MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Sunday Discourse by Dr. Chapman, the
Noted Pastor-Evangellaf.
A Tot Which Is (fit Saddest Expreislcn
Possible In Human Language Pily tar
Those Without a God.
NEw'YonK City'. The Key.' Dr. J. Wil
bur Chapman, the noted pastor-evangelist,
continues to excite popular interest
by the eerie of remarkable sermons he i
delivering in the Fourth Presbyterian
Church. Apropos of patriotic oelcbratinna
he has prepared the following discourse
for the press, entitled "A Man Without a
Country." It is preached from the text.
Ephcsisns 2: 12, "Having no hope and
without God in the world.
This is one of the snddest test in the
New Testament, for while it describes our
own condition when we were aliens from
Christ and strangers to the covenant aud
promise of God, yet 1 sake it in my pre
sentation of this subject to decrile those
who have wilfully rejected Christ and
who have deliberately decided that they
will not accept Him as a .Saviour. With
this interpretation put uon the Scripture
we have in the text the saddest expression
possiblo in human language. I suppose
there i no one of my hearers to whom the
words may be strirtlv applied, for if we
take hopo out of a man's life it i not
worth the living. The young man may
have failed yesterday, but he has hoped
that he may aucceed to-morrow; the busi
ness man who has lost hia fortune in the
wreck of post days is not discouraged be
cause hope buoys him up, and he is conli-
lnl. tlinf. 1ii-r.drw.j-tt V will ! Ilia nnp.
again. Take hope from our lives and we !
are o all men most miserable, and it in
addition to being deprived of hojie we
have no God we are not only hopclcps for
time, but hopeless also for eternity, for
since we wero made to be tilled with God
and all our being wes so adjusted as to be
at. tune to His nature, there is no sadder
picture than to be without Him. Home
years ago I came acroxa that interesting
and pathetic story written by Edward Ev
erett Hale entitled "The Man Without a
Country," and it has furnished for me an
illustration of this text to which your at
tention ia invited. I found in the man
. who drifted everywhere across the eea
without being able to enter a harbor a
presentation of many a man who has bur
ied Christ out of hia life. The man was
Philip Noland by name. Whether the
atory be truth or fiction it does not mat
ter, for the illustration ia the same. This
young lieutenant in the armv had come
under the influence of Auron Iturr, and he
had fascinated him. The young soldier
wrote to Burr long letters expreswing his
hopes and his desires that he might serve
him, but had no letters from liurr in re
ply. At last he came one day to see the
young man, and then his hold upon him
was complete. The regular life of the sol
dier became tame; ho was utterly un
fitted for service. There came a time
when in company with others who were
lao under the influence of Kurr he must
appear before the army court to be tried
for misdemeanor. The others for one rea
son or another escaped sentence, but
Philip Noland was pronounced guilty.
He waa asked by the judge if he had any
thing to say why sentence should not be
passed upon him because ho had been
false to his country and had sinned against
the United States. His reply was an
oath, and in the presence of the court he
cursed his country and said that he
wished he might never again hear the
sound of the name United States; that he
hated his native land. The judge, with a
white face, answered, "It shall lie as you
nay, and subject to the approval of the
President of the United Suites, you shall
never again hear of your country." At
this Philip Noland laughed, but no one
else- did; there was a deathlike stillness
over, the court. He was taken to New Or
leans, given over into the charge of a
commander of one of the vessels, with the
distinct understanding that no or? was
over again to speak to him of the United
States, and he was to be allowed to speak
to no one of his old home. He was at
last put upon a Government vessel and
given quarters befitting his late rank. It
was expressly stipulated that he was to
be exposed to no indignity; he was not to
be reminded of the fact that he was a
prisoner, mid while he could wear the uni
form yet he must not have the buttons of
the Lnitcd States Government upon this
uniform. Indeed he was to be a man
without a country from this time on. lie
was permitted once each day to dine with
the officers, but they did not cure to have
him. because when he was present they
could not talk of home; under no circum
stances was he to ever see his country
Again and never was he to hear of it. He
was not permitted to go ou shore wher
ever the landing might be. If he read
books at all they must contain no refer
ence to his home, and if he read the for
eign papers it was only after some one
had carefully cut out every reference to
the United States. If the vessel upon
which he was a passenger came near
his country it must wait until it would be
overtaken by another vessel going sea
ward. Philip Noland became a passenger
with his face set away from his home. It
has ever been to me one of the saddest
illustrations I k.iow, and yet a perfect pic
ture of the man who has deliberately re
jected Christ, has said, "I will not huvo
this man to rule over me," and who "is,
therefore, described by the wonls of the
text as "having uo hope and without God
In the world."
I.
We have rejected Him. He has said in
His word. "He that is not with Me is
ngsist Me," and not to accept is to re
ject. It is true we have never said in so
many words t'.at wo would nut have Him
us our Saviojr, but we have resisted this
entreaties of the minister an 1 spurned
the prayers of our loved ones, and what
we havu not been bold enough to say with
the lips we have said in our hearts, and
God kuowaih the luuguagc of the heart
as men know the language of the lips. 1
am very sure that Philip Noland did not
mean what he said. He had spoken in a
passion, and I am perfectly positive that
no ono here could for a moment reject
Christ if he fell, that Christ would take
him at his- word, and posniblv he might
never have a chance again. Mr. Moody
used to say that no one wanted to be ex
"' v t "Wo"'J you sign a letter like
this, ho said. ".Silting in the house of
God this Sunday evening I received a
pressing invitation from one of vour trv
ant to be present at the Marriap.o Sup
Pr "'.V,18 l-amb. I prav thee, have me
excused. No one would sign it. Then,
would you sign this? "Sitting in the
linuse of God this Sunday evening I re
ceived a pressing invitation from ono of
your servants to be present at the Marriage-
Bupper of the Lamb. By the grace
of God I will be there." If you could but
sign that there would b joy in heaven
and joy m your own heart. '
II.
tiil"e af"r off- "r hmrta
re deceitful" above air things ancf aesper-
ately wicked. Our mmds are carnal and
therefore at enmity with God; our wills
are stubborn and will not yield to the
touch of His power; we are iu midnight
darkness, and it is in this condition that
Jle eomes to us. In the 131 h verse of the
second chapter of Kpheeituia we read,
uul now in Christ Jesus, ye who some
Wmes were afar off are made nigh by the
Wood of Christ," and to all the unsaved
tf fwf l10 t "ay, I the grace
8'hili :i?0V8 btougl .uih 4t tlhr.si.
i . j ii uo be't""9 you lavc been under
he influence of the Spirit, and you uiiy
he. eaved if you will but if you rejfvV
Uirist iio word can describe tl.i, , i o5
wluc k you ,nr guilty. l the Ola Testa,
liicot the man who despised Moses' (Joel
died wiukoiit mercy among two or three
enemies, ot how much greater need of
mercy shall he be that hath hodden uu
jler foot the So-, of God hath counted the
1 ,ood whereof He was gloiitied a common
'lung, ajid has insulted the Spirit of grace
Jn this picture of Philip Noland. a sailor
on the sea without a harbor, X find an
illustration of, the man who in spile of
.ii4 s grace has rejected the offer of mercy.
in. ,
We begin to break away, not by great
, otiJlU fay nU - Have you "ever
iliaoter nf lt three lerm in
i..,l ? f, Hom 'hut wonderful tie
able o? an! "-t remark-
tlV. Y tl" world h" 'Yttr la
the 24tb verse w. r.ad. "God gtt then.
no to uncleanness;" in tne zntti versed
"Od gave them np to rile affections,"
while in the 28th verse we read. "God
gave them up to a reprobate mind." The
uneleannesa may have been sin of an insig
nificant character; to be given np to vile
affections is to be permitted to set our
hearts upon those things which are not
right, and draw them to us as with hooks
of steel, but to be given over to a repro
bate mind is to be honelei. 1 make an
appeal to-day in behalf of those whovf
lives are in the least touched by sin; it
is a dangerous position.
IV.
What ia the greatest sin in alt the estv
logue as written in God's word? If this
question were put to men there would be
almost as many answers as there are nien.
It is not impurity, nor dishonoslv. These
things are not even to be considered in
the light of the greatest sin of all, which
is unbelief. When we read in the gospels
that the Holv Ghost is to come, it is said
that He will renrove the world of sin,
and that sin is described as not b-lieving
on Him. To reject Christ, therefore, is
the chiefest of all transgressions.
V.
Having no hope. I cannot imagine that
any of my hearers would f.ir a momenf
think of giving way to unbelief or taking
refuge in inlidelitv. That is. indeed,
hopeless. It is said that Adoniram Jnd
son when he was a student in Brown Uni
versity came under the influence of a fcl
lo'V student who was an infidel. On his
return to Providence at one time he was
obliged to ston at n conntrv inn. The inn
keeper told him he had but one room,
and that was next to a man who was sup
posed to dying. Judson enred nothing
for this, and said he would take the
mom. All through the night ho heard
this man crying out to God for mercy,
shrieking in terror because of his unbelief,
and at lost. Judson utterly worn out fell
asleep. When the morning came all was
quiet in the adjoining room, but the man
was dead. What wos the student's horror
to lind nut that the dying man was his
companion in inlidelitv. and when he rame
to the end there was no hope for him.
and infidelity prevailed him nothing. It
is an awful thi:ig to be without Christm
the world. " """
VI.
Without God. If yon could imagine
God taken out of your life for a moment
it would be n position of terror. No one
would ever again say no to Him if they
realized that they might say uo for fhe
last time. To have no help in temptation
and no comfort, in the hour of sorrow,
and no support in the ciay of death would
indeed be an awful thing. A friend of
mine told nie of a man in the West who
had been constantly besomcht by his
friends to come to Christ, and had resisted
nil their entreaties. . lie had been en
treated by God Himself as He called him
in prosperity and in adversity, and at
last the calls became so marked that it
was as if God had actually siikcn to him,
and at last in n heat of passion be cried
out as if he were speaking to God. "Oh.
God, let me alone," and Ho did. and until
the day of his death it is said he never
again had even a faint desire to go to
Christ. It is dangerous to resist. God
pity the man who says no to Christ and
speaks for the last time, and th.s csnes
to the place where he had no hope and is
without God in the world.
Was Trne to Her Colors.
A beautiful instance of Christian fidel
ity was that displayed by a distinguished
Christian young woman who was spending
a few weeks of summer at a certain hotel
in a favorite resort in the East.
An effort was made to induce her to at
tend a dance, in order that the affair
might have the prestige bestowed by her
presence, as she stood high in society. She
declined all the importunities of her
friends.
Finally, an honorable Senator tried to
persuade her to attend, saying: "Miss
K , this is quite a harmless affair, and
we want the exceptional honor of your
presence."
".Senator," s-iid the lady, "I cannot do
it; 1 am a Christian. I never do anything
in my summer vacation, or wherever I go,
that will injure the influence I have over
the girls of my Sabbath-school class."
The Senator bowed and said: "I honor
you; if there, were more Christians like
you, mure men like myself would become
' Uiriscians."
(tori's Work Must He Tione.
A poor field negro with a wooden lc
hoob.ed up to the collection table to lay
his offering upon it. llu took from a pock
et a handful of silver, and s:iid, "That's
for nie, massa;" from another pocket, an
other handful, "That's for my wite,
massa " and from still unolher pocket, vet
another handful. "Thut's for my child,
inassa." The pastor remonstrated with
him for giving so much. "O inassa!" said
he, "God a work must be done, aud I will
have a part in it."
Commenting on this incident, Ida Q.
Moult on says: "You and 1 want n part in
it. Heaven's treasures will he given us
throughout the eternal ages for a brief life
of self-denial aud self-saeriliee here, oiit
of love for our dear Master. Take this
motto to your strong, true, loving heart,
fellow-Christian: 'God's work must be
done, and I will have a part iu it.' "
Host In Christ.
When you come to Jesus and rest in
Him you discover how God loves you, not
because He made you, not with a lovo
which depends upon your goutiness, but
with the everlasting lovo of a Fiuher. a
love so great and wise that He would not
if Ho could make your sins be less a bur
den to your souls, but would increase that
burden that you might be driven to be
rid of your sins. And, when you coma to
Him and lind how lie loves you and takes
the burden from your soul, you will lovo
Him. That is what you waut. Our sins
uro greatly aggravated by the stony hard
ness of your hearts toward God. Jesus
takes it all away. Your mind has the
repose of faith, your conscience the re
pose of forgiveness, your hearts tuc re
pose of love.
Christ's Transforming; l'otrer.
While Christ used the common tilings
of life, He made them very uncommon,
says the Kev. Dr. O, P. Gilford, the well
known pastor of Huffalo. He took the
conin;on bread and said, "This is My
body." He took the common wine and
said, "This is My blood." Tho artist
takes up his canvas and colors, and us
yon look at the canvas you think of
nothing but the different colors of paint.
When the artist combines them, you
think neither of canvas or colors, lint of
the picture. Christ made the common
est things of life sacred; He made clrudes
ery divine; Ho makes every burden and
trial a stepping stone to life itself, and
life s long, sweet psalm. This He doc
when you surrender every thine to Uiiu
To Resuscitate ths Drowned.
It waa t-scertalned some time ago
that a poison who had been drowned,
and la apparently dead, may frequent
ly be restored to life by the regular
drawing out of the tongue, the opera
tion being continued for quite a tliso.
In order to facilitate this cyatem. Dr.
Laborde, who originated the Idea, In
vented a dock-working machine which
will keep up a rythmical movement ot
the tongue for at least half an hour,
and can th?n be wound up again for
another thirty niiuiiteu. By this meuna
portions have been restored to life who
would, under ordinary circumstances,
have been given up as doad.
Speared by ay llroom,
A Wheeling (W. Va.) young man
named Joseph Jackson lived to tell the
atory of having a broom handlo
knocked through hia jaw. He la a tool
dresser and waa sweeping out the engine-room
In the factory where be ia
employed while the machinery waa in
operation. In aome way the broom
caught in the flywheel of the engine
and waa forcvd upwards, the handle
penetrating bla lower Jaw and extend
ing almost to the base of the brain.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lesson Comments For
June 29.
Review of the Twelve Lessens Tor (he Second
Quarter, Acts xr., 5-21-Golden Text,
Lake II., J2 Summary For
Scholars' Use.
Introduction.-We have seen during
the past quarter the great interest the
early church took in foreign mission
ary work; in fact, the whole church might
be called a missionary chrfrch, organized
for the purpose of otieratiug along mis
sionary lines. To carry the gospel to the
"regions bevond" seemed to bo the g eat
ambition of the apoUles and their follow
ers. Ouly as the missionary spirit ia kept
alive will tho church be saved from stsg
nation and dcuth.
Lesson 1. Topic: Jeans appearing to
San1. Place: In and nea:- Damascus. Mill
persecutes the disciples; receives a com
mission from the hieh priest; goes to Da
mascus to arrest the Christians; wurn
near Damascus is struck down to the ear ill
by supernatural power; hears a voiee
from heaven; iH assisted to Damascus; is
blind three clays, during which time lie
fasted; is visited by Ananias; scales tall
from bis eyes; be receives tho Holy rpuit
and is baptized; preaches immediately.
If Topic: Peter working mirac.es.
Places: Lvdda, Joppa, Sharon. Peter goes
down to Lvdda; heals Kneas of the paiy;
many turned to tho Lord. Dorcas, n wo
man highly respected, was sick at Joppa;
they sent for Peter, but before ha arrived
Dnfcas died: many widows wero weeping;
Peter put them all forth, kneeled down
and prayed, commanded her to arise, and
presented her alive.
III. Topic: Christ the Paviour of nil
men. 1 Places: Joppa. Caesarea. Peter is
called to go to Caesarca to tho home of
Cornelius a Gentile, where a company ol
friends had gathered; Peter preaches to
them; tells them that God is no respecter
of persons but will accept tho one who
fears Him; preaches Jesus to them;
speaks of the death and resurrection ot
Christ; tells them that whoscver bclicv
clh in His name shall receive remission of
siis; while Peter spake the Spirit tell on
all that heard these words.
IV. Topic: Peter's vision. Place: Jeru
salem. I'eter goes to Jerusalem; is ac
cused of eating with men uncircnmcijcd;
he rehearses the circumstances of his go
ing to Caesarca; tells of his vision; a
great sheet was let down before him on
which were nil manner of beasts, creep
intr thilitr nil rl fowls: he was told to kil!
a id eat; ho objected; this was done thre-.'
times, ana nil were laKen up to neavci;
three men immediately called for bin;
tho 8piiit bade him go with them: he
went and God poured out His Spirit on
the Gentiles n a result.
V. Topic: The enlargement of the
church. Places: Phenice. Cyprus. Ant:
ocn. Cyreue. Tursus. Jerusalem. Tno
persecution that came scattered the disci
ples und t'.iey went us far as Phenice,
Cyprm and Antioch, preaching the word;
many believed; Barnabas was sent to An
tioch; Uamabas needed assistance and
went to Tarsus seeking Haul; .Saul re
turned with him and during a whole year
they 1 night much people in Antioch; Aga
bus predicts a drouth iu Judea; Br.rnabas
and Haul sent to Jerusalem with a relief
fund.
VI. Topic: Peter's deliverance. Place:
Jerusalem. Grc.it persecution in Jeru
salem; Herod kills James and arresti
Peter; prayer is made for him by tho
church without ceasing; the night before
he is to be brought forth to his death the
angel of the Lord delivers him; Peter gors
to the house of Mary and tells of his de
liverance; he conceals himself.
VII. Topic: Early experiences of the
first missionaries. Places: Antioch. He
Icucia. Hatemis. Paphos. Harnabas and
Haul v ere chosen to go as missionaries;
they went to Seleucia and Cyprus;
preached the gospel in Halamis; at Paphos
tho Holy Spirit came upon Haul and iic
denounced lilyinas the false prophet se
verely; Klymas was struck blind.
VUl. Topic: The preaching of the mis
sionaries and its efi'ectu. Places: Antioch
in Pisidia. Iconium. The apostles jour
ney to Antioch in Pisidia; Paul preaches
i i tho synagogue; many follow Paul and
Barnabas ; on the next Habbath day near
ly the 'whole city come together to hear
the apo-itles; the Jews were tilled with
envy; the apostles turned to the Gentiles;
the Gentiles were glad; persecution against
the apostles W03 great; they citmc U ico
nium. IX. Topic: Clr.-i-itian fortitude. Places:
Lystra. Derbc. Iconium. Antioch. The
missionaries compelled to Hoc for thcii
lives; went to Lyslra; Paul healed a crin
pie; the people thought Paul und llama
baa were gods; Jews stoned Paul and
e'.ragcied him out of the city, supposing
hi:n to he dead; he departed with iiaina
Las to Derbe. a.'ter which they returned
to Lystru.
X. Topic: The Mosaic law. Places:
Antioch. Jerusalem. After returning
f'om their first missionary journev Paul
and Uiirnabas abode in Antioch a long
time. There was great contention ovei
the question of circumcision. After much
discuision it was decided that the Gen
tiles need not be circumcised according
to tho law of Mos?. The Gentiles were
naked (f) to abstain from meats offered
Xa-L'Jois.. (:y. from blood. 13) from thine
ptjap; ca,. i.ij .trora. lorntcfitiocr- formul
ism '3 as Insistent in the church to-day as
ever. Many Mill insist on meuts, drinks,
or other matters equally unimportant. 0
that the leaders of the church might be
sufficiently spiritual to resist its en
croaehmcnt.i and that the people might
have enough humility to follow their ud
monition?.
XI. Topic: Incidents in Paul's second
missionary journey. Places: Asia Mi ior
I'liilippi. Pf.ul and Barnabas separafe;
J aiil t:kea Hi Ins und went north through
Asia Minor; they visit Phrygia and conn
to troas; are joined by Timothy and
Luke; iu a vision Paul- is told to go tc
Macedonia: tn.y reach Philippi, and or
the feuhbath day go to the pluee of pravci
tind speak to tho women who are there'
Lyaia is converted.
Xjl. Topic: Purity of life. Place:
Paul wrote from Corinth. Christians pin
their debts except the debt of love whirl
s a perpetual obligation. Tim ono whe
loves his neighbor as himself will not
trespass in any way. "Temperance i,
moderation" in the use of things lawfu
and total abstinence from things harmful
in some things "one man's meat may be
another mini a poison," but he who love
lua neighbor as himself will abstain even
from ma meat ' if he sees that his par
taking will lead his neighbor to indiil -i
to hu injury. Rm. 14:21; 1 Cor. 8: 3
J he sa ne principle applied will lead
every Christian to do all ho can to re
move temptation from his brother's way.
Railroad Train Mils Long.
A train one mllo in length sounds
like a record. But that la whut waa
recently hauled over the Thunder
Hay and Wablgoon eection of tho
Canadian Paellic railway. It com
prised 10R cars. Situate next to the
engine wan a testing car. The train
was sent over the roiid to ascertain
exactly tho tonnage that could be
hauled on the various grades betweou
the hike and leveler sections of the
prairio. With tbjs knowledge gained,
plur.8 will be prepared to lower the
grade where necessary, and goner
ally Improve the roiul to allow of the
bauluge of tho maximum tonrage both
directions. A portion of tho $3,000,
000 appropriated for the Improvement
of that (section will l)e applied to this
work.
Biwsit of Engines.
Within a few years the accuracy in
the production of both flat and round
surfaces haB bseu so Increased that
the spued of engines haa been multi
plied by three. With the accurate
bearings of the present the tripled
speed gives leaa trouble from heating
and cutting than did the alow apeed
of former years. e
'christian endeavor topics
Jfoa 29 "National Prosperity" Pror. xlv.
U; Deal vL 10-11
Scripture Verses. Neh, I. 1-4; Pa.
itvl. 6, 6; xlvlil. 12, 13; cxxxvll. 6, 6;
Matt, xxlll. 37; 1 Cor. I. 2; Eph. ii.
8; 19.22; Phli. ill. 20; Heb. III. 1, 2,
6, 0. ,
' Leason Thoughts.
The nation la prosperous whoeo
God la the lxrd, but only if It rec
ognlzea its God and eorves him loy
ally. ,
The prosperity of every nation Is
In the hands of its individual citi
zens, so far as the human clement can
secure nafety. For its constitution,
or its laws, or lta wealth, or Ita ter
ritory doea not make the nation; but
tho Individual rltizena who aupport tho
constitution and administer the laws
and employ the wealth and occupy
the territory. Take caro of tho clt
Izennhlp and the nation will take care
of itself.
Selections.
Give us good men! A time like this
demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith and ready hands.
True patriot lovea his country, but
he loves still more the Kingdom of
God. Ho cares too much for hts
country to uphold her In any wrong.
He does not reserve his patriotism
until he has a chance to die for his
country; he lives for her.
Macauly any a of ancient patriot
Ism: Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the State;
Then the great men nelp'd the poor,
And the poor men lov'd the great;
Then lands were fairly portioned;
Then spoils were fairly sold;
The Komans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.
"Blessed la the nation whoso God
Is the Lord;" not only because God
is powerful and cares lovingly for his
people, but becauso patriotism that
roeans loyalty to God means also loyal
objection to human government, as
directed In God's own word.
He only serves his country who
Most truly serves the Lord;
Ho to his country Is a foe.
Who scoffs the sacred word.
The patriot true will keep the law,
He's loyal In his heart;
In all his conduct not a flaw
Doth into being start.
Suggested Hymns.
My country, 'tis to thee.
Stand up! stand up for Jesua.
Onward, Christian soldiers.
Encamped along the hllla of light.
True-hearted, whole-hearted.
Am I a soldier of the cross?
CPWORTli LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS
Jans 21 National Prosperity Prov. xlv. Zi;
OcuL vL 1011
The Immortal Lincoln said: "I know
that the Lord Is always on the side
of the right. But it ia my constant
anxiety and prayer that I and thla
nation should be on the Lord's side."
Solomon said about three thousand
years ago: "Righteousness exalteth
nation; but sin Is a reproach 40 any
people,"
A nation's prosperity cannot bo de
termined by military measurements.
Nor can it be gauged by material en
largement. It Is tho spirit of a peo
ple that gives them quality. A great
man must be a minister of good to
men. A great nation must bo a mln-
liter of good to natloDS. Goodness
Is the first essential of greatness.
Prosperity Is success In doing good.
David said of tho good man: "What
soever he doeth ahull prosper." Tho
good man's deeds will bo good. And
God can always prosper tho good.
It is the good that prospers moat lo
mind. In every community the pub
lic school is the most popular Insti
tution. There is a popular enthusi
asm In bringing the popular mind to
Its best. It Is Increasingly true that
there Is moro Intelligence In overy
American community than Ignorance.
The best In the mind Is the most pros
perous. It Is tho good that prospers most In
morals. There is more purity than
impurity. There Is more virtue than
vice. Aa compared with the total
population of the United States tho
criminals are exceedingly few. Na
tional sentiment is growing each day
against national sins. The call of
commerce is for men of character.
If the Christian characteristics of
America were taken away there would
1 9 nothing left to make her great.
Her national Ideals are all Christian.
The Rov. Dr. John Henry Barrows has
well said: "If we should take away
from modern civilization the intellec
tual, tho moral, the spiritual, and tbu
Bocial effects which have come, di
rectly and Indirectly, from the spirit
and teaching of Jesus Christ there
would be little left to distinguish us
from that vast ocean of cruelty, su
perstition, and despair in which went
down the sun of Rome."
All real prosperity is based upon the
gifts of God. The people must tie good
if the government by the people is to
be. "In God we truat" Is written on
our money. That faith lias made our
mightiest manhood. It has pushed
back our national horizons. From
that tree have grown the branches of
education, fraternity, Industry, hon
esty, paUioUnu, International broth
erhood. RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
HE 103S of money
has ol.cn meant the
finding of man
hood. Christ's llfeteach
en death to sin and
Hia death life to
salvation.
They who have
Gcd's portion do not
aVviM crave the dovll s po-
"W They who trouble
1 V not tho bait of sin
will not bo bothered with Its hook.
We get no blessing from public wor
ship unless wo have sought It lu prl
vato prayer.
Clirlat marks the crisis In every life.
Falling meteor ' always attract at
tention. Opposition ofteu furnishes Inspira
tion. No evil can harm us as long as we
hate it.
I Long praying cannot ploce out bhort
living. t
To recede from a wrong position Is
really t advance.
Chaff and straw always stack up
higher than grain.
THE GREAT DESTKOYEK
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE,
Foem: Going Down the HtltIntampsr
ncs la Germany S)750,OtjO,flOO, lonbl
tlis Cost of Ariaj and Biavy, Spent Kaeh
If ear Increase In Crime and Insanity,
A year ago his eyes were clear,
He had a cheerful way,
But deep despair waa in his air
When I met him yesterday.
He tried at first to smile sue jest,
To keep it from nie, still
His manner plainly showed that lit
Waa going down the hill.
Through tears he told his bitter talc;
The story's trite and old;
A stumble, and the start was made;
He'd lost his slender hold!
"And, oh!" he cried in bitterness,
"It takes a mighty will
To put the brake on when you've or.co
Got started clown the hill!
"I see the ones I love distressed,
I hear them ery for bread,
And when she meets nie at the door
Her eyes are wet and red.
I've tried to change the couroe of thinj",
I've prayed for succor, still
There seems to be no stopping; w'ne:i
You've started down the hill!"
He shambled on with head low bci.-cd,
He that a year ago
Could overlook the surging crowd,
Now piteou and low I
I watch him stumble through a doer
Alas, as weaklings wilj
And lean against a gilded bar
That tilted down the hill.
S. E. Kiscr
Germany anal Ilia Drink Question.
A resolution has been proposed and
adopted without opposition in the Prussian
Diet requesting the Ministry' to prepare a
bill to impose more rigid restrictions on the
licpior trallic. The resolution was intro
duced by Count Douglas, who stated that
ho was no abstainer himself, but that he
was deeply impresHed with the injury in
flicted in Germany by excessive indulgence
in drink. The Germans, he added, spend
3,000,000.(IO() marks (UToO.OOO.OOO) a year in
drink, twice the amount of the army and
navy budgets, and 180,000 persons were
brought before the courts through drink.
The number of criminals was increasing
10,000 annually, and the number of con
victed persons had increased from 209,119
in 1S82, to 4T8,1: in 1809. In the insane
asylums intemperance furnished thirty per
cent, of the inmates, and eighty per cent,
of Germany's idiots were the children ot
intemperate people. The loss to industry
through excessive drinking was incalcula
ble. Germany, while leading the world in so
cial reform legislation, had done practically
nothing against drinking. The United
States was by far more advanced than Ger
many in this respect. He condemned the
drinking cult in the universities, saying it
was a jolly life while it lasted, but it had
many tragical sequels.
Two practicing physicians followed with
statements drawn from their own expe
rience. Dr. Kudemann asserted that alco
holists succumbed to the tubercle hacilux
much easier than others, and Dr. Mertcna
said the mortality in all diseases was three
or four times greater in the case of alco
holists than among abstnincrs, comparing
persons of equal physical strength.
Just how the Prussian Government will
meet the problem remains to be seen. The
question is of world-wide interest, and
every experiment in the regulation and re
striction of drinking adds something to the
sum of human knowledge and will be aid
fill to legislators who may have to deal with
the same subject. While the cultivation of
food habits and deportment is more par
ticularly a matter of morals, nnd sobriety
cannot be enforced by acts of Parliament,
still the mandate of the law may usefully
iiipplciueut the persuasions of morality
Burning Words of Advice,
. T. V. Powderly, former head of the
Knights of Labor, in an address, gave
these burning words of advice: Had i
10,000,000 tongues and a throat for each
tongue, I would say to every mun, woman
and child here tonight: Throw strong
drink uside as you would an ounce of liquid
hell. It sears the conscience, it debtrovs
everything it touches. It reaches into the
family circle and tukes tho wife you had
sworn to protect, und drags her down
from her purity into that house from
which uo decent woman ever goes alive.
It indu'-es the father to take the furniture
from his house, exchange it for money at
the paivnshop, and spend the proceeds in
rum. It damns everything it touches. I
have seen it iu every city east of the Mis
sissippi Kiver, and I know that the most
damning curse to the laborer is that which
gurgles from the neck of the bottle. 1
'bad rather be at the head of an organiza
tion having lOO.OOi) temperate, honest,
earnest men than at the head of an or
ganization of l',00fl,000 drinkers, whether
moderate or any oilier kind. Kvery dime
spent in the rumshop furnishes a paving
stone for hell. In one Pennsylvania county
in a single year $17,000,000 was spent for
liquor, aud it was estimated that Rl 1.000,
000 of the amount came from workingmcu.
A Double Knock.
"In knocking down his wife the mnti
knocked me out of the licpior trade." In
these words F. N. Charrington, so well
known iu connection with religious and tem
perance work in Kilht London, closes his
account of the way in which he was led to
sever his connection wllli the great brew
ing firm of Cliiirrington, Head & Co., of
w hich he was n partner. The man iu ones,
tion was drinking in a public house which
Mr. Charrington happened to be p.issinir.
II is wife just at tha'. moment pushed open
the door, and appealed to her husband for
money to buy bread to fee l their stiiiviug
children, liy way of answer her husband
felled her to the ground. Mr. Charrington
noticed that the signboard bore the name
of his linn. He rellected that this particu
lar house probably furnished many such
cases, ana that the same uas true of hun
dreds of other houses owned by the com
pany. The responsibility was more than
he could bear, and from that hour he re
colvrd to give up hia parinership, worth
about I00,000 a year.
Aleoliolle lluredll.T.
Dr. T. D. Crothers, editor of the Ameri
can Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, suva
cm this subjec t: "In a report which I mnile
before the American .Society for the Study
of Inebriety where tho histories of 1744 in
ebriates were studied. 1HS0 had a distinct
historv of hereditv. Many of these eases
were direct heredities, tho impulse to drink
passing down from father to child with
great exactness. Usually the transmission
nf a drink impulse ends in extinction of tho
race after the second generation, not al
weys by inebriety or drug taking, but by
other diseases which are encouraged by
the low vitality of the victim."
The CriisHda In llrlef.
Fiance is greatly alarmed over the in
crease of inebriety.
Mine. Mirie P.ose declares hat nothing
is so injurious to the voice of a singer as
wine.
Habitual drunkenness is a direct cause
for altaoliito divorce in thirty-five Mates of
the Union.
Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been put on
practically a prohibition basis by the
closing of twenty-live saloons.
Vhiaky does its work so well, it sp.-eads
io far over the country, that no child can
fail direct Iv or indirectly to be acquainted
with its effects.
Py vote of the National Council of the
Knights of Columbus, in annual session at
New Haven. Conn., uo more deiiih benefits
will be paid to members who are liquor
dealers.
It ia plain that the thoughts of the Swe
dish peoUo were early turned to the dan-
Ker of strong lirink, for in the "Kdda," a
isik of ancient mythological poems, pl'ob
ably originating iu tho eighth or ninth cen
tury, warnings may be found against strong
drink.
The German navy costs each inhabitant
of the empire less than two and a half
marks a year, while the aipount spent by
each for alcohol and tobacco is twenty-four
times as much. The smouut spent a year
for beer, wiue, whisky and tobacco ia
3,000,000,000 marks.
COMMERCIAL KEVIEW.
Oeaeral Tret Ceadltlena,
Vt. G. Dun Company's weekly teview
of trade aays: "No dimunition in bus
iness, is apparent from labor controver
sies, owing to the prosperous conditions
of the agricultural sections and the
bright outlook for this year's crops. .Re
tail distribution of light-weight wearing
apparel has felt the stimulus of higher
temperatures. Railway earnings in May
were 87 per cent, larger than last year,
and 21.7 per cent, above those of 1000.
"There continues to be a wide discrep
ancy between the amount of business
offered and the contracts closed in many
branches of the iron and steel industry
owing to the inability of producers to as
sure delivery at a specified time.
"Tardy deliveries of sample pieces by
the woolen mills have caused complaint
imotig the clothiers and fall ordefs ara
not placed freely. Wool sells more free
'.y at leading Eastern markets and quo
tations arc .steady.
"Grain markets have shown the effect
sf conflicting crop estimates and weath
er reports.
"Failures for the week numbered 16
in the United States, against 179 last
year, and 20 in Canada, compared with
13 a year ago.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour Spring clear, $3.1533.35; best
Patent, $4.80; choice Family, $405.
Wheat New York No. 2, 78;c;
Philadelphia No. 2, 8ja82c; Baltimore
No. 2, Hl'jc.
Corn New York No. 2, ootc ; Phila
delphia No. 2, 6jSa66; Baltimore No.
2, faoKc.
Oats New York No. 2, 4!c ; Vliil
dclphia No. 2, 51c; Baltimore No. 2,
50KC.
Hay No. I timothy, $14. 50315.00; No.
l timothy, 513.ooa14.oo; No. 3 timothy,
(11.50a12.00.
Green Fruits and Vegetables. Aspar
agus Eastern Shore, Maryland, per
dozen, prime, $1.25.11.80. Beets Nor
folk, per bunch 334c. Blackberries
North Carolina, per quat, oalic. Cab
bage North Carolina, per crate $i.qoa
J.oo; do, Norfolk, per brl $t.ooa2oo.
Cantaloupes Florida, per crate $i.ooa
i.oo. Cherries Maryland and .Virginia,
per brl. Red, $3.0034.00. Cucumbers
Charleston, per basket $1. 25a?. 50; do,
North Carolina, per basket St.00al.50.
Eggplants Florida, per crate $3.0033.53.
Green peas Anne Arundel, per bu,
sugar, Ooa65 ; Jo, small, 65a8o. Goose
berries Maryland Virginia per lb 4,'Sa
5c. Huckleberries North Carolina, per
quart 8aioc. Lettuce Native, per btisli
rl box 25H35C Onions Bermuda, per
box $1.7031.75; do, Egvpti.m, per sack
f2.75a3.oo. Peaches Florida, per car
eer $1.5032.50. Pineapples Florida, per
;ratc $17533.50. Radishes Native, per
100 bunches, white, 75ca$i.oo. Rhubarb
Native, per bunch 2a2'ic Spinach
Native, per bushel box 20325c. Spring
onions, per 100 bunches soaooc. Straw
berries Eastern Shore, Virginia, per
qiisrt 630c; do. Maryland, per quart 6a
10. String beans Charleston, per
basket, green. 75ca$l.oo do, wax, 50375c.
Tomatoes Florida, per six-basket car
rier, fancy, $2.0032.50; do, fair to good,
$i.75a2-oo.
Potatoes Old WhiteMaryland and
Pennsylvania, per bu. No. I. 65370c; do,
seconds, 50a6o; do. New York, per bu.
best stock, 65370; do, seconds. 50360; do,
Western per bu, prime, 65370. New Po
tatoes White Charleston, per brl, No.
1, $3.ooa3.25; do, seconds, $1.5032.00; do,
culls. 75ca$i.oo; do, North Carolina, per
brl. No. 1, $2.5033.00.
Seed Potatoes. Mine Iloulton, Early
Rose, $3.25 to $3.35; Maine srown Beau
ty of Hebron. $3.25 to $3.35; Maine
grown Green Mountain, $3 24 to $3.30.
Provision and Hog Products. Bulk
clear rib sides. io-)4c; bulk shoulders,
9'4 ; bulk bellies, 11; bacon clear rib
sides. Il-t; bacon shoulders. 04 ; sugar
fured shoulders, extra broad, 12; sugar
cured California hams, 04 ; hams, can
vased or uncanvascd. 12 lbs nnd over. 13;
refined lard, tierces, brls and 50-lb cans
gross tic.
Buttei Separator. 23324c; G.ithcred
Cream. 22323c; imitation. 19320; Prints,
t-lh, 24325; Rolls, 2-lb, 23324; Dairy pts.
MH., Pa.. Va.. a2.r
Eggs. Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen,
151 laific.
Cheese. Large. 6o-11. lolaiovjc;
tedium, 36-lb, iojaioj; picnics, 22-lb,
lo'aioM-
Live Poultry. Hens, I3',jai4c; old
roosters, each 25330c; spring chickens,
233240; young st3gs, 13:114c. Puck0,
loaitc.
Hides Heavy steers, association and
salters, late kill, 60 lbs and up, close se
lection, tiat2c; cows and light steers, 8yi
age.
Live Stock.
Chicago. Cattle Mostly ioarsc low
er; good to prime steers $7.3037.00; poor
to medium $5a7; stockers and feeders
$2.5035.25; cows, $1.4037.50; heifers
$2.5036.45; canners $1.4032.40; bulls,
$2.7535.75. Texas-fed steers $5.0036.70.
Hogs Mixed and butchers $7.1037.55;
good to choice, heavy $7.4537.62 ;4 ;
rough, heavy. $7.1037.40; light $6,953
7.35 ; bulk of sales $7.1537.45. Sheep
Sheep and Iambs slow to lower : good
to choice wethers $50035.50; Western
sheeo $5.0035.50; native lambs, clipped,
$5.ooa6.75. ,
East Liberty. Cattle steady ; choice
$7.1537.50; prime $6.7537.25; good $6.00
a6.50. Hogs higher; prime heavy $7. 50a
7.60; mediums $7.20; heavy yorkers
$7.1037.15; light do $7.0037.05; pigs $6.8o
R6.85; roughs $5.0037.00. Sheep steady.
Best wethers $4.6534.80 culls nnd com
mon' $1.5032.00 ; choice lambs $6.25:16.50;
veal calves $7.0037.50.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Carpenters are on strike at Quincy,
III.
Ptaning-mill men are still on strike at
Portland, Ore.
New Bedford, Mass. weavers are on
strike, due to a qucstioiw)f wages.
Yonkers, N. Y. hatters are on a
strike for a 20 per cent, increase in
wages.
Kansas mine workers have prepared
a new scale, due to dissatisfaction over
last year's contract.
Machinists of the Internslional and
Great Northern have struck at Palestine,
Taylor and San Antonio, Texas.
Because of thejr inability to procure
recognition of the union, needle-makers
of Franklin, N. H are on strike.
The journeymen bakers at Glen Falls,
N. Y.. have orgauized and an application
has been made for a charter.
Telegraphers of the Western L'nion at
New York City are organizing under
the direction of the American Federa
tion of Labor.
Three thousand dollars has been vot
ed by the Western Federation of Miners'
Convention for the aid of the families
suffering from the explosion at Fcinie,
U. C.
Members of the Grand Counters' Un
ion, employed at Lynn, Mass., have
struck. They objected to the employ
ment of a man expelled by the union lat
week.
IVion plumber?, ateaui fitters end gas
fitters, of Bangxti'k Maine, have quit
(work, the employers haviusj refused
unanimously to agree to a demand for
$3 Jay.
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAK
PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM TMC
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
Tha Foundation of Faith Traa KallsKaas '
Founded on Parts Atlastad by tha Va.
varsal Piperlanca of aianalad Tk
Fropha'le Longing For Immortality.
The Rev. George H. Hepworth, the wall
known clergyman and journalist, who for
twenty-five yesrs wrote a Sunday arrmois
for the New York Herald, died suddenly;
in ln apHttments in New York City, ama
an eventful and useful life, rich in humani
tnrinn deeds was thus brought to a cloae.
His Inst sermon in the Herald, which
published on the day after his death, fat
lows :
A great msnv honest minds have ben,
disturbed and driven to the verge of donhfc
by their inability to form any conception,
of Ood.
He ia the uncrented Creator, but tho
words convey no meaning whatever to our
minds. If you look thrmigh the Lirk telt
scoiie at ArcturuK you see very little ninr
than with the nuked eye, and if the pro
foundest philosopher looks at the Almighty
he sees very little. -more than the unlet
tered peasant.'- Hull Arrtmns is in the sky,
whether you can perr into his secret or
not, and Hod is in your lite, though your
most senrchinfc thought returns to you
empty handed. The very words omnipo
tent and omnipresent hnve an unthinkable
siKiiitication, and when the man of scjenca
tells us that space is absolutely linntleHs,
that it consists of horizons which nre aim
ply rndless in number, we accept the fnert,
nut have no more conception of it than
the microbe in a watch has of the deliealst
machinery whose ticks are a continuous
roll of thunder in its ears.
What. then, you ask is the basis of a re--lieion
which demands such self-control and
lelf-saeritice? If these problems will always
remain iiiHolulile, anil if you can know an
little of the Heing who demands your soul's
nllegiance. why may not religion itself be a
mistake? Many a heart has been engloonwl
by these thoughts and many a mind bit
fogged by them.
t rue religion is independent of any pure
ly intellectual theory of the universe, ami
is founded on facts proven true by the uni
versal experience of mankind. This state
ment is easily illustrated by childhood. Thi
litsie one does not understand its mother,
has no comprehension whatever of a moth
er's love or of the significance of a moth
er's discipline. If the baby were gifted
with speech and could describe its relation
to that mother it would make 'as many mis
statements as we do in describing our rela
tions to l.od. 'The mother's providence im
wholly misunderstood ; even her watchful
care looks like interference with the ehilil
rights, and the child lnicjit say, as Calvin
did of the Almighty, that "of her own good
pleasure" she pets at one moment and pun
ishes at another. The knowledge that pun
ishment and love are entirely consistent
with each other, or that mother is still
mother even when the child's prayer i
sternly denied, is beyond the reach nf that
narrow intellect, nnd will be for msnr a.
,year to come. Mothers and children some-
tunes get at onus tor this reason, and m
like manner we get at odds with the Al
mighty. But when we come to be men our minds
are large enough to settle certain matters
of practical importance. It is needless to
theorize, for harsh experience tells us truths
which cannot be gainsaid. The microbe in
the watch has learned his lesson and knows
that some journeys are dangerous, while
others are safe, and from that moment he
has a plan of life. He constructs a deca
logue for himself, and the "Thou shalt not"
is the voice of imperial law, not forbidding
him through caprice, but because an in
fraction of the law is followed by loss awl
remorse. Every man knows that there is a
right and a wrong; has been taught this by
many tears and failures; that love brings
sunshine, and hatred the tempest; that fil
ial relations with the Infinite result in se
renity of soul, a resignation to harsh
events which changes them from a curse to
a blessing by some necromancy whose se
cret he cannot fathom, while hostile rela
tions end in loneliness and desperation;
that integrity of character is worth all it
costs to acquire and defend it. Add to all
this the prophetic longing for another life,
which no argument can suppress, a longing;
that, like the spring on the mountain side,
will have its way, and a curious conviction,
which seems to be a component part of his
nature, that in ways unexplained the dear
ones in heaven can find a path to earth,
drawn by a love which was sacred ascl
strong before the fuuerul bells tolled, and
is equally strong and sacred now, ana you
have an array of facts, corroborated by
every human life in every clime and every
ar;e. That is the basis of the kind of reli
gion which Christ taught. He gave us no
explanation of mysterious problems, but
simple truth instead truth most needful,
and altogether practical. Build your futli
on that foundation and the gates of heli
shall not prevail against it. Karth will be
come the primary school for (iod'a Univer
sity, and Cod Himself the Teacher, whoss
love is no more loving than is His disci-,
pline.
Don't Gather Thorns.
A day's work is all that lias to be dons
in a day. This is true whether the work be
done wisely or be done foolishly. This
thought should be a source of encourage
ment to us when we seem to have more
good work to do than we have time for.
Only a day's work is called for in a day,
and that much we ouiflit to be willing and
able to do. And the same thought ought
to restrain us from throwing away the
hours of even one day foolishly. Are we,
working wisely, or foolishly, iu our daily
occupation? That is worth our serious
thought. Jeremy Taylor says of the uo
'vise, "How many people nre busy gather
ing together a handful of thorns to sit
upon!" Have none of us ever spent our
time in that way? The Apostle l'aul aug
gcats to Timothy the study of the Holy
Scriptures as au aid to wise action, be
cause they "are able to make thee wise
unto salvation through faith which ia ia
Christ Jesus." We have our choiee be
tween folly and wisdom, to-day, and every
day. Sunday-School Times.
Right Doing.
One's rightful work is often nalted by
fear of what others will say about it. This
may be even more a barrier to the work
than the fear of not doing the work at all.
Xt lakes courage to do what we believe
we ought to do, when we think we shall
be criticised, or misunderstood, or scorned.
But the real calamity lies in not doing;
what we ought. Of this it is well to have
so strong a fear that we shall have com aga
to luce whatever others may say of our
right doing.
Christianity ' '
Christianity was made aa much for ths
poor man who can not make research as
for the wealthy and cultured. The rhurcts
is not narrow; she is only loyal to God
nnd the teachings of Christ. The Iter.
William Pardow, New York City.
I'assport to Eternity.
See that your thoughts are purs and
your deeds noble. I'se the experiences ot
life, whether they be of joy or sorrow, as
steps in an upward climb. ( There is only
one thing you cau carry into eternity
your character, bee that it is what it
should be and the jasper gates will gladly
swing open to C'v0 you a welcome. Cirsat
Thoughts. v
A Living Witness.
In this age of skepticism the church ia
living witness that there is a divine powec
W II It'll
controls our destiny. Kev. J. ti
Vose.
8 Cluws Oat or IS Kegs.
Charlos W. Bhcftield of Westerly, B.
I., is the owner of a four lejjgod chick
on, recently hatched. It was' tbe last
offspring of a .ftfl.tcb of thirteen egsa.
placed under a barred Plymouh Kork.
ben. fery egg hatched invlda ths
usual twenty-ono days, except tha ono
containing the bird with the extra ig
pendagea. At present the clilc.kes,
usos only two let's In walking, but it
the other lega reach the usual leo-'.iv
the bird can ahlft lta burden to 1
uxlllary means of locomotion.
i