CHRISTIAN AND CI11RCH Sunday Discourse Lty the Rev. Robert Macllonald. To Be Believer In Christ It Not Different From Being Believer in Man. Brooklyn, N. Y. "Christians outside the Church" was the subject of the eer non Sunday morning by the Rev. Koliert MacDonald, pastor ofthe Washington Ave line Baptist Church. It was the first of I series of five sermons. The text was from John x: 16: "Other sheep I have which re not of this fold." Air. MacDonald aid: So important and many sided a subject a this) must be looked at from more than one view point. Numberless are the ques tions to be considered. Numberless ttit opinions favorable and unfavorable, trui and false, to be confirmed in these ser mons or repudiated. Numberless the peo ple interested in so practical, and personal a question, some of whom love the church better than life; others of whom hate the churcn more than any other institution in existence; some who trace their loftiest aspirations, their deepest motives, theii holiest desires back to her as a fond moth er who lives to nourish her children with her own rich life: others who have never received the least benefit therefrom, of which they are conscious and boldly as sert that little benefit to humanity ever emerged from her portals. Some go so far as to make the church synonymous with Christ's kingdom, and maintain that to be a member of the one is to be a member of the other, and consequently yield to her a fanatical reverence. Others swing clear to the other extreme and consider the church nothing better than the product of a jealous rivalry for pre-eminence over other institutions of earth, else the ex pression in wood and stone of overwrought sensibilities. Therefore, the monument of a most irrational superstition. While an innumerable many identify themselves with the church because they believe it to be a beneficent institution ordained of God, without which the world would be morally and spiritually impoverished, and through which the spirit is working for the redemption of humanity, in which di vine strength can be had for the ills of life. I desire that our starting point in these discussions should be in favor of religious toleration. As love is the centre of the Christian system, so must it be the motive in every church claiming to be a Christian cbruch. As Christ our Master was toler ant of and charitable toward those who were not numbered among the twelve disciples and forty apostles, so must we as His followers be tolerant in thought, word, act, to those not of our number, and outside our communion. There is greater need of toleration to-day than at any pre vious period of the world's history. The church of to-day is more advanced than the church of yesterday. Its intelligence is greater: its light clearer; its affinity with the Holy Spirit more personal; its hold upon the cross of Christ, that power of redemptive love, sacrificing itself even unto death, stronger. The church of tht twentieth century ought to be, and shami upon us if it is not, more spiritual than the church of the thirteenth century, ot even than the church of the nineteenth century. But not only in view of our superior spiritual enlightenment, also in view oi our peculiarly complex state of living should we be tolerant. It is the age ot differentiation and of classification. Every significant fact of life has been forced tc submit to division and subdivision to an amazing extent. Look, for instance, at education. Trace it through the modern university curriculum. Contrast it with the most comprehensive collegiate institu tion of a century ago. You are over whelmed with the multitudinous depart ments, and subdepartments and branchei of instruction, ana professional chairs. All these necessary, you say, to educate the youth. To adequately impart knowledge, to meet the ever increasing intellectual de mand? Yes. The renaissance that called Europe from its dark ages of intellectual slumber has rot yet spent its force. Meas ure the term medicine, or surgery with the imposing stature of the general practi tioner of twenty years ago. The stature is no longer imposing. The specialist ol a single bodily function is more imposing now. And for the human body the work of the one has been divided into the skill of the hundreds and each unit in the vast aggregate is more authoritative than th one. The term philosophy no longer rec ognizes the old vague divisions of mora! and intellectual. Each division has beer differentiated, and each differentiation sug gests to the mind content and comprehen aiveness, richer and more compact that the original classification from which it sprang. Metaphysics, theism, idealism emprieism, economics, sociology, psychol ogy, biology, and many more are the termi now familiar to our thought. And hon vast the held of consciousness covered bj any one of these significant terms. Kco . nomics, a very modern term for instanct ' postulates for us; the land question; tht tenement house problem, the theory ol wealth, industrial organization, all social istic and communistic relation. The same in jurisprudence, in commerct and trade, in everything of worth. Thi difference between 'the big department tore and the little trader illustrates thi idea. Yet how surprised we are that wi should have wandered religiously fai afield from the primitive apostolic church with our highly differentiated credal anc ritual expressions, our numerous ecclesias tical orders, eur multiplicity of organi cation. Bless you, it only shows we art alive and growing and anxious to applj the gospel of Jesus to all sorts and condi tions of men. The worldly minded claim that denominationalisro is distracting and igh for a Christian unity that will swat low up all religious divisions. But, believt me, denominationalism mskes more foi the glory of Christianity than for iti shame. The only shame about it all ii that denominationalism at times nurturei a spirit of Phariseeism that sees no God In any other division of the Christian fold than its own. It has been only a feu years since the medical students of Har tard fellowshipped the aspirant for veter inary honors. The term "horse doctor" iwa the term of salutation. The veterin ary student, as the student of dentistry, was occupied with such inferior subject matter. Yes, but necessary subject mat ter. 80 of the Anrelican churches and thi non-conformists, of England. The one u poor stuff to the other, tolerated only at the point of taxation to support theii schools. Similar intolerance was felt to word the great Booth movement in Amer ica by all the churches, because that move ment ignored their cut and dried eccles iastical methods and brought into requi sition tbs public square and the secular hall if by any means they might save some tbs churches could not reach. The same intolerance is now characterising ua to ward that growing, so called, Christian Science movement. When will we see the "powers for good" that are ordained of God? When will wa believe that any move ment, however erroneous in nineteen points of test, if adapted in its twentieth point unto the blessing of men, is worthy of our tolerance, even our, sympathetic re gard. Even religious bodies quarrel among themselves iu defining orthodoxy, and de nominational respectability, instead of praying together lor the salvation of the world. No wonder Christians outside the church pass bv on the other side of the road when Christians inside the church forget the purpose of their existence. Tbs thumbscrew, rack, fagot and stake are looked back upon as relics ot a barbaric age, but their spirit still lives. Every one of the leading denominations have within 4en yesrs either persecuted, ! insde it very unpleasant for some intrepid thinker who saw more clearly and spoka mors fearlessly thsa tbs rank and file. The Methodist Church in our leading New Eng land city is to-day exalting the spirit ol the Pharisees instead of the spirit of the - Weeleys in trying to excommunicate its ' laflin scholar, iiufc as i'resbvterianism a (ew years ago in persecuting its chief Scholar went back dangerously near the standard of 350 years ago, raised by its Illustrious ancestor, jonn laivin, won iu HSo3 burned Set-vatus at the stake la Gen- 1 avs.fur dniihtias lbs enualitr oi the cer- sons of "the Trinity" antf the vafidit Of infant baptism. Christ dealt more loving ly with heretics. To Thomas He unveiled His side and loved him into the necessary belief. Phariseeism, on the other hand, crucified Christ and sinned .Stephen to death. Loving as brethren those within the church; to.erant as Christiana toward those without is the ideal that should rule. How refreshing to reflect upon such a passage of Scripture as that which stands at the head of this sermon. It is a pica for religious toleration and sets before us a standard of religious liberty it would be well to live up to. We are so inclined to become narrowed in our views of truth; we are so prone to live under the shelter of some ereed that the vistas of truth stretching ahead of us everywhere become narrowed and hidden, and before we are aware of it the peculiar dogma we cherish or the certain fact we advocate is magni fied into identification with the truth it self. There is at least danger here. Thus, how needful to be often carried out into the broad field the Gospel opens up. I,ook at the scene revealed here. Jesus is hav ing another of His oft-recurring talks with the Pharisees: but, as of old. they do not understand Him. He is a fanatic, or at best, a stubborn partisan, who, while pro fessing to lead them into larger freedom, seems only to break up their honored in stitutions. So this peculiar saying falls from His lips. As He speaks how precious the outlook, i'here He leads His follow ers through the old loved fields, out under the blue sky, their life and His identified, bound together by a common fidelity of truth. But even this freedom seems nar row in view of what is yet to come. These are Mv sheep, He says, and for them I lay down My life; but also other sheep 1 have which are not of this fold, and as we con template the words, the ranne of our vis- inn is extended, the fields through which they pass widen, the visible horizon that hemmed us in lifts, the blue dome of the heavens expands until we see all truth loving souls everywhere, known by many a different name, coming in as the sheep fold opens to receive them. And we turn our steps homeward, resolving in future to be more tolerant for the Master's sake. A few weeks ago an attendant upon our church, a lover of truth, a believe.' in Christ, but who had never made an open profession of religion, asked me what I thought constituted a Christian, and if I did not think it meant to be a church member, and a Baptist Church member. It was that earnest ouestion that called forth these sermons. What constitutes a Chris tian? No progress can be made in our dis cussion until we settle that question. Is it to be a communicant of any church? Js it to subscribe to any creed? A hundred, times no! All trustworthy sources make it to be a believer in Christ. What do you mean by belief in Christ? Well, what do you mean when you tell a person you believe in him, that you believe lie is a good citizen, a faithful husband, a loving father? You may believe in him as ail that, yet not be willing to trust him with a dollar out of your sight. or open ynut home to him as a friend. You honor him not most unless willing to trust him with money uncounted, your good name, the very secrets of your heart. A belief that does not express itself in confidence does not count for much. All else is cold, im personal opinion. You must not offer Christ leas than you would your friend. A belief in the historic Christ only never saved a soul, any more than a belief in Caesar or Luther or Washington, even though you believe Him as more than a teacher sent from God, more than a pro phet, even the very Saviour of the world. Just as friendship is more than an intellec tual opinion, even a possession of the life. Just as love, the divine essentia! in all true living, without much society, is a self-centred, self-eircumferenced conglom eration, and the home a den, denying its own existence, is virtue of the heart in. stead of a secretion of the brain; so relig ion has its abiding place in the heart, else nowhere in the life at all. To be a believer in Christ then is no different than to be a believer in man. Tell him whom you profess to call your friend you believe in him. When you will not confide in him, when in perplexity you seek another's counsel, and in sorrow an other's sympathy, and you have insulted faith, and friendship has become in your hand an empty name. If you believe in a man trust him as all men demand you should. You say you love? Show it by loving and manifesting the self-denial love demands, else your profession is a sound ing brass, an empty name, a dastardly af fair. Do you believe in Christ? Show it by a loving trust. Otherwise, you believo only intellectually, and that means you do not want to have much to do with Him. It means self first and alwavs. And if perchance you atart to follow Him from so superficial a motive be not surprised if the first time His demands conflict with your plans you turn traitor and swear you never knew the man. The test is. My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me. That is the test to hear His voice and follow Him. Now, what is the purpose of a church, and in how far does church- membership conatitute a Christian? l.tiurch. member shin constitutes a Christian iust so far as a Christian constitutes a church member. Ne church, whatever its name and influ ence, has of itself power to make a man . 1. n ..niA.. tj r-k..ni. ..,! m v.i,i,tiw, utile, iuu .vwiim.i viiwvii, o,, -that ia only in its own estimation. We fall into one or the other of two errors: Either of thinking of Christianity as an ab straction, or as a fact identical with an or ganization of earth, when it is grander than both. There is no Christianity apart from the life of its founder. It is not to be born in a Christian community. It is not to be swayed by reliirious excitement. lit is not,-under the uplift of tine music. nor the tender oentiment ol a keen sorrow to catch some oelestial glimpse of truth, and conclude you are henceforth a relig ious man. To be a Christian is nothing other than Christ within you the hope oi glory. Then there is the other mistake of mak ing the visible church identical with the reality. Indeed, symbols are important. Wo can never tell how much satisfaction the religious devotee receives from the pic ture of the Virgin or the image of the Christ. The line between the symbol and the spirit may be less attenuated than wo think. More tymbols may lead to more realities than we dream of. An object of sense may, however, oftener hinder ac cess to the spirit than be a viaduct there to. Many a person joins a church for the sake of being a church member rather than to be a better Christian. Many a person worshios their church and minister rather than the Christ the church represents and the minister preaches. Being a good do nominationalist is not necessarily being a rood Christian, although if we are good Christians wo ought to be denomination llists, and better denominationalista than are are. Denominations give form and con tent to Christianity which some souls would never otherwise perceive. But on the other hand, denominationalism should have no content to boast of except what Ibe Gospel imparts. Don't thiuk that to be a- Methodist, Presbyterian or Baptist is equal to being a Christian. It may be so. It may not be so. It depends whether your denomination intensifies or material izes Christianity. You may have the form of godliness, but your very devotion to the form ia a denial of the power thereof. I have in mind a member of a former church who would sooner give up Christ than his immersion and com munion. His unspiritual life shows he has dons that very thing. He has per mitted these two sacred rites to steal aw.-f his Lord, and he knows not where the have laid him. Scriptural warrant for ec clesiastical forma is good. But no eccles iastical form should take the place of the purs heart, the Christ spirit. ' Christianity is a Christ imparted divine state of life. All within the charmed circle, whether of my church or yours, or of neither mine nor yours, are my brothers because also of Christ. "Other sheep I have not of this Mi." Don't forgot that. Christ said it. Therefore, it roust be true. There shall be one flock end one shepherd. Not one fold, ss it is translated. There may bo many flocks in one fold. By and by boundary lines will fade sway. Ws thiuk then they will all be Baptists. The Congrrgationalist thinks they will si I be Congregationalists. And the Methodist is sure they will all be Methodists. Ah, brother, better still, they will all lie Chriatiaua. And as soma saint in glory ten thousand years asks, Who ars these? as tbey all corns trooping horns like tired children after the toils of the day ars over, so'some John' wi!T"answerT" These are they who believed in the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the World." Who knows, Jesus Himself ninv say, "These ore they for whom I died." These? These? These are they who came up through great triliulntion mid liave washed their rolics and made tlicni white in the blood of the Lamb! Gems of Thnnght. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life Johnson. Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. Chnnuing. We can hardly learn humility and ten derness enough except by suffering. George Eliot. Skeptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is only sufficiently improbable; it is at matters' of fact that such people stumble.!-Von Knehel. The best time to give up a bad habit is before you begin it, and the next liest time is when you have discovered that it is a Lad habit. United Presbyterian. No man ran pass into eternity for he is already in it. The dull brute giobe moves through its ether and knows it not; even so our souls are bathed in eternity, and we are never conscious of it. F. V. Tar tar. The humblest man or woman can live splendidly! That is the royal truth that wo need to believe, you and 1 who have no "mission," no great sphere to move in. J he universe is not quite complete without ui.y work well done. W. C. Gannett. "What does it signify whether 1 go to the bottom or not, so long as I didn't skulk? or, rather," and here the old man took off his hat and looked up, "so long as the (treat Captain has His way, and things is done to His mind?" Ueorge Macdonald. If you wish to know whether you are a ChriHtian inquire of yourself whether, in and for the love of God, vou seek to make happy those about you by smiles and pleas nnt sayings. Are you a comfortable per son to live with? Are you pleasant to have about? Gail Hamilton. Rods Tlint trill (irow. The soul of man is the great niastei-pleu. of the great Master Builder. J. ititchie Smith. He is building on the sand who makes the opinion of others the ground of his conduct. United Presbyterian. It is a noble sight to see an honest man cleave his own heart in twain and fling away the baser part of it. Charles Meade. The capacity of our sorrows belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows. Henry Giles. Life is what we are alive to. U is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, tars, God and eternal Hopes, is to be all but dead. Malthie D. Bubcock. None but the fully occupied can appre ciate the delight of suspended, or, rather, of varied labor. It is toil that creates holi days; there is no royal road yes, that is the royal road to them. Life cannot be made up of recreations; they must be gar den spots in well farmed lands. Mrs. Gil bert Ann Taylor. If thou canst not continually recollect self, yet do it sometimes, at least once a day, namely, in the morning or at night, examine thyself what thou hast done how tbou hast behaved thyself in word, deed and thought, for in these perhaps thou has oftentimes offended against God and thy neighbor. Thomas a Keuipis. Development of Character. We are left in thia world, not so much for what we may do here, for the things we may make, as that we ourselves may grow into the beauty of God's thought for us. In the midst of all our occupations and struggles, all our doing of tasks, all our longings and desires, all our expe riences of every kind, there is a work going on in us which is quite as important as anything we are doing with our mind or with our hands. In the school the boy has his tasks and lessons. According as he is diligent or in dolent is bis progress in his studies, in ten years, if he is failtt'ul, he masters many things and stands high 1n his class. Or, if he is indifferent and careless, he gets only a smattering of knowledge, with so many links missing that his education is of little practical use to him. But meanwhile there lias been going on in him another educa tiona growth or development of charac ter. The mind grows by exercise, just as the body does. Then there is also a subjective moral im pression, produced by the way the task is performed. If one is faithful and con scientious, truly doing his best, the en deavor leaves a mark of beauty in the life. But if one is unfaithful, indolent, false to one's self, there is left a wound, a trace of marring and blemish, a weakening of the ', (J. P. Miller. A Happy Home Six things are requisite to create a happy home: Integrity must be the architect and tidiness the upholsterer. it must be warmed by affection, lighted up with cheerfulness, and industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bring in fresh salubrity day by day; while over all as a protecting canopy and glory nothing will suffice except tha blessing ol God. Hamilton. lTogre as. Many people who show a good deal ol Christian zest at the start so souu get tired of being Christians. To have earnest views of Christ and to be intensely interested ia them and controlled by them cannot, un fortunately, be taken as a certain sign o the continuance of that interest. The fall ing otf, the cooling down of Christian en thusiasm is common experience. Rev. C. II. - Parkhurat, Presbyterian, New York City. Nothing to Fear. The Bible has nothing to fear from intel ligent, painstaking and reverent criticism. Its integrity as the inspired word of God has stood every test which legitimate criti cism has applied to it as well as the as saults of those who would gladly under mine its authority if they could. Rev. J, U, Sutherland, Presbyterian, Burlingtoua, . The Senra of Smell. That we have not entirely lost th animal basis of judgment, the sense of smell, la proved by the fact we do tell ourselves vary much of other peo ple by the noan, often unconsciously, says Open Court. The blind distin guish their frlonds by the smell ot handkerchiefs or coats. We know fer more by smell than is supposed. Those who have bad their senses keenly educated are accustomed to Judge of persons by odors. Australian -children possess the doglike sense of trailing people by scent, ana experi ment reveals that this Is to some de gree present In every one. Strong attachments are not so Ideal as we like to suppose. There Is a physical basis to all our likes and dis likes. It Is this which underlies the demand of refined people that their friends shall be cleanly. Slave is King's Son-in-Law. "Black Bill," the oldest resident of FIJI, has died at Levuka at the age of 86. He was born a slave on a planta tion in one of the southern States of i.merlca In 1817, but he ran away and got on board a ship bound for Ber wldk-on-Tweed, where he called him siflf William Berwick. A Ber rick whaling ship, on whlth he sailed for the South Pacific, was wrecked on the Samoan Islands, whero "Black Bill" married a Samo an. He left Samoa fifty years ago and went to FIJI, where King Cako bau gave him one of his daughters Iq marriage on condition that he acted as his Interpreter and became bis slave (gr seven years. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 13. . , ..ilert: tlnttli of .John Hie Hntlt, Matt, xlv., l-l-J Ol.lilen Text, ltev. II., 10 Memnry Verses, 0-1 1 Comine iitm-y ou the Day's Lesson, I. Herod's terrified conscience (vs. 1, 2). 1. "At that tune." During the mis sionary journey of the twelve. "Herod." This was Herod Antipas, son of Herod the (jreat. lie was the ruler of Galilee and Perea. Thirt;' years before he murdered the innocents at Bethlehem. Of all the contemptible wretches of Scripture not excluding Judas, who is in some wavs a great problem Herod Antipas is the great esta little, petty, disgraceful Nero, a King John of England, a bundle of petty vices. "The tetrarch." Literally, the ruler of a fourth part or district into which a province was divided; afterward the name was extended to denote generally a petty king, the ruler of a provincial district. "Heard of the fame." Antipas had one of his capitals at Tiberias, on the Sea of Gal ilee. He had, no doubt, heard of Jesus be fore, but the preaching of the twelve apos tles had stirred the whole country, and His "fame" was increasing, so that it at tracted anew the attention of the king. 2. "Is risen from the dead." Herod had im- Frisoned John the last of March, A, 1). 20. I erode conscience accused him. "And therefore." In consequence of having risen from the dead He is thought to be pos- sesed of miracle-working powers. 11. John a laithtulness (vs. 3 0J. 3. in prison." -The place of John's imprison ment and death was Maclierus, in Perea, on tl.e rostern side of the Dead Sea, near the southern frontier of the tetrarchy. Here Antipas had a palace and a prison under one roof, as was common in the East. "For Herodias' Nike." This woman was a grand-daughter of Herod the Great. She first married Herod Philip, her uncle, who was the father of Salome. Herod had put away his legal wife, the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia Petrea, and had taken Herodias. though Philip, Herodias' hu-diand. was still livimt. 4. "John said unto him. It seems that John faced the king himself with this re buke. How bold and courageous! It is well when minister dare rebuke the sins of politicians and those in authority. "Not lawful." Because. 1. He had put away his legal wife. 2. He had induced Herodias to fcrsake her husband. 3. Herodias was the niece and sister-in-law of Herod and the Mosaic law (Lev. 18: 12-14) had' been violated. St. Luke adds (Hilt) that Herod was also reproved "for all the evil which he had done. lo have her. lo marry her. The force of the original bears out this interpretation. fi. " hen lie would. A tliounh he was willing. From Mark we learn that Herod ias was eager to kill .lolin, while neroa, partly from an interest in his preaching and partly from fear of his prisoner, re fused to take away his life. "Feared the multitude." The jireaching of John had had a powerful effect on the masses, and Herod was restrained from acts of violence because of public sentiment. Mark also tells us that Herod knew that John was a just and holy man This makes the king's sin all the more glaring and heinous, and from this we see that holiness and justice rommand the respect evcu of siuncrs. When Herod heard John preach "he did manv things and heard him gladly" (Mark 0: 20). III. Herod's birthday festivities (vs. S-8). 6. "Birthday was kept." This was done, probably at the Macherus palace with great display. Herod made a great feast tor his lords, high captains ana the chief persons of Galilee. The nobility of Galilee were obliged to come some distance to attend the festiwities. "Daughter danced." Female dancers in the East are a customary part of great entertainments. On this occasion the dancer was of high birth, being no other than the Princess Salome, daughter of Herodias and Philip. They who glide into the dissolute dance glide over an inclined plane, and the danco is swifter and swifter, wilder and wilder, until, with the speed of lightning, they whirl off the edges of a ruined life into a fierv future. "Pleased Herod." They were probably half intoxicated, reclining at the tables, as their custom was. The infamous saloon system of to-day is only a remnant of tlie ancient revels that were so vile and corrupting in their effects. And yet thu saloon is licensed, and thus permitted and protected by law! 7. "With an oath." It is always wrong to foreswear ourselves by promising to do or to keep secret what has not, as vet, been disclosed to us. "Whatsoever she would ask." Mark adds (0: 2:1), "Unto the half of my kingdom." Herod was ready to sur render hall his kingdom for the pleasure of witnessing the performance of a lust creating pantomime! 8. "Instructed." The vile Herodias saw that the hour had come for her to accom plish the fiendish deed she had so long1 meditated upon. "Mother." What a mother! Leading her own daughter into the vilest of crimes. "Give me here." She hastens (Mark 6: 25) to have the deed per petrated while the revel is on, probably in the night, "in a charger." Oa a large platter. IV. A foul deed committed (vs. 9-12). 0. "Sorry." His conscience was not entirely dead, and he was worried and troubled. "For the oath's sake." He cared more for his oath than his conscience, or John, or his God. He could murder, but he must not break a wicked oath that he never should have taken. There are many to-day who, for the sake of an oath which has no legal or moral binding upon them, will vio late their consciences and imperil their soul's interests. "Which sat with him." He was afraid of offending the great men of his kingdom. A slave to public opinion. "To be given." Note the steps that had led Herod to this: 1. Rejecting the truth. 2. Continuing to indulge in his sins. 3. A drunken ftast; liquor is responsible for untold crime and misery. 4.- An immoral dance; dancing can hut result in sin. S. A wicked oath, which never should have been taken, but, once taken, should have been broken immediately. G. His itut oi the people. 10. "Beheaded." But his prisoner was realty. John is nnt the only one who will be beheaded if the truth is upheld. Let any man te-day take his position against the evils in society, and, socially, his head will roll into the basket; if he takes his position against evils in the church, not in fremientlv will his head come off ecclesias tically; if he opposea the corruption in pol itics, he will be beheaded politically. 11. "She brought it." What a present. 12. "His disciples." John's disciples. "Took up the body." It had been thrown out, and they buried it as the last kindness they could show to one they loved. Sorrow then brought them to Jesus. Antipas and Herodias were afterward banished by the Knman Emperor to Lyons, in France, where they passed the remainder of their lives in disgrace. Thousand-Year-Old Cedar, There ari many targe specimens ol the brown cedar, Juniperus mono sperma In the Garden of tho Gods Pike's Peak, Colorado. Prof. Bessoj of the University of Nebraska, during recent visit to that place, made ar. effort to ascertain the age of some of tne magnificent ppeclmens. He wai fortunate tuough to And the Stump o a recently cut tree on which It wai easy tc illstinaisb the annual growtk rings. These were counted tor a bi.c tlor of the trunk, care being taker to salecl a portion In which the Hne.i were of average thickness, and on this basis the uunibor of the whou stump was calculated. In this wa) it was I jiind that this particular tree was between 800 and 1,000 years old. The Crown of Hungary. The Hungarian crown worn at their accession by the emperors of Austria as kings of Hungary Is the identical one made for Stephen aud used at his coronation over 800 years ago. The whole is of pure gold except. the set tings and weighs nine marks sis ounces (almost exactly 14 pounds). CI "A J 3 20; 28 :i 6:1 I mo DC as on! pal act Wl 1m Ob Wl Th 'II Pa: got I cal tha wri da BS abi mo low 1 ma slo the 1 of mo ma kin hoi y Cor the cat qui of rig P eye not con too hea of on unn t.ie blrt exel for of bod wilt sak App N yeai for era. quel grai tor, llty. of klnn feas &' old mid indu yout his se such was has the ful h9 m Jiil ti ttssiirss, impii'ty, rum. S hull bega;: that Journfy he did not lnten to reach that Inferno. To cbange the figure, we here tee his sin com to its black blossom and bitter fruit The appetites do not carry their law In themselves. They tend directly to ext88. He who Indulges Is whipped to seek more and more gratification. Sensual pleasures are the devil's counterfeit of man's proper stimulus. Let a youth surrender himself to ap petite and soon the will becomes en halned. tho whole being feverish. The craving at length swallows up every othor feeling, enslaves every other energy. Yet Indulgence becomes hateful. The man loathes himself, curses his folly, but seeks his destroy er yet again. After a n'ght of dissi pation he wakes up, head aching, Hps dry and hot. temples throbbing, con science upbraiding. Bitterly he clasps his bands and exclaims, "Fool, fool, that I am." Yet no sooner Is be dresses' than off he starts for the poi son again. The Indulgence In strong- drink la the most conspicuous Illustration. But It Is only an example of a whole class. It stands for an Illegitimate ex citement of the senses. The slave of appetite seeks gratl flcatlon at the expense of tevery othei feeling and of highest duty. All guilty indulgence tends straight to that ex treme. Belshazzar had gneat duties to perform. Ills -country was In peril. Filial affection, patriotism, his own safety, sense of duty. said. "Belshaz zar, play the man." But. no. Ixt us have a grand frolic, a night of jollity and wild carousal. Let us have a good tlme. On with the dance. Be assured, the day of reckoning draweth near. In hla bsnd even now are the balances. Boon the hand writing will appear. Hasten, flee youthful I tints. Turn the swine out ol the temple. Let the King of glory fill It with his light and beauty. Seek not your highest Joy in the stlmultit of fleshly pleasure. That is a mock ery and a snare. Herein is excess, de filement, ruin. Svek it in devotion to Christ. In fellowship with him. In full ness of bis love and power, In holy deeds wrought with high purroec un der the stimulus of the 8tult. Educated "Heithsn Chinee." A Baltimore girl staying In Sag Francisco, thought to make herself Intelligible by talking what she termed a One example of pidgin Ln liwh to the laundryman. Therefore sho thus addressed him: "Me do bl:s my wavhee brought borne Friday. Ms like washee Thursday. Why you nc blingee washee Thursday?" and the Cbinamau replied: "Madame, it was uut convutient." The Father Is Near. ivee little child in its dreaming one night lis startled by some awful ogre of fright, called to its lather, who quicKiy arose hastened to nuiet the little one s woes. fear child, what's the matter?" he lov- 1 i"Br eai.i, Vd smoothed back the curls from the fair little head: on't cry any more, there is nothing to fear, n't cry any more, for yonr papa is here." , well, and how often we cry in the dark. b' God in His love is so near to us! Hark w His loving words, solacing, float to the ear. ping, "Lo! I am with you; 'tis I, do not 1 is here in the world as thy Father and er watching and ready with love-words divine. d while, erring oft, through the dark ness 1 near my soul the sweet message: "Thy Father is near." larence Mills Burkholder, in Barn's Horn. A Hymn Sung In a Fiery Fnrnare. Many persons will recall the thrilling c- int or the hurning of the Pemberton II after its fall. It occurred on January 18(10. 111 Lawrence, lust as the country u being agitated bv the mutterings of -ciuim 111 ouuijj vuroium. r-uuuvniy. hout warninn. while the machinery was motion, the walls fell and 7o0 operatives re thrown into the wildest excitement ond powers of description. Out of the employes, seventy-seven were killed right, and 131 so injured that manv af- Iward died. The cause of the appalling iiatrophe was a faulty construction of 1 pillars supporting the floors ami tiie -r quality ot the mortar. The company ich furnished the cement, and the man mixed the mortar, may have escaped the time the righteous indignation oi country, but they have yet to confront ourt from whose sentence there can he appeal their own conscience and tha of God. he writer resided within nine miles of krence, and was a mere lad at the time. that very yard in the Bay tate mill he !l three relatives at work, who were bor ed at the occurrence. escuing parties were quickly formed t on tne neavy timbers ana remove the k and mortar from the buried, wounded crushed victims. In the easerness to wer the pitiful cries for help the weary uers, toiling tar into tne niglit, rustied, ' here, now there, to raise some beam to carrv food to manv sufferers. Dark ft fell upon the scene, and the terrible try atmosphere admonished them to ken their task lest a new foe should ze the victims to death. Alas! while ursuit of this object some one accident struck his lantern against a brick wall the oily timbers blazed up like gun der. Water was frown in the hose, lenng it useless. To add to the horror he scene the flames spread so rapidly ; the would-be rescuers were driven y, though another moment would have 1 their victims saved. mong those nearly rescued was a beau- , intelligent lauy, who had been a rest ; of Lowell, and an active member of church. Her defeated friends were ed to fly from the awful, fiery furnace, ed hotter than that ot .Nebucliailne. Some covered their faces with their Is, which were bleeding from the con with the broken brick, scattered glass splintered timbers, while others could turn away their faces under the tern fascination of the woeful spectacle, their amazement was indescribable n they saw the lady's pale lips moving tneir ears caught the words ot holy and inspired hope as she sang: ly heavenly home is bright and fair; or nam nor death can enter there; s glittering towers the sun outshine: he heavenly mansion shall be mine." trembling voice lilted that hymn, as vstanders might naturally have ex I, but the tones were lirni. clear aud ining. then followed the chorus: I'm going home, I'm going home, I'm going home to die no more, To die no more, to die no more. I'm going home to die no more." flames had not, as yet, reached her 1 of brick and stone and oily timbers, er eyes beheld the forked tongues of md her ears caught the ominous roar nd crackling sounds as the demon mod the inflammable material. But. .h savage as were the elements, they could not intimidate the voice of the sinn er. Hark again to the unsubdued voice, and notice the carefully selected words. She had often sung them at religious gath erings; then how asy, but now how diffi cult. There was a heroism in her song far superior to the bravery displayed upon the battlefield or in hospual or rebel prison. "Let others seek a home below. Which flames devour or waves o'erflow, Be mine a happier lot to own A heavenly mansion near the throne." ' Before she finished the last two lines the fioisonous gases und dense smoke choked ter utterance, but the weeping bystanders could catch the words. The chorus was begun: "I'm going home ," but it was never finished, for her immortal spirit was ciuht up uninjured by iireda torv flames to her coronation, while her body was burned to a cinder, mingling with the pile of smoldering ashes, bent and twisted iron and powdered glass. To day a new mill stands upon the fatal spot, but her song was a paean of victory and will never perish out of the thought of mau kind. ltev. N. C. Alger, in Ksiu's Hon. Why Does a Magnet Attract? Attraction presupposes affinity. If nno ia drawn to another peculiarly, there is a reason, or a cause, lor it on both aides. When a magnet is held near a bit of iron, even a rusty nail, the iron is drawn toward the magnet, and they cling to one another s if they were parts of each other. But if '.he ssme magnet be held near a large mass of putty or a bit of soft wood, there is no response. There must be steel or iron an the one side to give the msgnet power n the other. True union, or, indeed, true Ittimty, is a result of inherent quality in the one drawing and the one drawn. Tho best human fellowship is an evidence and I result of God-given characteristics on both sides for which we should U) ever grateful. Spiritual Kserelse. The best forms of physical exercise bring delight and satisfaction to the body. Mus cles, nerves and tissues are called to new health and enjoyment. The best forms of mental exercise secure rich returns to th thinker whose mental faculties are stimu lated and quickened to larger powers of at tainment and enjoyment by each hearty, healthful and honest exercise. 80 the true worshiper, as he closes his faculties to the outer world and draws near to God, spirit ually, finds a joy, a peace, a satisfaction, full of exoneration and approaching ecs tasy as he realises God's presence, and he roines filled with the fulucas of God. liersld and Presbyter. Brides Who Perch In Trees. Amotig tho Lolos of Wcstorn C'blns it Is customary for the bride on th wedding morning to perch herself on the highest branch ot a large tree while the other female members ol ber family cluster on the lower limbs armed with sticks. When all ur duly stationed the brldogrooa clambers up the tree, assailed on al. sides by blows, pushes and plnchej from the dowagers, and It Is not un til he has broken through their fcnc and captured the bride thit ha Is al lowed to csrrv htr off. Plcusine MvaiMTTOTTrTTfTWflST her crafty blow! She can smile, and smiling smite thee foil her with a No. t If jour friend be brave and loyal stancni in woe and weal Bind him to thy heart of hearts, lad, wiui a chain of steel. But when comrades stoop to counaelj ttimlit that's mean or low. Aught that shuns the light of heveav dare to answer No. - By ltoliert Richardson, A Tlttiely Lesson. The Epwonli League, Chicago, presflnu a timely lc-on from the catnehism of the Great Bclonn, thus: What is the chief lawbreaker of th land? The saloon. Where arc the' schemes hatched out which promote the most dastardly farm of civic corruption? In the saloon. Where does the midnight assassin gr t-t nerve himself for his murderous mission? To the saloon. Where do the police go in search of th ekulking thief and murderer? To the saloon. What institution is hard by the brothel and the gambling hell? The saloon. What lays its hands upon political par ties and dictates who shall lie iioniina,tct. anil elected to office? The saloon. What impoverishes the American woris ingman and tills bun with the spirit oi discontent? The saloon. What takes the bread from the mouths, of starving children? The saloon. What clothes with rags refined woraow. who once lived in affluence? The saloon. What despoils young manhood and sendf it reeling and cursing down the street; The saloon. What crowds our prisons to their uc most limit? The saloon. What eoplcs our madhouses with piss ialile victims? The saloon. What drags from its throne of rwpel (ability and intluence our best manhood, and, smiting it with unspeakable physd cal, mental, and moral deformities, semis, it, despairing, over the precipice into, tb. horrors of an eternal doom? The saloon. What is the an-h despoiler of the horns and the fruitful source of domestic infe licity? The saloon. hat is the eternal enemy of the Churcn of Jesus Christ and the chief imiedunc-nf to every moral reform? The saloon. Should this institution be allowed! tq live? Should it lie authorized and protect ed by law? Should the good citizenshig of the Republic not arise, and. tut one m.ui. abate the awful, blighting curse? Should not the whole damning business be pub verized nnd swept down into hell from which i came? Blot out this curse! Deadly Drugs In Whisky. Dr. B. II. Warren, State Pure Food Commissioner of Pennsylvania, has mad a startling discovery regarding the cheap, grades ol whisky sold all over the Stati'. In Altoona he said: "Most of the cheap; whisky sold in Pennsylvania, I have dis covered by analysis, is manutacturcd from wood alcohol and red or India pepper, tha latter element giving the deadly dose tha desired 'snap.' I was astounded when th chemists informed me of their findings in a number of cases, and immediately had oves M'si samples taken up over the Stti Ninety-five per cent, of the samples so fas examined have shown the presence of wood, alcohol in poisonous quantities, along with the pepper. Some samples rontamed ar senic, turpentine and traces of pnrsaie acid." Ih Warren said he had institureil proceedings 111 over 1U0 cases where tha deadly stuff had been sold. The total num ber, from present indications, will exceed liKM, and may, before the investigation is completed, reach 5000. "No wonder." said, the doctor, "that our asylums are full." An Illinois Garden Kpot. Edwards County, in Illinois, is a vent able garden spot. There is not a single, Ensoner confined in the county jail, nop as there bi-en for several years. The jut is used exclusively as a shelter for tramps during the winter season. The county almshouse is without a single inmate. Tha Circuit Court in that model county seldomy lasts over two days, owing to the remark able absence of litigation, iu the past twit years there has not been a single crim inal case tried there, and but one jury trial in all that time, and that was brought by a man who sued his mother-in-law for aiienatiug his wife's affections. The coun ty has not sent a prisoner to the peniten tiary in thirty years, a record perhaps un cqualed. Reason why: in thirty years. there has been but one saloon in the coun ty, and that was operated but a imr year. A New Departure. A Methodist Episcopal minister in Boa tou. Mass., has made a new departure m temperance effort. Those who sign th pledge he offers bind themselves not onbr to be total abstainers from intoxicants for one year, but to deposit with him a shUling a day the price ot four glasses of liquor he agreeing at the end of the year to res turn the total amount save in tho form ot fuel and other provisions at the lowest, prices. Drunkards sail Marrtasj. In Waldeck, Germany, there is a liw which prohibits the marriage of any indi vidual who has the habit of oyer-dnnkina. and once identified with the habit, an uu briate must produce sufficient proof of reformation to warrant hia receiving av license at any future time. Mora ValMnsbla. Hard drinkers are well known to Ist more vulnerable to many ducasea titssx temperate iwrsona. Of every 1UU alcoholic attacked by pneumonia seveaty will die. while of every non-alcoholice so attack!, only twenty-three will die, says a aarduaV authority. Rlgaincaat I lams. The following three items from Cauea'si. Indianapolis Standard, a linaor juuraaa. are significant as showing toe aggmsussk work which ia being carried oa by taa aau saloon forces 111 Indians: "Kslooaa ars dropping out in Kokomo like daisies by Ihsi roadside. Connersville has hoisted tn black flag of prohibition, and m axtro sa loons is the war cry. Even Erankhn us sgitating another attack of blind tigvrisra-. line dose ourtht to be enough fur (rut. years at least. ' In Maine, Kansas and N-wlh Daila they hsve prohibition by Sims Liw, tlurt.v-rislit o'ho.- '.t. thty sue ti if . It.ai om..ou. 1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers