THE POWER OF KINDNESS
Dr. Talmage Says a Spirit of Amily and
Good Feeling Is (o Be Commended.
Victory Through flood Will Most Potent
ol World.
Ifnpyrl)it, WW.
Wamhhotoj, D. C In, thia discourse
Dr. Talmafte commends ths spirit of amity
and Rood feeling and mention illustrious
example of tb.it, spirit; telt, Acta .xnviii,
2, "Xiie barbarous people iihowcd u( no lit
tip kindness."
Here wo arc on the Islnnd of Malta, an
other name for Melita. This islnnd, which
has alwava been an important commercial
cntre. belonging at different times to
Phoenicia, to tireece, to Knme, to Arabia,
o Spain, to France, now belongs to Eng
land. The area of the island ia about 100
square mile. It ia in the Mediterranean
ra, and of aurh clarity of atmosphere
that Mount Ktna. 1. mile away, can ha
distinctly seen. The ialnnd ia gloriously
memorable because the Knights of Malta
for a long while ruled there, hut moat fa
mous becauae of the apostolic shipwreck.
The bestormed vessel on which Psul
aailed had "laid to" on the (larboard tack,
and the wind waa blowing enat-northeaat,
and, the vessel drifting probably a mile
and a half nn hour, she struck at what ia
now colled St. Paul's Bay. Practical sail
ors have taken up the Hi hie account and
decided beyond controversy the place of
the shipwreck. Hut the island, which has
so rough a coast, is for the moat part a
f anion. Richest fruits and a profusion of
mney characterised it in Paul's time as
well as now. The finest oranges, figs and
olives grow there.
When Paul and his comrades crawled up
on the beach, saturated and hungry from
long abstinence from food and chilled ta
the bone, the islanders, though called bar
barians because they could not apeak
Urcsk, opened their doors to the ship
wrecked unfortunates. My text tind the
ship's crew ashore on Malta and around a
hot fire and with the beat provision the
inlanders can offer them. And they go
into government quarters for three days
to recuperate. Publius. the ruler, inviting
them, although he hid severe sickness in
the bouse at that time, his father down
with a dangerous illness. Yea, for threa
months they stayed on the island watch
ing for a ahip and putting the hospitality
of the islanders to a severe teat. But it
endured the teat satisfactorily, and it is
recorded for all the ages of time and eter
nity to read and hear in regard to the in
habitants of Malta, "The barbarous, people
showed us no little kindness."
Kindness! What a great word that ia!
It wsuld take a reed as long ss that which
the apocalyptic angel used to measure
lieaven to tell the length, the breadth, the
height of that munificent word. It is a
favorite Bible word, and it is early launched
in the book of Genesis, caught up in the
book of Joshua, embraced in the book of
Kuth, sworn by in the book of Samuel,
crowned in the book of Psalms and en
throned in many places in the New Tes
tament. Kindness! A word no more
gentle than mighty. I expect it will wres
tle me down before I get through with it.
It is strong enough to throw an archan
gel. But it will be well for us to stand
around it and warm ourselves by its glow
as Paul and his fellow voyngers stood
round the fir on the Island of Malta,
where the Maltese made themselves im
mortal in my text by the way they treated
these victims of the sea. "The barbarous
people showed us no little kindness." '
Kindness! All definitions of that multi
potent word break down half way. You
say it is clemency, benignity, generosity;
it is made up of good wishes; it is a con
tribution to the happiness of others.'
Some one else says: "vVby, I can give you
a definition of kindness. It is sunshine of
the soul; is, is affection perennial; it is a
climacteric grace; it is a combination of
all the graces; it is compassion; it is the
perfection of gentle manliness and wom
anliness." Are you all through? You
have made a dead failure in your defini
tion. It cannot be defined. But we all
know what it is, for we have all felt ita
power. Some of you may have felt it as
Paul felt it on some coast of rock as the
hip went to nieces, but more of us have
again and again in some awful stress of
lite had either from eurth or heaven hands
stretched out which "showed us no little
kindness."
There is kindness of disposition, kind
ness of word, kiudneas of act, and there
ix Jesus Christ, the impel donation of oil
of them. Kindness! You cannot affect it;
you cannot play it as a part; you cannot
enact it; you cannot dramatize it. By the
grace of God you must have it inside you,
an everlasting summer, or, rather, a com
bination of June and October, the genial
ity of the one aud the tonic of the other.
It cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or
revenge or malevolence. At its brat ap
pearance in the soul all these Anialckilcs
and.. Uergishitea and Hittites and Jebu
sites must quit and quit forever. Kiud
neas wishes everybody well, every child
well, every bird well, every horse well,
every dog well, every cat well.'
Oive this spirit full swing, and you
would liave no more need of aocietiea for
prevention of cruelty to animals, no mora
need of protective sewing women's asso-,
nations, and it would dull every sword'
until it would not cut skin deep and un
iwheel every battery till it could not roll
and. make gunpowder of no more use in'
the world except for rock blasting or py
rotechnic celebration,
. But are you waiting and hoping for some
one to be bankrupted or exposed or dis-'
comfited or in soma way overthrown?
Then Kindness has not taken possession of
your nature. You are wrecked on a Malta'
.where there. are no oranges.' You are en
tertaining a guest so unlike kiudneas that
kindness will not come and. dwell under
the same roof. The most exhausting and
unhealthy and ruinous spirit on earth is a
revengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, as I
know by experience, for I have tried it for
five or ten m mites at a time. When some
mean thing has been done me or said
about me, 1 have felt "I will pay him in
his own coin. I will show him up. The
ingrate, the traitor, the liar, the villaiu!")
But five or ten minutes of the feeling has
been so unnerving and exhausting I havsf
abandoned it, and I cannot understand
how people van go about torturing them-i
elves live or ten or twenty years, trying
to. get even with somebody. The only;
way you will ever triumph over your ene-'
ie ia by forgiviug them and wishing
them all good and no evil. ,
As malevolence ia the moat uneasy and
profitless and dangerous feeling, kindness
s the most healthful and delightful. And
this is not an abstraction. As I have tried
a little of the retaliatory fueling, so I bavs
nine oi me lorgiving. i uo noc
want to leave thia world uutil I have
taken vengeance upon every man that ever
did me a wrong by doing him a kindness.
lot us ill pray for this spirit of kind
ness. It will settle a thousand questions.
It will change the phase of everything. It
will mellow through and through our en
tire nature. It will transform a lifetime.
H la not a feeling got up for occasions,!
tmt perennial. That is the reason 1 liko
JPetuniaa better than mjrning gloriea.l
J hey look very much alike, and if I ahould
Pat in your hand a petunia and a morning
glory you could hardly tell which waa the
petunia and which the morning glory, but
toe morning glory blooms only a lew hours
nd then shuts up for the day, while the
petunia ia in ail widespread a glow at II
o clock at noon and 6 o'clock in the even
"g as at eunrise. And this grace of kind-i
nesi ia not spasmodic, it is not intermit
t. it is not for a little while, but it ir
radiates the whole nature all through and
on till the sunset of our earthly ex-,
otence. '
Kindness! I am resolved to get it.
ira you rtsolved to get It? It doos not
,coma by haphazard, out through culture
(under divine help. Thistles grow without
fuiture, Rock; Mountain sage grass growa
without culture. Mullein sU"; grow
without ei'liure. But that great red rose
'a the conservatory, ita leaven packed on
ui'j 6tcn 'ed though it hail been
. i ,to M't l"r iu beauty and it wers
"till i reeking with the carnse of the battle.
at rose needed to be cultured, and
(Uirougn long j Blril it, flmai ancestors
rwere cultured, O God, imula-it kindness
i all our souls, and then givn us urats, t
r?i-u '' 10 "' it. to develop itl
ib King of Prusia bad presented to
!in by the f.mpre., of Russia the root of
a rum flower, and it WM put in the royal
-n -on ax isls,id,.sJHio.isd mr.
Ttencr. ITerr Fintleman. wss told to'Watch'
it. And one day it put forth ita glory.
Threa days of every week the people were
admitted to these gnrdens, and a young
man, probably not realising what a wrong
tiling he was doing, plucked thia flower
and put it in hia buttonhole, and the gar
dener arrcated him as he was crossing at
the ferry and asked the king to throw
own no more hia gardens to the public.
The king replied: "Shall I deny to the
thousands of good peonle of my country
the privilege of seeing this garden becauae
one visitor has done wrong? No; let them
come f nd see the beautiful rrouiida." And
when the gardener wished to give the
king the name of the offender who bad
taken the royal flower he said: "No; tny
memory ia very tenacious, and I do not
want to have in tny mind the name of the
offender, leak it should .hinder ine granting
Him a 'favor some etner f tne. jiow, r
want you to know that kindness la a royal
flower, and, blessed be God, the King of
Mercy and Grace, that by a divine gift
nd not by purloining we may pluck this
TOyal flower and not wear it on the outside
of our nature, but wear it in our soul and
wear it forever, ita radiance and aroma
not more wonderful for time than wonder
ful for eternity.
On your way to noon luncheon you meet
an optimistic merchant, and you say.
"What do you think of the commercial
proapecta?" and he says: "Glorious!
Props not so good aa usual, but foreign
demand will make big prices. We are
going to have such an autumn and winter
prosperity as we have never seen."
On your wav back to your store you
meet a peaaimiatic merchant. "What do
you think of the commercial nrospcrts?"
vou ask. And he answers: "Well, 1 don't
know. Wheat and corn crop blasted in
Kansas and Missouri, and the grain gam
blers will get their fiat in. and the hay
crop ia short in some places and in the
southern part of Wisconsin they had a
hailstorm, and our business is as dull aa
it ever was."
You will find the same difference in
judgment of character. A ninn of good
reputation ia assailed and charged with
some evil deed. At the first story the
pessimist will believe in guilt. "The papers
said so, and that'a enough. Down with
him!" The optimist will ssy: "I don't
believe a word of it. I don't think that a
man that has been as useful and seemingly
honest for twenty years could have got oft
track like that. There are two aidea te
this story, and I will wait to hear the
other aido before I condemn him."
My hearer, if yon are by nature a pes
simist, make a aecial effort by the grace
f God to extirpate the dolorous aud the
hypercritical from your disposition. Be
lieve nothing against anybody until the
wrong is established.
When you can speak a good word for
some one. speak it. If you can conscien
tiously give letter of recommendation,
give it. Watch for opportunities for
doing good fifty years after you are dead.
All my life has been affected by the letter
of introduction that the Rev. Dr. Va'
Vranken, of New Brunswick Theological
Seminary, wrote for me, a boy under hin
when 1 was seeking a settlement in which
to preach the gospel. That letter gave me
my first pulpit. Dr. Van Vranken has
been deait more than thirty years, vet I
feel the touch of that magnificent obi pro
fessor. Strange sensation was it when I
received a kind message from Kcv. Thomas
Guard, of Baltimore, the great Methodist
orator, six weeks after his death. By way
of the eternal world? Oh, no; by way of
this world. I did not meet the friend to
whom he gave the message until nearly
two months after Thomas Guard bad as
cended. So you can start a word about some one
that will be on its travels and vigorous
long after the funeral psalm has been sung
at your obsequies. Kindness! Why, if
fifty men all aglow with it should walk
through the lost world methiuka they
would almost abolish perdition!
Furthermore, there ia kindness of ac
tion. That is what Joseph showed to his
jutrageous brothers. That is what David
showed to Mephihnsheth for his father
Jonathan's sake. That is what Onesiphe
rus showed to Paul in the Roman peniten
tiary. That is what William Cowpcr rec
ognized when he said he would not trust
a' man who would with his foot needlessly
crush a worm. That is what our assassi
nated President Lincoln demonstrated
when his private secretary found him in
the capital grounds trying to get a bird
back to the neat from which it had fallen
and which quality the illustrious man ex
hibited some years before when, having,
with some lawyers, in the carriage on the
way to court pas.scd on the road a swine
fast in the nine, and after a while cried
to his horses, "Ho!" and said to the gen
tlemen, "I must go back and help that
hog out of the mire." And he did go back
and put on solid ground that most unin
teresting quadruped.
Suppose all this assemblage and all to
whom these worda shall come by printers'
ink should resolve to make kindness an
overarching, undergirding and all pervad
ing principle of their lite aud then carry
out the resolution, why, in aix months the
whole earth would feci it. People would
ay: "What ia the matter? It seems te
me that the world is getting to be a bet
ter place to live in. Why, life, after all,
is worth living. .Why, there is Shytock,
my neighbor, naa withdrawn his lawsuit
of foreclosure against that man, and be
cauae he has so much sickness in his fam
ily he is going to have the house for one
year rent free. There is an old lawyer in
that young lawyer's office, and do you
know what he has gone in there for?
Why, he is helping to fix up a case which
is too big for. the young man to handle,
and the white haired attorney ia hunting
up previous decisions and making out a
brief for the boy. Do you know that a
strange thing has taken place in the pul
pit, and all the old ministers are helping
the-young ministers, and all the old doc
tors are helping the young doctors, and
the farmers are assisting each other in
gathering the hart-eat, and for that farmer
who is sick the neighbors have made a
bee, as they call it, and they have all
turned ia to help him get his crops into
the garner?
And 1 heard this morning of a poor old
man whose three children were in hot de
bate as to who ahould take care of him in
his declining days. The oldest son de
clared it was his right because he waa the
oldest, and the youngest son aaid it was
his right because he was the youngest,
and Mary said it was her right became
she better understood her father'! vertigo
aud rheumatism and poor spells and knew
better how to nurse him, and the only
way the difficulty could be settled was by
the old man's promise that be would di
vide the year into three parts and spend
a third of his time with each one of them.
And neighboring stores in the same line
of goods on. the same block are acting
kindly to each other. It seems to me that
those words of Isaiah are being fulfilled
when he says, "The csrpenter encouraged
the goldsmith, and he that smoothed with
the hammer, him that smote the anvil,
saying, it is ready for the soldering.
Whit is the matter? It seems to me out
old world ia picking up. Why. the millen
nium must be coming in. Kindness hat
gat the victory a j ,
YTsr on Posters.
The agitation in France against the
disfigurement of country landscapes by
flaring advertisements still proceeds,
but It appears with doubtful success,
owing to vested Interests, The coun
try people whose land lies alongside
the lines of railway are readily tempt
ed by the offers or the advertising
contractors from whom some of them
reap quite a respectable Income from
displaying posters which puff soup,
cbocolute, drinks, etc. It Is said that
an ageut of one Arm is now starting
on Journey through S,000 com
munes, In each of which he Is to ar
range for the erection of a painted
board. This Is to be done In time for
the tourist season. The notice boards
alrady arranged for and erected by
tb'.a ageut cost him no less than 14,000
francs a yeur.
The favorite recroation of Prculdut
liliot, of Harvard during his vacation
is Bulling, and In this he Indulges near
ly overy day, being a flrst-ratu sailor
aud bundling a bout with no lit tie skill.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL.
Inlcrnalinnal Lesson Comments For
September 29.
Review of the Twelve Lessens of the Third
Quarter. Oen. xvlll., 17-22; xxxIL,,
Z4---0olk Ttxl, Ps. clit,
17-Summary.
I-iesson 1, Tof.ici The creation. In the
beginning God created all things; after
ward He came to the earth to set it in or
der; He performed six days' work; on the
first day He made light; on the second
the waters were divided; on the third the
y land, seas, grass and trees appeared;
on the fourth lie made the sun and moon;
on the fifth, fish and fowls; on the sixth,
creeping things, beast and man; on the
seventh God rested.
2. Topic: The fall of man. Place: The
Garden of Kden. The serpent beguiled
the woman; said, "Ye shall not sort',
die," but "aholl be as gods;" the woman
aaiv that the tree was good for food; wai
beautiful; would make one wise; she nti
the fruit; she gave to Adam and he did
eat; their eyes were oiened; they made
aprons and hid themselves; God came;
spake to them; the serpent was cursed;
the Redeemer waa promised.
3. Topic; The deluge. Place: A.irat
mountains, oali built an ark: took
beasts and bis family into tho nrk; the
waters were sent; the earth was covered;
Noah sent out a raven, and then a dove;
the ark reeled; the earth became dry; God
told Noah to go forth: be built an nltai
unto the Lord and offered burnt offer
ings; the Lord was pleased with his offer
ing, anil promised never again to cur?e the
ground for man's suke.
4. Topic: Abrum's obedience. God
speaks to A brum: "Get thre out of thy
country;" "Go to the land I will show
thee;" God made great promises; Ahram
was to become a great nation; waa to have
a great name- he would be blessed, and
would be a blessing. Ahram obeys God;
Surah and Lot and all his subatunces and
left Hat an and went to Canaan. Here
God again appealed ' to Abram, and
Ahram built an altar.
8. Topic: The separation between Abram
and Ixit. riacc: Canaan. Abram and Ijot
left Egypt; they had many herds; the
hcrdmen strove; they decided to separate;
Abram told Lot to choose; Lot chose the
best; pitched hia tent toward Sodom;
God appeared to Abram: told him to look
in all directions; was promised all the land
he saw; waa to become a great nation;
built an altar unto the Lord.
8. Tonic: God's covenant with Abram.
Place: Hebron. The lird appeared to
Abram in a vision; Abram asked for a
son: God made him a great promise: hia
seed Was to be as the stars for number;
Abram believed God. and the Lord counted
it to him for righteousnesa. Abram pre
pared an offering a heifer, a goat, o ram,
ii dove, a pigeon. Abram waited for Goil
to appear; God gave instruction, made a
covenant and answered by tire.
7. Topic: God's judgment on Sodom.
Pl.icea: Ahram at Hebron. Lot at souom.
I Three ungels appear to Abraham; tliev
promise linn n son; they tell .Mminuin mar,
the cities of the plain are very wicked and
must be destroyed. One of the angels is
Jehovah; Abraham stands before this an
gel and makes intercession: Jehovah prom
ises to spare the cities if there are ten
righteous; Lot is rescued; the cities are
destroyed.
8. Topic: The trial of Abraham's faith.
Places: Heer-slieba waa Abraham' home.
The sacrifice waa on Mount Moriah. Abra
ham is commanded to olfcr up Isaac aa a
burnt-offering. Abraham obeys; arisen
earlv; takes Isaac, tire and wood and
starts for Moriah. Iaauc asks a question;
Abraham answer. An nltai- is built;
Isaac ia bound; the knife ia raised: an an
gel etons him: n ram is seen and offered.
9. Topic: Isaac oppressed by the Phil
istines. Places: Isaac dwelt ol Genu-. Re
hoboth and Beer-sheba. Isaac is married;
Jacob and Kaau are born; Isaac is pros
pered; liecoines very great; haa many pos
sessions: was envied by the Philistines;
the Philistines rill hi wells; Isaac lcave
their country: the Lord appears to him
and renews liis promises. Isaac built nil
altar, dug a well and lived in peace.
10. Topic: The Lord appearing to Jacob.
Place: Bethel. Jacob secures Knuu's birth
right; Hres to Haran; sleeps on the ground;
lias a dream. He sees ladder from
earth to heaven nnd sees angels on the
ladder. God speaks to him nnd makes
nianv promises. Jacob awoke: knew God
was present; was afraid; set up the stone
used a a pillow, for an ultur; gave himself
to God.
11. Topic: Jacob's prevailing prayer.
Places: Mahunuini, Penicl. Jacob decides
to return to Canaan; is met by a host of
angels; fears his brother Esuu; aenda mes
sengers and presents to Ksau; divides his
company into two bands: prays all night;
wrestles with Jehovah; finally surrenders
and receives the blessing; is made a prince;
hia name i changed to Israel; has a
friendlv meeting with Esau.
12. Topic: The effects of wine drinking.
Solomon, the author of Proverbs, waa en
dued with an unusual degree of wisdom.
That we might behold the value of true
wisdom God hus preserved aonie of tho
wise sayings of His servont for our study.
This lesson has been called the drunkard's
looking-glass, and is set before those whose
faces are toward the drunkard's habits, so
that tiny may seo what they will be i.'
tliey go on.
Teaching. God, our Creator, is able to
create us anew and give us a new nature.
The Psalmist prayed, "Create in me
clean heart, O God." In yielding to the
inducement held out by Satan man dis
obeyed God and accepted "the world,"
which St. John says consists in "the lust
of the fiesh, the lust of the eye and the
pride of life," and in returning to God k
is necessary to forsake "the world" before
we can expect to be forgiven. Although
God' judiinienls may seem severe, yet ill
the end they can not fail to accomplish
good results. God' promises are great;
and precious; we should believe tbcin and
step out upon them with confidence. Those
who allow selfishness to control their
liven cannot retain the favor and blessing
of God. While God is merciful, yet the
f -e will come with every sinner when
the door of mercy will be closed and the
judgment of God will b meted out. Faith
ib always tested; the test is not for the
purpose of destroying faith, but to
strengthen end perfect it. God stiu ap
pears to liis people for the purpose of en
couraging them and leading them to
heaven. True prayer takes hold, bold on
and does not let go until an answer is re
reived. The evil effects of the legalized
liquor trattio are so great that every per
aon should Uud unalterably opposed to
its continuance.
Monay Mal In Uarbage.
A problem that has engaged the at
tention of the legislative bodies of
most American cities Is what to do
with ths garbage how to get rid of
It at the least expense to the public.
The city of Washington so disposes
of its garbuge that a profit is got out
of It, while most other American cit
ies being less carefully governed
have to pay largely for Its .removal.
There Is a contract with a company
which collects the garbage and dis
poses of it The garbage is kept sep
arate from ashes and other refuse. In
iron tanks it is taken by rati thirty
miles down the Potomac to the reduc
tion works. Here It Is sorted. Tin
cans, bottles, etc., are removed. The
rest is placed In a close Iron vessel
and subjected to steam pressure, after
which it is pumped into tanks and al
lowed to settle. Oils and fats rise to
the surface and, being skimmed oft,
are sold to soapmakers. Under pres
sure more oil Is obtained, to go the
same way. The raked garbage, after
pressure, la pulverized and sold for
fertiliser. Incidental profits arise
from tho Bale of bides of horses and
other animuls and the manipulation of
their rarrasses along with the gar
buge. Tbo horse hides make good rus
set leather. A good monthly profit is
said to bo realized.
EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS.
September 29 - Orowth ef the Kingdom"
Pea. Ixxil
The lint lire of tho kingdom has no
mark of mortality upon it. Itn colors
ere fadeless. The Iviags banner's flnirh
wrth light that iwvfT wanes, t'pon
them Is Innerlhed, "IIolluptM to the
Lord." Thfl kingdom is eternal, nnd
lis throne is In the he-art of man. Its
tpter is love, and Its diadems are
1he uiif tiding 'treasures of personal
liollnem The outpwts of human na
ture ere mante-ml tm-auno the KJng
has captured the citadel of the so'il.
Herein is the eawret of Ills eternal
supremacy. This Is a kingdom of
peace, as t 'brins all the discordant
elements tf liuninu iiaiture into har
mony with God; a kingdom of purity,
because Its government purges corrup
tion from the renlm; a kingdom of
power, for the king's very thoughts
are thunder-sliafts; a kingdom of
plenty, as the supplier for equipping
one for service are neyr scarce, the
rations never mn lotw, there is a paji
oply of arms for every soldier, nnd a
toast of fat things Is always on the
King's table, nnd the plentltudo of W
power Is unbounded.
The placid urni glasses the star.
Many on cnrthly voice is the echo of
heavenly inuwlc. All tho loauty of
earthly urt Is copied by human hand
from the heavenly originals. The In
cenbe that rises from holy nltnrs I
the frugi-nnce exhaled from cclcntlnl
fuel flung down to eai'lh by angelic
hands. Itlght is might, ntnl will pre
vail. Truth will triumph. Chris
tianity will yet unhinge the gates of
hell, and the word of God will en
circle the world with the golden girdle
of love. The hands of righteousness
will yet plant thick with the roses of
his wwrd the deeert places of the
Ttorld. The mnniidcs of mankind will
te severed by the sturdy blows of tho
King's hand, nnd the Prince of Peace
will set the prisoners free. The
"Great rhyslciun" will haul the
wounds of humanity, and the bread
of life will appease the heart-hunger
of the universe. The bed of sorrow
will become the couch of repose, nnd
dungeons will blossom luto palaces.
Scepters and crowns will take the
place of thorns and crosses, tattered
garments will give place to royal
robes1, aud the pauper's hut will be
transformed into the mansion of a
prince.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
September 29 Orowth of the Kinidom
Psa. Iixll.
Scripture Verses -Psa. xxll. 27, 28;
Pmi. Ix. l-:i; Itiin. II. 44: vll. l.J. 14:
Phil. II. !11: Itev. xl .I.".; linl. vl. I);
Jns. v. Ill, 20.
Lesson Thoughts.
Nothing else could do so much to
Increase the material prosperity of
tile world its the universal acknowl
edgement of the kingdom of Cod.
MUslims have moved more rapidly
at Home times than others, but they
have always advairced; they have nev
er gone backward.
Missions, to he sure, have the world
against them, but all heaven Is for
them.
Selections.
Where Js your heathen iK-triher? From
his grave
Near thy own gates, or 'nealh a for
eign sky,
l-'rom the thronged depths of ocean's
murmuring wave
Ills answering blood reproachfully
dolh cry.
Rlmd of the soul! t'au till earth's
fountains lnnUe
Thy dark stulu disappear? Stewards
of (Sod, awake!
"Sui-cess Is as certain nv the prom
ise of a faithful (lod can make It,"
said .Imlsoii. after lolling fin- years
without visible fruit of his labor.
.Men are nmi-e ready to go than ever
lie fore. When llobsou called for a
ft'iw to aeci)iniany him on his perilous
expedition, the emtlre Hhlp's comimny
Klepped forward. So It is wheu
Christ summons (11 a dangerous ser
vice. Missionary success Is the flame of
('hi'is'Mau love "catching" in other
lives. It Is the spirit of self-saci-lllce
selvilng upon pockctbooks. It Is cap
ture of intelligence with the needs of
the world. It Is patient waiting, sure
of a harvest lu (Jod's lieMt time. It Is
willingness to go wherever (!oi wants,
suffer whatever (Jod H-rmits, fall as
long ns (lod finds failure necessary
for final triumph. It is Invincible
courage, unconquerable trut';, un
ilitcuchuhlc ardor. Aud It Is victory
at the end -the wliole round world for
J exits.
All of Cod's processes are iUlet,
majestic, serene, and those that ex
pect missions to "go with a i-uwli" are
impeding (iod to chuiigu tils me;luUs.
HAMS' MORN BLASTC
HERB'S no lye
will wash out a
He.
Praying Is not
'raying to God.
HoneHty always
thinks itself in
debt.
. He who refuses
to trust rejects
truth.
Christ wac the
first great .-on-structlve
critic.
Tbo' the vine be bitter the grapes
may be sweet.
No cross Is too heavy since ChriBt
bears His part.
The assent of life to His law gives
its assent to His likeness.
The darkness of trouble oft casts
new light on the promises.
He who shuts his heart on his fel
Iowb cannot open It to nls God.
Men measure us by our mistakes;
the Master by our motives.
They who have no desire for holi
ness will find no delight In heaven.
A man's knowledge Is sees In his
questions more than In his answers.
The 'brilliance of the Bible depends
on the setting you give It In your life.
He who says what he does not mean
will mean what he does not say.
You can never lift things up till you
learn to lift your thoughts up. '
Faithful Jn Our Father may be even
better than the faith of our fathers.
It is not necessary to act the tool
In order to demonstrate that you are
one.
truth will give up ber treasures to
you when you give up your prejudices
to her.
it Ib foolish to glng, Heaven la my
Aouie, If you ere not providing any
furniture there.
The glory of the promises Is not only
in that they are many but that they
mean much.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Ocscral Trade Conditio!.
New York (.Special). U. G. Dun &
lo't 'Weekly Review of Trade" says:
In the principal manufacturing indus
ry there is a steady gain in tlve mvm-'
ier of active mills, and full operation
I considered near. l.f urgency for
mmediate delivery of goods and le
nclination to pay premiums, on the
tart of well-posted men suggest that
hese consumers anticipate a return to
tormsl activity with little delay.
v "Wheat did not respond to a lower
Jovcrnmcnt estimate as the unofficial
itrthoritics still anticipate the greatest
ield ever harvested in this country.
iTioiigh exports from the United States
lave fallen below the unparalleled
novement in August, the week's ship
nents aggregated 4.079.950 bushels,
lour included, against ,i.6-6.j8R last
;ear and 3.510.848 in 1800. These fig
ires do not include Canadian wheat,
vhich continues to go out freely.
"Predictions that the yield if corn
vill be the smallest since 1K94 did not
irevent the marketing ,1.178.782
nishels, compared with .l.2tu.i65 a year
tgo, but exorbitant prices made ex
orts from the Atlantic seaboard only
'4.314 bushels,, against 2,474.6.29 last
ear and 3,031,643 in l8x).
"Failures for the week numbered 1 75
n the United States, against 195 last
ear, and 18 in Canada, against w.lait
ear."
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
T7tr..,r R,.f Piitotil tj fr- TTiffh
Sradc Extra, f4.to; Minnesota bakers, j
F2.qoa3.to.
WheatNew York, No. 2 red, 7$Hc;
Philadelphia. No. 2 red, 3'Sa74c; Bal
:iniore, ,74;-4C.
Corn New York, No. 2, 6276c; Phil
adelphia. No. 2, oonooji; Baltimore,
No. 2, 5o'"jC'
Oats New York. No. 2, 38c; Phil
adelphia. No. 2 white. 3042!c; Balti
more, No. 2 white, 38,'iC.
Hay No. t timothy, $16.00: No. 1
timothy, $15.50; No. 3 timothy, $14 5.
Green Fruits and Vegetables Applet
Eastern Shore, Maryland and Vir
ginia, per brl, tanry, $f.40at.6o. Beet!
Native, ocr 100 bunches. $!OOal.25
Cabbage Native, per 100. $2.5085.00'
.1 XI 1. (..... ,nn C 1 . - - -.
Carrots Native, per bunch, Jiatc. Corr
Sugar, per dozen, native. 8aioc. Cu
cumbers Per peach basket, 25330c
Damsons Maryland and Virginia, pel
(ull barrel, $4.5035.00. Eggplants Pel
basket, 10c. Grapes Per 10-lb bas
ket, Concords, I5ai7-ic. Lima Be3ns
Native, per bushel box, soafac. Onioni
Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow,
per bu, 9oca$l.oo. String beans Nativ
per bu, green, 35a40C Peaches Mary
land and Virginia, per box. yellows, 60a
80c; Mountain, per 20-lb. basket, 30340,
Pears Bartlctts, per basket, 25340c;
Duchess, per basket, 25a.V: To
matoesEastern Shore,. Maryland,
per basket, 3oa35c. Watermelons
Selects, per 100, $8.ooaio.oo; do,
primes, $4.0036.00; do, culls and sec
onds. Si.ooat.oo.
Potatoes White Virginia, per brl
prime, $17532.00; do, per brl, seconds,
$t.ooai.25, do. Eastern Shore. Mary
land, per brl, $2.ooa2.25; do, native, per
bushel box, 75a8oc; do, Maryland and
Pennsylvania, per bu, No. 1, 7oa8oc;
do, seconds, 5oa6o. Sweets North Car
olina, per brl, yellows, $20032.25; lo,
Eastern Shore, Virginia, per brl, yel
lows, $2.2532.50; do. Yams Virginia,
per brl. No. 1, $1.5031.75.
Provisions and Hog Products Bulk
rib sides, 9c; shoulders, 8; do. fat
backs, 14 lbs and tinder. H2; bellies,
lCi; do, mess strips, H'j do, ham
butts, H'i: bacon clear rib sides, 10'A;
clear. lo-Vi: do, shoulders, (j'A ; sugar-
ured breasts, small. 13; California
ha'ins, 0; hams, 10 lbs, 13 to 13; do,
beef, Western, canvassed and tincan
vssscd sets, 14'A; mess pork, $6.5o;
h3in pork, $16.00; lard, refined, 50-lb
cans,
Dairy P. oducts ButlerElgin, 22c;
separator, extras, 2ia22; do, firsts, 20a
; do, gathered cream, 19320; do, imi
tation, I7ai9; ladle, extra, I5ai7; ladles,
first, l4jU5; choice Western rolls, isal6;
fair to good, I3at4; lislf-pound cream
ery. Maryland, Virginia and Pennsyl
vania, 2ia22; do, rolls, 2-lh, do, 20c.
Hjrgs Choice, fresh nearby, per doz
en, loss off, 6',i; do, do, Western,
de, do, l6ai6; do, do, Southern, do,
do, I53I5J-4; guinea, 7a8. Jobbing prices
f candled eggs, Yi to ic. higher.
Live Poultry Chickens Hens, zoYi
anc; old roosters, each, 25330; spring,
large, ii'jiii; do. small, 12a . Ducks
Puddle, large, KJ-Saoc; do, do, small,
7Ja8; nimcovy and mongrel, a8; (
muscovey drakes, each, 30335; spring,
3 lbs and over, aio: spring, small and
poor, Sag. Geese Western and South
ern, each, 25335c. Pigeons Young,
per pair, 15320c; do, old, isajo. Guinea
lewl, each, isaJoc.
Live ShMk.
Oiicago Cattle Butchers' stock
firm; Texas a.id Westerns, 10c
higher; active. Good to prime
steers $5.6036.45 : poor to medium $4a
5.50; stocks and feeders slow, $2.25.1
4-S5; cows steady $2.3534.75; heifers
strong $2.4035.00; caimers weak $t.5oa
2.2$; bulls steady $3.ooa4.6o; calves 25 to
40c higher $3.ooa6.io; Texas-fed steers
$4.1035.10; Texas grass steers $3-30
4.00; Western steers $3.8535.25. Hogs
Market jc higher, active; top $6.Q2fj.
Mixed and butchers $5 0506.85. Good to
choice wethers $3.6?a4.io; fair to choice
mixd $3 303370: Western sheep $3 5
4.00; nstive lambs $3.0034.85; Western
lambs $4.0034.85.
East Liberty Cattle steady; choice
$5.6536.80; prime $5.4535.60; good $5. 15a
So. Hogs Higher; best medium and
heavy Yorkers $6.8536.90; best heavy
hogs $6.856.90; lijiht Yorkers $6.8oa
6.85; pigs $6.503670; roughs $5.ooa5 25.
Sheep Steady; best wethers $4.00x4.15;
culls and common $1 2532.25; yearling'
$41.5034.25; veal caives $6.5037.25.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Siberia has large deposits.
Texas cowboys are organizing.
Brooklyn has a Japanese doctor.
Siberia graphite is inexhaustible.
Java has 250.000 acres of quinine.
North Carolina has 1674 postmasters.
Artificial wood is made from turf
fibres.
Dcmer may have a labor plitical
ticket.
Russia sent 300,000 geese to Saxony
last year.
California labor party may go into
State politics.
There are 107,000 Brotherhood rail
way brskemer.
Duluth is to liave a free municipal
employment bureau.
'Hie Oregon Pine Needle Factory Is
said to be the only one outside of Ger
many. Ilie introduction of Chinese restaur
ants into Galveston, Tex., has alarmed
the organized waiters of that city.
The Shah beats in expense the Amer
ican millioitai.es. His kitchens at Te
heran were furnished at a cost of
$4,000,000.
John Ashbury of California, is spend
ing $i,l-jo,pqo on the kitchen aud cook's
cellars ol liis new house ot Philadelphia
sn I'lmntplrie lun. .
Ws ran wild over thnfarnishlnirsof a bonse,
tt fnrnltnra, carpets, hangings, pictures and
niusto and always forget or neglect ths most
important requisite-, Rotnstbing there sh-inld
be always on ths shulf to provide against end
ticn casualties or attacks of psln. Huch oome
lilts thlsf in ths night; a sprats, strain,
stiddtn backarha, toothache or neuralgic at
tack. There is nothing easier to get than a
bottle of St. Jaoobi Oil, and nothing surer to
cure quickly any forip of pain. Ths boost I
incomplete without It. Complete It with
good supply.
Ills Work and Hers.
The woman had her arms in the tub,
and was fiercely scrubbing one dirty
garment aitcr another. Book agents
don't often penetrate to that part of
Chicago, but this one did. lie knocked
on the front door until he was tired,
and then he went around to the back
door. The woman was bobbing up and
down over the washboard.
"Good morning, madam," said the
book agent, pleasantly.
"Good morniu'," said the woman,
shortly.
"Pleasant day," observed the 'book
agent, sparring for an opening.
"Good enough," answered the . wo
man. "Excuse me, madam," said the book
agent, "hut I have here a work that I
would like to show you."
"Have you?" answered the woman.
"Well, I've got a lot of work that I'd
like to show you." She took one soapy
hand out of the tub and waved it at a
great pile of dirty clothes.
"That's my work." went on the wo
man. "II your work can beat that, all
right. II it cant skip out.
The book agent skipped.
'J ha A0tclic of It,
If there is any truth In the miying lu.it hap
piness Is the absence ef all pain, mental and
physical, the enjoyment of it can only be
found in heaven. Hut so far as the physical
Is concerned, It is within easy reach ; at least
measurably so, as far as enro will go. The
sum of human misery ia this line Is mads np
of greater or loss degrees of physical suffering,
't he minor aches and pains which afflict man
kind are easy to reach aad as easily cured
There are none in the trhele category, which,
it taken in time, ennnnt be cured. Thoy niunt
in some form afflict the nerves, the bones, tho
mnsrles and joints of tho human body. They
are all more -or lis kurlf-il and wasteful to
tho system. Ht. Jacobs Oil is minis to cur.i
them, to search out hidden pain spots, 11ml to
cure promptly In a true rcmcdlnl nnd lasting
way. Very, very many have not known hap
piness for years till they used It, mid very
msnj are putting off enre and happiness be
cause they don't nse It.
The diamond if laid in the snn nnd
then carried into a (lark room shows dis
tinct phosphorescence.
Kince 1850 the population of France has
increased but 3,600,000.
I'tiTNiM Fadeless Drr.s do not stain lha
hands 01 spot the kettle. Sold by all ding
gists. "When it comes to matrimony," says
the cynical bachelor, "it seems as though
no man ever gets old enough to know bet
ter." Beet For Ibe Bowels.
No matter what alls yon, headaoh to
eancer, von will never get well nntil your
bowels are put right. Casoassts help nature,
cure you without a gripe or pain, produce
easv natural movements, eost yon jnst 30
cents to start getting yonr health hack. f!As
carets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, pnt up
In metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C.
stamped on it. Beware or imitations.
Kiglity thousand ruts are yearly export
ed from Ore.it liritnin. The total number
on those islands is estimated at 7,000.0X10
"ton Hew art). Slim.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hull's Catarrh
fjure is the only positivo cure now known to
the medical fraternity, t'.itnrrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mil
eons surfaces of the system, theroby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nuture in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that ihey offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any oaie that it fails to cure.
Nend for list of testimouiala. A'idress
F. J. Chenev A Co., Toludo, O.
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Hall's Family Fills are tho best.
People in the West Knd of London arc
spending much money this year 011 exter
nal floral decorations for their houses.
FITS permanently eured. No tits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Norve Restorer. 2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. K. H. Kl.iw, Ltd., Ml Arch St., Phila. Pa.
There's more in a clock than appears on
the face of it.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup fnrohildran
teething, soften the gums, reduces inftamma
tion.altays pain, cures wind colio. Mb a bottle
British exports to the Cape and Natal
increased thirty-four per cent last year.
I am sure Fiso's Cure for Consumption savel
my life threa years ago. Mas. Thomas Ros
aixs, Maple St., Norwich, N.V., Feb. 17, 190J.
There are over 200.000 acres of uncult.
vuted oyster laud in l.oiig Island Sound.
You
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