"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