" VIVERSAL IN RELIGION" A Bright Sunday Sermon By Rev. C. L. Palnnr. Every System of Religion His Same Comet, lion of Ood. Kinustox, X.. Y. In the Reformed Church of the Comforter on Sunday morn inn the l!ev. (.'. h. Palmer preached I scholarly discourse entitled "The L'niver al in Religion." Tylor, in Primitive Culture, say': "Hi who only knows one religion can no trior' understand that religion, than he who onl; understands one language ran mauler tha' launuase." By which he mean, that ou en limit adequately appreciate any systerr of laiih and practice without aunie knowl edge 01 the history, doctrines and custom of system other than hia own, any mort than one can matter hia native tongur without nny knowledge of it cognatea )l ia undeniable that a study of the various systems disclose a religious aubstratum and phenomena, of which no intelligent t'ldent l willing to be deprived. The population of the world is estimatecl t l.ay.'.ood.OUd. Of this number luO.UOO.Wlf ere pagan or heathen, which represents tin Very lowest grade of Immunity. There ar uiipoed to be 17j.D00.lKK) lirahmans. Tin no.ninal and professed followers of iiuddub and Confucius are estimated at 420,000,001) Hihamreedans number more than 200,000, H. Christians, including Koinan Cutli oiie, Ureek ( hiircli and Protectant, aie computed at 400.000,0110. The whole o' ! astern Asia is occupied by the Buddhist India, by the Urahuians. Africa, Australia and tlie South Sea Islands by the pamn tribes. Parts of Knrope, Asia and Africa l the Mohammedans, the largest part of J. mope and America by Christian. The conservative classifications of tiie re lii;ioiia of the world were auch as these true ami lalse religion, natural and super natural, pagan and revealed, apirituu, a id upci st.tious. Such a classilication is u t only confusing to the student of eoiupara five re'.igiou. but is unjust, lor even aystein iimtaius some truth. A better iasiriciitiuii is: 1. Tribal, 2. Kthnic. 3. t'atliolic. The tribal includes all sys terns which have no ritual, priesthood, steed, sacred writings, architecture ot music. The ethnic religions are cumin d to one nation; such, for example, was the region of Egypt, which for a thousind years whs limited to its national borders The system of Assyria wua confined to A-syrm; the religion of llreece was con fined to the Hellenic race; that of Rome t i the Romans; ot Confucius to China. Urahni.inism is cniilined to India, and the faith of the Kddas waa limited to the Scaiuiiimviaii or Teutonic races. The Catholic systems, in spirit and method, know no limit in either time or ter ritory. , They aspire to conquer the world. Such were Muses, Zoroaster, Uu I Hah, Mohammed and .lesua. I'.llinic rehg ions were evolved onl of their own lite Catholic systems were formulated, intro duced ii ml promulgated by an inspired prophet. it is not my purpose to tract-' the origin of religion, the evolution or development or to compare the merits o each, but tc very briefly direct attention to certaiu forms or doctrines common to all. Such conception ia either just or unjust, true or false, right or wrong, though no faith, even among the most degraded, is en tirely destitute of some truth concernina iod. Christianity is the one system whicli has an adequate disclosure of the attri butes of Jehovah, because .Jesus became in carnate the reveal the Father. 'Tie that hath seen .Me huth seen the Father." And even Christianity cannot condense in f ingle definition a comprehensive deserip tion of the Supreme Being, for the idea ir not simple but complex. The lowest con ception of Uod is known a animism, which is belief in spiritual powers as opposed tc materialism. It is the unformulated no tion of the most undeveloped tribes, and has no place in the Christian system ex cept as clarified and perfected in angel ology and demonolouy. Polytheism is found principally in the ethnic systems In Kgypt the divine elements were aeen dwelling in nature. The Greek deities were not personifications, but persons, di vine men and women. In the Vedic Tlmns of India the forces of nature are spiritualized into objects of reverence and love. The most marked form of pantheism appears in the Hindu religion, which i in its extreme development, that the uni verse is Uod, and (rod is the universe Christian science savors of it. The doc trine of the divine imminence may be so f oiced m to eliminate the personality ot God. Ditheism ia belief in two hostile powers which was a tenet of Zoroastrian im. Triads appear in the ethnic and Cath olic systems. Ihe Christian doctrine of the trinity is a necessary and natural concep tion of Ood, and becomes cleur if it is understood to represent Him as one in e ence but three in form. Monotheism i. principally characteristic of the Catholic systems, though truces are found in the pagan and ethnic. Jeply imbedded in every heart is the ronvic.on of an Al mighty personality, and that such person ality is back of ail forma and images, and that the latter becomes etiicaciou because of the power of Uod. All possible theories about the origin of the universe are reducible to four. 1 That it had no beginning, but haj always existed either in its present or anotnei form. While the eternity of matter ha been advocated by some it has never be come a popular belief, and it does rot ap peal to modern fcience. But among the primitive tribes we presume, many think of ths handiwork of God without coin mencemer.t and culmination. 2. That it came by a process of evolution. This the ory had been modified in recent years by Biblical scholars and philosophical think era, with the result of a most heart ac ceptance 6n the part of some thorough atudenas and devoted scientists. 3. An other view ia that it came by a process of emanation. The difference between evo lution and emanation seems to be. that tin former is a growth up to and including t certain completeness, while the lutter be gan "with the dark abyss of infinite being, and by means of a series of emanations oi fallings away from this inconceivable first essence, gradually reached an intelligent Creator and an intelligent creation." Thii theory is Oriental in its origin, appearing first in the cosmogony of the Hindu. 4 Conservative Christian scholars are di vided on thi doctrine. Koine hold that God created, that ia, actually made, brought into existence, the material out of which all things were formed. Other hold that He simply cut, carved and fash ioned the universe out of pre-existing ma terial. It is difficult to aay just what form ia acceptable to the majority of Christian scholar. Kvolution as we now understand it is certainly accepted by men whose sin cerity we cannot question and whose schol arship commands universal admiration. There is a spirit in man and the inspira tion of the Almighty giveth it understand ing. The lowest anil most ignorant pagan, and the mot intelligent Christian is bora in possession of it. 'The practice of the human family from the very first confirms the statement, "that the spirit of man goeth upward." All believe in a spirit world and that access i had to it through prayer. Men pray either because they ot , lain what they ask for, or because the act i a blessing in itself. The Hioux Indian pray "Spirita of the dead, have mercy oa us." The Zulu of Africa pray to their ancestors "People of our house, people of our bouse; tattle. People of our house, 8 ood luck and health." A Delaware In tan prayed thus "O Great Spirit above! have mercy on my children and uir wife. Let them not mourn for me, Let me suc ceed in this enterprise, slay my enemy, re turn in safety to my family and friend. together. Have ptn on me and protect my life." The negro iu. 1.1 nravsil "God CIV UK to-day rice and yams, give me alave, ricbe 4nd wealth. Let ma be brisk and.ewift. . The Karena of Burnish pray to the harvest goddess thus "Uraiidtiiotherl thou guard .c.t my Held look out alu.ro for thieve. It l..u l.i.i.l them with tin rope." tjucb are a few form used by tha childlike races; tin ethnic systems uuciose a nignei and more enlightened conception of inyo 'cation. The VtdvB hymns ar tilled with .,). . i. rn,ii.i. I If which God now, ol -.which of the immortals, shall we uivoks the amiable name? I-t us invoko the ami able iuiu df Adili. Avui. tu god ul hit- is addressed a the DiVine Monarch. Id China the worship of ancestors is con stantly practiced. On an Assyrian tablet are found these words: "May I never feel tli anger and wrath of God. The ancient Mevir.iin. n .1,1 ...... A ...! Tt. li.l I.. whom we live, Thou omnipresent, Who L-nnUAll. .11 .1 l.. .. A 1. -ii i . u all uni iiiuiiuni", uiiu pitewi all gift." They baptized children with this formula, "Let these holy drops wash away the sin that it received before the foundii. tion of the world, so that the child nmv be new born." In the Catholic religions' we discover an element less conspicuous than in the others. It is pardon for past sins, reconciliation with God and growth in grace. It would be interesting to tract under this division the practice of sacrilicc, hymnology and other forms that enter into worship, but we pass on. Inspiration implies that man must have a rapacity to be inspired, which makes it a human faculty and therefore common to all. Inspiration in its largest sense is the sight of inward truth, a truth h;,., .. seen within the min.4 A l.ni...l.f .:tl come while one is walking, conversing, reading or meditating. It is a kind of inspiration. Poets have been inspired to write poetry. Scientist have been in spired to formulate the sciences, musician to compose music, Columbus to discover, Newton and Kdison to both discover and invent. Inspiration differs in quantity and quality, religions being the highest f he edas and Zend Avesta are considered inspired by their eult. The Mohammedans believe the Koran is inspired of God and therefore infallible, nnd Christians make the same contentions for the Scripture. There is a low and crude form of inspira tion among the undeveloped races, wnich is not committed to writing. The Samoiedj of Siberia have diviners who work them selvea into a frenzy before delivering ora cle. The notion of inspiration appeared in the insanity of the Pythian priestc and the Greek diviner who fell into trances. In the religion of Greece it ap peared as an alien element. The wi.d dances of the Bacchantes, the shrieks and self-lacerations of the Corybtantes were considered forms of inspiration. In the Hindu religion it appears in the Yoga, that is one who seeks God by withdrawing from the things of sense. Painful posi tion.! are assumed, contortions of the limbs, suppression of breath and other incred ible mortifications. The Greenlander ha bis prophets, who abandon the converse of men and remain in fixed intensity of thought until they hear and see the spirit. Balaam was compelled to utter an invol mi inw pro .hecy. and tiie priests-of Baal cit themselves with lances. Sometimes in our own country, at protracted meetings, men have the "jerks." The Shakers dance, tiie Mohammedans whirl. These seem ab surd to us, but they ilix-lose this, that all mankind would ascertain the will of God. From time immemorial the human race ins had some intimation of an endles life. The most degraded savages and the most enlightened philosophers share the conviction that death doe not end all. Ihe Hottentot and the Fiji Islander agree With Plato and Aristotle. The Flsquimaux in the Arctic circle, the native of Siberia, the Australians, the Patagonians believe that the grave is the cradle of another lite. All the religions of antiquity believe in immortality, Kgypt, China, India, Per sia, Greece, Home, Mexico, Peru, the Tar tar tribe of Central Asia, the negroes of Central and Western Africa and the isl ands of the Pacific, all contend that while the body returns to dust, the apirit goea to God, Who gave it. The North Amer ican Indian believe in duplicate souls, one remaining with the bodv, the other departing during sleep. It ha been claimed by ome that Buddhism is an ex Jfl'f'on. but it is not. The teaching of Buddh'sm is til Annihilate hv lh. ,laarr..n. tion of desire. It is not claimed that thi ia SUCCesSful- hilt thnt th. .ninif incarnate in one form or another until it rests in Nirvana. The transmigration of souls wa taught by the religion of Egvpt, h,nr that. a.n V lr...l T J-.J Ti. : fill i ii n in H r :i li t,i i. i ,r, 1. A I i . philosopher Pythagoras, Empedocles and Plato Bv the Ken-llnn,,i... 1.;a Cabbala. Arsh nhilnannhnra hv nialn nn.l other church fathers. Also by the Gno- tic, Manicheans. Druid and in more re cent time by Fourier. Christianity be lieves in etertiAl lif anA l,nt l..,. i. -- - - - - - - - - -. ...... -uu. i.oiia uc- came flesh, not only to disclose God, but iu uring me ana immortality to'light. Man is a moral being, because he ha a moral nature. He ha a moral sentiment, moral ldenS SnH a Inn.. I nn..-a 1M. moral sentiment is the sense of right and wrong, which produces a feeling of duty and obligation. Moral ideas consist in the behet that certain act are right, other wrong. Moral power is the abilitv to do the right and not the wrong. Feeling, thought and will cannot be elimin mated from any moral cst. Even the childlike raep. 1ihi-a .,i.n. ot right and wrong, though often very Milnli knln.H - .1 -.!.: ' , , u.miu . uvm. uristiaii standard; enough, however, to be classed among those who are not without God. But few, if any, have been discovered without enough moral ability to aay yea to the right and no to the wrong. It is not de nied that the ninrnl .lunHupil t. Iiffa..,.. in each svstem anil Ihitf wh.l ., I. I rigin in one may tie wrong in another. xue tempie oi inula ana cnina encourage vice which are too low to nfention. The unilerlvinir nrinfiitla nf n,-u I. gratify every desire. The test of Chris- uaiiuv is me iype or uie it proauee. i.he liberal, consistent, devoted busines man, father' brother Sfin tha .,.u;.inn mother, sister, daughter, the Christian home, school, hospital and the National flag. They are the result of the code of ethic the Bible. One has only to read any of the standard works on the life of the nations in order to be convinced that Christianity i capable of producing the i.tonl lift. Tk.l ..-l.:l. . uig, iiiai nunc c.ciy my stem con tain some truth, Christianity is the truth. The relitfinus u-nrlH ia n...ini, Ihrnn,,!, . great change. To pust what we are com ing no one is confident, though the iudi cations are that Christianity i destined lu vucircie me gioue. 1. Christianity is the one svstem that is making civilization. We lament the in difference and anathy on the part of Chris- lion. Utti it im mnf " l. 1 . 1. the lethargy of heathenism. 2. Christianity is -destined to spread, because it has the Bible, church, Sabbath, uu uu pruuucea a type oi civilization that SMtiaties the enlightened mind and renewed heart. 3. All the aggressive system have the inspiration of an inspired prophet. Wez, havt tha irraatuf t( . k.n. .11 ft...:... ;7 seeking the nation, rod they are aeeking Ulllli Chri.ti.nitv nn .11 - .-j .sua, wuiy VVUMIUI Bla the truth of ail nl-hor iiitum hist- ..k not poauwsged by otherj. ' Tt. ... invlnn. alv.,,. .A . T . " -'--- ,u-luri UW, iVU IF" day'a duty, fight to-dsy's temptation and uu ui .nm auu uisLrust yoursea Dy loomng lorwnra to tnings wbich you can- .i' w. uu i-u'u uu. miners anu 11 JfOU aaw them. Charlea Kingsley. p Blaaainga Com In Bunches. ' Albert Byrlc, au Ebervale (Pa.) farmer, wag showered with blesaingf the other day. In the morning- bouncing baby boy arrived t bi borne. Going to hia stable a short time later, Byrlc was greeted by the bellowing of a new-born call. Several hours afterward he was attracted by the squeal of thirteen little plga. To ward noon, when Byrlc went to the barn for the third time, he was sur prised to see a dozen young gee-ie, Just batched out, running about. He was so overjoyed because of his good fortune that he Invited all the neigh bors to bis place and held a'great eel k ebratlon to mark the advent of such propitious additions to bis family. Plana to Tama Wildcat Bernard Martin, a woodchopper on Woloott mountain, la the town ot Southtngton, Conn., has a 'wildcat a captive at bis shanty on the mountain. Ha set a trap for fox and hi first visit to the trap revealed the wildcat with nn lea caught In the laws of the trap. He secured the animal alive md Inteuds to train It. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS . FOR JULY 3. Julijert! I'll Klngiloln IHrlriVi, I Kings ill., H-JO-dolden Test, Prov. !., lliM.Menifirv Verses, 13-14Comuien-tary on the Day' Lesson. T. A dt'inatiil by the people fv. 1-11). When Kehiiboam found himself the succes sor to the throne he met the leaders of the nation i.t Shrehem. While this assembly was called ostensibly for the purpose of confirming Iiehoboam in hia kingdom, yet the people had determined to exact cer tain reforms as the condition of their alle giance. They had many grievances: 1. The burden of taxation wa very great. It was especially hard upon the northern tribes who were so far removed from Jeru salem that they roirld not share in the wealth which tilled the coffers of the lead er. 2. The people were bitterly op pressed. The forced free labor for Solo mon's great works was exceedingly burden some. "Although they had been dazzled by the splendor and display of Solomon. Vet ere long they waked up to the bitter realization nf the fart that all this glitter was not gold, and that the just policy of David no longer guided the throne. II. Rehoboam decision (vs. 12-lfl). 12. "All the people." Thi probably has refer ence to the ten tribes; Judah and Benja min clung to Hehoboam. "The third day." Kehohoam had asked the people to wail three days for his decision (v. 5). "This seemed reasonable on the face of it, and yet this was one nf the questions which right heart would have derided instantly. It was only because there wa a contest be tween his conscience and his desires that delay was needed. This was the turning rioint in the life tf King Hehoboam. On lis derision bung his destiny as king and the welfare of the nation." 13. "Rough ly." He was harsh and insolent. "For sookcounsel." Iiehoboam first consulted with the old men (v. 6). They were the men of wisdom and ability whom Solomon in his wisdom had chosen for his advisers See Prov. 11:14; 13:22. But their counsel did not suit the young king. Thev advised Kehobnnm to grant the request of the peo- ?le and "speak good iworda to them" (v. ). But he was proud, haughty and con ceited and forsook t.ieir counsel. He should have followed it because, 1. It was right. 2. It was good f . r the people. 3. It would bring the highest prosperity and glory to the kingdom. 4. It would render the Government more stable. 5. It would bind the people to him. 14. "Young men." Iiehoboam next con sulted the young men, hia associates (vs, 8, 9). The surest mark of a fool is that h chooseth other fool for hi advisers. The king ma le a fatal omission in seeking ad vice. There is no mention made of hi) going to Ood or to one of God's prophets. "I will add." This was the language of a tvrant. 'With whips." It is probuhU that the expression is not entirely figura tive. It is quite possible that the levies of Amorites. Hiltites. etc. (chap. 9:20. 21) had been kept at their toiis by the lash "With scorpions." A the ecorpion ul instrument of torture with many laxheg like the legs of the animal of this name, and each laah armed with rhirp points t lacerate the flesh is a more terriblt scourge than the common whip, so will mj severity exceed mv father's. This answe'i meant his downfall. It was the height ol folly for him to take such a course. 15 "Brought a lout ot the Lord" (R. V.) TM course of events had been shaped bv Solo mon' transgression, and they were left by God to work out their natural. result. The sin of the father wa here visited on the child. The meaning is that thi great change or revolution in the Hebrew state was brought about in the providence ol' God as a judgment on the nation for tin sins of Solomon. God foretold it by th prophet Ahijah (chap. 11:39-33): but neither Solomon's tins nor Rchoboain' blind folloy and rash imi i-udence were from the Lord. Ood foresees what men will freely do and orders His judgment oi merries accordingly. III. ihe revolt of the ten tribe (vs. 13 29. 18. "All Israel." The leader repre senting - e ten tribes. "What portion in David," etc. Just aa a kirg inherit the nation he governs, so a monarchy inherits it king. But the ten tribes bad not thin received David, nor probably Solomon either. Seven veara i.fter David had been recognized as King of Judah the chieftains of the ten tribes made a special treaty wHth him by which he should govern them. The terms of tnis treaty we do not know, but it wa probably renewed on the acces sion of Solomon, and it is evident that th' ten trine now regarded it as broken by Rehoboam. Their loyalty to him wa an nulled by his own action. '1 he phrase "on of Jesse" i a taunt, like "carpenter'! son" in Matt. 13:55. "To your tents." Thi waa probably a popular war cry, dat ing from the ' vs of the exodus, when the whole nation lived in tents. But we are t remember also that a great multitude wa now crowded about a town, and doubtless many were at this time dwelling in tents. "Now see," etc. Let David' descendant look after hi dvnaaty; we sever our con nection. 17. "Which dwelt." The Israel ites who were member of the northern tribes, but who had home in the cities of Judah, did not go with their own tribe, but remained and quietly sunibitted to tha reign of Rehoboam. 18. "Sent Adoram." The chief tax col lector and therefore one of the most ol noxious in the nation. He wa probably sent to make concessions, but it was too late. "The fatal word had been spoken, the rent in the nation had been made never to be healed until they shall be united in Christ, the ton of David, in the latter days (Ezek. 37:13-28). "Stoned him." The people in their blind rage rose up in a mob. With thi one exception this wa a blood loaa revolution. "Rehohnnm made peed." Strengthened himself. Margin, "Made use of every effort;" "exerted himself much," ainre danger was threatening him a well a hi messenger. It appear that little time elapsed between the answer of Reho boam and the sending of Adoram to ap pease the irritated leaders. This waa done and Adoram killed before Hehoboam left Shechem. The haughty, atern answer and the sudden change to a more lenient policy markes the weak character of the new king. 19. "Israel rebelled." Where prince and people fear God there will be no re bellion, out where no covenant with God ia, all human considerations fall in pieces. 20. "All Israel heard." When the main body of the people learned what the few assembled at Shechem knew. "Called him," etc. After the congregation at She chem wa broken up and the people had returned to their homes, another assembly was convened by the leaders of the ten tribe, at which time Jeroboam was made, tlteir king. "Judah only." Although Ben. iamin adhered to Rehoboam (v. 21) and also many Israelites of other tribes (v. 17), yet they are all looked upon aa being ab sorbed in the tribe of Judah. Origin ot "To Tip." Apropos o( the question whether It were better "to tip or not to tip' waiters, the origin of the odd little word, which so greatly Influences the treatment of man at public olnlng houses, goes back a couple of con turles to the coffee houses of Eng land. At. the doors of the eating rooms a brass-bound box with lock and key was bung up, and Into the silt In the top customers were ft pected to drop a coin for the waiter "To Insure Promptness." according tc the phrase engraved upon It. Hence the word "Tip," apelled from the In lttal letters of the three words on the box, and ever since used to, express the fee ot waiters. Valuable Maple Tree. Wilbur E. Washburn of Woodatock 71., bas a maple tree, standing In an pen field, measuring 10 feet 4 Incnef n circumference, the branches spread Dg 67 feet. April IS. six buckets were tung on the tree and in the eleven lays following 168 gallons of sap were lathered from It. SUNDAY, JULY THIRD. "Ways of Consecrating Ourselves tJ Our Country." Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Pet. 2:13-17. Scripture Verses Neh. 1:1-4; Ps 10:5. : 48:12; 137:5. fi; Matt. 23:37; 1 Cor. 1:2; Eph. 2:6. 19, 22; Phil. 3:29; Hi'b. 3:1, 2, 5. 6. Lessor) Thoughts. God holds In his hands the reins of all governments; If the human sover eign honors God, his rule will be blessed even though It may seem dis astrous; If he dishonors God, he wotks out his own and the nation's de struction. "Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil." It has been said that the object of laws is to make It as easy as possible to do right and as hard as possible to do wrong. Christianity respects the law. A (rite Christian Is sure to be a patriotic, law-abiding citizen. Selections. He who maintains his countiy's laws Alone Is great; or he who dies in the good cause. The strongest safeguard for out country Is not In ourselves. In our armles and navies, but In the keep ing and favor of God. The Christian owes It to his country to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem," for her rulers and all ia authority, for her lnstltti Hons, for her citizens. Our debt to our country needs to be linked with the thought of our duty to God. True patriotism must rest on a religious basis; political problems must be solved by Christian principles Christianity must leave all our nation al affairs, or national corruption will leaven the church. The age calls for m m who will place righteousness and the public welfare above personal prosperity. If the evils of the world are ever to be overcome, they will be overcome by the useful ness and heroism of self-sacrlflclng love on the parts of all who call them selves followers of Jesus Christ. EPWURTH LEAGUE IMS JULY THIRD. Christ'jn Patriotism. Rom. 13. 1-7; 1 Pet. 2. 13-17. Too many citizen.! shirk personal responsibility, declining to take active part in poiUcs. Many otherwise good men uie tco indifferent to register or go to the polls on Election Day. They u.Ijw others to mlsrrle while trey themselves oujlit to govern. hluamies trcm Wit..out Hre not half as grtat a rnenaos to national welfare as thu.-e proxy pitiiots Within. The citizen who fails to do his dt.ty Iu Itfgaiiy p.otecting the State may not consistently cou.plain cf mlsgcv t rnment. Civic duties cannot be performed In out? day lor a wholo year. A continual, uiicpising Interest is demanded. The inemies of g?id government, such as saloon men and bmatl pol.lcians who are only after the spolU. set good cit izens a tine example of persistency. Reform Societies, Law and urcei I.-ugitPS, and other well-meaning or ganizations are well enough In thoir plaea. But they cannot be a si.t'e Bubititute lor personal patriotism. The Reptibhc's mainstay is Chr.s tlan character. Ours is a Christian country. It will be pei manently prosperous only In so far as It ob.'3 God. Kvpry man, woman, and child w.io lovts and honors the Mater conti butes rial strength to the republic. l p:lghtness, Integilty. rectitude, pu rity of life these are plllais of power and uphold the temp.e of freedom. Since the people are the rulers he.'e, It la Impeiative that t':ey qualify them selves to rule In righteousness. The church and tiunday school a.id y:ung peop e's religious organizations are miglity suppo.ts ,to the State and nation. The very best way to serve out' coun try is fl:st to be a true Christian and then do all we can to heln othprs in living beautifully and strongly the Chiistlin l.fe. Mo.m-nlsm is a shameful foe. It mu3t be eliminated partly by govern ment fore?, largely by Gospel enllgl.t ton ent. P-ae wars, both North and South.' A de?p r love of Justice and loftier enthusiasm tor humanity must be in cub atel. Corruption In politics must perish lu the tlanies of purer patriotism. The saloon must be pushed off tae continent by united temperance senti ment. Sabbath desecration must be sup planted by a rational observance of this divine day. The wild, mad, reeklpss worship of pleasure must give way to wholesome recreations. Clubs for men or women must not ba aPel to crowd the Christian home out of Its rightful place of prom inence and power. Christian names constitute a nation's mightiest safe guard. Was He Joklnj? Several Philadelphia men recently went on a gunning trip to Virginia, t'he first evening they elected to stop at a lfttle, out of tbe way hotel. Along with the other gue.its they bad re paired to the dining room for supper, and had been seated some little while when the proprietor appeared In the doorway and to their astonishment re cited lu stentorian tones tbe bill of fare. One of the party Inquired later why this novel method prevailed in lieu of tbe usual printed cards. "It's a practice I began some year ago," replied tbe proprietor with a smile, "when I kept a tiotel In an other state. Most of my guests were members of the legislature, aud thev couldn't read." "Seven" Social the Latest. They had a "Seven" social over li Patten, Me., the other night, sayt the Boston Olobe. It opened at sever minutes past seven, coat seven centf to get In and seven cents to get out except every seventh one. AU wer at liberty to go borne at seven mtn utes past nine, but no on went untl even minutes past ten. All agreed on the way home that the sever kinds of refreshment served at sevet minutes, past eight were seven timet bottot Uiaa anything ever beton ateo. 'TTkv.fir am ire&Jtf&.5l rabble The Fire Thnnsamt, 'nnd them a way, this counties.' throng, That tluv may all be fed, For night c-imes on, and no one here flath either meat or bread." thus snake the Twelve, but not the Christ, l-'or He in love replied: 'Give ye to eat. My chosen ones, And let them here abide." "Kind Master, how shall we supply Their hungry mouths with meat? Two hundred pennyworth would scare Provide enough to eat." Cut in the multitude there moved A lad unknown and poor, tVhose tish and bread the Saviour used To show His mighty power. All seated on the ground, the throng Beheld the mighty deed. Apostles. Iroin God's ample store, Supplied their every need. The children, too. His thought controlled, And none were sent awav, For every soul was satisfied Kre Bank the light of day. The world about us everywhere Has many a desert spot. Where souls are hungering for God's food, And lo, they tind it not. Oh, let us heed the Saviour's voice, And anwer Him in love. With willing hearts and eager hands Bring blessings from above. John Timothy Stone, in Christian Work. Christianity I it Lite. Christianity, declares N. D. Hillis, in the Brooklyn Daily Kagle. is not the book that describes the Christian life; Christianity is not a creed that analyzes the Christian life; Christnaity is not a sacrament that promotes the Christian life. Christianity is not the Sermon on the Mount that is the architect's plan, of which the Chris tian ia the cathedral. Christianity is a vital force, the living Christ within the living soul, building a ripe character. In the school room you have a map of Maine and Florida, but the real thing is the for ests of Maine and the orange groves of the South. Handel wrote his musical score but when that score is translated through the cornet and the violins and the 'cefic and the flute, and a hundred other stringed instruments, and a thousand voices unite, the score of Handel becomes the mu sic that he describes. In the Kensington museum in London are the cartoons oi Kuphael. These are charcoal sketches, the outlines of Raphael's masterpieces. From them, as models and skeletons, he naiuted his angels and seraphs and the Madonna and child. And the Sermon on the Mount is an outline sketch of the Christian. It is n verbal description ot what Christ was and what His disciples are to be. It if Christ's ideal of the Christian. It is His sketch of what He wants you to become. And you are to translate it into puru thoughts, into holy deeds, into stern re solves, until your intellect is clear and your will strong as iron in its firmness, and your character white as a cloud and firm as a mountain. Oh, for a church made up of such Chris tians! Oh, for a time when' the-ie idca'.s of perfect manhood shall prevail! Tiie power of the church Is only incidentally in the pulpit. It becomes omnipotent through men who incarnate ideal seiininis. I lie living church is the one in which thee I living ideals are tiansforminz men. For tunately multitude:! are being transformed, and these transformations are the most glorious events in life. It is given to the clod to climb to the gras, it is given to a rose bough to burst into bloom, it is given to a cloudstorm to hold the rainbow; to the night is given a star. But the must wondrous thing in creation is the soul, car riru up to beauty of character, made wie by the truth, made pure and sweet hv Christ's love, made righteous and holy bv God's cleansing grace. In Stratford lovers of Miakeepenre have planted in Ins garden only those tlowers that are mentioned in the poet's plajs. There you find the e. lantine, the rosemary, the woodbine, the modest pansy, the sweethriar. all the hum ble flowers. And Christ hath His garden, and the flowers that bloom in it are th fruits of His spirit ; hate is not there; envy and iitrite anil vulgarity and covctousne-s are expelled, as men expel the burr, the thistle and the noxious nightshade, but love and joy ami pe.n-e are there, blooming as sweetly as dowers whose roots are in heaven, hut whoc bloom and sweetness and perfume are the glory of our earth I.ovft That is Complete. f.ovc. t i he c iniii'i'ie, ni list have no con straints or conditions thrown about it, H must git out spontaneously, and in its re turn it must be met without restraint and without reserve. Conditional love ia no love at all: it Inks the vital element the absolute self-surrender of the loved to the lover. So God hath loved thee, my heart. Thou hast often read. "God so loved that He gave." There was no reserve in His love; He loved supremely, so He gave tin stiutinglv. Hist thou learned the secret also'' When thou sayest to thv friend. T love thee" dost thou add "if" ? Nay, nay, when thou Invest deeply, all that thou hast thou freelv give-it; so of thee it may be written. Why, then, hesitate in iny love to nun.' o.isecration, sell-giv- lug. lite-surreiiJer these are but the defi nitions of the words. 'T love Thee. O God." And yet tlmu dost hesitate so of ten, as though His love seemed to demand o iniii-li. "We treat bo other lrieud ill." llaptist Lnioii. Temptation of Christ There is no doubt in our minds that ihe temptation of Christ in the wildeinc wa some supreme crisis. It was not the first tune He had met a moral issue. It might have been supreme and unique, hut it was not an initial temptation. He could not yield, we say, but it was simply because His necessity had been determined by Himself by an earlier choice. Such in sight, such power, such self-necessity come from discipline and pra.cice, iroiu commu nion and self-control. Kcv. D. S. Toau send, New York City. tsi.satsi Honesty. Whatever we may say about honesty b? ing the best policy and the financial re ward which come to sobriety and frugal ity, we shall have hard work in proving that Christianity pays in dollars and cents. The man who disregard the Golden Rule is tricky and dishonest; often accumulate more money than his neighbor, who is un selfish and absolutely honest. If money is of larger alue than anything else ic tint world then it does not pay to be a Chris tian. Rev. L. A. Cantield, Chicago, 111. 4 World Neighbors. The world is not so large physically a it Used to be, but in the matters of real bv big it waa never so large as it is to dav. The words neighbor and neighborhood mean more than ever before. As the world grow more homogenous the Kng-lish-speaking nations are destined to be leader in the development of the king doms of the world. Rev. E. T. Hagciuau, l)e Moines, Iowa. I find the gayest castle in tha air thi' were ever piled far better for comfort and for use than the duugeuna in the air that are daily dug and caver ned out by gruniu Log, discontented people. Emerson. Greatest Ocean Depths. The deepest sounding ever made b. any vessel, saya the National Geo graphic Magazine, was by the Unltod States steamship Nero while on the Honolulu Manila cable survey, wltb apparatus borrowed from tbe Alba truss. When near Guam the Nero pot 11.269 fathoms, or 31.614 feet, only six ty-Blx feet less than six miles. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth, were set down In this hole It would have above Its summit itenth of 5 613 f-at or nearlv half a fleptn or s- bis i-ai, or nny uau a He of water. rilE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Moderate nrlnklng Habit tils flnln Had Iteeltal of it Former Bank Clerks TInw He anil III Wile Went Over the Hill tn the Poor limine. The Kew York World thus tells the storv of the downfall of a well-known New York bank clerk: Garvin R. Dick, former clerk of th? cheek department of the Chase National Rank, at on a bench in the room for visit ors at the work house on Hlaekwell' Isl and, lie wore prison trousers, prison shoes and a prison hat. "Tippling brought me here." he said, "just a drink or two a dav with a friend. That's what, downed me. Moderate drink ing is the most insidious form of indulg ence. "It wss moderate drinking also that brought my wife here. She had her circle nf friend, and they had their social glass. She will agree with me that the hard drinker has not as much to fear as those who take a social glass regularly." Dick and his wife, whose maiden mm was Gertrude Hancker, popular in the Har lem et, were taken to the Island at the same time, sentenced for six months be cause neither could give the required bond of MOO. Friends of Dick who used to know him when he stood behind fhe grating of the Chase National Rank and counted up th checks and classified them, would not have recognized in the thin-faced, white-haired, unshorn prisoner, feebly and penitentlt telling of his downfall, the same smiling, jovial and confident young man who was pointed nut as a model to many of the sub ordinate clerks in the big bank. "1 didn't bring my wile down with me. I didn't cause her to take up drinking," he said. "It was her circle of friends with w hom she used to take a social glass when they came together that caused her to b here with me. "I had no idea that I would ever be ai low as this. I came to New York from New Rrunswirk. Canada, more than twenty-five years ago. I was barely more than a boy then, and 1 had hopes of accomplish ing something in the big city. It was the habit of all the people in my CanadiaD neighborhood to take a glass of whiskv when thev wanted it. I thought, too. that I could id in U like a gentleman and autfei no ill effects I got a position twenty three years ago with the bank as one ol the clerks, at 81.5 a week. I worked hard, and was shortly afterward advanced. Two vear later I married, and we were verj liappv together. "Whenever the boys would ask me out to have a drink I would not refuse, but I waa not what one might call in the habit of drinking. I knew that I could stop at any time. "Mrs. Dick did not drink in those dav. "By hard work, in a year or two I wa advanced again and we took a more pre tentious home. I had several friends at the bank, but, of course, thev would not j endanger their position now by trying tc do anything for me. You know how par tun la r a bank is. I "I suppose it must be the case with al' i r'runkards, but the tirst thing I knew I got to be so dependent upon mv daily amount ! of stimulant that I would be nervous it I ! left off. In the meantime I noticed that my wife also would ask for a drink bol'otf I meals and before retiring. "She seemed to take to it at first to he ' congenial with me, but she told me sh 1 had learned to drink at a friend's house I 1 did not try to stop her, because 1 ex- ', pecteu no ill enects. 1 alwavs ilid m i work regularly at the bank Xhe lust in timation that anything was wrong i ame a year ago, when the surety company whicb protected my position went on my bono. "The bank, of course, notified nie that 1 would have to leave. I got out. In the meanwhile I bad saved up no money and had to borrow from friends. I thought there would be no trouble in getting new place, but after a man gets to a cer tain age in New York no business has anj use for him. and it wa then that 1 real ized that I had cultivated the drink habit ao far that I wa permanently injured by it " "It was impossible for me to get any po sitiioi. I got more discouraged aud began to drink heavier. Mrs. Dick also began to drink more. From the tippler sin- sour was changed into the confirmed inebriate. "We are here both of us for six months, and we ran both attribute our pieeut state to the moderate drinking habit." Drinking Among "Ihe 4011." In New York not long since a soon! leader, together with the President of th New York estate W. C. T. I'., made thorough personal investigation of that city to ascertain whether the use of liqiuu in public place was general among th fashionable set. To this end' they visited the places where fashionable people luncb and dine, at the hnnra when th ureafc! nnmhAri it-i.rA nwsnnt At m fnt-.-,i-itf I lunching place they noted that at fifty pel I cent, of the table women were driukin j ome kind of liquor. There were only three or four men in the room, but womea lunching alone ordered wine, champagns j and claret a freely and naturally as an lauy wouiu order tea or couce. Tha Antl-Balooa League, The Wine and Spirit News, one of thi prominent organ of the liquor tradic, re cently published the following signilicant paragraph concerning the achievements of the Anti-Saloon League and it probabli future: "The Anti-Saloon League has ac complished more than any other organiza tion formed in a similar tune. It will rap ture the State; then God have mercy on the rest of mankind if we are permitted ta live at all." Great Britain's Powerful Brewer. Mr. T. W. Russell, M. P., sieaking al the United Kingdom Alliance Jubilee meetings in Manchester, asserted that li the drink bill could be reduced one-hall "the nearly dead bone ot 12,tsJ.iH) of people would vigorously live." He stated further that in Parliament affair- are dom inated by the great brewers. "My blood boil when I see them in the House of Common treating that assembly a it it were a counting house of their breweries." Why Man Do ta Saloons. "F.vil of th aaloon are made posaiblt by the wrong conditions existing in th home of working people. Men go to the aaloon to escape the misery, noise, confu sion and ugliness of tbe small home where incapable women hold away a wive and mother." So laid Mr. W. 8. Stewart, President of the International Board of Young Women' Christian As sociations, at the twelfth annual meet ing of the New York and New Jersey State Board. Tha Crusada la Brier. Before the devil ran be rhaiued, the beer saloon door must be bolted. The amount of alcoholic beverage swal lowed by the American eoiile laat year would fall a canal lis) mile long, 100 feet wide and 100 feet deep. A circular ha been issued by Pari phy man taking the radical ground that alco hol i never and never csn be of any use whatever to the organism. The Women' Temper ince Lergue of icnna, with tha object of keeping work men oat of public bouse, are sending out hand carts laden with hot. Don-alcoholie beveiages. With population ot oaly 8,000,000 in hahilai.ta Holland spends do lea th al7,Ouo,uuu a year on apinu. Tha Searchlight make th statement that lbs man who gulps down twenty cent' worth of beer a day swallow ia one year tiv - pairs of shots, four hundred loavea of bread, twelve sacks of potato, two suit of clothes, two tons of coal, a barrel of sugar and tweuty-aevea pound of coffee. , Mr., Arthur Rherwell, in hia "Drink Peril in Scotland." baa a chapter on the growiu ox aiconone insanity in bcotiand. Having traced this growth of insanity ta aicononsin, as proauca ui lerrmo ngures ,ht' h,,f PttPu!ton baa increased l0.., tut forty-nine per iutajutr La mcrc-4 lso per eeut. - THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsylvania To!i in Short Order. What tiie. Lebanon police bcliev to have been a bold attempt at kid naping was frustrated by Miss Maud? 1'ane, a 10 year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs, Henry Page, of that cty While Mi.s Pane was on her ay home she was attacked in a lar portion of a back street by three mtnr who attempted to drag her int" closed cab. She slipped from then grasp and ran to licr home, where she. tell in a faint. The men made their escape without beiiiK reeoniz-d-Neighbors of the I'ajre family aser that for several tights past strati. men have been seen prowlintr aronnrl the house and peeping into the win dows. A merchant in the same lo cality alleges that on the nitfht of the? alleged attack on Miss P.-iijc he saw a man looking; through the sbt'tter as he was cottntinir his dav's recei'iM. He rcnioincd awake all ninht in fear of a robbery. Society w omen of Pittsburg n- pose to establish a Motive-wives' .Em ployment Aitcncy, for the purpose of doing away with some of the nitiswc) now attached to the problem of do mestic help. Women of many promi nent families do their own w rk, and entire families tike their nn.-ils at restaurants and clubs solely for th't reason tli.'-.t domestic help is so un certain that no dependence can l placed upon it The men blame tit" condition of affairs upon professt nnf employment at?cnts, who care only fur their fees, and whose interest it U t ' have domestics constantly rhan;-n their places. A youna daughter of Levi Heiw, of Hamburg, encountered a snake h a younir chicken in its mouth. TVisj child, unconscious of its danger, f d lowinp the natural instinct to ri"."ir, took the chick from the snake anil car ried it to its mother at the ho -,ir. The snake followed th child to t V bouse, with its head raised in an ef fort to tret the chick, until it was? scared oft' by other members of t):; family. Public Safety-Director Marry M-mr-of Pittsburg is preparing an ordi-'.v to regulate the speed of aii:oni"S:K and street cars. The former ar t" be limited to eight miles an lion' r the bu.sine.s streets and twelve tr.:',-t on the buolevards. Street cars -,n-to run at siower speed downtown, hut will have the privilege of maWiog .-r time outside of the congested ?li tricts. Mr. Moore says manv ncr---.:--have been killed nnd injured for l:-V-of proper regulations People living pear the Public Sc'"-. V Park in Pottsville have rompl.vtvf to the School Hoard that "spooning" couples at tbe park have made it i lovers' retreat, some of the rn i,t ardent ones even frequenting the pla-e in the rain to kiss each other ind-t umbrellas. The board decided to place bright lights in the park jn' request the police to keep a watc'r on tbe place. Jealous hecause of Miss Mary Her linger, a Pottstown young woman Vvi accepted a love cba'm from ano-v-ei voting man. George Baclcy. ot Sn-m Citv. it is alleged, assaulted her took the charm away from her. Tlv charm, it was said, had power to ca i-s Miss Hcrlingcr to forget her love (m Ragley and renter her affection n his rival. Miss Hcrlingcr hid Hat ley arrest".!, and he was be-d in $tn bail for court by Magistrate Mis simer. President George F. Raer Reading Raihvav. with General S't-.---intendent A. T. Dice ami Gi-n ii Manager W. J. Richards, of the Coi & Iron C-mt''Mv. inspected the for the Philadelphia & Reading lm:v ing purchased a Pottsville last we-V Considerable time wis spent r.t tiie enlarged machine ho-i now nvr ing seven acres of additional n- - As an ev'.ience of the ronceotra'i -it policy adnnted hv Preo'-nt n. repair work of the Lehigh cV Wilkes R.irre Coal Company's collieries already hing done in Pot'-i'l -. '. was announced that th michin- - ( renair wo-k of the o'her snhso'ii-v railway eonipa'des is also to he d-im t the Pottsville shops. Ridgeway Leedom, of Swartlitn.irc once wealthy, was arrested and taki-n to Chester, where he was given a hearing before Magistrate Smith, on the charge ot theratcning to poi ia his family, to cut his wife s throe and to burn down the house. Ho uu held in the sum of $51x1 for Ins ap pearance at the next term of tbe De.'v ware County Criminal Court. The contract for the granite w-iij to surround the Capitol Park, inclua ing the tall granite clock tower 13 the park at Third and Locust streets, has been awarded to George K. Pay it 1 & Company, of I'hiladrlpria, by tl'.d board of Public Kuilding an I Grounds. The same firm is building the new Capitol, and was the only hi ( dcr for the wall. Work will begin next spring. Steps will be taken at a congress tional mcetng of the Presbyterian Church at Doylestown. June i& ti dissolve the pastoral relations of Re. Robert M. l.aharee, who will go t? Persia to succeed bis murdered broth er. Rev. Iienjamine W. Labaree, j missionary. While carrying a keg of beer on h; shoulder in Reading Elmer Kerchotf. aged 19, stumbled over a piece u wire. The keg slipped so kuddnl; that the jar dislocated bis neck killii:f him. Rev. Charles W. W. Bishop, pa-tm: of the Marcus Hook Baptist Churcfv for the past twenty-five years, tern dered his resignation at the Snudif morning service. Rev. Mr. Bchoj gave no reason for resigning. While returning from a festival ttj the village of W hite Horse, Salisbury Township, Jacob Trego met a number of mountaineers, who were promt. 4 cuously firing of revolvers. A unf ball passed through Trego's neclt The injured man could not identify his assailant. The charred body of Mrs. Frank Morgan, aged fj. was found at her home in West I'itiston by neighbors The fact that the bare kitchen flow beneath the bodv showed no trace of fire, and (hat blood was spatrereJ in a side room suggests foul play. A full investigation is to be made. The 185th anniversary services o the Montgomery Baptist Church. ' Colmar, were opened Sunday evenin by the pastor, Rev. C H. Pinchbeck; who delivered the historical sermma Ihe church was orgsnised in Jun 1719. by ten Welsh immig rants. A fierce hsil storm visited Media, The hail followed a kesvy nundc , storm, lasting but a short time. When the storm abated the streets and side watks were covered with hail. Trees, crops and flowers were badly damaged the bail cuttinn off the young corn, peas, tomatoes and blossoms as ef fectually as though a sharp, knife had. beeu used. '
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