T Prnnywlse Prtoi ' Dr. Brltton D. Evans, tha brilliant alienist. Bald at a recent dinner In New York: N' "Then there Is the cunning lunatic, of whom there used to exist a good example at Bridgetown. "There was a half-witted youth In Bridgetown to whom the neighboring farmers liked to offer a penny and a nickel. "Gathered about him In a circle on market day the farmers, one after another, wonld say: " 'Now, whlch'll yer have, Peter? Here's a cent hro's a nickel take yer choice.' "And fool Teter would Invariably choose the cent rather than tho nickel, and the farmers before such Incredulous foolishness would roar with laughter, double in two and slap their logs noisily with their brown hands. " Teter?' 1 said one day to the lunatic, 'why Is it that you always take the cent InBtead of the nickel?' "Peter grinned a very cunning grin. " 'Suppose I took the nickel,' said he, 'would I ever get a chance to tako another one?" " Washington Post. A variable stroke petroleum en gine has been designed. Intended to overcome the difficulties which pre vent such engines being applied di rectly to the shaft of a vehicle, as In the case of the steam engine. A canal nine miles long, Bitty-five feet wide, and fourteen feet deep, In Desha County, Arkansas, has been completed and Is draining about 120, 000 acres of land contiguous to Ar kansas City. lteninant Of The I lurk. 1 A colored man Jied without medl ral attendance and the coroner went to investigate. "Did Samuel Williams live here?" he. asked the weeping woman who opened the door. "Yassuh," she replied between sobs. ,-I want to see the remains." "I is do remains," she answered proudly. Everybody's Magazine. When George Osborn, a Jeweler of Now Haven, Conn., took apart an old clock brought to him to be repaired, he found $160 In greenbacks tucked in the back of it. There Was No Answer, At an important State function In London blue tickets were Issued to persons of high rank, admitting them to that part of the hall reserved for members of the royal family. Less distinguished guests received white tickets. Through some mistake an Important public man received a blue card, whllo hlB wife received a white ono. When the couple reached tho audi ence chamber there began to be trou ble, inasmuch aa the lady firmly de clined to be separated from her hus band. An aide endeavored to reason with her, pointing out the dreadful consequences that would follow a mingling of blue and white. "How absurd!" exclaimed the lady. "What do you take us for a aeldlltz powder?" She was permitted to enter with ber husband. Everybody's Magazine. In Doubt. "What are you going to give your husband for Christmas?" "Dear me, 1 don't know yet. You see, I have no Idea how much money he Is going to let me have to buy it with." Detroit Free Press. Letter to Santii. Note to the philanthropists from the Oakley (Kan.) Graphic: "Ono thousand four hundred and ninety nine dollars dropped In our stocking Christmas night would enable us to buy a linotype. Wo have saved the other dollar in the last four years." Although glass bottles were mado by the Romans as far back as the year 70 A. D., their manufacture was not begun In England until 1558. Her Proof Conclusive. Little Nelly told little Anita what she termed a "little fib." Anita A fib Is the same as a story, and a story is the same as a lie. Nelly No, It's not. Anita Yes, It la, because my father said so, and my father Is a professor at the university. Nelly I don't care If he is. My father Is a rial estate man, a-d he knows more about lying than your father. Delineator. Several new Roman Catholic sees will be erected In tho Philippine Is lands as soon as their respective boundaries can be defined. A Maine Hunter. With forty-five notches in his truRty gun as reminders of his skill In bringing down deer, "West" Ad ams, of Miles' Notch, up In Oxford County, Is a typical hunter. - He has shot twenty-two bears in his lite, and he has no mean helper In the person of his good wife, who assists in set ting traps and can shoot, too. Both arc ardent naturalists and understand wood lore thoroughly. A son of four teen years has never seen an electric car or steam engine, but he can shoot, and both ho and his mother know where the fishing Is best In the moun tain streams near their cosey cabin In the ravine. Kennebec Journal. Waiting to Find Out. Cincinnati Tourist (who, for the first time, has JuBt entered a res taurant In Paris) "Have you or dered?" St. Louis Tourlnt (who has reached tho table some minutes before, and who looks up from a French bill of fare) "Yes." Cincinnati Tourist "What did you order?" 8t. Louis Tourist (Impatiently) "How do I know?" Chicago News. After investigating recently, a Brit ish official reports the Kenls forest in East Africa to be 2S7 miles long by eight miles wide, and to coutatn standing timber worth $115,000,000. Oil discoveries In Orange River Colony, Africa, seem Important. A broad belt stretches across the colony. More than 1200 English tradesmen are entitled to use the royal arms over their shop-fronts. The Christmas Infidel. Miss Carey Thomas, the head of Bryn Mawr College, said at a dinner In Philadelphia that college girls chose better and also wealthier hus bands than other girls. Mlas Carey Thomas, after Instanc ing a number of Bryn Mawr girls whose marriages had been In every way Ideal, told a story of the son ot one ot these Bryn Mawr girls. "He came home a few days before Christmas," she said, "from a visit to his cousin. " 'Mother,' he cried, 'do you know that Fweddy Is an Infidel?' "His mother laughed. " 'An Infidel? How an Infidel, my son?' she asked. " 'He doesn't believe In Santa Clans.' was the shocked reply." Washington Star. THE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. ARTHUR MERCER. Theme: The Rich Man In Hell. The Death Watch. The "death watch" that produces the weird tickings formerly so much feared Is nothing more or less than a mischievous and destructive little bee tle madly In love and very desirous ot finding Its mate. Thus is the fallacy of our ancestors regarding this mys tery dispelled. Strand. A Salvation Army officer In London says he asked a boy what work he did to provide him with food, etc., and the reply waB: "I pick strawberries In the summer, I pick hops In the au tumn, I pick pockets In the winter, and oakum for the rest ot the year." At The Iteceptioti. "Me no speakeo Chinese vely well," explained the hostess on wel coming the distinguished visitor from the Flowery Kingdom. "No matter," responded the lat ter, "I can converse In English." Louisville Courier-Journal. An Appropriate Name. "That seems to be a curious name you have for your mule." "Yes, suh. I calls him Climate, 'cause de mo' you abuses him de mo' disagreeable he gits." Washington Star. On the largest tobacco farm In the world, a 25,000-acre affair, near Am sterdam, Ga., is grown about a third of all the Sumatra tobacco used for cigar wrappers in the United States. Paid In Fell. Dlttersdorf Here comes two evil looking rescals. I shouldn't wonder If we were held up. Heinz I'm afraid. So. By the by, j here's that dollar you lent me this morning. Meggendorfer BInetter As He Took It. Tramp Say, mister, I haven't had , a bite all day. I Dejected Angler Same here. Where did you flsh? Boston Tran script, j There are now 5,400 members of the London Stock Exchange. Dosi't At The. ice House. Some people swell up on "emotion" brewed from absolute untruth. It's an old trick of the leaders of the Labor Trust to twist facts and make the "sympathetic ones" "weep at the Ice house." (That's part of the tale further on.) Gompcrs et al. sneer at, spit upon and defy our courts, seeking sympa thy by falsely telling the people the courts were trying to deprive them of free speech and free press. Men can speak freely and print opinions freely In this country and no court will object, but they cannot be allowed to print matter as part of a criminal conspiracy to Injure and ruin other citizens. Gompers and his trust associates started out to ruin the Bucks Stove Co., drive Its hundreds of workmen out of work and destroy the value of the plant without regard to the fact that hard earned money of men who worked had been Invested there. The conspirators were told by the courts to stop these vicious "trust" methods (efforts to break the firm that won't come under trust rule), but Instead of stopping they "dare" the courts to punish them and de mand new laws to protect them In such destructive and tyrannous acts as they mty desire to do. The reason Oompers and his band persisted in trying to ruin the Bucks Stove Works was because the Btove company Insisted on the right to keep some old employes at work when "do union" ordered them discharged and some of "de gang" put In. Now let us reverse the conditions aud have a look. . Suppose the company had ordered the union to dismiss certain men from their union and, the demand being re fused, should Institute a boycott against that union, publish Its name in an "unfair list," instruct other manufacturers all over the United States not to buy the labor of that union, have committees call at stores and threaten to boycott If the mer chants sold anything made to that union. Picket the factories where members work and slug them on the way home, blow up their houses and wreck the works, and even murder a few members of the boycotted union to teach them they must obey the or ders of "organized Capital?" It would certainly be fair for the company to do these things If lawful for the Labor Trust to do them. In such a case, under our laws the boycotted union could apply to our courts and the courts would order tho company to cease boycotting and try lug to ruin these union men. Sup pose thereupon the company should sneer at the court and In open de fiance continue the unlawful acts In a persistent, carefully laid out plan, purposely intended to ruin the union and force Its members Into poverty. What a howl would go up from the union demanding that the courts pro tect them and punish their law-breaking oppressors. Then they would praise the courts and go on earning a living protected from ruin and happy in the knowledge that the people's courts rould defend them. How could any of us receive pro tection from law-breakers unless the courts have power to, end do punish such men. The court la placed In position ' where it must do ono thing or the other punish men who persist In de fying Its peace orders or go out of service, tat anarchy reign and the mora powerful destroy the weaker. Peaceable citizens sustain the courts as their defenders, whereas thieves, forgers, burglars, crooks of all kinds and violent members of la bor unions, bate them and threaten violence if their members are pun ished for breaking the law. They want tha courts to let them go free and at the same time demand punish ment for other men ''outside de union" when they break tha law. Notice the above reference Is to "violent" members of labor unions. The great majority of tho "uuh'iard" union men are peaceable, upright citizens. The noluy, violent ones get Into office and the leaders of the great Labor Trust know how to mass this kind of men, in labor con ventions and thus carry out the lead ers' schemes, frequently abhorrent to the rank and file; so It was at the late Toronto convention. The paid delegates would applaud and "resolute" as Oompers wanted, but now and then some of the rcul workingmen Insist on being heard, sometimes atlhe risk of their lives. Delegate Egan Is reported to have said at the Toronto convention: "If the officers of the federation would only adhere to the law we wonld think a lot more of .them." The Grand Council of the Provin cial Worklngmen's Ass'n of Canada has declared In favor of severing all connection with unions In the U. S., saying "any union having Its seat of Gov't In America, and pretending to be International In Its scope, must fight Industrial battles according to American methods. Said methods have consequencos which are abhor rent to the law-abiding people of Can ada involving hunger, misery, riot, bloodshed and murder, all of which might be termed a result of the prac tical war now In progress In our fair province and directed by foreign emis saries of the United Miners of Amer ica." That Is an honest Canadian view of our Infamous "Labor Trust." A few days ago tho dally papers printed the following: (By the Associated Press.) Washington, D.C., Nov, 10. Char acterizing the attitude of Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, of tho American Federation of Labor In the contempt proceedings In the courts of the District of Colum bia, In connection with the Bucks Stove and Range Company, as "a willful, premeditated violation of the law," Simon Burns, general master workman ot the general assembly, Knights of Labor, has voiced a severe condemnation of these three leaders. Mr. Burns expressed his confidence in courts In general and in those of the District of Columbia In particular. AP1MIOVF.D BV DKLEQATE8. This rebuke by Burns was In bis annual report to the general assembly of his organization. He received the hearty approval of tho delegates who heard it read at their annual meeting In this city. "There Is no trust or combination of capital In the world." said Mr. Burns, "that violates laws oftener than do the trust labor organizations, which resort to more dishonest, un fair and dishonorable methods to ward their competitors than any trust or combinations In tho country." Mr. Burns said the action of "these so-called leaders" would be harmful for years to come whenever attempts were made to obtain labor legisla tion. "The Labor Digest," a reputable, worklngman's paper, says, as part of an article entitled "The beginning of the end ot Goraperslsm, many organi zations becoming tired of the rule-or-ruln policies which have been en forced by the president of the A. F. of L." "That he has maintained his lead ership for so long a time in the face of his stubborn clinging to policies which the mors thoughtful of the worklngmen have seen for years must be abandoned, has been on account partly of the sentimental feeling on the part of the organizations that be ought not to be deposed, and the un willingness of the men who were Bin tloned for the place, to accept a nomination in opposition to mm. in addition to this, there Is no denying tho shrewdness of the leader of the A. F. of L., and his political sagacity, which has enabled blm to keep a firm grip on the machinery of the organi zation, and to havebls faithful hench men In the positions where they could do him the most good whenever their services might be needed. . "Further than this, be has never fallod, at the lust conventions, to lisve some sensation to spring on the con vention at (he psyHiniuglrMl moment, which would place liiin In the Unlit of a tnnrtyc-to the cause of unionism. and excite a wave ot sympathetic en thusiasm tor blm, which would carry the delegates off their feet, and result In his re-election. "That his long leadership and this apparent impossibility to fill his Place has gone to his bead, and made him I Imagine that he is much greater a man than he really Is, Is undoubtedly the case, and accounts for the tactics he has adopted In dealing with ques tions before Congress, where he has unnecessarily antagonized men to whom organized labor must look for recognition of their demands, and where labor measures are often op posed on account ot this very antag onism, which would otherwise receive support. "There Is no doubt but what or ganized labor in this country would be much stronger with a leader who was more In touch with conditions as they actually exist, and who would bring to the front the new policies which organized labor must adopt If It expects to even maintain Its present standing, to say nothing ot making future progress." We quote portions of another arti cle, a reprint, from tha same labor paper: "Organized labor, through its lead ers, must recognize the mistakes of the past If they expect to perpetuate their organizations or to develop the movement which they head. No movement, no organization, no nation can develop beyond the Intellects which guide these organizations, and If the leaders are dominated by a sel fish motive the organization will be come tinged with a spirit of selfish ness, which has never appealed to mankind In any walk of lite at any time since history began. "It can be said In extenuation of certain leaders ot organized labor that the precarious position which they oc cupy as leaders has had a tendency to cause them to lose sight of the object behind the organization. The natural instinct In man for power and posi tion is in no small measure responsi ble for the mistakes ot the leaders, not necessarily In labor unions alone, but In every branch of society. This desire for power and leadership and personal aggrandizement causes men who have been earnest and sincere in their efforts in the start to deterior ate Into mere politicians whose every act and utterance is tinged witli tha dedre to rater to the 1 Mixer passions of tho working majority in the socle ties or organisations and this Is un doubtedly true when applied to the present leaders of the Federation. We mention the Federation of Labor particularly In this article because that organization la the only organi zation or labor which has yet found Itself In direct opposition to the laws of the land. There are other organi zations of labor whose leaders have made mistakes, but they have always kept themselves and their organiza tions within the bounds of the law and respected the rights of every other man In considering the rights of themselves and their constituency: whereas, the motto of tha Federation la Just the revertte, and unless the leaders conform themselves and their organization in accordance with the laws of the land, tha leaders and the organization itself must be disinte grated and paaa Into history, for in America the common sense in man kind Is developed to a greater extent than In any other nation on the earth, and the people, who are the court of last resort In tbls country, will never allow any system to develop In this country which does not meet with tha approval of tha majority of the citi zens of the country. "This must have forced Itself upon the leaders of the Federation by tbls time. If It baa not, the leaders must be ' eliminated. The organization which tbey head has done many meri torious things in times past and tha people are always ready and willing to acknowledge the benefits which their efforts hava brought to their constituency as a whole, but at the present time labor organizations in general, and the Federation of Labor lu particular, stand before the bar of public opinion, having been convicted of s-llUhiiesw and a disposition to rule all 4 he people of the country In the Interest of the few. The people are patient and awaiting to see If the ob ject lesson which they hava been j lorcea to give to tneseieaaers is going to be recognized and if they are going to conform themselves and their fu ture work and actions In accordance thereto." Let the people remember that com ment, "The Federation of Labor in particular stands before the bar of public opinion having been convicted of selfishness and a disposition to rule all the people of the country in the interest of the few." Tho great 90 per cent, of Ameri cans do not take kindly to tbe acts of tyranny by these trust leaders openly demanding that all people bow down to the rules of the Labor Trust, and we are treated to the humiliating spectacle of our Congress and even the Chief Executive entertaining these convicted law-breakers and listening with consideration to their Insolent demands that the very laws be changed to allow them to safely carry on their plan of gaining control over the affairs of the people. The sturdy workers ot America have come to know the truth about these "martyrs sacrificing themselves In the noble cause of labor," but it's only the hysterical ones who swell up and cry over the aforesaid "heroes, reminding one ot the two romantic- elderly maids who, weeping copiously, were discovered by the old Janitor at Mt. Vernon. "What Is it alls you, ladies?" Taking the handkerchief from one swollen red eye, between sobs she said: "Why, we have so long revered the memory of George Washington that we feel It a privilege to come bare and weep at his tcmb." "Yas'm, yas'm, yo' shore has a de sire to express yo' sympathy, but yo' are overtlowln' at de wrong spot, yo' Is weepln' at de ice bouse." Don't get maudlin about law-breakers who must be punished if the very existence ot our people is to be main tained. If you have any surplus sympathy It can be extended to tbe honest work ers who continue to earn food when threatened and are frequently hurt and sometimes killed before the courts can Intervene to protect them. Now the Labor Trust leaders de mand of Congress that the courts be Btrlpped of power to Issue Injunctions to prevont them from assaulting or perhaps murdering men who dare earn a living when ordered by the La bor Trust to quit work. Don't "weop at tbe Ice House" and don't permit any set of law-breakers to bully our courts, if your voice and vote can prevent. Be sure and write your Representatives aud Senators In Congress asking them not to vote for any measure to prevent the courts from protecting homes, property and persons from attack by paid agents ot this great Labor Trust. Let every reader write, and write now. Don't sit silent and allow the or ganized and paid men of this great trust to force Congress to believe they represent the great masses of tbe American people. Say your say and let your representatives In Congress know that you do not want to be gov erned under new laws which would empower the Labor Trust leaders with legal right to tell you when to work. Where! For whom! At what prlcel What to buy! What not to buy! Whom to vote fort How much you ahatl pay per month In tees to the Labor Trust! etc., etc., etc. This power is now being domanded by the passage of laws In Congress. Tell your Senators and Representa tives plainly that you don't want them to vote for any measure that will al low any set of men either represent ing Capital or Labor to govern and dictate to the common people, who prefer to be free to go and come, work or not, and vote for whom they please. Every man's liberty will disappear when the leaders of the great Labor Trust or any other trust can ride rough shod over people and mass their forces to prevont our courts from affording protection. mere s a Kenaon. C. W. POST, Battle Creek, Mich. Brooklyn, N. Y. As tLe sequel to a sermon preached some time ago, the Rev. Arthur Mercer, pastor of the Church ot the New Jerusalem, had for his subject Biinday morntjg "The Rich Man In Hell; or, the Penalty of Selfishness." Mr. Mercer said: i "A certain rich man and a certain beggar named Lazarus and It came to pass that the beggar died. The rich man also died, and in hill he lifted up his eyes, being In torment, and seeth Abraham afar off and Laz arus In his bosom." The picture Is painted by a master artist. The colors are varied and striking; the contrast of light and shade, lurid and dra matic. We have before us the outJ lines of a tremendous social drama, not so much being said as suggested the details lying behind In a vivid background. A splendid palace rises before our thought. Its wealthy owner, royally garbed in purple and fine linen, emerges from the gate, fol lowed by his retinue and flatterers. This is the light and brightness ot the picture. The colors are gay, the fig ures smiling and debonair; everything suggestive of prosperity and happi ness. But there Is also a shadow, a deep nnd dismal one. It could not be oth erwise, for this Is a picture ot human society the social contrast and so there In the shadow, in miserable an tithesis to this display of wealth lies the beggar Lazarus with his rags and disgusting Bores. The courtly train sweeps by, affect ing not to notice Lazarus. These hor rible social facts must be, because they are a part of the constituted order of things; but the peace of Dives must not be troubled by them.' Nevertheless, he is generous. He per mits his servants to throw the crumbs from the table where he and his com pany have sumptuously fared to Laz-, arus and his dogs. It shall not be said that the rich have no regard for1 tbe needs of the poor. The death ot Lazarus Is of small Importance. A hurried visit to the1 potter's field and all is over for Laz arus. But a second time, and all un locked for, the fatal knell rings out, and this time there Is a Btir in the social world. There Is suppressed excitement In the palace ot Dives a moving of lights here and there at! night a hurrying of mutfled steps,1 the passing of the scared whisper to and fro, and the death-angel beckons Dives to follow Lazarus. What a ter rible reality now, this that had seemed bo far off and vague! And the rich man also died, nad after the elegant funeral was buried. The curtain has rung down ou tbe first act. I Usually It remains down eo far as our present knowledge is concerned. Death comes and then a thick veil Intervenes. And then, whatever ter rible thing or whatever happy thing goes on. it goes on behind closed doors. We turn indifferently away from the grave's mouth. But the Master-Magician raises (Its wand and there come fitful flames from hell be neath, and a vivid stream of light from heaven above, and merge into such a glare of light that the veil becomes translucent, and the second act of the drama unfolds before our eyes. The r.cene has changed. There has been a complete and startling reversal In the position of the dramatis per soaae. Why? It does not appear that Dives was a scoundrel. He was merely the type of the comfortable and educated citizen of that day; re ligious, according to the conventional idea, educated, refined, benevolent, and morally strict with, however, certain important but secret reserva tions. He represents a well-to-do and cultivated social element ot every age. A very likable sort of fellow, com panionable, sure to have a boat of friends; an elder In the church, a leader In most everything that is g ing on in society or in business. Why, then, this utter damnation A Dives? He had been a phllantroplst. If there had been newspapers in those days they would have lauded him to the skies as one ot the most eminent and honorable citizens. He had been generous with his crumbs, even as well-to-do society to-day Is generous in s.uf porting charities for the benefit of the poor victims of its own pros perity. But everything was for his own glory. "Self" was written upon his every act. It be bad presented a public library to Jerusalem it would have been that bis own came and bas relief might be stamped upon the face ot it. As Dives was tbe beneficiary, so Lazarus was the victim ot unjust and social conditions. He was not a beg gar from choice. He was "the poor in spirit," tbe man wbo thinks not too well ot himself. He was con scious of bis Ignorance, of his moral rags and ulcers, and he abased him self before Ood. Such was Lazarus, the man whom Ood can, and will, help. And so when the veil dissolves and discloses the terrible second act, where the souls ot the two men are brought to their trial before that Great Judge, who regardeth not tbe outward appearance, but searcbeth the reins and the heart, Lazarus, la seen in the company ot the bleat, while Dives looks up out of "Hell," the authorized version says, but the Greek word is "Hades," which is a general name for the whole spiritual world, and the scene Is neither heaven nor hell, but tbe intermediate stage called the "world ot spirits," where all spirits, good and bad, assemble after death and undergo tfielr final Judgment In preparation tor either heaven or hell. We aee Dlvea then In the lower part of this middle world on bis way to bell, aud Lazarus in the upper portion far on his way to heaven. The "great gulf" between them Is the Immeasurable distance between good and evil. By the aid of our New Church doc trines we may readily Interpret the experience through which the two men are aeen passing. That which Is essentially us is our Inmost will, our mainspring of love or motive, to which all other things in this lite are merely temporary and external. And while we are here, tbere may be the widest disparity between the out ward or apparent and the Inward or real sides of us. But when we pass an into the other world, all this is changod. Divested of tbe material body and tbe trammels of a world external to us, which force us Into conformity to a mere appearance, and Introduced Into a realm of plastic spiritual substance, the real spirit ot tho man inevitably comes to the front. In that world, environment is merely the expression of character. The Inmost will and love of the man transforms and colors tho whale ep oearauce of things to Its own UK pees. But not as a rule Immediately. For there are few of us who enter the other life either so completely good or so completely evil that the In ward and the outward sides of us are In complete agreement. Either there are certain opposing evils in the out ward man which cannot be taken into heaven, or certain opposing goods which cannot be taken Into hell.' Lazarus must be divested of his rags: and sores, and Dives must be stripped ot his purple and fine linen. And this Is the ordeal through which we see the two men passing In that fleeting glimpse of the world of spirits vouchsafed to us by the Great Teacher. The function of that Intermediate stage of the other life Is analogous to that of the stomach In the human body the separation and absorption of that which Is capa ble of being assimilated by the heav enly society and the segregation of the rest. A most painful experience it must be. Supposing that our Inmost mo tives have been Godly that we have been making a brave struggle to do God's will, and supposing that we have been largely defeated by certain inherited defects of our outward na ture Infirmities of the temper, weak nesses of the flesh which we have not succeeded In wholly overcoming. TheBe things, because they are super ficial in us and not central, because we hate and do not love them, be cause, in short, they form no part of our secret wills, will be removed in the world ot spirits, and we shall finally be Introduced into some posi tion of greater or less usefulness and happiness In the Innumerable heav ens, high and low. But It is far bet ter to get rid of them here, for here I they can be removed gradually and painlessly, and being removed by the exercise ot our own will of good, their removal Is accompanied by a great development and enlargement I of all our powers of Joy and service. wniie in mat worm ot spirit, tney are simply cushed out ot us, or burnt out, or pulled out by tbe roots. It Is what Swedenborg calls the process of vastatlon the spoliation and re moval, for Instance, of the knowledge, the talents, the cultivation, which have made part of our natural man In this world, but which we did not embody in our secret and real selves by regarding them, not for our own glory and pleasure, but for God's ser vice. And it we carry any serious faults with us to that final reckoning with God. which still have any deep i roots in us though we reach heaven at last, we shall reach it though such vales of anguish, through such cruci bles and threshing floors of torment, with Buch tearlngs and rendtngs ot the Bplrit, that we shall look back upon the very worst of our sufferings here as the merest pastime. No doubt Lazarus bad been trodden in his wine-press of pain in that in terval between his death and the mo ment when Dives Bees him with bis bead on Abraham's bosom. But, oh, the agony of Dives! For it Is Just In that process of vastatlon In the vesti bule ot the hells that we behold Dives and all his kind the people wbo have great possessions and will not give them to God'B poor and needy in the spirit of lowly and lov ing service. Only that while Lazarus is being relieved of all that made his soul ugly, Dives is being stripped ot all that seemed to make his soul beau tlful. Though the will was selfish and Godless the Intellect Is still full of the truths of religion, and by that falling light his true character Is be ing revealed to blm in all its ugliness, and he can now fully measure the horror of his loss and bis despair. His eyes turn Inward and he is made to know that with all his moral vir tues and amiable traits he never bad a motive that was not selfish, and ha now finds himself spiritually isolated. It is a time of self-revealing con sciousness and remorse. He is still capable ot seeming consideration for othbrs, for though in a spirit of self JUBtlflcatton, he pleads that a warn ing be sent to bis brothers on earth. The flames of torment are the burn ing appetites which he can no longer gratify, and through the gathering darkness he feels himself sinking, while all bis hopes and all bis dreams, the ornaments and beauties ot that higher life to which be bad aspired, but which bad never entered into a motive ot self-sacrifice, fade from his grasp as be sinks down, down into the abyss. It is the rending apart of a soul. It is of Divine mercy that there should be no such hell as that that the torments ot Dives should be but of the transition only. For Dives for gets! The mere shell of blm in which be bad resided here, all that might have made bis life sublime the un lived truths, the outward elegancies and powers and virtues, are all stripped from him. Presently the In ternal, animating, selfish soul and love of him have changed the out ward appearance to their own bid cousness. - We bare before us a most terrible warning. We know what we now seem to be, but we know not what we ahall be. Our natural gifts are but loaned to us for a season. They are not a part of our permanent pos session, unless, in the way of His Barvice, we build them into the In most fiber of our most unselfish loves. It UBed for our own pleasure and ad vancement tbey will be stripped from us at last. God help us to use them from His Spirit and in His service. FOUND ON A PENNY. ' 1. A messenger. One sent (one cent). 2. What a prisoner most desires. Liberty. 8. Part of a river. Mouth. 4. What a man should be to a woman. Shield. E. A achool child In distress. Pu pils under tbe lash. 6. Worn In tbe penitentiary. Stripes. 7. On every man's bat. Rim. 8. The land ot the free. U. S. of America. 9. ' A writing implement of long ego. Quill. 10. A flower. Tulips. 11. A email animal. Hare. 12. Part of a trunk. Lid. IS. Guardian of peace. Chief. 14. Union ot youth and old age. 18-96. 15. What a conceited person thinks of most. Face. . 18. Leading man in a theatrical company. Star. 17. Orchestra. Band: 18. Part ot bill. Brow. 19. What a married couple should be. United. 20. What a young man likes to bave with a pretty girl. Date. - , 21. Weapon. An arrow. i rs. isame oi a iruu. Date. in dlanapolls News. " , The Sunday School INTKTtNATIONAIi LKSSON COM MENTS FOll JANUARY 0, Subject! The Baptism and Tempta tion of Jesus, Matt. 8:18-17, 4: 1-11 Commit Verses 10, 11. GOLDEN TEXT. "Injthat He hath suffered, being tempted, He Is able to succor them that are tempted." Heb. 2:18. TIME. A. D. 27. FLACK. Bethany beyond Jordan and Wilder ness. EXPOSITION I. Jesus Baptized With Water and With the Holy Spirit, 8:18, 17. Jesus Himself, the Bap tlzer 'with the holy spirit and fire," comes to John to be baptized with water. Could anything make more plain the great Importance of water baptism? Jesus was baptized with water to "fulfill all righteousness." God commands water baptism nn the form by which sinful man shall pub licly confess his renunciation ot sin. Jesus was not a sinner, but He took the sinner's place, was made sin for us (Rom. 8:3; 2 Cor. 6:21) at Jor dan ("the water") and Calvary ("the blood"). (Comp. 1 Jno. 6:8. R. V.) The two occasions on which God bore testimony to the 8onshlp of Jesus was here, when He humbled Himself to take the sinner's place In baptism, and when on the Mount of Transfigu ration He humbled Himself by turn ing His back on the glory that was then becoming His, to come back and take the sinner's place on the cross (cf. Luke 9:81, 35; Phil. 2:6-8, 9). That God thus spoke Is settled by competent testimony and Is conclu sive proof of the divinity of Jesus. II. Jesus Tempted In All Points Like ns We Are, Yet Without Sin, 1 11. The temptation of Jesus fol lowed immediately upon His baptism with the Holy Spirit (comp. ch. 3:16. 17; Luke 3:21, 22; 4:1. 14, 18; Acts 10:38). It was the Holy Spirit who led Jesus up to be tempted by the devil (cf. Mk. 1:12). The temptation was a necessary preparation for Christ's work, Just as necessary as the baptism with the -Holy Spirit (Heb. 2:17, 18; 4:15, 16). The temptation came from without, not within. The personality, cun ning and malignity and defeat of Satan all come out in this lesson. He met temptation In such a state ot physical weakness as would make re sistance to temptation most difflcult and failure "most excusable," but He did not fall, and so no man can now plead adverse circumstances as a Just- 1 lflcatlon for wrongdoing. The temp tation was most real, because Jesus was most human and most hungry. The devil Introduces his temptation as be did that of Eve In the garden, by suggesting a doubt ot God's word (cf. ch. 3:17). Where would have been the harm In Jesus doing as Satan suggested? - (1) It would have been to have doubted God's word and to have sought confirmation of it by a token (namely, His ability to perform this miracle). (2) It would have been to have taken Himself out from under those human conditions under which He had voluntarily placed Him self for our redemption (Phil. 2:6-8: Heb. 2:14). It would have involved the giving up of the redemption ot man by a divine Person who had really become man. Many commit essentially the same sin to-day when they take themselves out from the sphere of sacrifice and suffering in which It is necessary that one live if be 1b to have saving power with his fellow-men. (3) It would have been to bave distrusted God. Jesus would rely upon God to supply Ills needs In lawful ways (comp. v. 4). Whenever we resort to unworfhy means for the support either of self or ot God's work, we are guilty of the same dis trust. Jeaus met every attack with "the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God" (Eph. 6:17). All of Christ's citations of Scripture are from one book, and that, too, a book that the higher critics have made tho most strenuous efforts to discredit (comp. Deut. 8:3; 6:16, 13; 10:20). The devil can quote Scripture upon occasion. He is never more danger ous than when be quotes and misap plies Scripture. The devil omitted a very Important clause In his quota tions (see Ps. 91:11, 12). One needs to watch the devil's quotations of Scripture very closely. He is likely to quote nearly as It reads, but not just as It reads. Where would have been the wrong In Jesus' doing as Satan suggested? (1) It would have been to doubt God's word by making an experiment to see If it would come out as God Bald. It would have been tempting God (v. 7). This form of sin Is very common. (2) It would have been an act ot spiritual pride, a mere display of trust in God, wheu no end was to be accomplished by It. The devil appears at last In his true colors (v. 9). He would have the Son of God render to him that wor ship that belongs to God alone. Could . the devil give what be promised?. (Jno. 14:30). The antl-Chrlat will derive his power from him. Satan of. fered Jesus the dominion by another road than the cross. The temptation was real, but it was utterly Ineffec tive. We yield to this temptation when we seek that which God has for us by some other path than the one God appoints via Calvary. The three temptations correspond to the three-fold temptation in Eden, and appeal "to the lust of the flesh," "the vainglory of lite," and "the lust of the eyes" (cf. Gen. 3:6; 1 Jno. 2:16). Then tbe augols came and ministered unt Him. That was much better than eating bread made out of atones. Arranged In a straight line the mil- I ways of the world would reach to the roc on uc-J back again. , y A Popular Floor. Whenever, the man wbo runa tha elevator In a Sixth avenue atore feels particularly frisky be announces the third floor In this fashion: "Third floor waists, dresses, al terations, and com-plalnts, particu larly complaints." Since a fair proportion of the pas sengers wbo get off at that floor are tbere for the purpose of registering complaints, they smile upon blm ee nlgnantly for anticipating thel needs. New York Time. 't i ' Important Question. ! "De question befo' dis debatln society," said Erastus Plnkley, "Is fwhether tbe fust egg come turn o .chicken or whether de fust chicken came fum de egg." "I moves er amendment," Inter rupted Wllklns Marigold, carelessly ' pitching bis tbum In the corner ot Jils razor pocket, "What we Is gwlne Ao 'scuss tab a few minutes is how dat las' chicken you bod fob. dlnuer come .turn, de coop." Washington, ( .
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