SERMON ON "THE DEVIL"
Sunday Discourse By Dr. Chapman, the
Noted Pastor Evangelist.
Treitf a Forbidden Subject In a Novel Manner
Why Men Are Disposed to Laugh
at the Piece of Darkness.
' New Yontc Citt. The following reada
ble and helpful aermon ia by the Itev. Dr.
J. Wilbur Chapman, the beat known evan
gelist in the country and one of the moat
popular pulpit orntora of New York. It
fa entitled The Devil," and was preached
from the text "And the Lord aaid unto
Satan, Whence comeat thou? Then Satan
answered the Lord and aaid. From going to
and fro in the earth, and from walking up
and down in it." Job 1: 7.
This ia a forbidden subject. We gener
ally apeak of him who ia the aubject of my
sermon with a smile,' and yet it ia a aub
ject with which one ought certainly to be
perfectly familiar. We hnve all had some
experience with him who is the author of
our distress, and who is responsible for
every cloud though it be no larger than a
ni an 'a hand that has cast itself upon the
sky of our life, and yet I doubt not that
there are very maoy of us that could not
give a very accurate explanation of our
views. There aro very many who scout
the idea of a personal devil at all, and tins
view is much more general than we think,
1 can quite understand how it should be
to, for Satan's master stroke of policy ia
to direct our minds from inquiry concern
ing his true character and the methods by
which he governs his kingdom. Some
times for the nnregencrate he employs the
vehicle of darkness that he may blind the
minds of those who do not believe lest the
light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ
should dawn upon them and they should
believe. "In whom the God of this world
liatli blinded the minds of thorn which be
lieve not. lest the light of the glorious Gos
pel of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shino unto them." 2 Corinthians
4: 4. And sometimes to those who do be
lieve he transforms himself into an angel
of light that he may delude them by his
snares. "And no marvel; for Satan him
self is transformed into an angel of light,"
2 Corinthians 11: 14.
The late Dr. James H. Brooks, of St.
louis, one of the greatest Bible teachers
in olir country, said that it used to be bis
custom in bis family worship to read the
New Testament through consecutively un
til he came to Revelation, and then he
would always turn back to Matthew and
read again to the Kevelation, and then
back to Matthew once more, until one day
sitting alone in his study he began to ques
tion himself as to why this was his hahit,
and it occurred to him as he read the Rev
elation through that it must be because
this is the only book in the New Testa
ment which tells of the doom of Satan,
and it is quite easy to understand why l.e
would turn the mind away from that book
which tells of his defeat.
"Men don't believe in a devil now,
As their fathers used to do;
They've forced the door of tho broadest
creed,
To let his form pass through.
There isn't a print of his cloven foot.
Or a Hery dart from his bow.
To be found in earth or nir to-day,
For the world has voted so.
"B"t who is mixing the fatal draught
That palsies heart and brain,
And loads the bier of each passing rear
With ten hundred thousand slain?
Who blights the bloom of the laud to-day
With the fiery breath of hell?
If the devil isn't, and never was.
Won't somebody rise and tell?
"Who clogs the steps of the toiling saint.
And digs the pits for bis feet?
Who sow the tares in the fields of time,
Wherever God sows His wheat?
The devil is voted not to be,
And, of course, the thing is true;
But who is doing the kind of work
The devil alone should do?
"We aro told ho does not go around
Like a roaring lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible
For the everlasting row
To be heard in home, in church and state,
To the earth's remotest bound,
If the devil, by a unanimous vote,
Ia nowhere to be found ?
"Won't somebody step to tho front forth
with. And make his bow, and show
How the frauds and crimes of a single day
Spring up? Wo want to know.
The devil is fairly voted out.
And of course the devil's gone,
But simple folks would like to know
Who carries his business on."
The other day in Brooklyn a woman
threw herself out of the window of a five
story building to escape the brutal tor
tures of her drunken! husband. She left
her little boy motherless and worse than
fatherless. That husband waa in the clutch
of the ono of whom I speak at this time.
vould you make light of such a foe as
this. The opening chapters of Genesis
give us a picture of n happy pair in Eden,
peace, purity, perfection and beauty every
where prevailed. God looked upon it and
said that it was very good, when suddenly
all was changed. There is a marvelous
transformation; sin appears; the curse is
everywhere; trouble begins and rolls high
like the mighty waves of the sea, until the
world ia ongulfed in the blackness of the
darkness of despair. No wonder that we
feel like crying out again and again in the
words of the text, "And the Lord said
unto Satan, Whence contest thou? Then
oatan answered the Lord and said, From
going to and fro-in the earth, and from
walking up and down in it." It is of such
an adversary that I speak, and he is not a
subject for jesting. 1 have for the past
ten years been laboring in the interests of
men, but somehow during the past three
nionths they have been upon me as a spe
cial burden. I have listened to their heart
breaking cries ami their sobs of despair,
k 'c " w'"1 tne memory of these tears
that have run like rivers, and the cry of
"any a man who feels himself to be lost
as he said, "Is there any hope," that I
br'n8 to my readers this message.
Ihe devil is certainly not a mvth. I
hall give his names in a little while and
call your attention to the fact that they
are all found in the New Testament, so
this m not an Old Testament delusion ear
ned down to the present time, as some
would have us believe, for almost all the
information concerning him we are de
pendent upon the New Testament Scrip
tures. The Old Teatament is strangely si
'eat. I call your attention to this fact that
you read in the Old Testament the ac
count of the temptation and fall in Kden.
tlien the trouble of Job, then the number
ing of Israel by David, and finally the vis
ion or Joshua, the high priest, and Satan
contending with him, you have the four
fei where, Satau definitely mentioned
and tua ,,-ork particularly described. The
evidences of his existence are everywhere
Jo bo seen in the Old Testament, but those
ure not in direct statements. Thi does
Ziy j position of many people
Who are disponed to say a good deal about
in?. nt ,nyth' wnifih hftd its rise in the
infancy of our race, when the human mind
Thi ?xc,;ed"(;ly ehildish and credulous,
ain M V" uthor f evl'. fount
tnitl. k"klle"' th adversary dt the
Santith corrPter of the world. He
contBnti,,;nT'' ,owetn rror. nourUheth
eth m ?' dl,t'eth peace and scatter
ereatJr I V""'- Vu there is never
Suarrel tin h,M han wllen church
riven .i,?fnder.01' nor wh P w
face ol . t,bm.hcart and nom the
wd "", "tention. '-This is
word plctur. of kiin, but w. must have
co!mi!t quite ,ain Ss'im had soma
' M.?St'0vIwt', th th befor man an
Wani.,"6,,",'10" uppod to be a fal
' the if. .f. '"PPosition is true then
eemtnTLi .tamellt references would
the clu. Stttce that Pri,le "d 'nvT r
"Ut "L hl, When Go, .aid,
iniu,or k man- ancl lut hil have do-
made"l " evi-yth'ng that we hav.
Sum. 6 Znvy hean' an1 " ather ha
when d th." "'m" 1" the true fact
temiwf not,f t devil's position in the
"Ti ,1 1,r',,t- Matthew 4: 8 9,
lli.r. in fiy "luu"tin, an showeth
K W f k"'K,lu''" of the world, and the
f ,, : tl'em ami suitl, uuto Him, All
full duwi .Wl!l 1 ."1V TtlL'u ''" vt
jail down d wnrsuin me." Jt, is as if Uo
were'maktni'ohc" lasr great efTorf fd over
throw the Master and rule the world.
Certain direct statements ure made con
cerning him by our Master. No stronger
one can be found than that which is re
corded in John 8: 44, "Ye are of your
father, the devil, anil the lusts of vour
father ye will do. He was a murderer
from tho beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there ia no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie be speaketh of his
own; for ho ia a liar and the father of it."
He is a terrific foe, and in the interests of
all young men who desire to be true and
like Christ I lift up my voice against him.
II.
The Rev. W. G. Moorhrsd, D. D., has
given us a list of his names as recorded in
the New Testament Scriptures. This list
is as follows r
Abaddon Revelation : 11.
Accuser Revelation 12: 10.
Adversary 1 Peter 0: 8.
Angel of the Abyss Revelation 9; 11.
Apollyon Revelation 9: 11.
Beelzebub Mark 3: 22.
Belial 2 Corinthians 6: IJ. .'
Devil Matthew 4: 1.
Dragon Kevelatiort 20: J. '
Great Red Dragon Revelation 12: 3.
Evil One Matthew 13: 19.
Enemy Matthew 13: 39.
Father of Lies John 8: 44.
God of This World 2 Corinthians 4: 4.
Liar John 8: 44.
Murderer John 8: 44.
I'rince of Devils Mark 3: 2!.
Prince of This World John 3: 21.
Prince of the Power of the Air Eplie
lians 2: 2.
Satan, Serpent 2 Corinthians 11: 3.
Strong One Luke 11: 21.
Spirit of Evil Working Fphesians 2: 2.
Tempter 1 Thessaloma.is 5: 8.
Notorious criminals nave a certain num
ber of aliases by which they are known to
Iheir partners in crime. They rear cer
tain names because they have committed
iertain things, so nil t'lev.' names ni'r.m
lomething; as they are ai'piied to tho
Ic-vil cacti name is (Umpi ip-.ivo of his dis
position, energy md power.
He is Apollyon because he is s destrover.
He is Abaddon rccanso be is destruction
itself.
The Man Murderer because he is the as
lassin of the Race.
The Great Red Dragon because of his
blondthirstiness.
The Serpent became o! his craftiness.
The Tempter because he is a deceiv -r.
Some years ago in the city of Philadel
phia there stood outsils of one of the sa
loons a woman clad in rags, who once had
lived in one of the best homes in that
:ity. She had a little baby in her arms
ind an older child wis tugging at hrr
tkirts. She rapped upon the door and
a hen it was opened she said, "I want my
v,nnband." The 'nuband was called cut.
We bad once bcsT of jrM'. reputation, a
ran of real talen, had provided for his
Bite and children all tint money could
iuy, nnd, now he is shorn of everything
except the merest smolin:e of manhood,
"What do you want?" he said, with an
Diith, and she answered, "1 wiint vou to
:cme home; the children have had nothing
l cat nnd they are crying, and 1 want
vou," and the man who hac1 sworn to love
nd rare f.jr her drew back his fist and
struck her. The baby fell from her arms,
the elder child ran shriekin r from her side.
Is he not a destroyer wilh such a picture
as this in your mind, and this is but one
cif the multitude. His names ure enough
to terrify us, so that we would, while we
may, escape from sin.
III.
His Personality. I know it ib true that
very many people scout the idea of a per
sonal devil, but tho following statement
has been made by a most distinguished
Bible scholar, namely, "Every attitude.
quality, action, walk and sign which can in
dicate personality has been predicated of
the devil ana cannot be explained away.
The argument that would rob the devil of
his personality would rob God of His, and
if as men say, thess attributes simply
mean the principle of evil then on tha
same nround of interpretation the Bible
may mean anything or nothing."
IV.
Just v word or two about his work. He
begins in a very slow way and bis influ
ence is most insidious.
As a fisherman, when he has a great fish
on his hook, lets out the line, so that the
Fish may swallow down the hook, and be
more surely caught, even so the devil,
when he has a poor sinner upon his hook,
does not, at the first, treat him roughly,
but stretches out his rod, line and all, that
he may make the surer of him, and hold
him the faster.
Not long ago in the Tombs a man who
had been a brilliant lawyer awoke from a
itupor of dava, and shaking the door de
manded of those who came to answer his
summon) why ho was there. They told
aim on the charge of murder. "For God's
lake," he said, "do not send the word
home; at least, do not let ray wife know,
lor it will kill her," and they told him that
It was his wife he had killed. I have
s-ritten these few words concerning one
vim can take a man with brightest future
ind greatest reputation, and make him a
nurderer of his own home's joy. This is
'lis work,
V.
. Uis Doom. Ho may be overcome in the
Vew Testament. We read, "Resist the
levil ond he will flee from you." Jesus
lid this and when the devil tempted Him
He said, "It is written," and then, "It is
vrittcn again." There is but one weapon
'hat can make him afraid, and that is the
iword of the Spirit, which is the sword of
3od.
There is a legend of Luther that during a
lerious illness the evil one seemed to enter
lis sick room, and looking at him with a
riumphant smile unrolled a vast roll which
le curried in bis arms. As the fiend
;hrev one end of it on the floor nnd it
inwound itself with the impetus he had
iven it Luther's eyes were fixed on it,
ind to his consternation he read there
lie long and fearful record of bis own
lins, clearly and distinctly enumerated.
That stout heart quailed before that'
diastly roll. Suddenly it flashed into hi)
nind that there was something not writ
en there. He said aloud, "One thing you
lave forgotten: the rest is all true, but
me thing you nave forgotten, 'The blood
if Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from
ill sin.' " As ho said this the "Accuser of
die trretliren" and his heavy roll of "la
nentution and mourning and woe" disap
peared together.
If you would know his final doom you
Save but to turn to Revelation tha 20th
;hapter and read the first three verses.
"And I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his hand. And he
laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent,,
which is the devil and Satan, and bound
him a thousand years. And cast him into
the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and
set a seal upon him that he should deceive
the nations no more till the thousand years
should be fulfilled, and after that he must
be loosed a little season."
From such a too as this may God deliver
US now. .
Big Fish Jumps Into Skiff.
While Ira Russell and Miss Helen
Plumb were out trolling at Hopklna
Point on the St. Lawrence river, near
Baltimore, recently a large sturgeon
suddenly Jumped into their skiff and
nearly capsized It The boat, being
an extremely light one, without ribs,
cracked under the weight of the big
Dsn, which floundered from one end
of the craft to the other. Mr. Russell
In trying to kill the fish with one ot
the oars, accidentally broke a bole
through the skiff and It began to fill
rapidly with water.
Their only salvation then was to
reach shore before the boat could go
down. Tbey had nothing with which
to ball out the water, but Miss
Plumb, alive to the desperate situa
tion, removed one of her shoes and
balled out the skiff, whllo Mr. Russell
pulled for the shore. They reached
shallow water before their boat aank.
The Bturgeon measured four feet six
Inches In length .and weighed forty
four pounds.
- And to think that Chicago hat an
antl-klsslng club", Oh, CMcagoi,
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lesson Comments For
October 12.
Subject: Crossing the Jordan, Josh: III., I to
lv., 7 Oolden Text, Isa. xlHI., 2-Mcmor'y
Verses, 15-17 Commentary on the
Day's Lesion.
9. "Hear the words." It seems that the
Israelites had no intimation how they were
to cross the river till shortly before the
event. The address of Joshua, taken in
connection with the miraculous result ex
actly as he had described it, would tend
to increase and confirm their faith in God.
10. "The living God." This full asaui
anca of the presence of the only true God
nuiuug mem would encourage mem against
fear at sight of what might appear to bs
danger. In the land where they, wers
, ...... .!, . , l, . ... : i K . . 1 ,1 .
whose gods were only wood and stone,
but they were to have a living God, who
could give life or take it, and He would
how, by the wonderful miracle, that He
foulcl defend His people. "Without fail."
his was a strong promise, but even this
was not unconditional. See last lesson,
"When man fails God refuses." "Drive
out." A list of Bcvcn tribes that inhabited
the land now follows. Some of them were
powerful. There were formidable leagues
of chiefs and kings, organized armies with
giants among them, warhorses and iron
chariots, strong stone fortresses, in a
country possessed by those who knew
every foot of it. At tho same time, we
loam from tho monuments lately discov
ered that probably at this time they had
been greatly weakened by Egyptian con
quest, and there was some such prepara
tion for the Israelites os there was among
the Indians when the Pilgrims came over
to New England. "Canaanites." Or "low
Inndcrs," who inhabited the seacoast and
western bank of the Jordan. But this
term is often used to include all the tribes
here mentioned. "Hittitcs." These were
descendants from Hcth and wcro settled in
and around Hebron. 23: 10, 20. "Amor
ites." The mountaineer, the largest and
moat powerful tribe of all. Their name is
sometimes taken to include all the Canaan
ltish tribes.
11. "Ark of the Covenant." This was
the sacred chest which contained the tables
of the law, a pot of manna and Aaron's
rod that budded. Heb. 9: 4. It was the
symbol of Jehovah's presence. "Passeth
over netore you." Ihe ark was carried on
the shoulders of the priests nearly three
quarters of a mile in advance of the people.
12. "Twelve men." These men wore to
lake memorial stonos-from the river as
described Inter on.
13. "The priests that bear the nrk." On
ordinary occasions the I.evites of the house
of Kohath, by special command, bore the
ark. But when removed from within the
veil, or when borne on festive occasions of
extraordinary interest, the priests, the off
spring of Aaron, were the bearers.
14. "When the people removed." This
was on the 10th d iv of Ahib or Nis.m, tho
same month in which they departed from
Egypt.
l.". "Feet.... were dipped, " etc. The
priests proceeded first with the ark, nnd
entered into the bed cx" the river, the
course of which was immediately arrested
the waters collecting above the place where
the priests stood, while the stream fell off
toward the Dead Sea, so that the whole
channel below where tho priests were
standing became dry. What strong faith
hey had m God. When they crossed
through the sea the ground was made dry
uctore they advanced, but now they start
'J. mlir,ch ,vhi,e mighty river is
still rolling between them and Canaan.
A 1 his banks." The Jordan bad two
nd in some places three banks. At its
Hood it overflowed the first and second
panks and covered the whole space between
the terraces formed by the second and
third banks. Ihe waters on each side
aoiild be comparatively shallow. Here the
priests were to stand or rest in tho shoal
water on the eastern hank until the waves
receded, and the river's channel was made
bare; then they advanced in the midst of
:no channel and there stood until all the
people had crossed. This was the barley
harvest which was several weeks earlier
than the wheat harvest. The reason for
ihe overflow at this time instead of the
winter, which in that latitude is the rainy
jeason, is because the snow in the Lebanon
mountains melts with the increasing heat
5f summer.
,,.1.8- "Adam....Zaretnn." See R. V
J here these cities were is not known, but
hey must have been up the river. Adam
has been placed by different writers all
he way from fifteen to fifty miles above
.he place where the Israelites crossed tho
Jordan. There aro many opinions as to
tne manner in which this stupendous mir
icie was performed. Some think the water
was heaped up many miles owav and that
the river bed wos dry as far as the eye
:OU d ace. Ill I. era IV. ,-..!. . 1... i. .I . r ' .
P contrary direction to the current
jnd that the waters were distributed over
he adjacent country towards the sea of
l 1 1' i T1.'f salt sea' , Tlie J-'"1 S.
Jailed also the sea of the plain. It is
Slear, but its waters are strongly tinctured
with salt. "Right against Jericho." An
nstance of their boldness, and a noble
ienance of their enemies. Jericho was
ne of the strongest cities, and yet they
,1 ? ..t. faoe " at their m'st entrunre.
17. Dry ground." Not hard and dusty
wound, but dry only in the sense of being
iramed of water. See chap. 4: 18. "Clean
ver Jordan. The forty years of struggle
ind trial ore over, and the people stupid
(or the first time on their own possessions.
1. All the people." All the people of
the nine and a half tribes that we're to
locate on the west of Jordan, and forty
housand picked soldiers of the two and a
half tribes that had located on the east
of Jordan. '
2. "Twelve men." These men were
chosen before the crossing. See 8: 12.
3-5. "Twelve stones," etc. The twelve
ihosen men each took a stone from the
river-bottom where the priests had stood,
ind carried them to Gilgal, where their
orst encampment in Canaan was located.
0. ' A sign, etc.. This accomplished two
purposes: 1 The preservation of national
history and religious knowledge. 2. Tho
religious education of tho young. Object
teaching, which has recently been brought
forward in tho art of educatiou, is hero
introduced as a method of instruction by
Ood Himself. By the presentation of vis
ible object to the eye, divine truth may
be most vividly photographed upon tha
loul.
7. "These stones.... memorial." The
erection of huge piles of stones as monu
ments of remarkable incidents his been
common among all people. They aro the
nieans of perpetuating the memory of
important transactions. Those twelve
stones were to be a standing record of the
miraculous jpassae of the Jordan,
Pugilists at Coronation.
A week before the coronation of
George IV., in 1821, a famous pugilist,
known as "Gentleman" Jackson, act
lng under Instructions from the earl
marshal's office, was busily engaged
In beating up fighting men for a pecu
liar purpose. That was to keep In
.check the supporters of Queen Caro
line, who was threatening to create a
disturbance outside of Westmlnstei
abbey. Jackson's auxiliaries, twentj
,tn number, were attired as king's
pages, and were stuck about tho ab
bey gate. Their appearance was tjult
sufficient; not one of the aggrieved
queen's sympathizer ventured to gc
near them. . One waa John Gu'ly, who
was In turn prise fighter, racing man,
colliery proprietor and meoiber of pap
lament
'
-
Perhaps the reason a woman does-
n't keep a secret ia because she's
afraid soma other woman will tell it
firet.
Whirs Are tha Pennlea?
' Somewhere in the world there are
. lift nnn nod htir fnn-inr minnliu Imt fin.
body appears to know where they are. )
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
October 12 "Fruitful or Fruitless." John xv,
1-4, 16; Mark xl. 12-U.
Scripture Verses. Ia xlvlll. 10; 1
Vvt. I. 7, 9; Horn. vlll. 28; 1 Cor. 111. 8,
13; 2 Cor. iv. 17; Heb. xii. 11; 1 Thes.
I. 3; Matt. zl. 28; Ps. 1. 15, 1C; Matt,
vll. 17.
Lesson Thoughts.
Have you any doubts of your true
connection with Jesus Christ? Your
own life must answer. He Is the true
vine, and If you are a true branch you
will be bearing fruit. This Is the test;
then ask yourself if you are bearing
the fruits of the Holy Spirit love, Joy,
peace, long suffering, gentleness,
inpkness, temperance.
Without Christ we can no more bear
good fruit than the branch separated
from the vine can bring to maturity
the luscious grapes; nay, even the
fruit It already bears must wither and
die when it leaves the vine and de
pends upon itself for nourishment and
strength.
Selections.
There Is a counterfeit olive tree in
Palestine. It is called the wild olive,
or the oleaster. It is in all points like
the genuine tree, except that It yields
no fruit. Alas! how many wild olives
are there In the church! When I see
a man taking up large space in
Christ's spiritual orchard, and ab
sorbing a vast deal of sunlight and
soil, and yielding no fruit, I Bay, "Ah!
there Is nn oleaster!"
If a tree is not growing. It is sure
In the long run to be dying. And so
are our souls. If they are not grow
ing, they are dying; It they are not
getting better, they are getting worse.
This is why the Dible compares our
solrs to trees; not out of a more
pretty fancy to poetry, but for a great,
awful, deep, world-wide lesson, that
every tree In the fields may be a pat
tern, a warning to us thoughtless
men, that as that tree Is meant to
grow, so our souls are meant to grow.
As that tree dies unless it grows, so
our souls must die unless they grow.
Nature abhors sterility. From the
humid climate and fertile soil of the
tropics, to the ragged lava-fields and
frigid atmosphere of higher latitudes,
we find the garments of vegetation
covering all. This teaches the lesson
of Christian faithfulness and progress.
Suggested Hymns.
, True-hearted, whole-hearted.
Work, for the time Is flying.
Hark! tho voice of Jesus crying.
Nothing but leaves.
Ho! reapers of life's harvest.
Work, for tho night is coming.
EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS.
October 12 Fruitful or Fruitless John 15. 1-8,
16; Mark II, 12-14.
This lesson Is the familiar descrip
tion of the Vine and the Branches,
nnd the rebuking of the barren fig
tree by tho Master. No relation Is
more vital and intimate than that of
the branch to the tree. Every be
liever Is "In" Christ Jesus, and re
ceives his life and power to bear fruit
from him. Each fruitless branch is
"taken away," the union between the
two Is severed. Each fruitful branch
Is "purged," that Is, pruned and
cleansed, that It may bring forth more
and better fruit. Tho unconditional
abiding of the believer "In Christ" is
the absoluto essential for fruitfulness.
The action of Jesus In the case of the
barren fig tree Is a striking object
lesson as to the results of profession
without fruit.
Both the parable that Jesus spoke
and tho action he took In withering
the' barren fig tree are suggestive of
some lessons ot Importance. Both
are a typo of the individual Christian.
The fig tree was not an accidental
growth. It was planted for tho pur
pose of bringing forth fruit. We are
not In the Church and kingdom by
chance. We have been converted In
order to "bring forth fruit." God has
a design In each life.
When Jesus saw loaves on the fig
tree he had reason to look for fruit
When we make a profession of re
ligion men have a right to expect
fruit. "By their fruits ye shall know
them." Alas! have we In our lives
"nothing but leaves?" Have we lost
connection with Jesus? He said, "He
that abldeth In me brlngoth
forth much fruit." Frultlessness Is a
sign of disconnection with Christ.
"No man eat fruit of thee hereafter
forever." This is .the sentence that
should In all Justice be uttered against
every fruitless Christian. Fruit trees
are of llttlo value for shade, they are
to hear fruit. Christians have abso
lutely no value only as they bring
forth fruit to the glory of God. The
longer a tree stands fruitless the
greater the waste of the space It oc
cupies. God doea not Immediately cut
off every fruitless branch. He cornea
by his Spirit; he sends revival and op
portunity; he bears long and patiently
with us; but finally, if obdurate and
fruitless to the end, we are "taken
away." How long will you test tha
long-suffering of God?
There Is only one cure for spiritual
barrenness and frultlessness. The
Bevered connection with Christ must
ho healed. - The branch must abide In
the vine. The soul must be In touch
and harmony with Christ. Keep the
divine life in the soul, and easily and
naturally the life will be fruitful. Am
1 really abiding "In Christ?" Do others
get the Impression that I am a real
and consistent Christian? Have I
been Instrumental in leading a soul to
Christ this year? Is there a percep
tible Increase in my spiritual life and
active service? Am I satisfied with
"services," or am I really engaged In
the "service" of Christ? Have I fruit
hi my life, or am I bringing forth
"nothing but leaves?"
RAM'S HORN BLASTS
HE tree of knowl
edge ia not the tree
of life.
The sanctified
church will not be
self-satisfied.
When the devil
Ives you a dime
aang on to your dol
lar. IV Yi The heart la only
f sT? clean when it is
EA?''j' wholly clean.
God may break
our hopes but not our hearts.
Fisher for souls need big sinkers of
sacrifice.
"The weeping religion Is seldom a
working one.
You cannot make an enemy without
loBlng a friend.
Sympathy for others is a slave for
our own sorrows.
The registers of heaven are not
copied from the records of earth,
The value of Christ muy be measured
by the things lie crowila out of our
lives.
-fc. art
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Poeim Bs Ye "loner The Series nt Jokes
Perpetrated or ins Tmx .......
Is as Old the DUeovery of How to IC
tract Murder and Insanity From Grain.
"P.e ve sober!" if ye covet
Healthy doys and peaceful nights.
Strong drink warpt-th those who love it,
i..?..,l 1 .,ht.
1UIU FttU UW4 i-t. . B.-----
"He y sober!" checks grow haggard,
V,w. him rlim nnri nillftP title blood
Euns too fast or crumbleth lagnard
When there s poison in tne noou.
fchnn the "dram" that can but darken,
When its vapor gleam has fled,
T?cjon says and ye mint barken,
"Lessened drink brings double bread.
rhnngh your rulers may neglect ye,
"He ye sober!" in your strength!
ml thev mtit and shall respect ye
And the light shall dawn at length.
Rut let none cry out for freedom.
With a loud and feverish breath;
While they let a foul cup lead theni
To the slavery of death.
Eliza Cook.
The Whisky Pevll's Very Good Joke.
You will remember the policeman who
killed his wife, and afterward said, full of
remorse:
"It was the devil's joke. Whisky did it.
She was the best woman that ever lived.
The devil's whisky jokes did not stop at
thi i)liccman's crime, or begin with it.
That series of jokes is as old as man s
discovery of the fact that it is possible by
fermentation to extract murder and insan
ity from grain.
The Kev. Sam Small for many years
has mnde a specialty of lecturing in favor
of temperance.
Recently he nppeared in Vermont, en
deavored to speak, collapsed on the plat
form and afterward confessed:
"I was drunk."
This was considered an excellent joke by
many. It was thought very funny and
amusing that a clergyman who had all his
life been preaching against drink should
apnear drunk before a gathering of tem
perate, earnest men and women-.
It was a good joke of the whisky devil s
kind.
Hut in the humiliation of this unfortu
nate man, and in the distress of his au
dience, there was a lesson for a great many
other men, as well as a good whisky dev
il's joke.
In the plight of the drunken clergyman
there was no reason for humiliation on the
part of those who advocate temperance.
On the contrary, there is double proof of
the need of such preaching as theirs.
If whisky is strong enough to win such &
victory if whisky can bring so good a joke
to a successful climax it shows the power
that resides in whisky and its hold over
human beings.
There have been few better whisky jokes
than the collapse of the Rev. .Sam Small
there have been no more powerful tem
perance sermons than that same collapse
of a mon helpless to resist when he knew
so well tho inevitable result. New York
American and Journal.
Brief Truths Abont Alcohol.
We might thus summarize the truths
about nlcohol taken as a beverage in
health, in varying quantities, from physio
logical moderation to excess:
1. Alcohol is a poisonous drug, whoso
special action in the body is a brain cell
paralysant, destroying these cells in the
inverse order of their development.
2. Alcohol dinturbs the circulation,
leading to a loss of body temperature and
an accumulation of waste products in the
blood, accompanied by great depression
and muscular weakness.
3. Alcohol tends to produce in all. pro
portionate to the quantity taken, cirrhotic
disease of all the tissues and organs of the
body.
4. Alcohol tends to produce on irresist
ible craving for itself.
5. Alcohol predisposes to all infectious
and many organic diseases.
6. Alcohol diminishes the chances of
recovery in those attacked with any dis
ease, other than those resulting from its
use.
7. Alcohol increases the sick rato and
shortens life.
8. Alcohol predisposes to consumption
and all tubercular diseases.
9. Alcohol increases lunacy nnd crime.
10. Alcohol is absolutely unnecessary to
health.
11. tAlcnhol promotes hemorrhage and
does not check it.
12. Alcohol adds no muscular strength
to the body; at r.iost it encourages the
expenditure of its force in the shortest
possiblo time.
If these are the true facts about alco
hol taken as a beverage in health, we are,
as medical men, individually and collec
tively, in duty and in honor bound to
make them known to the public, over
whoso health we pretend to preside.
A Pitiable Wreck.
In Washington a dozen years ago there
lived a beautiful und spirited girl, the
daughter of a distinguished soldier. Her
wedding was a fashionable event. Every
thing seemed to give promise of a happy
life a loving husband, fond parents, many
friends, money in plenty und an assured
social position.
On Tuesday last this girl was admitted
to Uellevue Hospitul, broken in health,
enfeebled in mind, meanly clothed, her
beauty gone, as pathetic a wreck as ever
drifted onto charity's shore.
In the intervening years the father died
of a broken heart, the husband procured
a divorce, friend after friend fell away.
The girl went upon the stage, and would
have succeeded there but for one cause
the cause that has ruined herself and
spread grief and shame among those who
loved nnd did their utmost to save her.
Drink, of course a passion for the poi
son which she could not, or would not, re
sist. With intelligence to understand per
fectly the terrible consequences to herself
of succumbing to the appetite, this wom
an yielded until it has become a fiendish
master, not to be disobeyed. For the
gratification of her appetite she has paid
with nil that makes life worth living, and
to-day is a broken and hopeless outcast,
capable of suffering the keenest misery,
but incapable of self-restraint when the
drink devil tempts her.
There is a temperance lesson for you.
Thero is a warning to the young and
heedless and pleasure-loving who play
with this hell's tire, which can burn out
everything that is manly in a man and
womanly in a woman. Editorial in the
New York Evening Journal.
The Crouds In Brier.
If you lift the veil where strong drtnlt Js,
misery of some kind is sure to be on view.
An athlete in perfect condition is made
drunk by an extremely small amount of al
cohol. It is the intention to drive out all mod
erate drinkers from the German railway
service.
The Ministerial Association of Ashland,
Wis., comprising the heads of the sixteen
churches of the city, has decided to make
a united effort to suppress the running of
saloons and other places of business on
Sunday. ,
The Anti-Saloon League of Indiana boa
undertaken to close 100 saloons in Indiana
this month by means of remonstrances
against applicants for licenses.
M. De Tera, general director -of the
German railroads, has announced that an
embargo will be placed on all employes on
the railroads who are not total abstainers,
and all such persons will be discharged at
the earliest possible moment.
The Anti-Saloon League of Tennessee
reports a State membership of 20,000. Tho
leaders of the k-ague have secured from
the Internal Revenue Collector's office sta
tistics regarding the holders of Govern
ment liccnue in several "dry" towns and
promise to take some actum lnnkinir 1,1
1 the suppression of the persons holding
such uccuscs.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review o(
trads says: "Notwithstanding the dis
arranged money market, almost a fuel
famine, and some damage to crops, in
dustrial and commercial activity con
tinues unabated, and the magnitude of
plans for the future indicates that con
fidence has not been shaken. Scarcity
of funds has thus far caused no hard
ship, except to speculators, and the
stringency will remedy itself by con
tracting loans on stock exchange col
lateral, together with such aid as may
be offered by the Treasury, which is
partly responsible through absorption
of funds. Injury to cropi by frost has
no more than onset the increased acre
age, while high prices fully compen
sate producers. It is not time for pes
simism, although securities have declin
ed sharply. Railway earnings for Sep
tember thus far exceed last year's by
6.8 per cent, and those ol 1900 by 16.5
per cent.
"Pressure in the iron and steel in
dustry has been somewhat alleviated
by larger receipts of coke and liberal
imports of pig iron, yet the outlook
is by no means devoid of unfavorable
fcaf.ires.
"More steel rail orders have been
placed abroad. Needs for structural
shapes are increasing, much work be
ing held back by slow shipments, and
orders are reported for delivery nearly
two years hence. In an effort to pro
vide adequate transporting facilities,
the railways are purchasing liberally of
rolling stock and other equipment, and
great improvements in terminal meth
ods are planned.
"Although cotton goods are firml)
Iicld. the market is quiet, as buyers are
content to take only such quantities ai
arc needed for immediate distribution.
The situation is not satisfactory fot
producers, owing to the high price ol
raw material, but the attitude of pur
chasers of goods indicates that the)
do not consider the present position ol
raw cotton one that can be sustained
"Failures for the week numbered
807 in the United States, against 22;
iast year, and 32 in Canada, against 3,
a year ago."
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour Spring clonr, 1 10u3.30; best
Patent, t4.50; choice Family, 13.75.
Wheat New York No. 2. 73Kc:
Philadelphia No 2, T2XTMci Baltimort
No 2, 72o.
Corn-Now York No. 2, 72c; Phila
delphia No. 2. 09uG9M; Baltimore No. 2,
60c.
Onto New York No. 2. 33o; Pliila
dolphia No. 2, 3Go; Baltimore No 2,
34o.
Hay No. 1 timothy, l(5.OOalG.50;
No. 2 timothy. tl5.50alG.00; No. 3 tim
othy tl4.OOal5.0O
Green Fruits nnd Vegetables Apples
per brl, fancy 85c $1 00; fair to good
1or brl, 5()c3G."c; Boots, nntlve, per
unch lcSlVSc; Cabbages, native, flat
dutch, per 100, 1 001 50; Celery, per
doz. 2&c340c; Eggplants, native, per
100, $1 001 25; Grnpos, Rappahannock,
per 10-lb buskot, 12c14o, do, Western
Maryland, por 5-B basket, 12c3Ho;
Lettuce, native, per bu box, 30c40o.
Lima beans, native, per bu box, 50
GOc; Onions, Muryland nnd Pennsylva
nia yellow, per bu, 65c75c; Pumpkins,
native, each, 4c5c; Squash, Anne
Aiuudel, per basket, 10c15c; String
beans, nativo, por bu, green, 25ca30o;
Tomatoes, Potomac, per peach basket,
22ca27o, Happuhaunock, bur bu box,
35cffi40c;
Potatoes, Trimes, per brl, No 1,
U 25al 40; do, seconds, 75:i80o; do,
culls, 50aGOo; do, Eastnrn Shoro, per
brl, N 1, $1 25nl 40.
Butter, Separator, 23a24c; Gathered
croam, 21u22u: prints, 1-lb 25a2Gc; Rolls,
2-lb, 25a26; bairy pts. Md., Pa., Va.,
23a24o.
Eggs, Fresh-laid eggs, por dozen,
21n22a
Cheese, Large, 60-lb, HJtulic; me
dium, 8G-lb, 12al2.V: plonicj, 23-lb
UXaUSo.
Live Poultry, Hens, 12al2H'o; old
roosters, each 25a30c; spring chickens,
13al4o, youug stags, llullHo. Duoks
llalJo.
Hides, Heavy steers, association and
salters, late kill, GO-lbs and up, close se
lection, 12al3j4c; cows and light stoers
9?4'alO;o.
Provisions and Hog .Products. Bulk
clear rib sides, 12c; bulk shoulders,
llo; bulk bellies, 13o; bulk ham butts,
10io; bacon clour rib sides, 12c: baoon
shoulders, 12c; sugar-cured breasts,
15Kc; sugar-cured shoulders, 12c;
Bugar-ourecf California hams, 10c;
bams canrasnd or uueanvasod, 13 lbs.
and over, 14c; refined lard tierces, brls
and 50 lb cans, gross, ll.Vc; refined lard,
second-hand tubs, llXo; refined lard,
hulf-barrols and new tubs, II40.
Live Stock.
Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 10al5o lower,
good to prime steers $7 60a8 50; medium
$4 00u7 00; stockers and feoders $2 50
a5 00; cows, II 50a4 50; heifers $2 25a
b 75; Texas-fed steers $3 00u4 50. Hogs,
Mixed and butchers $7 25a7 85; good to
choice, heavy $7 55j7 90; Sheep, sheep
and lambs slow to lower; good to choice
whethers $3 60n4 10; Western shoep
1 1 00a5 35.
East Liberty, Cattle steady; cboloe
$7 10a7 25; prime $G 25nG 7o. Hogs,
prime heavy 7 90u8 00, mediums 7 80;
heavy Yorkers 7 65a7 75. Sheep steady,
Best wethers 14 75u4 00 culls uud omn
mon $1 50n2 00; choice lambs 5 24a5 40.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Creston (Iowa) printers have organ
ized.' Freeport (111.) bakers have formed
a union.
Perchers (cloth examiners) at Law
rence, Mass., have organised a Union.
San Francisco Newsboys' Union has
voted $25 to the striking anthracite
miners.
New York cloakmakers are trying
to raise $50,000 to start a co-operative
factory.
Seventy-five new unions of street
railway employes were organized dur
ing the past year.
A new wage schedule adopted by tha
Amalgamated Meatcutters and Work
men throughout the Middle West and
East gives all members an increase of
25 cents a day.
Five hundred machinists employed in
the various shops of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railroad system
have been granted an increase in wages
averaging 30 cents a day.
Gravediggeri at West Seneca, N.
Y., have demanded an increase from
$37.50 to $40 a month and the elimina
tion of Sunday funerals.
California has made the eight-horn
workday the legal workday, lv a tesi
case before the State Supreme Court
the law was declared valid.
Coal mines at Calvrrt, Texas, hav
been closed down as a result of com
petition from oil and a cessation of tht
contract for convict labor.
The Northwestern Railroad Com
pany is experimenting with Sioux In
dians as laborers on the Elkhorn line
in Northwestern
rilE RELI0I0US LIFE
READING FOR THE QUIET HOUM
WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.
Poem. Me VflM Direct All Thy. Fat-
Public Worship Is Often Dlsppl"
Recanna W H.t. Failed to WJt
God Why Henrts Are Oft Wery.
'Tis written on the sacred pane.
Nor leaves one path uncertain,
Until before life wondrous stage
Death's hand has dropt the curtain...
Not only where the way is dsrk
And storm-clouds thickest lower,
Your lonely path you scarce may mark, .
And manifold the tempter's power;
As well in times of peace and calm.
Through blinsful days you tarry
Benea.h the shade o Elim's plm
Nor care nor burthen carry;
As well bv Marah's bitter stresm;
Thv soul submerged in sorrow;
And "life for you a litl'ui dream.
Nor ray of hope you borrow!
Yea. all thy paths, through all thy days,-
That in the promise given
Or bright, or sad, by devious ways.
The journey through to heaven.
Emma Louisa Tallman. 1
The Secret Springs.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into!
thy clooet, and when tnou bant shut thy
door, nr.iv to thy Father which is in
cret. Matt. 6: 6.
1'iililie practice depends on private pray
er. There i no river without some source,
no effect without some caune, and no fruit
where men can see except there be roots?
that cannot be seen. There can be no holi
ness without, except there be heavenlines
within. Secret prayer is the necret of all
power. What is more difficult or disap
pointing than the effort to umilc when tn
heart is sad! Yet even this is not sa
fruitless'as the attempt to produce charac
ter before men without communion before)
God.
Christian character is not an excres
ence; it is a manifestation. You cannot
create the brilliance of the electric light
by rubbing the globe or even by turninn
on the switch if the dynamo is not work
ing. Few think about that machine tat
distant in the power-house, but if all for
got it the city would be in darkness. Yet,
my soul, how often hast thou forgotten
the se -ret of power, the source of Chris
tian illumination, and then going out to
be a light to others there has been noth
ing but darkness, disappointment, failure.
How often, too, has thou asked, now how
may I appear at my best before men, fw
getting that the impression we create de
pends wholly on the impressions we hare
ourselves received. Moral nnd spiritual
power must be intensive before it can b
extensive.
Public worship is often disappointing,
because we have failed to wait on Goi
Better, if time presses, to forego the for
mer than to neglect the latter. How can
we hope to enter into the spirit of tha
service if we have not prepared oue
hearts, if we have not sought to tune up
the soul, all run down and weary with
the world's work, before coming to the
place of praise. The spirit of the pew
needs preparation as much as the sermon
of the preacher.
What wonder that our hearts are often
wearv if we give them no heavenly food,
Surely if the soul is more than the body
it should have its meals at least as regu
larly. Xeglcct of the inner life ia tha
cauc of outer failure. We look on lives;
that nrp gloomy, spirits broken, all the
glad light gone out of some eves, lives)
that seem leaden, nnd what is the cause!
Not that their way has been unusually
dark, but that they have neglected the in
ner light. These sad hearts come because
the hidden roots do not reach the refresh
ing river of God. because they have been
living out without letting in.
How many days are fretful, full of exas
perations, when it seems that even tho
most trivial things cause us to lose our
balance. We are vexed and ashamed ot
ourselves. We had forgotten that grasp
of the spirit on God. that constant touch
and communion with Him that gives'
strength and calm to the soul.
It is well to remember, too, that to ha
in the secret of His presence is possible
not only in thp brief time that we can
spend in the closet and alone, but is as
easilv possible all the day, through it
rushing hours, surrounded by friends oc
beset with foes. God is ever near the as
piring heart and the out-reaching soul
finds Him and draws new strength, new
calm, new life and beauty from those se
cret sources of spiritual strensJ Henry
1'. Cope, in the Dam's Horn.
Character.
Character is your real self, the essence
of life, i.011 cannot stop its progress for
. t, uiin-3 you siop me itseit.
Hence how necessary it becomes that we
nuu 10 cnaractcr all that shall make it
....... (....I. Hi, llmt euau maKe 11 s
QTanri. irtoriniis flnrl v,M,1a a.nlA J -i
- . : . c .....- .snijiir, aim
ol
.. HIIVI.-IS cicn miau reinioft nv,p.
Lharactcr is made from a variety of mi
ecu buuu rcioice over.
im..uii.M, itui me proauer os
ol
..iic an. r.ven rue smallest act adds ot
detracts something, be it little or great,
from the noble structure. There are many
stones in the arch of character, such as
faith, knowledge, goodness, power, pa
tience, meekness, etc., hut the keystone
must be love. This is the motive which!
runs as a golden thread, and as the beau
tiful arcb spans the river over which youj
may cross in safety, so the beautiful arcbi
of character is the span between this life
and the next, over which wo may cross ia.
safety. W. II. Morehouse.
Manual Morsels.
We should never be satisfied with- trar
attainments, but should ever press on
The way to make progress is to forgctf
the things which are behind, and stretch
Fnpw-iir.1 tl.;... l.r
We never reach the li;t F r,rui
v ...nigs uciure.
ffrr.wth
godward. No matter how high we
clirnh lienvAi, l-.u.. n l ...
n- . , I am.ve uh.
1 rue growth is growth in patience, in
long sunerin. tn peace, in love, in gentle-ne-s,
in the spirit of helpfulness, in sub
niisaion to the will of God.
Some Christians seem to think it unrea
orinh), fhnfr lU, l...i.i 1... ...
" "uiu uis expected to
grow- Ihey try to shirk new duties; they
want to stay just where they are. The re
sult is inevitably that they go backward
and decay takes the nlace of growth
Ihcre is no place where wo cannot grow
for God. We see t rets striking their-root,
into the clefts of rocks; we see blades of
grass coming up between the stones of
the pavement. U there no lesson for n
u such determined growth?
To Extend,
This country is bounden to extend the
Kingdom of Jesus Christ, both in its own
borders and throughout the world.-The,
Rev. Dr. Wyhe, New York. .
"Show Him Toar ringers."
A suggestive story is that of a poor
woman, who by reason of need, was kept
from many a service for her Maater
which she thought He might require at
her hands, and she was dying. She waa
saying to her young daughter who stood
near the bed that she regretted her fruit
less life; she was wishing that she might
have more to show the Master when she
met Him face to face. "Mother," sobbed'
the daughter, "allow Him your fingers
SViV "I "ve,i the work
of her hands, but she was to be blessed
by the ministry of those hands!
American Shipbuilding. ,
During the fiscal year ended with
Juno, 1,657 vessels, ot -473,881 gross
tons, were launched " In th United
Statas. as compare with 1,709 veasela.
of 489,616 tons, la 1901. The decrease
ia lu sailing vessels, canalboats,
barges, etc.
Chairs Used by Royalty.
Two oak chairs made for tho ua of.
the king aud queen of England when
they visited Mlddleabrougb, In 1899,'
have just boon sold for 4 En tacb.