"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
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