I FROM BETHEL TO BETHEL Sunday Dlscourst by Dr. Chapman, th Noted PaslorEvaafetlsL Thirty Yaars f Tim Btwta th Tts Virloai Exstrtoocas ot Jacob Pray At Uti T Nrw Yoiik CtTT. The Rev. Dr. J. Wil bur Chapman, tlie popnlar pastor-evtngel-ist, who in now preaching to overflowing congreratinna in thin city, hnn furnished the following, eloquent sermon to the preM. It wan preached from the text ''Let us arise and go up to Bethel." Gene ait 35: 3. I doubt not you have frequently aeen the sky when throughout a long day it has heen overcast with clouds, only now and then the aun would break forth but for a moment and then the curtain would be drawn together once more and only the cloud were to be aeen. To me thia ia an illustration of the life of Jacob. The aim breaks through at Bethel, and while thia seems to be a mixing of figures, for the hour of the vision waa in the night, yet the glory of heaven waa upon him brighter than the shinim of the aim. It pushes ita way through at Poniel, once more appears in hia natbetic love for Joseph, anil Inter in hia dignified appearance in the presence of Pharaoh, but for the most part hia waa a life with a cloudy aky, and vet there are few atoriea more interesting. What Peter ia to the New Testament Jacob ia to the Old. The Bible would hardly be complete without the accounts of these two remarkable men. When we read of the "Saviour of Peter" we are comforted, for we find ourselves saving, "If Jaua can save such a man as Peter, transforming him from the fisherman to the preacher, from the profane man to the writer of Epistles, there is hone for every one of us." We read about the "God of Jacob" and are inspired, for there are few of us to-day whose lives are so deceitful, whose characters are so questionable aa Jacob's, and yet he became Israel the Trince. Is anything, too hard for the Lord? From Bethel to Bethel ia a good subject growing out of such a text. Thirty years of time stretch out between the two ex periences, and yet in these thirty years Jacob passes through much that is beyond ordinary interest, as, for example, his ex periences with Latum, when he toiled four teen years for his beloved Rachel, the pros perity which came to him both bv fair means and foul, his atrugglinz with the angel at Jabbok's Ford, and hia tarrving at Shechem contrary to the command of God. for in it all he was never satisfied, for I hold it true that if one has once been to Bethel nothing else can satisfy, and if we have ever had a vision of heiwen the earth ever afterward seems dull a.id unin teresting. After all this varied experience Jacob is at Bethel once again. It is not much in itself, just a long range of hills running north and south, the eastern slope de scending to the Jordan and the western slope stretching away toward the more thickly ponulnted part of the country. Through the valley before us illustrouj travelers in all the history of the Holy Land huve made their journey, and up the rough mountain road neople have climbed with great delight. There is no house in sight and no animals are to be seen ex cepting now and then nn eagle or a wild mountain goat, but to Jacob it was a sa cred place. There the first night of his flight from Esau he saw the ladder which linked earth to heaven, the ladder which was thronged with angels performing their heavenly ministry, and ho heard the voice of Hod. There are some words we cannot apeak without arousing the tendered emo tions and the holiest memories. Mother is such an one. I well remember preach ing to a crowd of rough miners in the mountains, holding their interest passably well until I spoke this matchless name, when all faces were softened and tears were seen in many eyes. Home ia another auch word. You douhtlesa remember the soldiers at Sebastopol, brave men who were ready to die, many of whom did die, bursting into tears us thev heard the band of musicians playing "Home, Sweet Home," and Bethel was such a word to Jacob. It stirred the best that was in him, and was the summons of God bidding his better nature to arouse itself. We have all of us had our Bethels. Some of us are separated from them by the dreary lapse of time, and between those happy days and our present unsatisfactory experience days, weeks, months and even years stretch out, we say it to our shame. For some of us an active business life has separated us from Bethel, nnd yet this ia positively unnecessary. "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord," and if there ia anything in your business that dampens your spiritual ar dor, or blinds your vision of Christ,' either your business ia wrong or you aro wrong yourself. With some a foreign residence lies be tween us and Bethel. Back in the old country we were most faithful and devoted to Christ ond constantly serving the church, but in this free land we have for gotten our vows, we have made the fatal mistake of leaving God out of our calcula tions, and somehow teem to forget the words of the Psalmist, "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth and the aea Thou art there." We might have been in fellowship -with God all these days if we would. With some of us it ia worldlinesa that has dimmed our vision and robbed ns of power, and that is tha sad part of the story. Obligations once taken upon us have been overlaid and buried with the lapse of years, and I would like if I might to touch the harp of memory and bring back those hapny days once more when our vision of Christ was unclouded, our appropriation of the spirit of God com plete and our joy inexpressible, so there fore I say. "Let us arise and go to Bethel." I would like to carry you back perhaps a quarter of a century when you left your home like Jacob and you said, "If God will I will." All these years He has been near to you pouring out upon you His best ble3sings. I ask you, have you kept your TOW! flaxy Christians suffer from spirit ual declension; they scarcely realise it, the stupor has come on so gradually, and it is only on a day like this when thev compare what they are with what thev once were that they realize their dangerous position. We do not come to ba like Judas in a dav or even like Peter, but we leave our Lord by inches, some little sin creeps in at which we smile to-day, but which defeats us to-morrow, and we are out of tune, we have lost our power, we are not what we want to be ourselves, and if our heart con demn us God it greater than our heart and knowctb all things. Wo need, there fore, to go back to Bethel. Where was your Bethel! Perhaps in tome little church where on a certain oc casion you forgot the minister- and the ona sitting by your side and had a yision of glory, or in some homo where poverty abounded, but you were utterly unmindful of it. The house was filled with heaven and down to every pillow was sent the lad der, up and down which angels of God made their way. Or it may have been in ome other land where you had a vision of God, and while we may not make the journey back to these places in the flesh we can go back in thought and meet Hm. Shall we not do ao? Aa many as God loves He reminds constantly of neglected duties, sometimes using conscience, some times His providences; to-day in the lost of propcriy xi aucans, to-morrow in the de parture of health, again in the death of a friend. It would ba a good thing If we aliould atop and listen to Hia warning aud .hen, arise and go to Bethel. I. Soma preliminary ttepa. Before wa may ,yr. expect to go back to the place of i blessing it will be necessary for us to ob serve too instructions which Jacob gave Jto Jus household. . ! First, "put away the strange gods," that is literally "the God of the strangers." I . lliey have been living with tha enemies ol i' Pople, and littls by little the god. ol these people had gotten possession of itnem. They were taken into their tentt !0(I then into their hearts, and they wen out of fellowship with God. Wherever there u a fungus growth in tha forest there is corruption and decay, wherever there u an idol in tlx heart thera is a trash indication of weakness, and wa can tint ouie our i Jolt; Uic rtlusa to ba bid den, tvnen wa reasr expect it tnere ia a resurrection, - What is an idol? It may bo a very littli thing. That which tends to usurp an tin dua place in our affections, which givea ut more pleasure than the thought of God. it an Idol. Tha thing in our life which maket ua sacrifice nearness to God, which may not nocessarily be sinful, only questionable is an idol. That which make ut indiffer ent to spiritual advantages and indifferent to Bethel ia an idol. Your reputation, your fortune, that unworthy friend upon whom you lavish your affection, these may be idols, for "no man can serve two mas. ters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or will cleave to the ona and depart from the other." Therefore put away the strange gods, and if we really want to be near to God how easv it will be to find out the thing that hinders us, and yet as a matter of fact who can put away hia idols? I cannot, I nm sure, but there is a deliverance. Do you remember the story of David and Nathan, when Da vid forgets that he ia a king and a father and tins, and Nathan is the messenger of God who comes to rebuke him with the touching story of the ewe lnmb. When David acknowledges his sin Nathan imme diately responds, "The Jxird also hath put away thy sin," and there is in this expres sion a reference to the scapegoat of the OM Testament on the dav of Atonement, when the priest confessed the sins of the people, and the goat was represented as staggering away under the load of Israel's sins, down through the valley, up the mountnin yonder until he is lost to sight, and then finally, according to tradition is pushed over into the abyss where no man is. He can put away our sins on whom the Lord hath laid our iniquity. Second, be clean. This refers to inner cleanness, which is only brought about by the indwelling of Christ. God puts away our sins, it ia true, when He forgives us, but it ia one thing to be set right concern ing the guilt of sin and onite another thing to be set free from the pollution of sin. This second orivilege is ours when Christ comes in to dwell with us. We are very much afraid of the word "holiness." in preach ing and teaching, yet we have aa much of holiness as we have of Christ, no more or no less. Lot ns be clean in heirt. This is possible bv the word of God which is cleansing in its very touch. Let ut be clean in what we lay, making a covenant with Christ to guard our lips, asking Him to keep our eves. Let us not do the things that will grieve the snirit. rememhering tha Ond can onlv use that which is clean. Third, let us change our garments. This must refer to the outward practices n our life; in other words, our habits. What is the garment we are wearing to-day? With some of us it is a robe of our own weaving, the rn'nc of selfishness and nvide. snd ma-k you this, where self eomes into a life Christ passes out. There is another robe which we may wear to-day woven in the loom of heaven hearing the red mark of the blood of Christ. I traveled the other day with a mission ary from Wisconsin, who told me how he had reached a drunken man in the woods of Wisconsin, told him the story of Christ and won him, and Inter had the joy of re ceiving the man and the six members of his household into the fellowship of the church. When Noah entered the nrk his family went with him. Let ut arise and go up to Bethel. II. Resultc. In the 5th verse we read that the people were afraid of Jacob and his company, for the terror of the Lord was upon them. Matthew Henry hat taid that when tin waa in Jacob's house he wat afraid of hit neighbors, but when the idols were put away his neighbors were afraid of him. When shall we learn the lesson that we have power over men by the wav of God. The world does not fear a worldly Christian, nor does the devil, and wo need expect no triumph over men until we have prevailed with God first. Second. God appeared and talked with Jacob. This we read in verses nine nnd ten. Of course no man can see God as He is and live. Moses asked this of God and He taid, "I will put thee in the cleft of the rock and cover thee with My hand while I pass by," and he saw the glory of the garments of God nnd Hi" face did shine, but we can see Christ, and when we behold Him in His tenderness with little children and Hia ministering to the sick und suffering everywhere we hear Him say. 'He that hath seen Me hath seen Mv Father also." God still speaks to us; if we did but have our ears open we should find Him speaking in nature. I can remem ber as a boy out in the country putting my cars up against the telegraph pole and listening to what I was told was the whirr of the messages flashing from city to city, and I used to wonder if it might be possible for tome one to hear what might even then be passing through the air. and now to-day we have accomplished thiamin the wireleas telegraphy, and if we did but have our ears open I am sure that with every rising sun, with every running stream, with every tinging bird, with every thing in nature we should hear God speak. And He speaks to, us in the Bible, but the difficulty with ut is that we have not faith. It hat long been my desire to own one of the large old-fashioned clocks used by our forefathers, and recently it became possible for me to gain possession of one. The works are perfect, the pendulum ia perfect, and the whole clock is a thing of beauty, and I started it, but the pendulum would swing for a moment and then ston, and I thought I had made a poor bargain in the purchase of my clock, but at last I discovered thera waa a little catch by means of which the pendulum was united to. the works, and I started the clock once more, and it it keeping perfect time. Here ia this Old Book truer than ever, if that were possible, certainly more precious than ever. We have called it uninteresting: we have let it alone when we might have been lihtening to its heaven born messages, none other than the voice of God. if we had but had faith. God said to Jacob. "I am God Almighty." and that was enough for Him to aay. "I will walk with thee." "If God be for ut who can be against us?" Third, in this Soth chapter of Genesis ara four burials. There is the burial of the idols, the burial of Deborah, the burial of Bachel and the burial of Isaac. It is a chanter of Borrow, but what a difference Bethel must have made in the wav that sorrow was endured. I stood not long ago in the home of a man whose child was dead, and I .heard him- say. although be had once been a Christian, that he all hut bated God, and I recall another experience where a woman with a breaking heart said with the tears flowing down her face that was shining, "The Lord gave and He hath taken away." and ahe was dwelling at Bethel. It is a beautiful thing to know that over the body of Isaac, Esau and Jacob clasped hands and were united once more. If we did but live at Bethel old dif ferences would be put away, trying expe riences would be easily met. Come, let us arise and go to Bethel. We have all of ua had Bethel experiences, ao let us go back and pray as wa used to pray, work as we used to work and preach at we uaed to preach, and the heavena will ba opened above ut. It Worried Him. Herr Kruegel's daughter, Oretchen, had been serving aa domestic about two weeks In tha household of Judga Vaughan, when father and employer met on the village street. "VM1, goodge," said Kruegal, "bow do you like dote Gretchea by dts dime alretty?" "Like her?"' returned the judge, In his blunt way, "why, she's Just great! We never had anyone la the house in her line that entered Into work with ao much spirit; she's full of snap all the time." Kruegel turned ponderingly away, and, meeting hia frau at bis home por tal, he sorrowfully said: "Teresa, somedlng must goed wiong mlt dot Gretchen; I yoost did masted Yoodga Vorgan.und he aatd dot she vas vull of schnapps all de dime." Richmond Dispatch. The authorities at Mlnden, Germany, - -- . . . .u.vj.v, c a ni i na tion of school inks. They have found ' luwoi u; iucui ivuusin Bacteria, which, if animals are inoculated with tknm nftan mw-iA mr tal lui iu( vitvu iixva mi.ai, THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For June 8. Sabjecl: Tba Couacil at Jcraialem, Acts ir.. ll-ii Oolden Text, Oal. v., I Memory Vtrtet, 25, 29 Comm-ntary on tat Day's LtMoti. rnnniin, T.inlrs Afier returnim from the first missionary journey Paul and Barnabas abode in Antioch a "long time. They wore taking a much needed rest and itenilinu to the- home work.' The great question which was now dividing the opin ions oi me cnurcn wns wimnicr nn w tilcs must become Jewish proselytes anil aubmit to circumcision in order to be saved. After a time certain Jewa who were Christiana but who still held to the ceremonial law came from Jerusalem to Antioch and began to teach among the converts there that unless iney were cir cumcised they could not be saved. The church had been in existence tor about twenty years and had extended its bord ers into several heathen towns and it in cluded many Gentiles, nnd if these teac'i ers were permitted to continue they woul. destroy the work. Our lesson properly begins with the first verso of the chapter ana inciuaes tne wnoic senium i wim first council in the history of the church. It was conducted o:i Christinn principles. It came together in the interest of tru.h, to promote peace and hnrmony between the contending factions. Those who con posed it were not pnrty men, but wee ready to yield all personal views n-.id feel ings when they saw what was right. 22. "Then pleased it " The whole church came to a unanimous decision. "To choose men." (K. V.) This nnkes it clear that the deputies sent to Antioch were chosen by ihe whole body. Tliey were chosen because of their piety and n....l:n;Ana " tnlaa f.nl?nH T.nrnnh.is.' 'uaiuii.aviuiio. u..!. .......... . . . U TI Nnt the Judas mentioned ia chap. 1: 13. His surname was Thadducus. Matt. 10: 3. Matthew Kerry and othera say that he was the brother of Joseph Barnabas. Acts. 1: 23. He ia nowhere else mentioned in the New Testament, and this is all we know of him. "And Silas.' Elsewhere called "Sylvanus." 2 Cor. 1: 19; 1 Peter 5: 12. He was a Ecno i citi zen (chap. 16: 37). nnd Paul'a companion at a later date. Chap. 10: 19, etc. "Chief men. Men of influence and autnonty in the church, in verse VI they are said lo have been prophets. They evident.y had been engaged as preachers and rulcra ia the church at Jerusalem. 23. "Wrote letters." They tent a writ ten communication so the churches could have the exact words of the decision. "By them." By Judas and Silas. "Greeting. A salutation expressing their desire of no happiresa of the persons addressed. "Syria." Antioch was the capital of Syria, and from this we see that the trouble had spread to other places in the prov ince. "Cilicia." Paul'a native proviics. It is probab'y that t'.ie controverscy had not arisen in the same form in other places. 24. "Have heard." Through Paul and Barnabas. "Certain." Those referred to bled you with doctrinca producing con tention. "Subverting." This ia used in the senso of disturbing or destroying, and here denotes that tney unsettled their ininds and produced anxiety and distress by these doctrines about Moses. "No commandment. (R. V.) They went wh-d'y without authority. Omitting tha word "such," which is not in the Greek, makes the expression stronger, 23. "Seemed good." It reemed to us the proper thing to do. "With one ac cord. How wonderfully the Holy Spu-it had finally united them in settling this great question. "Our beloved." Tne in tention of the whole letter is to show the honor which the church in Jerusalem U.t was due to these missionary laborers. 20. "Hazarded their lives." More than once they had been in treat danger. Chap. 13: (50; 14: 19, etc. This was a strong endorsement of Paul ami Barnabas. "In tho name," etc. This is the supremo motive of all true Christian eriort. 27. "Also tell you." They would f,iv-3 fuller information and answer cvc:y in ouirv that might be nronoaed. 28. "It seemed good," etc. Thi3 ex pression shows that although tiie tivi agencies were distinct, yet they were in perfect accord. "Necessary things." V..ey were necessary in order to promoto the peace and concord of Jewish and Gen tile Christianity at that tine; but tha fourth requirement ia a perpetual prohi bition. 29. "Offered ti idols." Nearly nil meats were thus desecrated. To the Jew this waa nn abomiration. "And from blood." This was forbidden by the la.r of Mosca (Lev. 3: 17; 17: 1J-H), but among the Gentilea it was a delicacy. "Things strangled." Animals dying from suffocation. These were not used for food by the Jews, because tha blood was still in them. Paul discusses this question in Bomans 14 and I Corinthians 8. "From fornication." Thia waa a requirement of a different kind and it always binding. It waa added because it was the peculiar and besetting siu of the Gentiles, who did not regard it as wrong, but ns a part of their worship, in honor of their gods. The Eurity of the church was nt stake. Tho evitical law waa very strict against ev ery form of nnchastity. See Lev. 18 and 20. "Shall do well." Bee R. V. "Fare ye well." The ordinary close of a letter anciently. Be ye in health and vigor. 30. "Dismissed." In all probability wi.h religious services (compare 13: Si, and perhaps with sn escort for some miles on the way. "Down to Antioch." (It. V.) Jerusalem, the chosen place, is always referred to in the Bible as "up." In reference to Jerusalem all other places would be "down." "The multitude. Tha whole body of the church. It was a mes sage from one church to another. 31. "Rejoiced." That they were not to be subjected to the burdensome rights and ceremonies of the Jewish religion. "Consolation." The consolation would be felt by the Jews aa well aa the Gen tiles. 32. "Being prophets." Not in the sense of foretelling future events, but, being filled with the K,.ir't, they spake in cs plantation of the word of God. "Con firmed." Strengthened and established them in faith. 33. "A apace." A space of tirio. "In peace." The brethren took leave of them in the best wishes for their safety and welfare. Judas and Silas both retr.rncl to Jerusalem, aa their commission would require, but Silas must have anon re.ioi iel Paul at Antioch, sin a we find him there in verse 40. Luke baa passed over tht second journey. Wise Old Goat. Farmer Walnwrlght of Cascade baa a pet goat and a pet puppy that art Creat friends. Together tbey ramble through the neighborhood during tha goat's spare moments, when there are no oyster cans, door scrapera and other edibles for It to nibble. The singular behavior of the goat Sunday afternoon attracted the atten tion of the farmers. It ran to and fro, bleating plteoualy and seemed half distracted. Some one suggested that the animal should be followed. The goat seemed to appreciate the fact that It was understood, and led the way to the rear of the yard where the puppy was found In a pit ten feet deep, almost in its last struggles. The puppy was rescued and resTored to the goat, which greeted It with fond caresses and bleated Ita thanks to the rescuers. Susquehanna, Pa:, Cor respondence New York Sun, . trsvaga SastUs Lawsuit. Because a Seattle telephone girl re fused to connect a subscriber to tha fire department vbea ha wanted to give notice of a lire, a loss of 60,00u was Incurred, and now tha talephoue company Is being sued for damagis by tba person thus served and by the Insurance company which suffered tha loss, says a Calltorc'.a paper. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS Jua 8 "How lh Weak Btcorna Strong" 2 Cor. xll. 9, 10; lis. ill 19; Mil 11 Scrlpturo Verses. Joel II, 28, 29; Luke xxlv. 49; John xlv. 16, 2tt; Acts 1. 8; 11. 38, 30; Iv. 31; v. 32; xlll. 2; Rom, vliU 20; Jude xx. 21. Lesson Thoughts. The healthiest, strongest Ivy vine will In Its own power never rearh higher thsn the ground; It Is only when, knowing Its own weakness, It seizes upon the strength of the oak, It gains power to climb higher. So our weakness, driving us to almighty strength, can life us to undreamed of heights of power. Plants grow gradually, physical power Increases llttlo by little, day by day; the spiritually weak gain strength In the same way by dally prayer, study and exercise. Selections. The strongest amongt us Ir utter ly Impotent for any good work; but the weakest ninong ua Is mighty If ho work with God. "Without me ye can do nothing," salth the Savior. "I can do all things through Christ strengthening mo," said his apoatlw. If we think to bo efficient causes of good ourselves, we shall bo disappoint ed. If we are willing to be instru ments In the iinnds of God. we can ac. compllsh anything he pleases, for tho power will be his, not ours. O ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power. Heed ye this gentle whisper, "Could ye not watch one hour?" For frultfulness and blessing there is no royal road; The power of holy service Is Inter course with Ood. The power cannot be separated from Its source. The power lasts while the connection remains unbroken; let that be interrupted, the supply ceases at once. If we would have abiding power, the union with God must be kept perfect. Spiritual power Is always, as at PentecoBt, from God, by the Spirit, in answer to prayer. It Is given only to those who desire In humility to glorify God and benefit man. Suggested Hymns. Holy Spirit, Teacher thou. Take time to be holy. Lord, I hear ot showers of blessing. Conquering now and still to con quer. True-hearted, whole-hearted. Come, thou almighty King. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS June 8 How tha Weak Become Slroog 2 Cor. Ix. 10, Its. xll. 10; ML IL Secrets of strength Is the secret of his power. Strength In any degree Is a gift of God. It Is a germ of good ness. B or all of God's gifts are good. God Invests some power In every per- Bon. On that basis rests respon3lbll- ' lty. God bostows the unit of power. The mutipllcatlon of it Is left to the man. He may be a dwarf or a giant. But his strength will be God's Joy. The Lord takes no delight In spiritual dwarfs. Right Is the only real might. . The first secret of strength is that It Is God's good gift. llest U recuperation. Idleness is soul-waste. Recreation Is not dissi pation. Genuine repose is the soul's poise for a swifter, stronger spring Into service. But Sir Andrew uiam said, "The highest life of an organ lies In the fullest discharge of Its functions." Expenditure Is the law of expansion. Practice is the path to perfection. Exercise Is the only road to excellence. That Is the method of soul-growth. This, then, is the other secret; If we would save strength to ourselves we must serve it out to others. Never undertake a task that Is not , good enough for your best. Then pour your strength through every stroke. Shots that scatter seldom hit the center. Every man of power la a man of definite purpose. Consecration must be concentration on Christ, the soul's true center. The third secret of strength is character In concentra tion. The strong man must know the source of his strength. Other things being equal, the man who can enlist fifty men in useful service Is fifty times as strong as the man who can enlist only one. The man who knows how to lay his hand on power out side of his own personality and direct it to the accomplishment of certain ends holds in his grasp the secret of mastery. We are as strong as the strength we can avail ourselves of. Every great leader Illustrates that truth. The power that Gad transmit ted through Paul throbs In the heart of Christendom still. The almighty strength of the su preme spirit broods over all. Wher ever we touch personality we touch some point of power. "No man llv eth unto himself." In human society souls touch souls like the tops of tall trees in a forest. To believe in the power of God Is itself a mighty stimulus to the soul. Power comes through the promises of God. Peter declares that through the promises of God one may become a partaker of the divine nature. Read God's word for God's power. RAM'S HORN BLASTS- IME builds the houses of ternl ty. No sainthood without service. Q o d wants lights principle, more than lamps. If you dwarf the boy you can not develop the man. To put out another's aun will not Increase your own. Tho steeple will last no longer than the foundation. The highest family connection Is In being born from above. They who wait on the Lord will not keep the load waiting. God's estimate of us will not be In fluenced by our advertising. He who Is false to his regiment cannot be true to the army. The Lord must be wery of the ser vant who Is never weary. The life of the church depends on the living ot each Christian. To God's child the heaviest sorrow la lighter than the least sin. It you are trusting in the love of tha Father, you must live the life ut the brother. Love will ba a vole rather than au echo. They wbo rest In the Lord work In the world THJ5 GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Peeni An Invitation A Well Known Maw r.irk Mas;lftrt Hays That Liquor is tha Greatest Cars of Mankind Wlfa Dealers start as Moderato Drinkers Ye captive slaves to sin and shame, By dire intemperance led; Whose thirst is like a liery Hame, With strongest liquors fed. Arise, and with all creatures join, God's glory to advance; For sun and moon, and earth and stars. All teach true temperance. They stagger not nor reel along, But steady keep their way, Proclaiming Hit almighty power, Whom drunkards disobey. The lark and thrush no cordials lake. Their warblings to inspire; But with the earliest morn awake. And temperunce tunes their lyre. Lions and lambs, when parched with drought. At springs their thirst allay; While man, who should their leader be, Oil ill in ks his scne away. Come, then, and join our temperance band, With nature lift your voice. In love and truth join heart and hand; In God's kind care rejoice. Black lloltle anil WKa Itestlag. t am not a "temperance frank," but nf ler my manv years' experience ns magis trate in t lie New York police courts 1 give it as my opinion that hipior it the greatest curse of mankind. There are seven police courts in the bdr ough of Manhattan. Take rum away, nnd I nm certain that two courts will be sufficient to do all the work. With no liquor there would be no wife beating and no cruelty to little children. Get to the bottom of these fiendish of fenses and you will find the black bottle almost every time. Kvcry ill-used wife who comes before me almost without ex ceptiontells nie that her husband ia nil right, that he is kind to his children, that he brings his money home until he begins to drink. Then everything is changed. This statement may startle you: I have passed judgment upon thousands of wife beaters. This is equivalent to saying that I have passed judgment upon thousands of whisky bottles, for from iny knowledge of human nature l Know that it is liquor that is tho wife beater and not the man. It would nmnze you to know the number of men whom I commit to Blnckwcll's Island eight times a year. Tiie purpose of this article is to make you moderate drinkers think. Do not be offended when I intimate that you, aa a moderate drinker, would ever think of beating your wife or kicking your little baby across the room. You are horrified at this thought, of course. But every wife beater who ev.;r came before nie was at one time a "moderate drinker." Think this over. It may prevent you from becoming a drunkard. It is these wife-beating cusea that bring homo to me every day this awful curse of liquor. The history of one caso is the his tory of all. The wife is usually the com plainant. Her brute of a husband is sent to jail. But if he is a brute, he is also the bread winner for his wife and children, and the pity of it is theie arc usually many of the latter. So in nine cases out of ten she is back in court within a week to with draw the complaint or with the necessary bail. And it often happens that the bonds man she brings with her is the saloonkeep er who sold her husband the liquor that made him beat his wife. There is a lesson in a'l this to the man who is the moderate drinker now. But a good many men who when drunk havo kicked their wives and killled the un born child whom that mother waa nour ishing have told me that one time they took only an occasional 'as of beer. Clarence W. Meade, City Magistrate, Xew York. Beer Makes Men Stupid, Lazy, Impotent. Dr. Bunge, professor of physiological chemistry in the University of Basle, is an eminent scientist, but he has another claim to be heard. While pursuing his stu dies at the university he was a coriis stu dent; that is, he belonged to one of those association which are known for their drinking excesses. He says the exhilcra tion produced by alcohol is not an eleva tion of the spirit, but an ebulition of feel ing, which the intellect does not guide, which is blind to the actuality, and w hich is therefore misleading. He declares that by means of experiments repeated a thou sand times it has been demonstrated "that in limes of peace and war, in all climates, in heat and rain and cold, soldiers endure most successfully the hard-ships of the se verest marches, if wholly deprived of al coholic drinks. Everyone who has made the experiment admus unconditionally that one can best endure intellectual work of every kind when ho abstains entirely from alcoholic drinks." The apologists for beer should take to heart Bunge's deliber ate judgment. It recalls Bismarck's state ment given by Buscli, his secretary: "Beer makes men stupid, lazy and impotent. Bier mac-lit clumm, faul, und impotent." The professor sayt it must be empha sized "that of all alcoholic drinks beer is the very worst. Beer is the most perni cious of all alcoholic drinks because no ot.her is so seductive. No other drink so great'y leads to intemperance." Forward What to Do With Drunkards. ' To the Editor of the Xew York Times I would suggest that as saloons furiiisli liiati'iuil for such lawlessness, disorderly conduct and crime, all ot their customers, iutlained by liquor, incapable of restraint anil lunatics fur t tie time, shoulii be quar antined in said saloon and kept there un til public safety can be secured in releas ing them. Vc would not then be horrified by re ports of these wretched maddened ani mals returning to their so-called homes to wreck, beat their wives, cripple their chil dren, and even commit murder like the ve liest Malay. Mrs. William Halstcd Crane. Tha Salooa Itatponsibls. Rev. S. H. Morgan, chaplain of tha liuiitsville branch ot the Texas Mate pen itentiary, iu a recent report, says: "The number of prisoners is less than a few ytsrs ago. One-thud of the populous por tion ol the State is under prohibition. Seventy-five per cent, of the inmates come to the prison train saloons and saloon in fliicnccv. As these influences are curtailed the number of Stale criminals decreases." This testimony merely athinis the asser tion of the many temperance worker.) that the saloon it the chiet source of crime. Drlak Haait Frowned I'noa. More and more the great roiporationt are discouraging tha ili-inking habit among its employes. A man who is knowu to have the drink habit is finding it harder every year to get employment from the railroads or the great iron and ateel mills, ludeed, tho drink habit is frowned upon and drinking men even those who driuk only nioderute'y are not wauled. Savuunah Nev.-s. Driven Out of Kuslnest. Western .aper report thut ut Cheyenne. Wyo., twenty-five drinking places have lately gone out of business because the Union Pacific hat stilleuod ita rule forbid ding employes to frequent saloona. Wo Drinking Man Ksaployod. Some years ago a large manufacturing firm ausiiended due to the Dad manage ment ni a moderate drink president. Hume then they huve started again and bavs become sery prosperous. One of the rigid rules is no drinking man shall ba em ployed in au? capacity. hvcry year this fear of drinking men is increusing, and every year cupitul is de nisnduig that total abstainers only should be employed. In tint theie is no sentiment or theory, only cold, hard experience, which brings only one conchuuou, reflated over and over again namely, that moderate driuk iiij nieu are dauguruus, untrustworthy and ui.rulisWe. Joiuusl of Inebriety. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. OcMral Trad Catslllleas. Bradstreet'i says: "With almost oni-! formly good" wheat, corn, oatj and cot-t ton crop reports, improved retail demand; caused by warmer weather, a full voir urns of re-order business for fhij sea son of the year, good collections and heavy railroads earnings, the only cloud on the situation would seem to be the continued unrest of labor and the idle ness of large numbers of industrial workers as a result thereof. Wheat is slightly lower on good crop reports, but straightened supplies of corn and oats make holders confident. Corn visible supplies are only half those of last year's, and 6o per cent, of the stock is in Chicago. Cotton was depressed early on confident short selling, but ral lied later. Hog products generally are rather easier, lard is lower and butler ir also off. Business failures for the week number 15 J, as against loo last week, 102 in this week last year. 167 in 1000, 158 in l8og and 3jl in 1898. Failures in Canada number 17, as against 22 last week, and 24 a year ago. Clearings aggregate $50.379,87, a gain of 8 per cent, ovct last week and of 30 per cent, over last year. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, $.1.152.1 35: best Tatent, $4.80; choice Family, $405. Wheat New York No. 2, R8c; Phil adelphia No. a, 8sa85jc; Baltimore No 2, 86c. Corn New York No. 2, 70'iic; Phil adelphia No. 2, 66,'ja67c; Baltimore No. 2, 67ao7J4c. Oats New York, No. 2, 46c; Phila delphia No. 2, 51c; Baltimore No. 2, 4944a50jic. Hay No. I timothy, $15.00. No. a timothy $14.00314.50; No. 3 timothy $ 1 2.00a 13.00. Circcn Fruits and Vegetables. Apples New per brl $3.5034 50; do No. 2s, all varieties, per brl $2.7533.25. Asparagus Norfolk, per dozen $2.ooa25o; do, Eastern Shore, Maryland, per dozen, prime, $t. 50a 1. 80; do, seconds, $l.25a 1.50; do, wild, 75ca$l.oo. Beets Charleston, per crate I1.25al.50; do, Norfolk, per bunch 4a5c. Cabbage Charleston, Early York, per crate $1.25 a 1. 50; do. North Carolina, per crate $1.25 at. 50; do, Norfolk, per. brl S1.25at.40 Cucumbers Florida, per basket or box S1.25a1.75 ; do, Charleston, per basket St.50al.75; do, North Carolina, per bask et St.50ai.75. Eggplants Florida, per crate $r.50a2.oo. tirten peas North Carolina, per half-barrel basket 75ca$i.25 do, per full barrel S2.ooa2.25; do, Charleston and Savannah, per half-barrel basket 75ca$l.oo; do, Norfolk, per basket St.10a1.25; do, Rappahannock, per brl a$2.25; do, per basket $1.0031.05; do, Potomacs, per brl $2.2532.50 ; do, York River, per brl a$2.35 ; do, per box a$l.oo. Kale Native, per bushel box 1 2a 15c. Lettuce Native, per bushel box Va70c. Onions Bermuda, per box jil.80al.85: do, Egyptian, per sack $2.75 13.00. Oranges California seedlings, oer box $2.2593.25; do, navels, per box (3.25.4.00. Radishes Native, per 100 lunches, red, 6oa75c ; do, per 100 bunch es, white, 50a65. Rhubarb Native, per 4unch 'ii2C. Spinach Native, per trushel box 253300. Spring onions, per loo bunches 6oa75c. Squash Charles ion, per bushel box 75ca$i.oo. Strawber ries North and South Carolina, per qt., a7c ; do, Norfolk, per qt. saoc ; do, East ern Shore, Virginia, per nt. 5a8c; do, Maryland per qt. 5a8 ; do, Rappahannock icr qt. 4a8; do, Anne Arundel, per qt. $al2. . String beans Charleston, per jssket, green, S1.50a1.75: do, wax. $1.50 11.75. Tomatoes Florida, per six-basket carrier, fancy, $2.50a2 75 ; do, fair to rood. $15032.25; do. culls, $1.2531. 50. Potatoes White Maryland and Pcpn tylvania, per bu. No. I. 75385c: do do icconds. 60 a7o: New York, per bu. best itock, 85300 ; do do, seconds, 65375 : Western, per bu, primed. 8;.ioo; new Florida, per brl. No. 1, $4.5035.00: do, lo, seconds, $.1.0033.50. Sweets Poto nacs. per brl, fancy, $1.503400; North Carolina, per brl, fsncy, $.1.5034.00. t'ams, North Csrolina, per brl, f3ncy, 53.0033.50. Seed Potstoes. Msine Houllon Esr y Rose, $.125 to $.1.35 : Maine grown jesuty of Hebron, $.125 to 3.15; Maine rrown Burbank. $3.25 to 3 .10; Maine rrow-n Green Mountains. $3.25 to 3.30. Butter. Separator. 23324: Gathered Cream, 22a2i: Imitation, 19a 20 ; Prints, r-lb, 24325: Rolls, a-ib, 23324; Dairy pts. Hd.. Pa.. Va.. a23. Eggs Fresh laid eggs, per dozen, s6a ;6'Ac. Cheese. New York State cheddsrs, nVjailJic; do do flats, nal2c: do do imall, I23I2WC. Ohio Fktts. loVianc; lo picnic, Ii'iai2c. Skims, oaioc. Swiss :heese, I4au'ic. Live poultry. Hens, ai.ic : old oosters, each, 2Sa,toc: spring chickens loai2c; winter chickens, oer lb, i8a22c; 'oung chickens, 12a 1 3c. Ducks, ioai3c. Hides Heavy syeers, association and .alters, late kill, bo lbs and up, close se ection, Ilal2c; cowl and light steers, 8'' 19c. Live Stock. Chicago. Cattle Choice steady to itrong, others weak to lower; good to rime steers $7.0037.55 ; poor to meUintn i5.00a6.75 ; stockert and feeders $2 75a !.2j; cows S1.50a6.oo; heifers $2.506.50; uinners $ 1.5032.50; bulls $2.503460; salves S2.50a7.oo; Texas-fed steers $5.50 16.85. Hogs Mixed and butchers' $6.90 17-275'j ;good to choice heavy $7 1537.35; ough heavy $6.9537.15; light $6.7037.00; mlk of sales $6.9537.20. Slicep Choice, steady :good to choice wethers $5703 i.25; Western sheen $5.7536.25; native ambs $5.0037.00; Western lambs $5,253 '.00 ; Colorado lambs $7.25. East Liberty. Cattle steady: choicj i6.95a7.25; prime $6.506.80; good $5.80 16.50. Hogs steady; prinv heavy hog I7.40; mediums $7.2037.25; heavy York rs $71507-30; light Yorkers $70537. 10; ligs $0.9037.00; roujh $0.80. Sheep ower; prime wether $5.6035.80; culls ind common $2.5033.50; choice Iambi io.75a7.oo; veal calves $7.0037.50. i LABOR AND INDUSTRY St. Paul's Building Exchange refuses o recognize the Building Trades Coun :il. New York plumbers and gat fitters till receive S4-25 a day, commencing !uly 1. E. E. Schmitz. the labor mayor of San M-ancisco, says he is not a candidate for jovernor. Efforts are being made to induce Con rress to pass a bill establishing a govern nent type foundry. The International Typographical Union is reported to be aking the initiative in rlie matter. A strike is on in the electrical bulb 'actories, whose employes .are members f the American Flint Glass Worker' Jivon. Striken on the Great lakes have :liartered boats and will operate them in the co-operative plan. The Cleveland iron moldert secured in increase of I J per cent, in thjeir t-aget by the recent strike. Pulpmakers and laborers throughout he country, numbering 4.000, have se :uted an increase of 5 per cent Tho Continental Tobacco Company of t. Louis hm given notice to its 6,000 dory employes in St. Louis of a 10 xr cent, increase of wages. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAIt PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THf WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. Posmi A Colloquy Eitraetlna tba sroatt) Kvarf Christian la Daly Moan Bo an Optimist of a DlterlmlaaUa Sobsr Typo. Thut tpake my head: 1 know I em I know not whence I cams; j I know I was or else I could not be: I know some Creature did my fashion! frame Who? What? Uow?-Ay, there lie the mystery. I know that I may pass away some dy; Dut whether tnere be life beyond to tomb, I do not know, and therefore cannot say I only walk where reason lights ton) gloom. So tpake my head:' I thought tpe wondrous) wise. I thought me wondrous wise. and thought so till My poor heart did in rank rebellion rise. And tenderly subdued my stubborn will Thus spake my heart: I know 1 am I know from whence I came; I know I was or else I could not be; I know some being did my fashion frame Who? Faith, sayt God, and there's B mystery. I know that I must pass away some day; Death's surely an appointment front above, And opes the gate that leads the starlit! way To everlasting light and life and lore. So tpake my heart; I thought me won drous wise. I thought me wondrous wise, and thoughS so till My head did free itself from reason's guise. And eager grasped the faith that eaten me still. Silas Xavier Floyd, in the New York Independent. Life Is Bitter Intt, Life is bitter-sweet. It is neither all bitter nor all sweet. It is a blend of many flavors, an interweaving of many strands. It requires the cultivated taste to detect the fine flavors, it takes the educated eye to discern the lovelier tints. Christianity develops thia sense of the beautiful, this instinct for what it admirable and noble, Plato, that high-minded Greek, had of old some inkling of this, aa expressed in bis famous formula of the true, the beantaV ful and the good," but it was left to Cbns tianity clearly and fully to reveal the wia dom and wealth of a life devoted it) "whatsoever things are true, honest, jo- pure, lovely and of good report." It is perfectly true that there is tka bitter in life, and a great deal of it, tots, This bitter element in existence is tat) streak of sin which has passed into tb mass of human nature. Sin is gall aavf wormwood, wherever it comes. She cat) never be sweetened. It is a subacid, it is) always vinegarish, always an acidulater. Yet it it not well to enlarge too muck either in thought or speech on the bitter and tart elements of life, but to dwell mors upon the sweetening and sanctifying; forces that are at work upon it. The sweets are there if we can only extract them, there is honey in the comb if we can only get hold of the comb, it is the province of the Gospel to tell us how to get the sweets out, that it by putting the sweets in. We obtain from the world largely what we bring to it. If our hearts) sre full of the ennobling grace of God wa) find that in a spiritual sense everything we touch turns to gold. A positive spirit ual force is .needed to replace the bitter el ements that now sre to plentiful in human speech and society. Says Professor Drum mond in his booklet, "The Greatest Thing in the World," "Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but by putting something in-a great love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ." Thia has been the great work of Christianity in the world, to sweeten souls, and so to sweeten society. Tertullian records that anciently, among the heathen, professors ol Christianity were called not "Christiana,' but "Chrestiani." from "Chresto." a word signifying sweetness and benignity of dis position. Certainly a Christian should sU ways be easily identified as auch by his or her kindliness of disposition and lova bleness of character by thorough good na ture, in the deeper and most spiritual sense. There is music latent in the social sys tem that spreads out around us, only in or der to bring that music out we must un derstand tho art and practice of spiritual harmonization. George W. Cable tells of a young man who went to a musician and said: "fell me how to play the sonata of Beethoven in that true spirit." "What do you play now?" asked the musician. "Nothing," was the reply. "My frind," said the master artist, "how shall I tell you how to play Beethoven when it is not your habit to play anything at all? To know bow to play Beethoven you must first know how to play." In order to ap preciate and to develop the soul of har mony that lies back of the whir and whirl of this rushing modern life, we must hrst know how to play with a deft mortal touch snd a spiritual sympathy which,, amounts to a genius for impression and ex pression. Every Christian is in duty bound to bo an optimist of a discrminating. sober type, searching out the lines of life and of light wherever they may be found criss-crossing in the network of earthly existence. Ga lileo, if we may believe a picture in tba Cologne Museum, worked out his astro nomical problems by the aid of s singlet ray of light that was shining into his eU. Bunyan, languishing for twelve years in prison, during which time he was cut oft from the active labors of the Gospel min istry, meanwhile sang his song of the Pil grim's Progress which has since been echo ing the world over. If we cannot work for God in the light we can work in the dark, and like Paul in the dungeon at Philippi sing tmid the shadows. The Rev. Charles) Pwight. in New York Observer. A Strona and Slrapla Faith. Mr. Moody once said: "When I was a boy, in the spring of the year, when tha snow had melted away on the New Rng land hills where I lived. I used to take a certain kind of glass and hold it up to tha warm rays of the sun. These would strika on it, snd I would set the woods on fire. "Faith is the glsss that brings the bra oft -God out of hesven. It wts faith thst drear the tire down on Carmel and burned up, Elijah's offering. We have the same God to-day and the same faith. Some people seem to think that faith 1 getting old, and that the bible it wearing out. But tho Lord will revive His work now, and wa shall be able to set the world on tiro if each believer has a atrong and simpkt faith." Tha Drawlag fawar. Christ is not only the drawing power to draw souls up into heaven, but if held ua in the pulpit will draw men into 'tba church here on earth. The church thst is tilled because of the prescbed word will ba still rilled when others are empty. Tha Rev. L. M. Zimmerman. Baltimore. Md. Competitive Bystaas. The competitive system is against good government, against Christianity, against morulity snd well-being, sicsicst that church of Jesus Christ. Tba church ought to lead the crusade against it. Tba Rev. A. C. Bane. San Francisco. Cul. ! Waaro aplrUsuallaaa O-tstlaatsNS, Tba old bouse near Newark, N. J, whurs modern spiritualism aa a faith was originated, fifty-tour year avtt, 'la fast falling to decay. BplritisaUoui bold the building la vanorattoxi a-1 .many visit it annually, Oa tha r- 1 ' wails of the cellar blood st--s 1 - ; viable, and ara amid to c ' 1 t t 1 ) of an old paddler, who la r khava been murdered wt" V' ibouae, s few y?ti r It 1 I i aud bis body to ac'd t I buried In the "r. i
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