T ' 9 '3 i "STONING JESUS. Sunday Sermon By Rev. Dr. Chapman. J. Wilbur A Plea for a Pilr Consideration of the Claims I the Rellfloa of Christ Anything Is Better Thsa lodilference. ' New York City". The' following sermon entitled. "Stonine Jesus." nm lireached tiv th am tiy th great evangelist, the Kev. IT. i. Wilbur Chapman, from tlio text: "Then the Jews took tn up stones again to stone Him " John x: 3 31. The shining of tho sun produces two effecti in the world, one, exactly the op- Iioiite of the other. In one place it en ivens, beautifies and strengthens; in the others it deaden, mars and decays. Ho it is with the Gospel of Christ. It is unto wrme "savor of life onto life;" unto oth ers it is "a savor of death unto death." 8o it was with the coming of Christ into .the world. He brought to light the truest affection and the deepest hatred. Men loved darkness rather than light, so Christ's coming into the world could only disturb them. t If you go into tho wood on a summer's day, and. if it be possible, turn over ono of the logs which may be near to you. you will find underneath hundreds of little insects; the moment the light strikes them they run in every direction. Dark ness is their life; they hate the light. But if you journey a iittlc further and lift a stone, which for a little time has been covering tho grass or the little flowers, the moment you would lift the obstruction these things would begin to grow. The light is their life; they die in the dark ness. Christ's coming into the world pro voked the bitterest prejudice and called I forth the deepest derotio.i. Simeon, a "devout man, was in the temple when the , young child Jesus was brought in, and he 4 iok Him up in his hands and Moused Ood, d said, 'Lord, leUott now Thy servant Vf.Mart in peace, nn-ording to Thy word, Vjnow my eyes have seen Thy salva- Jt was just the opposite witn d. When the king heard concerning he sent the wise men that he might ut tliror.gh them where tie was, en thev did not return, he was ex. swotn, and sent torth and slew i-hildren that were in Bethlehem jAa all the coast thereof two years and rier, according to the time which he had jfi tntly inquired of the wise men. lhesr S she two extremes. n s gospel is the gospel of love, but we una me same great nmerences fl can you find such sweetness as ii ,ied in tnese words j?nr oa a he world that lie gave His onl) Ron, that whosevcr believe til if Id not perish but have everlatt Where is there such tenaeinesi is expression ''Jesus wept?" words, and yet on them tht world tests, taking comfort ana i! But where can you find suck I expressed in John viii.: 59 lok thev ud stones to cast al lid main in the text. "Then tin k un stones again to atone Him?' vou remember whom thev wer , ' la, the Son of Man and the Son ol ' jt. , the One who waa going about doini K i il. : i ii.: .L:.f roou, me sin is eomeiiiiug umui iu wiius out. This text and the verse that lot w is a beautiful illustration of hate and ve, brutality and tenderness. He haii &ist said, "I and my father are one," orU which should have made the hearts c il. i. i : .1.,. XT. ... m iuv pcupio leap i JUJ , hum lie a( S ipe with Jehovah, who had led their fore then from Kgypt to C'aanan; who had ken the worlds into existence; had Vthe winds in His fists: in whos 1 the seas washed to and fro. Yon aid have thought at these expression) jf the Master every knee would have been Dnwcu ill loving uevmiuu, uuv nub vi. The Jews took up the stones again with .which to atone Him, and He gave them one of the tenderest answera His heart ii i . i ..it i i i i nouja uicuue ninny guou worus nave i shown you from Mv Father, for which ol these do you stone Me?" 1 The text is an illustration of the fact that those who were models in fuirnesf of their treatment of men ore most unfnii in their treatment of Jesus Christ. Ii you are familiar with the mode of stoning offenders in the early days, you will be able to see how true this was of the Jews. .The crier marched before the man who was to die, proclaiming the man's sins and the name of the witnesses appearing against him. This was for the humane purpose of enabling any one who was ac quainted with the circumstances in the caso to go forward and speak for him, and tho prisoner was held until the new evidence was given. But the Jews were not so considerate of Jesus; when He said, "I and My Father are one," imme diately they began to atone Him. i All that i asked for our religion, for Christ and for the Bible is just a fair consideration of their claims. The Bible, we claim, ia the word of God, not becuuse it ia old only, but because it is both old and tiue. It reems as if it were written for us aa individuals; it is my present an swer to my present need. We simply present the Book in evidence. Suppose you try to find its equal; suppose you try to produce its simplest parable; failure . ,wouid be the result. Our religion is the same; we only ask for it a fair considera tion. For ChriBt it is just the same. Iu England not long ago a woman was lec turing against our religion, and after she had closed, one of fTie mill-hand said, ."I would like to ask the lecturer thi one question: Thirty years ago was the curse of this town and everybody in it. I tried to do better and failed. The teetotalet got hold of me, and I signed the pledge and broke it. The police took me and sent me to prison, and the wardens tried --o make me better, and I heron to drink as' ioon aa I left my cell. When all hao failed, AJk took Christ aa my Savior, ant V madet new man of me. I am a mem ber of the, church, a class-leader and sn ' perintendentof the Sunday-school. Il Christ is a myth and religion ia untrue, tow could I be o helped by them 1" i Men are still atoning Jesus Christ. Per liaps you shrink from the conduct of tht Jews 'and cry, "Forsharne!" but there is a ,worse way to stone Him than that. 'Jen can hurt you far more than by str 'ins you in the face or beating you nth stripes. Do you imagine that t in 'i worst suffering was when they cast s.onei t Him, or scourged Him, or put nail through His hands? I a in sure not. hut it was rather when He came unto His own, and Hi own received Him not: whn they called Him "this fellow;" when He was in Gethsemane in an agony; when He was on the cross and He felt so forsaken that His heart broke. If He were hen to-day in the flewh ni He is in the Spirit, I am sure there art ways we could hurt Him more than by taking up stones from the verv streets and casting them in His blessed fare until His eyes were blinded by the blood drop falling down. ' IIC0N8ISTENCV. I.- Have you ever noticed the sadnesi which throbbed in the words of out Savior at the Last Supper, "One ol yot hall betray inei" or when lie was walk ing with them toward the garden, "Ah of you shall be offended this night be 'cause of Me?" or when He was in tlu , garden and we hear Him saying: "What, could you not watch with Me one hourr' .The atone that hurts Christ most is not tht one that is catt by the unbelieving world; He expect that; it is the one that it cast by Ilia own people, and there ia onl one atone that they can cast at Him, and that is the one of inconsistency to talV ona way and live another, confessing wit I .the lips and dsnying in toe walk. Yot var took a ateo ia th wrone directiol tint it was a a ton cast at Christ. I bav ttaard of a young lady who was engage 'is the great amsuot of pleasure an frivolity, nearly forgetful of lief loyaltj .to Christ. Ono day. being asked l y hei eoinDsnions to so to a certain n'uev. sb refused on tho ground that it was Com munion Hundar ia the church. In amass- weot her friends asked her, "Are you S uannintr If the world dor not , know it. if our friends do not know it, we an taking np alone with which to stoat jUim. , ' ' . RaTBED. II. On tii cart of those who are not V'm fniiowers, with some it is absolute s itred; c-riain'y it was so with th Jews. ios) mi is t ' trt that the took up puma a tin. 'i e tirM time we read of neir atonintf C. rut ia ia the eKililk chap It JI JiliK . A t! it JfPMWd .tuiX.l A 1 1 7 t 1 were near a piaee wnere-stones a Rounded, and it was very eaay to pick them np. The second time they were near Solo mon's porch; and it is a nuction ii lliprt wers any stone there to be f'v.iml. Ho il is thought that they carried tiiem all the way, perhap only dropping tlicm a listened to Ilia speech, by which tret were so enraged that ther i;touped and picked them up and hurled I hem at Him. Are you castine these alone at Christ! Remember that He nid, "lie that ia nul with Me is against Ms." JNDIFPKHEXCK,. III. With many it is the stone of indif ference. It wa one of the lirst cat nt Hira in the world. It began at the man ger, going to the cross, and it i still being thrown. With curling lips and in solent contempt men said, "Is this not the carpenter's son?" When He was on the rross, they snid in derision, "He saved others: now let Him save Himself," It is now the ninth hour and darkness is settled about the nlace. Ii(en! Ilia lips are -moving: "Eloil Eloi!" 8urely this will move them; but some one says, "Ho ia calling for Elias; let us see if he will come to Him." This is all like the gathering of a storm to me: first the oloud wns the size of a man't hand, that is, at Bethle hem; it is larger at Kgypt; heavier at Nazareth; darker in Jerusalem; then He comes up to the Mount of Olives, nrd the cloud seems to break as He cries out, "Oh! Jerusalem, Jerusalem!" I Have you been indifferent to Christ? lAnvthing is better than that; better out spoken opposition to Him than to he theo 'retirlly a believer and to be practically denving Him, How can you be indifferent to Him? A man working on one of the railroad! in the State of Indiana discovered, one morning, that the bridge had fallen, and lie remembered that the train was due. He started down the track to meet her. saw her coming, and, raising his hands, pointed ,to the bridge, but on she came, having no time to lose. He threw himself across the track, and the engineer, thinking him a madman, stopped the train. The man arose and told his storv and saved the lives of hundreds. Christ did this for you: lie purchased your redemption by the giving of Himself whether you have accepted this salvation or not. Will you stone Him foi that? TJNDELIEF. IV. When He said: "I and My Father are one," they east another stone at Him. That was unbelief. Indifference was hard to bear; hatred cut like a knil'e, but unbe lief was the crowning sin of the Jews. Many are hurling it at Him to-day. He has promised to save us if we only believe, and we need only to trust Him to be saved. A little girl in Glasgow who had just fcund peace was heard counseling one of her playmates in this way: "I say, las sie, do as I did, grip a promise and hold on to it, and you will be saved." mid there it salvation in the child's words. Now read the verso that immediately follows the text: "Many good work have I shewed rou from Mv Father: for which o: those works ao you stone Me: it is supposed that some of the Jews had actu ally struck Him with a stone, and this drew forth from Him words tender enough, pathetic enough to turn aside the hatred ot one who nan a neart oi stone. DO NOT STONE HIM. 1. Because of what He was. thev called Him the bright and morning star; the fairest of all the children of men; the chiefeat among ten thousand. Oh. that we might have our eyes open to behold Him! I. ritty year ago there was a war in India with England. On one occasion sev eral Knirlish omcem were taken nrisonerx: 'among thorn was one man named Iiaivd. UH3 ot the Indian otticcra nrongnt letters tu Dut on them all. Kurd had been sore I v wounded and was suffering from his weak ness. A gray-haired officer said. "You will not put chairs on that man, surely?" The answer was, i nave just ns many icticrs ns nriaonem. and they mut all be worn." Then said the old hero, "Put two pair ou me" Baird lived to gain his freedom, but the other man went down to his death doubly chained. But what if he hud worn the fetters of all i:. .the prison, and what if volutarily he had left a palace to wear chains, to suffer the stripes and endure the agony? That would be n poor illustra tion of it 11 that Christ has done for you and for me. Will you stone Him for that? .1. Because of what He is to-day. In 1517 there was a great riot in London,. in which houses were sacked and a general insurrection reigned; guns in the toner were thundering against the insurgents and armed bands were assailing them on every side. Three hundred were arrested, tried and hanged; five hundred were cast into prison, and were to be tried before the king, Henry VI If. As he sat in state on the throne the door opened and in they came, every roan with a rope about his neck. Before sentence could lie passed on them three queens entered, Catherine of Aragon, wife of the king; Margaret of Scotland, sister of the king, and Mary of France. They appronrhed the throne, knelt at the feet of llis Majesty and there re mained pleading until the king forgave the i; ..a Un .1 r-.wl 1 ....... .n mat. But theie is a better intercession than iliac going on lor you ana inr me u. ; moment. Will you stone Him for that? Looking out from the window of heaven the Son of God beheld people heavily bur dened, bearing the weight of their sins, groping about in their blindness, crying. ''Peace! peace!" and there was no peace. And He said, "I will go down anil become bone of their bone and flesh of their lle-h: I will open their eyes and bear their bur dens, foririve their sins and give them peace." Between man and the Father's douse was a great gulf, wider than the dis tance from coat to west, deeper than the distance from north to south, but Christ's coming bridged the gulf over. Across the chaum Ho cust His cross, and ou tho other aide I see Him standing. His arms out spread. His attitude one of pleading. Lis ten! you will hear Him saying, "Come unto Me, come unto Me, whosoever will, let him come." Will you stone Him for that? A Wilt Power. . It is the written law of God that nmi shall receive according to his gifts. The law holds in every remtion in life, as we deal with men so will men deal with lis. Every action in life has its measured ton sequences. The law of reciprocity holds on all occasions. A man is not entirely sub ject to his environment. We often hrar men complain that they are victims of cir cumstances, but God has given us a will power which if we but piooerly exert it will prevail over the evil influences of our surroundings. Tho Kev. H. E. Cobb, New York City. ' What a Man Really Is. I .What a man intends to be is what he really is. lie may, inueea. realize that he oright not to be that, but to be something better. He may, perhaps, with, at' times, to rise above his chosen course, but this amounts to little while he really, in his heart of hearts, intends to pursue the other path. God knows what we intend to be, and He judge ua accordingly. This is the idea of the inaoired declaration: I "As ho thinketh within himself (a a man iu j ....m M i... " 'uiunncui in in iiiuv. in. 'ft w i uv, ;6unday-SchoolTinie, Ralalno Wives "tor Farmra. More than fifty glrla are studying scientific farming In the Minneapolis College of Agriculture. The courae they take Includes botany, chemistry, phyglca and geology, requiring ia tht flrat two yeara, two tenna ot each They pay special attention to cook ing, laundering, household economics, furnishing bouses and social culture They lean to plan building and to lay out grounds. By thla mean it If hoped that farmers can be provided with wives who will know enough about making life in the country at tractive to keep the boys from em I grating to the towns and cltlea. tlaapleea Animal. , There are several specie of fish, reptile and Insect which never aleey during their stay In the world. Among fish It la now positively known that pike, aalmon and goldfish nevei aleep at all, also that there are aov rral othera in the flab . family that never aleep More than a few minute a month. Titer are doaena of apecle of flies which never indulge ia alunv burs, aad from three la ttv specie ot serpents which also never sleep. THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comm:nts for January 4. Siibfccl: Pant and Silas at rhillppl, Acts vl , - 2i 3-0oldtn Text, Acta xvl 31 Mem ory Ver, 29-32 Commentary a Ihj Day's Lcuoa. , I. An evil spirit cast eut (vs. Ifl lH). The missionaries made their home at the' house of Lydia (see v. 15) while they con tinued ta preach the gospel at 1'hilippi. ''hey had good success, anil in this city the first Christian church in Kurope was found ed. But their great victories did not como about without great opposition. There was in the city a certain damel who was a fortune-teller, who brought her masters great gain. This slave girl followed the missionaries md cried after them. Paul was grieved because of this, and command ed the evil spirit to come out of her. "And be came out the sr.me hour" (v". 1H). Why was Paul gieved? 1. Because her presence was troublesome to him. 2. Be cause it might appear that he was in al liance with her. ii. Because what she did was for gain and was a base imposition. 4. Because her state was one of bondage and delusion. Si, Because the system un der which she was acting was then holding a huge part of the pagan world in bondage. II. Paul and tSilas arrested (vs. 111-21). After the evil spirit had left the girl she no longer had power to make money for her masters by fortune-telling. This maue her mnsters angry, and they seined Paul and Kiln and dragged them before the magistrates into the market place, whero legal business was transacted. "The Phil ippian magistrates were excited against the missionaries bv the nccusntinn that thev had attacked the religion of Home." III. Paul and Silas beaten and im prisoned (vs. 22-20. 22. "Multitude rose up." An excited mob.' This whs done without any form of law. The very magis trates who were affecting such great zeal for the law were among the first to disre gard it. "Rent oil their clothes." They violently tore the elothi-s off of Paul end Silas "Heat them." The words mean to "beat with rods" (2 Cor. 11: 25). The Ro man custom was to inflict blows upon tho naked body. 23. "Many strincs." The Roman pun ishment was not limited to "forty stripes save one." like that of the Jews. 24. "Thrust them." A'l sore and Weed ing. "Inner prison." The dungeon, a deep. damp, chilly cell, far under ground, opening only at the top, without fresh uir or light. IV. A gTeat deliverance fve. 15. 20). 25. "Praved and sans praises." Their wounds were undressed; filth nnd vermin added to their pain; their position was one of torture. Sleep was out of the question. They passed the night in devotions. It i ft signiticant fact that the must joyous of Paul epistle is that written to the church at Philippi, born out of his expe rience of suffering. 20. "An earthquake." Thus did God answer prayer and prove His presence and protection. No doubt nil Philipni heard the sound and felt the forre of the earth quake. "Doors were opened," etc. The chains were made fast to the wall, and the shock which mirst asunder the bolts of the doors also released the fastenings which held the chain in the masonry. A symbol of the spiritual deliverance they were to effect for the heathen (Isa. 42: 7). V. The jailor converted (vs. 27-34).' 27. "Awaking. ' The praying and singing did not awake him. but the earthquake did. He evidently slept in full view of the pri son doors. "Drew out his sword." The Roman laws transferred to the jailor the punishment due to an escaped prisoner. Ho decided at once to take hi own life and thus avoid a worse fate. He supposed that all in the prison had escaped. 28. "Paul cried." Anticipating the jail or's fear for his own safety, Paul raised his voice to secure attention at once. His purpose of suicide was a great sin. "All here." "Strange for a prisoner to be so licitous about his keeper. But Paul was passionately trying to save men, and tho whole gospel is an appeal to men to do themselves no harm." 29. "Called for a light." Which could he carried in the hand. This care for bis welfare begat a tenderness iu the henrt of the keeper. It was the arrow of convic tion which had reached his soul. "Came trembling." Not for hi life or hi office, but for his soul, which he felt was in dan ger of cternul los. A moment before he was ready to destroy his life to escupa the wrath of man. but now ho was eager to find the way of life. , 30. "Brought them oat." "From the inner prison, where they were confined in the stocks, into the court of the prison, or into his own apartments, having no fear that they would escape, but rather con vinced that God was overruling all thing for them." "Sirs." "The Greek word im plies an acknowledgement of great super iority. Those who hod been hi prioner were now his lords." ''S-ved." "He had called for a light to look tor hi prisoners. He now calls for the true light, to go forth out of his own prison." 31. "Believe." etc. The sum of the whole gospel: the covenant of grace in a few words. Faith in Christ saves us, (1) because it ia the acceptance of God's way of salvation by the atonement in Jesuit; (2) because it is the act of taking the things offered to ua by God; (?) becuuse it is the act of committing ourselves to an infallible teacher and guide; v4) because it unites us to Christ, the holy and perfect being; (5) becauso it fills the lieait with love to God arv to Jesus; (0) it makes spiritual and eternal things real and ef fective in our lives. 32. "Spake unto him." Then they pro eeeded, more at leisure, to pour into his attentive ears the history of Jesus Christ, to declare His doctrine, and to explain what it was to believe in Him. 33. "Washed their stripes." "He had not concerned himself about their suffer ing condition when he put them into the inner prison, but now that his sins were washed away his thought was to minister to the needs of those who were instru mental in his salvation." 34. "Set meat." As they were the in struments of bringing health to his soul be became the instrument of health to their bodies. "Rejoiced." The joy that filled the hearts of Paul and Silas, making the prison a delightful place to them, now filled the hearts of the converted heathen, and made their family circle the scene of holy worship. President' Pleading Effective. Had it not been for Preslden' Roosevelt's, intervention the Harvard football eleven would thla year bav lost the aervlcea ot lta brilliant cap tain and half back,, 'Bob" Kernan Last spring, tho young man' father, who resides in Brooklyn, informed him that he had played football lon( enough and it waa now time to go tr work. Even when Bob waa elected captain the old gentleman remained obdurate, though the university foot ball authorities pleaded for one more aeaaon. Then some one suggested that Hr. Roosevelt, an alumnua ot Harvard, oe naked to Interpose his good office. Thla was done and the president wrote to Mr. Kernan, senior, on the subject, whereupon the latter withdrew bis objortlons and "Bob" remained on the teaniN Th American Birth Rat. Recent census . figures, according to an article in the Philadelphia Medi cal Journal, aeem to establish beyond question of a doubt the fact that the birth rate la this country is lower than that of any European country, ex cepting Prance; that the birth rate of the American-born population ia much lolow that of France, and that the fe cundity ot the American woman ia lower than that of the woman of any other country. France la alarmed at her condition; we are indifferent, for wo are constantly recruiting our popu lation from Ruaala, from 8weden, from G-crmany, from Ireland or rust Can nr"1 Exchange. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. Janaary 4 "How to Get a Presh Start" Epb Iv. 72-31. Scripture Verses -Ia. 1. 18, 15: Acts xxvl. 19. 20; 2 Cc;. x. 5. 6; Hob. v. S; Rom. vlll. 37-3!); 1 Cor. xv. 57; rial. vl. 0; 2 Tim. iv. tl-S. Leseon Thoughts. The pnd dnpoud3 much upon the beginning Tlio destination depends upon the direction taken; we cannot roatih IJoston by Kciing West. No nir-rc enn vo advance ilitiavcnworJ vhllo walking in the ways of the world. This Is the SMisiO for "t.urnlnjr ovet a now loaf." If tho old one was soiled with riilfitakp and blotted wlth Bins, ail the more reason why a new, clean atari should be niailf. Rjicers atrli themselves of every unnecessary v-cOgiit that would Im pede their progress; so ho who would win In the Christian race must put oft the old man, end be re newed In the apirit of his mind. Selection a. Whore tho f'.lfferetire comes in P3?er lives ia In the goal of vluion. Tho man with tho niuok-ralte looks down. The social butterfly glanres from flower to flower. But Paul flx?s Mn frazo on Christ, "lvooklng imt Jesus!" a pood word, that, foi t.rte new year, and ail the yenra, for rn we come to him, and live in him evermore. It a. man t s.IUs along a road lie KCds a thour.and things he didn't expect to seo when he started out. Whoever launches forth on God's promises may not get where he thoniht. ho would, but he will get ?cmciwhet-o. "What do you Intend to become'.'" naked Iird Melbourne of young Ben jamin Disraeli. "Prime minister of Hnpland, ruy Ixird," promptly, confi dently, came the answer. And al though few ycung men In England had i-xiiller promise of obtaining this ruhjpct than tlion had Ue.njamln Dis Moll, yet by persistently keeping tc his determined pttrjioso, ho at last, to the amazement of the world, realized that object. Suggested Hymns. Praise Ood from whom all blessings flow. All hail the pc; wer of Jesus' name. Lead, kindly light. Savior, lead me lest I stray. Take' thou my hand, and lead me. Blest Jesus, grant us Etrengtli to take. Anaesthesia Without Drugs. Dr. Stelner, a Dutch physician, re cently made a curious discovery while traveling In .lava, says the London Chronicle, He chanced to atop one day at Sourabaya, where the Javanese maintain a large hospital for prison ers. Hla notice was directed to the fact that In the treatment of such cases as necessitated an anaesthetic the native physicians did not resort to a drug, but Instead they were mani festly reducing their patients to a con dition of stupor by compressing the carotid artery with their fingers. The Dutch physician was so much im pressed with this primitive method of rendering the patient at ieaat partially Insensible to pain that he made a care ful study of it. He discovered that this method ot anaesthesia, although unknown to modern surgery, waa In all probability in vogue among the an cients. Roosevelt on Boy. No boy can afford to neglect his work, and with a boy work, aa a rule, means study. I am no advocate ot senseless cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard at his lessons, in the first place, for the sake of the effect upon hla own character of settling to learn it. Shiftlessness, slackness. Indifference to studying, are all most certain to mean inability to get on in othet walks of life. Of course, aa a boy grows older it Is a good thing If b ran shape his atudles In the direction toward which he baa a natural bent; -but whether he can do thla or not, h 'must put hia whole heart into it. I do not believe In mischief-making In school hours, aa thla la the kind of animal spirits that makes poor schol ars; and I believe that those boys who take part In rough, hard play out ol school will not find any need of it American Boy. Death of Kossuth' Sister. News of the death of Loulao Koa cjth Ruttkay at Buda-Pesth has come to hand. Mrs. Ruttkay was alster of Louis Kossuth,, the Hungarian patriot, and wife of the late Joseph Ruttkay, She was over cighty-alx yeara old After the rUlug against Austria Id 1853, furthered by Kossuth, then Id Ungland, hla mother and three alsterr were banished and the mother bood after died at Brussels, while the sis tors came to this country. Of the three Mrs. Ruttkay was the last sur r!vor, and made ber home In Americt entll 1881, when she went to live wltb her brother at Turin and was with him when he died. In his last yearr she kept up hla correspondence wltb ti!s old comrades in tals coimtrj Tenor a 8tock Company. Andreaa Dip pel, the celebrated tenor, has a novel plan to anticipate the future. He wanta to form himself Into a stock company, the basis ot which will be his earning capacity, present and future. He thinks that he has at least twonty years ot good earning capacity In him and be wants ;to cash some ot It in advance. Is short, be wants to make bla voice hi principal iu a concrete lortn. When 'be returns east from his western tour .he expects to Interest Wall street Ir the enterprise. Under bis plan all bli earnings tor the next twenty yean will be paid over to the company, hr to take half bis share in cash and thr .rest In common' atock. ' Coat Via Lit of a Hoc. To save his o a . life Bliss Bnyder, a farmer residing near Uersdale, Pa, a day or two ago sacrificed his- heir to a big aha bear and two half-grown" subs which had attacked him. Snyder as searching for aome lost hogs when 'at passing through one of the densest parts ot the mountain bla boras reared as ths three bears, growling ferocious ly, appeared before blm. In ths dens growth ths bora could not esrap. to Snyder slipped to the ground and fled. Later a party of hunters foendf th borss wbers b fell, th flesh torn from ths boaes In shreds by the bears. TUB GREAT DESTROYER 3cm: stamtuno facts about ths v.ce of intemperance. All .Arfimenf for 1 linuglrtfitl Mlt Mm, ilit Witr r n vlnrlna a llonliiei nr tltc Injnrions KITei'ts or Alcohol The rr-IVn k II Cnnscs the Heart. I):. IIiiIiii .-dini. '.'iniiiciit Knglisli plivsicii'M. by a n simple experiiiienl unit' i nn imcd mi iiiiclligent si-holm- ot tile injurious effect of alcohol. The s IidIiii, an inU'liigent young man -.'-.is ninging t hp praises '"I ivhat he called the "lluddy I '.unifier." saying he could nm a-. Ilii-uuaii tiie day wiilmut it, and that il gave him strrngth and health, as weli as pNliilnratioo, i.lieu I); 1! ii lin ril-on -aid to 1 1 1 in "He good eiio.mh to icel my pulse, 0 ' am standin. hen ?'' Tlie .vouiiz man did so, counting it lirats caiefiilly, uml saying, "1". Lrnli scv 1 ntv-lmir." Tlio doi'tm- then sat dotrn in .1 chair, and asked him to count i! again. lie did so. and -aid, "It h.is one down to scv entv.'' The doctor then lii'd down on the lounge, ami said, "Now .'ount it again.' Thi- tho younc man did. and in surpr!r said. "Why. it is only sixty-four; what an extraordinary thing! ' The Doctor tiien said. "When you lie down al nighl. that is the way nature takes to give your heart rest. Von know nocliinic about il, hut your heart, that for ever licating organ, is taking a rest, and if you will but reckon it up, you will lind that it i a great deal of rest, for in lyiiia down I tie heart is doing ten strokes les a minute than before. Multiply that by sixty and it is six hundred, and multiply that hy eight hours, and, within n liar lion, it is live thousand strokes different: and us the heart throws some six ounce of blood at every stroke, it makes a differ ence of some thirty thousand ounces ol lifting iu u siiiuie night, or over six bun dreir and eighty-four thousand pound" every year! When I lie down nt nighl without auv alcohol, then my henrt gels its rest, nnd my strength is renewed. Hut when you take your wine or grog, you do not get that rest, for the effect of the alcohol to increase the number ol strokes, and instead of getting the rest whii h sleep is intended to give, you iorcc I lie heart to some fifteen thousand extra strokes in n single night, and the result is. that you rise up in the morning com paratively weak, and until for the next dav's work till vim have taken another drink of the 'ruddy bumper,' which you seem to think is a source ot strength und the life of man below." The young man acknowledged that tlii must be so. He lienan to reckon up the ligurcs. nnd found what it was to be liitimi np so many ounces so many times, n d the result was that he became a total ab stinence man, with the greatest benefit to his health, nnd aa he ndniits, to his enioymcnt. of life and happiness. If those who resort to stimulants. n they say, to give them strength and health, would but consider facts and statement like those thus given above, would not multitudes who now make use of intoxi eating drinks, give up their use forever? New Method nf Flalitliic Saloon. The Methodist Ministerial Association, nf Williamsport. l'a., has posted card? bearing Scripture texts on llic licpior ipies lion in the street cars of that city. In one of the cars, titled in between two bote! advertisements, is a card liearing the vords: "Wine is a mocker, strong drink i raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.'1 In the same ar n-e the ad veriieinems of three hotels and three kindi nt beer end whisky, with anothei kind of beer advertised outside. In an other ear arc the words: ' Wine at last it hiteth like n serpent and stingeth like A.l..m " I., tl.;.. u...a I'.tn aiUnl-lisl, nil nuui-i aii mm iiients of five hotels and brands of whisky and beer. In still another was the warn ing: "Woe uiiio him that giveth his nciiih nor iirinK mat piuicn uic hoiuk hi nun. nnd maketh him drunk also." In this rat were live advertisement of the drink re ferred to. Money is lieing collected tc keep up this light for a year. roverty and Drunkenness. I'ovcitv is llic cause of most of th drunkenness that attficts the race. Anil drunkenness is the cause of much poverty. It should be the aim ot every friend of tem perance, therefore, to give his cordial sym pathy to all efforts to abate poverty. l!ul social changes that affect the mnterial con dition of the masses of men conic about slowly, and while these changes arc pro gressing it is not u waste of energy to view the average man and woman as a free agent and to urge upon him and her On duty and advantages of letting nkoho1 alone. That method, tliongn il, does not promii-c the elimination of the drink habit from so cicty, at least makes certain the saving ol many men nnd women. Il is doing good ill detail, while waiting for larger causes to produce wholesale if suits. A Novel Mellio.l. The latest and one of the most novel methods of promoting the cause of tem perance is that of impressing the effects ol alcohol upon the public by meant, of ad vertiseinenls. This peculiar device origin ated in I'aris. Frame, nnd has proved very efleclual in decreasing the consumption ol jiquoi in that city. Scientitic facts, statis tics, cartoons, caricatures, all are used nnd the Parisian is reached nt every turn, from every iiround of uppenl. The billboards shout the results of alcohol at him; the cars and 'buses present brilliant argument for temperance in word and picture; he i enticed into reading some thrilling incident in his morning paper and finds that it ends with a forcible temperance application. The Frenchman has been reached, and France, has scored a point in the battle against' the ravages of alcohol. Mind Cure For Drink. Curing drunkard by putting physic in is drink is an old and treuuently success. his drink is an old and treuuently success- fill form of treatment. "If at the same time," says the Hospital, referring to this trick, "one could instill into the drunk ard's mind a deep und undoubting convic tion that nny reversion to drinking huliit" will be attended by the direst conse quences, this belief also, so long as it lusted, would clearly Iw ii direct incentive tu prolonged abstinence." What a Helautlsl Says. At a meeting of the Nurses' National Total Abstinence league, held at the Lon don residence of Iady dc Rothschild, l'ro feasor Sims Woodhead, of Cambridge, as serted that nine-tenths nf the diseases and a great pa.i t oi the social evils of this coun try aro caused by the use of alcohol, lie advocated the practice of total abstinence as being right from a physical and moral puinl of view. Th Crosaila In llrUr. The Edinburgh I'resbytery has decided to me-noriaiize the Secretary for Scotland on the subject of Sunday drinking club, nnd to ask him to prepare a bill by which, without unduly limiting the right of the as sociation of working men, these hurtful and debasing institution might lie abol ished. , TIuto African monarehs, Kmperor Men e'dk, King Lrwanika aud King Kluina. have barred the entrance of drink into their territories." Thus the war against alcohol is being waged, and sober and en lightened heathens are teaching civilised Europeans valuable lessons in wim- govern ment. The saloon keener knows that if lie ran get the higher, more intelligent class he it so much surer of the lower or less intelli gent, for more respectable only means more victims, more ruin, more drunken ns. , Kndeavorers in Daytou, Ohio, are doing a good work establishing temperance cot fee houses near the factories snd under taking to caah the check of factory work ers, who would otherwise go to lb sa toous to get their money. I)r. Clark, of Rome, Italy, says thai thi vice of drunkenness is corrupting ill Initio races. Ua said that titty per ceat. of the apptiwiuta for tervic in the Kreocu Army are rejected on account of physical iia bililie r-iuecd b alvohal. - COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Ccacnl Trade Conditions. Firadslrcct says: ' Wholesale trade is qtictinu; down a the stock-taking period approaches, and what activity is noted by jobbers i in forwarding supplies of good needed to rc-cnforcc stocks of retailers, depleted by what is conceded to be the most ac tive holiday trade on record. Cold weather North and West lias liclpd sales of furs, heavy clothing and slciKlis and further stimulated rencrat retail buying. There arc. of course, some drawbacks, such as unsettled weather or bad roads at the South, the coal shortage at the East and the con tinuance of the railway congestion at the West, nfTccting the movement of cokr, bituminous coal ami Rcncral freight, but, taken as a whole, the mer cantile community contemplates the ap proach of the end of the year with com placency and satisfaction. Knowing as it locs that most lines o( trade will show gains over loot and, therefore, over any preceding year, the feeling is that the year has been a Rood one, while the fine wheat crop outlook and the volume of orders already book ed for next year give promise of fu ture good conditions. Even the knowl edge that some manufacturing plant: arc, like many domestic consumers, short ot coal and arc contemplating a rather earlier than usual holiday shut down fails to arouse the pessimistic feeling noted earlier in the year, when the fuel shortage was more talked about. Seasonable influences affect 'the Rrcat industries. Building is less active but the tone of the lumber market is one of undiminished strength. The iron trade presents surface quietness but some important matters are taking place. The passing of control of large independent mills into the hands of the leading interest unquestionably make for stability in the department of wire, tinplate and sheets. Southern iron men are reported more inclined to do business for iooj at a reduction from fancy quotations. Very heavy buying of cars and other rolling stock is indi cated for the new year, and liberal orders for plates, wire and structural materials for 1903 delivery are also noted. Pig iron and steel billets arc quiet. Irregular coke supplies harass furnaces anil interfere with operators of the finishing mills. High prices of coke nnd raw materials and higher freight rates form a combination fraught with difficulty to independent mills. Practi cally the entire rail output of the country for next year is already sold. Immense quantities of steel will be needed for new car building. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, .'l 35a3.45; best Patent, li.Cri; choice Family, 93.90. Wheat New York No. 2. 83H'o; Philadelphia No 2, 7BKa7G?'e; Baltimore No 2 7uJSe; Corn -New York No. 2, file; Phila dolphin No. 2. biubbX; Bultimoro No. 2, 5tic. Oats New York No. 2.37c: Phila- dclpbia No. 2, 38.' io; Baltimore No 2, 37o. Hay No. 1 timothy, 910.,ri0nl7.00; No. 2 timothy. 916.00al(5.50; No. 3 tiui othy9H.00ai.V00 Green Fruits and Vegotublos Apples ptrbrl, fancy 92 .ri03 25; fair to good per brl, 2 OOcii93 0; Cabbages, Do mestie, per ton. 94-00a7.00. Celery, per d-z. l,Sc2"ie; Eggplants, native, pur OO, 91 WJ'3200; Grapes, basket. 12al6c Lettuce, nutivo, per bu box, 30ctf-l0c. Limu beans, native, per bu box, 80S Unions, Maryland and Pennsylva nia yellow, por bu, G.ric7l)c. Potatoes, White, per bu 6faG3c; Mury. hind uud Pennsylvania, per bu ti.'in08c; New York, pur bu C'mTO; sweets, per brl 2 OOnf 223. Butter, Separator, SOuolo; (lathered cream, 28u2!te; prints, l ib lilailJc; Kolls, 2-lb. :i()u31; Duiry pts. Md., Pu., Vu., 28a29c. Kggs, Krosli-luid eggs, per dozon, 27u-.'Ho Cheoso, Large, 60-lb, l:iul3Vc; me Jiuiii, ,",C-lb, 13al3a picnics, 2.11b, 13Ynl3!'c. Live Poultry, Hens, lOVallc; old roosters, each 25u30e; Turkeys, llall.'s Ducks. 11-13 Hides, Heavy steers, association and alters, luto kill, 60-lbs and up, close so .oof ion, 12iul2?ic; cows aud light steers 9a9iTc. Provision and Hog Products. Bulk .dear rib sides, lOhu; bulk shoulders, tOH'c; bulk bellies, 12c; bulk ham butts, IO'jc; bucon clear rib sides, lOo; bacou ihouldcrs, ll,Vc; sugar-eured breasts, U4'c; sugar-cured shoulders, 11 iv; tugur cured California hams, lOJ'c; hums C4tnvascd or unonnvused, 12 lbs. and over, 14c; refined lard tierces, brls ind.'iO lb cnus, gross, ll.Vc; mimed lard, ecoud-baud tubs, ll.Vc; refined lurJ, half-burrels and new tubs, 11 Su. Live Stock. Chicago, Cattlo, Mostly 15a30o lower, good to prime steer 9 UOati GO; medium 3 00u5 &0; stockors nnd feeders 92 00 a-1 50; ooivs. 91 20a4 50; lioifers 9100a 5 00; Texas-fed steers 93 50u4 75. Hogs, Mixed and butchers 94 50a6 20; good tu choice, hoary 90 30uti 50; Sheep, sheep and lambs slow to lower; good to choio whether 9-1754 50; Western sheop 94 00a550. East Liberty, Cattle steady; choi.-,e 9o OO11G 10; prime 95 G0u5 75. Hogs, priino heavy 90 45u0 50, inodiums 9'i Ml: heavy Yorkers 96 20atl 25. Hhoep steady, Beat wethers 9J UOa4 10 cull and com mon 91 50e2 00; choice luinbs 95 -t0.i5 05 LIVE NEWSY NOTES A number of witnesses testified at Freehold, N. J., that thry had heard Mr. Bennett and many of hi employes ad dress Laura Biggar as Mrs. Bennett. The new Union Steel Company hai been absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. Officials of the Reading Coal Compaii) hold out no encouragement of rebel from the coal stringency this winter. It is said that 9,000 liocrs are prepar ing to trek to America, settling in Colo rado, New Mexico and Texas. Tho will of Mary Longfellow Green leaf, sister of the port Longfellow, be queathed 983,000 to charity. The threatened strike in the Genera1 Electric Works, at Schenectady, N. Y. has been averted. The remains of the late Gen. Gcorgi Moorman were temporarily buried in tn tomb of the Army of the Tennessee, ii Metaire Cemetery, in Louisiana. One hundred and fifty firms reorgan ired the pottery combine in Pittsburg. The monitor Nevada had her trial tri over the Cape Ann course, her averagi speed, considerably exceeding the con tract IfunocwoiC HIE RELIGIOUS . LIFJ f 60 ET ADINC FOR THE BO ET HOW WHEN THE SOUL INVITf S TSE (S aTSE' vrtia A Poeim lta noes Before Vena Neighbor ? World's Meeds Are Bat Our Only Care Rhontd Bo tW We Can Help. fTe (roes hfnri von. O mv hpfirt! Fcnr not to follow whero lie leads' lie knows the strength ench task dem fie knows the (Trace each trial neeu He's just a little farther on Along the dark and lonely way. His bleeding footprints you may trace," lie goes lie fore you all the day. He noes before you. O my heart! Thro' deepest depth, o'er highest height J Tie knows where lurks the ambushed foe, And what the battles you must fight; Me sees the pitfalls you will meet. The place where you will faint or fall; I The weariness, the pain, the teara He goes before you, lie knows it all. . V He goes before you. O my heart! He does not nsk that yon shall bea A sinale pann He has not borne, A simrle grief He does not share; He bikons on thro' toil and woe. Thro' storm or cslm or tempest blast. And yon shall see Him. as He said. For He shall lead vou home at last. He foes before you, O mv heart! r jl Still follow on thro' gain or loss, . And for the joy that's set before, Despise the shame, endure the cross. The path vour falt'rinK steps must tak) Is one llis nnil-pierccd feet have trod J Thro' Harden. Mount and riven Tomb lie ims before you up to God. --Annie .1. Flint, in Chicago Adrance. Tim l'art We Must ln. When a min's interests and- affection arc scattered over the whole wide field of humanity, he does not often count for much in practical social service. Dilution counts against efficiency. It ia easy to be in theory a lover of humanity, nfter the order of the Pecksniffs of the earth, and to lie unkind nnd unloving toward our im mediate neighbors. Therefore, according to the Congrcgationalist, the law of Hod docs not say. Thou shalt he a lover of mankind, bill rather, Thou nhalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Its grip is specializ ing. The one man who is withii reach looms up out of the foz of a generalised humanity with his individual claim ta consideration. Neighborly willingness is one thing, neighborly activity another. The one awaits its opportunity, the other grasps 1 and uses it. In Christ's thought it is op portunity which makes neighborhood. Tho man who fell among thieves was the neigh bor of the priest and Levite the moment his need came within their reach. The people of India were not within our active range nf neighborhood until the wav was open to serve them with the (Jospel. When the famine came the opportunity of neighborhood increased. If a man is out of reach we are not to waste our energies) in worry over his trials and deprivation, lint if (iod in anv wise brings him and ., us together, though he be at the ends of the earth, his need and our opportunity . make him our neighbor. Chrst presents the problem in ita sim plest elements, making it a primer lesson of the true spirit of neighborliness. Prac tically, under our modern conditions of world communication we have a more complicated problem to solve. Suppose? the (iood Samaritan with the wounded man upon his breast had come upon aiij, other victim of the violence of t! ' ", Suppose he had come upon a batt INO" where the woondeil lay 111 heaps. Si all the money in his purse would only sufficed to bring him home and put in the mouths of hi children till he earn something more. We have ou sponsibiliiies which we cannot wholl; aside for the most urgent outside 1 We have to use our strength and m with care, and to make them go as fa possible. The needs of all the world calling to in. We sometimes fear to 1 nnd think, so bittsr is the cry of suffer But Hod is in charge. We must do pari and leave the rest to Him. let lust because the story is so simlin.. 0K it me lew (-st?iiiiiu cit-iiii'lll gi wns neighborly spirit clearly before us. Th priest and lx-vite could not be good -neigh bors, for thev were selfishly unlnvipg- The Good Samaritan found a ncighUer whero he fount a need. If we seeu an answer to the lawyer's question, we must find it , along these lines. If we have the true love) ' ; of our brother, wc shall find no jack of on- 4 pnrtunitics for putting it in practice. We shall be tempted neither to dissipate oor? in neighborly activities in sentimental talk- J and feeling, nor to think, with morbid eli'-renroach, that God has put ",( ,"C J the whole charge of liis world. "Jfko ma 2 n " - u,i m-iF ,,11, ipit ju, ll!.-,c U IKJI ma given of God, and we shall t.o for him ur. to the meaoure and in the die proportion of our ability with a lovin;, and a quiet mind. "Father Coming; to Matt Vou." The story is related of a little lad whe . on one occasion had been away to spend - ' the day a tew miles distant, and was re- 'i turning home in the lingering twilight, ol u long Knglish summer evening. He ' knew the way well and as the light bnj " gered was allowed to return home alorgj When half the distance was covered, t heavy clouds upon the horizon began 't" crowd each other overhead. A preniatnrw , . darkness nettled down, relieved only by . vivid flushes of lightning and the rumble of neiring thunder. Frightened at the ap proach of the storm, with beating hearf and quickened steps the lad pressed 00 and at. a turn in the road heard a familiar voice saying: "Don't be afraid boy, father is coming to meet you." The distance to the -father was soon covered. The little ' fellow was soon covered within the ample storm cloak of his father, and the littls) hand was grasped by the strong, manly hand. What cal-ed the lad for, the dark ness, the rain, the lightning and the thm dcrY Father was there. . i x The lid. long since grown to manhood.-1 recalls with joy this little incident. Ha" : savs: 1 1 ".Many times since has that childhood ' memory returned in days of darkness andt distress. The human father has long . ince gone home, but the Great Father k remains, and there is a still more wonder- fill sense of safety and comfort in 'thfl ? Father's hand.' He is alt that an earthly lather could lie. raised to the highes power and miiltiiilicd hy an everlasting ' and almighty love." , , A Itevelatlon. i. In order to be helpful to the multitude i"' tho chosen dux-iplcs had a revelation at- : testiug the fact that .leaus was the Son of God. They saw the glory of Christ as diii iiested by His transfiguration on the mount; they beard the voice of God. the f'ttlier, "This is Mv lielm-eit Son. Hear ye II111." The Itiw. l)r. Holderbv. Atlanta. Ga. . Parsult mt Holiness. When shall we learn that tin- pursuit of holiness is simply the pursuit ol t'hrit? When shall w substitute for the "it" uf . fictitious aspiration the approach In ii living friend: Sanctity ia in character sail not in moods; divinity is in our omm ', plain, calm humanity, and in no invstiu rapture of the soul. Henry Pittuimoud. Sunar - as Chrlstlaa." ') To suffer "aa a Christian" ia to suffer ac cording to the will of God. In His irafTT- j; ing as a man Christ haa left us in eumplc that we should follow. We ran com vitat ' fellowship with Christ's sufferings. The ,i Kev. Dr. C. C. Hall, New York thiy . K 8ubatltuta for Fuel. . ' , While the receut coal famine, wsj sn uncomfortable fact Elliott Woods, superintendent of ths rapitol s4 Washington, wss bombarded wU nuggt-stions as to substitute fuel. v Ilerv are s few of them: "Storing the ' boat from warm debates;" ."the ee onod timber from which cabinets vi selected;" "planks from political mf ventloD;" "some or ths drtd cX fossils in the senate;" "'logs wk'i are rolled by all motnbera, aud 0 "step which or always taken to dy all mat Inr." N3C 0 0 0 5 I.