VITAL UNION WITH CHRIST A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev. 0. D. Case, Pb.D. Teilt How Ifat Son el God Wllbin Ui Beceaics Ibt Stare l Divine Conpsnlooih'p. Bkooklyx, K. Y.-Tlie !?ev. C. J). Cam,1 I'll. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, Montclair, N. J., recently preached the1 following brilliant sermon, which he en-1 titled "Vital Union With Christ." The! text wat chosen from Ualatiana ii : 20 : "ij m crucified with C hrist and I no longer live, but Christ livetli in me, and the life wmcn i now live i live ny faith in the: . .iuii v i va nuu mien flic a 1114 nta UllII- elf to die for me." Dr. Cane said: The highest conception oi the Christian; life which this generation seems to have accepted is to be found in the words, "Fol low Ale," as uttered by Christ. It is thoroughly Biblical. Jesus says to Philip, at the beginning of His ministry, "Follow Me:" He telis the lour on the sands of tialilee, "Come ye after Me;" He mm innnda the taxgatherer in his office, "Fol low Me;" He presents the tame standard to the rich young man who loved his money better than life, "Follow Me." Now the resurrection has passed and what shall lie the new conception 'or the disciples of the new life? Jt is still t lie same, and .Christ proclaims to the same dixciplca at the same place on Ualilec, "Follow thou We." The grand ami infinitely simple way of looking at the Christian life hud been lost. He was the true Christian who believed what the church told him and accepted its appointed means of grace. But now after these centuries Christendom has re covered this idea and made it the very cen tre and core of the Christian life. Mr. Henry Richards, on the Congo, reads to the natives the words of Christ. "Uive to bim that asketh of thee; u.nd of him that takrth away thy goods ask them not again," and then proceeds to practice thcni. with the result that the natives first beg and then return and then ask for the way of life. Mr. V. T. Stead, while in his London jail, wonders what he ajiall write to ths girl whom he lias suc ceeded in placing in a Christian home, and at hut, by a Hash of insight, writes her, "He a Christ." Chnrles M. Sheldon pre sents as the ideal of every life, to act as Christ would act it' He were here in out place. What ia the trouble with this concep tion? This, that it represents the statics but not the dynamics of the Christian life, It tells us what to be like, but does not tell us how we shall become like our ideal. Kant thought that the same man who of deliberate choice accepted evil could with the same deliberate choice and by simple trill accept good when be saw it. This is a tine philosophy, but a poor religion. It does not explain Uough, MeAuley, Hadley. It gives us the ideal, but not the power to embody the ideal. Listen to this statement and see if you can rind a better one to express this idea of iollowing Christ: "Keligion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching upon this man as the ideal repre sentative and guide of humanity; nor even now would it be easy even for an unbe liever to find a better translation of tho rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete than to endeavor so to live that Christ could approve of our life," And yet it was no less a person than J. S. Will, an unbeliever, who wrote this. The text of the morning presents the needed complementary conception. He who is presented as an objective ideal be comes a subjective presence and power. He who said, "As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even to have I sent them into the world," says with the "Go," the "Lo, 1 am with you 11 the days." The Bible represents this union in dif ferent ways. Now it is that of the foun dation and the superstructure signifying support; now the body and head, meaning direction: now of the husband and wife, representing union; now of the vine and branch, signifying the communication of lite; ana finally, most tenderly ana mys teriously, of the relation between the Father and Son. In whatever way it is epoken of it is evidently au essential phase of tho Christian life. Dr. A. J: (iordoii once saw what he called a parable of nature up in a part of New England where he spent his sum mer holidays. It was an example of nat ural grafting. Two little saplings grew up tide by side. Through the action of the wind the bark of each became wound ed, the tap began to mingle and at last on a still day they were firmly compacted. Then the stronger began to absorb the life of the weaker. It grew larger and larger while the other grew smaller and smaller; then began to wither and decline til' finally it dropped away and disappeared. Now. there are two trunks at the bottom and only one at the top. Death hat taken way the one; lifo lias triumphed in the other. The illustration thus given by Dr. Gordon only fails in not giving sufficient importance to the words "1 live" of the text. The religious life it not self-immolation, but aelf-realir.ation. It it not absorp tion, but ampliticttion. Without thinking for the present of the unvarying condition of this life, "cruci fixion with Christ," or the motive of such living, "Christ loved us and died for us," or the means of tuch living, "faith in the Hon of God," let us think more at length of the tingle sublime thought, our union with Christ and its bearings upon the dif ferent phases of the Christian life. This we roust for the present emphasise if we re to have a pure evangelical Christianity which shall move the world. First, note that Christ within us it the source of true divine companionship. Tne appearance of Christ after the res urrection had two definite purposes. The Christ waa truly aiiVe. or, in other words, to connect the past Christ with the pres ent Christ. The angels bad assured them that Jesus would go into Galilee there to meet them. As soon as faith bad ac cepted these words of both Christ and the angels the disciples would leave .Jerusa lem; nut mis am not take pisce unui suci week. The second definite object of Christ's appearances wat to teach the disciples the apiritual nature of the kingdom, or, in other words, to connect the present Christ with the future Christ. Among such teachings are the words, "Follow Me," poken to the seven in Galilee: the prom ise to all, "Lo, 1 am with you all the days," and the command that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but "wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, ye have heard of We." A glance back into the fourteenth chapter of John shows what this promise was. The sixteenth verse says: "I will pray the Father and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever." But ol whose presence it the Spirit the embodi ment? Ths-eighteenth verse taya: "1 will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you." Then the twentieth assures the disciples: "At thtt day ye shall know 1 I I I I . . 17 ... 1. mwti. ... ... VI. .ml '.I in you." Thus Christ's objective com Vanionthip becomes a subjective fellow ship. How closely ctn two peop.e, heart to heart, be together? There it always the veil of the flesh between. All we can do if to interpret looks, words, and sometimes our judgment it wrong even on those near est to us. We all walk a solitary way. Few reach that beautiful companionship repre sented by Browning in "By the Firetide; ' "When, if I but think deep enough, k , i'uu are wout to answer, prompt ai rhyme; Ami you, too, find without rebuff Itesponse your soul seeks many a time. Piercing itt fine flesh stuff. Then it ill that Christ Himself comes clos er than .breathing, nearer than hands or teet, comet into the iunermoat recesses at our nature for sympathy and oommuuioa with the human heart. Christ within us it tlso the source of power. Christ does not give us power by making mere machines of us. We tre tbt flay in the potter's hands, but we are some ihiug more. God does not want ut to be slaves, but freemen; not subjects, but sons. An equally false way of considering the help that we receive from God ia that we are lo do all that we can with our natural or redeemed powers, and then let God do th.i rest. Ho the longer we ,ive, the strong er we are and the lesa we need Uod't in terposition. Every time God helps ut, we t kwt of a man or woman, and the strong er we grow the more independent, and the lt we need faith. The end of it all would i absolute independence ol Oud. Surely, K ia not God's idea. . .The true way or looking upon our rela tion to Christ is that His presence within our heart by faith gives us energy to achieve, not by enslaving, but by enfran chising the will, invigorating it, energizing it, vitalizing it, until with Augustine we can say; "We will, but (lod work the willing: we work, but God works the Working. l'hilippiant. 3: 12, 1.1, li.is often been mis understood. It says: "vVork out your nun salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both, to will tm& do of Hit good pleasure." To "work out" does not mean to work into outward expression what Clod puts within us, but at it literally means, to "achieve" for sal vation Is an achievement at well as being at the same time a gift. Nor does it menu that we are to work in Paul's absence. The possibility of working out our salva tion rests upon the fsct that God is with in, to that we can will and do of llis good pleasure. Thus, will it not an instrument, which we can turn from side to side, and which when necessary God can use; it is ourselves acting. That which God docs is not our act unless God workt through our wills. The possibilities of such an empowered life are divine. We need not be perfec tionists and still believe as we ought that Christ's grace is sufficient for us. Many pretend to believe it, and do not live it. They worry, they fret, they give up. The, most of us teem to think that the normal Christian life is to rise ami fail like the tides. Yet Paul toys': "There hath no temptation befallen you but such as is com mon to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to he tenspted above that ye are able; but will with tne temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it." Christ within also makes all living sa cred. We have made snd divisions among objects. We have divided tpace into holy and unholy, and declared tnat God could be found only in certain places, which had been consecrated. We have divided timu into holy and tecular, decloring that we would serve God on the Sabbath anil con duct our business and amusements as we pleased the rest of the week. We have di vided money into two parts. We have said that the giving of the one-tenth, or one twentieth to God, justified us in the claim of unlimited freedom in the disposition of the rest. We have divided up persons, and put a certain class of people called priests, ministers, missionaries, upon ped estals, declaring that the standard of con duct for them differed from the standard for others, and that their work was espe cially religious. All wrong. All space it holy, and the green grass may be the chancel carpet and the trees the massive pillars and the sky the dame, if below there is a heart pray ing in spirit and truth. All time is sacred. The Monday should be at much devoted to God't service as Sunday, and the office and the store should be at mucn, shrines of devotion at the closet. All money is sa cred, and the money spent upon the nec essaries of life, upon business and pleasure should be spent with equal consciousness as upon the church. All Christians have Christ within them, and they should aim lo objectify His life. There is nothing we need to-day quite as much as the Chris tianization of the secular life, i Then at last, the Christ within is the source of final holiness. Christ at last is to present us holy and unblamable, and Irreprovable in His sight. . Sin does two thiugs for us, separates is from God and distorts our nature. When we are forgiven we are restored to the di vine fellowship. But what about the ef fects of sin upon our nature? See the scars upon the tree and what the life of the tree does for it. Listen to what Paul says: "I am perplexed until Christ he formed within you." At Christ had His Bethiehem. His Nazareth. His Olivet, to does He again in His reincarnation have His Bethlehem, His Nazareth, His Olivet. Who knows why one plant growt into tho geranium, and the other into the rose? Th? t.vn is something more than the ideal pre tented for the imitation of ths plant. It it nn informing life. i I think it wat the last thing that Dr. A. S. Gumbert wrote for the Examiner: "Among the Dutch the rose was sometimes fnlf ivitipd bv nlantinir an inferior rose close to a rose of tunerior variety. The rose of inferior quulity was carefully watched and antheit removed to avoid aclf-pollenizatiou; the object being that it should be pollenized by the superior rose. Gradually the rose thus treated took upon itself the characteristics of the supe rior life of itt companion." So, our lives tre pollenized at it were by His righteous ness. Thut Christ within becomes to ut the tource of divine companionship, of power for achievement, of the exaltation of con duct, of final holiness. He who wishes to plant hope within his own heart of such prospects, should begin and never cease exercising faith in Hun who loved us and gave Himself to die for ut. 1 Overcoming; Worry. I believe a little true philosophy and reasoning can go a great way in overcoming worry. I do not mean a deep aud mys terious philosophy, but a simple applica tion of common facta which appeal to in telligence. These factt are such at the following: "Worry can do no good. ou cannot change things by being anxious. Worry unfits you for bard work, and hard work is the tureet power to make wrong things right. It it foolish to waste time and ttrength in doing that which only leavet one less time and lesa ttrength. But there it also a sweeter philosophy which dealt with principles of right and balance. It ehowt how thingt go crookml tometimee, that the final result may be more beautiful. It auggestt how by some wiedoro greater than ours wrongs, or ap parent wrongs, are finally righted. It bringt history and personal experience in srray against a merely transient view ot life, and proves how in the large and long run the man who waita and trusts is the man who succeeds Floyd Tompkint. Keen Day's Living. Our life may be food to us, or mey. if we have it to, be poison, but one or the other it must be. Whichever ant what ever it it, beyond all doubt, it it eminent lv real. So merely at the day and the night alternately follow one another, does every day when it passes into dawn, bear with it its own tale of the results which it has si '.en try wrought u-an each of ut for evil or for good. The day of diligence, duty and devotion leaves it richer than it found us, richer sometimes, and even commonly, in our circumstances; richer always in ourselves. A Year of freedom. f Let the new year be a year of freedom from sin, a year of service, a year of trust in God, and it will be a happy year from first to last. It may be the hardest year we have known, hut it will be the dum piest. J M. Buckley. I) D. WAS GIFT FROM WASHINGTON. Rockland, Main, Man Owns Satchel ef Much Interest. John L. Donobuo, an antiquarian ol Rockland, Maine, la exhibiting to bit frlenda a historical objoct of much in terest in the form of the portmanteau presented to Gen. Knox of Thomattoo by George Washington, whoso secre tary of war he was. It la a commo dious bandsewed leather satchel, about eighteen Inches long, twelve Incher wide and atx Inches deep, with lining of linen, and fitted interiorly with a double cover, which la fastened by a leather strap running through els brats staples, tho outside covering fast ening with atrapa through buckles, la tnls, Oen. Knox waa wont to carry pari of the pay of the Continental army on bla journeys to headquarters. It wai made In 1776 and waa one ot the most highly prized treasures of Gun. Knot for the many associations connected with the gift and the giver. The port manteatt was, after the death of Gen Knox, In the possession of the familj of Beth Gerry, a close friend of Gen Knox, who also llvod In Thomastdn and who purchased the Knox manslor at Montpeller. THE SABBATH SCHOOL InternaHon Lesson Comiruati February 7, For Subject: A Sabbath la Ctperntum, Mark I., Jl-34-Oolden Text, Lukt iv , 4'1-Mc.t-ory Vtrtts, 21, 22 Comm. at..; oa the Diy't Ltasoo. I. Teaching with authority (vs. 21, 2V). 21. "They.'' Jesus and the four disciples He had just called. "Into Capernaum.'' Christ now makes Capernaum His home, and the centre of His ministry for more than a year. It is called His own city I. Matt. 0: 1), and here as a citizen lie paid the half shekel (Matt. 17: -J4. His mother nnd brethren came here with Him (John 2: 12). "The Mahnath day.'' His first Sabbath in Capernaum. "1 he synagogue." This was the gift ol a centurion (l.ufce 7: 5). Schools ami colleges were often con nected with the synagogues. They were the centres of religious and intellectual life. "Taught." It ivn common to call upon any suitable person to speak in the synagogue services. It is not unlikely that at this time He repented what He hail said t Nazareth I l.uke 4: 1B-H0I. It was truth that produced results, whatever may have been the subject. S3. "They were astonished. ' At the mutter, manner, spirit mid autlioiily of lli teaching. 1. At the range of 111 intel lectual gifts. 2. The force of His illustra tions. 'J. His acquaintance with the Ir.imnn heait. 4. llis deep knowledge of the di vine law. "Authority." Ho spoke as on-) commissioned by God, nnd He laid great stress upon Himself. He said: "I say un'o you," without minting their teach ers. He was: 1. Dmiiilied. 2. Origiuul. y. Convincing 4. Consistent. "Not as the scribe.' The scribes were without suiritual life, their rummer wus cold, anil. Willi an iinho'v ambition, they sought their own and Hod's glory. They could only in sist upon the observance of petty rules in vented by men like themselves. II. Tower over evil spirits (vs. 23-2H). 2.1. "A man with an tinc.can spirit." Luke says he had "u spirit of an unclean devil" and "cried out with a loud voice (l.uke 4: .1"). There has been r.mch discussion re garding this "unclean spirit." Many hold th.it tho.ie who were said to have devils wcrefsiir.piy diseased people, nnd that their strong paroxysms were only "tits." We cannot agree with this, hovevc and must insist that, difficult os it may be to under stand, yet real demons did inhabit this ran and those referred to in verse S2. This country abounded in demons. "Cried out." An evil spirit is itirred to its dcptlu when in contact with Jesus. 21. "Let us ulone." The devil always desires to be let alone, and bad men do not want to be disturbed with anyt'iini; good. We hear this crv the moment wo undertake to deal with unclean things to-duy, such as intemperance and tlie so cial evil. "What have we to do with Thee?" Nothing nt all. There is no con cord between Christ and Uelial. "To de stroy us." To drive us from our abode back to our native place. "I know Thee." Imagine some disease, like the nnupltxy, thus addressing Christ! No, Christ is dca.ing with devils now. ami tliev know Him well. "The Holy One o,' (Jod." The "Messiah, who has coine to destroy the kingdom of the devil (1 John 3: 8). 23. "Jesus rebuked him.'" rio does not desire the testimony of devils to' prove llis M-'s-hiahship. Throughout His ministry Cnrist never for a moment countenances any thing that might b? construed into a truce with .atan. lloul toy pence. Literally, "be thou muzzled." It is a wj;-J for a beast. "Come out of nun." lie speaks with authority. He will siio-.v who lie is by casting out the devil. 23. "Torn him." Or couvulfd him. "Came out." liven the devils obey His word of command. Thi? is an evidence of the great object in Christ's miss:on--to de stroy the works of the devil. 27. " hat thin in this?" Cod's wonders nre more wo;idc:'fu! tlia.i the devil's won der". Jum taiipht by what He did s well as by what lk said. "They do obey Him." '1 hus Jesus established His mission by the iniraclfs Ho wrought, uml they could not doubt it. 2S. "lamp spread abroad." This miracle was wrought in the public congregation, and those win saw it published it wherever they went, and the people throughout nil (lalilcc were soon ilisi ussimr Him nnd llis work. He did not need devils to publish Him, and we do not need to compromise ith the world, the flesh or the devil to-day iu order to be able to cirry on His work. 111. Healing in a home (vs. 29 31). 29. "They entered." etc. 1'eter and his broth er Andrew, although natives of Uelhsaida (John 1: 44), were now living at Caper naum. Jesus, James and John had en tered Peter's house. 3D. "Simon's wife's mother." Tiius we see that I'eter was u married man. It is strange, indeed, that the Human Catholic Churcii should lay to much stress on the celibacy of the clergy when I'eter, their chief cornerstone, had wife. "Lay sick of a fever." Luke calls it , great fever. See Luke 4: 3S. She was prostrated with a burning fever. "They tell Him." This was really a request for healing. Thev knew He could restore her. 31. "Took her by the hand." Could tnything on this aide the unlimited power of (lod effect such a cure? These proofs hould demonstrate His divinity to the in telligence of every man. "The fever left her." Christ has power over disease. He can. and frequently does, heal to-day; and yet we cannot test the state of the soul bv the health of the body. Some of (lad's best saints have suffered with bodily in firmities and have been sick. It is the "prayer of faith" that saves the sick, and he who offers that prayer will see immedi ate remits. "She ministered." She was perfectly recovered and performed the or dinary duties of the household. She was not obliged to wait a long time for her tirenjrn to return. IV. Many miracles (vs. 32-34). 32. "When the sun did set." The Sabbath ended with the setting sun and then they brought their sick to "Him. It would nut have been a desecration of the d'iy if they had come before the sun went down. Jesus had just performed a cure on that day, but the superstitions of the aftticted ones and their friends kept many from applying to Hun on the Sabbath day. "l.nto Him. ' Christ has a panacea for all our aches, il's and troubles. All a suffering wsrld needs to do it to go to Jesus. lie is still ths tame living, mighty One, end is ab e, will ing and anxious to deliver us from the pow er of the devil. 33. "All the city." Not necessarily every person, but a vrv large company. 34. "Healed many." Matthew says, "all that were sick." Luke says He laid hands on them. Jesus healed all who came, and they were many. "Diseases, devils." A distinction is made here that we must not fail to notice; diseases were "hea'ed" and devils "east out." "Suffered not," See on verse 23. This had been a great day at Capernaum, a day 'filled with stirring events. May Ciod give us tuch dayt in all our citict. Egyptian Shorthand. Shorthand writers should be Inter ebted In the recent discovery of a papyrus which throws some light op be state ot stenography iu Egypt Is the third century. The document found Is contract between a shorthand school and a man who wished one ol hla slaves to acquire the art. The fee was 120 drachmae, 40 down, 40 at the end of a year and the balance on "graduation." How long the courst lasted Is not stated, but evidently thr trt of the stenographer waa not ar jaay one, and It waa practiced cbleflj by slaves. Not So Dull., "John," who Uvea In a Pnnnsylvanli tillage, waa thought to to very stu pld. He waa aent to a mill one da) and the miller said: "John, aome peo pie say you are a fooL Now, tell mt what you know, and what you don't know." "Well, replied John, "1 know millers' toga are fat." "Yea, that's well, John. Now what don't you know?" "I don't know whose cors fata 'em!" CHRISTIAN END2AV0R NOTES. February 7 "Christ for tha World, aatt for Me." John 3:M-2I. Sctipture Verses. r.vnt. i;5; 1:2: 11:1: Josh. 20:3: V. 3:23: Mitt. 10:37; John 4:5: Rev. 2:4. Lesson Thoughts. If JeBus loved us bffore we loved him, surely we otiKht to love him with all our being because he first loved us. Chrlt for the world, and fnr mc? Yes, he could not possibly give better evidence of thin than hl loving sacri fice on the cross. Now reverse tha order. iAm I for Christ? then what sacrifice am I making for his sake? Selections. In full and glad surrender we give our selves to Thee, Thlnp utterly, and only, and eveimore to be! Oh, Son of God. who lovest us. we will be thine, And all we have, and all we are shall henceforth be thine own! Rejection or neroptanre of Christ Is for two worlds; the choice cannot l made separately for time and for etern ity. He that chooses that this life shall be spent out of Christ, thereby Battles Jt that the unending life Bhall bo spent In outer- darkneas. O Jesus, thou art knocking; And lo! that hand Is scarred. And thorns thy brow encircle. And tears thy face have martcd; O love that passeth knowledge, So patiently to wait! O sin that hath no equal. So fast to bar the gate! A backwoods preacher waa once be fore a conference committee for ex amination. "Hrother." said one of his examiners, "what mak(s you think thilst Is divine?" With his eyes full of tears he started to h.!s"feet. and stretching out his arms and hands he exclaimed: "How do I know he's dl vitro Why. bless you. h?'s saved my nctil, and 1 love htm for It." Prayer, We thank. Thee. O (lod. for Thy great goodness and Thy wonderful works to the children of men. Here in Is love, not that we luv?d (lod. but that He first loved us, and gave him self for us. Now, we pray that love may take complete possession of our heaits. that we may be Thine, ev?n as Thou didst give Thyself for us. so may we consecrate ourselves as llvlnsr sacrifices to Thee for Chrlal's salts. Amen. EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. February 7 The Universal and Personal Christ. (Jobs J. 14-21. The atonemi'nt was not a means ot making God love the world, but tha method adopted by the divine holi ness, wisdom, and love to save sin ners. That atonement was for ths whole world, not somo favored section of it. As the uplifted serpent was for the dealing of every bittn one in the whole camp, so was Jesus lifted tip on the cross for the whole world or sinners. "He tasted death for every man." Because Jesus is the . universal Christ I can have him as the Christ for me, Had the serpent not been lifted up for all. but only for some s'ctlon of Israel's camp or for sonm favored ones here and there, how could any Individual sufferer be sure that the healing was for him? Cn 1.83 all mankind ha3 an interest In th blood of Christ, unless he was lilted up for the world, and lives In exaltation for the wot Id. how do I knew thai my section of the human race, my nation, my Btate, my coun try, my town, my family, myaeir, are not .'n part left out? It those who have no h?art in missions answer that question. The ur.'.versal Christ becomes per sonal to me, my Saviour, through my act of faith. All Niagara's flood may roar past my back door, but only as I turn its power through my sluice or bring a part of Its abundance to my own lip will it run my mill or quench rr.y thirst. Each bitten one had to look and Hve. As the convict trusts th-) governor's promised clemency, as the sick one tiusts himself to the phy sician's skill, ko do I rely upon Christ to blot ou- the handwriting that is against me and save m from the power of sin. ThU.faith that makes the universal Christ my Christ is a moral act. Jesus .i too grat and glorious to be ig nored. To those who do not wilfully shut their eyes he shines by his own light. He is self evidencing as tha midday sun. All that is best in man speaks fcr him. Therefore, unbelief Is less an act of unconvinced Intellect than one of perverse will. Sin Is at the root of rejection of Jesus. The man who will not accept him is by that very act Judg-'d, shown to be one who does not love tho light. Such remain un der the condemnation Into which sin has brought thorn. As Luther says. "Hell is already upon their neck." If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine. All that Pas cal has profoundly written as to the telatlona of the will and the under standing, heat and belief. Ja anticipat ed by Christ In this lesson. Irish Harvest Laborers. Borne Interesting returns have beer published by the department of agrl culture for Ireland on the subject o' the annual migrations of the IrlBl harvest laborers. The yearly Influ? Into England end Scotland, which bat been colng on In much the same wa? for at least a .couple of centuries, Ii now not nearly so great as It was ir the days of overpopulation in Irelant before the famine, but thia year then were atill nearly 18.000 Irishmen whi adopted the old means of lining theli pockets against the winter. Mor than three-quarters of them were fron the province of Counaught. the res being Ulster men, and more than bah of them were from County Mayo. Lightning Photography. A boy who was killed In New York recently by lightning had the llkenesf it fern Imprinted on hla body by the shock, A similar incident la re ported from Europe. During a shoot ing competition at Pont, In the Can ton Vaud, not long ago, tbe grand ttand waa struck by llghtnlug, and twenty-five persons received shocks, from which, however, they sustained but little physical injury. f One most singular effect, however, remained Every person who had felt tbe eleo '.rla shuck had. photographlcall) stimped, upon tha back, the face ci tho arma, tho reflection of tbe pint treos behind tha firing 113.- - ME GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. roem The Price of n DrliOe ltnln llrouerlit fpiMi Native Trllies hy the Introduction or Intoxicating- I.I'"''S llntii Hie Curse nt Ati-lca, "Fhe cents a drink!" Does anv one think , . That that is really the price of a drink? "five cents a itlaas!" I bear you s.iv, "Why, that im'l very much to nay." Ah. no. indeed, 'tis a very small sum. You are passing it over twixt linger and thumb, And if that, were all yon gave away It wouldn't be vetv inin h to pay. The price of a drink? Let that o;ie tell Who sleeps to-ninht in a prisoner's cell. Honor and virtue, love and truth, All the glory and pride of you'h. Hopo of manhood, the wealth of fame, Hiith endeavor, and noble aim These are the trea-mes thrown away Kor the price of a drink from day to day. "Viva cents a glass!" How Salan lauiihs As over the bar the young man quaffed The beaded linuor; for the demon knew The terrible work thai drink would do, The price, if you wani to knoy What some are wiHiiut lo pay 'or it, (to Through the wretched home, where. With dingy windows snd broken stair. Where foul ditense like a vampire crawls With outstretched wings o'er the moldy walls, Where the innocent one are there accurst To pay the price oi another's tiiirs. "Kive 'cenu a g'.al" Oh. if that were all The sacriliie would indeed he small; Hut the money's worth i the least amount We pay. and wiinievcr will keen account Will learn the terrible waste and b'.lght That follows the ruinous appetite. "Five cents a glii.ss!" Does any one think That is rcnlly the price of ;i drink? 1.. I. Wolfe, rieinington. W. Va., ill Tem perance Itanncr. A Terrllile Inillrtinent. Referring to the ilcvnxUtitiK ruin Iirongli L upon native tribes by the introduction of intoxicating liquors mi the part of Chris tian nations, the I'.cv. Mark Uuy Pease says: "We Englishmen, to proud of our coun try, must how down wiih an aninl shame at' the thought of it. All that England has done and is doing to advance the welfare of the nations, is undone, and worse than undone, by the curse of strong drink. It hurts one, indeed, to think of it, but it is just the awiul unci terrible truth that in spite of our llilile societies and of all our great missionary societies, the world would be better to-day if there were no England. "In India it i s.iid that for every native converted to Christianity, lot) natives are made drunkards. When the natives see a drunken man, they are accustomed to say: 'He has left Mohammed and gone to Jesus.' 'Now that Uurniah is annexed,' s..ys a missionary, "it has become a place of cheap drink and great crimes." "I have only once been near a Moham medan tuuu. and this is what I saw: 1 had not landed live minutes before I was surrounded by a group of Arab hoys car rying bottles of spirits Moh.iinniedan lads, whose religion forbids them to drink strong drink and we were assailed with cries ill broken English: 'Master, buy bottle oianiiy three-six." "Miss, nice bot tle brandy three-six.' My bran prayed Cod that these lads might he kept sobei ilohammedans rather tlian become such 'Christians' as they are accustomed to see. Little wonder that one ot the most enlightened Hrahniins cried: 'Oh, that wn hail never seen a European face; oh, that we hail never tasted tne bitter sweets ol your civilization, rather than that it should make us a nation oi drunkards and brutes.' Thus writes Arnold White, who has lived among the natives: " 'The Indians of America and Hindo Stan, the wild races of Australia, the Kaf firs, the debased Hottentots, the West Coast negroes, the effeminate Cingalese, and the sinewy aborigines of Canada, have bitter reason to rue the tirst day of then communication with lie Anglo-Saxon race. Eiujliind lias polliucd with drink and honeycombed with toul disease the lives of those races who still survive a contact all unsought by them. When oiu countrymen return Ironi Eastern land thev tell us that for every missionary sent out there go alsu some .')() gallons of rum; that it is tieiter to carry out iio hainniedanism than Christianity, because Mohammedanism is temperate uud Chris tianity is not.' "Mr. Mackay, of the Xyanza Mission, writes: " "Oh, how often shall I write in my journal as 1 pass through many tribes, "Drink ia the curse of Africa?'1 Co whera you will, and you will Itnd men, women and children reeling trom the effects oi alcohol. Thfl vast West of Africa 1s ru ined with rum.' "Eew men had such opportunities of seein" the world as Sir (leorge tirey. His life has been speiu in constant contact with savage races in Africa, with Zului and Kaffirs, in New Zealand with the Ma uris. He declared that when he came home to London he saw in a single week sights more shamclul than he had seen during all those years among the savages, and it was all through strong drink. ."Kev. P. J. Kitclne, of CJueensiown, in ii n address delivered as chairman of the Conereaiional L'nion, said: "Is it noi clear that the aurcad oi drinking habits among the natives must inevitably tend to render them unfit for any useful service, to deprive them of tho means of honest livelihood, and consequent ly to drive them into criminal courses, until they ar good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under feet of men? 'the voice of their blood will cry from the ground unto heaven against their Uiite distroyers. Our boasted civilisa tion has given them the llib'.e with una hand and the brandy bottle with the oth er. It brings all heaven before their eyes in the mission church, and opens hell for them in the canteen. It gives the mis sionary the opportunity to put upon them the pressure of moral suasion for their salvation, while it gives its legis.ators power to take off the excise duty uu C"' randy for their damnation.' " fforwegian Cure For Drunkensss. In Norway drunkenness is punished by imprisonment. As soon tt a man is incar cerated the delinquent has a loaf and wine morning and evening. The bread is served in a wooden bowl full of wine, in which it has been soaking for an hour. The Urst day the drunkard swallows his allowance, willingly enough. The second day it teems less pleasing. At the end of eight or ten days prisoners hsve been knowii to tbstain altogether from the food thut pit ilessly presented. This course of treat ment finished, the drunktrd, except in rare instances, is radically cured, The Crusade in Uriel. The action of alcohol on the nervous tyf tern it one of its moat important and moat unfortunate characteristics. It it this ac tion which leads 'to the "craving" for drink. The danger from the liquor traffic, over whelming as it is, it slight compared to the danger there ia of the national conscience becoming hardened to tbe idea of complic ity with tbe crime. At the Yeovil (England) bankruptcy court recently a Burton innkeeper main tained that the reason of hia insolvency waa because "all the "sople in the village bad turned teetotaUrr. Dr. Wil'.ard Parker, who for many years etood at the head of tbe medical profes sion in New York City, aaid: "One-third of all tbe deaths in New York City are caused by alcoholic drinks." The need of mining townt for religious tnd temperance work it very great. With in 200 ntilea of Chicago is a mining town of 1U00 people without a church or any kind of a rebaiout service. Another town near by has I'ioO people, thirty-scveit saloons, but not a church. A bill it before tut Legislature of Vir ginia requiring social clubs to pay not only a percapita tax on their membership, but also a barroom license. This, it ia thought, woyld ms it unprotilable for mcu to re main in the social club business silnpV to reap tbe proceeds of buuduy liquor sell A Prayer. Lord, help me tell Thy stoiy twecf. To troubled ones arouud me; Help me with smiling face to meet 1 he duties that surround me. Crant unto me the strength to do, Each day tho task before me: And then at last lead Thou me through The mists that hover o'er me. George I). Celtt'itkt. The Fullness of floil.' How much of Clod do you and I desire? What sort of a Saviour are we looking for as we go on our brief way through this world? A Cod who can prolong our lives and give us the temporal pleasures we desire, and save us from destruction, nud finally bring us to a world better than this with as little trouble to ourselves as possible? Or do we really hunger und thirst, lor a Uod who will satii-fv all the innermost longings of our own mysterious souls, for things we have never had nor seen: the yearning for love of a quality earth docs not know? Hundreds of expedients there arc by which we sccK to till this empty pluce in our beings, power, money, fame, pleasure, affection ,imitcd to the human sphere all these, nun cast into the void in tho vain hope to till ii. And for a while it may be thty are deceived into thinking they have accomplished their purpose. Tim very ardor of pursuit, the first glow of possession, seems to aid them to forget the lack. But only lor a lime. They have forgotten tiod, but !od has not forgotten them. There comes sudden loss. Hope dies. Then when the world has turned to bitterness, some will turn and search for their dead Lord as did Mary when ho went to tne tomb, and to such will He tome kiiiI speak their names in love, and give them a glimpse of what llis fulue? is. Hot many of us are satisfied to sing aloig: our way, feeling content that wo have made our peace with an angry God nnd are attempting in tile main to do about right, and though we would not like to confess it, we do not rei.lly want to be iilled lull of God's spirit. .V little is suf ficient for our needs. Such a fullness of God would hinder our earthly plans, and we really have not time. lii is so short, and so bright, until the shadow comes. To such members of the earthly church comes this prayer of Paul's to God for us. bidding us remember our high birth, of the line -not of Abraham or David but ot "the Father" of our Lord Jesus Christ: reminding us of our kinship with the rest of men and angels, "of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named." "To be strengthened." the prayer goes on. Why, we thought we were quite strong! Arc we not pill. us in the church? Do we not leach a Sunday school class and lead in Christian Endeavor matters? Ah, but this strength is not that we may be able to shine as great workers, but rather that We maV bi filled with the strength oi His Spirit that Christ may make (lis home in our hearts, His face one oi llio n ii inner about the lircside of our secret self, His presence the moving power in our lives because He dwells there Only until one has lived daily with a person, until one has experienced another's love under the shadow of sorrow and loss and lii in t lint ion . can one know the depths of that love. So, only when we live in Christ and feel His touch at every step of the way. His deliglu iu our joy, His comfort nnd healing in our sorrow, can we begin to feel what is that love. Says Bishop Vincent: "The perpetual hold of Christ upon us is like the perpet ual hold of the sun upon the earth. The earth cannot warm itself at the sun. and then swing off on its own aremmt, to be a source oi light and heal lisht and heat which it won from the sun, mid now gives it second hand, independently of the sun. The ciin-t.mt hold of the sun on the earth is the only hope of the earth. All that the earth ran do is to let the sun have its own w av, und ield to him. So Christ is our nil and in all. and is always our all. 1 hi re is none oilier. Our hope is in Him, Our faith rests in Him. Our life comes from Him. To be sure, we are free. Hell, if the earth were a free and intelligent be ing the best it could do would be to let the still have its radiant and regal way with ii, und to swing in its orbit and turn nnd tern toward the sun ju-t as it doe. So we believers in the Sun of Itighteous nes His planets. His disciples attain our best by doing Hia will, by lettmg Him do His will in and for and by us." And best of all, there is never a heart hunger that His fullness is too small to fill. He can do "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." Dr. Al exander tells how his little daughter came to him soon after her mother had gone to Heaven, and said: "Oh, father, I want something so murb, and I don't know what it is!" and how he took her on hit knees to Jesus, and the little seven-year-old girl went away happy in the love of Christ. Grace Livingston Hill, in the New York Mail und Express. Be Happy. All nrnti?0 that on earth do dwell. Sinn to the Lord with cheerful voice; i II1111 serve with mirth; His praise forth tell. Come ye before Hint nnd rejoice." These are apt thoughts lor any season. Be happy; it is not only your privilege, but your duty. God has wrought to that end, and bids you so work also. Make not only the most,' but the best of life, lie ' true to the kindred points of heaven and home." Let there be gladness under the family roof tree. IaH old and young rejoice together. Nor will the joy be less sweet and deep be cause it is sanctioned and sunctilied by tho Heavenly Father. And let it be well remembered that no byway of selfishness leads to selfishness. Over the roud of love and self-sacrifice and devout endeavor for the good and happiness oi others, and only that way, lies the deep, safe haven of an untroubled peace. A man, sinth Scripture, must give an account for every idle word; that is, for words that spring from an irreverence and religious sloth. How much more shall God call him to a reckoning for every unkind word, for every word shadowed and sharpened by a spirit of bitterness, selfishness tnd gloom! F. C. McCook. A aiiuple ItelltloD. A quiet home; vines of our own plant ing: a few books full of the inspiration of genius; a few friends worthy of being loved, and able to love us in return; a hundred innocent pleasures that bring no pain or remorse; a. devotion to the right that will never swerve; a simple religion emoly of all bigotry, full of trust and hope and love and lo audi a philosophy this world will give up all the empty joy it has. David Swing. Trust Owl, Providence hsth a thousand keys to open a thousand doors for the deliverance of Hia own, when it has come to the great est extremity, let us be faithful ana care for our own part, which is to do and suf fer for Him; and lay Christ's part on Him self and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's. When our fuith goeth to meddle with events and to hold a court if 1 may to tjietk upon God t providence, and neginnetb to say: "How wilt Thou do this or that?" we lose ground we have nothing to do there; it a our part to let the Almighty exercise Hia own office and steer Hit own behn. Samuel Rutherford. Printing In America. There art) 12,400 publishing house in Uta United States, with a working capital of 1314.000,000. The ceptut figures show us that In 1900 the value of the product of the Induatry war 247.0l5,000, to produce which Involv ed tn outlay of $36,000,000 In salaries for officers, $85,000,000 for wages. $56. 000,000 for rents, taxes, etc., and 87. fiooinft tar materials, auunllee. and fn-lght; 1.21)0,000,000 pounda of paper acre uaea last year, ana su per ceci vt that wcU to the nuweparera. COMMERCIAL KbVltW. . Ctncrtl Tradt Caadifltst. R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Reissf of Trade" says: Weather condition have furnished the chief influence ta !he general trade situation. To soV fxtent traffic has been hindered, tsptc mlly at the East, but the latest returns of railway earnings for January hoV in increase of 3-9 per cent, over l?l-l Consumption of fuel wat increased, an-H retail trade in coal greatly expaudVtvV tint no commensurate gain at first hanim is reported owing to the large supplies "tcld by dealers. Retail distribution! o iootwear and heavy wearing apparel Mf :lic stimulus and annual clearance saleet removed accumulations of dry goods, millinery, etc. Wholesale business) t fairly active, traveling salesmen sendcitjf in about average orders, and jobbing. !radc is normal. Manufacturing; ptarxt ire more active, with little change te" quotations, and the outlook for Spring trade is considered favorable. CoU tions are somewhat more prompt Bradstrect's says: Wheat, including flour, exports for the week aggregat-i .1.5.18, 19J bushels, against 2,77i,ai5 U'T week, 3,5.18.757 this week last year, J -6.W.679 in 1902 and 4,837,678 in too-:. Corn exports for the week aggregate 1,150,20a bushels, against 97.7&i week, 2,376,683 a year ago, I7o,ja ir 190 j and 392,141 in 1901. LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, $3 954-S: Patent $5.70; choice family $4 45- Wheat New York No. 1, 94c; Phu. adclphia No. 2, g2go2Vj; Billimors No. 2, o-'tMc Corn New York, No. a, s6c; Phijt dclphia No. 2, 5oJ4a57c; Baltimore Xi 2. 5fl5st. Oats New York. No. 2, 46c: PltiT. dctpliia No. 2, Ai'Al Baltimore Nji 2 4tyri.46ViC. Hay. No. I timothy. large luv ?.$i6.oo; do, do, small bales, $l6.ox (o ; No. 2 timothy $i4.so((5!S.5o. Green Fruits and Vegetables. Ap ples New York Kings, per brl 83.00. 3.50; do, do. Baldwins, per brl $2 5rt'4 2.7. Cranberries Cape Cod, per br!. ?7.oo'o8.oo; do. do, per box $2.oofn.J-t$ Grape Print, Morula, per box 4O0-q 5.00. Oranges Florida, 126's to 216', per box $2.5005,2.7;: do, do, 2.v' and smaller, per box 2.2$(q 2.50. Tanger ines, Florida, per box $3.00074.00. Been Native, per bunch 3014c; do, do, pec box 75c(a$l-00. Brocoli Native, pe.r! box 10S40C; do, Norfolk, per brl $t.ou fri t. to. Brusscl sprouts, per qt ioit) 12c. Cabbage New York, domestt.:, per ton $35.0000.4000; do, do, Danitlr, per ton $45.oofft50.oo. Carrots Native?, per bunch 340: do, do, per box 55(4$ 65. Celery Native, per bunch, St-sc? do, California, per crate $4 2.S(i.4-5l-Caulillowcr, California, per crate $3-r$ ffi'3.50. Horseradish Native, per btt bo $1. 50(02.00. Kale, native, per bu bo 351.40'c. Lettuce North Carolina, pe-f Yi brl 7;cfrj$l.25; do, Florida, per fin kct $i.oo(&!.75. Onions Yellow, Perm, sylvania, per bu 8orti;ooc; do, do, N York, per bu 9095; do. red, per hi 8085; do, white, per bit $i.oo(Sl.l Parsnips, native per box nocfti $1,001 Potatoes. White F.astent Slior Maryland and Virginia, per bu ;oH 75c; do, Maryland and Pennsylvania, prime, per bu 7530. Sweets Yellow Maryland and Virginia, per brl $1.5'; 2.25; do, Potomac, per brl 2.2st2.y Yams Virginia, per brl $!.5noi.2.ou; di Potomac, Maryland per brl $r.5ofi"i,2.c Live and Dressed Poultry. Turkeys choice hens, 17W10C: do, young tomt choice, 1W118; do, old toms, choice. i Chickens, hens, !2M4c; do, old roo: ers, each 2530; do, youti. (iiy, d do, rough 'and stagny. i-''''3- rJuc.kt fancy, large, (il.se; do, do, small, ''i 13; do, muscovy and mongrels. Mot 14. Geese, Western, each 6.S&75C Guinea fowl, each 25(?.loc. Dresses! poultry Turkeys, hens, good to cliuc l8'a20; do, hens and young toms. mix ed, 'good to choice, i8Vim: do, youita; toms, good to choice C'8; do, U toms, do, do, l6Cah-. Ducks, good ti choice. U'a.16. Chickens, younn, ffo-ssi to choice, M'g.15; mixed, old and youme. 1 5 : do, poor to medium, &'. Geese, good to choice, i-'(o,i4- Capon- fancy, large, 2k; do. good td choice, i8io; do, slips and irmaU. H Fggs. Nearby, strictly fresh, los dozen, 30ii2c; F.astern Shore (Mary land and Virginia), loss off, p dorens 306131; Virginia, do, 3fft1J': West Vic ginia, do, (030. Llvt Sfocl. Chicago. Cattle Good to print steers, $40001565; poor to medium-, $1254 50: stockers and feeders, $iw fa4.oo; cows, $1 5(840o; 4ieifer, $1 73 (04 50; canners. $i so(uV2.50: bulls, $200 rd4 0o; calves. $3 oofi5. 50. Hogs Mix ed and butchers, $4 85$ : sT00 M choice heavy, $5 oofrJs 35: rough, heavy, $4 8S'35 00; light, $46063:405; bulk oi sales, $485500. Sheep Sheep an.f lambs strong to 10c higher; good Xxl choice wethers, $400(3:1,4.40; fair ta choice mixed, $3 25(d'4 0o; native Urab $4.50(116.00. Pittsburg. Fa. Cattle Supply ligW; market steady. Choice, $5.toft5.3! prime, $485(11505; fair. $34of4.ra. Hogs Receipts. 25 double decks; nur kct active. Prime heavy, $5.io(ttS.i5; mediums, $.iSlas2o; heavy Yorkers. $5. 10(0,5 15; light Yorkers, $4-go!i5-05; pigs, $470(0480; roughs, $xsoC3f-.Vk. Sheep Supply liglit, market steady: prime wethert, $4 5465: cH nt common, $2.oo2 7s; choice larabe, $35i34 00; veal calves, $8,00(08:15. INDUSTRIAL AND SC4EXTIF1C NOTES. The oldest match factory in the worU is in Sweden. There are 3,835 licensed automobiles) in the State of New York. Tl,-. u-tre fnrtv-tmn nurriittt Cra one divorce in France during too. 1 he use 01 conce ana tea a sshi put under the ban by the Mormoo Church. M,,iiiu mitditliera receive mono. money Irom advertisers than frona snAe tenbers. There are a.v glaciers In the Alp that are said to be over 6ve miles ia ,cnKth' . . ... . . St. Petersburg hat tne argnen aeatrr rate (or any European capital, 51 per 100a The office ol premier of Great Bri tain, as such, does not carry with it sny salary. The cost ol city elccttic tight rasige from two to three cent per botrr pe lamp. In Northern Italy there is a ftr live association lor every 1000 takaht tnts. Over 300,000 people in Ms.taarbuss.Kr are dependent upon the eoot ) Im their living. The average diameter ot a natr the human bead is the iour-hudrecUfci part ol !.n inch. Weight (or weight, piiw mooA t stronger than ttcel in both tratuvrrM and tensile ttrength. The crowth ol magatiiie av-rttistut. it shown by Harper s, when i rSteb one and a quarter patfet of .n.l or, t- IJ tMLlKds. I
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