DUAL M1NDEDNESS OF MAN A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev. C, J. Greenwood. Mei( Stisgested by the Eighth Chapter of Romans Mind of Flesh and Mind of Spirit. TVestfiei.d, X. J. The Eav. C. J. Hrcen rood, pastor of the First liaptist Church here, who recently enmo from Meriden, Conn., nnd is mailing a deep impression, preached Sunday morning on ''The Dual Jhndedncss of Man." The test was chosen from Komaiw, viii:6: "For the mind of the flesh i denth; but the mind of the apirit ii life Hud peace." Air. Greenwood said: The eighth chapter of Komans is full oj startling Btatcments and convincing cli maxes. It is the great assurance chapter, triimning with "So condemnation" and sr.iling with "No separation." It is a re liable thermometer with which to take one's spiritual temperature. It is a aplen diil excitant and tonic for spiritual heart failure. If taken in sufficient doses at fre- ?iicnt interval)!, it will relieve that tired reling which comes over so many of us diuinit the summer months, when tho hour for the Sunday service arrives. Wo espe cially recommend it ns a vatic mceum for the Christian on his nnnual outing. It is s wholesale message to proclaim in these days when en much is being said about the atrophy of tho spiritual nerve und the de cline of religious conviction, Hubert Louis Stevenson's great story of "Dr. Jckyll and Mr. Hyde'p is, after nil, but on clnborate working out of the state ment inr.de by l'nul in the text. A strange link is this story ot' Stevenson's, and stranger still the two minds that struggle fnr the control of the man. Mr. Henry Hyde represents the inind of the flesh. He is a sinister, selfish, sensuous, murder ous character, more demon than human. ))r. Henry .lekyll represent! the mind of the spirit. He is a generous, aeiitkuiianlv. kind, considerate man. The two minds 01 one individual have nothing in common. A hitter Hatred exists between them, and a fierce war that wages hotter and hotter to the end lines on in the battlelield of tho soul. Gradually Dr. dekvll bseomrs do- spondont, sickens, and the inhuman Hyde, that "insurgent horror caged in fiesh" prevails over him and crushes out his life. In tho "Redemption of David Corson" we have the same contest between the two gladiators the mind of the 1 esh and the mind of tho spirit, with the result reversed. In tha person of tho hero, Corson. Hyde and .(ckyll find a field for conflict. In this story the mind of the llesh triumphs over tho mind of the spirit, but tha victory is not decisive. Jekyil is sorely woundedbut not slain. From the crimson field, with uniform soiled and tattered, ho rises, like Jacob from wrestling with the angel, to find Hyde mortally wounded and himcli the chastened and changed victor. The same truth has been l lustrated in the scientific world by grafting the pupa of a spider upon tho pupa of a fly. The result of the vivisector's skill is a monster within whose violated organism struggle two ir reconcilable impulses. Tha one is a sav age of the jungle with an abnormal appe tite for blood; the other is an innocent creature with a passion for the sunshine. To the ordinary mortal death is repuls ive and life is pleasing. We adopt the grim skull and cross bones iu tha symbol of our loathing for the former, and shin our lovo for the latter bv filling tho nichei of our art temples with Venus do Miloi and Apollo Uelvideres. There is nothing particularly fascinating about the dead stump of a tree or the verdurcless sands of a desert. No one but the grave robbei or medical student is supposed to be in terested in corpses. A morgue is the lust place you would visit unless compelled by necessity. On the other hand there if nothing that will awaken greater interest than lite. To the Alpine traveler, the biuo gentian is a welcome sight, as it opens iti petals in the realm of perpetual snows. Sweet is the onsis with its ilmdy pajnu and solitary fountain to tho caravan creep ing across the hot wastes of sand. Beau tiful to the eye of the child is the butterfly as it spreads its wings of gauze and voy ages through the empyrean hlue. The fisherman delights to watch the speckled trout as ho rushes for cover, or the gruy ling as lie leaps from the swirling pool. One cannot watch the a itlercd deer bound through tho forest glades und climb tli2 rocky steep; or follow the flight of tho eaile ns he circles toward the sun, without feeling his nerves tingle ami tho blood rush through the arteries. While reading "The Cruise of the Cachalot," I became so in terested that I wanted to ioin in tho ex citing choso of tho great sperm whale as he charged through the waters in his rapid flight. Life is the thing thai fascinates as. Stir, snap, speech are tho things that catch 'the eye. That is why the cry is for speedier autos and swifter Hhamrnck. Ijiit the common conception ot life is false. Tha vast Tn.-inritv nr penrb nr laboring under a delusion. You stand wncro too tides ot humanity roll swift and strong you see men accumulating colossal fortunes at a bound and living in dazzlin-i splendor j you m tice the s'eek, fat and pleasure-.oving epicureans at tne cluh houses; the coarse amorous Falstaff at the social functions; the Clcopatras, the Salomes and society nueens whus9 studied grace and wine flushed cheeks entrants but to destroy and, and you say "Thii ii life life at high noon and high nudnlgnt of the twentieth century." Christianity come to lis nnrl iavi! "Thii is not life. This is death." And a recent atterance of Dr. Hillis furnishes a splen did ritual for the committal service of tha modern preacher: "Hero we commit his body to the dust, his stomach to stalled ox, his palate to spiced wines, dust to dust, tongue to terrapin, while the spirit returns to the animal and tha beasts that fed with it." Because a thing is dressed in a tailor-made suit and moves rbout. it is not necessarily alive. Thunder anil smoke are not always indications of iife. The meteor that comes plunging Svn the sky wi:h a roar and a trail of light is dead. The heavenly bodies ti?e ir. for u football and toss it through space. Because a man walks about on two legs, winks with two eyes, listens with two cars and wags his tocgue, he may not be olive according the Paul's -theology. Let me illustrate. Here is a man whose occupation is such that the world derives no benefit from it. Rather, his business exerts a baleful and blighting influence upon his fellows. Tho business smirches character, destroys body and soul, and the outcome is a wreck cast upon the sands of life's great ocean to bleach and rot. Ifo conducts a physical, intellectual and mora slaughter houss for a monetary consideration. Hs knows that ma business is damnable in the sight of oil and demoralizing to society. Ho is fattening swine or flooding the social or ganism with lepers. There are no extenu ating circumstances. There are no benefi cial compensations. The results of his business are evil and evil only. Yet he continues to curse men. I say such a being, whatever his occupation or social landing, however great his wealth, is dead just as dead in the sight of heaven as though bis body were rotting in the shrouds. Ha is dead to God. dead to all moral obligations, dead to all the higher Promptings and pleadings of the soul that Is within him. His moral nature is atro phied. All his thoughts, his impu?.-.ea, hi acta are carnal. He lives to the flesh, and 9j the flesh reaps corruption. Every sheal that ht binds for time or eternity is a bundle of corruption. The smiles and smirks of an evil person are not signs ol us, but danger signals that warn ui against falling into an open sepulchre. , You remember Valjean in Victor Hugo's Is Miserablea." He sleeps, and in hii aleep ba beholds tha death of sin. As h comes to the house of revelry, the flowers, the trees andthe very sky are all the coloi of ashes. Valjean wanders on through vacant rooms, court and gardens. By the fountains, by tue pavilions, everywhere, walk silent men who have 110 answer to is questions. Suddenly be finds all the Inhabitants of the lifeless town clustering about him, and they cry, "Do you not know that you have been, dead for a long , time?" With a cry, Valjean awakes and feeJa bit am. De. you not know that all aoout ds walk dead people? People who nave no object in life but to amuse them selves and feed and fatten the animal? Ghosts that stalk about in shrouds and dwc.l in baunted chambers If No generous impulse, stir the soul, no noble aspira tions thrill the depths of the nature, no responsive chorda of the being yield to the voice of the spirit that calls to aaoriiice nd service. The mind of the flesh, like the crane u the, old fable, ia coaUai. with snails.. A beauntitr'sv.'an'nilglited'Tjytlte' DUnks 6f a stream in which a crane was wading about seeking snails. For n few moments the crane viewed the sva:i i;i svp.d won der, nud then inquired. " hire' do you ;ome from?" "i came from heaven," re plied tho swan. "And where is heaven?" "Heaven." said the swan, "have yv.t never heard of heaven?" And then the beautiful bird went on to describe the grandeur of the eternal city. She told of streets of gold, of gates of pearl and walla of jasper, ind tho river of life, "clear as crystal. In eloquent language tho swan siui-ht to portray the hosts who live in tho heavenly worid, but without arousing the slightest interest. Finnliy the crane asked, "Are there any snails there?" "Snails!" re peated the swan; "no! of course nor." "Then," said the crane, as it continued its search along tho slimy margin of the pool, "you can have your heaven. I want nnails." There ore thousauds of neople to iay who are meeting the appeals of the :hurch of Jesus Christ, if not with tho snail's answer, at least with tho snail's attitude. "You can nave your heaven. 1 want snails." And why? Because thev have yielded to the minil of tho flesh null allowed the lusts of the tlesn to atrnuhizu the spiritual nature. "He. not deceived; (Iod is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall lie also reap. For he that sowcth to his flesh shall of tho llejh reap corruption." "Fancy may figure the wick sd as borne aloft in chariots of tne su:i," fays the -Key. W. L. Watlt iiiiion, "but a ray of daylight reduces the pretentious things to the monstrous forks 0' tho police man's stretcher, tiio workhouse nmliuiance. the prison van, the hearse that heirs men to the grave ere they have lived out hn.lt their days." On the other hand, "I'm mind of the spirit is life and peace." Clirintianity comes to men telling them of a divin'a Saviour m whom is life and Who c.imo that we might have lii'n and have it morn ahunil-.'iitly. The Bible tells us of "the spirit of life," which exerts its power amonc; men. Jehovah is spoken of as "tho living God," and the Holy Spirit ns His living i a:7cnt. "liy thy spirit God hath garnished the heavens." "Thou nende.st forth thy spirit; they are created. In so far .as testimony and observation go life springs from life. The Spirit of God is manifest in nil His methods and works, l'his same spirit, whose activity is exerted in creation and the sustaining of life, is also tha spirit of truth, of holiness, of wisdom and grace. The Spirit of God "renews the face of tho ea:-tli," turning winter into spring, calling firth life, beauty, fragrance and song. The same Sp-'r.'t tnusorm the human soul. The Spirit ni God touches oar hearts; the jreat transaction is dine. Rehold a new creature i:i Christ .lesus. Wo pass from lca;h uato life. We are alive unto God through -'csus Christ our Lord, and the things which are. all in all to the sensuous woi-lding nre of value to us only ns they are connected with and minister to the king dom of .lesus Christ, of which wo are citizens. . I: yiu havj passed from death unto life you aro not a piece of moral tinkering nnd ethical cobbling. Regeneration is a livo vire. It is a permanent miracle. You are not only a new man, but a live man. The dictionary defines a top as a "gyroscope." A gyrosope mny bo made to spin. But it is a dead thing, nevertheless. It won't go without a string or a spring attached to it nnd manipulated by the hand of the spin ner. If you have been regenerated you are mora than a gyroscope. You will not "run down" like a ton. You will not be subject to moods and modes. You will i.i without having a spring or string at tached to you. The love of the Christ will "constrain you" and "restrain you." In the workshop, in the store, behind tho counter and in tho office your associates will know that you have been with Jesus nnd received life. "Tho mind of the flesh" has been buried, and no flowers wero laid on his casket. "The mind of the spirit" lives nnd sneaks through tho kindlimr eve. the miivering lip and the softened and 1 snncimea neart. ine grazing grounds 01 the ticshly-niimlcd are the lotus meadows of pleasure and case. The grazing grounds of the spiritually minded nre the "green pastures" besido the "still waters," led ind fed nnd satisfied by tho Shepherd of Life. Thi difference between the carnally minded and the spiritually minded is the difference between the stall fed ox com placently chewing his cud and the creat ure created in the intake of God agonizing to bo worthy of wearing tho white stone and bearing tho new name. With life cornea also the gift of peace. "Peaco be unto you," said the Saviour to the disciples. "My peace I leave with you; My ncaco I give unto you; not as the i worm givotii, give 1 unto you." hat is it you ore longing for this morning? Home? You have that. Business? You have moro than you can nttend to. Al ready you are worried, nearly to death over business. To-morrow morning's mail will bring you a large bundle of letters. I'crlmns soma of them will read, ' "Please remit. ' Head over heels in business. Pleasure? Aren't you surfeited with pleas tir? Aren't you at it every nftcrnoon and evening, by the seashore, in the moun tains, at tho club? One continuous round of pleasure. Society? Don't you go in for it? Don't you have your teas, your card parties, your games and chit chats? What you want is peace peace of mind and peace of conscience. And you will never get it until you get life the life that throttles and binds nnd sets its heel upon this miserable carnal creature that whines anil frets and burns with an nbnorm.il thirst thut nothing can satisfy? And why fill Vnil CTCt rif-llOA ti-tnn vmt aI nlnrnnl life? Because you have anchored to do something within the vale, and wind and wavo and tempest shock cannot disturb the calm and constant peace of tho mind and heart that wait upon the Lord. You get peacs because under the strenuous tin lift of this new life you live a simple lifo nobly, which is the grandest thin any of us can do. He who follows "the mind of the spirit" will find tha deenest satisfac tion, for ho h "in him a well of water ipringing up into everlasting lifo." The other ni?ht Georga Primrose, tho minstrel, was amusing en audience nt the Masonic Temple Koif Garden in Chicago, fn response to an encore hs came out and lang "My Watermelon (Ji-een." When he came to tho line in the ehonu, "She's all the world to me," he broke down, turned Ind walked into tho wings, to tho surprise al the audience. Just hnforn ha w.uked 10 the fonllghts ho received a telegram sav ing that his wife was dead in their home in Buffalo. And when he came to that line which touched tho deepest chord in his roiil, footlights and facet, all save one. were forgotten. Love yearned to clasp lovv The simrerr.e grace that was born in heaven and which finds "its wavering image here," swayed the heart of 'ho great comedian. The sorrow in the soul stifled the song on tho nps. So it is when tht mind of the spirit o'erma iters the mind ol the flesh. The stagey mannerisms of so ciety, the baublts, tho trit.kc:s, the Bac chanalian banquets, are forgotten, or they cease to allure. Tho soul turns nway from the hollow handclapping and tho vulgat throng into the wings to live with Hun who "is all the world to mo." SNAKE IN HER HAIR. Mrs. Whaler) Woke Up to Find One Coiled There. -Dreaming that aha was putting up her hair and havlug difficulty In dla entangling It from her fingers, Mrs. (da Wtaulen of Loganspcrt, Ind., wok op to find make colled around her flngera, 8he hastily Huns' the reptile to the floor, and succeeded in killing It. In the struggle the snake bit ber several times Inflicting painful wound. The make measured twelve Inches and Is of the water snake variety, which ore not considered very poisonous. The presence of the snake is ac counted for from th fact that the family cat frequently brings thera tc the house. It Is thought the cat brought thia In the night and carried It Into the bedroom, springing upon the bed with It Near York World, Earliest Paper Mills. The earliest Europeaa paper mills were at Falrlano, la Italy, In 1160. Tha Arabs first brought tha secret of paper making to Europe, they themselves having learned It from Chlceoe prison era of war. THE SABBATH SCHOOL international Lesson Comments for September 13, Subject: David Cccomes King, 2 Sam. 11., 1-10 Ooldco Tex:: Pin. 133-1 Memory Verses, 1-3 Commentary oa the Day's Lesson, T, Pavid anointed kins at Hebron (vs. 1-7). "1. After this." After the death of Saul nnd his sons. "Inquired of the Lord." llv means of Abiathar the priest who was with David during his fugitive life. "At that decisive turning point in his life, David wished to know the will of the Lord. He saw that the nrimise of the kingdom was now to be fulfilled to him. As he could no longer remain in the land of tho Philis tines, but must return to his own country, ami as the northern part of the land was held by the I'hilistines. tho return to tha territory of his ovn tribe was most nat ural; for there, where he had a long time found refuge (1 Sam. 22:5) he might count out a lirgo following, and firm support and protection ngninst the remains of Saul's army under Ahncr." "Cities of .ludah." It would be useless to think of undertak ing to assume control of tho country in tho northern part of the kingdom, ns tlint was in the hands of the I'hilistines, nnd David was in no position to drive them cut. "(o up." "(ioing up" meant assuming rival authority. (!od's answer was imme diate and clear. David's decision, guided by (ind, was to establish himself as the king at once. "I.'nlo Hebron." One of the most ancient cities of the world. "The tentral position of Hebron in tho tribe of Juilah, its mountainous and defensible situation, its importance as a priestlv pet t lemon t and an ancient royal city, the patriarchal associations connected with it, combined to render it the r.io-t suitable capital for the new kingdom. In its neigh borhood, moreover, David had spent a con siderable part of bis fugitive life nnd mined many supporurs. See 1 Sum. 3.), 31." 2. "So David went un." It may be well to nnto some of the lending elements which we discern in David's life ind eh-irneter as he enters upon his new life. "Ho had. 1. A vivid sense of (tori's presence. 2. per sonal prowess. 3. Promptitude in nil his movements. 4. A nn'ience that was sub lime. r An alTeetinmte heart, fl. A cool head and a steady nerve. 7. Wide experi ence. A heart loyal to Cod. This loy alty was so intense that his cause and Clod's cause became identical, and he could not readily distinguish between Uod's ene mie., and his own; and in spite of all his sins and blunders, this mast impress every impartial reader as the 'cading character istic of King David. "Thither." We are to think of this jorrney as n march of an army, or, rather, the migration of n large company of guerillas. There wore few household effects and few women and children in tho company; it was made up of bronzed youths inured to hardship, among whom rank and fame were secured by daring deeds rather than by anything comparable to modern miliiarv skill." 3, 4. "His men." The six hundred men of his chosen hand. "With his household." There was to be no more roaming in exile, but each one was to sett'e down to the duties of n oc.T-efu! and quiet life. ' Cities of Hebron." The srnnll towrs which sur rounded Hebron. "Men of .ludah." The elders of .ludah. the nftiein! rctrescnta ives of the tribe. "Anointed." Ho had been privately anointed bv Samuel, by which no acquired a ri'.'ht to the kingdom. The other parts of the kingdom were, as yet, attached to the family of Saul. ". "David sent messengers." This was David's first act as king. R,nd it was worthy of him. He had been informed of the manner in which the I'hilistines had car ried away the bodies of Saul and his sons after the battle, llo bad also been told that the inhabitants of ,fabesb-gi,ead had sent forth a partv by night and had tnken tne bodies from the wall and carried them safely to their own town and buried them. "Hleor.cd be ye." David rcsnected Saul as his ouco legitimate sovereign; he loved Jonathan as his most intimate friend. Saul had great !v injured David, but that did not cancel his respect for him ns the anointed of Clod, nr.d as tho king of Israel. No mean spirit of revenge found place in his breast. He showed also that he had no wish or intention to punish Saul's ad herents, but wes kindly disposed toward them. fl, 7.. "Will rcnuite you." Will show ynu this kindness; that is, the attention and honor shown in the blessings I give you through these me?.rn jer.s. "lie ye valiant." Ue of good courage; be strong and show yourselves bravo men. "Saul is dead." And therefore ye are without a king unless ye acknowledge me, as tho house of .ludah has done. II. I-h-bns.ieth king over Israel (vs. 810). 8. "Ish-bosheth." Saul's fourth and only surviving son. lie was a mere tool in the hands of Aimer. A liner was a great gen eral, nnd if Ish-boslieth,.who was a weak man, could lie made k-ng. Abner would lie almost supreme. "Mahanaim." Abner cnoso tnis town because it was on the eastern side of tho .lo-i,an, nnd so beyond tho range of the Philistines, who never seemed to have crossed the river. . fl. ".Made hurt king. Hero was the establishment of a rival kingdom, which probably would have had no existence but for Abner. Ho was cou.in to Saul. Loyalty to tho house of his late master was mixed up with opposition to David, and views of personal ambition in his originating this factious movement. He, too, was alive to the importance of secur ing the eastern tribes. "Gilead." Tho land beyond Jordan. "Aahuritcs." The tribe of Ashnr in the extreme north. "Jezrcel." The extensive valley bordering on the cen tral tribes. "Knhraim . . . Benjamin. " These tribes, which had rot '-et been con quered by tho Philistines, holding no doubt to the house of Saul. "Over all Israel." The majority of Israel, not of .ludah. ID. "Hcigned two years." live years and more had passed since the denth of Saul, and Abner now proclaimed Ish. bnsheth king of Israel, and thought him elf powerful enough to reduce Judah to obedience. David seems to have been anointed very soon after Saul's death, but it must havo taken Abner some time to gather up the scattered nrmv and recover from the defeat and losses of C.ilboa, where Saul and his three sons died. suliWupt'y to attend to the inauguration of Ish bohcth. III. David king ovc- all Israel (.1: 1-10). After Abner and Isb bosheth were assas sinated, tho tribes of Israel came to David, throiisrh their elders, and ur?ed him to be come king over all Israel. Thcr gave goad reasons for this: 1. David was one of their race. 2. He had shown himself worthy. 3. He was divinely unpointed. 4. Hi un derstood the duties of a king. David was then anointed king over a'l Israel. This was his third anointinr. The luoj then went to Jerusalem to reign. Young Old People of To-day. People quit growing old at 41) half a century ago. They quit It when they ceased thinking themselves old at 40, ceased dressing old at 40, not to speak of drinking themselves old at 40. The young man of CO or CO new weara the catty sack tweeds or gorges that hU son or grandson wears, topped off with a Jaunty hat. He goos to baseball, the races; he keeps up with the proc93sloa and la all In for a good tlmo In moderation, healthfully. The young won an with him In white or colors, with toe gay hat, who has tho manners of a youthful, but self respecting girl of 20 in the last cen tury, is Ms wife, perhaps a grand mother, but nono the less young and happy yet They fl young, thoy dress young, they believe themtiolves young by the Great Horned Spoon, they are youug! Louisville Herald. Grateful Convicts. Many different kinds of cards of thanks havo appeared in newspaper, but Oswego, Kan., claims tho prize with one from five prisoners ia the Labette county Jail, who "beg to thank the county for the good meals, kind treatment and compulsory baths." CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. September 13 "Feasting Tbst Mikes Lesa Souls."-Ex. 16:2.3; Pa. 106: 13-11 Temperance. Scripture Verses. Prov. 20:1: 23: 29 S2: Isa. 5:22; 28-7; Dan. 5:1-4, 23; Num. C:l-4; Jer. 35:3, 6; Rom. 6:11-13. Lesson Thoughts. The good and the bad will not to gether occupy the heart; the onB will operate to drive out the other. If we long for the flesh pots of Egypt, It Is certain that the bread from heaven will not Ire sweet ta us. How often mon look at sin only for the sensual and temporal pleasure It off otds, and forget the sufferings and the bondage that inseparably accom panies It. Selections, Experience proves the value of temperance iu building character, be cause "no part of our nature can be Indulged to excess without injury to other parts;" and because intemper ance mean? not only personal injury, but tbe greatest suffering for others, and for this we shall one day be call ed to account. Thousands of young men who ap plied for army postB during our war with Spain were rejected by the med ical examiners because they had what is known as the "tobacco heart." They were confirmed cigarette smokers. Temperance is patriotism, it seems, as well as good sense. No intemprjr ate man Is in condition to serve his country. Fill a glass with water, and you cannot at the same time All It with wine. Paul had some such thing In m.'nd when he said, "De not drunken with wine, but be filled with the Spirit." That is, fill your life so full of good things that they will have no room. But not even pleasure to excels Is good. What most elates, then Binks the soul as low; When springtide Joy pours In with co pious flood, The higher still tire exulting billows flow, The further back again they flagging go, And leave us grovelling on the dreary shore. Suggested Hymna. Sin no more, thy soul Is free. Why do you linger? To-day the Savior calls. J ' Standing by a purposB true. Gird on the sword and armor. O Christian youth, arise. ! ' EPWORTH LEAGUE TOPICS. September 13 The Call ol Isaiah lis. 6. 1-2. Isaiah saw the lxard. What the exact nature of the vision of the Exalted One, not to bo described. The six winged cherubim the prophet saw with out fear, but whore cherubim's faces are hidden no man may stand with unshrinking countenance. The train of the Almighty filled the temple. The throne Isaiah saw was greater than David's, and this proces sion of ministering spirits was more imposing than any winding line ot incense-bearing priests. The holiness of God was the theme of the solemn song of that wondrous retlnuo of clverublm. And no one can think of God's holiness without a sense of his own sin. "Woe Is men" is the instinctive cry of every uncleansed soul that sees God. The sense of sin is not comfortable. It aroused consternation and dred in Isaiah, because he saw himself, a man of unrtean lips, in the presence of the Holy One. He could not delight in God's presence. No one can cleanse his own soul. That is in God's power alone. If the guilt of sin 1b taken away tho Judga of sinners must re move it. The simple process by which Isalab felt himself made new was not a nec essary thing. The live coal from the altar was a sign. Isalab bad felt his sin as being a sin of speech, since he was a prophet, and right speech was required of him, above all men. Ho had discovered uncleanness where he counted himself moBt clean. He had confessed his unfitness and his guilt. God had taken the guilt away. And there in tho temple, where elaborate sacrifices were dally offered for sin, no saclflee at all waa offered, except tho sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart. Eut that is always enough. Then the cleansed life begins to hear God's call. It is not a command, but an invitation. It offers an oportunlty. And Isaiah volunteers. That is the secret of great service. "I gave!" He who has surrendered all to God has nothing to lose. So he can be brave, and free. Other men must fear the makers of reputation, the "business in terests." He is rsady because he Is fit. Ha asks to be sent. And God sends him. For God wants persons in his service, not a thing, nor a machine. Even a book will not serve. Ho is dealing with persons, and he must therefor choose persons for his messengers. The call ot God shows him in tat wholeness of his nature. It Is more thau a revelation of mercy, or of love. It declares his glory, which is his boll ness, for that is the essential thing in God's life. All his dealings with angels and men and demons are in harmony with bis holiesa. Lose that, and you loso God. God's grc-at medium of blessing and help and warning and counsel is a hu man soul. We set great store, and Justly, too, by tracts and papers and all tho Impersonal means of carrying Go-l'i mr iage. But the greatest and the most reasonable method la to set m-.-n and women at tho business of winning others to their Lord and his Uw. Fortuno In Old Clock. An artisan cf Munich has become a rleh man by the sale ot an old clock which had been in tho possession ol his family tor a number of geceratlons One day a strarger appeared at' his bouse and offered $25 for the clock This sudden offer aroused the artlsm'i uaplclors, which wero Increased wher another stranger turned up on tho fol lowing day and offered $250 for the timepiece. He took it to a dealer, ant) ascertained that it was a genuino "Pe ter Houlo," worth nearly $25,000. He promptly sold It for that amount. He has hitherto been in receipt of a week ty wage cf IS- As Compared. Ethel What do you Vxlak of young Softhead ? Mae Oh, he reminds me ot a blot ting pad. Ethel Indeed I What's tho answer? Ma Ha beara the Impression ot out good things, but lack the ability to matt use ot them. HUE RELIGIOUS LIFE AEADINC FOFl THE QUIET HP": WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. ronm i Some lino Has Need Wanted IT, rliou Keep Hie Shy Wlnilnws nr tns Haul Clean Mlndrnnces anil Helps to Vision. Nothing to live for? Soul that cannot be, Though when hearts break, the worid seems emptiness; But unto thee I bring in thy distress A message born of love and sympathy, And it may prove, () soul, the golden key To all things beautiful and good, and bless Thy life .which looks to thee so comfort' less This is the word: "Some one has need of thee." 6ome one, or who or where I do not know; Knowest thou not? Then seek; make no delay And thou shalt find in land of sun or snow Who waits thee, little child or pilgrim gray: For sinee God keeps thee in His world be low. Some one has need of thee somewhere today. Emma C. Dowd. Tlic-lr Want of Horizon, It is wonderful how persistently and how stubbornly many persons will cling to an idealless life. The worst offense you can commit is to offer to clean their sky win dows for them. They seem positively to love darkness rather than light. Diogenes is not offered to us by history as being ex actly a model of miuiiiers to royalty, for, when asked by kingly Alexander what gift lie would receive from him he only replied: "That you mny get out-of my sunlight." But when you choose between even Alex ander nnd sunlight there is something to be said for the latter. In the case before us there is no such excuse. The mind seems to say: Leave me to a life from which the bright (imminent of the ideal is excluded. Let me "walk on still in dark ness,'" whatever light be round about me. So they are like Plato's men in the cave. With faces toward the gloom they nre con scious only of the reflected shadows cast b" the glories of a world of life which thev never see. Their stolid incredulity will ?uench the torch of your enthusiasm be ore it will be enkindled by it. In answer to the cry of the disciple: "We have seen the Lord," they will lay down conditions before their entry into the promised land of the ideal, into the world of spiritual re ality, into the realization of the unseen, which destroys its notency to the heart "Kxcept I see, I will not believe." Such people, says the Sunday-School Times, are much to be pitied for their wont of horizon. In their case it has to bo created, and the process is usually tedious nnd slow. Idealism is perhaps the intensest delight in life, and it cannot be won in a moment. It is the reward of a long culti vation of the vision-faculty. People who live life of crustaceans in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, lose the power of vision through long disuse. A rector once suf fered from his attempt (upon his entry into an Knglish country parish) to create "horizon" in the case of an old woman who existed in constant semi-darkness through the grimy condition of her win dows. Asthma tical and weak, living on a dark ground floor room shut in by other houses, she particularly needed light. Hut the offer to have her windows cleaned for her was rejected with horror. Her remark to one who railed soon after, referring to the new rector's visit, was: "Another king arose, which knew not Joseph." The would-he reformer had become the Pha raoh of the oppression, and Susan, lover of. obscure sky windows, was Israel in Egypt. This lack of horizon springs from several causes. One is spiritual sloth. It is too much trouble to some people to keep their sky windows clean. All that rises above the sordid they reject with the inertia of utter disregard. It is undesired and there fore undisccrncd. "Horizon" means dis tance, scope, long sight, and these involve effort. Charles Kingsby extolled the Eng lish fen country for its broad levels, un broken for miles save by ancient dvko, ahining mere, whispering reed and rustling poplar. To him it meant horizon, and hori zon meant to a soul that loved liberty as dearly as life the sense of freedom and room, of air to breathe, of scope wherein to energize nnd overcome. To a weaker spul the very vastnvss of that unbroken ky, with its lonesome, glorious sunsets, its galaxied hemisphere of stars, means the dreadful sense of man's littleness and man's isolation. Another cause of lack of horizon is sel fish preoccupation. The intensity of life hi me venire nrooKS llo concern lor life at the circumference. An atrophied heart generally enrries with it a poor circulation nt the peripheries. Horizon is drawn back into the little circle of personal interests, ouch a one wholly misses the spiritual meaning of life, tho solemn significance of the world round about him, the marvels' of the reign of law in nature, the throbbing of one puUc in all the movements of hu manity, the presence of the supernatural at every turn, the powers of the world to come which stoon down to bless as angels stoop to kiss sleeping children, the troubled face of the tired souls of men, the myste ries of the heavenly kingdom which lie for others in the homeliest things of life expe rience. A visitor was once extolling in an exquisite west country landscape in Kng land the glories of the scencrv to a native. ' ic be always here." was the sutliiient explanation of inability to admire. Hori zon has lost its true meaning, just ns Hun yan s man with the muck rake missed tho crown just above his head. Hope For the Lukn Warm. Dr. C'ulyor tells how those who have crown lukewarm or cold can again feel the lite of God pulsating through their veins. lie says: "Simon Peter's best work was done f ter he was reconverted. Do not stop with lamenting your neglect of the place ot prayer. Open again the door of devotion At the earliest moment lay hold of blood stirring Christian work; it will warm you lip. it may take some time to get the blood into full, free circulation ogam and to cover your lost ground and lost health. But when you do get a fresh tide of Ihnst s love pouring into your heart nd a fresh glow of His likeness in your coun tenance, you will feel as Lazarus must have felt when he .hook otf the rav clothes and leaped into life again." A New Point of View. A boy complained to Thomas Arnold because certain lessons were so difficult, and. so far as he could see, useless; Ar nold said: ! cannot make you understand now ot what use these things are going to if- ii ' ?"u,v i am your iriena. ell, as your friend, who knows what you are iminir t.i i.u..1 f . , " i " ,, ;'' want you 10 SIIKIV these k-.sons. ( un we not believe that divine love is always saving the s.nne to us: As your friend, who knows what you are going to need. I want you to m through this durkne.s?" Living- for Coil , The highest thought is living for God. Men in the world live for self. This is the aim of all men born in Adam. It may be a very cultivated self, or a very low, mean elf. Jlut man s centre is self. God's word romps .mil tpa, ! l.i, 1. . i" ''? '" to l,ve for tio'1- ,l order to live '"' u! ',' ""'""'"j! Happen in man. te will call it faith, conversion, new birth horn Airain T OPa llikv :li . ' x---- -i .o u,it uiuHirauoi. Jt means a change of centre. The liey. James Mcrarland. The Spiritual Life, It is the spiritual life which exalti. Eev. Dr. -Morse, iiaptut. New Vork. L'eer Pastures With Cows. Lorenzo A. Morning baa a larff pas ture in Tcmpleton, Mass., In which he has a number of cattle, A few days ago he aect John A. Bral'bwaito up tc get one it the cows, telling him h"v mary were in the pasture. Kr. Brst h wane began tt csuat the cews, lift count as often as be ciiRot, there was one more than the specified number. He went up cearer cad discovers! that the extra cow waa a largo dear, which stood arcucd wlti the catrU while ho taught the cow, wl'.ko' Ui lightest lymptoma of tear. WELL-DRESSED MEN. Wore Itntlnnal Attention Is tiring (live to Apppamm-r, Older men of the city note with irntlflrntlon the better dressing nnd iciicl'iil nlr of gentility cnrrled by till uiMirrntloii tliun wnn common with that of twenty ypiiro aifo. These snr torlnl ncrurm-li's nre not the hIkiis tliuf betoken n fresh epidemic of iluilisin. l'liey do not portend un era of fresh Itciiii llruiuinclx, Henu Nusbes ntul Ucrry Wnlls. They do not menu thnl in old niliiKe bus been cliungeil to renn: "Clothes innko a imiu nnd want of them a fellow." On the contrary, they Indicate thai Ibero Is n wholesome revival of that iernonnl euro for one's npieiirnnce '.lint reveals the mini ns neither a sloven or n sloth. Perhaps the ndvcnl )f "clothing ninde to measure" nt cus tom trade prices and, even more, th facilities of the "pressing; clubs" hnv been nioHt responsible for this com mendrtblo pride of nppurel. Hut whut ver is the honorable reason for li needs to lie encouraged nml ap plauded. The days of the "old codger" win thought it n signal of lndeM-inlencp go nrouiul In public In an unvestpq :iml colbirlesH shirt are passed. Tf tint on any old thing In any old wnj mil call one's self "dressed," even fur jrdiuury business Intercourse. Is to brs fonio n person apart from the crowd ?alb (l gentlemen ami to uiilinunce ono'l self as n crank. It used to be tb 3ther way. The iniiii who dressed In accordance with the best modes of t lie day was railed "u dude" ami "o liindy." Those wore terms of common reproach burled nt any one who ilurei) to be neat, clean and clothed as the most perfect form (iod Himself could link p. There Is n physical, hygb tile value iu good dressing. Put a slouch In a sol iller's uniform and lie transforms him self with erect carriage, head erect and ft quick step that altogether makes hi? mother doubt his Identity. And in the really elegant mode for men of tlip present day there is dignity given to one's carriage and distinction Im parted to his personality. Certainly. II man mny yet make a guy of himself by loud and outre self-decoration, but we arc commending the quiet, genteel, fashionable dresser, nnd he deserves U: Atlanta Constitution. fireatrst of Pavings rinnks. England's remarkable system of postottiee savings 1 in tiles, started sev eral years ago, have beeu brought Into notice of late on account of the trans ference of the prodigious clerical force which the systef keeps busy from the big building iu Queen Victoria street, London, which they have outgrown, to their new home in West Kensington, a vast beehive of a place, covering Ave acres of ground, close to the amphi theatre called Olymplu, sacred to the memory of Buffalo BUR llarnum's cir cus nud such shows. The moving day concerns 3'JH) clerks, the thousands of ledgers lu which nre kept the uccouuts of the bank's !),0OO,M)i depositors and the Innumerable documents lvlitting thereto. What has be."ti brought out most sig nificantly iu consequence of the atten tion which the "Vilggvst savings bank In the world" lias been receiving of late Is the remarkable growth of this unique Institution. The number of de imsits niiiinallv lias liimiieil from IS.- I IXHUMMl to 13,01 KUMJO. the iiiiinbi r of de positors from 2,ix).Mio tot,iHHi,(HW. In other words, on every business day of the year 4i,Xmi persons make dcpo'slts through 14,tHXl government sub-sta-tlons. No wonder then that since the postal savings banks were established nearly nix) private Institutions of the kind have been forced to go out of business. No llpggnrs in rinlaml. "Begging doesn't go lu uiy native land," Mild A. l- Wat-di, lu speaking of the famine In Finland. "If a man asks for lnvad he Is given the oppor tunity to cam It, never the money to buy it. It Is this policy, geuerutlon after generation, that has made the Finnish people prefer death to begging, ns It Is understood here. The fannere begin to sow lu June and seed potatoes and rye and barley and oats lire theli greatest need. What little rye wat? raised last year was not properly ripened before being taken to the kilns. It was unusually dark and lacking lu nutriment. Iu a letter from my sister she speaks of a friend who had trav eled north establishing free ludglngr In ten bailiwicks. In these lodging warmth and food could be had; the women anil children were taught cook cry and earned their food by sewing, spinning, knitting and weaving, and the men were provided with work. If Is work, work, work, there being hard ly a millionaire in Finland's '.'..'.'-.VOW Inhabitants. The tlsh famine wns as great us the bread famine, as the con stant ruins last summer flooded the country, the myriads of lakes spread over the mendiiws, niaklug the usua! catch Impossible." Philadelphia Uec ord. A riillnsopher's Analysis of Woman, "Feimile lives are 10.0 per cptit. bet ter risks than niiilti lives," says (lit Chicago Health Iicpiu-tmcnt. "Whj don't Insurance agents take advantage of this fact';" If u woman Is willing to take out In surance there Is n strung probability that she knows that her heutltU U lu danger. If a man who knew that Ills health was In danger should npply for insur ance his conscience would hurt him. A woman's conscience, however, is sel dm ns vigorous us her Intuition. Ilei Intuition Is the proud guiding star of her existence. And when her Intuition begins to operate In a field which Is nt unfamiliar to her ns Insurance, its mandates are Irrenlstible. The conclusion seems to be, there fore, that In general the women who don't get Insured nre good risks nnd the women who do get insured are bad risks. Chicago Tribune. "Life's Whirligig. Every fanu -f boy wants to be n school-teacher, every i-hool-teacheii-bopes to be un cell tor, every editor would like to be a banker, every bank er would like to be a trust magnate, nud every trut magnate hopes -some tiny to own a farm uud have chickens nnd cows nnd pigs-nud horses to look nfter. We end where we bejjlu. ttaliue Couuty (Kuu.) Index, ME GREAT DESTR0YEK; SOM" STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. ' it-em t Ten Thotisan-I Voire Answer W A Uf-iiinrfcalitn flteranre of Young: Man Who Klllr-1 It Is Drasksa ata-s-FsHirr-Mlsrry Whisky Make. Oh, men of might, men of wealth! Men of vigor, and strength, and bealtB, i Endow'd with hearts mankind to love, Who supnlicates tho throne above; f th! ye who visit sorrow's dm. To sorrow with your fellow-men. Shall that unholy trade in drink. Which hurries men to ruin's britiii, Continue ever here below? Ten thousand voices answer Jo! ' Tell me. loathsome child of shame. Ye whose deeds we blush to name; . Tell me, homelrss orphan rhild. Tell me, all bv drink defil'd; Tell me, cursing, staggering sot. And ye who shore his wretched lot J Must' we forever, drunkard's wife, Petnin this foe to human life? Hnrk! hark! from earth's abodes of wo. Ten thousand voices answer No! Distillers, dealers, ran yon rest? Is conscience quiet in vour breast? Will men the world rails good and great I This traffic ahvavs tolerate? Must groans ond curses still resound. A months ond years go rolling round? . Will mankind never know relief j From this o'crwhelming source of jrrief? ' Ye drink-made slnvrs indignant grow. And thunder forLh a mighty No! Oh. nntrcls. seraph" in the snheres. Behold our eves suffused with tears: Must drink-made sorrow ceaseless I'oir, And breaking hearts no respite know? Must we resign to such a foe All that we cherish here below? Forbid it, mighty (iod of love! Forbid it. angel hosts above! , Oh, toy. our souls with ranture glow; AVe hear the angels chanting "No!" National Advocate. What Whisky Dors. "This Mm Knows Whisky" i the till of on article in the Cleveland Post. Th article is in the form of a comment upon the statement mode bv a young man whsi was under orrest for killing his stepfather, a crime that he had committed under th circumstances of great provocation. Here is the nrtirle: "1 would not touch whisky if it was t save my life. I have seen too much of its work. I hove seen the misery it his mail for mv mother. I have seen. too. the brot it mode of my stenfathcr when he was nn dcr its influence. If it were not for whisksr our trouble would never have happene-l and I would not be in jail. I never touched the stuff, ond I've made a vow I never will." These are not the words of an impas sioned tpmpcronce theorist. They are the calm, deliberate utterance of a young man., who killed his drunken stepfather in de fense of bis mother and was incarcerates! in a Cleveland polire station. A police lieu tenant had pressed a glass of whisky upon; him, urging him that his weakened condi tion demanded it. But he knew whisky and he hail no use for it. Here is what might well be accented asj an expert opinion upon the effect of whisky. This young man has had rTpcrlenres tbat have shown him what whiskv will do. H does not need to theorize. He apeaka witht positive information. ' But for whisky he would not have been In iail. i Decidedly true. And equally true it that but fnr whisky few other people ever would be in jail. It is not putting it tool strongly to say that whisky causes nine tcntbs of the crimes that get pentde in jail. This voung man has seen the misery, whiskv has made for his mother. I And who cannot call up from one's own recollection dozens of mothers whom whisky hns made miserable? ' , Scarcely a community or sorial circle bnt Iids several often good, paiient, uncom plaining heroines who hove given up hope, ond whose desolated hearts are left to feel on the oeony of despair.. I Thev bear the deprivation, the neglect, the abuse, the blows, ond ntter no moan, but iu their hearts there ia moaning al ways. I The earth bos been salted with tear shed by man!:'ud in symnathy with the brave women who send their husbands anil sons to battle, sitting alone at home withl their tears and fears, but such women arojj happy, proud, exalted, compared with thej orunkards' wives, crouching with tears ami' fears and shame, while their husbands1 give their lives up to the devil Drink. 1 The bright, sweet hopes of their bridal) days have become a mockery. The vowei upon which thrv staked their life hsppi-4 ness have provd liaht as air. The kve that once hade fair to be a shelter in eTerrJ storm has been licaten down and torsi t rti'n by whirlwinds of bestial passions. " There are millions of women like this.". "I have seen, too," soys this young man, "the brute whiskv hos mnde of my step father when he was under its influence." f Yes, there is the truth it trokra a man a, brute. He mov be good and kind and ten der when he is sober, but whiskv make him a brute. He rcav bp nrnvidrnt ami thrifty when he is himself, but filled with whisky bp becomes an entirely different class of being. Sober, he may not be ab'e to realize that he ran be a brute when drunk. He may Is; the last one to know the misery that hie drunkenness causes in his home. He can no view himself in correct perspective. Hut this young man who was sent to jail because of whiskv sppoks the simr-le truth. He hos seen how whisky turned a good man into a brute, a hanoy wife into a mu erah'e drudge, and a devoted son, into aa unwilling murderer. i And whisky is no respecter of Tier-sons. What it Hoes in one family it will do in an other. Wlist it maV-es of one man it has made of millions. The woes of thia one woman is a wop that ever goes crying anil moaning throughout the earth. From a Commttrotal Slaadpolnt. Pome of Toledo's largrst industrial enter prises are assuming responsibility for ths abstinence of their employes during work ing hours. They aro buying up property adiacent to their manufacturing plants m order to defeat the efforts of liquor men in establishing saloons. Like the railroad companies, they are coming to realize that the virtue of temperance in their workmen has a definite commercial value, capable of being measured in dollars and cent. Ex perience has taught them that if they aiw to have a high quolity of workmanship ami immunity from damace suits, occasioned by aceidpnt to limb and life, thev most pro vent their men from stupefying their braiasj by two or three glasses of brer at the nonta hour. With such method of regulating th habits of employes the line will be definite ly drawn between the idler and the drink er, the worker and the abstainer, and th sa.onn will no longer pose as the laboring man's friend. The Trutaste In Brief. He who would regulate the saloon auoulil first try to rcjulato Mt. Sinai. Thunder storms purify the air. but burst of righteous indignation never was known to purify a saloon. The further down yoa ran drive the nalo.m, the further aa-ay you remove tem-nation from those who work ia bias places. In Ilethel, under Prohibition, it waa sv rnre thing to hear of a person being drunk. I'nder the present law the town voted ts license two saloons. In the month of May there were eighteen convictions for drunk enness. The Jewish law waa esperialhr m-v-rr apon wine hibbrra and drunkards, wta were held up to acorn, and the people werw warucd against them. Pu inking is a disease, anil It is in herited from either father or mot her. or hoik. It ran only be cured by acroie treatment that eradicates the lute fur al to no! from the blood. L'pon different persons the effect of an. thing in the form ol drink is different. Bomu ere trade silly illustrating tba m lni that "When win ia in, wit ia st pihers are made doll and brMiaia. lti lowest instincts of their nature ran rutk si ah their r-ason, and thsy nre Iials t -.in -tnte tbe most brutal loeia, exeav p.iM.u.- the aia5im, ''What it ta a man n-htn H u sober cornea oat when, Ju w diuuk.