.0036.00. llorseradisla Nstivc, per box, $l.ooai.25. Lettuce North Carolina, per half-barrel basket.' 75ca$i.25; do, Floriela, per half-barrel basket, $i.ooa2.oo. Onions Man land) and Pennsylvania, yellow, per hu., $1 1531 1.20; do( Western, yellow, per bu., $1.1531 1.20. Oranges Florida1, per box, as tat sie, $2.2533.25; do, California seeding, per box, $17532.25; do, navels, per box. $2.5033.00. Oysterplants Native, per bunch, 2!4a3c. Radishes Floriela, per bunch, long, Ija2c. Spinach Native, per bu. box, 35350 ; elo, Norfolk, per brL,. $1.0031.25. Spring onions, per ioq bunches, 55.160c. Strawberries Florida, per quart, refrigerator, 20325s ; do, open crate, 103 1 5. Tomatoes Florid.1, per six l)3skct csrricr, fancy, $27533.00; Ho, fair to good, $i.50a2.oo. Turnips Native, per bu. box, 25330c. Potatoes. White. Maryland and Penn sylvania, per bu., No. I, 75378c; do, sec onds, 65a-o; do. New York, per bu., best stock, 75378; do, seconds, 65370; do. Western, per bu., prime, 75378. Sweet Eastern Shore, Virginia, kiln-dried, per brl., $3.25a2 40; do, per flour brl, $2.50 275; do. .Maryland, per brl., fancy, $2,001 a$2.5o; do, York River, per brl. No. 1 $2.ooa2.50. Yams North Carolina, per brl., No. 1, $1.5031.75. Butter Separator. 28a2c)c ; gathered, cream, 24325c; imitation. 20321c; prints, l-lb., 28a2Qc: rolls, 2-Ib., 28a2Qc; dairy prints. Md.. Pa. and Va., 26327c. Eggs. Maryland and Pennsylvania, per dozen, I5ai6c; Esstcrn Shore, Mary land and Virginia, do, 15316; Virginia, do. 315; West Virginia, do. aij; Western, do,; 315; Southern. 314 guinea, do, a . Duck Eastern Shore Fancy, per dozen. a30c;do, Western and Southern, do, 28329; do, small and dirty, do, 27328 ; goose, 45350. Cheese New cheese, large, 60 lbs, 12a. I2!4c; do. rl3ts, 37 lbs, 12J4 to 12H i pic nics. 23 lbs. I3ij) to 13c. Live and Dressed Poultry. Turkeys Hens, choice, 15 aioc; young toms choice al4. Chickens Hens, i2ai2: old roosters, csch 25330; young a 13. Ducks Fancy, large, 13314c; do, small, naia. Geese, Western, each 55375c. Guinea, fowl, each, isasoc. Dressed poultry Turkeys Hens, good to choice. i?ca hens and young toms, mixed, good tey choice, at6. Ducks, good to choice, 14 a 1 5c. Chickens Young, good to choice,, iiaI4c; mixed, old and young, nail. Gcesc, good to choice, 10013. Capons Fancy, large, 17318c. Dressed Hogs Western Maryland and' Pennsylvania lightweights, 7a7jc per nor lb ; Virginia and Southern Maryland best stock, y'j per lb, ; medium hogs-, 6j a7c and heavyweights irregular at iron 6 to 6!c per lb. Old boars less 5a5a Hides. Heavy steers, association ane salters, late kill, 60 lbs. and up. close se le-ction, loaloVSc; cows and light steers 8a85c. Live Stock. Chicago Cattle Good to prime steer. $6.5036.95; poor to medium $4.2506.30;. stockcrs and feeders $2.5035.25; cows. $1.4035.50; heifers, $2.5035.60; canner. $l.40a2.40; bulls $2.500400; calves $tooa, 6.60; Texas fed steers, $4.7535 00. Hogs. Mixed and butchers $6.0036.50; good to choice heavy $6.4036.60 ; rough heavy $6.ioa6.3o; light $6.ooa6.25; bulk of sales $6. 10116.45. Sheep Lambs active, strong,, good to strong wethers $4.5035.25 ; West ern sheep and yearlings $4.6035.90; native; lambs $4.0036.60; Western lambs $5-25 6.50. East Liberty. Cattle, choice $6.600675 ; prime $0.2036.40; good $5.5035.90. Hog higher; prime heavies, $6.6oa6.65; best mediums $6.6oa6.6s ; heavy Yorkers $6.55 a6.6o; light do, $6.25.16.40; pigs $6.om 6.15; roughs $5 0oa6.oo. Sheep steady; best weathers $5.50.15.70; culls and com mon $2.5033.50; veal calves $7.0087.50. LABOR AND INDUSTRY France has 16,000 physicians; their in comes average but $600 a year. Cleveland's labor unions have united A labor lyceum building is contemplated. The trackmen of the Pennsylvania; Railroad at Pittsburg will join the na tional association. The iron trades' strike at San Francis co, which has been on for ten months may be amicably adjusted. The presidents of the Pennsylvania, coal compsnics refuse to meet the laboc representatives re-garding the' new wag? scale. At St. Johns, Newfoundland, the crews of sailing steamers strut las; week, causing a complete tie up. Buffalo is to have a labor temple. Its 25,000 union men are to be taxed 5 cent a week to raise thefunds. The 75.000 members of New YimV City's two Building Trade Unions have been united in 011c organization. The carpenters of Knoxvillc, Teua, have demanded an increase of w;.ge3 an I have allowed their, employers thirty dw in which to aRree to their de-man s. Thirty cents per hour is ankd, in :1 .e of 25 cents. The carpenters oUo deh 'i f an eight-hour day instead ot the 1. s hours now prcvailira.
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