AN EXAMPLE
BY MARIA
IT was a Sabbnlb night nnd Llaber
anil me wa Bcated by the lire
place In the slttlu'-rooni. Neither
of u poke, for we wai thlukln'
that Jest twenty-six year ago we wag
married; that another anniversary wai
burryln' on to join those already count
ed; that life' clock was strlklu' anoth
er hour for us.
We've had our share of the "up and
downs" of this world, but our love has
teen of the sort to stand "wear and
tear," so I don't mind sayln' that we've
had to do with considerable of the lat
ter. I believe In submission when It ain't
carried too far by either party.
Overrulln' Is Injurious, and those
who are Indulged In It never know
when they have become tyrannical or
headstrong, so of course the yleldln'
soul don't git credit for glvln' in.
LlHher's manliness was whnt I first
admired in him. Folks called him
"set and stubborn, but generous and
nwful klnd-heurted." He was tall and
the strongest of them all, when It
come to wrestlin' and sich like. So It
has always been a real comfort to
depend on him for support, and be
hain't never failed to caro for my
smallest need.
Any woman of sense will lenrn by
experience that continual objectln'
weakens her Influence in the home.
Llsher often says tlint he thinks the
world of my ndvlce, but it's because
of my ngreeln' with him so much. It
wouldn't be worth uuthiu' If I didn't.
When I have to differ with him I jest
come right out with my ldces and ac
cept as my pay for the privilege such
titles as "know-nolhln"' and "poor
weak woman!"
But I am dlvergln', and this Sun
day night our hearts was tender and
warmed by the sweet memories of
that far away weddln'. As clearly ns
though days, not years, bad come be
tween, we recalled every saylu' nud
Join' of that occasion, the greatest day
In our lives. Suddenly Llsher inter
rupted me with:
"Mnrthy, I've been thinkln' that I'd
change the house n little build ou
that 'lean-to' you've wanted so long,
and a new kitchen."
"Oh, Llsher!" was all I could soy.
"You'd like It, wouldn't you?"
"Like it? Why, I enn't tell you how
happy I am. It's bo good of you!"
"Nonsense, you deserve it, for you've
been a faithful wife to me, Marlhy."
"When shall you begiu?" I asked.
"Bight ftway. I never wait when
once I decide upon n thing."
So that's how we came to build, and
from that time I never kuew u mo
ment's rest.
The furniture wns packed iu the
front room, but the dust from the
tenrln away of the old kitchen found
a place to lodge everywhere; even the
bureau drawers In the upstairs spare
chamber did not protect my best linen.
Indeed, nothin' escaped n contiu' of
powdered lime.
The confusion, tumult and general
disorder Irritated Llsher. It wns hord
to keep him good-natured. The build
ers would start the work nud then
leave It for days to "hold on to an
other job." llalu delayed the masons,
and really It Beemed nt last as though
we would be thankful for nnythlu.'
almost wlshln' we'd left well euough
aloue.
To add to our misery, Llsher's sister
Mandy wrote us that she would visit
U3 on her return from a missionary
meetln' where she was to represent
their town society as a delegate. The
reduced railroud fare made this trip
possible to her, so we could not write
and nsk her to wait a bit. I don't
mean to give you the idea that they
hain't always "room and to spare" lu
our home for his folks, but there comes
times when It's handler than others to
accommodate them.
I wag frettln over this very thing
and my mind was ou the point ot
"flyln'," when who should call me but
Llsher, lu the new bulldin'.
"Mnrthy!"
"Yes!"
"Come here quick and decide where
you want that pantry put. I thiuk this
is the best place for It," he continued,
as I appeared.
. "There?"
"Why not?" frowning.
"It's too near the chimney, and I'd
have to Kiucege. between the table and
the stove to get to it. Why can't It
be put over In that corner?"
"Tbeyw golu" to be a window there."
"Aud I doii't want oue there."
"I'm bulldlu' this house," he added,
hotly.
"I'm living In It and doin' the work.
If I had supposed that you would have
arrauged It lu this way, I would have
kept the old oue. I want the window
In the south for plants."
"It's going to bo where I decide."
were the last words I heard as I left
the place and returued to my work.
Later, I heard his step in the dlnln'
room and turned my back to the door,
protendln' to be busy, but It wag real
ly to bide my toar-stulncd eyes.
"That's all the thanks I get for try
in' to please you aud spendln' my hard
earned mouey to make you happy,"
he began.
I said not bin'.
"It seems as though you grew hard
er to please each day,"
The angry blood rushed to my cheeks
s I replied:
"You asked my opinion about the
pantry, though why you did I can't
tell, since you won't allow me to plan
or help in any way."
"I have no time for complaints," he
muttered and walked away.
For days the haromerin' kept up, and
the wheegy sound of the carpenter's
aaw broke the stillness of the place,
but I did not once look Into the new
Part.
Llsher would direct the men In com
maodlu' tones to excite my curiosity,
but though I longed to know what
was goln" on In there, I stayed In the
main bulldlu'.
Once he asked mo which I liked best
for Ouishlng kllchens-ceiiln' or plas
ter? But I only said:
.. "What does It matter which I like?
IN ADDITION.
WEED.
Suit yourself, ns you are bulldin' this
house. When I thought It wns for ine,
I took an Interest in it, but since I am
only to live In It like n servaut might.
I'll do my best to work without pay."
"A pet.ny saved Is a penny earned,"
he quoted kinder like he wanted to be
generous.
"That's nil right," sayg I, "still I
hain't never heard of any man's es
tlmatin' his wife's salary at the end of
the year by this means; whatever It
is, it goes Into his pocket, without
credit I u' her with a cent of It."
"By cnt! Marthy Mario, how you
talk! It's awful hard on a mnn when
he's done It all for you."
"All for me," I sneered. "Why, Llsh
er Whitby, you don't know what you
are snyln'. In the beglnnin', I'll allow,
you were thinkln' of my comfort In
plannin' tills addition; but since then
you haven't let an Idee except your
own creep Into it. ' If 1 submit and
say It's all right, you'll never kuow
how unjust and selfish you've been.
There's Just oue thing I didn't promise
at the ultnr, and that Is: not to have
an opinion. I won't give It up even
for you. I nm wlllln' to bear your ar
guments nnd be persuaded, when they
are better than mine, but If I am to be
a partner In this home I've got to have
'my say." " Then I left him to ponder
upon the subject.
I was Just wretched. If I must sub
mit, I would try to endure defeat nud
bo pntlent. Meanwhile, that kitchen
wns nearly finished.
On all subjects except this one Llsh
er and me was perfectly docile and
natural, but It was actually riuugcr
ous to our peace to even mention build
in'. Next week but one Maudy was com
In', and I made up my mind to get rid
of this bitterness of heart nud take
possesslou of the new part. I could
squeeze between the stove nnd the
table If necessary, nnd I would not let
the cupboard be a coustant reminder
of my menial or "no account" position
In my own borne.
If I had been tinner In mnintniuln'
my smaller rights. In our early mar
ried life. It would have been ensler
for Llsher to glvo up now; but, some
how, I've always bated fusses.
Some folks say that (J oil never made
a useless thing. Perhaps when I see
Hliu "face to face," He tell me why
He gave me such a great mother heart
and left me with empty arms through
life, with nothin' to pet and spoil but
Llsher.
Even In my darkest, lonesomest
hour, no oue could have made me be
lieve that my husband was Indifferent
to me. True, men are apt to call a
woman's objectln" frettln' (a word
which is like a nettle to a nervous tem
perament). It's a riddle ns old ns the sun, and
one that hain't never beeu answered,
why we are the most impatient with
those we love best?
So I cheered up and sang about my
work, and I could tell by Llsher's
voice thnt he was tryln' to seem kind
and thoughtful.
He even wanted me to hnvo hired
help for a spell to give me n chauce
to rest after settliu',
"You're ns likely a loolcln' woman
for your uge as there Is lu these parts,"
he said to me at the supper-table,
"nud I don't want Mandy to thluk
that I'm not careful of you."
We was to move In the next morn
In', nud he hadn't nsked me to look
at the new part. I had lost, but not
without a desperate struggle. Once
convinced that my will, my opinions
and preferences were never to be con
sidered, I could give up liupin' and
train my shoulders (even it they was
weak and trembliu') to curry the lood.
My proud spirit must bend to Llsher's,
for I could not live without him.
After the chores wns done be went
to town, saylu' that he'd be back In
an hour or two. lie waved his hand
to me ns he drove through the big gate
and I closed it nfter him.
The bouse seemed cheerless, nnd the
windows sort of stared nt me us I
walked up the lane.' so I dldu't g,j in,
but sat ou the side steps until the
moon came up It rose early ut that
time.
Soon the porch nud the orcblml"wHH
nil bathed In Its soft, coiurortin. sil
very light. Ir -quieted the stml ar he
within me tli's heavenly peaceful
uess of nature
I walked through (be garden nnd
stood under tne prolectln' nruis of a
great oak. Sinkin' down nt Its base,
I leaned my weary bead ngalust the
trunk. Its strength rested me. It would
live grandly anil tranquilly, unmoved
by the tumult nud strife about It. It
would shelter under It's hospitable
branches muny n tired, heartsick trav
eler, iu the years to come, as It was
now support lu' me. Through storm and
sunshine It would endure, long after I
and my sorrows had been forgotten.
Then I thought of the future and
my new position in the world for my
self-respect must be sacrificed. Indeed
had ben. I could not cry out against
fate, neither could I plead with my
husband. He would not, perhaps,
could not understand the sltuntlon.
"Marthy," said a low voice at my
side, while two stout arms raised me
to my feet. "I've been a selfish, tyran
nical brute!"
While I had longed for this moment,
I could uot bear to hear him revile
himself.
"Don't!" I cried, placing my hand
over his mouth.
"I must," said the dear soul, "What
you said about my tryln' to deprive
you of the rl -ntu of opinion was true,
although I never saw It that way be
fore. You shall try what you like,
whenever you want to, r.nd I'll listen
to It and respect your wishes. Coino,
dear."
When we came to the house, the
new part was all lighted aud he gent
ly drew me through the door. To my
surprise, everything was as I had
planned. A south window, with
shelves for flower; the cupboard be
tween that and the table, while a
brand new kitchen stove stood where
I had expected to have pat the old
one.
"I never could have stood It If I
hadn't meant to surprise you," Llsher
confessed, ns he smiled down upon
me. "This addition wns begun ns a
ort of thank ofTerln', Mnrthy, because
you had been iipnrert to me. nnd It
has fulfilled two missions. You have
not thought that I didn't care for you,
have you?"
"Not once, dear," I wns glad to nn
swer, "and while I should have lost
some! bin' which yon would be sorry to
miss In your wire. I should still bnve
loved you. Our experience has been
one of sutTerln' to us both, dear, but
we will be the better for It, nnd re
member It ns "
"An example In addition," he added,
with a smile. The Ladles' World. '
EDUCATIONAL FADDiSM.
The Common School Svntrm Engulfed In
Experimental Instruction.
"Cities having undertaken to supple
ment the work of the States In the
Hint tor of free eduentlon have assumed
a grave responsibility, nnd the char
acter of the citizenship of the future,
ns well ns the quality ot government,
depends upon the correct solution of
the problem Involved," says Bird 8.
Coler, In Everybody's Magazine. "With
millions to spend for free schools,
there opened a wide field for experi
ments. The education of the masses
Is such n popular thing that any per
son who proposes to contribute n plan
or n suggestion to the scheme Is cer
tain of n hearing, and too often of
opportunity for mischief. A wave of
faddlsui has swept over the country
In recent years, and lu many cities It
has almost engulfed the common
schools, that were originally the means
of the free education for which prop
erty was taxed. The proper govern
ment of any municipality requires a
prompt return to a system of thorough
Instruction lu the public schools In
those studies that are the true base
of all higher education. Munlclpnl in
come does not justify the mointeuance
of any general system of so-called
higher education or the teaching of
fads nud experiments. If there nre
high schools, they must be maintained
to provide rewards of merit and Indus
try In the common schools, and they
ought to Include a special course of
study preparatory for service In the
city government. But the real func
tion and duty of good municipal gov
ernment Is to provide a thorough
course of practical study and teaching
thnt will eunble the children of the
poor to acquire the true foundation of
higher education before they are com
pelled to go to work. The boys and
girls who nre forced to work nt fifteen
may, with n little assistance, educate
themselves as they toll if they have
been thoroughly taught the rudiments
of a practical English education. For
supplemental knowledge the city can
provide the means with night schools,
free lectures, libraries, auu leadiuj
rooms." Hherlork Holmes, jr.
"I thought," said the great amateur
detective's friend, "that Hlpplethwalt
was going to win thnt beautiful, rich
young widow, Mrs. Wappslcy."
"He did try it," replied Sherlock
Holmes, Jr., "but was unfortunate nt
the start. You see fate was against
him. The pretty widow invited hlin
to call, ou a certain evening, nnd ho'
Went, determined to begin making a
play for her heart right then and
there. But the wind happened to be
from the southwest, nnd all his plans
went glimmering."
"What the dickens had the wind to
do with It?"
"Everything. When the -wind I
from the southwest It's a sign of rain,
nud Just before It rains a woman who
wears tight shoes. Is dead sure to be
petulant. If there is ever a time In her
life when a woman past thirty doesn't
care to be called 'Baby' It's when the
wind Is from the southwest. Well,
George stayed and stayed, trying to
get a chance to tell her what a beauti
ful creature he thought she was, and
at lust, along uhout It o'clock she just
up und told ill in he'd have to go."
"Never stay late when the wind Is
from the southwest. If you care for
the girl nnd waut to be invited to call
again." Chicago Times-Herald.
Electric Fan.
A feature of Interest connected with
electric fuus Is that they are purely
American, both by right of Invention
aud of lib . It is a somewhat singular
fact that their use In other countries
aud In hot climates has been so limit
ed, but It is believed that nt least the
beginning of a considerable export
trade lu this class of merchandise has
beeu made, und that from now ou In
creasing r.nd tuiisfuctory numbers of
these Instrument will be shipped
abroad from our American ports. A
niudeiu development of the fan, which
was primarily designed for ventila
tion and ttii- moving ulr or the creation
of small bree7.es, is the application to
the fun mechanism of cooling uud
heating devices, so that an actual
chuugo in the temperature of the air
tuny le niude. Iu this way certain
electric fan insinuations nave been
made lately which serve the triple pur
pose of cooling In summer, heating In
wlurer and ventilating the rooms,
Electrical Review. '
Brahmin View or tha East aud Wast.
The subject of socjal intercourse be
tween Europeuns aud ludiaus bus fre
quently beeu a grand theme with
some writers and speakers. There are
tneu who are too ready to- throw the
whole blame for the existing state of
things on the Europeans, who are
charged with refusing to accept In
dians on terms of perfect equality,
while, as. a mutter of fuel, it. sveins ti)
us I bar, except in purely official rela
tions us between superior aud subordi
nate, It Is the Indluu tliut considers
himself to be of u purer caste and In
capable of adjustlug his scruples aud
his habits to the requirements of Euro
pean society. The pride of caste Is
still very strong lu the Indluu. aud
however submissive aud respectful he
may be In the presence of the Euro
pen u official, lu his heart of hearts ho
believes himself to be of a superior or
der. Madias Hindu.
Familiarity Bread Contempt.
"There's one thing 1 am sure cannot
be denied," rtuuurked the Observer of
Events aud Things; "and that is no
golfer Is a hero to hi caddie." Yonk
em Siatesuiau.
DOCSLEODING IN SIBERIA.
Vivid Description of Kid In the Search
For Andrea.
In the Century, In the second of hi
papers on the search for Andree, Jonas
Stadllng gives a vivid Impression of
the pains nnd perils of dog sledding In
Siberia.
"To the music of yelling natives and
bowling dogs our picturesque caravan
started at a frightful speed, some of
the dogs every now and then slipping
ou the smooth spots of the Ice and
prnwllng on their sides or bucks while
being drugged along by ihn others.
Abend were seen mnsses of henped-up
Ice. I wns asking myself, 'How shall
we get over these?' when In n mo
ment we were In the midst of them,
the drivers yelling out their com
mands: 'To the left!' 'To the right!"
'Straight on!' while the dog-lenders
nt the hend of the packs, pricking up
their ears to catch the commands of
their masters, turned now to the left,
now to the right, between the hum
mocks, while the sledges Jumped nnd
dnnced over the huge blocks. Gnsp
Ing for breath, my feet balancing In
the nlr to prevent my legs from get
ting broken, I could hardly tell how
this 'mountain-pass' was cleared. Soon
the whole caravan was on smooth Ice
again, nnd then a new chain of Ice
mountains rose In front of us, toward
which the dogs lushed, until a sharp
voice In front yelled, 'Stop! Stop!' A
sledge hnd been smashed and the load
scattered about. I became nervous,
but the natives, as tranquil ns If noth
ing hod happened, repaired the sledge,
making a bole here and there by
means of n primitive drill, nnd tying
together the broken parts with thongs
of leather, while other natives with
nxes nnd Iron-poluted poles cut out a
way between the ice-hummocks, nnd
after a little more than half an hour
the caravan was ngniu on Its way.
"Toward noon we were swept by n
heavy snowstorm, but the Ice became
smoother, aud the dogs ran onward
with great speed. Only once we took
n short rest, sitting down in a circle on
the Ice nud regailing ourselves with
frozen fish, which the dogs shared. In
places where the wind had sweptaway
the snow, the crystallized salt, precipi
tated from the ice by the cold, made
the sleighing very heavy. As we
ntmreel the mainland In the afternoon
the snowstorm ceased. To the south
east and south extended a mountain
chain, stooping abruptly to the sen, dl
ululshlng in height to the west."
A Funeral Trolley Car.
Baltimore has a number of fine sub
urban cemeteries, nil of which are
reached by some division of the street
railway lines, and the company found
by putting in n few crossovers they
could take a car from any part of the
city to any one of the burying; grounds.
It was therefore decided to offer cars
for the transportation of funeral par
ties, says the Street Hallway Review.
The company built a special car well
adapted for the purpose. The car Is
divided Into two compartments, the
smaller of which bus running Its full
length another compartment or vault
lu which the casket Is carried. A
heavy plate glass door hluged to swing
downward gives access to the vault
from the outside. When a casket is to
be placed Iu the car, the shelf is drawn
out, the casket lifted upon It, and the
shelf is then pushed back lu pince. The
larger compartment has twelve cross
seats in the centre nisle, giving a seat
ing capacity of twenty-four; the small
er compartment bus four seats. Heavy
black curtains divide this section Into
two private compartments for the Im
mediate family of the deceased. Flo
ral contributions nre piled upon the top
of the vault, nnd can be seen from the
street. The car Is finished inside and
out with black enamel with nickel
plated fixtures. The car bus been
named "Dolores." meaning sorrow, and
It is rented at from $120 to 'J3 for each
interment.
Metaphor Ills Long Hull.
When It comes to making a pictur
esq ue metaphor, Seuator Tillman Is
uot far lu the rear. In fact, he can
take advantage of the moment and
flash out as fine a bit of simile as any
man on the floor. He showed bis abil
ity a few days ago in his speech in an
swer to Senator Hale's conciliatory ef
fort in behalf of the Subsidy bill. Mr.
Hale fluully lost his temper uud suid
one or two rather unkind things iu
his effort, at one time hinting thnt if
Mr. Tllmuu wanted time to fulminate
against the bill be might have it.
"Fulminate?" snapped out Mr. Till
man. "Does the gentlemau from
Maine take trie for a box of matches,
or a gun cap? Perhaps it Is a flnsn of
lightning, and If it is, let me tell him
thut I want plenty of lime to grow
some forks. 1 don't want to speud nil
my lime making common sheet liglf
'jlug." Washington Times.
Trees Planted by Blue Jays,
An old-time Arizona woodebopper
says the blue Jays have planted thou
sauds of the trees now growing all
over Arizona. He snys these birds
have u habit of burying small seed in
the ground with their beaks, aud that
they frequent piuon trees and bury
large numbers of the small pine nuts In
the ground, many of which sprout and
grow. He was wulklug through tl:l
pines with an Eastern geutlemun a
short time ago wheu one of these birds
flew from the tree to the ground, stuck
his bill Into the earth and quickly flew
away. Wheu told whnt had happened
the Eastern muu was skeptical, but the
two went to the spot aud, with a knife
btude, dug out a sound pine uut from u
depth of about an Inch aud it hair.
Thus it will be seeu thut nature bus
plans of her own for forest perpeiiiu
tiou. ludluuupulls News.
A Garrison of One,
Dumbarton Castle, the most historic
Scottish military fortress uext to Edin
burgh Castle, has fallen ou evil days,
says the Londou Graphic. The Wur
Otlico has withdrawn Its one soldier,
the last of the garrison. It Is under
stood that the custle Is to be hauded
over to the custody of the Dumbnrtou
Town Council. For many hundreds of
years it lodged a military garrison,
nud contained thousands of ancient
aud modern weapons. Among these
was the "Wallace Sword," aliout six
feet in length, but, to the geueral 111
diguutlou, this famous weupou has
beeu removed to Stirling Castle. The
fortress was visited by Queen Victoria
in 14!), in the course of bin' jouruey
from Ireland to Scotlaud
REVlVALjUBENEFIT.
Dr. Ttlmatfe Draws Lessons From Famous
Religious Awakenings.
The A'losi Uteful Chrlittasj Ar Those Cen
verted la Early LlfiBrlnuloj the
Multitude Into Safely.
(Coprrl(ch lani.j
WAsmiwroPT, 1). C.-This discoure of
J Jr. lalmnge is most pertinent at this
time, when a widespread effort for re
ligion awakening is being made; text.
T i VS ', They .'"closed ft great multi
tude of fishes, and their net brake."
rMirion and his comrades had experi
enced the ninht before what fishermen
call poor luck." Christ step, on board
the fishing smack and tells the sailors
to pull away from the beach and di
rects them again to sink the net. Sure
enough, very soon the net is full ol
fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in
ho large a school of fishes was taken
that the hardy men begin to look red
in the face as they pull, and hardly
have they begun to rejoice nt their suc
cess when snap goes a thread of the
net, and snap goes another thread, so
there is danger not onlv of losing the
fish, hut of losing the net.
Without much care as to how much
the boat tilts or how much water it
splashed on deck the fishermen rush
about gathering up the broken meshes
of the net. Out yonder there is a ship
dancing on the waves, and they hail it:
Miip ahoy! Bear down this wav!" The
ship comes, and both boats, both fishing
macks, are tilled with the floundering
treasures.
"Ah "says some one. "hnw much better
it would have beeu if thev had staid on
shore and fished with n hook and line
nnd taken one at a' time instead of hav
ing this great excitement and the boat
almost upset and the net broken and
having to call for help and getting sopping
wet with the sea!"
The church is the boat, the ?o-pcl in
the net, society is the sea. and a great
revival is a whole school brought in at
pne sweep of the net. I have admiration
for that man who goes out with a hook
nnd line to fish. I admire the way he
unwinds the reel nnd adjusts the bait and
i,"8 r k '" a fluiet place on n
stdl afternoon and here catches one and
there one, but I like bIro a big boat and
swift oars nnd stout sails and a stiff
breeze and a great multitude of souls
brought so great a multitude that vnu
have to get help to draw it ashore, strain
ing the net to the utmost until it. breaks
here and there, letting a few escape, but
bringing the great multitude into eternal
safety.
In other words, I believe in revivals.
The great work of saving men began
with 3000 people joining the church in
one day, and it will close with fortv or
a hundred million people saved in twentv
four hours when nations shall be born in
a day. But there are objections to re
vivals. People are opposed to them be
cause the net might get broken, and if
by the pressure of souls it does not get
broken, then they take their own pen
knives and slit the net. "Thev inclosed
a great multitude of fishes, and the net
brake."
It is sometimes opposed to revivals of
religion that those who come into the
. churcn at such times do not hold out.
As long as there is a gale of blessing they
I have their sails up, but as soon as strong
vmua eiup mowing men iney drop into
a dead calm. But what are the facts in
the case? In all our churches the 'ast
majority of the useful people are those
who are brought in under great awaken
ings, and they hold out. Who are the
prominent men in the United States in
churches, in prayer meetings, in Sabbath
schools? For the most part they are
the product of great awakenings.
I have noticed that those who are
brought into the kingdom of God through
revivals have more persistence nnd more
determination in the Christian life than
those who come in under a low state oL
religion, People born in an icehouse may
live, but ' they will never get over the
cold they caught in the icehouse.
A cannon hall depends upon the im
pulse with which it starts fur how far it
shall go and how swiftly, and the great
er the revival force with whicli a soul
is started the more far-reaching and far
resounding will be the execution.
But it is sometimes objected to re
vivals that there is so much excitement
that people mistake hysteria for religion.
We udmit that in every revival of re
ligion there is either a suppressed or a
demonstrated excitement. Indeed, if a
mun can go out of a state of condemna
tion into u state of acceptance witlt God
or see other go without any ngitation of
soul he is in im unhealthy, morbid state
and is as repulsive nnd absurd as a man
who should boast he saw a child snatched
out from, under a horse's hoofs and felt
no agitation, or saw a man rescued from
the fourth storv of a house on tire and
felt no acceleration of the pulses.
Salvation fiom sin and death and hell
into life and peace and heaven forever
is such a tremendous thing that if a man
tells me he can look on it without uuy
ngitation 1 doubt his Christianity.
The fuct is that sometimes excitement
is the most important possible thing. In
case of resuscitation from drowning or
freezing, the one idea is to excite anima
tion. Before conversion we are dead. It
is the business of the church to revive,
arouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle into
life.
Excitement, is bad or good, according
t what it makes us do. If it makes us do
that which is bad, it is bad excitement,
but if it makes us agitated about our
eternul welfare, if it makes us pray, if it
make us attend upon Christian service, if
it make us cry unto God for mercy, then it
is good excitement.
It is somt times said that during re
vivals of religion great multitudes of chil
dren and young people are brought into
the church, and they do not know what
they nre about. It has been my obser
vation that the earlier people come into
the kingdom of God the mere useful they
are. Hubert Hull, the prince of preachers,
was converted at twelve years of age. It
is likely he knew what he was about.
Matthew Henry, the commentator, who
did more than uny man of his century for
increasing the. interest in the study of the
Scriptures, was converted at eleven years
of age; Isabella Graham, immortal in the
Christian church, was converted at ten
year of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns
will be sung all down the ages, was con
verted at nine years of age; Jonathan
Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect
thut the American pulpit ever produced,
was converted at seven years of age. ana
that father mid mother take an awful re
sponsibility when they tell their child at
seven years of age, "ou are too young to
be a Christian, or, "You are too young;
to connect yourself with the church.
That is a mistake as long as eternity.
It during a revival two persons pre
sent themselves as candidate for the
church, and the one is ten years of age
and the other is forty year of age, I
will have more confidence in the profes
sion of religion of the one ten year of age
than the one forty year of age. Why?
The one who professes at forty year of
age ha forty ears of impulse in the
wrong direction to correct; the child has
only ten year in the wrong direction to
correct, Pour time ten are forty. Four
times the religious prospect fur the lad
that come into the kingdom of God and
iuto the church at ten year of agu than
the inun at (orty.
1 am verv aut to look uoon revival
connected with certain men who fostered
mem. reopie wno-iu ttus day do uot like
revival nevertheles have not words to
express their admiration for the revival
it4 of the past, for thev were rvivaliau
-Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, George
Wuitelield. Fletcher, Grifin, Davie. Os-
!,,-.. lf..n,n VU,,1A.. vr I.. ' .1
ww. .v, .uH('yi itve?wu, iuouuy auu.
many ''ther whose name eomc to r.iv
niiiu . u,e strength of their intellect and
the holiness ot their lives make me think
they would not have had anything to do
with that which was ephermeral. Oh. it
l easy to talk against revival.
A man said to Mr. Dawson: "J like
your sermon very miiel.. but the aftei
meetings I denpise. When the pravei
meeting begins, I nlway go up in the
(Cilery and look down, and I am di.
gusted." -Well." .aid Mr. Dawson" "tlx,
reason is you gn on the top of vour neigh
bor house and look clown his chimney
to examine his fire, and of course vnu
onlj; get the smoke in vour eve. Why
don t you come iu the door und sit down
and warm;"
Oh. I a id afraid to sav.unvi.liin .irainst
revivals of religion or against anvthihg
that looks like them, because I think il
may be a sin against the Holy Ghost, and
you know the Bible aay that a sin
.gainst the Holy Ghost shall never be
forgiven neither in this world nor the
world to come. Now, if you re a painter,
and I speak against your pictures, do J
not speak against you? If you are an
architect and I speak against a building
you put up. do I not speak against vou!
If a revival be the work of the Holy
Ghost and I speak against that revival,
do I not speak against the Holv Ghost!
And whoso speaketh agninst the Iloly
Ghost, say the Bible, he shall never be
forgiven neither in thir world nor in the
world to come. I think sometimes peo
ple have made a fatal mistake in this di
rection. Many of you know the history of Aaron
Burr. He wns one of the most brilliant
men of his day. I suppose this country
never produced a stronger intellect. He
was capable of doing anything good and
great for hia country or for the church of
God had he been rightly disposed, but
his name is associated with treason
against the United States government,
which he tried to overthrow, and with
libertinism and immorality. Do you know
where Aaron Burr started on the down
ward road? It wa when he was in col
lege and he became anxious about hi
soul and was about to put himself under
the influences of a revival, and a minister
of religion said: "Don't go there. Aaron;
don t go there. That's n place of wildfire
nnd great excitement. No religion about
that. Don't go there." He tarried away.
And who is responsible for hia ruin for
this world and his everlasting ruin in
the world to come? Was it the minister
who warned him against that revival?
Worn I flnpnlr nf .,n;t.m.n, :n ........ 1.
I do not mean temporary derangement ol
the nerves, I do not mean the absurd
things of which we have read ns trans
piring sometimes in the chun-h of Christ,
but I mean an intelligent, intense, nil ab
sorbing agitation of body, mind and soul
in the work of spiritual escape and spirit
ual rescue.
Now I come to the real, genuine cause
of objection to revivals that is, the
coldness of the objector. It is the secret
and hidden but unmistakable cause in
every case, a low state of religion in the
heart. Wide awake, consecrated, useful
Christians are never afraid of revivals.
It is the spiritually dead who arc afraid
of having their sepulcher molested. The
chief agents of the devil during a great
awakening nre always unconverted pro
fessors of reliirion.
As soon as Christ's work begins thev be
gin to gossip against it and take a pail of
water and try to put out this spark of
religious influence, and they try to put out
another spark. Do they succeed? As well
when Chicago was on fire might some one
have gone out with a garden water pot
trying to extinguish it. The difficulty is
that when a revival begins in a churcn it
begins at so many points that while you
have doused one anxious soul with a pail
of cold water there arc 500 other anxious
souls on fire.
Oh, how much better it would be to Iny
hold of the chariot of Christ' gospel and
help pull it on rather than fling our
selves in front of the wheels, trying to
block their progress. We will not stop
the chariot, but we ourselves will be
ground to powder.
Aroused pulpits will make aroused
pews; pulpits aflame will make pews
aflame. Everybody believes in a revival
in trade, everybody likes a revival in lit
erature, everybody likes a revival in art,
yet a great multitude cannot understand
a revival in matters of religion. Depend
upon it, where you find a man antagon
istic to revivals, whether he be in piilpit
or pew, he needs to be regenerated by
the grace of God.
I eould prove to a demonstration that
without revivals this world will never
be converted and that in 100 or 200 years
without revivals Christianity will be prac
tically extinct. t is a matter of astound
ing arithmetic. In each of our modern
generation there are at least 32,000,000
children. Now add 32,000,000 to the
world' population and then have only 100,
000 or 200,000 converted every vear, and
how long before the world will be saved?
Never absolutely never!
During our Civil War the President of
the United States made proclamation for
75,000 troops. Some of you remember
tne Dig stir, uut the King ot the universe
to-day asks for 1,200,000,000 more troops
than are enlisted, and we want it done
softly, imperceptibly, no excitement, one
by one. You are a dry goods merchant
on a large scale, and I am a merchant on
a small scale, and I come to you and want
to buy a thousand yards of cloth. Do you
say: "Thank you. I'll sell you a thou
sand yards of cloth, but I'll sell you twen
ty yards to-duy and twenty to-morrow, and
twenty the next day, and if it takes me
six months I'll sell vou the whole thou
sand yards; you will want as long as that
to examine the goods, and I'll want ns
long as that to examine the credit, and,
besides, that, a thousand yards of cloth
are too much to sell all at once?" No, you
do not say that. You take me into the
counting room, and in ten minutes the
whole transaction is consummated. The
fact is. we cannot afford to be fool in any
thing but religion.
That very merchant who on Saturday
afternoon sold me the thousand yards
of cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath
in church will stroke hi beard and won
der whether it would not be better for a
thousand souls to come (traggling along
for ten years instead of bolting in at oue
service.
We talk a good deal about the good
times that are coming and about the
world's redemption. How long before
they will come? Ihere is a man who says
500 years; here is a man who says 200
years; here is some one more confident
who say in fifty year. What, fifty
yeurs? Do you propose to let two genera
tion pas off the stage before the world
is converted? Suppose by prolongation of
human life at the end of the next fifty
year you should walk the length of
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or the
length of Broadway, New York in all
those walks you would not find one per
son that you recognize. Why? All dead
or so changed you would not know them.
In other words, if you postpone the re
demption of this world for fifty years
you admit that the majority of the two
whole generation ahull go off the stage
unblessed and unsaved. I tell vou. the
church of Jesus Christ cannot consent to
it. We must orav and toil nnd have the
revival spirit, and we must struggle to have
i nt wnoie worm saved before the men
and women now in middle life part.
un, you say, "it i too vast an en
terprise to be conducted in so abort a
lime!" Do you know how long it would
take to save the whole world if each
man would bring another? It would taka
ten year. By a calculation in compound
interest each man bringing another, and
that one another, and that one another,
in ten year the whole earth would be
aaved 1911. Before the organ in our
churches are worn out thev ought to
sound the grand march of the whole earth
aaved. If the world is not saved in the
next ten year, it will be the fault of the
church of Christ. But it will all depend
upon the revival spirit. The hook aud
line nahing will not do it.
Divine Menl In Human Soil,
The pa ruble of the lure, applies to
:n individual u t,.v ,u ,.;,., v. '.
Juuiuu hcuit is like u field or garden.
.iood eed uud bud Npriug up therein lo
ether. Eu.-b of lis I, like u gm-deuer,
ur heurlx being the spheres of our lu.
uurs. God nives us good mm-i! lo plant
uid unit inc. y uno. onv (0(, W(,
low thii-k und fut the weeds grow,
let we huve learned thut by houesl. pa.
ieul, prayerful eudeuvor Ihey run he
hei ked uud evou eradicated. uml the
food seed assured supremacy us it
liows.
The divine seed bus severul forms.
One is thut of divius truth. Wheu we
leur It or read It, if wc cherish It, lued
tule upon il, try to realm- to ourselves
ls ineiiiiiug sud value, and x-ek l rule
mr conduct by it. It tinpluuis itsnir
v it 11 i u us nud al ouee betcius to exert a
Highly uud purifying intl:ieiic'. fori
i,'regulioiiulist. He .iiiv (hat Ntmightroi'wurilness Is
mure tliuu 11 mutch ut last lor nil the
involved winding of deceit, la your
daily lite do what you feel right, say
whut you feel true, uud leave, with faith
and boldness, the cousccii'ruc lo liod.
W. Hubert sua.
EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETINQ T0P1O.
March Jl - "Lov of Seals." Ron. i t,
Paul ha been discoursing on the re
jection df faithless Israel and the ac
ceptance of the Gentiles. He shows that
Israel was not ssved because he prefer
red the false righteousness by the rites,
ceremonies, and fruitless re finings of the
Jewish law and ritual to the real heart
service of righteousness in Christ.
It is clearly not the forcing or the win
ning of men to the observance of any re
ligions rites, ceremonies, or creeds or
to the acceptance of any patticular na
tional hope. This is what Paul was par
ticularly condemning. It is not the ac
ceptance of any particular round of
restraints or duties, the doing or the
not doing of any fixed and arbitrary set
of things. It is not merely technical
legal status of the soul toward a divine
sovereign. It is rather mental, mora!,
nnd spiritual recreating, It is the divine
power received into the inner life which
enables us to become the sons of God.
This sense of newness in their souls
was the great strength of the. apostles,
ss it has been the strength nf preacher
and Christian teachers in all ages. It
changes duty from an impossible com
pliance with an inexorable law to a joy
ful obedience to the highest type of life
with divine help to accomplish it. It
changes the hopeless burden of sorrow
and affliction into a divine teacher,
chastening and disciplining and in
structing the soul for its good. New
hopes, new nowers, new ideals, new
courage, new inspirations, new worlds to
conquer, new victories moral, spiritual,
intellectual, physical all these accom
pany true salvation.
The apostle earnestly longs for the sal
vation of Israel. No man can truly have
salvation such as is outlined, and siidi
ss Paul had, and not long to have others
share it with him. The experience is
one of conscious peace, blessedness and
so 1 satisfaction. It is born of love anil
bcoets love. Can vou recommend the
life you are living as one that will bring
out all the possibilities of manhood and
womanhood and lead to perfect soul reit
on the part of your friends, should they
imitate you and adopt your plan of life
and of Christian living and service?
No man can be a great leader of men
who is not moved by a genuine love of
wen. Have you this love of your fel
lows which leads you to desire their con
tinual weliare; to be helpful to them
after every sort; which leads you to deny
yourself ease and comfort and leisure,
if need be, to help them? Is the church
helped in its conquest of the world by
your membership in it? Are you a reat
factor in advancing the Redeemer's
kingdom in the world? Are any being
made wiser, purer, better by your pres
ence in the community? Ponder these
things; think on your manner of life,
and ask yourself whether Jesus can say
to you when he comes, "Well, done
good and faithful servant; enter into the
joy of thy Lord."
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
March il -fflsaioa, Lm ef Sol." -
Re, i. L
Scripture Verses. Ps. lxxii. 1-17; Isa.
ti. 2 4; Jer. xxxi. 31-34; Luke x. 2; John
jvii. 20, 21; Eph. i. 20-23; Phil. ii. 9-1 1;
Rev. v. 9, 10; xi. 15.
Lesson Thoughts.
To gain the world for Christ, three
ihings are absolutely necessary: 1. A
linccre desire of the heart for the sal
ration of the world. 2. Entire reliance
upon God and earnest prayer to him for
guidance and strength in this work; and
5. Consecrated activity in preaching the
Word and sending it abroad.
There can be no miserliness in Chris
lianity; its unfailing characteristic is a
burning desire that all the world shall
shave with the rich blessings it bestows.
Selections.
"Few years, no wisdom, no renown,
Only my life can I lay down;
Only my heart, Lord, to thy throne
I bring and pray
A child of thine I may go forth,
And spread glad tidings through the
cart 11,
And teach sad hearts to know thy worth;
Lord, here am I."
It must never be forgotten that the
strength of the kingdom is not in num
bers or in show, but in true hearts.
The kingdom of God is within, and itsj
growth throughout the world turns on
the faithfulness and zca! of each that be
longs to it.
Like ripples on the water that start
from a center and go on widening until
they reach the opposite shore, the cir
cles of the kingdom will go out from
individual hearts, finally reaching the
shores of eternity. And "the earth shall
be full of the knowledge of the Lord as
the waters cover the sea."
O church of Christ, behold at last
The promised sign appear,
The gospel preached in all the world;
And lo! the King draws near.
With girded loins make haste, make
haste,
Thy witness to complete,
That Christ may take hi throne, anit
bring
AH nations lo his feet.
RAMS' HORN BUSTS
f T- HERE Is always a
cneua.
V fc 77k (Q TTnto.0 II l c.
. , . 1 ijq 13 OU
preme Ha it not
the Sa?iour.
The run away
tongue r -Ise th.
du t o? scandal.
Hs who is aerk.
leg comfort can.
not win tbs con-
rVT " Ort n ha wt 11
moet fear life Is least afraid of death.
The law ani the Gospel ara har
monized in the law of love.
When a church becorao a pliy
houea its steeple will no: uve tt.
When a man turns the light on oth
er he must not expeot to tUy in the
shade himself.
We need ta fear Itat knowing mtic!i
of the life of Christ we know ntKhlnj
at the living Christ.
If men were a anxoiia to do right as
they are to get their rlgnta the world
would be rights I.
Beneficence W be:ter ttna benevol
ence. Ease ensue only from ia nest """"
deavor.
The temperance cause ba met some n
vernea, but the temperance wntiment, ami
especially tha sentiment against (octal
drinking, i growing strouger every year.
The Belgian administration ha uuiued ,
an order prohibiting the sale or consump
tion of intoxicating drink in tint vicinity
of the Chamber during the ittiuga of
Parliament.
The great baritone Faurv, who ha writ
ten a uook ou the hygiene of th voivo,
call the violet on of th singer s greateat
eneuuea, ranking with it, however, both
alcohol and tobacco.
The British Secretary of Wur has ap
proved ut lei-lure ou teuieronc Iwiug
given to children attending array whuola
by lecturer aiinoiuted by the Aiuif Teiu-
lructf Association