"A GREAT VICTORY." Sunday Dlst;urne by Dr. Chapman, the Noted Pastor Evangelist. Tk Sool'i Deep Leaflet Alter Ood Faith WIH Coogsjr la thj Eli Ood It Oar Strength sad Life. New York Otv. The Rev. Pr.J. Wil bur Chapman has furnished to the prM a most striking 1ind popular sermon which it intended for all those who would rise to better things.' It is entitled "A Great .Victory," and ' preached from the texts: "As trie hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God." l'salm 42: 1. "Hope in Ood, for I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance." l'salm 43: fi. i The first verse is a lamentation in the wilderness, the second is a shout of re joicing when victory is won. The terri tory stretching out from the wildernesa in the one text to the presence of God in the other is not only the story of the expe rience of David, nut of the most of Chris tians. My message last week was to those who occasionally fall under juniper trees and want to die; here it is to all who would rise to better things. The l'snlms nre divided into five books, sml the ancient Rabbina say in these live hooks in the Psalter we have the image o( the five books of the law, or in other words a kind of a second pentnteuch, the echo of the first. In the bet God speaks and in the second the voice of the people it heard. God presents Israel with the v, and grateful Israel responds with a shout of praise. Theae two Psalms form the first division of the second book. They are dedicated to the master musi cians or the sona of Horah. They were the celebrated musicians and singers of the day; they were in David's time the keepers of the threshold of the tnbernaelo, and still earlier in the time of Moses they wore watchmen at the entrance of the camp of the Lcvites; they were a part of that band that acknowledged David as leader at Ziklag; they were warriors with lines like lions, and who for speed were like gazelle on the mountains. Mr. Spurgeon says that although David is not mentioned as the author of the.e psalms they must be his, for the truth is so like him. It has the character of his style anil the work of his experience in every letter. I had sooner question the authorship of Hunyan'a second part of the "Pilgrim's Progress" than to question Da vid's right to these psalms. Whoever wrote them hns given a name to the soul's deep longing niter God and made a sigh a niclodious thing. There are three divisions in the psalm, each closing with the refrain, "Why art thou cat down, O my soul?" The whole psalm is the picture of a soul climbing Godward. not without backward slips, but climbing nevertheless, until the sigh of the lirst text gives way to the shout of the second. Perhaps the singer during his exile on the eastern side of Jordan had seen some gentle creature with open mouth and heaving thinks eagerlv seeking water in the dry river bed, and lie saw in this a picture of hinis'f. The who'.c psalm is like what we Ivive seen on some early spring day, when the sun was warm, the sky blue, the trees ready to burst into bud and the bird. were singing, but only for a day, then the clouds returned, the at mosphere was chilled, the birds aj-c all stilled and the sun was under a cloud. Viewed in one way it U a psalm of gloom, in another way it is a psalm of glory. Streaks of brightness arc ever flashing through the gloom. First there is a sigh as of a breaking heart, then comes a word of hope like a rainbow spanning the water fall: once again the contending enemies meet as in verses 8 and It), but finally above it all comes the refrain without a complaint, "I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance." There are. certain expressions most strik ing in the psalm. Three times does David say "Why art thou cast down, O my soul?" as though he were twj men. The psalmist talks to himself. .John Trnpp says it is David chiding David oul of tlie dumps. To search for the cause of corrow is oiten the best surgery for grief. In verse 8 notice the words." "The Lord will command His loving kindness in the day time." No day lias ever dawned in which an heir of grace could be utterly forsaken. In the snino ver-ie we rend "In the night His song shall be with' mo." Affliction may put out our light at times, but if it does not silence our song the light will come again. Verse 3. psalm 42, "Send out Ihy light and truth." These are like an gels to guide him to the object of his af fections, but finally above lill sounds the nutc of victory, "Hope thou in God." This is like the singing of Paul and Silas, it looses chains, uhakes the orison walls und sets the prisoner free. Two graces men. turned in this psalm were used frequently by Christ, hope nnd faith. Faith tells us what Christ bus done; hope tells us what He will do, and hope is like the sun as we Journey toward it : our burden is cast birk of us. Foitfi may have many a struggle with fear, but it will conquer in the end. These two psalms are really one; there is a constant unfolding of expe rience and rising to a higher appreciation -of God. and as faith acquires more strength you will notice that not onlv David but ourselves come to think of God in a differ ent way and address Him in more endear ing terms. There is no better illustration of this than these two psalms. I. '0 God." Debarred from public wor ship David is heart sick. "He is not seek ing ease, he needs God. He is not after comfort, but like a traveler whose water bott,,e is empty and who finds the 'well vi' ,0.ne.niut.bve God or he will faint. hen it is as natural for us to long for God as for an animal to thirst, it is well with our souls. "O God," we bear him saying. It in as if he can scarcely breathe or th rst. He does not know just what tie is needing or just how God would re Yii "lme"' tn ,lim, but he n"t have God. AH unrest or thirst or outgoing of desire J,re. b"t the reaching out of the soul after ,.."e "hall be satisfied only when we hud Him, II. f "Vt Mvm God." My soul thirsletb tor l,od, for the living God. This is an advance upon the lirst expression, and this is Jehovah's name of power. Ancient Israel Was accustomed to use it before everr victory, since it is higher than "O . "',, In the first crv we naturally find it followed with a shout of victory, "I 8111,11 '' praise Him." Hunger and thirst "ft iIm '"8tr,'ment to call us to Him eit. len tn0 predial waa an nun. yeicd ho said, "I will arise." It is a pic jure, of one wn0 lM tried other things in tie world, pleasure, wealth, honor and 1 'e",.t'.ne.oi't, "0 for the living God." , ir .1' ' better than hunger; you may palliate hunger, but thirst is a perpetual appetite, lhe next best thing to being in .V.10,-,1'1" '!f tio'l' lve is to be unhappy until you have it. He is the living God hecause He has lift- i Himself and because lie bestows that life to others. in iex? "'I Appropriation comet Ilf,1!.'' a,Ill,,?ce it is taken it is never th. f 1 '.".'V T"e,e " live "mya" ia tre,m,'h tlV.rd P"1"1! "y cause' "my Goo' hv n,y ly- "y "" ""V until ?U Iuvcr ruaI1y appreciate God and lL U V.ef'n t0 "I'P'y Him ;to your life, iio i i,w i you just whit you wish!' els v loHkeJ sket filled with jew Posscs.Zma!,'V,ve "' casket in your Poci 'i you the Prociousnes. of your koT in ft- 1,u Pve pronoun ia the once to ! Ca9e' "" "en Stand aJiin'T8 grttV,e( it nothing can dan the lT"' you- "vJ "Peaks o! .Tor "an t 2 ",on,M .'" MiW. At Jor, M?r .1 tne,ki"K were defeated near to Ulm to y dilncult ea as great as C. "f ZC""i'S." l"-P tl'e kings, n (!j. ..'",u snail move me, tie is "Oil or It muu 1 I lace. t .i J "can vilttb nun-v i.iiri,c uvid iZ '""nest trom the tabernacle ic i trial .V"- Wh' I am afar off, m mat can be too v., f., , DO , iv. ' u.i of mv iife Ti,:. i. i,..i,. ' lnsv l. I "io wuicu mi letters I ook. , ? V'e.dr a"J wl' reJ " '"a wTll, f i'".1.1 ,hy, "Ve "P- " is so U'tli God, He is tlv-(jod 0j ,liy ife. huJ1 the til . tr,utl1, You notice that toiieth.- expressions are thus nut 4ikV . Vi f "", wl' " learnins; of God is know! i '1,,l'l,e8r,,,ll ' alpiiaboU He it I am forsaken," te 1 mr rslher; Wfiat if I am comfortless. He ia like my mother; what if I am cast down. He is mv re storer; what if I am hopeless and unllone, He ia my hope. j , "Ood my rock." David was a fugitive and had little means of defense. He is continually pursued bv his enemies, and since the country is full of mountains and caves of refuge ar on every side of him they become to him the picture of God. Hercalls Him my rock. The names of God are suited to every circumstance in life. Nothing is more fitting for ns than to get hold of this expression of David's. You will be tempted on every side, the enemy ie too strong for you, but literally David's expression is, "Ood ia my cliff." That is, He rises above the things of this world, nd He wants His children to understand that wherever there is a henrt big with sorrow, wherever there is an eye filled with tears or a lip quivering with agony His ear ia wide open to ail their cries. He marks down every necessity in Hia memory; He will not forsake His own. VI. "God my strength." This means my strength belongs to God, and I must use it only for His glory. He is taking note of all that I do, and one day I shall be called to an account. God rninht if He pleased wrap Himself about with night n n gar ment. He might dwell alone far above this world, and look down with indiffer ence upon the doings of His creatures. We might look up into the heavens anil behold the stars and say, "I am nothing compared with these, nnd God does not enje 'or me," but not so. He notices every one of us. He knows our names, has numbered the hairs of our head, nnd not a sparrow falls to the ground except beneath the gaze of His eye. Whatever wc do or bear or suffer the rye of God is upon us. One of the most interesting pictures in the Louvre is that of Christ with eyes so wonderful that walk which wav yo'n will the gar.e is upon you, and so God is the Ood of my strength nnd one day I must answer to Him for it. VII. "Ood, my exceeding joy." This includes ill that has gone before, and it exceeds alt others, first, in its nature, for it is not happiness, that depends upon circum stances. It is joy of which Dsvid speaks which may be ours, though the night is upon us nnd the burden is really too heavy for us to bear. It exceeds nil others in its duration, for it never ends. This can be soid of no other experience, all others have their boundaries, but this is an illimitable sea renrhing beyond the bonds of time and lasting through eternity.' "f God," this is a soul's crv. "the livinff God " no one else can satisfy. "My God." He is mine, and nothintr can separate me from Him. "God of my life." He will be whatever t long to have Him be. "Ood my rock." lie is my defense in every time of need. "God mv strength." All that I have is His. "God. my exceeding joy." lie is be yond nil that the wo'-ld Can give, nnd when that joy tills the soul earth is changed to heaven. Gave Up All For lirlst. There is a most impressive story related of the conversion of an old ludy of seventy years, in a little town in Western China through the instrumentality of a Kible woman. One market day, as she was sell ing her wares she bearil a liible woman talking about a God who loved and cared for people of every race and lund. Becom ing much interested in this message the old lady began attending the Sunday serv ices conducted by the missionaries, walk ing four miles each way in order to do it. At last she was converted to Christ, a step which meant much to her, for in sur rendering herself to the Master she must give up her idol worship, which she real ized fully would bring upon her persecu tion and hatred. ' After destroying all of her idolatrous pictures on the walls and her many other idols there yet remained in the centre room of her house a tablet to "Heaven and Earth," which she dared not touch, for it belonged partly to a nephew whom ahe feared to offend. One night she had a wondeful dream. She thought she saw Jesus Christ coming across the valley to her bouse, nnd she cried out, "Saviour of the peotile, I am a sinner; come and save me. lint though He drew near her house it was only to Jook sadly in and pass sorrowfully by. On awakening she could not forget her dream, and every time she looked at the idola trous tablet she felt that perhaps this was keeping Jesus out of her house. So she determined, at whatever cost, to get rid of it, and accordingly wrote her nephew to that effect, and was given permission to do with it what sho felt inclined. But this was not all. So earnest was she in the new faith that she insisted that her house be whitewashed throughout that the Lord might not. smell any trace of the in cense. Thus was born into the kingdom what proved tii be one of the most devout of Jhrist's followers. A 6aTe Itefuge. The day may be one of calamity. Dark douds may be over us and a terrible storm ibout to break upon us. Where Bhall we ind safety? The providence of God may lill us with alarm, and we may feel our lelves left destitute and helpless. Where nay we hide ourselves from the impending svil? Or, while all is peace about us, while Uiera are rejoicing because of great good, e are depressed in spirit, and in the thought of ourselves see only sin and judgment. How uiiail we escape? The spirit of God has given us the answer: 'God is our refuge; a help in trouble most readily to be found." He ia at hand and Hia ear is open to every cry of distress. He ia the Almighty, and within His loving rare we arc safe. He is the faithful, un hanging One, and, therefore, will not for take us. Hasten to the open door and to the outstretched arms of Him whose love infolds you, and whose arm will guard from every harm. United Presbyterian. Kvary Day's lilesslnc. All that God givea to us day by day is, as it were, a new creation. Ve never re ceived it before. It never was our need until now. We may have received some thing like it before, but that was not this, nor could that have rilled the place of this. Kvery day's blessing are to each of us as a special miracle from the hands of the ever loving and the Almighty God, As John Bunyan says, "Things that we receive at God band come to us as things from the minting house though old in themselves vet new to us." What should we do if our Father failed to give us current coin of bin minting day by day? Sunday-School Times, Divine and Spiritual, Our Lord speaks of things divine an t spiritual just as if Ho were speaking of things liuinun and material. When danger has passed over joy arises, nay, even f;reater joy than if trie danger had never .een. The Kev, J. J. O'Neill, R. C, Brooklyn, N. Y. Plan to (-Conor Gen, Slgef. Admirer of the late Gen. Franz Si gel propose to auk the New York city authorities to change the name of Cedar Park, at One Hundred and Flf-ty-aecond street and Mott avenue, to Slgel park, to Honor the memory of the patriot and soldier. Gen. Slgel was a resident of the Bronx for more than a quarter of a century, and hia friends say that as he was the most prominent veteran of the civil war who lived In that part of the city It would be appropriate to commemorate his patriotic services in such a sub stantial way. Many public officials and citizens of the Bronx favor th plan. Unique Gift to Library. A ' lady recently offered tho New York Publlo Library a remarkable gift. It consists of 1,000 menus, each from a different hotel or restaurant Some are from Hungary, China, Japan and Russia, Tho donor stlpu lates that the menus are to be kept sealed tmtl 1956, as It is her desire tbat the coming generation may see wbai their amcsuitars) at. , THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For November 2. Subjects Cities of Retuje. Jo.h. ., I-9-Ooldea Text, p.a. xlvL, l-Memery Veraet, 2, J Commentary on the Day's Lesson. 1. "The Lord also spake unto Joshua." As soon as the tribes had received the portion of their inheritance, the Lord directed that Joshua should carry out the injunctions which Moses had left respect ing the cities of refuge for the accidental homicide. See F.x. 21:1215; Num. 3o: 9-34; Dent. 19: 2-13. 2. "Appoint. .. .cities of refuge." Trior to the Mosaic age it was required of the nearest relative, as a matter of duty, to avenge the death of one who had been slain. He was railed the "Goel" or "Avenger." Sometimes a whole family took upon them this duty. 2 Sam. 14: 7. Naturally many evils would take place as a result of this unceremoniously meting out punishment on the offender, and "it was the a-in of the Mosaic law, without alto gether abolishing the long-established cus tom, to mitigate its evils as far as pos sihle." g 3. "Unawares and unwittingly." That is. by accident, or without guilty intent. "May flee thither." The danger of the ancient plan of punishing crime was tlu.'t justice would give place to revenge, and s series of mutual retaliations would end in increasing murders instead of preventing them. To avoid this danger the plan ol cities of refuge was instituted. 4. "The gate of the city." The tribunal of justice was at the gate of the city. The refugee was not kept out of the city till his innocence was proved, but was permit ted to enter and relate his cause and re ceive the protection of the city. "May dwell among them." When the refugee arrived at the city of refuge he was taken under the protection of the ciders, who were allowed to arrest him, if he were ad judged a wilful murderer. Afterward he must stand in judgment before the congre gation or the magistrates, and if then con demned he w.18 to be delivered to the avenger of biood. This would prevent those abuses, which were generally made of sanctuaries among other nations, in which the most shameful criminals found protection. 5. "If the avenger of blood pursue." When once sheltered, in one of these cities, and proven innocent of intended murder, the one who otherwise would have had the right to put him to death, in the place whore the murder took place, now could not touch him, unless he should, by bis own choice, so from the citv and lie i found by the avenger who might then take his life. The city was a place ( protec- I tion while a man remained within its ! walls. I 6. "Shall dwell in that city." If oxoner- I ated from wilful murder, be was sate, but oniy so long as he remained within the city and its suburbs of one thousand cubits beyond the walls. Num. 35: l'ii-2S. He. must remain there, nwuy from his home and business, till the death of the high priest. This seeming hardship was neces sary and just, because there is usually some fault or carelessness in even acci dental murders, and this great inconveni ence would tend to carefulness and snfetv. "Until the death of the high priest." Re lease from this imprisonment could ccme onlv through the death of God's anointed high priest. Num. 36: 25. Thus the death of one might become the release of many. Every refugee in each of the six cities would at once obtain his liberty. 7. "And they appointed." Rather, they sanctified, set apart for a sacred purpose. The cities of refuge were intended to pre serve the people and the land from blood guiltiness; hence the appointment to bo high a purpose carried with it the idea of solemn consecration. Six cities were ap pointed for this purpose, three on either side of the Jordan, easy of access from nil parts of the land. None but Levitieal cities were chosen, and thus the refugoes, during their stay, would have the benefit of the assistance and instruction of the Levites. The cities were on hills and couW be seen afar off. They were so situated that one of them could be reached from any part of the country in a half-day. The roads to the cities were to be kept in good repair; no hillock was left, no river or stream was allowed over which there was not a bridge; the road was to be at least thirty-two cubits (three rods) broad, and every kind of obstruction was to be re moved that might hurt the foot or hinder the speed of the fugitive. At every turn ing or branching of roads posts were erect-' ed bearing the words. Refuge! Refuge! to guide the fugitive in his flight. In finitely greater pains has God taken to lead guilty souls to the refuge of the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. "Kedesh." There is a?me signification in the names of the cities. Kedesh means to separate or set apart. It implies the consecration of a. person, or thing, to the worship or ser vice of God alone. Thus, ns we look for the comiiarison, we sec Jesus as the Holy One of (fod. set apart for us as a Saviour from sin. This city was in the extreme northern part of tho promised land in Galilee, on the west of Jordan. "Shec hoin." Shoulder, hence its readiness to bear burdens, sustuin, etc. We read of Christ, "And the government shall bo upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God. the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Isa. 9: 0. This city was in the tribe of Kphraim, neor the centre of the promised land, west of Jordan. "Hebron." Jhis signifies fellowship, friendly associa tion, to unite as friends. Through Christ, sinners are brought into fellowship with God. Hebron was situated in the southern part of Ciinaan nnd among the mountains as was Kedesh, also west of Jordan. 8. "I'ezer." A stronghold, a fortifica tion. Jesus is a stronghold, a fortress to those who trust in Hint. This city was located east of Jordan, in the plain' oppo site Jericho. "Hamoth." Exaltations, high, or exalted. Of Jesus, His name is above every other inline. He is exalted to be the Saviour of the world. This eitv was east of Jordan, about the middle of the mountains of Gileud. "Golan." Re loicmg or exultation. In Jesus all believers rejoice nnd are justified. He is their joy and their hope for salvation. This citv was the capital of a district in the land of liushaii. , ti. 'And for the stranger." As these typified the great provision which God was malting for the salvation of both Jews and Gentiles. p- i,rt. the stranger, ns well ns the Israiliu. had the same rights to the be-ie.its of these cities of retuge. "Until he stood before the congregation.'1 The judges nnd elders of the people, in trying civil and criminal causes, always -ot ; the per.otis who came for judgment, or who wi "i tried, always stood; hence the expressions so frequent in scripture, standing before the Lord, the judges, the elders. London Newest Fad. London is trying to butt Paris out of the ting In the matter of fads. Ac cording to a London dispatch to a Chicago newspaper, tho newest fad in London Is the carrying of "lucky 'boxes" made in the style worn by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt Each box Is made of ebony, and is about the size of an ordinary draughtsman's case. There is a trick opening Inside, which contains an Egyptian eye. The wearers of these lucky boxes are sup- , posed to be free from all disasters, and to prosper In affairs of love and business. New Mining System. A gold-bearing clay found in Santa Crus county,' Arlxona, is of such a refractory nature that the usual meth ods of separation have failed abso lutely to extract the gold therefrom, After practically every known meth od had been tried and failed, the In genious scheme of drying the gouge thoroughly and beating it vigorously with a club was adopted, with com plete success. This is a mining sys tem unknown ia say other part of the (world. , CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. November 2 -The Best 0111." I Cor. ill, 28-31; xlll, 1-13. Ccrlpturo Vcrsca P1I3. cxxxlll.; Matt. xxll. 34-10; John xlll. 31-35; 1 John II. 817; John xv. 8-17; 1 John Iv. 4-14: Oal. v. 14; Rom. xll. 10; xlll. S, 10; Gal. vl. 2, 10; Phil. 11. 2. Lesson Thoughts. Love is the best gift because with out It all the rest are worthless; white, having this gift. It will Inspire all tho rest. Our knowledge is limited and our Insight into truth Is Incomplete, but our lovo may be entire; indeed, un less we love with the whole heart this gift loses Its value with God. Love is what we arc; gifts, what we have. We are loving; we have knowledge. Ixve Implies character Gifts do not. Selections. Our Ood is love; and all his saints His image bear below; The heart with love to God inspired, With love to man will glow. Teach us to love each other, Lord, As we are loved by thee; None who are truly born of God Can live In enmity. An ocean steamer pressing In the face of wind and wave Is an Inspiring sight. Where Is the power that lm Vl It? Wo find It far below the decks. In the throbbing engine. So a Christian has his impelling power within. In Christian love. Love Is the secret of Chrlstlanitr, the Inspiration of -character, tho motive that lends to the sacrifices, the trials, and the tri umphs of the Gospel. Light In something more than tho sum of all its ingredients a glowing, dazzling, tremulous ether. And love is something more than all Its ele ments a palpitating, qulve.rlng, sen sitive, living thing. By synthesis of all the colors, men can make white ness, they cannot make light. By synthesis of nil the virtues, men can make virtue, they cannot make love. It is not the deed we do, Though the deed be never so fair. But the love that the dear Lord look- eth for, Hidden with holy care In tho heart of the deed so fair. Suggested Hymns. Blest be tho tie that binds. Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly dove Is the crime of comfort falling? It pasatrth knowledge, that dear love of thine. More love to thee. O Christ. Search tne. O Lord, and try this heart of mine. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. November 2 The Best OlfL I Cor. 12. 28-31; 13, 113. Three chapters in Corinthians are given to discussion of the exercise ol spiritual gifts. Paul's argument shows that (1) the source of all spiritual gifts Is the one Spirit; and (2) the various gifts should make the Church one body; (3) the visible Church haj place for all gifts. Then he Bhowe thnt love is intlntely superior to all gifts. Paul has been named the apostle ol faith; Peter, of hope; and John, of love. Yet, strange as it seems, the greatest eulogy of love comes not from loving John, but from logical Paul. There are nine elements that are essential components of true love They are patience suffering long, hav ing neither hurry nor petulance; kind ness being active In goodness; gen erosity not envying, but recognizing others; humility not self-seeking; courtesy behaving Itself well at all times; unselfishness giving rather than receiving; good temper not pro voked at littlo slights; gullolessncss thinking the best possible of others; and sincerity rejoicing In the truth, even when it hurts. We may te3t our love by these. And these possess the elements of true greatness. Such a love will "cover" all things, as a mother will hide and shelter the faults of a child; will "believe" all things, that Is, put the liest possible construction on actions. It will "hope'' and "endure" all things. Such a love is not natural, it is supernatural. It is born of God. The Indestructibility of Truo Love is one of the "abiding" graces. It can never be destroyed. In this It Is dif ferent from the other "gifts" men tloned In the chapter. Prophecies fall -that Is, they are fulfilled or the gift of prophecy Is taken away. Tongue? cease that is, languages pass away and become obsolete, or the gift ol tongues as given to the apostolic Church is a transient gift. Knowledge vanishes books become obsolete, the education of one age is lmtufflclent fot the next. But love never becomes out grown: it is never obsolete, and the same fruits of love are seen In the Church to-day as in the beginning. Faith, hope, and love abide, and the greatest of these is love. The Superiority of True Love is seen in all the elements already men tloned. 'But there are other cousld orations which will show its superi ority. It Is superior to cither faith or hope. Faith runs to fanaticism without love. Hope exceeca the limits of truth, unless regulatsd by love. Love uses faith and hope, and is the real source of both. It is Godlike in its nature. God in his perfection hag Do need of faith, nor of hope, but he Is love. The perfection of his being 1b In this, that his nature it; love. And we become God-like Just in propor tions as we Incarnate lovo. PUTS DAMPER ON PROPOSALS Indignities Heaped Upon tho Bridegroom-Elect In China, Women are constantly complaining that eligible men show a most uncom promising desire to remain tingle In stead of selecting a wife. It Is, there fore, a good thing that the same con ditions do not prevail lu England a In some parts of China, or the prob ability Is that not one In a thousand would ever take a woman "for better or for worse." In these Celestial regions the bridegroom-elect has to submit to being dressed up by his friends In any sort of costume they like, and thus habited they accompany him in state through the streets of the town. Perhaps in that part of the world men are over anxious to be married, and everything which can possibly be done to induce 'them to remain single until they ar rlve.pt a more mature age has to be resorted to. It is another casa of all being fair In love and war, and no doubt the Chinaman who Is shouting to-day as be accompanies his friend knows full well that next week be may be the bridegroom-elect, and so tb punish ment la robbed vt m K'h of its terror. Woman' J .ife. THE GREAT DESlflOIEK SOMi STARTLING FACTS A0OUT THE V.CE O? INTEMPERANCE. Tim T Til's Right Arm Trims of a Rnm Oail Mao Wlilotl Has Mafia tin, Na tion Thlna Sinssh tho Wlilsksy Bonis lor It Fills Our .falls. The crime of Mirhnel l.eddy h made a nation think! Alsddencd by whisker, this man gives the police a vase which is pronounced by the Magistrate to be the most harrowing of nil his experience. This rum-crazed man goes to his little home in the suburbs of Greater New York on a beautiful Sunday afternoon and al most instantly transforms it into a hell! Catching hold of Ins little eight-year-old daughter, he forces open her mouth and pours a glass of nhiskcv down her throat! The mother, shocked at the oulrugeoiii action of her liush.inil. screams out in bet indignation, and the brute burls a piste at her head, cutting a deep gssh in her scalp! Stunned bv the blow, the woman falls heavily to the floor, when the bintnl fellow advances toward her. lifts his heavy boot and, with the malice oi a fiend, stamps her already blood-covered face. Two years ntro he kicked out one of the poor woman's eyes. .Sunday be crushed out the other one! It was a picture for bell to gloat over tho little girl reeling and delirious from the fumes of the whiskey that had been forced down her throat, the mother pros trate on the floor, insensible from her wounds and half strangled by the blood that flowed from them, nnd the father, furious es a demon, glaring about him up on the ruin he had wrought! "Father is good to us when be is sober," sobbed one of the children, and we may well believe it. The cime that shocked New York as it bad not been shocked for a long time, nnd that sent a shudder throughout the whole rounli v, was the WOKK OF WI1ISKEY T1IK WOKK UF T1IK DEVIL'S K1G11T ARM. There, are a great many people who atill persist ill believing that there is some where in the universe a being of inlinite malice and spite whose motto is "Kvil, be thou my good," and whose supreme de light is found in promoting the misery nnd wretchedness of mankind. It is not for me to say whether the belief is tru-r or false; but this I know, that an infinitely malicious being, bent on the de struction of human goodness and human happiness, could not possibly hit upon a more effective means of nccomplishing his infernal purpose than that which is fur nished in the whiskey bottle. If whiskey were out of the way nine tenths of the crime, degradation, brutality and misery of t he world would disappear. There is no doubt about it. With whiskey out of the way the homes that are now dark would be bright, the homes thnt are now wretched would be happy, the homes that are now a disgrace would be an honor. Everybody knows that this is true. The sober man knows it, nnd the drunkard knows it. In fact, the drunkard knows it a great deal more thoroughly than the man wlio does not drink. He has been maddened and degraded by it. That has burned its demoralization into bis very soul nnd made him hnte nnd despise himself. It has caused him time nnd again to be ashamed to look at the sun, ashamed to look into the eyes of his wife, children or neighbor. It lias made him do the things that, in Ilia rationnl moments he loathed nnd de tested with his whole heart, and awaking from his delirium he has had all he could do to keep from destroying himself! The unspeakable accursedncss of the whiskey hnbit is a fact which none but the rum-imbruitcd victim of intemperance him self would think of disputing, and even he would not dispute it, except while in the midst of bis mail, unreasoning orgies. To destroy the reign of wluskev would be to destroy the reign of crime. To thor oughly sober the race would be to prac tically civilize and Christianize the race. "The ignoble blood that has crept through Bcoundrels ever since the flood" has been drunken blood blood inflamed, perverted, poisoned by strong drink. Get the whiskey corpuscles out of the world'a blood and it will be largely humane, decent and moral. The scoundrelism ia mainly the result of tho demoralization induced by drunkenness." The pathetic words of the little girl, "Father is good to us when he is sober," are applicable to the overwhelming major ity of mankind. Nine hundred and ninety nine human beings out of the thousand are inclined, when sober, to be reasonable and fcentle. It is natural for men to think: it is also natural fur them to be kind and consider nte; but when maddened by whiskey they are but beasts. It wns not a man, but a beast, that com mitted an awful crime Sunday, and for the beastliness nothing but whiskey is rcspon- si me. It was whiskey thnt committed that crime, for it was whiskey that transformed Michael Leddy from a human being into a demon. Every man who has ever swallowed a glass of whiskey well knows that even one gless disturbed to a certain extent the fins balance of his moral nature nnd upset, however slightly it might have been, the nii.'urul poise of bis human reason. And when the one drink becomes the dozen, or the score, the man fulls from the living perpendicular of bis rational, moral man hood to the dead level of the unreasoning brute. Tho human element in liim is for the time being mastered by the "npe and tiger" forces; reason no longer appeals to him, affection haa but little influence over him, and be is ready for the most silly oi the most savage deeds. In fighting whiskey we are fighting hu manity's most deadly foe. It is the one enemy of mankind which if put out of the way would almost insure the departure of all other evils. It is the whiskey bottle thnt fills our jails with criminals and out asvlums with lunatics. It is the whiskey bottle that burdens the State with the mighty army of paupers and incapubles. It is the whis key bottle that is responsible for nearly every instance of domestic infelicity, from the first ugly scene between husband nnd wife to the divorce, which breaks up the home and turns the little ones adrift upon the world. It is the whiskey bottle that debauches our public servants and causes so many of them to betray their trusts. It is the whiskey bottle that ia mainly responsible for the low ebb to which, in so mnnv in stances, our municinnl nolitics hns fallen. It is the whiskey bottle that stnnds be. tween us and the coming of the Kingdom of God. Smash the whiskey bottle and vou break the devil's rijjht arm. New York Ameri can. Two Sententious Opinions. Legalized rum selling is statutory mur der. H. Clay llascom. Intemperance is the eng out of which all vices may be hatched. bt. Augustine. Th Crusade In Rrler. In this country it appear that the de scendants of alcoholic parents show an excessive mortality in which tuberculosis and meningitis ia the most common form of disease. From observations collected by two Ital ian authorities it was found that occupa tion and professional work, in which alco holism was common, had a very high mor tality from tuberculosis. Henry H. Faxon, the temperance advo cate of Quincy, Mass., has again recog nized the services of the Christiun Church in the work of keeping the city free from liquor control, and sent his check for $100 each to the twenty-threa clergymen. Nine tenths of the disease aid a great part of the social evils of this country ar caused by the use of alcohol. The announcement ia made that th Government bus decided against the sal of intoxicating liquor of any description in our Suniosn possessions. This is encour aging to those of our readers who took an active part in securing the passage of the law to protect native races from the curie of rum. , ' The federated churches of Illinois united under the name of the Anti Saloon League are proposing a comprehensive local option law which will innke a popular vote against the saloon mandatory and directly opera tive and enable the eople in territory from counties down to city blocks to got lid of saloons as a matter oi right, FAM'S HORN BLASTS. HE supreme are of living may be summed up In glv Siring. This world's sole hope of salvation lies In the salvation of the soul. Those who expect great things from God will do great hlngs for Him. He will not win respect who refuses reverence. Life Is a man's opportunity for the realization of bis ideals. When ambition Is the child of envy It will be the mother of sorrows. Solf-surrender Is the secret of soul satlsfactlon. The lights of the world are not Il luminated by the fires of controversy. He who has friends only to use them will have them only to lose them. Goods can never constitute the chief good. The good In a man may be known by the good he sees in men. There can be religion without ritual as we have light without lamps. Life's pleasures are but spring fresh ets, God's Joy a perennial spring. The pleasures of a true saint cannot be augmented by the pains of sin ners. A good fellow Is not always a good friend. Inspiration Is God's answer to our aspiration. It Is the bullet that kills and not the report. He Is a traitor to man who Is not true to God. Money creates more wants than It satisfies. God's succor comes swifter than sin's sting. The man who Is stingy on a ten dol lar salary will be stingier on a mil lion. Discontent with ourselves will cure us of discontent with our circumstan ces. THE 80RT OF MAN HE ',VA!. Ex-8peaker Rsed'a Opinion of Ona Who Was Rather Too Effusive. Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed has a knack of disposing of disagreeable ac quaintances that few public men pos sess, as many have learned to their Intense chagrin. "I was in Washington once," said a man at the cluo, "when Tom Ileed was the czar of the house of repre sentatives. He was holding forth with earnestness on some theme to a group of friends when that man you see ovet there by the cigar counter pushed hi way throug'j the crowd, grasped Reed by the hand and said effusively: Hello, Tom, old boy, how do you dor "Reed responded in a manner that was more of a shake for the man than for his hand and went on with his talk. When our friend over there bad edged out of the crowd someone said: You didn't seem to be happy ovei him. Reed. Who is your friend, any way?' "Reed drawled out: 'He's a fellow from New York who knows more men who don't want to know him than any other man In the United States.'" PLEASANT FOl THE INVALID. Undertakers' Sign Calculatad to Rob Death of Its Terror. Death must have greatly diminished terrors for the inhabitant of Rut land county, Vermont. From the town of Falrhaven as a center an enterpris ing firm of undertakers "funeral di rectors" have not yet penetrated that sectian has ltttcrally covered the surrounding country with roadside signs that must be a never-falling source of comfort to the passing lu valid. Here is one of them: Undertaking As It Should Be Undertaken. A second reads thus: : Finest Rubber Tired : : Hearse In the State. : Aud this la an open Invitation to all: : Caskets of Every Design. I : Open Day and Night : A Sacrilegious Expression. ' This story is told of a Milwaukee boy: He came Into the house on morning full of excltemerL He bad found a new family of kittens and described them to his mother. "There la a black one and a whlt one and a Maltese and two others, and they are just llk Jesus.'' "Why, what do you rasan by that. Joslah? You should not say such things." "But they are just llko Jesu4, any way." "How is that?" asked his mother, her curiosity aroused in spite of her desire to reprove the boy foi what she thought was sacrilege. "Why, they were born in a manger." Stood Dead Irt Doorway. A Boston man who has just returned from ruined St. Pierre says that a friend of his who entered the city as soon after the eruption as the Are and heat allowed, spoke one evening of entering a house In St. Pierre in an endeavor to find the family's bodlea There stood In the doorway a strange man to whom he touched bis bat at he went In. He found the family all dead within, and, sickened by the sight, made haste to come out again In the doorway he again encountered the stranger, and, thinking he might mean some mischief, this time ob served him more closely. He was kicking Into .the eyes of a man twe daya dead. Boston Transcript. New tdsa In Dirigible Balloon. Flying machine steering by llerta lan waves was Patrick Alexander's striking position at the late Berlin scientific ballooning conference. He claim that an unmanned balloon, carrying Instruments for registering temperature and moisture at differ ent heights, can be sent fifty miles and steered back to the sta.tlnj point. THE RELIGIOUS LIFE READING FOR THE QUIET HOUft WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. rotmi The Tru Hole of Mfe Abraham- Career Is tha Most Illustrious Kiaasplo or a Ufa of ralth-M akot Hop la ! Future Real. I wonder if 'twould matter much. If I some day should fold my band And never more a task should toucb So long as in the glass the sands Should run for me I wonder would v The world be just as fair and good! TI.., bin.- ,1.. nn,U J.ilir r,U.n ,,'.v ni.vin uir ... ..... . A -A -..!: . V. .. .1 . L I . The hurts of soul, the cries of pain, i,u 'm,i,tT, mKH ill mjiiiuuc Would 1 be missed for my lost good S J If I should some dnv steel mr heart To answer neither plead nor prayer(l Kciu.e to do my little part. I if my nest good refuse to share. N With some one who was sick and poor 2 Be deaf to cries outside irry door Would nil these count for very much! Or. would some little place in' life. He yearning for a soothing touch 4 To cnlm the restlessness of strife? Would some one mis me if I stayed. Or from the path of duty strayed: V I need no nnswer to my thought, J No one need tell me aye or nay; The nnswer comes unhid, unsought-' It is to live from day to day I As 'twere the last with God in sight, And love and kindness infinite. iS. 13. McMnnus, in the Kain's Horn. A Life of Faith. Faith is so urgently spoken of as an Tn dispensable condition of success, its impor tance is dwelt upon at such length, that in obedience to a curious law of human na ture we begin to exalt and invstifr it, im agining it some strange, new, peculiar pow er, only granted to the few mid quite im possible of acquisition by such ordinary, everyday Christians as we nre. This ia all wrong. Faith is one of the commonest things in the world. It lies at the bottom of all business transactions. It is the ba sis for all marriages and partnerships of anv sort on earth. Faith is nothing more than this. I have God's word for it that He will do certain things for me if I comply with His condi tions. It is merely His promise to pay on demand. Kvery prayer I utter is only a sight draft on the bank of heaven. Faith is simply a belief in the ability and relia bility of God. i It is impossible for nnv one who lias event so much as opened the Bible to be unawar that this word faith plavs a most promin ent part in its pages. It is affirmed that faith works miracles, removes mountains, restores the sick, and saves and sanctitiea the sinner. Kvery apostle whose words re main to us dwells upon the prime impor tance of faith and its possession by the itf dividual. Ahrahnm'a life is the most illustrious ex ample of a life of faith that has come down, to us through the ages. It was not only in the great and exceptional occurrences of life thot he showed his faith, not only,, uch as his obedience to God's call to com out from bis kindred in Ur and go into Canaan, or his patient waiting for an heir in answer to God's promise, or his sublime readiness to sacrifice the only hope tb world held for him at that command o God. Not manv men are called to leaver home and friends at the call of their faith, not jnany to sacrifice the onlv child, the son and heir. Hut in the little everyday, ordinary occurrences of life, where most men would fail, we find Abraham's faith, large enough to carry him through. The striking part of this instance in oar Scripture selection of Abraham's obedienc is thnt he abandoned bis country, hia friends and his kindred in the hope of better country. This is what God would have us do. abandon the world and all ita pleasures, in the hope of a better country, an eternal city. Faith makes things that nre only a dirai hope in the future real. It was possible for Abraham to give up his home in the land of V'r, because bis faith in God made a new home in Canaan as real as if he could look over the hills and valleys and see it. In calling forth the "substance of things hoped for. the writer of the letter to the Hebrews did not mean that it was "proof in the way that word is used in a court of law, for it is not. lie did not mean that it uppealcd to a man's reason and gave him cause to decide for it because the weight of testimony lay that way, for of nil things in the world faith is the most "unreasonable." Faith is not an act or a work of reason, but of the will. Faith is doing lirst and pausing to think afterward; obeying and then seeking to understand. Faith is not an idea it is a course of ac tion: and the reason that it is called "evidence" is that, if pursued, it bring its own conviction. "He that willeth to do) His will shnll know of the doctrine." No man ever yet came into the kingdom of God who understood all about Jesus, bub he believed as a little child believes, and. believing, it becomes pluin to him. The climax of our Scripture selection ie tremendous. "Without faith it is impossi ble to please Hun." How many of ua really have faith? New York Mail and Kxprcss. Maka It Study. Do not only take occasion of doing good when they are thrust upon you, but study how to do ill the good you can. as those "that are zealous of good works." Zeal of good works will make you plot and con trive for them; consult and ask advice foe them; it will make you glad when yon meet with a hopeful opportunity; it will make you do it lurgely, and not sparingly, and by the halves; it will make you do it speedily, without unwilling backwardness and delay; it will make you do it constant ly to your life's end. It will make you la bor in it aa your trade, and not only con sent that others do good at your charge. It will make you glad when good is done, and not to grudge at what it costs you. In a word, it will make your neighbors to be as yourselves, and the pleasing of God to be above yourselves, and therefore to be ns glad to do good as to receive it. Kica aid Baxter. tooli th World In the Faea. Hold up your head and look the world of reality square in the face. It is that world over which you must exercise youe power. Over and above it, where the im agination runs like an illuminating spirit, is the realm where the greater meaning of the reality live and have power. For every fact has its corona of exalted signifi cance; every phenomenn of nature palpi tates with meaning which the world of re ality but inadequately states. Over and above it. the fancy of the poet broods, holding the fact subservient to that greater meuiiiiig which he formulates and ex presses. And thnt which tho poet declares remains louger, perhups. than the fact which he crowns. The American Hebrew, rational Klenisnt. It is necessary that the individual hare a right view of life on earth, because thus life is determined largely by personal ele ment. Man's struggle for existence is the result of a desire to live and to improve bis condition. The Kev. B. L. Whitman. Philadelphia, Pa. Tha Golden Rule. The beat law to apply to Sunday observ ance is the Golden Rule. Are you doinff to othera what you would have others d unto you? Is your Sunday fur your serv ants what you want it to be for vou, a day of rest The Rev. Dr. Katoa, Universal ut, New York City. Or.at-Grandnephew of Washington. George Washington, a grat grand nepnow of the Immortal president," was a witness In a NeT7 York city court a few days ago: "' His great grandfather, William Washington, waa lhe general's brother, but being a Tory left this country fur F.ngland during tho war of the revolution. Leter ha settled In Belgium. The twentieth century George does not care for the rofiected glory that cornea with hia name, thctigh no ouo has greater ven-era-.lon than he fur the man who wast Drat ia the burnt ct bis cuuntrymea.
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