"A LIFE MADE OVER" Sunday Discourse By Dr. Chapman, the Noted PastorEvangcllst. Some Lives Mentioned In The Bible Which Have Really Been Made Over Again Like the Clay Moulders. New YonK City. The Rev. Dr. J. W11 tur Chapman, the popular pastor-evangel-itt who preaches to overflowing congrega tions in this city, ha furnished the follow ing eloquenti sermon to the press. It was preached from the text "So he made it sgain." Jeremiah 18: 4. To any one familiar with the prophecy of Jeremiah up to this point in the Scripture it will be apparent that Israel was rushing on to destruction, and Jeremiah seems powerless to stop them in their mad course. One day as he passes along the highway he beholds a potter working in a booth, and as he turns aside he behold him with the clay in hia hands and the wheel revolving, toiling away until this of work is finished. He looks at it ;. , i j.i... u: it. into his hands he kneads it over and over and nnany manes v. again as me texi ue dares. Jeremiah ia interested, and then he aw the spiritual significance of it all as we read in the fifth and sixth verses of tliis18th chapter, "Then the word of the Lord came to me, aaying, O, house of Israel, cannot I do with you aa this pot ter? fiaith the Lord, Behold as the clay is in the potter's hands, so are ye in Mine hand, O house of Israel." The trouble was not with the potter; he was evidently a good workman, nor with the wheel, for that seemed to do ita work well, but en tirely with the clay. Sometimes the clay was coarse and difficult to mold, other times it was full of grits, but there were two courses that were opened to the pot ter. First, he could purify the clay by re moving the coarser element, and second, he could make a rude vessel of the material at hand. 'This is a familiar figure in the Scriptures, for we read in Isaiah 04: 8, "But now, O Lord. Thou art our Father; we are the clay and Thou our potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand, and then we rend in the New Testament in Paul's Epistle to the Romans, the 9th chapter and the 21st and 22d verses, "Huth not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor? What If (tod, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction." I. We are the clay, God is the potter. Clay in itself is most unattractive, but the art ist looks upon it with interest because of what he sees in it in the way of beauty af ter his hands have touched it. This makes the difference in two pieces of canvas, one if touched by the master hand and ia a masterpiece, the other is simply canvas in its natural state and is not interesting. A traveler stood watching a potter work in the factory one day and said to him, "Why is it in these days when such won derful mechanical tools are constructed this work is not done by mnchinery rather than by hand," und the potter said, "There are some pieces of work which can only be brought to perfection by the touch of a human hand," and so it is in the formation of character. Whatever may be one's social position or his financial wealth he will not be able to please God nor to be prepared for heaven until the hand of God has touched him. This is a picture of our regeneration, for regenera tion is the coming into us of the life of God. I stood one day in Venice watching the glasshlowera, anil while glass in its natural state was most uninteresting, just as 60on as the workman began to blow the breath of his own life Into it it became a thing of beauty. Adam, back in the Old Testament becoming a living soul is the Old Testament story of God'a inbreathing, while the child of God in the New Testa ment is the New Testament's story of that same inbreathing. II. The day of our conversion we yielded ourselves to God: that was .the closing of ourselves in the hands of the potter. As we came into the light with Him God saw imperfections in our make-up, things that were not pleasing to Him, and so He put His finger upon this or that; some of these things we have not been willing to give up, and so our lives have been marred. We have had a controversy with Him, and wherever there is a controversy there is no peace. Wo are Christians, it is true, but we arc fruitless and joyless, and many of us are shorn of power. The vessels were marred in the making, but it is a comfort ing thing to know that we are in the hai'hi of the potter still, and nlthongh we failed yesterday we need not fail to-morrow, for He will fashion us if we will but permit Him to do so in the likeness of His own dear Son. We are to be holy, we are to be pure of heart, wccortainly are to have fellon-shin with Christ, wo have been in courtage long enough, now the question 18 shall we yield or not. Suppose we do not p' iciu, are we tnen lostr uertainly not. 'aill savs. "He ia nlilrt in l.-nfm H-in f wYtiMi I have committed unto Him," nnd in the eighth chapter of Romans he seems to ex- naust language to soar into heaven and to make his way to tho very depths of the earth and then to cry aloud, "Nothing shall be able to separate us from the Jove of (iod which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,' but we shall bo shorn of peace and of power and of blessing, and while certain kinds of work will go on in our lives an other kind of vessel will be mode. Ro mans 0: 21, "Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and nnothcr unto dishonor." We, might have been a vessel in the king's palace, we might have been in the throne room of the king, we might i0, 5" U-,C1 to carry life to the dving ami God would nnd you would not is a sad story of many a life. , , HI. ,joa has a plan Jor every life. Jeremiah oiil not know what was in the mind of the potter, but he knew that he was working fording to a plan, but we know what is w i -1 "r mm1- R"'aiis 8: 20, "For whom mo did foreknow, He also did predestinate il be cnlormed to the imago of His Son, mat Jlo might be the first born among many brethren." Philippians 3: 12, "Not as though I had already attained, either already peiicot, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that fo- which also am apprehended of Christ Jesus." God cannot be satisfied with anything less than inis. A workman in a factory fashioning a rieautitul design saws an imperfection in ine plan. I o carry it on meant ruin, and 51 i rn?(1 hack to the artist and !lY7. tht f was an error of the copyist, llint ' the difficulty of an inconsistent Li!'- misrepresents Jesus Christ. There fK??1'.'6 V thiy W0l,d ho would scorn em,n,i jCri0!5 ,0 f"r the Sipture. are of hL (J' hu,t ..,0 far " thB manifestation ecH Si ,lfo ,la concerned they are ex ceedingly heretics It i. not part of God'a plan that we should fail. "tL. dl8tmKU;hed preacher has aaid, ? " ' uemito and proper end and Sk .W man' existence, an end EmlM? the heart of God is the good in- ten til th'm.' .r ,(or whi('h l8 ' lorn , pMihlVwlV he " Privileged to be ffi Vhaikdr.t0. be',?m,i' ouFht to become; and whikGoJ W1" " him to become fault tW v.annot ave bv w" and I MrfectnrJUlman oul hM a complete Wt of oLplanJcheri8h8d f0- " i" the out which l7d.'vine biography markeiK Burilv tl ?. i. . "to "to to live." vei i to l,fcLifeatuthou?ht. and one that fmallest,Urleutri and importance NoThm e. ,ty which the tWte&E fikl,11!'1. Til"' Tlle lowlle8t place in to orZ.lWV1'? Pr'",n wh' "'ad. So I h , Vb,at Pluce' " a Pos'tion of rank cause if il " T V "," ,0U8U' seat, be mort,,l Vi!ou? v, "tb Uod l"rnel an iin- imineasnr i f " -7 Vwn 'ina- and with Ma iC, u 8 no'l"tiea to till. George Sod c inay' 1 wo" li ratl he what uoa ciiose to make me than the most alo ha iretttu'? tl",t 1 eoM think S for to twlVh,,.sht ""'bt.rn in God'. .le !f:!t,.and,thtf' 'ad hy God, is the in all tV? l aW V.""it Pret'ious thingt Th ik"r(' Vfd " V1 "ia best. Cl ,r V?' 0,'d 0,V8 ,ree ' interest "5ed lll8'n""lV wanted oil, and they mma , iV llTy "U"ted the tree to cnd .' . Aln ,an,J u'i and then to a, "d i t and then another monn p:anteira tree-and asked God to do aa He would regarding it and the tree became a thing of beauty. When you have (Tossed the ocean have you not as yon studied the captain's chart seen the little zig-zag lines running north and south, and have you uot sometime! wondered how it was that we rould reach home in that fashion, hut when the jour ney is ended we find thYt every dot marked the progress of the homeward journey, and when we reach heaven and enter the graft room of the sky we shall find that every line led homeward and things we could not understand pointed heavenly. "The years of man are the looms of God, Let down from the place of the aun, Whereon we are weaving hearts, Till the mystic web is done. And when the task is ended. And the web is turned and shown, . He shall hear the voice of the Mister, It shall sny to him, 'Well done " God has a way of making lives over. First, by outer circumstances, like the potter's wheel, such aa trials and disap pointments. Second, by Ilia own word. It is called the light, and light reveals imperfections; it is called the tire, and tire purges the dross; it is described as water, and water cleanses all displacements; it ia said to be t hammer and the hammer in the hands ol the artist fashioned the angel from the block of marble. l)r. Arthur T. Pierson '.ells of the potter who was seeking to make Porcelain for the king's palace, was greatly iscouraged in the work and in desperation threw himself into the lire, and there wai something about the burning of his own body that gave an inestimable value to the oorcelain which is still in existence, and that is the value of this book. (iod threw Himself into it in the person' of His own Son, nnd no man can read it without feel ing Hia power. IV. There are some lives mentioned in the Bible which have really been made over again like the clay in the hands of the pot ter. First Jacob. Ry nature he wr.s a sup- rilantcr and a cheat; he stole his brother's lirthright and deceived his father, but by the power of God he became Israel, the prince, and all because he nnd God met at Jabbok's Ford, and God touched him and he limped away from weakness to power. Michael Angelo was banished from Fiance, hut afterward they wanted him to return. They wished him to take a block of marble, which hud been lying at the gates of tho city, and fashion it into some masterpiece, nnd Michael Angelo came back to the city, and out of the piece ot marble that had been lying for years in the dirt of the city he made his David, which is his masterpiece in many respects. God by the touch of alHiction sometimes and the touch of disappointment again 1ms made many a life over. May He make yours? Second Klijah. He was a man of like passions with ourselves and came from a rugged Country, but God made his passions and his appetites to be like horses to bio chariot by means of which he was trans lated, and he will make the weakness of your life to be power if yon will let Him. Third Paul. His was n bitter nature and his spirit that of a persecutor. He hears of a few Christians in Dan, and hur ries away that he may cast them into pri son, and from the man of bitterness and prejudice he is changed into the little old man a prisoner in llmnc who cries out, "I know whom I have believed and am per suaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed ur.to Him against that dav," and all because he had found Christ. When the children of Israel made their wny across the land they came to the watci-3 of Mara, which were very bitter. They were nil but dying of thirst, but Mosea cast the wood of a certain tree into the waters and they became sweet. Into Paul's life had been pressed the p-.-inciples of the cross; not His will, but God's v,-ae to be done, and ho was made happy. Fourth Peter. He was n man of weak ness, but transfigured into a man of strength. He was ignorant, but ho writes the Kpistle that stands as his monument in the purest Greek of the New Testa ment, nnd all because he added Christ to hia life. So it is not a question as to who we are or what we have been, but whethct we are united to Him. It is snid that Ole Rul was making hit way at one time through one of tho great American forests, and he came upon a hut in which dwelt a hermit. Ho had left his city home because disappointed in busi ness, and had been living alone for years, hia only companion being his old violin, on which he could play a few homelv pieces of mu.ic. Ole Hull stopped in the hut over night, nnd in the shade of the fire light, to entertain his guest, the old her mit took down his violin nnd played the simple pieces with which he had whiled away his long hours of loneliness. When he had finished playing the great musician isked him if he thought he could play. The reply was, "I hardly think it possible; it took me years to learn, and yet," said he, "you might try," and so the great violin ist took the instrument, drew his bow across the strings and instantly the room was filled with harmony. He played "America" nnd "Home, Sweet Honie," until the old hermit sobbed like n child, and then putting the instrument hack again in its place tho old hermit was made to understand that he was in the presence of tlle greatest violinist of the day. Hut what a difference of the violin when in the hands of the hermit and in the hands of the master. The tones of one were any thing hut complete: the music of the mas ter was perfect, and so it is not so much a question as to what our lives have been, nor what we are ourselves, but altogether the question is as to whether we are con trolled absolutely by Christ. This is the iurrendeied life. Bear Ye One Another's Burdens. In order to be satisfied even with the best people we need to be content with lit tle and bear a great deal. Even the moat perfect people have many imperfections; we ourselves have as great detects. Out faults combined with theirs make mutual toleration a difficult matter, but we can only "fulfil the law of Christ" by "bearing one another's burdens." There must be a mutual loving forbearance F;qucnt ci lence, habitual recollection, prayer, self attachment, giving up all critical tenden cies, faithfulness in putting aside nil th id!e imaginations of a jealous, fastidious self-love all those will ro far to maintain pence and union How many troubles would be avoided bv this simplicity! Happy ik ho who neither listens to him self nor to the idle talk of others. Ro con tent to lead a simple life where God has piaced you. Re obedient, bear your little daily crosses you need them, and God gives them to you only out of pure mercy. Fenelon. The Cure For loneliness. The medicines for the cure of loneliness are portions of generosity, thoughtfulness of others and Christian self-sacrifice, taken in large doses. Presbyterian Banner. , Queer Place for Petroleum. There 1b probably no ether city In the world that can show a hospital,, with Beveral oil wells In the grounds, . within a lew yarda ot the building This strange sight may be seen lo Lob Angeles, Cal., a couple of miles from the business cer.ter. The wells may be profitable, but whether they are entirely unobjectionable, from a hygienic standpoint, some people would be Inclined to doubt. Incident ally it may be mentioned that In the same Institution a dozen nurses are recovering from typhoid fever. ' Rough on the Clergy. ' In a certain Cleveland minis-tor's family are two youngsters who play mucli togother, especially with dolls. The other day the younger of tho two, a little girl, confided thus In her mother with regard to Christmas: "Mamma, I do hope Santa Clans will bring us a respectable boy doll. We haven't got a boy doll Jn either family, and every since Harry broke Junipie-Wumplo, the monkey doll, has had to be the preacher." Cleveland I'luin Dealer. THE SABBATH SCHOOL 'niern'aiional Lesson Comments September I . For inbjcctr: Loving and Obcy'.ni Hod, De'Jt.xxn., 11-23 Oolden Tex', I John v., 3 Memory Veri:s, 15, 10 Com mentary on Day's Lesson. 11. "This commandment." This refer, to what Moses had just been telling them. The great commandment of loving and obeying God, which is tho sum of the law. "Is not hidden." Rather, is not too diffi cult for thee. Jehovah has not imposed upon His peoplo conditions impossible of fulfilment, nor are His requirements diffi cult of comprehension. The will of God, which is but darkly roanh'ested to other nations (Acts 17: 27), is clearly revealed unto thee; thou canst rot pretend ignor ance. Henthcn oraclea are shrouded in mystery, but the commands of God ara simple and duty is clear. See Isa. 45: 19. "Neither is it tar off." Nowhere does the fundamental religion thought of prophecy lind clearer expression than in Deuterono my the thought that Jehovah asks noth ing for Himself, but asks it as a religious duty that man should render to mnn what is right that his will lies not in any un known height, but in the moral sphere which is known and understood by nil. 12, 13. "Not in heaven neither beyond the sea." The law of loving nnd obeying God was well known to the Israelites. It was not concealed in heaven, for it had been revealed. They were not under the necessity of undertaking long journeys or distant voyages, as ninny ancient sages did in quest of hnowh lge. The apostle Paul (Horn. 10: C-) has applied this passage to the gospel, for the law of Christ w sub stantially the same as that of Moses, only exhibited more c'.turly in the spiritual na ture and extensive application, and accom panied with the advantage of gospel grace, is practicable nnd easy. It is needless for man to search for what is made known. We need not climb the Bky nor crosa tho sea. "May hear it." God speaks to His people through the prophets and through the gospel. 1. Lovingly. 2. Distinctly. 3. Authoritatively. "And do it." It is practicable. The Word is clear and its ob ligations are not beyond our power to ful fil. To know is not enough; wo must cheerfully do what is commanded. 14. "Is very nigh." It is accessible. 1. It is not shut up beyond oar reach, but de livered and published in our hearing. '2. It is not distant from us to be brought from far off landti, but it is niidit. The anxious follower after righteov.r.css is not disappointed by an impracticable code, ncr mocljed by an unintelligible revelation. "In thy mouth." The law is made plain, so that he that runneth may read; thy priest's lips keep this knowledge, and when difficulties arise it may be heard ut their mouth. Mai. 2: 7. It is communicated to thee in n familiar language, so thac it tan be talked of among thy children. "In thy heart." In the heart for our personal sal vation, in the mouih for God's glory and the salvation of others. In the heart and not in the mouth is cowardice; in the mouth and not in the heart is hypocrisy. The gospel believed is a fountain in tho heart; the gospel confessed is the streams through the mouth. 15. "Set before thee." The law had been clearly and concisely stated. They had tho alternative of a- good and happy, or a disobedient and miserable life. "Life and death." Obedience to God's com mandments leads to life, disobedience leads to death. Prov. II: ID. True life consists in a union with Christ the source of nil life; it implies all present and future good. Death is a separation and banishment from Uod and implies present and future miserv. 16. ' "To love the Lord," etc. In this verse wo have the whole of true religion. Matt. 22: 37; 1 Cor. 13: 4-8. He that has this love in his heart has the fountain nnd source of all virtue. It is to the life what the mainspring is to a watch, what a foun tain ia to a stream, what tho soul is to the body, what the two olive trees of Zecha riah'a vision were to the lamps they fed. It is the work of Christianity first of all to implant this principle of love in the heart, and when this is done all the great practi cal questions which vex the world will be settled, the diliieultics will be removed, nnd the wrongs destroyed. "Walk in His ways." God'a ways are safe, pleasant and attractive. Our duty is laid down; wo must "walk." This will reiftiire a repeated and constant effort on our part. "Mayest live," etc. All temporal blessings as well as spiritual good follow as a reward for rifht doing. "17. "Turn away." Through a love of the world. Jos. 4: 8; 1 John 2: lo. World liness,, pride, pleasure seeking, ease, forget fulness of God, luxury these have "drawn away" tnanv souls and brought upon them the curse of God. "Not hear." Not heed, or nay attention to the commandments of God. "Oilier gods." The gods of the heathen, "serve them." By entering into the licentious nnd wicked practices which were indulged in. IS. ".Surely perish." The punishment of the wicked is inevitable. "The wages of sin is death." There is no respect of per sons with God, His laws nre established nnd unchangeable. Jcr. 18: 7-10: Gal. 6: 7, 8; Psa. 37: 20; Prov. 3: 33. "Not pro long," etc. Psa. 5.5: 23. Tho excesses and sinful indigencies of the wicked bri-ig them to an untimely cud. Sin dostroyi tho sinner. 19. "Heaven and earth to witness" (P.. V.) Here nre two great witnesses. God and the hosts of heaven arc called upon to testify that every provision has been made for man's salvation, and life is freely of fered. Earth is also called upon to wit ness to God's love and mercy in faithfully providing salvation, and then warning mail of his danger in not accepting it. "There fore choose life." 1. Man is free to choose. God has made him so. He alone i.s respon sible for deciding with regard to his car nal welfare. 2. He is urged to choose life. God commends His love, claims our love, commands us to love, and ontv by loving Him can we live. 3. Our decision admits of but one alternative. It is either life or death with us, heaven or hell. 4. The de cision ahould be mad) without delay. "( hoose ye this day whom ye will serve!" "Thou and thy seed." In a very imnortant sense parents are responsible to God for their children. Children should be taught to obey and honor their parents, and to have respect and reverence for sacred things. 21). "Cleave unto Him." Notice the three steps: Love, obey, cleave. Without close attachment and perseverance, tempo rary love, however sincere and fervent, temporary obedience, however disinterest ed, enorgetic and pure, while it lasts, will be ultimately ineffectual. He alone who endures to the end shall be saved. "He is thy life." He gives life, preserves lifo, re stores life and prolongs it by His power. He gives physical, spiritual and eternal life. He is the author of all life. Wonderful Escape from Death. In a graveyard in Jamaica is a tombstone on which is Inscribed the wonderful escape of "Lewis Guldy, Esq., who died on the 22d of Septem ber, 1737, aged 80." He was one ot the few survivors of an earthquake In Jamaica 230 yearn ago, and hi. experience Is thus recorded on hi. grave: "He was born at Montpeller, In France, which place he left for hia religion and settled on this Island, where, In the great earthquake, 1673, he was swallowed up, and, by the won- derful providence of God, by a second shock was thrown Into the sea, where he continued swimming until he wan taken up by a boat and thus miracu lously preserved. He afterwards llvod In great reputation aud died universal ly lamented." It Is written on the tombstone, and tombstones. It Is sup posed, speak nothing but the truth. Foreign Tour for Got. Wood. Governor General Leonard Wood, after the evacuation of Cuba, will be granted a long leave of absence, which he la to spend abroad with his family. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. September 14 "Delight In Ood'i House." Ps. Ixxxlv. 1-4: Ps. c, 1-5- SCRIPTURE VERSES. Ps. lxv. 1. 2; cxxxll. 7; Luke Iv. 6; xxt. 1-4 Acts II. 41-47; 1 Cor. ix. 612; Phil. lv. 17; Hob. x. 24. L3.on Thoughts. In the world la is counted a gret thing to be born In a family of dis tinguished worth, wealth or rank, and we Americans are proud of the privi leges that belong to us as a nation; but with all the value that really be long to these distinctions, they are nothing compared with the blessed ness of those who dwell within the gates of Zlon and are members of God's own family In the church. The true service of God Is a source or the highest Joy that man knows. All our worship, then, In the Gates of Zlon should bo with thanksgiving and praise. Let it not be with the fear of slaves; not as a matter of com pulsion or force; not with reluctance or gloom. Let It be a cheerful, happy service freely rendered, an occasion of Joy to tlio soul. Selections. What peace, what revelation and spiritual uplift are associated with faithfulness in the sanctuary! As the gospel Is preached, as prayer and praise ascend, as God's people fellow ship In the observance of the ordi nances, how joy ar.d hope kindle, and take tho place of doubt and despond ency! Tho best memories of life, growing more hallowed and sweeter tho older we gpt, have their source In the Lord's house.. Tho promises are many which give assurance tha,'. God reveals himself In his sanctuary. Ho Is everywhere; but nowhere Is he so near his children as In the place where his name Is re corded. There he lias covenanted to meet his people and to reveal himself In their midst. Since tho days of the tabernacle In the wilderness, the place where God Is worshiped has been a potent factor In the Individual and national life of the people of God. Suggested Hymns. In the heavenly pastures fair. I love thy kingdom, Iord. Come into His presence singing TIs the hallow hour of prayer. Onward, Chrlntlan soldiers. Brightly gleams our banner. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. September 14 Delight la God's House Psa' 84. 1-4; Psa. 100. 1-S. "Tho tabernacle of God is with men." What sermons have sounded from Its pulpit! What prayers have ascended from its altars! What vol umes of praise have arisen from mil lions of hearts overflowing with grati tude! What burning tears of contri tion have here fallen! What rays of hope have brightened despairing souls! Therefore hnllowed be the place of worship. With Joyous grati tude let us enter its portals. With generous gifts let us sustain its activi ties. Then will our lives exclaim, "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!" It had Its origin when Abel erected tho first altar of sacrifice?? Was not Abraham's altar another expression of this deep human need of a meeting place with Jehovah? The tabernacle In the wilderness was the same thought elaborated. At times in the world's history the Church has seem ed almost obliterated. Once it was hid den away in the catacombs. Later It was honored by the Imperial throne of Home. To-day it is like the stone cut out of the mountain, filling the earth .with its presence and benediction. The church is a place where family life should be most free and unmolest ed. The best of company is fouad in the church. Whatever may be the de fects of Christian people they are still the "salt of tho earth." If our children should stray away during the critical years of youth and early prime, they are likely to be driven back to the old nest by some gale of adversity or sorrow. In more thoughtful moments they must con clude that when they were In the church they were enriched by its ben efits, educated by its truths, and so l-g as they were faithful to Its re quirements they wero safely housed for time and eternity. Tho church stands a tangible, visible token of man's faith In God. Every foundation stone of every chapel, meetinghouse and cathedral rests down upon thla confidence In the divine Personality, yho has revealed himself as worthy of perfect trust. The erection of God's house has been sanctioned by him. He has en couraged it so evidently that more of them are being built to-day than ever before. Satan ana all his minions can not destroy, them. Year after year, century after century, the church makes this world a safer place In which to live. It is a strong tower in the day of battle. To it the pursued may flee and find Becure shelter. No building on earth does so much good to protect and defend every good cause and every interest dear to roan aa does Qod'ahouae. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. HE Lamb of God, Is the Lion of men. Love lifts. Virtue is wealth. Lisp osltlon Is more than position. Silence Is often the sign of strength Piety does more than pity the needy. Formalism and faith can never agree. The man who thinks leads the crowd. Self Is a synonym for all sin. The church U a chisel aud not statute. Innocence Is not character. Pride needa to look out for punc ture. Treachery leads to tragedy. Better a clean sinner than a dirty saint. Destiny depends on origla. The soul can be saved only by a soul. The Gospel Is God's gate. Christ Is the criterion of all char acter. Many a small engine has a big wills tie. Better a fair failure than a falsa success. lie THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Toem! Some Fifteen Yesr. Ao The Poet Tells of the Groa-aliop. Revisited How lrlnk Transformed a Good Man Into a Ferocious Demon. I wandered to the gropshop, Tom; I stood beside the bar , And drank a bowl of lemonade and smoked a bad cigar; The same old kejis and iuita were there, tho ones we used to know, When we were on the round up, Tom, some fifteen year ago. The bnrkeep is a new one, Tom, the one who used to sell Corrosive tans;lefoot to us, is roasting now in well; The other has a plate-alass front, his hair is combed (piite low. And looks just like the one we knew some fifteen years ago. Old Souk came up and called for booze, he had the same old grin, While others burned the lining from their throat with Holland gin, And women stood beside the door, their faces seamed with woe, And wept just as they used to weep some fifteen yeara ago. I asked about our old-time friends, those cherished sporty men. And some were in the poorhouse, Tom, nnd some were in the pen; And one, the one wn liked tho best, the hnnnmnn laid him low; The world is much the same, dear Tom, as fifteen years ago. t asked about that stately chap, that pride marked for its own. He used to sav that he could drink, or let the stuff alone; lie perished of the .fames H. Jams, out in the cold and snow Ah, few survive who used to booze some fifteen years ago. New crowds line up neainst the bar and call for crimson ink; New hands arc trembling as they pour tho srnff they shouldn't drink; P,ut still the snmc old -watchword ring, "This round's ta mo. you know!" The snme old cry of doom we heard some fifteen years ago. I wandered to the churchyard, Tom, nnd ther I saw the graves Of those who used to drown themselves in red fermented waves; And there were women sleeping there where grass and daisies grow. Who wept and died of broken hearts some fifteen years ago. And there were graves where children fent, have slept for many a year. Forgetful of the woes that marked their fitful sojourn here: And 'ncath a tall white monument, in death there lieth low, The man who used to sell the booze sonic fifteen years nto. J. S. Holden, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He Wan n Good Mnn When Himself. A man walked to his home a big. strong man physically nnd when his wife met him he knocked her down. She tied shrieking into an inner room nnd locked the door. Mary, the man's daughter, a little thing five years old. fell to her knees nnd clung to him and cried out, sobbing: "Don't kill mamma, pana!" lie patted her head and to'.d her to get her brother Edward. Edward, a boy of six. came. The mnn drew a revolver and shot his f,wo weeping and trembling children. Then he blew his own brains out. "He was a good man." said the wife to the police, her face all torn and blackened by his blows. "He was a good man, and he never treated me badly before." What suddenly transformed this usually jood husband and kind father into a fero cious demon, a murdering wild beast? DRINK. He was Frederick Dietscher, a driver for the Henlth Department, and he paid out the hard-earned money that should have gone to his family that he might become a slaughtering lunatic. Insanity by the bot tle, bv the glass, may be as readily pur chased as are matches to start fires with. Some men, many men, can play with nl ;ohol. They can warm themselves with it as they do at the cenial heat of a grate. But to such as Dietscher a glass of whisky is like a match to a heap of hay it start. U conflagration. No man who gets drunk when he drink, has any right to touch liquor. " He voluntarily makes himself insane, and no deed, however terrible, is impossi ble to a maniac. His judgment aud moral ense ore both put to sleep. Let drink alone, young man. It has never helped anybody, and it has ruined nd is ruining millions in mind nnd body nnd pocket. It turns kind men into cruel men, loving husbands into wifc-beaters, fond fathers into slayers of their children. Look at Dietscher. See what whisky did for him and his. That one horror should be enough to shock countless thousands of tipplers into total nbsinence for the rest of their lives. "He was a good man" when sober. Drunk, a devil. Saw York Evening Jour nal, Owe Ill-Wealth to Alcohol. Sir Andrew Clark, of London, one of the moat noted physicians and surgeons of the nineteenth century, said, in hi. work on "The Action of Alcohol L'pon Health:" ' "I am speaking solemnly and carefullv in the presence of truth, and I tell you I am considerably within tho mark when I say to you that going the round of my hospital wards to-day, seven out of every ten there owed their ill-health to alcohol. Now what docs thut mean That out of every hundred patients whom I have charge of at the London Hospital, seventy per cent, of them directly owe their ill health to alcohol. I am not saying, be cause I have no means of saying, in hu man life, in society at large, what is the percentage of victim which alcohol seize, upon as its rightful prey. 1 do not know. 1 have no method of coming accurately to the conclusion; but I know this, that not only do a large percentage of such diseases as I have mentioned, but a great mass certainly more than three-fourths ot the disorders in what we call 'fash ionable life' arise from the use of this very drug of which I am now speaking." Drinking lu Brittany. A writer in La Revue bewails the per petual habit of drinking in Brittany espe cially among the women. Th Crusade In Brief. Temperance agitation ia more active in Great Jlritain just now, it is said, than in America. There are to-day in the almshouses in the United States at least 25,1)00 paupers who would be self-supporting and respect ed citizen, if it were not tor the drink traffic. There are to-day in the United State, no less than 7000 little children destitute and abandoned by their parents, left to the mercy of the world, terribly handi capped at the outset of their race in lifa, who would be living in happy hornet were it not for the drink traffic. There are to-day in the prisons of the United Status not less than 40,000 men who would not be there but for the drink traffic. Drink l. a cause of crime in 40.93 per cent, of the cases studied; the cause oi poverty in 24.0B per cent, of the cases tu died; the cauoe of pauperism in 37.03 per cent, of the cases studied, and the cause of destitution among children in 45.83 per vent of the cases studied. To one of America', greatest actor, wa. transmitted by hi. father a double genius one for the stage, the other for the bottle. The first the son cultivated, and achieved world-wide fume; with the sec ond ha had a life long fight, a losing one in his early manhood, it .eeiiied, but t uobly victorious one later. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Central Tr.de Conditions, R. G. Dun & Co.' "Weekly Review of Trade" says: 'Gradual resumption of anthracite coal mining is encouraging, although the output is not yet sufficient to have any commercial value. Business con ditions are unsatisfactory at the strike center, but reports from all other sec tions indicate unusually prompt revival if'tcr the summer vacation season with txceptionally large operations among dealers in the agricultural regions. "Notwitlisitaniding some bad weather, large crops are now practically assur ed, altdiough the most sanguine results may not be attained. Manufacturing plants are now fully occupied as a rule, the least gratifying reports coming from furnaces that cannot secure coke owing to railway blockades. The transporta tion problem is becoming serinus, as the factor of crop moving is about to be added, and moreover, much coal must be moved by rail that usually goes to consumers by lake and canal. "Iron furnaces are suspending pro duction because coke cannot be secur ed, and it is evident that the rate of output at the opening of the new month will show a serious loss. "The dry goods jobbing trade re ports a liberal distribution, and sup plies arc only moderate in the primary market. Changed conditions in the raw material have accelerated inquiries for cotton goods, buyers seeking figures on forward contracts and placing a fair 'amount of orders. Slightly less activity is seen in men's wear, woolen and worrtcd fabrics, but fancy worsteds are in better request. At last footwear makers have been able to secure a mod erate advance in price in response to? he recent sharp rise in materials, Leather is strong and active, while hides made higher record prices, but the market lias quieted down. "Failures for the week numbered 173 in the United States, against 202 las) year, and 14 in Canada, against 21 a year ago." . LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring cloar, ?310a3..10; best Talent, $4.50; clioice Family, $3.75. Wheat Now York No. 2. 7lXc; l'hilndolphiu No 2, 72,Vu7ocj liultimore No 2, 70c. Corn-New York No. 2, Gfic; Phila delphia No. 2. OSaOO.'i ; Hultimoro No. 2, G7c. , Oats New York No. 2. 43tfc; l'hila delphia No. 2, 42c; Hultimoro No 2, 40c, Hay No. 1 timothv, $18.00nl8.50; No. 2 timothy, fl7.50ui8.00; No. 3 tim othy l5.00aili.0O Green Fruits nnd Vegotahles. Beets, Nativo, per bunch lc. Cubbage Na tive per 100 fl.00a2.00; Wakefield, per 101), $2 OUuU.00. Cantuloups-por . crato OOcaf 1.00. Cucumbera per bas ket 12u20c. Eggplants, per 100, f 1 00a 1 25. Lcttuce.pur bushol box 30a50o. Onions, New, per bushol 75u80o. Peaches, per box 35n45o. Pineapples, Floridn, per crute, f 1.75u2.50. String beans, per bushel, groen, 35a40c; wax, 3640o Tomatoes, Potomnc, per tlx baekot enrrior, fancy, 40a50o do, fuir to good 25a30o. Potatoes, Potomac, per brl, No 1, tl OOal 15; do, seoonda, 75u85o; do, culls, 50iifi0c; do, Eastern Shore, per brl, No 1, f 1 OOul 25. Butter, Separator, 22u23c; Gathored cream, 2'la22o: prints, 1-lb 25u20c; Kolls, 2-lb, 2uu26j Dairy pta. Md., Pa., Va., 23a24e. Egg's, Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen, 19al9Ko Cheeso, Largo, 00-lb, lOalOj-fo; me dium, 30-lb, 10,Val0)tf; picnic, 22-lb 10al0Ko. Live Poultry, Hens, lla12r; old roosters, each 25a30o; spring chickens, HaViXo, young stags, llali.d. Ducks Ual2n. Hides, Heavy steers, association and salters, late kill, CO-lbs and up, close se lection, 12nl3o; cows uud light steers 9Xal0J'o. Provisions and Hog Products. Bulk cleur rib sides, 12ic; bulk shoulders, 10,Vo; bulk bellies, 13c; bulk hnm butts, )c; bucon clear rib sides, 12c; bacon shoulders, lljtfe; sugar-cured brea9ts, 11Vc; sugar-cured sliouldora, WXc; sugurcuroil California hums, lO.'-ic; bams canvased or uncunvased, 12 lbs. and over, 14,MiC; refined lnrd tierces, brls and 50 lb cans, gross, HKo; rofined lard, secona-hnnd tubs, llc; replied lard, bulf-bnrruls and new tuls, 11i0- Live Stock. Chicago, Cuttlo, Mostly 10al5o lower, pood to prime etoers $8 00a8 75; medium $4 00u7 25; stockors and feeders $2 50 u5 25; cows, f 1 50u5 50; heifers f 2 25a 6 00; Texas-fod steers f;) OOnSOO- Hogs, Mixed and butchers ft 50u7 35; good to choice, heavy $7 G0u7 90; Sheep, Bheep and lambs bIow to lower; good to choice whethors $3 50a4 00; Western shoop f2 50a350. East Liberty, Cattlo steady; choice 17 75u8 00; prime $ 7 15u7 20. Hogs, primo heavy $ 7 15a7 20, mediums f 7 20; heavy Yorkers f 7 30a7 35. Sheep steady, Best wethers f4 10u4 25 culls and com mon f 1 50u2 00; choice lambs $ 5 75aG 00. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Texarkana (Ark.) barbers and line men have organized unions. Cab drivers at Hamburg, Germany, struck for shorter hours and more pay. Miners are being hired in California for work in the mines at Sonora, Mexico. Sydney, New South Wales, has 4.1 la bor unions, with a total membership of over 35.000. In consequence of the depression in the Hull (England) fish trade a large number of men have been thrown out of employment. Boston (Mass.) inside electrician! will insist on a reduction of their work ing hours to eight a day. Scavengers, at Oakland, Cal., struck because the place for dumping the gar bage was too far away. Under its old pension system the En gineers' Union of England now main tains over 4,000 veterans. The Cooks' and Waiters' Union at Peoria, 111., has decided to permit wom en to join the organization. Colored musicians at Columbus, Ohio, have asked the International Musicians' Union (or a charter. In Austria 70,000 miners have won a nine-hour workday. The men were on strike nine months for this concession. There has been a gain of 700 trade unions in Canada the .past (three years. The total number now is over 1,000. Gravediggers at Cincinnati, Ohio, Ivave perfected a plan for an organiza tion. They will affiliate with the Amer ican Fcdoration of Labor, The Prussian Treasury potash mines have discharged hundreds uf work men and have reduced the wages ol others from 10 to 30 per cent. AH pri vate mines and factories took simil.tr teps. THE RELIGIOUS LIFE READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES 4T5ELF. Posmi A Vacant Chair Prayer to B Aa Iwarad Moat ftprlns; From Motive Every Grace of the Spirit I tie Purchased hy Sacrifice. Thouprh twain, our lives for years ran 0(1 as one; But now I sit beside her vacant chair. And wonder if it's true that she is gone. Or it I'm dreaming in some stifling air. I mieht persuade myself it is a dream; " Hut, when I look nerosa the table thers) To ask her thought on some engaging theme, My eyes fall on her lonely vacant chair. But at T sit composed and think of her. And try to prax, "Thy will, O God, b done," The air so still about me seems to stir, And something tells me I am not alone. I feci what must be truth I cannot prove. Faith bids me upward look, and not de spair. T cannot fnthom Him. but "(Jod is love. A star of hope shines o'er her vacant chair. The mortal body cannot love and trust, 'Ti soul that loves, and soul is more than clod. And, though the body moulders back to dust, The 'mil lives on forevermore with God. E. A. Coil, in Christian Register. Unanswered Prayers. There is a sense in which all prayer ara answered either bv obtnininn the object sought or by securinij something far better adapted to the ultimate end of all true praver pernetual happiness through un broken goodness. All nrnvers will be answered when they accord with wisdom, unselfishness and the Inchest good. To answer every petition literally under th,- .present order of things would make in finite wisdom the slave of human caprice, nbxolute holiness a partner in human folly, and boundless compassion the author of endless cruelty. Prayers are sometimes unanswered be cause of the character and tendency of the objects sought. Men. like children, fre ouently crave those things which would be destructive to their best interests, both here and hereafter. Like Klijah under the iuniner tree, they pray for that which falls far be'ow the highest good, and like Paul, with his thorn in the flesh, we too often seek cae rather than strength. It is bet ter to have grace to bear burdens than to be weak and free from burdens. Trayers sometimes remain unanswered hcaune thev spring from wrong motives. The soul, of real praver is unselfishness. Prayer in the case of 8imon Magus was ig norant, because it sought the mere gratifi cat'on of worldly pride. The farmer who prays to save himself from labor will never secure a harvest. Israel at the Red Pea may call upon God until doomsday without avail unless they obey th- divine "Go forward!" Malicious ness will find no atd or comfort in prayer. The "as Thou wilt" of Jesus is the true standard of acceptable petition. Sometimes answers are sought in vain because divine methods of answering are rejected. There is no use praving for rain without clouds. If one prays for a disposi tion of sweet sympathy he may be com pelled to accept the breaking power of sorrow. There is a divine method in every' nat ural and spiritual realm. Every grace of the snirit must be purchased by sacrifice. The chisel and the mallets are instruments by winch beauty clothes the marble. Pur ity often comes only by fire. The greatest attainments come at the greatest cot. The pebbles are smooth and symmetrical by the crashing of the floods on the shore: Joseph's troubles paved the way to Joseph's throne. Through a prison window John Bunyan saw the triumphs of his pilgrim. True prayer must accept the price of its answer. Tray to see ICurone and you must accept the ocean voyage. Pray for physical power and von must accent discipline. Pray for spiritual power and you must accept self sacrifice. Prayer is sometimes unanswered because of nonobervance of tho conditions of true prayer. A purpose to do the will of (iod is the fundamental requirement in prayer. Without; this prayer is not heard. God lis tens to man's voice when man listens to God's voice. It must also be addressed to the Father in the name of the only accept ab'e One Hi Son. Jesus Christ. Cain prayed in his own name and went out with fallen countenance. Abel came through the lamb of atonement and was accepted. The motion of human praver to be ef fective must be seconded by the Divine Mediator. When prayer is prompted hy the Holy Spirit, accompanied by simple, childlike confidence, offered in the name of the Saviour, from a pure motive, and the petitioner is willing to accept the wise, just and divine method of answerins, it will be heard in heaven and granted by infinite love. The Rev. J. D. Leek. Impatience. Impatience is a dangerous qualit'. It constantly places your self-respect and your relation to your dearest friends in peril. Moreover, it makes unhappy cir--ruiiistnnces more unhappy still. You can't rebel against your surroundings with a complaining heart without rendering your sell weak to oppose or change them. Look your life over calmly and impartially and you will find that where you have been at odds with your lot you have made that lot so much the worse and more difficult to get away from, whereas if you had accept ed tlie bitter experience and made the best ol it you would have reaped the benefits otherwise impossible. It is equally true that where you have been impetuous of speech you Imvo had cause for regret, while a curbed tongue has been cause for rejoic ing. hen you have been silent you have done better than when you have spoken. A bitter word suppressed strengthens the character, while a reckless utterance ia like a bomb, which ia sure to injure if it does not kill the friendship. G. 11 llen worth. . Weeping; Leads to Prayer. The late Newman Hall applied Christ's parable ot ' The Sower" i these words: Vie weep because of seed that falls on stony ground, where the strong sun of temptation burns up the plunts which have no dep roots. And we weep over many who ate like the seed that falls where, thorns spring up and choke it. But such weeping leads to praying, and praving bnngs Ti-esh shower. , of divine grace. An3 witn the showers hope revives end the nords ot promise are remembered." Strength la Weakness. Some one has wisely sajd concerning thrt value of regular prayer: "Prayer to Uod, regular and earnest, never intermittent for any reason, never hurried over for any weariness or for any coldness; this is one chief means of keerj ing our spiritual growth healthy and aliv If we would live in any degree by that ideal which our better selves sometimes set before u, we lust Itedily maintain the habit of regular prayer. For whether or not we are conscious of it t tho time ifl W ch." a"d "''ceasing strength rnhd,c,tr0nli?.',u- euM -S2S; Reindeer as Food. It la stated that an" attempt la be ing made by some euterprlalng Nor weglana to popularize reindeer flesh as au article of diet In Europe. The experiment of raising the animals Id large numbers for slaughtering pur poses will be fairly tried. Thty e pect to And profitable mnrkcts In France and Belgium, and will oven endeavor to induce beef-catlng lintoua to purchase tho art.lclu. Cimhecratlon la our answer to God's calk m.-tv.. luuaueij. it, ;U1 tJje f rot tilliul i!4
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