AN ELOQUENT SERMON
By Dr. Cliark-s H. FnrkhLsf, Psslor ol
Aladison Fqutre Church.
"Growing In th: lhinjs of ihe kirgdom ot
Ood ' Tin Uca Lies C:o.- o the l-oca-dalloo
of It. Stslrm ol Ad.n:n.trct.cn.
"Kf.w Yodk I itt. Dr. Charles fl. Park
hurst, pastor of the Madison Square Pres
byterian Church, preached Sunday morn
inn on "Growing in the Thing of the
Kingdom of God." The text wu from II.
I'eter iii: 18: "Grow in grace and in the?
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ." t
To grow; growing in the things of the
kingdom of God; that in our matter this
morning. It i a great Bible word, "grow"
is; particularly a great gospel word. The
word incarnate the idea of life, and of
life that is swelling, crowding apart the
shell and crushing up m th direction of
becoming a tree; knocking down walla and
breaking forth into territory outlying. "I
em come tint they might have life and
that they niixht have it more abundantly,"
more and more of it. life doubling and
quadrupling upon itself.
That is one of the idea that lie close at
the foundation of God's ay a tern of produc
tion and administration life, ami more
and more oi it. Kverything is for the sake
of the things thiit grow. What cannot
grow is f(r the sake of that which can
catioliling along which the living wall can
be built, trellis up which the growing vine
can clamber. The first two day ot God's
great week were only a sort of creative pre
lude, getting things ready, the seas collect
ed, the land dried off, in readiness for the
fish that live, the grass ami the trees that
grow a'nd roan; scaffolding and trellises
prior to the temple and the vines.
If. was a strange moment in our long his
tory when the first live thing began to be,
something that was no rock, no mineral.
And the old torturing problem is, where it
rame from out of the gronml Out of
Cod's hand that had ben holding it till
the riiiht mmeut ramej Out of the air
and drifted down from some other globe
tint had commenced harvesting before our
furrows were plowed? Which?
But it was a supreme moment one of
the moments when it almost seems that
Ood must have stopped an instant to ru
minate, as :he (lenesis record intimates
He did when at last there began to be a
man. lomething that God could enjoy and
see His own f.reo t divine face borne hack
to Him in a small human reflection. Even
before that supreme hour stni'l; things had
gone o.i reshaping themselves and reshap
ing themselves ; but reshaping is not grow
ing. I'he glacier in every step of its frozen
journey reshapes itself, but the glacier does
riot g-ow. I'he gie.it hills, the earth itself,
take all kindt of shapes from century to
century, from aeon to aeon, but they do
no grow; but the corn grows, and man
grows at least sometimes: some men.
The, body grows, at any rate; that is the
rule. It not simply exists a mineral docs
that, a block of stone does that but it
livs, and, from infancy up, with a life that
is more and more a life blade, ear, full
corn; which is the physical side of that
verse in John, "that thv might have life
and have it more nhiindantlv." And not
only is there the kind of "growth that
makes the individual more anil more richly
a live thing, on the way from infancy to
mature manhood, and more completely
and biauteou.i!y human on his animal side,
but the race as a whole appears to have
been progressing in that respect till we
may sippose that man, as the last forty or
more centuries show him is about as good
a tiling physically as he can be; the sort of
human animal that (iod had in His eye
when first He went about to produce man.
We have reached the limit in point of stat
ure and presumably in point of refinement
of organization.
Arrived at this staje, any new growth
that the race might make would have to be
a striking out into some fresh channel.
Ihe body being a finished body, the rising
current of life in man in the growing
man will, perforce, seek some new issue
for itself. No longer needed to make for
him a more highly organized body, the wax
ing tide overflow into the shaping of a
more finely oiganized mind. The life is
there, the growing life is there, and so
wiie:i one thins; is finished another thing
baa to hi taken up, and when, in the
course of long year of devolopment, man
bad become perfect as an animal he started
in upon the course of making himself per
fect as an intelligence.
Tin t is what he is doing now, and it is
inexpressibly wondeu'ul what he has al
ready achieved in this direction. The race
cannot contemplate itself in respect of the
advance made within historic time unon.
lines of thought and research without 'be
holilini- itelf with feelings of admiration
verging close upon reverence. It is not
ca-y to understand how one can take ac
count of the steadily advancing line of pro
gress made by man into the domain of
truth, the truth of the physical world nt
any rate, without becoming aware of a cer
tain iniptiUe. n certain infilling of life from,
somewhere that inundates wider and wider
patches of newly reached area, as the ris
ing tide, inflowing from t)ia. sea, rolls with
each recurring billow farther up on the
sloping beach. How many thousand years
it has been since man commenced to think,
theoriw and discover noiiouy knows, ana
the Hiblo does not tell us, but up to date
the record is a tree i.luua one, and there
is no limit in sight. All of this is telling
us what a wonderful thing it was that (iod
did -rhen He started the race on its career
of growth and conquest. Whethur you
think ofjne way in wlrti h the hutuSui eve
has penetrated int the stellar spaces and
read out in t-rms 01' every day Knglish the
thoughts that at the beginning of time
Cod wrought into the glittering fabric of
the heavens, or whether yo-.i think of what
nt slurler r;it::e Ins been elferted bv the
study of our own gl.ihe and of the' laws
that tienade it, of the forces that actuate
it and of the ways in which its mvstcne
have been solved and converted into com
monplace utilities, the stoiv is one and
toe same all the way through. All tho-a
discoveries of course celebrate the splendid
omnipotent wis lorn of .1 God that could
make siuh a world, but they celebrate the
magnificence cf the human creature that
Could, in point of intlligence. grow far
enough toward Go 1 to be able to make the
discoveries, ferret out the purposes of
things, think nut in common words th
thoughts that the Creator put into things;
and go on year after year, century after
rentury. millennium after millennium, for
ever widening ths area of knowledge and
creating for human thought an empire
steadily advancing upward, outward and
downward upon lines laid down by the in
finite wind.
It is certainly easy to say, and it is very
common to say, that the realities ot the
spiritual world are things that cannot be
confident.y gotten at. Just as certainly
was it an eusy and very aatural thing for
the denizens of the olden centuries to say,
or at any rate to think, that the great
lights that shone in the heavens could not'
be gotum at, or that a man could not hold
instant and iurlVligihie intercourse with
his distant neighbor ft) miles across the
sea, b it such intercourse is now matter of
history, and as to the heavenly bodies that
were one but aw impossible and uninter
pre table vision, the human mind up to a
certain point contemplates them today
with as assured and as steady a thought as
that with which it marks the flight of a
bird or th flutter of a leaf.
In the realm of the spiritual, on the con
trary, not a great deal baa been achieved
ne Pn' ' an can encourage
itself with or that it can found great ex
pectations upon and profound anticipa
tions, bo lar a such matters are con
cerned are not much farther along in
im mil in oi in worm spiritual than
the wirld was along geographically in the,
slays when Columbus was wondering ii
mere were not more oeyond tn snores ot
Spain than the fifteenth century yet knew
of, or much farther than the world was
along astronomically wuen David shep
herded bis Hocks and miwing'.y watched
lb stirs hovering above the Ju.lesn hilU
Ansl we should be stimulated in the di
rection of coming into closer quarters witli
the sublime facts of the spiritual world
liod, I on I and all the eternals, if we would
Veep closer company with those impulses
of oil's, those spiritual appetites, that in
stinctively lean and extend themselves in
the direction of that suspected but un
known world. There is nut an impulse yet
detreted in our nature, whether physical
or mental, that has net esa found in
course of time to be co-related with some
thing outside that precisely matcties it.
'J bust means that there is water, and the
tWe-avaitiuo. iS.lUiin
that'thcre Is TtgTit, Smt tne Tignt n-riiere
Waiting. The budding interrogation in the
cnii'i s mind means that there is truth, and
the truth is there waiting. So far as we
have yet gone the inward impulse has
shown itself to be an infallible prophecy
ot an outward reality mat perfectly tits it.
And those great longings of the soul that
swell within iM in our best and freest mo
menta, so gnat sometimes as to be beyond
our power to articulate, these, too, it if
foolish and atupid in us to treat as less
trustworthy and infallible than are the
quieter appetences of the intelligence or
me coarser instincts of the body, i Here is
no safe creed Out does not start in with
a confession of faith in one's own superb
self superb in the sense of being gifted
with powers that put him in direct rela
tion with the rocks under him, the air
abont him, the great God overhead, and
the eternal realm of Spirit, human and di
vine. And that give a man something to
go upon. It at once makes the farthest
star in the heavens a Proper object of in
quiry, and lays out before him a highway
into the bean and centre of the kingdom
spiritual.
But the highway into the heart and cen
tre of the kingdom spiritual is not a road
that is being numerously traveled. We ara
about as far along on that road as Colum
bus was on the way to the Western Conti
nent when he was still heaving anchor in
the harbor of I'alos. Hut the road is as
feasible and passable as the waterway of
the Atlantic. And the world is going to
get there. The religious impulse, the pas
sion of ths divine is in us for a purpose.
(Iod is knowable and He is grnng to be
known. Spiritual things are discernible
nnd t'.icy are going to be discerned. There
is such a thing as the life eternal nnd there
is such a thing as having a realization of
that life, having it here, too, as a matter
of cler.r and definite experience. We are
not saying anything just now as to the na
ture of the highway that leads into the
midst of the spiritually discerned realities
that compose that kingdom, nothing just
now about the steps a man take in tread
ing that highway. The only impression I
am studying to leave this morning is that
there is a continent of reality as distinct
from the continent of every day interest
as the Western Hemisphere of our globo
is distinct from the Eastern; that we are
endowed with faculties which to the de
gree in which they are developed and ex
er.'ised make the matters of that remoter
continent as certainly distinguishable and
as confidently appreciable to the earliest
.Spanish explorers; that spiritual discern
ment has just as solid a meaning in its re
lation to things spiritual as neular discern
ment has in its relation to things material,
and that it is capable of yielding result
th.'.t are just as convincing and satisfying,
and he ns solidly planted in the assurance
of the man that his become spiritually cog
nizant of them; that the soul is endowed
with the faculty of a vision that is ns true
a-, the vision of tho body, independent of
bodily vision and a thousand times moro
richly and wonderfully gifted.
Men are interested in houses, lands,
clothes, money, markets, commerce, science
and art, but there is not much interest in
religion. There is interest in the matter
of being saved, whatever that may mean,
but desire to he saved is no more religion
than the desire to be gotten out of the
water when you have fallen overboard U
navigation.
This docs not mean that there are not a
good many who have an inkling of the
meaning of the spiritual kingdom, some
thing as men at sea gain a suspicion of
distant land by observing the impalpable
blanket of mist that hovers about it. It i
not much in itself, and yet it is a great
deal, because of the much that it is capa
ble of widening out into. It is a kind of
spiritual coast line which, seen from afar,
appears to be but a filmy thread, but
which is for all that the solid edge of a
solid continent.
Nor does thot which we have been say
ing mean that there are not .those who
have already traveled a good stretch of
distance into the midst of things, the spir
itual verities, that make out the spiritual
world. In all department of life aud in all
directions of growth there have always
been men who have outrun their fellows,
pioneers in the enterprise of discovery,
fliants in research who have, stood high ana
ooked over the shoulders of their contem
poraries, who have lived in the same
world as they, but at. the same time lived
in a larger world than they. In the world
of religious thought and experience wo
call such men prophets. A prophet, prop
erly speaking, is not so much a man who
is able to see what is going to be as be is
one who sues more widely than others the
things which are now. There is such a
thing, even in matters of science, as coining
so into accord with the spirit of scientific
truth ns to be able to see with a firm ami
fast vision whero eyes less sympathetic
have failed. Kxactly the parallel of that
has been true over nnd over again in that
other world of truth mysteriously hidden
that is our special concern this morning.
And, as I say, we call such ones prophets.
And there are prophets now as iu the old
days men and women whose spiritual
steps are more than abreast with their
own day. They know what they see, they
realize what they feci, and it is as feeble
and infantile for those whose eyes have in
them a feeble light to deny the uncovering
that has been made, to these prophets and
prophetesses of a longer and purer sight,
as for you nnd mo to slnr over with ironi
cal contempt the revelation brought back
to us by those who have climbed farther
than we into the heights of the material
heavens. ,
Hut that is the way history grows; that
ij the way the. world becomes larger a few
prophets, pioneers in the van, ami the real
plodding on behind some not even plodding,-
some no- nearer millennium than
vfhen history started out. Of conrse, the
great prophet of all prophets, the great
Beer of nil seers, was Jesus Christ. It
would seem that to His eye the things of
the heavenly kindom were as near and as
distinct as were the long hidden mysteries
of the solar system distinct to the vision
of Copernicus. He did not reason. Christ
did not. nor conjecture, nor guess; He saw.
When He told of Clod, ot 'the soul, of the
life eternal, Hn spoke of that which, lie
knew and testified that -which lie had
seen. He came not as a delineator. While
He was telling things to people He sitw
the things that He was telling them. Tiora
is nothing m the liib.e about supposing,
but there is a great lot in it about seeing.
I.ik) nil the great verities, this one we
have been handling this morning grow
upon us with the handling. It has made
us feel, some of us. that we are out at sea
still, and that instead of having yet planted
a nrm loot upon use solid territory oi tne
continent eternal we are only inspecting
what rather looks to u on the whole to be
coast line, and instead of pushing our boat
up, come no nearer to actually landing
than to get our sea glass out and spend our
odd n.oments in trying to make out wheth
er what we try to focus our glass upon is
land, mirage or imagination. In the mean
time the continent is there, the wind
blow athwart it, the sua warms it, the
stare smile down upon it. t.
i A whitewashed reputation doesn't en
dure any longer than a whitewashed fence.
RAV.'ci HUHN b LASTS'
HERE Is only one
pliice where gold
ruats, and that ia iu
th heart.
The worst Chris
tian wnt -her ara
those wr.o nre tax
ing cit-nupa.
It Ii only a long
as Coil's sun rhlnci
on thia world that
It la fair.
He who drinks to
drown his despair
U trying to extlu-
gulsh bell with fuel.
The mat who reflecta deeply will
oon be a lar, ht instead ot a reflector.
A man'i life never rise above Us
source, hence the need cf being bora
from above.
The hope cf talvatlon from the ilnj
of society depends on our own person
al sensibility to sin.
Only the man who can air "all my
spilnga are In thee" can go througj
the dry and thirsty lind.
, There are too many Christians too
poor to give to the Lord who yet can
always rake together enough to go to
the circus.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lesson Comment: for
March 29.
Review ol Ins Lessons For the First Qnartcr
et tb Ytar-Resd I Cor. sill., l-IO-Oold-s
Test, Malt. xxvllL, 20 Summary.
Introduction. The lessons this quarter
cover portions of Paul's second ana third
missionary journeys. Although great op
position met him at nearly every place he
visited, yet the gospel took a deep hold
on the hearts of the people, and in many
of '.he leading cities of the world good
churches were established. During his
missionary journeys i'aul not only preached
the gospel in all the cities he visited, but
he labored with his hands to support him
self. Summary. Lesson I. Topic; Suffering
for Christ. Place: Philippi. Paul on his
second missionary journey visits Philippi.
n city of Macedonia. They are followed
by a fortune teller; Paul was grieved;
commanded the spirit to come out of her;
Paul and Silas arrested: a mob rose up;
the missionaries were beaten; cast into
prison; at midnight they prayed and sang
praises; a great earthquake; the doors
w?re opened and bands loosed; the jailer
drew his sword; Paul saves him; the jailer
converted; Paul and Silas cared for.
II. Topic; Paul's love and care for the
church. Tho epistle to the Pkilippians
was written by Paul, from Home, in A. 1).
ft'4, and sent by Kpaphroditus. I'aul snows
his great love for the saints; cells them
his joy and crown; urges them to stand
fast; to help the women who labored with
hin; to always rejoice; to be moderate; to
pray and give thanks; desires that they
may be kept through Christ; exhorts them
to think on holy things; thanks them for
..... M.b .in., Ul HIS lUllkCUWilUUV HilU
strength in Christ.
111. Ionic: I'aul nrovintr that .Tesns is
the Christ. Paul and his companions, ex
cept Luke, leave Philippi and go to Ihes-salon-ia.
Paul entered the synagogue and
the three .Sabbath days reasoned with
them out of the Scriptures, proving that
Jesus was the Christ. Some of the Jews
believed ami joined themselves to Paul and
Silas, but of the Gentiles, "a great multi
tude" became Christians. The unbeliev
ing Jews gathered a mob, set the city in
in uproar and assaulted the house of Ja
son. Paul and Silas were sent to lterea by
night, and at once began to preach in the
synagogue in that city.
IV. 'i'ojiic: The church exhorted to holy
living. 'Ihe letter to the Thessalonian
was written by Paul in A. U. 52. They
had misunderstood Paul's teaching on the
second coming of Christ. In this lesson
Paul gives them various exhortations and
directions. They are told to admonish the
disorderly; to encourage ond support the
weak; to always do good: to constantly re
joice, prav and give thanks; not to quench
tho Spirit or oespise prophesvings; to
prove all things; to hold fast the'good, but
abstain from evil; they are called to en
tity sanctification.
V. Topic: The superiority of the true
f?od over the gods of tho heathen. Paul
having left Ilerea goes to Athens; ad
dresses the philosophers on Mn' Hill-
commends them for being religious; call
attention to an altar to an unknown Gol;
tells them of the God of heaven, whs
created all things; formerly ignorance pre
vailed, but now all men should repent;
speaks of the judgment and resurrection;
so ne mocked ; a few believed.
I. Topic: Paul' struggle and suc
cesses in Corinth. Paul .was in Corinth
one year and six months, from A. I). S2
to 54. He met Aanila anil PriseilfA sfimlA
with them; worked nt his trade; reasoned
m the synagogue; was joined by Silas and
Iimothv; preached Christ; the Jews blas
phemed; Paul turned to the Gentiles; had
a great spiritual conflict; was comforted
by a vision; Crispus and many Corin
thians believed.
VII. Topic: J he dutv of Christians wilh
respect to weak consciences. The epistle
to the Corinthians was written by Paul,
from Kphcsus, in A. 1). 57. Various per
plexing questions arose in the Corinthian
Chlirch. 1 here Was A HifWpnei. nf nnininn
?' t" whether meat offered to idols should
be eaten. Paul urges those who are strong
to guard the consciences of the weak.
v ill. 11411c: ihe excellencies of love.
LOVe IS StlllPrinl' IA rrifla 1V1
nnwledge, generosity, self-denial these
all amount to nothing without love. Love
is the principal thing. It eutfereth long;
is kind; euvieth not; vauntetli not; is not
pulled up; behaves properly; is unselfish;
" piuvufccu; uoes not iiiiiik or medi
tate upon evil; rcioiceth not in nnriirht.
eousness; rejoiceth in the trrth; lieareth,
helieveth. liopeta and endurnth !! thin.
never faileth.
I. Topic: Establishing the church at
F.phesus. A polios arrives at Kphcsus; be
gan to sneak boldly; was instructed in the
wav of God more perfectly bv Aquila and
Priscilln; departed to Corinth; was com
mended by the brethren. Paul having
started on his third
riMcheii EphtMig; akej the dUeinle if
il.n.. L.,l : .1 i 1. IT , . 1 ' ..
"' receive, ino iioiv uhost; they
bad not ; Paul laid his hands upon them;
the Holv Ghost came on thin tltnv
with t ngiies and prophesied.
a. lopic: llto superiority of the Chri
tian religion. Paui preached the gosnel
bollllv in the svnatrntnift fni fV.aa n.nni.
Then the unbelieving Jews reviled Chris-
iinuiiy puoiK'iy nnu i'aul withdrew from
the synagogue and preached in the achool
of iyranmis. Paul wrought many mira
cles in hphesu and many were healed of
their diseases. Certain vn"nhnnHa .Tow,
sought to imitate Paul arid cast out evil
spirits, ond the man in whom the evil !
spirit was leaped on them and wounded
them. Many who practiced sleight of I
iiu'i'i uurneu wieir riooKS.
XI. Topic: Quieting a tumult. The mis
sionaries were again facing a mob. See 2
Cor. 1: R-lo. Demetrius caused a tumult;
declared their craft, or business, was in
danger of being b.ouglit into disrepute be
cause Paul and his companions had been
preaching against Diana, the goddes of
the Kphesiaus. Puul's companion were
seized and might have been killed had not
the town clerk stepped in and quieted the
mob. His speech was full of tact and abil
ity and shows a decided leaning toward
the missionaries.
XII. Topic: Salvation through faith.
The epistle to the Ephcsians was written
by Paul while under bonds at Home. H
was written to confirm and strengthen the
believers in the gospel. In this lesson the
apostle speaks of the fact that they had
been dead in sins and were bv nature tho
childrnn of wrath, but through the love
mercy and grace of God thev had been
quickened and made to sit in heavenly
places with Christ. This was not of them
selves or by works, but through faith.
A Retributive 8ting.
A man who was engaged in writing
anecdotes aud such things for publi
cation read bis latest effort to his
wife.
"Don't you think that's pretty
good?" he asked.
"It is good, but it's not new. I
have beard It bofore," she answered.
"Yes, I know you have; but you
heard it from me. It has never been
in print,"
"I have heard It more than once,
and have told It several times myself,"
she insisted.
"Oh, well! I am going to send It
along," be snarled; "I don't caro if
you have told It. That doesn't of ab
solute necessity spoil it, although it
doea, I must confess, militate against
It a good deal."
And that was the reason why be had
to aubslst on cold victuals for a week
thereafter.
Figures That Stagger.
The nearest atar, whose distance!
astronomers think they know, is
Alpha Centaur, and It is distant from
us four light years that la to aay, Its
light is four years In reaching ua,
although traveling at 186,000 miles
a aecond. Thia estimate places it
152,000 times as far "away aa the sua,
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS
March 29- Mission Study ot Africa." P.
IxvllL 29-31; Isa. xllll.
Lesson Thoughts.
Africa Is known aa "The Dafk Con
tinent." Christ la the "Light of the
world," and he has made each one
of us to be a bearer of the light. Has
the shining of your light done any
thing to acatter the darkness ot
Africa?
Africa gives the gospel a better wet
come than does almost any other
heathen land "stretching out her
hands unto God." Yet it is said that
only two million out of, Africa's 200.-
000,000 people have ever heard the
gospel.
The liquor traffic Is the burning
crime of Christian nations against Af
rica. One of the most practical mis
sionary efforts we can make Is to uae
our Influence with Congress and other
wise to prohibit this traffic.
Selection.
Africa Is ninety times the size of
Great Dritaln, over fifty times that of
France or Germany, over five and one
half times that of the United States
(exclusive of Alaska), and over three
times as large as all Europe; with
a total population of upwards of 200,
000.0110. Mohammedanism and Christianity
are the two rival forces which war
against barbarism. Christianity
advances with the sword or paper
treaties in one hand and the Bible
or a case of gin In the other, as It
appears to the native mind. It Is no
use quarreling with the comparison;
it Is a just and faithful cue. We
Bhould see ourselves as others see us
In our acts; and not as we too often
see ourselves In our proclamations.
The abominable traffic in liquor and
firearms paralyzes all the efforts of
missionary and phllnnthroplc enter
prise; and It is associated In the na
tive mind with Christianity in tho
same way as the slave trade is as
sociated by us with Islam. We sup
port, or at least we do lint suppress,
the one, and we decry and endeavor
to stamp out the other; yet both are
equally scandalous and blood-guilty.
in snort, it 13 no exaggeration to say
that progress In Africa Is Impossible
until tho traffic In both these abom
inations is destroyed.
Suggested Hymni.
Brightly gleams our banner.
From Greenland's Icy mountains.
Have you sought?
Here I am, send me.
Ho! reapers of life's harvest.
Great Jehovah! Mighty Lord.
EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS
March 29 Missionary Meeting-Heroes ol
Africa, Livingstone, Cox, Mackny, Good.
The Master's vision was a part of
his bequest to his Church and that
vision embraced the whole world. The
Christian Church ia more and more
getting to live with the world on Its
heart. And so it must llvo If it would
be loyal to Its Master. But not ouly
heart, but bead and hands, must be
enlisted, for tho Master crystallized
his vision Into a command, "Go to the
world."
A patt of the great field of warfare
mado sacred forever by the deeds ot
valor, the fighting unto death of God's
warriors, is the continent of Africa
The sturdy Scotchman missionary and
explorer, David LIvInRstono, stands
out before us, and we see a man whose
triteness, bravery and devotion to his
Master fairly dazzle us. When we
have read of his Journeys and Stan
ley lias pointed out to us that the
Scotch traveler marked by bis jour
neylngs a cross on tho continent of
Africa whea we read of his faithful
ness, who, to keep his word with some
uatlves, plunged Into the depths oi
tho continent, turning away from the
ship which would have carried him
home, to recross Africa, meeting whal
perils ho knew not when we read how
at last on his knees, alone In tho depth
of the continent ho loved, he met
death, how the natives burled bin
heart In the continent, for which he
gave his life, we feel that he has
sealed Africa for Ood.
Rut bis was not the only life which
throbbed with earnestness for Africa's
salvation. Melville 11. Cox, tho pion
eer missionary of our own Church,
who spent less than five months in
Africa and then met hlj death, au
thor of the noble words, "Let a thou
sand fall before Africa be given up,1'
lived in utter devotion to the same
Saviour whom Livingstone served, and
died a messenger to the same Africa.
Alexander Mackay, another of Scot
land's noble sons, example of tho con
secrated versatility that puts all gifts
at tho Master's service, spcndlug
cloven ycar3 on the Bhorea of the Vic
lori-a Nyanza, pioneer missionary to
Uganda, whrre ho tolled, translator
and printer, teacher, controverslonal
irt. winner of tho heart of black men,
founder of a work which Is the mar
vel of those who knew it he, too,
found a grave In Africa; te, too, was
an offering of a fine, able manhood
on the altar for Africa's redemption.
Ado!phu3 C. Good, ono of Pennsyl
vania's sons, knew what It was to
toll long in Africa, to suffer hard
things, to Eee great results of his
work, to come home to America. Then
to return to Its shores to hear from
the ship his native friends praising
God for his return, to go In to
work, and at last to find bis grave
aUo in Africa. The same Saviour
whose command sent them to brave
peril and suffering and death still
ays, "Go to the world."
The Christian's prlvllogo, nay, his
duty, is still a duty to the world. We
have seen how these men obeyed their
Master. With some of us duty la
ended, as we send. Some of us He
would bavo to go. Are we willing to
hear his command? Are we willing
to obey?
Sue Municipality of Paris.
One result of the underground rail
way lines already In operation In the
city of Paris is that several omnibus
and tramway lines have been given
up for want of traffic, and that the
companies have Instituted an action
agalnat the municipality for allowing
the breaking up ot a monopoly for
which they pay a considerable turn.
I Goed Picking for Lawyer.
After three years' litigation thl
'heirs of the late Joseph O'Hare, 1
San Francisco capitalist, bare agrees1
on a compromise. The estate wai
valued at about 160,000, about hall
of which baa been consumed In legal
expanses. One firm of lawyers recel
d a little over 112.000.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOMS STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE Or INTEMPERANCE.
Miles of Misery In the Columns of Aleo
holism An Army of rive Million Men
nnU Women Who Dally no to Saloonr
For Intoxicating Drinks.
There ore In the United States 140,000
liquor saloons. If formed into a street,
With saloons on each side, allowing twenty
feet to each saloon, they would make
street 205 miles lonij. Let us imagine them
brought together in such a street, and let
us suppose that the moderate drinkers and
their families nre marching in at the up
per end. and let us see what that street
turns out in one year.
Wh.it rmy is 'that which comet march
ing drvrn the street in solid columns, five
abrentt, extending 570 miles? It is the
army of 5,000,000 men nnd women, who
daily and constantly go to saloons for in
toxi"ating drinks ns a beverage. Marching
twenty miles a dny. it will take them more
than twenty-eight days to go by.
o they are gone, nnd close in their
rear comes another nrmv, marching five
abreast and sixty miles in leneth. In it
there are 530,000 confirmed drunkards,
lhoy are men and women who have lost
control of their appetites, who are in the
regular hnbit of getting drunk nnd making
beasts of themselves. Marching two
nbrenRt the army is ir,0 miles in length.
Scan thorn closely. There are gray haired
men and fair hsired boys. There are. alns!
many women in that army, sunk to deeper
depths than the men. because of the great
er heights from which thev fell. It will
tnke them seven days to go by. It is a sad
and sickening sight, but do not turn nwav
yet, for hen- conies another army, 100,000
criminals. From jails and prisons and pen-
Itfntinripa tlinv nnma A. 1 1 -f .l-
. "-. . uie uenu ui me
nrmy comes a long lino of persons whoso
nnnrlH i.a hun......! : . I i ' . ,
. uc.-.M.cuM.-u un numnn mood.
VV 1th rones arnnnH nAnl. .1
, ....v... iiwsb. nicy nre
on tlt-.'ir way to the gallows. Others nre
going to prison for life. Kverv. crime known
to our laws has been committed bv these
persons while under the influence of drink.
Lut hark! Whence comes those yells,
and who are those bound with strong
c mini nnrl r-n I 1. .. n . . i
racing by? 1 hey nre raving maniacs, made
ineir eves nre tormented
With Awful am il. nn.l !.-:- : ...
c -' e.-". men vain rina; Wlin
n wini sound), hhmv rentiles Cm W 1 nvsar
their bodies and fiends from hell torment
IhPtn hafnia (knl. . .' - rri
iim, vi, c, nicy are gone
now nnd we breathe more freely.
i.ui wnai gioom is tins Hint pervades the
nir. mil wlil B tl.oi 1. l:- r
- . ....... . vul, ,lf,ll4 ,,, r)jncK
coming slowiy down tho street? It is the
...... . ' j"".iuns. une nunareu
thousand ivhr, hm.A l;n.l t. .1 i
- ......I nr..- oruiiKnru i
death are being carried to their graves.
.'uunai.in u.j noi nave many triends to
Innnrn IHmt In.. n.l ... . ..... ,
.......... ....... ..,, c , , U1C mirtv oi
their funeral processions into a mile. We
....... tinm ii iiiucrssion .sj.M miles in length.
it will take a good shnre of the vear for
them to go by, for funeral processions
move slowly. Look into the coffins as thev
",f j y' r8. the dcaJ drunkards. Some
died of delirium tremens, nnd the lines of
terrot nre still plainly marked on their
faces home froze to death by the road
side, too drunk to reach their homes; some
stumbled from the wharf nnd were
drowned: some wandered into the woods
and died; some blew their brains out
some were fearfully stabbed in drunken
brawls; some were roasted in burning
buildings; some were crushed to shapeless
masses under the cars. They died in va
rious ways, but strong drink killed them
all, and on their tombstones if thev have
nny-may be fitly inscribed, "He ilied a
drunkard s death."
Close behind them comes another long
line of funeral processions we know not
how n-any but thev nre moro numerously
att-mled by mourning friends. They con
tain the remains of those who have met
death through carelessness and cruelty of
drunken men. Some died of a broken
Heart; some were foully murdered; some
were burned to death in buildings set on
nre hy drunken men; some were horribly
manitled on the railroad because of drunk
en engineers or flagmen; some wore blown
up on a steamboat became a drunken cap
tain ran a race with a rival boat.
Hut here comes another nrmy the chil
dren, innocent ones, upon whom have been
visited the iniquities of their fathers. Mow
many are there? Two hundred thousand.
Marching two abreast, they extend up the
street thirty miles. Each one must bear
through h to the sti?ma of being a drunk
ard s chi d They are reduced to poverty,
want and beggary. They live in inorance
and vice. Some of the children are moan
ing with hunger, and some are shivering
with the cold for they have not enough
rags to keep them warm. A largo number
of them arc idiots, made so before thev
were born by brutal drunken fathers, anil
worse than all the rest many of them have
inherited a love for liquor, and are growing
up to take the places and do the deeds of
the.r fathers. They will fill the ranks of
the awful army of drunkards that move in
unbroken columns down to death. It has
taken nearly a year for the street to empty
itself of its vear's work, and close in the
rear comes the vanguard of the next year's
supply. And if this is what liquor does in
our land in one year, what must be its re-
tury?'" WrlJ throuS'1 the lonS ceu-
. '?3lS3
Drunkards Classed as Lunatics. v
They passed a law in Iowa last year per
mitting the confinement of confirmed
drunkards in lunntie asylums. It made lit
t.e stir, but within eight montha 300 alco
fio.ic patients were under restraint and
treatment. An Iowa dispatch aavs that
mebrintes continue to flow into the State
nsyiuffis at the rate of about fifty a month,
and that an Iowa court has just ruled that
their constitutional rights are not violated
by their detention. Some of the inebriates
don t like to be shut up, but the treatment
,V!ev. ""cnis to be humane and salutary.
1 heir liquor is stopped, and they have to
work on farms, and nre encouraged to im
prove their habiti. When thev seem to be
cured thuy are discharged, and report says
that, so far, about seventy-five per cent, of
the rases have so resulted. This seems like
excellent management of drunkards. Men
who cannot, or will not, control their
thirst ought not to be left at large to get
themselves and others into mischief.
Neither should they be sent to jail. If
they are irresponsible because of their pro-
iiensiues tney should be shut up and
looked after until they aro cured, and
while under restraint they should be made
to work for their living. The Iowa method
UTS dc,al n"2rf "lignteqed than
the New Wk plan of keeping up an end
e,s chain of dipsomaniacs between Man
hattan and "the Island." An easy, legal
method of securing timely periods of seclu
sion ior unmanageable drunkards ought to
make for the peace of families and the di
lmniition of drunkenness. Men have no
moral right to be drunken. If thev have
demo istratej a dangerous and continuous
lack of self-restraint some other sort of
restraint should be substituted for it. The
w'V eem4 prCtty iounJ--IIttrper's
Thai Crn,..!. in ii.i..
I '
The habitual drunkard of England nnt
time '"' Way r 118 wiH l",v" r0UBl1
The saloons recently closed in Ohio, un
der the ileal law. if lined up in a row, it is
Mt.mated, would make a line two miles
long.
So long as the saloon debauches the eiti
ten and breeds the purchasable voter,
money will continue to buy it way to
power.
Evcry State in the Union now requires
the effect of alcoholic liquor to b taught
in the publio school. In this ivstein of
laws our country is ahead of all other na
tion. Lady Cecelia Roberts, daughter of th
Kan md Countess of Carlisle, speaking at
lelverton, England, on the subject of tem
perance, said if tney coald destroy the
drink trarhe they would be able to abolish
nine-tenths of the prison.
"The world ha less and less use," re
marks the Nebraska State Journal, "for
the young man who drinks whisky." and
th Chicago Tribune adds: "While th
toung man, if he drink enough whisky,
as no us whatever for th world."
The Glasgow city fathers have deter
mined to abolish barmaids. They think
th ram business is demoralising enough
anywhere without adding other tempta
tion to it in th form of attractions of a
social sort v. hick, might easily degenerate
uito vict .
THE BUTTERFLY'3 CAY WINCS.'
The Temperature Largely responsible
For th Insect's Tints,
The physiology of Insects bns re
ceived n vnlunble contribution from the
pen of Dr. Von V. Bnchmotjnw, donl
lug with body temperature of tliess
niilmnls. The fact is well known to
physicists Hint when two suitable
metnls are placed In contact nn electrld
current Is generated, nnd this current
Is accurately proportional In strength
to the temperature of the two metallic
poles. In his researches the professoi
tises steel and manganese; tho Insect
whose temperature Is to be taken it
pierced by a Hue needle of this composl.
tlon. and the strength of the rarrenl
Induced by the contact of the two
metals inside the Insect's body wn
measured by menns of a gnlvnnometer,
the changes in strength of the current
Indicating the changes of beat In thr
Insect's body.
The first experiments were made
with the bnwk moth. It was found
that nt temperatures higher than 100
degrees the temperature of tho tnottt
was always lower than that of the air.
the greatest difference being Severn!
degrees when the moth was at 114 ile.
grees. Above 120 the Insect ceased
to flutter and nt 121 It died. At death
the temperature of the air nnd of the
moth were eqnnl. These experiments
were conducted In nlr of normni mois
ture, but when the nlr was supplied
with additional vapor a different re
sult was observed, for then the insect
had n higher temperature than that
of the air, nnd Its wings did not sink
until a body temperature of 128 .vn
leached, the nlr being 120. This effect
is probably brought about by the mols.
ture in the nlr preventing evaporation
of tho insect's juices, and so prevent
ing cooling. It Is interesting to note,
In relation to the effect of evapora
tion that lwlry Insects tend to have
n higher temperature than smooth, and
mis ract may be well explained by the
prevention of evaporation from the
former.
Professor Bachmetjaw has also con
sidered the Influenco of exercise nt
ordiunry room temperatures, at height,
mod temperatures and under the appli.
cation of cold. He found that nt or
dinary room temperatures (sixty-five)
the Sphinx moth rained its temperature
by rapid wing vibration up to ninety
eisht degrees. At this point the vibra.
tlon ceased, owing to partial paralysis
of the wing muacles; the temperature
then dropped and the paralysis passed
away. On repenting the rapid vibra
tion Immediately paralysis set In mor
rapidly, but not until the temperature
reached ninety-eight; furthermore, if
the surrounding temperature was in
creased, less humming is required to
bring on partial paralysis. Just as
there Is a maximum temperature which
brings on paralysis, so there is a mini,
mum; thus rapid vibration ceased at
sixty-four and nil movement stopped
nt rrerjlng. Tutting these observa
tions together, we see that normal
flight Is only possible, roughly, between
the temperatures of sixty-five and
ninety-eight degrees.
In dealing with poikllothermie ani
mals, that Is to say. animals whoso
temperature changes with the sur
rounding medium, the Influence of the
creatures must be considered. Thus
the beautiful brilliancy of the color of
certain Alpine butterflies Is explained
by the following simple experiment.
A delicate thermometer bad its bulb
covered with dark cloth and was placed
in tho sun. The temperature stood nt
eighty-seven. It was then backed up
wlih a sheet or white paper, m ns to
Imitate n butterfly's wings. Immedi
ately the temperature rose to ninety
six, but as soon ns the reflecting paper
was removed the tenipeuitnre fell
again. In the frigid re-long of the far
North explorers have found beautifully
colored butterflies. These creatures
with outspread wings veflert the radi
ant energy of the sun to their dusky
bodies, aud as a storm comes up, close
tlielr wings und creep into the cover ot
the thick grass to consorvate the
warmth stored up In the vital regions.
This same wonderful adaptation of
nature is seen, for Instance, In the
poppy. The dark centre, -whore the
wxunl products of Its Immortality are
matured, is encircled and kept nt the
proper temperature by the abundant
radiation collected nnd reflected by a
broad open tmt ot; crimson, which
flashes ffom Its wallsTTie most potent
of the sun's rays. Thus the light and
bent necessary for the fulfillment of
the intricate chemical changes in ripeu
lng of the plant's or Insect's ova Is
provided.
Foretold the Civil War.
Mrs. Lafayette S. Foster, a well
known figure in Washington life In the
stirring times movious to the Civil
War, died suddenly a short time ago ut
uio rnmuy mansion at Norwich, Couu.
Sho was born in Northampton. Mass..
and was In her eightieth year. Mrs.
Foster married Senator Foster of Con
necticut In IStiO.
A striking personal beauty and her
foretelling of approaching public
events gave her great prominence. One
of tho reminiscences of her long life
which will renin Iu Is her prophecy of
the opening of the Civil Wnr, which
was given at a dinuer in New York
whan Mr. Seward eutertalned some po
litical friends. She was ono of the first
Colonial Dames of the United States.
Her husband was Vice-President of tho
United States during Johnson's ad
ministration. At his dentil Iu Norwich
in 18S0, ho bequeathed AIO.OOO to Yale,
subject to n life Income fo his widow.
This bequest, by the terms of the will.
Is for the purpose of establishing a
professorship of English common law.
The family mansion, valued at ?25,000,
is bequeathed to the Norwich Free
Academy.
Th lious of Joha Kaoz.
It is interesting to know that the
ground floor of John Knox's bouse io
High street, Edluburgb, has been
transformed Into a quaint baunt of old
books. It has been iu turn a hair
dresser's, public bouse, green grocer's,
restaurant and tobacconist's. "Ye
bouse of Jobn Knox," which Is one of
the most picturesque of Edinburgh
relics, was standing In 1400. Surviving
many vicissitudes till 1S50, it was then
rented by the Town Council of Edin
burgh for the "lodging" of John Knox,
when they called blm to be minister of
St. Giles in 1530. From the west win
dow be frequently preached, and here.
In November, 1372, be died. New York
Iiibuno. .. ' -
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR
WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.
Poem! Trust flod Unmed Source ol
Strength Few People net as Much
Help From Their Surroundings as it
Always Possible.
How little is knowledge, how limited
thought!
How helpless and puny are we!
Wc think what we hear and believe as
we're taught.
But learning and science seffm little or
naught i
In th solving of life' mystery.
Confronted bv marvels on sea and on plain,
And in worlds that above us revolve.
Our much-vaunted reason may try to ex
plain, f
But only to find all our efforts in vain,
Creation's great problems to solve.
We study the planets and think we are
'vise.
We measure the orbit they trace;
We weigh the bright stars and can reckon
their size.
But none can determine the height of the
kies
Or measure the infinite space.
All tilings that are born in their grave are
soon Inid:
Time seems to the living a foe;
We wonder why anything ever was made
If only to hnd, to blossom, and fade
Or vanish like fast-melting snow.
There nre those who live long with honor
ond fame
A'l l some in their infancy die.
A.il some have to struggle with sorrow and
njit, iul
We wonder why all of us are not the same:
Ihe wiseat can never tell why.
We turn to our reason to settle a doubt
Jet know not what reason may lie;
Its substance and form wc know nothing
about.
The cause of its being we cannot find out,
bo dull and so foolish are we.
There seems no foundation whero reasoa
may stand
In realms where no mortal has trod;
Infinity mocks us on every hand,
Our learning and logic arc ropes mado of
fl.mil '
There's nothing to rest in but Ood.
-Frank Beard, in Ham's Horn.
Keilrcted Altls.
Tt is an Inspiring thought for nn earnest
man that there mav be sources of spiritual
strength within his reach which he has
not yet utilized. In the material world
powerful resources have lain long neglected
steam, electricity, etc.: whv niny it not
be the same in the world of spirit, includ
ing one s ow.i individual spirit?
Perhaps the dream of discovering a great,
absolutely new source of strength is vain,
but it is somewhat more than probtble that
certain means of grace lie near at hand,
recognized, but not used or not half used.
Nature is one sucli means of grace, a tius
sacrament. Not often, however, when we
ire in nuinan company. Jvxclniming "What
a pretty sunset!" conveys no rsal grace to
speaker or listener. Once a week get away
from the children. Get awav from even
your husband or your wife. Be queer, go
out alone, nnd quietly observe the skv. the
clouds, the trees, the shadows, the differ
ently colored grasses. Soak nature in.
I hat is one way to refreshment and calm.
Make the effort to have a little religious
conversation with your fellow-men. More
; i em 4 n you '"'"k know the ianguase
of faith and piety, and would like to use it,
too, if there were some one to talk to. It
is a wonderful help to find this out in men.
xour own timid suggestion comes back to
you, encouraged nnd braced. Your confi
dence in the spiritual nnd eternal things ii
broadened and brightened. We hazard the
assertion that nine out of ten Christian
do not use this source of strength.
Few people gain as much even from re
ligiou worship as they ought to do. After
a Christian Kndeavor'service a few nights
ago a man in passing out said to the pas
tor; vhnt a helpful meeting this was."
the pastor stared at him in amazement: in
his anxiety that the meeting should go well
he hnd been watchful only for its defects.
Ihe other had cast that burden on the
Lord. He had kept praying for the speak
ers, lie had turned the exhortations into
prayers for himself. Ho had praved for
us fallow-listeners. Every reader of the
lines could do as much, and doing so will
make every service he attends holy.
As tvery man needs a hobby outside hit
business, so every man needs a special phi
lanthropy outside hia inevitable duties.
Alanv a .lspflll lifa nn.;.;...'. A ...
in emotional power and interest to itself
jwi -s oi an out-ot-tiie-wav invalid to
look after, or a weak friend to'be nrotccted
from himself, or a boy outside its i
rtiato family circle who can be influenced
lor good. Have something to labor ovet
and pray for. apart from vour own home
and your dailv business. No man can be I
strong Christian to whom the fields do not
onk white to harvest." If they do not
look so to you it is because vou are keeping
ton ' n f Ff,n . 1. . fit ' -
-"''-" uitrest nein.
.Above all, taking the shield of faith."
faith IS atill .11 ,
. ""' -"" our source oi
tiength, just as discontent with one' oira
v l"f.tcn.lel cU8e o ap ritusl
weakness Your life is a plan of God. In
Hi plan all things work fdr good." Trul
ilini. He 'is n sw and shield; He will
Tr , " u H'ury. Diana in your lot.
lake then thy fate, or opulent or .ordid;
Of all the crows that ever were awarded,
ae crown of simple patience is the be,:.
. - - "cm ib nil ii -Hi fir ir niodr
JUBion t-ongrcgationalist.
Slake Erery Day Count.
"l"n Kho t:,rt out in tl'e rnornin)
! ; ua d,elc,mination to do something dur
,"Y th.at w,ll.'nunt to soniethiiij
,iu?i I I be llt":t"ve, that will have in
dividun hty. that will give him satisfactiot
night, is a great deal more likely not K
waite bis day in frivolous, unproductirt
won; than the man who starts out with
plan, llcgin every day, therefore, with I
-"", "u iiciurmin: mat, let what wiu
come you will carry it out as closely
possible. Fn niv this .... .....: ...... i. 'a..
reiul- yU surprised at tin
Make up your mind, at the very outset of
tne day that you will accomplish some
thing, that you will not allow callers w
chip away your time, and that vou will n
permit the little annoyances of your butt
noss to spoil your day's work. Make uf
your mind that you will be larger than tb
trine which cripple and cramp mediocrt
lives, and that you will rise above peJ
annoyances and interruptions and earn
out your plans in a lurge and commands
way. Alake every duy of your life count
for something, make it tell in the grsnii
result, not merely as an added day, but
an added day with something worth;
avuiorcu. u. d. Alaruen.
Habit nf C?vltl.l.M
No tendency of mind or peech I mo"
fatal to a temper of kindness than a hM
of criticism. Much of our criticism
mends and relatives is thoughtless and i
pulsive. We do not approve of what M
say or do, or we do not like the way tho
nn it anA .... ; . i. .r
iuiiciuouiy say so. i
habit easily degenerates into censoring
lies, and before ever we are aware,
have grown sharp, disagreeable and uncb"
jtanle. A good rule is to say nothing
kind of any one at any time. If thu
kindness be ever on our lips, we shall
fail into th temptation to criticise. '
we dp, we shall easily overcome it. Marl1
Tongue Twletera.
B wan swam nvnp ths QsrlBL
swan, swim; Swan swam back gsi
wen swum, swan!
Susan shines shoes end sock
socks and shoes shine Susan. 0'
ceueth shining shoes and aocks. '
shoes and socks shock Susan.
Robert Rowlev rolloil roll
round; a round roll Rohrt novWi
roiled round, where rolled the row
roll Robert Rowley rolled round!