1 The uipt A SERMON Subject: The Gospel of Christ. 3 mill Rrooklyn, N. Y Preaching at the Irving Square Presby tcrlan Church, ft the theme "The Gospel of Chriit. a Tartlet Message tu Its Messengers." tif Rev. Ira Wemniell Henderson, pastor, took as his text Romans 1:16, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel cf Christ." He said: The last nnd perhaps .he greatest privilege which our Savior has given unto us is contained In that com- tnand which. It Is reported, He gave to His disciples nineteen centurlet I ago "Go ye Into all the world and ! preach the gospel to every creature." Paul writing, as we have seen, to the Church at Rome, but a few years titer the death of the Master, has ; given to us a record of his personal and profound conviction of the worthiness of the good news of the ! Christ. This, the opinion of the pre-emi- 1 nont evangelist of the Apostolic Church, still stands unchallenged. Through all the schisms of the cen- turles the Gospel has come down to ' us as pure and beautiful in its mes- I sage; as strong and as potent in its power lor good, as it was when first our Master preached, with His own dear Hps, the message of salvation and abounding love. To-day, as we stand just within the threshold of another century. with the memories of mighty eras lingering In our hearts, let us glanco over the achievements of the church of the living God Let us, as we stand at the parting of the ways, 1 when to go forward Is to accept new responsibilities nnd to receive re newed opportunities for service, look critically at the field before us. Let us determine what course, as Chris- 1 tlans, we must pursue. Let us con- I slder the message of the church to I the men of to-day. Let us decide, j as God may give us power, our duty I as the messengers of the risen Lamb Ot God of whose gospel we are not I ashamed. About the year of our Lord the thirty-second a certain Pharisee. Saul j by name. Journeyed from Jerusalem to Damascus, "breathing out threat- ; enings and slaughter against the dis- clples of the Lord." His intent was to bring bound to Jerusalem all 1 Christians whom he might find at Damascus. While on his way and when but a few hours distant from : Damascus the spirit of God came i upon Saul and a marvelous conver- ; sion, worthy of the mission and of the magnitude of the man. took place. 8aul's question, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" was the . mainspring of action in his life. In tie answer of our Lord came a pro phecy of that work of evangelization ' which was destined to change the po- I Iltlcal aspect of the world, and to do 1 much to ameliorate the social condl- I tions and surroundings of human ! kind. Paul was the first world-evangelist. His mission wan to sow the seed in all the first century world. And so In the outpouring of a grateful heart a heart thankful for success as a 1 spiritual seedsman Paul declares, "I i am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ." This same gospel it is which j claimed the ulleglance of Paul and , which holds the fealty of men in j every clime to-day, which has taught 1 men the principles of right living and j of eternal truth. To the influence ! of the gospel is due that esteem for j woman which has raised her from a i chattel to her rightful position as a forceful factor in society. To the gospel is largely due that beneficent scheme of education and that grand er conception of the liberty of the In dividual. The words of Christ foretold the doom of slavery. The eternal princi ples of the new commandment could not but be hostile to a system of hu man chattelhood. The gentle teachings of the man of ; peace have entered into hearts In every epoch and in every land, ' strengthening and mellowing the in- j dividual character and life. Wher ever the example of the Christ Is fol- j lowed there Is prosperity and peace and Durity of heart. Widely spread : throughout a people it has made of that nation a mighty and a moving element in the political history of the J .world. Applied to the lives of men and women in whose hearts the love i of God s law was uppermost it has given to na our Luthers. our Wesleys, our Llncolns, our noblest and our be.it. But it Is within the 3pace of the past century and a half that the true mission of the gospel has been com prehended and advanced. Little more than a century Is it since our first plans were considered to send Protestant missionaries to the East. To-day we have the missionary of Christ In every land. The message of salvation through the Son is reach ing round the world. But let us for the moment forget the things which are behind and look rather upon the present condi tion of humanity. Let us consider our duty as those who are "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ," to carry that gospel Into every acting, longing soul. What application has the gospel to the needs of to day? How can we make It a force in the lives of men and of nations. We find ourselves confronted by diverse and distracting social condi tions. The tendency of the times Is toward congregation In large cities. The olden country Ufa becomes dls tasteiiii, and men in (no rusn to gain a livelihood Hock to the cities. Let us take as an example the City ot New York. Here are some of the richest of the rich, the poorest of the poor; palaces, hovels; luxury and ex trat ailance. ueuury and destitution; costly cathedrals erected to the glory of the living God, and beneath their very steeples disreputable dives dedi cated to all that Is bestial iu man Commercialism is the watchword. The city, as the land, is money wild. The spirit of combination Is abroad, and we see huge gatherings of untold capital to control the Industries of the world. Capital fears labor and UOUle.l. t fcKtttllJtt It. l-tlMtr UtbLl'urtir the concentration of wealth and at tempts. With but lnotlt-r.ue success, to protect ltsttif from Us fancied en emy. The immensely rich live their lives with but small cure tor or thought of the wretched existences worked out by their .'ollow In the alums. Vice shows it evil head tit every turn. There is in New York a single square, within the bounds of which reside over 2000 human be !iim. who live undei the most dis hearteulng conditions. To our shores have come multitudes from every Eu ropean usil id, from nearly all the countries of the world We have our "little Hal. , " our Geiiuasi colony our Krenrn quarter, our Chinatown. Upon the same page of a dally news paper we may read heart burning ac counts of the unutterable misery of multitudes of our poor, and the story of how one man la attempting to con trol the supply of the diamonds, or the gold, or the steel, or the rubber or the railroads of the earth. Thus. In briefest, are described some of the conditions that make the social problem so disconcerting. Let us consider now our duty as men nnd women who love our Lord to carry His gospel ot light and of life to a world that is so sorely In need of it. The prime duty of the church, here as elsewhere. Is to Instil Into the hearts and minds ot men the neces sity and the Joy of the presence ot the saving power of the Holy Spirit In the Individual life. That's the spiritual function of the church. The ethical dutv of the church is to Im press upon mankind the true relation of man to man and to God. In order to Impart her fullest Influence It Is necessary that thechurch be filled, Individually and collectively, with the deepest grace and the noblest love for man. By the exercise of the true principles of the Christ Ideals In the commonplaces of life, the charge of Inconsistency must be nullified. As a body and as Individuals the church must be a brotherhood which, mcas- t ured by Its own Ideals, is worthy. . To the church do the people look for the purest, the most unselfish leader hip. That the depth of the spiritual Ufa within the church is a sure Indi cation of the height of the morality of the people is demonstrated by the ages pastk Upon us as Christian J men devolves the privilege so to mold the national mind that the law of the universal brotherhood of man I may become the law of our national i and International life. We must con- I vlnce the poor of their duty to the rich; we must convince the wealthy of the dignity of labor. Ours Is the obligation to hasten the millenlum of peace through the universal appli cation of the law of love. To accom plish this purpose we must obey, In our dally lives, that command of the Master. "Thou shalt love the Lord thv God and thy neighbor as thy- , self." The church must exercise her pre rogative as the natural leader In all moral reform. That reform which has not the support of the church must sooner or later fall. She must I Insist on a clean public conscience as j the logical sequence of her demands for purity In the private life. It Is not the province of the church as an j ecclesiastical body to claim temporal j supremacy over the government of the city or the nation, but It Is her duty as composed of voting individ uals to demand, and to enforce the demand, that municipal and national government be undefiled. The poli tics of our large cities will be only 0 bad as the church cares to allow, la a country where the citizen la i king and the ballot alone Is supreme strenuously to maintain the honor ot i the sovereign people should be the i high aim of the church. The church must, however, keep strictly in mind the prime object of ; her existence. Her mission it is to I preach the good news throughout the world. In the cities is her mis sion moct difficult to fulfil. Here, by reason of the multitudinous obsta cles that beset her path, she must ! use ettraordlnary measures to reach the people. It Is not enough that the spiritual neeas or tne immediate con gregation of any church be minis tered unto. That the pastor preach regularly twice upon the Sabbath, that the exercises of the Sabbath school progress without Interruption, that the prayer meetings occur as it their wont, that the church be prompt In her financial affairs. Is not enough A yearly contribution to missions In the foreign fields and the support ol a city missionary do not constitute the whole responsibility of any church. The grace of the gospel is for al! men. Unto all men must the tldlngf be told. To the unhearlng and th uncaring must the Inspiration of the infinite 8on be carried. Christianity must be proven a practical force It the common life. For the Christ life la practical life written large. As the only correct system of right living as the ultimate scheme of salvatlot must the gospel be presented to the people. To them we must show thai the promises of Christ are real, that Christianity Is a synonym for broth' erly love, for the deepest consecra tlon, for the highest purity of life and motive, that Christianity ll ChristllkeneBS. The church muBt carry to the raul tltudes of the unsaved a gospel unsul lied by her own Insincerity and in consistency. Her creed must be jlm pie, her differences dismissed. Hei forces must move in unison towarc1 the common end. Sect and part) strife must be eliminated. It ma; be that the great divisions alwayi will exist. Always the Catholics anr the various Protestant denominations But like a mighty army in which the different regiments have each theli duty and their position under a com mon generalship, so must the churct in waging the peaceful battles of the moral war march, side by Bide, seel by sect, creed by creed, In full pano ply and with solid frout, forward u the victory under the common lead ership of the King of Kings, who U Christ the Lord. And now a word upon the mannci ot the preaching of the good news. The gospel should be preached at tractively. Water street missions and Salvation Army rooms may suit the preferences of that claBs to whose spiritual natures the workers may wish to appeal. Wonderful 1h their Influence and to them be all honor. The average self-supporting poor man, however, does not care to feel under any obligation to the richer portion of the community for his sulrltual sustenance. He feels, and an too oil illy wicii aume JuatlfioUiuu, that the miSBlon the very name of which is distasteful to him has been established so thut he may have DO causa to Intrude his unwelcome pres ence upon the mother church. May God speed the day when the church will see her duty In this matter. The poor, whose only sin Is poverty, whose piety Is eifteu more genuine than that nurtured in u protected home, should be liven substantial opportunity to worship The Moody revivals prove that the common people respond eagerly und in force to the appenl of the man In whom they enn see and imagine only love. The common people heard Christ glp.dly when the learned scorned Mini. We often speak of the wilfulness 4f t'.ose who listen to our discourses upon the duty of every man to ac cent Christ as the personal Savior, and who do not heed our wordn. Gen erally we console ourselves with the thought that we have done our duty at any rale. Perhups we have But are w Justified to say that Christ hai been rejected. May it not be that the rejection has been, not so much of Christ m of our presentation of Him. Might It not be that another man with a different personality, with u different uiauuer of expression, with a something In hit nuture that woum bring him heart to heart with his listener, would convince this sin ner, over whom we have tried and failed, of his absolute dependence upon the God who gave him life. The whole power of the body of Christ must be exerted to save men. Too often men are unconvinced because of our non-appealing presen tation of the truths of the Bible story. Unto all people must the rhurch of the twentieth century ad dress herself. To all men must the gospel be preached. But this gospel of the Chriit Is not merely a system of ethics, "not merely a scheme of life. It Is more. St. Paul tells us that he Is "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for," says ho, "It Is the power of God unto salvation to every one thatbelleveth." Through It we know not only what God expects of ub, but we have a knowledge of the nature of our heavenly Father. Christ came to preach the kingdom. The outworking In practical life of the principles of the kingdom will make such conditions as wo have dis cussed Impossible. With the entrance of Christ Into the heart man will become right to ward God. Being In harmony with God he will be In harmony with his brethren. Let us apply ourselves, then, steadfastly to spread the gospel of salvation. The gospel of our Lord und Sa vior Jesus cnrist is tne urgent, UM Immediate need of this world. With in its principles are contained the so lution ot all our most perplexing so cial problems. Let us bring our wan dering brethren back from the dis tant country Into the father's home. For ourselves let us strive to attain unto that porfectnesa which was In Christ. Enthrone Christ In the hearts of men and the law of love, which Is the ruling force In the kingdom of our God, will sway mankind. Then will come peace and happiness and Joy. For then shnll have come to pass the beginning of the endless Ufo within God for us all. Save men to Christ and you havo saved the world. The church Is confronted with the most stupendous problem with which she has had to contend since the days of the apostles. But with the prob-' lem God has given us the power unto victory. His gospel Is our shield, our buckler, our guide. He doth lead, we need but follow. Let us then as men who are "not ashamed of. Uie gospel of Christ." go forth to carry that gospel unto every needy soul. Let us live the Christ life that we preach. Let the church, relying upon the promises of our Lord, strike out boldly Into new fields. Praying for divine guidance and trusting to the omniscience of divine love, let us find our duty and live up to it. "Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest." Are you ashamed of the gospel of Christ? EPWDRTH LEAGUE LESSONS GIRL RIDES A BULL TO DEATH. Miss Maud Deroe, a young woman living In the prairie west of Midland, South Dakota, threw herself upon the back of an enraged bull, and rode the beast until he became exhausted and died. The bull made a vicious attack up on Miss Deroe when she was Walking across the prairie alone and unarmed. The young woman, unable to make her escape, stood her ground, and of fered the enraged beast battle. After a brief and desperate struggle, Mlsa Deroe, by an almout superhuman ef fort, threw herself upon the back of the bull. The beast tried hard to throw her, but she was reared on the prairie and had ridden wild horses from the time she was a child,, and she made shift to keep her seat. Finding that she could not be un seated, the maddened beast started to run at the top of his speed, and he ran thus with the girl clinging to his back, until he finally tell to the ground with blood streaming from his mouth and nose, utterly ex hausted. The bull died soon afterward. The girl waB uninjured by her wild ride. She was painfully hurt before she got astride the bull's back. Tucson Clt- lzen. STORY OF A SPIDER. On the ceiling in one of the rooms in Sans Soucl, the world renowned palace of Frederick the Great, la painted a great spider with Its web. The origin of this strange decoration Is as follows: This apartment was the great king's breakfast room and adjoined his bedchamber. Every morning when His Majesty entered the room he was accustomed to find a cup of chocolate, but on one , occasion, Just a he was about te drink, he thought of something he had forgotten and returned to his bedroom. When he again entered the breakfast room His Majesty dis- i covered that a groat spider had dropped from the celling Into the cup, and he naturally cried out for freBh chocolate to be prepared. The next moment the king was startled by the report of a pistol. No sooner had the cook received the or der than he blew out his brains. Not because the king had refused the chocolate did he do this, but because he had poisoned the cup and had thought himself discovered. It was In remembrance of this narrow es cape that Ills Majesty ordered the spider with Its web to be painted on the ceiling. 8UNDAY, APRIL 21. God Yearning for the World (John 3. 15) Passages for Reference: Matt. 23. 37-39; Mark 10. 21; Luke 15. 11-32; M 34. We nifi nothing more than this epitome of the gospel to establish the fact, except that It Ik always well to have more than one verse as a foun dation for our assertions. John 3. 16 Is the best-known verse of the Bi ble, and well It may be. Its depths thla Is corroborated In the other ref erences on this topic! See Mark's account of the young man who came to Christ, whose life was exemplary, yet lacked one thing. "Th3 Master loved him," but yearned that the lacking thing might be supplied. Again In Luke we have our attention called to what Is familiarly known as "the parable of the prodigal son," but which emphasizes more than any other one thing the constancy of the father's love for the wayward boy. From one end to the other of the Bible runs the one thread of aalvatlon In the blood. Thla you might call the scarlet thread of royal Bacrflce. It reveals the fact that what "was made man! 'est" in Jesus Christ, though par, lily l.ld.en through the ages, was nevcrthiess In the heart of the Father from the beginning. Indeed, Jesus 'was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." "God manifest in the flesh" was the exhibition in ''the fullness of time" of what had been present In his heart during all the years of prepuratlos. and what has been In equul degree In his heart ever since- an Interest in men that would not be satisfied until Its fullest expression had been made when necessity demand. 'd such ex pression. 'Ye would not." Do we realize the meaning of these words. It Is not merely the throwing back upon u hateful people the accusation of stubbornness. It Is not that. It la the terrible truth that God has tried his best to rescue these people from the destruction consequent upon their own hostility to hlm and could not do It. He could not, because they would not. It Is very hard to make uny Impres sion with abstract truth. To merely declare to the world through prophet nnd lawgiver that God had such In tense concern for man would be to have very little Impression. There must be concrete evidence of this In terest. Accordingly we see the manna provided In the wilderness, the sea opened before them, the pillar of fire and of cloud, the brazen ser pent, and many other manifestations that were afforded to the people of old. But these were not to measure the strength of his desire JesuB Is the only one that could do It. The growing use of small, Individ ual towels Instead of roller towels has brought an increase in the na tional expenditure. Few hotels now use roller towels, the germ theory having made such an impression on the ptiMir mind. Last year about $4,800,000 was spent for towels. Another glsnt telescope Is to be built, by Prof. Hale, director of the observatory at Pasadena, Cal. The object glass, which Is to cost 140, 000, will be a .disk 100 inches In di ameter and thirteen Inches thick. It la to be cast In France, and ground and polished In California by Prof. Rlchey. No such telescope has been attempted before In the history of the world. APRIL TWENTY-FIRST. Wise Ways to Read Wise Books. Prov. 4:1-9. Wisdom that preserves. Prov. 2: 1-22. A call to the young. Prov. 8:1-21. Loving instruction. Prov. 12 : 1-15. Reading and keeping. Eccl. 8:1-7. A wise reader. Acts 8:2l-40. An Inspired writer. Rev. 1:1-20. Wisdom Is not Inheritance or luck; It Is to be "got," It Is an acquisition. There Is no keeping of book lore unless we love It. "No profit goes where there's no pleasure ta'en." Until we possess wisdom, we cannot even retnln uny other possession. There la no crown except wisdom's. All other crowns are only Imitation. Suggestions. There is no virtue in mere reading, but only us one reads wise books, in a wise way. Fifteen minutes of careful reading each day may make any one wise and learned. If one has little time for reading, the more necessary that he read the best books, according to the best sys tem. It Is not what you read, but what you remember, und reading without reviewing Is waste time. Illustrations. Those that ure satisfied with mere reading are like the man who was balisflcd with mere eating, though It was poison. It Is pleasant to see many books on the wall, but unless you read them, you are like a gagged man In u bake shop. A wise mind grows like n savings bank account; put In a little every day. Those that read, and do not tell what they read, hove Dead Sea minds. 1mm v and stagnant. Identifying Himself. The game warden of Colorado was walking out In the mountains when he met a hunter with ijl.s gun. The official suggested that that ought to be a good country for hunting. "It certainly is," sold the hunter, proud ly. "I killed one of the finest bucks yesterday I ever saw, and he weighed over 200." It was the season when deer may not be shot without sub jecting the hunter to a heavy fine, "Well, that la a fine one," said the warden, "and do you know who you are talking to?" Being assured that ho did not, the official said: "Why, I am the chief game warden of Colo rado." The hunter was only taken aback for a moment, when he asked: "And do you know who you are talk ing to?" The warden didn't know. "Well, sir," said the hunter, appar ently much relieved, "you are talking !to the blggeat liar la the whole State of Colorado." Kansas City Star. We can all be servants of God wherever our lot Is coat, but He gives us different sort of work ac cording as He fits us for it aud calls us to It. George Eliot. BESET BY WOLVES. The heavy fall ot snow In the north of Spain has driven troops ot wolves into the plains and they have been attacking the farmers' flocks. The peasants have been obliged to or ganize battues for the destruction ot the animals. A villager, traveling on toot in the Pyrenees, was attacked by a band ot wolves and fled Into a church tor safety, but the brutes fol lowed him In and devoured hlm. A beggar woman, finding UejrBul obliged to cross a stream, carried her tour-year-old child aorqss and then returned to get a sack that contained bread. While she was on the other aide a furnished wolf appeared afjd calmly devoured the child before the eyes of the mother, who stood rooted to the ground with horror. i. t .1 ltoudj. The majority of tho high roads in Belgium are now planted with tree along the way, to the great pleasure ot travelers und to the advantage ot the country. In a total distance ol about 4775 miles there are no leu than 800,011(1 of these roadside trees Among them are included 200,00" elms, 170,ooo oaks, 79,000 evuf greens, 1 ash trees and 41,0Uu niuplea. -Youth'a Companion. Telegraph poles made of cement, with an Iron rod through the centre to insure against breakage, are the truest imvelltes In riillwnv nnd tele graph construction. Officers of the telegraph and operating departments of the Pennsylvania lines and of the Western Union Telegraph Company the other day Inspected poles made of this material In a test yard at Rocheater, Penn. Manufacturing these poles will form a new industry for the Pittsburg district. A new rice disease called brusone has developed In Italy, where consid erable rice Is produced. Prof. Ubrl zl, who has been Investigating the matter, concludes that the disease Is due to some functional disturbance of the root system of the plants and is not caused by fungi or other para sites. It seems possible so to dis turb the nomal activities of the plant as to make It readily attacked by dif ferent fungi, but the disease can originate Independently of all para sitic attacks. An American company Is building for the Mexican Central Railroad a number of oil burning freight en gines of an unusual type. They are eight coupled engines with a leading pony truck. The holler haB 2168 square feet of heating surface. The total weight available for adhesion is about 110 tons, the ratio of tractive effort to adhesive weight being 1 to 4. A boiler pressure of 200 pounds to the square inch is used. The fuel Is crude petroleum, which is vapor ized by a steam Jet, and deflected against a soapstone arch in the fire box. According to L'Elettrlclta, it has been agreed between the Oerllkon and the Siemens - Schuckert works to commence Immediately the plant for the electrification of the whole length of the St. Gothard Railway. The section from Zurich to Lucerne is to be constructed first as an exper iment. This first section is the only one at present approved of by the Federal Railway Department, but it Is stated that a syndicate has offered to convert at their own cost the whole part of the line which is situ ated in Switzerland by 1909, and to transfer It to the Swiss Government on terms yet to be agreed upon. CHINESE BURG EARS' UNION. Permission Must He Obtained Before a Job is Done. Everything in China is under the control of a union of some sort. We are not surprised at this in the case of the carpenters and mechanics, but it does seem a little unusual that when a man wants to burgle. If he Is a Chinaman he must do so accord ing to the rules of one of these or ganizations. When the desire seizes him to rob, he must first consult the officers of the burglars' union for permission. This Is given him for a certain proportion of the profits of the burglary. Such an action here in America would be called "graft," which means "hush money." Burglars go In parties, not in ones or twos, as with us An ordinary party in China consists of a hundred or more. They surround the house and plunder it, but manage so skill fully that the occupants cannot offer any resistance. When a house Is to be robbed the thieves scatter narcotic drugs about the rooms, which have no effect upon themselves, but will put Europeans to sleep. Not only do they fall asleep, but this sleep will last until long after the robbery 1b over. When a thief enters a house to rob, the first thing he does is to re move his clothes, the next to oil his body all over. His pigtail Is then wound around his head, having pre viously been stuck full of needles. It by some unlucky mischance some dweller In the house has not fallen asleep aa expected and should at tempt to grasp tho arm or leg ot the burglar ho will find him a slippery customer indeed, for he will slip off like un eel. If he should attempt to aelze him by the pigtail, he will let go of this In a hurry, for needles are very long und sharp In China. Who says the Chinese are a stupid people? Washington Stur. If all the larveu of the common fly came to maturity and nothing happened to cut down the naturul maximum rate of Increase, one pall et insects might multiply to 10,000, 000, according to eminent scientific authorities, in a single half year of warm weather. Severe Treatment. The following Is a quite modern Chinese conception ot the foreigners' treatment of Infectious cases: "If an epidemic broke out two foreigners took the sick away and put them in a little room, washed them with lime water and then locked them up, so that no one could see them, on pur pose that they might aoon die and not propagate the dlaeaae. Wives und children might cry and weep, but the foreigner would but drive them away with sticks, for until dead no one muat see those faoea again. Bet ter for all ot us to Jump Into the sea than submit to tins." South China Post. The Submerged Individual By JUSTICE JOHN WOODWARD, of the Appellate Division of the 8u pr'iiip Court ot New York. It is undeniable that the despot, It he be benevolent, can accomplish more good than the divided and myriad minded many. An unwise and precipitate democracy can, on the other hand, degenerate Into that worst of despotisms, an Irresponsible and selfish oligarchy which appro priates all of the benefits and denies every burden. And such, it must bo confessed, is the present attitude of many of our overgrown corporations. They have been Intrusted with the welfare of the people, and havo abused their mist They have become pirates, where they should have remained beneflcatora. They have destroyed competition till with monopolistic greed they have robbed the public for their own en richment. They have desecrated the law, which is tho conscience of the State. They have not remembered what they should never have forgot ten, that old admonition still to be seen on a church In Venice: "Around this temple let the merchant's law he just, his weights true and his cov enants faithful." It Is well, then, that they should be controlled and regulated. It Is time to drive the money changers out of the temple and to substitute for the worship of gold the worship of character. On whom, then, shall our salva tion depend, If not upon the Indi vidual? The many will never make the attempt to regain their lost rights unless they are led by a man. And the man will come. Comes the criBls, he will not be found want ing. There is always the great per sonality who shall lead his people out of the wilderness to the promised land. He 'may not be one of the shining Intellectuals, he may not be one of those subtle and brilliant ad vocates that stand arrayed in behalf of private Interests against the cause ot the people; but he will, have that quality of manliness which inspires confidence. Beware of those that provoke the storm that they may reap the rain bow. If, then, those corporations which have sprung like mushrooms from the decay of public virtue-reveal such appalling defects, can we expect that the State, when It shall have become, as many desire, a universal corpora tion, will prove otherwise? Is not the danger In proportion to the size of the mononoply? Will not such a solution tend to crush that sense of individuality and that civic conscious ness which is our sole refuge? Society owes to each his oppor tunity. It is the supreme duty of the State to inspire ambition. To thwart, to limit, or to exclude by legislation the enterprise of the individual, Is to deaden the world's capacity for pro gress. To quench the spark of per sonality is to impoverish the whole social organization. To attempt by law, therefore, to limit, all men, Irrespective of Bklll, endeavor or attainment, to a common wage would bo as fatuous aa It la unjust. Personality, indeed, can be subject only to the laws of nature. NeedlesB to say, the souls of men are not amenable to statistics. You may measure material results; you can never calculate the aspirations of the mind. To bring about the readjustment of social conditions many fantastic remedies are proposed; but there can be no panacea for political ills. The law never rises higher than Its source. Our hope, then, is In tho edu cation of the public through the In dividual. It is for you and for mo to decide whether public opinion shall become a despotism. The aim of democracy is, I take it, equality before the law, and to guarantee to each his personal liberty the liberty to be hlmBelf. When upon this shall be superim posed a burden of restrictions, hedg ing the individual about with "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not," then surely democracy will exist only in name. Every law, therefore, which encroaches upon your personal pre rogative us u man and as a citizen is a usurpation of your Individuality. To submerge the Identity ol tho per son In the mass is to destroy all pos sibility for progress. This applies to us all. The ordinary man, indeed, may posses qualities far greater than those of the same nature in his more distinguished brother, yet it Is to the exceptional faculties of the few that the world must look for Ub advance ment. To give encouragement to person ality, to kindle by opportunities tor reward the incentive to labor, and to nourish tenderly the progressive in tellect, this should be at least one of the chief functions ot government. At the recent carnival at Graaan gruen, Austria, no admission tlcketa were used, but every one who en tered the theatre waa weighed and had to pay one cent a pound. Sev eral fat men and women refuaed to -Mmat the scales. Power In a Snowflake. We cannot hope to make weather predlctlona accurate at all times, Georgle lies tells us, fur It must of ten happen that an inappreciable cause may upset delicately balanced conditions. For example, a stratum of air may be very neatly saturated with aqueous vapor, while losing heat so alowly that moisture might not be deposited for a long time, aud In this condition It is In such a state of unstable molecular equilibrium that the dropping of a small crystal of Bnow Into It may produce a com plete aud widespread change. The cooling of the air would cause a tall of mist or dew around the snowflake. This deposited mist, sending its heat into space taster than the saturated air, would cool more air and con dense more dew, and this would con tinue rapidly until u complete change ot condition had buen brought about. Thus the tiniest flake ot snbw may pull the trigger setting off tho atmos pheric gun. Philadelphia Ledger- Indian Territory Repurtee. "Here's a dime," aaid a Muskogee man to a young Sulvat i . ,i, Army wom- j an who wanted to sell him a War Cry. "Give the paper to some one j that needs It worse than I do!" j "Thank you," answered the woman sweetly, "I'll take it over to the jail." hf t'lf fcmrgfll. THE SUNDAY SCHC OL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS ROR APRIL 21, BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Snbjoct: Joseph Sold by His Brothers, Gen. 37:3-28 Golden Text: James :1B Memory Verses, One of the most fascinating char acters of Old Testament history la Joseph, the beloved son of tho old age of Israel. Idealized, to He sure. In some measure, the character of Joseph Is yet one to be made a pat tern In many respects. The atory of his virtues must have had a remark able Influence upon the hearts and minds of the youth of Israel through out the centuries. And we may de clare him a model In many respects for the children of this age. This lesson shows us the Incident In the life of Joseph when his jealous brethren rid themselves of his pres ence. It shows what are the Inevit able consequences of favoritism upon the part of parents, what was the youthful unwisdom of Joseph, what was the progress and the culmination of the hatred that the brothers held toward Joseph, what was the further ance they gave, unwittingly, to the plans nnd purposes of God In their very sin. The lesson shows us many other minor lessons also, but we shall be content to consider those outlined above. Joseph was the beloved of Israel. This was his joy; It was also his mis fortune, so fnr as Immediate conse quences were concerned. It was the highest happiness of the life of Israel to pour out on Joseph without stint the fulness of his heart's affection. But his very pleasure in his beloved son became the cause of some of the bitterest hours In the life of Israel. The love that Israel bore Joseph was natural: Its demonstration was un wise. However his heart may have delighted In the wlnsomeness ot the stripling he should have had the wis dom, commensurate with his years, not to publish the fact too largely in the family circle. Joseph had no more claim on the affection of Jacob than any of the rest of his father's children. Israel was primarily re sponsible for the rising of the unholy passions that swept Joseph Into Egypt. And the household of Israel was not the only one In which this particular unwisdom has been dis played. This Is a lesson for parents. Then, too, Joseph was not wise with his brethren, however natural to youth his action may have been. He must have been conscious, in some measure at least, of the enmity that was aroused In their hearts. They had eyes to see and ears to hear and spirits that could resent unfairness. We are led to believe that bad feeling had been manifest In the family life before this overt sin was committed of which the lesson speaks. And so Joseph could not have done a more foolish thing than to tell his brethren of the dream of his own preferment that had come to him of God. It was natural. It was boyish. We cannot say that it was told with the desire to evoke resentment. But that it was a provocation none may question. It was maladroit, to say the least. There are many youths to whom Joseph's example might be a salutary losBon. Nothing is to be gained by informing people of the fact that we mean to outstrip them in the human race for preferment and success. The man who has a vision of his future greatness will be a wiser man If he keeps the vision secret with his God. Jealousy is a desperate sin. No man is quite so cursed as the man with the jealous disposition. Of all the sins against humanity there is none so vicious and distressing as that of jealousy. For jealousy Is akin to covetousness, and covetousness is at the very base of all human misery. At bottom Joseph's brethren were covetous. ' For they desired the af fection of their tut her. in the measure that Israel loved Joseph. If they had been satisfied with the sort of treat ment Israel dispensed there would have been no trouble. But they weren't. And jealousy, surging and rushing through their hearts, led them to increasing manifestations of their resentment. Anger leads to conspiracy. Conspiracy has IU fruit age in premeditated fratricide. Only the good sense of Rueben saved Joseph's life. As for his other breth ren, they were no doubt congratulat ing themselves upon the effectiveness and the awfulness of the death to which they had finally consigned Joseph. A death in a dry well In a desert country. It was ghastly to contemplate. In the providence of God the Mldianite merchantmen came their way. And so their hands were aaved from bloodguiltiness. We cannot say the same for their hearts. They saved their house from the stain of murder by despicably selling their brother to a foreign people for less than the price of a slave And they thought doubtless they had done away with htm none the less effectu ally. But this very action was a further ance of the divine plans. The very wickedness of hiB brethren was the means God used to exalt Joseph. It was a hard way to use to get Joseph to Egypt. But It was efficient. And what were the hours of ignominy to the years of power with which God requited Joseph. The dream came y-ue. The jealous brothers lived to aee Joseph ruling with viceregal splendor in the land of the Pharaohs. They lived to discern, what many an other evil man has Been, that the wickedness of humanity Is the op portunity of God. You may know how precious the Bible really is to a man by the extent to which he banks on it. Keeping Tab on the Hens. G. Orey Miller, of Bethlehem, read ing ot the proposition to date hens' eggs, so tlr.it the purchaser may as certain their age at a glance, has de vised u machine which he believes will meet the requirements. Miller's scheme Is to provide a nest to which Is uttncied a rubber chute, which conveys the egg to the dating appli ance. The chute is urranged with rubber stops to lessen the speed ot the egg as it rolls merrily on Its way. The dating attachment Is operated by clockwork, and one winding will keep it running for a- year. As the egg reaches the dater It Is caught In a clutch and held in place while the stamp is applied. The egg then rolls into a basket. Philadelphia North American. Truth Is the salvation of the world. It la tho friend of all, even ot whom It strikes Wounds made by truth heal and cleanse; caresses of false hood poison aud kill. Chariot Wag ner.
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