SLOTHES AS AN ATTRACTION I Admittedly Important, but Not Always i th* First Thing That Catches a Man's Eyes. ▲ writer on women's fashions re cently declared that dress has become : so Important a factor nowadays that ; men notice a woman's dress before her faoe, and a pretty woman badly dress ed Is often passed by. A number of opinions ou the subject from men are here given. A few are of opinion that a woman's hat and clothes would be the first thing they would notice. Others, however, think that a woman's face and hair would be the predoml- \ natlng fact jrs of attraction. "Woman's dress is undoubtedly becoming a strong attraction to men's eyes," said on®. "I think, however, It Is an out- j door attraction, for a woman's clothes Indoors do not, at first sight, attract j A man. I oare not whether the face Is pretty, so long as It Is not positive ly unly. I am attracted. A woman who knows how to dress is bound to be 'nteresting." A sportsman attributes the attraction of women to the follow ing in the order given: (1) Her shoes and the shapeliness of her foot and ankle; (2) her face and complexion; (3) her hat; (4) her clothes. A poet | holds that in a woman's face is the first, and indeed the only attraction. "Beautiful eyes make a woman slgnlf- j leant in any company," he said. "Dress is as nothing beside a plainly I attired yoman with speaking, ap pealing eyes and eyebrows." SHOES DEMAND PROPER CARE Will Respond to Good Treatment and Are Quick to Resent Neglect or Carelessness. Not very long ago the average wom an felt she was becoming quite gay ! and extravagant when she indulged in the luxury of buying each season many pairs of shoes. Today slie be lieves it is economy. Shoes, even the best of them, need rest; and, If they are to last long and always appear at their best, they demand it. And in cidentally there is something very restful to one's feet in a change of shoes. If you have few shoes or many, be sure to remember that you must treat them with consideration. The shoe i which is carelessly kicked off and al- j lowed to lie where it has been kicked j will soon retaliate for this treatment ; by looking its ugliest. All shoes Bhould he wiped off carefully before they are put away; and the shoe tree is as es- . sentlal to the shoe as the coat hanger Is to the coat. Each helps to preserve | the original shape. Remember, a bhoe . tree used Is a pair of shoes saved. — Woman's Home Companion. BREAKFAST GOWN AND CAP 1® if Photograph by Underwood & Underwood. Th® aeml-flttlng decorative gown has now taken the place of the old faahioned wrappers. Accompanying them are the little caps which coquet tishly confine the loose ends of the hair In the early day. The gown is of crepe, as Is the cap. The kimono ■leev® has been modified to suit the present style. Amber Bead Necklaces. A pretty second empire fashion that was especially noticeable at one of the smartest soctal functions of the week is the wearing of loo* chains of am ber beads. No other JeWeJry is worn, except, perhaps, a buckle or 1 eafrochon of amber, for the brilliant yellow would kill any other stones, however beautiful or valuable. Some of the ahalns are so long that they reach al most to the hem of the skirt, and oth ers are shortsr, not appearing below th® walstbelt. These nacklaoes look | oharmlng when worn with simple Whit® frocks of brod®rl® Anglais®, lac® ft fmallu. I SOME FOREIGN MISSION FACTS A Piihy Discourse oo an Inter esting Subject. FROM THE BIBLE VIEWPOINT. Pastor Russell Claims Report of the International Bible Students Asso oiation Committee of Which He Was Chairman Was Too Mild Rather Than Too Severe—Committee Unanimously Stand by the Report and Challenge Criticism—Full Report Now Offered Free to All. &HjßpPjpu££\ Ottawa, Out., F Nov. 10. Pastor : || Russell, as usual, jlLfo » had large aiull- Sff I ences. We report one of his inter jm esting discourses, [PASTOR ITUSSELL) Kingdom shall be preached In all the world for a witness uuto all na tions; and then shall the End come." [Matthew xxiv, 14.) He said:- A year ago the International Bible Students Association, perplexed by the conflicting reports, resolved to send a Committee of Seven to investigate and give a candid report on missionary prospects In foreign lands especially In South India, where it is making a special effort. I was one of that Com mittee, which otherwise was composed of four successful business men,—one doctor, and General Hull, of the IJ. S. A. The Committee performed its du ties conscientiously, and made its Re port to one of the largest Christian gatherings ever held in New York City —in the Hippodrome, March 31st. Its Report, published in pamphlet form, reached a very wide circulation amongst Christian people. I am au thorized to offer the remainder free. Dne copy each, to all interested in Foreign Mission work. A postcard ad dressed to"I. B. S. A., Brooklyn, N. requesting a copy of the Mission ary Report, will receive prompt atten tion as long as the supply holds out. The Committee, in preparing this Re port, felt 'sure that it would be dis couraging to some loyal Christian peo ple; and they therefore laid bare the facts in as kindly and Christian a man ner as possible. Every one of them being deeply interested in the heathen, every one of them a sincere Christian, what else could they do? Now, as the Committee fyared. the truthfulness of their Report, which so many Christian people gratefully ac knowledge, has Irritated a few persons. These evidently fear that we have shattered their Idol and discredited their fairy tales respecting the Imme diate conversion of the world by hu man Instrumentality and more millions r>f money. We sympathize with these enthusiasts, who seem to deceive them selves as well as others and who shut their eyes to facts, while hoping against hope to maintain exploded theories. One of these, Mr. W. T. Ellis, alias the "Religious Rambler," attacks our report after the style of Don Quixote Falsely he declares that we journeyed on the same vessel from San Francis co to Shanghai, giving the impression that we had not visited .lapan at all. Then he declares that we merely raced through the country, did not visit all the mission stations, nor talk with all the m! ilonarles; and he wants to know how we could know anything on the subject of our K.'i .: ! Our Report tells the facts. The Committee of Sev en scattered, and spent six days in Japan, or a total of tu days of Investi gation. Our 2:! days spent in India, similarly recorded, would bo the equiv alent of nearly six months' investiga tion by one person. Our I. R. S. A. Committee were not lommlssloned to investigate missions, nor merely to ask missionaries to cor roborate reports promulgated by mis Nonary societies. We visited and In terrogated the people, saw their con 3itions. attended meetings, etc. As for myself, this critic charges in one breath that I did not preach the ser luons which appeared in the newspa [iers of the world; and In the next breath he declares that I spent all my time In preaching and therefore had not time for Investigation. A discern ing public read between the lines of inch criticism what the Bible symbol rally describes as "gnashing of teeth." The Only Practical Method, If millions of money were betnir ipent to give instructions in French, If the teachers gave glowing reports »112 their success, and If a committee »112 business men were sent to Investi gate the success, would they ask the teachers and professors for a confirma tion of the reports they had already Bade, or would they go amongst the pupils, and seek to ascertain to what ;xtcnt they had a knowledge of French? There can be but one an iwer to this question. The principle ipplled to Foreign Missions, shows that our Committee took the only proper course for ascertaining the facts. They did obtain them, and I be lieve that every missionary and every lit her person who has i>een in foreign lands, within the last live years, will tn cV-i UeuorL cuiiceUn thai ft Is very truthful, nt the same time ex tremely kindly and sympathetic. Surely our Committee's method and Report will commend themselves to unprejudiced Intelligent minds. Prob ably Brother Ellis' difficulty is fear that the hollowucss of missionary claims is coming to the light. "Not Understanding the Scriptures." Sympathy for the heathen and doc trinal errors respecting the everlasting future led Christianity astray In its missionary work. In full harmony with other nonsense received from the Dark Ages, we believed God intent upon hurling all the heathen to ever lasting torture, uuless they should hear about the Savior iu the present life and should accept Him and become saints. Frenzied by this misconception of the Divine Character and I'lan, god ly people hastened to give their lives and their money for the rescue of the heathen from the fate which they er roneously supposed an all-wise, all- Just, all-loving and all-powerful God had foreordained for the Non-Elect. Now our (former) darkness is depart ing. As we began to see the utter hopelessness of our claim that we could ever convert the world, we also Bee that we had misunderstood our Heavenly Father's I'lan In respect to the heathen. We began to see that only the first part of the Divine Pro gram has yet been put Into operation: viz., the gathering of the Elect from all nations to constitute the Bride of Christ, to be Joint-heir with Him in the Abrahamlc promise, "All the fami lies of the earth shall be blessed in thy Seed." Now we see that the saintly few from every nation and from ev ery denomination of Christendom will constitute the True Church, the True Bride of Christ, the Queen of Glory, the Seed of Abraham.—Galatlans ill, 211. "This Qospel of the Kingdom." Our hallucinations respecting eternal torment, which the Bible, rightly trans lated and properly understood, does not teach—as every scholar In the world will agree—has been the foun dation of all our errors. Alas, that so many ministers and learned men should have cust away their Bible without ascertaining that it Is In direct con flict with all our creeds! Missionary la bor has appealed to the most devout of God's people, the most sympathetic. Even 1 hough they have misunderstood, we may be sure that God has granted a heart blessing to all lovers and sup porters of missions. This Is no reason, however, why we should continue to be blind to the true situation. We must no longer delude ourselves with the thought that it is possible to convert the people even In our home lands, un til God's time, under Messiah's King dom: for "Unto Him every knee shall bow."—Rom. x Iv, 11; Phil. 11, 10. Think not that the Bible has no mes sage for heathen lands! Think not that I am opposed to the heathen or to good works done for them! I am op posed merely to our misrepresentation of (iod and the Bible amongst the hea then, even as In the past we misrepre sented both at home. I aui deeply in terested in the work which the Bible declares should be done amongst tin heathen—a work, however, which the missionaries have not been doing. "The Gospel of the Kingdom" was I" be preached to all nations before the end of this Age would come,—not for their conversion, but for a l eitness to them—for the purpose of gathering out God's Elect to be Messiah's Joint-heirs In Ills work of universal blessing. The Qospel of the Kingdom means the good news respecting the King dom. The I. B. S. A. has missionary workers in India, China and Japan, in forming such of the peoples there as have the Intelligence to comprehend the Messnge. Many of them nre re joicing in the good news that Messiah's Kingdom Is about to be established; and that their friends. Instead of be ing in either purgatory or eternal tor ture. are merely asleep In death, await ing the blessing which Jesus promised, saying, "All that are In the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth" to a resurrection of Judgment, trial, testing, to prove who will accept the gift of eternal life and who will reject It and suffer the pen alty—Second Death.—Romans vl, 2.'!: II Thessalonians 1, 9. „ To a certain extent, wherever the Bi ble has gone, this Gospel of the King dom has gone. If the missionaries had only read the Bible to the peo'ple and had not attempted to teach the creeds of the Dark Ages, many more In hea then lands today would know atiout Messiah's Kingdom and appreciate tin- Import of the prayer, "Thy Kingdom come: Thy will be done ou earth, even as It Is done in Heaven." But the mis sionaries apparently for the last few years have been telling those who would hear them nt all, very little of anything religious. Their activities are chiefly with the children; and as our Report shows, the children get scarce ly any religious information, nnd many of the denominational schools are be ing turned Into civil or state schools, with the understanding that there shall be no religion taught with the money appropriated by the governments to the teachers for secular Instruction. Missionary Effort Postmillennial. The admitted failure of missions as respects religion and as shown by the fact that there are twice as many heathen today as there were a century ago means the fall of the Postmlllen- Dial theory—that the thousand years of Christ's reign will precede His Second Coming; that the Second Coming of Christ cannot Jake place until after the world has been converted and has had a joyous reign of righteousness for a thousand years. Following this erron eons theory, nl| effort has been coucen trated upon converting the world, and thus bringing In the Millennium. Our Catholic brethren claim that this tbommnd-year reign of Chrliit ended In 1790; that we nre now In the "little season" mentioned in Revelation xx, 3; and that the success of Protestantism during the last 112 years is the loosing of Satan. This is the explanation given iu the footnotes of some editions j of the Catholic Bible. It must be dis couragiug to our Catholic brethren to see how many bl< •> 'inve come to the world under what Uey claim is j Satan's regime. Suvel.x some of them will contrast this with t'if» supersti tion. bigotry, and .lie persecii.lug spirit which seemed to dominate h th Prot estants and Catholics during \\ hat they claim was the Milleuiuni. As for Protestants in general, the kindest statement of their position is that they are confused. They do not like to agree with Papacy that the Millennium is past; and yet they agree with Papacy in claiming that I he great kingdoms of Europe are parts of Christ's Kingdom, notwithstanding the fact that they are Impoverishing them selves to prepare for blowing each oth er off the face of the earth. Christ's Kingdom Brings Millennium. Premllleniiiallsts hold that Christ's Second Advent precedes the establish ment of His Kingdom; and that the Church during the Gospel Age Is in preparation for the Kingdom honor, glory and service. Such believers In the teachings of the Bible alone are preaching that the coming of Messiah's Kingdom Is the hope of the world, and that the call of the present Is for the Elect, to share in the Kingdom. Hark to the Master's words, "Fear not. Lit tle Flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you I lie Kingdom." ... To these It Is not astounding that tlio heathen are not all converted, either at homo or abroad; for they real ize that God's Word does not so teach. They find the Scriptures to tell that at the Second Coming of Christ "the na tions will be angry," and God's wrath will come upon them. "There shall a time of trouble such as there ! never was since there was a nation." i They find that during that time Mes siah's Kingdom will bo established, and that incidental to its establish ; meut the First Resurrection will take I place. They note Jesus' words, "Blessed ' and holy are all they that have part j In the First Resurrection; * * * they ; shall be priests unto God and unto j Christ and shall reign with Him a thousand years," "upon the earth."— Revelation xx. 6; v, 10. But I'rcmillennialists very generally make two mistakes: (1) They think of His Kingdom as one in which Christ nnd the saints will hold earthly court. They fail to discern that the resurrec tion change raises both Christ and the Church fully out of the human nature j Into the Divine nature; and that God's Kingdom, spiritual and all powerful, will bless mankind through earthly agents already prepared. These will bo the saints who died previous to Pentecost, and whose resurrection will be to human perfection—to which all of the Non-Elect world will be granted opportunity of attaining. (2) Premlllennlalists fall generally to discuss that the Bible teaches that bless ings will lie granted the Non Elect who have died during the past six thousand years, without hiving full opportunity of attaining to life everlasting. They have overlooked the Scriptural state ment that all the dead of Adam's race sleep until the resurrection; that (he Morning of the Great Day of Mes siah's Kingdom will be the resurrec tion morning, not only for the church, but for the sleeping billions of human ity. Our nnscrlptural conceptions of the dead, as alive iu Paradise or in Furgatory or In a Hell of torture, came originally from the heathen; but wo have used our greater enlighten ment to Intensify the Joys of the heathen Parndise, and the sufferings of the heathen in the Intermediate state. Hence It is that the most intel ligent people In the world, by neglect ing Gou's Message, the Bible, today be lieve things respecting God and His purposes more monstrous than any of the doctrines of demons which alllict the heathen world and drive tlieiu from God Iu fear. Applying Now Our Text. We note that the Lord did not say that the Gospel would convert the world, but merely that it would be a witness to them. VTlie word here trans lated "witness" Is in the Greek mar turion, from the root mar/us, the equiv alent of our English word martyr. Thus seen, this text agrees with all of the Master's testimonies to Ills followers that In becoming Ills disciples they would be sacrificing earthly friend ships, honor, etc.; and that they would, bring upon themselves sufferings. To be His disciples, therefore, they must be martyrs, witnesses for the Truth and the light, In the midst of dark ness, bigotry- and superstition. The additional light and Truth which the followers of Jesus would possess and testify to would make of them martyrs; and only such wvuld lie ac counted worthy to share with Him iu the coming Kingdom. "Marvel not • * * If the world hate, ye know that It hated Me before It hated you. If ye weie of the world, the world would love Its own"; but now "ye are not of the world"; for"I have chosen you" out of the world, "and ordained you." "Whosoever will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me In My throne." Our text contains the Gospel in a nut shell. It tells of a coming Kingdom. It tells of a proclamation of that King dom during this Age. in advance. It tells that such a proclamation will be tnarturia —a witnessing through suffer ing. It implies that the sufferings of the witnesses will demonstrate their loyalty to God and their worthiness to be Joint heirs with Christ In that Kingdom for which I hey pray, "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on •arth. even as It Is done In Heaven." Cow Was Drunk, Not Wild. A Virginia husbandman, alarmed by the Indecorous performances of an or- j dinarily mild and gentle cow after I munching a ration of ensilage, ap pealed to the sharps of the depart ment of agriculture, thinking the cow had gone wihl or mad. Investlgatioa I revealed that "bossy" had feasted on i fermented cornstalks and had simply got drunk on the raw bourbon whisky. Ingenious Defense Won. "The deficiency," said the defending solicitor of a farmer accused of supply, ing adulterated milk, "was due to the hand of Heaven In allowing the cows 1 to feed on wet grass the night before, and permitting the rain to fall heavily while Ball (the farmer) was taking his churn with a leaky top along the coun try lanes." The magistrates dismissed the summons. Go After Rare Specimen. A museum might seem the last place In the world to foster a spirit of adventure. Yet we read that mem bers of the staff of the American Mu seum of Natural History have sailed for Japan to hunt the gray California whale, a specimen of which is needed for the collection. No Coercion. "Are you a party boss?" "Certainly not," replied the local despot. "I simply tell the boys how I am going to vote, and then tell them to vote as they please. But heaven help them If they don't please to vote the way 1 do." " Soporific. "I tell you what I think of your re port," said the man who volunteers I criticism. 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