"UNFINISHED THINGS" A Bright Sunday Discourse By Rev. A, H. C Horse. Address Upon the First and Last Words la the Scriptures. UnooKt.Tir, N. Y. In the Stroni Dace Baptist Church Sunday morning the pas tor, the Rev. A. H. 0. Morse, preached . i strong sermon on "Unfinished Things." He said: My sermon this morning is based upon lhti first snd the last words in the Scrip ture: "In the beginning Ond created the leaven snd the earth, "Even so, come Lord .Team." And between these texts . (hero is an immeasurable distance. The irst deals with the beginning of things. Vhe last closes the Bible with a note of ticompleteness. The first takes us back to the moment when the shining worlds frcre hurled from the battlements of heav n by the hand of the Creator. The sec Hid points forward to some "far off divine Ivent to which the whole creation moves." It would solve many troubles in our flunking if we remembered that we live in world of unfinished things. This earth not a finished product. It is rather the (urn of all the forces with which it. was ttored in the beginning. It is what some me has called an expectant creation. It Itands with shaded eyes looking toward the future. Hidden behind all its move nent there is ft divinely appointed end. Men may correct all their false ideas of volution in the light of this single truth, but in the beginning they must posit Uod. Life is an unfinished product. Whoever law a finished life? In a great workshop tre must look for noise and dust and tu nult and confusion. We also look for the Inished product, but it is not there. As loon as a product is finished it is removed. Us place is not there in all that dust and iirt. This world is Hod's great workshop, ore we startled at the noise and confu sion? Human beings are in process of be ing formed and perfected. But the end is ot yet. "Ityloth not yet appear what we lliall be." No one is perfect to-day. And what we call the best is made up of un Jnished and incomplete products. If this frorld has ever seen the perfect, it is only hat it would be removed. Life is a great tchool. What man is, or does, after grad lation has not been told us yet with any letail. We are appalled at the evidences of so ;ial wreckage. They tell us there is noth ing good in all the world, that the whole (arth is a vast madhouse, her inhabitant) ire drunk with delirium, the fields are be soming bankrupt, and the harvests are well nigh exhausted. They tell us that tht Itrong trample the weak to death in their ;ruel greed und hunger. Now this seems to me like a false interpretation. The world is tilled with madness. It does reek In cruelty and greed. But still I am taught tlmt this world is God's, and that tt is working for a divinely appointed end. It manifests along its course one great in tention. Who, then, are the pessimists? They ire the disappointed whom fortune seems to have shaken from her skirts. Here is a man you used to know. Then he was bright and keen and vivacious and ener getic. In those days his eyes were bright With the gleam of far-off fire. But now we meet him and the light 1ms faded from his ye, and the spring has departed from his Itep, and he has joined the great army of the disappointed. He had set his heart upon obtaining something which the pass ing years have said he could never have, And his life has failed and his possessions nave taken flight. Now what does this mean? It simply means that he has been displaced by the very progress of the world. When an army is inarching for ward and it quickens its pace, the weakei loldiers must fall by the wayside. But tlu irmy has gone to valiant duty. And tlu very fact that the world is sweeping on ward means that some must be dropping every year. They are flung backward be cause the race is hurrying forward. This world is an incomplete world be cause it is divine. If lite, as we know it, were complete, if this were the end, then we should have to-day the ultimate stand ard of success. Our judgment of ourselves tnd of others would be final. But is that 10? Who of us dare judge another? Do we not rather look at this life as part of a whole, whose greater part lies beyond the vision? There isn't room in the longest human enreer to develop all we hope and love and long for. And so we say that the most encouraging thing about this life is that it is not yet complete. The basis of hope is the possibility of growth not in the perfection of attainment now or in the immediate future. Shall I be misunderstood if I point out that the earthly life ot the Saviour par took of this same incompleteness? His ac tions. His parables. His whole teaching constitute a promise of the future. His life led to His death, His death to His res urrection, His resurrection to His ascen sion, His ascension to His throne of glory, and that again leads to His second coming. , "Even so. Come, Lord Jesus." It is as though the lines of life projected far be- t'ond our farthest ken, and could be fol owed only by an infinite hope. Why was not Jesus one of the disappointed? It ever a man had a right to be a pessimist it was He. He found that the world did not want Him, the rulers of the state had no place for Him, the chuich of Judea that God had been training for 1500 years to look for Him did not know Him. Why was He not in despair? Because He had in Himself the wells of joy. not the joy of indifference, not the joy of Him who sees anil does not care. But the joy of Him who sees ull, and through all to the living God. Just as in one of Corot's pic tures you can see in the foreground the gnarled and blackened trunks, and be yond all and behind all the clear shining ot tlie sky. The gosnel with its mission atill unac complished is another instance of that thought before us. In the world, in the church and in the soul of the believer the gospel sees not yet all things put under it. And that lor tne simple reason tbat tins i is a world of unfinished things. And even this may come to us with inspiration, fot ualike the dwellers in the Orient we live in the midst of unfulfilled prophesies. Not shall they ever be fultieled here. Othet conditions and other circumstances are needed. From this incompleteness one might gather the largest argument for our immortality. This world is in accordance with a divine purpose, and cannot be ex plained unless it tells of a fulfillment in the ages, yet to come, when this earth shall have been replaced by a new earth where in dwelleth righteousness. Then He Hint self shall be satisfied. The old philosophers used to represent alt things in a state of continual flow. They stood by the river whose dark wat ers, fed from some hidden source, stole , past in voiceless mystery. They saw the same mysterious flow in the seasons, in the harvests, in human life itself. And they posited motion as the substantia in the world of things. Now the world is in a atate of flow because it is a state of, in completeness, and tbat again because it is expectant. There is something yet before 114. God hasJiot made men who can long and love and hope and struggle and deny themselves, only that they may fall into hole in the grass. For what, then, does this whole creation wait? Paul tells us in one place that it is for the revealing of the sons of God. Isn't that worth the time that is past? Isn't it worth all the struggle and suffering and, tears of our fathers? Isn't it worth all the pain with which joy and sorrow bar pol ished us into shapeliness? And woo again arc these so as of God? "As many as are led by the spirit of Qod, they are the sons of God." It is for these "that creation waits, and without them the universal process halts. This world began with the fiat of God, and the mechanical forces with which the stars were flung in ft heir orbits. But in the process of time God said, Let us make man, and it was at Hhat point the purposes ot the universe tiet-ame personal and human and spiritual. (And now, Oh, matchless wonderl the next tep cannot be taken without the help ol ' - laborers tozether with liim." Not even God Himself can de velop the possibilities He has houno. up in us unless we'give Him leave. His final enJ 1. r.xlH not hv law. but by His sons. . II . 1 . .. . . m ma a awina thinira on , ,! tirJt to tins last? Krum creation la tua eorujuz. anil thea acaia, oostaxd t fho gjnry that snail yet Tie revearedT' Only by finding the way of God, ond being caught up in the mighty sweep of His own purpos-s. Here is a vessel longing for her port, and the wind is blowing favorably above. lint she dons not move, she cannot move till men shall run up the sails and they shall catch the wind. And then the ship that has lain like a lifeless thing be comes a thing of life nnd hurries on bet way. And so it seems that the time is come when the crises of history are hinged upon the work of man. The gospel, for instance, lias been committed to the hands of men. And, as I understand it, the sec ond text cannot be fulfilled till this gospel of the kingdom is preached in all the earth. I dwell upon the subject of unfinished things, because it gives to us an interpre tation that enhances the value of life. One thinks of his own life in comparison with the circling orbs, and says it is an unim portant thing. It is not useful, it influ ences no one. Why keep up this awful struggle with heat and cold, and pain snd privation? Why strive to do better? Why not go with the tide that sweeps away tc the dark? The real danuer is not that we shall think too much of ourselves, but that we shall count our lives as worthless things. We cannot afford to lose sight of the place we hold in the purposes of God. A man's life taken by itself is an insignifi cant thing. But when we think of it as a part of a great whole it becomes of infinite value. It is as vast as all the schemes of which it is the part. This is an instance where the part is as large as the whole. In his college sermons Dr. I'eabody uses a beautiful illustration of this very thought. He refers to the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard College. The students marched in torchlight processions with transparen cies and banners. The freshman class, then only one month old, had this for their motto: "The university has waited 250 years for us." And that he says was a profound truth. All the institutional life had been slowly evolving for these light hearted boys, and on their conduct now rested the destiny of the future. I wonder if it is possible that this very world has been waiting for us. And if there are some things yet unfulfilled that are wait ing for the way we use these days. If so that makes life vastly insignificant. Of course, it does not mean that we shall be notable, or great, or prominent. Not tbat other generations shall know our names. But that our little lives are of eternal meaning. Mr. F. B. Meyer has said some beautiful things. I remember hearing him say one time that we are God's "poem" (God's workmanship). And you know that a poem is something very different from all prose. It contains a thought that could not be put in prose. To paraphrase it is to dull its beauty. It flashes the idea only in that form, just as a diamond gives that gleam only from that side. So we are God's poem! And a poem contains a thought. And to express that thought has meant to the writer a great effort. And every syllable is of value. And so with God's poem. He is working upon us tnat in tlie ogeji to come lie migiit snow forth the exceeding riches of His grace, Can any life be insignificant? Give no place, then, to impatience. God made this world in the beginning, and to this present He has sustained it by a well formed plan.- The present finds us here. What place shall we take in this world ol unfinished things? For myself I take a place of joy, and effort, and hope. I reach nut lame hands of faith for the way of God, and lift up a voice that is half a Erayer and half a shout, "Even so, come, iord Jesus." Success For All. True success is within the reach o! al! men. It is to know and to do Uod a will, to learn and to follow in His way. It is to put our hand cheerfully to the pen or the plow, whichever God's providence sug gests. In the reckonings of eternity to nave been a good mason will count fol more than to have been a bad monarch: to have walked worthy of the vocation of servant will be accounted better than to have been a selfish sovereign. Lives that upon earth were despised, but which were well lived, and labor that was counted me nial, but which was well performed, will bear the stamp of divine approval for eter nity. Success will be defined in the lexi con of heaven as it seldom hi in any lexi con of earth. As for the dollar mark, it will not be used in the world of bliss - Stretch Forth Thy Hand." "Stretch forth thy hand." You with that weak hand shortened by the hard cir cumstances of your life, stretch it forth! You with that hand drawn up by iove ol self; and you with fingers warped by thoughtless, unkind words and deeds, stretch them forth. With honest purpose, with unfaltering will, whatever may be iti weakness or its need, "Stretch forth thy hand." And the Christ will look upon it, He will pity its weakness and daiormity and lo! as you stretch it forth it will be come whole restored, that you may blesi with kindly deed many a needy one wh waits and waits perhaps for you. M. M, Slatterly. Earnestness. Take life earnestly. Take it as an ear nest, vital, essential matter. Take it al though you personally were born to tht task of performing a noble task in it ai though the world had waited for youi coming. Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to achieve, to carry forward great and good schemes, to help and cheer a suffering, weary, it may be, a heart bro ken sister. The tact is, life is undervalue by a great majority ot women. It is nof made half as much of as should be tht case. Now and then a woman stands asid from the crowd, labors earnestly, stead lastly, confidently and straightway be comes famous. Watch Oat. Be on the lookout for mercies. The mart we look for them, the more of thein wiL we see. Blessings brighten when we counf them. Out of the determination of tht heart the eyes see. If you want to bt gloomy, there's gloom enough to keep yor glum; if yci want to be glad, there's glean1 enough to keep you glad. Say, "Bless thr Lord, u my soul, and lorget not all tin benefits." Better lose count in enumerat ing your blessings than lose your blessingi in telling over your troubles. "Be thank ful unto Him, and bless His name." My" bie u. iiabcock, 1). V. Obedience and .Faith. Tt is well to have a maD or descriotion ol the way, but it is better to have the lov ing companionship of one who knows tht wav bv nersonal experience. And this Christ is to every disciple a loving and ex perienced leader, trusting in whom w neither sorrow unduly over the past, not Suffer apprehension over that which is be lore us. Obedience for to-day; faith fas to-morrow and let the Guide supply thai Lao wlui-o -which, we lack! HID MONEY IN QUEER PLACE Paris Woman Saved Her Hoard by Conceallnfg It In a Lemon. All devices of women to save theli mouey from thl-sves are not as suo cessful as was that of a Parts bust oess woman. Her apartments were recontly vUlted (luring her absence bj couple of enterprising burglars who bad good reason to believe there was rich booty there. In spite, however of the most earnest search they were unable to nnd anything of value and took themselves off disappointedly. Nevertheless, a, sum cf soma 20.00C franca was lying In the room they had explored, and tbat in most prom I licut position. ' Mini Ruuts bad, Id fact, devised an Ingenious hiding place by scooping out the tusldo of a lemon, putting bor bank notes in side, nnd then leaving It on a p!ate on a sldn table. This transpired In the coura.i of the complaint laid by her al the local police station. One would Ilka to bave so en, the burglars' face? when they read the rPr next day. THE- SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT FOR JULY 17. Subject: xlv., sir.. Asa's flood ltnjgn, It Clirnn., 1.1-1 Golden Text, II Clirnn., 11 Memory Verses, a-n Coin nentary on the Day's Lesson. I. Reformation under Aa (vs. 1-5) 1. "City of David." Jerusalem. "Asa, hi on.'. Abijah had many sons (chap. 1:1:21 ) "Reigned. Asa reigned forty-one years "Was quiet." That is, they had no wars "Ten years." This was probably the re suit, largely, of Abijah's great victory ovel Jeroboam. These ten years of rest are naturally to be assigned to the beginning of Asa's reign; later on there was a resi of twenty years (compar. chap. 15:10 with 13:19). The number ten here makes s discrepancy with 1 Kings, for Haasha be rame king of Israel in the third year ol Asa, and there was war between Asa and Baasha all their days" (1 Kings 15:32). 2 "Good and right." After the division ol the kingdom not one of the nineteen l;ing that ruled over Israel was a good king and only a few of the nineteen who ruled over .ludah were good. Asa was the first good kind of Judah. He followed the com mandmcnts of God with ins whole heart, and in hat respect was like David. "In the eyes of God." 1. He aimed at pleas ing God. 2. He saw God's eye always upon hiin. 3. God approved of what he did. The important question is not wlieth er we are right in our own eyes, or in the eyes of the world, but are we right before God. 3. "He took away." This statement, which is again repeated in verse 5. seems to be contradicted in chap. 15:17, where il is said ' the high places were not taken away out of Israel," There are different ways of explaining this apparent discrop am y. Perhaps the best explanation is that Asa made a great effort to remove them from his kingdom, and was largely success ful, hut that notwithstanding all his efforts he failed of complete success. The writer does not say that he took away "all" the high places. Some think that the high places here referred to were those of the strange gods, while those where God was worshiped were suffered to remain; others think that at one time in his reign A-fo succeeded in abolishing all the high places, but that they subsequently appeared again. "Strange gods." Heathen deities. "High places. It was the practice of the heath en to erect altars for their idolatrous wor ship on the tops of hills or mountains, sup posing they were nearer to God and heav en. "Groves." "Asherim." K. V. This word is the proper name for a heathen goddess. Asherah (plural for Asherim ond Asheroth), and is another form for Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians. Asherah was their female, as Baal was their male divinity. In the plural it is often used in the more general sense of idols. 4. "To seek the Lord." Compare chap. 15:12, 13. Asa commanded the people to observe all the divine institutions which they had been utterly neglecting. After destroying idolatry, Asa revived religious worship (1) by his personal example, ami (2) by the use of his authority. He car ried out the reforms in a spirit of self-consecration, courage and r.eal. He sought to please God first and not himself or his courtiers. 5. "Images. "Sun images. R. V. The original word is different from the one used in verse 3. The Hebrew word is of uncertain meaning, and it is possibla that no kind of image is meant, but rather the hearth on which the sacred fire was kept. The Hebrew root means to be hot. "Was quiet." The people obeyed the com mands of Asa and sought the Lord (chap. 15). II. Asa's military defenses (vs. 6-8). 6. "Built fenced cities." He probably re stored the fortresses which Shishak, the king of Kgypt, had taken and dismantled (chap. 12:2-4). The kingdom of Judah had probably been tributary to Kgypt since the time of Shishak's invasion (chap. 12:8), but now Asa discerned a favorable time to throw off this foreign yoke, and while the land was unguarded by the Egyptians he fortified his kingdom. "Lord had given." Asa had not gained rest and success by liis own valor, but God had given it. 7. "Land before us." That is, while the land was unoccupied nnd un guarded by their enemies and they were free to go at their own pleasure. "Sought the Lord." It is always good to seek the Lord. Those who pursue the world meet with vexation of spirit, but God gives peace and prosperity and real prosperity can come onljt from God. 8. "Targets and spears." See R. V. The Hebrew word here rendered target means a large shield. "Out of Judas." Asa's army is divided into heavy-armed soldiers, carrying spears, belonging to Judah. and light-armed bow men belonging to Benjamin. "All these." This does not mean that Asa had an army of 580,000 professional soldiers, such as compose European armies or our standing army, nut mere were in uuoun ana nenia min this number of men capable of bear ing arms and liable to be called into serv ice. III. Asa defeats the Ethiopians (Vs. 0-15). 9. "Zerah the Ethiopian." He Erobably belonged to the same dynasty as hishak (chap. 12:2-4), for his army was comnosed of the same nations. This Droves bim to have been an Egyptian and not, as some have thought, an Arabian or Asiatio king. His object in invading Judah was doubtless to recover to Egypt the cities which Asa had been fortifying, for Asa's procedure had been virtually a rebellion against Egypt. "A thousand thousand." This is the lorgest collected army of which we hear in the Scriptures. But some think that the number is not to be taken liter ally, and that a thousand thousand signi fies that there was a great host too great to number. "Three hundred chariots." Tlie chariots, though comparatively few, are mentioned because Asa himself had none at all. "Mareshah." One of the cities which had been fortified b- Reho boam (chap. 11:8). It was probably near the western border ot judah, anout twen tv-five miles southwest of Jerusalem. 11. "Cried unto me Lo i." Asa saw that his ho'.e of success was not in any ef fort he miirht be able to make, but in God, His faith and courage mounted high, and with holy boldness he pressed his case. " Nothing witn Thee. See K. V. It is alike to Thee to help the powerful or the weak. Thou canst as easily help the weak as the strong.. In Ihy name. that is, by Thy commission, in confidence of Thy assistance, and for the maintenance of Thy honor and service and people. "We go. Although relying on God lor victory, yet Asa made the best preparations possible and went out to meet the enemy. "Against Thee.' Asa thus made the battle the Lord's, and called upon Him to maintain; His own honor. 12. "The Lord smote." But not without the help of Asa and his Jewish and Beniamite forces. "Fled." Filled with terror the vast Ethiopian hordes fled to the south. Then Ho Was Good. A congressman of Missouri relates that he was makinc a campaign speech last fall, when he was an noyed by the frequent Interruptions of a countryman, who seemed bent on making trouble. "M friend," said the speaker, de termining to suppress the disturber, "haven't you heard the story of how a Lraylng ass put to flight the entire f-yrlan army?" "Don't you be afraid of this audi ence," shouted back the disturber of the meeting; "there ain't no danger of tt stamoedlng. You've done teste Lightning Kept Busy. Lightning at Cape Neddlck village, York, Me., played a peculiar freak recently. A bolt struck the house of Silas Norman, passed through the body of.a mason named Fernald, who was working In the houae, killed Ug t the latter's side and set fire to he butldln. Fernald was critically luraud. J SUNDAY, JULY SEVENTEENTH. "The Worlg"t Gain Through Universal Peace." Pi. 46:9-11; lea. 2:2-4.' Scripture Veraea. Pa. 37:11; 72:7: Isa. 9:7; 65:25; 66:12; 2 Thess. 3:16; Ps. 122:6-8; Jer. 29:7; Matt. 5:9; Rom. 12:18, 19; 14:19; Jas. 3:17, 18. Lesson Thoughts. "Ood maketh wars to cease." Chris tianity Is a peaceable religion, the more we have of the spirit of Christ, the less we have of a disposition to WThlnk of the difference between war and agriculture In their effects upon country. War Increases Intemper ance, Immorality and the public debt not to mention the terrible sacrifice of human lite, agriculture promotes In dustry, strengthens morality and in creases substantial wealth. When the nation's swords are Tieaten Into plowshares, how wonderfully will the) world's prosperity grow! Selections. One of our battleships, the Oregon, cost $ti.o7.".023.76. which Is more than the cost of the ninety-four buildings of Harvard Univetity, which was $3, 300,000. If all the navies of the world could be turned into schools, how soon would the Ignorance and prejudice which are the chief causes of wars, be swept off the face of the earth! The greater part of civilized nations (Query: Are they really civilized?) are kept poor by war. This Is not. only a poverty of money, but a poverty of home life, the young men being drawn away for military training, pov erty of quietness and seren.it y; pov erty of safety; poverty of moral sense, army life being always a degenerate fife; poverty of love, since war and preparations for war are a Btire and powerful destruction of all kindly feel ing among nations. The establishment of the Interna tional Court of Arbitration, at. The Hague, Js a blessed Btep toward uni versal oeace. Already It has decid ed a dispute between Mexico anil the L'nited States, Involving millions of dollars. The claims against Venezu ela of Great Britain, France, Italy and other European nations, have been submitted to It by the consent of all parties. EPWQRTH LEAGUE LESSONS JULY SEVENTEENTH The World's Gain Through Universal Peace. Psa. 46. 9-11; Isa. 2. 2-4. The normal condition of the natural wo;-ld is strife and struggle, stress and strain. But the spiritual realm Is a kingdi.-rs of peace, whose rightful Rul er is the Prince of Peace. "The one far-off divine event to which the whole creation moves" is that restful and pronperious period "When the war drum throbs no longer, And battle flags are furled." More rapidly than the majority ima glne we are hastening on to that hap py gonl. 'He maketh wars to cease." A stt perficial view contradicts this affirma tion, but In splto or the warlike atti tude of many nations to-day the peace power U making Itself felt as never before. "They shall beat their swords Into n owshares" (Isa. 2. 4). wnat a force tul and beautiful figure! Weapons of warfare are to be trans!iormed Into Implements of husbandry. The earth, so long drenched in blood, shall break forth In beauteous blossom and frag rant flower and luscious fruit. A long and stiong stride toward uni versal peace was the establishing of the Hague tribunal, sometntng line this had been the dream of peace-lov ers for many decades. Now the dream la a reality. There Is a growing con viction that International disputes ran be more wisely and more profitably settled by appeal to reae.in than to brutal force. During tne last century two hundred of these disputes were settled by arbitration, sixty-three ot them occurring within the past toa year3. The future will fall to tne na tlons that can get on with the lease fighting. Fo wars make a stupendous draft upon a country treasures both money and men. When the best young menthe flower of the generation- are cut off In war. and the more tie fectlve ones ate left to rear lamllles. the actual loss In manhood Is beyonu calculation. Seeing these things will Increase the influence of arbitral ion and brlnar in a reign of universal He Got the "Raise." Frank Leslie's tells a story of how Industry was rewarded. A year ago a manufacturer hired a boy. For months there was nothing noticeable about the boy except that he never took his eyes off the machine he was running. A few weeks ago the manufacturer look- 1 up from his work to Bee the boy standing beside bis desk. . "What do you want?" he asked. "Want me pay raised." "What are you getting?" "T'ree dollars a week." "Well, how much do you think you are worth?" "Four dollars." "You think so. do you?" "Yessir, an' I've been t'inkln' so for free weeks, but I've been so blame busy I haven't had time to Bpeak to you about It." . The boy got the "raise." An Odoriferous 'Beetle. . A rather unusual visitation was suf fered bv a South Carolina town last lummer, through the presence of what ia known as the rhinoceros beetle, which bears the same unapproachable position In the Insect world that the ikunk does among animals. A colony beetles established them lelves in some ash troos vAilch were frown for shade, and the odor was so itrong and offensive that the town -.ounctl ordered eighty of these trees to be cot down. As, the trees were stlmated to be worth $100 each, the musual visitation coat the town about 18,000. Sea Turtle Was Stranded. An unusual find In northern waters a-as made by Peter Shlnn and Joseph Xlckerson, fishermen, both of Lynn Mass., In the stiape of a sea turtle, weighing thirty pounds. They were Staging clam bait at the Point et Pines, lust at the mouth of the San m river, and saw the Virtu Mfk pon the beach. God Loveth All. tTnto every man and nation, , God will e'er extend His ham!, 1 Loving, under all conditions, Those obeying His command. Neither rich or poor sre favored, Only for their love to God, Earning thus the Master's fovnr, Treading paths where He hath tro-J Those who love and will obey Him, He will never once torsake. But within their sou'.s be dwelling, Inner conscience to nwake. He will teach them life's great lessons, That will bring peace into the heart, Anil the happiness of spirit Never will from them depart. Though the home 1)3 poor and hum&o God will find a dwelling th-re. If He finds the heart is waiting. And is tilled with earnest prayer. Asking Him to come, be with tii-m, And to teach them what is right. He will quickly hasten thither. Shedding round about His light. Everywhere He's loved and needed He will always, quickly, go. Comfort give to those who seek Him, Love and mercy He will sli w. And more room the humble heart havs, In which they God's love receive. With less pride and vain ambition Will they cause His heart to gnev Oh, the blessed, blessed promise, That He never will forsake. And if we will love and trust Him, Care of us He'll always take. Then why should we wander from Him Into worldly ways of sin, That we must, ere reaching heaven. Have a change of heart begin? Miss Martha S. Lippincott, iu New York Observer. Secret of Joyful Mvlng. In a crowd of people, even among th most cultured, there are few faces that ex press joy, says H. M. MuC'lusky, in Chris tian Work,. Care and weariness, restless ness and unsatisfied ambition are unmis takably visible, and often when outward conditions seem the most favorable, thf joyful life finds no expression; for it is ar unknown experience. Yet all nature it full of gladness; a wonderfully beautiful world has been prepared for man s hatnta tion. Why does he not rejoice in his pos sessions? He is out of harmony, sin is the discordant note, but when by repentance toward Uod and faith in the Lord -lesuf Christ he is at one with God, the discord resolves itself into the sweet, rich chord of love. Then there follows the trium phant obligato of joy. The accompaniment IS not always pei ieuLij nat iiiuiuuu, lmh the song goes on uninterrupted to thf close. Is that true? The Psalmist says. "In Thy presence is fulness of joy." Tlu Lord's presence is continually about us. believers willingly concede the f act. Whj then is there not more joy? Tlie life i based on a lower plane, instead of shaping it '"according to the pattern that wat showed in the Mount." The belief ot the heart is not wonted i out in the life. There are many lovall Christians whose faith never taitcrs when the heavier snrrous come, but do not se or recognize .their Lord in tiic daily rou tine, either by seeking llim tor liounj needs, or thanking llim for ever-present numberless blessings. Christ gave the se cret of joy when He said, "Ask, and y shall receive, that your joy may be full.' Jt is a, constant interchange ot interest) between the Father and His child. H cause He ia intinitely great and powerful He is no less the loving, compassioiiau One. A friend said to me: Do you al Him about such little things?" as though it were irreverent to speak to Hun about the trivial but absolutely essential detaili of daily living. "For thonjli the Lord be high, yet hath He respect unto the lowly;' that fact alone should fill us with joy. Study to live as in His presence; let aV the surroundings as far as possible be ir nccord with a rovai t.uest and lovuit Friend. What a transformation tnew would be in niot homes and lives if al' pertaining to them were consciously giver over to Him to arrange; we executing ai under His immediate suncrvision, without fear, fretfulness or anxiety. There could lie but one result, a full, abounding joy Would it not be worth while to make the effort? It can only be attained by patient persistent endeavor; beginning with thi first moment in the morning, praying hourly to he kept consciously in the pres ence of Jesus our Lord. In such a lit'i heaven does not seem so far nway and thai home is a part of Christ's established Ling dom. Faces That Comfort Obp. "I wish some people knew "just much their faces can comfort one!'' speaker was a young woman who iijssed through cleeii sorrows: she how Tin hai' wai telhiiir a friend how many people com forted her, though they were uneonscioul of it. The Kpworth Herald tells the story. ' I often ride down in the same street cal with your father, and it has been such I help to me to sit next to him. There ii something so good and strong and kind about him, it nas been a comtort just to feel he was beside me. Sometimes, when I have been utterly depressed and dis couraged, he has seemed somehow to know just the right word to say to me, bin, l! he didn't tall:, why, I just looked at hi face, and that helped me. He probably has not the least idea, of it, for I know In in so slightly, and 1 don't suppose peo ple half realize, anyway, how much thej are helping or hindering others!" Tlu-rf is a great ileal of this unconscious kindnesi in the world. Mo-.es wist not that lnr face shone. The lx-t ieople are not awar of their goodness. According to the old legend, it was only when it fell bchn.il him, where he could not see it, that the saintly man's shallow healed tlie sick This is a parable. Goodness that is awarf of itself has lost much of its ch.um. Kind nesscs that ure Jjne unconsciously uuau the most. Living by the Day. Life must lie lived on the installment plan. Uod gives and renuires just so much at a time, no more, no less. Life is made up of just so many successive installment! ol opportunity, of duty and of grace. It is impossible, therefore, to live lite in the fu ture tense. All that men have and ull that they are anked to attend to is the present. And the present in its demands is vigorou enough. Take care of the now snd the fu; ture will take cure of itself. Herald a-' Tresbytcr. A Hrava Habit. Cheerfulness is a brave habit. Crumb ling is a foolish one. Men snd women who complain and fret have just about the same kind of lives, to begn with, as cheery people. "Into each 1 1 to aome rain must fall," but the wisest pl.n is to go in when it rains, or hoist an umbrella, instead ot sitting down in the fritter and getting sop ping wet. Reformed Church Record. Tho Womsn's Christian Temperance Union, of Fall P.iver, Mass., supports a deaconess who d .-votes her time to police etation work and conducts a Christim cul ture club (or (i'is. Oldest Sunday 8chool Teacher. Tbe officials ot the Wesleyan Sun day achool, Swlnton. lay claim to hav ing upon their register the oldest Sun day achool teacher In England, It not In the United Kingdom. Mr. George Doxey, who Is now In hla eighty eighth year, has been a teacher sixty nine years, and bolda the remarkable record that for bait a century be was never absent from school, oud dur- I Ing forty year lie waa never once late. Though eighty-seven years of age. be is able to read without the aid of tpectaclos- THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. "It Is Not My rtnslnfls"TTow a Wealthy St. Lnnlslan Came to Realise That the I.lqnor Question Was His Hnslneis A Btory or Whisky anil Its F. fleet. A wealthy man in St. Louis was asked" to aid in a snnps of tomnerance meetings, but he scornfully refused. Being pressed he said: "Gentlemen, it is not my business." A few days later his wife and twe dauirliters were coming home on the light ning express. In his grand carriage with liveried attendants he rode to the depot, thinking of his splendid business and plan ning for the morrow. lUrk! Did some one say "Accident?" There are twenty five railroads centreing in St. Louis. If thero has been nn accident it is not likely to have occurred on the ... nd Mississippi Railroad. Yet it troubles him. It is his business now. The horws are stopped on the instant, and on inquiry h finds that the accident has occurred twenty-five miles distant on the and Mississippi. He telegraphs to the su perintendent: "I will give you ..'S00 for nn engine." The Answer flashes luck, "No." "I will give you orti for an engine." "A tram with surgeons snd nurses Ins already gone forward, and we have nc other." With white face And anxious brow the man paced the station to and fro. In a half hour, perhaps, which seemed to him a hilf century, the trim arrived. lie hur- riea toward it, and in the tender found the mangled bodies and lifeless forms ol his wife and one of Ins daughters. In the car following lay the other daughter, with her ribs crushed in and her precious life Dzzing slowly away. A quart oj whisky, which was drunk fifty miles away by a railrmd employe, was the cause of the catastrophe. Who dire say of tins tremendous ones tion, "It is not my business.'" National 1 Advocate. Temperance Check-Cashing. Some years ago the Railroad Voting Men's Christian Association of Columbus Ohio, started to be as generous as the sa loons at Grogans, in the neighborhood ol the Columbus. Sandusky and Hocking Valley Railroad construction shop, bv cashing the checks of the employes of the railroad company. In the vicinity of the hops there are about, two saloons to one general store, and the wholesale liipior dealers were in th habit of sending large lums of money to the retail liquor dealers with which to cash the men's pay checks. This took a great many of them to the sa loons, as there was no bank at hand, and a good deal of time and money would have been consumed if the men had visited the ?ity for that purpose. (In the first pav day ifter the Association opened up checks imounting to $21:17. were cashed. That was two years ago. On a i-e-ent pav div 157 checks, amounting to Sti7rt2.3!5 were fashed, but the largest record wis in last September, which was for 72o4 'J.". In t lie first year nearly 850, Oin ivas handled in this way, and the second year I.Vsi checks were cashed, amounting to .7J,7"5.47 Tet We License Alcohol. The British Reai-trar-Cieneral has pub lished a table of the comparative mortality among men ot ditterent occupations, trom twenty-five to sixty-five vears of age. the nouiry covering a period of three years. The standard oi M0 was taken as tiie low est death rate in the most healthful. These ire the results: Innkeepers and honor deal ers represented a mortality of 'J74; inn ot hotel service, and brewers, -J4.i, wnile farmers are put down at 114. gardeners at lilS and ministers at I'M. lletwcen 1"S0 and 1(W there were in the l'nited States 21,:'S4 deaths from vollow lever and 6"0.'lof) deaths from alcohol ; yet we license alcohol and quarantine yellow fever. ltuiiis Work In Germany. At the twentieth anniversary of tlie Gor man Society Against the Abux- of Alco holic Drinks there were presented some telling stitistics of the Tin-ages oi strong drink in Germany, where the use of alco hol is said to be r-'sponsible for fifty-four per c:-nt. of the di.'orces. tilty per cent, of the railroad itccid.-nts, seventy per c--nt. ol the accidents on the sea, eiguty-seven pep cent, of the otTt-nders sent to nouses oi cor rection, flo.2 per cent, of the disturbances at domestic peace, and so on through a tuiw l:st. Neeil More t'ollceinen. There were only about thirty five po licemen needed in tin; whole of Vermont 'luring the fifty years when the State was under prohibition. Now, since the adop tion ol tiic local system and the return of the saloon to a number of cities mid towns many more Hicetocn are required. In one town tht-y mm have !wi saloons from whi.'h tV'V receive for license $'J.il cab, in ilvii.g 'isi. Inn they now h ive to em ploy a I oiiccin.ui at a salary of fT.'U a y At Trrriltlu Cost. William II ir-ieavcs, M. I)., after a thor ough research, gives liie annual cpendi tup-s lor strong drink in the l'nited Matis ns 1.4t;4,-s7.;Vjs. Dr. Dunn. Secretary of tile National Temperance So'-iety, esti mates the indirect co..t irom crime, pau perism, lo.s of labor and of life as tl,t7S, S04.!lt;4. I lie paltry revenue obtained to be set off against tutse euormuus tiuies is only ?141,Joo,l57. The Temperance Flfiht. This stn:.u!e long ago ceased to be moral pa-,tiiue. winch men can pick up and lay down at their will. That it .s a bitter tight a tight that mu.-,t eventuate either in the destruction ot t tie liquor power or in the annihilation of the Christian Sab bath and everything that is dear to tiie Christian nation i l-s ident to ail John 1). l'liich. Ileillcateil in Temperance. The Nidaro Total Abstintiice .Society of Trondhjem, Norway, has bought s building on ouu of the thoroughfares of the city for about fclu.uoo. The building will be It-const rui ted so as to nrford a public hall which will seat about 300 youna people. This will Ik- the headquarters ol the teiupvruuce people in tiic future. - A Spotless Town. I nivcraity Place, the seat of the Ne bras.ta vteslcyan I niv-irsity, uot oiuy pro hibits saloons, billiard tables, dance hall and questmushle amus litems, but uo cigar or cigarette store is allowed. Thi is, in deed, a physical and moral "Spotlw" sown." TIib Crufmle la Brief. Were it not for the saloon influence bort. cur cities and our State would be tilled with clearer heads and cleaner hands. National Advocate. Oscar II.. Kiug of Sweden and Norway, has acceded to a petition of his temperance subjects to discontinue the christening of battleships with wine. The German Ministers' Association of Milwaukee has appointed a commutes to meet the Anti-Saloon league and prepare literature to be used by tiie League in the work auioug the German element of Mil waukee. It is better to be in the minority witb the right thau in the majority with the wrong. National Advocate. A writer in the Ksnsas City Leader says: "Rut for two men in his own town, who rent their buildings for saloon purposes, no .iloon eould run: and. atrsnao to aav. both are church members. Much of tht crime produced in that community by thf infaimaus liquor tratlic will lie at the doom ot these nieu." A tremendous lever in favor ot temper a nee lias been brought to bear UKn tht business men of fludxrti, 8. IK, by the re cent action of twenty-three of tbe promin ent and wealthy farmers around Hudson, who have united in a public protest against tho saloons. Ths business men must eithet opposa the aaloon o( Ions I heir beat cus tomers. . household1 fatter 0 Lamp Chimneys. To prevent lamp chimneys from Tracking, wrap each chimney looselj; but entirely In a cloth; place them to getuer in a kettle, and cover with coluT rater. Bring the water to a boll, cons Untie the beat ten to fifteen minute tnd then cool off. lty this tempering they are toughened a jtdiutftli. ordinary ''iu. beat. Oiling- the Wrings.' T)o r.ot fall to oil the wrknjrv every, time you wash. If oiled- often, there is less wear on the machinery, anil ess strength Is expended by the opr' i tor. To clean tho rollers, rub them irst with a cloth pnturated with kcro teiie oil, nnd follow with soup and (niter. Always loosen the roller -putting the wringer away, The earn of Dainty China. In Holland the good old custom StlTI ibtaltis among Indies of washing tb.9 tbltiii nnd silver after breakfast and :eu with their own fair bands. This :liey d'i In the presence of the family, itid any guest who may be there, and ;h. fashion lifts lately been revived n some American households, partly jecause it gives a touch of homely ilinplli'lty ami partly Ltcau.se a lady'f jentlc bundling Is needed if the delfc ?nte 'hlna and glass are to be pre itjed for any length of time. 'Mew Way to Sweep. There Is Iti the doing of little tbinga. 'von in housework, a rltsht way and t wrons way, and n Rood way and a 'jad way. says the Philadelphia Inqulr. r. Consider for a moment the Item of sweeping; with n broom. The next time) roil undertake it notice your broom. Iio .von find that you bold it or move It father In front of you the brush fur ther forward than the handle each, stroke raisins the brush and with It i cloud of du.t Into the air and the ;pa-'e beyond? If so, try this wayi Stand with the broom rather behind you, partly t'aclns it. the brush fur :her back than the tip of ths- bundle. I'si-d In this way, you will find that the dust rises no blither than tn jriish; that, hi fa-t. little rises, but It 'gradually moved to one central point, where It may be easily gathered Into the dustpan. Swept in this way, even i dusty room may bo perfectly tidied n-lthoiit discomfort to any person who may be obliged to remain iu It during the process. f llananas Iteri nnd Yellow. In the tropics the banana Is usually picked jrreeii and ripened in the darlc like a pear. They should, however, have attained their full growth, oc else no matter bow- rich a color they, may take on, they will always be bit ter and ptti'kery. The banana rtow fastest nt tlrst in length, then suddenly, begins to swell, and In a few days will double Its plfth. Then It Is ready foe the ripinini: process. The best ones sent to this country start half or whol ly ripe and cet their color en route. If they start hard and gummy, having been picked In an immature condition, they will never attain the rich, smooth) flavor of the perfect fruit, und are apt to make people 1!!. Never, therefore, purchase a lony. thin banana; Its nas nas are far better a little over ripe than under, for a creamy softness 19 sssentiul to Its full enjoyment. Ba nanas are of two kinds, the yellow and the red, but a vast quantity of plan tains are palmed off on us iu place of the yellow banana. Tnploca Cream Two taVespoonfula of tapioca soaked over night, tbea Stirred Into one quart of boiling milk; add the. beaten yolks of four eggs and four taldespoonfiils) of augur; boil four minutes. Stir the well beaten whitest of two esffs Into the cream when cold; flavor with lemon. I'se the remaining whites for a meringue. Indian Rudding Scald one quart milk In a double boiler; then take one halt cup Indian meal, one-half cup molasses, ono-half cup sugar, pinch. ealt; mix with a little cold milk; stir Into the scalded milk until It thickens; then turn Into n buttered baking dish; imt bits of butter on top, about a tea spoonful In all, and bake two hours. I Mitch lMimplings l'ut a saucepan on the lire with one-half cup of water and same amount of bird. To this add a saltspuotiful of fait and crate ono- balf nutmeg. When fairly boiling stir in as much dour as It will take up and set off to cool. When cool break In four eggs and work It up thoroughly; until there are no streaks In the mass. Coeoanut lie Mis two tablespoon tills sugar, two tcaspoonfuls Hour, ono lultspoonful suit; dd the beaten yolksj ot two eggs and beat thoroughly; tbea add the whites beaten slightly; on cup grated cocoa nut and two cups hot milk; bake In a deep pie plate and border witb a rich paste; aa soon aa It puffs up and a knife blade comes out clean. It Is done. Cherry rie Get the best eonr dried cherries, mash and cover with water to soak over night; In the morning add sufficient atlgar to sweeten; rook till tender Iu the water iu which tbey ar soakesl; Hue your pie dish with rlcti paste; fill witb tbe stewed cheolea; cover and bvke; sprinkle with, pow dered augar Vfbsu drat taken from ttifli oven. If cajret'-Uy prepared this pla will quite iiiHl one made ot freela. cherries. Deviled Tome toea Slice tomatoeei without peeling them, fry them In bat ter, take them out when tender and lay them on a hot plate, while to the butter left In the pan or chafing dish, you add a teaspoonful each of whit agar and of onion juice, a teaspoon, ful of vinegar, a pinch of cayenne ati 3 a teaspoonful of salt. When all ar well mixed, add, a drop at a time, o well beateu egg, and aa soon as f eance hi thickened lay the toma' back in It tor a minute, oc !Ul t are hut. Km at oux, '
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