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A Brilliant Suniay Ssr.mii By K:v. A.
B. Ki solving.
W Mutt Not Hermit the "Huge Mundane Ma
chiae" to Run Over Our Souls.
i Southampton, L. I. Dr. A. B. Kinsc.1-
ing, rector of Christ Church, Clinton
treet, Brooklyn, preached here Sunday
morning in St. Andrew's Dune Church.
His subject was "Our Debt to Caesar and
Our Debt to God." His text was chosen
from St. Matthew xxii:21: "Kcnder there
fore unto Caesar the things which are
CacsRr's; and unto God the things which
re God a." Dr. Kinsolving said:
Were ever words more palpably just ana
fair? Could any statement bo more calmly
elf-evidencing? Could any disentangle
ment of the provinces of God and Caesar
be more distinct, or any declaration of our
respective duty be more lucid? Men have
always been confusing these two things
their debt to Caesar and their debt to God
mixing up in some clumsv fashion the one
with the other, fancying that when they
have discharged one they have done the
other also, finding the one to conflict with
the other through some misunderstanding
of the dignity and weight of the respective
obligations.
And not only in private life, but in the
history of peoples and States what confu
sion, what blundering has there been!
Look how the cruel Roman empire tried
through years to crusn out the life of the
Christian martfre for simply doing thcit
duty to God, and then in turn, when the
empire had been conquered by die church,
and the papacy was seated upon its throne
and had erected its palatial Vaticnn amid
the ruins of the old order, sen how the
haughty earthly emhodimenl of the heav
enly autocracy sought to bring low and
make subservient the things of Caesar!
You are familiar, doubtless, with the waj
Ike saving was brought about. A party of
young Pharisees the old hacks had recent
ly retired in confusion had joined with
aome Herodians or Jewish nationalists tc
Eut to Jems a catch question to ensnare
im. "Master," said they with feigned
earncstnexs. "we know thnt Thou art true,
and teachest the way of God in truth,
neither carent Thou for any man, for Thou
regardest not the person of men. Tell us,
therefore: What thinkest Thou? Is it
lawful to pay this distasteful Komnn poll
ht np Tin
If He had answered "Yes" He would
have been at once discredited as the Mes
siah King of Israel. If "no" it would
have been treason and rebellion against
Home. So instead of falling into the trap
set for Him, .with a conipl"te, a divine
grasp of the whole situation, He declares a
principle which is the key to this wnolc
complexity in life wherever it may possibly
occur. "Why tempst Me, ye hypocrites?
Show Me the tribute money. Whose image
is this stamped on your current coin?
Caesar's. Very well. Then what is Cae
sar's give back to Caesar, and what is
God's to God."
The impression it produced at the mo- ,
merit was profound. "When they had
heard these words they marveled and left
Him and went their way." He had lifted
the whole controversy out of the imme
diate And passing circumstances into the
region of largest and widest statesmanship,
and all the centuries of human history that
have rolled by since have not exhausted its
wisdom.
"Render therefore unto Caesar the things
that are Caesar's." Not a great deal of
time, I take it, needs to be spent in en
forcing this behest. It murks the sanity,
the wholesomeness of Christ's, religion. It
is no star-gazing cult. The charge against
it of inveterate other worldliness is a libel.
Christianity lias always taught man to do
nobly, patiently, heroically his full duty to
the State, to rulers, to society. We are part
of a social system which has already taken
shape. We are in debt to it in many ways.
"We pass its coins freelyj we enjoy its en
dowments." Its image and superscription
are on us: We belong of right to our age;
our era of civilization, our nation, State,
city, community. All that is around us is
liut the providential setting and environ
ment of our lives. It is never perfect.
There is, and for a great while to come is
likely to be a vast deal that is faultv about
it. But we have no charter from Christ to
be hopelessly sour in our attributes toward
it. We are to trust, you and I, the upward
growth, the slow and painful evolution of
human civilization. We are to believe that
at the heart of the movement there are
deep-hidden, interior principles which, in
co-operation with those special and power
ful incentives which God brings to bear
from above, are steadily bringing the king
dom of Caesar to some better fulfillment
of itself. So then, even when we see
things in the nation, the municipality, the
neighborhood, go wrong; even when we
see tyranny ana corruption and abuses, we
are not permitted to turn away in despair
and disgust. We have no right to stand
aloof as if our hands would be contamin
ated by any contact with it. Our duty is
to go bravely in and try to discharge our
duty to the civil and secular powers, re
specting the moral worth of the things of
Caesar, and confidently trusting truth and
God and humanity for the dawning of the
brighter day. We are set as Christians
not to build a dazzling visible chitrctuof
God upon the ruins of the dynasties '-id
governments of earth, as was dreamed by
the medieval popes and doctors. No, but
rather is our book to infuse into organized
human society the healthful spirit of the
kingdom of Jesus Christ, and meanwhile,
as Christ's words here clearly teach us, to
keep the two spheres distinct.
And on the same principle precisely I
think our Lord would have us deal with
entire honesty with the facts of science.
To presume to use religious authority to
deny the ascertained and verified conclu
sions of a genuine science as was done,
for instance, in the case of Galileo, and has
often been urged since, is to break Christ's
command. Natural science must proceed
along its own distinct and separate lines.
It cannot go out of its sphere to teach the
world religion. Its function is to search
out and interpret material facts. But in
its own proper sphere we must respect it.
Ve owe it the tribute of our sincerity.
We must render to Caesar the things that
re Caesar's, and there will be no sort of
peril to us if we are at pains at the same
m?. ?. render to God the things that are
Gods. "
But is it in the point that I have been
urging that most men fail nowadays? Is
it here that we need to throw our empha
sis on this "Render to Caesar?" Are there
not certain forces in the realm of Caesar
which of themselves exni-t the payment of
what is due there? Does not this tribute
get itself paid in as do the State taxes by
a sort of self-acting process, so that in
rough way it has to be forthcoming? Is
not the real trouble now that we are in
o many case surrendering to Caesar more
and more of the things which belong to
God?
"It towers over us," some one baa said,
this world movement of modern civiliza
tion, with its immense volume and weight
of human interests, human growths, hu
man skill and art and industry. It makes
itself more and more felt as the one over
powering, ruling fact. It fills the scene.
Where is there any room for the things of
God? Where can the spirit move and
breathe? Where has the soul Bed?" Be
cause of the pressure upon their lives of
the world of Caesar, because of the strong
currents that sweep them along, soul and
body, our debts to God too often go un
paid. You know how it is without my attempt
ing to dsscriba it in detail. Industry, with
its iron necessities, grips a man: be fling
himself with good American pluck and pur
pose into the thing before him, aud k?
and by the very headway of success, the
eery stress of competition, is found to be
using up all bis strength. Soon his prayer
Bet thinner and poorer; he baa scarce time
lor them and feels less and less need fot
them. When his days and nights at the
office are through with, he recuperates his
tired energies at the club, vliere be can
still with the waning nerve power talk
over the course of the market or else he
goes out of town to get the relaxation
l .which will enable him to keep his place in
Caesar's kingdom. I
He does not mean at first to renounce
his obligation to God. For some time ha
fisys it in the worthless currency of good
uteutious aud good-humored apologies. By
aud-bv.evea these sre owitte i. uul h aud
fuT ff (emuTbe'glrr tcTfustrrptiTe tfefedction
to God or! the score of the increasing
claims of Caesar. This laxity on, the part
of men and women to day i.i giving back
to God the things that arc God s is simply
sopalling in view of God's unrivalled gifts
nnd blessings to us. If it be true that "to
whom .much is given of him shall much be
requirctl," and that judgment will ever be
gin at the house of God with the privil
eged, what is to be said when we all stand,
as stand we shall, before the Son of Man!
"Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Christ Jecua does not block tho way of
our paying our just debt to Caesar, but
He does warn us with the utmost plain
ness not to give Caesar everything.
If we allow "the huge mundane machine"
to run over our souls, like some car of
Juggernaut, crushing out our religious free
dom and initiative, we shall be horribly
flattened in our manhood, our sympathies,
our ideals, our conceptions of life. Tho
results mny not appear fully for a while,
but in the end there will be experienced
an impoverishment, an atrophy, a sinister,
maimed and crippled growth which will
make us unfit for our citizenship in the
higher kingdom here or there. St. Paul,
in beginning his Kpistle to the Romans
that is, to the people who then lived at
the capital city of Caesar's realm accounts
in the following words for the sin and
misery, the failure and decadence of heath
endom: He tells them that "when they
knew God, they glorified Him not as God,
neither were thankful. Professing them
selves to be wise, they became fools. They
changed His truth into a lie, and wor
shiped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blessed forever." It
was an awful blunder. No greater could be
made by any man or people. They made
the world they lived in their god, theii
only god, nnd worshiped and served it
with their whole hearts. They worshiped
powei knowledge, pleasure, wealth, force,
passiuii, urt. They lived for these things
until they fancied that these were the
only things to live for. We know the re
sult. As they rejected Him. so God re
jected them. As a punishment He gave
them over to moral corruption, to an
abandoned mind, to a festering decadence.
"And men crowded around and strove
for place and food, and the strong beat
down the weak, and the rich were gorged
and the poor were sent empty away, and
strife and cruelty rilled the earth with
violence." That was happening at the
very moment Christ spoke these tremen
dous words: "Itender to God the things
which are God's." This is the sort of
heathenism which exists everywhere on
this earth where it is not persistently
kept down by the spirit of Jesus Christ,
"lo God the things that are God's!" "To
God the things that are God's!" Let that
cry haunt you until it compels you to pay
your debt, l.-ve the courage to look on
the one hand at what you are giving to the
world represented by Caesar, and on the
other at what you are actually giving to
God. Is God missing His rights? Is your
duty to Him threatened by the powet
and pomp of this massive earth? Ah! then
be all the more careful that your debt to
heaven is paid. By the blood of the Cruci
fied, give back to God what really belongs
to Him! Your soul, your heart, your con
victions, your spiritual reality, your eternal
being all these to God, for they are His.
Believe Him when He tells you that all
else that we see. and handle is but a shadow
that passeth away. Aye, trust Him when
He pledges you His help whenever you
sincerely want to follow Him, and prom
ises never to leave you to struggle on by
yoursalf. Through Him who condescended
to make His home in our hearts, who by
His spirit "helpeth our infirmities," let us
make such offering to God ns yet we can.
Give God, through Jesus Christ, your
Saviour, first of nil yourself. He will ac
cept nothing in the stead of you. Do not
clutch the portion of goods that faltcth to
you and try to have them all to yourself
in some far country, where you shall never
hear the Father's voice or see His face;
but whatever you do have from Him,
whether more or less, try to enjoy it as a
child in your Father's house, under the
constant benediction of His smile. In the
face of this tremendous pressure of earth,
which bears down so heavily upon every
sou), resolve manfully that you will not
yield; that the great and first command
ment of Christ, "Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God.' shall be kept. "Render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
unto God the things that are God s.
Gems of Thought.
There is nothing in life which has not
its lesson for us, or its gift. Ruskin.
Great 'deas travel slowly, and, for a
time, n ji '.-lessly, as the gods, whose feet
were shod with wool. James A. Garfield.
God reads our characters in our prayers.
What we love best, what we covet most,
that gives the key to our hearts. T. L.
Cuvler.
The good things that we have missed
in this world sometimes make us sad; but
the sad things that we have missed should
mitigate our sorrow and give us a Bpirit
of praise. United Presbyterian.
Oh, the littleness of the lives that we
are living! Oh, the way in' which we fail
to comprehend, or, when we do compre
hend, deny to ourselves the bigness of that
thing- which it is to be a mun, to bo a
child of God! Phillips Brooks.
A religion that stays in the clouds is ol
no use to anybody. Religion must be
definite, practical, useful a binding ruie
of daily life or else it is as much a mock
ery as the gilded prayer wheel of the Budd
hist. Philadelphia Young People.
The Power of a True Life.
What I wanted, and what I have been
endeavoring to ask for the poor African,
has been, the good offices of Christians,
ever since Livingstone taught me during
those four mouths I was with him. In 1878
I went to him as prejudiced as the bit
terest atheist in London. I was there
away from a worldly world. I saw this
solitary ol.d man there, and asked myself,
"Why on earth does he stop here?"
For months after we met, I found my
self listening to him and wondering at the
old man and currying out all that was said
in the Bible. Little by little his sympa
thies for others became contagious. Mme
was aroused. Seeing his piety, his gentle
ness, his teal, his earnestness, and how
quietly he went about his business, I waa
converted by him, although he had not
tried to do it. Henry M. btanley, " "
The Need of God.
The thought of God, the sense of an im
mediate relation of the spirit of man to the
Eternal and the Infinite, are easily dis
placed from men's minds by undue admira
tion for the achievements of a culture
based on material progress, and supplying
very need of human nature except the
very deepest the need of God. J. Skin
ner. When Small Things Become Great.
The smallest things become great when
God requires them of us; they are small
only in themselves; they are always great
when they aic done for. God, aid when
they serve to ui.it u with Him eternaUjU
t-Fenelou.
Saved Bottle of Bluing.
A Lowell, Mass., man who had
cloned bis house for the season visited
It after the extreme cold set in last
winter, and found that the only dam
age done was the freezing up of a
bottle of bluing. The liquid expanded
as It froze, breaking the bottle, but
retaining the shape of it. He picked
oft the pieces of glass that still clung
to It and stood the frozen bluing to
a dish. Nine weeks later he visited
the house and the frozen form of the
bottle was still there, with only
alight dripping at the base of the bit
log.
Champion Egg Eater.
By consuming thirty eggs, six ol
them boiled hard, E. O. Olyer of Ca
naan, N. H., established a reputation
for eating that will undoubtedly re
main unshared for some time to come
Olyer's "stunt" was performed In ac
ceptance of a wager made him by a
party of friends, and at Its close he
announced his willingness to fulfill an
other similar coufa " V-
Was dunllnad
THE SUNDAY SCLTOO'
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 31.
Sulijert: Omri and Alinli, I Kings, xvt.,
.1-.11-nollpn Text, Frov. xlv., 34
Memory Verses, 311-33 Commentary
on the Day's Lesson.
Introduction. Omri and Ahab were
both infamous Kings. Their wickedness
knew no bounds. Of each it was said that
he did evil in the sight of the Lord above
"all that were before him." The king,
dom of Israel continued only 2o4 years af
ter the division of the kingdom, anil dur
ing that time there were nineteen different
Kings (not counting Tibni, Omri's rival),
of nine different houses or dynasties. All
of these Kings were ungodly and seven
usurped the throne by bloodshed. Omri
was the sixth King of Israel and the
founder of the third dynasty. Ahab, the
son and successor of Omri, fully established
Baal worship. No King of the Jews has
left a sadder record. Lnder him idolatry
and wickedness became fearfully prevalent,
the nrohpets of God were slain and His
worship forbidden.
Commentary. I. The reign, charactel
and death of Omri (vs. 23'28) 23. "Be
gan Omri." No account is here taken of
the four years he was contesting the king
dom with Tibni. From verse 15 we see
that his reign must really have begun in
the twenty-seventh year of Asa's reign;
and comparing the two statements we con
clude that four years later, at the death
of Tibni, in the thirty-first year of Asa'r
reign, he began to reign alone. "Twelve
years." This is supposed to include the
whole time of his reign four years with
Tibni and eight years alone. There is,
however, a difference of opinion as to
tho chronology here. "In Tirzali." He
reigned six years in Tirzali and six in Sa
maria. 24. "The hill Samaria." The palace of
Tirzah being in ruins. Omri, in select
ing the site of his royal residence, was nat
urally influenced by considerations both of
pleasure and advantage. In the centre of
a wide amphitheatre of mountains, about
six miles from Schechem, rises an oblong
hill with steep, yet accessible sides, and a
long flat top extending east and west, and
rising 5iW or 60(1 feet above the valley.
What Oinri probably built as a mere
palatial residence, became the capital of
the kingdom instead of Shechem. The
choice of Omri was admirable in selecting
a position which combined strength, beauty
nnd fertility. "Shemer." The Hebrew
form of Shomer, from whence the hill was
called Shomeron or Samaria. "Two tal
ents." About 12). This was a large sum.
25. "Evil. . . Worse than all." He was
worse than the wicked Kings who had
reigned before him. "He went farthei
than they had gone in establishing iniquity
by law. rnd forcing his subjects to comply
with him in it; for we read in Micah 6:1H
of the 'statutes of Omri.' the keeping of
which made Israel a desolation." We can
not doubt that these statutes of Omri
were measures adopted for the more com
pletely isolating the people from the house
of the Lord at Jerusalem and of perpetu
atingperhaps increasing their idolatrous
practices. 26. "Made Israel to sin." Note
the power of a wicked life: 1. It is tliv
more dangerous when associated with ma
terial prosperity (v. 24). 2. It transforms
a King into a tyrant (vs. 25, 2li). 3. It
is the less excusable in a man of valor and
capacity (v. 27). 4. It entails sufleriii!;
and woe on succeeding generations. 27.
"And his might." It appears that he stood
well in the army, for it was in camp that
he was elected to the throne, yet in his
relation to Jehovah he stood worse than
any of his predecessors and was farthest
from God. A man may be ski. ml and use
ful to himself and otuers in all material
and worldly things, while in spiritual and
divine things he works only mischief and
destruction. What without religion is so
ailed civilization? 28. "Oinri slept." He
died a natural death.
II. The reign and character of Ahab
(vs. 29-33). 29. "Year of Asa." Asa saw
lix Kings of Israel buried. "Hegan Ahab."
More particulars are recorded of Ahab
than ol any of the other Kings of Israel.
JO. "Did evil . . . Above all." He even
fxceeded the iniquity of his wicked father.
31. "A light thing. ' He not only broke
the second commandment by introducing
fulse gods, but he broke the first also by
bringing iu heathen deities. The great
tin of Ahub, which distinguished him
from his predecessors, was his introduction
of the worship of Baal, consequent upon
his marriage with Jezebel, a name even
more infamous than his own; and his
formal establishment of this gross and
palpable idolatry as the .elision of the
itate. "Jezebel. ' One of the worst char
acters mentioned in the -criptures. She
used every effort to cstablisu idolatry in
Samaria and exterminate the worship of
God. Prophet and people were compelled
to hide from the storm of her wrath. Her
influence was rlso powerfully felt in Judah.
"Kthbaul." Jezebel's royal father was a
Iiriest of Baal and murdered his own
irother. King Philctos. He was n fit
parent of this woman. "Zidonians." This
term was used among the Hebrews with
much latitude. Josephus calls Kthbnal
King of the Tyrians and Zidonians. It is
probable that both Tyre and Zidon, with
the adjacent towns, were often under one
government. "Served Uaal." The chief
male god among the Phoenicians, as Ash
toreth was the female divinity. An unholy
alliance would never he entered into if the
soul were not first demoralized. The re
sults show that mixed marriages are dan
gerous. A want of mutual religious con
victions between the husband and wife is
almost certain to impair the sacred rela
tionship. !
32. "Reared . . . Altar," etc. Ha
built a temple and in it erected an altar
where sacrifice might be offered to Baul.
Splendid shrines were built, especially one
of vast size in the capital, and the rites
and ceremonies of the new cult were ex
hibited on a grand scale, with sensuous
accompaniments of all kinds music, stat
uary, procession of robed priests, victims,
incense, bands of fanatics worked up to
frenzy by religious excitement, and the
like. Astarte's emblems were erected, and
license was given, under cover of her wor
ship, to tb grossest licentious excesses.
33. "Made a grove." The Ashcrah. R.
V. This was aa image to represent the
female divinity, of which Baal was the
male. "Did move." Ahab actually wor
shiped these heathen deities, and crushed
out the true religion. We can be guilty of
no greater sin than to reject God and
the salvation He has provided through
His Sou. See John 3:19, 30. It is not the
Sreatnesa of our sins which causes our con
emnation, but the unbelieving rejection
of the Saviour. When we reject Christ we
have nothing of value left help, happiness
and hope are forever gone, and like a ves
sel without rudder or sail we drift toward
;tbe rocks of eternal destruction and
despair.
8ecret of Electric Fishes.
There are about fifty species of fish
known to possess electrical organs ca
pable of Imparting a shock. A special
study of some of them has recently
been made by Prof. McKenrlck, F. U
3., of Glasgow university, with the
purpose of ascertaining the source ol
their peculiar power. He flcds that
the electricity Is generated in special
Ized organs, . which are either modi
Bed muscles or modified glands, struo
tures which In all animals manifest
electric properties. In economy ol
production these electric organs fai
surpass anything yet contrived by
man. Just as the light of the glow
worm excels In a similar sense out
best efforts to produce cheap llluml
nation. In each case there is a se
cret yet to be discovered.
Record Brood of Chickens. '
Percy Richmond of Shelburue Falls
Mass.. baa this to offer In the way ol
successful chicken hatching "undei
hens." Out of 83 egrs set, be has got
ten 85 thicks, all of which are nvlag
Except oao.
CHRISTIAN EHORiTE!!!
SUNDAY, JULY THIRTY-FIRST.
"An Evening With Burma and Slam."
Isa. 33:1-10.
Scripture Verses Gen. fi:5; Pa.
96:6: 113 4-8; Isa. 41:13; 20;
44:9-17; 60:2; Rom. 1:20-23; Isa. 42:6, ,
7: 60:3; Matt. 4 :16; 5:14; John 8:12; i
12:46; 2 Cor. 4:6; 1 John 2:2. ' j
Lesson Thoughts.
The conversion of the world Is as
sure as the promise of a never falling
Gd. However slow the progress,
however gloomy the prospect to human
understanding, the "desert shall re
joice and blossom as the rose."
Compare heathen lands with heathen
lands. Christianity means material
prosperity as well as spiritual safety
education, culture, charity replace Ig
norance, rudeness and cruelty.
Selections.
Burma has a population of about
seven million and ninety-two per cent
of the people are Buddhists. Burma
Is the leading BudhJst country of tho
world.
Boardman found the Karens, a de
spised hill tribe of Burma, ignorantly
worshipping as God an English prayer
book, and made It the starting point
of his teaching.
There are seven hundred Baptist
churches In Burma, five hundred self
supporting. The population of Slam Is about five
million equal to that of Chicago and
New York cities.
The Siamese are Buddhists, and
every man must spend some time In
the priesthood.
The greatest missionary triumphs In
Slam have been won among; the Laos
people In the north. The first convert
there Nan Inta, was won by the oc
currence of an eclipse which the mis
s'ionary predicted.
Slam has not been disciplined by
English and French guns, as China
has, but the country has been opened
by missionaries.
The weak hands and Teeble knees
that we are to strengthen are not those
of the missionaries, for they are
stronger than we; they are, through the
missionaries, those of the heathen,
and they are those of the careless
Christians at home.
Prayer. All lands belong unto thee,
great King of kings and Lord
of lords. Thou hast saJd, "If I be
lifted up, I will draw all men
unto me;" we praise thee for
brave, self-sacrificing men who have
gone to lift up the cross before the
eyes of perishing heathen. Hear our
prayers for their encouragement and
Btrength; and especially we present
our petitions for the success of tho
gospel in the spiritual wilderness of
Burma and Slam. Make them Indeed
to rejoice and blossom as the rose,
through the blessed Influence of the
gospel we enjoy. We ask It in
Jesus' name. Amen.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
JULY THIRTY-FIRST.
Missions in Latin Countries. Psa.
72. 10-17.
By Latin countries we understand
those that are under the domination
of the Latin or Roman Catholic Church
In these lands the Church in power
throws every thinkable obstacle in
the way of Protestant mission work.
Since our island possessions are con
sidered under another topic, we have
here Italy, Mexico, and South America
The mention of Mexico Immediately
suggests to Methodist intelligence the
revered name of Dr. William Butler.
It was he who established our pros
perous missions there. Fortunate in
deed was It that when he was com
pelled to lay down that work his son,
Dr. John W. Butler, was so well quali
fied to take it up and carry it forward
to very encouraging success. A re
markable fact, not usually known, is
that Mexico cast off the Roman yoke
before Protestantism gave Jt tho Gos
pel. Freedom of the press was es
tablished, public schools introduced,
nuns and Jesuits banished, Church
and State separated. AH this was
done In spite of the pope's anathemas.
In a region extending from Matamoras
to the top of the Sierra Mad re Moun
tains, the people worship "the V4r
gin bf the Falls," so called because
her Image is engiaved on a stalagmite
in a cave near a beautiful fall of wa
ter. In that section of Mexico idolatry
is the chief obstacle to the Gospel's
advance.
South America nominally Is a Chris,
tlan continent, but really it is Roman
ized. "The dull light at an effete Ro
manism makes darkness visible." The
people are priest-ridden. Thay are
without family life such as we know,
given up to domestic anarchy and re
ligious bacchanals. They worship
grotesque images, with pagan or semi
pagan rites.
. The announcement of the Monroe
Doctrine early In our republic's his
tory seems clearly providential. To
all the world we dared to say:
"Hands off of South Amorlca! Assum
ing the political protection of that
country, we morally take upon our
selves the obligation to Christianize
the people there." The Monroe doc
trine is essentially missionary. The
qivll freedom of a continent is not half
as Important as its religious liberty.
Rapid strides have been made there.
Much encouragement Is given to our
workers in that vast Held.
Bottle Imp Hoix.
What Is known as the bottle Imp
hoax was one of the most brazen
impositions ever practiced on the
credulous Engllnh public. It was the
result of a wager between the Duke
of Montague and a friend. In dis
cussing the amazing gullibility of tho
English he declared that if an impos
tor were to advertise that he would
Jump Into a quart bottle all London
would go to see him do It. The wager
was taken up and an advertisement
inserted in all tho papers that the
event would take place In the Hay
market theater, Jan. 18. 1679. The
theater go that night was packed, and
many thousands were turned from
the door. The stage conjurer ap
peared on the stage and told the peo
ple that If they would pay double price
he would Jump Into a pint Instead of
quart bottle. Ho then made bis exit
through a rear door and carried off
the box receipts with him. The af
fair ended In a riot and the theatei
was almost , wrecked. The Duke of
Montague and bis betting friend had
to leuve the city and remain away un
til It was forgotten.
THE GREAT DESTROYED
SOWS STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE
The Danger Kisnnl rten to Vnnni Man
hood to tfeert the Danger Ttmt I.nrks
In the Intoxlrnllne Cup Not Ono Its
ripemlng Quality In the rtnloon.
Were are some facts to show that strung
drink is the cause of so much ruin. No
man can link any business with drinking
nnd make a success of it. Sooner or later
he will see his ruin, disgrace nnd downfall.
How mnnv a drinking man who does not
stop to think of the nwful ruin before him
soon finds- himself nennilen nnd, friend
less. Even thoe who stood with him at
the riar, drinkinir the belongings of
dnuliring wif nnd little ones, now turn
from him. Thee are not sinile csses.hut
thousands bear nut the statement. Nine
ty per cent, of all the destitution is caused
by strong drink alone. When a young
man starts he never knows from the be
ginning where the end will be.
It is not -n"ii7h for a man to say he
cannot stop drinking. It is onlv the devil
that urires on. Stand firm and proclaim
your determination. Grip your npnetite
n yon would n lever and so control youi
lite. Do not let evil men who insist on
your drinkint entice yo-i. Let everv man
fully study the evil and know for himself
the depravity that comes from sucht a
course. Instead of feeding and clothing
it demoniacs. It robs its victim of intel
lect and rrnect of elf and friends, ft
ruins morallv. snciall' nnd financially.
Stop! Look! Listen. Think of the danger
signal and promise find and man to go nc
further. Tt. will make you n better man,
n better i7.n, a better husband to vout
wife and father to your children. How
many are tramping out their life upnn a
railroad track who might be riding in a
narli"1 rir had they left drink out of their
lives? Liquor has started many a man on
the tramp, or in other words, given him
a "t''c pas." and he is now a homeless
wanderer because of this besetting sin.
f-nme are readv to excuse the snloon, but
I should like any one to stand up nnd
nnint out a single redeeming quality.
Would you look for the evil? You havs
not far to go. It is the feeder of divorce
courts nnd an incentive to murder, prisor
nnd the g;illows. When the poor victim
has spent his last dollar, will the saloor
stand un for him? Is he welcome, then,
to the old haunts? N'o, no, when there ii
no prospect of pav there is no tiroffer o!
drink. I nm g'ad to see officials of rail
roads take a decided stand against em
ploying men who use liquor in nny form,
not that railroad men use it more than
others, but this attitude blesses mankind
in the confidence which it gives and the
example which it sets.
Then take heed. The red linht warns.
Be wie. Beware of the Hanaer signal!
J. E. Dove! I, in Evangelical Herald.
The Voice of Science.
Alcohol vitiates the blood, inflames ibt
stomach, overtaxes the heart, destroys tht
kidneys, hardens the liver and softens tin
brain. Norma Karr, M. D.
Alcohol is a poison. It kills in Iarc
doses, and half kills in smaller ones. It
produces insanity, delirium, fits. It noi
sons the blood nnd wastes the man. Pro
fessor James Miller. M. D.
An experience of more than twentj
years sometimes under exceptionally try
ing circumstances has proved to me that
the daily use of alcohol, even in smal?
quantities, is prejudicial in cold climates
Dr. Rae, Arctic Expedition.
How I wish that the truth that nlrohoi
is not n food, not a sustainer of the living
eneriries. and that nil habii-producino
drugs and drinks subvert the integrity ol
the human nervous system could be en
graved upon the beans and lives of ever
man, woman and child in our land. Cor
delia A. Greene. M. D.
The beer drinker may be the picture ol
health, but in reality he is most incapa
ble of resisting disease. A sliirht injury,
severe cold, or shock to the body or mini?
will commonly promote acute disease end
ing fatally. Compared with inebriates
who use different forms of alcohol, he is
more generally diseased. Scientific Amer
ican. Lessons From Kryp ,
The .Tunior Missionary Magazine give
the following interesting account of a
girls' entertainment in Zagazing, Egypt:
The girls of this school gave nn enter
tainment during the summer, which wai
the first ever given bv them. Thev gave
a Bible exercise, which consisted of a list
of verses of Scripture repeated in concert.
Among the texts repeated wns, Who hntb
woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath con
tentions? Who hath complaining? Who
hath wounds without cause? Who hat!:
redness of eyes?
They that tarry long nt the wine. They
tint go to seek out mixed wine.
Look thou not upon wine when it ii
red. when it stnrkletli in the cup.
When it gneth down smoothly.
At last it biteth like a sTnent.
And stingeth e an adder.
A younc man in the audience, who was
in the habit of using strong drink, wat
heard to say, "Well, I have taken my last
drink." And so strange as it may seem
the despised womanhood of Egypt have
been the means, perhaps, of bringing the
soul of this young man from darkness into
light. It is incidents of such a character
that strengthen and encourage our mis
sionaries in their work. Yes. it is true,
"The entrance of Thy Word giveth light."
Drink, Crime and I'auperUin.
The statistics obtained from the replies
of over 10(H) prison governors in tne I'nit
ed States to a circular letter addressed to
them, and a summary shows that the gen
eral average of 009 replies received from
the license States gives the proportion of
crime due to drink at no less than seventy-two
per cent.; the average from MS of
ficials in prohibition States gives the per
centage at thirty-seven. A considerable
number of the latter were "boot-leggers. '
in jail for selling whisky. Out of the
1017 jailers, only 181 placed their estimate
below twenty-five per cent., and fifty-live
per cent, of these were empty jails in pro
hibition territory. The relation of drink
to pauperism is much the same as that of
drink to crime. (If 73,01.1 paupers in all
alms houses of the couutry,' 37,201 aro
there through drink.
Evil Effects of Alcohol,
A recent official report shows that more
alcohol per capita is consumed in France
than in any other country. Last year the
French drank 4.81 gallons of alcohol per
head, aa against 2.44 in Germanv, 2.1! in
Great Britain, 3.30 in Switzerland and 1.37
in the United States. In France there is a
saloon to every eighty-three persons, or
404,5oo' saloons in the whole country. It is
shown, also, that the evil effects of drink
ing nra due not to adulteration, as is so
commonly aSirmcd, but to the alcohol con
sumed. The Crusade In Ilrlef.
A special commission, appointed by the
Emperor, reports that intoxicating hquors
cost Germany last year 7.)0,(kW,iXiO, or one
eighth of all the population earns.
In Nova Scotia, through the operation
of the Scott act, and a rigid provincial li
cene law, prohibition prevails in sixteen
out of the eighteen counties in the prov
ince. Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles has
issued, at Washington, a document giving
his utterances at various times regarding
the army canteen. It is published in pain
phlot form and will be scot to any who ap
ply, inclosing stamp.
' A movement inaugurated by physicians
Is now on foot for the adoption of the
educational method against drink.
In Kansas the annual consumption ot
liquors per capita is less than two gallons,
as against nineteen iu tha country as a
whole.
An anti-treating movement is making
considerable headway in Montreal, Que
bec. Members of the league pledge
themselves not to accept from nor offer
to others intoxicating liquors iu any pub
lic bar, hotel, or club.
Bv a decree of divorce granted recently
to Mrs. Daisy Hayes, of Kansas City, Mo',
James A. Hayes, the defendant, is re-
" imug meir two children
wuniu luriy-cigiii uours alter he tus
a driuk of liquor or beer,
Three TCIsnea.
in Infant in its cradle slept,
And in its sleep it smiled
4nd one by one three women kne!t
To kiss the fair-haired child:
And each thought of the days to he
And breathed a prayer half silcntiy.
Dne poured her love on many lives,
But knew love's toil and care;
(ts burdens oft had been to her
A heavy weight to bear.
She stooped and murmured lovingly:
"Not hardened hands, dear child, fot
thee."
Dne hid not known the burdened hanus,
But knew the empty heart :
it life's rich banquet she had sat.
An unfed guest, apart.
"Oh. not. ' she whispered, tender!-.
"An empty heart, dear child for thee."
And one was old; she had known care,
She had known loneliness:
She knew God leads us by no path
Uis presence cannot l!e.
She smiled nnd murmured. tri:sl fully t
"God's will, God's will, dear child, for
thee."
t The British Weekly.
An Vnknown Conqueror.
When Rachel Hill was fifteen her moth
er died, and she became the head of the
household. It was not an easy posi.ion
for so young a girl, for Nora and Ned wore
wilful and difficult to manage, and delicate
little Ada needed special care. It would
have been a great relief to fall back upon
some relative some one who was older
and more experienced or to hire a house
keeper., but neither plan was possible, and
o Rachel cheerfully assumed the burden
herself.
She was not particularly wise or tactful,
ind she made many mistakes. There were
many nights, ton, when, weary and heart
sick, she fought the battle with her own
rebellion over the girlhood nnd "good
times" she was losing, things which future
years could never bring her again. But
she never tor a moment thought ot giving
up.
When t-Iie was twenty-two a lover ap
peared, and for a year Uaohel tasted the
joy nf life. Then Ada. who had been
growing worse, was pronounced an incur
able invalid by the doctors. There was
anxiety over Ned, too. and pretty, thought
less Nora needed an older sister's care.
So Rachel sent her lover away. It was not
fair to hint, she said, to keep up the en
gagement when i-he could see no prospect
of freedom. He protested at first, but not
for verv long. Then Rachel settled down
to her life of sacrifice.
As the years passed tliry brought new
burdens. Nora married poorly, and alter
a while, a widow and penniless, returned
to the old home with her child, to be sup
ported by her sister. Ned went out West,
and was not heard of for years, but nt last,
when Rachel was sixty, he, too, returned,
broken in health and spirits, another caw
for the busy hands of the mother-sister.
But through the long years those hands
had grown used to burdens. To strangers
there was nothing about the worn, gray
haired woman to reveal one of life's con
querors. She was not particularly attract
ive in nny way, nnd she had been too busy
to acquire that easy touch with the world
which opens so many doors, liut although
Ehe did not realize it, her life had won tht
greatest gift of nil victory. In youth she
had had the faults as well as the virtues
of youth. She had cherished aspirations
and had had her own seltisli plan and de
sires. But one by one she had put them
resolutely away, and had not repined
From the selfishness o youth she had
grown into an unselfishness marvelous to
ull who knew her.
"My prayer for years." she told her p.is
tor one day, "has been that I may outlive
nil the others, so that I can take care of
them to the end. And I think it is going
to be granted inc. 1 have no other wish
but this."
Does the story seem a sad one? Yet
how many eager young heart, leading tho
stories of holy lives of other ages, have
caught visions of the greatness ot love
which "sccketh not her own," and been,
touched to higher purpose.
"Don't, dear!" a ladv exclaimed to n
young girl, who was laughing over some lit
tle peculiarities of dress and manner of an
old woman she had seen on the train.
"Ynu don't know we are so blind, often.
It niav be that she is one of the world's
uits." Youth's Companion.
The Henten Oil. "
. The lamp of God is designed to shino
all through the dreary hours of the night.
And when we make frequent mention of
the goodness and grace of God we are
holding forth the word oi life, and shin-
iig as lights in the world. Some one grop
ing amid darkness is encouraged, strength
ened and cheered. There is more rul
help and encouragement in the Christian
life coming from the pews than wo think.
But this volume of light might be in
creased a thousand fold if wc would only
observe the goodness of God, and meditate
thereon, and then make mention of all
His loving kindness. There arc three
characteristics about oil, whether good or
bad. Crude oil gives poor light, makes a
bad odor and is liable to explosion, l'ure
oil gives a good light, gives no bail odor
and is safe irom explosion. Religious ut
terance may be like either of these. A
hasty, forced, unmeditated speech is not
illuminating, not very fragrant, and apt
to need revision in calmer moments.
Whereas, a nrayerful, prepared und spir
itual word slieils light, its savor is sweet
and it abides nnclnagcil. Are we giving
beaten oil lor the sanctuary? Let us not
rob God of His due, but make mention
of His manifold kindness and everlasting
faithfulness. From seriuuuetto hi- the
Rev. Cornelius Wocifkin,
The True anil the Artificial. '
It is not difficult to distinguish belween
the true and the artificial. The moral test
is the sure one. When conscience is sen
titive, and the will submissive, and the life
consistent, there is no doubt about one's
spirituality. When the soul sings: "I
delight to do Thy will, O God," and then
does delight to do God's will, or does the
will of. God from firm resolve, there can
be no doubt. When ona loathes sin, and
tries to leave it all sin. all kinds of am
ain against the body, sin against the soul, I
sin against ino neighbor, sin against
Christ and the Futhcr there ia r.o dif
ficulty in reaching a decision aa to the
genuineness of Christian character. It
is no mirage. The garden of the Lord is
there. Bishop John II. Vincent.
The Creates! Ultsn Obscure.
Heal greatness has nothing to do with
a mans sphere. It does not lie in the
Magnitude of his outward agency, in tile
extent of the effects which he produces.
Iho greatest men may do comparatively
little abroad, l'erh&ps the greatest in our
city at this moment are buried in obscuri
ty. Grandeur of character lies wholly in
force of soul; that is, in the force of
thought, moral principle and love, and
this may be found in the humblest condi
tion of life. W. K. Chunning.
No man can bold back the band el
(igdt cluck,
I World's Biggest Clam.
Rhode Island, "whose clams are
still one ot Its proudeBt monument,"
aa an orator recently expressed It.
ha produced the record quahaug this
week. It was taken from dreunwlcb
bay. It weights on ounce oter two
pounds.
The shells are five and a half Inches
long Mid four and three-quarter,
Inches wide, and when closed natur
ally the circumference Is thirteen and
a half Inches. This I not a "flsli
story." for the quahaug ha been pre
served tor exhibition purposes.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
R. G. Dun Sc Company' weekly t
view of trade says:
Trade conditions were gradually
becoming more general after the con
elusion of political conventions, when
1 new- disturbing factor appeared ia
the strike of packing house employees)
and allied trades. This enhance4
prices of meats and added many
thousands to the already large army,
of unemployed, weakening the pur
chasing power of the people still
further. Aside from this unfavorable
development, the new of the week
.'ontains much encouragement. Rait
way earnings for the first week o
July are only 6 per cent, less than
last year, and foreign trade at this
port showed gains of $530,286 in ex
ports and $1,906,724 in imports, as
:ompared with the same week a year
ago.
Textile manufacturing plants are;
Jpcrating somewhat irregularly, reduc
:ion of uak'ej by Fall River concern
laving been decided upon, and tht
nay result in the general resumption
10 greatly desired. Export buying ha
the market, stocks of heavy sheetings
nd drills being fairly well cleaned up.
In woolen goods the week has brought
the opening of new lines of medium
grade men's wear at about last year'
prices. This fact and some resump
:ion of clothing factories combined
:o increase sales, putting this industry
.n a better position than other tex
tiles. J-ailurcs this week numbered 2J
tn the United States, against 2ij last
year, and 20 in Canada, compared with
16 a year agr).
Bradstrm's Says: Wheat, includ
ng flour, exports for the week end
' July 14 aggregate 1,412,498 bush
sis, against 8;8,9io last week, 3,652.
784 this week last year, 3,775,222 ia
1902, and 5,22 1, 8S0 in 1901. From July
t to date the exports aggregate 2,291,
p8 bushels against 6.033,194 last year,
5,180,337 in 1902, and 10.238,029 to
iyoi. torn exports tor the week ag
gregate 574.9) bushels, against 613,
124 last week, 1,402,404 a year ago,
130,679 in 1902, and 174,081 in 1901.
From July 1 to date the exports of
torn aggregate 1,188,0,3 bushels,
igainst 2,927,488 in 1003, 315,710 in
1902, and 4,514,819 in 1901.
WHOLESALE MARKETS.
Baltimore. FLOUR Quiet and
unchanged: receipts, 3,300 barrels.
VH FAT Steady, at deebne. Spot
contract, 84i847g; spot Ts'o. 2 red
Western, 840184;,: July 84(5841
August, 84.y4fa.85; September, 8, '4 (5
!5!'j: steamer No. 2 red, 8o'4fo;8oMl
receipts, 45.096 bushels, Southern, by
sample, 65-3.83; Southern, on grade,
-6V1.85.
CORN Dull and lower. Spot. 5t
faS2'.8; July, 52'a52!s; August, 52J4
(Kh2Yi September, 53J45.3Vj; steam
er mixed, 4O'n40i; receipts, 17.05$
bushels; Southern white corn, 506s
Southern yellow corn, 50(456.
OATS Firm; more inquiry. No S
white, 45',i(S46: No. 2 mixed, 4354;
receipts, 6.939 bushels.
RYE Dull; No. 2 Western, up
town, 7475.
HAY Steady and unchanged.
BUTTER Steady and unchanged.
Fancy imitation, 176?. 18; fancy cream
ery, ig'Vi.20; fancy ladcl, M'JiS; store
packed, (n2.
F.GCiS Firm and unchanged, at 18. '
CHEESE Easier and unchanged.
Largo, Sigg; medium, oag'ii small
9' fi i.
New York. BUTTER Quiet; re
ceipts, 7,320. Street price, extra
creamery, iS'rTiS'; ofTicial prices,
creamery, common to extra, 1318.
CHEESE Irregular; receipts, 7,
377; weekly exports, 4.532. State, full
cream, small white, fancy, 8; do.,
fair to good, S'nS'i; do., poor, 6i
617: small, colored, fancy, 8'-a.
EGGS Strong; receipts, 4,931.
State, Pennsylvania, and near by,
fancy selected white, 22: firsts iSgtO.
FLOUR Receipts, 18,406 barrels;
exports. 7.581 barrels; firmly held, but
trade dull. Winter patents, 485(3
5.10; winter straights, 46o'?T475; Min
nesota patent, 4.85'5.5.i5; winter ex
tras, 3 35''j.3.8o; Minnesota bakers',
365395; winter, low grades, 3.IJ
36o.
Live Stock.
New York. BEEVES Receipt
5J0 head; no trading; dressed beet
steady at 7510' i; exports, 1,19s
tattle and 7,435 quarters of beef.
CALVES Receipts, 175; Market
firm; ordinary to choice veals sold
at 6.00(37.00; city dressed veals, 8
'ii.12.
SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipt.
l4i; sheep in good demand and
firm; choice handy weights a fraction
higher; lambs active and steady, sheep
lo'.d at 3-0O'ij.4.5o; a few wethers, 4.55;
culls at 2.00.-2.50; lambs, 5.50(4875;,
ct:!!s, 4.00; dreiscd mutton firm at
t!9; dressed lambs at 1015; choice
carcasses at l5'j(i;t,l6.
HOGS Receipts, 1,706; no sale
reported; feeling steady.
Chicago. CATTLE Receipt.
1,000; Texan nominal; good to prime
steers, 5.50'd 6.25; poor to medium,
1.501.5.25; stockers and feeders, 2.25
'jri 4.oo; cows, 1.50'a) 4.50; heifers, 2.00 -'04.85;
canners, 1. 501 2.00; bulls, 2 00 '
ii.4.25; calves, 2.50(0). 25 ; Texas fed
itcers, 4 50.5. 1 c.
HOGS Receipts 16,000; market
iteady to 5c lower; mixed and butch
ers, 5.30(11 5 52!4 ; good to choice
heavy, 5 45'y.5-55; rough heavy, 5.30
Tq.5 45: light, 5 30(83.45; bulk of sales,
5-3.V'i 5 50.
SHEEP Receipts, 20,000; steady;
good to choice wethers, 4 755 50;
lair to good mixed, 3 5034.50; native
lambs, 4.oo(a.7-75.
WORLD OP LABOR.
British railways employ 534,141 per
10ns. An international union of carpet up
holsterers is projected.
The milling industry of the Uni
ted states is the third largest in the
country.
In Russia the penaltyi for leading
strike is the same as that for re
bellion. Gardening is taught In nearly all
the primary and elementary school
in France.
Forty million dozen eggs are used
yearly in the calico printing industry
in England.
In Worcester, England, there are
703 women who make needle nj
1,144 female nailmakeri.
Toronto (Canada) Street Railway
Men' Union ha contributed $t,oo
toward the Lbor Temple.
Terence V. Powderiy, former he4
of the Knights of Labor, hsi opene ,
a law office in Washington.
Pittsburg, Pa., is to be fortni"
hunched as a full-fledged cand
for the 190S convention of the A
can Federation of Labor. . .
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