"ME PEARLLY GATES" Sstiday Sermon By Rev. Chapman. J. Wilbur SrilHant Deicrptles el Int Celestial City la Wbkl Tberc Is Neither Slcksesi er Sor row, Death aor Crylof Xkw York City. The Rev. ))r. .T. Wil hnr Chapman, who has recently resigned: the pastorate of the Fourth Presbyterian' Church in thin city in order lo ilevotc him ,elf to evangelistic work, linn prepared the following wrmon for the press. It in enti tled "And the Twelve Gate Were Twelve Pearls," and won prearhed from the text, "And hnd a wall great nnd high, and had twelve gate, and nt the galea twelve an uria, mid name -written thereon, which re the name of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel." Revelation xxi.i 12. When La Fayette Inst veiled this coun try the people gave lihn a royal reception. A fleet of vessels went, out to meet him. the band played "Hail to the Chief," and the national music of France, and it is told that he waa unmoved. . As he rame u shore land and water trem hled with the power of artillery. Old aol diera snhitcd lunl as they ahouted his wel come, and he waa atill unmoved. With waving banners and tinder triumphal arches he waa taken to ( 'anile Harden, where moat of the great men of the nation were gathered together to give him greet int. Bnd he waa atill not moved. But when ii.-. had taken hia seat in the great amphi theatre, and when the curtain was lilted ac saw before him a perfect representation of the place in France where lie waa born and brought up, and when he aaw the old home ao filled with Lender memories, the home where hia father and mother had lived and died, it la said (hat the greut man waa touched, and bowing hia face in hia hands he wept like a child. If 1 could only draw aside the veil which separate the seen from the mi neon. so that you ou 1 behold that city which hath founda tions, there would be no need for me to preach, for in the very thought o heaven yon would be almost, overwhelmed. 1 have read descriptions of cities both in ancient and modern timet", but never such n de-j srription as this; adorned like n brido for her husband; a city in which there is neither sickness nor sorrow, death nor cry ing; a city of walls and gutes: on the east three gates, on the west, three gates, on the south thrw gates, on the north three gates, and the walls had twelve founda tions, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the l.ntnli. The nngej that made the revelation had a golden rod in his hand with which he was measuring the city, and found that the length waa equal to the breadth, ami that the wall was 144 nihil: that the building of the wall was nf jusper; thnt the city was pure gold, and that the twelve gates were twelve pearls.1 It is said that they were wide open by day there is no night there, and in that city there waa no vieed of the sun, for the glorv of the Lord did lighten it, and the Lamb was the light thereof. It (nines to me like an inspiration that one day 1 shall enter that. vity. (Jan you ay it? Your children are going in, your parents are going ill, your husband is going it, your wife is going in; are you going in? It is a great joy to know that the things tluit bring us the representations of heaven are ao substantial. Home people tell us that heaven is a state, not a place. What then did Christ mean when He said, "I go to prepare a place for vou." and what agam when He said. "In My Father' house there are many mansions?" What it the doctrine of the resurrection? In it that only . the spirits of men are raised? 'this is not our teaching. There must be some place for the resurrected body. When Christ wenljout with His nnoslles to Beth any and a cloud received Him out of their sight, He arose bodily from their presence. It is certain, absolute'' certain, that heav en is a place. -. i Perhaps some may question, at first, the meaning of the text, and yet I am very wire if we only had the mind of the Spirit we would lind in it much of beauty, sweet ness and power. , WHAT IS HHAVEX? It is a place of overpowering brightness. Everything thnt ever cume from, thenca tells us so. ChnriotH so bright that the only thing to which they could be likened was fire. Angels with' luces shining so that men must veil, their eyes before them. .Moses and lilias' so surrounded with glory that the three disciple were overcome With the vision on the mount of transfig uration. The walls arc like a rrreat jewel the i.l reels of pure gold and every single gate a pearl. You know the brightness of one little gem as it sparkles on your linger, but. 0! the wonderful thought that cVery jjp.te is a pearl, and the duy will came when we may go sweeping through the gate if we will. God has done everything that He could do, and our entering in now rests upon ourselves. But the brightness ef. heaven, aside lrom the presence of Cluisl, is not duo to the galea, nor to the walls, nor to the streets, bat to the pres ence of those, who huva been redeemed. I have been told that the deeper the water the larger the pearl. Whether that lie true or not I can not. tell, but I know that from the greatest depths God some times takes His brightest jewel. It is no cause for discouragement if you have been a great sinner. J'aul waa a persecutor, lluiiyan a blasphemer, Newton a libertine, and yet they shine to-day as the jewels of Christ. (eologists tell us that the diamond is only crystallized carbon, charcoal gloriticd. whs book-tells us something better than that, that "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as while as anow; though they he red like crimson, they shall be as wool." , Heaven is a place of unutterable sweet ".". ."" J'01' imagine the number of lit y e children there? Can any one describe the sweetness of a child's song? And when yon remember that' your own little one may be there! What wonderful sing ing it is as their lips are touched by the i"'nr ,of -nrit, and their hearts are thrilled with His presence. "0, the joys thai are there mortal eye hath not seen, , the songs they'SIng there with hosan lias between, O, the thrice blessed song of the Lamb and of Moses, , -, the while tents of peace where the ri n'"'1' ou' reposes. , u. the waters so still and the pastures so ' ,n ween. J here, there they aing songs with boean uas between!" The hoy wi,o was blind make the best expression of heaven to me. The doctor iuu cut away the obstruction from hia ,i ' tl,e ndags placed there were ?OT,e',,on" ny. oue, until after a little n?2L i ! uem talin off- When In L , i1 .V5'.1! in Hilcnt wonder as if I u l" d ,u,d heen lened to him, he be eld hia mother, and yet he did not know mSt.l ""f- "y " I'eard her fa vr,u' u"kln l''i. "My son, can vou m'n l,""g into her urms. exclaim il' , ; "jnther, is this heaven?" That u to J ,1 a,"!'ll"'. Heaven is seeing eve tl- ; owm ven w" are known. 1 E ".""V w".ri which better than an- "Ximtion C'lb0 I'eaven i0 me lt " " 'A'nmt'W ?"' I asked a little child, i", sua m her innocence she smiled. AH wlw, oppressed: rest ' " W' '0h' heaven Utt ireVi." JiV'i1 ".J-raJ hi art- heart. beaul'y. P ' raptured "fill glorv ?ilh h' a H lV ('l'rittian waiting hia releaae, ?""d biln. ! b answered, ''fit CuT J,H'k, wilh ,ineri love' . lave"' K y uy' ,'"t' 1 unl Ther A CITY t)F GATES, Umt liean0",,!tni" IO'nt in the fact t to tha.V l''-y tttc"- -Tne 'w..ith . ' "1110 ,n fr"m tlie north, tl "hliLill u" unA W1"'. lt we ai 't Were Im1"" ?,,tu? h"veni we might if that iS, V.ot ""'l.ed. The Bible tens ua le '"ut alw,iJ 1 'nr"Vn the gates, and it is i-.urro'v i tr""y- .TigUt is the gate and w, I, ' J.'' 'i?ht he liable lo " ' ' lnv (0 lil"r iu." esva the Itihle; ao one must tie very earfieatTt'lirfat said, "I am the way, the truth, the life;" "I am the door." and again. "No iran eom cth unin (1m Father but by Me." Koine people think that (Jod is so merciful that after awhile they may stand in His pres. cnee. but He ia just as well as merciful, and He his provided the way by which every one nnist enter heaven. It is through the gate. Reformation will not do, moral ity can not answer; it is giving up vourself to Him, putting your hsnd in His nnd let ting Him lead you all the journev of life, until yon pass through the gates. A child dying ssid to his father. "I wouldn't be afraid to go if mamma would go with me." "But," he said, "little one. she can't go." Then the child said, ''I wont you to go," and he said, "my iar- ' T'n, 1 can't. ." TK"W ft, ei'j una prayed to KuTi -l3 Iwr fif?:,.cd to walk through the vsllcy of the shadow, after a little while he said, " nm not afraid now. for Christ has said that He will be with me. and He will." Lift up your heads, oh, ye gates, lift them up, for the lime ia coming when with Jcaus we shull pass through! GATKX OF PKART T am sure that there is some meaningin the fact that the gates are of pearl. I)o you know the history of pearls? Humanly sneaking it is a historv of suffering. When discovered it is st the risk of the pearl fisher's life. It i said that pearls nrc formed by the intrusion of some foreign' substance between the mantel of the lnol lusk and its shell. This ia a source of irri tation, suffering and pain, and a substance is thrown around about that which is in truded to prevent suffering, and thus the pearl is formed. Do yon begin, to see the signiricance of the fact that the gates are of pearl, and not of gold? There waa a time when there was no entrance into heaven for us; sin had closed it: man had grievously sinned, he had broken every law of (!od. and there was no hope for him at. all. Then it was that the Babe was cm dlcd in the manger, became a youth, .rev to manhood, endured tliirtv-tlireo yens of suffering, culminating i'i the ag.'ny u-nn Calvary, when in the tremciu'oiis i"ii.iou IHb heart broke. Then it was He died, the just for the unjust, the innocent for the guilty; then it was that Ho arose from the dead, went out unto llcthany, ascended into heaven to Bwing wido open the gates. And thus it is they are open to-day. and one never hears of the gates of pearl but he must realize in some measure what snl valion cost, not so much to yon and to me, but to Him humiliation, sorrow, suffer ing, death, and do you realize that every one who refuses allegiunce to Him is ar rayed against Him. for He said. "Yon nrj either for Me or against Me, there is no middle ground?" TWELVE OATES. How full the word of (Jod ia! In its teaching beauty and sweetness come from it villi every touch. It is a rock; you can not touch it but the water of lite will come forth. It is a (lower; you can not jfinme near it without being blessed by it? fragr.Mice. There is something to nie even, in the number of heaven's gates. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, three on every side, and the city lieth four square, la this not an indication that God has made abundant provision for our entrance into the city above? It is man who has narrowed clown the way. The Bible invi tation i, "Whosoever will, let him come." The provision is abundant. No one can stand at the judgment and say anything but this, "Lord, I might have entered, but jl would not." Twelve gates, and if you are not in it, it is your fault alone. God hue done all that He could do. The Trin- lity has been exiiaustcd, almost, on a sinful Morhl.and He will do no more; it is for us i ourselves to choose to enter in, it is very easy to bo saved. I In one of tho schools of a great eily by j the falling of a transom a cry of fire was started, llie children were panic-stricken, and the teachers as well. In rushing from the building many were injured: some (were killed. When it was found that the alarm was false, returning to her room one of the teachers found sitting at her desk a young girl who had not p;irred. When axKcd the reason for her bravetiess, she said. "My father is a fireman, and he told me if ever there was an alarm of tire Tn the building just to sit still where I was and he would save me. My father is a fire man und he knows, and I just trusted him." That coniideiice in Jesus Christ would bring salvation. Kaid a man in Glasgow to a distinguished evangelist. "I am very anxious to bo saved: what must I do?" The evangelist uuotcd many passages of Scripture to him, among them John iii., 10: "For God ao loved the world that He gave His only be gotten Hon that whosoever believeth in Him," and when he had gone this far the man stopped him, saying, "But I do be lieve." Then the evangelist quoted the t.ixth chapter of John and the forty-seventh verse, Christ' own words: "Verily, verily, I oay unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life." The man 'saw it in a moment end cried out rejoic ing, "I have got it, 1 hav got it." That kind of acceptance of God brings everlast ing life. Twelve gates, and every gate n pearl, and every gate exactly alike;, so af ter all there is only one way. THE GATES ARE OrEX. I am ao glad thut the gates are open to day. We read that they shall not be hut at all by day, and aa there ia no niht there tho conclusion ia that they arc open constantly. They are open now. Koiue hare been going in since we have been speaking; nt every tick of the cluck a soul speeds away. I wish that I might go as did Alexander Cruden. seventy years of age, giving to the world his concordance, .dying in want because he had given an freely to others. ", Going into his .room they found him kneeling, his fare buried in the Bible, his white hair fulling down upon the chair, his spirit gone, the very angels tilling the room where he had been. I wish that I might go as did David Liv ingstone. They looked into his tent door and slid one to another, "lscep silence, the great leader is in prayer," for he was on hia kneea. After a little while they came back, and ho seemed to be still pray ing; then half an hour later again, and when they touched hi m they found that Livingstone was dead. The chariots of Uod had halted while he prayed, and Liv ingstone, entering in, 'was caught up into the skies. Oh, the joy of such an entrance into heaven! Dr. Pierre, returning to France from In dia after a long journey, said that his men when they came in sighl of their native land were unfitted for duty. Some of them wistfully gazed upou the land they loved. Home of them fdiuuted, some prayed, sosne fainted, and it is said that when they came near enough to recognize , their friends on shore that every man left his post of dutv, and it was nocessary for help to come off the land before the vessel could be anchored in the harbor. Oh! the joy of thus entering heaven. Welcome from the gates, welcome from our friends long gone, welcome from every angel in the skies. The joy, the joy of one day sweeping through the gates! Prussian blue paint ia made from t':s ashen of the burnt huufs of horses. Evolution. ' ' Being convinced of the impossibility of supporting his large family at any of tho unskilled felonies, the man hit on 'he unusual expediont of seeking iionest employment. "But," he reflected, "If I seek sucb employment under my right name, Bill Jones, nobody will hire me, while If I give) my name as Hank Smith, any, I shall be Jailed for getting a Job by false pretenses. Dear me! What shall I do? Oh, I know. I'll Just In corporate and sues: employment . at tne Hank Smith Corporation. Tbeo It's nobody's business what I to." This shows how much butter off necessity Is by knowing a little law. Life. . '- - - . Fast Traveling with Motor. In a blll-cllmblng competition for motor cars up Mount Ventoux, near Carnentras, the atoepest bill road In France, M. Cam-bard, the winner, com pleted U miles In 27 minutes 17 seconds. The gradient In places wua 1 lu 12. M. Caucnard used a Freucb motor car of 79 hcuse power. THE SABBATH SCHOOL. International Lesson Comments For December 14. Subject: Tbe Boy Samuel, I San. III., I. 14 Asides Text, I Sim. III., Memory Verses, 7, 10 Commentary a the Day's l esson. 1. "The child Samuel." Samuel is sup posed to have been about twelve years old at this time. His duty in the tabernacle was to perform those easy services winch his strength would allow, such us opening the doors, lighting the lamiis, etc. Ho did not reside in the sanctuary, tint in one ot the tonts uround it, which, were kept for the nso of the priests und Invites. Eli, the high priest, kept ti.:noel es his special at tendant, not hecuiMc such tin othrc was assigned him, but beciuse of the deep in terest he felt in him. He was Samuel's in structor. "Wua precious." The meaning is that direct revelations from God bad "become exceedingly rare. This was hccanc of the sinfulness of the priesthood and the Iieople. As sinfulness ill tho individual leart drives away the Holy Spirit, ao in the Hebrew nation it drove away the spirit of prophecy. "No open vision." Lit erally, no divine communication was spread; that is, published abroad, mail--known. There was no publicly recognized prophet, whom the people could consult und from whom they might learn the will of God. There must have been some ways of receiving messages from heaven, for Kli knew them, but did not receive them fre quently enough to be called an open vision. '2. "At that, time." At the lime when the word of God was rare and there was great spiritual darkness. "In his place." In hia usual 'place of rest. It was in the night. It is very likelv that as the ark was a long time at Shiloh they had built near to it certain apartments ior the high priest and others more immediately env ployed about the tabernacle. 3. "Samuel was laid down to sleep." Near to Kit's room, ready within calling distance, if the old man should want any thing in the night. It would seem that tie lay somewhere near the holy pluce, nnd went to bed before the branch limps of the candlestick went out. (the main lumps never went out), probably toward mid night. At that tune Samuel una lieen cm- ploying bimselt in some good exercise or other, reading or prayer, or perhas clean ing or making ready the holy place, und then went quietly to b: 1 4. "The Lord called Samuel." God called him by his name. Some think the cull cfttiic from the most holy place. "He answered. Here am 1." Being unac quainted with the visions of the Almighty lie took that to be only Kli's call, which was rcHlly the call of Uod. 5. "Thou callest -me." Samuel's indus try and readiness to wait on Kli are good examples to children to come when called. He hears and runs at every call. 7. "Did not yet know the Lord." He knew and worshiped the God of Israel, but he did not understand the way in whic h God revealed Himself to Hia prophets. He had never even heard that (jod spoke in this way. If the Lord had given him u dream or vision he might have more read ily understood it, but God was preparing him for a prophet, und this way of calling Kuniiel was full of meaning. 'Ihere was a lesson in it for Kli. Many still fail to rec ognize God's call. 8. "The third time." The call was re peated again and ugain, for God saw that .Samuel's failure to answer was not from disubedieuce, but from lack of knowledge as to who called him. In fact the quick answer to Kli's supposed call showed that he was ready to obey God as oon a--, he un derstoodit. Ohedieiicetoparentsand teach ers always precedes obedience to God. "Kli perceived, etc. Kli could not but consider the preference, which the Lord showed to u child, before himself and family, ok u se vere and humiliating rebuke; especially a? he had reason to forebode that the mes sage which he was nbout to receive would be a denunciation of judgments on him and his family, yet, without envy, resentment or impatience he gave .Samuel proper direc tions as to how to behave on the occasion. !). "Speak," ete. This was the uual way in which the prophets spoke when they had intimations that the Lord 'was about to make some special revelation.' 10. "lime and stood." Krom verse j we learn that Samuel beheld a vision as well as heard a voice, and therefore it is the most natural to understand the Avoids "came and stood" as meaning a visible ap pearance. Samuel was at last satisfied that it waa not Kli but the Lord who war calling him. God still calls the children, and if they will obey as Samuel did they will accomplish much for Christ even in their young days. "Samuel answered." He was composed thia time, and did not rise, but gave attention, and asked for God to speak. 11. ' "Said tl Samuel." Through Samuel, whom Kli loved, God sent a terrible mes sage, similar to one which he had previous ly sent by a holy man (1 Sam. 2: ff-jWI, but which did not have sufficient effect to enable Kli to compel hia sons either to live a different life, or to leave the service of God. "Tho ears shull tingle." With hor ror und alarm. As a loud, sharp, discord ant, note thrills one's ears wilh pain, ao the bitter tidings of Israel's woo in the judgment about to full on Kli's house would shock all Israel. 12. "In that day." It is probable that . this message waa sent to Kli some years before his death, and he and his sons had abundant time to change their course. "1 will perforin," etc. I will bring all the judgments against the house of Eli that 1 Jiave spoken. The particulars of thui curse we read in chapter 2: 27-I10. Divine threat enings, the less they are heeded, the surer they will come and the heavier they will fall. 13. " have told him." God gave Kli no tice of what the end would be of such in difference. "Will judge his house forever." I will continue to execute judgments until it is destroyed. God regards it as iniquity to allow children to choose their own evil ways. Kli's sous were wicked. Their fath er knew the Lord, but ho neither taught his children .lot restrained them bv paren tal authority. "Kestmined theiii not.'" This does not signify that he showed no sign of displeasure ugaiust their wicked ness, for he did chide them, but too gently, but he did not severely reprove them, and when that would not restrain them turn them out of their ohce. 14. "Shall not be purged.' That is. the punishment threatened against Kli and his family shall uot be prevented by all their huirihciji, but shall certainly be executed. What is spoken here relates to their tem poral death only. Mercy for their soul's wilvution was atill extended lo them, and if they hi.d repented they might have been aaved. But every effort to restrain these wicked sons proved unavailing, and their doom finally onwt; audden and irresistible. - Grasshopper Paint. Water and oil bave long been used by painters, and now, according to M. Nelge, an Algerian architect, they will bave to uso grasshoppers if they desire to be entirely up-to-date. While recently walking in his gar den, be picked up a grasshopper, which had evidently been feasting foi a good whllo, and by pressing Its throat he obtained a very beautiful brown subRtanco, aomewbat similar to sepia and capable of covering a sur face of about three square Inches. To him thla seema a remarkable dlwcov ery, and he claims that grasshopper paintings are bound to become popu lar very soon. Baltimore Nows. . Royalty's) Many Names. Should the king ot Portugal visit a hotel la the ordinary way, accompa nied by hU two tons aud younger brother, his secretary would have quite Job registering the party. Ills majesty has thirteen names, bis elder son baa seventeen, the la t tar a brother has thirteen, aud the king's brother twenty-two. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. Dec. !4-"0uf Fellowship." cxxxllL 1-3; I Cor. sit, 11-27. Sirlpture VcrBps. Mai. ill. 16; John xlll. 35: Acts I. 14; il. 1, 42; Cal. vl. 10; Kph. il. i:: 1'bll. I. 3B; 1 Thmsu v. 11-13; 2 Theas. I. 3; 2 Poter I, J, 2. Lesson Thoughts. It In true of churvh followRhlp as nf every other organization of effort that "In union then is strength." A thousand men united sre worth mom than ten thonmnd working lndepend cntly. For this reason arming are formed, manufacturing industries ar establish!, and ixiptilatlons nn tralie Into cities. Tor the same rea son Christian fellowship addr strotiKth to the church. One great value ot Christian fel lowship results from the fact thai "there are diversities of gifts." WhllS ono builds the other guards; Chris Han fellowship nftords opportunity for tho iwptul exercise ot alt our var kniB talents. Selections. A pious man of rank was In thf habit of lasOA-laitinc- Irtimatoly with pious poor people. A worldly friend of his rallied hlni on tho subject ol his assoc iates, nnd expressed his stir prise. The noble Christian man re plied, that, as he could hardly hopf to enoy so elevated a rank as they in a futitro world, he knew not whi he should despise them In the prcs int. Bishop Varrrn tells tho following story ot himself: When his com jinny was ordered Into battle for thf first time, and they approached th scene of the eon Bet, a dread cain over him, and Ills knees shook be neath him. Marching; next to hint was a gigantic Irishman, nnd tb.t Bishop said It was a great comfor to him just to look up into his face Whenever he felt his courage fail inp him. he wo'ild rub tip acainsf hio burly companion, and the tioucfc of that firm, broad choulder filled him with new strength and courasa Such Is the strength te Christian receives from the sense of fellowshiv with Christ and his followers. Suggested Hymns. Blest be the tin that binds. Onward, Christian soldiers. Rejoice! ye saints, ag;aln rejoice! I love thy kingdom, Lord. Press on, press on, O pilprim. The Lord keep watch between us. EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS.; Dec. 14 Our Fellowship Psa. 133, t-J; I Cor. 12, 12-27. The psalm we study is doubtless of the time of the restoration and return to Jerusalem. One delightful thing about this was the sense of unity which it inspired. The nation hnd been heartily united. So now the Church. The prayer of Jesus was "that they all might be one." No real Christian but desires true unity and harmony in the visible Church. The present tendeucy to unity muy be hopeful or dangerous as It Is born of deeper spirituality or of looseness of doc trine. Unity and uniformity are not to be confounded. One great Church organization Is not possible, nor Is It desirable. There Is not to be one fold so much as one tlock. But we ought to recognize .that we live In the day of true Christian unity, and that more and more Christ is to be ex alted, and nonessential differences Ignored In Christian fellowship. We must recognize that other churches and othor systems of Christian doc trine have a foundation upon the rock of truth. Each Church has Its own special work, and - each Church has its weaknesses and a recognition of the orthodoxy and faithfulness to Christ on the part of each is needed to-day. The time has no doubt come when active cooperation between the Churches and young people's socle ties ia demanded in certain directions. We have It now In our Sunday school lessons and In our Young People's ToplcB. May we not extend It soon to mission work at home and abroad? Is It not often feasible In local relig ious work? Quarterly union young people's services are now frequently hold with profit. Iet us study to practically cooperate where it seems to be desirable and helpful. We face a united skepticism, a united heathen Ism, and practically 'united wurldll ness. We need to confront them with a federated and united Church. In the temperance work; In the work of social purity; In that of evangeli zation of our cities, can we not hope to see In the near future a federation of all Churches for aggressive work, against sin? Such a spectacle would be a mighty argument for Christ. While we are urging fellowship among the different Churches let us not forget that true fellowship Is often wanting In the local chapter. Let all "cliques" nnd "sets" and divisive forces be abolished In our chapters. Let the poor and woll-to-do. the Igno rant and educated, the different so cial factors, get togothor. Let us have true fellowship In the chapter! One kind of church work is as neces sary as another; one ma pray and another pay, but both are necessary. The various departments of the League are to be mutually coopera tive. The church should be coopera tive. The stewards should attend the clasB meeting, and the class leaders should assist In the financial work of tho church. Parrot Race Extsrmlnated. . Ornithologists will regret to loam that GuIIdlng's ama.on parrot, a rare bird Inhabiting the mountains of St Vincent, has In all probability become extiuct, owing to the recent volcanic phenomena in the Island. . Tbe pecles was said formerly to occur only on the Souffrlere, hence II became kuown as the Souffrlere bird. The great eruption of 1718 drove many specimens to seek shelter In the other highlands of fit. Vincent, but their numbers were considerably re duced by the fearful burrjeane of 1898 and there Is no reason to fear, so I am told by an ornithological friend, that tbe fow survivors bave ail perished lo the eruption of May last. Scotsman, Hand-Shaking Forbidden. .A. new club Is belug organized at tbe town ot Kazan under the name of "Do Nut Shuke Hands." The origina tor Is oue of the most prominent local barristers. On meeting each other the members ot this club are not to shake bands, but make obeisance. Before Indies tha obelsance In to be more rev erent and the bow very deep. If a handsome lady extends ber hand tbe club member Is to touch It geutly with his lips. TIIE great destroyer SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Question nf tnelrlet.v as the New York Hun Sees 1 1 The Kalnon Kxlsia Beennse It 1'rovlilss flraltneatlon for the Appetite For Alcoholic Ntlmnlmlna At a discission oi the niietion of "The Saloon. Its KuiH'tioii and Perils." by cleri cal nnd Iny nliilosonhers. in Xew York, a clergyman of PitM'eld in Massachusetts, the l!ev. Raymond Calkins, is reported to have made these rather surprising re mark: "The saloon is ministering to the social instinct of tiic people snd Unit is why it exercises its mysterious nnd powerful in Hncncc in every community. It is nn in formation bureau, it is a labor bureau, a postollire. a place of rix rration. amuse ment and fellowship. "Picture the cundition of a youns labor ing man nlone in the city. As he aoes to his room in his boanlina; house, past dark and gliimnv diuretic, be timls one door opens to him, and he finds justilication for seeking- his amucmctil in the saloon in the cold and uninterested attitude oi our Christian society." The influence exercised by the diinkiim saloon in even- community is not at all "mysterious." Mr. Calkins, but is due to a cause which lias always been apparent. The saloon exists because it provides jftati fication for the appetite ior alcoholic stimulation, nn appetite which has been pnweriul from the time when Noah, alter landing from llie ark. "began to be a hus bandman." "planted a vineyard." and "drank of the wine and was drunken." Neither in l'ittsfiold nor in New York do people go to a saloon to get information or lo obtain labor, to post their letters, or simply for recreation. amilMCtncnt and fel lowship. They go to il to get. a drink. At a great part of the bars the eu-ttomers tarry onlv long enough to pour down their doses of honor, though at the beer gardens a spirit of socinhilitv may- prevail. The great and primary attraction at nil is the stimulant . Neither is llie Uev. Mr. Calkins justified in attributing the tendency to frequent, sa loons to the default of churches aud Chris tians. No "young laboring man nlone in the city" is driven to the saloon by their neglect to exercise the influence proper to them, and none will make that excuse for going to a drinking place unless he is seek ing to manufacture a oretext for gratify ing his appetite. Nothing except his de sire for a drink is responsible for his course. How lo find "a substitute fur the sa loon" was a question much discussed at this conference. Such a substitute, it seems from statistics gathered by Dr. Cro thers. has leen found by great numbers oi people in the secret use of morphine, and we. are receiving letters from victims of the habit -which coniirm his observation and conclusion that it is widespread, all of them being from men far above the aver age in intelligence. It is demonstrated that when the appetite for artilicial stim ulation is thwarted in one direction it may lie diverted tn another and a still more dangerous and pernicious form of indul gence; that freoiiently men anil women who detest alcoholic drunkenness fall a prev to nn infinitely worse intoxication. The cure for the influence of the saloon which seems so "mysterious" to the Pitts field clergyman is not in improving drink ing places so as to mnke them more desir ably efficient in "ministering to the social instinct of the people," but in controlling the appetite for stimulant to which they minister, first of all. So long as that ap petite is left unrestrained the evil results, whether there urn or are nut sulnons at which to gratify it. A drunkard does not need lo go to a saloon to get drunk, lie ran keep the stuff at home. The strictest abstainer from alcohol may secretly keep a hypodermic svringe with which to inject morphine into his system, to his utter un doing. The question of inebriety is very much larger than the saloon question. Xew York Sun. Di-lnklnar Women. "Drinking in Kngland is alarmingly on the increase among women of the wealthy and leisure class," says Lady Henry Som erset in "The Story of Our Farm" in the North American lieview. "Womeu in nppurcnlly respectable positions are con tinually convicted of drunkenness, until il may be truly said that scarcely a fam ily exist but has some record of the hid eous disease, I remember standing once in frn.n of a public house with an Ameri can who, when she saw respectably clad women entering it, asked. 'Are you going to hold there a erusade meeting?' It Acemed to her inconceivable that women were going into the public houe to drink, but to us it has become commonplace." - Had the American kept her eyes open at home she might have been less shocked abroad. AVomen in America do not Ire ouent public houses, that is, barrooms. But to aemi-puhlie retreats our women flock in alurniing numbers. Hotel cafes, ao called tea rooms dressmakers' parlors and "beauty shops" are the resorts of large numliers of American women who drink at all times of day or night all sorts of intoxicants. Women of position, of re finement and of home training may be fotuid to-day in popular resorts who five or ten years ago would have lost social caste had they been seen drinking an in toxicant in a public place, especially when unaccompanied by husband, father or brother. "I hold bridge whist responsible for much of the drinking to-day among womeu who really ought to know better," said a man. "All day they are shopning or doing teas, receptions and calls. Most of the night, after a heavy dinner, is spent at the whist table. Haggard, worn out with the excitement of the game, with nerves upset by losses, the women turn to a highball or cooktail. Finding momentary sti-engih. they grow to depend upon these urlilicial means lo pull them through a New York season. "New York l'ress. Siovel Vj to right Hum. A new and practical arrangement for providing musoiis and other building labor ers, couchnien, errand boys, policemen and others with cheap food and non-alcoholic drinks has been called into being by the Herlin section of the Herman So ciety for Popular Hygiene. At stated hours special carts pass through the streets ami dispense sandwiches, bread and but ter, the sausages so dear to the German palate, tea, cocoa, coffee and soup, all at the lowest possible prices. no." On llie cornerstone of that fabric which we entitle manhood is engraved the mono syllable "No." He who early learns the uie of that invaluable word has already learned the way to peace and comfort anil safely. An eay compliance frustrates everything, ltopect for others need not degeiierate into servitude, but respect tor oneself that is the very alpha and omega ol all inward command. The Crusade In lli lr. San Francisco is credited with having one saloon for every twenty-two adult male inhabitants. The Church Temperance Society sends a coffee van to the great tires in New York City, that the firemen may obtain tho re freshment they surely ueed wiluoui re course to the saloon. Tho report from.l'ekiu is thai tbe Chi nese authorities have ordered all foreign saloonkeeper to close their ai.loons and to leave the city within three days, there by removing from the city one disgraoe to Western civiln;stiou and a hiudranou lo mission work. Measures to promote teinerance in Swiss towns are impeded by the fact that iu nearly all hotels and restaurants guests are expected to drink wine or beer. Three Afrieau uionarcbs. Kin per or Men elik. King Lewauika and King Khama, have barred the entrance of drink into their territories. Thus the war against alcohol is being waged, and anhei- and en lightened heal hens are teaching civilized Kuropeana valuable les.ous in wise govern ment. . . In accepting nomination for the Lord Mayoralty of Kbetlleld, Kngland, Aldcrnion J. W.vrlitte Wilson has stipulated thut as his total abstinence and iioii-smokiiig pein :iples are well known, his colleagues must not expect him to make provision in these directions iu nny hospitalities thit may tale place it he k elected. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. j Gcaeral Traee Ceadltloas. - R G. Dun & Cot weekly review ol trad; says: Weather conditions have provided the Dnly important development of the past week in the business world. Ex cessve rnins in some sections, notably the Southwest, facilitated distribution of lesvy footwear, overshoes and kin drcl lines, while seasonably low tera penture at other points increase3 the iiiorcmeiit of winter wearing apparel. Jobbing and wholesale trade is fully mantained and manufacturing plants liae orders far ahead, but in many racs the coke shortage retards opera tions. Railway officials are making eveey ;fbrt to relieve the freight congestion, (iiccially in the vicinity of Pittsburg, bt thus far there is little evidence of iiprovcmcnt. Gross earnings are fully taintainrd, for November thus far ex .cdiiig last year's by 6.3 per cent, and lose of 1000 by 16.4 per cent, while it 1 anticipated that higher freight rates nil offset the advances in wages, suj ainiiig net earnings. Inquiries for pig iron become more irgcnt as the scarcity grows more unite. Furnaces are added to the idle ist when there is full occupation for 'very plant in the country, but the fuel iliortagc is not perceptibly improved. Coke, crinim.inds high premiums ac :ording to the needs of consumers, and ron is similarly held at an abnormal Josition by the ittsttllicient supply. Even foreign p'K iron has not arrived it specified dates, while new orders lave been placed abroad covering dis ant deliveries. It is fully apparent hat domestic needs will continue to ex ccd available supplies for many month) ti conic. Minor metals, on the other hand, are encrally weaker, tin being especially eprcsscd. Silver bullion has fallen much the lowest price on record, the itrinsic value of a silver dollar now bing about 30 cents. A distinctly firmer tone pervades tin ntrkct for footwear, orders coming jirward freely for spring goods. The uding shoe manufacturers have taken K'gc lots of leather, especially hem Ink sole, giving a firmer tone to the mrket and reducing stocks. Foreign dfr hides arc in limited supply and well lied. "here is still no inclination to place tape orders lor distant delivery of cot tot goods, but a steady current and de mad fully absorbs the linrtTcd stocks, ant buyers are often compelled to hunt forlesired lines of staple cloths. Print ed and woven patterned goods foa. prig arc selling freely on forward bttsiicss. The better tone that appear ed omc weeks ago in woolens hat finaly caused a moderate advance in stapl- lines for spring. Falures for the week numbered 213 in tit United States, against 183 last ycar,nnd 16 in Canada, compared with 35 a 'car ago. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Floir Spring olear. 3 25a3.45; beat Patent, fl.oTi; choice Family, $3.00. Wbt New York No. 2. 77cj Phllndilphia No 2, 7fia7b'o: Baltimore No 8 TSXc; Corn-Now York No. 2, 6,!c; Phila dolphiaNo. 2. 61ot2,'tf; BoltimoreNo. 2, 5tc. Oats New York No. 2, ,o; Phila lelphia No. 2, 37.';o; Baltimore No 2, 37o. Hay No. 1 timothy, tlfj,!i0al7.00: No. 2 tinothy. $15.ri0all5.OO: No. 3 tim othy rt:l.i0ai5.00 Green Fruits aud Vegetables Apples perbrl, fanoy $1 50-2)2 50; fair to ood perbrl.l 25o'J 00; Cabbages, "Do mestic, per ton. (4.00. Celery, per doz. 20ca40c; Kggplants, native, per 100,$160'S200; Oiranes, basket. 10at3o Lettuce, native, per bu box, 30c240o. Lima benus, native, pet- bu box, 80 Wo; Onions, Maryland and Pennsylva nia yellow, per bu, 60o70e. Potatoes, White, per buMaGOc; Mary, bind and Pennsylvania, per bu 55a60c; New York, per bu 5a60; aweeta, pel brl 1 75al 80. P Butter, Sepurator, 29a30o; Gathered cream, 24a'.'5o; prints, 1-lb 27a28o; Kolls. 2-lb, 26a27j Dairy pts. Md., Pa., Va.. 2oa26o. ' Eggs, Fresh-laid egg, per doson, 27a28o Cheese, Large. CO-lb, 13at3,''c; me. dium, 8(i-lb, lM3?ii picnics, 2.)-Ib Live Poultry, liens, lOalWo; old roosters, each 29u30c; Turkeys, lOXall Ducks. Ual2 Hides. Heavv atAnrs. nunniat,',,,, mnA suitors, late kilt, 60-lbs and up, close se lection, ll.S'al'-J'ic; oows and light steers JWalCVc. Provisions aud Hog Produots. Bulk clear rib aides, 12c; bulk shoulders, 11.' jc; bulk bellies, 11c; bulk ham butts, lie; bacon clear rib aides, 13o; booou shoulders, 12c; sugar-cured breasts, 15,'iic; sugar-cured shoulders, 12c; sugar-cured California hams, lOitfo; humscauvosed or uncanvased, 12 lbs. and over, 14c; refined lard tierces, brls andfiO lb onus, gross, ll?io; refined lard, secoiid-hund tubs, ll?4c; refined lard, half-barrels aud new tubs, 11, Wo. Live Stock. ChicOfTO. CbMI., Moatlv Iflol 1. good to prime steers li OOati 6i); medium $3 00ab 7ft; stackers and feeders $2 00 a4 75; cows, f 1 40u5 00; heifers $2 00a 5 00; Texns-fod steers ; (Kht4 25. Hogs, Mixed and butchers 5 H.'xib' 25; good to oholoe, heavy $d 20a(j 42; Sheep, sheep and lambs slow to lower; good to choloa whuthers i 75u4 25: Western sheen 13 7oa6 70. 1 East Liberty, Cattle steady; choice ti OOoG 20; iiriino 5 75u5 IK). Hogs, prime heavy t 40nl4'i, mediums $tj 40; heavy Yorkers 25aG HO. Sheep steady, Best wethers 3 75a4 00 culls and com mon $1 50a2 00; choice lambs 5 10a5 60. LABOR AND INDUSTRY A new union of steel end iron work ers has been formed in Southington, Conn. All the carriage and wagon shops in Albany, N. Y now employ union men, All the machine shops in Denver, Col., arc unionized, . with a nine-hour work day. There are 525 labor unions in Chi cago, with an estimated membership ol more than 300,000. , Farm hands in Iowa get better wager than the average pay for teachers in the common schools, Employers at Chatham, Canada, have signed the new scale of prices as adopt ed by the union printers. Freight handlers at Albany, N. Y.. will probably receive aa increase oi wages in the near future. Detroit (Mich.) bookbinder are on strike for a raise of the minimum scale from $13 50 to $15 a week. Union clerks at Birmingham, Ala., have reached an agreement with em ployes respecting hours of work. A movement to push the Sunday clos ing law is being inaugurated by the la bor organizations at Beaumont, Texas. Ironworkers at Kan&as City, Mo., are very scarce, there being not nearly enough men to supply the dcitvaad. THE RELKUOUS LIFE READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELFi roam Clod's dirt The Life of Chris tsf More ror Imitation Thaa For Adnalnt Hon sjTery Disciple Is Illvlnsly 0f (lalned Greatest Thins: of All. Und gave me .1 little light To carry as I go; Bade me to keep it clean and bright, f Khimng high ami low; 1 Bear it steadfast, without fear,' Shed its radiance fur and near, Miike the path before me clear With its friendly glow. Clod gave me a little song "' To sing upon my way; Bough may be the road, and long, 1 Hark may lie the day. J Yet a little bird can wing. Yet a little (lower can spring. Yet a little child can sing. Mnke the whole world guy. - (iod gave nie a little heart " Jo love whatever He made: t.nve ine strength to bear mv part, lnd and uiinlrnid. Through Thy world so fair.' so bright. 1 Fut her, guide my stejis aright! Thou my song and 1 hou my light, 1 So my trust is stayed. ' ' lura . IlichardSs ' riving- Ilia Life. "As Thou hast sent Me into the worts even so hnvc I also sent them' into the world.'' .lohn 17: IS. Every (Jhristian is a reproduction nf Christ. His life is for imh tation more than tor admiration. In tho perfect life there is a constant parallel be tween what He was and what we are. B is the first-burn among mnnv brethren; Ha gave to earth tbe likeness of the heaven y family nnd all His brthren are to maintain it. His life has long been the world's ides', but when His people live uright the worlf , will see thut ideal made real in them. That life is more than a glorious picture; it is a practical pattern. As truly as He was Himself commissioned for His great life work so truly are we commissioned of Him. He was the apostle sent fr m the Father: we arc His apostlm -sent from the Hon. This is the only trua apostolic ordination and appointment, the one thai. He bestows upon nil His follow ers. Every disciple is divinely ordained. We sometimes look forward to the time when we shall be free from our present earthly duties and hope that, after death, (iod will commission us to do some great work for Him. The time will never come when we shall be more truly sent of (5od than we now are to this poor, sinning, lost world. No cerefonials or ordinance of men can add to or take away from the fact of your heavenly commission. You have not hapiiened into lite; you have been as truly sent aa the Master was. And you have been sent to do the same work that He rame to do. Life, with the Christian at least, is not eating and drink ing; it is not getting riches or winning fame; il is not even seeking health or hap piness, but it is what it was to Christ, doing the will of Him that sent you. And what is His will? It is not His will that one of these little ones should perish d then it is His will that all should be saved. Your business is not being saved, but ear ing. The Father sent the Hon to be tha Saviour of the world and the Son sends His servants to be the saviours of the world. We may not offer our poor sin taiuted lives in sacrifice for the sins of oth ers, but we can give ourselves in service for thein. to save them from sin. How mean, paltry, unworthy seem all other aims lieside this of saving lives. Y'ou may do many great things, but nothing great er than this of saving men from sin. What a breadth of life this gives. Our lives seem narrow and circumscribed; so was His. But the breadth of His sympa thies bore Him far above His circum stances. He loved all the world and that lifted Him before all the world. Your mission will determine vour position. Com missioned by the love of (iod and sustained by love for man and heaven alone can comprehend the Greatness and the glory of your service. You must expect to par allel vour Master's experience in being de spised, onposod, ill-treated, derided and re jected of men. But if you are sent into His trials vou shall also enter His triumphs. While serving and fighting you may know His inner joy, calm, peace snd strength, and when the work is ended the .iny of your Lord wilt be but begun.- Bum's Horn, Ever? Hood Ueed Remembered. He who was mindful of the fragments of food at the feeding of the 5000 will no be unmindful of the fragments of good, when the results nf a good life are gath ered up. There are those who go through? the world living simple, healthful, anit helpful lives, who never seem to do great things; the reason is that the oppor tunity does not come to do work that inakea the world stop to look and admire. Yet nothing will lie lost: the Master is not more mindful nf bread than He ia of serv-, ice. If every idle word is to be accounted for. every good word will be remembered and rewarded. When the final accounts are made up it will be discovered thst the most fruitful lives are those filled with what seemed to be little services, ren dered each day without thought of the outcome or desire for praise. There are many people whose names never get into the newspapers, thev never say anything or do anything which the reporter ia anx ious to repeat. "Virtue isn't uewa." There are many gifts made even- day, but no account is taken of them, for to the eyea of the world the figures are too small. But; He who gathereth up the ti'airments in (riililee. will also gather un the ''frag ments'' of every life, and in this also many that are (irsl shall he last, and the last; first. Perhaps it is just as well that the world has not very much to say of us; we shall have a more moderate opinion of our selves, and (iod shall have an opportunity to sav some gladsome things to us when we sec Him face to face. Baptist Union. Pride. No man will acknowledite that he is vain, but almost any man will acknowledge hum. ne is proua. nut, tried by the bal ance of the aunetunry, there ia little choose between the two. If a man look for greutness out of (iod it matters little whether ho seeks it in his own applause or the applause of others. The proud Phari see who trusted in himself thut ho was righteous waa condemned bv Christ as se verely, and even more so, "than the vein Jews who "could not believe liecause they sought honor from one another, and not the honor which conieth from (iod only." It may be a more dazzling and a more splendid sin to be proud. It is not less hateful in (iod's sight. I.et us speak God's word to our own unquiet, swelling, burn ing hearts. Pride niav disguise itself as it will in its own majesty, but in the pres ence oi the high and loftv one it is but lit tleness, after all. F. W. Robertson. American Youth. The only salvation of American youth, the only means of maintaining the liberty pt our forefathers, is a belief iu (iod, a true, healthy, religious instinct which alone can preueive the Americans i'ros the shadow and burden of materialism. lie Hev. Dr. (irant, New York City. J The Broadest rratitlee. ' ' I submit this for your candid considera tion: Do you find as matter of fact those wlni prolans the broadest creed engaged in the broadest practice? Do you find them exei-cismg their beneficence over tbe whole field of humanity? The Bev. H. 4. Coyle, Denver. Col. , Tha Whole Alphabet Have you ever tried to make sen sible aentence bringing In every let ter of the alphabet? It'a rather a pood amusement for an evening, no the days are beginning to get dark early, if you pick thla sentence to piecea lutter by letter, yon will see K coutalna all the letters of the alpha bet. '.'Quick brown fox Jumps over the la.y dog. You must use each lot ter only o:.ce.,
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