REVIVING OLD CUSTOMS Sunday' Discourse by Dr. Chapman, (lie Noted Pastor-Evangelist. Lesiosf from the Life of Isaac Better Hud He Died Upon the Alter. New York Citt. It may now be stated n a fact that the sermons of the Ker. Or J. Wilbur Chapman are heard ami read by more people than are those ol nv American pulpit orator. Hie nj" lecms to have nmde a deep impression on :hat portion of the public which likes to ,ead ita discourse in the weekly paper, for these admirers Dr. Chapman has pre nnred the following aermon. entitled Ke rning Old Customs." It ia preached from ihe text Genesis 26: 1R, "And Isaac digged igain the wells of water which they had iieged in the days of Abraham, his fath- There are three namea in the New Testa ment inseparably bound together. We farely think of one without having imme diately suggested to ua the nnmca of the jther two. These three are 1'eter, James md John, They were specially chosen of f'hrist for conspicuous service, and were Ihe particular objects of His divine aftec lion. There are three names in the Old testament quite ns intimately associated, nd one can acarccly speak the name of one of the three without finding himsell running at once in speech to the other two. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob form the Old Testament trio. 1 do not know how familiar you nre with the story of Isaac, t have found myself that I knew very lit tle about him. I was quite familiar with the account of the intended sacrifice on Mt. Moriah, and the fascinating story ot his meeting with Hebekah. but concerning other indents of his life I knew very lit tle. As a matter of fact Isaac does not ihow off to advantage between Abraham on the one side of him and Jacob on the other; Abraham because of what he was, the father of the faithful, and Jacob be cause of what he became, for by the power of (!od he was changed from Jacob, the :lu-at, to Israel the prince, having power with Ood and with men, and one cannot help but feel as he reads the whole story of Isaac's life that it would have been bet ter for him had he died upon the altar. He made a solendid start in life, but so did Noah and Lot, and so have many o( you, but that is not enough. At the be ginnint: of his career Isaac goes away be yond the others whose names 1 have men tioned. We are so taken up with Abra ham and his willingness to offer his son thnt somehow we have forgotten Isaac'! willingness to be offered, lie really made a splendid start, and was a most estimable voung man. If we look at a single verse in his career we say what an excellent man, and if we look at others we find our selves exclaiming, "How mean he is," and yet so t is with our own lives. Men must not be judged by one paragraph in our ex peri ence. The subject of wells is interesting. Tn Oriental times a well of water was a for tune. When a king dug a well he became as famous as if he had built a pyramid. Great battles were fought to gain posses sion of wells and mighty conquests waged for their defense. Castles and towers were erected to secure their possession. Abra ham dug at least four wells; how many more I do not know, but these four were filled in by the Philistines, and it is with their reonening that we have to do in the text. I like tn speak of wells because there is music in the very sound of the word. In Isaiah, the twelfth chapter, second and third verses, we read, "Behold, God is mv salvation; T will trust, nnd not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and mv song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." This is not only an Old Testament figure, but a New, for Jesus said, "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." John 4: 14. Therefore the gospel is a well, and you have never had a drink of spring water as you have been weary in your tramp up the mountains or across the plain that could compare with the refresh ing influence of a drink of the water of life from the well of salvation. Some of you' have had sorrow, your hearts have been almost breaking, you have wondered where you might find help; stoon and drink this morning of this old gospel well. Some of you have failed, and indeed who has not in' this awful struggle of life, but in your fail ure you have wondered if there could ever be restoration; stoon and drink this morn ing, and you will find that as you drink you will take in of His life, and this is the secret of victory over sin. Some of you are exceedingly weak, and you dare not trust yourself for another day. I bid you drink of the water of the well of salvation,' and you will find a strange new strength taking possession of you. Isaiah 55: 1-2, I. , These wells had names. It is a little sin gular as we study the story of Abraham and Isaac to find the names given to the wells, and likewise singular thut in these names we find a revelation of our own 'ex perience in the journey of life. First, the first well was named "Strife." We huve all had a drink at this well. We have had it in our business as we have been striving for success; wo have met it in our homes as we have aimed to conduct them ns homes should ever be conducted. We might as well understand that as we dig wells in this world we must expect op position. We cannot be let alone, and this strife will come from one of three sources, perhaps from all three. First. The world. Jesus said to His disciples, "Marvel not if the world butt) you." We must expect to hear from the devil. It U rather old-fashioned in these diiyg to say that He has a personality, but 1 have hud so niuny dealings with him myself, and have seen his work so perfectly in the lives of oth ers that 1 know he is a person, but in ninny respects the greatest strife must tome from the llcsb, and 1 find a hint of this in the story of Isaac. What envy was to Cain, and wtne to Noah, and lewd ness to Hani and wealth to Lot, the desire for venison was to Isaac, for when he was dying und his thoughts should have been centered upon Jehovah he longs for veni son that he may satisfy himself, and the story of his getting that venison and its being traded for a birthright is one of the sad bits of history of the Old Testament, but let it be known that whenever a man pampers himself and live for himselt he is on the way to distress quite as great. Second. "Hatred." This is a strange flame for Abraham's well, but so he called it. Some of us have been there, and alas, have tasted of the bitter waters. It is a sad thing to have hatred in your heart. It hinders prayer; beclouds heaven, tukes the angel out of your face; chokes the song in your throat ; gives your hands the wrong tWISt in Writilltf ll-tlni-H nii( hxtureiin tViu lines which almost breaks the heart of the euue-r. no who hates cannot sing, he cannot pray, he cannot otter a sacrifice. Matthew 0: 23, "Therefore, if thou bring thy ,-itt to the altar, and there remember et that thy brother hath aught against e . do this and the song will return and God will accept tho sacrilice. The bit ter waters of Murah were made sweet by the custuijr in of the wood of a certain tree. 1 toll you of a tree on which Christ (tied; get the peace qf this Christ into your experience, hve for others, sutler for oth ers, die for others if need be, and the bit- changed yUr "fe Wi" U 'tan"y Third. "Room." This, too, is a strange name for an Old Testament well, but with; the opening of this well the strife, ceasod, 'for instantly Isaac hail f mind (Ka nlnna (Where Uod was willing he should stay. Uhere is a place for every one to stand in Ituis world. God so intended it. We have wiuwuea men oui oi ineir positions in ucM uys. n is true mat witli "the for luation and progress of great trusts there IS' little a mortunilv fni- a., him f .... I..... jthis is not in accordance with the nlun of uoa. Homewhere there is a well waiting to be discovered, aud God expects you to drink and tn ..;.u. I, ...... if. .i.i . , -- - . . - umj ui iiia, juat well is in a foreign laud, perhaps it "? ln v ,lu" of our own city, possibly at may be in your own home, and who f i lYr 1 " '"is church, only '' V0" Jn for your life and help to jfillit in and you wai be full of joy. , rourth.-"Covenaut." This is the name Nfbich was given to the fourth well. We xumt.ptt4ioi.u4si:ioiui...it..U nut necessary tmu we annum complnin anont It for this is life. When Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians he said, "Whatsoever a man sowcth that shall he also reap," and this Scripture is frequently quoted ns if it were for the unregcneiate nmn, and while it may be applied' to him it is for the Christian. We reap what we sow and sow what we reap, in the light of this the wonder is we have hud so little discipline. "Keckon up the prayers you ought to have offered nnd never spoke: the deeds you ought to have done and never accom plished; reckon up all neglects, all of fences against God and man; nil weakness of character and the wonder is thnt we have not been cut off altogether." But I summon you to the well of the covenant and bid you open it up. What if we hnve discipline and trial when we stand by Him who declares, "I will be with thee," and nlso explains to us, "That our light afflic tions are but for a moment," and that as they tarry, "they work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." I bring you good cheer this morning, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" II. But you will notice thnt Isnac digged again the wells of water which emphasizes my subject, "A Revival of Old Customs." 1 am very sure that there are some old customs which in these days we need to have revived. First The old custom of making the home a haven of rest, a tvpe of heaven, and a place of refuge for all the members of the family circle. We greatly underes timate the powerful influence of home upon a young life. When Isnac went out to live for himself yosi will notice that he pitched his tent by the well Laharoi. I think this must have been because in his childhood's days with Hagar, his nurse, and Ishmael, his half-brother, he tarried there where Hagar must have told hiin the story of Jehovah, and it is just the natural inclina tion of his heart in his manhood days to go back where he may be reminded of the happy scenes of his childhood. ion doubtless know of the boy sent as a waif from our city who was found in his new western home tearing the lining out of his cap. and when asked why ho did it. he said, "It was my mother's dress anil she loved me." I have preached every where to men in this country and 1 have nlwnys found that there was one name that could stir the heart of the murderer in his cell, the gambler in his den of iniquity, the outcast on tho street, and that name was "Mother." Nero's mother was a murderess, and gave to the world the most cruel man in history. Lord Byron's mother was a proud, intellectual, worldly minded woman nnd she gave to the world the most intel lectual autocrat of his day. George Wash ington's mother was a good, plum, sensi ble woman and gave to America the father of his country. We need better homes to day. Our homes for our children should be as our parents' homes were for ut. It we go back to our homes to-duy and study our children we will find that they have not a fault or a virtue that their parents have not got. Oh, for a revival of the old cus tom of having a family altar in a home where the father acts as n priest and the mother as a saint; we could stir the whole country for Christ. One of my dearest friends was profligate until he is a man grown. In a great west ern city he had determined to take his life, threw himself down on his bed to col lect himself before the awful deed, and jarred a little book off from a shelf just above his bed and it struck him in the face. With an oath he thr-w it from him, nnd then it dawned upon him that it was his mother's Bible given him to read. He walked across the room to pick it up just to show her some mark of respect, and read upon the fly leaf written in her own hand, "Dear boy, you can never get away from your mother s prayers." Instead of being a self-murderer lie became one of the country's greatest preachers. I wish that we might dig again the well that our fath ers digged before us and make our homes like heaven. III. There are some wells that have been filled in in the past by those who are worldly wise and this morning I seek to open them. First I would dpen the well of the way of salvation. The Scripture declares that man is a sinner and deserves to die, but tho same Scripture states that Jesus took jur place and died in our stead. A heathen on account of his sius hail walked for miles with pebbles in his shoes that he might do penance, sat down to rest be ll en th a tree and heard a missionary preaching of Jesus, and cried out. "That is what I want; give me Jesus." Oh, if I could but open this well from which our fathers drank and make you see the Sa viour treading the wine press alone, suf fering for you until His heart strings all but snapped, dying in agony for you upon the cross, the man of sorrows and ac quainted with grief. Let us open this old well and drink of its waters. And then I would open the well of consolation for.the afflicted. "Why do you mourn for your baby?" said a woman to her friend "He is better off. Suppose he had lived and become a profligate and broken your heart with his sin." Away with all such consola tion, falsely so called. Your baby is with Hiin, in His presence, who took little babies in His arms and blessed them, is singing His praises, who said, "Their an gels do always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven. Your child is with the King, rejoice; he cannot come to you, but you may go to him. All things work together for good to them that love God." Stoop and drink this morning and go away refreshed. Then I would open the well of the preaching of the gospel. Dr. Talmage has said in one of his sermons on this same text that we have stopped singing, "Come ye sinners poor and needy," for we have reached the time when men do not count themselves sinners. 1 would to Ood that we might revive the old "custom of preach ing as men who preached in other days. When Livingstone preached the aermna that led 600 souls to Christ he was de scribing the human heart in its unclean ness. When Kdwardfc preached the ser mon that stirred all New Kngland his theme was, "Sinners in the hands of un angry God." When Whitfield preached the sermon, the power of which is still felt in our country, his text was, "Ye must be born again." "Do you preach," said a man to me, "that men are lost without Christ, nnd are you not afraid in a con gregation like yours that they will become offended?" Preach it, certainly I preach it. I would be afraid that God would be offended if I did not preach it. Now hear me, ye men of wealth nnd women of posi tion, without Christ you are lost. It is Viot an easy statement to make, hut the word of the Lord has spoken it. Oh, that men would stop trilling with God's word, tw.ting its statements so as to draw forth some other meaning than that intended, and oh that men would stop trifling with God. treating Him ns if what He had suid in. His word was not true when He de clared "that all men ore sinners and need a Saviour." Asleep tor MmlMl Years. Great I uterus t U again being dis played lu the case ot Mile. Buuyenval, who for nearly nineteen years has been in a stata of catalepsy, taking neither nieat nor drink, and to all ap pearances dead, save for the regular but almoat Imperceptible beatings of the heart, says a Paris newspaper. Marguerite Bouyenval, who lies in a little bed on the ground floor ot her mother's cottage, ln the village ot Thenellea, near Saint Quentln, is now nearly 38 years old. She bas been vis ited by hosts of people, Including a number of medical celebrities, and all sorts ot theories have been put tor ward by way ot accounting for her condition. The local physicians are of opinion that the trouble was caused by some violent emotion, and this view was aet forth by an expert ln his report to the Saint Quentln Court, which years ago went Into this pecu liar case. Now, however, the Idea ta started that Marguerite Bouyenval may have been magnetized, and not having afterward been properly aroused, may thus have remained In a state ot hypnotic catalepsy. ; THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson ' July 6. Comments Fo" Subjtc't The (Hvloiof n'.sans, Ex. xvL, LIS Oolites Text, Matt, vl, II Memory Verses, 4, 5 Commen tary oa the Day's Lesson. 1. "Wilderness of Sin.'' It ii supposed that this wilderness, or desert, had its name from a strong city of Kgynt called Sin, near which it lay. But before they came to Rin they had an encampment by the Red Sea. after thev left Elim. Num. 33: 10, 11. "Sinai." This is a mountain with two peaks; one of which was called Horeb, the other Sinai. Sinai mrans thomnush, and probably received this name because here the Lord appeared to Moses in the burning bush. "Fifteenth day." This was exactly one month from the time they had left Kgynt. "Second month." This was lyar or Zif and corre sponded ns nearly as possible to our month May. The Jewish month began with the evening when the new moon was first dis covered. !i. "Murmured." For want of bread. It seems thev had taken a month's provi sion when thev left Kevpt and now this was gone. "Against Moses." An addi tional proof of the hardness of their hearts. Thev had jut seen the bitter water sweet ened (lfi: 23-25), the sea divided, and the host of Pharaoh slain, but these nre all for. gotten as they stand confronted with their new difficulty. They evinced a fretful, un thankful spirit. 3. "Flesh pots." The Hebrews when in slavery were doubtless fed in companies, in. places where large pots or boilers were fixed for the purpose of cooking their food. "Ye have brought us." Thry. seem to have actually lost the sense of having been dp. livered bv the hand of Jehovah. "To kill with hunger." People when murmuring i t. .:.:?..... :i. ...i.:v. ....., .::i I itiitril n itti.v evui " " - ..'ii ii.if- pen. Discontent magnifies what is pat and vilifies whnt is present without reirard to truth or reason: none talk more absurd ly than mnrmnrrrs. 4. "Unto Moses." God made knowi TTis rmrposes unto Moses in order thnt he might rest easilv n"d not be trm"ed to rliseonraTemcnt. "Will rain brend." ef". F.fforts have been made to do an-iv "-ith the supernatural aspect of this ineif'ent hv suggesting that flip manna was nothing else than the gum of the tamerisk tree, to which the name manna hns been given: but we nre certain thnt this gum cnuM not have been the bread thnt in here said to have come from heaven. The mnnnn is typical of Christ who came down from heaven fl Cor. 10: 3), a supernatural gift, to give life to the world. "And pnther." The manna was like a small grain. "A cer tain rnte." Kvery person to either "according to his eating." V. 1(1. "K.vprv day." It would breed worms and spoi' if they undertook to keep it from one dav to another. It wss necearv also to pathr it earlv. before the sun hnd arisen. It fell upon the dew (Num. 11: 0); it was so pure and delicate that it could not bear contact with the earth. Each one had to arise earlv nnd seek his daily portion. So it is with the people of God now. The heavenly manna must be cathered fresh every morn ing. We must feed unon Christ every da", with fresh energy of the Snirit. else we will cease to prow. V. 20. "Mav nrove the " Thus Ood tried them to see if thev would trust Him and depend unon Him for fresh supplies each day. and if they would keep His commandments. 5. "The sixth dav." The dnv p-eceding the Sabbath. "Shall prepare." Th neo pie gathered the manna and "ground it in mills, or beat it in , mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cokes of it: and t'ie taste of it was as the taste of fresh O'V Num. 11: 8. "Twice as much." On the Bixth day of the week they were told to gather and prepare twice as much as usual, no there would be no work done of the Sabbath. No manna fell on the Sabbath. Had it been a natural production it would have fallen on that dav as at other times, and hnd God not performed a miracle would have corrupted on the Sabbath as on other dnvs. Vs. 23. 24. 0. "Then ye shnll know." Thnt. the Lord had brought them out of Egvpt was plain enough, yet they were ascribing it to Moses and Aaron. God saw it necessary to give them a daily mirnele in the fu'l of manna, that they might hnve the daily proof of His divine interposition. 7. "Glory of the Lord." Kither this glo rious work of God in giving you bread from heaven, or the glorious nnpearing of God in the cloud, mentioned in verse 10. "Against the Lord." From this we nee that when we piurmur against God's servnnts we are really murmuring against. God Him self. "What are we." Only His servants, obeying His commandments. We have not brought you out of your slavery. God by His .own almighty power hns done that. 8. ' "Shall give yon." Their needs were all ti be supplied; they were to hnve Mesh in abundance that evening and bread in the morning, and six mornings each week thereafter for nearly fortv years. 'TIear eth your murnuirings." How offensive to God must their murmurings have been, and yet. He bore with them and had mercy upon them. 9. "Come near before the Lord." Evi dently some particular place which hnd been dcsinnatcd, where God appeared to them in the cloudy pillar. The tabernacle was not built until ome months later. 10. "The glory of the Lord." A glorious manifestation of God's presence in a "thick cloud." Chap. 19: 0. This would give them encouragement, anil cause them to recoffi'i'e God as their deliverer. 12. "Ye shall know." When Ood plagued the Egyptians it wan to make them know thnt He was their God. 13. "Quails." Quails Mere then as'now considered a delicacy. Among the Egypt inns a quail was an emblem of ease nnd nlenty. "Covered the camp." They flew low and were si tame thnt the Israelites could take ns many as they ehoe. The children of Israel were ngnin supplied with qunils nhoul a vear later. Num. 11: 31. 14. "A small round thing." It was like coriander seed (Num. 11: 7), nnd white like "hoar frost." The people gathered on an average about three nuarts for each mnn. It wan dry enough to grind and bake like grnin. ond was pleasnnt to the taste. It was a wholesome food, nnd was used as bread by the Israelites about forty Vars. It ceased to fall soon as the tsvnelites reached the laud of Canaan, Josh. 5: 12. 15. "It is manna." "What is it?" R. V. They aid one to another, "Man-hu?" which means. What ia it? The manna was a tyne of Christ. 1. It met a great need. ?. It was not understood by Israel, so Christ was not understood by those to whom He cam". 3. It was for all the pen ule, Christ is for the world. 4. It had to be gathered early, each day. 6. It was white and sweet, so Christ is pure in Kim se:f nd sweet to the taste of the refined ouU"'. It gave life ta the Israelitea. fanuy fishermen. In England the boys and some times grown men have a very funny way of catching flab. You would nover guess what It Is, bo I might Just as well tell you right off. It was an English boy who told me about It. "You must catch a goose,'' he said, "and that Is the hardest part. Then you tie a line which has a baited hook on one end to the goose's leg. "Then let her go. She'll make ti? the ater every shot, and as she swims about she, ot course, draws hook and line after her. "Pretty soon a fish bites and maybe gets booked. . "Then the goose teels something tugging at her leg, and she swims along about as bard as she can, but this only makes the tugging worse. The only way to get away from that awful something, she inlrks, is to get (out ot the water. "So, with wildly beating wings, Rti makes lor the snore at a rattling pace." CHRISTIAN ENDCAVOR TOPICS. July a "The Father's Csre"-Matt. vl. 25-34; Ps. cllL 13, 14. Scrlpttire Verses. Job. Ill, 17, 1R; Isa. xxxv, 10; Matt. xl. 28-30; John xiv. 1-3; 1 Cor. xv. 55-57; 2 Cor. Iv. 1U18; 2 Tim. lv. G-8; Heu. xii. 11; Rev. vll. 13-17; xxi. 1, 3, 4. Lessen Thoughts. We Buffer nothing but what our blessed Master suffered before us; and ln nothing do ws Buffer nearly so much as h did. This ought to assure ua of his most loving sympathy with us In our ,'lttle worries, and his equal power and willingness to help us out of them. In this world God has provided medicines for the relief and cure of physical ailments, Just as truly has he provided remedies for our mentnl and spiritual sufferings, and his Holy Spit-It supplies them through the word and Sacraments, and by per sonal communication In answer to prayer and worship. Selections. Lord, what a change within us one short hour Spent in thy presence will prevail to make! We kneel, how weak! We rise, how lull of power! Why should we, then, be overborne with care. Or ever weak, or ever heartless be, Anxious, or troubled, when with us is prayer, And Joy and strength and courage are with thee? We must ever remember that our Sablor Is an expert in caring for those In trial. Think of his experience. We nro constantly In danger of regarding cur trial as singular, unlike any other that man has known. This Is not so. The divine Man has cared successfully for numberless ones whose trial was as great and bad as ours. Our only need Is simple trust. In every trial we may say, "This too, will pass." Not only so; we may be assured it will take its place among all things working together lor our good; therefore we may bo strong, for the Lord la our strength. Suggested Hymns. After the toil and trouble, Trav'llng to the better land. Not now, but In the coming years. I am trusting thee, Lord Jesus, Jesus thou refuge of the soul, How firm a foundation. EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. July 6-The Fathers Care-Matt, vl, 25-34; Psa. 103, 13-11 Neany all people are born with ca pacity for a noble self-realization. Some exercise this Innate power wise ly and mount up from summit to sum mit above corroding cares. Others I.ush their inner call for the upper regions of life by the continued din of petty annoyances which they them selves solicit or irresolutely allow to govern. Perceiving how natural such experiences were to mankind, our Lord gives large' space to teachings which, nre intended to remedy this dire evil. These corrective truths are founded on the unquestioned fact that "life Is more than meat, and the body than raiment. Food sustains. Clothing protects. These are means toward an end. To live nobly and completely is the supreme human aim. Therefore, take no thought,", be not unduly anxious . about mlno.' things. "Thought," In tho sense of excessive solicitude, hampers, cripples, kills. Men do "take thought," Indulge groundless fears, and then call life hard, unfair, bitter. But this Is not according to God'3 plan for us. The real corrective Is to obey him so fully that a perfect trust in his goodness will create perfect re3t within the heart. The birds without barn or store house are fed. fed out of God's own open hand. Ages upon ages was our planet, in process of preparation. In finite wisdom, power, love, made it a vast depository of bounties. Soil of txhaustless fertility, air filled with In vigorating tonic the sun with its heal ing and life-giving beams all theso and more we and the birds have in common. A normal babe chuckles and laughs and crows. It fairly rev els in Its gleeful nature. Thus It goes on until shamed by blunders and wounded by sin. Both birds and men are divinely designed for cheerful ness. "Your heavenly Father feedetn them." Put the emphasis on Father. He is only the Creator of the birds. Yet see how kindly he cares for them. Still more tenderly will he care for you because he is your Father, it birds sing their cheerful gratitude well may men both shout and sing their grateful praises. "Therefore, take no thought," and, slightly changing the form, ho says again, "Take therefore no thought." O, child of God, do not worry. It is distrust. It Is a speeles of atheism. Fling It to the winds. Brain and heart are captured by our supreme teacher. He clinches his logic. If God feeds the birds and clothes the lily, the creatures of time, transient, perishing, will he not much more care for his obedient, loving, trusting chil dren of eternity, whose companion ship he Is to enjoy forever? Snek first his kingdom. Follow his Instructions. Fall In with hl3 order and rest. Bo tine to the great concerns of life and the little wilt fall into place. Mys teries may surround, us, strange provi dences arise, troubles come, but he vlll make them all work together for cur exaltation. . RAM'S HORN BLASTS. HE church Is the creature and not ths creator o Christi anity. God will use) the preaching workman as well as the woik lng preacher. If God puts you ln ,1at-1r nlanA ifr mall be a compliment to fcs the ,l8ht that u in riV To employ a re vivalist will not help us to evade our own responsibility. The world Is not a see-saw In which you go up by sending another down. We may prepare ourselves for the way, but God muut prepare the way for us. One hypocrite may eclipse the sun to some, but he cannot hide It from all. He who does not bear the burden of souls uow will not bring us sheaves then. Men are nearer to God than the angeU at the sons are closer than the servants. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN S-ADING FOr? THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF, Ooeim Day by ly Our Ually llreed Living; Comes Before Logic, Doing Hetore Ooctrlne, Christ Hefore Creed Man Measured by Faith. Lord, for to-morrow and its needs 1 do not pray; , Keep mc, my God, from stain of si Just for to day. Let me both diligently work And duly pray; Let me be kind in word and deed Just lor to-day. Let me be slow to do my will, Prompt to obey; Help mo to mortify my ilesh Just for to day. Let me no wrong or idle word I'nt hinkiiig say; Set thou a seal upon my lips Just for to-day. Let me in season, Lord, be grave, In season gay; Let me be faithful to Thy grace Just for to-day. Anil if to day my life Should ebb away. Give me 'Vliy sacrament divine Sweet Lord, to day. r-o, for to morrow and its needs 1 do not pray: But keep me, guiilc mc, love me, Lord. Just for to-day. True Orthodoxy. By II. F C. "Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father, which b in Heaven." Matt. Doing ia greater than doctrine. The men who can say, "Lord. Lord," with a very religious accent and with just the right amount of unction and no more ran be found everywhere, but the men who do His will are not always found in the same places. To be able to think correctly is a purely intellectual process. The orthodox man, popularly, is he who thinks aright or says lie does; often, ill fact, he is the man who rinds that it makes his head tired to think, and so he gives up the ef foil, subscribes to whatever formula oth ers may prescribe, and becomes hence lorth an indent defender of the faith, probably a hot heretic hunter. But with tloil the orthodoxy ot lucre opinion if neither here nor there. Modern l'harasaism prides itself on its correct creed just as the ancient type did on its correct ceremonies, but tiiey arc using their confessions of faith tor the whitewashing of their sepulchres, l'hara saism within the church has made as many martyrs as persecution from with out. Intellectualism is the devil's snare, leading the saints to neglect the lost while they hurl logic at one another. Otten the church has said, by her attitude, if you will go it blind in creed we will go it blind as to your character. And so many have gone ull their lives in darkness, feeling no fear, fondly dreaming that when the last summons should come they would exhibit their church certificates and say, "You see I am orthodox," thinking their creed would cover the multitude of theit sins. And others, more honest, have struggled, their brains fairly churning with the effort to make the thoughts ot the most High tit into the thinking of man, and feeling that they would nevei find salvation. What Christ insisted on is that a man cannot be known and will not be meas ure 1 by his words, or his party crv, or opinions, but by that faith that leads him to follow in His steps, to da His will. It is so much easier to speak the word than to do the will, so much easier to make a religious sound with the lips than a right eous one with the life, to say "1 am a Methodist," or "a Baptist," or whatever the ist may be, and "I stand by the old landmarks" than it is to make men see that we are Christ's, and that we stand by our Lord. The question is not, after all, between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, but between opinions und life, between philo sophy and personal piety, a mere intellect ual process or a mighty life passion. Do the conflicting questions, the diffi culties of faith trouble you 'i ou will never settle them by trying to be either orthodox or heterodox. Perhaps if you settled tnem nil you would be little netter off. They are not of tirst importance. Yet it is not right to try to escape think ing, but to remember that living comes before 'logic, doing before doctrine. Christ before creed. Place the Lord first, learn to know Him and as you love Him more you will forget some of the questions al together and light will brcuk on the rest. ltam's Horn. Christian Life In Its Fulness. The Rev. John McNeill draws this il lustration to show the ideal Christian life, one that gives out to the world as it re ceives from above. He says: "In driving between Melbourne nnd my home 1 often stop at a wayside trough to give the horse n drink. As the horse drinks the water is lowering, and pres ently I hear a sound as of a running tap. Yes, the sound is coming from tho box. Within it there is a tap connected by pipes with the Y'an Yean Reservoir up in the Plenty Manges. Attached by a lever to the tap is a melal ball, which rests on the surface of the water. As the horse drinks, the water on which the hall is floating is lowered, nnd thus the ball is lowered; the lowering of the ball opens the tap and the Yau Yean begins to pour in, so that, although the water is being withdrawn by the thirsty animal, a fresh supp!y is being poured in, tho trough is being tilled so that it is always full. "Thus may it be with the soul of the be liever. It is ours to see to the connection between us and the infinite reservoir away lip among the hills of God being kept open, to see that the tup is kept in proper working order by faith, prayer and medi tation. " riisraoter ltlpenltig. Not all Christian people bear loss, sor row and sickness in a victorious way. Too often do we see men yielding to trouble, not growing more beautiful in soul, but losing their spiritual beauty in life's trials. This is not the way it should be, how ever. Our character should ripen in life's weather, whatever tho weather may be. "Tribulation worketh patience." The ob ject of life is to learn to live. We are at school here, and shall always be at school until we are dismissed from earth's clashes to be promoted into heaven. It is a pity if we do not. learn our lessons. It is a pity if we grow- no gentler, no kindlier, no more thoughtful, no more uusellish, no more unworldly, ns the years pass over us. Christian Intelligencer. What Yonr Life Can Heroine. Alumina, common earth, can become Oriental ruby, tnpat, amethyst, sapphire, or enierild. Silica can become jasper, opal, or Brazilian ruby. Charcoal can become diamond. Why not body become equally lustrous nay, luminous? That which is designed to be a temple of the Holy Ghost ought to be tit, says Bishop Warren. It must bo capable of such glory thst John, not yet out of the body, falls to worship, and finds the object to be only one of his brethren, the prophets. Old bodies do not need to be cast aside but to have their super-amethystine ca pabilities brought out. The world finds Its own excuses In the things of which it causes the Christian. It la sometimes easier to avoid of fenses ourselves than to torglve them ln others. Many Sunday century run has tak en a man that much farther from heaven. Reputation Is the shadow cast by character and dependent on the light ln which It Is seen. It Is bard to get spiritual nourish ment through a mind stuffed with the Sunday newspaper. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trad Conditions. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ol trade lays: "Trade at the Kast is more quiet owing to the advancing season and the bad effect of prolonged labor controvcrsic! being felt in certain lines. Reports from the interior and the far West are more encouraging, bountiful harvests being expected, while the light stocks carried over from the previous season assure profitable price. "The best indication of continued prosperity is the fact that quotations Co not recede, even in the lines where at present there is only a moderate degree of activity. "Uncertainty regarding their ability to secure pig iron at reasonable prices is making producers of steel cautlnus in accepting contracts that call for de livery at even remote dates. "Lack of rain in the southwest is the only seriously unfavorable crop indica tion of the week. Domestic grain makes good progress, but bad news has bun received from abroad. "Failures for the week numbered 104 in the United States as against I1)?, Irt year and nineteen in Canada, ngainM fourteen a year ago. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, $3.1533.35 ; best Patent, $4.Xo; choice Family, $4.05. Wheat New York No. 2, yS'ic ; Philadelphia No. a, 8a8ijc; Baltimore No. 2, 8ic. Corn New York No. 2, 6oc ; Phila delphia No. 2, bs'Aa(6; Baltimore No. 2, (7j.'Ja6Kc. Oats New York No. 2, Miil dclphia No. 2, 51c; Baltimore No. 2. 5o'jC. llay No. I timothy, $14.50315.00; No. 2 timothy, $13.00314.00; No. 3 timothy, $1!. 50312.00. Cirecn Fruits snd Vcgrt3bles. Aspar agus Eastern Shore, Maryland, per dozen, prime, S1.25al.80. Beets Nor folk, per bunch 3.14c. Blackberries North Csrolina. per qu;it, 0311c. Cab bage North Carolina, per crate $1.90:1 2.00; do, Norfolk, per brl $i.Q-)a2.oo. Cantaloupes Florida, per crate $1,001 J.oo. Cherries Maryland and Virginia, per brl. Red, $3.0034.00. Cucumbers Charleston, per basket $1.2531.50; tl i. North Carolina, per basket $i.ooai.5o. Eggplants Florida, per crate $3.0033.50. tirecn peas Anne Arundel, per bti. sugar. 60365 ; Jo, small. 65380. Goose berries Maryland Virginia per lb 4'a ;c. Huckleberries North Carolina, per qusrt 8aloc. Lettuce Native, per bush el box 25335c. Onions Bermuda, per box $.703175; do, Egyptian, per s.ick $275'i3-00. Peaches Florida, per car rier $1.5032.50. Pineapples Florida, per crste $2.7533.50. Rsdishes Native, per 100 bunches, white, 75ca$i. 00. Rhubarb Native, per bunch 232'jc. Spinach Native, per bushel box 2oa25c. Spring anions, per 100 bunches 50360c. Straw berries Eastern Shore, Virginia, per Itiart fisox; do, Maryland, per quart 63 10. String besns Cluirleston, per 03sket, green. 75ca$i. 00 do, wax. 50a75c. Tomatoes Florida, per six-basket car rier, fsncy, $2.0032.50; do, fair to good, pl.75a2.00. Potatoes Old Whiter-Maryland and Pennsylvania, per bu. No. 1. 65370c; do, seconds, 5oa6o; 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. t, $3.0033.25; do, seconds, $1.5032.00; do. mils. 75C3$i.oo; do, North Carolina, per 'jrl. No. 1, $2.5033.00. Seed Potatoes. Mine Houlton, Early Rose, $3.25 to $3.35 ; Maine grown Beau ty of Hebron. $3.25 to $3.35; Maine grown Green Mountain, $3.24 to $3.30. Provision and Hog Products. Bulk :lcar rib sides, loWc: bulk shoulders. J!4 ; bulk bellies. 11J4: bacon clear rib sides. nJi: bacon shoulders, gi; sugar cured shoulders, extra broad, 12; sugar :ttred California hams, 04; bams, csn vased or uncanvased, 12 lbs and over, 13; refined lard, tierces, brls and 50-lb cans gross lie. Butter Separstor, 23324c ; Gsthered Crc3m, 22a2.tc: imitation, 19320: Prints, 1 -lb, 24325; Rolls, 2-lb, 23324; Dairy pts. Md.. Pa., Va.. 323. Eggs. Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen, I5'3i6c. Cheese. Large. 60-lb. toJsaloc; medium, 36-lb, ioj-i3io53; picnics, 2-lb, io'$aioa. Live Poultry. Hens, I3'Sai4c: old roosters, each 25a30c; spring chickens, 23324c; young stsgs, 13314c. Ducks, toanc. Hides Heavy steers, association and salters, late kill, 60 lbs and up, close se lection, Iiai2c; cows and light steers, 854 aoc. Live Stock. Chicago. Cattle Mostly toaisc low er; good to prime steers $7.3037.90; poor to medium $537 ; stockers and feeders $2.5035.25; cows, $1.4037.50; heifers $2.5036.45; canners $1.4032.40; bulls, $2.7535.75. Texss-fcd steers S5.ooa6.70. Ilrgs Mixed and butchers $7.1037 55; good to choice, heavy $7.45.17.62 ; rough, heavy. $7.1037.40: light $6.95a 7 35; bulk of sales $7.15.17.43- Sheep Sheep and lambs slow to iower: good to choice wethers $-.00,15.50; Western hcep $5.0035 50; native lambs, clipped, $5.0036.75. East Liberty. Csttle stcidy; choice $7.1537.50; prime $6.753725: gwd $5-o 16.50. Hogs higher; prime heavy $7-5oa 7.60; mediums S7.20: heavy yorkcrs $7.1037.15; light do $7.00.17.05; pigs $6.83 J6.85; roughs $5.0037.00. Sheep steady. Best wethers $4.653480 culls and com mon $i.50a2.oo; choice lambs $6.2536.50; veal calves $7.0037.50. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Decatur (111.) leather workers have org3nized. Montre3l is the best orgsnized city in Canada. Sioux City (Iowa) has elected a union printer Mayor. A strike has occurred in the Cover.) mcnt arsenal at Taranto, Italy. Kansas lias passed a State law for the enforcement of an eight-hour work day. There are 244 establishments, employ ing 9,889 glovcmakers, in the United States. The situation of the machinists' strike t Palestine, Texas, remains unchanged. Only union men will be employed on work for public buildings at West Su perior, Wis. The Austrian Zinc and Lead Ore Com pany, in Czartowitz, Austria, has re duced operations and a large number of men have been dismissed. At Guayaquil. Ecuador, there is seri ous trouble brewing between the railway company and the contractors who are building the line. Striking coopers at Nashua, N. !., re- 3uest an increase in wages, and also emand that the employers recognize the Coopess' Union. Six hundred iron workers of Brook- 'yn, N. Y., went on strike because six ot tne men were suspcimcu ior organ uii-g a union in the shops. THE GREAT DESTiiOYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. t Here Are a fw of the HIlo Whisky to Mam I.ak ol rrtm, LmrSs or Will, Lack of Self ICmshmM. LstrSl C Ptervous Fure. How should a whisky ilrtnfcrr talk t his son? If he talked as he fecks, he iM hold up the Hat, brown bottle- and ear: "My boy, you know that I am pour man and have notting to kav tsi jrou or your mother "i he difference between myself and thf successful men who have paisrd sue as this: "I have gone through life wit Ju bottle in my hand or in my pocket. Tbnf have not." A man comes into the worM prrparviB to do his share of the world's worti wvW or ill. as his brain sod his physical strength may decide. Of. all his nuahtieA the most important practically is balaaer. The whisky in that bottkf destroy, alee balance, both mental and physical1. It substitutes dreaming and foohslk a-! eonHdence for real effort. It presents all of life's prahV-ma awe! duties in a false light. It makes Dtasn thinirs seem unimportant which am avssfc important. It dulls the conscience, whk:h alone esm make men do their duty, in spite of tempt ation, md struggle on to socceaa in spitj of exhaustion. Keep away from this bottle", anil Ipwp away from those who praise it. He an hands it to his fellow man is a criminal, nnd he who hands it to a young Dsaa is worse criminal and a villain. "it is impassible but that nffencra viC conic, but we unto him, through arlrora they conic." St. Luke. vii.. 1. a It is a wcll establUhed fact tht in V1w usual order of events drunkenness woaXs be handed down from father tcr son, -aitofi hundreds of thousands of families waaks be ultimately wiped out by whixky. It is not true, fortunately, that the tost of a drunkard actually inherits drsnurst ness fully develocd. But a ilrankanS uive.i to his son weakened nerves and diminished will power, which tait to make him a drunkard more easily tlnm his father was made a drunkard, before him. The great safeguard of a dmnkarj'fs: children undoubtedly lies in the warointc which they see every day in their hoaw and in the earnest advice which the mast who drinks will give to all young ptrapie if he have any conscience left. If the man who drinks would m ve own children from the same danger f etn do so better than any other. He need at lose their respect by telling tbem f bus own mistakes, if these m intakes have lier-st hidden from them. It him simply trU them without personal reference ukat bo knows about whisky, its rffecta ott m man's happiness, success, self-respect -audi physical comfort. Whit-ky gives a great many things to men negative gifts most of them. J these gifts here are a few: Lack of friends, lack of wilt, lack of acif respeet, lack of nervous force lack t everything save the hideous eraviihj that ?an end only with unconsciousness, that begins again with increased ausTer-'Xig when consciousness is restored. With the fear of whisky there enouM be impressed upon children sympathy aaii sorrow for the unfortunate drunkartL One of the ablest men, and one of tha most earnest in America, said, ti host friends very recently: . "I never drink, as you kuow. Bat when I see a man lying drunk in the gutter, t know that he has prolsibly mailt- tkaC very day a harder effort at self-roatrol, nobler struggle to control himself, .hast t ever made in my life. He has yieldetl and fallen at last, but only because alt o( his strength is insufficient to vfrreante the disease that possesses him." Teach your children that drankewneasi is a horrible disease, as bad as fe-penrr. Teach them that it can be avoided; tbt the disease is contracted in youth tura-iuir.bj carelessness, and that it is spread by t&o-9 who encourage drinking in others. Tell them that the avoiding of whisky is sjoc merely a question of morals or obedience to parents, but a question involving men taj and physical salvation, success in life, huppiness, and the respect of others- Jfcat, York American and Journal. " "High Life" Shocks a Temperama 1 Ten minutes was the time a)kwa4 speakers at a recent aessioa of the W om en's Christian Temperance Union Con vention, because of the large number oC reports to be made. Only once did tbe timekeeper fail to sound the eons;. 'Che exception was made in favor of Mrs. M- J. Amiable, of Brooklyn, Htate Superin tendent of the Union's rescue work, ht told some interesting experiences. "No one," she said, in beginning he address, "is always under his or ber srU control unless he or she ia a total ab stainer. "Only a few days ago," she went nu after telling some more of the evils or drink, "I was invited to a reception ftinett to a young bride who had just return-! from a wedding trip of nine months. 11n. reception was at the house ot her father-in-law. in Brooklyn. He is a fHiriatmat man und his wife is well known aa a phil anthropist. I could not go to the rtctn tion, and I am glad that I could ant 9 learned afterwarda that' the besntifui young bride became so boisterous thav her father-in-law bad to take her to fsk. That provoked so much bad language? to4 it was necessary for the butler anil haht a doren of the male guests to carry knar shrieking from the room. "A few days later I received a csr4 I believe one was sent to each guest ex pressing the bride's regret at tbl .iecar vence, and declaring that she had so memory of having used the laagaace at tributed to her." The moral of that story of an event ra "high life," Mrs. Annable said, ia ruat tA4 evils 11 f intemperance are not onhneit ti the lower classes. She gave s-verii in stances of successful effort in resrva? wo A, and declared that the work ia made iWilW hard by "well dressed women o a ectiaia, class." Speaking of the need for rescue worK, Mrs. Amiable said she has the neurit of eight hundred descendants ol a vimu who died in Brooklyn in 1H27 at the ago of tiftv-one. Of her descendants, 7utt Kivt been in jail, 312 were confirmed dranluinHsj and thirty-seven paid tho law's penalty fiar murder. Mrs. Annable declined to give the sans of the erring bride on the groanil tkat she did not think to do an wnil.1 be in line with her department of resene worn. The mime of the woman who died in she also refused to divulge for the suka of the hundred descendants whia u-ezw never in jail. lt Tbana (la. The leading paper of Manchester, V. TT , had on its bulletin board recent the tut lowitig wail in large letters: "Skilled mechanics w ho want their bees may leave Manchester." That napar atstr4 that certain good workmen in a V4fn factory had declared thev woald ipt Lis Massachusetts if they eouid not have an open saloon in Manchester. " To this all good eituens wilt srpry, tt them go, for very quickly wouJii their places be tilled by skilled workmsn witn better material for good cituuenship, tbaat beer-drinking mechanics. Rational Ailua eate. - Could Si Tar Ba afsnanrsst. ' If workingiuen of this great nation would all si.;u the plcdk4 ' a-aii uo n, there would lie no need ol labor nraaaasa. tions and labor agitators, aad tuei nasaUt be no strikes, with privation s4 atarvw lion following in their wake; and sru perity and suusiiiue would Uksr tan pU.-n of dissipation and equator, las haf-ptaeas it would bring to the working nasi home and its ludueaea upon the bays it-l girls reared in those nonces, the sHirtl eltvatiou of the alaudard of satiseti.- m. the decrease in erimr, and that ulmun it would throw out fur the proteruaa t tli virtue of young women vouii aw-t-be mxaaured ou this uix.- Mauusvti .sVs voc le.
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