A DISCOURSEFOK SUNDAY
An Eloquent Sermon Entitle -Reward
of Righteousness."
If Y WuH Altai i Earthly Prosperity
Christ Mast Ba Voar Teacher.
' TJnooKi.Y, N. Y. Having been ap
pointed Presiding Elder ol the' New York
District of the New York East Conference,
the Rev. Dr. John E. Adama, pastor of
Grace M. E. Church, preached his closing
ermons Sunday. During hia pastorate of
little more than two years he iias had
marked success. The debt of the church,
920,000, wis canceled in January, 1003, the
mortgage burned and the church is now
free from incumbrance. Sunday morning
Dr. Adams preached on "An Advance Or
dered." The text was from Exodus xiv:
15: "Speak unto the children of Israel,
that- they go forward." Dr. Adams said:
When this advance was ordered, the Is
raelite were encamped on the coast of
the Bed Sea. Before them was the sea
spread out for miles and leagues, and they
had neither bridge nor boat, nop pontoon
ty which to cross it. Behind thein was
the army of Pharaoh, with hones and
chariots, with trained warriors and skilled
commanders, intent on their capture or
destruction. On either side, it would seen,
were formidable obstruction mountains,
or fortresses, or fomenting that could not
be passed for the Israelites saw no wsy
of escupe and cried out for fear. In tins
perilous and apparently hopeless situation
the people reproached Moses for tha dread
ful extremity to which they had been re
duced; whereupon that holy man appealed
tc God for help, and then came, probably
in tones of thunder that sottided in I'm
cars of all the people full and clear above
tho roar of the sea, this strangi order:
"Wherefore cricst thou unto Mc? Speak
unto the children of Israel that lacy go
forward."
Leaving now. the literal nirratTvc, es
cept as wo may have ocoasiou to recur to
it incijma)lv).let us attend to tho moral"
me tilings arid uses of the text. The ee
before us is exceptional in nothing but the
physical -facts; tlio mor.il truths and un
derlying principles of this case arc ttlwavs
nd verywhciv present among th pcjple
of Cod. Indeed, the principles here in
volved are ao general and the analo-ic.i of
universal history are so wide and complete
that I think we are justified ii regarding
this text as the law of the universe ap
plied to the church. The physical occasion
of this text, in all of its essential features,
finds its duplicate in the moral o-casion
of this service. Wa are the children of
Israel ourselves. I can prove it by St.
Paul: "If ye be Christ's, then are ye
Abraham's seed, and heira according to
the promise." The Red Sea is before us.
Jot that Red Sea that washes t!ie sands cf
Arabia and flonts the commerce of th"
East, but the Red Sea of moral hindrrnc?
a sea that is deeper than the Atlanta
Ocean and wider thaa the raci.ic. Phar
aoh's army is pursuing ua. Not the an
tiquated Lgyptian division, now extinct,
put the infernal brigade itself, ctill in the
field and strictly up to date in every par
ticularand these enemies from the' netli
ermost pit, inspired with inconceivable ha
tred and. in the words of Milton, "armed
with bell flames and fury," ond following
us in overwhelming numbers and with ru
appeasable fierceness. GujIi is our kitu.v
tion this very hour, and as we stand to-day
mid these threatening environments, the
captain of our salvation calls to us from
heaven, "Go forward," and in ohodicnee
to this order lies our duty, our safety and
our happiness.
Let "s anoroacb our subject atop by
tep. God is the author of the universe.
Ike universe existed in the Divine Mind
aa an ideal before it existed in itself as
a substance. -The ideal was complete and
perfect as well as beautiful and good; but
the first states of the actual ..iverse did
not realize that perfect ideal of the Di
Jine Mind. What then? Did God fail?
VtA His active energy irove unequal to
IJis beneficent intentions? Bv no means.
Ood gave the universe this imperfect form
at first, not because He could not do other
wise and had to abandon Ilia ideal but be
cause He saw it better to realize His ideal
gradually through the law of progress than
to realize it suddenly by an ant of crea
tive powc;-. Deliberately er.d of His own
volition God made the universe a crude
mass of unorganized matter and force;
and then, mtr-sting His sublime work to
Ingres operated bv respon
sible intelligences. Ho directed th'at'in due
time all should be reduced to order, har
mony and beauty. This is he story of the
universe in its entirety and in its parts,
ibis is the story of the worlds and of their
productions. Ibis is the story of minerals,
Vegetables und animals; of general species
and individuals; of angels, women and
men. ihi u the story of matter in all its
combinations, of life in all its forms, and
ot mind in all its phenomena. This, in
brief, so far as we have yet learned, is the
ion7 "cation, and of all propaga-
It n illustrate what I mean by the
oak. God Is ideal for tho oak is a majestic
tree, six. feet in diumeter and ten feet in
height, with mighty roots taking deep
bold of the rocks and mighty branches
weeping the clouds a very giant that can
wrestle with the storms and play with the
lightnings. But in its beginning, as it
sprouts from the acorn, the oak is a tiny
shoot which the foot of a little child could
effectually crash. God makes it thus and
jays to it, "Go forward;" and then the lit
tie plant, obedient to the Divine com
mand, through cloud and sunshine and
tnanging season, soon goes on and out and
P, untU at last, by means of tha law of
CfTCSVJ1 th of fowth, it has.
fulfilled the word of God, and stands be
fore the eyes of men in all the imposing
grandeur of iU towering and solid matur-
Take the eaglo as anotber illustration.
Jioa ideal for the eagle is an imperial
hurt of great .ixa and strength, with
fmazing keenness of vision and with pin
tons for majestio flight, the mountain crag
Us-caetle, and its pleasure ground the sky.
KiU nVi1,? WWne id" for thi noble
il" ??un ""let "merges from
?. !? L Kttle creature? and if
rou could see it during the first week or
i".?. Ov'1 .estence, and could stroke with
K3T i . d-.,U yellowish down and
took into its pale bluish eyes, its feeble
ST!iWi,1d. Pbly excite your pity. But
" l.9 uttl, thing feeds and exercise, it
I f. X nai e'fengthene, until at last, un
der the operation of this law of progress,
Li. . j" om, XM "est, launch into tha
aiii gaze directly into the noonday aun,
beat down tha atorm clouds under its
continent to continent, through the oceans
bdJJJ"' bove' er the oceans that roll
Bi!Lil' th"' diession we must rise out
? Vnt01m,,l"J' and tnen attill ascend
intellectual to the spiritual. We
.forf cnsider man as an illus
rvVi Xth trutn ar Pursuing.
w 1 for lnn " moat exalted and
H Jlell,Kwrth ment1 nd moral en
dowments of tremendous scope, so ira
measurably auperior in parts and powers
to all else we know, that it seem, the whole
creation must culminate in him. God de
signed man in His own image, intended
I"". ?' commuiuon and companionship
wits itimself, determined to make him His
SIZyK"? er "J1 th rtn' n1 Pro
posed at laat to share the government of
"n'vrae with Him forever. The
houghtof ! .ueh dignity is an astonishing
ES orhLe.lmm.col,cePtioni out Dothina
o 8rPtures aright.
But the distance between inoeption and
tompletioo u greater here than elaewbara,
not only because man is destined to risa
iiigher than other creatures, but also be
cause he begins lower. It is a well-known
fact that tiie young of tha human specie
la inferior in strength and activity to th
young of many of the lower animals. True,
walk round the cradle of the sleeping
infant with soft and reverent step, and
this is fitting. Heaven itself looks down
on human infancy with reverence. I doubt
if it is too strong to say that God stations
a quaternion of guardian angels at the four
corners of every little crib ia the land.
But the reverence with which we regard
tha child arusee from a proaaati instinct
of- what the child will be, rather thaa from
anr perception of what it aow ia. -
i'he human baby is tho absolute extreme
of feebleness. hHlulussoesa a'ul utAurauiu
Tt ennnot stand; nor wa.'K, nor tftn creep'
It cannot think. It docs not know, it
has no true perception, nor any mental ac
tion whatever, apart fro.i what we call
instinct. It is utterly without tho rural
experiences without love, without hate,
without hope," without faith. Though be
longing to the Kingdom of Cod, it know
as litt.e of Ood as Herbert Sicncer used
to insist he and the rest of mankind know.
It is nothing but . bundle of unconscious
organized life, with inherent rapabiliticc
not yet manifest. It hasn't ability enough
to recognize itself, nor wU it ever bavo
memory enough 'to remember itself at this
stage of its bcin. Were it not for that
first riiracl? of Providence in human li'e
tnc mothers love it would perish frorj
the earth on tb day of its birth.
li.it wait a little ond see. Wait until
the mother's fostering' care, and the fath
er's disciplinary training, and the instruc
tion of the Ichools and iho churches, and
nil the various appliances of Christian civ
ilization have wrought their vast part ia
connection with the universal law of de
velopment and progrcc3 and then obsrrva
the child, now become trte man. How
wonderful and indescribable tho result !
That little child now stands erect and sur
veys the high places of the earth. Ila
chmhj tho heights, and, walking with God
on the horns of the uountains, ho pur
veys the heavens. Ho counts the stars
and calls then by their names. He kaows
he is superior to tuns and systems. His
heart tliriila with pulsations that arc
mightier than ocean currents or solar in
fluencce. He tecs. He knows. Ho un
j'.trst.ind". Ho reasons. He feels wiLhin
liir.iself the mighty mastery. He calls out
to Ood, and Ooi answers him. The scep
tre ii already in his hand, and the crown
is in sight that tho Son of Man Himself
Wi.l COOIl tllaCO On his hrnw. llpn.-afn.tU
he is king, and aiivo forevermorc, with a
life that wiil rule the world and conquer
!c.nb.
tiuch is the law of progress which is
here applied to the cliurcfi, both collec
tively and individually. Wo are here sol
emnly commanded to rise up and seize our
inheritance. Never before in all the ages
was there such a concurrent blast of trum
pet! from all quarters cf the globe caUing
tho church to go forward. Let tha co.
I'.inu fuiu and the march begin, ,
"I Gave Then Myself.'
Talil a mother to tie ooe dav: "Wlirn
my children were young I thought the
very best thing I could do for then was
to give them myself. So I spared no
pains to talk to them, to read to them, to
teach them, to pray with then, to be a
loving companion and friend to ray chil
dren. "I had to neglect my house often. 1
had no time to indulge myself in many
things, which I should have liked to do.
I was so busy adorning their minds and
cultivating their hearts best affection
that I could not adorn their bodies in fine
clothes, though I kept them neat and com
fortable at all times.
"I have my reward now. My sons are
ministers of the Gospel; my grown-up
daughter is a Christian woman. I have
plenty of time now to sit down and rest,
plenty oi time to keep my house in order,
plenty of time to indulge myself, besides
going about my Master's business wher
ever He has need of me. I have a thou
sand memories of their childhood to com
fort mo. Now that they have gone out
into the world, I have the sweet con
sciousness of having done all I could to
make them ready for whatever work God
calk them to do." Life and Faith.
Covering Sins.
There are two wavs of covering- sin-
man's way and God's way. You cover
your sins, and they will have a resurrec
tion some time; let God cover them, and
neither devil nor man can find them.
There are four expressions in the Bible
with regard to where God puts sins:
He puts them behind His back. If
God has forgiven me, who shall bring a
charge against me?
He has blotted them out as a thick
cloud. You see a cleud to-night, and to
morrow there isn't a cloud to be seen.
He casts them into the depths of the
sea. Some one has said, "Thank God that
it is a sea and not a river; a river might
dry up, but the sea cannot." The great
est blessing that ever comes to me this
side of heaven is when God forgives me.
Have you been forgiven?
The fourth expression is that He re
moves them aa far as the East is from
the West. Do you know how far that is?
Perhaps some good mathematician will fig
ure that up.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Then make sure that you are forgiven.
D. L. Moody.
Principles of Morality,
Possibly there is too little attention giv
en by the leaders of religious thought to
the relations of sin to society and to im
pressing the duty of abstract righteous
ness upon all classes of men. It is not
sin in its relation to God that we mean,
but sin as it affects man's value to him
self and to society the sociological aspect
of a violation of God's law. There are
some men who can be reached only in this
way. Sin against God has no terrors for
them. The thought of future accounta
bility does not appeal to them; but its
temporal consequences, its effects on civ
il and social life and upon the sinner him
self, may, if rightly "presented, have a
deterrent influence. The world to-day is
blinded by vicious ideas of right and
wrong. Sin, in some quarters, is less ob
noxious than a breach of social etiquette.
Iniquity ia justified in many quarters if it
can be made to pay. But society is safe
only as correct principles of morality dom
inate it, and correct ideas will come only
through leaders of rebgious thought.
United Presbyterian.
Wronsj Acting Train Wrong Thinking;.
In China a man is required to mourn
three years for the death of hia father,
100 days for the death of his mother, and
not at all for th death of his wife. In
leed, a Chinaman would feel disgraced
If he showed any sorrow on sccount of
the death of his wife. This tells its own
story of life in a heathen country with a
civilization thousauds of years old. Re
formed Church Record.
Slmpllelty.
Simplicity ia the crowning jewel of all
virtues. Great messages, great truths,
great discoveries and great events are
ever simple in their elements. Simplicity
make the great nobler and lifts the ob
scure to places of eminence. It is the
bright charm of innocent childhood and
the radiant gem of tb old and learned.
Maxwell' Talisman.
Two Keys.
The law and the Gospel are two keys.
The law u the key that ahutteth up all
men under condemnation, and the Gospel
is the key wh eh opens the door and 1st
them out. Wi.liam Tyndai.
Throw Plant In Coma,
' A remarkable discovery ha been
made by German professor. He It
able to throw living plant Into what
he calls a state of coma, by injecting
liquid Into their stems. The plant
stops growing, but does not die. On
the contrary, the leaves remain green
and lifelike, and stand up stiff and
erect Moreover, tbey are absolutely
Impervious to any change of tempera
ture or moisture. The most tender
palm or forn will atand the Intensest
cold of winter, nothing seeming to dis
turb its composure. Just what this
liquid Is remains the secret of the pro
fessor. lossorr) on Dsad Limb.
' A rather romarkable curiosity caa
be seen tn the orchard of the Dresser
Steven place at Newmarket, N. H.
During one of the aevere stprms of
last winter a large limb was broken
off of an apple tree and lies upon th
ground. Tb apparently dead limb,'
with not a leaf on it, U covv4 vith
blue sows. J
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR AU:UST 21.
object! Klljah on Monnt Csrinvl, 1
Klng-s, stIII., 30-4A flolil.n Text, 1
Kings, xvlll., SI Memory Vers,
89 I'nniineiitsrr on ttie nay's Lesson.
T. Elijah's sacrifice prepared (vs. 3H-3.").
30. "Come near." He will have them ry
witnesses of nil he does, and witnesses to
what God will do. Jesus did nothing in
a corner, so neither the servants of God
need do snvthinn in spi-ret. "Kenair ! th
altar." Built in Israel's earlier and hap
pier days, but thrown down bv .lezehel
This r.njah restored and consecrated anew.
A hint to builders o. san-tuaries. A type
of the certain restoration of th s true and
the downfall of the false. 31. "Twelve
stones." This was an act showing that
the twelve tribes were ready one people
and bad one Ood in common. Ho God's
true church is one. "Israel thy
name." Israel minifies a prince who pre
vails with God. There are two records ol
the bestowal of this name on Jacob. See
Gen. 32: 28; 3J; 211).
32. "In the name," etc. Hv the author
ity and for the glory of Jehovah. "A
trench." To catch the water poured over
the sacrifice, and intensify the effect ol
this solemn object lesson.' "Measures ot
seed." The seah is estimated as contain
ing; from one and a half to three gallons.
There is a difference of opinion as to the
size of the trench. There would be no
necessity for a large trench, and it is
hardly probable that it was as deep as the
measure that held three gallons, as some
seem to think. Terry is probably nearei
correct in supposing the whole trench
held three gallons.
33. "Wood in order." He obeved all the
injunctions of the law with respect to the
offering of a burnt sacrifice (Lev. 1; 6-8).
He thus publicly taught that the ordi
nances of the law were binding upon the
Kingdom of Israel. "Barrels." Common
jars still used in the East for carrying wa
ter, containing from three to five gallons
apiece. 34. "Second third
time." To prevent any kind of suspicion
that there was fire concealed under the
altar. Close by the place of sacrifice,
shaded by a noble old tree, is a large, nat
ural cistern of sweet water, which the
people say is never exhausted. Terrv and
others think it more likely that the watei
was brouirht from the brook Kishon,
where Elijah slew the false prophets.
II. Fire from heaven (vs. 30-38). 36.
"At the time." About 3 o'clock p. m. The
prophet waited for the usual hour for the
evening sacrifice, thus directing the minds
of the people to the worship of Jehovah.
"The prophet." But here he performed
the duties of the priest. While the priest
could not of right be a prophet, the pro
phet could, by virtue of his direct com
mission and his Iiigher function, act as a
priest. "Came near." He expected an an
swer by fire, yet came near to the altar
with boldness, and feared not that tire.
"Abraham, Isaac." Words first ued by
God at the burning bush, when He re
vealed Himself in naming fire (Kxod. 3:
6, 16). "Known." That thou art God.
The honor of God ia his ruling passion, the
source and end of all his zeal. "Thy ser
vant." That he, Elijah, was not their en
emy, as Ahab had announced him to be.
but Jehovah's servant. "At thy word.
That his words and works were not of
himself, but of God.
37. ' Turned their heart back again."
The end of a controversy is never the
mere establishment of truth, but the con
version of the people. Stern and relents
less as r.lijan bad been, his heart was full
of God's yearning tenderness, and lie
longed for their salvation. We are some.
times called to preach bitter things, but
the end of our ministry should be conver
sion, not condemnation. 38. "Fire, fell."
It did not burst out from the altar. This
might still, notwithstanding the water,
have offered some ground for suspicion
that fire had been concealed, after the
manner of the heathen, under the altar.
Fire converted apostate Israel. The Holy
Ghost converted many in the apostle's
day. That same fire, invisible to immortal
eyes, works as remarkably to-dav. "Con
sumed." The process is remarkable. 1.
Tho fire came down frim heaven. 2. The
pieces of sacrifice were first consumed. 3.
The wood next, to show that it was not
by the wood that the flesh was burnt. 4.
Twelve stones were consumed, to show it
was no common fire, but one whose agen
cy nothing could resist. S. The dust, the
earth of which the altar was constructed,
was burnt. 6. The water in the trench was,
by the action of the fire, entirely evapo
rated. 7. The action of this fire was in
every case downward, contrary to the na
ture of all earthly and material fire.
Moses' altar and Solomon's were conse
crated by the tire from heaven; this was
destroyed.
III. The decision of the people (vs. 39,
40).
39. "Fell on their faces." In reverent
worship and awe at the divine manifesta
tion, they fell on their faces and with one
voice declared, "Jehovah, He is God." The
test was convincing and would help the
people to stand against Jezebel and her
terrible persecutions. 40. "Prophets of
Baal." There were 450 of them. It ap
pears that the 400 prophets of Asherah
ithe grove) were not present. "Brook
Lisbon." This brook flows along the very
base of Carmel on the side towards the
sea. Here Sisera was overthrown by Ba
rak (Judg. 4: 7). "Slew them." We can
hardly suppose that Elijah himself put
them to deajh. He is only said to do that
which he caused the people to do. The
priests of Baal hardened their hearts, per
sisted in their rebellion, refused submis
sion and were destroyed.
IV. Elijah's prayer and the answer (vs.
41-46).
41. "Eat and drink." During the ex
citing acenes of the day there had been no
time or inclination to partake of food.
"Abundance of rain." Faith in God was
the foundstion for this positive declara
tion from the prophet. 42. Both Ahab
and Elijah returned to the top of Carmel,
the one to eat and the other to pray. The
prophet withdrew himself from the pres
ence of the King and cast himself down
upon the earth before the Lord. See
James S: 17. 43. "Said to hia servant."
Tradition tells us that this servant was
the widow's son whom he had raised from
the dead (chapter 17: 23). Elijah told his
servant to look towards the sea, for from
that direction the storm would come. The
servant looked and said, "There is noth
ing." Then Elijah said, "Go again seven
times." 44. At last, at the seventh time,
he reported a cloud like a man's hand. Im
mediately the prophet sent to Ahab to
hasten home lest the rain stop him. 43.
"Ahab went to Jeweel." Jes
reei became one of the most famous of the
royal residences. It did not supersede
Samaria, but here Ahab built1 a palac
(chapter 21: 1), and it was his summer
home. 46. "Ran before Ahab." The spirit
of the Lord was on Elijah and he was giv
en supernatural strength.
A Young Telegrapher.
Robert T. Balrd, aged II years. th
son of Robert U Balrd, of Grovanla,
Ga., holds a unique place among the
bright youths of Georgia.
lie Is faat and accurate telegraph
operator, and has already done regu
lur work In Western Union office. At
one time he was In charge of the of
flee at Vienna as day operator.
Young Balrd seems to have taken to
tho key by Instinct. When only .' h
could sit at the lustrument and sand
before his father knew he was ao
qualnted with the alphabet. At bt
could receive, and now he Is con'
ered competent operator.
. Searchlight for Arm Use.
An officer In the Ocrman army has
Invented 'an acetylane searchlight,
which cm be carried by on man.
and which will Illuminate everything
within a distance of 100 yard It Is
expscted to be vt great use in search
ing for the Wounded after a battle,
and la bridge budding at nlbt.
AUGUST TWENTY-FIRST.
"Standing Alone for Ood." Rom,
8:31-39.
Scripture Ver. Prov. 16:7: I-'ik
21:36; Rom. 8:18-28; 14.8; 2 Cor
10:6; Eph. 6:10,11; 1 Thesa. 6:15; 1
Tim. 4:8; Titus, 2:11,12; 1 Peter 3:13.
Lesson Thoughts.
"One with Ood Is a majority." That
truth cannot be too much emphasized,
We may confidently face any opposi
tion If Christ be' for us, for then none
can be against us with success.
Jerusalem, the city of Ood, and th
home of hi own chosen people was
yet the testing place of hie well-beloved
Son and of his faithful apostle
Paul; each bravely met th test and
furnished an example of true courage.
The former, with omniscient foresight,
went up to Jerusalem to give his life a
ransom for many; the latter. In the
race of prophetic warning and beseech
ing of friends, went to the holy city,
"ready not to be bound only but also
to die at Jerusalem for the name of
the Lord Jesus."
Selection.
Chrysosrom In exile drew courage
for himself from the example of il
lustrious heroes before him. He said:
"When driven from the city I cared
nothing for It. But I said to myself.
If the empress wishes to banish me,
the earth Is the Lord's and the fulness
thereof. If she would saw me asunder
let her saw me la sunder; I have
Isaiah for a pattern. If she would
plunge me in the sea, I remember
Jonah. If she would thrus me Into the
fiery furnace I see the three children
enduring that. If she would cast me
to wild beasts I call to mind Daniel in
the den of Hons. If she would stone
me, let her stone me, I have before
me Stephen the protomartyr. If
the would take my head from me
let her take It, I have John the
Baptist. If she would deprive me
sf my worldly goods, let her do It;
naked came I into the world and naked
hall I return." What an array of
Christian heroism and what an Inspira
tion for Christian courage to-day!
"With firmness in the right, aa God
gives us to see the right, let
js stand by our duty fearlessly and ef
fectively." Abraham Lincoln.
EPWOflTH LEAGUE LESSONS
AUGUST TWENTY-FIRST.
Standing Alone for God Romans
8. 31-39.
Standing alone for God Is not Isola
tion; for "one man with God on his
side Is always in the majority."
It means tiue happiness, tor self be
comes a minor consideration. Charles
Kingsley says: "No man can be happy
until his first object Is outside of him
self." It means success In the highest
sense. Napoleon Bonaparte made the
fatal mistake of trying to stand alone
against God. He died In Bad exile, fall
ing to achieve that type of character
which Is the only real success.
The piers or a bridge are valuabla
just because I hoy stand alone. So also
the Christ ia".
The man muat alone In ao army is
the general, but he leads the host to
victory.
Luther, by standing alone, brought
about the great Reformation, who.-to
large benefits the world enjoys to-day.
When summoned to the city of Wo:ms
to answer charges, and urged by
friends not to face the peril, he re
plied: "Were there as many devils at
Worms as there are tiles on the house
tops I would go." After arriving, tra
dition relates that one of the most
famous military men ol' that period
Goorgei Von Freundsberg laid his
band on Luther's shoulder and said:
"Poor monk! poor monk! You are to
hazard a more perilous march to-day
thun I or any captain ever did. But if
your course is .tight and you are sure
of It, go on in God's name and be of
comfort. He will not forsake you."
When the diet demanded retraction
he answered: "To councils or to the
I'opn I cannot defer. My conscience
Is pilsoner to God's word." Later he
gave utterance to those heroic words
which have nerved multitudes of brave
men In various crises of life: "Here
I stand; I can do no other. God help
me! Amen!"
Moses lacing the Israelites who
were angry enough to stone him to
death".
Joseph alone at Pharaoh's court un
der false accusation by a woman ot
high rank.
David hunted like a partridge along
the valleys and over the hills of Pal
estine. Daniel at the polluted couit of Baby
lon purposing In his heart not to dcflla
himself.
Never was tho e a time when this
demand was greater than at present
We need Eipworthlaus'wbo will dare to
do right, dare to be true, no matter
where the crowd may go or what they
may do. Stand alone If need be.
Stand always for truth and righteous
ness. Cuckoo Customs.
When the cuckoo's cry Is first beard
It Is said that folk should turn over
whatever money they happen to have
In their pocket at the time. A sold
coin means plenty of cash for the
next year; silver means the owner
will always have enough; copper
means that he will never run short of
money. If the bird Is heard on the
right, that Is believed to be lucky;
If on the left, unlucky. In Scotland
the cuckoo la thought to address his
first sang to the farmers. In Den
mark every girl asks It when she Is to
be married, and every old and feeble
person when he will be freed from the
burden cf life, and the number ol
times tbo bird sings "cuckoo" Indi
cates the number of year In each
case. This superstitious notion alsc
exist In England. Franc and Ger
many. But the only solid fact about
the cry Is that It la a sure sign thai
tiummer has come at last.
Used Hands a Flihlrg Net.
Chnrles Freeman and Walter Good
ale of Saco, Me., recently visited th
mouth of Saco river on a fishing trip
Instead of fulling with a Un tbey
waded In and threw out hako with
their hands, securing over 704 pounds
of good fish In about two hours. Ac
cording to their statemeut the uhuai
water was' literally packed with the
Bub.
When the Uitor Opens.
ST WlI.LtAH OIBVSY WOODS,
Sometimes it's early, early
Or ever the farmhouse fire
fend up their incense pearly
In wavering morning spires.
When the sheep in nooks of the meaJ
ows
Are lying still,
And the old wheel dreams in the shad
ows
Behind the mill,
Then in the liuli of the dawning, in tin
silvery mists and the dew,
God opens the door a little way, and little
feet go through.
Sometimes it's when the wonder.
The hush and the dews have fled,
And noontide life pants under
The glare of the noon o'erheail,
When th..- plowman's furrows are creep
"U
Over the land.
Or rises the whirr of the reaping
On every hand
Or ever the swath is finished, or the long
brown furrow is run.
The unseen door swings nien wide, and
the strong man's work is done.
Sometimes when the lamps of heaven
And the homelier lights of earth
Burn dim in the lonely even,
Un high, or beside the hearth,
When the children go, and the cheery
Good inulits are said.
And nauulit's by the fire but a weary
And bowing head
Then opens the door where all roads end,
or run they east or west.
And child and man and a child again go in
and are .U ivM.
Youth's Companion,
If We Only Knew.
How differently we would juilire our
fellow men if we knew all that was behind
their words and acts! How often we mis
judge them beuuise of our ignoiance! Only
thoe who have been mUiudged can fully
appreciate the meaning of Jesus' admoni
tion: -liiilge not. that ye be not judged.
Several years ago the conductor of a Chi
cago street car made a slight mistake in re
turning change to a lady passenger. The
lady indignantly accused the conductor of
attempting to cheat her. The conductor
made no leply, and the passenger took his
silence as evidence of guilt, and foe some
tune publiclv commented upon it. The
late I)r. Arthur Edwards, who witnessed
the scene, saw that there wtu something
evidently troubling the coiidu.-ior, and
remarked that conductors liHve a hard
time trying to please the public. "Yes,
they do " replied the conductor. "But if
that lady bad known that my little girl
died this morning, and that I hid to re
port for duty or lose my job. she would
not have been surprised that my thoughts
are not on my business." This statement
deeply touched the heart of Dr. Kdwards,
and in tender words he tried to comfort
the stricken father. He rode with him to
the end of the line, and, as he was about
to leave him. said : "Your heart is near
ly broken now, but remember that you
can meet your little girl again in heaven."
"Do you realy believe that? Oh, if I only
could!" said the conductor. After some
further conversation, Dr. Kdwards left,
and as they parted the man said to the
doctor: "It is very kind of you to take
so much interest in a stranger, and to go
so far out of your way to comfort me, and
1 thank you from my heart." Dr. Kdwards
never heard from the conductor again;
but we are sure that the man will ever
hold sacred the memory of one who com
forted him when he was misjudged.
The Will or Kol.
There are two functions discharged by
every living being and by every plant;
one is the struggle for its own life the
function of nutrition; the other is the
struggle for the life of others its function
of reproduction.
All the activities of life may be clawed
under one or the other of these two
heads, and all the activities of the Chris
tian may be classed under one or the
other of these two heads, the function of
nutrition or the function of reproduction.
You go from a conference fairly well
fed; the individual life has been attended
to, now what is to become of this unless
it is to go out in different ways for t lie
helping of this universal movement for
the bringing of the world to Christ?
1 know that many of you are puzzled to
know in what direction you ran start to
help Christ to help this world. Let me
simply say this to you in that connection:
Once I came to the crossroads in the old
life, and did not know in what direction
God wanted ine to help to hasten His
Kingdom. 1 started to read the Hook to
find out what the ideal was, and I found
that the only thing worth doing in the
world was to do the will of God'; whether
that was done in the pulpit or in the
slums, whether it was done in the col
lege or classroom or on the street did not
matter at all. "My meat and my drink."
Christ said, "is to do the will of Hint that
sent Me." And if you make up your
mind that you are going to do the will of
God above everything else, it matters lit
tle in what direction you work.
There are more posts waiting for men
than there are men waiting for posts.
Christ needs men in every community
and in every land; it matters ': ttle wheth
er we go to foreign lands or stay at home,
as long as we are sure that we are where
Gwd puts us.- l'rof. Henry Drummond.
Th Evangelistic Church.
Dr. Campbell Morgan whose accept
ance of the pastorate of Westmiuster
Chapel has given great satisfaction on all
hands lias done good service during his
three Sundays there in insisting with em
phasis upon the need of the church being
evangelistic. It ought to be commonplace
to insist upon this, but to many congrega
tions it is new doctrine. Kvangelisin is
supposed by very many people to be a
pious opinion held by extremists. What is
supremely needed just now is to show in.it
a church is but the shell of a church if it
is not evangelistic. We have far too many
dilettanti who waste their precious tune in
making or criticising new hypotheses.
London Christian.
Tha Failures.
The boy that can be trusted gets the
places of trust in the end. The boy that
shirks or cheats may start off brilliantly,
but look for him ten or twenty years later
and you will hud him just where he belongs
amoug the failures. Presbyterian l!i-c-ord.
Betrayed by Nllsnre.
Christ may lie betrayed by silence. One
who Hatters himself that he does no
wrong to his Lord so long as he does not
actively plot against Him or tight against
His cause is mistaken. He that is not ac
tively on the Lord's side is against Hur.
The very fact of silence is disloyalty.
The loyal soul cannot lie silent in a world
where the enemies of the truth are busy.
The nine silent men who were cleansed
of leprosy, but did not feel under obliga
tion to give thanks, were guilty of iugrati
tud anil disloyalty. So is every one who
remaius silent concerning the uicicv of
Cod. Christian Advocate,
Many Million of Star.
It ha been stated that, with long
exposures 134,000.000 star can be
photographed. Cbacornac ba comput
ed that with a telecop of great pow
er th aggregate number vls'ble In th
who! sky 1 77,000,000. Proctor said
that tn I-ord Ross' great telescope at
least 1.000,000,000 star would be vt
tbl If tbey could be counted. Tb lat
ter estimate I probably esceislv and
w may conclude that approximately
there are 100,000.000 stars In tb sky.
THE GREAT DiSTR0to7OOO0
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Another In the Series of New York
American Editorials on Temperanre
A Trne Htory ot the Bottle That lituek
to Its Victim.
This is a true story, readers.
The writer first knew the man in Lot
don. He was successful, owned a bank,
had a fine house in the city and another
in the country, had horses and carriages
and a promising family. He belonged to
some of those clubs in which membership
means cheap and desired distinction.
He had ambition. His friends predicted
that his success and affluence would grow
and his ambitions be realized as the years
went by.
Among his other possessions, this man
had one to which he attached, then, but
slight importance. That was a bottle
which was passed to bim quite often by a
solemn butler, who always brought with
lf a smaller bottle containing soda water.
(rhe curious part of the story is that
man gradually lost all of the important
things, all of those which he originally
valued very highly, and that lie never lost
that one small, unimportant bit of prop
ertythe plain, black bottle of which, iu
the beginning, he thought so little.
The man was seen ngain the other day
toward dusk on the sidewalk of a Western
city. It was difficult to recognize bim, anil
he was evidently surprised that any one
should recognize him, and take the trouble
to check him in Ins shuffling march.
Hi clothes were dirty and actually
ragged. The brim of his bat was torn.
Hie face was bloated, his look uncertain.
His diffident, timid smile, with all the
old self-reliance gone, was very pathetic.
The man told Ins story, and as he told
it in a restaurant, after being asked to eat
and drink, be whispered to the waiter: "A
little whisky, please." And the waiter
brought him that same dark bottle that
had been brought to him so often in the
days of his prosperity.
The story that he told was bis story, but
it was not the story.
The real story was very simple; you who
read this ran guess quite easily its main
features. It is a story that you can read
in the faces of men in every barroom,
prison and poorhouse, in the faces of men
that commit suicide, of those that commit
murder, of others that shuhie along as this
man shuthed poor,, heart-broken failures.
The man had gradually lost hia mental
keenness and capacity for business. Oth
ers got bis banking business away from
him.
But the bottle stayed with him. He
gradually came to rely more and more
upon it, and to value its companiousliip
as his force of character diminished.
His friends left him, and he had to leave
his clubs.
liut the bottle still stuck to him. The
dues that it claimed he paid faithfuily. It
was there at his elbow when bis other
friends had disappeared.
lie lost his bouse in the city and bis
house in the country, but that bottle,
which represented now h:s chief posses
sion, was still with him.
His wife and his children had to go to
those who could take care of them. Hut
they did not take the bottle away with
them. The wife bad tried only too often
to take away that bottle, but she had to
leave it. She could take awav the children
the law allowed her to do that. The
sheriff could take away bis horses and his
carriages the law allowed that. The gov
erning committees could put bim out of
the clubs, and friends could take away his
reputation and remaining chances ot em
ployment with a shake of the head.
Hut no power on earth and no law could
take away the bottle, that stuck to him,
and he stuck to it.
The man who had traveled with his bot
tle from success and fortune to ragged
clothes and pathetic despair, ate his din
ner and drank his whisky, and, with the
drunkard's pitiful self-deception, said:
"I don't look like much, do I? I am
afraid I have been drinking pretly harj
since luck went against me. It is not many
of my old friends that speak to me when
they see me now."
Kven then the poor man could not set
that it was whisky that had turned fortune
against him not ill luck that had turned
him to whisky.
Whisky conquers men by deceiving them,
by encouraging them to "think that their
drunkenness is some one eke'a fault.
Years before this man had deceived him
self when told by anxious wife and friends
that he must give uji that bottle, or give
up everything else. Anil now that all but
the bottle had gone, he still deceived him
Keif into the belief that the bottle, which
caused his misery, had come really as s
friend at the end, as a solace in his misfor
tunes. How irrcat a benefit it would be if every
young man in this country could have seen
years ago, and one week ago, the whisk
victim that is told about here.
It is hard for us to learn through the es
perience of others, but no man could fail
.o lie impressed by this example.
The man once had everything that he
wanted, and one thing that he did not
want, or need the whisky bottle.
Had be given up that one unnecessary
thing, he might have kept all the others,
and the remaining years of his life might
have been happy and useful.
But with the power of self-deception
which that very bottle summed to him. h
clung to it to the end of Ins good fortune,
and he will cling to it to the end of his
life, unless a ! .racle of self-control should
save him.
In mere selfishness and the desire fot
wealth, success and ease, there are to be
found powerful temperance arguments.
Young men must make up their minds, in
this day oi competition and of organize.!,
exacting struggle, that a man who would
Co to the top must not try to carry that
ottle with him.
But for the real man, the young mm
worthv l lie- opportunities of modern life,
the argument .'.3.1111,.'. whisky should o
based, not on selrishnes, tmt on a nob'c
desire to be a u,efiil and worthy human
bring.
Wliiskv takes away your monev. yout
bouses, your friends, yi, ,r prospects of get
ting those things.
But it does voir- than that. It takes,
away your manhood and your courage; it
takes away your right to look other ni'ii
in the eye, and your power to use the
Strength that nature has given to you.
Whisky destroys the will and supplies
the lying arguments with which its victims
deceive themselves. It arouses the lowest
instincts of vice and of dissipation, and
chokes the possibility of progress toward
better things.
If whisky controls you. you cannot be a
man. Leave it alone. New York Ameri
can. .Keeps Pledge 10 His Mother.
"Take away the whi.ky. I promised
mother I'd never drink, and I won't break
my word." These were the last words
spoken by eighteen-year-old Thomas Gold
by. and were utn-red when ' a glass of
whisky was placed to h s bps after he had
been run down ami mort. Ily hurt by a
trolley car. Less than an hour later lie
died in St. Michael's Hospital, Newark,
(loldbv. who lived with his parents in
Kearny, X. J., stepiwd off a car in front
of his home and instantly was crushed
by another and dragged lis) feet. His
mother saw linn rescue', but v as ignorant
that be was her son. A richly attired wo
man passenger knelt and p it 5r handker
chief to the big wound in lis head as the
csr raced with him to the hospital, where
he refused .he liquor.
Mod rats Drinking Hnrlral.
In Switzerland an advocate of moderat
drinking exH-runented for eighteen months
upon his children, whose ages ranged from
ten to hfteen. severs I months' use alter
nating with several months of abstinence.
Dunug the wine periods the children were
languid and leas inclined to perform men
tal tasks, their nights more restless, and
their sleep less refreshing. Two of tha
lads begged that they be excused from fur
ther wine drinking, being impressed by
their lsck of condition.
At the great banquet given at Berlin to
the famous lie Met. general of the lioers
while champagne was freely used, the
brave Uor general drank nothing but wa
ter through th whui banquet, .
ShoflN,
The Grand Lodijo of tlu
of I'ytitias awarded $500 4
Knights who participated in the,
ade at York. The prize of $50 to th
uniformed company traveling tb
greatest distance went to Williams
port. Lancaster received $5" 'or hair
itiil the largest number of uniformed
men. Glen Rock Lodge received $50
for having the largest number of men'
of any subordinate lodge outstde Yorkt.
Its members numgercd MS- In adli
tion to-these prizes, the Grand Lodge
presented each uniformed lodge iir
parade with $100. The Grand Lodge
made an amendment to the constitu
:ion which provides for the election
m 1905 and every fourth year therej
sfter of two supreme representativesv
ind in 1907 and every fourth year
.hereafter -f three supreme repreenv
.atives. After the installation of ofri-,
:ers the Grand Ledge adjourned to
neet in McKeesport in igoj.
Superintendent of schools Landi.f,
)f N'irrUtown, has prepared a report
:o the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in which he suggests that;
county superintendents be relieved of
(he work of examining pupils for grad
nation in country schools. He saysij
"Tile class examinations take up half,
my time. My candid opinion is thatt
this duty belongs properly to the su-
pervising principals, or where there:'
are none, that its performance derolv-f
es upon the teachers of the district"!
During a storm at Norristown. light-.
ning struck the large tee house of tsanH
ser & Heffner, on Perkiomen CreekJ
near Salford Station, Fire destroyed?
the building. The building was three-
fourths full of ice. While the intensei
heat melted much of it, the remaining)
ice stands like a huge iceberg. The;'
owners estimate the loss at $t 0,00a j
Governor Penny-packer granted re-
qtisitioti papers for J. E. Collins, thai
fugitive broker, who is wanted in,'
Pottsville to answer a charge of em
bezzlement. Collins was released front,
custody at Stamford, Conn., after be
ing held there some time awaiting
the requisition. The Governor say 9
liis absence from Harrisburg caused
the delay in issuing the papers. ,
George A. Clialfant, former presi
dent of the Spang-Chalfant Company,,
of Etna, steel manufacturers, died in,
the Harper Hospital, Detroit, front
injuries received in falling from
third-story window of his hotel whita
walking in his sleep. The accident
occurred at St. Clair Flats. His fam
ily was with bim when lie died.
John V. Simmer, of South Coven
try Township, lias brought suit agains
Albert Favinger, a supervisor of tha
township, for not removing the loose
stones from the Pughtown Road, as
required by law. Simmer says hia
horse was ruined by the bad condition
of the road.
William Davish, a driver in the em
ploy of a biscuit company, of Hatboro,
while riving on the Old York Road
above Hartsville, passed a stranger
who said he was going to Ilatbora
and asked for a ride. Davish allow
ed the man to get in his wagon and
when they got to a lonely spot be
tween Warminster and Hartsville tha
stranger attempted to strangle Davtshr
and demanded his money. Davish hit
the man in the stomach and threw
him backward into the road. Thsj
wheels passed over the man's leg.
When Davish got to Hatboro he and
several others drove back, but the
man had escaped.
Nlrs. Winzell Hilmcr, ot Hgers
ville, is in a precarious condition aj
the result of drinking the contents af
a mug ot poison in mistake for tea-.1
The poison, which bad been prepared
for killing insects, stood on the sama
shelf in a closet as the tea which she
bad been in the habit of drinking
when she was thirsty. Medical as
sistance not being at hand, her hus
band secured fresh milk from a cow.
which she drank in large quantities,
and to this the woman owes her tife
Wesley, the youngest sin of Walter
K. Morris, of Consliohocken, played
the "Billy Bounce" act in a thrilling
manner by falling from a third story
window of his home. In his descent
the force of the fall was broken when
11 ?tnlck a clothesline in the yard.
He bound off the line to a grass plot.
The attending physician says the boy
is not seriously injured.
. More 1 af tobacco j, being raised
m Berks County this Summer than
ever before, owing to the good return
received from last year's crops In
the southwestern part of (he county,
winch is the tobacco district, there is
every indication that this year's crop
will be large. v
Dissatisfied stockholders of the Cru
cible Steel Company are forming
stockholders protective committee,
and at the annual meeting of the cor
poration, in October, an effort will
be made to name the majority of th
Boir.l of Directors
Several sections of Lancaster
county suffered severely by a rain and
hail storm. 1 he farmers in the vicinitr
ot Maytown. Marietta and Mt. Joy
were sufferers to a Urge extent
through the loss of ri,!ler tI,e whole
or porno,,, 0f ,,ejr ,or,acco
ll.e hail beat the leaf to ribbonsl
Bru-kerville and vicinity also suffered,
severely 1 be finest tobacco on liun-'
dreds of acres in the countv was ruio-l
ed The damage to the tobacco rrrmV
w. I amount to thousand, of dollars;
John Walton, a Philadelphia car
penter, employed on a farm near Bear
town, was held up near the nicket
mines by four men and robbed of hi
possessions. David Clark and George
Dennis and Frank Mimm have beea
lodged m jail, charged with the crime.
,,'mic, driving a shaft at the Pine
Hill Colliery miners suddenly came
upon a cavern in which they found
number c f loaded wagons. The open
ing Proved to be old working, of the
Black Heath Colliery, abandoned fort
years ago.
While picking huckleberries on the
mountains along Hagerman's Run, D.
:,ack " n". lewis, of South
ilhamsport, walked into a den of
about thirty rattlesnakes. An excit
,'" fight followed, the two men us
ing stones and clubs. Seventeen of the
snakes were killed
!aior GeneraI James A. Beaver, of
ltellcfonte, former Governor and at
present Judge of the Superior Court,
has been placed on the roll of retired
ollicer, m the National Guard on his
own application. General Beaver com
manded the Second Brigade previous
to his election ss Governor when he
became commander-in-chief.
Frank Hyatt, a member of the riv
alry squid of the Pennsylvania ' Mili
tary College, while riding through Up
land was held up by three men. One
of the men grabbed the bridle of hi
horse, but the animal knocked down
the footpad, who then made liis es
cape. - ' '
V.