"BUN WITH PATIENCE"
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev. Dr.
J. Bascom Shaw.
Ketf Jeiot at a Patten Before Von la (he
Rice ol LIU.
Phincetok, N. J. The Ticv. T)r. tfolin
Unicorn Hhw, pastor of the West Kml
Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, preached
Piintlay ninrning before the students of
Princeton University. He took hie text
from Hebrew xii : 1 : "Kun with patience."
Dr. Show nid:
There it a vast difference between walk
ing with pittience and running with pa
tienc. Both are hard, incalculably hard,
but they are hard in very different ways,
and call for graces which arc exact op
positea. Walking with patience re
quire the grace of repression or resig
nation. The apirit leaps ahead hut the
body mint needi lag behind. We want
to run, but we have to walk, and slow
Knee when one feels he might make
aate and ought to make haste is might
ily agravatin.
Walking with pnlien-p is one of the
young man's strmrplcs. He want to get
on ana up, wnn nuic-i speed, put cir
cumstances are holding him back. He has
a mother to support, lie --orka for an tin
appreciative firm, he lucks the proper in
fluence, he has no friends nt court, he
can command no cnnilnl. Therefore, he
must stay n clerk when ho deserves the
siiperintendenrv. He must go to basiness
when he would prefer a profession. Creep
ing when you are eager to be leaning
can you imagine a greater tux upon pa
tience than that?
Walking with patience ii poverty'a prob
lem. To suffer want when nthera no more
deserving than you are in affluence, nnd be
reaigned to it, it is the hardest possible
task. That is the bottom cause of all
our labor agitation impatience under lim
itations. Walking with patience is misfortune!
mission. To be held back by reverses, dis
abled by sickness, retarded by circum
tancea, felled by a great sorrow, to that
we must walk instead of run these are
among the most difficult experiences of
life, and are these not experiences that
come to all? Who of us, the most pros-
Eeroua and fortunate, those whose track
aa the fewest top grades upon it even
the young college man with hie own pe
culiar problems to solve and struggle to
meet who of us does not find frequent
need to cry out with face turned upward?
I want the love that all things sweetly
bear,
Whate'er my Father'a bund may choose
to send.
I want the love that patiently endures
The wrongs that come from earthly foe
or friend.
Some great aoul who bad evidently
taken a full course in the school of suf
fering and won the full diploma of res
ignation, has most uptiy nnd beautifully
expressed the soul's need under such con
ditions in these words:
I The night is dark, but God, my Uod,
I Is here and in command;
I And sure am I, when inoruing breaks,
I shall be at the land.
I And since I know the darkness ia
To ilim as sunniest day,
I I'll cast the anchor patience out,
! And wish but wait for day.
Uod help us to learn how to walk with
patience!
But what about running with patience?
Does it not call for quite another school
ing of ourselves, just as running on the
athletic field demands a training peculiar
to itself? Even a fust walker is not nee
essarily a good runner. The requirement
in this case ia active ratner than negative
Here is needed not the grace of repression,
as i:i the other case, but of cultivation,
of application or concentration rather than
of resignation. In walking with patience,
the weights and the brakes both must be
applied in order to hold the apirit back and
keep it apace with the body. But to run
with patience, the weights need to be laid
aside and the brakes removed that the in
ner may keep abreast with the outward,
that our ambitions, our hopes, cur aims,
may Hy forward toward the goal, "nor,"
aa the line of the old hyniu runs, "tire
amid the heavenly road.
xne very pace ox me runner is useu
. the foe of patience. It calls, seemingly,
for impetuouaity, and the more impetu
ous the runner, we are aecuctomed to think,
the better. Its certain effect ia to heat the
blood and fire the nerves. Behold the
athlete with every mascle taught, every
line of his face bard set, his eye intense
and eater, the applauding crowd urging
him on! How can he be poiseful and
self-controlled? Indeed, patience would
seem impossible, and impatience the very
Iirice of the prize. Ana yet every ath
etio man before me knows thia ia the talk
of a novice. If there ia anything the run
ner needa it ia self-control, to be able
"to keep his head," as we say, to com
mand his nerves, to hold ki strength
in check at the first and let it out toward
the finish, to keep from being unnerved
by the shouts of the crowd, to oe equal tc
any unioreseen turn tne race may take 01
any condition before unreckoned with that
anight appear. And does it not always
turn out that a running match ia at bot
torn chiefly a question of aelf-command-r
muscle, wind, nerve, mind, yea, and hear
and the winner ever found to be the ont
who has run the rac with ' the greatest
patience ?
. Young men, thia ia a running age, and a
country where, whether you will or not;
yeu must adopt the quiekesj pace. "Stef
lively," the car conductor'a inelegant com
mand, is characteristically American;
though it may usually happen in this rase
to be apoken by a foreigner. All Ameri
cana are proverbially in a harry. Even oui
kindergarten tots nave caught the atep,
and from childhood on it geta gradually
faster and faater, until, when a young man
reaches maturity, he ia on a dead run
Lite these days is a veritable rush for ex
istence. i To run, then ia an easy thing it la the
most natural tiring in the world to us, we
have been bred to it; it ia instinct, but tc
run with patience, to keep the soul calm
when the Dody become heated and over
taxed, ao that the spiritual doea not lag
behind the material life, and w grow fe
verish, sordid, impetuous ah! this ia quite
another thing, Such a diflicult task is it
that, amid the clamor and tumult of oui
modern life, it ia the rarest thing to find
men with tranquil temperaments, stead
fast, patient, reposeful. Under the strain
and pressure of the times we get irascible,
restless, nervn is, .narrow ana shallow oi
aoul. Solitude has no longer any conge
niality for us, and, as Dr. c-amuel Johnson
declared years ago, "When a mun cannot
bear hia own company, doea not like to he
alone, there ia aomething wrong." it
would aeem aa if Wordsworth were ar
raigning our age and not hia own, which
was ao phlegmatic and meditative aa com
pared with thia, when he wrote down hit
memorable lines:
"The world ia too much with us; late and
I soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
I powers.
Little we see in nature that ia our;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid
i boon!"
' 'Aversiva to solitude, and over-enamored
f society, bard driven by materialistic
fain and greed, tearing ahead for a prize
hat our nervous clutch may crush to soon
aa it ia once in the hand, w outrun our re
ligious duty, the claims of our inner nature
are left away behind, and we go dashing
madly ahead, like a runaway engine, into
spiritual, if not moral, ruin. Thia, young
men, ia tiie feverish rac you are toon to
enter. Whatever your disinclination there
to, yoa are bound to run it. The one su
preme question ia, will you run it with pa
tience or, aa the great majority are seca
ing to do, impetuously, wildiy, without Mil
coutrol, and therefore unsuccessfully?
"What ia the secret of such patience?'
roil ask of me, eagerly, earnestly, in yur
iintiiriil i ' jj-t our author answer.
"Looking unto Jesus" is the- solo remedy.
be suggests. 1ei us my aaiue cij
weight and the sin shut doth to easily be
aet us, and let us run with palieuca the
race that ia aet before ua, looking tin to
Jesus, the author and nniejcr ot our faith,
who, for the joy that was aet before Hire,
endured the cross, ilespisiog the shame,
and ia aet down at the right baud of the
throne of Uod." ,
"Looking unto Jesus' may mean at least
three things: Cooking unto ilia as ta
final goal; looking unto Him aa too im
aL emancipator, and looking unto Hint
aa. a. jifext.jufiiil a--uiUru. . 1 tellers
the aottior ot tint epistic means tit (hit
here.
I. Jesus (he uprme goal of our lives
our highest purpose, our commanding as
piration, out to whom all our energies rim
and upon whom nil our ambitions uud ac
tivities terminate.
"Lord, let me nut le too content. ,
With life in trifling service spent,
Make mi aspire.
When days with petty cares are filled.
Let me with holy thought be tiitillcd.
Of scnietning higher."
This must be our cnnslnnt prayer, if we
ore tj run the hurried and hurrying race of
modern life unci preserve our equipoise
through it all; and that "something high
er to which we must aspire is the service
of Christ. Let a man begin to live hit life
in devotion to Him, for His sake and unto
His honor, turning nil the intensity and en
terprise of hia strenuous existence tow.ird
that as his goal, and bis life will speedily
lese its feverish heat and grow calm and
steadfast and serene. Ho i.eed n t slacken
his pare a hit. If that be its goul, ho mnv
continue to run and on to its close he will
remain uationt despite his environing con
ditions. He may make haste to get rich,
to acquire leadership, to attain success, to
exalt Jesus Christ instead of self, if the un
seen be his chief aim and nsnirntion, and
the material btit a means thereunto, he
will go through life patient-proof, and the
tumult and fever of the age will never get
into his sou!.
' For this is peace-to lose tli? ioncly note
Of self in love's celestial-ordered strain;
And this is joy to lind one's self again
In Him whose harmonic forever float
Through all the sphere of song, below,
above,
ror f!od is music, even as Cod is love."
Oh! thia is what our harti-ke.ided bur.
ncss men need, this is what our nervous,
self-centered society women need, this is
the great need of our ambitious and eager
youth, to make Jesus Christ, His glory and
service the sobering, absorbing, controlling
ambition of their lives. Is thia not the
first great look our author commends to ut
looking unto Jesus, as our supreme pur
pose" And what is the second'.'
Second Looking unto Jesus for power in
our lives, as our great emancipator trout
the bondage of this materialistic age.
"Have you ever thought, my friend,
As you dafly toil and plod
In the noisy paths of men,
How ttill are the ways of Jod?
"Have you ever paused in the din
Of traffic'a insistent cry,
To think of the calm in the cloud.
Of the peace in your glimpse ot the sky?
"(!o out in the quiet fields, ,,'
That quietly yield you meat. ' V
And let them rebuke vour noise.
Whose patience is still and tweet."
Jesus Christ alone can bring the quiet
ness of the fields and the calmness ot the
cloud m'o our being. To Him wc turn, aa
t its first great source, would we have the
tame atmosphere blowing through our
toult. You know Mmo. Guyon's definition
of prayer: "The silence of a soul absorbed
in God." And Tennyson's, if possible, was
even better: "Prayer it like opening it
sluice between the great ocean and our lit
tle channels, when the great tea gathers it
self together nnd flowt in at full time." If
you and I would run with patience, wc,
too, must let this tide flow into our lives,
and that can never be until we live in close
touch with Jesus Christ, seek His help at
every turn, draw upon Him for our
atrength and depend upon His grace for
sustaining and transforming power. Henry
Drummond once said: "rive minutes in
the morning alone with Christ will chunge
for us the whole day." What then would
all the minutes of all the days in union
with Him do for us?
"Have you and I to-day
Stood silent as with Christ, apart from joy,
or fray
Of life, to see His face;
To look, if but a moment, in its grace,
And grow, by brief companionship, more
true,
More nerved to lead, to dare, to do
For Him at any cost? Have v.-c to-day
Found time, in thought, our band to lay
In His. and thus compare
Hit will with ours, and wear
The impress of His wish? Be sine
Such contact will endure
Throughout the day; will help iu r.alk
erect
Through storm nnd flood; detect
Within the hidden life tin's dross, itt
. stain;
Revive a thought of love for Him again;
Steady the steps which waver; help ut see
The footpath meant for you, and me."
Forever true il it that those who run
life's race patiently are pre-eminentiy tutu
of prayer.
t Third What is the third look? Look
ing unto Jesus aa a pattern for our lives.
There ia something about thia pattern pe
culiar to itself. Lxpressed in a word, it
hat the perspective of eternity. Christ
lived Hit life not to gratify a fleeting,
temporal, selfish sense, like avarice, fame,
auccess, pleasure, but to fulfill a God-given
mission, to reach up to a divine standard,
and work ou: an eternal equation. Put to
gether three heart utterances of His and
the full pattern will be before vou: "I do
always tne things that plcaae Him" duty
to Hit Father, Hit will ever yielding itself
to tne wiu ot uod. 1 am come that they
might have life and that they might have
it more- abundantly" dutv to men and
complete dedication of Himself to the ful
fillment of that duty. - "I must work the
works of Him that sent Me" duty to Him
self aa "the sent of Uod" whose one pas
sion wua to make His life justify its high
purpose. As some one has phrased it:
"On one great mission bent.
He aped for Uod, forever unencumbered
Of earthly clogs whereby our toult are
numbered,
In glory excellent."
Keep this pattern before you. my fellow
runners, consult it the first thing in tho
morning, turning to it often through the
day, and'let it Ee the last thing you loo);
upon at night ere your eyes forget to see,
and you will be too serious to be otherwise
than calm of aoul; too much in earnest to
lose your poise, too act upon linking every
moment of time with eternity and work
ini out the answer of your lite to God to
let temporal aim command you or sordid
things enslave you. Then the weights shall
be lifted off the inner and laid hard dawn
upon the outward life, and you will con
tinue to run perhaps, your pace may
quicken life will be a prompt, an earnest,
eager, intense race, but you will run it
clean down to the end with patience. This
ia the trinal aecret I bring vou: Christ the
purpose of our lives. Christ the power in
our lives! Christ the pattern for our lives!
Shows Himself a Beaat.
We believe there is truth in the old
saying: "In vino Veritas." Wine, when
enough of it ia taken, lifts off the cover.
A man not only tells the truth when he
ia drunl:, but be showa hia aecret disposi
tion. If he ia a beast, he almnra himulf
beastly. If he it at heart cruel and re
vengeful, he may become a murderer. Ii
ha i' lustful, he beeomea licentioua. Strong
drii ' exaggerates that which without it
might lie jatent and uokntwa during
lifetime. , . .
Hutch Inaort Family.
A game or trick, played by any num
ber of persons. Those who know the
Kama retire to an adjoining room and
are supposed to personate the Hutch
inson family, to whom the othera are
brought In one by one to be Introduc
ed. Tba "family," who all stand In a
row. Imitate, aa exactly aa possible,
whatever the guest says or does, until
he sits down, when he joins the family
and another person Is brought In.
Sometimes' when the guest under
stands the Joke, he can turn it on
ihe members of the "family," by do
ing aomething difficult to Imitate.
Took Him for a Dummy.
An East port, Me., man was standing
near Die door of a clothing store, lost
in meditation, wood a woman walked
up and began to stare at him. Ha
never moved a muscle, but when she
again turned be thought be had
caught her eye for a aura enough
mash' and ha smiled and winked the
Other eye. Imagine hia feelings when
she exclaimed la a startled voice,
"Heavens! I thought jot were a doth
lag dummy."
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lesson Comments For
January 24.
Subecl: Jesus Rejectee; at Naiaretb, Lake Iv.
16-30-Ooldea Text, John U, ft
Mtmory Vraet, 13, lO-Cons-aieotary
ea the Day's Letioo.
I. Jesus preaching in .''iif.irot 'i (vs. !:!
21). It). 'Came to Nazareth." J'h;. v,.i a
trying visit. His own pcop wer i:i no
mood to receive Him, but .l.i verv roji
rrly opens Hns pnh'ie work in (Ipiilee at
His own home. "Ilis eustnm :n." ';.
is a good examplo for lis. There are wiinv
evidences that Jesus had fixed religion
habits. "Synagogue." The jvooiiuj
were not in use until nfter tin- liAin-.u'tiiiii
captivity. Thev could on'.y be creeled
where ten men in eav Yiivuinstn-trrs
(called "men of ease") could he found to
attend them. The people sat wild t ieir
facet toward Hie temple: there were "cliirf
teats" for the, elders, and the women "t
by themselvcH. "Subhath ilav." W
tliould. on the Pabbiuli day. always svo-d
work, conversation and readin-i unlit for
the Lord's day, and give ourselves to npir
ittial exercise. This was Hi custom. If
He needed the means of grace siire'y we
do. "Mood up." Thev stood up ln'r-vl
the Scriptures, hut snt down to tei- li The
whole congregation stood dining the read
inj. 17. "V'-nins." f!rcck form of NntaY
"Opened the book." The roll. The Serin
lures were written on parchment, with two
rollers, bo that as thev were read one was
rolled on and the other rolled off. The
portion selected was Isaiah fll: 1. 2.
18. "Spirit -is upon Me." This was
given Him as His baptism. "Hath anoint
ed Me." I have been set anart for Ibis
very purpose. This is the first creat quali
fication of a true preacher. "The (iospcl "
flood new concerning Himself, His mis
sion and the deliverance He brings. , "The
broken hearted." Those overwhelmed
with sorrow for their sins or aufferins.
"The captives." 'lhe gospel comes us a
great moral emancipation proclamation to
those in bondage to sin. evil habit or the
devil. "The blind." The spirituillv blind.
The light of the world has upneared one
who is able to unseal blind minds as well
as blind eves. "Bruised." As the gr.at
physician He comes to heal thoe who are
broken and crushed because of sins com
mitted. The "wound, and bruise, and
putrefying aorcs" may now be "closed"
and "bound up" and healed. Note the
difference between the prophets and Christ:
They proclaimed liberty, He sets ut lib
erty. 19. "Acceptable year of the Lord." A
reference to the year of jubilee. Lev. So:
8-17. This was the year when. 1. Debts
nnd obligations were released. 2. All He
brew servants were set free. 3. Each re
sumed possession of his inheritance. This
was a type of gospel times. The genuine
jubilee year goes beyond the gospel pic
ture. The liberty proclaimed is ioiil lib
erty. 20. "Closed the book." Kolled up the
roll. "To the minister." The ruler of the
synagogue or his servant. "Sat down."
See on verse 16. This indicated that He
was through reading and was now abour
to teach. "Kyes fastened on Hun."
Many things contributed to arrest their at
tention: I. The report of Hi teac!iiri3s
and mightv works which bad preceded
Him. 2. The remarkable character of the
words He bad read. 3. His manner and
bearing. 4. The fact that they knew Him
to well. 5. The unction of the Holy Spirit
upon Him.
21. "Fulfilled in your ears." He suv
their condition and Ho knew that lie
could save them. He is prophet, physi
cian. Redeemer, deliverer. They are poor
captivet, blind und bruised. He stands be
fore them with the calm consciousness of
power "to grnnplc with und overcome all
their miseries."
II. The discussion fvs. 22-27). 22.
"Bare Him witness." "Gave signs of ap
probation." "Gracious words." This pas
sage and John 7: 40, give us some idea of
the majesty and sweetness which charac
terized our Lord's utterances. "Joseph's
Son." How can it be possible that the sou
of this obscure family a carpenter who
has made furniture for our houses a man
without education, without rank or otlice
that He should be the Messiah, the King
of the Jews?
2X "Ye say." Jesus shows that He
knows their thoughts. "I'roverb." Or
parable; denoting any kind of figurative
discourse. "Physiciau, heal Thyself." That
is, they would ask why He did not perform
miracles in Nazareth at home, instead of
at Capernaum. Jesus had, only a few
months before, healed a nobleman's sou
at Capernaum (John 4 : 40-54), and this
was probably only one example of many.
"Do also here." Let us see Vour power.
The best modern equivalent is, "Charity
begins at home;" do something her.
Work a miracle aud prove to ua that You
are the Messiah. 24. "In His own coun
try." No prophet is received in his own
country' as he la elsewhere. It ia very difli
cult for any people to believe in the great
ness or power of one who has grown up
among them. This is the reason He (lives
for declining to work miracloa in Naza
reth. Their unbelief hindered Him. Ho
would not display Hia power merely to
gratify curiosity.
25. "I tell you." He now proceeds to
show how Elijah and Klisha, two of their
greatest prophets, had gone to the Gen
tries with their blessings, and that by di
vine direction, while many in Israel were
suffering uunoticed. "In the days of
Elias." See 1 Kings 17: 1-9. "The heaven
waa ahut up." There were two rainy sea
aona, called the early and latter rains.
"The first fell in October, the latter in
April. The first prepared the ground for
the seed, the latter, ripened the harvest.
At both of these were withheld, conse.
quently there was a great famine." 20.
"Save unto Sarepta." Greek form of Zare
phath. Elijah wat not sent to the widows
of Israel, but to a widow of Zurephath a
village on the Mediterranean coast.
27. "Eliseua." Greek form for Elisha.
The meaning of these two verses is, God
dispense His benefit when, where and to
whom He pleaaes. No nerson can com
plain, because no person deserves any gcjd
from Hia hand. Jesus might justly do the
tame in the displavs of His grace. Thus
He showed that Hia blessings were in
tended for Gentiles as well at Jews,
"Naainan." See 2 Kings 5: 1-14.
111. The rejection (vt. 28 30). 2S.
When their race prejudicet were itruck
they at once "were rilled with wrath."
i rejudice it ttronger than reaton. They
could not give countenance to a preacher
who even inferred that the Gentilea whom
they hated ao bitterly, could be blessed.
29. "Brow of the hill." Nazareth spreads
itself out upon lhe eastern face of a moun
tain, where there is a perpendicular wall
of rock from forty to fifty feet high. 3D.
"Patting through. Hit escape from them
waa no dnubt miraculous. They desired to
see a miracle and here they bad one.
Vigor Restored by Water.
John Ferguson, residing In Kllmel
ford, England, overheated himself
while In pursuit of cattle on the bills.
While In thia condition he drank ex
cessively of cold water from a stream
neat. Almost immediately be fell fast
asleep on the bank and did not waken
for twenty-four hours. He was then
In a high fever, and from that time
was unable to retain any nourishment
The. proprietor of the estate on
which the man's father waa a tenant
bad Ferguson removed to his own
house and ahut him up In a room for
twenty days, during which time he
waa supplied with nothing except
water, and precautlona were taken to
prevent any one supplying the patient
with food, yet at the end of that time
tba man waa restored to perfect health
and had loat none of hia former vigor.
dd Connecticut House.
- One of the old house In 8cotlano
Conn., la the Waldo house, a few rod
eaat of tba railroad station. Edward
Waldo bought the land in 1702 and
built the house that now stands on it
;ln 1711. It has been handed down
from ona generation to another. Tho
present owner ia Gerald Waldo. Tba
, tat Cos too
CHRISTIAN tNDCAVOR TOPICS.
laoutry 24 "What II Christ Came to Our
Town?" Joha 4:28-JJ; 3 12.
8erlpture Verses Josh. l:fl; Isa. 43:
2; Matt. 1:23; John 1 : 1-1 4-18; 1 John
1:3; Is. 16:8; Isa. 3;8, 9; Hob. 13:6,
8; 1 John 3:24.
Lesson Thoughts.
If all the politicians and all thr In
dividuals of our town could realize
that Chrlrt knows "all that ever tlrey
did," would he be a welcome guest?
Would you be glad to see him?
.Christ is In our town; we recognlzo
in churches, schools, hospitals, benev
olent. Institutions, the Influence of his
dwelling hero,
Christ tarries only where hj Is in
vltert to stay, and never refuses to ac
cept a sincere Invitation.
Selections.
Mr. McXutt, the "dlnner-pall rvan
gel.lBt" Bays that whenever ho hears
k said of a man that he has died "and
one to meet his God," he wonders
where the man has been all his life,
and whore God has been, that they
have not been meeting evory day!
It Is th tendency of this agv to
think much about what we shall do
for Christ, and too little about Christ's
prvstmee 4n our hearts. But If hs
abides In tin, the works will follow
inevitably. Our hearts are like a dark,
unhealthy room, and we go about with
disinfectants, thinking to make it
sweet and puro before we dare open
the windows and the Bhuttera. Let In
the light and the fresh air, and they
will sweeten the room aa nothing rMse
can ever sweeten It.
O our Father, we are with Thee
when we know it not! Make us clean,
make us strong, that all our life may
apeak to Thee, and answer baok Thy
lovo.
Why cannot wo slip our hands Into
His each day, walk trustingly over
that day's appointed path, thorny or
flowery, crooked or straight, knowing
that evening will bring ua sleep,
peace and home?
Never a trial that He U not there,
Never a burden that He doth not bear.
Never a sorrow that He doth not
share,
Moment by moment I'm under His
care.
Prayer O thou ever- present Jesus,
unto whom all hearts are open and all
desires are known, help us to realize
thy gracious presence with us. Tarry
with us, in our town, to reprove
wrongdoing and to eneourage right
eousness and charity. Rula In our In
dividual lives, we bsee-h thee, and
make us happy to b? with thee and-
do thy holy will. Aram.
EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS.
January 24 If Christ Should Come lo Our
Towa. (John 4. 2810, 39-42.)
Should he Come, he would find occa
sion for grief! Material splendors
dhl not blind Wni to the real city.
The people were to his clear eyie the
town. Behind all the gleries of tem
ple and palace he saw Priest, Phar
isee, Scribe, Saddueee, Herodian,
many of them rotting with spiritual
leprosy, and the fickle, fanatical mob
ready to shriek "Crucify him!" Over
their moral and spliitual ruin, over
their impending woe he wert.
Should ho visit our town what to
him would te, in themselves, cur mag
nificence of temple and palace, our
civic halli, our luxuries gleaned from
a globe, our expanding commerce, our
huge factories, bursting warehouse,
piled up gold, even our libraries, art
galleries, schools? Would he not,
now as then, look through them all to
the men?
Looking at them, the real town, he
would find much at which to weep:
In municipal life, rottenness, the peo
pie too often asleep while grafters
neap up plunder and destroy for gain
the bodies and souls of men; great
vices winked at or protected by law;
law Itself often defied and spit upon
with impunity and trampled under foot
by thowe sworn to enforce It. In bus
iness life, selfishness, strife, oppres
sion, greed, lyJng, fraud. In social
life, heartlessness, frivolity, empti
ness, freqirent Impurity, slavery to the
painted harlot Pleasure, and to tho
blind god KaBhion; the gambling
hell, the brothel, the saloon, unmolest
ed, drive the youth by platoons to the
pit. In family life, frequent divorce,
nate Instead of love, jangling Instead
of Joy, family discipline relaxed, the
family altar In ruins. In church lire,
mercantilism, formalism, phariseelsm,
hollow profession, religionists not a
few with the Hp saying, "Ixird, Lord,"
but" ready for a consideration to be
tray of crucify the Son of God afresh.
But, he would have also cause for
nladness. He would see that nane
teen centuries of his Gospel havie not
been In vain. Looking at the world
of business and industry, he would
find cause for gladness. Slavery has
frone. Honest labor is respected. A
thousand evils that made men groan
In Chilst's clay have vanished. The
spirit of strife is gradually giving
way to the Gospel of p?aee.
In the social world, over against the
frivolity, emptiness, Impurity of the
smart set, Christ would see a whole- I
some social life of multitudes such as i
tils world never dreamed of. Great
charities, in bis name, a: blessing
thousands, both of those who receive
and those who give. Institutions of
every sort are aiding to refine and
sanctify the social intercourse of men.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS-
HE man who tblnki
he la drifting at
pleasure la really
driven by pasalon.
What Ood de.
manda ia an noth
ing to what He de
serves. It li a good deal
eaaler to drop Into
a rut than to rtae
out of It
Many people can
criticise: the num
ber who can create la much amaller.
Better a bare board with tho bless
ing of Oo4 than Hia curae on a full one.
Ood la never afraid ot putting a life
time of training Into an hour's ser
vice. How can the city smell sweet so long
aa the aaloon-aewer stun da wlda open?
Men who make a bualness of relig
ion are not likely to make a religion
of business.
There la no merit In making the
devil go to church when you takelm
la your heart
To have the courage of sur Captain
to better this tho courage ot our con
Tlctloas. ., ,.,..
The man who la always ready to
taper oft always wear ruddy taper
on. note.
ifebJtf&sl
Trust.
To be content!
That is the best.
Not to be indolent i m v
And simply rest.
But having done what duly rails (o do,
And having been to your soul-impulse true,
Then worry not because yon do not see
Xesiilts. Leave these unto the time to be.
Do what you can. Trint God for the event,
And be content.
To be content!
Who in bis soul
Learned this accomplishment
Has gained the whole. "
He who can master self alone is great.
He who can work and who likewise cm
wait.
Greatly deserve, and weary not the l.oul
By constant intercessions lor reward.
Know that all will be returned lh.it you
have lent
And be content.
To be content!
Is wisdom true.
Know what lor you is meant
Will come to vou.
'
Cry up the heights your motto. ' Onward,
on!"
Then climb, nor pause to count the dis
tance gone.
Think not ot self; but if some other soul
is faint, assist and point him to the goal.
Thus mount und help until hies day is
spent
And be content.
To be content ! ,.
This is the best.
Life's sun and storm are blent . .
And both are blest. "
All glory, love and joy tint soul secures
Who strives, who overcomes and who en
dures. For God is all and you with Him are rife
Know this and you have gained the goal of
life.
Take you this blessing that is heaven-sent
And be content.
J. A. Edgcrton.
How to (Jet a freuli Start.
The closing year preaches its own ser
mon. M.uiy texts from the pages of the
last twelvemonth memory offers, and con
science applies them with a pointedness. a
power and a particularity that no humin
jmlpit ever equals. As memory turns the
leaves, pausing now with a smile to re-read
this, or lingering over that page atained
with tears, how strange it all seems that
this atmosphere which wc so lately
breathed has now become a part of the
irrevocable past! We look back, and the
point where memory seems to touch the
crunk as we look is that we shall never pass
that way again! Ah! says conscience, how
much of good that you might huve done as
you passed vttroiigh that year has been left
undone; how many kind anil cheering
words might have been said that ere not;
the thirsty child, that cried, how casv to
have given it a cup of cold water, and it
went sobbing away: the old man who fell
away back there, after staggering along in
the heat under his heavy load, how liitle it
would have been for you to have carried
it awhile for him, and you did not: per
haps he might not have'f.illen, and, hard
est of all, that dear one of your own who
lay down to rest so suddenlv; oh, how
many, many things you would have done
for him it you had only known he was so
soon to die! All these and many more
memory leads by in review. The lesson
from them all is. lef lhe new year be bet
ter than the old; brighter, happier, holier
for all around nie nnd for myself; for I
pass this wuy but, once!
And so we have fallen into the habit at
these mile posts of the years of putting on
record a set of new resolutions poor, fee
ble things, many of them, that lie broken
behind ua as we make our way through
them tc the next year's account.
What it the iault with all our resolves,
and why are the leaves that we turn over
invariably ns soiled and blotted, while the
year is still new, as the ones that are past?
The mujority of us have tried honestlv
every year since we have taken Christ aa
pur guide to put off the old man. This
'old man," with his lying tongue, with his
corruption and deceit and thievery, his an
ger and his laziness, is not a pleasant char
acter for us to wear. 'A'e know it. We
long to be free from it. And vet our at
tempts to do away with him are so often
vain. Why?
It it not because in putting oft" the old
man we have forgotten to put on the new?
We are to put on Christ Jesus, nnd that we
have forgotten to dn. We are to let Him
live in us, just as if He came to eartii again
and grew to years in our bodv ;.nlcad of
His own. When we to about the home we
are to remember that it is Jesus Christ
that is to do the work this morning, and
if we remember that, how thoroughly will
it be done, and how will the humble work
be glorified! And when we meet the
neighbor upon the street who is thinking
of buving our old hnn-e wc will tell him
plainly about that limp he has and not
neck to hide it. at we had intended, because
mar is wnat .icsus would an. ror we are
members of one another, and lying to an
other is lying to ourselves. And as we
come nut of church next Sabbath and meet
unon the steps the man who has spoken
slightingly of us, wc shall not turn awav
and pretend not to see him, for we shall
have to remember that wc have put on
t'hriit Jesus, and we must be tender-hearted,
forgiving one another, "even as God
for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
There is something wistful aiid pleading
about these words of Scripture, recognis
ing all the evil that is in us, nnd appealing
to the possibilities of good. Yet Paul hat
put hit tinker boldly upon the source of all
pur trouble, and tries to show that there
i only one way in wkich we mav take a
fresh start with any hope of keeping on
that way, and thot is by putting on "the
new man" Christ. Jesns.tJi are Living
fton Hill, iu the New York Mail and Ex
press. The Steps or a Ladder.
If everv new year we effected even a
tadical change in ourselves, and in the
course of the vcar made it a confirmed
habit, the total effect would soon be re
markuble, and thus would our new year
be the steps of a ladder hy which we should
rise to the perfection which is our goal.
James Stalker, D. 1).
The Oil of Joy.
Christianity wants nothing to much in
the world at tunny people; and the old
are hungrier for love than lor bread: and
the oil of joy it very cheap; and if you
can help the poor on with a garment of
Praise it will be better for tbeui thaa
blankets. Henry Drummond.
i . u
Kaw Tear Thoughts.
The thoughts of the new year are not
thought! of the ease of attainment, se
cured or anticipated, but they are thoughts
oyority of the pilgi.m path of life
and of the toiltomeneaa of the track, and
these thoughts would prove disheartening
to the bravest of ua if we could not have
faith in Him who hat pasted thia way be
fore, and who invitee ua to an nofailiog
trust in Him in hours of despondency or ot
cheer. He who has helped us hitherto wilt
not desert ut now. tiunday-ockool Timet.
In giving ua the Babbath I feel at if
God had tiven aa fifty-two tpriugt in every
year. Coleridge,
Tallest an Earth.
In a comparative table of statures,
arranged according to nationalities,
the United States Indian atands high
er thaa any other race la the world,
though the Patagontaa runs him very
ctose. The white citizen comes next.
The United Status negro ranks four
teenth. In the scale, and of all the coun
tries In tba world consldared the Por
tuguese are found to be tba shortest.
' England's Gold Supply.
England gets abont $5,000,000 worth
of new gold from Africa every month
and 17.000,000 worth out of Australia.
THE GREAT DESTROYKU
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
1'nein A Mocker A Km tier's Tral
Kml, Which Ills Hon t se.l n n Tel
Kor it Towei-riil Temperance f.M:h
Itw Case or t.iiiinr stayed Away.
"Wine is n mocker," ah. Cod.
It mocks at the wid ni's ciic.
M'V-ks at the children ukiiu f ir !i:ad.
Mocks when the drunkard dies.
"Strong drink is racing." God IHp ut.
A ratlins lion, in truth,
.Seeking the men to s!i,y iMeni,
Fiom old age down to vouti.
"Whosoever i deceived llicrem ,"
Can it ht lie "is not wi-e' '
God made, him see the aivtui curse,
. -And open his blinjed eves.
- U.im's 11M.
Th Lawyer's Mlorr.
The young men hail made area prepara
tions tor their lislung trip mho the Indian
Teriitoi, nnd I'icir cli-aioihlmci.t v.i-1
deep when, on the? very tuiriiiiiit they hit"
lo tnt, the l:iwcr. whom lli -v all liked,
told them he could not so. i in-i!:c th
nutter worse his explanation-. v. rt: very
linie and unsatisfactory; it 'a eic!'nt. 'ic
iud given up tiie trip lor i-'jiiic reasuu
whi.'h he hesitated to Lain ".
As a last resort the o'her went iu a
body six of thcm--to his o'liie. and de
manded that he tell them exactly v. hy he
hail deserted, when he had been most en
thusiastic in plamtins the outing.
"Il you're really to understand ii." he
said. 1 shall nave to licum with my -mit
boyhood. .My lather, the best f.uiier. I
think, thai a boy ever had, always showed
tne a, tenderness which even as a child I
knew was fonieuh.it different from the
love which my playaiates had from their
tiarents. It was not until I v.ai perhaps
fourteen years old that he told n.o why this
was so.
"Altiiougli he himself lived a most exem
plary life his father, his father's father
and two of his unclis had been drunkards.
The taste for liquor he believed to lie he
reditary in our I a m 1 1 . and in me he had
rceogniied many of the traits he himself
possessed, and which had made his own
life a long fight against the habit of drink.
He pointed out the danger that lay beforo
inc. and begged me to give him my promise
never, under any circumstances, to touch
lnjuor. 'ft is your only safety,' he said.
'I nless you make this resolution, and have
the strength to keep it, ihe odds will be
fatally against vou. for. like myself, vou
are easily influenced bv others. It I
thought that to-morto"- vou were tp lake
your first drink, I should pray to God that
you might die to day.'
"Of course 1 promised, lie had never
talked to me in that way before, ami of
course il made un impression on me. I
was frightened, and for several years I
kept my promise. I lieu I went w ith some
other young fellows on an all-day fishing
trip. While we were eating our luncheon
one of our number, a boy whom we all ad
mired, took u bottle of whisky from his
pocket, drank from it and pa.sre.l it to his
next neighbor. The hotlle went round the
circle, for no one dared refuae to foliow
George Itcit.'a lead. When it came to me
I tried to pa-s it on without drinking, but
the others began to tease and ridicule me,
until from sheer cowardice 1 took I lie
drink. A second and a third followed, anil
I began to realize that f liked th stuff and
wanted more ol it. My lather s warning
tlashcd across my mind:
" 'If you take uiii: drink, you may be for
ever lost'.'
"The rest of the day passed wretchedly
enough, and I was ;lad when it was t jun
to rtart for home. When I reached the
house I found thai my lather, whom 1 had
left in good health in the morning, was
lying at the point of dcatli. II.? had had
a Hidden attack of heart disease. They
told me he was very anxious to see me
alone, and with a breaking heart I entered
his room.
"He could not move and could hardly
speak, but as I took bis hand and bowed
my head upon it, crying, he smiled tender
ly and lovingly on nie. When I grew
calmer he spoke, ulthouli the effort was
pitiful to witness:
" 'I!e strong -mother's sake -my sake -kis
me.'
"As I bent down to kiss him he noticed
the odor of liquor in my breath. 1 shall
nevir forget the look of agony, of despair,
in his eyes.
" 'My poor lost bov!' he groaned, and
these were his last words.
"Since that day, God helping me, I have
never touched a drop of liquor. Hut I
know my weakness. I don't dare to ex
pose myself to temptation, and I never
knowingly go where liquor is to be used.
This morning, while the provision wagon
was being loaded, I saw that some one had
sent along a case of whisky. Korgive me.
bovs; I'm not preaching nor finding fault
with you. but you ee now why I can't go."
"You can go and vou shall go." spoke up
the judge, who hnd provided the case of
liquor, "for the whisky is going to stay
here. " So the lawyer went, and a jollier,
healthier, happier outing none of the men
ever had. Youth's Companion.
The Wlneroom Musi Co.
I The nromise is made that the winerooni
must go absolutely. The Join-mil sincerely
hopes that this is true; that it is not
merely a temporary spurt of law enforce
ment to keep the "reform element" irom
complaining too loudly of the new ad
ministration or to bring tho Irewcry syn
dicate to terms. This is not a question of
politics, but a deeper and mure important
question of the moral atmosphere of tint
community. The Journal it. a Republican
newspaper and Mr. liultznian is a Demo
crat, but in any earnest and persistent
measures he may take for holding the
liquor tratlic within bound.-, for wiping
out wincroumn where children are ruticed
to their ruin and abohshin" the dives
that are festering sources of crime, lie and
his police administration shall have the
hearty support of this paper.
'incre is no measuring the harm that it
being done by failure to enforce the law
in this particular. We have had in the
Juvenile Court a number of examplet of
girls, mere children, induced by such
monsters as Grninold and Metzler to be
come hubitues ut dives and engage in a
life that lo worse than death. Hut this
is not near'y all the story. In the neigh
borhood ol every factory may be found
a number of low doggeries that reap a
rich harvest every pay day. In not a few
of these gambling is carried on, and in
more of them low women congregate.
Workingmen from the factories nock to
these places, and that one is lucky that
gels out before spending his last dullar. It
it not possible to abolith this class of
saloons, but it is possible greatly to lessen
the evil they do in robbing workmen's
families of their bread nv compelling strict
otiedience to the law. l..duuapo!i Jour
nal. The Crusail.i In llrlcf.
Tr. Justin Kdwards said that 10,00)
drunkards who took the pledge had bocn
permanently reformed in live years.
In Great Krilain in 1001 there were 3000
deaths directly due to alcohol, while the
deaths from tuberculous numbered &8.00U.
In Maine, Kansas ami North Dakota
they have prohibition by Stale law; in
thirty-eight other States they liavo it by
local option.
The legislator who will voie to fasten
the saloon system on the neckt cf an un
willing people should be preserved in his
own alcohol and used as a jigu iu a saloon
window.
According to statistics recently gathered,
30,000,000 are living in prububittoa terri
tory in this country. This is more than
ons-third of the entire population.
i.er.ry Noble, i veteran ut the Ieaven
wortk (Kar. j Said er.' Home. liul him
self dead a' jptnding hi - V in petu-ou
money for lir.i at the joinU mi that :i'y,
l)i . ohu " .'.tscn tltn Maelatcu " ie
t cnt'y prrachei. a tempt ranee scrniou ad
vocating ttisf 'hcLr-pcrj oi drinking paces
in Kajlkod be called upon ' i pay increased
po - at' aed police rates.
It ia iK'tri-e.y lime years sn.ct the re
form waa iuauiuuiUJ by the formation ut
a society of ab.Uuu-rs in Yirnua, a id now
there are aine abstaining socitUei, tno nf
them being societies ot workingmtn ia
.Vienna auaeae woikiuamto at tiraU.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Oeatral Trsde Coadillaaa
T. - r- -, ,. ,
i. u. iJtin oc io. s weekly review mv
trade says: Retail trade Ins been someV
what slow to recover from holiday
dullness, partly because of the batjjl
weather, which ' also retarded colfc4
lions to some extent. Traflic was ims
prded and shipments of merchandise!!
delayed. On the other hand, low tew
peratnre stimulated the demand fosf
reasonable good, and burdensome1
norks ill the hands oi dealers were roi
clitied. Jobbers and inamifaitnrera
ino.c i:nei received supplementary jr
cler-i, ami the wool market becati
tinner in tone, although actual sale
did not increase materially. Mills anil
laitories report irreeular condition
tonic industries opening the new yea
under very f ivorable auruiees. hih
other branches; are extremely quie?
-aici returns ol railway earnings tssj
December are 5 4 per cent, above rrai
previous year.
Failures this week in the Unit4
States are 400, against l.U last weeloj
2S4 the preceding week and 350 the cor
responding week last year.
Bradstrect's says: Wheat, including
lour, exports for the week ending Jrj
Jary ; aggregates ,1..l'i9..V.l bushel
lgaiip.t J.cii.i.2.?f) last week, 5,089.05!
'.Ins week last year, ,1,167,710 in ion
ind 5.061.095 in 1001. Corn exports 10
the week aggregate 1.240.500 bushels
igniiit O.i.oS.i last week, ,856,081
vcar ago, IJI1.87J in lyoj and 4,897.Ml
tn 1901.
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Flour Spring clear, $3.854.05; bs
Talent 5.45 ; choice family $45.
Wheat N ew York No. 2, ooc; Phil
edclphia No. 2, 88i;rJijc; Baltimore
No. j, &8((t8):
Corn New York, No. 2, 52c; Phil
adelphia No. 2, 4.K; Baltimore No. al
49c.
Oats New York. No. 2, 42c; Phila
delphia No. 2, 4jc; Baltimore No.
Hay No. I timothy, large bales,
"$t4 5o; do, small bales, Cft$t4-503
No. 2 timothy $i.?.5oSl4.rjo; No. 3 tim
othy, $l2.ocxgtj.oo.
Green Fruits and Vegetables Ap
ples Western Maryland and Penn
sylvania, packed, per brl $1. 502.50;
do, New York, assorted, per brl $2,251
(g.l-Oo; do, do, Baldwins, per brl Vi5o
do. do, Kings, ner brl $jcKii
,150; do, do. Gills, per brl $j 25(3.50;
do, do, I'alltnan Sweets, per brl $2.25(01
J. 50: do, New York Greenings, peer
brl $2.25'?2.75: do, New York, No. a,
per brl $1 . j.'.a 1.75. Beets Native, pee
bunch i',S(fi2C Broccoli New York,
box, 2o(ri.J5c Cabbage New York,
per ton, domestic, $.'5 orMgjo.oo; lo
New York State, per ton, Danish,
f.to.oo'fi .15.00. Cranberries Cape Cod.
per brl, $6.501800; do, per box $175(11
2 25. Celery Native, per bunch 45C.
Carrot i Native, per bunch 22&r.
Eggplants Florida, per basket ii.oof
2 50. Grapes Concords, per 5-lb bas
ket Ii'!ii2c; do, Catawba, do, utilize
Horseradish Native, per bushel bo
$l.5rXc'i j.oo. Lettuce Norfolk, per bas
ket 750(17 $j.oo: do, Florida, per basket;
$l.50fri .voo. Kale Native, per bushel
box J5f joc. Onions New York and
Western, yellow, per bu 75fri8oc; do.
Western, red, per bu 700775c; do
Western, white, per bj 9ucVi$i.oow Or
anges, $j.25(u.,V50. Spinach Native,
per bushel box $1. 151.25. Turnip
Native, per htnhcl box 3o'(?40C.
Potatoes. White Eastern Shores
Maryland and Virginia, per bu 65(i70cji
do, Maryland and Pennsylvania, prime,,
per bu 7C(i75; do, do, seconds, per
bu (J? 65 ; do, New York, prime, pel
hit 75.VJ 78; do. Western, prime, per bif
750178 Sweets Yellows, Maryland1
nnd Virginia, per brl $1.001.50; do
Potomac, per brl $1.75(12.00. Yams
Virginia, per brl $1. 251. 50; do, Poto
mac, Maryland, per brl, $'1.501.75.
Provisions and Hog Products.
Bulk clear rib sides, 7'jC; bulk thauU
dcrs, 7!'ic; bacon clear rib tides, 8Kc
bacon shoulders, 8l$c; sugar-cured Cal
ifornia hams, 8!4c: canvased and un
canvascd hams, 10 lbs and over, I2jc;
hams, fkinned, Itc; refined lard, second-hand
tubs, 7J4C; refined lard, half
barrels and new tubs, 7J4; tierces, lard,
71 jt.
Butter Separator, 251260; Gathered
Cream, 24'i.25c; Imitations, (VCitct
Prints, !i-Ib, 27(gj8c; Prints, lib, zf
(Vi 28c
Cheese. Septembers, large and
small, Si21'a late made, November.
104(1111 '4 ; trade quiet.
Dressed Poultry. Chickens Young;
per lb, 15c; "old mixed, per lb, 1 2(3 14,
Ducks, per lb, I5t7c. Geese, per ll
1 4'a 1 6c-. Turkeys Fancy younp;, per
lb, nyn-jfc.
Kggs. Maryland and Pennsylvania,
per doz., loss off, .14(t?.15C ; Virginia, do
; West Virginia and Southern, do
H JJ'l'J.i.
l ive Stoct
Ch icago Cattle Receipts io,ooc
head; market slow; good to prime
steers $5 lodi 5 65; poor to medium
$,t 50074.00: stockerj and feeders $2.j
425; cows $.oo(!7'4 25; heifers $2.oe
.'"4 75: canncri $j.oo((ij.4o; bulla $2.aj)
J1425; calNes J50077.25. Hogs Re
reipts today 40.000 head; tomorrow
to.ono; 5 to 10c higher; mixed and
butchers', $47S(" 5 5; Sl to choice
heavy. $J 05''.' 5 nVi rough heavy, $4.65
:u4 0o: light, $4 8xr4 X; bulk ol tales.
f47.V'4-. Sheep Receipts ' 15,00)
head; iheep steady to 10c . higher
iambs steady to lcc higher; good ta
choice wethers $4 lcX'14 50; fair to)
choice, mixed, $325(14' 00; nativ
(amhi, $4.or'i 6 J5.
Pittsburg, Pa Cattle steady; choir
(5 .2o(!i5..i5; prune $5co(a5.i5; fair $mj)
1,400. Hogs lower; prime heavy $5,351
mediums $5.30; heavy Yorkers, $5,351
light Yorkers $5 20(05.25; pig $J.lo4f
5.15; rouglis $j.5ocvi;4.oo. Sheep tteadyl
prime wethers $4 jo(itj4.4o; cu'la anaf
common $200072.50: choice lambs $6.4
(ii6 65; veal calves $8.00(0.875.
INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
I a Germany the goose is the most
popular fowl.
The average American marries at thej
age of twenty-seven.
There are but fifty flour mills in all
Mexico.
In no country does the line of pct
petual snow reach the sea coast.
One out ol every lour persons who
die in London die "on public charity.
The population o Colombia ia to
that of the United Stitet as one t
twenty.
Only 19.292 sealskins were taken oia
the Pribylov Islands during the season
of 190.V
In London a million and a nnvtet
Fictions live 011 $5 or less a week (or
amily oi live.
The Unite! Stales now holds second
rank among the world's exporter. ol
b- ' n I I'k.
The total area now in the national
iorr-4 .rcetve comprises over 6j,
000,000 acres.
'lhe average yield ol potatoes in. lhe
Province oi Ontario ior the last aa
years is ticca a 115 huxhcla ( tha
acre.. , ' -' - . . '