THE THREE DENIALS, Sunday Discourse By Dr. Chapman, the Noted Pastor-Evangelist. Aa Analysts ol a Chllil-Hearted, Wayward, Oeaerout Biblical Character Lord Awalta to Forgive and Foriet. NEW VoilK ClTT. The following reads ble and helpful sermon is by tho Kev. Dr. J Wilbur Chapman, the bent known even sclist in the country end one of the most noimlar pulpit orators of New York. It f, ' entitled' "Now, l'etrr" arid was preached from the text: "Now Peter aal without in the pnl.ee." Matt xxvi: 69. This ie the master stroke of the (Trent artist in painting the picture of thia child hearted, wayward, generous, loviig man whom we know aa Peter. It is one of the shadows in the picture, but the shadows help ua to appreciate the more the light. It iii single sentence, and yet in it we lind the secret of n soul's downfall, the cause of the heartache of the Son of Ood, and a note of warning for Ood'a people everywhere. ..... l'etrr was in a dangerous position, first of all. because he sat in tlie presence of the enemy. In the hist I'snlm the warning is give', that we should not "walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful," and this last is the most hurtful position of all. Toor Peter was sitting down. He also is to be pitied because he gat "without." Thero is a circle within which every child of Clod must keep if he would have both peace and power. If in imagination we take a compass in our hand and set one point nt the place whore we would have the centre and with the other point describe the circle, we have the picture of the Christian life. The centre of the circle is Christ, and the circle itself is described by prayer nnd Jlible study and fellowship with the saints. To keep within this circle is to keep in touch with Christ. To sit without is to be in danger, and poor Peter had stepped outside. With all my heart I love to study Peter. The sermon which has been greatly blessed to the people throughout tho country is the one which bears the title, "And Peter." This one is sent forth that it may be a companion of it, and carry the name of "Now Peter." The first service that I can find that Peter ever rendered unto Christ is record ed in Luke, fifth chapter, and the third verse: "And He entered into one of the ships, which waa Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the people out of the ship." I like him for his service. I have an idea that just the way he pushed tho boat out as the Master was standing in it made .leans understand that there was something in him that would yet go fur toward moving the world. Is it not true that much of the great work that we find about us to-day begins in just so hum ble a fashion as did the work of Peter? I like to study him in his writings. Some parts of the Bible ought always to be rend in the sunlight. The beautiful story of Kuth, and the letter to the l'hilippianx nve examples of this. Others are for the dark ness. Peter's epistles would thus head the list. Tt is when we stand on the seashore at night that wo see the phosphorescence! of the waves. It is when we stand in the darkness and read Peter's precious wortls, that we cati'h the beat vision of the lisht which cornea down from heaven and rcata upon men. I like to study him in his preaching, for it is just the kind that everybody ought to lie able to do. You may say that it waa simply a string of texts, that mighty ser mon of his at Pentecost, but if you should any this was all that he said we could re ply, as we have said in another place, it is all that Peter said that the Ho lo.y Spirit thought worth recording. I like him for his sincerity. You can read him at n glance. He could not be a hypocrite. When once he tried no one would believe him; he generally thought aloud. While men sometimes admired him, frequently laughed at him. generally censured him, they nlwnys loved him. I like Irm for his promntncaH, Ho was the first to enter the tomb that he might lee where the Lord lay. I liked him for his courage. He was not afraid to stand in the very midst of the enemies of ChriBt. I like him for his intensity. It is true he made mistakes. but the pendulum swun,t as far toward uprightness as it did toward failure. I. My text is to be read in connection with his denial, and thus we begin the more to appreciate the story. Christ had given him warning when He said, "Simon, Satan hath desired thee that he may aift thee as wheat," and again when He said, "This night yon shall be ashamed of Me," end "before the cock crow thou shalt deny Mo thrice." He warns iSi, too. The oak that goes down in the midst of the storm does so because through the long years its heart has been eaten awav by the worm. The soul of the child of God is never overthrown suddenly, and if it goes down it is because it has steadily lost ground in matters that were too trifling to cause alarm. If you should fail to-inor-row you will doubtless find the cause if you look back on tho history of to-dav. Jlie neglected Bible of to-dav, the neglect ed prayer of to day, the neglected fellow ship of to-day, means tho denial of to-nior-row. It is not to be forgotten that there were three denials. When Jesus was taken into the presence of those who were to con demn Him Peter followed and wanted to go in too. It is said in John's fJospel that another disciiile, who was known unto the nih priest, had gone in with Jesus, and this, of course, must have been John; they doubtless knew him nt the door and he passed through without question. When he saw that Peter was not in he went to me uoor and secured his admission. I ean pint imagine how Peter must have walked up and down the court, now sitting, now BUiding, now trembling for his safe ty, for in those days as to-day, "conscience makes coward of us all." Ihe first denial was at the wicket gate, lo the little girl that admitted him to the court he uiid: "t know Him nTit." He might have taken warning and gone ?,.i '"i nut remembered the words nt Christ, for he was just at the edue of the circle; nne sido meant peace and the other m,1c desnaw. 1 doubt not that lame one who reads these words has just passed through the tVKKet ftate, turning sway from a life ol i csMiduesi, and possibly hi denied his Master for the (irt time. Krom the heart Ji me '111111118 Christ a cry goes out to such in one: "Turn ye, trn ye. for why will vo die?" I lie i second denial was at the fil e, when ne sat with his enemies, and when he said with an onth: "I tell yu, 1 1 know Him not." Alas ntillV nt tin ........ It......-!. .1.. ieket of i .. "? j 'V" .V" aritk ii' uiiu Utile lO-tltiy HtlUllO witn m,s enemies, hardly knowing how wt reached the position. To all such the crj iL. ,co"es: "Come out from amoni U? u he ye separate." The world ha. . mi T betin 11,0 enemy of the Son of Ciod, ami hi who allows himself to be in toiler Aof.irJ V" the le"' w' deny his Mastei Mahhn. udcnial wa t0 tlie relative ol ittaTk nndef?n,,,,,of Master. For thi. Vs, a,Z,lih,,ifcll'!w n,an he " doubt jJaua had Seen ,tri,d ""d condemned fi ""l ltu "Placed the ear. The men, ory of Alalehus aroiued ll h. ,.... i... tl. rd Z.,i.l "" ,nd bel"re knew jt " n atVr him, and with re ... m cursings he said: "I tell vnii Hint I I.- this is the denial that comes because of some unconfussed sin. Alas for tha maa who allows any sin to go without imine "it confession. It will spring upon him some day like a tiger from the jungle, and win overthrow him before he can lav lime to call for help. Kin is always down , grade in ita tendencies, and he who deniea .Christ ; at the wicket gate will ore long deny ilim fat.e to face. U- This text is also to be used In connection With the sufferings of Jenus. It mav not tie amiss to give a brief account oi Ills trial. 1'irst of all, Ha appeared before Annas, the high iinest, nu account of which we iv.itl lu Juha jtviij; la tQ 2i-"Tha hi"h priest then asKert jesnt of fits rtfsefprrs, and of Hia doctrine. Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world ; 1 ever taueht in the synagogue and in the temple, whith er the Jews always resort, and in secret hsve I said nothing. Why askest thou Me? Ask them which heard Me what I have said unto them: behold, t'ney know what I aaid. And when He had thus spoken one of tho officers which stood by struck Jcsua with the palm of hla hand, saving, An swerest Thou the high priest so?" It was an awful tiling for this man with open hand to strike Him in the face. To strike Him, before Whom the angels veiled their' faces; to strike Him before Whom the archangel sang: "Holy, holy, holy. Lord God Almighty!" But do you notice that when they etruck Him Ho never shuddered? They could not hurt Him with any such blows as this, but when we read, "Now Simon Peter stood without and warmed himself," this is a blow which makes the Son of God shudder and Ilia heart grow sick. The second part of the trial waa His ap pearance before Caiaphas. Hore, although false witnesses appeared against Him He was perfectly silent. "Hut Jesus held His peace. And the high priest answered and said unto Him, I adjure Thee by the living Ood that Thou tell us whether Thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus said unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of hea ven." "And tliev did spit in His face," hut lie never saw them. Ilia eyes were blinded to His insults, but Peter in the presence of His enemies was a blow at His very heart. They smote Him until, if He had been only mar. He would have staggered in I lis weak ness, but they might as well have struck a rock like Gibraltar and expected it to fall as to move Him with their blows, but when Peter stood in the presence of those who were against Him, like one of them himself, it was a terrific blow at the Son of God. The third part of the trial was before the Sanhedrim. He is led out from the court where He tias seen both Annas nnd Caiaphas, and passes through nn outer eouvt to another room where the Sanhe drim is to meet. As Ho passes, possibly near enough to reach out His hand and touch His disciple, suddenly Ho hears Peter say: "t tell you I know Him not." Ho could forget the spitting of His enc mica, the blow.) of those who hated Him, nnd the rods that had fallen upon Him in the hands of the angry multitude, but He could not forget Peter. That which hurts Him the most in these clave is not the sin of the unregeneratc this He must expect, but the sins of His own people for whom Ho suffered and died, and rose again. Thero is nn inlinito amount of pathos in the words, ''He turned and looked nt Pe ter." So word of reproach fell from Hia litis, hut simply nn expression of sorrow was there to be seen. Does He not look upon you to-day, n-id dors He not arouse memories in your life vows that you have broken pledges that you have never kept? "Jesus, let Thy pitying eye call back the wnnderiug sheep. Fulse to Thee like Peter, I would fain like Peter weep." HI. Tint do not be discouraged. Man's use fulness not infrequently springs from his recovery from some sin. Out of Petcr'a fall came his lirst epistle. The best glimpse that I have of the Saviour's heart is that which comes when I think of His personal dealiims with individuals. When I think of the God of Abraham I think of one who strengthens His child under trial. The God of Jacob is my encouragement to be lieve that mv old nature mav be con- nurred, and my name changed from Jacob to Israel, the prince of God. The God nf Lotah teaches me that praver must be an' swored. The Saviour of Thomas encour nges me while in doubt; the Saviour of Paul sustains me in my suffering, but the Saviour ot .Peter is the restorer of the pen itent. Peter and Jesus met after the Resurrec tion on the shore of the lake. It is most significant that when he denied Christ it was in the presence of the fire of coals in the court of the enemy. When the Son of God met him on the shore of this lake there was a fire of coals burning there. 1 doubt not but that all the story ot his de nial came rushing upon him. What was said at that interview we shall not know until we hear it from Peter's own lips, hut it is safe to say that all his sins were for given, and even the murks of hia denial were taken awav. If you have denied this same Lord In your business, in your home, or in society, He waits to forgive and to forget, and Ho "is the same yesterday, to-day and for ever. Better Than Smashing, An estimable vouns married lady of Kansas village waited until the small hours for her husband, and he came not. She could tot stand it longer, and, rising, she dressed nerseit, armed nerselt with a re volver, and proceeded to a saloon in the village, where her suspicions that her bus band waa there were found to be well founded. The wayward husband had spent the evening and night until 3 a. m. with four or five comnunions in convivial treas ures in the saloon, and when the indignant witc marched into the Dlace behind gleaming revolver barrel there was a star tled party of tinnlers indeed.. Strain it way she commanded her hushand to leave the saloon and go home, lhen she turned to a man in the party who had demurred to leaving the p:acc: "You have a good wife at home, too." she remarked quietly but firmly. "You had lietter go home, and go right now." He went. "Now," said she, turning to tho nronrie- tor, "you blow out your liizhts and lock up this pluce. Klcven o'clock is Into enough, and it the village authorities can not eniorco tlie law, 1 will, sho said, as the whole party left the place. The sa loonkeeper closed his door, and they walked awny in the night, the woman with her Hand still lirmlv grasping the handl of the revolver. She had closed a joint without smashing it, and the best senti ment in her own town appiauds her act. Journal Press. Kindness. Did it ever occur to you that "kindness" was one of the elements of humility? In deed, it is only the humble person that is in a condition to show kindness to others. for the onnosite of kindness is unkindness. and there can be no humility where there is unkindness. The unkind person is the one who is always demanding that others serve him and hend to his wishes, and thi is an accentuated form of arrogance, o "self-assertion." Kindness of heart and lly ride of manner nuver go together. Pies- teriau Journal Wireless telegraphy Is to be used on Ita! ian trains aa a means of preventing rail way acciuema. Run-a-Mlle. In run-a-mlle the boys count oui and "It" hides bla eyea. He la then touched by one boy, who Immediately concoalg himself with tho others. When "it" has counted 100 or ao he starts out to find the "toucher." Each player, when discovered, steps from hia hiding place, but odors no information aa to the whereabouts; of tho "toucher" unless, Indeed, ha be that same. In which cam the ex citing race to home occura, and "It" gota there first be may set any task he pleasea for the "toucher" to perform, even to the running of mile. But It Is aafe to assume thai this penalty Is soldom exacted or paid. An Eight-Legged Horaa. ' In a consignment of Western range horses from Colorado received at the atockyarda at Sioux City there waa curiosity In the abape of a sorrel gelding with eight legs. The bona Is owned by John Huey and John, Wenr,o of White Pine, Col., and they bad raised htm. They refused f 1,0004 for bjm. The animal la 6 years old) and weight S00 pounds. ' THE SABBATH SCHOOL nternationnl Lesson Comments fof September 21. Subject: The Death of Moses, Dent, xxxlv., 1-2 Golden Tent, Ex. xxxlll., II Memory Ver;, $-7 Commentary on Lesion. 1. "Plains of Moab." The level plain east of the Jordan, where Israel was en camped. "Nebo Pisgah." Pisguh was a range ot tne mountain system east oi ine Dead Sea and Jordan; Nebo was one oi the summits of this range. Ut uileart unto Dan." This was the land on the east of the Jordan that was to be possessed by the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribes of Manasseh. 2. "All Nanhtali. Moses also viewed the land on the west of the Jordan. Knph tali was to have a possession on the north ern border of Canaan, the possessions ol Kphraim and Mana.saeh were in tne cen tre, while Judah was to occupy the south ern part of the land. In Christ's time the three grand divisions on the west of Pnles- ne were Ua i ce on the north, Hamaria in the centre, and Judea on the south. "Un to the utmost sea. Tho Mediterranean Sea. 3. "Tho south. Probably referring to the region south of Canaan proper, toward the desert. "Valley of Jericho. His view was from the southern slopes of Lebanon outhward. until his eye rested upon tne citv immediately before him. "Zoar." Jfot definitely located, but probably near the southern extremity of the Dead Sea. 4. ' Unto Abraham, etc. uen. i-': ; 20: 3, 4; J8: 13-15. "To see it." There was no miraculous power of vision imparted to Moses. That he should see all that is de- ribed is what any man could do if he at tained sufficient elevation. The atmos phere of that country is free from vapor, and the sight is carried a long distance. He could not enter the promised land on earth, but God gave, him a vision of its lories from f issah s top, showing him that o had accomplished his work, that his life had been successful. This scene has ever been a type of the visions of heaven, tho earnests and foretastes, tho heavenly ex perience of the Christian's promised land, which God gives to rtis people, ine set tins day is radiant with cloud dories un seen even at noonday. God's word has open windows through which shine glimpses of heaven and ideals of the leased life. But these visions come after faithful service and tho ripening of the character in love and trust. "Shalt not go over. See Xum. 20: 8-13. In Menbah when the people needed water the Lord told Moses to speak to the rock, but in stead of doitis as directed lie smote it twice. He also spoke unadvisedly with his lips, calling the peop.o rcoe.s, and he failed to acknowledge God in the miracle. The Lord immediately told JIoscs nnd Aaron that they would Jiot bo permitted to enter Canaan. 5. Servant of the Lord. Tnis is a title of creat dignity: Moses had been eminent ly useful, it was more his bono.' to be tho servant of the Lord than to he king ot Jcshurun. Ho one can be called the son ant of the Lord who does not conquer the world, who is not able to overcome nil things. "Died." There is a mystery in connection with the death and burial of Moses; there are some who think he was immediately translated. "According to the word. Literal v. at tho mouth ot Jeho vah. Some of the rabbins interpret it. By a kiss of Jehovah. The Jerusalem Targum expressly explains it, according to the sen tence of the decree of Jehovah. The great est men are but instruments in God's hands, and He can lav them .aside when ever Ho chooses. None are indispensable with Him. This should. 1. Cause us to see our own littleness. 2. Dispel our tears for the future of the church. 0. "He buried him. That is. God bur ied him. This is an honor no human being e'er received besides him. From Jude 0 it appears that Michael, tho archangel, was employed on this occasion, and that Satan dismited the matter with him. Why did the Lord bury Moses? It hardly seems probable that the object was to keep the Israelites from making his tomb an object of ido utrous worship. Tho tomb of the pa triarchs was known, and the bones ot Joseph were then in camp on their way to burial, yet neither tombs nor Dones were worshiped. The following view of Kurtu is worth considering: Jehovuh did not in tend to leave the body of Moses to corrup tion, but at the very time of his burial communicated some virtue by Hia own hand which saved the body from corrup tion, and prepared for the patriarch a transition into the same state of existence into which fcnoch and Elijah were ad mitted without either death or burial. As an example of justice Jehovah caused him to die before tne people entered the land of rest and promise, but as an example of race He prepared him on entrance into an other land of promise and rest. This view is also hold by the Homiictic commentary, and by the Speaker's and Wliedon's com mentaries. 7. "An hundred and twenty. The life of Moses was divided into three periods of forty years each. 1. He was in Egypt forty years, during which time ho was trained, first in his own home, and after. ward in the household ot i'haraon. l Ho was in Midian forty years, caring for the sheep of his father-in-law, in the very wilderness where he was to lead forth the children of Israel. 3. The first eighty years of his life was only a preparation for his life work, which was the deliverance of Israel. For forty years he led the people of God in their wanderings, as they .tour neyed toward Canaan. "Not dim." Moses did not die of disease. He was young even in old nge. 8. "Thirty days." Tho usual time of mourning for persons of position and emi nence. See Num. 20: 29. 9. "Spirit of wisdom." He possessed other gifts and graces also, but wisdom is mentioned as being most necessary for the Kovernment to which he was now called. Laid his hands." . See Num. 27: 18-23. The Lord had directed Mo-ses to invest Joshua with authority. In chapter 31: 7, 8. Moses gives him a brief and impressive charge. ' Hjirkened. ihey submitted themselves respectfully to Joshua, becauso God had appointed him as their leader by the hand of Moses. 10-12. "Not liko unto Moses." Joshua was filled with the spirit of practical wis dom, but was not like Moses, gifted with power to work signs and miracles, to found a kingdom and create a nation. None, ex cept Jesus, equalled Moses in official dig nity, holy character and intimate friend ship with God. Moses knew God and free ly and familiarly conversed with Hiri. In whatever light we view this extraordinary man the eulogy pronounced in these in spired veraea will appear just. As to Users of Tobacco. "Nine years ago we commenced t'i keep a rocord on this subject," says Dr. Fish, an eminent eastern educa tor, "and we have found that the boy who falls usually uaes tobacco. When asked to sign our pledge the pupil usually answers that he does not jse very much, but we find that ho continues to fall In his studies. On )f the questions submitted in our roc rd blank is whether or not the pupil :hinks the use of tobacco Is necessary to his success. I must admit that nany anawer this question in the at Irmative. In our chapel we frequent y ask all those who have not bad to lacco In their mouths for twelve nontbs to arise and b counted. Tha iveraga varies from SO to 70 per tent." Boy Was Enameled Green. . Thomas Scanlon, aged 12 years, fell into a vat of liquid green enamel lit a manufactory at Beaver Falls, Pa., and when fished out was found to be enameled a bright green from head to feet, the stuff soaking through the boy's clothing. Tho enamel hardened quickly when exposed to air, and had to be chipped and scraped from the boy's body. II la none the worse for tho tulaliap. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. I September 21. "The Fullness of Ood: Hon Secured." F.ph. 111. 14-21. HCIHPTURE VEfSES. John XlV. 1..-17; Eph. 11. 19-22; vl. 10; Col. t.9-12; John xv. 4-6; 2 Cor. xll. 9; Gal. tl. 20; Col. 1. 27-29. Lesson Thoughts. t nvo Is the means by or through which Ood will communicate of his fulness to us. It Is the root through which the tree draws its sustenance: It Is the foundation upon which must bp firmly grounded the temple for the Sulrlt indwelling. The love of God our Savior la In deed an Illimitable ocean, we can not hope fully to tatnora it in mis world. But we may know more of It than we do, and we can attain enough to. reward nil our efforts to under stand It. Selections. Make mo, pure One, as thou art. Pure In soul and mind and heart; Never natlsfled with, less Than thy perfect holiacss. How anxious wo are so to live that we may not grieve away our friends from our dwellings! Should an h- lustrous guests become an Inmate lo our abode, how anxious should we bo to do all that we can to please him, and to retain him with usl How much more anxious should we be to secure the Indwelling ot th eternal. Spirit! How desirous that he should "make our hearts and the church his constant abode! If thou, then wouldst have tho soul surcharged with the flro of Ood, so that those who come nigh to thee shall feel some mysterious Influence proceeding out from thee, thou must draw nigh to the source or mat. nre to the throne of God and of the Lamb, and shut tnvself out from the world that cold world, which so swiftly steals our fire awav. Divine grace, even In the heart of weak and sinful man. Is invincible. Drown It In tho waters of adversity, It rises more beautiful, as not being drowned Indeed, but only washed; throw It into the furnace of fiery trials. It comes out purer, and loses nothing but the dross. Suggested Hymns. Holy Ghost, with light divine. Take time to be holy. Search me, O Lord, and try this heart of mine. As lives the flower within the seed. Blessed Savior, ever nearer. Nearer, My Ood, to thee. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. September 21 The Fullness of Ood, How Se cured. Eph. 3. 14-21. It is Impossible for us to compre hend the entire fullness of God. Of jourse the finite cannot surround the Infinite. But we may apprehend God and know certainly something of him There are certain lines we may follow to the extent of our limited abilities Creation stands before us as an un mistakable evidence of his omnipo tence. "He hath made us, and not we ourselves. Having been created uy him and in his image, and voluntarily talllna- so beneath his design In our creation, we wonder that he has not ?ut man off from the earth. That he baa borne with such a wayward and rebellious race is a demonstration of his infinite. exhauBtless patience. - Such long-suffering patience must be the outgrowth of his great sym pathy with us. We know a little about human sympathy, but this measuring line Is very short In comparison with Infinitude. Only this is so small com' pared with God's sympathy. His mak' ing us in his own likeness, his won' derful patience, and his fathomless sympathy have all sprung from his goodness. To benefit the universe, to Increaso the sum total of its real wealth and its true blessedness, must have been his design in our creation Now he is doing all he can to bring us into cooperation with himself in achieving the consummation of his wise plans. How grand is the end contemplated! Does it not give to liie a surpassing grandeur? How long must be the line that would measure his goodness i His omnipresence Is marvelous. Think of him In the completeness of his Personality being presont every' where every Instant! Thought wearies In trying to grasp so broad a truth, Faith comes to our rescue, and we be lieve much that Intellect falls to ex plain. His omniscience io another es sential of his perfectness. Ha knows all that can be known from tho begin nm,1? to the end ol time, and even reads like an open book the wonders of eternity. His word affirms that from him "no secrets are hid." When our knowledge is bo limited our brains whirl in striving to imagine the bound less extent of his omniscience. Again faith comes to assure us of the incoiu prehensi'ole. Looking only at these majestic elements of divine perfection, wo stand in awe oi God, do wo not? So very insignificant are we In cou trast with him, it seems scarcely pos siblo that we can bo of any value to tho mighty Johovtih. But Jf.at hero he comns to lift up our heads wulle hi points to tho crosa of Calvary. 'or "God so loved ' us. Loved ua Yes! How glorious! Every heart that really knows this must oe overjoyed. How It leaps and bounds with doliuht! Praises fill our whole being. Hallolujah to our King. Beautiful as heaven It self la It to know the lovo 0f God! Played Joke on Kitchener. Years ago Kitchener was In com mand of raw Arab troops at Korosko, on the Nile. There wtth a few other English officers he schooled in civil ized warfare Sholk Arnold and his wild tribesmen throughout the long summer months. And during tho schooling some one put up a Joko upon the Arab chieftain and taught him and all his men to heave a harm less and unwitting Insult at their dis tinguished leader. The whole band, yelling wildly, used to dash down to ward the Nile bank, on which waa Kitchener's tent, and halting sudden ly used to salute In these words: "Kitchener dam fool! Kitchener muf fin man." It was a harmless lmbecll Hy, and Its object was as much amused by it aa any one, though, ot course, tho Balute had to be altered. We ought to be grateful first of till and with the deepest gratitude that Ood does not guide us according to our own plans or send us those experiences which we crava. TI1E RELIGIOUS LIFE READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. Poems aunt In With Ood-The Horrors of Godless Life Men Are Mot Saved bf Their Words About Heaven But by Their Deeds. Shut in with God alone I spend the miiet hour: " His mercy and His love I own, And seek His saving power. Shut In with God alone, In meditation sweet Mv spirit waits before the throne, Bowed low at Jesus feet. Shut in with God alone, I praise His holy name, Who gave the Saviour to atone For all my sin and shame. Shut in with God alone, And yet I have no fear; I rest beneath the cleansing blood, , And perfect love is here. London Commonwealth. Welkins; In the Idiht. 'God is light, and in Him w no darkness at all." I John 1: Ji. A Godless life is worse off than a sunless world: better to miss the lntht of day than the light of ell life. Yet men will suppose that the only wav to live the lisht and haimy life is to get ns far away from even the thought of the God of all linht, sunshine and bright ness as they possibly can. We wait till the cloudy days nre past before we go out on our search for recreation and enjoyment, but many feel they must wait till God, the Sun of life, has set to their view before they can hope to find happiness. There can no more he happiness without lod than there can be flowers without the sun. Men ought to feel and do feel, when their hearts are right, the same joy at the thought ot Him as we feel when we step out on a bright summer's morn for a whole day of baling'in its warmth. Whore darkness is He cannot be. If you are hiding yourself under the shadow of some great sorrow you are out awarnng your life, chilling your heart and secreting yourself from the only power able to make the light shine in the darkness of despair. What is the cause of dark days but the hiding of part of the interests of the life from the Lord? As soon as you shut the lielit out you shut the darkness in. to shut God out is to shut the devil in. And how can we who walk in the lisht live with faces eclipsed? These brief afflic tions are hut the vanors that rise Horn tho soil; they cannot shut out the sun over head. In fact, God is not only a light nbove. He is a light within; no matter how heavily roll these mists and fogs they cannot make it dark where He is shining in the heart. .Men do not tear altlictions so long as they are in fellowship with unfail ing love. Before the clear shining of that eternal goodness our fears flee like those of children when the light is turned on in the dark room and they see the mother s face. His nerfect lircht casts out fear be cause it is the lisht of a perfect love. Alas, the hidden nnd dark places; they make our cloudy days and they form the black spots on our professions. They nre the recesses where sin is conceived and cultured; they arc silent yet eloquent ar guments that make all our verbal testi mony vain and void. If we turned our calendars upside down it would make no difference to the year; if we called the nights day they would be just as dark. A life is known by the way it leads and not by its label. A false life is a lie in itself. Men are not saved by their words about heaven, but by their walk to ward heaven. The world is convinced by the logic of lives lived in the right, where the finest lanaruatre fails. Men mav know little of theology, but they are quick to recognize the shining of the divine in your lite, i he only hope ot this poor world is the light of God shining in the hearts and faces nf men. and its greatest diinser is that those who nrofess to have this lisht should be but empty and dead lamps, walk ing in the darkness and leading ot tiers deeper in. Ram's Horn. Spear Points. True humility does good and is silent. God's sympathy is not exhausted in sigh). "Father" is the keyword to all true praver. l he light trom heaven can never lead astray. W hen God closes ono door, He opens an other. Praver is the anchor that holds us fast to God. Honor looks better on a background of humility. God puts consolation only where lie has first put pain. lh(f shadow may be the price we pay tor the sunshine. God s patience with the sinner does not apnroe the sin. there can he no t'hristian meeting with out Christ in the midst. If the King is indeed near kin to us the roval likeness will be recognizable. We know not a millionth part ot what Christ is to us, but perhaps we even less know what we are to Him. Steadfastness. We need stability as regards the truth. as well as loyally to service. It is mv con viction that much of the looseness of living nnd the barrenness of Christian work is due to lack of conviction. It is also true that loyalty of service and loyalty of life must depend upon loyalty to conviction. The Piev. R. Bagnell, New York. Kltual. , A man is greater than any form of rit ual. The temnle itself was not the link between God and man, but only the symbol ot the link. Christ is not merely one who symbolizes, but one who is. Hight where yon nre, on the mountain or in tho vallev, is the place for you to worship. Tho Rev. G. C. Morgan, Isew York. At Home With God. Loosed from other things the thoughts go home to rest. In God the blessed man finds the love that welcomes; there is the sunny place, there care is loosed and toil forgotten, there is the joyous freedom, the happy calm, the rest and renewing of our strength at home with God. Mark Guy l'earse. Kssentlnl Kteinents. The esrential elements of sniritual mind- edness are to concede to yourself all the Dowers nnd nurnoses of Ood and then to actualize them by demonstrating God in your lite the Kev. . L. Masou, Brook lyn, N. Y. Tha Commandments. Christ lived un to the commandments. hence His power, and men who have lived up to them have led powerful lives. The uev. ur. van uyKe. Tne Greater Girt. Be sure of this, the more a man giveth himself to hatred in this world, the more will he find to hate. But let ua rather give ourselves to charity, and if we have ene mies, and what honest man hath them not; let them be ours, since they must, but let us not be theirs, mica we know better. Henry Van Dyke. Traa Laws. The true laws of Christian growth is to look right forward doing the duties of to day in the light of conscience and plan better things for the future. The Kev. Dr. Harris. How Old It the Earth? t-. Sir Archibald Gelkle, In a recent address In London, said thai figuring from the stratified rochs of the earth'i crust may range from a minimum of 73,000.000 yeara up to a maximum of 680,000,000 years. Dana on the same basis figures that the earth's crust Is 48.000,000 years while Alfred Hus oM Wallace figures that the earth's crust has been forming for 28,000,000 yeara. No man nurse. Is a hero to his tralnea COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Conditions. Bradstreet'i says: All available data confirm reports ol past good trade and foreshadow as good or better yet to come. It has been es sentially a week of active buying in dis tributive trade, and sellers have occu pied an enviable position, Reports as to August trade have been almost uni formly favorable, and the records ol failures show business mortality to have been confined to a low Summer mini mum. Prices show persistent strength despite the fact that agricultural pro ducts, except corn and prime cattle, tend lower, owing to the growing strength of raw textiles and other ma terials for manufacture. Corn is nol yet out of danger from frost in the northern half of the belt, and this, cou pled with short supplies, imparts strength to cereals generally. Reports of cotton crop deterioration, cau.sed by hot, dry weather, have scared shoru and stiffened valtrcs of raw and manu factured cotton, but there is a feeling that the crop damage talk has been overdone and that a liberal yield is still possible, though active trade is expect ed to demand all available supplies ol the South's leading product. Rather less disturbance is noted in labor mat ters, some strikes having been declared off. The anthraeite trouble still hangs over the situation, but the volume ol coal shipments is slowly and steadily increasing. Some wage advances are noted in widely separated lines. Col lections are uniformly good. Jobbing activity is undiminished. Dry goods, shoes, millinery, drugs, hardware, groceries, clothing and lum ber figure actively in demand. Leather sales are large at the West, but high-tide prices discourage tanning. Wheat, including flour, exports tor the week aggregate 6,J76,2g9 bushels, against 5,4.16,530 last week. 4.406,064 in this week last year and 3.373.100 in 1000. Wheat exports since July I aggregate 44.657,506 bushels, against 61,602,66 last season and 30,317,851 in 1000. Corn exports aggregate 21,196 bushels jgainst 115,150 last week. 550,876 last year and 3,162,271 in 1900. Business failures for the week ending September 4 number 133, as against 140 last week, 169 in this week last year. In Canada for the week there were 14, as against 20 last week. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, $U 10u3.30; bost Patent, $4.50; oholoe Family, $3.75. Wheot New York No. 2. "GHc; Philadelphia No 2, 73a73Hc; Baltimore No 2, 72o. Corn-New York No. 2, 68c; Phila delphia No. 2. ti9aG9; Baltimore No. 2, G9c. Oats Now York No. 2. UHo; Phila delpbla No. 2, 39o; Baltimoro No 2, 32o. Hoy No. 1 timothy, $17.00al7.50; No. 2 timothy, $16.00alG.50; No. 3 tim othy $14.00a'15.00 Green Fruits and Vegetables Apples per brl, fancy 75c$l 00; fair to good per brl, 60c36)c: Boots, native, per bunch lHc2c; Cabbages, native, Bat dutch, per 1UO, f 1 oo-' UO; Uonta- loupes, Anne Arundel Gcins, per basket ripe, 40c50c; Colory, New York, por loz. 3.r)cS40c; Eggplants, native, per 1UO, uUc7oc; (jrrapos, Kappuhannock, per 10-IB basket, HcaJlOc, do, Western Marylund, per 5-16 baskot, OcailOc; Lettuce, native, per bu box, 20cS30c. Lima beans, native, per bu box, 50c3 COc; Onions, Maryland nnd Pennsylva nia yellow, por bu, 70c 70c; Pumpkins, native, each, 4c35o; Squash, Anne Atuudul, per basket, 10c 15c; String beans, native, per bu, green, ocd'Jc; Tomatoes, Potomac, per poach 'basket, UOcay.'Xo. Kappahannock, bnr bu box, 00c60o; Wutermelocs, selects, per JOO, f 13 oo14 00; primes, per luu, $6 DO'S $9 00; seconds, por 100 $4 00 fa 00; culls, per 100, f 3 OOi OO. Potatoes. Potomac, per brl. No 1, tl OOal 25; do, seconds, 75n80c; do, culls, OOaiiOc; do, Eastern Shore, per brl. No 1. tU OOal 25. Butter, .Separator, 21a22o; Gathered cream, 20a21c; prints, 1-lb 20a2bo; Kolls, 2-lb, 25a2G; Dairy pts. Md., Pa., Vo., 23a24o. Eggs, Fresh-luld eggs, por dozon, 19Xa30o Cheeso, Large, 60-lb, lOkalOvo; ma- dium, 36-lb, 10al0tf; picnics, 22-lb lliallie. Live Poultry, Hens, HKal2o; old roostors, each 25a30c; spring chickens, l3al3Ko, young stugs, HHulio. Duoks lOallc. Hides, Heavy steers, association and suitors, Into kill. 60-lbs uud up, close se lootlon, 12Jal3;ic; cows and light steers Provisions and Hog Products. Bulk clear rib sides, 12Ho; bulk shoulders, WHc: bulk bellies, 13c; bulk bam butts, lOJio; baoou clear rib sides. 12o; baoon shoulders. llXc; sugar-cured breasts ll&c; sugar-cured shoulders; HXc; sugnroured California hams, 10Xo; bams canvased or uucenvasod, 12 lbs. and over, HHc; refined lard tierces, brls and 00 lb cans, gross. ll.Vc; refined lard, saennd-hund tubs, ll4'e; rofined lariA, half-burrols and new tubs ll?o. Live Stock. Clilcaco. Cattle, Mostly lOo 15c lower good to prima steers $8 OO118 8"); mediun $4 7.W 50; stookors aud feeders $J . a5 25; coirs, $1 oOao .'.; heitors f J 01 hi 6 00; Texas-fed stuers $3 00u4 50. Hogs, Mixed and butchers $7 30a7 50; good to choioe, heavy $7 4;"u7 75; Sheop, sheep and lambs slow t lower; good tu choioe whethers $3 50a3 75; Western slieop 3 50a350. Fast Liborty, CuttiB steady: choioe $7 40a7 51); primo 50 nun uu. nogs, prime heavy 7 7.ui WJ, modi urns 00 heavy Yorkers $7 50a7 65. Sheep steady Best wethers $3 TOa.'l b.r) culls ami com mon $1 50a3 OU; choice lambs $5 25u5 50. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Expressmen at San Francisco have organized. Norfolk (Va.) street railway men art taking steps to organize. Omaha (Neb.) street railway men have recently organized a union. About 1,000 diamond workers in Anv sterdam. Holland, are out of work. The Seattlo (Wash.) Central Labo; Union has secured the necessary und in build a labor temnle. At Sacramento, Cai., 100 women wert recently initiated as members of tht Retail Clerks' Union. Mexican labor Is so scarce as to ne cesitate sending for negroes from Ja maica. The latter are guaranteed era nlovment for a vear. In wages alone $100,000,000 is an mi ally "expended by the United State Steel Corporation, better known as th Steel Trust. The Bank of England employs abou 1 .000 people, pays a quarter of a mil lion a year in wages and J5.000 a yeai in pensions. Journeymen tailors 01 sen nave Conn., will organize and again dema an increase in wages. The last move the workmen in the latter direction w THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OP INTEMPERANCE. Porim How th Hoy Vnt Down Th ftaloon Is Bad Institution, Fosln si Public ttenofaotnr In Order to Ila gnlsa Its Fonlnesa. It was not on the field of battle, It was not with a ship at sea; But a fate far worse than either That stole him away from me. 'Twas the death in the ruby win cup, f That the reason and senses drown; 1 Tie drank the alluring poison. And thus my boy went down. Went down from the height of manhood! To the depths of disgrace and sin, Down to a worthless being. From the hope of what might have been. It was only the same old story That mothers so often tell. With accents of infinite sadnesrf Like the tones of a funeral bell. Oh. can nothing destroy this evil? No bar in their pathway be thrown? To mvp from the terrible maelstrom The thousands of boys going down? t The Rnlnons Rrod Character. The nersistenev with which tho idea ia being advocated that the first step of th retorm against the drink evil ought to ne the establishment of a substitute for tho saloon indicates that the propagandists of that idea have entirely overlooked one of the most natent of all facts bearing upon the question: The saloon is not a good in ttitution with incidental features that arsi had: it is a bad institution that tries to pose as a public benefactor for the purpose ?f disgjising its badness. Those leatures ot tne saioon system, hich we are told "minister to fundamen- ial needs of society," "facilitate social ex pression, etc., etc., are without exception exaggerated in the presentation that is jiven to the public. As a "poor man'a club the saloon is a lurce and a tauure. rruc, there are saloons where comforts and luxuries can be found, but the saloons that re patronized by the men who are without lomfota in their homes are bare of com fort, foul of air and dirty in every appoint ment. There are very few homes, even in the worst sections of American cities, that tre not cleaner and more comfortable than the average poor man'a saloon. Hut even where tne saioon nrny iumisn 'prtam comforts and advantages, those things are only incidental to the saloon susiness. The saloon exists for the purpose) 5f selling drink, and is resorted to prinuv- IV tor ine purpose 01 annKinE. nurinir the discussion of Bishon Potter's outburst the early part of the year 189ft, the Iew xorlc lelegraph, whicn is in no way to be regarded as a temperance paper, made an illuminating remark as follows: J never had any UBe lor whisKy exeeps o get drunk with it. It was a wise man who said this. He had made a specialty of drinking for some years, and eventually, seeing the futility of his pursuit, had ceased, and was subsequently giving his, opinion upon the value ot whisky as an eior to civili7jtion. we mignt nave continued with the cognnte assertion that the only use for a saloon is a place in which to get drunk. Whisky is made because men wish to get drunk, and saloons are maintained as convenient denots for the distribution and dissemination of whisky. Saloons are not poor men's clubs." New V oice. A Novelist's Opinion. It is a dark and difficult nroblem. but one thing I see clearly, namely, that drink is the greatest and most baneful hypno tist on the earth at present, and that ua influence is more awful than any plague, more devastating than any war. Looking back from more than middle life. I can hardly remember a case of wreck and ruin that has not been, directly or indirectly, the result of drink. It is a terrible roll- iall my memory goes through of men of good and even brilliant opportunities, who are dead or worse than dead, at the hands 3f the ureat hypnotist. Aeamst that rec ord I cannot recall a single case of a man who, free from the tyranny of drink, has been utterly destroyed by misfortune. The hardest blows ot tate seem powerless to slay the man whom the great hypnotist cannot subdue. And though I think in temperance is often as much a consequence as a cause, I truly believe that if drink could be utterly wiped out of the world to night, humanity would awake in the morn ing with more than half its sorrows and sufferings gone. Hall Caine, in Household Y ords. Onr Greatest Cnrse, The saloon is the irreatest curse of the present day, the fountainhead from whence flow streams nf evil. It nils our prisons with criminals, our insane asylums with victims and our graveyards with paupers' graves. It turns nappy homes into barren wastes. It debauches and ruins the hus hand. the son, the father; it destroys the happiness of the wife, the mother, tha daughter. It clothes them in rags, starves them and breaks their hearts. And for what? That a few men may grow rich and flourish on the burnt ashes of homes. Every conscientious thinker admits that all I have said is only the sad truth. Then why allow this terrible cause of crime and wretchedness to go on? Why not inaugu rate a war against it that would overthrow it? If every good man should vote as his better nature dictates this evil would be abolished. Do not say that it is hopeless to war against it. that this foe is too strongly intrenched in human hearts and selfishness, for right will triumph in the end. Josiah Allen's Wife, in the Woman's Home Companion. Xew Temperance Balooo. A "bar without beer" is soon to be opened under the auspices of the Brown ing (Settlement, Walworth, London. It will be on the lines of the "Red House" in East London. A building has been erected at the corner of York road and Walworth road, and the aim of the set tlement will be to supply wholesome food, tea, coffee, cocoa, etc., at a price within the means of the working classes. In the same building a Robert Browning Club for workmen will be established, and the Dr. Dale Memorial Library will find a home under the same roof. Membership of the club will give free access to the library, bil liards, bagatelle, ping-pong, unlimited op portunities for mental culture, cricket and football. Alcohol at AH Times a Polnon. . . Dr. Thomas Bickerton, of Liverpool, sneaking recently, said ho was convinced that alcohol, which was at all timea poison, even when taken in the smallest quantities, shortened a man's life. From his hospital experience, he could say that without alcohol we oould close our hos pitals, asylums and workhouses. Tha Cruaade In Brief. More than 50,000 Americans die from al coholic drink every year. Moderate drinkers belong to the same class as moderate stealers. Earl Roberts comes before the British public with a renewed appeal that tht re turning soldiers should not be led into, drunkenness by treating. . ' In the light of recent events in Mary land the friends of temperance reform and of good government have every reason to be encouraged. Not only has the tendency to rum rule been checked, but the tri umph of civic righteousness bus been ia part at least realized. Dr. Henry, the American speaker and or ganizer, who began work 111 England a year ugo, reports gratifying results, ei ciully in Scotland, where drink brings a degradation hardly beard of elsewhere. , A man may owe to drunken parents or remoter ancestors a nervals system which craves alcohol. Yet yi all save one in stance in a thousand it is strictly true that it lies with the man himself whether or not he will submit to tin) hereditary predispuaitiou And drink. llr Justice Emerson, one of the ju-.lgi-s of the Supreme Court ol NewioundUud, lately congratulated the people of a lurge judicial dit.U lit ou the utter absence of cmue, which he considered was due in a great measure lo the wise tcu.oerance lugiriution so long in force, M l,il'-
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