FREEDOM IN CHRIST' Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev Edward Huntington Rudd. Show How Filth Uphold! Itself In Many Form ol Chrlitlia Experience. ' BnooKLTW, N. Y. The Rev. Edward Huntting Rudd, pastor of the Firat Con gregational Church, Dedham. Mass., preached Sunday morning in the Tomp kins Avenue Congregational Church to a large audience. Ilia suoject was "Free Horn in Christ," and the text waa from T,.V, ii I' -A 14. '!.. mm fuu. . . . . . ' . ULIk (!(, II I a II T a eceived Him to them gave He the right ' V UUIIIE IIIIUI ' II VI V ' W H .T . . 1 1 IV lll Ill ihat believe on Hia name, who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh for of the will of man, but of God." Mr. Ktudd aid: Can I do as I please? Or must I will to 'flo as another pleases? Am I a free agent or are limitation! placed upon me? Is lib erty unrestrained freedom, or am I the Vnore truly free when my actions and Words are controlled by divine laws, im posed willingly upon man by his own en lightened self? To answer these questions intelligently, clearly and helpfully takes us at once into that field of Christian sociology and of the interrelation of man with man and of man with his God which so engages the atten tion of men everywhere to-day. The place Snd duty of the church ia very clear. It I to show men in the spirit of candor, of ympathy, of open mindedneas, of toler- fnce, that the word of God gives us great lemental teachings by a maater thinker knd reasoner, who was divine and who claims the right to influence men. The so called great problems of labor and capital jwill find a permanent solution only by the arbitrament of the Man of Galilee. But it is your duty and mine to remind ourselves and others that according as we square ourselves with the requirements of God in Christ shall the problems of life b met and be grappled and worth while results be achieved. We are here to-day to ask entrance into the light. We are here to know more truth, so that truth may make us free. iW long to know how to be happily and contentedly free. To have our freedom so used that everywhere men shall recog nize it as the article they wish, and, pos sessing it with us, we shall together make xnen strong. Bearing one another's bur dens we shall surely fulfill in part the law of Christ. The gospel of St. John, aim tola yet profound, shows us how to gain reedom in Christ. It reminds us what is so necessary to recall in this easy going, non-thinking age, viz.,- that in no real and permanent aense are men children of God until Christ haa made them such by vital union with Him. That we have no right to call ourselves children until God Him self transfers that right to ua by an act of will and obedience on our part, ao recog nized by Christ, who has in the very pro teas of our obedience done Hia part. To claim the friendship of another ia not to possess it. To say of Christ aud our rela tions to Him, ns we say of some well known people, "Ob, yes, I know Him well; lie is a warm personal friend," when iu reality little more than a formal introduc tion has been given, is in essence to know only about Him, and that in a formal sense, instead of being divinely commis sioned by the living holy spirit of God to be a child of God" and an heir with Christ to eternal life. Manifestly, then, this is an important matter to ua all even to the careless, thoughtless ones who make up a part of every audience. Have we any right to call ourselves "children of Ood?" And if we have, what 1ms God, by His regenerating spirit, done in us? It was our New England poet, Lowell, who said: The thing we long for that we are . For one transcendent moment. But even the pbet fails to be true to fart unless we have such a definite, genu ine faith in God's power and willingness to give us Himself and to make us sons and daughters of the living God. that we receive Him and by that act avail of Hiir as our Saviour not only for one transcend ent moment, but for all the moments foi the rest of time, and in that act we are born of God, anil by that act we are given the right to become aye, to be be gotten as children of God. Almost immediately in this sublime, scholarly and heart searching gospel of John, ihat great disciple, speaking the words of Christ Himself, begins bv divid ing mankind into the same two divisions which are represented in this audience, and in every audience, viz., those who have received Him and those who, though they were His own by creation, received Him not, by a regenerating faith. And I want just now, if possible, to avoid ab struse, moss covered theological terms and phraseology, and to clothe these burning names in simple, clear Bible language, but none the leas to remind ourselves that many of us are longing to get out into the open sky, in some of the old fashioned, necessary doctrines of the word of God. We have gotten some of the choicest and most essential statements of divine truth beclouded, and we are not quits sure where wo are. May God's spirit enlight en and allay doubt and uncertainty on these truths this day, i .d allign us all in the comforting strength of His own aonship., And I frankly believe, my broth er maai.we cannot bs satisfied m (his sub lime hour by turning to the poets, iuucb ss they will uplift and rsst us. Kven tuougn yoa torn to Emerson, who has been so ex alted and almost deified by some in New England L'nitarianism and ask him about man, knd in one place he will tell you: "A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. Tba creation ol a thou. and forests is in one acorn, and Kgypt, Greece, Borne, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man." Yes, potentiality lies enfolded, hut naught else can bring it to surface and to living power save the touch of Christ the Redeemer of Msnhood. Nor does the statement of Carlvle satisfy me, for you recall in his essay on "character istics." he aays: "Man stands in the cen tre of nature; his fraction of time encir cled by eternity, his handbreadth of space encircled by infinitude." I say this can not satisfy you, for you long to know bow you can beat live and expand, while you are in this "centre of nature," and where and how you are to spend eternity. And you turn to that beautifully human and real poet, Robert Burns, aud remember with him "That man's a man for a' that," and here you feel that, you may be argu ing in a ctreky and if Burns had only known more of the Man of Calvary, he would have been saved many of the sins which blighted bis whole life. Or you may stand with that dear Kug'inh poet. Gray, as from afar he beholds Kton Col lege and exclaims, "Ah. tell them they are men," and those words and this poet's longing, more nearly voice your own soul's wish, snd vou add. "Ah. tell them of the Mao. who became flesh and dwelt among J us, mat lie niigni reaeem men lor Him self." It is to this Incarnate word that we must turn if we are to be enlightened and satisfied. And few passages in God's wind speak out more hope and immediate blessing than the text: "As many as re ceived Him, to them cave He the right to become children of God." But some one asks, what ia the process by which this is done? And I reply in the continuing words of th.s same verse: ''Even to them that believe on His name," But what is it to believe on His name? What is faith? And we reply with Bux ton: "Faith is the filial, trustful relatiou, which the whole man, intellect, heart and will, sustains towsrd the Lord Jesds Christ." Christ said to His discinles. "Come ye after Me, and I will make to" fishers of men." They obiycd. Heart,' intellect and will accepted and believe.i Christ to have the right and the power to communicate to them "aonship" of God. Disciples of Him who walked among them as their Redeemer. And when they Lad given Him that simple confidence and proved it openly uy oueuiencs to ma com mand of public, confession of His clsim, glad and willing to be haown as His fol lowers and co-workers, at that moment were they given the right to be the chil dren of God. Then were they born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The gen-, uinenets ot their faith snd sonahip was attested in various ways. To them salva tion in Christ was equipment for service to others. They did not doubt the di-S-ine personality of Christ, but they fol lowed Him. Your child loves sad cej-HCCJ tn you when he obey! y"duT CnrfsttBi great captain of righteousness is asking men to follow Him. "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." This means more than mere intellectual assent to the doctrines and teachings of Christ, for this may remain only profession ana not pass into feeling and action. Yon recall tlio searching words of Christ speaking to the intellectual failures of the Pharisees, in Matthew xv: 8: "This peo ple hnnoreth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men." And again, when Ho waa sneaking to this same aris tocracy of the intellect and sticklers for the strict letter of the law, He said: "And why call ye me Lord! Lord! and do not the things which I say?" Manifestly, then, Christ was eager that men should give honest, hearty assent to His claims of discipleship. He then promised poten tial freedom, personal liberty. But the mere exercise of faith was not enough. Christianity is something larger and finer than even the genuine exercise of faith in the person and work of Christ. Faith unfolds itself in many forms of Christian experience and activity, all of which are embraced in "repentance, growth and service. " When St. I'aul wrote to that little band of men at Ephe sus, who had exercised their faith in the fiersonal Christ, he bade them "grow up n all things into. Him, who is the head even Christ." But lest there may be some among us this morning who, in thinking this whole matter over, do not find it so difficult to believe this Divine Son of God. but who do not quite appreciate the relation of a man to his sin, to his fail ures, his deliberate acts of wrong and evil, ia it necessary to repent? And what is repentence? "Excent ye repent," cried John the Baptist. Manifestly it is neces sary. And what is it? "It is a deep change of the entire thinking, feeling and willing man; and involves as its elements enlightenment, contrition and confession, prayer for pardon and peace, counting the cost and endeavor after new obedience." Look at these for a -noment. Enlighten ment! This is the work of the Holy Ghost. It was not until the prodigal son came to himself that he started on that wondrous pathway to lifelong blessing. Enlightenment as to his own folly and sin and consciousness that a father's love awaited his return. My brother, if some things are uncertain, pray for enlighten ment and He who in the same chapter proclaimed Himself to be the light of men will reveal the path to contrition and confession. "I have sinned against heaven and in Thy sight" was a life giv ing confession and prayer. It showed that faith in the Father's love was sorry and ashamed for its past ingratitude. In that heart crv for pardon was the soul's receiving Christ, and because He received, he had the right to be a son of God. Man repented and God by Hia divine act re generated. There are other" here to-day who will admit the truth of much that I say. but in whom and ahwi whom there are ob stacles which you have not the courage and the determined patience to overcome. Some of these obstacles are the power of sin in the soul, for. like St. Paul of old, you find a lr.wthnt "when you do good evil is present;" a false pride in one's own personality and achievement, for there are not a few of us. with "I thank Thee that I am not as other men are" tendencies; the environment of worldly interests and friendships, and the insin cerity of many professing Christians. Ah, how many of us does this latter include? Nevertheless, uot a few are enabled to rise above these obstacles and become sons of God. Attain I ask the initial nuestion of this message, can I do as 1 please? Or must 1 do ua another please? And I believe an honest study of the New Testament will show ns that the only freedom which is comnrehensive ia the freedom and lib erty which God gives to our whole nature when we have accepted or received His Son Jesus Christ to be our Redeemer and Master. May you this day. my earnest,' seeking friends, find the Christ whose sacrificial love, represented in this atoning blood, and receiving Him by faith, be called children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if so he that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorilied to gether. Kvery Man a Painter. "Paint me a picture," said a great mas ter to his favorite pupil. "Paint me a picture," said the student. "I cannot paint a picture worthy of auch a master." But do it for my sake for my sake," was the response. The student went to his task, and after many months of labor he returned to the master and said, "Come and see." When the curtain fell, the greatest picture of the age was before them. "The Last Supper," of Leonardo da Vinci. I "Paint Me a picture," says the Divine Master to every Christian worker in this community. Do not say that you cannot, for Hia aid is promised you. "Paint Me a Sieture of sstnsecrated service; do it for ly sake." And in the coming time, when we walk the corridors of the immortal, perchance we shall see on its jasper walls our pictures of consecrated efforts, which shall be to the honor of that name which is forever best, because it shall have been "for His sake." Have Faith In Ood. Phillips Brooks declared we should strive to see the loving hand of God in every trial and sorrow. He once expressed this thought in the following dialogue: "What shall I do with this sorrow that God has sent me?" "Take it up and bear it, anti get a strength and blessing out of it." "All, if I only knew what blessing there was in it, if I only saw how it would help me, then I could bear it lke a plume!" "What shall I do with this hard, hateful dutv which Christ has laid right in my way?" "Do it, snd grow by doing it.' "Ah, yes; if I could only see that it would make'ine grow!" In both these rases do you not see that what you are begging for is not more faith, although you thiuk it is. but sight? You want to see for your self the b.essiiig in the sorrow, the strength in the hard aud hateful task. Faith say. not. "I see that it is good for me. and so God must have sent it." but "God sent it, and so it must be good for me." Mills Aid on the istresia. A religious man can receive but little help in regard to his religion on the public, streets to-dsy because everybody is rush ing to and from their business and very little is thought of their church and God. The streets are pure, but some of the peo ple who walk upon them are the ones that arc impure. Rev. Herbert Judson White, Beverly, Mass. Always With Ood. Never attempt one duty without God; you may attempt 10,UUU with Him. Chimes. Believed To Be "Misting Link." Prof. Van Sickle, who for some months has been making geological charts of the northern part of Java, cables the Academy of Science In Am sterdam that he feels certain that be has dlHcovered the long-looked-for missing link. He does not claim the honor of the discovery himself, but says tbat some weeks ago be was in formed by a Dutch merchant, Ven Ueuren, tbat he bad discovered a new species of monkeys In a dense forest In which be bad lost bis way. Tbe professor started out to look Into tbe discovery of tbe merchant, and while watching for the animals to appear be beard a peculiar, balf hu man rolce. Looking up, be saw an enormous nest and two ape-like ani mals looking down upon blm. The natives of that part of the Isl and have long known tne presence of these apes, which they .call "Ash Pet ml." Unlike any other apes, they bathe frequently aud the females wear strange necklaces of twigs and red berries, and nurse their young sing ing half articulated words. They have. In tact, a lauguage, but It consists of very fuw words. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR DECEMBER 4, Suliject: Hesekiah Reopens the Temple, II Chronicles, aula., 18.3t(inlden Tent, I Samuel II., 30 Memory Verses, JW 34 Commentary on the Day's Lesson, , ? The temple cleansed (vs. IS, lfl). 18. 'hen. Ilrxt-kiiili began the work of cleansing the leinplo on the (irst dav of the first mouth the month Ahib. or Ni snn. I Ins was the lirst New Year's Dav alter he became king. The work occupied sixteen days (vs. lu, 17). As soon as the work was completed they reported the fact to the king. "Cleansed all the house." I he accumulated filth of years was carried out and cast iu the Kidron Valley. The altars were renewed, the lamps trimmed and lighted, and the whole service set in motion. Compare the cleansing of the tem ple by Christ (Matt. 21:12; John 2:14). inc temple of our hearts and the temple of the church are defiled by sinful habits and customs, by errors of doctrine, bv world mess ot spirit, by lusts of the flesh, by selfish ambition, bv wrong temper, by inns of every kind. 'thcNe not only defile the temple, but keep others from worship ing and loving God. "Altar of burnt offer Ihis was the great brazen altar which stood -in the priests' court in front of the temple proper. "Vessels thereof." Its furniture consisted of a pan for ashes, shovels, basins for the blood, forks, flesh hooks and censors. "Shrew bread table." I his was in the sanctuary, or holy place, on the right or north side of the room. 1 he lub.e was provided with dishes, spoous, flagons and bowls. 19. "Did cast away." See chap. 28:24. Have we prepared.'1 Ahaz had taken away the "bases'' or supports on which the layers rested and had removed the molten sea from the twelve brazen oxen (compare 2 Kings 10:17 with 1 Kings 7:23, 25, 38). J hese had now been restored and every thing was in readiness for the proper wor ship of .Ichovan. II,. Many sacrifices offered (vs. 20-24). 20. "Rose early." He was anxious to en ter upon the temple services with all nossi- hie dispatch. 21. "Seven bullocks,'' etc. . See Lr 4. This was more than the law i i, ' ,Anilz "al broken the covenant nnd Hezekiah's sin-offering waa intended to atone for the breach. Animals of the kinds used in sacrifice were ottered by sev ens, that number indicating completeness. In case of one particular sin of ignoranco committed by the people there waa hut one bullock to be offered, but here the sins were many and presumptuous. "For the kingdom. The priests were to offer sacri fices ot atonement fo. the sins of the king and the royal family. "The sanctuary n ior the sins of the priests and for .he pol Jution and desecration of the temole rnr .liulnh " I... 1. ...t. . . . me i,eujMi no were involved in the guilt of the national apos tasy. We should note with what empha sis it is stated in verse 24 that an atone- rnent and am-oa'cing were made for "all .Israel as if at this new dedication of the temple they would obliterate the memory ot old national strifes and divisions a id I consecrate the whole nation as an unbro- , ken community to God. 22- "Sprinkled it." The blood was sprinkled in accordance with the law. See , Lev. 1:3, etc. By the sprinkling of blood an atonement was made for ins. Thu blood was the liie of the beast, and it waa always supposed that life went to redeem - lite. 23. ; Laid their hands." Imposition I ot hands signiticd that thev offered the lite , of this animal as an atonement for their sins, nnd to redeem their lives from that death which, through their sinfulness, they deserved. , 24. "Burnt offering sin offering." There ?lerea,ny different kinds ot offering. JJr. Clarke enumerates twenty-one. The burnt oflering was wholly consumed. In most of the other offerings the priest or the offerer, or both, hud a share, but iu the I whole burnt offering the entire victim was given to God. This was "a very expressive type of the sacrifice of Christ, a nothing less than his complete and full sacrifice could inaKe atonement for the sin of the ! w"f'd. J he sin-offering signified that the onerer Ac-nnYvl,t,lim,l I,;., ..:i, -. ... .s.,nv ,,, B,,v, ,UIU ut same time promised to return to God. Iu. The king and the people worship (vs. 23U). 25. "Cymbal." A musical in strument consisting of two broad plates of ...-, w, n iorill. WHICH Dclllg 8tl'U''K ; together produce a hrill, piercing clangor. I hey are still used by the Armeniuns. j Psalteries. The psaltery uppeurs to have v fcc ,lamc Kit en 10 various large in struments of the harp kind. "Harps. The harp is frequently mentioned in scripture, 1 hey were of various shapes and sizes. Josenhus says they had ten strings. 'Gad." Referred to as David's seer in 2 Sum. 24:11. "Nathan." The prophet who reproved David for hisfiin (2 Sam. 12:1). 2il. "llietriltniinta nl' lt-.rl.l " XT... I 1 i v.. ...,, .nunc, mill ; not appointed any musical instruments to "tc umiic nursniij. x ueie was nothing of the kind under the first taber nacle. The trumpets or horns then used were not for song or for praise, but were Used as we use bells, to give notice to the congregation of what they were called to perforin. But David introduced many in struments of music into God's worship, for which he was solemnly reproved by the prophet A mos (chap. 4:1-U). Here, how ever, it is stated (v. 25) to have been the commandment of the Lord. But the Syriao and Arabic give this a different turn. It was .by the commandment of thu Lord thatuhe Levites should praire, the Lord, and it was by the order of David that so many instruments in the old dispensation was no doubt of human origin, and certain ly their use then can be no reason why they should be used in Christian worship. The worship which God accepts to-day ia a spiritual worship. What He desires is heart worship, not beautiful melodies from organs and horns. .28. "The singers sang." Music has a moat humanizing effect. The cultivation of the art has a favorahle influence upon publie morals. It furnishes a source of pleasure in every family. It gives home a new attraction. It makes social intercourse more cheerful. God's people are a singing people, and the song service ought to be a part of all our religious worship. IV. The people bring their offerings (vs. 31-36). A large number of sacrifices were brought by the people, so that it was im possible for the priests to slay and flay all the victims, and it became necessary for the Levites to assist. We are also in formed that the Levites were more upright and prompt to purify themselves from past defilement than the priests. It ia common ly supposed that the priests had been more implicated in the idolatrous practices of Ahas than the Levites, and therefore many of them were slow of heart to respond to Hezekiah's call to sanctify themselves. Insects That Draw Pictures. Few people, except lumbermen and scientists, know that there are a lot ot American Insects that draw pic tures. But lumbermen know It to their cost, for tbe pictures are drawn In the timber of valuable trees, and the drawing instruments used by tbe I little artists are tbelr laws and boring ivuiD, wiiu suitu iuv usrve mvir us- signs so deeply Into tbe trees tbat they die. Tbe most striking 'pictures are made by the Columbian timber bee tle. Wben this insect bores Into oak it makes perfect engraving of a steamboat. Tbe bull, with Its round ed keel, and tbe black funnel, are so well made tbat It does not require tbe least bit of Imagination or study to see It. As soon as anyone lays bis eyes on a piece of white oak In which tbe timber beetle baa been be Is sure to excla.lmVWby, look at tbe picture of a steamboat t," Raked Out Monster Eel. While raking tbe leaves and rubbish from tbe headgates of the mill race way that leads from the Hoosao rrver, at Adams, a monster eel waa raked out which measured four and a balf fent lu length and weighed ten and a balf pounds. DECEMBER FOURTH. "How to Worship in Spirit and In Truth." Ps. 100:1-5; John 4:19-24. Scripture Verses.- Ps. 2fi:B, 7; 34: I; ;l.r,:2S; 40:3; 61:1.1; Mph. 6: J!), 20; Will. 1:11; Col. 3:17; Hob. 13:15, Hi; I Pi t. 2:9. Lesson Thoughts. Worship that 1st only for apppHt tuipp. to hi' M of nu ii, titnl doi'H not spring from cum est ami devout hoiirt, Is not ncccptuble to liml und without blcHtiins; to us; but "ihi- f'frctuiil fer vent, prayer of a ilghtc-otm matt avalletli much." True worship will call upon God at all tlineH, in distrees or In happiness, In success or In failure, In thankful ness for blessings or In petitions for strength to undergo hardships; his ear is ever open to receive our prais es and to accept our worship. Selections. Royal gifts, O gracious Master, We would ask from thee to-day, Ere with those around we minglo. Ere we journey on our way. Faith and patience we urn needing, To assist us to endure, And to clothe the humblest service With a purpose high and pure. He that for the least service la most grateful to God gives him worthy praise, and appreciates the goodness and bounty of him who above all is Infinitely great; for no Krare can be small or contemptible that comes from the liberal hand or the Most High. God seeks and asks for noth ing, but our love may be disinterested, and that by carefully avoiding ull offense agnlnst him, we should give proofs to him of our sincere grati tude. Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise, thy praise alone. My busy heart shall spin It all my days. Thousands of things do thee employ In ruling all this spurious globe; And yet, when I did call, thou heard st my call. 0 that I might some other hearts convert; And so take up at use good store; That to thy chests there might bo coming in Both all my praise and more. Praise God now in the furnace of trial, and by and by you will be able to "comfort others with the comfort wherewith you yourself have been comforted of God." To give God thanks In words this Is not hard. But Incense of the spirit to distill 1 roni hour to hour the t-nsslu nnd tho hard Of fragrant life, his praises to ful fill; Alas, Inconstant will! EPWDRTH LEAGUE LESSONS DECEMBER FOURTH. Worshiping In Spirit and in Truth.-- Pss. 100. 15; John 4. 1!) 24. Inspiring as are the. voices of na tttre, ti.rre is no worship equal to that of the human heart. Lowly and con trite it conies before Its God. It has been sin-beset. Fierce have been the onslaughts, persistent the resistance, anil yet tho enemy Is gaining ground. Where, O. where, poot fluttering soul, wilt llioii tind an am; for thy delense? Wounded and bleeil Ing. where is there a balm for thy distress? One gleuni from above, and upward sours the soul by faith Into the bosom of God for refuge and re lief. Like a dove, it has found its nest. Restored to calm, strengthened by power divine, It bids adieu to feat anil exultantly pays homage to Its divine Deliverer. The body bends iu reverence and the soul touches pin ions with angola on high. If the worship rendered by one soul Is beautiful, bow Inspiring Is the ador atlon of assembled multitudes! Hoary neaded saints and maidens fair, mat rons and youth with gallant form, and sweet-voiced children, all. all with one accord paying homage to Him who was and Is and evermore shall he. One spirit Is there to whom their voices may blend In richest unison. A symphony of souls touched to noble ness by the Spirit divine. Who shall say that such genuine worship is not shared by celestial spirits! Where are the hosts who. with triumphant praise, have left this bourn? Far away are they? We know not. May we not sanely cherish the fond hope that they are not sc far away but that they are able to take up our strains of worship and waft them along through heavenly realms? Wbrshlp means an appreciation of the. worth of God. It Is not until the Almighty towers before tbe mind as the Creator of all things, the Sus talner of all life, the Provider of all needs, the Benelactor of all beings In all worlds, the Omnipotent, the Omni present, the Omniscient, and All-loving Jehovah, that we can rise to the heights of suitable adoration. Only In Christ can we really see God and fpel the throbbings of his hesrt ot compassion. When we realize his fatherly goodness and personal In terest In our Individual lives, then we come to love him with a worshipful affection, sweet and satisfying to our own souls. RAM'S HORN BLASTS UK works of dark ness cannot stand a gal list the w"id of Light. Morality Is a good ladder; but it Is only half long enough. It Is easy for a fox to think he looks like a tiger until he meets one. You cannot wrong the least dis ciple without wounding the great Mas. ter. If the heart is free tbe bands do not feel their bonds. When a man's religion robs him ot his manhood be needs to examine the brand. There is always something crooked about the mun with a corkscrew in his pocket. Vou cannot complain wnen you are peddling slander if some one leaves a sample st your own door. The devil doesn't care whom they buve for a shepherd If only he can run the side-shows of the church. tivdey Tls llenll.v Sweel. How swc?t in life's hi al,. feeble breath, To never tear the sliii of ileaih, It it silently await the Power I hat take in nt the given hour. nd look to heaven, man's iireutest prize. Where teal's can never dim the eye. How sweet to know that all is well, Vi'lieii one can easily foretell 'I lie joyous welcome that's in store t 1 lien landing on the other slime. Here countless thousands gladly sing Sweet praise to the Christ their King. llow sweet to think when suff'ring pain, The soul is free from every slain, That in the coming of the dawn. You're nearer to the Master drawn, Where sorrow shall forever cease, And love reign out in perfect peace. How sweet the thought that night or day, Whene'er we humbly rhooe to pray, That everv honest spoken word Is sympathetically heard, So nuicklv does ii reach the car Of Him, whom (Mortals all should fear. How sweet to know that after all. The power of Satan can't enthrall A single soul, who will but try His wicked ways to e'er defy, Bat if his company you keep, Prepare eternally to weep. George McKcnzifc. Have Vou Seen Hhn To-ilny? I can never forget these words and the strange thrill they awakened in my heart as they fell from the lips of one who sure ly sees Him each day, and carries with her always the light of the vision in the shin ing of her face. I had watched her face as she stodil be fore a great concourse of people to whom she was aked to speak. It was not beau tiful, as the world counts beauty, hut its look of quiet peace and radiant joy, such as all the happiness of the world cannot give or its sorrow take away, ii I led my very soul with longing. As rfhe began to speak I listened, every nerve awake, hoping to learn the wonder ful secret. .She read us the "Vine chanter" of St. John and spoke ol the necessity of our abiding in the perfect life if we would live ourselves. Yes I k.ievv this I had tried to "abide." yet at times there was a vague ness. an unreality about it all that broke the rnnipleteutss. "Have you seen Him to-day?" she went on. Ah! there it was' the secret of it all those eyes had "seen." the heart must "abide" then. No wonder the face glowed with peai-e and joy. liiut its radiance near blinded our eves and made our hearts hungry. She had seen Hun. .lesus. the Christ, to dav! The me-Mce he htouuht was from Him! o wonder that our hearts burned within it! I asked the eucstion of myli I had gone into my closet of pravi-r. had called upon His mime --had told Him my de-ire. akcd pardon for niv .-in, but had 1 seen Him? I had left niv pe-isi-re. bui had 1 wni'ed for an answer? Had I poken with llmi face to face? Ob. whai had I missed? I had run hee'lles-ly into die day. with its duties, its tepiptatin'is. without the vision that would hue e'li'ihtened anil made clear my wav. I hail been tr.vimr to show tbe world a Cbri-t I had not ecu lnvseif. Header, have you seen Him t i-tbiy? I do not :vean hive yon nr.ived to Him. have vou knell het'.ire Hiio. but tuv you seen Him in al! His bei.ti'v. His holine-s and yet in llis Immunity? If yon have not come now. lie -v. els to welcome you.-Atnv Kuihciiuc Hid. in Deaconess Advorate, Oir Track. Whit is the niaiter?" "There's a u-iv-K .iIkmi!." wi- tlr reply. Afler a tune tlr.' Irain ivenl o:i jim I .-ure enough I soon ,iv tlpuv wa- .iil i-r-.'on for dclav. A I.i'-irc InrnnniMvc wa- otT tin track. It scenic. I in be nut vlicr- there was a sivit'h. Hon- it carnc to vis. whether there ::. a defect iu the switch or in the nil. t i.iu'.l no', in hc bc-tlc ami copiusiiit! tli, i' luvvaileil. ycl to un derstand, due thip.r was ci-taiii. the larirc machine nf. th,. iracK. What a job they had to g.-i i: on the track aifain! Il'vv the men wovheii. usinn one plan alter another. H-w lon it took them I don't know, as I had to lcac and go on my vv.iv. t lust so it is. thought T. with a Christian if he iets off i lit- track. It seems the hard est kind of ivoik lu p'rimle a baeltsNiler to come back. Vot that lie has iinyiliiiiic to say against the Lord .lesus. I never heard one that had. but because. I sup pose, ot the special effort made by Satan to keep him from Christ. Anil then, too, when the backslider him self tries to com? back it seems, somehow, more dirlicult than when he first came. What a bother and a hindrance that In. roniotive was while off the track! So much effort wasted, ao iiiin li time lost, so many hindered. And just so it is with the hackslider. Oh, how much is often done to reclaim him by men and by God with no effect! How much might have been done by these same efforts if they had been used in other di rections. And then, too. how manv doei a backslider hinder from coming to Christ? Oh. what a wretched, mean and sinful thing it is to be a backalider! I hope none of my renders are backslid ers. If you are one, dear reader, come back at once to Jesus. Do not Slav in this awful condition an hour longer, .fesus loves you and will yet again receive you. But, fellow Christians, we must not for get to watch and pray and keep "looknia unto .lesus" nr we may fall into sin and become backsliders. Alfred T. Siott. To Live In I.ovr. To live in love is to live an everlasting youth. Whoever enters old aje bv this royal road will liml the last of life to be the very best of life. Instead of finding himself descending the hills of life, he will find it uphill all the way, into clearer air. There the vision reaches fun her; here the sunsets are more golden aud the twi light lasts longer. Mary A. I.iveipiore. "I Will Help Von." Justice Wilken, of the Children's Court, Brooklyn, iliscu-aing problem of bov-liie and the relations of society to the boy dis posed to err, said recently: "The haul and fast rule of 'Thou shall not,' when it st amis alone, retinites also' to have the kindlier and more ( hrisllikc niesaage of 'I will help you.' " Jssus a Y ollllrUu. If you want to be like Jesus, my piuiii. friend, you will mix in the politics of voui own time and pli;ce. He waa a politician in Judea as Mauini was in Italy and Joan of Arc in France. His first recorded act. according to His close friend, John, was lo clean out the temple. Itev. Chaiiea A. Crane, llosion. Jmus' ralllt In !.. The gift of Jesus to mankind has been His faith iu Ihe never-failing presence oi nn infinite love. He, lirsi of all liumn-i ly ings, rose to this perfect and milailiiig confidence John Freeman Clarke Again the Canny Scot. 1 The following story of the cnnj Soot Is attributed to Andrew Car negie: Bandy entered smoking car and asked each of his immedlute nclgli bors for a match. All happened to be without them, however, aud look ol disappointment came over the Scotch man's face as be remarked resigned ly: "Aweel. I'll e'en hae to use one o' mv alu." New York Times. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Fnetm "It L Nothing l Me" Nntiiratlr Ihti Magistrate Ksrlsliiieil. "1 his Ii NoinethiiiK Awlnl" When Ten Drink Kmtilen Mother Were Arraigned. " Ti nothing to mr." the bemty said. M ith a careless toss ot her m-etiv head: "The man is weak who can't retrain From the cup you say is ti ntijiit. will pain." It was something to her iu 'liter years. W lien her eves were drenched In biirninf tears, And she watched in lonely u'tici and dr a J And started to hear a stnugermg '. r.nl. 'It's nothing to me." the motlt-t .'id: )'l have no tent- that niv boy will triad I he downward path of aiii'imd shame. And crush mv heart and darken niv name." It Has something to her when her only sor rroin the path of hie was earlv won.' And madly ipiatted the tlnwina howl. I lien a ruined body and shipwrecked sou! ''It's nothing to me.'' the merchant said, As over the ledger lie bent his brad: 'Tin too busy today with tare snd tret: 1 have no time to fume and fret." It was something to him when over the wire A tne-sage came from a fnneial pvre - A drunken conductor had wrecked Ihe train His wife and child wer among the iani. ''It's nothing to me." the voting man cried: In his eye was a Hash of scorn and pride. I heed not the dreadful things vou tell . I can rule invsell. I know lull well!" 'Twas something to him when in prison he lay. The victim of iliink. life ebbing nwav. As he thought of hi wretched child am' wile And the mournful wreck of his wasted lite T it nothing to us who idly sleep While the cohorts of death their vigib keep Alluring the young and thoughtless in To grind in then- midst a gust ol sin? It is something for us. foi us all. to stand And clasp by faith our Saviour's hand. Learn to labor, live and tighl On the side of God and changeless right. National Advocate. Drunken Mother. Tt wn a horrible sight that Magistrate Smith, of the Long Island City Police Court, was called upon to witness recently. In a row before the diinib-stru. k Magi's Irate stood ten mothers, blear-eyed, with bloated faces, disheveled hair and soiled, tattered garments, their limbs still tremb ling from the debauch ot the day hemic. And as the ten mother stood there, shaking from the dissipation wluiii hoi degraded them, twice that number of lit tle ones stood or sat in the court room and witnessed their mothers' shame! It was a tremendously natural tiling for Magistrate Smith to exclaim as lie viewed the long line of wretched womanhood be fore him: "Why, this is something awful! Mothers with little children, .jo!" When France was in the throes of a great crisis, some one 'remarked to Xapo leon, "Sire, wherein lies our hope?" "In the mothers of France," was the llnipci or's lightning-like reply. If our national salvation denend upon the mothers of the land, in the name of God what is to become of us ii the drink habit gets hold of the women? A drunken father is bad enough, but when it comes to a drunken mother we have reached the bottom of the abyss. We have heard of the "devil" who. it is said, "laugh'' real heartily when we hu man beings do anything that is especiallv wicked or degrading. I don't know how it may he. but it there are such fiendish creature it is afe tos.iv that they made "hell" tairly echo with their internol glee as those ten mother-, stood up in that Long Island City Police Court. It was indeed nn awful sight, a spectacle to chill the very blond in the vein It the home is the "heart of the world." what may we look forward to if ihat liec.rt be-nmes paralysed bv strong drink'' The father may debauch himself and i lu home still be saved by the piiritv and de votion of the mother, bin when the moth er becomes debauched then the deluge' Wit li a depraved motherhood our doom is sealed, nnd not all the praver oi all the saints on earth and in heaven can save u. Where is Signor llioudi? In this siorv of the ten inebriated mothers vi:!i their little children gazing noon their trembling frames nnd iui brinted faces there i amp'e material for another and more terrible "Saturnalia." It were a severely interesting question to n-k. How far lies this strong drink vim worked its deadly way i-'o I he heart ot our American womanhood? How ninny women, h o n.inv mothers, are thre in the land who .nnk' It is :il leged by those who icno v what thev ace talking abort that "sr-iivv" P literally honeycombed with alcoho'n-m. and here, in this Long Island case, we have thf other txtreme. but how about the middle term? Ask the wine pci chant nnd grorrrynieu what it is that their wagons cairy to far loo many doors? Hut it will not anwcr to push ihe in quiry oo far. nnd for the present we stop with the horrible sight of those ten drur.k sn mr.lierr bneil up in the Long Island "ity Folic? Court. The Iiev. Thomas H. C'rcrjuv, in llie National Advocate. 'I Am Not That Man." Mr. Tav'.or. durin-; his visit to Ireland lime vear ago, was dining with a mer chant at s'li'-o. He hail eight beautiful -hildrc'i. lie had his wines and brandy on t'i tubK nnd. of course, asked me to drink, and I had to five my reasons for de fining. This .ave me an opportunity to put in a little temperance, and while 1 was making inv little speech by wav of apology I made tins remark: "No relative or friend of rune ever fell through intemperance. I saw tint this had struck him; his knife and fork fell from his grasp and lie re liliiiii- d silent lor some seconds. "Well." nt'd he nt length, "f am not that man. Iv first Sunday-school super intendent we a man of genial snirit and noble mien. He went int.i the nine trade snd died a drunkard before he was forty Mv frst class leader. I believe, was a good, intelligent, useful man. but he, too. yielded to the habit of intemperance, and died a drunkard. M' own father suffered through intemperance." "Yes," I exclaimed, and you yoursed ore spreading before your friends and yout children t lip instrument of death which slew your first Sunday-school superintend cut, your lirst c!a leader and your father. The very roie with which they were hung vou are 'adulating to ealeli your children. 1 cannot afford to put my head into such s halter as that." The CrusaiU la Hrf. The life of man calls for tbe death of the saloon. , An increasing number of the ablest phy sicians are ranging themselves in opposi tion to the liquor traffic. A movement is now on foot in f-sn Francisco to secure tbe passage of sn ordi nance raising the retail liquor license from Ijis4 to VuUU per year. For character, how stands Ihe question of the saloon? Who needs to argue that? Why attempt the superfluous task of prov ing'thit the saloon is bad. demoralising, degrading? To save American character we must destroy tbe American saloon. A prohibition convention recently me' at South MeAlester to organise s Territor ial Christian Federation for the purpose of preventing tbe liquor irsliic among In dians. , , , , 11 A. Ivy, secretary of Ihe leias Local Option Association, nays ihat it has been carefully discussed Slid decided upon tc ask the Legislator lo pass a law making it a finable olieuse lo drink intoxicating hquor iu a public plat in a' local option In the eitv of Minneapolis, Minn., there are XM aahsms. I lice ure routined to an ures of only one twelfth of the city, lu that district 147 policemen are required lo keep the peace. - In the other eleven twelfths there are no saloons, and in I bat vast district twenty tight polueiaen are tonsiderrd aothcienl. THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsylvania ToU tii Short Order. In a lecture to Reading Coal andi Iron C'o.'s foremen and employees ort "First Aid to the Injured," Dr. George. II. llalbcrstndt strongly urged thaC the use of whi-ky and either alcholic .stimulants be avoided in cases ot' shock, stating that for an injured man suffering frutit shock the best stimul ant is strong, hot. black Coffee. Policemen William Iiosher and JohriL l"tiolir.c. of, Springfield Townshij raided several hay houses and arrested eight tramps who were asleep in the hay. The township commissioner arc determined to drive tramps out of the township, and this U the second raid that lias been made. , Worcester Township was the sue ccsshil bidder f..r the contract t construct four and otic-quarter mile of State roads in that township. It is not often that a township exercise its prerogative . t bidding against out side bidders. Thc township's bid was Sir, -too. There were four other bui dcrs. Daniel I.cightcap, of I.ancasterville. was committed to the N'orristown jail by Justice Day, of I'loiirtown. It ia alleged that I.cightcap entered the) dwelling of William Henry Jonei. a deformed negro, and stole three pair of shoes, several shirts anil other clothing, and a pan of scrapplev I.cightcap was held in $.too bail. Thc Kastcrn Steel Co. has pur chased the l-'ishback School builjin and grounds, adjoining its work at Pottsvillc The school will be torn down to make room for an extension of the mills. l ive Italian laborer, employed on the Pennsylvania improvement worlc. at the North licml curve, near Chris tiana, were burned to death and a. dozen others were badly injured. Sims & Company, contractors for the company, had rented a warehouse, owned by Joseph C. Pownall, about midway between Christiana and At glen. This served a a ! idging-houssj for sixty Italians and as a stable. Aft er mo-t ot the Italians, had retired spark from an Italian'., pipe fell into a vessel containing gasoline, with: which he was cleaning a pair of over alls. The structure was ablaze in an instant and before all thc men could get out of tlic seething furnace five were overcome and they perished. The tilers jumped from the third door, where they were quartered, thirty-five feet from the ground. Several sus tained broken limb'. Physicians were hurriedly -umoned from Gay and Christiana to attend the siitTercrs. John Walker, thc u-ycar-old son of Thomas Walker, wa- accidentally killed by J. din Connor. 2 years of age. near Chester Height-. Connor had been shooting at piwcons, using a double-barreled hammerlc-s gun. He had di-charged one ba rcl, bringing down a bird, and was ju the act o throwing out the shell when the sec ond barrel explode', the ball striking Walker in the head. The lad's hat was blown twciHy-tivc feet. Death wa- instantaneous. The shooting was purely accidental, aud Connor, who lives at Kockdalc, i- almost craze by the occurrence. I.ecdnm Palmer, aacd about 2 years, a motorman on the Philadel phia and West Chester Trolley Koad, was injured in an accident on the line. (Inc of hi- lcs was subsequently am putated at the Chester County Hos pital. 11c is a cousin of William C. Palmer, of Krnnctt Sqii.i-c. who was recent'- killed i:t thc radro.ul wrcc's? at Chadd's l-'.'id Juttcti :;. The acci dent is said to have been due to a collision ot two cars nit one of which) the brake gearing had broken. A iter a dispute with uypsies, Cha and Jacob Hacker, lixing between Xctisvilie and l.audis Valley, wer .-hut in the face, and a gyp-y was sho in the legs. . week ago two gypsies, with their wives and an old woman established a camp near the (lacker residence. I. ate thc other night a Dumber of young men ecu; to the camp, and, after an argi'iiicnt. a fight occurred. One of the Hackers, it i alleged, destroyed -cune ot the gyp-sic-' property. The tvo men in the gypsy camp followed the Hackers t their In nne, and. alter tearing a por tion of the fence down, smashed ill the windows. Both sides were armed with shotguns and began tiring, anJ Vie three men were wounded. Joseph Carney, i.t years old, and hit brother, Gerald, aged 7, of Dunmore. started into the woods to shoot birds A short distance from their home Jo scph handed the gun to Gerald t carry and almost immediately it was exploded. The bullet entered the head) oi Andrew Golden, a u-ycar-old boy. who was a short distance away, and he was so badly injured that he died a few hours later. While gunning near his home, ia Lancaster, Fnos Campbell, aged 16 years, was killed with his Own weap on a double-barreled shotgun. lit company with a younger brother, the boy started from his home toward a creek some distance away. The boys had climbed a fence and in getting; over the older boy put the gun on thc opposite side, stock first. Iri climbing the top rail he slipped fall ing on ihe gun. Both barrels were discharged, the charges of shot tear ing away the top of his head. Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Walt, of WyiKote, were both badly injured in a runaway. Their horse was fright ened by an automobile at Greenwood Aveiuie and Church Koad, W'yncote. and upset the carriage, dragging botli occupants for some distance. Both Mr. and Mrs. Walt were badly lacer ated and bruised about the head and body. County Detective Jeffries promise the arrest of the murderer of little Mike Miorksi, who was killed near Phoenixville, some weeks ago. He said: "Vou can depend upon it that a man will be arrested within the next few days for that crime, and it will not be a member of the gypsie tribe. We now have good case, and have a large amount of , circumstantial evi dence pointing to a certain, individual. The gypsies have removed from the neighborhood of William' Comer, but they will be here when needed in connection with the case." W. W. Brown and a party of friends while on a ramble on the mountain in the vicinity of Pottsvillc saw many grasshoppers in the snow along the roads. Weather prophets say this prcssage a mild winter. To aid Architect J. M. Huston ins his plan to extend Capitol Park by acquiring the built-up district in the rear of the Capitol, the Board of Trade has appointed thc folio wine, committee: Mayor Vance McCor mick. Congressman M. E. Olinstead, J. Ilcrrare McFarland, Senate Libra rian Merman 1. Miller and George A. Goryss.
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