"THE FPU REWARD" Sanaa? Sermon By Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. Tb Spirit thai It Needed la lb Chorea How to Whi Iba Crows Which It lacorrapllbl New PUa af Salvarloa, ' New Yon Citt. Tha distinguished evangelist, the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chap man, in the author of the following sermon entitled "The Full Reward," which wai preached from the tent, "Every man that strlveth for the mattery ia temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a cor ruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. But I keep my body under, and bring it into tubieclion, leat that by any rneana, when I have preached to other, I myself should be a castaway." 1 Cor. ix: 23, 27. Paul, in the figure of apeech, ia on the race courae. He ia striving to reach the goal an J win the prize. Here, therefore, it ia not a question of life, but entirely a question of awards. He fa not writing to the unregenerate, but to the children of God. He eays: "I will keep under my body, Jest I ahall become n castaway. The won! "castaway" in the Greek ia lit erally "disapproved." Paul ia teaching that even if he is to win the crown that is incorruptible, he must deny himself, he must pot forth heroic effort, he must be faithful until the very end. This apirit is needed in the church. If the first crown ia for the passive Christian the second is for tho enthusiastic follower of Christ, and next to the baptism of the Holy Ghost the church to-day needs the barrtism of enthusiasm. It is a great mis take for men to allow their prejudice! to lead them against the methods' of church work upon which God has set His seal. There is a cry to-day against new methods, and people say the need of the time ia for tho old methods of our fathers. There is some truth in this, but the trouble with the advocates of this proDOsition is that they do not. make their methods old enough. We ought to go back to Pente costal methods of giving, for in those davs the disciples gave all they had. We ought to go back to Pentecostal methods of ? reaching; the early preachers had just wo themes in mind namely, Jesus and the Resurrection. We ought to to back to Pente-nstal livinp for in the c-lden times the disciples liyed in the expectation that each new day would bring back the Lord Himself, and having this hope in Him their live! became pure and their testimonies powerful. Ever church ought to change its method every Sunday, if the methods in use do not compel the peple to accept the gospel. We have no responsibility for conversion the Spirit of God takes care of that, hut we do lave a tremendous responsibility resting UDon us to make everv man. worn-' an and rWd understand that the Son of God died to set them free from the pen alty; of sin, and that He ever pleads at God I right hand to liberate them from its power iThe church ia not sn end, but rather a means to an end. If counted an end. tha memhenhin becomes satisfied wijh the church in itself, its pressing, its music, its so"ial standing, its nbilitv to influence the minds of thepeonle. and in all seriousness I dare to say that such a church will be a curse to a community in the thought of God, ratber than a bless ing. We havi thit to remember: when counted as a means to an end the church loses light of herself and realize! that she is in .existence only to bring to everv lost tinner the message of the gospel. So Ions? as there is one soul in the world unsaved God calls His children to carrv the mes sage of peace and glad tidings of great joy to that one, .There ia a Scriptural warrant for this frequent change of method. Tt is all summed up in one word: until. How long did the father wait for his son. "Until" he returned. How long did the woman tearch for the lost niece of silver? "Un til" she found it. How long Hid the shen herd loqk for his Bheep "Until" he had it in his arm's and was bearing it back with rejoicing to the fold. How often ought we to change our methods in the church? "Until" we have a method upon which God will set His seal, and to which the Holy Ghost will give Hi approval, beciuse that- method comnels the peonle to hear the gospel and to known that Jesus Christ died to save all mankind. Paul was willing to Vie counted a foo1 if only he might better influence men. To the wise ne would be wise; to sb ignorant he was willing to be counted ignorant; to the weak ai a man of weakness if onlv by all means be "miirht save some." May the Lord God fill the chwch with this spirit! We mn!d shake the rities and move, the world with the power of God: And when the great day of awards shnu'd come. eimnly because we had been dead in earnest, had counted peraonnl case as nothing, had la-Sored incesantly bv day and by nieht, in heat and in cold, we should receive the crown that Is incorruptible.- THE CROWN OF REJOICING. 1, These, ii: 19 "For what ia our hope, or joy or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?" WhA Padl remembers, the Thessalon ians whom he had won for Christ, he im mediately replies: "Ye are our crown of rejoicing,!' and so this third form of tha reward is properly called the ioul-win-ner"s c own. Alail tome who are born of the Spirit, who hava been trained in the Christian church, or might have been, who have lived all their lives dead in sin, shall never w.. U.. b i l. :u. i i. to receive it from the bunds of the Master Himself. This ii the crown that the sainted Spur geon is to wear. It is said that 13,000 peo ple joined his church in his ministry, and this was only the beginning of the multi tude of othen that have been influenced by- hi! life the world around. It ii the (crown that Mr. Moody is to wear, because all parts of the world he has pointed men to the crucified One. It is the crown t'ist faithful Sunday-ichool teachers and l j wi.rker ere to wr ' i J' w W home at one time a very "bmed, Sunday-school worker. He told .ho he became a servant of Christ. He converted as a boy before the Young ieoplt a Society of Christian Endeavor was nown. He wanted to do something for Ohruit, and all he could think of was to ,IR 8.1dy chool class. He went to th superintendent with a request that he might be made a teacher, and was re lueed. He went a second time, with a like result. He went a third time, and proposed to bring in a class from outside, and tbitunt he eecured the consent of the superintendent. When he went out to tindboya bu first visit was to a great rbrMoa mansion. He rang tha bell ' servant opened the door. He sed if tha lady of the house could be . '',, WM shown into the parlor, and iaoon the mother of the boy entered. ' V u.a aaid: "I have come to ask if your, Careen come to Sunday-school." Her face flushed and her eves flashed a she replied: "My child has been to Sun-' ay-tchool and haa bad auch miserable taduui that I hava made up my mind tnat he ehall not go again, until either I n teach him myself or get some one who .can." I L'? f waiting the asked: "Sup- should tend him who would teach I He -jecatne greatly embarrassed at this rquastijn. and thought that if ever he got 'nut or tha house he would never again thi 8 .",f ?' w ba church. But iih.it ne replied; JWeiJ,.H he cornea I wfll teach him my Tk."r W" aomethljif In hit frank etata- gat- thm Tina nt, kiss L. : l . mj uvuwc, ana sUkat ttvid: tl Sunday h will be thm." l,?Dd, wbwi ,th 'roun teacher told ? ,tor' ' Je4u Christ he was cob- i-ntieju, A'JM M 5Lth ,JorT tha teart were )n,hiieyei, and he said: left K v"i V" th rMt- Ju,t Mon I rslft Jh? V $a9- A 1 entered he list to hM b,J"'d? nd "'d: 'Oome l.n . H .Ml.di Taacher. haa this not kW ond'l work?' nis voice was Sl?, 'B'i but h '' whispered. Ki We' Vl.'f?Pn,uP "dii. 'He it ;of f,iJjL (l ',,m .cl("r n ki"d him, m " though h htd be' T shalT never forget how he looked at ha added: "That waa the boy I led to Christ. Ho waa my associate in Sunday-school work. We led hundreds of souls to Christ." 1 Then he said with great emphasis and jn tears; "I had rather have had the sat isfaction of leading that one boy to Christ than to have conquered the whole world." Such a work as this is possible to all wen everywhere, and he who is thus faithful has awaiting him a crown of re joicing. The hymn "Must I go emptv handed?" was written bv one dving in his youth, without one single soul to his credit. When the shadow of death fell across his face some watcher by his bedside ex pressed concern for his happiness or his fear of death. He quickly answered: "Oh. no, not that. I am not troubled about that, but must I go empty-handed?" Alns! many of us may be ohligcd to etand in the presence of the Master, and to be crownlcss in this respect. 1 Peter v: 4. "And when the chief shep herd shall appear ve shall receive a crown of ilory that fadelh not away." Peter seems to have a special message here for officers of the church. Sunday school teachers and church members nch erall.v,' for in fact we are nil of us shep herds. A shepherd is one who looks aft-r the sheen, and the sheep that requires most of his attention is the one most like ly to wander and fall by the wayside. We have a way of looking at the peonle. espe cially those who are new born babes in Christ nd saving: "We will see how they hold out." and if thev stumble we not in frequently exclvm: "It Is just ns I erDfet ed." A mint un-Christly spech. and one mot doscrvine the censure of God! The fact is. we nre called into the church to be laborers together with Ocvl, and He has placed befoi-e lis the privile-n of he'ning to hold up the wen't ones in Christ. There never i a time when one necils a warm hand flasn or a word of svm-vithv as the time when one is beginning his Christian 'i'e, just taltin-r his firt ste-is toward Gof. When my little irl first began to walk, after she had tnVen one sten she stnrted to fjll. and T had to p"t mv rr"s about her and hold her up. Sho walked in this ws for davs, but now we never think of holding her 'tp; she can run nlon" nnd rut be weary the whole dav long. To nil those who are faithful in this csnecial min irtrv God has promised a sure rewsrd. The cmwn of r'ghteousne's. 2 Timothy iv: 8 "Henceforth there is laid im for me a crown of righteousness which the T-ord. the righteors judcre, shall eive me et hat day, and not to -ne onlv. hut "nto all them al- that love His iinnearinn." I h'e ne-er vet hen able to figure out fust when the Txrd shall come again, fo the Bi:!e contains no reord. but r-ih all my heart I looking for H'm. T knotv not but that He mv come to-dsv. He msv come to-morrow. I im nerfeet'v sure that the Greatest blessmo th"t co-0'' ever come to this wor'1' would be the visJhle nresenee of the i-jo-'' Him"lf. He vnuld lift, up the down-tnjdden. He Himself would reliere the oppressed, and He would apply the whjn to the oppressor. It mav be at morn,, when the day is awak ing, When sunlight thro' darkness and shadow is breaking. That Jesus will come in the fulness of glory. To receive from the world "His own." O joy; Q delight! should we go without dy 'OK, No lickness, no sadness, no dread and no crying. Caught up tbro' the clouds, with our Lord, into glory, When Jesus receives "His own." So I am looking for Him and I am longing for Him ,and with all my soul I love His appearing, and unto every such waiting one there is a crown promised. So I am watching and waiting each mo ment of tho day. If it be morn or evening when He callcth me away; And it makes ihe day grow brighter, and its trials easier borne. When 1 am saying every moment, "To-day tho Lord may come." But there is something better still, and that ii the full reward in Revelation iv: 10. This is a picture of the glorified church. We are told that the four und twenty eld ers came in with crowns upon their heads, clothed with white raiment, seated about the throne. Suddenly tho King of Kings appca -s. At once the four and twenty eld ers fall down before Him, and taking off their crowns cast them before the throne, saying: Thou are worthv, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power." The best reward of all, then, is to ba with Him. ' That was a glad day in England in 1853 when the soldiers came back from the Cri mean war, and the Queen gave them med als. caUed Crimean medals. Galleries were constructed for the two houses of Parlia ment and the royal family to witness the firesentation. Her Majesty herself came n to give the soldiers their rewards. Hera comes a colonel who lost both his feet at tnkerraan ; . he is wheeled in on a chair. Here is a man whose arms are gone. And so they came, maimed and halt. Then the Queen, in the name of the English people, gave the medals, and the thousands of people with streaming eyes sang: "God save the Queen." But I can think of something that would have made the scene more wonderful. If these men had taken off tho medals which the Queen had p'-wed upon them and cast them back at her feet, saying: "No, Your Majesty, we cannot keep them We give back the medals. To sfce thee is the greatest reward." That shall we do in heaven. I have a friend who was in the Crimean war. He told me that he had that day re- reived a medal with "Inkerman" upon it, for that was his battle, hut he said the most touching part of it all was the exne- I rience of a friend of his who fought bv his aide. A cannon ball took off one o.f his legs, but the brave fellow sorang up im mediately and taking hold of a tree, drew his sword and was ready to fight even to death,. Immediately another cannon ball same crashing Past and took off the other leg. They carried him wounded, bleeding and (as they supposed) dving, to the hos- fiitttl. Strangely enough he came hack to ife aeain. When the day came for the swarding of medals they carried him upon his stretcher before Her Majesty, the Queen. To the other soldiers she had sim ply given the medals by the hands of her secretary, but when sho saw this man carried in on a stretcher, his face so thin knd pale, she rose from her seat, stooped down by hi! side, and with her own hands pinned the medal upon his breast, while the teirs fell like rain upon the face of the brave soldier. Thus I trust it will be with many of us. We shall come into His presence, stand face to face with Him. and He will rise from His throne, coming forward to re ceive us. As we look up into His face, thrones will vanish away and crowns will be as nothing, for to see Him in all Hit beauty will be the full reward. Many a fellow hai gone hungry with a mouthful of gold filling! in bit teeth. Caatro'a Story of a Ddg. President Castro of Venezuela waa a close friend of the late William Pot ter of Philadelphia, who bad extensive buBlnesa Interests in South America. According to Mr. Potter, Castro la very fond of animals, and Imputet to hla peta the moat remarkable quali ties, telling of thete qualltlea gravely, though not expecting, perhapa, to ba altogether beHeved. "I have a dog," President Caatro sometime begina, "and on day- 1 aaw my dog carrying a live ben car fully In hla mouth, ' I pauaed to aee what would happen. The dog placed the ben In bla hut. and aha Immedi ately laid an egg there. Ha ate It, ahe helped beraelf to tha moat delicate tid bits in bla food tray, and a few mo menta later departed. Thereafter I kept my eye on them, and I ascertained that the ben, whenever ahe bad an egg to lay, laid It Invariably In my dog'a but And be would eat bci gracoful gift and be would reward ber with her choice of all the vlanda on bla platter. ' When ahe died be wat Inconsolable." New York Tribune. THE SABBATH SCHOOL International - Lesson Ccmmcnti , March I. For SubJ-cl; Paul and Apollot. Acta xvlll., U ia xlx., 6 Ooldea Text, Luke xl.. 13 Memory Vertca, 4-6 Commcafary oa the Day's Lesson. r Introduction. After remaining a rc.it and a half at Corinth Paul began his home' ward journey. Ho took with him Aqiiiln and Priscilla. Sailing eastward they landed at Ephesus. Paul remained onlv a short time, as he desired to reach Jerusalem in time for the great feast in the spring of A, 1). M. AquiJa and his wile remained at Lphesus. I. A polios receiving instruction (vs. 2i 26). 24. "Anollos." A preparation for Paul's labor nt Kphesus had been made by Apol los, who bad instructed a small company of Jews up to tho twilight of .lohn the Baptist's teachings concerning the Mes siah. "Alexandria." This city was built near the mouth of the Nile by Alexander the Vreat. "Eloquent learned." The word in the original expresses not only ability as an orator, but also the possession of stores of learning. Either rendering only gives half the idea. He was learned and could ue his leurning with effect "Mighty." He was familiar with the Scriptures and used them with power as a source of argument and appeal. 2j. "Was instructed Probably bv some disciple of John who had left Judea before the Saviour commenced His public course, or possibly bv John himself, whose earlier ministry Anollos mav have attend ed. "Fervent." lie had a "glowing relig ious disposition and nrdent zeal." lie was active ami taught "carefully" and spoke boldly. "Knowing only." Anollos knew nothing of the baptism of the lloly Ghost. He knew that the "kingdom of God was at hand," and preached the gospel of repent ance, a preaching greatly needed to-dav. 20. "Boldly." The Jews were not all ready even to listen to announcements of the approach of the Messiah. The speaker who dwelt on thi theme nutat hn nrtnafrl with arguments as well as courage. "Had j neara. in ine synagogue. look him. Persons of great learningmay be led into the light by those in obscure positions. Apollos gives proof of bis greatness by showing his willingness to receive instruc tion from such humble people. "Expound edmore carefully." Aquila and Priscilla unfolded to Apollos the wonderful fact of a Messiah alread; come. They gave him the history of the incarnation, the miracles, the crucifixion, the resurrection, the neccn sion, the Pentecostal outpouring and the commission to convert the world. This pupil was soon superior to his teachers. Aqaiila and his wife were faithful people, and it appears that wherever thev went they had a "church in their house"." See 1 Cor. 16: 19; Rom. 10: 3-5. The last New Testament reference to them is in 2 Tim. 4: 19. Tradition says that they died mar tyrs. II. Apollos visits Achaia (vs. 27, 28). 27. 'Was disposed." The original expresses more than, an inclination on his part; he wished to go. "Into Acbaia." Of which Corinth wos the capital, and it was Cor inth which he decided to visit. He may have been directed to this field of labor by Aquila and Priscilla. Being acquainted with the philosophy and learning of Greece he was well fitted to be a preacher to the Greeks as well as the Jews. We are not told of any apostolic commission to Apol los, but we know from 1 Cor. 1: 12, etc., that he came to be regarded by some Co rinthian! as the equal of St. Paul, ond that tfjere arose aome strong party feeling in the church which is rebuked in St. Paul's letter to them. "Through grace." These words may refer either to Apollos or to the people at Corinth. It was through grace that they had believed, and it was through grace that Apollos was able to help them. 28. "Mightily convinced." See M. V. He powerfully confuted the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the Old Testament Scriptures, which the Jews received as in spired, that Jesus was the Messiah, and that they could bo saved onlv through Him. This they refused to do, nnd we know the consequence. Their city was sacked, their temple burnt, and more than a million of them were killed and the rest scattered over the face of the earth. III. Paul arrives at Ephcsus (v. 1). 1. Came to Ephesus." In accordance with the promise mads them when returning from his second missionary journey (chap. 18: 21). Epheaus was not only the capital of the province, but was the citv of the greatest importance in all Asia Minor splendid city, and the emporium of trade in the East. It was called one of the eyes of Asia, Smyrna, forty miles to the north, being the other. The city stood on the south of a plain about five miles long from east to west, and three miles broad, with the Icarian Sea, an arm of the Aegean, on the west. Here Paul continued to labor for nearly three years. "Certain disciples." Although their knowledge was imperfect they were sincere and "possessed the ele ments of a true faith," and as soon as the light shone upon them they at once walked in it. , IV. The baptism of the Holy Ghost (vs. 2-0). 2. "The Holy Ghost." Paul was a Holv Ghost preacher. His first sentence brings these unenlightened disciples face to face with the deeper things of God. It was the common privilege of the disciples of Christ to receivo not only the ordinary graces, but also the extraordinary gifts of the Holv Spirit: and thus the disciples of Christ dif fered from those of John. The genuine dis ciple! of Christ are still distinguished from all others by the baptism of the Holy oP'"t. which enlightens, quickens and puri nes. Those who have not received this rich baptism are living far beneath their privil ges in the gospel. "As heard." See K. V., where the thought is made much clearer. This cannot mean that they knew nothing about the Holy Ghost, but they were ig norant with regard to Pentecost. If they were "disciples" they must have been re generated by the Holy Gltost, but now it remained for them to bo purified bv faith (Acts IS: 9), and to receive the gifts and graces which came ai a result of this heav enly baptism. 4. "Of repentance." John called upon the people to repent and prepare the way of the Lord, and pointed to Jesus aa the Messiah. "That is, on Jesus." "The clos ing words of the sentence are a condensa tion of all the explanation! bv which the apostle convinced them that Jesus, whom he preached, waa the prophet whom John announced." 6. "Spake with tonguea." Thii was Pentecost repeated. A new outpouring of the Holy Spirit unon a new twelve. "Pro phesied." Not the ability to foretell fu ture events, but the power to preach the gospel and to expound the Scriptures wai given them. See 1 Cor. 14: 3. No person u qualified to preach the gospel, or to do Christian work of any kind, until be bat received the bapt'va of the Spirit. Workman Waa Sensitive. Patrick McCabe, lately a aectloo hand on the 'Frisco road at Wichita, It aulng that corporation for damages for Injurlea received while in lta em ploy. Hla plea la that while work ing the foreman apoke to him "In a loud, profane nnd very bolateroua man ner, thereby causing the plaintiff to bo nervoua and excited and thereby causing bim to place hlmaelf in a position of great bodily danger, and to a greater degree than be otherwlae would have done." The ordera were given "lu a very loud and bolateroua manner, baoked up by many oatbe, auch aa 'Be amart, 'Be quick,' and 'Move yourself,' etc." Kanaaa aectlon banda aeem to be eeusltlve'planU. Smoking In America. When Gaorga Ada vlaited Sultan Kl Ram on tbe Ialand of Uulu In search of material for one of bla operas ba found that little Malay potentate eur rounded by bla wives, all of whom were amoklng Filipino clgarettea. Dur ing tbe Interview Kt-Ram naked hla visitor tt American ladlea amoked. "Tbe ladlea do," Mr. Ada replied, ,"but tbe women don't" CHRISTIAN ENDCAVCR TOPICS. Karch I "Lessens From the Sermon aa tbe Alounl; What Christ Teaches About Blessedoest." Math v. 1-12. 8erlpture Veraea Ps. 11. 12; xxxlv 8; xl. 4; lxxxlv. 12; Matt. vl. 16, 17; xl. 6; Gal. HI. 9; Ps. cxlx. 1; cvl. 3; Prov. x. 6; xx. 7; xxvlll. 20. Lesson Thoughts. The whole purpose of Christ's mis sion to earth Is to bless. If we do not receive a share In his blesMngs, It It only because we will not; curses, warnings, punishments uro withheld till the very last. We learn from the Beattltudea that true blessedness does not consist In outward prosperity, but in Inner holi ness of life. As the bitterest shell may enclose and protect the sweetest ker nel, so the hardest poverty may be the earthly lot of the purest and bap plest saint. Selections. There must be a likeness of nature and feeling, In order to understand cnother. So only the pure can see a pure God. The Impure, the bad, can not oven aee him, much loss enjoy htm. They do not understand bla na ture. They do not know tho meaning of his character. They are color-blind. The selfish do not believe that unsel fish love exists. The vile do not be lieve thero Is real purity." The Bcatitudns aro not arbitrary en actments. God himself cannot change thorn. While a man hates his brothel God cannot make him happy. Omnipo tence cannot give ua peace while we hug the worm that does not die, and wrap ourselves In the flame that Is not quenched. What men needed first was change, not In their circumstances but In them selves. Blessedness. Jesus affirmed, comes not from outward conditions, but from Inward states. It consists not In positions, but ia dispositions Tko blessings are called "Beati tudes," from the Latin beatua, which also means "happy," but the happi ness indicated by Jeeua is of a high er sott than any language of earth can express. It Is more than happi ness; not a momentary Joy or pleas ure, but a permanent state, not the passive reception of a blessing, bnt the active possession of a source of enjoyment. Carlyle says, "One may lose happiness and And blessedness." He who receives a cup of cold water may be happy; he who has the spring 'rom whence It comes la blessed. Suggested Hymna. After the toll and trouble. Take time to be holy. I do not ask for earthly store. Come, Holy Spirit. We have felt tho love of Jesus. To Thee, I lift my soul, O Lord. EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING T0FICS. March I Tottl Abstinence the Only Safe Rule. Dan. I, 8, IS; These. 5; Pet 2, II. One of the things which comes be fore the tribunal a young man holds to determine his life issues Is the prob lem of drink. Not that he can deter mine all Its events. Far from that; but he will determine Its meaning. Its aims, and its bearing, and that means a great power. Of course, he doesn't Intend to become a drunkard. No young man ever did. But shall he drink a little on certain occasions, shall ho have some fine wine in his rooms, perhaps at his table, or shall he let tho drinks which Intoxicate en tirely alone? Thus the question pre sents lt3Clf. Now, there Is a certain attractive ness to the spirit of a young man con fdent of himself, in the thought of controlled indulgence. He will prove his mastery by using a little, but not turning from the friendly gla?s, by Indulging; In a certain amount of drink ing. But he will never go too far. Be sides often to refuse to drink Is to mark one's self as odd, to subject oneself to the danger of being called a prig or a cad. A certain amount of controlled Indulgence, that is surely consistent with manhood. So rea sons many a young man. And It sounds well. But It Is fatally wrong. This young man, so sure of himself, Is really wise only when he decides for total abstinence. Why? Because every man baa not one bnt many brothers, who need the Influence of bis steady refusal to drink, total ab stinence Is the only safe rule. Then the man hlmaelf. Ia be so strong, after all? You never can tell. And be never can tell. Youthful self confidence does not necessarily mean bteady self-control through the long strain of years. Tho glass once In a while Is likely to grow Into tho oc casional college "frolic" which leavoa a headache, and that Into the steadily increasing fondness for the glass, un til a man starts and stares aome day as ho realizes that he la controlled by a demon thirst he hates but must gratify. It Is hard for a young man ever to see It. It Is hard for a young man to feel It. But he may not be aa strong as ho thinks he is. And to total abstinence la tho only safe rule Brave the young man, with a fine moral bravery, who will face this fact and with all the trust In self that throba In the blood of youth will tay, "I may be weaker than I think, so I will drink not one glasa." Knightly the young man, with a high Christian chivalry, who will say, "I have a brother who might be tempted by my Indulgence, and. because of my broth er. I will abstain." So one Christian young man alta with glass turned down where wine la served, and knows how with flue manly courtesy to refuse tbe social glaas. He Is none the lees a man for It. Thank Ood for blm. May be In crease to a vast multitude! A Girl of Discernment. Madge You should aee all tbe new things Tlllie haa. Marjorle She told me ahe was making aome purchases. Madge Tbat'a hardly a name for It. I never aaw ao many lovely thlnga In my life. Why, ahe baa a new watch, three stunning aulta, a fur cloak, aome Turkiah ruga, one of tboae big revolving bookstands, and seta of all the' popular authors. I wonder what It all means? Marjorle Why, she's going to be married at once, you little fool. Madge I don't know why I ahould have guessed that from aeelng ao many lovely things in. ber house. Marjorle You would have, my dear, If you had known aa much about them aa I do. 8be baa bought tbem all on tbe Installment plan, and It will be up to ber husband to make good near ly all the paymeuta. TOE RELIGIOUS LIFE READINC 'FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF Foemi Ooil's Love The Meek Inherit tha Karth, Uut the Poor In Spirit Inherit Heaven Humility Would Seem to Be Divine Attribute. Oh, walk with God, and thou shall find How He can cheer thy way. And lead thee tvtth a quiet mind, into His perfect duy. His love shall cheer thee like the dew That bithes the drooping flower; Thnt love is every morning new. Nor fuils at evening hour. The Inheritors of the Kingdom. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ' Matt. 0: 3. Christ sets forth what we are apt to con sider as the minor virtues as the condi tions of the miijor beatitudes. Our esti mates of such things are often mistaken. Humility, purity, penneableness seem all of lesser significance than many things we might mention. Yet thee little things to gether make the large life and character. The greatest joys of life are made up of pleasures so small that, in the nrmlvsis of a happy day, we cannot always define its particular parts. Anil a truly great char acter is such not because of some immense illuminating virtue, but because of its ol most inniiiiicrnlile minute perfections. The mecl; inherit the e.irth, but the poor in spirit inherit heaven. The greater bless ing is attached to the virtue least esteemed of men. What is it to be poor in spirit: The poor in spirit arc not spiritually poor. A man is not nonr-spirited because he is poor in spirit. Hut it is that consciousness of our r.v n iinnerrVetions, of our own moral poverty nnd destitution, that we have no means to buy our way into heaven, nor any attractiveness of our own that would wiii us a wav there, thnt we are such as must, in moral nnd spiritual things, before God. stand like suppliants at the gate, unable either to take the kingdom by violenre or by purchase, but dependent on the won drous love anil grace that will surely freely give it us. No man seeks this kinstdom without early discovering how poor he is in spiritual, moral, soul wealth. It is a blessing to come to this self-knowledge. Just ns the gateway of confession of ignor ance lies at the beginning of the path of knowledge so does conscious poverty of snirit lie as one of the first steps that all the sons of God and inheritors of the king dom must take. The poor in spirit are humble in life. They have seen themselves as God sees them, and this humility is the first step toward their being seen in all the glory of the likeness of His Son. Humility would seem t be a divine attribute, seeing, that it is said of Christ that He was meek and lowlv, and of the Holv Snirit that "He shall not speak of Hjmself." The best preparation for heaven will be found in the practice of humility, and the best prac tice of this virtue in the following of the Mnn who nleased not Himself, who made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant. But there is a false humility of which we need to beware. God does not think anv the more of you because you tell Him tht you are a poor miserable sinner: He knows it without, your volunteering the in formation. He knows whether you mean it when you say you nre a poor worm of the dust. Perhaps it does not please Him. Christ came to save men and women, not to save worms. If God has made vou in His own likeness it is not well to compare it to a worm. Humility does not need to wear a badire or to call itself names. The poor in snirit may be the most dignified, elevated in life; witness the character of the Master. Ham's Horn. " Let Ua Telt Jesus." The incident is related of a voung man who was inclined toward infidelity, and. like others of his age who have imbibed such notions he was more or less proud of his advanced ideas. He took occasion ono day to go to the study of a minister of his acquaintance and state to him his doubts and disbelief in Christianity, thinking, of course, that the minister would unilertnku un elaborate argument to prove the truth of the Scriptures and the reality of the re ligion founded on them. This 'would give him just what he wanted the opportunity to argue and combat. But the pastor, with a wisdom not born of earth, alter listening until he had con cluded his harangue, said quietly: "Let us tell Jesus about it," and dropped on his knees. The young would-be infidel wam surprised into following his example. As the two knelt side by side the man of God poured out his petition from a full heart for the young man beside him, but without any allusion to his condition of skeptical unbelief. He simply pleaded for him as a sinner needing salvation. The prayer was answered. Before he rose from his knees the doubter doubted no longer. Instead, he was convinced and converted, and ready to ask, with Paul, "Lord, what wilt Thoii have me to dot" The answer came, and that young man now preaches the gome! he once sought to destroy with his infidel arguments. The Mid-Continent, emphasizing the sug gestiveness of this little incident, says: "There is the lesson. Will soul-winners learn it ? Go tell Jesus alone, if need be, with those you would win if you can but tell Jesus, and ask of Him the needed grace. It is not argument with man that is needed so much as telling Jesus. Take Him at His word, 'Ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.' Go and tell Jesus." Rave Faith In God. Dean Farrar tells how an English clergy, man visited two line ships about to sail on their voyage of Arctic discovery into tho land of snow and darkness. He found the brave captains full of confidence, and, raising his eyes in the cabin he saw there, as almost its only ornament, an illumin ated text, which read, "Have faith in God. "Ah, there." he aaid. pointing to the text, "there is the true pole." The Christian Commonwealth, of Lon don, referring to this incident, utters some highly suggestivo notes on the power of faith as a guide to the Christian life. It says: "We like to think of those gallant men carrying with them into the cold and mid niithl that faith, that hjpe. It is a faith which will lighten their darkness more than the stars that glitter over the floes of ice. It is a hope which will make the heav. ens glow with a more vivid splendor than the aurora which Hushes the fields of snow. "Take with you that faith, that hope, i ou, too, may sail, hereafter, in your lit tle boat of life, into the cold, into the hun ger, into the darkness, into the explora tion of unknown hopes. Be sober, be vigi. hint. Have faith in God and in His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and He will give you tha victory. "We cannot see what is beyond time and earth, but faith gives ui confidence in the Dlsliaetloas That Try. It is hard to live calmly and work stead ily and connectedly in the midst of dis tractions that try fiber and spirit, but men charged with large duties and much re sponsibility must learn to do it. Bethle hem was peace but the Babe become the lchcr wai "a man of lorrowi." Eu worth Era. Let Vs B Thankful. Let us be thankful that our sorrow lives in ua as an indestructible force, only changing its form and passing from pain mto eympathy-the ont word which in eludes all our beat insight and our best love. George Elliot. - , Russia will send ber Siberian exhib its to tbe World'a Fnlr at St. Louis through tho agency of tbe East Chinese Kullroud. A Home for Consumptive Actors Is to be established at Manitou, Col., In Mlramout Cuttle, which wua built In 18U7 aa a bouie for consumptive priests but never occupied. Peter Johnson, of Chicago, convicted or using the niulla to defraud former Hberirr W. K. Biiiiblncll out of 17. 6UO. hns been aentencetl to the peulten tlury for Ufleu months and fined SUA Hi. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poemt rtuhy's nit of niue-It Is Kstimated That Fifty Per Cent, nf the Taxes tin lo Support thm talnon Victims Crlme'l Oenesle In Liquor. One night within our Temperance Hall, men both of marl; nnd mind. Were teaching gospel temperance truths in words both wise and kind. The people sat in brenthless crowds, by love of gospel brought ; They listened with attentive ears to trutlis by Christians taught. A drunkard's wife amid that throng had donned a bit of blue; Ah! she from drink had suffered, so all iti horrors knew. She thought that her example might o'cf John some hold obtain. That when he saw her wear the blue he would from drink abstain. Alas, alas! her hones were vain, nni1 doomed to fly distressed. For when the husband saw the blue he tore it from her breast. To him it was a stern reproach, and solemn words it said ; lie could not look upon that blue and hold nn upright head! The b.idge of blue fell to the ground, where, in thin rags arrayed. The drunkard's sick and onlv child with broken playthings played. The baby clut'-hed the bit of blue, it mid her playthings Intl. And listened trembling to tho oaths with which her father chid. Her thoughts were deeper tlnn her years, she knew the meaning then. She thought: "I father wore this blue he'd never drink again!" To her tne drink meant otlhs and blows, nnd hunger, want and dread; While keeping from the public house meant peace and clothes and bread. And bnbv kept the treasure blue after that stormy night; And pone lhcld the bulge until she'd failed from their sight. For hunger dire wrought fatal work, it mndo her fade nnd sink. She was n martyr to the cup, and mur dered by the drink. She'd starved and nined. while day by day the landlord had her share; To her the crumbs his table lost had been as "prince's fare." Her father's heart was not all stone, some bitter tears he shed. While gazing on the thin dead form laid on the wretched bed. He took the icy hand in his; he kissed the brow so calm, And lo, ho found the bit of blue in baby's palm. It was a voice heard from a grave, it cried so sad and dear: "Oh, father, if you'd worn this blue, I'd not bo lying here!" The drunkard dropped the lifeless hand, the cord was touched at last! Conscience and memory smote him sore, and showed his sin-stained past, And sorrow's rain fell from his eyes, his sobs came unreprcssed. He took the baby's hit of blue and pinned it on his hrenst. And crying mightily for strength, for God's restraining power. He signed that day the temperance pledge, and keeps it to this hour. Harriet A. licavan, in National Advo cate. Greatest National Evil. The saloon is our greatest national evil. Most political leaders would eclipse that fact with other issues, but we will not long be duped. The debasing of the currency is not as serious a matter ns the debasing of manhood, though political parties seem not to have discovered it. Our foreign pol icy is not unimportant, but the safety of our homes is all-important. The protection of our infant industries is insignificant in comparison with the protection of our sons and (laughters from the clutches of the rum fiend. Free coinage is a slight matter in comparison with the free use of whiskv. In our efforts to solve the financial prob lem we hnvo heard much about free silver, and yet we spend more monev for liquor every year than we dig nut of the ground in silver in twenty years. The one item of beer alone is appalling. We consumed lust vear thirteen gallons per capita. Fifty per cent: of the taxes we pay goes to support the saloon's victims in some form. Two-thirds of the crimes committed have their genesis in liouor. We have, it is estimated, an nrmv of 1.2.W.000 inebriates in this country, with as manv others com ing up to reinforce them. What a waste is here in manhood, happiness, usefulness and money making capacity! Whereas all the national, State, rountv and municipal revenues from the saloon are $141,000,487 a year, the annual cost nf the business in courts, jails, reformatories, police supervi tion. poor houses, loss of labor to sav nothing of shortened lives, poor work, ill health and other wreckage is 2,B78,504. 804, the cost of the traffic being nearly twenty times what it brimrs to us. The saloon is going! Twenty-five years hence there will be no such nn institution as the present day grog shop. God is against it. The corporations nre its nat uril foes, since thev are unitedly refusing employment to drinking men. and it is hut one step from making a rule against the drinker to the hurling of corporate and commercial influence against the saloon it self. Common intelligence hns decreed tho death of the saloon business. We are ac quiring too much sense to keep this evil under governmental protection and with national indorsement. Cumberland Pres byterian. The Farmers' I'roteM. A staple argument used by certain advo fat?s of license ia that the opening of sa pons in towns in country districts attract armers to town and thus promote trade, n Lecsburg, Ohio, this argument was uied iy the merchants who feared that if the sa oons were voted out trade would suffer, lo manv of the neighboring farmers feeling nsultea by the statement that they would Kiycott the town should the saloons be -lused held a meeting and thirty-eight of he most prominent declared in rusolu iuns that ' the liquor trafiic is a menace to norals, good citizenship and all that bene its humanity," and that "for the sake of (ur boys and homes all good citizens should 'ote 'dry.' " The best of the resolutions is ihe following: "We resent any insinuation ;hat the farmers are a drinking class and :hat We will continue nur nnti-imAim if it (hnuld go dry and use our influence for tha idvnncement of the business interests of ;he town." The result of the election was ;he banishment of tho saloon by a vote of .34 to 72. The Crowds la Brier. A crusade is about to be waged against Sunday opening in all its forms in Dubois, Pa Han Francisco is said to have one sa loon for every twenty-two adult male in habitant!. Alcoholic drink aa an article of food hat peen abolished from all the institutions un der tho control of the London County Council during the year just past. But if ever there was a perversion in this world it is the transformation of mill ion! of bushels of honest corn into the whisky that ruins so many men and com mits ao many murders. What become! of the bushel of corn raised on a Western plain? If it does the work that it ought to do, it feeds the farm er or the dweller in cities or the cattle that in turn feed us. The perverted bushel of ;orn is changvd into four gallons of whisky. "A few years ago nearly every whisky salesmau ou tha road indulged in whisky to excess, now two-thirda of the whisky talesmen in the I'nited States are total ab stainers," said John Simon, a Louisville, Ky., whisky salesman at the Hotel Balti more, Kansas City, not long ago. - Editor Bok.'of the Ladies' Home Jour nal, aayt, "No young man will ever hud that the principle of total abstinence from liquor is a barrier to any success social, commercial or otherwise. It ia the one principle in his life which will in tht long tun help him more thau any other." BIRDS WITH 000 WAYS. Barrow's Owls. Ostriches aasT VoaaA' Hntldert. f Of cours nil birds live In more et less close relation to tbe earth, but some are peculiarly associated writs) It, or depend upon It more especially for certain requirements. Not tbe least Interesting of these are the burrowing owls. These, unlike their tree or toweu haunting relatives, make their home) underground, digging their tunnels to gother, and laying their eggs at th farther ond. Here In the dnrkness that little owlets nre batched, and here the) are fed on frit grasshoppers and mice) until they are able to climb np and looM upon the world for themselves. It l curious thnt these owls, which of alt their family would seem to have thai best practice In their youth for learn Ing to use tbeir eyes In tne dark, are not nocturnnl, but dig their borrows, catch their food nnd do their courting In broad daylight. Ostriches may lie mentioned as types) of birds which linve found It so good for them to spend tbclr life In running; thot they nre without the power ofi flight, nnd are never able to rise nbova tho ground "winged creatures" of the earth, not the "air." The bird which Is pre-eminently of the earth earthy lives In the far antb piidcs Australia nnd the Philippine) Islands. It Is the tnoafnpodo. or mound lmlliter, ami has the curiors habit of burying its eggs In the ground or ia a mound of leaves and dirt, leaving them roptile-llko to hatch from th heat genoratod in the pile of decaying? veg-etatlon. It Is thought that the pan ents) never see their offspring, which! nre fully feathered when they leav the egg nnd able to die out nnd fly at on co. This unusual development at birth Is innd possible by the great amount of nourishing yolk In the cggs. Which are very large in proportion t the size of the bird. Think of a mem ber of this class of birds, made to spend its life partly In the air, batching in n tightly packed, damp mound of earth six feet below tho surface! We cannot censure the parents for thlrk' Ing the responsibilities of Incubation when we think of the enormon amount of work necessary to collect such mosses of rubbish, which measure sometimes CO feet In circumference and fourteen feet In height. Of course, this Is not collected in one year, but It is sf great undertaking for birds no large! thnn our common grouse. Thus we" see man cannot take the credit of hav lng first nsed an artificial incubator ttf hatch the eggs of birds. C. William) Beebe. Curator of Ornithology, Nevf York Zoological Society. WORDS OF WISDOM. The measure of man's life Is the well spending of It and not the length. Plutarch. It 1s slti when low things, howeves good In themselves, stand lu the way of high thlngs.-Rufus Kills. A people who ore govorned by laws made neither by themselves nor by any authority derived from them ar slaves. Jumes Madlaon.. Trials tench us what we arc; they, dig up the soil, utid let us see what w are made of; they just turn tip some of the III weeds outo the surface. Spurs goon. To live In n great Idea means to treaf the impossible its though It were pos siblc. It Is just the same with a strong character; and when an Idea nnd chars ncter meet, things arise which fill tha world with wonder for thousands of yeurs. Goethe. We cannot remove the conditions nn der which our work is to be done, but we can transform them. They nre tbe elements out of which, we must build the temples wherein we serve. Brooks' Toss Westcott. The bill of rights which tho Declara tlon of Independence promulgates la of rights that aro older than human institutions, and spring from the eter nal justice that Is anterior to. the State George Bancroft. In all Nature's vocabulary there la na auch word as stagnation. There la pro gresslou and there U retrogression, and each Is a movement. She knows no other road, and on either of these two paths all creation movos. W. D Little. Commerce Is not a gambling among nations for a stake, to be woa by some nnd lost by others. It has not tbe tens dency necessarily to Impoverish one of tho parties to It, while It enriches tbe other; all parties gain, all parties make profits, all parties grow rich, by the operation of just and liberal commerces Daniel Webster. - Musto Louder Than Xolsev It Is a curious fact that musical sounds fly further and are beard at aj greater distance than those- which are more loud and noisy, says Ttt-Blts. If we go on tbe outside of a town during a fair crowded with roundabouts, shooting galleries, swings and alt that, sort of thing, at the distance of mile; wo bear tbe mimical Instruments, but the din of the multitude, wblcu Is so overpowering In the place, can scarcely be heard, the noise dying on tho spot. To thoso who are conversant with the power of musical Instruments the following observations will be under" stood; The !oi:ns made at CrerutMisf about the year ltJOO aro superior la tone to any of a later date, age seem lng to dispossess them of their noisy, qualities and leaving nothing bnt the) puro tone. If a moik-rn violin la played by the tide of one of those Instrumental it will appear much tbe louder of tbe two, but ou receding a hundred paces when compared with tho Cremona It will scarcely be beard. OettlBB Oa. . A. young niau, nineteen years of age, baring finished h!s studies at the pub lie school, found a position In a tailors ing atoro of a certain city. His ad vancement was rapid. At the end of the first week bo was told bis services were no longer needed. At tbe end of the third day be had become so fa miliar with his duties that be ad- dressed bis employer as John, and colled tbe bead cutter "Hank." No one In the store could Imagine) what tbe second week would have brought forth, and not dlapoaed to take any chances, bis employer dlacharged blm. Yet we continually bear young men bewailing their fate, and say in;r. "There la no longer a chance for a young uiuu."-Tbe Goldsmith. nd fcUlvcrtinltu. t
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