"PLEASURE AND GOD" Sunday Sermon by the Rev. A. D. Kinsiilving. Showi Thai When the Soul Mm PouoJ 'Is True Life lh Simplest Tilings Will Serv Then a Man'i Heart I.iujlis. Nfw YonK City. The Kev. Dr. A. Tl. Kinsnlving, rotor of Christ Church, Brooklyn, preached fnnday morning on "Pleasure nnd God." 1 1 in text wan taken from II Timothy in: 4: "Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of CioJ." Mr. Kinsolv tag said: Thin is one of (hue biting sentences of which St. Paul's letters are full. It ocrura in a hurrying category and arrests out thoughts at once. These two thing', religion and pleasure, have always been here on God' fair earth. '1'hey are undoubtedly primal constituents of life, and yet it has ever been dillicult for men to harmonize them and keep them on friendly terms. Kcligiou people have often committed the blunder of looking askance at amusement. Indeed, some ol the bent nnd most earnest among them have conceived of piety as scarcely less than a kill-joy. They' have represented Goel as intensely jealous of life' innocent ns well as its forbidden pleasures, until their systems have gotten to be so one aided, and extravagant, and over wrought, and one-ideaed nnd melancholy as to cast nn awful gloom upon communities for con siderable periods. Such men have missed altogether the cosmic note of gladness which shimmers in the sunlight, dunces in the laughing waters, which ripples and murmurs in the brooks and streams, which smiles from the blue dome above nnd thrill us in the spring bird notes nnd the summer flowers. ' The material for enjoy mcnt." says some one, "is no inwrought into the world's constitution that we can not put n spado into the ground anywhere without turning it up. lly travel, by stav ing at home, by working, by resting, bt strain of the muscles or strain nf the mind; by speech, by silence; by solitude, by s- ciety; by helping, tv being helped: by r ceiving, by giving by all these diilcre.fc roads do men reach jov." And yet with our eye upon the bistort of mankind is there not abundant rca-on for religion's suspicion "f the riot of picas lire? What nation of anticpiity lias not been slain by its sensual pleasures? J T i n through the list of I hem lialiyloii. Me eiea, Persia, the llgyptian monan hy, Greece, Carthage. Home did not the ij.m sion for licentious pleasure and the cfi'em inacy which in conseoicnrc came every where in the place where manly virtue nnd stoic self-control and splendid discipline ol body and mind had been; did not these undermine the mighty fabric of Home it self? Look at the world that Christianity en tered. What made it so hostile to Christ nnd His religion? What made it crucify Him out of its sight and fling His follow ers to the beasts in the great amphitheatre at Home? Why. more than might else the unbridled love of iinl'ul pleasures. With fierce flashes nf anger these heathen liber a!s refused to have their indulgences inter fered with. They would not suffer a faith to be taught m their midst which tin-j astutely saw would have the moral ctfeel of to'iping their games, nnd so thev cried with hellish hntc : "The Christians 1 1 tin lions," and to the lions they were thrown. We know from the pages of Grote and Gibbon something of the excesses of the Greek and l'oman national games and fes tivals. "That which bpgan with some show of decency degenerated often into the ex treme of licentiousness nnd ministered to the basest passions. Frequently for days nnd weeks together they absorbed the pub lic mind, making men oblivious to every moral obligation and deaf to the claims of humanity." Gibbon says that Rome had at one time 3s) female dancers anil as many singers, and that when seasons ol famine came, w hile all strangers and even professors of the liberal arts were ban ished from the city, the dancers were al lowed to remain.' Their performances were characterized by everything that was morally degrading, nnd the orgies which took place around the temples of the God dess Flora and Voluptas, the Goddess ol Pleasure, descended into the depths of profligacy. In the times of Charles VI. of France, in the time of the Georges, the Borgias nnd the later Louis of France there was only too much to remiud men of the blackest moral chapters in past history. Men "lived in treasure on the earth anil were wanton: they nourished their hearts in a day of slaughter." Xo wonder, breth ren, with such spectacle. before them, that serious Christian people, realizing the dead ly peril from this quarter, should in their moral earnestness often have gone too far and failed to recognize that the thirst for pleasure and amusement is a human thirst, and mist be provided for and guided and sympathized with, or else it will become religion's rival nnd antagonist. Again, when men have tried to solve the mystery of laughter they have advanced very, diverse opinions. Pascal thought that the passion for amusement was nn illus tration of the real unhappines of most hu man live?. It is because they want to get out nf themselves that they flock so to spectacles of every kind, or gather in crowds Jo laugh and tali; it is diversion they seek, that is, anything to escape from he somber ordeal of solitary thought. I)ouhtles, bia explanation fits many cases, but it hardly covers all. Play and jovous ness are anion the primitive gifts of hu man nature. The beginning of comrade ship between the mother and cl'ld is the liour when, ns she dangles some plnvthlng before it. "the little, solemn face breaks out into a dimnled smile." Humor is one of the closest bonds of sympathy between us. The contagion of hearty, genial merri ment is notorious, nnd the world lias gen erally rightly loved the people who made it laugh. Mr. James Piillv. nn Englishman nf let ters, has just published a book, which is a sort of philosophic study of laughter, in which he deplores any wane of this great human resource, and says that "it looks ni it now only the more sordid material inter ests moved the mind, as if snort had to have its substantial bait in the shape ol stakes, while comedy must angle for popu larity with scenic snlendors winch are seen to cost money." However this may be, it Is perfectly certain that the plensiire in stinct i a true note of our human nature and that no life is whole without it. It is the lighter torch nf this charming gavetv which gives that large freedom and mobil ity to life which it needs for its complete expression. Amusement, relaxation and happiness are certainlv part of the cosmic heme. If at any period God should look down upon His world nnd see only solemn laces and hear no notes of riptilihg laugh ter, I think it would grieve Him at Mil '."a"- . ,"ut here they are ever side bv aide; life s laughter and tears, and wher ever innocent, we ran only imagine the great and kind Father looking down benig nantly upon a'l. Nothing is more conspic nous m the character of the Lord .lesus. with nil His intense moral earnestness, than the beautiful simplicity of His svm Tiathy with whit we my call the jovoiu l.ackground of life. He begins His won tier-working at a marriage fet at Cana to which J,. had been invited as a mattei of course The prodigal in his s'ory comer home to mtii- and dancing. The kingdom of heaven is itself like not a funeral-h:it a ieat. ne was the enemy ot every bui den which galled the necks of men and de frauded them of their rightful happiness J)oubtts mnny an hour in the intervale of woric His soul was soothed bv the lyric joy of nature hr the gentle starlight. h the song of birds, by those Syrian field (carpeted with unrivaled flower", by the choral gee of young children On the hill sides and around their homes. ","rrhn. hnt, think vou, Would the Christ have said to penulr who had corn t- ti.it p.risnc Cfn.r IVi? jlo wbo said "My intat is l-v do the uii! of linn that sent M sod to 'iiiitli His woik." and again, "'I he f-on of Man came not ta t ministered unto, but t minister and tit vivo His life a lausoni tor many." He whu found the deepest satisfaction ill life iu joing His duly and rtvralmg God's prin fiplts and love as the redemption of man kind lion- must this ( hr st think of thus who ncgiu-t t In r dlvinest duties for the tittle, Uasing, diverting amusements, the little yielding! to the spirit of sloth and idleness which so frequently fill human live. "What u your occupation?" was skeii a ouug Frenchman ome years ago. lis renly was "Je in 'amuse" I amuse my self. That was only a frank admission i hst it the only business of a treat many !"nme time ago T went to call at a lions shere there were several young men. To ne or two of them I bore a messnge from Wild which I nm entirely sure it was worth :heir while to hear. And, having failed repeatedly to lind them in, I took n 'mother Into my ronlidencc nnd spoke nf my d tli rulty. "Yes," she said, "they arc so' full of ngagements outside of work hours that '.hey seem to have no time to think nf any :hing else but nleasnre. It is a continuous round, nnd while thev are nt home thry atn 10 utterly tired out thnt they res'." How many does that simple desrrintion It? P.ut wfint is the utishot of it? Whv, :his. while life slips rapidly nwnv God and sternal relations are wholly crowded out. The young innn subsists unon two diets-n iiet of hard work and a diet of hard play. And the motive in the work it. to get the mean to piny, while the motive in recrea tion is often chiellv to get the heallh with which to work and earn. Hut what n sel fish circle that describes! How narrow nnd poor and shallow- is the young man who prires only his capacity to labor and his ap petite for' play! Who so lightly values nil those diviner elements of his being ns to be willing to mnkc no provision for their cul ture! "Lovers of pleasure rather than lo" ;rs of God." It is a terrible epitaph upon us. whether living or dead: "They wor shiped nnd served the creation more than the Creator, who is blcsse-d torevei-. Where fore God gave them up to their own hearts' lusts." These are words to make us sto; ind think. I have often noticed (hit it i apt to be the ea that it is precisely those Vo.ing men for whom find has done most who nre itest to brink nwny from Him nnd live the most sellish lives. There arc noble ex reptions to the rule, wliifli shine like bea ro:is, from Moses to Phillips Crooks. Hut loo often the privileged life becomes n worldly life nnd does not tell in the king Horn of righteousness. Generally the love nf pleasure in some form has in such lives, likes the weds in your garden, rooted out the love and service of God. Men and women, we should try to see life in its wholeness. A great mnnv peo ple have too little laughter, too little rec reation in their lives. They would be wholes. n,er minded, freer in soirit. if ihey could get oftener out of their dark pis sages and rigid grooves. There nre more ol such people than we think, nnd thry miss a great deal that God puts within 1 licit reach in His many sided world. Hut there nre thousands of others who make them selves imbecile by the headlong pursuit ol mere pleasure. They never rend, thev never ihink, they let their minds go, thev forget thnt they possess souls, but spend their seasons in things thnt give them n lit tle pissing phyical pleasure in eating foi the sake of rating, and dress nnd getting themselves talked about, in contriving tc have their names in some society organ, till these things conic to be the nlxorhing thirsts nf life. What is not sneriliced by these giddv people on the nltar of their social ambition? Where does not this sel fishness, this love of voluptuous pleasure, this hard determination to force life tc yield them bodily comfort, even if tiod't nnd nature's lawa must be broken to do so where does not this spirit lead? And how ready nre our leaders of opin ion, sometimes, speaking great swelling words of vanity nnd sophistry, to ridicule whisperings of an educated and reverent conscience and to revise for the- softer age the statutes of nature and nf God! Now these are some of the phenomena. What is the remedy? First, this: Put pleasure in its true place as the divine Master did. If you look upon amusement as the one great satisfaction of life, you imply invert the intended order, nnd in the end nre not satisfied. Our deepest want is the great inner reconcilintion. We may be diverted, we may for n while eg rape from ourselves, but we shall never be tatisfied until the soul is at one with God. A brilliant writer, the author of "Our elves and the J'niversc," reminds us that "men called Xapoleon the unnmusable.'' Talma might play before him but the conqueror extracted no (raycty from Ihe performance. That is the nemesis of 'elf. When, on the contrary, the soul has found its true life, the simplest things will erve. A man then learns the heart's laugh." To make men linpry, my friends, we must Dot lirst feed them with pleasuics of the senses. The primal condition of hap piness is that they be true to God and to each other. "The soul rannot laugh its own laugh till God has filled it." In that relation there nre the unfailing wcllsprings of pleasure. "In Thy presence is fulness ol joy; nt Thy right Imilil there arc pleasures forever more.' "These things have I spo ken unto you that My joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full." When we know that satisfaction of dwell ing in God nnd having God dwell in us. we have a security against inordinate lower de sires of every kind. One did not have tc warn Washington against wasting his time, or Gounod or Heethoven against making discords. Then we should have a care to retain, as far as may be, the freedom, the mobility, the wholesome interest in the rightful amusements of others, especially of young er persons, which will keep us in touch with them. If our diversions nnd amusements grow on the same stem as our religion; if they nre part of one organic unity, there w ill be nn trouble about their regulation. There will creep in them no poison of wilful law breaking, no grimace of an uneasy, con science stricken soul trying to escape from itself, no wnste of time nnd faculty, nc hunger for vulgar display. lieing in the se cret of God, we shall have entered into the secret of the child's heart, and live in sen sible relations with every part of God's great world. The lasting pleasures of life are not the fleeting pleasures of the senses, but those of the mind, the soul, the spirit, the p'eas ire which comes from a cultivated intellect from sound and noble thinking, from re fined tastes, from love and sympathy and service. Cross Word. . Not only pleasant things, but sad ones have their influence, and nre remembered It is well to have this truth ever in mind, and to act in view of it. "Kind words can never die," says the little song. When one heard that sung pleasantly he said sadly, "Cross words can never die." One is as true as the other. When we speak to an other, it would be well for us to ask out own hearts. "How will this be thouzht of by and by, when it is recalled in memory?" . Hy our words and by our deeds we are ' n,,l.iK.. ...... ...I.M !. .I...1I xoandiK r 11,1 uilll'lH 111,11. Rllllll l(lV pleasure, or give pain, in the coming day Sunday-School Times. The. HabuKth. Of till the holy days none is more worthy of the epithet than the Sabbath. Its an tiquity, its rest for the body, mind and spirit, it worship of God and study of Ills word and works, the great events (if which it reminds us, God's renting after creating the universe and man and Christ's resur rection from the dead with all the signifi cance of that august event, combine to make it the swccli-.t and holiest of all the hu'y davs. The Precldent's Many Visitors. A man who la on duty most of th tltno In tho White hnlisn nfllpna nnd hne I a wf-altness for statistics hag made a record for a month of the number of visits which certain public men paid to the president. Here are a few Perns taken from tils record for Fer rtiary: James H. Garfield, sixty-live; John R. Proctor, sixty-four; Gen. Leo card A. Wood, sixty-two; W. D Foulke, fifty-eight; Senator T. C. Piatt, thirty-five; Frank P. Sargent, forty; Senator H. C. Lodge, sixty-one; Secre tary of State Hay, ten; Secretary of War Iloot, night; Senator Knute Nel son, sixty-two. Mr. Garfield take th lead because he has taken much of tbt burden of the new department of commerce off Secretary Cortclyou's boulders. Engine That Walks Upstair. The Autotnotor Journal, London, describe a new traction engine call ed the "pedrall." which literally walks upstairs with the stride and surefooteduess of an elephaut. and hauls loads far In exfess of those the wheetw traction euglno can move. THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For May 17. Subj:d: Paul Be lore Felix. Acts xxlv., 10-16, 24-26-0llea Text, Ps, xxlil., 4 Memory Verie. 14- 6 Study Vcrisi 1-27-Commentary on the Day's ksetion. If. Pull's defense (vs. 10-21). 10. "Paul answered." Although twice before Paul had spoken what lis culled a defense first, before n vast crowd of .lew in tha tcmnle urea, nnd ngain before the assem bled Sanhedrin yet this is his first act .tal defense, ns he now stands before an im perial tribunal, the Governor representing tin person nnd authority of the Kmperor. ' Koinsmuch n I know." It is remnrknble that Paul did not begin bis speech, ns Ter tulius had done, by any flattering address, or by any ot the nits of rhetiwiu He loiiniieil his pica on the justice of his ni.se ind on tho fact that VVlis had bad so much fxperience n the affairs of dudca thnt he whs well qu.iliiied to understand the mer its of the ease nnd to jud;c impartially. Paul was well acquainted with his charac ter, and would not by flattering words de clare thnt which wns not strictly true. "M inv years." For the comparatively long period of six or seven years l'elix lind been ill Jerusalem Hnd Caesar-en. "A judge." A magistrate, or one nppointed to admin ister the affairs of government. "More .'heerfully answer." Hecnusc of Felix's un iisunl fiimilarity with Jewish questions, riii fact of his knowledge is r.ttesicd in v. 22. 11, "Mayest understand." From the shortness ol his stay in Jerusalem, any of fense committed there must have been r?-t-e-it. Tlietv could be no (li('i"ult'.- in o'--tainni't witnes.-es and or i.V's. "Twelve Jays." From the time Paul left Cuesarea until his return was only nine '.nys Only right of the twelve days had been snent in Jerusalem. His de-sis, i in Mentioning the number of days was to show the imm-oha-hiliiv that in so shor: a time he could ua produced n tumult. "To wor-hip." lla vent on purpose to worship nnd had n tli itiulit of pro lucmg a turn. lit or of pro faning the temple. 12, 1U. "Neither found me," etc. In terms of un(iia!!iicd denial he meets the tirst charge o: sedition. Worship, not the plotting of insurrection, was the ob'ect at his recent visit to Jerusalem, and whil'j worshiping he was found and arrested. He had not even spoken in public, much ics by artful harangue sought to gather disaffected persons cither in the temple, the synagogues or the city. "Neither can they jirov?." Here wns the pith of the ease. This nppcal is boldly made; he chal lenge! investigation. They hud made vague, wild assertions about Paul, hoping that the Governor might be influenced to condemn him without trial, ns doubtless he would have done but for his Koman citizenship. They very well knew that their charges could not he proven urdcr the Human law. Accusation is not proof. 14. "This I confess." This verse nnd the following contain Paul's renly to tho accu sation of Tcrtullus, that he was a ring leader of the sect of the Xaznrenes. Ho boidly ind joyousiy confesses that he is n Christian, but nt the same time declines to acknowledge the opprobrious term used by Tcrtullus. "The way." The way is here used by Paul to signify the Christian religion. See chap. 9: 2. "Heresy." A sect. The word used is the same that Tcr tullus vi -d in verse 5, when mnking his charge. They had called the Christians a "sect," nnd Paul does not disown the name. "So worship." See 11. V. It is as if he said: After the way which thiy call false nnd erroneous, hut which is accord ing to the inward light given me, worship I my father's God, Jehovah; the God my ancestors adored. 13, 16. "Hope toward God." Having n hope of the resurrection ol the dead, which arises from the promises o God. lie de clares that, in common witfc many of his accusers, nnd with the mass of his nation, he holds steadfastly to the hope of a resur rection from death, through the promise end power of God. "I exercise niyreli." lie strives ns the athlete ol warrior, only his striiile nnd warfare is vithin the soul. His riupreme nim and constant effort was to keen his conscience from xtriking against stumbliii't stones of accusing purpose, wrong thought or evil deel. "Conscience. The conscience docs no tell us what ij right, hut urges us to do what we know to be right, nnd rebukes us for doing what we know to be wrong. 17. "After many ye?ra." Paul refers tn the four years which hniK elapsed since hu last "visit to Jerusalem (chap. IK: 221. 18-21. "Jews from Asia." Paul justly compUma that the ve -y persons who ulone. could testify against Jiim were absent, and showed that there vas really no well founded charge ngat.ist him. They nlono could testily as to anything that occurred in the temple, and as they were not pres ent that charge o tght to be dismissed. "Or else." Paul t;irn with a bold chal lenge to the Saddiiceau Jews present. He demands their own personal testimony upon the facts thnt occurred when ho stood before tho Sanhcdj in. With a keen thrust he asks if the utterance of the hated truth of the resurrection was not the only chirpe of evil doiijg they could bring. III. Imprisonr.ent at Caesarea (v. 22 24. "When Felix heard." The Governor virtually decided Ihe ease in favor of Paul. Hut he wished t6 keep tho good will of the Jews. So he deferred nn answer from time to tunc, in the .neanwhile allowing Paul much liberty ,nd the company of hi friends. "Kavijig knowledge. ' Felix knew more than most ruler atroui inri tianitv. He evijently knew the character of the disciple and that what Paul aaid was true. And yet he "deferred" the caso because he did not wish to giveoffense to the Jews. "After certain days." Felix came into the audience chamber with his wife, Hrusilla, snd the prisoner wa sum moned before them. Thus Puul had an op portunity in his bonds of preaching the gospel, and nch an opportunity as lie could hardly o . jerwise have obtained. 25. 28. "llensoncd of righteousness," etc. Paul preaches s a faithful apostle should have preached to such hearers. They gent for him to hear uhout Christ. They heard much more than they cared to hear. Paul' boldness is all the mure striking when ws remember thnt he was dependent on Felix for pardon. ''Felix trembled," In view of his past sins, and the judgment to come. The prisoner prearhca. the judge trembles. "Go thy way." Felix was troubled, but instead of asking the way of peace, he sent the messenger of warning away. He died ss he had lived. "Convenient." The sin ner is always looking for a "convenieut sea son" to turn to God. A season when noth ing will stand in his way and his worldly -elati-ns will not be interfered with. Itu( juch a time will never come. "He hoped," etc. lie hoped that Paul would pay fot his fieedori. He knew that Paul had many friends, and that "they were not ton poor ur too (elfish to assist one uu' th?r. Darwin's Comparison. In a letter Darwin wrote: "At a house where , we have been staying there were Sir A. and Lady Hobhouse not long ago returned from India, and she and he kept a young monkey ntic1 told me some curious particulars. One was that her monkey was very fond of looking through hor eyeglasses at ob Jecta and moved tho r'a nearer and farther so as to vary the focus. Thli struck me, as Frank's son, nearly ! yoars old and wo think much of lilt Intellect Is very fond of looking through my pocket lens and I have quite In vain endeavored to teach blm not to put the glass down ou the ob Jert, but be always will do so. There fore I conclude that a child under 1 years la Inferior In Intellect to a mon key." Prince Adopted by American. Prince Intra, younger brother of the, sultan of 8tilu, bas, at bis own and his father's request, become the adopted son of Col. Owen J. Sweet of the Twenty-eighth United State lr fantry. The young prince Is uow In Boston with the colonel's family. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. May l7.-Tli Lad With thi Loaves am FIbtV John vl. 911 (A Meeting With the Juniors.) Daily Readings. May 11. Faithful In little. I.uko xlx. 12-19. May 12. "Whatsoever He sayeth." John U. MO. May 13. The widow's cruse. 1 Kings xvll. 10-18. May 14. Everything possible. Mark I. 23-27. May 15. Thankful for dally bless Inga. Psa. clll. 1-5. May IB. WIho economy. Prov. xlx. 15. Hi, 24. May 17. The lad with the loaves nnd fishes. John vl. 9-13. (A meeting with the Juniors.) Scripture Verses Ps. xxxlv., 11; cxlv., ; Prov. ill.. 1-2; vl.. 2U-22; Matt, xvlii., 4; xlx., 14; 1 Sam. ill., 1-21 Murk x 15. Lesson Thoughts, No life is so sure to be a small and petty life as one that is waiting for a chance to do great things. "No life's endowment Is too small to become a real blessing in this world." Wo cannot know the value of tho deed we do. Cod can use the seem ingly must trilling service for great ends. Selections. 1 have read that at one of the great mints some one discovered that the thick layer of coal dust on the roof, fallen from the smoke pouring out ot the big chimney, was loaded with gold, tlrawn up In fine particles from tho gold-laden air below. Of course, that got 1 dust was carefully collected at onre. Thus it Is with many a deed and many a life that seems insignifi cant God's analysis shows the gold. More great things would get done many more if men were not waiting to do great thinss and omitting to do litt'.o ones. What If God had - said. "I will not waste my time on water drops and tand grains and grass seeds and fish crs. I will wait till I can make a world outright?" There Is no work so small that God ;!oes not accept and reward It, If It lias be-m prompted by love to him. You never know all the good you do, when you do good. Ilelplul Eoti'.s, who are most loving ly remembered and the loneost missed, a-e those who have been mindful of small opportunities. We are but children, the thlng3 that we do Are as soprts of a babe to the Inflnlto view. That sees all our weakr.os3, and pities it. too. All great men have shown their greatness in their care for the little details of life. It Is this that wins battles for the general, cases for tljo lawyer and triumphs of Invention anJ dUcovery for the scientist. Suggested Hymns. Brightly gleams our banner. ' Empty me of self. I am not skilled to understand. More love to thee. Savior, like a shepherd lead us. He lcadcth me. EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. May 17. Epwortb Leagu: Anniversary Day (Rom. 8. 31.) "What then shall we say to these things?" (Rom. 2. 31). Paul has been led, In this remarkable chapter, to sur vey the powers and privileges by which the Christians triumph is made complete, and he Is just entering on tho closing hymn or paean of victory. What shall we, as a league, say to "theee things" which God lias per mitted our great organization to ao compllsh during these "fourteen won derful years?" Praise! Praise! Pralpe for our departments and the training they have riven to many thou sands. Praise for the endless array of good and right things made actual by the work of each one of the six de partments. Praise for our conven tions, local district. State, Interna tto'Ktl: for t"'- tbcii'jht. Instruction, eioqiiLUCB, k.-., li r. ix, ...oti- ships. Praise for our Junior-1, for thdt growth, their Epleu-dld leaders, their songs, their Joy, their promise. Praise for our new watchwords. Praise for our mission movement, for Its pro moters, Its Student Volunteers. 1U li braries. Its study' classes, its monthly meetings, Its grand first fruits. Praise for continued Increase at the rate of a thousand new chapters a year. Praise for thirty thousand chapters and .be tween a million and a half and two million members. Praise! Praise! And as for the future, "If God Is for us. who Is against us?" The League anniversary unites wltb other festal and memorial provisions of tho year in uplifting the name and fame of John Wesley. The League does not need to proclaim that its roots go back to that epoch-making life. Had It not been named Epwortlt league It would have been wearing the title Wesley League. Wesley and the movement he Inaugurated had a notable and far-reaching mission and Influence toward the children and young people. Wesley himself had felt the value of sympathetic but system atic training under the love and teach ing of that very wise and resourceful mother, Susannah Wesley. So careful was his religious training that be was admitted to the communion when only eight years of age. it Is not strange, therefore, that Wesley's service for children In the afternoon at Savannah, Ga., Is regard ed as the first Sunday school In the world, or that from the beginning of the more distinctive Methodist move ment the welfare of the young should receive ever-increasing attention. Finally his view of Christian doc trine, full of tho sense of God's in finite grace and impartial otTer of mercy, has In It room for the trustful approac h of young hearts to God, un barred by thorny hedges of men's thlnkln; or shut up In strong walls of rarefuliy constructed theories. Every Christian may well use the words of John Wesley's singing brother: "And shall I. Lord, confine thy love As not to others free? And may not every sinner prove The grace that found out me?" Orphans Benefit by Will. John Summers, an old hotel keeper of St. Paul, who suddenly died a few days ago, bequeathed two-thirds of bis estate, amounting to about (TOO, 000, to the Protestant orphaq asyluta without condition of any sort, the riv malnlng one-third going to bis widow. Evil of Bachelor Life. Star, registrar-general of vital sta tistics for Scotland, declared bis opinion that bachelor life was more destructive to males than the iriost unwholesome trade or tbe most un sanitary surroundings. THE GREAT DESTROYED SOME STARTLING FACT3 ABOUl ' THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. I'ormt Out nf the Depths The Bnrrln; o Mnslnes g access to the Drlnklna Mnn Is One of tli Wels-hllest Cause of Hit Decline nt Drunkenness. Out of the midnight, rayless and cheerless Into the inornmn's qolden light; Out nf the clutehes of wrong and ruin, Into the arm of truth nnd right; Out of the ways that arc ways of sorrow, Out of tho paths that nre paths of pain, ica, out of the cicnths has n soul arisen. And "one that was lot is found again." Lost in the sands nf an nwful desert. Lost in the region of imps accursed, With bones of victims tj mark bis path way, And burning lava to quench his thirst: Lost in the darkness, astray in thf shadows: Father nhove, do wc pray in vain? JInrk! on the winds come gleeful tidings, Lo! he was lost, but is found again. Found! nnd tho sunlight of God'j grral mercy Dispels the shadows nnd l.-rings the morn : Found' nnd tiie hosts of the clear Ho cleemer Are shouting nlott.l o'er n soul now born Plucked, like a brand, from the conHa-.jr.i-lion. Cleaned, like n garment, free fTOm stjin, Saved, nray God, for ever and ever: Lost for a season, but found again. "Out of tho depths" by the grae? ol heaven, Out of the clcnth of woe and shame. And he blots his name from the roll ol drunkards. To carve it again on the heights nf fame 'Wine is a mocker, and strong drink rag ing:" Glorv 1 1 God. he has snapped th. chain That bound him with fe.tcrs of steel and iron. And he that was lost is found again. Doivn with the cap. tho-.rjh it gleam like rubies! Down with the glass, thou-jh it sparkle ind shine! "It bites lik" a serpent' and stings like an adder." There is woe, end sorrow, nnd shame in wine. Keen though the sword be, and deadly its mission. Thre 'imc's its number the wine cup ha slai". God, send Thy gnrc u:ilo tlnse it has fet tered God grant the lost m- be foii"d again! F.lla Wluelcr Wilcox. "uss of ttie Decline of Drunkenness. In the discussion of exel-e matters eniiscii by the enactment of a higher licnsa ln it is generally aerpcil that while it entails liaiilshin unon individuals, every legitimate need of the eon'munity can be met nn.l every taste of the consumer satisfied 1 fewer saloons. In proportion lo nopn'aiion the number is likely to decline in the f:i tore. The barring of business success to thr drinking man is one of the weightiest causes in the declino of drunkenness. Mr. .lohn Graham ltrooks has noinleii out that the railroad companies ore nui ereaiest single influence to- temperance. Thov employ more than a million men, foi nil of whom known drunkenness means dis missal, and to a large i"rt"-irtion o, rvl:o:u saloon visiting is forbidden. Mere are seven per cent, of the ndolt nin'cs of the country practically nledged lo alis'.ine-ire Another cause which will gre.T'y limit the saloon area nnd inHuence is tl.e num ber of Mihtir'oai! "parks" ami eo t-.e ero ttis being devtlimed by private cii'oul. wheicin the deed of nil property sold carry rove nants against 'nuisances" for fvam ten tc fifty years. in the eyes of the real estate rin the saloon is the greatest of nuisances. lo m- himself like an occasional drink, but he will not let it be sold on his own land. . million Xcw Yorkers will soon be living upon land where no saloon can be pviiit lained. And pronirquity powerfully alTcci, habit. The swinging sign of the saloon soggests thirst; its absence means sobriety. The uverage man won't travel far for 'a drink. In time the influence of "restricted" nre is must he rcfle' ted in the choicer resi den e sections which nre not restrueled. Purely ns a business matter, future muni jinal managers will iinpjit-o why any saloon should be tienpitted in i residence section, where its inevitable effect is to depreciate nropertv a'l about it. The money derived from the license, were it twice as much, ?annot enmnensate for the loss in taxab'c values. Is it iojd policy for a city thus to ?liennen itself? These are some but by no t-icans all of the considerations which' will limit the de vastations of drink in future. And it !s to lie noted that thev ere operating for o Iniotv with greatest force at n time when every Ntw England State but one has given nn the attent to make men sob by statute New York World. A Itlc Factor In Mktng Drunkards. It is a mistake to suppose that men alont nre addicted to drink. For obvious reasons a drunken woman is rarely seen in the streets, but the homes of the people might tell a different tale. As to the habits of the wretchedly poor I can speak out of a four vears' expe rience as n missionary among them. A llible visiio- in one of the slum dis tricts of New York said to me recently: "I don't think I know a man or woman in niv district who doesn't drink." Hut the noor arc not the only offenders. Ask the physicians of our city, und, mulct pledge of confidence, they will intimate that there are skeletons in the closets of many aristocratic homes. In my judgment the responsibility rests largely on husbands and fathers, who have encouraged the habit by having wine on their tables. The only remedy is total abstinence. There arc no drunkards, male or female, except such as are recruited from the rank of the moderate drinkers. The beads of families, in particular, should see the reasonableness of tho rule. '"To.ich not, taste not, handle not." Hv the Itev. Dr. Duvid J. llurrell. Pastor ot the Marble t'ollegiute Church of Fifth Ave nue. Swiss Want Temperance. The Swiss Government has appropriated a large amount of money this year for tho publication and distribution of live books against the use of alcohol. These books are scientific ns well as practical and indi cate a most pleasing advance in tho effort to make the people acquainted with the subject. Ono of these books ha the fol lowing striking title: "The Ktfeets of Alco hol on Work, lteing a ltesult of lloscarclics of the Krapelin School." The other is on "The Longevity Diminished by Alcohol." Ailvlca lo llasabsll l'luvars. An influential baseball guide (Witt's) bar tho following wise, suggestion: Any man now desirous of using his physical and mental powers to their utmost advantage must ignore tirsl, intemperance in eating, and second, refuse to allow n drop of alro holic liquor, whether in the form of spirits, wine, beer or cider, to pass down hif throat. S'o are not preaching "teumer Slice'' to the fraternity, but telling them facts, hard, incontrovertible facts, wluc-l.' experience is gradually proving to those who have charge of the training of nth lute for feats of physical skill or viidur once.' National Advocate. rather Mattbaw on I'rot.IMIIon. Tho tiic-slion of prohibiting the sale ol ardent spirits, and the many other intoxi cating drink which are to be found iu out unhappy country, is not new to me. The principle of prohibition eems to me tin only safe and certain remedy for the evili of inteuipei-une. This opinion has been strengthened by the hard labor of mar loan twenty year in the tcmpcranc caJ. User llrotallsui. . Beer brutalizes and render it victims capable of committing uiost dreadful c.-iniet and jet thi beverage is recommended to people a'tafo aiihstituu for tint key, called slruiigei: liuuois. . THE RELIGIOUS I AYE READING FOR THE QUIET HOUr! WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. The TVnrlit I Too Mnch Willi ls-Aitnr tittlnn rtocl and Kternllr Ihn Onlr plnnatton t-or Some 1 lilng Hint Arlto In Till Life. "The world is too much with us." Night nnd day Xo tiiiic have wo to pause beside th? way, V, l;?r roadside flowers in tende r beauty bloom. Or vl-ilrcs veil the dust above n tomb. "The world is too much with us." Pelf and sin. The strrss of self, and earth's tumultuous din, Tli.' ciuseless probing Into things un known, Hal thiuugh our lives as acids through n lone. "The world is loo much with us" yet, if wc Linked earnest effort ,ti high purity. 'Then we would cease through fcndiil carr to grope. And sec. at times, the shy, sweet face of hr pc. William II. llavnc. IMs Mfe lr.lv is 1 ruining. "The round :nan in the square hole nnri in the n und hole the square tnan" is oiten said, and peoivo seem astonished, ns thej sny it, lis if the occasion which provokeV the remark were nn unusual thing, l'.nt a little reflection shows thai in reality this is almost thi rule rather than the exrep lion. W ho does not know, for examp'e. a clergyman who would have made nn ex cellent banker or physician, a professor who would have been a great strategist, n soldier who would have been n lirst-rato man of affairs' Mi course, when it is said that for per sons to miss their vocation is by no means itnconi.ncn, (he truth nf the pnyine has to be discounted bv making due allowance for that "forward and delusive faculty," as liuticr calls it, the imagination. People are only too not. which is quite another thine, to imagine, themselves misplaced. It is soothing to wounded self love to flut ter nncii'if thai one could have done much beilet- had the lot fallen in fairer ground. 'Ihe environment, sav toe Saturday P,o view, ,t must bo I'dmitted. seems in nine rases nit of ten xingular'v inappropriate It seems so. Is ii so rea''y? Cannot wc. even with our verv limited vision, sec that the cii'iieulties inherent in our sm-roind ings are' often the vcy thing needed fot the discipline of life, for the training am! perfeciiiig of whntevcr nf good is in us Life is called n nice. It is an obstacle race, and the winners arc those who sur moiin. the worst obstacles bravely and wisely. A sensible teacher has said: '"Find out what occupation a boy or girl likes best nnd s.-ems nptcst ior. nnd develop this liking, this aptitude, bin don't forget thnt things uncongenial must be done also, fot the sake of -ell con'-ob" Si"ipo . ! r nil. the old story were true that this life is but a training for nnother. that th" rnallv important world were vet to come? That s'ory which the world is ever derid ing, but to which it so obstinately returns; that belief which materialism piits on one side, bii long experience of human nature seldom t-iijs to replace. On that hypith". sis certainlv much in life becomes iiitelli'ti ble of which no olhr theory can make anything but iarco. If the whole play is plr.yed nut hc-e. nndeninbly life is very of leu nothing but a farce, sometimes' sol enin. sometime oim'id. That a man with one great rs'inclty should through n" his life be hindc-",! bv ci"eunistnnees either exlev'Mi or of his own character from turn ing that capacity to aecotnt i n wnste. a I'eneral loss, so vst. no indefensible tint, if this life were a'l. th e could be nothing for it but a bitter l.-vvrV I, however, life here were bu' a 'l'-e'ude to the real thing -ct to come, it inivlu c-Tiomicallv be per fee-t'v sound to debar the rem of one ca pacity from u-iiig it until he hnd tone thron-h a certain discinline that would en no.e hint ultimately to ne it to greater ef. feet. In fnct it w exactly what a sensib'e parent does with a child that early dis closes a Particu'ir gifi. li ile'i'ii'i-ate'v proven ;a him making rse of i' until ho at tains n rertain matn'-iiy. W'a' arc ten year- to cisey; what then are sixty la etcr niiy? Tho denercsier of ti n Unjust. "There nre pcr.--ons ahvays ready to do you a kindness who cannot be trusted t do yoj justice." said the professor thought fully. "They like to give, but thev hate tc pay. Generosity nnd free-haneledncss are attractive qualities, but common honesty is so very common that they scarcely think it worth while. "More than one man who pinches and drives sharp bargains with bis workmen all through the year makes a point o,' giv jng tacit man a turkey at Christmas, und tee.s very good over it. toa. There nre nus bands who are lavishing gifts, often use less ones, on a wife! who never receives Hit simple justice of nnv share in the income which she can call her own. Nor is it in money matter alone that people nre in clined to think an occasional spurt of gen erosity will atone for the lack of steady going justice. There nre those who would make costly sacrifices for a brother in ne-eei who never accord common justice to hii work or his motives, and many n one thinks ho is giving liberally to the cluireb and Christianity while be is in fact with holding; the whole life service which i hir just dcot.'V-Wellspriug. Not to t-.iieourHB- Xastness. Henry Ward JJee-hcr once Kaid: "God"' promises were never meant to terry out laziness. Like a boat they are to be iowccl by our oars, but many nie.ii, entering, for get the oars, nn.l d-ift down more helpless -in the boat than if they had stayed on shore. There is n : an experience i.i life bv wiiosb side God h is no: lined n promise i'heni is not a trouble so deep and swift running that we may not cross anfely ovet if wo have courage to steer and strength to pull." Dnty of tho Cliurcli. Professor A. L. Gillctt, of Worcester. Mass., says: "Let me remind you of the duty of the church to teach its young. He cause the state has come lo recognise that it i its cluty to teach its chilelien tlios things which will make them good citizen it doc?: not for a moment follow that the church of Christ is absolved from teaeliin, its children those things which will inaiie them good citizen of heaven." Taka It to th Lord In Trarrr Nothing is too small or too pcrso ia! foi prayer. If we loe something it is right 1 1 ask God to help u find it. If we have a null and dillicult duty, it. is no inure to m ill to luy before God than ii is too di!b cull. If we took everything to God in prayer wo should have God with us in everything, and that would be heaven. Wclwpiiii. I'ersnnalltjr. )pen the mysteries of personality and the God side appears. A'oiic the person stands, ,ll are powerless to render uny uid. for no- one ran seo with the same visio.i. J'lie spirit seem singing like a planet iu space. Cut ali wove toward one goal. A person is facing God. 'IVt Christ in the temple came 10 tin realiza tion. In nil Ilia life i...s certuinty rose (il.iudlv us the climax of His truest self. l'hc ltev. 11. L Cone, l-.'pucojjal, Uridgc port, Cjiiii. Most people experience considerable dif ficulty i living up lo lliei.- L-cilic'-ijred children. Patent Commissioner' Report The report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1902 ahows a total of 49, 490 applications for patents, Includ ing designs, and that 27,77a patent including designs, were. Isuucd. Statesman la a Car Conductor. Boston bas a street car conductor, John F. Hoar, who Is a member of the common council, lie Is noted for blB politeness to tbe passengers who ride on bis car and they talk of send ing blm to tbe legislature la tbe fall NEW SOVRVe&ja fAPER.' Th Strain Upon the Forest May Dt Conslilerahl) Itellnvsit. The development of rni'loux new sjourccs of supply for pnper-mnkliig iintetlnl promises to relieve very con siderably the strain upon the forests ?aused by the continued cutting off of normotis acreages of spruce, poplar nd other trees for the production of wood pulp. Tbe demnnd In this respect litis, been so for In excess of the vlHlbls supply that it hns become a serious question, not only as to the results of such extensive forest devastation, but tvhet'o the material for paper making , wns eventually to come from. Fortunately, the tendency appears to be to look for pulp-making material to vegetation of rapid growth, and niilcli Is therefore correspondingly nsy to reproduce, rather thnn to tree which represent ninny yenrs of tie velopment. The utilization of waste materials also promises to afford no little relief, and also to present Im portant new means of wealth produc tion. In the latter respect firent results ere looked for from the utilization of sawmill shavings Iu the production of wood pulp. This hu been thoroughly accomplished with yellow pine refuse at a pnpor mill established for the purpose nt Ornnge, Tex., where four sawmills supply material sufficient for R wood-pulp mill of 100 tons dally rapacity. With paper Iu the neighbor hood of $70 a ton, this means an enor mous source of new wealth in turning to valuable account materials which hitherto have been burned to got them out of the way. This means much not only for the South,- where there niq many hundreds of such sawmills, but for all the lumber-producing parts of the country is well. It is predicted thnt every saw and planing mill of any account will soon have its pulp making attachment. Many thousands of tons of wood-pulp may therefore be expected from the utilization of ebnvings nnd chips from such mills. Oilier sources for paper mnking In the woy of waste nintevlals lu tbe South nre rice straw and bagasse, the latter the refune of the sugar enne after It bas gone through the mill. With bagasse thus utilized in Cuba and iu the other islands of the Went Indie!!, tbe value of the product may turn out to go very far in equalizing the con ditions between tbe manufacture of cane sugar and beet sugar, and per haps even carry over to the former the? economic advantage that bas lately rested with the latter. Another new source for paper mak ing that Is coming Into prominence promises to be of immense value for troplcnl countries that Is, tbe utiliza tion of bnmboo for the purpose. Bam boo, which is a gigantic grass, grows very rapidly, and produces nn enor mous quantity of pnper-mnking tlbro upon a given area. In nddltlon to the abundant supplies growing wild, It i proposed In various countries to culti vate the bamboo especially for pnpor making. When cut down, the bamboo, like any other grass, will spring up from the roots and soon develop an other crop. In Jamaica various parties are now going into the systematic utilization of the bamboo for producing wood pulp, and tbe colonial govern ment promises to encourngo the In dustry by admitting tho requisite machinery duty free nnd remitting taxes. Since the Island abounds 1c mountain streams of clear water. It should iuvlte not only the manufacture of wood pulp from the bamboo, but perhaps the establishment of mills for the entire process of paper making on the spot. Our own tropical possessions Porto Eico, Hawaii and the Philip pines should offer excellent opportuni ties for the development of this Im portant resource. Boston Herald. - Place Names In the United States. Mr. Henry Gannelt hns recently published a report on the place names of tho United States, from which a few instances are given below, Chi cago is an Indian word meaning wild oulon or skunk weed; Chesapeake is also Indian, and Is variously interpret ed as highly salted water, great waters or country on a great river. Chautau qua is also an Indian word nnd has several interpretations, as a foggy place, a bag tied in the middle (refer ring to tho shape of tbe lake), a place where a child was washed away, where the fish are taken out, place of easy death, or, finally, place where one wns lost. Ie8 Moines Is usually sup posed to refer only to the Trupplst monks, but It Is also connected with an Indlun word meaning the road. Niagara Is an Indian word signifying across the strait, or at tbe neck. Shen andoah Is Indian and means the sprucy stream, or a river flowing alongside of high bills. Massachusetts means near tbe great bills, or tbe hill shaped like an arvow-bead, or, again, the blue bills. Mississippi means great water, or gath ering In of all tbe waters, or an almost endless river spread out. Row Herbert Spencer Dictate. When Herbert Spencer began the composition of "First Principles," in 18(10, ho adopted tho practice of dic tating to an amanuensis. He wa spending tho summer by tho shore of H Scottish loch. His bablt was to dic tate for a quarter of an hour, then row for on equal period, with the object of stimulating tbe circulation ot tb blood as to carry blm through auotber fifteen minutes' dictation, nnd so on through the forenoon. Neither tbei nor afterward bus be worked in tho afternoon. Teu years later, at time when bis health fell to a low ebb, b would go to a racquet court In lUir north of London, play wltb tbe man Id charge and dictate in tho Interval ' tho game. Unostentatious Japan Court. There Is 'no barbaric splendor about tbe court of Japan nor does the Km peror Insist ou fuutastlc forms of hom age. He Is Just a plain individual Ills guests he receives standing, find b entors freely Into conversation with nil There is scarcely subject that dor' not Interest biui or one In which he not well informed. A delightful host, It Is hi custom to surround bluiseU with clover men men who are sbinln lights of their professions. Engineers, artists, musicians, writers, soldier, scientist every class of person who have won distinction are welcome at the royal tablu, for It Is one of tbe characteristics of tbe Mikado that In tbe distribution of bl favor ba I thoroughly ItnparUaj, - -- I
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