"THE tNDOF Titir Sunday Sermon By the Rev. Di. David James Durrcll. OlKoarMi Inslructivelr on a Them: Tint lo Lett Eloquent Mouthi Might Seem Thread bare Economize Fragments ol Time. Nfw VotiK City. The Hev. I)r. David J.imcs Iturreil. p.ntor of the Marble Colle giate Church. Fifth avenue anil Twenty ninth street, preached on "The Knd of Ti..:e." lie took his text from Hevelfitions x: fl anl C: "Antl the angel which 1 law st:md upon the sea ami i:pon the eirth lifted np his bind lo heaven. nnl nr l.v Him fh.if lit-crh :.irpvi-r and ever, who n'eatcd l.envcn, and the thinrs that therein I re, and t'ie drill, an. I the tiling tlmt I therein are. iml ihp mm. anil th.- things which arc therein, tlu. there should be time no looser. " Our theme h a trifle tiirvadoare, but per haps none the less profitable on that ac count. It is an easy matter to make a ho-.nilv on tini. but not all homilies are as muc h to tlie point a-i that of the co ir; jes ter decqilus: "(load morrow, fool,' quoth I. ''No, sir," quoth he; "Call me not too! till heaven hath sent mo lor'uiue." Anil then h; !rc-.v a ilial from his poke, AnJ, lo iknii on it with lack-lir-tcr eye, Sjvh very wisely, "It is ten o'clock; Ttius may we a3," quoth he, "how the world wapi; Ti but an hour a'o since it was nine; An. I ifur one hour more "twill be eleven; Ami no. from hoar to hoar, we ripe ami ipe. And then, from hour to hour, wc rot and rot; And thereby h:m a tale." Let this melancholy "talc" engage us fot a whiie. The in.sue of interminable aeons may depend upo.i the attention we give to the circling liin.li on the dial, lie who loar.ii a ri ; ii c the I- m. :i of titue is ready to nic.-t th.' responsibilities of eternity. Hut what it time? "Time is inonev" they gay. So far so gold, if we would real- I ize it. A man went into IJenjamin Frank- i lin's book store and inquired the price of I a vo.ume, Une Hollar, was t lie clerk n answer. "Call your employer." said the would-be purchaser. When Franklin was asked the price of the volume he answered, "One 'ollar and a quarter." "Why, your clerk aaked only a dollar." "To be sure, but you called frte from my printing press ami I am charging you for my time. ' The man nrgucd and remonstrated in vain. Presently he said, "Now, Jlr. Franklin, really what is vonr lowest figure for this book?" "Onc; 'dollar and a half." "Pre posterous! You only asked me a" dollar and a quarter." "Yes, but my time is val uable, and every minute sends the book up." This was sound philoiophy and good business. Ii our days and hours were all tnarkua with a price in plain (inures we should probably oe less proUtratc of them. Wo have do iii.Ii scrup'e niiout wasting time as we would have in throwing gold taslcs into the sea. But time is r.-ora than money. It i "tin atutf that life it mp.de of." It stands foi privilege, opportunity, resnonsibility, iudg ment, heaven or hell. You may throw away a dollar and earn another, but nc two moments over'ip. The lat one said farewell forever: the next is already gone! Time is a talent, a talent of gold stamped with the imajff and superscription of til! King. God made it. as llu made the tree and mountains, and He owns it. He hat entrujted it to us, to be p-it at usury fui Him. "Will a man rob !nd? Yet ye havt robbed Me, saith the Lord of hosts." The misappropriation or misuse of days and hours and moments is as really dishonest at the tapping of an employer's till. Thi is a seriaus mstier, and gives ui sufficient food for thought, if our question were pushed no fur'.acr. But we cannot (toy here. I asked an a?ed man with hoary hairs. Wrinkled and curved with many world!) cares. "Time is the ivarp of life," he said. "0 tell The young, tlie fair, the brave t3 use it well." I a.ske-l the r..i0'hty anjcl and silvery spliei-es, Those brifiht chronometers of passinj years ; They answered, "Time is but a me 1 oar's glare." And bade me for cleniity prepare. I asked the mi'hty ap-rcl who shall stand One foot on nes. the other on the land; '"Mortal," he cried, "the mystery is o'er; Time was. time is, but time phall be no ir-ore!" A step further brinjs us to the inquiry. What is time for or to what end has this momentous tryst been reposed in 11? Let it be understood that time is not for us to live in. We are not ephemera; we live tot ever. Time h giveii us tor preparation. Th s is only the antechamber ot lite, where we stand waiting until tlie dcor opens and we pass it). lAath is the angel that opens the dour. The only reason why wo fear death is because we know, that ai time leaves us eternity finds us. Death ends probation. Wo cross the line with our character chi. vitalized: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: he that ia holy, let him ba holy still." 'ihese are our school days; death is "commencement." Here wt serve an apprenticeship; death is doing to work. The '.ther day a young newspaper re porter said to ;ne, on my refusing aa' inter view : "I wish you would help me along I'm on probation, and whether I get an engagement or not depends upon my sue cexs iu thi-i sou of thing." I wonder how aorae of ths people who are now wasting their probation can expect to be taken Into service in the kingdom of Cod. What can they do Let the great Employer asli them, "What can you do?" How will it aeem to answer, "I can sell dress goods; I can lead the german; 1 Can make money 01 apend it; I can drive a bargain; I can sail a ach joner or run an engine; I can "re ceive' and 'entertain;' I eau make money?" These may be good as far as thev go, but, 111 all aoberneas, how far do they go as preparation for the task of heaven? Dc you know, friend, how to comfort the grief atricken and rescue the wandering? How to minister to the need of the wounded traveler on tne Junchn road? How to give the cup of cold water to o-. of Ciod'a little ones? .Mow to point a penitent sinner to the la-nh of God? How .to speak the praises of the One alto-Tether, lovely? How to sing "Holy. Holy, Holy, Lord (iod Al mighty?" If not, whst a btwilderinc sort of piac'j heaven wnuld ba to you! . What are yju til for? Hea-eu is no nfp.ee (01 unskil ed labor. What can you do? Time ia give-i you for this very purpose, to get ready for the things further on. Uut how much time have we? F.n-vjgh; no more, no it-ss. it is distributed "to every, one according to his several ability. A short life is long enough, and the long s; life is short enough Ut what must he done in it." Seneca said, ''We complain of the shortness of time and yet we have more man we Know what to do with. Our Uvea are spent in doing nothing at all, nothing to the purpose or nothing that we ought to k). Wo are ever comp'ainina that our days are f"W and acting as if they were without end." We have time enough for work. An 'eight-hour day" is a purely artificial thing. Uod never mada it. "Are there now twelve hour in the day?" (iod'a day in which "man goeth to his work" is from morning until evening, end there ia not toe much of it. We have time enough for recreation. Ko ma.i is at liberty to overwork or to work without relaxing. "All work and no pluy" make Jack not only a dull but en unprof table boy. So busineas should ever be so absorbing a ta crowd out other thing that contribute to th health and symme try of life. More men die of a "quirk lunch" than oi hunger. Nut a lew faiuiali the husk ol hurried devotion. "Too liusy, too busy!" and the trumpet sounds! We has- tune enough tor physical rest. The night 1 for sleep, "tired nature' weet restorer, balmy sleep." Nor is th night too long, though many people act ai if they thought i so. We have tune enough fur devotion. All the daye are liod days, but of one it i written, "Th Lord bussed tin riabbMtb day and hallo and it." J have known a man to curtail his rest sic uiglit in ihe Ee-dc and reuuiwrate on riunday. 'I his is ibbiug Uod. I he night and the Kaboatb lira eruarat (Me. Christ said. "The eiab- j'inerve our hunest interests as CnfTdren of Uod. It is not enough that v.e should close the shop: we must open the windows of our souls toward (iod. The Sabbath is a "hallowed" or holy day. The Lord knew how buy wo would be on the secular days so busy that we are likely to give little or no ttiouiiht to spiritual thingi where fore He said, "I will give them a day foi their souls; when they may come up into the mountains and breathe the clear air with Me." So He has given us time divided and Ad justed to our needs, nnd it behooves us to make an economical use of it. Some people nrc always in haste; others are always be hind time. It was n wise saying of Fla velj, "To come before the opportunity is to come before the bird is hatched; to come after the opportunity is to come af ter the bird is Mown." Kvcry day. every hour, every moment strikes its own bal ance. Postponement is profligacy. Pro rraftitation is n spendthrift as well as a thief. It was Lord Chesterfield, one of the worldliest of men, who wrote lo his son, "Never put ol! until to-moirow what you can dj to-day." Hut the worst of nil capital crimes is "killing time." The phrase is significant significant of murder most foul. The youth who seeks to quiet memory and an uneasy conscience by plunging into dissipa tion; the old social campaigner who wan ders about with a worn-out stomach and a wizened heart in search of pastures new; the devotee of fashion, whose idle days are spent in recovering from worse than idle nights these all are chronocidej, and thev are moral suicides as well. Oh, the waste, the frightful, irrevocable waste! Dreaming empty dreams, building castles in the air, fighting sperters and windmills, entertaining vain regrets and foolish h'ie, brooding on old grudges, tearing characters to tatters over the tea cups, borrowing trouble, writing book that never will be published nor ought to be, groaning over imuginary aches and pains, crosmng bridges before we come to them what a large part of life these fill? And every moment Ioit this way is lost to self culture, lost to humanity, filched from the set vice of (Jod. The world is full of commonplace people who have squandered their birthright and fallen short of all the larse possibilities of their being through the' misuse of time. They ait tilted back in their chairs and twiddling their thumbs while Waterloo i being fought, and they wake up and begin to fret when nothing is going on. They never catch tip with themselves. The "more convenient season" lead them a stern chase ear in and year out. One of the valuable secrets of success it Knowing how to economize the fragment of time. An hour sems a little matter, but you can read twenty quarto pages in an hour, and an hour a day for four year would carry you through the Encyclopaedia Dritanniea. Ten minutes are hardly worth considering yet Longfellow in his youth translated Dante' "Inferno" in the ten minutes day after day, while be waited for his coffee to boil. "(Jother tin the frag meit that nothing be lost." While Pro fessor Mitchell was in charge of a division during the Civil War he said to a young ollieer: "You excuse yourself on the ground that you are only a few minutes late. 8ir, I have been in the habit of calculating the value of a millionth part of a aecond!" It is the loss of time, a little here and a little there, that makes life a failure and eternity an irremediable disappointment. Will there be an end of time? Ave. when eternity begin. The life beyond' is unconditioned by the falling ands of the hour glass. At the sounding of the sev enth trumpet John saw an angel arrayed in majesty, with one foot planted on the aea nnd the other on the land, who pro c'aimcd the end of the present cycle, "There shall b time no longer!" But to all intents and purpose death mark the end of time for everv man. Probation ia over, once for all. The present probation would, indeed, be a farce, if there were another after it. The fabric is lifted from the loom and there is no garnering up its loose onda. School i out and life begins. Wherefore, whatsoever thy hand findeth to no, do it with thy might, and do it here and now; for there i no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom on the grave whither thou goest. It is a true saying of Emerson's. "No man has learned any thing rightly until he knows that every day i doomsday," for every day and every hour has the issues of eternity wrapped up in it. In hoe momento pendit eternitas. The. time to will, to choose, to act i now: If ain i to be repented of, repent now. If Christ ia to be accepted, accept Him now. Now is the accepted time and to-day is the day of salvation. "The golden oportunity i never offer.-d twice; seize thou the hour when fortune smiles and duty points the way." God's Opportunity. Some one has said that "each human life ia another opportunity for God to display Hi grace and power." So it i and the thought will grow ution you as vnu medi tate upon it. Just think, "I am Uod' op portunity!" Isu't it -wonderful! Isn't it glorious! When we look at others whom (iod has richly blessed and honored ia ser vice we can see how it is, but do we ever think of ourselves as Clod's opportunity? Every one that respond to tiod's call, "Come!" give Cod a large place in the world. Every one who obeys God's com mand, "Go!". assists God in gaining a larg er place in tho hearts of men. Every re. generated heart and life is a new garden in which God plants His seeds of love and grace; a fountain out of Which Hour ton stant stream of healing power. Take it borne and aay to yourself, I am God's op portunity." Be that, and your life will be come unutterably grand, and your exper ience unspeakably awcet. Presbj turiaa Journal. Meklac Otbeis Happy. When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow creature. It is easily done: a left off garment to the man who need it, a kind word to the sorrowful, an encourag ing expression to the striving trifle in themselves light a air will do at least for the twenty-four li.iurs. And if you are young depend upon it, it will tell when you are old, and if you are old, rest assured it will send you .gently and happily down the trearu of time to eternity. By the most simple arithmetical sum look at the result. If you eend'one person, only one, happily through each day. that is 3tu in the course of the year. And supposing you live forty year only after you commence that course of medicine, you have made 14.000 being happy, at all eventa for a time. Sydney Smith. The Brand ot Drink."; , Pin aet it aeal upon the human face a distinctively aa righteousness, says the Union Wignal. An article in a New Or leans paper atates the fact that expe rienced ba "keepers can tell what a man drink bv the peculiar discoloration of bis skin. There is, it appears, a livery of whisky, of brandy, beer, absinthe, each one doing it deadly work with strict individu ality. In no little corner of the creation is law inoperative, whether it he the law of life or the law of am and death. ; Thoea Kalated Youngatera." ' There are to ma,ny Bona of Murat Halatead that no one outside of the family baa ever been able to kaop count ot them. However, ono lntrr duced blmaelf to Major General Cbaf fee the other day and reminded him 'that two of bl brother had aerved under blm In China. "Yea," aald th General, bla eye lighting up, "1 know .them both very well." They almoal worahlp the (round you walk on, Gen eral; they talk only of you when at home, ot your brave deeds, of the at tec 1 1 on every aoldler baa for you, of v " TbaOeneral, baitlly Interrupt ,!ng: "8top, atop!" I'm afraid tboat youngatera have talked too much." Both ot them are Firat Lieutenant!, yet to blm are only "youngsters," ot whom he la very proud. Thla Rapid Age. ,. A ateel akyaeraper In New York I to be taken down to make room fur Dure modern etructure. .The or V;lnal building wa ereetel In 1898, but now looked upon aa, out of date. The age it ateel la, Indued, a rayid age. TIIE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lessen Comments March 15. For Stbcl: The Rio! at I'pieiai, Acta tit., 2IKJ Golden Text, Pia. xitl., 2J Msmory Verse, 29-JI Coameolary ctl thj Day's Lcsseo. I. Demetrius causing a tumult (vs. 2lt 27). Demi trills win a lending spirit among the Kphcian shrine-makers, and ma;.- have been a whu'esnlc dealer, executing orders for the shrines and "en-;, loving .urtlsuns who received lucrative wage for their la bor." The preaching of Paul, the growth of the church ami the advancing civiliza tion of that time were rinltiiig inroads i.tian idol worship, and the sale of the shrines was decreasing. This! shrines were made oi wood ir tnea1. and were lit tle images or models of the temp'e ot Diana, tontaiiiing 11 11 image of the god le.-. They were sold to the peop'e of Hpben and to the many strangers who visited the city, and were also sent to distant ci'.ii " for sale. Demetrius collected all the work men who were connected with his busi ness, and very nrcfiillv aroused their pas sions. n bis speech he declared that their rraft or trade was iu danger of being brought i-ito disrepute, and then ttnwit tinglv paid a glowinr tribute to the apos tle Paul and th"! effectiveness of the gos pel (vs. 27). The tause of the tumult was covetousness under the guise of. relig ion. Greed ond gain blind men to the highest interests of mankind. II. Paul's companions seized fvs. 2 "2). The address of Demetriii' was effect ive. The men to whose nor'dly interests he had appealed reaponded with loud cries, "Great is Diana of tlie KVnesians." The design of this clamor was to raise n persecution nzainst Paul, and thus sen? their own interests. 2tt. "Confusion." All the people rushed to the theatre, in which public nieetiiws were often held. As the apostle himself at the moment, could not be found, his at tendants were violently dragged along by the multitude. "Gains." lie had lived t Corinth and had enter'aind Paul at his house (1 Cor. 1: 14; Horn. 10: 2-1). "Aris tarchus " He attended Paul to Home, ar-d was there 1 prisoner with him (Col. 4: 101. .10. "Would have entered." Paul was fearless nnd readv to stand in the fore front of dang'r. He no doubt honed to be nble to nue'.l the outbreak. "Suffered him rot." H's life was too precious to be thus risked. It appears that Paul listened to the entreatu-s of the discip'es on this oc casion: at other times he did not (Acts 21: 10-14). Whi'j Paul did not fnr mobs or even death, vet he wiselv yielded to persuasion and did not risk his life when therewss no recessity for so doing. 31. "The chief of Asia." The original word is Asiarchs. There were ten men. annually elected from the most influential in the province, to conduct flic sacrificial worship. Thus we sec that some of the men honored with the highest offices at this festival were friendly to Paul and Christianity, nnd probablv had no great care for Diana or her worship. 32. "Knew not " The crowd had been drawn toicther by the noise and excite ment, and onlv a few knew the real cause of the commotion. III. The uuroar ine-easing (rj. 3.1. 341. 3.1. "Drew Alexander." He wns probablv an unconverted Jew. It mav have been the ce.se that the Jews wished Alexander, who was, perhaps, an experienced public orator, to speak in their behalf, nnd thus transfer the b'ame from themselves to the Christians. Hut when he attempted to apeak the people perceived he was a Jew, and would not permit him to utter a word. 34. "A Jew." There wa a general prejudice against the Jews. They were disposed to charge the whole difficulty upon the Jews, esteeming Christiana to be but a sect of the Jew. Thev were, there fore, indignant and excited,, and indis criminate in their wrath and unwilling to listen to any defense. "Two hours." In the division of time among the Greeks and Romans an hour did not differ greatly from an hour with us. It is not unlikelv that in the hot rage and excitement such n length of time would be necessary to al lay the tumult. "Cried out." etc. This thev at first did to silence Alexander. The excitement, however was continued in or der to evince their attachment to Diana, a would be natural in an excited and tumul tuous mob of debased heathen worshipers. III. The town clerk's snec-h (vs. 3.V 40). ai. "Tlie town clerk." This official was a verv important person, lie was au thorised to preside over public assemblies, and he stood next in rank to the munici pal chief, nnd performed hi duties doring the absence or on the death of that officer. "Had quieted." Hi influence was o ceat that the mob hecatn nuiet and gave lum a hearing. He said. The speech is full of tact and ability and shows that th man" was well nnalitied to fill the bih office be held. "A worshiper tetrn'e keeper." Literally, temple awceper. The rsme no "oubr was nrs'. used to imp v thnt any oHi- in the service of so magnili mt a goddess wa a grand distinction. "The image." etc. This aa-ted imaee which was believed to have fal'en down from Ji'nitf was "n rude wooden figure nesrlv the shape of a mummy." 3rt. '37. "Do nothing rah'-." They hid performed a very rnsh act. in aoizing two person aninst whs" it a-nrs the rould tf't no oroceedings. "Robbers of temp'es." As th temple at Fnhcsus tnd a great treasure chamber the off" r-'ht not be unknown among tliem. "Nr b's phemers." From thi we see that th guage of Paul and hi eomrr'innj had ' "'x guarded. The general effect of t'-e'r proachim was to overthrow ido'a'ry, hut they bad refri""d from denunciation and opprobrious epithets. To have talren an" o'her course w-uld have deprived them of all chance of bearing. 9M8. "Courts are open." It is a m-rey of (led when a wise government exists, which is able to msintain law and ordr. "Other matters." Anything that pertiin to public affairs. "Lawful." It h'l be settled in couformitx to l"w and not by a mob. To move an unlawful tumult was a ranilal often", sod Demetrius v-"s now it quite a much danger a l'au1. Mob law ia still a treat evil in the land. It deaden the public conscience and strike a blow at tho verv foundation of good governs ment. "In 'danger." Thry were in danger of being called to account by the procon sul. The Iloman Government watched every anpearance of sedition in the prov inces with a jealous eye. It was a capital offense to take any prt in a riotous pro ceeding. "No cause." "There being no cause for it, and a touching it we shall not be ah' to give account of thi cnncmire." It. V. Thi is a complete vindication of Paul and his method of work and of Chris tianity in general. The charges of lawless ness and violence whieh were so often pre ferred agairftt the Christian by their ene mies were entirely groundless. GUARD OOOS AGAINST SMALLPOX Vaccination Now Popular for the Household Pets. The veterinary surgeon was vacci nating a big Newfoundland dog. The animal was muzzled and an assistant held Its head, says the Philadelphia Record. A space the alze of a silver dcllar was shaven clean on Its back, and hore the virus was being applied. "I choose this spot to work on," said the surgeon, "because the dog can't cratch blmaolf here. If I vaccinated hlia on the leg be would bo apt to Irri tate the wound and make It very sore. The vaccination ot dogs Is new," he went on, "but It la a very good thing. I wonder tbat It was never tried before this year. Many valuable dogs have died from time to time of smallpox. There have, Indeed, been cases where whole packs of hounds have contract ed the disease, and their killing has been necessary. I advocate every pup's vaccination. When dogs take small pox they take It badly. Their death Is nearly always bound to follow. When they recover they are not disfigured, tholr balr hiding the pock narks, but they so seldom recover that this fact hardly counts tor much. Vaccination la the thing for valuable dogs. EPWOSTS LEAGUE JKCET1NQ TOPICS. Carclt IS The Yotmg CJrrlsflan'i Pteam, Tb Recreation ef Body, Mind tail Soai. I Cer. 6. !, 10. K-JJ. You'h want life to be glad; and youth l.s likely to want life to bo gay. "If I become a Christian will lll'o lose Ha eoler, It exhlllaratlon, tta pleas ures?" This question many a young man has a?ked himself. One' real aourcp of color and exhlllaratlon to the young Christian should be bis Joy In bis work. He comes to it with zest. He enters Into the spirit of it, and if you watch htm you will some times see bis eyes sparkle with the delight of it. Then there. H his. pleasure In all that the personal friendship of his Master means to hint. The Inner movement of his life has been tuned to a new music, and this gives him' pleasure, rich and deep. Then the fine relations of friendship and ser vice which come to him as a Chr's tlon, these are a joy to him. So, In stead of being a loser be Is a gainer in pure, true pleasure by being a Cbris tion. His pleasures have not the un derside of bitterness and regret which belong to bo many of the pleasures offered to men. And now another question In the way cf amusements. How shall he decide which ones he may claim? The advice of Wesley's mother, "Any pleasure which does not leave a sting," may well be remembered by him as ho chooses. We may put the truth briefly by saying. Whatever weakens me or weakens my power to help others, this I must keep out of my life. If this rule Is followed hon estly, the young Christian will keep out of danger. With this standard shall we hesitate to give up dancing, to give up catds, to give up the theater? The history of dancing, the history of the theater, the history of the play ing of cards, If one could read but a few of the terribly black chapters, lurid with the Area of passion, the heartless story of greed, the tragedies of broken hearts and blackened lives, surely It would be enough. The shuffle of the cards would seem the symbol of that playing fact and loose with moral Issues which robs life of its luster. The rising of the curtain at the play we would feel to be too often the symbol of outraged decency. The dance would suggest the requiem of purity. Life baa. Its pleasures, lta glad, se rene pleasures, its manly sports. Its time for mlrtb. These belong to the young Christian. They are a part of God's gift. But bla pleasures should be those from which he can turn un blusblngly to meet his Saviour's gaze. But the pleasures foul with the sug gestion of moral decay from these the Christian turns, and Is the gainer, the great gaiuer, by turning from them. Gladness In recreation, gladness In work, gladness In service these he will find and th will far surpass the monumont-gllntlngs of the counterfeit pleasures which attempt to paaa In the currency of the world's, life.- CHR'STIAN ENDEAVOR TOPXj March IS "What Christ 7;ac!i.-a TrasL" Matt, rt, 19-3 1 Aloet 8crtpture Verses Psa. nxvll. 5; xxxlr 8; Jer. xvll. 5;; 1 Tim. vl. 17; Acta Iv. 12; Eph. v. 17; 3 John 4; Psa. lxll. 8; Jas. r. 7; Psa. xl. 5; xxxlv. 22; xxvll. 1. Leason Thoughts. "'Let not your heart be troubled,' commanded Christ. That Is as binding a command as any In, the Decalogue. And since Christ commands it. It must be possible." "'Like as a father.' A father'a wishes anticipate hla children's with eagerness; co do God's. "A father withholds nothing from his children except for their good. Neither does Ood. "A father permits no one to surpass tlm In love for his children; neither does God. "The children cannot more wisely take care of themselves than by doing nothing and letting the father do It all. That. U. man's best way of taking care ef himself," Selections. We trust aa we love, and we trest where we love; If you love Christ much, surely, you will trust him much. O holy trust! O endlesa sense ot rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Savlor'a breast ,and thus to journey on. That writer of beautiful hymns, John Newton, compared the trouble that come to the Christian In the course of a year to a great bundle of sticks. But In his mercy Ood gives the Chris tian only one stick a day. We could easily manage it It we did not Insist upou carrying yesterday's atlck over again to-day, and adding the- burden ot to-morrow to our load before we are required to bear It The word "providence" means "fore sight."' Our Father In heaven la like many a father on the earth who look ahead to discover what will be the needs of his child during future years, and provides for them long before the child himself has taken any thought at all for the future. Suggested Hymna. A shelter In the time of storm. Blest Jesus, grant us strength. He leadeth me. I am trusting thee, Lord Jesus. Jeans, thou Refuge of the soul. Lord fog to-morrow and Its needs. Not New England Hospitality. Senator Hoar, at the New England dinirar that was held recently In Phil adelphia, talked about Now England hospitality. "It Is better now than It used to be," be said, "but It will still stand Im provement here and there. I remem ber how I. dined, not long ago, with a Connecticut Tarmer, a boyhood friend of mine. For dinner there was tur key. It was an excellent bird and I ate ot it heartily. I said: " 'John, thla turkey will make a tine hash to-morrow.' "'Yes. George. It will.' the farmer answered, 'provided tbat you leave off now.' "That was not New England hospi tality, either. It was just a joke," con cluded Senator Horr. till Digging for Treasure. The Isle ot Pines, south ot Cuba, Is the original ot Robert LouU Steven son's "Treasure Island." Prof. John Flnley baa been visiting the Island and In writing ot the experience aaya that even at tbls late and unromantlo iey.he tound men dl.gtn, tor tr,a lire there. THIS (IK EAT UESTROYEB SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Cenr-in Xellt, tlio Matricide-Are There Not Come Yoiinnj Men Who Might 1'rnfllnM" rteait This ftdlrnrlal From tho New York KTon'.ng Journal ? M'-rib"!- is almost r.s old as the rice, tut Matricide is coinDiiratively a rare crime. M !" are the hands that have been stained with blooj. but for the honor of humanity be it said it is but seldom that thnt blood is the blood of a mother. The story of Genrcc Xell: has already gone the length nnd breadth of the land, and millions of hearts have been saddened by t'r. young man's Satanic brutality. This strange monster in hum-xn form, GcT-ge Ne'k. lived with his aged mother nil h.ilf-uitted sister. A leist, he stopped In the sine home with them when lie was tio.: elsewhere. Ccir-e Nelk wa no' a r-odol young man. H" der-k. he gambled. Ir kept com pany with l"d men and wors women. It seems that he became infatuated with t disreputab'" woman, who had an eye for business, and who had intimated to Nelk that if ha wished to keep her company he would have to see to it that he was well iuvlied with money. Th" infatuation was complete! The moth had dollied with the flimc until it was too late for it to get away from it. Hut where was the money coming from? " h I see," aaid the crime-crazed son. "Mv mother. hs ke-it a little- storo for many yeer. She Ilia saved up some money. I will kill her, get hold of her money, and with that money I will mak? mv peace with this woman." He was ai good as liii word. From '.ho side of the pai'itcil devil by whom ho ves so atra-ii;ely fascinated he went to his mother's store, found her in the liltle back room, dozing in her rocker after the d iv's work, and dealt her thj blow that l:ill?d her! The deed was done nnd the poor r!d woman's hard-earned savings were now the BoVa! L'pon a slip of paper left upon the table he wrote the.io terrible words: "I havo S1000, and nm going to have a good t-me. Then I will kill myself." Hack to tho woman he went with the l(Xs), and the rest will hi known later. Such is the awful story, told in the plain est possible terms. And tho question may well arise: "Is there not that in the atory which t.iarv young men may ponder unon with profit?" - George Xelk murdered his poor old moth er bv hitting her upon tho head with a haMiot. That is one way to murder a mothar. But it in not the only way. Very few young men murder their moth ers by blows oi the bead with a hatcliet, but many a time they murder them in other wayj that arc just as effective and just as cruel. George Nelk broke hi mother'a head aro there not many other (on who break their mothers' heart:? And between tho two ways of killing a mother it is hard to say whieh ia the. more criminal nr cruel. To split the mother' head with a hatchet seems the more brutal, but, after all. is it? Is it not equally brutal to rend a moth er' heart, to keep her awake night after night in "restless cealocy," wondering when the bell will ring, and if when it rings her son will bo brought in dead or alive? And what is the matter with all of these unnatural sons those who murder their mothers with hatchets, as George NolU did, and those who murder them with worry ond trouble? fine word tells the who'e atory whisky. Whisky is. a demoralizer. It. breaks up the foundations of character; it undoes. At one fell swoon all that the mother has been lovingly working for for year, and out of the boy who might otherwise be a joy ta hi home and an honor to his race it make a matricide a murderer of his mother. Thi editorial is not meant a an insult to any young man. The writer recognizes the foci: that tho most natural thing in the world ia for the aon to love and honor hi mother, and to wish only for her peace and hippines. And the writdV of this editorial knows that, but for the brutalizing, de moralizing influence of whisky, mothers wo'iM almost universally be happy in their children. Aid o we commend to the young men cf this cormunity the moral of thi story. That moral is Hoon to'd: Let whiskv oloi-c! Do that, nnd the dev. un of remorse will never hold their hellish orgiea in your aoul. Do that, and those wni b.ia.l pass through the cemetery in which yo-i are finally laid at rest will never be able to point ta s-our grave and aay: laaro 110a a matricide. Insanity Caused by Drink. - In a resent interview Frederick Richard- fon. o. the Jiedtord Insane Asy.um, of lied ford, HI., said that "the increased in sanity, especially among young people, is Isrge.y d ie to alcoholic tiumlant and drugs. ' ibis u not the verdict of the temperance nuvo-ate, but that of an .expert in lunacy, who gives the results of year of practical observation. Here is hi opinion: "Fa: living ha caused more case of mental weakness than anything else. Drinking and tho" use of narcotics, nrinci- pally opii'm. seem to be the natural result of a rapid rise.then shattered health and insanity, the Wno.n ceuntry is living fast er and faater. Tho Stock Exchange is con tributing its nuoU to the number of insane toil neoplo from gvary walk in life are p'accd under our care. We have learned t-iat thA normal hfe is most conducive to tha bcilth of brain and body." 'It., Temperance Kxlendlng. Cr cater temperance in tho use of intoxi cants is extending among all reasonable men. Tb danger of inch stimulation are recognized the inoro a intelligence spreads and increases. Intemperanco ia dreaded aa a lamentable disease. Habit of intoxica tion,. 000. indulgently regarded by. aocirt v., are now reprobated a indecent ' or la mented as evidence of a deolorable phy sical 'iisordor. The consumption of alcohol at dinners baa diminished greatly, and modern business exacts a concentration' oi :ndusrry incompatible with exeeaair drink ing. But legal nrohibition ha proved in practical operation an unavailing remedy for the evil it set nut so confidently to cure and removo finally from society. New York Sun. A Striking Illustration. Imagine the sensation of public horror and indignation in New York City if a procassion of 103 ter.ms were being driven down Broadway to the battery on the morning of January I, each with its cargo of S)0 loaves of bread, for the purnoie of pitching the wholo M.000 loaves of bread in th water, and this to continue for the 303 working day of this year. Yet thi ia but a faint picture of the actual waste which attends the consumption of grain in the vat and ths still. National Advocate. A Cemetery or Palonn. According to the daily paper the village of Fulton, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, ha taken a novel method to prevent the licensing of a saloon there. Last summer a hotel was built, and it was learned that the proprietor was to bo given a license for a bar, in (lie hitherto temperance vil lage. "When the temperance people learned of thi they dug up a law of 18M whieh forbid th location of a saloon within eighty rod of a cemetery. Then they organized a rometery association, til ing incorporation uauer with the County Clerk, and located the plat within eighty rod of the hotel." . Good! A cemetery even is far better than a aaloon. 4 Aa t7een1aT Hauifcainaa, "Whisky never misses fire," said a man the other day. No, it never doe. It ia sure t bring down it victim sooner or later, whether he be high or low, in thVao cial or intellectual acale. And fluttering all about bira will always be the wounded hearts of mother, father, wife, children, sister, brother and friends, wbikt beyond and behiud all thi too often a trail of ruined virtue and contaminating influences. At least aiz heart on an average carry a lifelong, overshadowing, dreary aorrow for every victim alcohol bring down. Th un dertow of all family and social life is Urge- ly silent sorrow and dreary baartacha over j - tne victim 01 aiconoi, io, wnuay never misses tire uvp. HORN BLASTS. EAR9 are the dew f the spirit. A fire-fly relig ion will never warm his cold world. To conceal truth s to congeal the eart. The milder vlr ues may be as mas terful as the wilder "olses. Blessed Is the VI ri VI SMiti a A nA9 stnr t w s m ia v im iiirvjo uvt draw his Ideals from his Idols. Heights of consecration may follow depths of conviction. The seats In heaven will not be as signed by the size ot our heads. When a man Is In the right he Is not afraid ot . being misrepresented. The hand will feel cold to man when the heart Is not In touch with God. Orasptng a dime may keep you out of heaven as much as greed for a dol lar. The habit Into which you put your heart will either be a holy or a harm ful one. Perfection may be like the North Star, Impossible- to. touch but good to steer by.- You cannot pull a man out of the mire; ot sin by throwing rocks of cen sure at him. A mushy religion will not make men. Patience Is a fruit plucked only in the gardens of pain. God Is the only one who can be trusted with vengeance. The only way to exclude the evil Is to entertain the good. He who follows the guidance of all reaches the goal of none. Sentimental tenderness to the crimi nal may be cruelty to his victims. Only the Insignificant man counts anything as Insignificant. Some people complain because it costs an egg to ket a chick. Watching others Is often an attempt to hide our own weaknesses. The attempt to be a good tellow has often prevented being a good man. The church without a responsibility fof lost society has no relation to the Savior. HER DOUGH MRIZ" ALL RIGHT. The Embarrassing Experience of a Kind-Hearted Woman. A medicine bottle, a mirror and a bunch of keys, all sticking to a chunk of dough as large as your head was the sight that met a Skowhegac woman's view when she opened her satchel In the Skowhegan car en route to Lewlston. She had wondered for some time what It was that was swelling out the Bides of her satchel in such an unproportionate manner, and she opened the satchel to find out. She struggled, to close, it, but she could not.. The-man lor the. rear seat looked over her back to see what the matter was. The conductor stopped to look at her In her helpless state. "What's the matter, madam," he Inquired. "Oh, nothing. Bread is rising, can't you see? Oh, get away!" She got her Angers In the dough and then she got mad. She tried to pull them. She tried to close the satchel, but It would not close. "Confound that thing," she said and the satchel, comb, mirror and dough disappeared out through window. When she tells her friends about the case now she laughs at the horrid fellow-passenger and conductor, but she did not feel like It then. She was coming to visit a friend In Lewlston. This friend admired ber bread very much and said It was the best In the world, so, not having any bread ready to bring with her, she seized upon a large piece ot dough which was rising in a pan before the Are and wrapping It In a napkin she placed It In ber grip with the above result. Lewlston Evening: Journal. AS TO GERMAN AFFABILITY. RAM'S How a Housemaid Delivers a Message from Her Mistress. "Hearty greetings to the Frau Doc tor F. from the Frau Professor W., who hopes that the gracious Frau Doctor and her family are all well, and would the gracious Frau Doctor kindly tell the Frau Professor bow many pounds of goose fcat'acr 30 to a pair of pillows?" Something after this stately fashion docs a housemaid In Germany who. prides herself on her good, manners deliver a menage from her mistress. Tbls stilted: language takea time, but short speech , and. a . brusqe-manner find, scanty tolerance- la. the fatacr land. The street car conductor knows this and he civilly touches his bat as he asks his fare, and If, perchance, you have given blm a penny over the amount, he will set you down at your station with a friendly adieu! Enter any little knick-knack shop to buy perhaps a paper of needles, and a pleasant smile and good-day will greet you from the busy employes. How ever trifling your purchase, tho honor ot your gracious patronage la begged for a future occasion, and every one In the shop Is for the moment your obedient servant Rachel Carew In the Pilgrim. The Dignified Usher. In one of the boxes at a social af fair at the Waldorf the other evening were two or three young women rath er thinly clad. Their chaperon called to one of the ushers. "I wish you would have that win dow behind us closed," she said. "Certainly, madame," he responded politely, "I will send for a man to do It without delay." The party . waited a quarter of an hour, and 'then-f the chaperon made another complaint to the usher. "I will see to It at once." be said. After ten minutes more aha called him again. "I shall have to close that window myself, unless It la attended to Immediately," she exclaimed. "By no means, madame," he said, with the utmost deference. "Unless the man comes very soon I will do 11 myself." And the condescending Individual was only a minor menibor of tb great society ot flunkies, at y that. New Vcr'.i Vail and F.vnreM I J THE RELIGIOUS LIFE ftEADINC FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. Poem 1 Teach Mo Thy YVnTIt I a fhrla. tlen's Duts to net Along Peaceably With All Sort and Condition of Mo Ue Tolerant. Teach me Thy way, Oh, Lord! Help me to know The devious, hidden path That I must go, J am too weak and blind, ' My way alone to find. Oh. lest I go astray, Teach me Thy way! Teach me Thy way, Oh, Lord! Help mo to see. The clear, the shining road That leads to Thee. In ignorance I stand. And wait Thy guiding hand, In tender love each day, Teach me Thy way! Miss Emily H. Watson, in New York Observer. Art of Living; With People. We find life' best school in living with people, says J. R. Miller, 1). D., in Chris tian Work. Home ono aya: "It is better to live with o'hor even at the cost of con siderable jarring and friction than to live in undisturbed quiet alone." It i not ideally the easy way. It means oftontimcs hurts, wrong, injustices, many a. wound ing, many a heartanhc, many a pang. It, requires aelf-forgetfulnea.s, clf-restraint, the giving un of one' right many times, the overlooking of unkindnesses and thouglitlessneiwes, the quist. enduring of things that it would seem no one should be required to endure. Nevertheless it ia immcasurab.; better to live with neople, though it is not easy, than to live alone. Living alone nourishes much thnt is not good and beautiful in hdman nature. It promotes selfishness. It gives self-conceit an undue opnortunity of growth and de velopment. It permit us to do too much a wo please, which is bad training for uny of us; to indulge our own tastes, feelings and whims without limitation, without protest, ince no one is near enough to us to be seriously affected by our selfishness. Then it deprives us of the opoortunity for discipline and education which we can get only by living in daily contact with others. One never can grow into true nobleness of character, sweetness of disposition snd beauty of life while living in solitude. "We noed to have our sharp corners rubbed off, our little pet fancies punctured, nnd most of all to learn self-control, 'awcet reason bleness' and tolerance for other people' point of view," Then we never can learn the lesson of love but by living with people. We may learn the theory of loving and be able to preach about it and write delightful ssavs on the subject, but that is different alto gether from getting the lesson into our own live. Nothing will teach us unselfishness but the practice of unselfishness under the pressure of necessity. We cannot learn patience with other aavo in experiences which put our patience to the tet. The same is true of all the virtue and graces they can be acquired only in practical life. People are the beat means of grace to us. We often are helped to form character by the necessity of Datienco and charitv in our dealings toward others, so in thi we have thorn to thank for an added grace, however unwillingly received. It is important, then, that we learn the art of living with other. It should not be hard to live with those who are sweet, gentle, uatignt. thoughtful and unselfish anybody ought to be able to get alone with such pleasant people. Hut not all with whom wo mingla are of thi class. There- are disagrecablo- people, those wtio are thoughtless, uncongenial,, exacting, quick tempered, unreasonable, sensitive, and our duty of living aweetly with others include these, too. It may help us; if we will always remem ber, when , we-find it hard to' get along with any one, that this is onlv a new lei son in loving set for 111. Of course, it would please us if the disagreeable person should by some process bo quietly changed into sweet reasonableness and 'Christlike agreeablcaess, so that thero no longer should be any nncongenialtiy to fret us. But it ia not probable that any such mira cle will be wrought to mako it easier for 11s t get along peaceably. Alirtost certain ly the task set for u roust bo worked or.t without any perceptible amelioration of conditions. The problem is our wc must meet it. It is ours to be Christians, which means ChrUtlike, just where we find iur selves. Tilseoarageinent. Dr. .T. K. Miller, speaking of tlio impor tance of guarding against discouraiement, toll us some pluin, practical truthj. He say: "When once we come under it influ ence, it make us weak, robbing us of our hope and making cowards of us. Many a life is discrowned and drawn down to fail ure through discouragement. It ia surely a sad picture this greatest of the o'.d pro pheta lvmg there under the little bush, in the wilderness, longing to die. If Elijah had died then and there what an inglorious ending it would lutve made of his life! As tt wa, however, he lived to do further g'.o rious work and to aee great results from his contest with idolatry. Ood waa kinder to him than he knew. It is wrong to wish ourse.vrs dad. Life is 0od' gift to us, a sacred, trust for which wo shall haVe to mve account. While God keeps us livinj He ha something for u to do. Our rray er ahodld be for grace to do our duty bravely and well unto the end. From Eli jah a after experience we learn that w should never be cast down by any discour aging experiences. The thing w think have failed are ofton only slowly ripening into rich ucces. We havo only to be faithful to God and to duty, and we may alwaya rejoice. What seem failure i u- ten Dest aucee." Silvias? Thank. There are two. ways . of giving thank one by the. lip and tha other bv tho,li-The- two- ought always to bo together, but such is not alwaya th case. "Lin thanks" will aurely accompany or flow from "W thank,' but it i not always true . that the spoken "Thank -you" i. accompanied by life gratitude. Thero ia not enough nf expressed thankfulness, either by word or life. We all take thing too much for granted. W aeem to assume that tbs world owe na at least a living and jorget too often that whatever comes to us through the world is sent .us "from above, irom tne rather ol Light." Veith ataia on he foal. It matters not how faith comes, whether through the intellect, a in the case of St. Thomaa, or in th heart, a in th case of Bt. John, or as tlie result of long educa tion, aa in the case of Nt. Peter. God ha many way of bringing different characters to faith, but tbat blessed thing which tbs Bible call faith is a state of oul in which the thing of God bscom glorious eertaia- i io. r . w, noDeruon. Make V ot arlowtneat. Existence it not given to be watd If th prosecution of elf!h plana or iu ad vancing and executing trifling one. Tim has been freely given, and with it a bi( capacity to live worthily and a sun strength to do well. Let me remeoib that I am responsible for the use I marl wi suvsv cnuuwmeuie. iAroiuy 1S1X. Aalleeaesl alaa. Blessed la the man who baa a quiet chs bar in. hi aoul where hop and memorf can 'sit together and contemplate the meat- ones 01 uoa. united rrssDruma, Ian Maslaran In Peer Health. Reporta In regard to the 111 healt of Ian Maclaren are causing anslat? among hla friends. , Mr. Watson b canceled all engagements up to Jail 1 and will take a mueh-nattdad rat Welah Worde Very Similar. In North Wales the Welsh word W "now" Is "rwan." In South Wale " la "rwan" apelt backwards vl- "nawr." Fbreslcht has lta nmftatlons. If vother things. ' ata made fur taaa." U u uuif to (I
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