A NOVEL RACE.
Sunday Discourse by Dr. Chapman, the
Noted Pastor-Evangelist.
Wellh and Powtr Will Not Avail Ihe Slnnar
on Judf mast Oar Two Ways
lato Hear to.
TTKW Yonic City. The Rev. J. Wilbur
Chapman, the popular pastor of the Fourth
I're-byterian Church, whoas reputation as
an evangelist i second to none, ha pre
pared an interesting sermon upon the sub
Sect, "A Novel Hace," which is preached
from the text, Proverbs 14: 12, "There
a way which seemeth right unto a man:
but the end thereof are the ways of
death."
Some time during last summer the Rev.
Joseph J'arker, the pastor of the City
Temple in Boston, waa asked to take the
editor'a chair of the London Sun. He waa
given full liberty to print just what he
wished in the paer or to keep out of the
columns what in hia judgment waa nof
conducive to make an ideal paper. One day
in the place of the racing news which the
readers of the Sun had been accustomed
to peruse he printed under the caption ot
"A Novel Race Record" a description ot
the race of life, and for each point made
emphatic in the lives of those who fre
quent the race course and follow racing as
a business lie presented a passage of Scrip
lure. This wis to say the least, startling,
(me of our New York papers, quoting
from hia titterings in the London Sun,
printed the following: ;
A NOVEL RACK RKCORD. J
London. The Kev. Joseph Parker prints,
In the Sun to-day in place of the usual rac-j
irut column what he calls a corrected race
record, as follows:
The Kternity Stakes. I
The Start Born in sin, etc. Psalm LI.: 8.
The Rnce All gone out of the way, etc.
Romans III.: 12.
The Finish After death the judgment,
etc. Hebrews IX.: 27.
The Weighing Room Thou are weighed
in the balances and art found wanting.
Daniel V.: 27.
Settling Day For what shall it profit a
man if he shall gain the whole world and
lose his own soil). Mark VIII.: 30.
This outline for a sermon has been in
my mind since first my eyes lighted upon
it, and to the great London preacher I
am indebted for the suggestions of this)
sermon, and yet I am quite free to confess!
that the only reason I have chosen the
outline, and indeed the only reason I
preach the sermon ia that I have a great
desire that those of you who aro running
the race of life should lay hold upon eter
nal life. It ia a great mistake for men to
preach without giving their hearers an op
portunity to confess Christ. When Mr.1
Moody first began his public ministry in
Chicago he went through a course of ser
mons on the life of Christ, and came at
last to the crucifixion, when the most pro
found impression had been made. He felt
as if he ought to give an invitation, but
neglected to do so. The audience was dis
missed never to come together again, for
that night the great conflagration in Chi
cago was upon the city, and many of hia
hearers were quickly ushered into eternity,
and so while I present this novel race rec
ord I present it only that you may run the
race with Christ. I
If I had the lime in this connection I
might say some words concerning the book
in which the text ia found. It has been
said by some one that there is no part of
the Bible which more thoroughly proves
the inspiration of the Scriptures, tor nd
mere man could have written these wise
snyings; another has suggested that the
thirty-one cltnpters in the book contain a
lesson for 'each da,y of the month, and no
man would" lind h mself failing so frequent
ly it he should imbibe the wisdom of these
sayings. Indeed, there is' not a condition
of life that is not met by the wisdom of the
writer of this book. I might also suggest
the different figures which are used in the
Bible which describe a liumnn life. It ia.
spoken of under the figure of a voyage
with its days of calm and nights of Btorm,
it south winds blowing deceitfully against
us, and telling of prosperity that nevet
comes and its hurricane which almost
drives us against the rocks and to death,
but one of the best figures is that of a race
for no man walks when he races, but runs.
He must be desperately in earnest, and no
one really makes a success of his life with
out this same thing io true of him. Ther
is little place for the laggard in human
life to-day. We must run if we would
win, and no race is permitted without con
testants. In this race of human life which
we start there are three contestants which
Btrive earnestly to defeat us. The first ia
aelf the greatest enety that the most ol
us have is self. Other men fight battle
and rest when the victory is won, but nc
man lias ever yet been able to rest in the
struggle with himself. The Bible is true,
"Greater is he that ruleth hia spirit than
he that taketh a city," and many a man
has been a hero in the battlefield and
made a miserable failure with his struggle
with himself. The world is generally
against us. "Woe be unto you when ail
men speak well of you,", and if no one op
poses you it is well to stop and see where
in you may be wrong, but possibly the
greatest adversary of all is the devil, the1
third one of this trinity of contestants, foe
he flatters and deceives until at last tli J
atrongest character ia made weak and the
purest soul tainted; but I am not so much
concerned about the running of the racV
just at this time as the preparation for the,
end. The text is a striking one. "Then)
is a way which seemeth right unto a man!
but the end thereof are the ways oi
death." "There is a way that seemeth
right." I take it that none of us have de
terminer) deliberately to be lost. Out
mother's memory is too sacred and our
father's example too powerful to permit ui
deliberately to choose death instead of life.
Ve are merely procrastinating. We have
chosen a little more of the world's pleas'
ure, falsely so-called, and determine U
have a little more of the world's honor
and the way seemeth right, for some duj
we may be saved, and yet no one has n
certain prospect of salvation if he neglect
Christ to-day, for be has made no provi'
aion for the morrow. The cud bailies de
scription. There is weeping and wailinji
ami gnashing of teeth, and I present thii
outline in order that we may know thai
we cannot afford to run the race alone.
' I.
The start. Psalm 51: 8, "Behold, I wat
shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive nie."
This is a Bible statement, but experience
proves the truth of it and history empha
sizes it in every particular. However men
may rebel aguinst the doctrine of original
am, and speak of it as an injustice and all
of that, nevertheless, this we know to be
true that we are born with a bias to sin,
and also that if we were to speuk honestly
we would say that from the very first it
has been easier for us to do wrong than to
ao right. We have been in a great com
pany in this experience, for even the great
apostle suid, "When I would do good evil
ia present with me." I do not for a mo
ment imagine that we are guilty, any of
us, of great sins, but the existence of little
ains w,i prove tue eKilitenee o , infu
out ure,
i.A SIn,ou' r.lby w offered for sale to
the t.ngl,9, Government. The report of
fine.? l!Wni )rveler w" t'"1' ' was 'the
tinest he had ever seen oi heard of, but
cuttings of the face, was s ightly fracture.!.;
flaw 7Xte7Vlmt,tllttt ''""t ivi.ibl
i'f V V r.e)etl troin the re
galia of England. Again, when Conova
was about to commence hi. famous statue1
of the great Napoleon, his keenly observaut
cvo detected a tiny red line ru-ini-i
through tha upper portion of the splendid
'block that i-.t infinite cost had been
fetched from I'aros, and he refused to lay
chisel upon it. Once more, in the story of
the early struggles of the elder Herschel,
while he was working out the problem of
gigantic telescopic apecula, you will find
that he made scores upon scores before be
got one -to satisfy him. A scratch like a
snider thread caused one to be rejected,
although it had coat him weeks of toil.
! II.
I The race. Romans 3: 12. "They aro all
gone out of the way, they are together be
come unprofitable; there is none that doeih
good, no, not one." If w object to the
irt statement, 'which, nevertheless, ex
Dcntiice. uruvds. to bo. true., wa. certainly
cannot resist the power-of tlie"ec"flfirfi
statement, for the apostle writes that we
have all gone awny from (end. When
there came a time In our live when it was
possible for n to choose either the rijlit
or the wrong we well remember that the
tendency all along has been to choose the
wrong, or at least to permit it, and when
we remember that it is the wrong in His
judgment that we are reiponsible for the
message is a solemn one that we have to do
with, who taught the commandments and
made the look of lust idolatry, and the
feeling of murder against a brother mur
der. There nre two ways in which men
might get into heaven; one is the wav that
is marked with blood, "And though vour
ains be as scarlet they shall be as white as
Bnow," nnd the other is the keeping of th
whole law. If we could do that Uod will
accept us, but we cannot, and we certainly
know we have not. "He that offends in
one point is guilty of all," nof. that he hu
broken all, hut in the single ntfno tie has
broken away from God. But from the
standpoint of the unregencrate man at
least this statement is true, and I speak
now in the language of the unregenerate.
You are not lost because of Adam's sin,
or an inherited tendency to evil, but
rather because you have rejected Christ
for yourself. Let us imagine a case. You
have consumption, and it has come to vou
from a long line of ancestry, and I went to
you and know a cure for consumption,
and if you will but tntte it yon may be
whole again, and I recite to you the in
stances of hundreds of people who have
been sick and now ore well, but you re
fuse the cure and die. not because you were
a consumptive with an inherited tendency
to this disease, but because you have re
jected the cure, and men arc lost because
they have rejected Christ.
III.
The finish. Hebrews 0: 27, "And as it
is appointed unto men once to die, but af
ter this the judgment."
I never speak the word judgment 1'iat I
am not startled, not for myself, and when
I say that I do not mean to exhibit the
spirit that I am holier than thou, but
startled because of the unsaved innrt who
is in danger of the judgment, lor Cod hat
distinctly said concerning the saved,
"There is therefore now no judgment to
them that arc in Christ Jesus." This is a
personal matter. No one can appear in
judgment for us. We must stand there for
ourselves, and the thought of the judg
ment will make us think when everything
else has been banished from out- minds.
"All I know of the future judgment
Or whatsoever it may be.
That to standalone with my conscience.
Will be judgment enough for me."
And he will meet his record. It will not
be neccsinry that the book shall be
opened. The book of one's own record
will condemn; that sin of last night which
no one knows but you nnd Cod is against
you; that sin in London which no one
dreams of but yourself and your Maker
has made its record, and the things that
we have forgotten are standing against us.
(lod pity us if we do not make ready fot
that day, and we cannot make ready eg
cept by faith in Christ and we can meet
God. We have sinned against Iliin, we
have trampled His love under our feet,
we have rejected His Son. and in that day
we shall meet Him and wlio shall be able
to stand?
IV.
The weighing room. Daniel C: 27, "Thou
art weighed in the balances, and art foun t
wanting."
There is it machine in the Bank of Kng
land that in a very wonderful way sifts
tho sovereign. You could hardly believe
it. There is a whole case of sovereigns
there by the man, who, like an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop
and shovels up theso sovereigns that men
have tumbled the one over the other to get
hold of. and he nuts them in his machine.
He feeds his mill the same way .as the old
farmer feeds his threshing machine, and it
takes hold of the coins anil tests them. It
weighs and poises each, throwing the light
ones to one side, and allowing those that
are good and solid and up to the mark fu
now into another receptacle. It is a mar
velous bit of human ingenuity, but its
testing qualities are nothing beside the
bar of the judgment of God; nothing to
the final assize, when the dead, small and
great, shall stand before God. You had
better put it right. The Spirit says von
are a happy man if you realize vour short
comings in time am1 get it covered.
When that day comes He shall weigh
our motives. It is not what we have done,
but the motive that prompted the doing,
and He shall test our acts. It is not the
good to others which we have accom
plished that shall count for us, but that
which has been for His glory; and He
shall seek out our thought!!, nnd woe bo
unto that man whose motives and acts
and thoughts aro against Him. "Wei-ili'-I
and found wanting." That was solemn
scene in the Book of Daniel where Bel
shttiizer and his guests forgot the splendor
of the room in which thev feasted, the
brilliant lights, the beautiful women, tho
sweet music and see only the fingers of a
man a hands writing on the planter of the
wall, 'Weighed and found wanting," and
a more striking scene than that shall tie
our experience it we neglect Christ.
V.
The settling day. Mark 8: 3U, "For what
shal it profit a man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul." It ia
a possible thing for one to almost win the
world. Wo can have its music and its art
nnd its honor and its pleasure, and in a
aense its wealth, but what shall it profit us.
A great Illinois farmer who years ago
took Mr. Moody over his farm said to him
with pride, "All this ia mine, Mr. Moo.lv."
and then took him to the cupola of his
house and showed him the extent of his
possessions. He pointed out the lund
fence in the distance, and the lake in an
other direction, and tho grove in still an
other direction, and said, "All this is
mine," and Mr. Moody said, "it is a great
larm, but how much have vou up yon
der? pointing heavenward. "Alas," 'said
the man, "I have been so busy here that I
have made no provision for the country
there.
In one of Tolstoi's books there is an illus
tration of that part of Russia where it is
said in the story a Russian peasant can
have all the territory he can measure out
from sunrise to sunset, and Tolstoi tells
of a peasant who started in the morning
at the break of day uud ran with ull speed
to mark out his possessions. He sees the
waving trees in the distance and deter
mines they ahull be his, and the lake be
yond him, and be says that shall be mine,
and the splendid plain, and runs to take it
in, and lifts his eyes to find that the sun
ia beyond the uieiidiun. Then ho bends
every energy to reach the starting point,
and just as the sun goes down ho reaches
it, fulls upon his face from sheer weakness,
and the land is all his, bu . Tolstoi says
they stooped down to pick i-ini up and ho
Is dead. He has gained it all and lost hia
fcoul. This is a picture of many a man
lit riving for honor uud for pleasure and for
power. What shall it all profit in that
treat day?
Shadow Portrait 8crsp-bcok.
What fun It ia to have a shadow
portrait scrap-book of our school
mates! You will never know unless
you get to work and make one. You
tan make two kinds by cutting out tha
inside of tho shadow and pasting on
to black lining, or you can rut out the
outline nnd paste on to a squure of
black cloth, I prefer the former.
Arrange your light -so as to give
tho very best shadow, and hang on
the wall a square piece of light brown
paper. Trace very carefully, Blowly
and accurately, and use the same care
when cutting it out. It is great fun
when you have a number of portraits
pasted In your Bcrap-boolt to have
dome friend look through tho book
and try to guess "who is who."
Made 8trong Contrast.
A travoler who has lust returned
from a long tour abroad says that the
greatest contrast of ancient and mod
ern he ever saw was afforded him the
day he visited the ephlnx In Egypt
An automobile with a praty dashed
up Juat as he was coming away and
tha whole turnout looked sacrilegious
somehow. .
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lessen Comments for
July 20.
Subject: Tha Tea Commandments, Ditties to
Meo, Ex. xx., 1217 Golden Text, Matt
alx., 19 Memory Verjes, 12-17
Commentary on tha Day's
Lesioa.
The Fifth Commandment. This com
mandment is n connecting link between
tho hrt and second tables of" tho law, and
properly belongs to both.
12. "Honor." This means more than to
obey, it is to treat with reverence and af
fection. 'Thy father nnd thv mother.-'
.there is a degree of affectionate respect
which ia owing to parents that no person
else can properly claim, for a considerable
time parents stand as it were in the place
of God to their children, and therefore re
bellion against their lawful commands hat
been considered as rebellion against God.
Ihis precept therefore prohibits, not only
all injurious acts, and irreverent and un
kind speeches to parents, but enjoins all
necessary acts of kindness, filial respect
nnd obedience. We can scarcely suppose
that n man honors his parents who, when
thev fall weak, blind or sick, does not ex
ert himself to the utmost in their support.
In Mich cases Cod r.3 truly requires the.
children to provide for their pfircnts. ns
He required the parents to support and in
struct tho children when thev were help
less and dependent. Most of those who
come to an untimely end are obliged to
confess that breaking this commandment
and the fourth waa the first cuu.e ot their
rum. "Cpon tbi land." etc. 1. The no
tion shall he permanent in the promised
land. 2. The individual life shall he long,
implying happiness, peace nnd prosperity.
hile in its primary meaning this is to be
understood us referring to the promise. I
land, the land of Canaan, yet "in the wider
scope which this commandment has, as
being grounded in the nature of the family,
and so alike binding upon all men, it is to
bo understood of the land or country ot
any and every individual."
The Sixth Commandment. 13. "Thou
ahalt not kill." "Thou shalt do no mur
der." The murderer is regarded as one
who wickedly destroys Cod's image in man,
and so most basely assaults God Himself.
Suicide is accordingly prohibited hv this
commandment. Our Lord took up tliis law
for special treatment, anil taught that he
who cherished anger against his neighbor
was gitillv before (iod of the spirit of mur
der. Matt. 6: 21-21. "Our own life should
be held sacred, nnd we are to do nothing
that will shorten or destroy it, as by it we
are enabled to serve Cod and b!ess our fel
low men." The person who takes his own
bfc performs a cowardly and wicked act.
Dissipation, drunkenness and sins against
the body that unfit it for usefulness and
shorten life, are violations of this com
mandment. It is generally supposed that
there nre eases where the killing of an
other might he justifiable, as, 1, In the
execution of justice. 2. In self-defense.
But even in this there is a difference ot
opinion among good men.
The Seventh Commandment. U. "Thou
shalt not commit adultery." The violation
of this commandment means the destruc
tion of the home and family, nn institution
ordained of Cod and necessary to the build
ing up of His kingdom in the earth,
"llns commandment forbids all acta of
uncleanncss, with all those fleshly lusts
which produce those acts and war against
the soul, and all those thoughts or prac
tices which cherish and pxcite those fleshly
lusts, as looking in order to lust, which
Christ has expressly forbidden. Matt, fl:
28." It also forbids all those unholy
amusements which lead souls into siii.
such as theatre going and dancing, and also
looking at obscene pictures, rending im
pure literature and telling lewd stories.
These things are debasing, degrading anil
soul-destroying. "This sin. 1. Is the most
ilegrading of all sins. 2. Obscures and ex
tinguishes the light of man's nalunil reason
and understanding. 3. Is the most infa
mous and scandalous among men; a sin
that brands them with t!v greatest shame
and reproach, a reproach that can never
be wined away. 4. Is threatened with
most dreadful punishment from Cod." A
body filled with loathsome diseases; n
person reduced to extreme beggary (l'rov.
0: 201; n life completely wrecked 'morally,
physically, intellectually; a being burning
with lust, about to suffer eternally in " the
lake that burnetii with fire nnd brimstone"
these are some of the terrible punish
ments visited upon those who are gtiilty
of this most heinous sin.
The JOightli Commandment.!.1;. "Thou
shall not steal." The rights of property
nre of divine appointment, and we ni-p to
refrain from churning as our own that,
which now belongs to another. The rights
of property may be violated. 1. By taking
property without the knowledge of the
owne. ; or theft. 2. By taking the prop
erty.of another by consent, when violently
obtained. 3. By consent fraudulently ob
tained, or cheating; either by taking ad
vantage of another's ignorance, or by mis
representation. 4. By withholding what
belongs to another; whether it be taxes
or duties,- or giving short weights and
measures, or withholding what is borrowed
or found. 5. By paving too small wages,
or bv not earning the wages we receive.
(I. liy heating down those who sell, so as
not to pay a fair profit, or by dialling ex
orbitant prices. 7. By monnnolies nnd
(rusts which conflict with the rights ot in
dividuals nnd oppress the poor. R. By
socialism and anarchy which tend dire-tlv
or indirectly to inisaiipropi into what right
fully belongs to another, fl. By gambling,
rattling, taking shares in lotteries, or enter-in-;
into any of the modern expediencies
whereby .inmething is expected for noth
ing. 10. By any business which injures
the life, liberty or properly of oth.s. such
as selling honors, obscene pictures, vile
books, cte. 11. By indulging in anv hnbit
whereby wc are unliited to meet our obli
gations, or support those who may be de
pendent upon us. This sin will he severely
punished.
The Ninth Commandment. -111. "False
witness." This is the worst form of lying
and includes all other forms. Truthful
ness is the only condition on which hu
man intercourse is possible, and it lies nt
the foundation of all personal character."
Lying is one of the worst sins, because it
leads to the commission of o'her sins, and
seeks to cover wrong doing. This com
mandment forbids perjury, false oaths,
tale-bearing, aland-r. backbiting and evil
speaking, or nnvtiiini! that would in any
way injure aiullier in his goods, person
or character.
The Tenth Commandment. 17. "Thou
hilt not covt." This is the only one of
the commandments which treats solely of
sins of the mind and heart, and in so doing
it strikes at tho vy root of all sin, for
every sin is born of desire (Mark 7: 21. 22;
Jas. 1' 14, 15), and there would be no sin
committed if this commandment were per
fectly kept. Bom. 7: 7. The word covet
occurs some twenty times in the Hebrew
Scriptures, and is commonly translated de
sire. Champion Woman Nail Driver. '
Miss Olive McGirk Is the champion
woman t an driver In Lewlston, Pa.
Thin distinction was awarded her In
the nail-driving contest held recently
by the women ruembers of the First
Methodist chuch to ralso $400 toward
building a new church. The contest
was the star attraction of the social
and cake sale held in Odd Fellows
hall, and Miss McGirk won the flryst
prize, a large fancy cake. She drove
twenty large nails In a 2-lnch plank in
Just one minute and thirty seconds,
easily defeating her nine opponents,
who brulHed their fingers and thumbs
In valu efforts to drive the nails fast
and straight
i Fish Chilled to Death.
A tremendously heavy hailstorm
vlBlted the vicinity of Galveston, Tex.,
reoently, being particularly severe at
tone part of the Bosque river, the
lianks of which were covered with
over it foot of hall. As a consequence
hundreds of Huh were chilled to death
and were picked up floating along the
stream.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
July 20 "Mesns of Orowlb." Phil. HI 12-16;
Col. t, 10-14.
Scripture Verses. Isa. xl. 31; Phil.
I. 0-11 ; 2 Thoss. I. 11, 12; Jude xx. 21;
John xv. 4, 6; Eph. ilk 16-19; Col. i.
27-29; 1 John li. 6, 6; I v. 12, 13.
Lesson Thoughts.
We cannot grow without outside
help. The body would die without
food and air and sunlight; the soul
gains strength only as it feeds upon
the divine word and lives In the
bright atmosphere of the Spirit's pres
ence. A tree has both roots and branches.
If the roots are strong and healthy,
the branches will flourish. So our
Christian graces and activities will in
crease and thrive as our faith Is deep
rcoted in Christ.
Selections.
When a boy hoes corn ho dofs It
with a double movement. First he
hoes away from the corn the weeds,
glass and stones that would hinder
Its growth; imd, second, he hoes to
tho corn the fresh, moist, mellow soil.
So If a Christian Is to grow, he must
put away the things that hinder
growth, and add to his life whatever
li crcases growth.
When a selling vessel crosses the
Atlantic a great deal of work is- done
by the sailors, but none at all to make
the ship go. The wind does that. So
nil man's work Is only putting In
st mments In the way of God's power
fixing a water-wheel In the way of
the river, or a piston In the way of
the steam. Our spiritual work should
move In the same easy fashion.
The beautifully grained wood that
makes our finest furniture Is not taken
fiom trees that grow In peaceful, shel
tered situations, but from those that
are In exposed, beaten about about
fcj tho storms. So It is that the
r.oblcst natures are those that have
had to contend with many trials.
Kuskln sums up the alms or growth
It, the one word "magnanimous"
icnt-hearteii. To become that should
bt the aim of all growing Christians.
We must grow all the time. We
are either growing In grace, or, as is
r.nld, our faults are "growing on us "
Which is it?
Sunrjested Hymns.
More love thee, O Christ.
More of Jesus.
Nothing but leaves.
Holy Spirit, Teacher thou.'
Come, Holy Spirit.
Search me, O Lord, and try this heart
of mine.
EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS.
July 20 Evaaiclizlaf the World la this Gen
eration Isa. 61, 1-4: Jobs 17, 6-8, 18, 2a
Robert Browning 4s the poet-mill-:snt.
He glories In the struggles that
'.I It- men toward the heights of man
iiood. Nothing so diBgusts him as
nerveless Angers and impotent wills.
Selflshness he riddles. The spirit of
jelf-saerltlce he exalts, honors, and
seeks to make manly fiber as relent
less as steel. Some such heroic treat
ment Is due those who malign our
missionaries, trying to throw discredit
upon them and their work. Wise,
found, sensible men of various callings
and ranks unite in indorsing our
brave workers in foreign fields, and m
highest terms commend the marvelous
results of their laboi'3. Browning's
sturdy summons tb rlso and Btrike for
victory, regardless ot suffering, id
timely.
The church needs to deal with Itself
more rigorously. Do we Christians
nnd Epworthlans give money for the
.-(inversion of the world to Christ. Yes,
a little; but, O, bow little in compari
son with our ability and the urgent
need! Do we give systematically? Do
we give as if our hearts were actually
possessed of the fthrlst-splrlt? Do we
give as those who "hold cheap the
strain?" or do we not too sensitively
"account the pang?" Alpine peaks of
obstruction do confront those who
seek to evangelize the world In this
generation. But they are not insur
mountable. Beyond the Alps lay sunny
Italy for Hannibal and for Napoleon.
So beyond highest hindrances lies a
redeemed and contfuered humanity for
those who will obediently co-operate
with Christ in his mission to the en
tire race.
"It is the duty of the Churches to
send forth the preachers in sufficient
numbers to furnish the means of in
struction and salvation to the whole
market. The thing that Christ com
mands is to preach the Gospel to
eery creature not merely to a few
Individuals In every nation." Cour
ageous missionaries sent forth an ap
peal, claiming that 'the present gener
ation can preach tho Gospel to the
heathen," and It is Its duty to evange
lize the world. God requires It as a
present duty. The world has long been
i.rder tho influence of this scheme or
committing the heathen to the next
'jetieratlon.
In 1837-CS occurred the most sweep
ing revival ever known In this land.
Many of the strongest churches and
moat efficient workers of the pant half
rentury were .the fruits of that mighty
awakening. Dr. Joel Parker, then a
coted minister in New York, preached
or "The Duty of the Present Genera
tion of Christians to Evangelize the
World." Hi affirmed that they could
Jo it. Money by tho million could be
spared, and workers by the thousand,
without seriously weakening the home
thurches. If this was true of his day
how much more might It be said of
our period when both means and
agencies have been so greatly In
creased? Rev. J. C. Garritt lifts his
voice:
"China for Christ In this genera
tion. God is on our side, and his infi
nite power, wisdom, and grace can
never fall. , O church of the
living God! take this one word, lm
manuel, an.) plant the standard of the
croa3 la ovcrv b.u-i uader the sun."
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
HE music ceases
when the Instru
ment listens to
Itself.
flcmnn seed will
tTtiiW? raxxt quicker If it
K ilOvx Is soaked in orayer.
Burnished brass
shines brighter
than nuggets o!
gold. .
Personal respon
sibility cannot be
discharged by proxy
The criticism of the sermon often
uproots the good seed.
Many a man's practice puts an ex
tinguisher on his profession.
God will truBt His glory to the ves
lel He has tried with grief.
It la better to be true to the fals
than to be falsa to the trua.
To lose o:ie ot our trials may mean
to lose iiM our triumphs.
IHE GREAT DESTROY Ell
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
A Scnttlah Kxpert tny Thnt tha Exeea
live t neof Alcoholic ajtlmnlnnta CanaeB
nn Undue Amount of Meninl Ilaeae
MannrscturlnR octal Hnr.leni.
Willinm P. Hprntlinft, M. D., Superinten
dent of the Craift Colony for Epileptics,
writea as follow: In the eighty-eighth an
nual report of the-Hoyal Mnrninnnide Ay
lum at Edinburgh, Dr. T. S. Clouston, the
very distinguished and able Superintendent
of the institution, eay about alcohol aa a
came of insanity:
"I cannot myself gel over the conclusion
that the excessive use of alcoholic atimn
lunts during times of brisk trade nnd high
wages has to a large extent been the cause
of the undue amount of mental disease
which we have been called on to treat thia
year. Wc had, aa a matter of fact, 115
cases, or about n quarter of our whole
number of admissions, in whom drink was
assigned aa either the sole or as a contribu
tory cause of the disease. If the admission
of men alone are looked at, eighty-one, or
iihouf one-third of them, were alcoholic
raes. I have never had experience of any
thing approaching tins before, and 1 should
fail in my duty it, seeing more of the terri
ble effects of excessive alcoholic drinking
in destroying honor and reason and self
control than almost anything else in (Scot
land, I did not strongly drew attention to
n fart so disgraceful to us as a community.
The mental doctor sccj the very worst that
alcohol can do.
"N'o bodily disease, no family ruin, no
uncial catastrophe is so bad as the destruc
tion of mind. It ia certain that for every
man in whom excessive drinking causes ab
solute insanity there are twenty in whom
it injures the brain, blunts the moral sense
nnd lessens the capacity for work in lesser
degrees. The brain generally, and espe
cially, its mental functions, suffer first, and
suffer most from alcohol in excess, lgnor-
n,llP nt tV,ia (rift llin,li,t,tln.nni,y nm.m.l
I enjoyment of its effects, the temptations of
the possession of money, bad environments,
dangerous social customs and hereditary
brain instability are the chief determining
factors why men drink to such excess that
they become insane. When in any commu
nity there ia a large class to whom pros
perity always mean excessive indulgence
in drink and deliance of natural nnd moral
law, it means that a higher aort of educa
tion is needed or that degeneration has act
in. Mental inhibition is the very higheit
nnd most important brain quality, the salt
without which nocial decay is inevitable.
Without an average natural endowment of
this quality a man thereby exhibits n moral
imbecility. Excessive use of alcoholic ot
other brain stimulant audi a man is esne
cially prone to, nnd it soon finishes olf hir
usefulness, ao that he becomes a criminal
a loafer or a- lunatic. Henceforth he is a
burden or a curse to the community.
"Or if we take the man who originally
had an average inhibitory power, but whe
haa deliberately thrown it away by the ex
cessive use of alcohol, he too soon become!
a social burden and nuisance. Has socict
no remedy in the way of prevention ol
such causes of insanity? I can imagine i
politician or lawyer of the doctrinaire aort
saving that a true conception of libcrt
necessarily implies the liberty for a man
to drink himself to death if lie can afford
to do ao at hia own expense. But it look;
to even a plain man an irrational applica
tion of the doctrine of liberty to nay thai
every man has the inalienable riirht to ren
der himself a burden on other people, and
a source ot degradation and danger to tm
community by any means whatever. Man)
people state very confidently that no legia
lative or State means can possibly dimin
ish the injurious drinking of alcohol. Sue!
persons cannot have seriously looked at th
effects of the recent lawa in regard to drinl
in Norway and Sweden, nnd other facti
set out in that mine of facta on the sub
t'ect - Messrs. Rowntree and Sherwell'i
look.- Our recent 'Inebriate' Art' ia al
most a dead letter, and Lord Peel's report
remains as yet an interesting subject ol
academic discussion. The two author
mentioned have flooded us with authenti
cnted statistics, yet nothing ia seriously
tried legislatively to stop the hundreds ol
thousands of people who thus poison theii
brains. Convictions for being drunk am
incapab'e steadily increase in Scotland-
my alcoholic lunatics have risen irom at
average of fifteen and a half per rent, ir
the years 1874 S8 to twenty-one and a hal!
per cent, in I8S0-9S. to twenty-two and
half per cent, in 1899. and now to twenty
four and a half in 1900, all this apparent!
resulting from the prosperity of the conn
try, and yet the politician cries, non pos
Biimus.
"Our profession of medicine is unani
motm in demauding same effective lcgisSa
tion on the matter."
Drink ami Crime.
Mr. Eugene Smith, nn authority ot
criminal statistics, in a paper recent!)
read before the National Prisons' Associa
tion at Cleveland, presented un array o'
figures thnt should certainly arrest the ut
tention of every sincere pattiot.
He declared the first coat of crime it
taxes upnn city, town and county for men
policing criminals is about lf2Oi),0OU.0lK) an
nualiy in this country. Add to this th.
cost of professionals in crime with theii
average yearly gain, and there ia a tota
loss per year of 0,000,000, exceeding tilt
entire value of the cotton or wheat crof
of the United States. Now add to thii
the further loss by arson and ot goods ato
len, not returned, or if recovered nre de
predated fully one-half, nnd we have i
Mini that is bewildering to the miud to con
template.
The State Board of Charities in Missa
1'liin.etU, in their it-port for IStiU, ,u.l:
"The proportion of crime traceable t.
this great vice must be aet down, as here
tomie, nt not less than four-liitlia."
I)r. Elisha Harris, long Correspondiii)
Secretury of the Prison Association of th'
State of New York, states:
"Thai fully eighty-live per cent, of nl
convicts give evidence of having in torn,
larger degree been prepared or enticed t.
do criminal acts because of the physics
and detracting effects produced upon tin
human organism by alcohol."
He also states that "of seventeen ca9e
of murder examined by him separately
fourteen were instigated by inlo:;icauii
drinks. "
Astounding- Facts.
Air. Xrlson, the most distinguished o
English actuaries, after lung nnd etuefil
investigations &nd companions, ascer
taincd by actual experience the followim
astounding facts:
Between the ages of fifteen and twenty
where ten total abstainers die, cishtm
moderate drinkers die.
Between the agea of twenty and thirty
where ten total abstainers die, thirty-oni
moderate drinkers die.
Between the aes of thirty and forty
where ten total abstainers die, forty nioi
crate drinkers die.
A Harmful Kxamplo.
Very few moderate drinkers keep thei
moderation within uch bounds that the
are not dnniac,ed in their health and mau
liuess, and that there are still fewer wh
fail to exert s harmful example upon tin
young men with whom they come in con
tact. '
Caused a Ilacreaaa In Crime.
In the seventeen largest towns of Sco;
land during the tint three years of th.
Forbes MacKenzie act, closing the salooni
on the Sabbath, there was n decrease ir
tha cases of crime, combined with drunk
tones., to the extent of 29,305.
Tha Man Who Huccaads.
Under the viispices of tha miniaterm?
association of Juliet, III., a notable tem
perance mass meeting was held recently
the speakers were bankers, judges, mer
chants, teachers, railway managers, edit
or and workingmen. All bore testimony
to the need of total abstinence by the
man who succeeds in life.
Snnrea of Knea Uejcenaratinn.
- - - ' - " w,i v.iiuinni
trance," aaya: "Alcoholism in one of tho
lout inus-ca ui race degeneration.
Clinic, which ia the most powurful factor
it uli.,AV,i,lit tin,... 1U.,.,AU ,1... :i
individual their primitive integrity."
luMMbKLl-L Ktvit".
General Trad Coadltlona.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Revien
of Trade" says: Quiet conditions hav
prevailed In most branches of business,
especially in those markets already af
fected by labor disputes. Large inter
est payments testify to the prosperoul
condition of railways, industrial corpo
rations and financial institutions, and,
aside from the labor troubles, the half
year just ended was remarkably satis
factory. Railway earnings for June ex
ceeded last year's by 6.4 per cent, and
those of 1900 by 19.9 per cent. In the
iron and steel districts there have been
no developments of importance. In
spite of many serious drawbacks, rail
road earnings for the half year just
closed are the largest ever reported.
Total gross earnings of all railroads in
the United States reporting for the half
year to date are $618,470,503, a gain of
5.7 per cent over last year and 18.7 per
cent over 1000. This report is practi
cally complete for roads embracing
three-fourths of the total mileage of the
United States for five months and in
cludes partial returns for June. Com
mercial failures in the first half of 1902
numbered 6165, with liabilities of $60,
374.856. Although this is an increase
of $4,570,166 compared with last year,
and $18,311,923 more than the excep
tionally favorable record of 1899, it is
necessary to go back 15 years to find
another more gratifying showing than
that of 1902.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour Sprine cloar, J 15a3.35; best
Patent, $4.80; choice Family, $4.05.
Wheut New York No. 2. 78c;
Philadelphia No 2, 8'2a82 c; Baltimore
No 2, bU0.
Corn -New York No. 2, 000', Philn
dolphin No. 2. 6jjut3G; Baltimore No. 2,
67jitiiSo.
Outs New York No. 2. 46j;ej Phila
detphiu No. 2, 51c; Baltimore No 2,
500.
Hay No. 1 timothy, $14.50nl5.00;
No. 2 timothy, $13.00ul4.(JO; No. 3 tim
othy $11.60al2.O0,
Green Fruits and Vegetables. Aspar
opus Eastern Shore, Maryland, per
doaon prime, $1.25al.75. Beets Nor
folk, per bunch Ia2o. Blackberries
North Carolina, per quart, 4a5o. Cab
bage North Carolina, per orate $1.00
al.25; do Norfolk, per brl, $1.00al25.
Cantaloupes Florida, per orate $1.00a
1.75. Cherries Maryland and Virginia
per brl, Ked $4.00a4.50. Cucumbers
Charlostown, per basket $1.25al. 50; do.
! North Carolina, per basket $1.00al.60
Eggplants, Florida, per crate $1.50al.75
tireen Peas, Anne Arundel, per bu.
"U8T Jt T0a85c. Gooseberries, Maryland,
Virginia per lb 5uGo. Huckelberries,
North Carolina, per quart 8al0o. Let
tuce, Native, per bushel box 10ul5o.
Onions, Egyptian, per sack $2.75u3.00.
Peaohes, Florida, per oarrier $1.50a2.o0.
'Pineapples, Florida, per crate, $$2.75a
3.50. Radishes, native, per 100 bunches,
white, 46a50o. Rhubarb, Native, per
bunch 2a2jo. String beans, Charleston,
per basket, green 89a90o. Tomatoes,
Florida, per six-basket carrier, fancy,
75a$1.00 do, fair to good 50a75o.
Potatoes, Charleston, per brl. No 1,
$3 50a3 00; do, seconds, $1 25al 75; do,
t-ullB, 75ca$l 00; do, North Carolinu.per
brl, No 1, $2 50u2 75.
Buttur, Separator, 23a24c; Gathered
cream, 22u23c; imitation, prints, 1-lb
25a2Gc; Rolls, 2-lb, 241125; Dairy pts.
Md., Pa., Va., 23u24c.
Eggs, Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen,
17a HHo.
Cheese, Large, 60-lb, lOjalOjfo; me
dium, 36-11), 10alOi; picnics, 22-lb
lOitfalOfro.
Live Poultry, Hons, 12al2Jc; old
roosters, euch 25u30c; spring chickens,
18a20o, young stags, 13ul4o. Duck
lOallo.
Hides, Heavy steers, association and
salters, late kill, 60-lbs and up, close se
lection, llal'Jc; cows and light steers,
8Xa9o.
Live Stock.
Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 10al5o lower,
good to prime steers $7 30u7 S)0; poor to
medium $5a7; stackers mid feeders $J 50
a5 25; cows, $1 40a7 50; heifers $2 50a
6 45; Texas-fed steers $5 OOufi 70. Hogs,
Mixed and butchers $7 10u7 55; good to
cboioe, heavy $7 45u7li-i; Sheep, sheep
and Iambs slow to lower; good to cboioe
ffhethars $500a5 50; Westorn sheep
$5 00a5 500.
East Liberty, Cattle steady; choice
$7 15a7 50; prime $ 75a7 25. Hogs,
prime heavy $7 50a7 60, mediums $7 20;
heavy porkers $7 10a7 15. Sheep steady,
Best wethers $4 65a4 80 culls and coin,
mon $1 50u2 00; choice lumbs $0 25uti 50.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Oswego, N. Y., boilermakers demand
$2.50 a day.
Kansas farmers offer as high as $2.50
a day and board for harvesters.
Yakima, Wash., teachers are on a
strike as a consequence of failure to
raise their salaries. They are looking
for new positions.
The Traction Company, at Los An
geles, Cal., has increased the pay of
employees to 32, 22 1-2 and 25 1-2 cents
an hour.
President McDonald thinks that the
American Labor Union will more than
double its membership during the pres
ent year.
Cleveland, Ohio, street car employees
have organized a branch of the Ameri
can Association of Street Railway Em
ployees. The Burlington, Iowa, City Council
has passed a resolution granting the
employees of the fire department an in
crease of 10 per cent.
The Ohio Stationary Engineers' Con
vention refused to go on record as op
posed to the negro.
A contractor and nine assistants en
gaged in building an elevator at Galla
tin, Tenn., were arrested recently for
working on Sunday.
An amicable settlement of the threat
ened strike of the smeltermcii at the
Carpenter Smelter.iat Golden, Col., has
been effected.
According to the present plant of the
American Labor Union, it is the inten
tion to put at least six new organizers
into the field at once.
The Toronto, Canada, Trades and
Labor Council is entertaining a pro
posal to amalgamate the six Tabor or
ganizations representing the various
trades.
Machinists on the entire system of
the Northwestern Railway have asked
lor a material advance in wages, the
raise ranging from 6 to 7 1-2 cents per
hour.
Printers it Pontia, Mich., have made
application to the district deputy or
ganizer of the International Typo
graphical Union for a charter for a
union.
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN
HEADING FOR THE QUIET HOU
WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.
rmint One ljr When Worn by To
miration Will Kot laaar Wltla
Application Is tha Baa KvMa
Appreciation Work I Traa Waamnlfh
One day, when worn by toil and lone.
And vexed, like Martha, with many 1
1, too, waa foolishly striving to bear.
In strength my own,
I heard a tender voice and low
A voice of sweet, mysterious power.
That came to me that trying hour
So long ago. J
These words it said: "Come tboa, oppratt
With present care and cares to be.
Come into a desert apart with Me
Awhile nd rest."
It was my Master's call to prayer. '
To a quiet hour with Him ast-ie
And in Hia solitude to bide
Unlurdened there.
My troubled, anxious soul it knew
His lovinn preaenre the "Desert" filled'.
And nil itn restlessness waa stilled
And a deep peace grew.
IVsr Lord, I pray for a fnith to see?
Thy tender love in ench restraint
Around me thrown, that I msy aconouifc
Myself with Thee!
And mny my ear be quirk to hear
Thy diiity call to quiet praypr;
In a "di'iort place" Thy presence share
And feel Thee near!
Emma Louisa Tallmaa.
Hearing; and Dolns;.
"And every one that beareth these any
inzs of Mine nnd doeth them not shall ha
likened unto a foolish man which built lust
home upon the sand." Matt. 7: M.
Salvation comes by faith and faith br
henrinif, but there are some very faithfsl
hearers who will never know salvation:
they hear, but do not heed. Tha parable
of the two builders, on the rock and on that
anl. is the application of the Kernvm oa
the Mount. It is as though the Master
can anticipate those people, even of tain
day, who are so occupied with admirirnr
that wonderful discourse that they haw
no time to put it into practice. Apphear
tion is the best evidence of appreciation.
Admiration will not insure salvation.
There are many who say, "All the religion
I need is in the .Sermon on the Monnt."
Th.it is as though one should say, "All the
food I need is in the larder," and then they
ahould lock the door and throw the krr
away. No man needs to worry abont any
more religion until he has exhausted that
contained in this sermon. But he mh;at u
well have his religion in the Kircptiam
Hook of the Dead as in this Sermon on that
Mount if he nevet- takes it out and puts it
into practice. He who builds hia hopca oa
nis aesthetic capacity lor admiring the 1
Mini 01 ,iesus is Dunning tnem on the 1
What God wants is not men ancl wi
who can nod their heads in agreement with
me preacher s sentiments nr sit with a
rapt expression of sympathetic appreeintioai
of the sermon on their fares and t noma
saving, "What a lovely discourse!"
He wants men and women who expmt
their appreciation of the beauties of troth
by their application of its duties.
Operations count more with God thrnt
opinions. Work ia true worship. At the
last you will not be asked your estimate nf
the logical, oratorical and sentimental qual
ities of Christ's great sermon. The great
Architect will not sk your opinion of Hm
designs and plans: He will want to see thai
house you have built according; to thnoai
plana or otherwise. The man wha dors not
more than admire the plans that God ha
drawn builds no more than a house of air
on the sands of his imagination. What has
he to show? It will not do there to s.y.
"Lor-i, I was always one of the first to
say. Lord. Lord, and to express mjr admir
ation of Christ and His teachings." God
will axk for the building erected by jour
obedience.
Xo man knows what any truth is worth
till he sets it to work. Your doctrine yow
must demonstrate. I'rove it by living anil
the world will take chances on its logic.
The truths that Christ spoke are Ood's de
snjn and p'an for the edifice of true living.
You can bring twenty people to accept
these plans by erecting the structure of
your own life squarely and exactly noon
them before you could make one singk
soul accept them by your admiration and!
argument for them.
Wlmt God wants and this world needs il
a Christianity that has grown up out of ad
miration into emulation. A Christianity
that does more than sine about love aal
piety, that shows them; that not only pro
pound principles, but also practices them.
1 he church has been too long like tne hul
who thinks he has solved the probWrn of
perpetual motion, too proud of the theory
to stoop to prove it; she most build not
more on the sands of sentimental admira
tion of truth, but on the rock of real apnlt.
Hop Henry F. Cope, in Ram's Horn.
Tha Aanl-U4dw.
The Rev. P. B. Meyer says: "For sack
dreamer, of all the young pilgrims auroaa
the world of time, there waits the augwl
'sdrier. Beside each one of ux the buahi
in the desert burns with fire. The differ
ence between thone who see and do not
see thee things lies in their devotion or
;lipbedience to truth, so far as they knaav
it.
Belltrinn of Un,
Bishop Gore, in addressing a meeting nt
wnrkingnten in Birmingham, said: "If tha
Christianity of Christ is to make any way
in the world, it must make it as the rtht
ilion of a body of men bound together hy
t he same love and fellowship that buula
them to Him."
Tha lavant Ml nil.
Martineau says: "No laborious travels
are needed for the devout mind: for it
-arries within it Alpine heights and starlit
skies, which it may reach with a moment's
thought, and feel at once the loneliness
of nature and the magnificence of God."1
Spiritual Folate.
Irreverence ia the brand of ignorance.
To consecrate your money set as CoxTa
steward.
The church that scatters its money vrilt
gather its members. . f
If God chastiseth His chosen what will
He do with His foes?
If you feel you have call to preach to.
the many, first test it on the few.
You cannot increase your bank account
m heaven with blood money. TOUnt
"? ""ief for 0od. to work wondar
than for us to comprehend it.
Whptl Mian -i f - 1 , - . . .
I, 1 u-i,tr. uoa m nut sears bat
will deny humanity in his life.
nere liod goes in, trouble goes over.
The divine in the Christian is the beac
demonstration of the divinity oi Christ.
Though His hand seems to hm rviurbad
out to smite it ia equally ready to save.
. I' no' enough to make good promises
to Uod, we must make our promises good.
Kind words draw peoplo nearer to 0L
nun"0 ""'' to de,pai
A sermon on our duty to Cod will aet Jm
accepted as a substitute for ,i
to man.
he can only pay the Lord forty dam ma tost
year. Its 's Uonw.
Too Valuable to Wsr.", ... ,
Possessed of but one leg. a model
'who sat for a long tlms to tho colsr
brated painter, William lluut, was
prouilxed by that artist a new timber
toe as a Christmas Klft. This duly
came to band, and great was th re
cipient's amazement when he discov
ered It to ba covered with exquisltei
paintings of flowers and fruits, it was
too good to wear, and its owner ulti
mately disposed of It to a dealer fur
u few pound:) a sum greatly l&IuxUj
real vttluo.