I The Story of i Hardships Forty-niners Si3 FIFTY-TWO years ago a young fellow' of eighteen ran away from hi homo 1)1 the Enst and fa went to Illinois. Then came (lie news of tli( Cnlif ornln gold linilH nnd lie pushed his way on to the mine. When (tt IhhI iifli'i' ninny hard ships lit- reached Nevada City lie wrote to it chum In thn Knst ti full account of nil Ills lulvi'iitutTH. Tills letter whk fonntl recently among the papers of the gentleman to whom It was ad dressed, who lniH been ileail now for several yeni'K. The tnle Its pule and faded Ink tells of what It mount to go overland to California In the day." of the Argonauts makes curious rend ing for those who In the tlve days' journey from New York to Sau Fran cisco now sweep along In n luxurious hotel train over substantially the name route the writer of tin? little diary took. The youth himself did not long re main In California. The news of the marvelous gold llnds In Australia reached him. and there was that In -his roving, restless temperament which needed little stimulus to keep him moving. So lie left his land of Ophir, and went on over the 1'acille to the Antipodean El Dubinin. Here he look an active part In nil the rough and tumble of the early days of Australian development. He was u subordinate ollicer. for one thing, in the Ill-starred exploring expedition which the Knyul Society of Melbourne sent out under command of Hubert O'llnrn Hurke. When some hundreds of miles up l lie country hp quarreled with Burke, resigned nnd made his way bacK alone through the wilder ness. Burke and all his expedition perished save one man. named King, who was found some years afterward demented nnd a prisoner among the ta vugos. But long prior to this the young man hud had his experiences us a public character. The miners were subjected to vexatious taxation. The cry of "No taxation without representation" was raised, and it appealed to the Yankee blood which the young mil n got from his American Hevolutionary ances tors. He was made u prisoner In the Insurrectionary battle of Bnllarat and was tried for high treason, as were many others. But there was no great desire to convict, and lie was acquitted and borne on the shoulders of sym pathizers to an adjacent hostelry, where there was revelry. So it happened that from 1851 to 18!N the wanderer lived In Australia without, ..seeing an American or any of his kin. ln 1S!)1 a nephew, boru many years after his departure from home, went to see him In Australia. There was high festival for many weeks and when the nephew went to Sydney to take the steamer the wanderer quite broke down. "It's no use, boy," lie snld. "I can't sex- you go away. I must go with you. 1 must see the old land again. And the noiih star! Lord love you, boy, you cau't guess how I have longed these years to see the north star once more. I'm going with yon, lad." He bought his ticket and with the clothes lu which he stood for baggage, after more than forty years of wan dering, turned hla face toward the old home once more, pestering the officers of the ship not a little on the voyage with questions as to tho precise hour and minute when they would raise the north star. And when the point ers of the (ireat Dipper did at last show, twinkling dliuly above the wat ery horizon, the star on which he had not looked since he was a beardless boy. there was rejoicing and festivity throughout tho ship. Kveu iu the choking dust of the al kali wastes he could hardly be dragged In from tho rear platform of the I'ull iunu cur on which he Insisted on rid ing the greatet part of his journey eastward from California. And still, lifter he reached his old home, It was written that his life was to be out of the commonplace. Some six months niter his return there broke out in many newspapers throughout the country quite a rash of personal advertisements, requesting him to meet the writer thereof at varl oils places, and finally naming the Fifth Avenue Hotel lu New York. To this last one he responded abd there met an old Australian chum on his way, with much wealth, to retirement lu his Did home lu England. The American chuin had had an In terest, which lie had allowed to lapse i In mines out of which the Englishman ami his brother as well had just made great I'ortuues by a sale to n syndicate In England. The American had somo lands In Australia and had been rich half a dozen times, but hi- his old age was practically a poor mini again. "But It Isn't right, you know, old man," said his English friend, "that you should be left out of all this last big deal, even If you were such an aw ful ass as to let your own .claim go by the board. So on my way home I determined to find you nnd I adver tised for you and hero you aro and I've five thousnud pounds to put to your credit In any bauk you may name, nnd brothet Bob, who has gone home by way of Suez, Is to scud you as much more us noon as I get home and tell him where to semi It." So the old man tot hit; $20,000 and lu due course of tln:o tamo another ?'-5, 000 from England to Join If. and ho was independently comfortable. In his old borne once more. Hut to thu first ciatiou or gotlluj; back thcro soon succeeded o,sudiutsj which grow deep. er and deeper as the week aud months passed ou. ' "I hunt for my reiuCves and boy hood friends," L-e raid, "and tho dl lections peoplo alve me all lead to graveyards. I am uU-k at heart read lag the Inscription on tombstones." Only one boyhood trleinl did he find nd he lu sorry stvnils. with liinuy do pendent on' hlin and n mortgage that .would soon take the farm away. The cm mau paid oil tlio lnorliiaco nnd bought needed stock and Implements mat set his old-time plsiyicmte Joyfully u nit leet oncu more. Then he re turned to the city. "Hut I can't stay liere. lnd." he said to his nephew one day. "The buck an Argonaut. i m Endured on the Plains of my head Is growing Into my shoul ders trying to look up to the top of the high buildings, nnd It's only a question of time when I will be killed by one of those clnnrrinif. sliiin-lmnir urs. ' Besides, the noise thnt Is every. where and thnt you can't get nw from Is driving me mad. No, it will not do. I must get where It Is wider. 'I en n't breathe right here. I'll sit on the end of the car again, I guess. ml ride back over the old trail once more to 'Frisco. And then I'll go on, maybe yes, I guess I'll go on again, boy, and see the north star sink Into the ocean once more, and forever. tills time. I won't try to raise It again, my boy; and, when I think of It. It will only be as shining on gruves and gravestones.' So back over the old trail and back ver the sea ho went. A few letters ami! from him at Intervals, and then the news that his wanderings' were ut n end and that he had stretched him self out for his long sleep In the far away land which he had never thought of as his home until he went back to It fur the last time. It was not until after he had re timed to Australia and died there that the little diary-like narrative of U3 journey across the plains tlfty-two years ago came to light among the papers of one of the boyhood friends whose grave he had- visited while he was lu this country. Hero are some of the things lis faded Ink tells of what it was in i hose days to take a little un out to California, as people speak f it now: "We recruited our teams nnd bought provisions at Salt Lake. Thrn we started for Ogden Fork. The after noon after we left Salt Lake I was walking wilh one of the boys and ho told me he was going to California to get money so he could go bnek and take care of his mother and younger Ister. "His father died when he was ten ears old, he said, and his mother had scrimped and saved nnd gone without things she needed to give him a good duentlon, nnd he was going- to dig gold enough to take care of her In her ild age. I left him lending a pack horse and walking and went on ahead. A few minutes after I had gone the pack turned nnd seared the horse he was leading. The horse reared up and brought down both feet ou his shoul ders. We carried him under a tree nnd did what wo could for him, but ho only lived a little while. We dug n grave and burled him where ho died. "The worst place we have had so far was back after leaving Echo Canon. From Echo we passed to another anon lending over the divide between Green Illver Valley and Salt Lake Vnl- y. The gorge was filled with snow. and It was melting and streams of water were pouring In. Tlio horses broke through the soft crust nnd we had to drag them out. The wagons had to be taken to pieces and carried. Then at night we had to tako our horses back to Webber Canon to feed. "We had live days of this. Some of the streams were very deep aud swift. The way we got across was, the best swimmer would take a line In Ids teeth. We paid out the lino from tho top of a tree If there was one, so the swimmer would not have so much of the drag of Hie current on It to bold hlin back. When he cot across he towed a rope over. Then we caulked up the wagon boxes tight and used them for ferries to take the things over. "o had hard work getting our horses to take to the water. Bfy Cana dn pony Billy nnd I got swept down a mile to a bend once before wo could get out. It took up two days to get across a stream a few miles south of Ogdeu Fork. 'When we came to the Sink of the Humboldt there were two trails nnd some were for taking one and some another. We took fhe-one that led through the desert, which we thought wo could get across In a night. We started about eight o'clock In the even ing. It was Juno now and the duys were pretty hot, but the nights cool When tho sun came up we were still In the desert and no signs of gettln out of It. Some were for going back. but we kept on. "aijoui ten ociock we came to a sand inouud and on the other sldo of it were two smnll lakes aud somo bunches of- roofy-looklng grass. But the lake water was bitter alkali. Some of the horsees got a few swallows down before they got the taste of It but we managed to keep the others awny. 'Old Tlge,' the horse we bought buck at Larnlmle, got the most of the alkali water and was getting weaker every hour. All were falling except tho Lamulu pouies. They were all right. "We laid over until midnight and then started ou, but made poor head way. Iu the morning we saw low bushes ahead aud kuew there was water. Thu hoses aud mules knew it. too, and pricked up their cars and pushed on. But, poor old Tlge. who hud been staggering along, finally slumbled nnd fell. We pulled off his pack nnd let linn lip. Home were for killing him, but Costler aud I stopped it. "One by ono live moro horses dropped aud we left them where they fell. Soon we came to a little stream of fresh water. When we got re eruited up a llttlo somo of us started back with water after the horses. Old Tlge was tlve milees bnck, but we met the poor old fellow staggering along a few -ods nnd then stopping. We gave him about a gallon of water aud lie started on a trot for camp. We found one of the others dead, but suved the other three. "i-ive duys rrom this place we camped at the mouth of a cauou, aud about three o'clock In the morning there was au awful yelling and the Iu dinns cume down on us, trying to drive oil tho horses. Wo turned out nnd mudo It hot for them, but they killed three of our parly with arrows uud wounded four more. We burled the three comrades lu one grave nnd did what, we could for the wounded. One j hu'Vtu.i'et) arrows lu lihu and could ot lite, nnd another had nn arrow In the shoulder hlndes and I couldn't see how he could live. We mustered nbont twenty horses when the Indians were gone. We be- gun to pnek up and about eight o'clock In the morning the Indians came down on us again. We rush.rd for our horses and poor Jim I'lerson whs struck In the neck with an nrrow and fell, nnd before he could get up nn Indian truck him with n stone hammer and killed him. "Those that could got to their horses and rode for denr life to the mouth of the canon. But the Indians hud blocked us there nnd we had to shoot our way through. They did not. chase us and when we got clear of them In the open we found there were ouly nine of us out of the twenty-three. We loaded up our guns and pistols, nnd rode back to the canon, where we found one of our poor fellows whom the Indians had overlooked. He had four arrows In him. We burled all out dead that nfternoou. They were stripped nnd naked nnd even the three poor fellows we had burled In tho morning had been dug up nnd stripped. We now had n horse apiece and old Tlge extra. God knew what would become of us with nothing left but our horses and our nrms nnd poor old Tlge. One of our boys hnd put the pack saddle ou Tlge when the raid started, and the bag, with our few last pints of flour, had hung with the ket tle nnd frying pan from the saddle. I'ige followed us pell-mell, with the kettle and frying pan rattling when we ran, nnd you could hear his tin ware racket above the yelling and the hooting. After It was nil over one of the boys snld: 'Charley, you are hit, too!' And sure enough I was with au arrow shaft two or three feet long sticking out of the smnll o-f my bnck. My cloth ing was thick and the arrow did not go In very deep. The boys cut It out. It left n sore thnt hurt a good deal but did no damage. 'Again some were foj" going back to the sink of the Humboldt, but finally we agreed to go ou. Wo built up dres as though we were going to stay there until morning, but as soon as it was dark wo went on until It was ten o'clock In the evening when we lay down nnd slept uutll daybreak. Then we went on until full daylight when we stopped and made coffee and baked our pancake. Our allowance was three spoonfuls of batter each. "Then after a little rest we went on until ulne o'clock and so ou until the fourth day. Ou the morning of that day wo found that poor old Tiger had died In the night.. Is there a heaven for good horses? If there Is old Tlge Is there with a free range of green pasture, watered by clear crys tal streams. "That day when John Lee and I were liling a little ahead we found nn ani mal something like a badger aud killed It. We had quite a quarrel nbout how It should be cooked some were for soup, some for boiling. So wa hud both, and little it was among all us starving men.' We had been so long on nothing to eat thnt we were getting used to It, but all were very cross aud surly. "For three days we rode absolutely without anything to eat. As for my self I felt better then than I did when we had the panenke, for I soon be en mo faint and wanted nothing and cared less. On the other hund the pancake created a gnawing hunger that brought to memory all the stuff that ever was good for eating. Wo would have killed horses only this would have dismounted us, for we could go no fastpr than tho slowest man nUd If one were afoot we might as well all be afoot so far as time was concerned. '.'Well, ns we were trudging along, rather down at the mouth, the star of hope suddenly made Its appearance and shone bright as noonday. For, as we came around the point of u large hill we Struck In a wugou trail appar ently ubout three duys old. 1 do not ask you to imuglne our joy, for you cannot. We shook hands aud laughed nnd some of as boo-hooed and cried Had an augel from heaven come down nnd welcomed us to dine in the reglous of bliss, we would uot have been hap pier than we wero at simply seeing a wagon truck three days old.. 'We followed it until twelve o'clock that night, and ns soon as there was any light we wero up aud off. We traveled sixty miles thut day aud over hauled a train from Oregon ou the way to tho mines as we were. We got plenty to eat from them by pnylug well for It. The mines were now only 150 miles off. We bought flour of them at $1 a pound and pork tho same. For coffee we paid them $3 n pint, nnd milk, $1.50 a quart, for they hud u number of cows with them. "We stayed with them five days nnd then left them after dropplug $70 with them for food. We rode to old Law son's the tirst day, the distance being slxty-ouo miles. I will here mention that old Luwson Is tho one who laid out that route we got ou and caused so muiiy to perish. Wo passed the bones of hundreds of people, lying bleached on the ground some that hud starved to death and hnd been left where they dropped by those too weak to bury them, and others the Indians had dug up to plunder of their poor .-ags of grave clothes. 'Well, I have reached the Land ol Ophir at last, aud now I must go to the mines and make my pile quick nnd get buck home as soon as possible, fot I am sick of this country already, Ulv my love to Sarah and tell her I can beat any womuu lu the States baking particularly pancakes." New York Sun. If Wm Mot KnfKgad. The fire of a l?gul examination H a hot one, but an uccused person who stands Its test doesn't often emerg with a character the better estab lished. Au individual of somewhut doubtful npiK'.'irunco was applying for a sltua Hon as van driver. Ou being asked for references, he meutloned one ol tho dealer's old hauds,(who was culled in and questioned us to the appllcuut'i honesty. The referee rubbed his chit meditatively for a inomeut, aud snld "Honest? Well, guvnor his honesty') been proven uglu and uglu. Faith, he's bin tried slvtn tolmes for stealing aud eBhctipcu every tolme!" The applicant wus uot eusugetl. Wavrley Wuguelue. CHRISTIAN WORKERS. ' Df. Talmnge Talks About Workers for the Lord Who Are Religious Blunderers. Mow to Be Skillful la Spiritual Archery More Backbone Needed. .COPTTllfht H"t't.l Washixgtom. 1). C In this discourse Dr. lalnrnge urges .ill Christum worknrn to increased fidelity and shown how much effort at doing good fnii tlirmiidi lark ot adroitneM; text, Cenesis x. 9, "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord." In Olir tint' hnnt.intr iu n uw... 1...4- :M 41.- lands and tlio timed infested of wild beasts it was a matter of life or death with the people. It was very different from going oat on a sunshiny afternoon with a patent breechloader to shoot reed birds on the tlaU when Pollux nnd Achilles and Dio modes went out to clear the land of lions and panthers and bears. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard to the art of hunting. In the Far East neonle. nlenhAnt mmmW cha.ied the tiger. Francis f. was called the lamer ot hunting. And Moses, in my text, sets forth Nimrod an a hero when it pre sents him with broad shoulders and shaggy apparel and sun-browned face and arm hunched with muscle "a mighty hunter liilfnnA 1 n.l " t . 1 .1 uwutV ,in uuiu. x mum iie usea me bow and the arrows with orpnl mnvn practicing archery. I have thousht if it is such a nrai.,1 thing and such a brave tiling to clear wild uui, ui i-uuiury n ii. is noi a bet ter and braver thing to hunt down and de stroy those great evils of society that are stalking the lund with tierce eye nnd bloody paw and sharp tusk and quick spring. I have wondered if there is not such a thing as gospel archery, by which those who hnve been Hying from the truth may be captured for (lod nnd heaven. The Lord Jesus Christ in His sermon used the art of angling for an illustration when llu sain, j win mane you turners ot men. And so I think I have authority for using hunting as nn illustration of goipcl truth, and I pray Uod thnt there may be many a man enlisted in the work who shall begin to study gospel archery, of whom it may, after uwhde, be said, "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord." How much awkward Christian work there is done in the world! How manv good people there are who drive souls away trom Lhnst instead ot bringing them to Him! All their lingers are thumbs religious blunderers who upset moro than they right. Their gun has a crooked barrel, and kicks as it goes off. They are like a cluinsv comrade who noes aloua with skillful hunters. At the very moment he ought to he most quiet he is crackling an alder or fulling over a loc nnd iriirhteninir away the game. How few Christian people have ever learned how the Lord Jemis Christ at the well went from talking about a cup of water to the most practical relig ious truths, which won the woman's soul for God! Jesus in the wilderness was breaking bread to tlio people. I think it was very good bread. It was very light bread,, nnd the yeast had done its work thoroughly. Christ, after He had broken the bread, said to the people, "Beware of the yeast or of the leaven of the Phari sees. So natural a transition it was, and how easily they all understood Him! But how few Christian people there are who understand how to fasten the truths of Uod and religion to the souls of men! The archers of olden time studied their art. They were very precise in the mat ter. The old books gave special directions as to how nn archer should go and as to what an archer should do. He must stand erect and firm, his left foot a little in ad vance of the right foot. With his left hand he must take hold of the bow in the mid dle, and then with the three fingers and the thumb of his right hand he should lay hold the arrow and ntlix it to the string, so precise was the direction given. But how clumsy we are about religious work! How little skill and cure wo exercise! How often our arrows miss the mark! 1 am glad that there are institutions estab lished in many of the cities of our land where men may learn the art of doing good studyng spiritual archery and be come known us "mighty hunters before the Lord." In fie first place if you want to be ef fectual in doing good you must be very sure of your weapon. There was some thing very fascinating about the archery of olden times. Perhaps you do not know what they could do with the bow nnd ar row. Why, the chief battles fought by the English 1'lantagenets wero with the long bow. They would take the arrow of pol ished wood and feather it with the plume of a bird, and then it would fly from the bowstring of plaited silk. The bloody fields of Agincourt and Solway Moss and Neville's Cross heard the loud thrum of the archer's bowstring. Now, my Chris tian friends, we have mightier weapon than that. It is the nrrow of the gospel. It is a sharp arrow; it is feathered from the wing of the dove of Cod's Spirit; it flies from a bow made out of the wood of the cross. As far as I can estimnte or cal culate, it has brought down 400,000,0110 of souls. Paul knew how to bring the notch of that arrow on to the bowstring, and its whir was heard through the Corinthian theatres and through the courtroom until the knees of Felix knocked together. It was that arrow that stuck in Luther's heart when he cried out: "Oh, my sins! Oh, my sins!" If it strike a man in the head it kills his skepticism; if it atrike him in the heel it will turn his step; if it strike him in the heart he throws up his hands, as did ono of old when wounded in in the battle, crying, "O Galilean, Thou hast conquered!" In the armory of the Earl of Penbroke there nre old corselets which show thut the arrow of the English used to go through the breastplate, through the body of the warrior and out through the back plate. What a symbol of t lint gospel which is sharper than a two-edged sword, pierc ing to the dividing asunder of soul and body and of the joints and marrow! Would to Cod we had more faith in that gospel. The humblest man in the world, if he had enough faith in it, could bring a hun dred souls to Christ perhaps 500. Just in proportion as this age seems to believe less and loss in it 1 believe more and more in it. What are men about that thev will net accept their own deliverance? There is nothing proposed by men that can do snvthing like this gospel. The religion of lialph Waldo Emerson was the philosophy of icicles; the religion of Theodore Parker was n sirocco of the desert, covering up the soil with dry sand; the religion of Rcnan wus the romance of believing almost nothing; the religion of the lluxlcys and tho Spencers is merely a pedestal on which human philosophy sits shivering in the night of the soul, locking up to the stars, ottering no help to the na tions thut crouch uud groan ut the base. Tell me whero then; is cna man who has rejected that gospel ff.r another who is thoroughly satisfied and helped and con tented in his skepticimn. und I will take the car to-morrow and ride 500 miles to see him. The full power of the gospel has not yet been touched. As a sportsman throws up his hand and catches the ball flying through the air, just so easily will this gos pel after awhile catch this round world Hying from its orbit, and bring it back to the heart of Christ. Cive it full swing, and it will pardon every sin, heal every wound, cure every, trouble, emancipate overy sluve and ransom every nation. Again, if you want to be skillful in spir itual archery, you must hunt in un re sue n ted and aecluded places. Why docs the hunter go three or four duvs into the Pennsylvania forests or over Kaquet, Lake into the wilds of the Adironducks? It is th only way to do. The deer are hy, and one ''bang" of the gun clears the forest. rom the California stage you see as you go over the plains, here aud tlier a coyote trotting along almost within range of the gun sometimes quite within range of it. No one cares for that; it is worthless. The good game is hidden nnd secluded. Lvcry hunter knows tlmt. Ko many of the souls that will be of most worth for Christ and of most value to the church are secluded. They do not cume in your way. You will have to go H here they in, I remnrk. further, if you want to succeed in spiritual archery you must have cour age. If thu hunter stands with trembling hand or shoulder that tlinches wilh iVin, instcud of his taking the ealumouiit tho catamount tukea him. What would be tuna ot 'Jii Creijilimder U when, vj.'. huot- ing tor thn bear he should stand shfverfhg with terror on nn iceberg? What would have become of Du ( liaillu nnd Livings tone in the African thicket with a faint heart and a wenk knee? When a panther comes within twenty paces of you, and it has its eye on you, and it has squatted for the fearful spring, "Sternly there!" (.'our age, O ye spiritual archers! There are great monsters of iniquity prowling nil around about the community. Shall we not in the strength of (Jod go forth and combat them? We not onlv need more heart, but more backbone. What is tho church of (iod that it should fenr to look in the eye any transgression? There is the Ilengal tiger of drunkenness that prowls around, and instead of attacking; it how many of us hide under the church pew or tue communion tnblo! There is so much invested in ic we are nirnid to assault it millions of dollars in barrels, in vats, in spigots, in corkscrews, in gin pnlares with marble floors and Italian top tahles. nnd chased ice coolers, and in the strychnine, and the logwood, and the tartaric ncid. and the mix vomica that go to mnkn up our "pure" American drinks. I looked with wondering eyes on the "Heidelberg tun." It is the great liquor vat of Ger many, which is said to hold 800 hogsheads of wine and only three times in a hundred years it hns been filled, lint as I stood and looked at it I said to mvsrlf: "That is nothing 800 hogsheads. Wliv. our Ameri can vat holds 10.200.000 barrels of strong drink, nnd we keep 300.000 men with noth ing to do hut to see that it is filled." fill, to attack this great monster of intemper ance and the kindred monsters of fraud nnd unclennness requires you to rally nil your Christian courage! Through the press, through the pulpit, through the platform, you must assault it. Would to Cod that nil our American Christians would band together, not for rraekbrained fanaticism, but for holy Christian reform! I think it wan in 170:t that there went out from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign, the greatest, hunting party that was ever projected. There wero 10,000 armed men in thnt hunting puny. There were camels nnd horses and ele phants. On some princes rodr. nnd royal ladies under exquisite housings, ,md BOO coolies waited upon the train, and thp des olate places of India were invaded by this excursion, and the rhinoceros end fleer nnd elephant fell under the stroke of the sabre and bullet. After awhile the party brought back trophies worth 50.000 rupees, having left the wilderness of India ghastly with the nlain homes of wild heasts, ould to God that instead of here and there a strag gler going out to tight these great tnntiMci-K of iniquity in our country the millions of members of our churches would band to gether and hew in twain these great crimes that make the land frightful with their roar, und are fattening upon the bodies nnd souls of immortal men! Who is ready for such a party as that? Who will be a mighty hunter for the Lord? I remark, again, if you want lo be suc cessful in spiritual archery you need not only to bring down the game, but bring it in. I think one of the most beautiful pic tures of Thorwahtsen is his "Autumn." It represents a sportsman coming home and standing under a grapevine. He has a stall over his shoulder, and on the other end of that stall are hung a rabbit and a brace of birds. Every hunter brings home the game. No one would think of bring ing down a roebuck or whipping up n stream for trout and letting tlicm lie in the woods. At eventide the camp is adorned with the treasures ot the forest beak and tin and antler. If you go out lo hunt for immortal sotih:, not only bring them down under the ar row of the gospel, but bring them into the church of God. the grand home and en campment we have pitched this side of the skies. Fetch them in. Do not let them lie out in the open Held. They need our pray ers and sympathies nnd .help. That is the meaning of the church of God help. O yo hunters for the Lord, not ouly bring down the game, but bring it in! If Mithridates liked hunting so well that for seven years he never went indoors, what enthusiasm ought we to hnve who are hunting for immortal souls! If Dome tinn practiced archery until he could stnnd a boy down in the Pomim ninphilhcntre with a hand out, the fingers spread apart, and then the king could shoot an arrow between the fingers without wounding them, to what drill and what practice ought we to subject ourselves in order to become spiritual archers and "might; hunters before the Lord!" lint, let me say, you will never work any better than you pray. The old archers took the bow, put one end nf it down beside the foot, elevated the other end, and it was the rule that tho bow should be just the size of the archer. If it were just his size, then he would go into the buttle with confidence. Ix;t me sny that your power to project good in the world will corre spond exactly to your own spiritual stat ure. In other words, the first thing in preparation for Christian work is personal consecration. "Oh, for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame. A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb!" I am sure that there are some men who at snme time have been hit by the gospel j arrow. You felt the wound of that con- viction, and you plunged' into the world deeper, just as the stag, when the hounds are after it, plunges into richroon Lake, expecting in thnt way to escape. Jesus Christ is on your track to-day. O impeni tent man, not in wrath, but in mercy. O ye chased and panting souls, here is the stream of God's mercy und salvation. where you may cool your thirst! Stop that chase of sin to-day. By the : red fountain that leaped from the heart of my Lord I bid yon stop! There is mercy for you mercy that pardons, mercy that heals, everlasting mercy. The twelve gates of God's love stand open. Enter and be forever safe. There is in a forest in Germany a plnce they call the "deer leap" two crags, about eighteen yards apart, between them a fear ful chasm. This is called the "deer leap" tceause once a hunter was on the track of a deer. It came to one of these crags. There was no escape for it from the pur suit of the hunter, and in utter despair it gathered itself up and in the death agony aiiempieu to jump uuiusn. ui i-uumu u . fell and was dashed on the rocks fur be neath. Here is a path to heaven. It is ' plain; it is safe. Jesus marks it out tor every man to walk in. But here is a man who says, "I won't walk in that path; I will take my own way." He comes on up until he confronts the chasm that divides his soul from heaven. Now his last hour has come, and he resolves thut he will leap that chasm from the heights of earth to the heights of heaven. Stand back now and give him full swing, for no soul ever did that successfully. Let hiin try. Jump! He misses the murk, and he goes down, depth below depth, "destroyed without remedy." Men, angels, devils, what shall we call that place of awful catastrophe? Ijot it be known forever ns the soul's death A riensant Kail. Aa attractive fashion among the imart men of New York Is tho Bending of dainty hampers of fruit to their nasculina friends on feast days and lollduys. The wicker hampers are 7ery pretty and are filled most at tractively with luscious fruits which testis amid the green leaves of soft imllax snd other foliage. In addition ;o sending flowers to the friends who ire going to cross the briny deep Dame Fashion dispatches fruit. The lowers fade, but the fruit will last until the Journey ends, and even In ilckness fruits can be eaten often when nothing else can. Eo the lus cious product of Pomona Is packed In lainty baskets and sent to convey iweet messages und kind wishes tor Don vovage. Tttree miles from the village of Kris uvlk, In the great volcanic district of Iceland, there Is a whole mountain composed of eruptive clays and pure white sulphur. A beautiful grotto pen etrates the western s'ope to an un known depth. THE SABBATH SCHOOL international Lesson Comments For May 19. Subject: Jesus Ascends Into Heaven. Luke xilv., 44-53; Acts L, l-ll -Oolden Text, Lake xxlv., Sl-Mcmory Vertes, 9-ll-l.esson Commentary. 44. "These are the words." Now you will understand what seemed so dark lo you when I told you about the Son of man being put to death and rising again, ('hap. 18:31-34. "The law the prohpets the psalms." The three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament Scriptures, here mentioned an containing, eoch of them, things concerning Christ. , 4'i. "Then opened He." Now bv the influence of Christ thev nee, not only thn prophecien which pointed out the Messiah, but nlno the Messiah who was pointrd nut by these moohecies. "Understand tho Scriptures." Jesun opened their minds bv explaining to them the true meaning df the prophecies, nnd by unfolding the true nature of His kingdom. 40. "Thus it is written." etc. Here nre the two nreot essential facts of the gos pel. 1. The atonement of Christ. 2. His resurrection from the dead. 47. "Iieoentiince." This implies that n measure of divine wisdom is communicat ed to the sinnner. and that he thereby becomes wise to salvation. That his mind, purposes, opinions and inclinations are changed, and thnt in consequence, there is a total change in his conduct. "Itemis sion of sins." The forgiveness of sins, the removnl of the punishment, nnd deliver ance of the soul from the pnwpr of sin. "In His name." As obtained for sinful men by His atoning sufferings, ns the fruit of His intercession. nnd the effect of His rruce. "Among nil nations. " Cod wills the salva tion of nil, and Jesus tasted death for every man. "nccinning nt Jerusalem." Because it was thus written. Isn. 2:3. Because there the facts on which the gos pel was founded were transacted : and be cause Christ desired to give farther proof of His love and example of forgiving His enemies. 45. "Ye arc witnesses." Thev hnd been with Jesus throughout His ministry. th"V had heard His tcacliinir. thev had seen His miracles, thev knew His character, thev had seen Him after He rose from the dead, and now their work was to benr witness of these tilings. 40. "I send the promise."' The Ho'v Ghost which was nromised to the church through Christ. "Endued." Invested, or clothed with. "From nn high." It is from on high, nnd therefore draws the soul upward, and makes it aim hitrh. This power was the promise of the Father: it cc-ild not fail. 50. "As far ns Bethany." Not the vil lage itself, but on the descent to it from Mount Olivet. "Lifted un His hands." Probably to lay them on their heads, for that was the ordinary wav in which a blessing was given. Gen. 48:8-20. 51. "Into heaven." The disciples did not see Him rise out of the grace, because His resurrection could be easily proved by their seeing Him afterward; but they saw lliin return to heaven, ns there would be no other way to prove it. 52. "They worshiped Him." In grati tude for His blessing upon them. The cloud that received Him out of their sight did not. put them or their services out of His sight. "With great joy." Every sor row hnd been turned into jov. They were full of love nnd ioy in the Holv Spirit. 53. "Continually in the temple." While thev nbode together at Jerusalem, waiting and praying with one nccord for the Spirit of power, truth nnd holiness, they went to the temple nt the proper times to join in the worship there performed. 1. "The former treatise." The gospel of Luke. Luke was the author of Acts. "O Theophilus." He was probably a mag istrate or high oflicial who had been eon verted to Christianity. "To do and teach." A very important statement, dividing the work of Christ into two great branches; the one emhrucing His work on earth, the other His subsequent work from heaven. ' 2. "Through the Holy Ghost." God gave not the Spirit by measure unto Him. John 3: 34. Jesus who was anoint ed with the Holy Ghost (Luke 4; Matt. 12) in the power of the Holy Ghost, gave com mandments to the apostles to be His wit nesses, so that such commnndments were given by"tlie Spirit also. "Apostles." The twelve generally called disciples in the gospels are in the Acts spoken of as upostles, or "those sent forth." 3. "Passion." Sufferings on the cross. "Infallible proofs." The single Greek word, translated "infallible proof," de notes the strongest uroofs of which a subject is capable, an irresistible proof. 4. "Not depart from Jerusalem." The coming of the Spirit was to be at the next great feast after the crucifixion. They waited by prayer, by conference together, bv doing necessary duties. Ys. 13, 14. "Promise." Jesus thus termed it, because God the. Father had promised the gift of the Spirit, through the prophets under the old covenant. "Heard of me." In His conversations with them. See on verse 40. 5. "John." The Baptist, the forerun ner of Christ. "With water." John's baptism was a baptism unto repentance. "With the Holy Ghost." The outpouring of the Spirit uoon them would eradicate all sin from their hearts and fill them with love and power. . "Come together." At the Mount of Olives. V. 50. "At this time restore." "Wilt thou break the Unman yoke from off our necks and immediately erect tho kingdom of the Messiah?" 8. "Shall receive power." They wero promised the power of the Holv Ghost in order to properly carry on God's work. "Witnesses." They were to be witnesses to a crucified Christ, a risen Christ, n com ing Christ. "Uttermost part." etc. They were to begin nt home, with the Jews, and gradually reach out nntil tne glorious gospel reached the vdiole human rnce.- B. "A cloud." Perhaps it was like the "fiery, cloudy pillar," the symbol of God. that led the Israelites through the wilder ness; or Elijah's storm chariot, or the bright cloud of glory which overshadowed Him on the Mount of Transligtiration. This was His "royal chariot," as Chrysos tora calls it. 10. "Were looking." (R. V.) Wonder ing what it all meant. "Two men." Angels in the form of men. "White ap parel." Matt. 28:3. Tho white garments were an emblem of purity. 11. "Shall so come." The second or final coming. This will not be in obscurity like His first coming; but "He will come in power and glory, on the clout's, and with His holy angels with Him." Matt. 24:30, 31; 20:0-1. llandsd to Hula Husbands. Germany has of late years been the stronghold of masculinity. The Ger man women have been held up as par agons of all domestic virtues aud steadfastly opposed to new woman hood. But even In Germany the throne of man Is shaking. Berlin now has an Association of Married Women for the Control of Husbands. The constitu tion and bylaws haven't boon made public and the meetings are private, but the name alone opens broad vistas ot speculation as to the functions of the association. Presumably the wom en will all read papers aud compare experiences, and the discussions will take on a reminiscent and auccdotal character that will make them even livelier than a Soros I a olectlon day. Of course, American club women will look pityingly at their Teutonic sis ters' effort to throw off the yoke. Or ganized effort toward the control ot husbands isn't necessary over here. As the Wonderland Hod Queen would say: "Oh, we pussed that long ago." Each American woman controls her own husbaud with an ease that leaves her time and energy for problems more vital. Btlll, the German women have made a step In the right direc tion. . What the feelings of the Ger man husband afe when be sees his wife setting forth to a moctlng of the A, M. W. V. C. h". Is beyond conjectur ing. New York Sun. EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. May 19"A Nameless 01 rl Herelne." 2 Unit v- 1-4. (A Union Meeting Wits the Juniors.) There Is uot anywhere iu literature, sacred or profane, a more beautiful example of heroism than Is shown to the case of this Isrnelitlsh maiden Id the palace of the Syrian captain. What Is heroism? There are ninny answers, us various as the differing points of view. To mnny heroism seems to lie simply brute courage such courn.ee as the prize? fighter shows. The ancients regarded hero Ism ns the power to endure nnd over come obstacles. Hut In the lh;ht of Christianity the essence of true hero Ism is loyalty to conscience nnd the saerlllee or self. This young- girl's heroism had both these qualities, and In such a degree that she was quite unconscious of them. The true hero Is nlmost unaware of his heroism. It is so much a irt of .himself, of hi life, that he dees rot think of It at nil. Such evidently was the spirit ot the Jewish mnldou. "The mariiiiding expeditions of an cient times had for oue of their main objects the capture of slaves. Id Africa wars are still carried on chiefly for this purpose. Either Naniunn had led the expedition nnd this particular captive hud been assigned to hlin In the division of the booty, or she had merely passed Into bis possession by purchase, and thus had become one of his wife's attendants." What she said to her captor may seem a small thing, something that any one of us might have said under like circumstances!. Hut to understand the renl heroism titiderlylnt; her lirlet testimony we must Imagine all her conditions: a captive lu a strange hind, lu a palace; the terrible disease which was generally believed to b Incurable: the personality of Nnamaa ami bis wile. Heference has been made to the nature of the disease. It was one of the most loathsome aim terrible thnt could ntllict man. Yo the little maid not only believed that the leprosy might be cured, but without the use of the ordinary means. Her faith wns ut once as strong as It waa sim ple. Somehow she had ciiiw to be lieve that the power of God rested upon the prophet, and thut nothing was too hard for him. The most characteristic tiling about the girl's act was her self-forgotftil-ness. She did not think of herself nt nil or of her surroundings. The Jiosslble consequences to herself seem not to have been considered. This is tlie very essence of heroism. When one begiiiB to weigh the results of an act, ns It may affect his own future, selfishness Is pretty sure sooner or later to lM'coinn the dominant note. How different was It. with the young slave girl! She might linve imagined almost any evil to herself, from a re buke to practical Imprisonment for life, or even her death. But all this was lost sight of iu her great desire to do good. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. May I9--A Nameless Girl Heroine.'' 2 Klsp v., 1-4. (A Union Meetlnz With the Juniors.) Scripture Vei-ses I'rov. I. 7-10; 2 Dillon, xxxlv. 1-.I; I'sa. lxxi. 5; Keel. xl. 9 10: xll. 1; 2 Tim. ii. 22; Psn. cxlx. 0; xxxlv. 11-1(5; Prov. vl. 20-22; xx. 11; xxill. 1!-21; Eph. vl. 1-3; Col. ill. 20; 1 Tim. v. 4. LESSON THOUGHTS. God often makes use of the most In significant instruments (1 Cor. I. 28) for building up bis kingdom ami spread ing abroad his name. It pays to teach children about God and his servants. Children cannot teach much about Christ but they can Invite others to church and Sunday school where those are who enn teach. SELECTIONS. Almighty God ever required In his service the first fruits (Ex. Hi. 10) nnd the first born (Ex. xlil. 2). The first lings are his darlings (Gen. Iv. 4i; the fattest lambs nre fittest for his sacri fice. . . . "Ye shall not sec my face," salth Joseph to his brethron,"ex ccpt you bring your younger brother with you" ((Jen. xllii. 3). And how shall we behold the face of our blessed Jesus, If we do not remember him In the days of our youth. If we detllento to the Devil our lovely young years, and offer unto Him nothing else but the dregs of our loathed old age? No matter how good the walls nnd the materials are, if the foundations are not strong, the building will not stnnd. By nnd by. In some upper room a chick will appear; aud men will say. "There Is the crack; but the cause is lu the foundation." So If, in youth, you lay the foundation of your chnr acter wrongly, the penalty will be sure to follow. The crack may bo far down In old age; but somewhere It will certainly appear. Proprietors rear strong fences round young trees, while they leave aged forests to take their chnnee. Permit not the Immortal to bo twis ed nt the very starting of Its growth, tor the want of such protection as It Is lu your power to afford. RAMS' HORN BUSTS r-psHB mun who ,U I afraid If his' skin X. Will never save his soul. Sympathy Is the secret of sight. All men have equal rights bnt not resolution to reacn them. Every church ought to have a cor ral for tho kicker to air his heels. The sermon prepared for the head never reaches the heart. The best friend of the devil Is tho n.a'n who proclaims his disease. He who talks ot his neighbor's mote does It to hide his own beam. God will demand aa accounting tor ecclesiastical millinery and pyro'.ech idea, He who who has no treasure In hea ven will be but a poor beggar whoa be gets there. The people who talk most ahoin their citizenship in )javen are often those who pay no taxjas there. Men who deny a porsonal devil con clude that there are a good many per sons who are devils when they :omo to fight organised Bin. Young ladles should set good exam ample it they want young men to follow them.
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