"FOOTMEN AND HORSES" Ad Interesting Sunday Sermon By Rev. Howard Duffield. Every Mm Heart at Times In Mlf Soul Re sosndlnf Cry Which Beckons Him to HI Highest Destiny. Nnw TonK TiTT. T)r. Howard Put field, patnr of the Old Kir-t I'riMhytrrinn Church. Fifth avenue and Twelfth street, preached bumlay ou "Footmen ami Ilorc." lie took hi text from Jeremiah Sii:5. Dr. Duflicld Mid: It is healthful for u to test our hopes to-diiy as experipnre shall tct them for us tomorrow. Squarely, lmlividually and im mediately let in t ire the chillenue of ,Ier rmv. the prophet: "If thou runnrt with the fontmen, and they have wearied thee, then how cant thou contend with horse?" Isl u first study the pursuit of li.ippi tie. The pursuit of happiness is intense and universal and rightful. The pursuit of happiness lias enlisted th unwearied Vnergy of the most of men throughout all ime. Pleasure surely cannot he a very hard prohlem to solve. Certainly it ran be no difficult thing to win happiness, ltrave am) hnnnv la this pleasure house of an earth .n whir-h we live. Dar.linu bright is thii Vanity Fair of a world in which the lot of mortal in east. Its booths are most BlIurinK- In wares are most seductive: akilliul are it traders, and eager faced throngs of buyers. Ileho'd the !nmn r ing flash of its aems and the rich rustle of its soft silks! Hearken to the sweet noiea of it inmic and the aolden chink of its coin! Lend your ear to the rhythmic beat of ita dance and the gladsome rapture of its revel. Mark the gleam of ita Hashing eyes! Heed the spell of its silvery laugh ter! The idea that this world is not a minister of happiness is hermit lojic; in the crabbed fruit of cloistered seclusion: is the harsh inference of Puritanic prejudice. The uren voice of the worM are ever summoning men to a wealth of pleasures pleasures of the palate, pleasures of the passion, pleasures of the intellect. The blaring trumpets of the world are ever heralding the triumph of its votaries as crowned with laurels and damiing the brimming cup of its satisfaction.' one and another ascends the throne of its dominion. Very well, point me out the happy ones. Those smile-wreathed lips repress a rising aigh. Those laughter-lighted eves but mask wearied heart. The glitter w tinsel. The trappings are fustian. The ornament is stucco. The mirth 11 hollow hearted. Do you not know that ih:- men who have filled ail of fortune's colfcis are the most brain wearied and heart burdened of the .children of the earth, in their efioit to hit one more'.' Have you never learned that the man who has climbed the throne is amitten with heart sickness because there is some Xahoth'a vineyard unpossessed? Has it never been told you that a man may ;,wear the jeweled tokens of a king's favor and yet writhe under the pang of disap pointment because some beg:tr Mordecat tand in the palace gate? it not. let me put in evidence the testimony ot competent witnesses. Listen to that pampered pet of fortune, bedecked with the insignia of Kngiish nobility, and standing upon the pinnacle of carl h gn en happiness. In the swiftest swing of p.casuie'a whirlpool, in the very heydnv of life, upon his thirty-. Sixth birthday. Lord llyron wrote: "My days are in the yellow leuf, . The How-era and fruita of love are gone, The worm, the canker and the grief Are mine alone." Recall the words of Chesterfield, who reduced the pursuit of happiness to a tine art, and had taken every degree in the freeniaonry of human pleasure: "1 have been behind the scenes, I have seen all the coarse pulleys and the dirty ropes which move the gaudy machinery, and I have amclled the tallow candles which illumin ate the hollo,w decorations to the astonish ment of an ignorant audience." Listen to .the peevish wail of llein'--, that nchlv Rifted poet, critic and master 1 linker who wrote in his diary: "What lists it '.o me th it. at banquet my health is drunk out of f olden goblets and in the best of wine, if , myself, separated from all the joy of the wo: Id. can only moisten my lipt with tiie phv-ician's potion? What lists it to me th.it enthusiastic youths and damsels crown my marble bust with laurels, when on tny leal head a blister is being clapped by my old sick nurse .' What list it to me that :hc roses ot Shiraz glow and amell never o sweetly? Alas, lura2 is tiOi) miles from line rAmterlani, where I gei noth ing to mell in the melancholy solitude of mv hick room but the aroma of warm poul tices." Behold the trophies of the world are wetted with a rain of tear! The re vel berating pluudits which greet the world successes only serve to waken the. wailing echo, "Vanity ot vanitv, it ail i Vanity." The works of earth are frail. Its jewels lo.-! their tire. Thf luster oi its gold will tarnii-h. It garlands will wither and their bloom and l.-agrnnce will vanish away. Vvh.it sh.ill that man do who cannot tine delight in liio midst of his pleasure, whea the iiglit of the revel begin to grow dim, Hiid sorrow as with a Iniiiy' hand, sweeps bare the banquet board, and amid the f iguring shadow the linger of de.tiny Ix to write doom m-iiU-iimm upon the Wai' .' What is that man to do who cannot pack a n::gie hour with uiialloccd pleasure, win u he crosses the thich ,, n ln , long eternity? lo not bknk the question. Sleet its thrust f ully. "If you cannot run with fontmcii how will you contend with lo:--.'. .Apply another test. Thera is a deeper longing in many mind than the thirst for pleasure. It is the craving for truth. Jheie is genuine grandeur in the achieve ment oi the intellect. The coronet ot cul ture, i brighter far than a kind's diadem. The robes of mental royalty are more im perial than the mantle of CiPsur. Ji would (teem a though the mind troti ar. lis oi the present age had realized that nre.im of the Hebrew boy in the olden time, when sun and moon and tar bowed louii to do obesiance. It would ocm as though the princely thinker ot the pres ent day wore the signet ring of .Silnmon. u obedience lo wiiii n nil elemental power yield ready response. They say to the nenn of the electric fluid, "go." and they render a ready service. They beckon to the coil and to the iron, to the silver and to the gold, and from the nn-ret raverns of the fa: th thev hasten to do their bidding. Jh v ,ay to the veriest vapors, "do thu. and they do it. I i , ll" mini niiai oi human l-eow edge? "Jichold we know not Birthing.' We hjv, mapped a few square ijih. ancr nil tri..f . - i.i.i .i ...... ... . MMuu-niiiies lie around. ve have numbered i,.,,, ...1.1 .... time, and eti rnitu. he beyond. We tiavt jrari.er.-ri a stray or two fr-im the inightv harvest fields OI fact, and illimit ob:e J iuVM are nodding in the breeze un M.kkd. Within the horizon of obwrved facft we only know how thing, appear to be not what things are. We know not where the light dwelleth, but only how certain light rava affect u. W rannot tell what atmosphere is, we have only dis covered some of the ollicea which atmoa- oiero renuera us. tmr Taunted knowledge aigely eonaists of shrewd iriies ennm... lag (tiifaee apiH-aranccs. The last result ol culture u the coronation of nescience. Jta proudest achievement is fixing the lim tta of thought. The most sinewy brain cannot seal those adamantina barrier that convert reason', highway into a "no thoroughfare." 'There are nut of fact v j JhT ltoute!t Wowa of the hammer head of human knowledge fail to crack. There are Uordian knots of thousht whict lt'H thif ot th "'oat finely tempered (rlade of human research. . SuietcDth century intellect, th humar, -mind, in that aga when mind touehe th meridian is not able to tell th story of th little lichen that clings to the stone in th wall, "root and all and all in all." How, then, thall human wiadom answer for m those awful questionings concerning origin ind duty and deatiny which I. reaaonine ind feeling, sinning and suffering, mortal and immortal, must know? What lore of rman will unveil to me th fac of th great liod, my maker, and roll back the iloud Hhat enwratss Hu tlrnt,? n nac mac-nanie ak.il! will auBico for un avehnc th dread aerrat ( this i'rW woof tol evil whu-h ia woven into human pe nenre? What aeholor, though b bar slrunken a every CaeUhan fount, can read w.th the brink ol the grave, and tttSriPLSOWa tfllO that abrw of drsuutfu) night give me any assurance that confined dust will rise resplendent in some resor. rection morning? What pupil of th most ",,lt Itf-Ail fani!:..! nit m'.l V... t.-.i:.i. 1 . ... t,, i , m hit oeosme in the hour when heart and flesh are failing and At one single star of hope aglow in the dark midnight that gathers around me? .lust one atar beam to tell me that beyond the cloud and darkness are the many man sions of an eternal home, that yonder waits a father's welcome to love, and light and joy ineffable? Most majestic are the achievements of intellect. ttreek tragedy tells us how King F.dipuj at the close of life heard n cry a strange, weird, imperious summons, far off. yet near, in auma distant world, yet close at hand; a voiof that drew like gravitation. So does everv ma-i. in virtue of that royal nature which allies him with heaven's throne, hear at times just such a cry re. sounding from some distant sphere, even from that spirit realm which is his true fatherland, yet near, within his verv soul, that beckons htm to his highest destiny. "Oh. soul of m.in, awake, awake, shake off the chains of sniritual slumber and slolh. Kscipc the earth bound life. Ileav en born and hi aven-apiring. live f ir (iod!'1 The Hindoo palace echoed with that cry, and Itud lha swept out to brood in the wil derness depths over its mvsteriotis mean ing. Those n cents float) d over the land of Pallas Athene, and in academy and por-tie.- there gathered groups of thinkers that fought tii follow its hading a the wise men followed the Orient star. F.very dweller in Christian lands hears that cry more plainly. It is borne to him in the quiet peacefulncss of the Sabbath that whispers to his toil-worn spirit of that rest that remuineth when the toil of this work aday world is done. It comes to lion from the open church door that tells him of a home shelter for his storm-beaten soul. It speaks to him from the Scripture, where it syllabi s the splendors of the Christ, and declares that such is the glorious image which (iod has planned to reproduce in him now sullied and sickened with sin. But where, in all the ages, is the man that sir ling himself rt this signal call has wo-i in the race for holiness? Are w, not some times glad that thoughts are not audible? that motives are not visible? that we are not breastplated with transparent glass, through which the workings of the inner life might lie open to the curious eye? Are we not glad that it is sometimes a function of language to conceal, as well as to convey thought? If our struggles after holiness be ns honest hearted a that of the old pagan seeker alter God, we will unhesitatingly echo their sad avowal, voiced by one of that high souled but dis couraged company, "I approve the better courses, but I follow the worst." And if our own hearts, sin-darkened and ain warped, condemn lis, how can we meet the scrutiny of Him who n greater than our hearts and knoweth all things? "If thou contendeat with the footmen, and they weary thee, how canst thou con tend with horse?" There is but out method by which this problem of the He brew prophet can be wrought out to an encouraging sr.lution. Let its terms "ne in verted. Head the formula backward. II the horsemen could be conquered first, who would waste a thought upon footmen? It we could meet the mightiest foes and over ride them there would ne little difficulty in outmatching lesser needs. If we could run with horses and outrun them, we should shake the dust of a sandaled scorn in the face of the footmen. Such a solu tion is hinted at in scripture. Turn the Bible page. Put the apostle against the prophet. Reply to the challenge of Jere miah with the triumph shout of Paul. I can make money in the market place. I can obtain pleasure in the playhouse. 1 can win culture in the school room. But the remission of my sins I can secure only upon Calvary. Christ ia the solitary Sa viour. When the sin want ia appeased all want is met. When this is righted all ia right. With the regal robe of righteousness go the sceptre of power and the diadem of .leace. Bring tne matter to a test of a personal experience and see if it is not so, and imagine that every one in this assem bly was a Christian; that each one of in began the week's work a a saved soul You go forth tomorrow morning, your heart aglow with a brighter splendor than the glory-bath with which sunrise floods the earth. "The?, light of the knowledge of the glory of (iod a it shine in the face of Christ." You go donti-tjwn, t. )t knowing what the hours may be bringing to meet you. F.very footstep carries you into a ieilin untrodden. F.very clock-tick swing vou into a mysterious future. Hat vou know some thing now. You know that Jesus died for you; that (iod loves you; that, a f ir as the setting of the sun is from the rising, so far ha your sin beer carried away from you. Toil begin. Jesus worked. Trial approaches. Jcu suf fered. Your truest word are twisted, your noblest act re misinterpreted, for your manliest endeavors mean motives are suggested. Jesus drink tfie sjine bitter cup. lie who told Capernaum ti-'ner toll; to launch out and cist net call you to take up the pen or the p'. me or the yard stick or the needle or the loom, lie who aid to Peter "Feed Mv lambs" has said to you: "Sit by thu cradle-aide and do nurs ery work." lie who lUid to Matthew "Take up the cross and follow Mi" has said to vou: "Come after Ma into the lone, ly pavilion ol" pain, keep midnight vigil witli Me in the shadowed path of (ieth keni.iiie." Kvenitig -tide draw on. Home hhelter beckons to rest. Firoide. reunions, with their heart deep satisfaction, whisper to you of another home that wait beyond the toil ot earth, r.mpty ciuir aim van ished face tir your heart with the glor ious certainty that the Saviour is placing a chair for you where the home circle ia forniinjt, never to be broken. So t lite of work recolve iUelf inn a life of worship. So the days, with ever quickening step shall hasten by. So the night tune shall draw on apace. And the lengthening of the shadow and the waning of the light shall bring to your Christ -enriched nature the inessige winch life's setting aim flashed into the hear: of au old nursemaid, who, bee'Himig blind and deaf, said: "You're worrying about me, dear. There is no need of that. I am happy a a little child. I sometime think I am jut a little child whom the lord i hushing to my long sleep, for when 1 was a uursa girl my mistress always told me: 'Speak very soft a id low and darken the room o the little ones may go to sleep," and now the noises arc hushed and st'.ll to me and the bonny e.ir.h -ins dun and dark, and I know it is my Father lulling me away to my long aieep." When (Metier. il firant reviewed the Ilrit ish troops in India he was adked what feature of the spectacle male tiie most iiiipresxiou upon liiui. Hi reply u signifi cant. He did not refer to the superb dis ( iphno of the men or to the glitter of their military equipment. He sunplv snnl; "Those fellow march with thu awing of victory." Amid the sin und ignorance and the orrow tn.it throngs thickly along the way itt life, that soul marchci with th swing of victory which I Christ saved, Christ achouk-d, Chriat aatilied. Woman President of Bank. Mra. Annlu M. Sluna ha been choMon president of the First Na tional Hank of Monroovllle, O., and haa taken up hnr dutloa. At one time the ti the wife of O. W. Had, then president of the bank. Latur ahe be came the wife of Hnry V. Stunt, who had aucceeded Mr. Had a prualdont Mr. Stonx la 47 year of age. a finan cier of ability aud for a number ol year haa managed nr large private fortune In a inaner that baa multiplied It many time. She and time, how ever, to be loclal loader and to de vote considerable time to enures work. Th Cur a Composer. It baa long been known that th czar poaaaaaed a vary pretty musical gift, and bla majesty baa recently ea aayed bis powor a composer of musle to bl own verses. In these arses the predominant note Is one of religion. They extol the glories of the Orthodox church and Its saints, and eialt th virtu of Christian self-aae-riflo and renunciation of worldl good and prosperity. TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 17. th.ecti Jesus Transfigured, Mark la.. 9 1.1 lo1lrn Test) Mark la., 7 Memory Verses, Commentary on the Kay's Lesson, T. The Transfiguration fv. 2, 3). 2. "Af ter six days." '1 hat is, six days after the sayings of the last lesson. Luke says, "Ahout eight duys utter." There were six fnll days and the fractional Hays at the be ginning and the end, making about eight. Kdersheim supposes the great confession occurred on the Sabbath, and the trans liguration on the night after the Sabbath one week later. There is no intimation as to how the intervening week waa spent. "Peter, and dames, anil John." These same apostles witnessed His ngony in the enrden. He took these three (1) because lie needed witnesses to prove the fact when the time came to reveal His giory to the world, and (2) for the purpose of' en couraging ami establishing them in the truths ot His kingdom. "Into; mountain." The place of the transfiguration scene is unknown, but it was probablv Mount Her mon, not far from Cacaarea I'hihppi. This is the opinion of nearly all modern author ities. "Was transfigured." Matthew says: "His lace ilid shine us the sun." "It would appear that the light shone out of Him Ironi within; it was one blaze of dazzling, celestial glory: it was Himself glorified. The face of Moses had shone, but a the moon, with a borrowed, reflected light; but Christ's shone as the sun, with an in nate, inherent light. May this not be a hint as to the appearance of our resur rection bodies? '3. ' liniment; shining, etc." His tace shone with divine majesty, and all His body was so irradiated by it, that His clothes could not conceal Ilia glory, but became white and glistened as the very light with which lie covered Him self as with a garment. II. Heavenly visitant ' (vs. 4 0). 4. "Klias." 'i ne (ireek form of Klijah. ''With Moses." Moses was a representa tive of the law; he was the founder of the .leu ish iipcnatio!i, which for centuries had been preparing the war for Christ: he was a type of Christ and hud foretold His coming (.lent. 18: 1,3-lH); and through him had been instituted the sacrilices which Christ fulfilled and which explained His coming death which so troubled the disciples. Klijah was the representative of the prophets. They had loretold the coming ana the suffering of Christ, and Klijah was the one who was to prepare the way of the Lord by his character and spirit reappearing in dohn the ISaptist, the forerunner of .lesu. "Were talking." Luke tells us what this conversation waa about to which they were permitted to listen. They "pake of id decease which He would accomplish at Jerusalem." They were talking of Christ's departure from the world, including, no dotibi, Hi death, res urrection and ascension. This would en able the disciplea to see the importance uf the sufferings and death of their blessed Master, which was to them the deepest mystery. fi. "1'eter; said." Faiger and impulsive as always. Peter spoke jut as the heav enly visit, mis were about to leave. It waa for him too brief a glimpse of the heavenly glory, "tjood; lo oe here." 1'eter upoke the truth. The upostlc would be strong er nod more useful because of the divine manifestation. It is always good for us when the Lord especially manifests Him self to u. "'Three tabernacles." Or booths, from the bushes on the mountain; aueh as were made ut the feast of Taber nacles. He greatly desired to have the heavenly visitants remain with them. 0. "Wist not." Knew not. How many times do we speak unwisely because we do not stop to consider our word. "Sore afraid." They trembled in the presence of the di vine manifestation. III. The voice from the cloud (vs. 7, 8). 7. "A eloud; overshadowed them." Mat thew says a "bright'' cloud. A cloud had frequently been the Kymbol of the divine presence. "A voice." The voice of liod the Father. It revealed nothing new, but confirmed the old, for it wa the same voice which had been heard at Chnst'a baptism. This would show to 1'eter and the apostles present that thev did not need to detain Moses and Klijah in order to ndd to their happiness. "This is My be loved Son." Matthew adds, "In whom 1 am well pleased." They had .Testis with them, und lie was more than all the host of heaven would be without Him. "Hear Him." He is nupciior even to Moses, the great lawgiver. Muse himself had made such a statement. See De.it. IS: 15. He is superior to Klijah and the prophets, and is the one to whom they -oiuted. 8. "Looked round about." Matthew tells us that when the disciple heard the voice they fell on their faces, aud were sore afraid; then, recovering from the shock, they suddenly gazed all around them mid saw no person but dcfU.i. They feared a they entered into the eloud, but when they heard the voice of Jod, prob ably as loud a thunder f see ifo'un 1-': Utl). unci full of divine majesty such us mortal ear were unaccustomed 1.0 hear, they fell Hat to the ground on their faces, being sore afraid. In this condition the three disciples lay until .Jeu touched them imd raised them up, dispelling their fears. IV. The divine charge (vs. 9, lit). 9. "Tell no man." The charge which .fesu gave them would prohibit their telling even the other apostles. 10. "Questioning, i-te." How could they properly preach a crucified and risen Sa viour, when they were resolutely opposed to His death and questioned what the ris ing from the dead might mean? Silence and discipline were their present duty. Had they preached Him us a glorious Mes siah, superior to Moses and Klias, ns set forth in his transfiguration, the Jewi.-h authorities would have held them guilty of treason. V. A question (vs. 11-131. 11. "Why say the seniles, etc." What foundation have the scribes for saying that Klijah must come before the Mes-haliY "The scribea and Phuriseci may have tinted as a capi tal objection against the Messialiship of their Master that no Klijnli went before Him." 12. "Cometh first." Christ can not mean here, and in Matt. 17: 11, aa some lindi-rstaud these passages, that Eli jah is to come In-fore the second advent. Kestoreth all things." To restore is strictly to bring back to a lost perfection, then to develoo. raise, to introduce a pur er, nobler epoch; here specially to proclaim the kingdom of (tod. "And how t it writ ten, etc." (R. V.) Klijah Cometh first nnd reatoreth all things, lint how or to what purpose is it written of the Son of man that he comethr la order that He may Miller, not conquer like a mighty prince. i'J. "1 indeed come." In the person of John the llaptit. "They listed." What soever they chose or desired. Navlea of the World. Ot vessels, battleships, cruisers and seoul of over 1,000 tons, now in com mission In the world's naviea. Groat Hrltaln haa 201, aggregating 1,616,000 tons displacement; F'ranco, 96, aggre gating 676,000 tons displacement; Ger many. 73, aggregating 388,000 tons; Itussla 43, aggregating 315,000 tons; United States 35, aggregating 205,000 tons; Italy, 88, aggregating 295.000 T tons; Japan 31. aggregating 206,000 tons. Dut, If the naval vesaels now In course of building In the world's ship yards were completed, the tonnage ol tho United States would bit more than doubld, and she would occupy third place Instead of fifth, with Franc sctlll seeond, and with England's pow er'only three times as great as ours On Irish Landlord. Lord Canyngbam, who has been up holding his rights to the Broadstalri foreshore, has Just attained bis ma jority. Ha ta the largest landownei In Ireland, a bis property, which U spread over four counties, consists of soma 1T.00 acres. His mother, wao remarried a few years ago, la on ol Lord and Lady Ventry a daughtera, all of whom art of quit aa Irish typ and beauty, with wonderful oomples loos and Irish eyes. APRIL SEVENTEENTH. "Hew Christ Transforms Lives." Ram. 12:1, 2; Phil. 3:20, 21. 8erlptur Versas Eph. 2:19-22; 8: 14-2J; Phil. 1:9-11; 3:12.14; Col. 1:, 11; J TUeaa, 3:12.13; 2 Theua. 1:3. lleb. 8:1; 13:20,21. Lesson Thoughts. Naturally we have the t rlrlt of thtl world. Its selfishness, Its sinfulness;' the entrance of Christ's Spirit drives out the worldly spirit and transforms tne life, as a room is entirely changed by the entrance of light driving out darkness. The hardest metal win finally yield to the melting Influence of heat; hard IHdeed must he the heart that wtll not be thawed Into love by the memory of the invrcles of Ood In Christ Jesus. Selections. Onre 'twas busy planning, not Mis trustful prayer; Once 'twas anxious caring, now he bos the care; Once 'twas what I wanted, now what Jesus says; Once 'twas constant asking, now 'Ha ceaseless praise. The true believe obeys the order, "Right about face," but he does not simply stand still; hi keeps on march ing, though In a new direction. The great change Is descrJhed as a new birth; one must grow to the stature of a full grown man in Christ. No one l condemned to remain the child that he is at the start of the new life. To hew a block of marble from the quarry, and carve It into a noble statue to break up a waste wilderness, and turn It Into a garden of flowers to melt a lump of Iron-stone, and forge It Into watch springs; all these are mighty changes. Yet they all come short of the change which every child of Adam requires; for tbey are mere ly the same thing In a new form. But man . . , must become a new creature. Chrysostom Ingeniously remarks that the animals which went out of Noah's ark went out the same as they came In. The crow went out a crow, the fox a fox. and the porcupine, all armed with its living arrows, was a porcupine still. Hut the church trans forms the animals Ehe receives Into her bosom, not by any change In their substance, but by the extirpation of their sin. Prayer How great. Heavenly Father, have been thy mercies to us! ewn to the gift of thine only begotten Son! O, melt our hard and obdurate hearts with the fire of thy love, and enable us to offer willingly our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and accept able unto thee, our reasonable service. tir our Savior's sake. Amen. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS APRIL SEVENTEENTH. The Transforming Power of Christ Rom. 12. 1, 2; Phil. 3. 20, 21, To this Infant church at Rome Paul, counting himself peculiarly the "Apostle to the (lentlles." and Intend ing later to ao to visit fhes,. i.oiinvora In the great wicked world's capital, writes this etdstle. it .'is the greatest of all his letters. He had there no one to rebuke, and nothing to set in order. So there is very little of the , , i . . . . . ).-iauiiai quality 111 u, (. a a niag niflcent formal treatise mi rin-biion doctrine and practice. Nowhere else are the doctrines and morals of Chris tianity so lully and ably set forth. The great subject or the treatise Is Righteousness by F'alth. It is both an imputed and an Inmnrtnl riht. eotihiiess that Paul talks about. He makes It clear that th faith h saves Is "A fulth that sweetly works by love And purifies the heart." The ritual righteousness ut the .ious la of no avail. Going about to "estab lish their own righteousness" was useless, and worse. "By the works of the law can no flesh be justified. ' he insists, in various phrase. This applies to Jew and Gentile alike. He Illustrates the ailmisrJnn if tho liitto. to the kingdom of Ood by the figure or a wiiu olive tree grafted into the olive trei, but warns those thus en grafted that thev must nut 1,vuut ol this relation since It is by grace, and not or wonts, ana it can be retained only by faith. By and by Israel, that has been, in a wav reiocterl will i. so he saved (11. 2). But all by grace ne Keeps Buying. "For God hath concluded all under g.ln, that he might have mercy on all." Upon this re flection the apostle bursts Into ex clamation crying: "O, the depth ot thtt riches both or the wisdom and knowledge nf Coil ' t,r r him aud through him. and to him, are all luings; to wnom be giar.y forever." Bishop Phillips Brooks . eald that every word of God Include truth ami duty. These two are always wedded. e are always trying to learn truths as ir there were n.. tfuUes belonging to them, as ir the knowing of them would make no dlffeience 'in the way we lived. That is the reason why our hold on the truths we learn Is so weak . . When every truth la rounded out Into a duty, and every duty is deepened Into its truth, then we shall have a clearness and consistency aud permanence of moral life which we hardly dream of now." The wrltei of these "Notes" once preached a ser mon tn children wb'ieh n h fliutnrh. cd the mind cf his own little daughter through the following week. At last she exclaimed. "O papa, I wish you hadn't tireache1 that Bprmnnt" Tn know truth sometimes costs us a good ueai; nut it may cost us very muoh more to be Ignorant. Didn't Disturb th Dog. A writer tells bow a bulldog scared away the guests bidden to lady'i reception. The bosteas was waltlni In her parlor. She heard carrtagei arrive, heard thp front gate open, bul no guests appeared. "The situation became puzzling. At last the lady ol the house went out to aee If perchance the paving and the steps had sud denly crumbled away and left an aching void. Not at all. On openlnf the front door she found herself con fronted with the cause of the phan tom visitors Rei, In his moat ami able and complacent mood, sitting peacefully and majentlo on the to atep, whither he bad dragged hi ken nel, a featherweight to so powerful t creature, after him. No pedeatrlai visitor, no card-laden delegate of 'car rlage folk' bad ventured to affront, hat lordjjr KesauceA,,-.. ' " Wcrk In My Vineyard." The Mnter is calling for workers, For VBHt i the work to be done And a gkirinua reward He offer To each at the act of the aun. Doit thou aak of what kind of labor, What work He would have thee do! It i thia: To love an thy neighbor, Thyself and thy Maker, too. The work, which He would aaaign thee. la the work which ia jiwt at thy hand; The vineyard in all around tlu-e; Then why idimild'it thou idle stand? DoM forget thv own heart i a anrden. Where fruits t-lmic-e and luscious may Beware let the world nhoiild it harden, And aorrow and sin frnm it flow. He bid' thee love's deeds to scatter; A light on each puthway to shed; To make all around thee the brighter, Along all the path thai you tread. There is work to nueror the weary; To lighten each heavy load: To comfort the hesrt Hint i drentv: The wanderer to point on his road. The M.titer has wrought here before thee,. The labor, the burden He bore; The snine of Hi presence nhall cheer thee, till all thy day' labor is o'er. Should HfHictiun's deep aorrow oppress thee. And your heart know earth'a bitterest grief. II i hand will be ready to Ideas thee,. His voice will give sweetest relief. He knows all the keeneu of sorrow. The heaviest of burdens He bore; His footsteps we in safety may follow. For they lead where tears are no more, O! how bright is the joy of that morning' When life's lengthened labor all done. With honor each toiler adorning. The Master will welcome u. homer The work He now gives its is pleasure; And the toiler ha promise of rest;' While the Imrvest has mciivareless treasure Of joy in the laud of the blest. From "Leaves by th? Wavsidc," by the l!ev. Leonard Cox. A. M. Heart anil Ham). In Longfellow's beautiful "Evangeline" there is a line that deserves both remem brance and Btudy, says Philadelphia Young People. That line has wisdom in it, and it wirings from the sure experience of life. We luive found it so. Its thought enters into the prose and the poetrv of our daily living. In the poem Kvangcline is made to saw " hither my heart has gone, there follows my hand and not elsewhere." The hand follows the heart. The heart stands for love. The hand stands for work. Where goes the heart, there follows the hand. When the heart utters itself, the month gives out the words. It is not true that one may have in his heart what never comes out into the life. When one is found doing a certain kind of work con tinually it will be found that love holds to the work. When one is seen often in cer tain kinds of company you mav be sure that he loves that company. The heart colors the w'ords. It shape the acts. It gives the motive. It starts the movement. It brings the result. The mouth and the hand will tell on the heart. You cannot hide permaiientlv what is deepest in your heart. It will coine out and speak for itself. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth Kiieaketh." The Scriptures declare that the love of God moves Him in His thought and worlt for humanity. Jesus was contin ually seeking human love. "If a man love Me, he will keep My commandments." Because the hand follows the heart, Jesus sought to hold the hearts of men. Ik- careful where you centre vour heart. Do not learn to love what you do not wish to be your choice work or company. If you wish to be considered as good or bet ter than you are, learn to love the work and company that are better than you are. In loving the better, you grow like it. ''" band follows the heart. How Work Hearts. , Work makes the workman. That truth is as certain and aa important us that thu workman makes his work. A man's man hood, his character, wisdom, xkill, are largely developed by the things which he IlllM d.ini A U-Ml.jn .... I....:.... I ....1. ......... .. ,.,,VLt ui. miuiuiuLm iuu jects says that the University of Oxford "em io r.iii i.onoon to convert mist Lon don, but Fast London converted the I'ni- i,r.itv nf Ik.-,'..,.. I 11.. .1... ...I.ii- i 1 '-tw,. hk iiimiii inui, mie the efforts ol the Oxford settlements were not exceedingly manifest in results in London, they were veiv manifest in changes od thought and ideals at Oxford. The Allci-Ma m l,iilm.u .f I. . -'-.'-' - ' J i riiucntuii is relatively unimportant; thev have ac complished a great purpose eitiier wav in the one y.ho makes the endeavors. Oiten, when we fail in our work, God makes out work succeed with us. And how really un important is the prominence or the oIh scurity of our labors! How little it mat ters whether the work be done within the four walls of a home! So long as it is faithfully done, it will aceomolish that purpose in tis for which, very likely, it was sent. Work, then, for what vou can do by your work, and also for what your work can do for you. .Sunday-School limes. . Whole Heartedncaa. The supreme demand in any crisis and there is a crisis all the time is for men who can stand in the nnd.t of the tide and not be swept awav ni.-n knit in the will and might of God. To take excep tions to any, even the most searchiug criticism is mere stupidity, if one wishes to accomplish anything. One cannot do God' work by doing a part of it to day, and letting the rest of it go over till to-morrow. When the He brews entered the promised land, they did riot exterminate the heathen as they had been communded, and afterwards they were reduced to alaverv. Thev did not like to go the whole ticket. Then in their anxiety to destroy some of the heathen, w hich was proper, they entered into an al liance with some other heathen and were handsomely defeated. When men mix pie ty and opportunism it often contribute more to the world' weal to have them defeated than to have them victorious. Tru Pcao of Mind. Trus peace of mind doe not depend, a some seem to suppose, on the external in cident of riches and poverty, of health and sickness, of friendships and enmities. It ha no necessary dependence upon o cicty or seclusion; upon dwelling in citie or in desert. I.at the heart be right, let it M'y.'jn'ted w'l'i the will of (Jod, and we shall be entirely contented with those circumstances in which providence ha seen fit to place us, however unpropitiou they may be in a worldly point of view. Ha who gams the victory over himself aina the victory over all hi enemies. T. . Uphaio. Ingenious Attempt at Fraud. A physical - examination of candi dates for the police force at New Haven showed that two candidates had stuck cardboards on their heel and then pulled on tbelr stockings to reach the requisite height Successful Boy Trapper. Quite a boy trapper Is William J. Ollinore of Tlnmouth, vt, 17 years old. In four months he caught In sixty traps the following aulmals; 100 muskrats, twenty skunks, eight mink, sli foxes and three coons. The lot Bold for gome oej Itt. fflE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Ttileagt rnlfdrmt Was Drink VTaiw Minors Knllstsil by the Thousand t rln the RaloM Fra th Re. Idenc District. The children of Chicago har been en listed by thousands in a fight to drive the aloon out of the residence districts. Tin noys have turned from sledding, skating ind othar (.porta of the season nnd the rirla from dolls and parties to a crusade if reform, and a formidable arftav of young people, ranging in aga from ten to- twenty years, is engaged in what is de clared to be the most practical temper ance movement ever undertaken in- ( jreat city. These useful crusaders, instead of trav eling far in dangerous land to rescue lo calities from unbelievers, as did their pro totypes in the middle ages, will join in efforts to reclaim their own homes and the homes of hundreds of thousanda of other from the influence of liquor selling. They plan to secure 100.000 names to- a petition to- the City Council to submit to the vot ers of residence wards the- question- of local option. The Young People' Christian Temper ance I nion has been engaged in reform endeavors for years in this ity, the na tional headquarters of the society, but it has never before inaugurated so ambitious a work. Thirty of the 200' square miles of Chicago's area are now prohibition ter ritory and twenty more are under local option, all by reason of the annexation acts, so- that the crusader have nearly 150 square mile to- redeem from the- grip of the saloon. Miss Eva Marshall Shontx, the Presi dent, and Mrs. Mattie Gould Squires, the Corresponding Secretary of the national organization, aided by the local division of ficers, have mapped out a plan of campaign tint is comprehensive in its aweep, and' that has already begun to show large re sults. They have interested all the Chris tian young people' societies in the city, and in addition many children who belong to no organization-,, and have tired them with zeal for the temperance cause. An instance ef the enthusiasm inspired' among the younger workers i furnished1 by the following letter, received from, s Norwood Park boy; "Dear Miss Shunts I am eleven year old, so. I cannot sign the ward option pe tition. I want to do something to help kill the saloon. so I have decided to make a house to house canvass of the town foi iinnie to tho petition. My playmates, Clarence Cook, will help me. Norwood! Park has only 150- voters, so we cannot urnmise manv names, but will net all we can. We got thirteen this afternoon. Why noi organize uoys in uinrr puns ui uiu city to make a house to house canvass for names?" The letter is signed by Russel R. Klet zing. Clarence Cook also writes, and say be "hopes he can teach the people how bad the saloon is," and promises to come to the Women's Temple some day and see Misa Shontz nnd her assistants, these communications are similar to scores of others the last few weeks. i'reliininsrv work haa been going on lor several months. The names and addressea of society president were secured, and the plan laid before them. Then they were in vited to the monthly business meeting of the temperance organization in the lec ture room of the First Methodist Church, at Clark and Washington street, the first Thursday evening of each month. One feature of the campaign is the nleflim lv luu voung neotile to secure 1000 names each. These persons have been put in charge of certain districts, with com mittees and sub-committees to assist them, each leader being individually responsible for the completion of his or her list. It is estimated that fiOOO workers are al ready in the field, and that if they contin ue for four months as tney nave Degun, ii, ionium numca will have been secured. These workers represent 200 churches of the various Protestant denominations, and some i if the Catholic churches. The Good Temulars have furnished both money anu canvassers to the cause. "More prohibition territory for Chica go," has been adopted ns a slogan of re F.,r,n After the remilred number, or one- fourtu of the voters of the city, have signed the petition, it will be taken to the Coun cil, where the reformers will assemble in lorce to see tnai it is ucicu upon. l, (llit n-ill be carried into the wards. one after another, and waged until it is definitely settled which ones prefer tem perance to aaloons. The cruander have obtained a formal opinion from Attorney Charles R. Holden on the feasibility of their plan. Ho in dorses it as the most practicable one ever proposed by tlis temperance people of Chi cago. Making Men Sober. "The cornoralinna" do so many bad things that there is some human satisfac tion in learning that they occasionally do a good thing. Rev.' Kdward A. Horton, a distinguished and level headed I'niturian clergyman, of Boston, in malting a talk about public temperance the other day, said, among other things: "1 believe ill good example. The great lesson of temperance is being taught, not by tracts or sermons, but by the railroads aiid great industrial corporations insist ing on temperance in their servants." Why not? To make a man temperate there is nothing like well, making him temperate. The occasional drunkard, the man who is commonly sober, but not in frequently drunk, is passing away, ine person who goes on sprees lias no cnaiice in business life-. He cannot get employe nii'iil. So far as these big houses are concerned, the ordinary man's choice lies between real sobriety and utter abandonmeut to intemperance and consequent industrial outlawry. The effect is to discredit drink ing altogether. The Americans are being made a sober race which they were not always by this insistence upon sobriety in employes. This is a sort of "tyranny that the big corporations can continue to engaye in with the general thanks. New ork Globe. Telling Statistic. At the twentieth anniversary of the Ger man Society against the Abuse of Alco hoho Drinks there were present some tell, iug statistic of the ravages of strong drink in Germany, where the use of alcohol is aid to be responsible for fifty-four per cent, of tho divorces, fifty per vent, of the railroad accidents, seventy per cent, of the accidents on the sea, eighty-seven per cent, of the offenders sent to houses of correction, 55.2 per cent, of the disturb ance of domestic peace, and so on through a long list. Clear Uralu on Guard, M. de Texa. aeneral snncriiiten Jcnt of th railroads of Germany, ha issued order that all employes who are not total ab stainers will be discharged at the earliest possible moment. Moderate drinker even cannot hold their place. Men with clear brains and steady hands are the only one who need apply lor position. . A Brief Argument. The Danish Government, in fillina no!- tion on the Stat railway, will hence forth prefer men who can prove by docu mentary evidence that tney have been to tal abstainer tor at least one year past. Why Woinsa Outstrip ). In a sermon ou "Womvn" th Rev. Dr. N. D. Hilli haa sounded a warning not to young men in liiiius iite. "if you don t want women to oustrin you in th industrial race," h said, "and compel you to com to thrni when you waut fifty J ;uu ikiici I W' UIIHRIUH SHU gambling at rac track aud in poolroom." A Tm)raaee Point. At th recent merlin of th Grsnd Lodge of Mason of Tuuae an action waa takeu which require charges to b preferred against "all affiliate and non-af-filiat MssUr Masons engaged in th man ufacture or sal of intoxicating liquors as t bwg afur January L. IVvi,' COMOtaAl REVIEW. - R. G. Don & Co.'a weekly rcrievf M trade says: "Much deferred Eastern business wa transacted during the last few day md some sections report satisfactory, suits, but at many points the weather . not yet normal, and on the whole :he season's trade tints far compares .mfavorably with last year's volume. Manufacturing return continue con Tictinjr, iTon and steel plants gaining ground,, footwear exhibiting the, nat tral reaction from an unprecedented reduction of 1003, while textile mills have much idle machinery and little lorward business- to encourage opera tion. Lumber and building materials are in better demand, although floods it the West and labor troubles at the East retarded structural work to some extent. "Commercial failures this week in the United States are 208, against 226 Inst week, 229 the preceding week, and' 173; tiie- corresponding week last year. I'ailures in Canada 16, against '5 last week, 2t the preceding week, anil iK last year." WHOLESALE MARKETS. rtaltimore. FLOUR Firm and unchanged. Reccipt9(9tl85 barrels; exports, 7.68.V barrels. WHEAT Firmer; Spot, contract, i.osru 1.05J4; No. a red Western, i.oo (a 1.06)4; April,. r.o5i.os4; May, All July. 93 asked; steamer No. 3 red, l.oo(u;.oo;4. Receipts, J.664. bushels. Southern,, by sample, 97(8) 'OS'i! Southern,, on grade-, 97 io$2. CORN Dull. Spot, siXQsfA; April,. Stfittisi:. May, S2l4fflsaJ4: steamer mixed, 4654 6't. Receipts, 80486. bushel.; export, 137,14a bush els. Southern white corn,. 40sa; Southern yellow corn, 4053. - ti.iis-i-it-nt. isoi a white, 4854 (fi.491 Noi 2 mixed, 46(3)45H. Re ceipts,. 7.510 bttslr.'ls. KM: 1 inner. Nov 2. uptown, 8a (dir. No, 2 West.rn, uptown, 84585- Receipts, 5jo ousnei. , HAY Active and firm and un changed. uKAN FREIGHTS Dull and un- changed. BU11ER Firm and unchanged. Fancy imitation, lo(ff2o; fancy cream- "'. 25!426.; fancy ladle, tSi6; store packed, t2rj. I'.UUS Mendy; I8i SUGAR Stronir and unchanged, Coarse granulated. 4.85; fine, 4.85. Mew ork. BUTTbK-tasy. fcjt- tra fresh creamery, 32; creamer, com mon to choice, 1522; State dairy, 13 (a 21; held creamery, !32o; renovat ed, lo(a.i7y2; factory, ioS.i4j; imita tion creamery, I417. LliliKSK Mendy. Mate lull cream, fancy smalt colored, Septem ber, 12; late made, 10J-4: small white, September, 13; late made, 10J4; large colored, September, 12; late made, loii; large white, September, 12; late made, 104. LOUS I'irm. Jstate and .Pennsyl vania near-by average finest, iq; State and Pennsylvania firsts, i8J-j; Western hrsts, i;-i. FLOUR Receipts, 40,998 barrels; exports. 43.047. Markets very quiet. with a firm undertone. Winter patents, S-soigs.so; winter straights, s.ooS.2o; Minnesota patents, S.20S.So; winter extras, 3.354.oo. Minnesota bakers', 4.10(0:4.40: winter low graaes, 3.15 (2r8o. 1 KVli r LU U K Dull. Fair to good. 4-30irT4.55; choice to fancy, 4.(jo(g4.8o. LURNMbAL-Firm. 1 ellow Western, i.o8(ii.io; city, i.ioi.I2; kiln dreid, 3.10(3.15. HAY Uiuet. Shipping, 70W72V,; good to choice, )7li(ril .00. HOPS Steady. State, common to choice, 1003, 27(36; 1903, 2327; olds, 9(0)14; Pacific Coast, 1903, 243i; 1902, 23(a127; olds, 9(0)14. HIDES Steady. Galveston, 20 to 25 pounds, 18; California, 21 to 25 pounds. 19; iexas, dry, 24 to 3a pounds, 14. ' , Lf.Altl.K firm. Acia, 23(o;2o. WOOL Firm. Domestic fleece, 28(0-32. LARD Firm. Western steamed, 7.40; refined firm; continent, ,7-501 South America, 8.00; compound, 6H aim. PORK Firm. Family, 15 00; short clear, I475(ojl6.oo; mess, l4.755-25 TALLOW Quiet. City, 4; coun try, 4?4T5Mt. COTTONSEED OIL Quiet Prime crude nominal; prime yellow, 35'A- PETROLEUM Easy. Refined. New York, 8.50;' Philadelphia and Baltimore. 8.4; do. in bulk, 5.55. TURPENTINE Dull; s8s8. RICE Ottiet. Domestic, fair to extra, 3J$?S?i; Japan nominal. MOLASSLS Firm. New Orleans open kettle, good to choice, 3K?37- POTATOES Firm. Long Island, 3S04.oo; Jersey, 32S3-75; State and Western, sacks, 3.25; Jersey sweets, 1.50(04.50. CABBAGES Firm. Florida, 350 375- . Live Stock New York. BEEVES Dressed beef, steady, at 6'AB'Ac per pound, for native sides; a little choice beef, at 8Hc. Exports, today, 1,386 cattle. 10 sheep, and '8,200 quarters of beef CALVES Common to prime veal sold at 4.50 to 8.00; city dressed veaU, at 8(0 12'Ae. , SHEEP AND LAMBS Sheep, nominally steady; lambs more activr and 5ioc higher; good to choic lambs sold at 6.I26.25. EGGS Receipts were 2,374; market steady; prime State hogs sold at 5.9a Chicago. CATTLE Good to prime steers, nominal, 4.2558o; poof to medium 350(55-oo; stockers and feeders, a.5o((i)4.25; cows, l-7S4-25t ' heifers, 2.00(0)4.50; canners, l.75(o2.50t bulls, 2.oo4.oo; calves, 2.50(5.50; Texas fed steers, 4.00(0)4.60. SHEEP Good to choice wetlien, 4 755 4; native lambs, 4-55-9. WORLD OF LABOR. There are 2400 mineral water bot tlers in New York city. Albany, N. Y., union tailors ' will submit a new scale of wages. A union of candy workers is about to be organized in Montreal, Canada British India nnw eniplcy ovet 1,000,000 people in its cotton indus tries. In St. Louis 3 few years ago th waiter girls got $4 week salary, now they get Ig. no breakage charges the hours of labor are ruuch sr-ertet and conditions generally are better. The union label has been discarded by 30 wholesale clothing maiiuiactur crs of Rochester, N. Y. The Western Flint Glass Workers' Union has again joined the American . Federation of Labor. English workmen in the engineering and allied trades are but moderately employed at the present time. ; . Copper miners in Michigan have increased tn number fropi less thar 7,000 in 1893 to more than 14,000 in 1003. N 1 . In January and February the mem bership of the order of Railway Clerk , of America increased 1,230 in mem bexthip-. -
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