THE ART OF FORGETTING
Dr. Talmage Illustrates How All Offend,
era May Be Emancipated.
Hew to Be Hippy Allow Other to Forget
Cone Into Mercy in!
Panloa,
WA-nmoTO!, D. C From the letter
to the Hebrews Dr. Talmage takes a text
and illustrates how all offenders may ho
emancipated; text, Hebrews viii, l'J,
"Their sins and their iniquities will I re
member no more."
The national flower of the Egyptians is
the heliotrope, of the Assyrians is the
water lily, 01 the Hindoos is the mangold,
of the Chinese is the thiysanthemum. We
hare no national flower, but there in
hardly any (lower more suggestive to
many of us than tho forKetmenot. W e all
like to be remembered, and one of our mis
fortunes is that there are so many things
we cannot remember. Mnemonics, or the
rt of assisting memory, is an important
art. It was first suggested by Himonidcs,
of Ceos, 6011 years betore Christ. Persons
who had but little power to recall events
or put fat'ts and names and dates in proper
processions have through this art had thpir
memory re-enforced to an almost incredi
ble extent. A good memory is nn inalua
ble possession. Hy all means cultivate it.
I had an used friend who, detained all
night at a miserable depot in waiting for a
rail trim t.ut in tho snowbanks, enter
tained a arouit of some ten or fifteen cler
gymen, likewise detained on their way
home from a meeting of presbytery, by
first with a Tiirce of ch.Ok drawing out ou
the black and smty walls of the depot the
characters of Walter Scott's "Marnron''
end then reciting from memory the whole
ot that "oem of some eighty paes in line
print. ( My old friend, through great age.
lost Ins lucinorv, and when 1 nsked him if
t'r.-s story of the railroad depot was true
be said. "I do not remember now, but it
wa jut lihe me. Let me see." Bind be to
me. "Have 1 ever neen. you before?"
"Yes," I said; "yon were my guest last
night, and 1 w.n with you an hour ngo."
What an awful contrail in that man be
tween the greatest memory 1 ever knew
and no memory at all!
But right along with this art of recol
lection, which I cannot too highly eulogize,
is one quite as important, and yet 1 never
heard it applauded. I mean the art of for
getting. There is a splendid faculty in
that direction that we nil need to culti
vate. We might turotigh that proec? be
ten times happier and more useful than
we now are. We have been told that for
getfulncss U a weakness and ought to be
avoided by nil possible means. So far
from a weakness, my test ncrribes it to
God. It is the very top of omnipotence
that God is able to obliterate a part ot His
own memory. If we repent of sin and
rightly seek the divine forgiveness, the
record of the misbehavior is not only
crossed off the books, but Cod actually
lets it pass out of memory. "Their sins
and their iniquities will I remember no
more." To remember no more is to forget.
And yoit cannot make anything else out of
it. '.od's power of forgetting is so great
that if two mca appeal t Him and the
on? man, utter a iiie all right, gets the
aimi of his heart pardoned and the other
man, after a life of abomination, gets par
doned Cod remembers no more against
one than tho other. The entire past of
both the moralist, with his imperfections,
and the profligate, with his debaucheries,
is as much ob. iterated in tiie one case as
in the otiier. Forgotten forever and for
ever. "Their sins and their iniquities will
1 remember no more."
This sublime attribute of forgetfulness
on the part of God you and I need, in our
finite wny, to imitate. You will do well to
cast out of your recollection all wrongs
done you. During the course of one's life
lie is sure to be misrepresented, to be lied
about, to be injured. There are those who
keep these things fresh by frequent rehear
sal. If things have appeared iu print, they
keep them in their scrapbook, for they cut
these precious paragraphs out ot news
papers or books and at leisure times look
them over, or they have them tied up in
bundles or thrust in pigconhoies, and they
frequently regale themselves and their
Ir.ct is by an inspection o; these flings,
th'se sarcasms, these falsehoods, these cru
elties. I have known gentlemen who car
ried them in their pocketbooks, so that
they could easily get at these irritations,
and they put their right hand in the inside
of their coat pocket over their heart and
say: "Look here! Let he show you some
thing." fc-cientists catch wasps and hor
nets and poisonous insects and transfix
them in curiosity bureaus for study, and
that is well, but these of whom 1 speak
catch the wasps aud the hornets and pois
onous insects and play with them and put
them on themselves and on their friends
and see how flu- the noxious things can
jump and show how deep they can sting.
Have no such scrapbook. Keep nothing
in your possession that is disagreeable.
Tear up the falsehoods and the slanders
and the hynercriticisms.
Imitate the Lord in my text and forget,
actually forget, sublimely forget. Thorn
is no happiness lor you in any other plan
or procedure. You see all around you in
the church and out of tho chirch disposi
tions acerb, malign, .-yuica!, pessimistic.
Do you know how these men and women
got that disposition? It was by the em
balmment of things pautherine and viper
ous. They have spent much of their tune
in calling the roll of nil the rata that have
nibbled at their reputation. 'Their soul is
n cage of vultures. Kieiytaing in them is
sour or imbittered. The milk of human
kindness has bscn curdled. '1 hey do not
believe in uny.iudy or uuything. If they
tee two people whispering they think it is
abovt tuucinelvr".. li they see two people
laughing, they think it is about them
selves. Wher.' there is one sweet pippin
in their oreiiaid there are lil'ty crabappiei,.
They have never been uijie to forget. They
do not want to forget. They never will
forget. Their wretchedness is supreme,
for no one can be happy if he carries per
petually in mind the nieif-i things that
have been done him. On the other hand,
ou can find here and there a man or
woman (Tor there ure not many of them)
whose disposition is genial ana summery.
Why? Have they always been treated
well? Oh, no. Hard things havo been said
against them. They have been charged
with ofliciousness, and their generosities
have been set down to a desire for display,
and they have many a time been the sub.
jeet of little tattle, and they have had
enough small assaults like guaU and
enough great ntlueks like lions to have
made them perpetually miserable. If they
would have consented to miserable.
Kut they huve had enough divine philo
sophy to cast off the annoyances, anil they
have kept themselves in the sunlight of
Uod's favor and have realized that thesu
oppositions and hindrances are a part of a
mighty discipline by which they are to be
prepared fur usefulness and heaven. Tho
secret of it all is they have, by the help
of the Kternal God, learned how to forget.
Another practical thought: When our
faults are repented of let them go out of
rnind. If Clod forgives them, we have a
right to forget them. Having once re
pented of our infelicities and misdemean
ors, there is no need of our repenting of
them aain. hupposo I owe you a large
urn of money, and you are persuaded I
am incapacitated to pay and you give me
acquittal from that obligation. You say:
"I cancel that debt. All is right now.
Start again." Aud the next day I come in
and say: "You know about that big debt I
owe you. I have come in to get you to let
me off. I feel so bad about it 1 cannot
rest. Do let ine off." You reply with a
little impatience: "I did let you off. Don't
bother yourself and bother me vitb any
more oi that discussion." The following
day I come in and aay: "My dear r, about
that debt I can never get over the fact
that 1 owe you that money, it is some
thing that weight on my mind like a mill
stone. Do forgive ma that debt." This
time you clear lose your patience and aay:
"You are a nuisance. What do you mean
by this reiteration of that affair? I am
almost sorry 1 forgave you that debt. Do
you doubt my veracity or do you not un
ders'aiid th plain language in which I
told you that debt wae canceled?" Well,
my friends, thera are many Christians
guilty of worse folly than that. While it
is ribt that they repent of new sins and
of recent sins, what is the use of bother
L'iS iuuraelf and injuUiiuj Cod. by anJunj;
Him to forgive' 'eifia "that long ago weie"
forgiven? God has forgiven them. Why
do you not forget them? No; you drag
tho load on with you, and 365 times a year,
if you pray every day, you ask God to re
call occurrences which He has not only for-give-i,
but forgotten.
Quit this folly. I do not nlc you less to
realize the turpitude of sin. but I ask you
to a higher faith i:i the promise of God
and the full deliverance of His mercy. Ho
does not give a receipt for part payment
or so much received on account, hilt re
ceipt n full, God having for Christ's sake
decreed "your sins and yeur iniquities
will I remember no more."
I know you will quote the Bible refer
ence to the horrible pit from which you
were digged. Yes, be thankful for that
retieue, but do not make display of the
mud of that horrible pit or splash it over
othrr people. Sometimes I have felt in
Christian meetings discomfited and unfit
for Christian service because I had done
none of those things which seemed te be,
in the estimation of manv, necessary for
Christian usefulness, for 1 never swore a
word or ever got drunk or went to com
promising places or was guilty of assault
and battery or ever uttered a slanderous
word or ever did any one a hurt, although
I knew my heart was mnful enough and I
said to myself, "There is no nse of my try
ing to do any good, for I never went
through those depraved experiences." But
afterward 1 saw consolation in the thought
that no one gained any ordination by the
laying on of the hands of dissoluteness and
infamy.
And though nn ordinary moral life, end
ing in a Christian life, may not be as dra
matic a story to tell about, let us be grate
ful to God rather thnn worry about it if
we have never plunged into outward abom
inations. A sin forgetting God! That is clear be
yond and far above a sin pardoning God,
How often we hear it said, "f can forgive,
but I cannot forget." That is equal to
saying, "I verbally admit it is all right,
but 1 will keep the old grudge good."
There is something i;i the demeanor that
seems to say: "I would not do you harm.
Indeed. I wish you well, hut that unfortu
nate affair can never p"ss out of my mind."
There mny be no hard words pass Between
them, but until death breaks in tiie same
coolness remains. Hut God lets our par
doned offenses go into oblivion. He never
throws them tip to us again. lie feels ae
kindly toward us as though wo had been
spotless and positively angelic nil along.
Muny years ago a family consisting of
the husband and wife and little girl of two
years lived far out in a cabin on a western
prairie. The husband took a few cattle to
market. Ik fore he started his little child
asked him to buy her a doll, and he prom
ised. He could after the sale of the cattle
purchase household necessities and cer
tainly would rot forget the doll he had
promised. In the village to which he went
no sold the cattle and obtained the grocer
ies for his household and the doll for his
little darling. He started homo along the
dismal road at nightfall. As he went
along on horseback a thunderstorm broke,
and in the most ipnely part of the road
and in the heaviest part of the storm he
heard a child's cry. Kobbcrs had been
known to do some bad work along that
road, und it was known that this herds
man had money with him, the price of the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
it as a stratagem to have him halt and be
despoiled of his treasures, but the child's
cry became more Ucrnind rending, and so
he dismounted and felt around in the
darkness and all in vain until he thought
of n hollow tree that he remembered near
the road where the child might be, and
for that he started, and, sure enough,
found a little one fagged out and drenched
ot the storm and almost dead. He wrapped
it up as well as he could and mounted his
horse and resumed his journey home.
Cuming in sight of his cabin he saw it all
lighted up, and supposed his w:fe had
kindled all these, lights so as to guide her
hiL-band through the darkuess. But no.
The house was full of excitement, and the
neighbors were gathered and stood aron.v.1
the wife of the house, who was insens;b!e
from some great calamity. On inquiry tha
returned husband found that the little
child of that cabin was gone, bhe had
wandered out to meet her father and get
the present be had promised, and the
child was lost. Then the father unrolled
from the blanket the child he had found in
the fields, and, lo, it was his own child
and the lost one of the prairie home, and
the cabin quaked with the shout over the
lost one found.
How suggestive of the fact that once we
were lost in the open fields or among the
mountain crags, God's wandering children,
and Ho found us, dying in the tempest
and wrapped us in the mantle of His love
and fetched us home, gladness and con
gratulation biddiug us welcome. The fact
is that the world does not know God or
they would all floek to Him.
So I set open the wide gate of my text,
inviting you oil to come into the mercy
and pardon of God yea, still further, into
the ruins of the place where once was
kent the knowledge of your iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed, and yet you will find
the ruins more dilapidated and broken
and prostrate than the ruins of Melrose or
Keiulworth, for from these last ruins you
can pick up some fragment of a sculptured
utone or you can sea the curve ot some
broken arch, but after your repentance
and your forgiveness you cannot find in all
the memory of God a fragifient of your
pardoned sins so large as a needle's point.
'Their sins and their iniquities will 1 re
member no more."
Six different kinds of sound were heard
on. that night which was interjected into
tiie daylight of Christ's assassination. The
neighing of the war horse for some oi
the soldiers were in the saddle was ona
ound. the bang of the hammers was a
second suund. the jeer of malignants was
a third sound, the weeping of friends and
followers was a fourth sound, the plash
of blood on the rocks was a fifth sound,
and the groan of tho expiring Lord was a
sixth sound! And they all commingled
into one saduess.
Over a place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing a load of travelers and to
save them a servant sprang from the Bled
into the mouths of the wild beasts and
was devoured, and thereby the other lives
were saved are inscribed the words, "Great
er love hath no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friend." Many a
surgeon in our own time has in trachteo
tomy with his own lips drawn from the
windpipe of a diphtheritic patient that
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the self sacri
fice. But all other scenes of sacrifice pale
before this most illustrious martyr of all
time and all eternity. After that agonizing
spectacle in behalf of our fallen race noth
ing about the ain forgetting God is too
stupendous for my faith, and I accept the
promise, and will you not all accept it?
"Their sins and their iniquities will I re
member no more." .
Copyright, IWt, L. Klopsca.l
'loo Many llachelura Mvln.
The last censui showed that there
were In thn whole country 5,427,707
bachelor against 3,224,494 spinsters,
an excess of 68 per cent of bachelors
over the unmarried women. There
wan not any state In the Union that did
not have more bachelors than single
women, even Massachusetts exhibiting
a small fractional overplus of unat
tached males of marriageable age.
To account for thlc situation of af
fairs It was explained that, the mass of
each state being paired oft by mar
riage evenly as between the sexes, only
a relatively small traction of single
persons old enough to marry was left
over. - In most state the male part of
this fraction was much tn excess of the
female part And It must also be re
membered that women marry mock
younger than men.
If you would, remain a tavorlte int
er ask a favor,
Stxne people live off their wits and
some live off the lack ot wit In other
people
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lessoa Comments For
March 16.
Subject: The Elhleelsa Coirertee", Acts WiL,
2tM-aoMcs Text, Rom. ., 10 M.
err Verses, 34, 35-Comnentary
ea the Day's Lessoa.
26. "An angel." (II. V.) Not the angel
which signifies Christ Himself. We do not
know how he appeared to l'hilip, but we
know that he was "a real messenger,
bringing a real message from God." "Un
to Philip." The evangelist, or deacon.
"Go." l'hilip was probably still in Sama
ria when he received this command, "Oa
fs." One of the five chief cities of the
Philistines. It was situated near the
southern boundary of Canaan, less than
three miles from the Mediterranean.
"The way which is desert." This is a de
scription of the exact route ho was to take.
The word "desert" means a wild and thin
ly settled region. This wus the road
through Hebron. But some think tho
word desert may refer to the "place" he
was to go.
27. "He arose and went." It does not
appear that he knew the object of hia jour
ney, but still he obeyed God instantly
without question. "Ethiopia." Now
railed Nubia and Abyssinia. The high
land south of Kgypt, of which the capital
was Meroe, called fiheha. Gen. 10: 7; 1
Kings 10: 1. Its Hebrew name was Cush,
from the son of Ham. At this time there
were many Jews in Ethiopia. "Kunuch."
Denoting here a state officer of great au
thority, similar, perhaps to tlmt of Joseph.
Gen. 41: 39. Sometimes called chamber
lain. Acts 12: 20. "Candace." Title of
the queen of Meroe, as Caesar of Home,
and i'haraoh of the earlier, and I'tolemv
of the latter dynasties of Kgypt. "Of ail
her treasure." Treasure houses were com
mon in the Kast, where not only money,
but important documents were kept,
Kzra f: 17; Esther 4: 7. Of these treasure
homes this eunuch was custodian. He
wa the queen's secretary of the treasury.
28. "Wus returning." He had come to
Jerusalem to keep the recent feast of
l'entecost. as a Gentile proselyte to tho
Jewish faith, and having come so far he
not only staid out during the festival, but
prolonged his stay until now. "Head
Ksaias. The Greek form for Isaiah. He
was evidently reading aloud, and this was
common among Orientals and was the
practice of the Jews. He may have ob
tained the expensive manuscript while at
Jerusalem, and wus now looking over his
new found treasure.
29. "The Spirit said." That inward
voice which directed Philip to approach
the traveler and keep near the chariot,
was a command of the Holy Ghost dwell
ing in him. The angel who had given him
the first direction had departed, and now
the influence of the Holy Spirit completed
the information.
31). "Philip ran." Showing promptness
in obeying the guidance of the Spirit.
' Heard him read." Philip was walking
or running by the side of tho chariot. In
attaching himself to a train of people who
were journeying in the same direction he
would not be considered nn intruder. "Un
dcrstandest thou." The question would
imply that l'hilip was ready to explain.
Philip did not begin in n roundabout way,
but came directly ti the point. In holy
conversation we should come at once to
the truth itself.
31. "How can I?" Thus admitting that
there was nothing within himself to unfold
the meaning of God's word, and yet ex
pressing nn earnest desire lo knbw its
meaning
32. "Tho place of the scripture." Tho
chapter (lsa. 53) contains eleven distinct
references to the vicarious sufferings of
Christ. "As a sheen." A vivid description
of our Saviour's silent submission to that
sacrificial death, to which He humbled
Himself. 1 Peter 2: 23.
33. "His humiliation." Tn his humble
position as a poor man. "Taken away."
In the contempt, violence and outrage
which He suffered us part His humiliation,
the rights of justicu and humanity which
belonged to Him were taken from Him.
"Declared His generation." There is a
great variety of opinion as to the meaning
of this expression. Many think it equiva
lent to asking, Who cin describe the wick
edness of the men of His time His "con
temporaries?'' 34. "Of whom speaUetii," etc. Frobably
there was no little discussion on this
point. "Of himself." Thinking Isaiah
might have predicted his own martyrdom
by siwing asunder, according to Jewish
tradition. Heb. 11: 37.
3.). "Opened his mouth." Feeling the
great responsibility of unfolding the true
meaning of the Scriptures to his heathen
companion. "Began at the same." He
took his sermon into the gospel concerning
Christ. What the prophet had declared,
had indeed been fulfilled. The Old Testa
ment is fulfilled in the New. "Preached
Jesus." Showed that Jesus was the Christ,
and in His person, birth, life, doctrine,
miracles, passion, death and resurrection
the Scripturca of the Old Testament were
fulfilled.
36. "As t'ney went." They must have
journeyed some time together. "A certain
water." There are many idle conjectures
as to tho exact place of this baptism.
"See. here is water." Tho expression is
merely, "Behold, water!"
37. "Philip said." This verse is wanting
in the Revised Version. "If thou believ
est." Believing is essential to salvation.
With the heart man believeth unto right
eousness. Without faith it is impossible to
please God. It is not so much our doing as
what we avc at heart that God estimates.
He desiretli truth in the inward parts.
God wants tho heart to he moved toward
Him. "The Son of God." After listening
to the story of Christ's humiliation and
death, to believe truly that Ho was tho
Messiah would certainly stir all the love
and adoration of the soul; for love pur
chased redemption, und love is the price for
it.
38. "To stand still." Of course the
vhole retinue would see what took place,
and they may certainly be regarded ua the
nucleus of a congregation to be estab
lished in Ethiopia.
39. "Caught awov." A aulden super
natural removal. The cxpreesions in 1
Kings 18: 12; 2 Kings 2: 10, and the dis
appearance of Christ tn Luke 24: 31, inter
pret the statement here. "He went re
joicing"." Joy from God, joy in God,
joy of God.
40. "Philip was found." Found him
self; made his appearance; an expression
confirming the miraculous manner of his
transportation. "At Azoton." The ancient
Ashdod, on the plain by the sea, eighteen
miles north of Gaza, Thence he went
preaching northward along the coast to
Gaesarca. "To Ocsares. ' South of
Mount Carmel, on the Dluln of Sharon,
Here, twenty years after, Philip met his
old-time persecutor, Saul, the apostle Paul,
Acts ii: tf-iv.
Reallsatluo of Age.
Two gentlemen who had slipped pa
the meridian of 14 fe without hardly ob
serving the faut were talking about
ages while eating a deliberate luncheon
a couple of days ago, when one of them
told a story w hich emlioules the experi
ence of more than one man. "It really
came to me with a little shock," he
said. "I took a sleeper at St. Louis
for New York, and there were only
half a dozen men aboard when I re
tired for the night. In the. morning,
while In the toilet-room brushing my
hair, I saw In the mirror the reflection
of the back of an old gentleman I did
not remember seeing before. He ap
peared much older than any man I had
noticed on the car the night before,
and I made up my mind that ha bad
come aboard after I had gone to bed.
I watched the reflection while arrang
ing my hair, aud then turned, Intend
ing to speak to the old gentleman. You
tan Imagine my surprise when I found
that I had been looking st the reflec
tion of my own back."
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
March 16 "A Noble Purpose" Dan. I, t-26.
Scripture Verses Prov. lv. 14-19;
xxlll. 29, 30; Ps. cxlx. 9; Ezek xvlll. 31,
32; Matt. X. 28; Uike xxl. 34; Rom.
vlll. 1-16; Gal. v. 17; Eph. v. 3; 1 Tim.
v. 22; Tit. II. 12; Jas. I. 12; lv. 112;
I Peter 11. 11; v. 8, 9.
Lesson Thoughts.
Character shows Its effect upon the
body. We see Its physical effects In
the flushed face of tho drunkard and
the low brow of tho criminal. Dan
iel's character and conduct gave him
a vigorous body and a handsome face.
Daniel's character possessed Its
natural Influence In winning the re
frard and love of others. Both nobles
and kings were drawn to affection
for him. Every temperate life and
strong character will even uncon
sciously Influence for good.
Selections.
In a great factory wheels and ma
chinery whirl on every hand, produc
ing a thousand lucrative results.
Down in the engine room Is the force
that keeps all the wheels and bells
at work. An Invincible purpose will
be just such a force In your life, con
trolling every faculty ot mind and
body.
Anaohonls, being asked by what
means a man might guard against the
vice of drunkenness, said: "By bear
ing constantly In view tho loathsome
behavior of the Intoxicated." This
consideration should make us all total
abstainers.
lie who does right Is always Justi
fied by flnal results. And In no phase
of the great stniR(?lo between right
and wrong Is this so manifestly true
as in the temperance conflict.
In general terms it may be said
that no Instance has been recorded
where the Influence of alcohol upon
a good man, when carried to Its full
extent, has failed to taint his moral
nature. Nor has an Instance ever
been known of a character so base,
fo bestial, and Inhuman, that alcohol
could not sink It still lower.
Over-doing In one direction means
under-doing In all others, as you can
not draw water out of a pond without
lowering Its entire level. Every ounce
of strength uacd on what Is lower Is
so much taken from what is higher.
Suggested Hymns.
Sin no more, thy soul is free, -
Standing by a purpose true
Why do you linger?
Gird on the sword and armor,
Today the Savior calls,
O Christian youth, arise.
EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETIN0 TOPICS
March 16 A Noble PurposeDan. 18-20.
Daniel is nentloned as a religious
character, and In Ezek. 28. 3 he is
set forth as on example of the high
est wisdom. Either this patriarchal
Daniel or Bome other man unknown to
history is represented as being sold
into captivity, falling into the hands
of the Chaldean king, suffering the se
verest temptations, but as remaining
absolutely true to his Jewish con
science and to the worship of the one
true God. As a consequence he is
providentially cared for;he secures un
expected honor and prominence; and,
like Joseph and Mo3os In days of old,
he becomes a striking example of the
wisdom of being "obedient unto tho
heavenly vision," of heeding con
science rather than the clamor of
passion or the dictate of expediency,
and of the certain victory which soon
er or later comes to all those who are
thus steadfast In right and truth.
Daniel has a definite, intelligent,
reasoned purpose back of his conduct.
Ho had thought on the law and the
worship of God, he had Intelligently
consecrated himself to the observance
of both, he had foreseen the odds
which would be against him, and ho
had deliberately made up his mind
that he would be true to his conscience
and his God at whatever coat. It Is a
great thing when a young man does
this. He Is already saved from many
snares, and ho has started on the
road to victory.
Any young man who thinks earnest
ly and intelligently will see that the
Chrlstllko life is the beet, the most
satisfactory aud promises most for
time and eternity. If he will conse
crate himself with a great purpose to
do the right, to unfalteringly keep
himself lrom everything that defiles,
anil to follow only the highest, the
purest, the clearly right and good, he
will find himself coming straight Into
the path of God. A similar process
will convince him of the folly of form
ing useless habits and creating useless
wants.
God honored Daniel's purpose and
continually promoted him. Captive
though he was, In daily danger of
death or Imprisonment, misunderstood
and ridiculed as a fool and a fanatic.
Daniel dared to do the right, and, as 1
ne always does, God brought him off
more than conqueror. He had pro
motion after promotion, until he be
came tho chief man In the realm. It
Is simply an emphasis on the fact that
"corruption wins not more than hon
esty." On the whole, id in the long
run, whatever may seem to be the
clamors of mere popularity or exped
iency at the time, he does best who
stands Ly God and truth, right and
purity, honesty and incorruptibility.
Man's first duty Is to get an enlighten- I
ea and Intelligent Intellectual content
to his conscience and then to stand
by Us dlstates at whatever cost. God
and Ood's providence will guarantee
the future ot such a man.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
HEY who march
In faith pray bet
ter than they who
kneel In fear.
The most valu
able picture's on
earth Is that of a
living holy fam
ily. II.. l,nMJnil c n f -
k5r ' n - mam do not w.um
A man must ba
consistent with his present and not
with tula past.
A religion In sports will not keep
you unspotted from the word.
A steady shining though small U
better than a great scintillation.
Men. who are scooped Into the church
are not safe In tho kingdom.
Better not write at all than wrlto
that whloh is not right.
Irreverence is the brand of Ignor
ftjice. It' an 111 will that speaks well of no
oue. .... . .
THE GREAT DESTKOYEK
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Thn M orders of Drink Eight Hundred
anil Twenty Iloinlrliles In the United
States Last Year Were Causeil by In-
toxlonflon Itlootl nfth Saloon's Crime
For several years past the Chicago Tri
bune has annually published a statement
regarding the crimes of violence in the
United htates. Tho method used in gath
ering those statistics is not unquestion
ably accurate, since, as we understand it,
the report given ia merely a summary of
what the news dispatches bring to the
office of the Tribune in the course of the
year. However, the figures are valuable
and probably approach nearer to authen
tic statistics than anv others in existence.
According to the Tribune's figure tiers
were in the United States during the year
1901 820 murders caused by intoxicating
dri.iks. The incompleteness of this state
ment is manifest in a moment when it is
noticed that the list includes 4016 murders
that are recorded as tho "outcome of quar
rels." It is a matter of common knowledge
that comparatively few quarrels end in
murder where the principals of the quar
rel are sobpr. l'"or some reason or other of
late years there has been nn extreme disin
clination upon the part of the newspapers
to report drink's part it a murder case.
Yet tie intelligent reader readily rcco
nir.es it in numerous instances. Tn!.e as
an illustration a murder occurring in Chi
cago last Saturday night Two men quar
reled over a matter of $7. One of them
went out and was gone a few minutes.
turned and renewed his dciu.i id, was re
fused und shot the other man, instui tiy
killing him, and turning ran from the
oflicc, entered a saloon and took a drink.
That that was rot tho lirsl drink in the
tragedy needs little confirmation, but the
published reports will record this as a
crime due to a quarrel, rather than due to
drink.
Hut suppose that the ficures of the Tri
bune were accurate, and that only 821 peo
ple n-ore r.iurdcrcd iu the United bUiites
during th? last year on nccotr.it of intoxi
cating liquors. Even with that, the show
ing would be that as a people we are al
lowing a well-known, preventable cause lo
deprive a larg? number of fel!ow-citize:is of
life and to carry grief and suffering to a
much areatcr number. Even 821) murders
stand as a charge of appalling blackness
against a people who will not take the
necessary stops for the removal of the
cause. We say "will not," for, so far as
the great multitude of tho American peo
ple is concerned, that is tho case. It. is
true there arc propositions for regulation,
propositions for changing the method by
which drink is sold, propositions to in
crease the revenue received, but each ami
all of such propositions offer not the slight
est deviation from the one constant fact
that the sale of intoxicating drink, under
any regulation, by any method, produces
crime, makes murder.
The surprising fact about it is t'ml the
Anglo-Saxon race has known this for cen
turies. Two hundred and lifty years ago
Sir Matthew Hale, then an eminent jurist
of England, said:
"The places of Judicature which I have
held in this kingdom have given me op
portunity to observe the original cause of
most of the enormities that have been com
mitted for the space of nearly twenty
years, nnd by close observation I have
i'oun.l that if the murders nnd manslaught
ers, the burglaries and robberies, the riot;-,
and tumults nnd other enormities that
have happened in that. time, were divided
into five parts, four of them have been the
ixiue und product of excessive drinking at
taverns or ale-house meetings."
Murder touches us quickly enough some
times. The whole country was convulsed
and even now there ore thousands who
would legislate nwav the dearest bnimht
rights of the people becau.io a single mur
der was committed last summer by a poor
fool at Buffalo. But how long can not the
saloon spatter the blood of its crimes in
the faces of Christian people with impu
nity? New York Voice.
( Without the Use of Alcohol.
The London Temperance Hospital, which
was founded in 1873 for the treatment of
medical and surgical cases without the use
of alcohol, has just issued its twenty-eighth
annual report.
It covers tho period of 1900, nnd states
that during that year 1282 in-patients were
admitted, being 72 fewer than in 1890.
The cases cured were Sol; relieved. 2o4:
unrelieved, 80. The deaths were 117. of
which no fewer than 32 occurred within
twenty-four hours of admission. The
death rate is therefore 9.1 per cent., which
may be regarded as moderate. Exclud
ing moribund casts the death rate was 0.0
per cent. From the opening of the hospi
tal in 1873 the in-patients have numbered
17,910, the cures have been 10,372, and the
deaths 12S0, giving the low death percent
age of 7.2. The out-patients treated in 1900
were g:j27, who made 21,015 visits. In
Jm the figures were 8328 and 22,043 respec
tive., v. The casualty patients in 11100 were
14,012, and thrir visits 32.301. In 1.HP9 tho
iiKuves were 12.C45 and 30,0.50 respectively.
Added together the out-patients and cas
ualty patients in 1900 numbered 22,339.
These were new cas-js, the visit3 being 53,
370 Insanity Due to Liquor.
"Th?re lias been a remarkable increase
of infinity in this city in recent years,"
said Assistant Warden Hi):nrd, of Belle
vuo Hospital, to a reporter of the Now
York Tribune. "Here at this hospital,
where most of the cases arc examined, a
case of inar.nity was not so common twenty
years ago uj to fail to attrn"t the attention
of eve-voody connected with the institu
tion. Now we have 20J0 insanity cases u
yea- at tho hospital,"
Mr. flickard opened a book nnd showed
that durin; the year 1S!i3 1130 men and
045 women had been sent to the hospital
as ini:ne patients. Of the whole number
only 10! had been discharged an cured or
no: insaue, while 778 men and 745 wonen
had been sent to the asylums on the isl
and, and the rest had been sent to other
institutions.
The Cruaailo In Brier.
For the best picture illustrating the evils
of intemperance tho Belgian Government
has offered a prize of 1000 francs.
Judge Templetoa, of Toledo, Ohio, has
decided that a saloonkeeper can be com
pelled to refund the monev spent in his
place by a man who is drunk.
An English law passed in 1774 providing
that not more than $5 can he recovered for
liquor debts, was tested lately by a physi
cian who owed over 250. The law was de
c.nred valid, and the liquor dealer is out
9245.
l'ar.igould, Ark., has found a night mar
shal unnecessary since the town went dry.
According to Mr. Wynn Westcott, an
r-ng.isii Coroner, it is very rare when a
total abstainer commits suicide.
Tiie Wonderful physical vitality of the
Tur'tibh race is duo to the universal absti
nence of the common people. Alcohol is
not touched by the peasants, soldiers, mer
chants or members of the learned profes
sions. What lenislation, we ask, can make rep
utable the business of those men against
whom (Jod has pronounced this woe:
"Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink, that puttest the bottle to hnu and
maketh him drunken also!"
The drinkers are the principal part of
the problem, and drinking will continue
to increase aa long as they are permitted
to indulge their appetites at will.
Would wo deal with the saloon aa we
deal with other sources of contagion, would
we treat the saloon as we would treat any
other crime centre that was spreading sim
ilar baleful inrluences, the liquor trullic
would be aboh.died before sundown.
The wholesale liquor dealers of Okla
homa have agreed to build a home (for or
phuus) to cost 120,000, at some point in
Oklahoma, and the retail liquor dealers
have agreed to puy tho running expenses.
News in Oklahoma paper. Oklahoma
liquor dealers appear to agree with some
anti-saloon peoplo that the saloon ought
to "pay its own bills."
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Otneral Trade Conditions.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade says: Although the shortest
month of the year was further curtailed
by two holidays and handicapped by the
most severe storms of the winter, in
dustrial and trade results were most
satisfactory. The closing week brought
a general resumption of activity in lines
that suffered from the weather, and
preparation for an exceptionally heavy
spring business was reported at many
points.
Wheat came into sight rather more
freely than a year ago, and the Atlantic
shipment of flour made a better com
parison than in recent preceding weeks,
hut total exports of wheat from the
United States, Hour included, were
3,185,053, against 4.324,240 bushels a
year ago. Corn showed a loss in both
movements.
Failures for the week numbered 215
in the United States, against 170 last
year, and thirty-five in Canada, against
mirty-onc last year.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour Best Patent. $4.00; High Grade
F-xtra, $440; Minnesota Bakers, $J.2Sa
?.M5.
Wheat New York No. 2, 87c ; Phila
delphia No. 2, 85385; ; Baltimore No. 2,
84c.
Corn New York No. 2, 6H ; Phila
delphia No. 2, 63a(5.'4 ; Baltimore No.
2, ouabrc. '
Oats New York No. 2. 50c; Philadel
phia No. 2, S'j'jc; Baltimore No. 2,
Hay No. I, timothy, large bales,
$15.00.115.50; No. 2 tiniothy,$i4.ooai4 5o;
No. 3 do. $r2.ooai3.oo.
Green Fruits and Vegetables. Apples
New York, assorted, per brl, $J75a
4.50; Fancy Greenings, per brl, $4 5011
5.00. Cabbage New York Slate, per
ton, domestic, a$J2.oo; do, large Dan
ish, per ton, $23 00824.00; do, small Dan
ish, per ton, $18.00,120.00; do, new Flor
ida, per crate, $2.ooa2.25. Carrots Na
tive, per bushel box, 40a4.se; do, per
bunch, Ijaac. Celery Native, per
bunch, 3a3;4c. Eggplants Florida, per
crate, $3.5034.00. Grape Fruit Florida,
per box, fancy, $5.0037.00. Horseradish
Native, per box, $2.2582.50. Lettuce
North Carolina, per half-barrel basket,
75c.a$t.oo; do, Florida, per half-barrel
basket, $1.0031.75. Onions Maryland
and Pennsylvania, yellow, per bushel,
$i.25at.3o; 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, navels,
per box, $2.5033.25. Oystcrplants Na
tive, per bunch, fa6c. Radishes Flor
ida, per bunch, long, ia2c. Spinach
Native, per bushel box, $1.0031.25; do.
Norfolk, per brl, $3.0033.50. Squash
Florida, per bushel box, $t.5oa2.oo.
Strawberries Florida, per quart, refrig
erator, 35340c; do, open crate, 30a35c
Tomatoes Florida, per six-basket car
rier, fancy, $2.0032.25; do, fair lo good,
$i.25ai.75. Turnips Native, per box, 20
a 25c.
Potatoes. White Maryland and Penn
sylvania, per bushel, No. I, 80385c; do,
seconds, 70375c; do, New York, per
bushel, best stock, 80385c; do, seconds,
70375c; do, Western, per bu, prime, 80a
85c. Sweets Eastern Shore, Va., ktln
dricd, ber brl, $3.0033.25 ; do, Maryland,
per brl,' fancy, $3.0033.50.
Provisions and Hog Products Bulk
clear rib sides, o'ic; bulk clcsr sides,
; bulk shoulders, 9c ; bulk clcsr
pistes, 9!i ; bulk tat backs, 14 lbs. and
under, 9J4 ! bulk fat backs, 18 lbs. and
under, g'jc ; bulk bellies. 10c; bulk ham
butts. 9J4c ; bacon shoulders, 9!4c ; sugar
cured breasts, small, lojc; sugar-cured
breasts, 12 lbs and over, lo!4c; sugar
cured shoulders, blade cuts, 9J4c ; sugar
cured shoulders, narrow, 9J4c; sugar
cured shoulders, extra broad, io'ic;
sucar-cured California hams. 8;-"Jc; hams,
canvased or uncanvased, 12 lbs. and over,
12c. Refined lard, tierces, barrels and
50-lb." cans, gross, io.'c.
Butter Separator, 28a2qc ; gathered
cream, 24325c; imitation, 2oa2ic; prints,
l-lb., 28a20c: rolls, 2-lb., 28a2gc; dairy
prints, Md., Pa. and Va;. 26327c.
Eggs Western Maryland and Penn
sylvania, per doz., 325c. Eastern
Shore (Maryland and Virginia), per
doz., a25c. Virginia, per dozen, a
25c. West Virginia, per dozen, 24325c.
Western, per dozen, a25C. Southern,
per dozen, 22323c Guinea, per dozen,
a c. Duck, Eastern Shore, fancy, per
dozen. 330c ; do, Western Shore, per
dozen, 28329c; do, small and dirty, per
dozen, '7a28c.
Cheese New cheese, large, 60 lbs,
ii'jaitc; do, Hats, 39 lbs, 1214 to
12-Vji; picnic, 23 lbs, !2.j to 12 J4.'
Dressed Poultry Turkeys, henf good
to choice, per lb., ai6c; do, hens and
young toms, mixed, good to choice, per
lb, aisc; do, young toms, good to
choice, per lb, 314c; do, old toms, good
to choice, per lb, 11313c. JJticks, good to
choice, per lb, 13315. Chickens, young,
good to choice, per lb, 12313c; do, mixed,
old and young, per lb, 103110; do, poor
to medium, per lb, 9310c. Geese, good
to choice, per lb, ioai2c. Capons, fancy,
large, per lb, 16317c; do, good to choice,
per lb, 14315c ; do, small and slips,"pcr
n, 12313c.
Lire Stock.
Chicago. Cattle Good to prime
steers, $6.5037.00; poor to medium, $4.00
3640; stockcrs and feeders. $2.2535.00;
cows, $1.2535.25; heifers, $2.5035.50; can
ners, $1.2532.25; bulls, $2.5034.50; calvej,
$2.5036.00; Texas fed steers, $4.5035.75.
Hogs Mixed and butchers, $5.7536.15;
flood to choice, heavy, $6.ioa6.jo; rough,
leavy, $5.8036.10; light, $3 6535.80; bulk
of sales, $5.8036.10. Sheep Good to
choice, $4-6535.55; fair to choice mixed,
$3.8oa4 25 ; Western sheep and yearlings,
$4.2535.90; native lambs, $3.7536.50;
Western lambs, $5.6536.50.
East Liberty Cattle, choice, $6.4036.50;
prime, $6.20,16.40; good, $5.50115.00. Hogs
lower ; prime hesvy, $6.353640 ; best me
diums, $6.2036.35; beavv Yorkers, $6.isa
6.25; light do. $5.0036.10; pigs, $5,408
5.60 ; roughs, $5.0036.00. Sheep slow and
lower; best wethers, $5.4035.60,
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
America has 22,000 women cigar
makers.
The American Federation of Labor has
1,000,000 members.
The brickmakers of Georgia and Ala
bama have organized.
There are now 1,414 wool manufac
turing plants in the country.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass, Company's
profits for the yeat- were $1,503,638.21.'
The luboruinate locals of the Iron
Moulders' Union of North America have
voted down a proposition to increase the
number of apprentices. ,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is planning a $7,000,000 depot at Cin
cinnati. The Sheet Metal Workers National
Alliance is a new national. labor organi
zation. T he Wool Oil Chemical Company will
build a plant at Savannah, Ga., to utilize
refuse lumber.
Organized workingmen of Grand Rap
ids, Mich., are planning the erection of
a trade and labor council.
The Pittsburg Stove and Range Com
pany will erect a central plant at Beaver
Falls at the cost of about $300,000. The
new Industry will employ from 800 to
1,000 men.
god's Message to man
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS.
!i!emt I Never KnewEvery Discovery of
Science Shows That Innnlle Wisdom
Has Worked Out an Infinitely Complex
System of Machinery For the World.
I never knew before, the world
So beautiful could be
As I have found it sinco I learned '
All care to cast on Thee;
The scales have fallen from mine eyes,
And now the light I sea.
I never knew how very dear
My fellow-men could be
L'ntil I learned to help them with'
A ready sympathy;
Their inner lives have made me know
A broader charity.
I never knew how little things
As greater ones could he.
When sanctified by love for Ona
Who doth each effort see;
But now a duily round of care
May win a victory.
I never knew; and still, dear Lord,
As through a glass I sec,
And perfect light can only come
When I shall dwell with Thee;
When in Thy likeness I awake
For all eternity.
Living Church.
Itow Science Discovers God.
A French naturalist declares that if
there were no birds man would be starved
out in nine years; for in spile of all that
ho could do the insects nnd slugs would
multiply so rapidly that they would le
troy all vegetation in that time. We owe
our very existence, therefore, to the birds
whVh in seeking their own living destroy
daily myriads oi thc.-c destructive creat
ures nd so muke it possible for plants and
trees to live.
This is only one of n multitude of mar
velous provisions by means of which the
forces of nature ore adjusted so as to make
possible the existence of nn infinite va
riety of plant and animal Iiie nn our globe,
and more especially to tit the world for
man's habitation.
Kvery new discovery of science brings
out more and more clearly the fact that
infinite wisdom has worked out an infi
nitely complex nnd marve'.ously beautiful
system of machinery, if one may call it so,
in this world of ours, that evcrv valve and
pulley and belt, every holt nnd rod is ad
justed to the Diirticttlnr work assigned to
it. nnd that sll work together for the ac
complishment of one great design.
Man cannot hope, however, to find out
the ultimate purpose of the Architect of
Nature by studying nature. We need to
I00K upon the Architect's own plan to see
wdiat ,11 is nurpose is. That plun, which is
spread before us in the Hible, is so trans
cendantly glorious that it is worth while
even for Cod to spend thousands of years
in working it out.
All truth has its origin in the thoughts
of (!od; therefore, any truth when fol
lowed back to its source will necessarily
lead to God. If the researches of sci'iicc
seem for n time to lead men away from
(Jod, it ia only because a half seen .ruth
usually points in the wrong direction and
the true remedy for the evil i- .0 pursue
the studv which has led to a ra'-i conclu
sion nmler fuller knowledge ci ibe sub
ject with which it deals correct.; the false
imprchsion derived from partial information-.
We find a very (rood illustration of this
in a book called "The InHuence of Christ
in Modern Life." by Dr. N'ewell Dwight
Hillis, published by the Mccniillan Co.n
pany. Dr. Hillis says:
"It is said that when J.icquard first ex
hibited his loom to the wondering specta
tors, anil the streams of water, by means
of the belt and lly-wlieel, started all the
spindles upon their tank of embroidering
flowen and leaves upon the silk texture,
the onlookers were bo entranced with tho
wonders of the loom ns utterly to forget
the inventor. The myriad spindles toiling
nn without any help from without made
.lacquard seem superfluous. But soon tha
incuianism needed repairing, and then the
spectators came to feel there was no
-greatness in tho loom that was not first in
lacquard s mind.
"Thus for a brief period thin earthly
mechanism (nature with its forces anil
their laws) Beenied to abolish (iod. But
afterward, with knowledge, reveraneo grew
until the time has now come when biolo
gists, physicists, historians alike confess
that there ia no theory of evolution which
does not demand a God to make it worka
ble." Dr. Ilillisis a particularly able as well
as aggressive exponent of the school of
theology which is in tho ascendant at pres
ent the school which uppeala to reason aa
the supreme judgeof truth and accepts
the teachings of revelation only us far aa
they are considered reasonable. The ad
herents of this school believe m God be
cause they find Him in nature, and in
Christ because He satisfies their ideals with
regard to the possibilities of human nature.
Well, it is better to believe even so than
not to believe at all. I!ut that sort of be
ilef will not satisfy the needs of our spirit
ual nature. W'e need a God concerning
whom we can have definite knowledge
through a direct revelation, which wo can
feel to be authoritative and trustworthy
in itself and superior to and therefore quito
independent of any discoveries or impres
sions concerning Him which can be ob
tained from the ratiocinations of the hu
man mind even in its highest development.
New York Witness.
Life Indeed.
Coil has been wrestling with you pa
tiently and luvingly for many years. Ho
has sought by the prosperity and happi
ness that He has sent you to make you con
scious of His tender love and care, and to
draw you to Him by the cords of gratitude.
And when you failed to perceive Him in
the daylight. He has met you in the dark
ness. He has thrown His strong arm
around you and still you have not known.
Him. He has wounded you Ho has had to
wound you because you ktruggled against
Him. Can you not now see that it ia He?
And-is it not idle to renist Him? Oh, if
men only knew that God is not their en
emy, but thoir best friend! If instead of
holding Him off or trying to break away
from His embrace, tjiey would cling to
Him, as Jacob did, exclaiming: "I will not
let Thee go, except Thou bless me!" Aa
soon as that prayer ia offered the blessing
comes and the morning breaks. There
would have been iu need of the long
struggle if the soul had only yielded sooner
to Him whose one supreme desire is to
bless and save it. Edward B. Coe, D. D.
' Only the Spiritual Survives.
The destiny of man ia bound up with the
siiintual life. The physical must be soon
abandoned, the mentul will survive death,
the moral will always be valuable, but
our future weal or woe in a spiritual world
turns on our present use of the spiritual
opportunities. Rev. H. Francia Perry,
Baptist, Kuglewobd, 111.
Heaven. -"
Heaven ia not a passive state, where ona
only site atill and enjoys. Eternal life ia
not eternal sleep, but it ia eternal activity
in the survice of God. ltev. Charles W.
Ilyrd, Methodist, AUanti
One ot God's rem man ts better than
the world's whole pleoe.
Blessed la tfcft main who consecrates
God's gifts to Hia glory.
A death in tho noma on earth oft
opens the uVxtr to the homo In heaven,
The steady stream ot ain la not kept'
back by an annual spurt of religion.
It la well to lay our trouldaa before
the Lord and better to laava them
there, 1 '
The loving Judgments of frlend3 are
harder to bear than the harsh ones of
foea.