THE MANY TEMPTATIONS.
Dr. Tannage Says the Assailants ol
Virtue and Honesty Are
Numerous.
Nreet For Divio Protection -Ood't Cries
Brloietb Stlvttlon.
Wariiikotox, I). C A familiar illus
tration from the barnyard it employed in
this discourse by Dr. Ta'.mage to show
the comfort and protection that heaven af
ford to all trusting aoula. The text it
Matthew xxiii, 37, "Kvea as a hen gather
eth her chickens under her wings, and yi
.would not."
Jerusalem w-as in tight as Christ cam!
to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height ol
700 feet. The splendors of the religion!
capital of the whole earth irradiated tht
landscape. There is the temple. Yondet
ia the king's palace. Spread out before
His eyes are the pomp, wealth, the wick
edness and the coming destruction of Je
rusalem, and tie bursts into tears at the
thought of the obduracy of a place that
lie would gladly have saved and apostro
phizes, saying, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
liow often would I have gathered thy
children together, even na a hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not?"
Why did Christ select hen and chickens
aa a simile? Next to the appositeness of
the comparison, I think it was to help all
public teachen in the matter of illustra
tion to get down off their stilts and use
comparisons that all can understand. The
plainest bird on earth is the barnyard
fowl. Its only adornments are the red
comb in its head-dress and the wattles un
der the throat. It has no grandeur of
genealogy. All we know is that its ances
tors came from India, some of them from
a height of 4000 feet on the sides of the
Himalayas. It haa no pretension of nest
like the eagle's eyrie. It has no lustre of
plumage like the goldfinch. Possessing
anatomy that allows flight, yet about the
last thing it wants to do is to fly, and in
retreat urea foot almost as much at wing.
Musicians have written out in musical
scale the song of lark and robin redbreast
and nightingale, yet the hen of my text
hath nothing that could be taken for a
ong, but only cluck and cackle. Yet
Christ in the text uttered while looking
upon doomed Jerusalem declares that what
He had wished for that city was like what
the hen docs for her chickens.
Christ was thus simple in His teach
ings, and yet how hard it is for us who
are Sunday-school instructors and editors
and preachers and reformers and those
who would gain the ears of audiences to
attain that heavenly and divine art of sim
plicity! We have to run a course of lit
erary disorders as children a course of phy
sio; i disorders. We come out of school
and college loaded down with Greek my
thologies and out of the theological semin
ary weighed down with what the learned
fathers said, and we fly with wings of
eagle and flaniiniroes ana albatrosses, and
it t:kcs a good while before we can come
down to Chrint's similitudes, the candle
under the bushel, the salt that has lost its
savor, the net thrown into the sea, the
spittle on the eyes of the blind man and
the hen and chickens.
I am in warm sympathy with the unpre
tentious old fashioned hen because, like
most of us, sho has to scratch for a living.
She knows at the start the lesson which
must people of good sense are slow to
learn that the gaining of a livelihood im
plies work, and that successes do not lie
on the surface, but are to be upturned by
positive and continuous effort. The rea
son that society and the church and the
world are so full of failures, so full of loaf
ers, so full of dcadbeats is because people
are not wise enough to take the lesson
which any hen would teach . them that if
they would rind for themselves and for
those dependent upon them anything worth
having they must scratch for it. Solo
mon said, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard."
I say, Go to the hen, thou sluggard. In
the Old Testament God compares Himself
to an eagle stirring up her nest, and in
the New Testament the Holy Spirit is
compared to a descending dove, but Christ
in a sermon that began with cutting sar
casm for livpoi-rites and ends with the
paroxysm of pathot in the text compares
Himself to a hen.
One day in the country we saw sudden
consternation in the behavior of old Dom
inick. Why the hen should be so dis
turbed we could not understand. We
looked about to see if a neighbor's dog
were invading the farm. We looked up to
see if a storm cloud were hovering. We
could see nothing on the ground that could
terrorize, and we could see nothing in the
air to ruffle the feathers of the hen, hut
the loud, wild, affrighted cluck which
brought all her brood at full run undet
her feathers made us look again around
and nbove us, when we saw that high up
and far away there was a rapacious bird
wheeling round and round and down and
down, and not seeing us as we stood in
the shadow, it came nearer and lower un
til we faw its henk was curved from bast
to tip find it had two flames of fire foi
eves, and it was a hawk, lint all tin
ch'--kens were under old Dominick's wings
and either the bird of prey caught s
ilimime of ut or not able to find the brood
mddled under wing, parted back into tin
clouds.
fo Christ calls with great earnestness to
nil the young. Why, what is the matter!
It is bright sunlight, and there can he no
danger. Health is theirs. A good home
is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs. Pros
pect of long life is theirs. But Christ con
tinues to call, calls with more emphasii
and urges haste and says not a second
ought to bi lost. Oh, do tell us what u
the matter. Ah, now I see; there arc
hawks of temptation in the air, there arc
vultures wheeling for their prey, there
are beaks of death ready to plunge, there
are claws of allurement ready to clutch
Now I see the peril. Now I understand
the urgency. Now I see the only safety.
Would that Christ might this day take
our sons and daughters into His shelter
"as a nen gahereth her chickens und)t
her wing."
The fact is that the most of them will
never mind the shelter unless while they
are chickens. It is a simple matter of in
exorable statistic that most of those who
do not come to Christ in youth never come
at all. What chance is there for tht
young without divine protection? There
are (he grogshops, there are the gamb
ling hells, there are the infidelities and
immoralities of spiritualism, there arc tht
bad books, there are the impurities, thert
are the business rascalities, and so numer
ous are these assailants that it is a wonder
that honesty and virtue are not lost arts.
'The birds of prey, diurnal and nocturnal,
of the natural world are ever on the alert.
They are assassins of the sky; they have
varieties of taste. The eagle prefers tht
flesh of the living animals; the vulturt
prefers the carcass; the falcon kills with
one stroke, while other styles of beak
giv prolongation of torture. And to tht
temptations of this life are various.
Fathers, mothers, older brothers and
isters and Habbath:school teachers, be
quick and earnest and prayerful and im
portunate and get the chickens under wing.
May the Sabbath schools of America and
Great Britain within the next three months
sweep all their scholars into tiie kiugdom.
Whom they have now under charge is un
certain. Concerning that scrawny, puny
child that lay in the cradle many years
ago, the fattier dead, many remarked,
' What a mercy-if the Lord would take
the child?" And the mother really thought
no too. Hut what a good thing that God
spartd that child, for it became world re
nowned in Christian literature and one oi
flod's, mutt illustrious servants John
4'odd.
' My bearers, if we tecure the present and
everhtsting welfare of our children, most
other things belonging to us re of but lit
tle comparative importance. Alexander
the Great allowed hia soldiers to take
their families with them to war, and ho
accounted for the bravery of his men by
the fact that nutuy of them were born in
K-auip aud were used to warlike scenes from
.the start. Would God that all the chil
dren of our day might be born into the
army of the Lord!
tlut we all need the protecting wing. If
you had known when you entered upon
iiiianhood or womauhood what was ahead
lot you, would you huvs dared to under
.lake. ljiti -"u mucjji xvu bars beeu
throughl With most life has been a diaap
pointmcnt. They tell me so. They have
not attained that which they expected to
attain. They have tiot had the physical
and mental vigor they expected or they
have met with rebuffs which they did
not anticipate. You arc not at forty or
fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty years of
age where you thought yon would be. I
do not know any one except myself to
whom life has been a happy surprise. I
never expected anything, and to when
anything came in the shape of human fa
vor or comfortable position or widening
field of work it was to me a surprise. I
was told in the theological seminary by
some of my fellow students that I never
would get anybody to hear me preach un
less I changed my style, so that when I
found that some people did come to hear
me it was a happy surprise. But most
people, according to their own statement,
have found life a disappointment, in
deed, we all need shelter from its tem
pests. The wings of my text suggest warmth,
and thnt is what most folks want. The
fact is that this is a cold world whether
vou take it literally or figuratively. W'e
have a big fireplace called the sun, and it
has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep
the coals well stirred up, but much of the
year we .cannot get near enough to this
fireplace to got warmed. This world'i
extremities are cold all the time. Forget
not that it is colder at the South Pole
than at the North Pole, and that the
Arctic is not to destructive as the Antar
tic. Once in awhile the Arctic will let
explorers come back, but the Antartic
hardly ever. When at the South Pole a
ship sailu in, the door of ice ia almost
sure to be shut against its return. So life
to many millions of people at the south
and many millions of people at the north
is a prolonged shiver.
But when I say that this is a cold
world I chiefly mean figuratively. If you
want to know what is the meaning of the
ordinary term of receiving the "cold
shoulder," get out of money and trv to
borrow. The conversation may have been
almost tropical for luxuriance of thought
and speech, but suggest your necessities
and see the thermometer drop to fifty de
grees below zero, and in that which till a
moment before had been a warm room.
Take what is an unpopular position on
some public question and see your friends
fly as chad before a windmill. As far as
myself is concerned, I have no word of
complaint, but I look off day by day and
see communities freezing out men and
women of whom the world is not worthy.
Now it takes after one and now after an
other. It becomes popular to depreciate
and defi.me and execrate and lie about
some people. This is the best world I
ever got into, but it is the meanest world
thnt some people ever got into. The worst
thing that ever happened to them was
their cradle, and the best thing that will
ever happen to them will be their grave.
Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, com
pletely, the hen broods her young. So, if
we are the Lord's, the evening of our life
will come. The heats of the day will have
passed. There will be shadows, and we
cannot see as far. The work of life will be
about ended. The hawks of temptation
that hovered in the sky will have gone to
the woods and folded their wings. Sweet
silence will come. The air will be redo
lent with the breath of whole arbors of
promises sweeter than jasmine or even
ing piimrose. The air may be a little chill,
but Christ will call us, and we will know
the voice and heed the call, and we will
come under the wings for the night, the
strong wings, the soft wings, the warm
wings, and without fear and in full sense
of safety, and then we will rest from sun
down to sunrise, "as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wing."
My text has its strongest application
for people who were horn in the country,
wherever you may now live, and that is
the majority of you. Y'ou cannot hear
my text without having all the rustic
scenes of the old farmhouse come back to
vou. Good old days they were. You
knew nothing much of the world, for you
had not seen the world. By law of asso
ciation you cannot recall the brooding
hen and her chickens without seeing also
the barn and the haymow and the wagon
shed and the house and the room where
you played and the fireside with the big
bark-log before which you sat and the
neighbors and the burial and the wedding
and the deep snowbanks, and hear the vil
lage bell that called you to worship and
seeing the horses which, nfter pulling you
to church, stood around the old clapboard
ed meeting house, ami those who sat at
either end of the church pew ond. indeed,
all the scenes of your first fourteen years,
and you think of what you were then and
of what you are now ana all these thoughts
are aroused by the siirht of the old hen
coop. Some of you hud better go back
and start again. In thought return to
that place anil hear the cluck and see the
outspread feathers and come vinder the
wing and make the Lord your portion
and shelter and warmth, preparing for
everything that may come, and so avoid
being classed among those described by
the closing words of my text, "as a lien
gathereth her chickens under her wings,
and ye would not." Ah, that throws the
responsibility upon us. "Ye would not."
Alas, for the ' would nots!" If the wan
dering broods of the farm heed not their
mother's call and risk the hawk and dare
the freshet and expose themselves to the
frost and storm, surely their calamities
are not the mother's fault. "Ye would
not!" God would, but how many would
not?
When a good man asked a young woman
who had abandoned her home and who
was deploring her wretcheduess why she
did not return, the reply was: "I dare
not go home. My father is so provoked
he would not receive me home." "Then,"
said the Christian man, "I will test this."
And so he wrote to the father, and the re
ply came back, and in a letter marked out
side "Immediate" and inside saying. "Let
her come at once; all is forgiven." So
God's invitation for you is marked ' Im
mediate'' on the outside, and inside it is
writ'en, ' lie will abundantly pardon."
Oh. ye wanderers from God and happiness
and home and heaven, come under the
sheltering wing. A vessel in the Bristol
Channel was Hearing the rocks called the
Steep Holmes. Under the tempest the
vessel was unmanageable, and the only
hope was that the tide would change he
fore she struck the rocks and went down,
and so the captain atood on the deck,
watch in hand. Captain and crew and
passengers were pallid with terror. Tak
ing another look at his watch and another
look at the sea, he shouted: "Thank God,
we are saved! The tide has turned! One
minute more and we would have atruck
the rocks!" Some of you have been a long
while drifting in the tempest of sin and
sorrow and have been making for the
breakers. Thank God, the tide has turned.
Do you not feel the lift of the billow
The grace of God that bringetli salvation
has appeared to your toul, and, in the
words of Boax Ruth, I commend you to
"the Lord God of Israel, under whose
wings thou hast come to trust."
ICopjTlshl, IMS, L. Klopack.1
Overeating What Is It T
Overeating Is an clastic term. Ac
cording to the November Good House
keeping, "to'fly Into a rage or to glva
way to prostrating grief, Is to turn
the chief of secretlouj Into a mora
or lean active poison. Concentrated
thought or strenuous muscular exer
tion immediately before or after a
meal will make the partaker' of a light
lunch guilty of overeating. "In its
effects, undereatlng is worse than
overeating. There are a
few things of which it ia very difficult
to eat too much: Dead-ripe blackber
ries, peara or peaehea picked from the
treea In a state of absolute ripeness,
aweet apples that are mellow through
and through, aoJ grapes as awaet aa
honey."
Uncoils Simplicity.
For a neighborhood which conruins
the oldest university, the vicinity of
Oxford, England, ia itrangoly medieval.
There . are villages in Oxfordshire
where no notion of medical science lias
penetrated, and where charms are tha
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
tn'croallonal Lesson Comment For
March 9.
Stibjrct: Tie Disciples Scattered, Acts vlll,
J-17 OoMca Text, Acts vlll, 4 Mem
ory Verses, 3-4 Coasteatiry
oa the Day's Lesson.
3. "Saul made havock." The Greek
word means to "destroy," "ravage," "de
vastate," as a ferocious animal would de
stroy its prey. Saul did his utmost to
ruin the church. He wos mad against the
Christians and set no bounds to hia rage
and cruelty. He did this under the sanc
tion of the rulers. See Acts '22: 4; 20: II).
This does not prove that Stephen's mar
tyrdom was not having an effect upon
Saul, for when conscience is awakened
and the Holy Spirit is pressing His claims,
then it is that men frequently exert them
selves against God, and use every means
to drive the Spirit from them. 'livery
house." He searched everywhere that
none might escape. "Haling." An old
Knglish word for hauling. "And women."
His fury knew no bounds. He arrested
the innocent women and "dragged them
forth" the same as the men. "To prison."
So many were arrested that it was impos
sible to bring them to trial at once. The
Komans alone could inflict the death pen
alty, but the Sanhedrin could inflict any
punishment short of death. St. Paul him
self says that some of them were put to
death (;lmp. 26), and if this was not done
by Roman authority, then Saul and his as
sociates must have resorted to mob law.
4. "Scattered." Heretofore the work
had been centralized in Judea, but now
the persecutions drive them out, and the
church enters upon a new epoch of expan
sion. "Everywhere." Through Judea and
Samaria. "Preaching the word." These
dispersed Christians were like so many
itinerant preachers. It is the "word "
plain, simple, gospel truth that reaches
the sinner.
6. ' "Philip." The deacon, mentioned in
chap. 6, now advanced to the degree of an
evangelist. "Samaria." Our Lord com
manded them to bear witness of Him in
Samaria after Jerusalem. Arts I: 8.
6. "With one accord." The original
words imply that crowds of people gnve
their faith and consent to the new leach
ing. "When they heard," etc. (R. V.)
They heard what had been done in other
places and saw what Philip was now doing.
. 7. "Unclean spirits came out." Hence
it is evident that these unclean spirits
were not a species of diseases, as they are
here distinguished from the paralytic and
the lame. There is nothing more certain
than that the New Testament writers
mean real diabolic possessions by the terms
unclean spirits, devils, etc.
8. "Great joy." This joy arose (11 from
the fact that a large numlier had been
healed, and (21 that the gospel had been
preached to them. A revival of religion
always produces joy.
9. "Simon." Much has been written re
garding this man, although little is known
about him. He is usually spoken of as
Simon Magus. "Sorcery. He practiced
magic, "exercising the arts ot the Magi or
magicians, hence the name Simon Magus."
10. "They all." Both old and young
were carried away with his deceptions.
"The great power of God" See R. V.
here. They believed him to be the one in
vested with the power of God. supposing
that the wonders he performed evinced
his possession of great supernatural gifts.
11. "Had regard." "Gave heed." R. V.
Jn the hope that he might be tho deliverer
for whom they had long been waiting.
"Of long time.' His birthplace was in Su
maria, and it is most probable that he
had lived there a great part of his life.
12. "Believed." Where God's truth
arises the kingdom of lies must wane.
When they saw the true light they turned
from the feeble, worldly light. Philip's
teaching met their needs and brought sal
vation, hope and joy. "Good tidings" I R.
V.) Philip preacned the "gospel," which
means "glad tidings." "Kingdom of God."
Defined by Paul (Rom. 14: 171 as being
"righteousness and peace and joy in the
Holy Ghost." It is a spiritual kingdom
which Christ sets up in the hearts of His
followers "The name." They believed
that Christ was the Messiah of whom there
was some expectation even among the Sa
maritans. "Were baptized." Thus they
made a public profession of their faith in
Christ.
' 111. "Then." Simon simply drifted with
the popular tide. Men often profess reli
gion in order to gain a better standing in
'the community. "Himself believed." It
would appear to be a great triumph to
have the leader of the opposition speak
out boldly in favor of the truth, but the
narrative shows (vs. 18-24) that his heart
was untouched by divine grace. He per
haps believed that Jesus had wrought mir
acles and was raised from the dead, but ho
had no thought of renouncing his sorcery,
"lie likely looked upon Philip as a supe
rior sorcerer of whom he might learn. lft
without followers he thought it best to join
the man who had fairly outstripped
hiin." "Was baptized." Here is a strong
argument against what is called "baptis
mal regeneration." After Simon had been
baptized by Philip nnd whatever the
mode it must have been the correct mode
Peter tells him he is in the "gall of bit
terness." V. 23. Surely baptism camiol
wash away ouv sins.
14. "Sent Peter and Johu." We gather
from this that thert was no special pre
eminence assigned to any among the aims
ties in those early days. They were sent
to assist Philip in the meat work that
'had so quickly opened up before him. The
"harvest" the Saviour saw (John 4: 35)
was being gathered. The apostles had
greater authority than Philip aud the re
sults show that they wei-o especially need
ed at this time.
15. "Prayer for them." Instead of at
once exercising their own authority they
seek direction from God. "Might re
ceive." They at once lend the new con
verts into a deeper Christian experience.
18. "Wat fallen." This expression is
several timet applied to the Holy Spirit.
It means that He came from heaven, and
denotes the rapidity and suddenness of
His coming, "hi 'be name." "The 'name'
of Jesus Christ means the same as Jesui
Christ Himself."
17. "Hands on them." The blessings
came from God through the apostles. "Re
ceived the Holy Ghost." We have hero
as at Caesarea (ahap. 10: 44-48) and at
Kpheseus (chap. 19: 5-7). a miniature Pen
tecost. While at this time extraordinary
endowments were no doubt conferred, by
which those upon whom the apostles laid
their hands may have been able to apeak
with tongues and perform miracles, it it
also equally true that they must have re
ceived spiritual blessing at well. The
Holy Spirit would purify (chap. 15: U),
enrich, enlighten and fully equip them for
all tho events of life, "bringing them into
fellowship with all believers regardless of
ratio."
Ryes Made from Insaot.
Of great repute and of mora Import
ance than lac dye ia cochineal, which
la the source of artists' carmine and
carmine lake, while, when precipitated
with a salt of tin, it also yields a splen
did acarlet. The cochineal insect, of
which the female, like that of tha
nearly allied lac Insect, alone yields
the dye, la originally a native of Mexi
co, where it ia parasitic on the leaves
of the prickly pear. The males of the
coccus cacti, aa the speclea la called,
are minute Insects furnished with well
developed wings, feathered attetnnaa
and a long pair of balrlike processes
at the hinder extremity of tha body.
On the other hand, the female la a re-pultdva-looklng,
wingless creature,
with very abort posterior haira, and
nearly double the size of her partner.
These inaecta adhere tightly to the
smooth aurface of the fleshy leavea ot
tha prickly pear and are are not unlike
small purple wood lice In general ap
pearanceBoston Globe,
A pepper box In the shape of a swan
In old Dutch silver'
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
March "Too Socrea EnJurtace" Heb.
xl, 24-27; Ex. xxxlll, 9-U
Scripture Verses Ps. xxxvll, 8. 6;
xlvlll. 14; Ivi. 3. 4, 9. 11-13; Isa. xlll.
16; 1. 10; lvlll. 10, It; Jer. xvli. 7, 8;
MIc. vll. 8: Luke t. 79, 80; John I. 4
13; xlll. 12; x. 2-4.
Lesson Thoughts.
Our strength to bear trials will not
come by our escape from all troubles,
any more than the athlete's muanlea
can harden without exercise. So Ood
permits trials to come upon even the
best of hia children; and each burden
borne gives greater strength for tho
next.
The heavens have no care lest thnlr
support may be withdrawn and they
may collapse under the burden of
their vast expanse; the clouds aall
calm and undisturbed on their course.
The same God that Is able to uphold
them la faithful to support his own
children under any weight of trial that
may come upon them.
Selections.
We walk In the lxrd's own company,
We fight, but "tia he who nerves our
arm,
He turns the arrow that else might
harm.
And out of the storm he brings a
calm;
And the work that wo count so hard
to do,
He makes It easy, for he works, too.
And the days that seem long to live
are his,
A bit ot his bright eternities; and
close to our need his helping la.
Our burden, whatever It Is, la Ood'a
"gift," and bas a divine blessing in it
for us, if we take It up In faith, in
love. "That he hath given" we may j
always Dring to mm again, seeKing nis
help in bearing it for him.
When this life's long troubled day
With its griefs has passed away;
When from fires of sacrifice
Purified my soul shall rise;
I shall know, yea, all Bhall see.
Why the Iord appointed me
Tribulation.
Out of which he wrought for me,
By his grace, abounding, free.
Salvation.
We are constantly In' danger of re
garding our trial as singular, unlike
any other that man has known. This
la not so. The divine man haa cared
successfully for numberless ones
whose trial was as great and bad aa
ours. Our only need la simple trust.
Suggested Hymns.
Tho Lord is our rock.
After the toll and trouble,
'Blest Jesus, grant tia strength,
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
A mighty fortress la our God,
TU only a little way.
EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETINQ TOPICS
March 9 The Secret af Eoduraace tick. xL
24-27; Exod, xxxlll, 9-lS.
The special work of Moses in the
history of religion was to prepare tha
way for the coining of the Lord Jesus.
He was commissioned to familiarize,
men with the stupendous idea ot the
appearing of God in human nature.
Moses called into being a ' aplrltual
people which realized the idea of a
divine nation. He showed the
world God appearing In the life ot
a nation. They believed in a
living God, a God who dwelt with his
people, who guided and Inspired them,
who rewarded them when they did
right and punished them when they
did wrong. The great purpose of the
Bible Is to Interpret the part God takes
in human history and In individual
life by showing tho part he actually
took in the life of a chosen people,
. We should strive to make God very
real In our lives. Moses had this Idea
Impressed upon him in a variety ot
ways at the burning bush, amid the
thunders of Sinai, through angel mes
sengers, through pillar of cloud and of
fire. Again and again was be told
that In none of these did be fully see
God, for God Is a Spirit.
"Aa the old tabernacle before It waa
built existed in the mind ot God, so
all the unborn things of life, the things
wheh are to make the future, are al
ready living in their perfect ideas in
him, and our task will ue to match
those divine ideas with their material
realities, to translate into visible and
tangible shape the facta which already
exist In the perfect mind." Brooks.
How does this invisible express him
self. The kingdom of heaven does not
reveal itself in the same aspect or in
the same degree to all men, but we
have It revealed In an Infinite variety
of lives, of figures, of incidents. There
is Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David,
Caleb and Joshua; there is the burn
ing bush, the Sinai Are, tabernacle
ami temple, prophet and sage, priest
and king, each with his contribution.
Then, "the heavens declare his glory,
aud the firmament showeth his handi
work." The invisible things of hJm
since the creation of the world are
t-learly seen, being perceived through
"the things that are seen;" and there
is Jesus himself showilng us God In
terms of human experience, and In
addition, by sermon and precept, by
parable and allegory, by miracle and
deed, trying to show us Ood, his will,
and the nature of his kingdom; and
finally the Holy Spirit, tha continued
abiding- lnaplrer, trying to bring God
into our consciousness. Truly, we
need nt be in darkness it we wish to
come to the light. Read the sermon
on tha Mount and ad-j how Jesus in
sists that hia children might be deliv
ered from carping care by trust in the
Invisible Father. The right view of
the IavlaJble and Eternal enables us
to bear tbe afflictions of life with calm
ness. , .
RAM'S HORN BLASTS-
O stand still in
godliness ia to go
.back from God.
Political re
demption rests on
personal right
eousness. I-ove la not
worrying over
any eight-hours
labor law.
A clean eltv ia
Impossible with
out consecrated
CltlZtiUI. .
Better to be purified with fire than
at peace with alloy.
God wants to use the man whom tbe
world cannot use.
Wandering is not a prerequisite to
the Father'a welcome.
The only dumb religion is a dead
one. .
Ood will not be a Father to those
who disregard the fatherless.
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN
PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
Poeint Ha Understands A Trne Christian
HhouM Kxerrlss Heir-Control Until Ho
Hns Gnltied n Mastery One Is Hindered
by Brooding Over Ills Discomfort.
Our censors guard us roundabout.
And hedge us with their dusty creeds;
They cry us wrong in hope or doubt.
And howl like ban dogs at our deeds.
They wail our knotted tkein of life, .
And flout -.is for our clumsy hands,
Because with tangles it is rife
But all the timu God understands.
Our censors measure step and stride
With matheniatic rod and rule,
And when we wander to one side,
Htraightway they cry aloud, "Thou fool'.'
Anil book nnd hell and candle bring
To Mirse the one who halting stands.
But. ah! the footslens wandering
lie understands lie understands.
Our censors weigh our every word.
And sift its sound for sign of sin,
And whispered dreams thnt are unheard
Against the screen of fate they pin.
With hurny smile they search out brain
To bind our thoughts with braken bands,
But hope shall struggle not in vain.
And nil the time God understands,
He understands our little fears.
Our little doubts and little woes;
And in the shadow of the years
He sees the soui. He knows He knows;
He scans us, not as censors do
To mark the blindly searching hands
But all our good He brings to view.
He understands He understands,
Josh Wink, in the Baltimore American.
Self-Poise.
It is possible to conduct oneself in Chris
tian fashion in the midiU of aggravating and
unnecessary annoyances. If one may not
run away or extricate himself from his try
ing connections, he must surely endeavor,
for his own peace of mind, anil for exam
ple's sake, to exercise self-control till he
shall gain a certain mastery. Dishonesty,
inefficiency, profanity, ugliness of temper,
rudeness and discourtesy in others are ob
ject lessons with no uncertain emphasis as
to one's duty to avoid similar confusion in
conduct and speech. While they are dis
couraging and irritating, it is good to re
flect that one's best life is hindered by
brooding over his discomfort, if he is pow
erless to remedy mnttcrs. His own best at
tention to tho work that falls to him will
yield n glad satisfaction, and his practice
of blindness nnd deafness will help toward
patience and forbearance. Wrongdoing is
always wrong, nnd injures many besides
the wrong doer. One may believe this thor
oughly, even while he exerts himself to
self-control that he may not he oppressed
and borne down. If one mav not be hap-
fiily placed, even though his duty holds
lim, one's hatter nature is severely tried,
but a determined direction of one's
thought from the fiction of what is unlove
ly and untrue will help to a serenity that is
quite necessary if one would suppress his
impulse to fremient nnd harsh condemna
tion, and hold himself in check because of
the Christian ideal he is striving to reach.
Prayer, patience, persistence are helps to
this end. Universalist Leader.
God's Mercy.
Let us learn that there are times in our
brief livct when, like our great high priest,
we are sore nmazed and very heavy by rea
son of strange and startling changes in our
circumstances. Sometimes unexpected agon
ies come into our own hearts when,, thougli
our work appears to be acceptable and suc
cessful, the worker is ignored and forgot
ten. This is what tests us. Not so much
the wilderness solitude, or the greater pow
er of another, or the snecinlly successful
work of another, but rather dismissal from
service just when wn feci most equal to the
work, to be limited in opportunity, to feel
a seeming neglect and realize an apparent
defeat. Then it is that we need supremely
to know Him with whom we have to do.
To know that He dclightcth in mercy, and
that it is His good pleasure to give us the
kingdom, and though circumstances would
eem to indicate that wc are forgotten, or
that our case is unimportant, to be assured
within ourselves of His love. His mercy
and His care. Kev. K. Duckworth.
The Spiritual Kept to the Front.
"The theory that men may bo won to
the spiritual life by ministering to their
physical necessities, or by providing for
them amusements und social opportunities,
is not to be entirely discorded," says the
Watchman (Uuntiht) of Boston. "Hut to
day, as in the times of our Lord, the eyes
tht are largely fastened upon 'the loaves
cud fishes' are not apt to dincern the heav
enly vision. The chief spiritual value of
this ministry is that it serves as a model
for manifesting human sympathy and for
interpreting the divine love. Sometimes,
as in the case of the desperately miserable,
it is the only avenue through which they
ci.n he reached. The vast majority of peo
ple, however, can be most directly and ef
fectively reached by the clear and loving
Iirescntation of the gospel. No man ever
tad a harder Held that Dr. Edwutd Jud
son in New York City. But the distin
guishing fen t ure and the secret of his suc
cess, is that he has always kept the spirit
ual aspects of his work primary."
Our Companions.
Kvrry man is born into a vast workshop
full of materials aud tools. Hit business
in life is to select the material upon which
and the tools with which ha shall work,
nnd then, out of his own imagination, he
fnshions hit world, and, as the product of
what he thinks and does and feels, that
world passes out of the realm of imagina
tion into reality and becomes his world.
So every man creates his companionship
according to his thought. If his thought
is fine and generous and high, he is the
best company and the most inspiring; if it
is mean and low and vile, no matter what
desert surround him, lie is in base and
vile aud ignoble fellowship; it it a maltet
of character. Companionship does not de
pend upon accident, but upon selection.
Kvery man makes his own friends, und it it
this fact which gives the profounder truth
to the old proverb, "A mnn is known by
the company he keeps." Outlook.
Obedient to Ood.
Oh, that we could take that simple view
of thiii's as to feel that the one thing
which litis before us is to please God I
What train is it to please the world, to
please the great, nuy, even to please those
whom we love, compared with this? What
gain is it to be applauded, admired,
courted, followed compared with thif
one aim of not being disobedient to the
heavenly vision? J. H. Newman.
Factors of a Christian Life.
It ought not to surprise us that pride it
perhans the greatest sin and weakness of
our Christian life to-day. 1 know we are
told that even holiness mukes its possessors
proud. Well, the holiness that makes a
man proud is the holiness of the devil, nnd
not the holiness of God the Holy Ghost.
No man is entirely sanctified in whom
there it the slightest lveleomo or the slight
est place given to the smallest measure of
pride. It is no wonder, therefore, that
when Augustine was asked what were the
three most important things in the Chris
tian life, he said: "The first is humility;
the secnnit it humility; the third is hu
mility!" The Kev. Charles Inwood,
Mixed In Usr Dates.
Old Lady Now, little boys, can any
of you tell me what commandment
Adam broke when be ate tbe forbid
den fruit?
Tommy Please, ma'am, there
wasn't any commandments then.
Stray Stories.
Deolded to Stay.
"Oh, George, what do you think hap
pened to-day?" "Did you And a $20
gold piece?" "Botter than that Our
new cook bas ueut for bur trunk."-
Dutroit Fvv Pre, y
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Occeral Trade Coadlllons.
R. O. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ol
trade' says :
"All the Atlantic coast business con
tinues temporarily checked by the storm,
and some interior points are suffering
from unfavorable weather, but consump
tive demands give no evidence of abate
ment. Prices of perishable goods ad
vanced sharply, and the whole range of
staple commodities tended upward.-
"Jobbing trade in spring lines of wear
ing apparel is of ample proportions, and
ill heavy hardware and products of iron
feci the pressure in that industry.
"Prices of pig iron have made decioVd
advances, despite tbe opposition of lead
ing interests. Railway supplies and
structural material are still the most
eagerly sought of finished steel prod
ucts. Cotton added a smalt fraction to
its price and ruled quiet during the week
at the highest position of the crop year.
"Liabilities of the commercial failures
thus far reported for February aggre
gated $6,607,881, of which $3,404,627 were
in manufacturing, $2,892,142 in trading,
and $401,112 in other commercial lines.
failures for the week number 250 in
the United States, against 353 last year,
and 31 in Canada, against 39 last year."
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour Best Patent, $4 90; High Grade
Extra, $4.40; Minnesota Bakers, $J.25a
3 45-
Wheat New York No. 2. 88c: Phil
adelphia No. 2, 86a86J4c; Baltimore No.
2, 84kic.
Corn New York No. 2, 68ac; Phila
delphia No. 2, 6s!4a66c; Baltimore No.
2, 64c.
Oats New York No. 2, 40c; Phila
delphia No. a, SoVc; Baltimore No. 2,
4oa43!4c. .
Green truits and Vegetables. Apples
Western Maryland and Pennsylvania,
packed, per brl., $3!ooa37S; do, New
York, assorted, ocr brl. $.74a4.W. Cab
bage New York State, per ton, domestic,
fio.coais.oo; do, Uanish, per ton, 22.00
124.00. Carrots Native, per bushel box,
4oa45c; do, per bunch, Ij4a2c. Cauli
flower Florida, per crate, $1. 50a! .75.
Celery Native, per bunch, 334c. Cran
berries Cape Cod, per brl, $6.ooa7.oo;
do, Cape Cod and Jerseys, per box, $1.75
2.oo. Eggplants Florida, per crate,
$3.Soa4.oo. Grape Fruit Florida, per
ox. fancy. S.ooay.oo. Lettuce Norm
Carolina, per half-barrel basket, 75C.a
$1.00; do, Florida, per half-barrel bas
ket, $i.ooal.so. Onions Maryland and
Pennsylvania, yellow, per bushel, $1,253
I.30; do. Western, yellow, per bushel,
$1.2531.30. Oranges Florida, per box,
as to size, $2.2533.00; do, California
Seedlings, per box, $2.0032.25; do. Na
vels, per box, $2.5oaj.22. Oysterplants
Native, per bunch, 4340. Radishes
Florida, per bunch, ia2-; Spinach Na
tive, per bushel box, $i.ooal.25; do, Nor
folk, per brl., $3.0033.50. Mrawbcrries
Florida, p.er quart, refrigerator, 35340c;
do, open crate, 30335c. Squash Flor
ida, per box, $1.5032.00. Tomatoes
Florida, per six-basket carrier, fancy,
$2.0032.25; do, fair to good, $1.5032.00.
Turnips Native, per bushel box, 25330c.
Potatoes. White Marylsnd and
Pennsylvania, per bushel, No. I. 80385c;
do, seconds, 70375c ; do. New York, per
bushel, best stock, 85388; do, seconds,
7oa75 ; do, Western, per bushel, prime,
85388c. Sweets Eastern Shore, Vir
ginia, kiln-dried, per brl, $3.0033.25 ; do,
flour brl, $3.2533.50; do, Marytand, per
brl, fancy, $3.oo3$3.5o; do, Richmond,
per brl, No. I, $3.0033.50; do, Pooniacs,
per brl, fancy, $3.2533. 50; do, North
Carolina, per brl, fancy, $3.2533.50.
Provisions and Hog Products. Bulk
clear rib sides, 9J4c; bulk clear sides,
9'Ac; bulk shoulders, 9c; bulk ham
butts, glc; bacon, shoulders, g'Ac;
sugar-cured breasts, 104c; sugar-cured
California hams, hams, canvased
or uncanvased, 12 lbs. and over, 12c; re
fined lard, tierces, bsrrels and 50-lb.
cans, gross, lol'ic ; refined lard, second
hand tubs, 10J4C.
Butter Separ3tor, 28329c ; gathered
cream, 25326c; imitation, 21322c; prints,
I lb., 27328c; rolls, 2 lb., 26a27c; dairy
prints, Md., Pa. and Va., 27a28c.
Eggs. Western Maryland and Penn
sylvania, per dozen, 27c ; Eastern Shore,
Marylsnd and Virginia, per Uozen, 27c;
Virginia, per dozen, 27c; West Vir
ginia, per dozen, 26327c; Western, 27c;
Southern, 25326c.
Eggs Western Maryland and Penn
sylvania, per dozen, a3oc; Eastern
Shore, (Maryland and Virginia), per
dozen. a.ioc; Virginia, per dozen, a
30c; Western, West Virginia and Ohio,
per dozen, 330; Southern, per dozen,
28a2o; duck eggs, per dozen, nearby,
3ia32.
Dressed Poultry Chickens, small,
young, per lb, 813c; do, mixed, young
and old. do, 11312; do, poor to fairt do,
loallc. Turkeys, choice, small hens, per
lb, 1 6a 1 7c; do. mixed and bin gobblers,
do, 14315c. Ducks, choice, fat, per lb,
I3al5c. Geese, choice nearby, f3t, per
lb, 12313c; Capons, 7 to 8 lbs weight,
per lb, 15316c; do, smaller, per lb, 14a
15c; do, slips, do, Iiai2.
Cheese New Cheese, large. Co lbs.,
nyic to nsc; do. flats, 37 lbs., nja
ll'Ac picnics, 23 lbs., Ilc to IlC.
Hk.es Hesvy steers, association and
saltcrs, late kill, 60 lbs. and up, close se
lection, loaiic; cows and light steers,
Saoc.
Dressed Hogs Western Maryland and
Pennsylvania lightweights, 7370 per
Eer lb; Virginia and Southern Maryland,
est stock, iV, per ib. ; medium hogs.
a7c, and heavyweights irregular at from
to 6c per lb. Old boars less sasJc.
Live Stock.
Chicago. Cattle Receipts, 39.000
head ; steady, good to prime steers, $6.50
37.20; poor to medium, $4.0034 80; Block
ers and feeders, $5.5035.80; calves, $2.50
a6.55; Texas-fed steers, $4-5oa5.55- Hogs
Receipts, 28,000 head; market active
and 5c higher; mixed and butchers, $500
a6.4o; good to choice heavy, $6.2536.45;
light, $5.8036.00. Sheep Receipts, 7,000
head; sheep steady; lambs weak and
lower ; good to choice wethers, $4-75a
$5.25; fuir to choice mixed, $3.8534.60;
native lambs, $375a$6.5o;- Western
lambs, $5.2536.50.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Toronto letter carriers have demanded
more pay.
The United Mine-Workers spent $500,
000 in strikes last year.
Toronto stenographers and bookkeep
ers will be organized.
The Kansas Supreme Court hat "stts
ttwned the eight-hour labor law.
Railway machinists are making ready
for a general demand for the nine-hour
day.
Pittsburg machinists donated $500 tc
help their striking fellow-workmen at
San Francisco.
Birmingham, Ala., is to have a labor
temple. '
New York labor men are discussing
the question of putting up a candidate
for governor this fall,
Wilkesbarrc labor unions have openec"
a blacksmith shop where striking mem
bers can secure employment.
The International Car Company ol
Toledo, whose machinist are on strike
for a nine-hour day, has offered a ten
hour day.
The Hrakemen's Union, at New Ha
ven, Conn., has asked the consolidatee"
road for a ten-hour day at $2 a day, with
pay for overtime. .
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
The Trnreilv of Michael Kltror Alcnlinlln
Drinks Transformed Him Into a Fiend
Murdered His Wife In tho I'retenre
of Ells Chlldren.flnrli Cases Common.
When Michael Kilrov reeled home in the
early hours of the holy Riblinth of Run
day. January 2fl. in the Chii'tinn city of
Boston, his pockets empty of the money
that he had womised to his wife to buy
the clothing for lack of which hi children
were freezing; when he answered her an
pesl for the fulfillment of hl promise with
s. blow thnt knocked her o the floor; when
he cbokpd, with h's fingers unon her
throat, her annen! for mercy: when he
kicked her with hi heavy Koots. and he
ahoi't tn become the mother of another
child; when he sat for hours vnmocd, lis
tening to her moans nnd watching her Buf
ferings; when he bmtallv miKtreitcd the
children who would have brouirht her help;
when he struck ' the water that er
little daughter was liftlnir to her bloody,
thirsHnir line it was drink, gentlemen
the drink that Professor Atweter tells us
it food the drink that you rentlcmen ree
ommeml in "moderation." that i"i le him
do it, and neither in earth io" hell hai any
other ngenrv been found, in the history of
the whole human race that inspired men
to such deeds.
But drink. rnl.1eme'. alcoholi" drink,
not only made Michael Kilrov do that, bru
tal, devilish deed, but has trnnformed un
counted thousands of pin into fiends
of tho same character, and has driven them
to deeds equally brutal. TVink. gentlemen,
has inspired tuch tragedies so commonly
and in such multitude that the public
scarcely pauses to notice their occurrence.
Drink, gentlemen, is to-day nreparin"
more men for fust such deeds as that, and
vou know and we know and the world
knows that it will take boyt from your
churches, boys from your schools, aye,
God pity you, Derhaps boys from your
homes, and will mnke them into such
brutce to work such fiendish crimes in fu
ture years on women who to-day ore lovely
and loving girls.
It was onlv twelve days before th butch
ery in that Boston tenement that Vincent
Vincelsk come how drunk in Pittsburg
end chonned hit wife and little children to
death with a rail-cutter. Tt. was onlv thir
teen days before that John Bliosett. of
IJetroit. drunk, emntied his revolver into
Jiis wife's body and poured kerosene over
her and stood with lighted match to make
her a burnt offering to drink when the po
lice broke in unon him. It was iut one
month and a Hay before that a father in
Indiana came home drunk, sought to kiM
his wife with a hatchet and was shot dead
by his son.
But why go on with such a list Tho
cases are innumerable nnd before Michael
Kilrov came home to kill Bridget you and.
we and everybody in the v.-holc land l;n--.v
that some man, because of the drink traffic,
would come home and kill bin wife, and
thot the terrible procession of crime would
keep right on. The New Voice.
Dr. Atnater Itepndlated.
The American Medical Association at
its annual meeting in fit. Paul unanimous
ly adonted the following resolutions:
"Whereas, The Amoricon Medical Asso
ciation, the members of which are physi
cians nnd medical teachers who have de
voted years to the study of alcohol and its
effects, and who are conversant with the
work done by scientific men the world
over to determine the effects of alcohol
when given in any quantity, have noted
the teaching of Professor W. O. Atwater,
of Wesleyan University, upon tho food and
medical value of alcohol as set forth by
him in tho pages of the influential lay
press; be it
"Resolved, That this association utterly
repudiates the pro-alcoholic doctrine of the
said Professor W. O. Atwater as being con
trary to the evidence deduced by scientific
experimentation, and that hit conclusions
are unwarranted by the evidence resulting
from his own experiments. Be it further
"Resolved, That this association regardt
the teaching of Professor W. O. Atwater
as erroneous nnd a source of danger to the
laity inasmuch as such teaching contrib
utes towards the increased consumption of
alcoholic beverages by giving supposed rea
son for .thoir safe use."
(Sig led) N. S. DAVIS, M. D..
Pres.. Chicago, III,
T. D. CROTHERS. M. ).,
Sec, Hartford, Conn.
A Traftlo That Curses.
The horrors of tho drink traffic have
never been fully portrayed. No pencil is
black enough to paint the picture und do it
full justice. No tongue is eloquent enough
to tell the .-ad ctory in all its dreadful de
tails. The use of alcoholic beverages is of
all scourges the moat wide and withering.
It is a physical curse: Blearing the eyes,
blistering the tongue, deranging the stom
ach, paralyzing the nerves, hardening the
liver, poisoning tho blood, coagulating the
brain, inducing and aggravating many dis
eases, and digging many premature graves.
It is a financial curse: Draining the pock
et, producing poverty, diminishing comfort,
multiplying miseries, filling almshouses, in
creasing taxes aud creating hard-times.
It is a mental curse: Clouding the. judg
ment and dethroning the reason, promot
ing ignorance, producing imbecility, and
transforming its unhappy victims into ma
niacs and fools.
It it a moral curse: Weakening the will,
inflaming the passiont, hushing the voices
ot conscience and preparing the way foi
every vice, and crime. And yet, strange to
say, there are those who advocate the re
moval of this curse by legalizing it. But
the colossal curse of drunkenness will con
tinue so long as drunkard factories are per
mitted, protected and perpetuated by law
Why Germany Is Apathetic.
At the annual meeting of the Society foi
Combating the Abuse of Spirituous Liquor
at lieslau last month, Baron von bier
gardt said he believed that alcohol would
one day be universally regarded at an en
emy of civilization, but at present it wai
only possible to recommend moderation in
its use. Seven hundred and fifty million
of dollars was yearly spent in tierraany 00
intoxicating liquors, he said, ond it wot
estimated that the overage German con
sumed the equivalent of five glasses of spir
its a day. Baron vou Diergardt added that
one difficulty in the campaign wat that the
State itself was interested in alcohol, de
riving, at it did, a revenue of $41,000,000
from spirits and $25,000,000 from beer.'
Drink and Intent Mortality.
Dr. Whitord has gone carefully into the
subject of infant mortality in Liverpool,
and ha reports for the years specified the
following cases of suffocation almost en
tirely duo to drink: 1890, 104; 1B91, 144;
1892, 104; 183, 106; 1804, 182; 1893, 189.
Tho Crntada In Brier.
The life of the suloon depends on the
death of souls.
Any one who wanted to find "temper
once lessons" in the Bible could find an
armful with both hands tied behind his
back.
All that the words "murder," "shame,"
"ruin" mean, a thousand times repeated
and a. thousandfold inteui.ficd, the saloon
means and the saloon it.
Under the influence of liquor a Jersey
City man was arrested four times in five
davs. This is certainly uu indorsement of
a high order for the boozo distilleries of
that town.
The drunkard carries the disregarded
danger tignul half way between hit lustful
eyes and his devouring mouth.
For a real temperance lesson take' the
newly organized Bartenders' Auoeiation.
Only men of abstemious habits may juin.
Then is a clandestine movement on foot
to abolish the International Ouarterly
Temperance LeBaons which have been the
occusion of so much good during the post
ton years in the Kiinday-iilioi.il j of Amer
icu. .
Whe-.i the evidence of the case has been
all silted this fact alone remains, that the
liquor traffic stays in bimiuess becauve t lie
American people from sheer iuertiu, con
vinced a thousand times over its pemiciuui
character, will uut abolish it. , . .