ffffittSSStttfiggStt 8 SUNDAY SERMON H 5 S J A Scholarly Discourse By J R-. C. E. Jefferson. New York city. in tno fa tnoti Broadway Tabernacle the pastor, tlie Itev. Charles IMwnnl Jefferson. I). I.. on Sunday preached the following ser mon entitled. "Wanted: A New Vision of (iod:" The treat word on tlic lips of the coming preacher will be "God." The nnmo which is above every name hug been too much neglected in these re cent years, even by the men anointed to proclaim it. There have been reasons for this nog lect. The evolutionary philosophy awakened a new and thrilling Interest in mnn. Whence he came, bow he started, what have liecn the processes of his climbing, these are the (iiiestions .which have bewitched and absorbed us nil. The phenomenal achievements of the last half century have worked to ward the same result. Never has man been so wonderful as now. never has he done such mighty deeds. He is a uilracle worker who says each evening, "I will do greater things to-morrow." His prowess, cunning and mastery are astounding, and to chant li Is praises lias been our pastime and delight. The miseries of man have ulso con spired to tlx our attention on him. lie has come from tno country to the city and he Is In trouble. He has become the victim of all sorts of economic and social forces, which bnve left bltu lying bleeding and hnlf dead by the side of the road along which the strong have driven furiously to wealth and power. To lift the man who is down mid place him on our beast and get him into the nearest Inn Is a prob lem of vast dimensions, and has taken deal of our thought and time. We have been caught in the com plex of secondury causes, and have lit tle inclination to consider the Cause which underlies them nil. To many minds God's presence has become dim. His personality vague and doubtful. His holiness has been by many quite forgotten. In admiring or pitying the creature we have gotten our eyes off the Creator. Our first duty Is the rtep of the prodigal. "I will arise and go back to my father." The prophet of the coming days Is going to say in the words of one of old, "I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf." .Man's cause has been pleaded eloquently and !ong, and the time has arrived for the forthputting of the claims of Gel. Beginning at the earth always ends in Itabel, be ginning at the throne of God 'cads to I'enteeost. We are coming back to the old evan gelism of the apostles. Wherever l'aul went his message was, "We pray you in Christ's ster.,1, be ye reconciled to God." Simon I'eter ir.et the uproar In the streets of Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost with a rrent I'.ee aratlon of God "I will pour out of My spirit upon all flesh"; and from first to last it wa upon what God had done in Christ that ho based his passionate ex hortation to repentance. All doep-pyed men are seeing -with increasing clearness that it is not by ecclesiattical might or political power, but by the rpirit of Jehovah that the mountains of iniquity are to bo leveled and the rough places made smooth. The evangelism of the coming days will beirln will God. Three doctrines will be counted car dinal. In the forefront will be placed the sovereignity of (iod. If the Puri tan passion has died out of our blood it Is becnuse the Puritan conception of God has failed out of our hearts. What we need to see to-day Is a throne with God on it. Democracy has made havoc with our Ideas of nuthorltv, and the result Is a llabblness of respon sibility and a laxness of conduct.whlcli unless counteracted, will lead to our ruin. The pessimism nnd hopeless ness so prevalent to-day. even among professing Chrlstalns are the direct Jesuit of a failure to grasp the funda nentnl doctrine of God's omnipotence. Along with the doctrine of God's sovereignity will go the doctrine or His Immanence. It Is an old doctrine couched In fresh phraseology and with new light Bliot through it by modern science. The doctrine is written large across the pages of Scripture, and in every land and time the saints have known thnt God dwells .t the hearts of men. In Illm wo live and move ana have our being, ns tho apostle long ago declared. And centuries be fore Paul's day n Hebrew popt thrilled by the thought of God's omnipotence wrote the 13!th Psalm. That God is nbove all and through all. nnd In til. nnd that of Him and through Him and to Him nre all things Is one of the commonplaces of the Bible; and whether we use tho old phraw?, "the indwelling (iod." or the phrase now most popular, "the inima- Hent God." tun thought needs to be emphasized and wrought into the con sciousness of the Christians of our day that God is in His world nnd dwells in speelnl fulness In the hearts of those who love and serve Illm. ior will the holiness of God be for gotten. The decadence of the sense of sin has been caused bv the blur ring of the doctrine of God's holiness Holy Father t-.-.s the title by whlcli Jesus knew God, nnd it is thus that we must know Him If it Is to be well with our souls. The forms in which retribution was often preached In pre ceding generations were so grotesque nnd arbitrary thnt some of us have been ashamed to say it right out clear and strong, thnt God pun shes men for .heir slr.s. In the coming day we are going to believe ngain that whatso. ever a man sov eth that shall he also reap, that without hollnpss no man can soo tho Lord, thnt there Is no peace unto tho wicked, that the soul that sin neth Upb in the act of its slnu'.ng, nnd that God It calling upon men every where to repent. No man acquainted with the teach ing of the latest science need be ashamed or nfrnld to prencl' tho most rigorous doctrlno of retribution, "You preachers do not tell men often enough that every sin brings Its Inevitable punishment," is a sentence spoken to me years ago by a physician. Heboid the goodness and severity of God! This is the completing statement of tho apostle, and the prophets who are re deem the twentieth century will let the sentence stand without abridgment. With cities rotting at our doors nnd tho wall of the damned ringing in our ears, and wltU an ancient empire crumbling to pieces before our eyes, it is not hard to believe that while God Is ready always to forgivo the penitent Ho will by no means spare the guilty. Heboid your God! will the stir ring note of the coming message, and the only God who will stir tho hearts of the people will bo the God who is revealed in Josus Cmist. Christ is God manifest In the flesh. He is the express image of His father. Through Him the revelation of the Infinite heart has come. In seeing Him we see the Father, and we come to the Father only through Him. Wo do not see .Christ as lie is unless .we sco in nim the majesty and authority of a king. We have too much followed the idea of Goethe nnd Carlyle, that Christi anity Is a rollglcn of sorrow, and that Its chief end is tnnt of consolation. This leads men like Mr. John Morley to onll the gospel a "sovereign legend of pity." nnd to long for n wider Gos pel of Justice and progress. Christianity Is more than n legend of plly. It Is a bugle blast culling men to battle. .Testis Is more than the con soler of people In trouble. He Is the nnolnfed King of men. He announces His Kingship again and ngaln In His discourses, nnd It Is ns Lord and Mes siah thnt Peter presents Him to His countrymen on the Hay of Pentecost. To submit to Illm unconditionally is mnn's wisdom nnd peace. It is not the picture of the earthly Jesus with His hand upon n leper thnt this age needs most of nil to see. We need to see the Son of God ns John, the npostle. saw Hun, with many crowns upon His head, the universal Sovereign of the kingdoms of life. God's condescension will mso be seen afresh In Christ. Th great words spoken in the upper chamber will be restuilled, nnd upon many hearts they will fall with the emancipating charm of a fresh revelation. "Ye shall know thnt I am in My Father, and yo in Me nnd I in you." "If it man love Me lie will keep My words, and My Father will love him, nnd we will come unto him nnd make (Mir abode with him." We do not Know God ns He is until we have seen Him not only Mgh nnd lifted up. sitting on n throne, but also ns the npostle saw Him, standing as n suppliant, snylng,"P.ehold, I stand at the door nnd knock: If any man hear My voice nnd open the door, I will come In to him, nnd will sup with him, and he with Me." In Christ also we see God's Indig nation against sin. He is the holy Christ. Though merciful, Ho says to workers of iniquity I never knew you. Though gracious, Ho says to trans gressors of God's will depart from Me ye cursed. Tender nbove all tender ness known to mortals. He paints pic tures of loss nnd pain and doom so terrible thnt they have burned them selves Into tho retinns of men's eyes and Into the gray matter of their brains forever. Wherever His Gospel Is preached men cannot go to the Judg ment saying, I did not know tho hein ousncss nor the awful penalties of wrong-doing. With the Trnctnrlai. method of sev enty years ngo there began a fresh emphasis upon the authority nnd sac raments of the Church. To-day It is the Church wL.ch is still uppermost in many minds, nnd its -.vorsblp. Its unity nnd its government are counted all-important themes. With Maurice nnd Kingsley there be gan a new interest in tho social aspect of Christianity, and men began to la bor for the establishment of wlint was called Christian Socialism. This. force has not yet spent itself. But neither High Churchmen with their sacraments, nor social settlement workers with their philanthropies are equal to the crisis which Is now upon us. It Is not n loftier conception of tho Church, uor a wider diffusion of cul ture nnd social cheer which is most urgently demanded by our times. What is needed Is a fresh vision of God. a new bnptlsm of spiritual life, a lifting of the heart to higher levels of aspiration and devotion. Tho world groans and travails in pain, waiting for tho appearance of a new ,rnce of prophets men of insight and of cour age, who endowned with the Holy Ghost shall sny to our generation in tones which burn" with fervent heat: "Le the wicked forsake Ids way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; nnd let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our Gml, for Ho will abundantly pardon." Congregationallst nnd Christian "World. HapplueM In Spits of Deprivation. If I am so happy in spite of my depri vations, if my happiness is so deep that It is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, my testi mony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing. My optimism does not rest on the absence of evil. I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. H; teaches uh that, al though the world is full of suffering, It is full also' of the overcoming of it. My optimism rests on n glnd belief In the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to co-operate with tho good that It may prevail. I try to Increnso the power God has given me to see the best In everything and every one, nnd make that best a part of my life. To what Is good I open the doors of my being, nnd Jealously shut thein against what is bad. Helen Keller. A Ootid Man' Humility. An appeal was made one Sabbath evening in n church for volunteers to work for Christ. No sooner was tho appeal made than a Mr. Kotehum, n wealthy Now York merchant, rose up and offered bis services to the pastor. The minister said, "In what way. Mr. Kctchum?" and the reply was, v'As a aod currier." What ho meant was .bat ho was willing to serve in any Bumble capacity In whlcli he could be most useful. How often have I thought of that good man's humility. And (iod blessed him ns nfterwards lie went from house to house asking parents to send their children to the Sabbath-school that was connected with bis church. Present Obedience NtceMary. If you are truly aroused to seek heavenly comfort, you will soon dis jover that this Is only to bo found in toe path of present obedience. Chimes. Yon Are Wanted, Men are wanted to do the hard work )f pushing the car of salvation along; md men should welcome tho duty very day In the week. Shoemskers Ones Were Well Paid. Thirty years ago, when all shoes were made by hand, the shoemaker earned a fair salary of from $12 to $16 per woek. Every shoe shop had from five to ten shoemakers working. Shoes and boots cost from $8 to $15, and they received much more repair ing than do the shoes of to-day. Now girls are working In the factories and hundreds of good Bhoemukers are look ing for something to eat. Over half of the shoemakers who formerly worked In the shops aro working at other linos of business, and making more money. A Journeyman cobblor seldom makes more than $8 or $9 per week. One may wonder why It la that the cobbler nearly always finds a mean, dirty hole to crawl Into and to call It a repair shop. The fact is, he can not afford to pay much rent. In the average shoe shop in the good seasons spring and Bummer he can do $4 worth of repairing a day, and not more than $6 if he works In the night time. Four dollars per day and six days a week make $"! per week. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 23. Review of the I.enn For ttie Mrennrt (Jnarter of tlie Year-Heart John vl 1-1.1 UnMen Text, John n 31 The ftutnmnrlps. Lesson I. Topic: Jesus the Shepherd Of souls. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus tells them that He Is the shepherd of the sheep; He Is also tho door: the Pharisees nnd false professors were the thieves and robbers trying to de stroy tho sheep. Those who trust 111 Christ and enter In through the door shall bo saved; Christ comes to give His life for the sheep; the wolf-Satan tries to destroy the sheep; tliehircllng fleeth when the wolf coincth; the Good Shepherd cares for and protects the sheep; other sheep the Gentries were soon to be brought into Ills church. Although He tit 1. 1 down His life yet He would take it ngain. II. Topic: Jesus In the crisis times of life. Places: Bothabiiru, in I'crca; Bethany, near Jerusalem. Lazarus was sick and his sisters. Mary nnd Martha, sent to Jesus Informing Him; Jesus remained In lietliabara two days; then took Ills disciples and went' to Itethany; when He arrived In Beth nny Lazarus bad been dead nnd burled four days; Martha met Jesus llrst; Mary was then called; they mourned that Christ hnd not been there before ho died; Jesus groaned In spirit and wept: the Jews said, "Heboid, bow He loved him;" Jesus asked them to take away the stone; Christ prays; calls with a loud voice; Lazarus then came forth; many of the Jews believed in Jesus when they saw the miracle. III. Topic: Love's service to the Master. Place: P.etliany, at the home of Simon the leper. Jesus Is again in Bethany: n feast Is provided for Him and His disciples; Lazarus who was raised from the dead sat with Him at the table; during the supper Mary anointed Christ's head and feet with very costly ointment: the whole house was filled wiih the odor of the ointment; she wiped His feet with her hair. IV. Topic: The kingship of Jesus. Place: From llcthnny to Jerusalem nnd in the temple courts; Jesus took His disciples and started toward Jer usalem. The people who had heard of the raising of Lazarus crowded around Him; u great throng of people came out from Jerusalem to meet Him; they greeted Him as a king and cried, "Hosanun;" Christ rode on n young jolt; certain Greeks desired to see Him; Andrew and Philip tell Jesus; Jesus came out where the Greeks were and taught them. V. Topic: Jesus teaches humility. PUico: An upper room in Jerusalem. Jesus nnd His disciples are about to partake of tho Passover supper; the disciples disputed over whic h should bo the greatest and Jesus teaches them u lesson in humility by rising and washing their feet; I'eter objected; Jesus onswors his objection: Peter says, "Not my feet only;" Christ re fers to Ills betrayal. VI. Topic: Aids to fruitful service. Place: In Jerusalem in an upper room. The supper is over; Judas 'has left nnd is plnnuing to betray Him: Jesus tenches His disciples important truths through the figure of n grape vino; Ho is the vine; His Father is the husbandman; Christians ure the branches; the branches must be purged that they bring forth much fruit: those who abide not in Christ are cast into the lire; Christ is glorltlcd when we bring forth much fruit. . VII. Topic: Christ's prayer for His followers. Place: In nu upper room In Jerusalem. Before Christ and His disciples go out into the darkness of the night Christ prays: 1. For Himself. 2. For His disciples. 3. For all believ ers. He desired thnt they bo kept from the evils that nre in the world; that they bo sanctified: that, they may know tho truth; that all believers should be truly united: that they may be par takers of Ills glory; Ho asks thut Ills lpvo n.ny nbide in them. VII. Topic: Christ's challenge nnd vindication. Place: Pilate's Judgment hall. Tho Jews accuse Jesus; He is taken before the high priest; He is then taken before Pilate; it was enrly in tho morning; the Jews would not en ter tho judgment hall; Pilate went out to them; demands a formal charge; questions Jesus; is convinced that Christ is Innocent; they clamored for ISarnbbas nnd asked that Jesus might be crucified. IX. Topic: The crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Place: Golgotha. Christ goes forth benring Hist cross; a great mul titude follows; He was crucified at 0 o'clock: two thieves wero crucified with Him; rilato wroto the title in He brew, Greek nnd Latin; the soldiers cast lots for Christ's tunic; Psalm 2'J: 18 is thus fulfilled; Jesus provides for His mother. X. Topic: The resurrection' of Jesus Christ Place: A garden near Calvary. The women were early at tho tomb; several women, nnd John and Peter hnd left; Mary tarried: two ongels ap peared to disciples in tho upper room. XL Topic: Tho ministry of tho risen Christ. Place: Isle of Patnios. John had been banished to rntmos; John was In tho spirit on the Lord's day Sunday: heard a voice; saw soveu gold en candlesticks nnd ono like unto tho Son of man standing in the midst; (Thrlst is described; John fell at His feet ns dead; was told to write what he had seen; this same Christ Is still walking in the midst of His people. XII. Topic: The blessedness of heaven. Place: Islo of Patmos. John had a vision of the new heaven and the new earth: in tho midst of the city was n beautiful river of water; there was also the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits; servants served Him; thero wns no night; the Lord gave light to the city. Cow Chased Cyclist. In a Ceylon newspaper appeared thb following bit of police couft news: "A villager of Podanduwa apeared bofore Mr, Constantino to-day to answer to a charge of possessing a cow' of a dangerous and vicious disposition. Mr. O. A. Purser, the complainant, gave evidence and detailed Instances that he was pursued by the animal whl!e riding his bike through tho vil lage. The animal was a groat dancer to cyclists. Tho magistrate ordered the ar.lrnal to be shot, the village headman being requested to &ee that this was carried out." Hidden Trees. x 1. The helmet ot the soldier was very bright. 2. The cloak was drawn close around her. 3. The lash of the whip kurt him. 4. Will owed him a great deal of money. 5. Give me a pin, Ella. 6. The fire burned very brightly. 7 There was a small arch over tte road. 8. Such awful looking things. 9. The baby was vorv plunin. CISTlEiElll NOTES JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH. Our National Herltar;s. Isa. 53: 1-13. This May Also be Used as a Temperance Topic. There is no surer test of a nation as of a man than Its budget of ex penditures. Is it for battleships or for schools? Whoever Is the ruler of this nntlon, we nr not safe unless the Over-ruler Is God. There Is nn height of national glory more lofty thnn God's thoughts, and the natlcii thnt comes nearest to them will come nearest to suprem acy. There is no national prosperity ex cept ns the nation does God's will a f:ict that Is very strangely neglect ed in legislative IibIIs. Suggestions. If ours Is a great nation. It Is great In spite of the saloon. No one ever dreamed of thinklne that tho saloon contributes one jot toward tho great ness of anything. There Is no greatness of our nn tlon In any directum in men. In goods. In learning, In arms that is not threatened by the saloon. No patriot Is more useful than tho home missionary, and no taxes nre more truly contributions to our na tional welfare than our gifts to the home mission treasury. You nre actually owner of your share of the possessions of your city nnd of yntir country, and you Bhoiihl lie In active control of It. Illustrations. "The Man without r Country." In Hale's great story, was an exile on the oeea-.i; but many a careless citi zen on land l.s practically a man without a country. To reserve one's patriotism for war times Is like cultivating a farm only hi winter. A will must be verified In a probate court, nnd our right to our national heritage must be proved by service. A careless voter Is like a soldier firing with his eyes shut. Young men and women nre too seldom trained In the knowledge of the government of their community, state, and nation, nnd so are unpre pared for their civic duties. The Fn diavor Society may well become the agent for this preparation. A group of specially interested F.-n-deavorors may be formed, or the whole society mny work together. Some text book of civics may be studied under a competent teacher, nnd talks may be obtained from Christian men In office, who will tell about the operation of the parts of tho government of which they have charge. A club may be formed for this pur pose, using as a basis of organization the constitution which tho United So ciety furnishes free. Whatever plan Is adopted, the work will be fascinating, and will continually grow in Interest ns the members come to know more about 1L EFWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH, The Vast Field of Southern Asia. Mai. 1. 11; Matt. 8. 11; John 10. 1C. What Is known as Southern Asia in our missionary work embraces nil of India, Itombay, Bengal, Burma, Malaysia, and the Philippine Islands. There are eight Mission Conferences nnd Missions In this field. Nearly or quite two hundred thousand dollars are annually expended here by the Parent Board, besides large sums by our Woman's Foreign Missionary So ciety. India alone is a vnst continent containing three hundred millions of intelligent peoples. This Is In many respects the most promising and suc cessful mission field of the church. Four missionary bishops have Juris diction In this field. They nre Els hops Thoburn, Warne, Robinson, and Oldham. India Is a continent more thnn a country, and contains one fifth of the population of the world. Its people belong to th Arynn race, like our own, and are governed by the Anglo Saxon. The people are philosophers, and nro mainly Hindus. Brahmans, and Mohammedans. Nine tenths ol the people live in villages averaging three hundred nnd sixty to the vil lage. Yet there are many great and populous cities. Great wealth exists In many localities. Yet India Is so many-sldod that there are sixty mil lions, so poor that they never went to bed other thnn hungry. Our work began in India In 1850 under the great Dr. Butler. To-day we have four great Annual Conferences, and nearly one hundred thousand members nnd probationers. Christian colleges and native preachers with a rapidly ex pmirirng work promise permanency to this rrai. church. The opportuni ties are exalting nnd the responsibili ty appnlllng. Men nnd money In In creasing Btrfams should bo poured In to India this quiidrrnnium. Tho Philippines is a most Interest ing field, t'nder the splendid work of Dr. Stuntz and. his fallow mission aries, we have made a most promising showing In these Islands. The Agllpay movement has opened the way for Protestant work. With nenr ly ton thousand members there now we mry expect to rapidly Increase during tho present quadronnlum. In harmony with the plans of the Evan-, gelical Union wo limit our denomina tional work to certain districts. We have equal privileges in Manila with other churches, nnd to tho north the choicest parts of Luzon. The Island of Mkulonao has opened to us. One of the most hopeful of our Mission fields is In the Philitint-e Islands. No matter how hurried you may be, no time is ever wasted that Is Bpent In gratitude. The devil Is exceedingly solicitous lest the church acquire a reputation for undue activity. Many people see their children grow up while they are planning on begin ning to train them. The models of fashion here cannot even be certain of passing muster as door-mats In Heaven. Men who couldn't organize a peanut stand know Just how the pastor should run the church. It takes as much grace to make saint out of a Pharisee as It does to make one out o( a publican. Tho modern IJolilor falls down bofort the work of his own Imagination In stead ot that of bin hands. night t'ne of Tower, All nges have tugged nt the problem Of power. We touch It first in the ma terial. It Is In the wave, tho storm, the volcano, the lightning, the earth quake. But what of those restless forces, those earthquake of power that burst from the mind? Gravita tion binds every atom and world In the universe, but It cannot bind the mind that solves the Intricate problems, In terprets the literature of the stars, thinks the thoughts of God and dwells In n sphere but little lower than the throne of the Kternal! Yet ns mighty mid marvelous ns is the mind, it is powerless to -grapple with the problem! of sin. The world Is full of literature, the musical thunders of Homer, the entrancing eloquence of Demosthenes, tho inductive philosophy of P.aeoii, the dramatic creations of Shakespeare, but what power Is there In literature to re generate tho human heart' Take the grainiest man the ages has produced, or take nil the superb intellects of the centuries nnd by some power of at tenuation concentrate them into one in comparable genius, holding in himself the illimitable reservoirs of wisdom and let hlni nttempt to speak the word of pardon, nnd what a mockery, what blasphemy! God alone can forgive tho sinner. His power alone is able to track the secret paths of sin, pluck out Its sting, purify the heart, reconstruct man's fallen nature, and lift him up into the high places of power and visiuii! Tills is the power, specified in cur text, the power of the Holy Spirit. It is a sin gular truth, but the more carefully we examine the faith of the ages, we see, somehow, like n hidden star, tills doc trine of n divine Influence coining to the heart of man, throwing its glow over the horizon of the world. The Pantheism of the Brahmins involves this; it !s tho inspiration of Thcosnphy, the light of Mnnichelsm, the Inner radiance of platonlsm, the full orbed glory of Christianity. When Jesus Christ said to His disci ples, "Tarry until ye ure endued with power from on high," and interpreted thnt power in the language of our text, "Ye shall receive power alter that the Holy Ghost has come upon you," He was bringing to light the innermost nnd uttermost power of the gospel. Christianity is more than a system, it is spirit and life. "It Is the power (dynamite) of God unto salvation to every ono that beliovcth." Paul says, "Our gospel came not in a word only."' not like a Homeric song glistening with Incarnate genius, nor n cold Platonic speculation that chills, but never warms the heart, "but in power and In much assurance and the Holy Ghost." Now that the power of the Holy Spirit lias been given to the church, the great problem confronting, the church is the right use of power. One had better crawl in the dust than to have the erect body degrade the mind. Bet ter "make haste slowly," than to rush wildly to certain ruin. I'ower is one' thing, the science of Its application quite another. Education brings power, but it does not always give power over power. The need of the church Is power to direct and apply power, to adapt Its methods to the new ago of thought and life, to bring Its vast re sources to bear upon the problems of the day in the practical spirit of tho day and to keep step with the world wide movements of civilization with that quick response to human need, born of prinoiples adapted to universal conditions. "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, t.nd ye shall be My witnesses," saitli tho Saviour. All the power of tho Spirit is to be put forth in witnessing for Christ. The Holy Ghost is not promised to restore bodily health or work dazzling miracles. Mi . power is given to bo utilized In witnessing. Life is only of value as It -witnesses to some tliing better, higher than itself. Mar tin Luther wns lifted into immortality by tlie high tide of the Reformation. John Wesley was enthroned by tho mighty evangelistic wave thut rolled forth from his fire crowned ministry. Abraham Lincoln wns lifted into death less light by the divine principle ot liberty for which he stood.! It is only as we stand for and wit ness to some exalted principle of right eousness that life is worth living. The need of the world is for a witnessing church. The need of tho church Is for the baptism of tho Holy Spirit. O, thnt Ho might descend with quicken ing, purifying, energizing power upon us! Then the conquest of the world will be an easy task. Dr. John Wesley Hill, in the Brooklyn Eagle. The War or Peace. See, then, bow faithfully tho Lord Is leading thee to true peace, who sur roumletli thee with so many crosses. It is called "the peace of God which passetli all understanding:" that is, which is not known by feeling or per ception or thinking. Ail our thinking cannot attain nor understand it; nono but those who of free will take up tho cross laid on them these, tried and troubled in ail they feel and think and understand, afterward experience this peace. Luther. The Thankful Spirit. Cultivate tho thankful spirit! It will bo to thee a perpetual feast. There Is, or ought to bo, with us no such thing ns small mercies; nil nro great, because, the least aro undeserved. Indeed, a really thankful heart will extract mo tive for gratitude from everything, making tlie most even of scanty bless-ings.-J. It. MucDuff. Faith lu Ood. Wo shall bo made truly wise If we be ninde content content, too, not only with what wo can understand, but con tent with what wo do not understand, the habit of mind which theologians call, and lightly, faith In God.-Klugs-ley. A Problem. Wo may see never so clearly a line of action thnt we should follow; but hnvo we tho will and courugo and desire to support us la that pathway Howard N. browp. Small Birds' Night Flights. Nearly all the small birds make their long flights by night, spending the daytime quiotly feeding and rest ing, so that. It on any day In May the tree tops are Kill ot flitting little warb lers, It Is no sign that the following day will find tbera still there. Some kinds, tike phoobes, song spar rows, meadow larks and bluebirds, come very early as soon as the snow Is all gone ahd the south sloping hillsides begin to feel warm atJ 'Smell of eprt:.." St. Kkholpf. THE GREAT DESIKUYEK SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE; The Awful Tragedy of a Kncheater Hon da? Dinner Mow a Peaceable, Inrtnn trlont Cllurn Wan Transformed Into Flrnd A Warning to Drinkers. On May 21) there lived on the corner of St. Paul and Evergreen streets, in Rochester. N. Y., a family of four. Vincent I,ove, n young man of thirty, was the father, Minnie wns the young wife, James was the little slx-yenr-old son, and the two months' old baby sister wns not yet named. Ixive was regarded as n peaceable and Industrious citizen. He wns em ployed at the Eastman Kodak Works und made good wagts. When be reached his home three hours after lie bad quit work on Satur day night he had left every dollar of bis week's wages lu tlie saloons that line the streets between the factory nnd bis house. He was penniless, drunk and quarrelsome. He remem bered that his young wife had earned something that week. Needing a dress, she had taken home some sewing from one of tlie clothing factories, and bad earned ..".S( for her week's work. But when her husband returned with Ids wages all spent nnd nothing In the house for the Sunday dinner, she t-ok this money and started .'or the store. But what did Vincent Love, witli tho mud spell of drink upon him, care for llie childri n's Sunday dinner, much less his own? lit) barred the way at the door and cried, "Give lne that money. I will do tho shopping. You mind your children." Rut she pushed him away, and taking James along, left tlie baby sleeping .in lu r cradle while she went to the store. Soon she returned with the meat nnd vegetables for the Sun day dinner, purchased with her own dress money. The house was dark when she went into the kitchen, and striking a match, she reached up to light the bracket lump. At 10 o'clock six-year-old James stood at the door of Dr. Hunter, two blocks away. "Doctor," bo cried, "my mamma has goii. to sleep nnd 1 cannot wake her. Please come and wake my mamma." On the floor of the kitchen, lying In a pool of her owu heart's Mood, the doctor stumbled over her dead body. James had pushed a pillow under his mother's head and covered lur with a comforter to keep her warm. Baby was crying in her cradle. Lounging over the kitchen table wns Vincent Love in a drunken stupor, on the Hour lay the blood-stained knife. Angered because she would not give him the money, he had concealed him self In the corn -, armed with the brutal knife, waiting iier .eturn. As she lifted her arm to light the kitchen lamp he sprang from the corner and plunged It in her bosom. Little James saw the blood, but ho told the doctor, "Mamma is sleeping," nnd to tho police he Laid. "I am afraid to tell, for my papa will beat me." In Mount Hope Cemetery lies the body of the young woman who changed her name by marriage .'o Love, laid there by drink. In the county Jail Vin cent Love nwuits his doom, made a murderer by drink. In tho home of the dead wife's mother nre two little children, made orphans by drink. On the corner stands tlie former home, wrecked by drink; tho grave Is closed; the prison door is closed; tile door of tlie home is closed: but the saloon remains open. Whisky, the real murderer, Is at large. Six hundred saloon Hoens, that same week, were renewed for nuotber year if debauchery and poverty and deviltry and crime. And the blood of a poor murdered woman Is upon the hands ot the Christian men who by their bal lots consent to the curse. Clinton, N. Howard, lu the New Voice. Itninaoi Sodden Willi DrinV. American Medicine believes that chronic alcoholism may explain in part the Japanese victories in Manchuria. 'Hie soldiers of the Mikado are mostly totul abstainers, while observers with tho Russians dwell repeatedly on tho drunken orgies of officers and men. The immorality und drunkenness lu Port Arthur tire said to have been so tlug rnnt as to bo beyond description in European or American journals. Ameri can Medicine feels, however, thnt It is not occasional drunkenness, but habit ual hard drinking, which docs tho mis chief. It declares that the mental de terioration of "old alcoholics" is so well known to physicians that public Ignorance in regard to It invariably surprises the medical profession. It is also hopeful that the American nation will take the lesson ot Japanese sv&.' cess to heart nnd not bestow military pluces upon chronic alcoholics, so prone to '.'false Ideas, perverted reasoning powers, nnd enfeebled Judgments." In the British unvy men who drink are promptly shelved, however different tlie practice in the days of Nelson, But it will be a long time before our graduates of West Point and Annapolis are held up to similar standards. Even though, ns American Medicine predicts, the temperance movement Is bound to win the light with alcoholism. It will probably be decades before Abraham Lincoln's Joking wish to supply every general with the same brand of whis key used by General Grant becomes an illustration of a bygone social or der. New York Post. Driven Mint Be Tainperate. The Illinois jlilk Dealers' Associa tion "said things" to Chicago milk wagon drivers tlie other day, and af ter this any driver known tu smoke or drink intoxicants while on duty will bo punished by the h. s of bis Job and expulsion from the union. Temperance Notea. The cause of temperance has made marked progress lu Denmark during the lust quarter of a century. There are now about l'JO.OtK) mem bers of temperance societies in Den mark, and the Danish Congress ap propriates annually a lurge sum to further the movement. The Toledo Ulado states that there are 730 saloons in that towu and that ninety-five per cent, of tliem are owned by brewers who nre responsible for the open violations of tho luws concerning tlie sale of liquor. A Springfield (Mass.) physician who committed Kuicide, after shooting two men and attempting to kill his be trothed, is said to have attributed his thirst tor liquor and bis homicidal ten dencies to the fact that his nurse in Infancy was a woman who drank In toxicants. In New South Wales temperance fondling bus been introduced inti the schools within the last year. Ia the other slate of the common weal. h all thnt is done u yet is to give occasional temperance lesun, and to hung up temperance wall sheets In sehoiis, lu; an eutiv.-Kt (igl'tuloii is being calf. Iod uu f'V muie tliiui t UJ .-4. THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Fennsjlvaaia Told to Short Ord:r. Jeremiah RMicll pleaded guilty ifl court at Heading to involuntary man slaughter in comirctwn with the shoot ing of Jamii Gallagher, a tramp, lasl fall, and was sentenced tj six months in jail. George I'.inc, who did the shoot ing, was sentenced last week to fiv( months in tlie .penitentiary. It was as serted that the tramp made improper proposals to young women ami thai limes and Kiehell defended the women, At the third annual gold medal con test in oratory for the pupils of the Wilkcs-Barrc High School, Miss Helen V. Barring won iht -M mcc!,il for reci tations and Robert I.. Kiiead for the best original production. The Scran'.on Municipal League, which has been inactive fur some time, has resumed operations. By request of its agent, Robert Wilson, the police confis cated nearly all the imk-.i-iu-tho-slot ma chines in Scranton.' The owners of phce; in which the machine were found were fined $j- and costs. The Trenton, New Hope and Lam bcrtville Railway has been opened fof travel. Tlie line is sixteen miles long. The eighth annual convention of the Pucks County Sabbath School Associa tion was held at Carversvillc. Rev. W. Barnes Lower, of Wyticotc, and Rev. John M. Waddell, of Doylestown, de livered addresses. Mrs. Aaron C. driffen, aged 25 years, wife of a Warrington Township farmer, was burned to death by the explosion of a can of kerosene with which she was kindling a fire in the kitchen stove. Prof. F. S. Benton, principal of the public schools of Coatesville, has re signed and will go to Philadelphia to study law. Harry Moore, of Coatesville, a rigger, employed at the Lackawanna steel plant in Buffalo, was killed ,n that city by be ing caught in machinery. Robbers entered the White Horse Ho tel, on the Chester Tike, in Prospect Park, and took five pieces of a silver set, each piece bearing Mrs. David Mc Cktre's initials; nine yards of silk dress goods and a pockethook containing money belonging to Mrs. McClure, wife of the proprietor of the hotel. Daniel Callahan, aged 6 years, of Thomaston, while on his way home from school, stopped beside an old mine breach partly filled with water to throw stones into it. Losing his balance he fell down the precipice and was drowned before the eyes of several little school mates. The contract for the erection of a State bridge over the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, between Ber wick and Ncscopeck, has been awarded to the York Bridge Company, of York, by the Board of Public Grounds anil Buildings. The York Company, which bid $.309,500, was the lowest of the 28 bidders. . After parting with a friend and ex claiming: "This is the last time I'll shake hands," Milton S. Shaeffcr swal lowed a large dose of arsenic in the barroom of a hotel at Rothsvillc. Friends attempted to knock the glass contain ing the poison from his lips. He held on determined, biting a piece frum the glass and swallowing the fragment. Jt is believed he will die. Mark Ashbaugh, aged 17, and Otto Robinson, aged Ij, both of Duqucsne, died in tlie McKeespnrt Hospital. The boys found a large quantity of gunpow der and filled their pockets with it. One of them applied a match to some of the powder which had fallen on the ground. The flames leaped up and ignited the powder in their pockets. Both were fa tally burned. The Valley Forge Park Commission has made arrangements to provide a wa ter supply for the park. Hydrants for drinking and sprinkling will be placed at various points along the roads. Deputy Sheriff Massi has arrested John Tozzolino, charged with the mur der of Frank Colar, whose headless body was found at Cork Lane ten days ago. Tozzolino says he can prove an alibi, and he offers to aid the police in run ning down the murderers. Dr. Donato Verna, of Roseto, a grad uate of the Medical College at Naples, Italy, was convicted in court at Eas ton of having practiced medicine, al though he neglected to register in the I'rothonotary's office or to appear be fore the State Medical Board. Judge Scott fined him $100 and costs. Jacob Fritz, aged bo- years, who was accidentally shot by William Cioss at the Avon Gun Club grounds, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Lebanon. Gloss, who was seixed with nervous prostration at the time of the accident, suffered a relapse upon hearing of the death of Fritz and is in a serious con dition. While assisting in placing a large log in position at a mill dam at Meckville, Cyrus Gerhart, aged 50 years, of that place, fell into tlie water and was drowned. The audit in the estate of the late Kdmmid Krucnsky, Norristown, whose brother's arm established the date of his marriage, ended by a settlement in which the property was divided between his wife and mother. The taxpayers cf Bisto! Township at a special election voud 225 against 104 for bonding the township to the extent of $30,000 for road improvement. Penrose Wcidman and Raymond Frey burger, two 12-year-old boys of Birds boro, were killed by being struck by an express train on the Reading Railway. The lads, wiih a half dozen others, were returning from a swim in the Schuyl kill River and the two boys were stand ing on the down track watching a pass ing freight train when the express train struck them. Sheriff Derr, of Carlisle, appointed ex Deputy Sheriff Goodyear and John Glass as death watches fur David Spahr, the condemned murderer of bis wife, and asked the Court by petition to ratify the appointment. Judge Sadier stated that he fails to find acts of Assembly con ferring the authority on the Sheriff In appoint death watches, and therefore re fuses to confirm the Sheriff's appoint ments. While at work in the Philadelphia & Reading car shops at S.diuylkill Haven John Dalton was overcome by heat ait J died a few moment 3 later. . Solcmon G. Krepps lias been appoint ed postmaster in CiJwallader. The last two bodies of the five men who perished in the fire in the Locust Gap Colliery thirteen months ago were recovered. Thty are those of Michael Shannon and John Roy Ian. Now that all the bodic have been recovered, Cor oner Drcher will cont'd an inquest. Frederick Thompson, a negro, of Rich mond, Va., was Arretted in Lewittown, charged with being implicated with t' s other lK-pr.'ts ;.i hoi ' - a of lt.iliipi I ' -r r
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