THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSRUPO. PA Saturday Qight By F. E. DAVISON Rutland, VL a eacaaflOflonnci a A PATTERH SMUT. Feb. 21, '09 (Acts, chaps. 6-7). Stephen's biography Is all con densed Into twp or threo chapters, and as we read It we are Impressed with the fact first, that he had a (food name In the community. As the Scriptures put It, he was a man of honest report. Many a, man's re ligious profession Is discounted be cause he does not bear a good luuuo In tho community. His life speaks louder than his words. Tboe who have had dealings with him pio Bounre him "crooked." Poople ha.e no confidence In his piety. IW Id believed to bo two-faced. He Is re garded generally as serving God for what there Is in It. His loudest and longest prayers have the brastrn clangor of brass, they make about the same Impression as tinkling cym bals, no depth, no body to them. It Is worth everything to a professor of religion, to have a good name. In the community.. Men can overlook de fects of grammar but they abominate Hefucts of character. They may be Tile themselves, but they know vir tue when they see It. And the world demands that those who claim to be New Testament Christians shall at least have the respect and confidence of those who know them best. They must have a good name, either pro nerved In rectitude of life, or won by straight-forward, upright-behavior after a life of wickedness. There aro many obxtacles thrown In the way of one who Is honestly striving to win a good name, but It Is bound to be won If he is aiming for It. Mutit lluvo u Level II cud. It is said of Stephen that he was full of wisdom. That uoes not nieau Uiut bo knew everything or that hu tklways did the right thing, but It dues mean that he was level head ed. Some lneu who are otherwibe ' tood men meet with a good deal of trouble because they aro invariably "putting their foot In it." They slop over, they can always be depended upon to do the wrong thing. Their uourts are In tne right place, out their heads are erratic, and since they go at everything head first they arc too often like a bull in a china shop They Intend to do right, but their fingers are all thumbs, they havo no Uct, no fine sense of judgment, uo discrimination. Such men ought to pray that God would make their heads as soft as their hearts, that lie would give them sanctified com uiou sense, that the helmet of salva tion might never have Its visor lifted is was that of Goliath, when David found the only vulnerable spot on that Hlttlte unprotected. It is a good thing to huve brains, but it la better to have less brains and more common senxo than to have great brains, ileal saints have level heads. Must He Man of Fulfil. It Is also said of Stephen that he was full of faith. The men who have done the most for this world have been men of faith. Not neces sarily evangelical faith, but ' men who "were great believers. Some men show more faith in their disbe lief than others do In the eternal verities. No muu would lift a finger to pry Into mysteries, to solve prob lems, to perform prodigies, to iullu ence the ages if he was not moved by mighty faith. Stephen was a great believer. He believed, that Jesus Christ was what he claimed to be, that tho church was what 1U founder said it wus, that the prin ciples of religion were as axioma tic as geometry, and acted accord ingly. And no man will ever amount to anything as a disciple of the Nazarene, who does not have that bed-rock of implicit faith planted In his soul.' Character can not be built on a bank of fog; you cannot grow an oak tree in a flower pot. Must lie r.ll.lo Student. Stephen was full of the Scriptures. One of the best Bermons In the Bible was preached by him. It Is second only to the Sermon on the Mount. They put him on trial, but they never would have done It if they had anticipated such an outcome. When asked to plead guilty or not guilty, Instead of making a personal appeal the prisoner opened his mouth and poured out such an evangelical gos pel sermon as had not been heard In Jerusalem since the Day of Pen tecost. It swept everything before it like a tidal wave. Such men as that are rare. Multitudes of Chris tians know more about politics than they do about Palestine, know more about the stock market than they do about salvation, know more about the newspaper than they do about the Bible. Hence, any little 2 by 4 Infidel can tangle them all up In five minutes. Now to be a taint It does not fol low that everybody will love you. They did not love Stephen; they stoned him to death as a heretic. U Is no particular credit to a man to lay that he never had an enemy. That could not be said of Jesus Christ, and the disciple Is not above Ms Lord. If you oppose sin, you will arouse Its enmity. Stephen sealed his testimony with his blood, but the young man who held the garment of bis executioners never t ot over that sight, until ho accepted the testimony of tho first Christian martyr and became tho mightiest preacher of the ages Paul, the apostle. And Stephen lives forever wore lii the life and work of r?.al. itKFisR nrnxiNo iuskkt. lVvIm for (Jt-MIng Hid of Household Accumulation. "Oh, my! Whatever shall I do Ith all this rubblHh?" exclaims the housekeeper, beholding a miscel laneous collection of papers, scraps and pasteboard 1oxps, the roundup of the regular weekly cleaning. "The hraan declines to take anything but ashes, the rubbish man picks out only such as he can find use for, and the second-hand man will have nothing but tho whole papers, and they must be clean at that." This little monologue may be heard most anywhere. The conditions are about the same In any city of large or me dlum size. There Is a great deal of accumulated material around a house which is quite difficult to dispose of It might be burned, but an effort to dispose of the mass in an ordinary stove would more than likely lead to disaster, even if the stove W of suitable proportions to accommodate the collection. Most of them aro not Tho housekeeper's, quandary has led to the invention of a model device to bo added to the equipment of tho household. It Is a refuse destructor, in which the accumulations of the household are to bo disposed of by burning In the back yard without danger. Tho destructor Is a basket of wire built on an Iron frame, sup porting it several Inches above tho ground. Into this the household accumulations are dumped, as well as the sweepings. A match applied soon reduces a big pile to a handful of dust. Such a device solves com pletely the problem of the disposal of a great deal of material. Inquiry of Home. It Is only a little thing, but it makes a lasting Impression, and that Is the way some people make it a point always to ask after a cer tain member of the household. It may bo the invalid mother, or fa ther, or a convalescent child, or per haps the baby. Just who Is tho fiubject of Inquiry makes little dif ference, but the fact that a frtend recognizes that your home life cen ters, for the time, more or less around one member Is pleasing. There are some good friends who never think to make Inquiries about any of the family. It is impossible not to contrast them with those who are quite the opposite in their thoughtfulness. One person never fails to ask how near relatives are. She realizes how close the ties are. Does such an inquiry make the day brighter? Indeed, it does. OlnHN Shelves. At very little cost one can have a neat glass bathroom shelf made with nickel or porcelain brackets to hold the collection of bottles, brush es and salve pots that the modern women Includes among her toilet requisites. These shelves are sold In an assortment of sizes and are made of thick plain glass with rounded corners. A few of the self labelled drug and toilet bottles that are now offered at prices ranging from thirty-five cents up will bo useful to hold toilet water, tooth wash and the other essential aids to cleanli ness and daintiness. The Odor of Paint. Every one knows that an - onion has a distinct and unpleasant odor, whether cooked or raw. Dut every one does not know that this odor of an onion will draw to it every other disagreeable odor and clear the at mosphere In a day. The onion can then be thrown away and with it goes the disagree able smells that come about In a house that has been closed for the summer. And this is also a good thing to know: That it will absorb all the odor from fresh paint and turpentine. Housework Mittens. Kitchen mittens can be bought in several thicknesses and sizes for va rious branches of housework. There are thick ones with straps across the wrist to wear when polishing tho range, then there are others to put on when scrubbing floors or sinks and still thinner ones with chamois cloth lnsldes to use for polishing silverware. .These mittens are a great protection to the hands and finger nails, and they really simplify the work more than those women who have not availed themselves of this convenience realize. Towel Itnck. We hang our dish towels on un ordinary wooden curtain polo, which Is fustenod with brackets at the top of the kitchen walnscoatlng and ex tends along one side of tho room. There is length enough for several towels, and the whole extends only a cotinlr of Inches Into tho row.:. LACKAWANNA RAILROAD. "THE ROAD OF ANTHRACITE. 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