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DIGNITY OF LABOR.
International Bible Lesson for
Aug. I, '09-(Acts 18: 1-22)-
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It Is Interest
Ing to trace back
the river of
Christianity to
Its source, nnd
observe tho hiind
of an overruling
Providence In
the o p 0 n I n g
years of Its In
ception. Begin
ning in Jerusa
lem, a religious
city, It went suc
cessively to Ath
ens the philoso
phical city, to
Corinth the pleasure-loving city, and
to noino, the military city, each of
them centres of influence from
whence radiated beams of light to
every quarter of the earth.
Strange Providences.
Awny off In the city of Homo there
dwelt a Jewish couple, Aqulla and
Prisdlla. The lJmperor, Claudius, in
a fit of rage against the Jews, banish
ed them from Home, and lienvy-heart-ed
nnd disconsolate these two people
emigrated far away to Corinth, und
settled clown to their trade of tent
making. Prom the opposite direction,
unknown to them, a disappointed itin
erant preacher, Paul by name, was
coming toward the same point. After
his mission was ended in Athens the
lonely preacher tramped the Interven
ing forty-five miles which brought
ti 1 111 to Corinth. He was also a tent
maker by trade. He at once sought
employment, ltelng himself a Jew
he naturally Inquired for his own coun
trymen. And so it cr.me to pass that the
tent maker Paul, became a laborer
nnd a boarder In the family of the
tent makers, A nulla and Prlscllla.
Hard luck and persecution, extradi
tion and banishment are not hand
some courtiers, but they often intro
duce us to people who are the Prime
Ministers of the King.
Paul, the Tent Maker,
What grander testimony can be giv
en to the dignity of labor than that
of the tent maker, Paul. All day he
toiled at his trade and preached the
gospel by the good work he turned
out, as well as by the words he ut
tered. We often see Paul pictured as
preacher In a crowd of listeners, but
this lesson shows him as a toller, and
d!'.y laborer. Cordage lying headped
up around him, canvas drawn over the
floor In folds, balls of twine scattered
about here and there, the tent maker
at work. I warrant you his seams
never ripped, his cloth never proved
to be shoddy. No one ever had to
say sneerlngly, "I bought these cheap
tenft of that Christian! See how he
cheated me!"
The dignity of labor! Paul's hands
were hardened by It. Peter's and An
drew's and John's were burned In the
sun. Christ, the son of a carpenter,
himself working at the bench. Paul
evidently was not looking for a "good
place," an easy berth, a fat salary.
Klse he would never have accepted "a
call'' to Corinth. He got near the peo
ple by working 'with them. They did
not pull him down; he lifted thera
up. He spent no time grumbling and
complaining because he had to toll,
he did not feel that it was his right
to have people feed him with chick
ens, put elegant dressing gowns on
his back, and soft slippers on his feet,
and pamper his body and develop his
pride. He worked for what he got and
was independent of all.
That was one reason why be was
such a fearless preacher. He was
not afraid of losing his salary if he
told people the truth, and if he
couldn't live in one place he could In
an other, and if he couldn't preach,
he certainly could practice, and he
was equally good in both. Ills tents
were as good as his sermons, and he
didn't have to eat any man's bread,
or be any man's puppet. Independent,
dignified, self-reliant, he is a magnifi
cent example to scores of men who
are marching about from oue church
door to another, begging for the privi
lege of eating their bread and drink
ing their water.
Not that manual labor is the only
kind of labor. The fact that a preach
er has white hands and wears good
clothes does not necessarily mean that
he is not a laborer. Mental labor is
often more strenuous than digging
ditches. Perspiration of the body Is
often a relief, where brain sweat is
slow suicide. Many a man in the
pulpit works harder than some men
in the foundry. The one pounds iron
and is able to Bhape it; the- other
seeks to mould human hearts and
finds them harder than flint and as un
changeable as fate. He carries all sor
rows, bears all burdens, receives all
confidences, visits all perilous places,
risks all dlsenses, responds to all calls,
takes all rebuffs, and is responsible
for a whole parish of human beings.
Work! It is the common lot of man;
with pen or spade, with needle or
yardstick, with hammer or plough,
with typo or sewing-machine, hard
labor for life is punned upon all men.
Let us all put heart and interest and
love into it, and so be happy with the
dignity of it. For as the old poet put
tt, "Who sweeps a room as in God's
tight, makes that, and the action
floe."
IIIH l'.OXES FOR BUTTONS.
Other Part of a Man's Body to Be.
come Violin Hiring.
His bones to make buttons, his
skin to be tanned and given to his
friends nnd other parts of his body to
bo mndo Into violin strings such are
tin provisions of the will of Henry
E. Sclllvan o; 233 West 100th streot.
New York
The will, which Mr. Sullivan ai
leron Is mnde, has these clauses:
I do hereby direct the executors of
this my will to have mndo out of my
bones circular Duttons of the dimen
sions of from one-hnlf Inch to one
Inch In diameter.
I do further direct my said execu
tors to have the skla of my bo.y
tanned and made Into pouches.
I do hercb) further direct my sr.UI
executors to have made out of s ieh
parts of my body ns may be suitable
strings for the violin, such as are
usually designated "cnt-gut" strings.
And I do hereby further direct my
said executors to have said violin
strings adjusted to the body of a vio
lin. I hereby give, devise nnd bequeath
unto my beloved friend nnd club
mate, James Hayes, all and singular,
the buttons, violin strings and tanned
skin made out of my body, as afore
said, the same to bo by him distrib
uted according to his discretion to my
Intimate friends.
When asked why he made such a
queer testament Mr. Sullivan Bald.
"Every task we undertake, every
thought should have for Its object
some useful purpose. Every stick of
wood, ever stone, every piece of sod
c-.j bo utilized. Did each one but
train his eyes to b. the use to which
ench object In this world can be put,
how much happier the world would
bo.
"I made the will because I saw
no reason why there should be such
wastefulness, why so much good raw
material should bo allowed to go for
naught.
"Why In this age should we cling
to foolish, unhygienic, wasteful no
tions? The body, after the soul has
fled, Is Just so much material to be
moulded by man for his own use, as
Is everything else on this sphere.
"My will Is perfectly feasible. My
lawyer tells me that it cannot be con
tested on the ground of insanity. I
realize that it Is extraordinary, but
I so will it as being consistent with
my belief."
Doctoring Dungerous Animals.
One of the most difficult feats at
tempted by physicians is that of at
tending to wild animals who h-ive
become ill while confined in iome
of the big shows throughout the
United States and Europe. When
It Is recalled that many an elephant,
Hon, or some huge boa constrictor
Is worth thousands of dollars, It Is
easy to understand that tho very
best trained and expensive of phy
sicians are called in to operate on
the slcta animals. There Is often
danger attached to the work, al
though if the animal Is Known as
very vicious it Is usual to chloroform
It before tho physician begins his ex
amination Into the cause of the dis
ease. The methods of treatment resem
ble largely those used when human
patients call on the family doctor,
varied of course by the peculiarities
of the animal. For instance, vhn
a big Indian elephant gets the stom
ach ache, and they do this perhaps
twice a year, there Is considerable
hard work to be done, and It oust
be done right away. For instance
tho elephant must bo roped by all
four legs and It must be done quick
ly, because an elephant with the
s'omacb ache or acute Indigestion (as
It really Is) Is more dangerous ey a
good deal than a runaway locomo
tive. Then he Is thrown on one tide
and must be Jumped on with the
feet, in order to try to force the sas
out of his system.
The ordinary kind of rubbing
would not even penetrate an ( le
phant's skin. Then comes a tuge
mustard plaster with blankets used
to spread the mustard on and : bout
20 pounds of mustard to the pla '.er.
Afterwards 2 quarts of whiskey rnd
ginger should be poured down his
throat. This treatment was used, in
the New York zoo not lon& ego
and cured the elephant's jtoniach
ache In a couple of hours.
A big Indian tigress namnd "Pr'n
cess" In the London zoo had a bad
record as a man eater near Mysore
In India. She tried to kill anyone
who approached her, and gave evi
dence of being In agony. Ah at
tempts to lasso this tigress were In
vain, so one night a sponge soaked
In chloroform was pokd under her
nose on a long stick. ThU dazed the
tigress and a bag containing anoth
er chloroform soaked sponge whs
pushed over her head. Before she
could get off the bag the anecthetlc
had worked and the doctor quickly
drained off a huge abscess which was
found on one of the big teeth of the
man eater. Monkeys and birds oc
casionally need surgical treatment
and are not difficult to handle. The
big inmates of the snake house, a"'
ever, prove very hard to care for
during illness. With a oython 20
feet long, it is necessary for ten
men to gfasp the reptllo and bold
hard to overcome the resistance of
the great coils.
ProfcfSHloual Curd
International marriages are possi
bly no more dangerous than others
among the leisure class, but they are
more conspicuous.
Mark Twain says receivers are
costly, and that's no merry jest.
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