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; Sunday Sermon Bj Rev. Dr.
John E. Adams.
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, ef the Law of Progress at Cnapllfletf
la Iba Waxlof Strong of lie Infant
Brooklt. N. Y. Dr. N. McUee Wa
ters, pastor of the Tompkins Avenue Con
gregational Church, took a his subject
cundajr morning, "Rewards of Righteous
ness." His text was from Matthew vi:
83: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and nil these tiring
ahall be added unto von." Dr. Waters
aid in the course of his excellent sermon:
From the beginning until now min'a ,
aearch has been for the golden age. Some- '
times na nnmed it the Uoltlen Mecce:
aometimea Holy Grail. Plato prophesied
it in a republic yet to be. Bunyan, alter
a. weary pilgrimage, found it beyond the
Delectable Mountain. Bacon saw it in
'Atlantis, rising out of the midst of an un
aailed sea. It is always afar off and in the
future. Like the pot of gold at the foot
of the rainbow, it is always over the next
bill.
Jesus also prophesied a golden age
called it "the Kingdom of God," and found
it in the present time. For a long time
men went hu. gry, and lo! there was al
ways plenty in the ground when they
"acratched the earth ith a hoe it laughed
with a harvest." They prized diamonds,
and lo! they were always in the river beds
for the finding. They shivered for warmth,
and lo! conl was stored under the hills.
They longed for some pack horse, and lo!
giants were chained in -verv Mowing riv
er. They were always looking for the
golden age. Jesus said: "Look within
the Kingdom ot God is vithin you."
Men are alwaya expecting the Kingdom
of God to come through some device of
their making. They cry, "Let us have a
better government and a better wage, and
we will have the Kingdom of God; let us
toil and hoard a mountain of gold, and
when our barns are tilled we will have the I
Kingdom of vod. Let us search after ;
knowledge, . nd when we are wise we will i
Dave the Kingdom ot lou. lt us trade
our strength for popularity and rputntion,
when with the laurel we have bound our
brow we shall be blessed."
Jesus says just the opposite: "Seek the
Kingdom of God and you wil have no la
bor problem, tor you will have : n increased
wage; oeek the Kingdom of God, and you
will find wealth; seek the Kingdom of
God, and you will be enrolled among the
children of immortality." Men say, "Let
us set rich and we will be content." Je-
aus says, "Be content, and you will be 1
ncti. mi . say, Jt us get wisdom, and
we will be happy," Jesus says, 'lie hap
py and you will be wise. Men say, "If we
can gain all these things, like houses and
lands, we will be the children of the King
dom of God." Jesus says, "Enter into the
Kingdom of God, and you will have all
these things."
When will we believe the teachings of
Jeans? He was ahead of J- time. We
re growing up to Him, to understand Him
better than early generations. Everr say
ing of His we hnd true as law and fact.
Take that saying of His, "The meek shall
inherit the earth." It was too hard for
His age. But time, the great tester, pro
nounces it pure gold. The wise man every
where sees the exceeding reward of meek
ness. They get who forget.
Jesus said to His disciples: "It is ex
pedient for you that I go awav." They
could not believe that then. But when a
long time hath passed we know that really
death is a benefit, and that great men are
never so valuable to their disciples as after
they have gone away from the earth. The
text, "Seek first the Kingdom of God,"
etc., is one of those sayings that we have
to grow up to. Generally men have read
it in some mystical way. They have re-
J larded it as true only in some peculiar re
igious sense. But it is a literal fact; it is
truth; it is law of the universe. Virtue
is the road to fame. Godliness is profit
able in this world.
"And all these things shall be added."
What things? Christ has just named
them food and clothes and the material
prizes for which men strive. Men are
awayed by motives as trees are by the
winds. Tell me what you most love and I
will tell you what you will be. You love
knowledge with a passion the Greek did
and he became a scholar; you love pow
erthe Roman did and Home is vet law
Siver for the nations; you love beauty
ohn Keata did and he became a poet.
Among the motives that sway men's daily
lives, we may put first these three the
pursuit of wealth, the gaming of knowl
edge and the winning ot fame. How can
these things best be won? According to
Jesus, by a deep hearted aearch after the
Kingdom of God.
Wealth the lawa of wealth are the lawa
of righteousness. Knowledge the king
dom of knowledge Is the Kingdom of God.
Fame "the Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, but the ways of the wicked
ahall rot."
Let us look at the world of wealtb. The
.savage has no prosperity; it is only the
civilized man who growa rich. What is
wealth? Emerson tells us it begins "with
tight roof that keeps out the rain and a
ood pump that yields sweet waters, and
orses, or a locomotive to cross the land,
and a boat to cross the sea." But whence
. come the roof and the rmmp and the ship
and tho locomotive?. Man did not invent
them; he only discovered them. They are
the laws of God dressed up in clothes of
wood and steel and stone. The laws of
wealth are the laws of righteousness. Men
go toward prosperity as they find the lawa
of God.
Again, how do we get wealth? There
are three possible ways. A man may beg
it, be may steal it, or a .nan may earn it.
But neither pauper nor beggar increases
the wealth of the community. Only by
the laws of industry and visioa can we in
crease wealtn. But the laws of labor and
vision are the laws of the Kingdom of God.
Barbarism hat been, with its poverty, de
fined as "society without the command
ments." Contrariwise, then, civilization,
with all its houses and lands and stocks
and bonds, is society with the command
ments. Violation of the lawa of God in
every age means bankruptcy. Obedience
to the laws of God in every age makes for
prosperity. History writes down the tale
of empires. When she writes down "py
ramids" and "Parthenon" and "Hanging
Gardens," aha expresses their desolation
by saying over their ruins, "These people
forgot God, ai.d hence their Fast places."
frihe writes down "London," "Chamber of
Commerce," "Shipyards." "Temple," "Li
brary," and expresses their glory by say-
ing, "These have remembered God-ienca
their prosperity."
The Bible pronounces "Anathema"
against thos who "make haste to get
rich" that is, they who, despising the lawa
of God, take a short cut to prosperity.
juvu- wmiui i puveny; lueir gain is loss.
The mistress who holds back the just
wsge from the maid: the borrower who re
fuses to return to the lender; fhe govern
ment that debases its people with debased
coin, may temporarily gain; but such
wealth destroys the possessor and is like
the wrecker's handful of coin, gleaned from
the beach to which ha has beguiled an
argosy; ia like the camp follower's bun
dle of iags ctolen from the breast of man'
lain in battle; it like the coin of Judas
only blood money paid to buy a potter'
field wherein liberty and justice) and pros
perity shall at last be burled .n the grave
of dishonor. Way back in the Old Testa
ment wa have Moses saying: "Thou shalt
not have verse measures in thy aano
tuary." The words call up for ua a scene
from that far off tint. There are bootlie
frith baskets of figs and grapes ad golden ,
aheat and bottles of oil and silks ana!
sloths, and the merchant baa two seta of
scale one scale, with a large nan. ia
which be buys the grspea from the hus
bandman, and another, with a small pan.
in which be sells tha grapes to the house
wife. And the King begina to pay hi
men in debased coin, and honesty and in
tegrity and justice are being exterminat
ed, and there ia growing up a people with
lying King and lying merehaDts and falM
words. The old prophet rises in his anger
and says: "A fslse measure is an abom
ination unto the Lord." Anv falsehood in
commerce at lust poisons the very foun
dation of aiviliration. The city and the
nation end the individual man who have
forgotten God and His lsws do not stand
lo a lung tiro io tUa. world uf, cjmmerc.
The laws of weafta are the laws of
righteousness. If you would become rich.
If yon would attain prosperity, If you would
multiply houses and lands and banks, if
you would make a desert place bloom ns
the rose, let Christ lie vour teacher. "Seek
first the kingdom of His righteousness and
all these things shall lie added unto you."
What is knowledge? How do we gain
knowledge? There sits Thomas Carlyle,
the lonesomest man in England, and one
of the poorest, feeding bis shaggy intellect
on French revolution, storm of modern
ages. When he speaks we call him our
greatest prophet and scholar. And his
message is: "I have found God reigning
among all peoples." He writes down for
us the laws of divine retribution which
run through the nstion. Like the old
Poandanavian Titan that he is, he drinks
the liquid fire of divine wrath out of the
skull of perished empire. And he smacked
his Puritan lins as though it was savory
wine. Knowledge is finding out divina
laws. There is Charles Dickens. He ia
not satisfied to meet people on the street
as we do and shake hands with them and
learn their names. But. looking into their
hearts and homes and haunts and sins
with sympathy, with pathos and with rar
est humor, he writes his hooks. Thesa
books become a aort of Bible of the sub
merged tenth of society, and in them wa
find written down the great divine lawa
which govern action and conduct and char
icter. He is the poor man's prophet, be
:ause he found on the heart of the poor
man the handwriting of God. All knowl
edge is revelation.
Seeking the way God made the stars go,
Kepler became an astronomer. Seeking the
way the world was made, Wallnce became
a scientist. Seeking the mysteries and se
crets of the human soul and God'a doing
therein, Kant became a philosopher. Seek
ing to find out how God wrought upon hu
man nature, Shakespeare penetrated into
the soul depths of Iago, Hamlet, Desde
mona, Richard, Henry and Lear, and
transcribing into words what he found
written there, be has given us his great
dramas. Lo! the dramas of Shakespeare
re almost another book of God in which
we find written the divine law of rotrihu-
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ll U II nnu Jul nivmi t niiu boh tii..; win ...
demntion. Augustine comes and his one
word is law, but it is the law of God.
Browning comes and his one word is in
ipiration, but it is the inspiration of God.
And Beecher and Phillips Brooks come and
their one word is love, but it is the love
of God. Save he bring us a word of God,
the wisdom of the scholar is foolishness.
Have vou ever seen the shimmering of
k lake when the sun was playing in ita
surface? Have vou seen the gleams of sun
light dancing like angels on the water?
Vou know the glory was in the sun, not
in the water. The sun was the source: the
waters were clothed in a borrowed glory.
If you have ever atood in a great valley
surrounded by mountains, and heard th8
echoes reneated from mount to mount,
some loud, soma soft, some distant, some
near at hand, you know the voice was not
In the mountains. The mountains only
sarried the voice. So great scholars are
jnly waters and mountain peak;. It ia
God Almighty who speaks. It is Kis g.ory
that shines. There is a difference in men.
The difference between great men and lit
tle men always consist in this the great
man is always listening for the voice of
God. The little man is taken up with the
ound of his earthly on-going. The Jews
i --.I 1 "Tr lliiiTi.lprprl
nearu it suuni n -
Jesus standing with them knew it was an
sngel that had spoken unto Him. Wis
dom ia revelation. There is no other way
if you would be a scholar, if you would ,
wear a scholar's crown and have a achol- J
sr's power, you must seek and know face ;
to face and to find out His ways, which 1
tre above our ways, and His words, which j
are above our words. Here is the prescrip
tion for all scholarship: "Seek first the
Kingdom of God and His righteousness
snd nil these things shall be added unto
you."
In every age men believe that fame can
be bought for a price, and so thev tear
down their warehouses and build larger.
So they multiply their fleets until their
white sails cover every sea; so they get for
theniselvi 1 houses and lands and stocks
snd bonds. When they die the market
drops down for a day or a week and then
the world goes on. Yon do not know the
names of any rich men in Athens or Rome
jr Thebes or Babylon. You may know the
name of some orator or some scholar who
had wealth, but you do do not know the
name of any man who had nothing but
wealth. There was a man who laid the
foundation of his fortune in the days ol
the Stuarts. He was a powder manufac
turer. He drove bis coach and four and
lived in a palace. He built silken nests
for bis children. He had been an ardent
Royalist, but when the Revolution came,
he said: "There ia a tide in the affairs of
men, which, if taken in its flood, leads on
to fortune.'' And he cut off his powdered
urls and left off his jeweled sword. He
ven sang psalms. He turned Puritan, fie
:urned his back on the cathedral and went
:o worship in a Puritan conventicle. He
sad his reward. He got the contract for
making powder for Cromwell s army and
aecame a multi-millionaire. And when tne
restoration came he grew again ns Van
Dyke beard, be again wore his velvet doub
let, he again went to church with prayer
jook and crucifix. He even stood by and
loplauded when Cromwell's bones were
n'ung up to dry on Tyburn Hill. He quick
ly became a cavalier and he had his, re
ward. For lo! Charles made him a Knight
if the Garter and he still had the contract
. I..- f.. knirlmn A rmv.
! :or making puwuu. ii -
vVhat was his name? You do not know.
' Nobody knows. You cannot hnd it writ
, ten down in any book. But in that same
I time there was a poor man who was a
I Puritan under the first Stuarts, who was a
Puritan secretary of commonwealth un
I der Cromwell, and who was a PuriUn
; blind and poor, an exile threatened wub
his life under the returned btuyrte. He
had the pen of a ready writer and the Btu
irU offered bira gold to make the worse
' Ippear the better side. He said: "Nay,
i liy, I will live in hunger and I will bear
i mv children cry for bread, but I will not
I tell my honor. I care not for parties. I
!T! " ' i.. f... (, r,.tVi of the Kingdom
strive uno ivi ' . . . i ;
of God." And everything be ever said 1 in
prose or in poetry is still remembered. His
name was John Milton, and every echool
boy knowa it by heart. beek first the
Kingdom of God and fame will find you
aut. Alwaya the pathway to greatness is
along the line of loyalty to the KiugJoin
fSeek'tha Kingdom of God, that ia the
great thing. Any man who aeeks wealtn
for wealths aake will alwaya to poor,
.i v i v .. I .. . 1 i. Anv man
inOUgn urn Ufl Vimu m I'"' l" --;v .
, who seeks first and always the Kingdom
i of God will be rich, whether be live in a
garret or a king's palace. It ia the law of
' the universe. They who love truth and
serve her, receive a true man s reward
I houses and lands io the insect time, and
, in the time to come, life eternal. CUs-me
I ing an old poem a little:
, Then to aide with truth ia noble.
I Though we ahare her wretcned crust,
For her causa brimra tame and Draiit.
. And 'tis prosperous to be just.
Bear Story from Main.
Hera la a bear story from South
Paris: The other night Ira Murch of
that village went to a pasture near
tar. Stpny Brook road after' bis cow.
When well up Into the pasture be
stooped down to pick some strawber
ries, and a llttlo distance away beard
a combined granting and squealing
aound. Looking up ba beheld a large
female bear with ber family of threa
little cuba about two rods ahead of
him. The mother bear was lying
down, but got up slowly onto ber for
ward feet and took a careful aurvey
of Mr. Murch. He then toased a
small atlck toward ber, when she got
onto her feet and walked away, close
ly followed by ber three babies. Mr.
Murch says ah waa quit tbln, but
thlnka aba would weigh about 100
pounds. The cuba were, from bis des
cription, aome eight or ten weeks old,
and very cunning. Several boys arm
ed with guns started Saturday In hot
pursuit. So far as we know the boya
got back allva. Kennebeo Journal.
TUE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR SEPTEMBER 4.
Sulijerti Elijah Kneoussged, I Rings, xls.,
9-18Oolden Text, Is. xll 10 Mem
ory Verses, 9, lO-Cominentary on tli
Day's Lesson.
I. Elijah receives instructions from Ood
(vs. I) 14). 9. "Came thither." He came
to Horeb, or Sinai. 'Ihe relation of the
two names is not cleur. Horeb was eithei
"a mountain of the Sinm iam;e, or tho
range of which Sinai is .1 mount in," prob
ably Hie latter. "A cove." Hebrew, "the
cave." Stanley says tluve is nothing to
athrni or contradict the conjecture that
this may have been the s.ime spot wnere
Moes stood (E.od. 3d: fc!) when Jehovah
passed by. "What dust thou h.'re?'' Tlie
Lord now gives the prohpet an o;..irtiiin.y
to open his heart and tell his grief, 'ihe
'juration here must have a dillereiit fmce
from that which it bears alter ihe nitioi
testation of God's presence in verse 1:J
Here it must eignily, "Whv art thou mst
down?" What is thy business here' Why
hast thou left Israel, to whom i sent tin
and come to these mountains? So douot
there was in the uoi.is a gentle reproof
He who is found out o! place in God's p. an
juust render an account of himself. Ihe
inouiry should pursue others who have
fled to caves in which they would t.tin hide
themselves lroni responsibility. (1) ii
comes to the impenitent in the cave of con
cealment ot then sin. (2 It comes to me
penitent in the cave of despondency. :!(
it comes to the indolent in the lave ol
s.olh. (4) It conies to the soiiowiul in
the cave of murmuring. Head this ijues.
tion with the emphasis on the different
words in succession. What'"doet'' thou
here? What doest "thou'' here Wii .t
doest thou "here?"'
V1, "!Ver-v jealous." Zealouslv avenging
Jehovah s honor by slaying those who have
brojght idolatry into Isruei, thus imii.it
ing the zeal ci Phinehus iXuin. 2."i:l-l;i.
ihere isnoboastfulness in these words, lid
jah on.y opens his grief and sets forth that
he .ins done his utmost, but tiiat, in suite
o; all, both king and people are still unre
pentant. ' Forsaken thy covenant." The
first stane ot apostasy. Ihev lijhtiy esti.
nmieu tlis word of the Lord. "'I hrown
down i lime altars." The second stage of
apostasy; desertion from grew into enin,ty
to; the places of prayer were destroveu;
they were unwilling to have among them
longer iinvthing that reminded them of
their Lord. 'S ain Thv prophets." Lowest
stage oi apostasy. hen a man will not
listen to the trjth, he aeeks to remo.e its
witnesses, either by power or cunning. "J
on.y. am left." The same statement in J
Kings lH:'J-2, but the sense is different.
Iheie Kb jah merely said that he alone re
mained to execute the prophet's office
which was true; here he implies that he is
tne oii.y prophet left alive, whereas u huu
dred had been saved bv Oimdiah, but none
ot them had stood by him at Ca-ine)
aud he noes not count them. He felt him
self to be alone in un awful desolation.
II. "Go forth." It is not quite cleat
whether Llijah went out of the cave now
or after the wind and earthquake had
passed (v. 13). The account seems to indi
cate that at this time he went to tne
mouth of the cave and looked out. "The
Lord passed by." As He paused by Moses,
perhaps in (his same cave. God was about
to teach Elijah a great lesson uiu' send
iiia uacK io israei a mucii wiser man.
htrong wind." A tornado. "Kent," etc.
Literally. Tearing up the mountains and
shivering the rocks. "Earthquake." One
of the most terrible manifestations of di
vine power. 12. "Fire." Probably, light-
'".J""-'1'' "t00tl ,or nol'rs one night,
in Manitoba, watching a most vivid, con
tinual and terrible display of lightning.
Natural nhunnt., una .r ...
... uit7 va.cuiuieu lu nil- i
press the mind with Jehovah's power and
muiiaiu me divine resources tor the de
struction of His enemies. "Was not in."
Ihere was a sense in which the Lord was
in the wind, the earthquake and the fire;
they were symbols of His mighcy power.
But there was a revelation ot the divine
nature which God would not give to
Elijah which these symbols could not con
vey, and in this sense Jehovah was not in
them. "Still small voice.'' "A sound of
gentle stillness." H. V., margin. We are
uot told whether the sound was articu
late or not, but when Elijah heard k he un
derstood that the time had come for him
to present himself before the Lord, and
that some further reve.ution was about to
be jiven him.
13. "In his mantle." The skins of beasts
dressed with the hair on were formerly
worn by prophets and priests as the. sim
ple insignia of their otike. He covered hia
face to show his reaped; so Moses hid hia
face (Exod. 3:0). "Went out.'' Elijah
ooiv leaves the cave and listens to the voice
3i God. God intended to display Himse.f
to mankind, not in judgment', but in'
mercy; as the wind, earthquake and fire
were only the forerunners of the still
imail voiiA;, so the law and all its terrors
were only intended to introduce tl, I
I pel of Jesus, "shat doest thou here?"
, The Lord's question and the prophet's
answer are repented. J he repetition shows
that Elijah still justifies his course. "He
had. indeed, been verv sildn. ',. ti.a
Lord, but he had expected too much from
nis iriumpn ai Larmel.
II. Elijah sent on a special mission (vs.
k-18). li, 16. "The Lord said." Three
things God gave to Elijah iu this inter
view: 1. A purpose In life some definite
work to occupy his attention. 2. Compan
ionship, by having a disciple and succes
aor. 3. Assurance that he had not lived
in vain, since seven thousand were still
faithful. "Go, return." Elijah's mission
is not yet ended.
17. "Shall come to pass." God assures
E-ijuh that the Almighty is still ruling in
Israel and that ido.atry is to lie overt
thrown. Hazael, Jehu and .Elisha are lo
be "the ministers of divine vengeance
against the house of A hah." ".Shall Elisha
'" These words cannot be explained
iilciiit, jur we no not reaa ot anv who
were slain by the hand of Elisha, hut "his
voice and his labors for the overthrow of
fulse worship were constant, and by the
snora oi ins moutn he overthrew the
foes of Jehovah." 18. "Seven thousand."
In the judgment to come upon the people,
all Israel shall not be cut off. There will
be found seven thousand who have never
worshiped Baal. Here Elijah learns that
he is not the only Israelite who remains
true to God. As seven is the covenant
number, the number of perfection, the
seven thousand need not be pressed here
to mean an exact designation of the num
ber of true worshipers, but a round num
ber ever symbolical of the elect of God.
III. The call of Elisha (vs. 19 21).
Elijah went as be was commanded and
found Elisha plowing iu the field. The
prophet threw his mantle upon Elisha and
passed on. This wss a symbolical act on
the part of Elijah, investing Elisha with
bis own prophetic office. The sign was un
derstood bv evliaha who nlwvd ti mil.
Simple Cure for Lockjaw. ,
. My father (who has now passed
away) was a physician, practicing foi
over fifty years, ' and cured many
many cases of lockjaw. Even atet
the jawa were set they became re
laxed, and the patlenta recovered.
He often told me that It was a
great outrage to let the patlenta die
of lockjaw, as tbey have done time
after time In the hospitals of this
city'. Then he told me what to do
and which I have alwaya done when
ever I have accidentally cut my band
or foot with rusty Iron, and have nev
er bad any aerloua results. He told
ma that this knowledge be received
from an old French physician, yean
ago. He sard to take a raw red bee:,
cut It io bait and acrape or mash II
Into a pulp and apply It to the wound
and also to the palms of the bands,
binding it on lilta a poultice. The
Juice of the red beet will cure lock
jaw. It draws the poison out and
prevents It from spreading. Phila
delphia Record.
ClSTIiEHOR NOTES
8EPTEMBER FOURTH.
"New Courage for New Work." Pa.
144 1-15 Acta 28:15.
8crlpture Veraea. Prov. 16:7; Luke
21:36; Rom. 8:18, 28; 14:8; 2 Cor.
10:5; Eph. 6:10; 1 Thesn. 5:15: 1
Tim. 4:8; Tit. 2:11, 12; 1 Pet. 3:13.
Leaaon Thoughts.
Work for God requires courage,
Witnesses for Christ have had courage
to give up their lives in hia name, and
we need moral courage. But no cause
was ever better 11 ted to Inspire cour
age. A thankful spirit can hardly fail to
be courageous, for a realising appre
ciation of God'a boundless resources
and hia equal willingness to aid must
make any undertaking sure.
Selections.
Courage shall outlast the years,
But every coward soul shall die.
Grlswold.
A great traveller was saved from
death, while lying In a desert where
he had fallen faint and famishing, by
seeing a little speck of green moss
rising out of the hot sand. This gleam
of lire assured him that God must be
near, and he rose up to live and
Journey on.
Discouraged In the work of life,
Discouraged by its load,
Shamed by its failures or Its fears,
I sink beside the rond;
But let me only think of thee,
And then new heart springs up In me.
A minister was called upon to offer
condolence to one of his endeavor
ers who was In the hospital. The
young man had lost his right hand,
but Instead of being downcast he was
lying calmly on his back, the stump
of his right arm on a pillow, while In
his left band he held a bool, from
which he was studying a new line of
work that he could follow, one-handed,
when he could be up again. He was
cast down, but no destroyed. Such
courage as that is as refreshing as
Paul's.
Go, take that task of yours which
you have been hesitating before and
shirking, and walking around, and on
this very -day lift it up and do It.
Phillips Brooks.
IU LEAGUE LESSONS
SEPTEMBER FOURTH.
New Courage for New Work Paa.
144. 1-15; Acta 28. 18.
Gradually the days are growing
shorter, cooler, and renewed energy
calls to greater activity. Before u
are spread .Inviting fields of labor
Should we think It strange 1,", -In
looking out upon their strenuous
tasks, we shrink from the duties
awaiting our hands? Do we almost
wish ourselves again Just at the open
ing of the vacation period? Why tho
burdens that seem almost Impatient
to drop upon our Bhoulders? Why
tue cares so eager to be taken up
again? New courage is needed cour
age a little more sunny and tenacious
than ever before. Su'?h courage is
at the command of your faith.
What a variety of activities and In
terest we behold! Instead of being
discouraged we should be inspired
with the vast and increasing opportu
nities of usefulness. They are a re
ward of somebody's past fidelity. They
are of the Lord's choosing. They
must be undertaken in the( Lord's
strength (Psa. 144. 1.)
The days in which our duties
noble duties are to be parlormed are
like a shadow (Pea. 144. 2), but the
work Itself Is for eternity.
Our duties may seem old, but they
are new each day and bring their
new results. New trusts, new con
quests, new progress, and new sonzs
of triumph when duties are rightly
done (Psa. 144. 9).
Gratitude will "grow to more and
more" as we learn to realize the value
of the work divinely assigned us
As we advance step by step and climb
to heJght rising above we too, with
St. Paul, will thank God and take
courage (Arts 28. 15). Gratitude
gives relish to duty.
New courage Is more than an In
SDlratlon from heaven. It is an in-
splratlon with something to be In
spired. That something is wnat we
have made of ourselves by past
courageous endeavor.
Such retrospect as this enforces the
wisdom of making each dar count. If
It Induces a determination to be faith
ful, this In Itself will assist In supply
ing courage for a good start in the
autumn enterprises.
Thank God for health and strennth
and tho honor of a place In his
vineyard and the supreme lory of be
ing a colaborer with him.
Remember that each day's faithful
service opens tip new amnurger rooms
In the Father's vast temple. Continu
ously t id forever may the true work
er hear from his Master's lips
"Thou hast been faithful over a few
things; I will make thee ruler over
many things."
Caleb Is one of the grandest charac
ters in the Old Testament. Study
him and catch his spirit. At eighty
five he requested the privilege of tak
ing for his part of Canaan the rugged
region about Hebron where the giants
lived.
One sure sign of growing old Is a
disrelish for difficult undertakings.
The best way to keep young la to live
In touch with young life, always ready
for new enterprises. Caleb grew
strong by using wisoly the strength be
had.
He braced up hU courage and faJtn
by "wholly following" the Lord In all
bis commandments.
Rare Medal Found.
Harold ReeJ. of Dumraerstoiy Vt,
recently dug up a medal or coin that
was made for a memento of the battle
of New Orleans, fought Jan. 8. 1815.
Ou flie obverse side of a relief portrait
of Andrew Jackson, encircled by bis
name. On the reverse is a distinct
picture of the battle fought by Gen.
Jackson encircled by the words, "Bat
tle of New Orleans.'"
Red Cherries Anger Bull.
Ked cherrlea which Farmer Henry
Knapp of Richland townahlp. Pa., waa
carrying In a basket nearly cost him
his Ufa when attacked by a mad bull
Ur. Knapp was passing through the
barnyard when tha bull, seeing the
cherries, attacked tha farmer. The
animal knocked the firmer down and
waa goring hlni when the farm bands
drove tha angered animal away with
bay forks.
Knorh Walked Willi Coil.
Jfy God, how can 1 walk with Thee?
O, wilt Thou not to me confide,
The secret of the Enoch life,
in Thy communion to abide?
Not for eternity alone.
To brighten fmpe and cancel fear;
Cut, listening Father, for to day.
To know the joy to feel Thee near
In skies anil flowers and holy book
At times 1 hear Thee speak to me.
I love to speak to Thee in prayer.
Hut, Father, do I walk with Thee?
Can I be walking with my God.
If, through sums storm of sellis
I shrink, and lie with sullen glooi
h grief,
. nniiiiit, uiiii lit: 'villi nuncil giuuui
lu some toul rave of unbelief?
Or, if alternately within
Now reigns the good and now the ill?
Or, if my heart in changeful moods
Kvbvls against Thy holy will?
Come, Holy Spirit of the Lord,
llefore whom chao cannot be,
To hirmonv bring all my soul.
That God may come and walk with me
Be near me, O Thou, 'hrit divine
Wliu art the life, the truth, the way,
Now let me closely follow Thee
Then I shall walk with (Sod to-day.
J. Hunt Cooke, in Chicago Standard.
Trust In Clod.
We sing: "In ome way or other, the
Lord will provide," and still we worry
ahout it, as if the Lord did not care any
thing about us, or were unable to help us,
however much He might winh to do so.
What is lacking, in a greater or less de
gree, in an intelligent Hunt in (lod a de
position to take (iod at His word. To
many Christian it is comparatively easy
to truxt in liod for spiritual blensing!", but
difficult, if not altogether impoxMhle, to
trust Him for temporal blessings, and yet
in the promises of (lod's word there is no
distinction made as to these, or if there is
any discrimination it is in favor of tem-
fioral blessings. "Thou shalt dwell in the
and, and verilv thou shalt be fed." "Your
Heavenly Fattier knoweth that ye have
need of these things." What things? Wny,
food and clothing, to be sure. And all
these things shall be added unto vou.
There are two errors with regard to
these promises of Ood, into one or the
other of which we are apt to fall.
The first is the disposition to spiritual
ize them, until they lose all reference to
temporal things. "Thou shalt be fed."
"Yes, with spiritual food!" "Ye shall he
clothed." "Yes, with the robes of right
eousness!" But who says this? Assured
ly not the Saviour when He directed the
attention of the disciples to the birds of
the air that are fed (not on spiritual food)
as an illustration of the wav in which Ood
would provide for them! There is, in fact,
not the slightest intimation that anything
else is meant than the supplv of those
temporal and material wants to which the
disciples were subject while in the world.
The care that our Heavenly Father be
stows on the comparatively insignificant
and worthless objects of His creation is
used as a convincing argument to prove
His care for those that trust Him. "Aae
ye not much better than they?"
The other error is that of the fanatic
who sjys: "Ood has promised to take care
of me, to feed and clothe me, why should
I make any effort to care for myself? To
trust is easier than to work, therefore I
will give myself no concern as to the
clothing and feeding of myself and my
lanuly. tor verily tne um win provide:
Undoubtedly the Lord will provide, but
how? Not by encouraging improvidence
or la.iness, but by putting the means of
supply within the reach of those who trust
Him that thty may help themselves; just
as He does for the fowls of the air and all
the other creatures that He has made.
"God feedeth the sparrow that scratcheth
for a living." is not exactly Scriptural lan
guage, but it conveys a very sound Scrip
tural truth, nevertheless.
The same rule applies in temporal mat
ters as in spiritual, says the Chicago Ad
vance. If one would enjoy spiritual bless
ings he must use the means of grace that
(Jod has placed within his reach. The one
who does not will assuredly starve spirit
ually just as he who, through indifference
or la.iness, neglects his opportunity to
make a living, will starve physically.
"Trust in the Lord and do good!" and,
be assured, the "doing good" is as impor
tant a condition of the promise as is the
trusting. But having done a'!, ye may safe
ly leave the results with Him who has
promised, for His promise cannot fail.
There is no room for anxiety, no occa
sion for worry. "Commit thy ways unto
the Lord, trust nlso in liim. and He will
bring it to piss, and He will bring forth
thy righteousness as the light and thy
judgment as the noonday!"
A Hypocritical Rsrnse.
We must impress upon parents the great
responsibility which rests upon them.
oi-rasionallv meet with neonle who say:
"When 1 was a boy my lather ami mother
were verv strict. They brought me up so
rigidly tliat a reaction took place in my
mind, and I have turned awav from re
ligion." I have sometimes said to such
persons:
Did ihev teach you to be honest:
"Yes." '
"T tell the truth?"
"Yes." .
"I'id 'hev insist upon it?'
"Yes." '
"Has any reaction taken place on these
pints'"'
There is a great deal of nonsense palmed
off upon the community in relation to this
matter. Not one man of us learns the
multiplication table from sheer love of
it; but I never knew anv one to ay his
mind was in reaction against the multi
plication table. Dr. John Hall.
I.olty Kocrlncra.
The only way to beenn.e capable of lofty
sacrifices is first to begin with humble
ones. The doing of the little duties at our
own house door, the love of our neighbor,
perhaps uninteresting and rather tupid.
are the first steps in the ladder of good
ness, at the ton of which sparkhs the mar
tyr's crown. For there are martyrs now,
who live out their uuiet lives, die in their
beds, wear everyday clothes, enjoy homely,
worship, vet lay their lives at their heav
enly Muster's fret as full and as acceptably
as either !nntius or Ridley. It is the
h-ioit of making sacrifices in all thing
that enables us for making them in great,
wbeo it is askci of ua. Bishop Thorold
Tha Lllile Love rrwm.
Many a trusting child is cast down be
cause the little lovo service, which may be
required, seems too sinsll to he t ainted
for aught in the great harvest field, forget
ting that the dear Lord asks of His chil
dren only so much as Ho gives them abil
ity to perform. Augustus C. Thoiupson.
i -
Yarn Mnst UU Hln.
Vou need Cos! in the very things that
aeem to separate you from liim. You
must aeek liim in the ve-y pi ares where
the misery of lile seems to he that He ia
not. You must question th stoniest natlia
for stroams of watsr.M'b.lhps brooks.
Wante His Diamond Ring.
I eon Stanford of Keene, N. H., has
irought an action In trover against
Daisy Wells, an actress or Athol,
Mass.. to recover a diamond ring
which was given him by his uncle.
The uncle before bis death loaned the
ring to MUs Wellj to wear at a theat
rical performance and It was never
returned. The defense la that two of
the atonea were lost and that the
remaining aeven v were afterward
made up Into three rings that were
afterward stolen through no fault of
ber.
TUE (MEAT DtSTHOHSH
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
l'oem i Weliner'a House, a fttrong Argu
ment In Verse In Favor ol Almllsliliig
the liuin TrartU WnN Ked With the
Hlood of Hum an Hat-rlflc.
Wieiii'.-r's House! Now ain't it grand!
Nothing finer in the land.
When the folks come up this way, down
from Flint and Halliday,
And ue sa liter up and down secin' sights
around the town,
They don't seem to have no uc for the
stores or calaboose;
All they really seem to sec is Wicmer's
pile of masonry.
Fine? Now I should calculate, grand
enough for potentate,
I'uill of stone from land knows where, cov
ers more than half a s'juare;
Marble steps and rods ot stoop, fancy
tixin's lace and loop,
From the cellar to the top makes a stran
ger stand and gop,
Walks a-ruunin' tlirouith tho grass, dog?
and lions made ot brjss:
And inside, I've heard it to,d, is a sight
just to behold
Like a palace, sj 1 guess just one doggoned
loveliness.
l'icturcs lug us double doirs. costly carpcti
on the lloors;
.Marble winmien. iron kids, strange thing!
from the I'yramids;
Curtings wuth a house and lot, even mors
it's likely 'a not;
Crockery things from feiren parts, rcpre
sentin' ancient arts.
Goodness tne! But what folks tell, what
ain't there hain't been to sell;
Maiies things look like thirty cents, com
moil truck without pretense.
Wicmer's House! Look yonder then
where the black smoke tills the air.
What is that you plainly see? That ii
Wiemer's Brewery.
Here is where he coins Ins gold, piles ti ia
riches up untold.
This is Wiemer's private mint just the
same to all inicut.
Wicmer's House, so fair to see, is tut a
shaft to misery.
Every stone within its walls silently fot
justice calls;
Could they cry aloud like men they would
tell what tongue nor pen
Could not utter, for the tale would make
stoutest heart to mil ;
Widows' cries would rend the air, ahriekf
of suffering and despair;
Broken hearts would moan in grief, pray
ing for death's sweet relict;
Starving children, cold, unfed, begging for
a crust of bread
Might be hiMi-d Ood spare the s.g'ut cry
lllg 111 the loueiy lnglil.
Prayers of mothers might he heard sobbing
out each broken word.
Then would sound the murderer's yell com
ing as from deepest hell.
And the clank of toon's chains curdling
blood within the veins
Might resound through hail and room like
the awful cry ol doom.
Wiemer's House! Now some may laugh,
but I see an epitaph
On every stone within its walls. 'Tis but
a tomb its princely halls
Built at a cost beyond ail price a moloch
fat with sacrifice.
Its walls are red with human blood, so
dyed, so stained, no earthly flood
Can wash them clear. O house of Death,
whose poison chokes the very breath,
How slowly creeps the time apace when on
earth shall be no place
For brewery, saloon and den to blight and
curse the souls of men!
God speed the day when from our sight
these shall be banished into night
And God's good world shall henceforth be
forever from intemperance free.
Ham's Horn.
An Expenss Aecotint.
Here is tn exact transcription from a
workingmau's weekly book account:
Sunday ? To
Monday murning, I whisky Ii
Monday in on, 2 glasses beer.... H
Monday evening, 3 giassc beer. 1.1
Monday evening, 3 treats for 3.. 3J
Tuesday Ihilidayl for self and
friends, 1j glasses beer 73
Wednesday, same us M md.iy,
for self '. . 4
Thursday, 2 whiskies, 3 beers... 4.
Friday, 4 beers 20
Saturday evening, a drunk 2.."o $o."3
Paid standing lull for coal 2 'M
we tiie i-aloonkecpcr 2.1
Owe for groceries 2.oo
Owe for meat 1.2.1
Uwe for rent 2.U0 TS0
licceived for live days' work.. iT.JO
This statement was made out on Sunday,
in the presence of his wife and four chil
dren, while trying to keep warm before an
empty grate, with the thermometer fifteen
degrees below zero, say the American Is
sue. There was no coal in the house, noth
ing to cat, ro money and no credit outside.
It shows that for five days' work he re
ceived I7.50, of which .5.7J went for intox
icating li'picrs.
It further shows that he was "short" for
groceries, meat and rent W.2.). That is to
say, he had paid all Ins drink bill but
twenty-live cents, as his account shows,
doubtless under compulsion of getting no
more drink, while trie legitimate trades-Xi-n
were left to whistle.
This shows where the money gies.
Who foots the bills for this business?
The landlord, who loses his rent; the
tmker, the butcljer and the grocer; the
charitable persons- who pity the children
and keep them from starving, and the tax-
fiayers who support the jails, prisons, the
mspitals aud the almshouses, where such
folks fetch up at last.
Who makes the money? The saloon
keeper, who is privileged to till the land
with poverty, wretchedness, madness,
crime, disease, death and damnation, be
ing authorized by the sovereign people
Are you one ot the sovereign people?
The Worth of a Mingle I. He.
Dr. Torrey tells of a well which wss be
ing dug iu an American township liy two
men. one working at the bottom tilling a
bucket, and the other at the top drawing
it up by a windlass. Presently ipucksind
was struck, which began to pour in tisn
the bottom man. but, sheltering his head
under a plank which was there, he a
able to breathe. News of Ins danger
spread in the township, and the whole
township turned out to dig 4hat man out,
and worked for many hours till he was
saved.
Waa it worth while for the whole town
ship to go to work to save one mau? Waa
it right?
There is one man going down a victim
f ot the liquor habit in your township. Will
it be wortli it lor tne wno.e lownsnip to
vote the luiuor traffic out to save that
man? Will it be right? National Advo
cate. Herale Drink Cur.
'There is otily one custom in our country
which I would like to see established in
America, and that ia the custom of dealing
with drunkards," said Isaac Yohannen, a
Persian missionary, who lectured at Sioux
City, Iowa, the othe night. "In our
country when a man gets drunk we take
him and nail him to the sidewalk, driving
the spikes through bis ears. Then when
other people come along they spit ia bis
face and kick him until be ia sober. 1
think this method would do a great deal of
5 ood in America, because you have more
runkenneaa than we do."
A Butcher's TeiBraaee Lewtm.
A butcher not long-ago delivered a whole
temps ranee lecture in a aingie sentence
A young lady called apoa him, and with
much misgiving asked for II toward pay
ing a temperance lecturer who waa to
apeak for toe Woman's Christian Temper
ane Union. He replied: "There's your
dollarl I've sold more meat in one day
iocs this town vent no-license than 1
used to in a whole week when we had sa
loons." Banner of Oold.
The breweries in Kriatiania, Korway, are
1.1 - .1 - L" . ...
RO guiu bjiuv uuwauajra. i w w, wr
brewerurs located iu or near the eity gave
1 their stockholders no dividends for tha
past year.
THE KEYSTONE STifE
Latest News of Pennsylvania Told' 4
Short Order.
Mark J. Moran was crusher! to!
tlcatii beneath a freight train on which
lie wai stealing a ride at Christiana.
The breaker boys at Spencer's Colli
ery, in LHitimore, have gone on strike
because the paymaster failed to pay
them when they expected.
The mayor of Altoona, lias issued
nrdcrs closing fruit and candy stores
on Sundays, because children on tha
way to Sunday school spend pennies
intended for the collection boxes.
In a fight due to an argument over
the possibilities of Roosevelt carry
irg Schuylkill county, William Dufferl
was struck in the back with a bricto
and his spine yvas injured.
Victoria, the lo-ycar-old daughter
of Mr. andMrs. John Copp, of Scran
ton, is under a physician's care, a
the result of a vicious attack mada
on her by a cat. The child was b-dly
bitten on the leg.
The explosion nf a gas stove hurled
Miss Maud Smith, of Lancaster, tha
entire length of the kitchen and
.iaitist a fence with sufficient force ta
-ender her unconscious. She waa
hadly burned and bruised.
According to the ascssors' returna
is made to the County Commissioned
ie number nf school children in Lan
nter Count v is 3 1 .1 66. a gain of 6ao
iver that of last year. The sexea
ire almost equally divided, there be
uir 13,011 girls and only fifty-six' lest
.miv.
Commencing next month, the Uni'erJ
Mine Workers in the anthracite district
ill adopt a new plan to boom theif
".lemhcr.ship and keep it solid. Each
. cal union will appoint subcommittee
.1 be stationed in and ahout mines
vitli instructions to see that all tha
;ii;ii pay their dues and remain mem-
it-rs of the union.
Governor I'cnnypacker has issued
-cniisitinns on the Governor of New
York for the return to this State ol
William I'.rady. of Philadelphia, under
irrtst in Buffalo, charged with break
:is' his Huntingdon Reformatory
parole; Peter M. Brady in jail in May-
-lie, N. V., charged with larceny in
".ric, and Thomas Jones, in jail in
I'.urTalo, charged with burglary in
v-ranton.
When a fast train bound west on
lie Pennsylvania Kailro.nl arrived in
1 larnshtirg. the other afterno-m, of
ficers arrested and took from the tram
Or. A, B. Allison, of Taretmini, neat
Pittsburg, who was charged with
heating his daughter, Zoc, in tha
sleeper between Philadelphia and
1 larnsbf.rg. Father and daughter had
been m Atlantic City and the girl
it is asserted ran aw ay and started f i
home. The father sent despatche
to various cities and she w-as inter
cepted in Philadelphia and turned ovct
to the doi-tor. On the way to Harris
burg the father, it is alleged, wanted
to place her in a stateroom to pre
vent her getting away, and, failing in
this, Conductor HanMug says. Or.
Allison struck and heat her shameful
ly. The conductor interfered and put
Allison in another car, telegraphing
to Harrishurg for an officer. At the
Mayor's ot'tice a large revolver was
aken from Allison and he was held
for trial in dd'nilt d bail. His d.-uih-'er
proceeded home to Tarentuin.
Having been prohibited from work-
ng on Vermont marble some tima
igo, the union marble c:ters empl y
?d on the new State Capilo! arc i:ov
out aud will not work 011 any variety
' of marble whatever. This is in ac-
1 rordance with orders received from
! New York. The turn were called out
' hi sympathetic strike and Foreman
J Butler left for New York to find out
I what are the cavses of the strike there,
j A Schuylkill Valley Traction Com-
' pany car bumped into a Cow eighteen
I months ago at Harmonviilc ami the
passengers were considerably shaken
up. John R. Cotnly, of Plymouth
Township, whose wife and two child
ren where in the car, brought suit
against the company for $Sooo dam
ages. He says his wife's nerves were
so affected that she cannot pursue her
occupation as dressmaker. The in
juries to his children, he says, ara
permanent.
The first death from heat this sea
son oecured in Norristown when
James Burns was prostrated while,
painting a tin roof. He was taken
to Charity Hospital and died in a few
1 hours.
i A meat packer from Lincoln, Neb.,
1 held up the Chicago Limited triin ia
j the Pennsylvania Station, at Harris-
j burg for thirty-five minutes by re-
i lu ing to pay an extra fare of $j 50.
' He and bis wife were on their way
home from Asbtiry Park to Lincoln.
1 Neither railroad officials tior police;
officers could move the passenger foe
I a time. Finally, as he said, because
' 1.:. . :n -...1 . - a
j ins V.IIC vi as 111 mm W.III1VII 10 nci
home, he unwound a $5 bill from hi
I wad and handed it over.
The Coroner's jury in the inquesf
into the death of Thomas Reddy, at
West Chester, returned a verdict thit
Reddy came to his death from cerebral
hemorrhage caused by a blow from
the hands of Eugene Spriggs The
jury recommended the Sprggs be held
for the action- of the Grand jury. A
fight started between the two men be
cause Reddy was annoyed by the way
in which Spriggs blew the whistle ol
a traction engine.
James Springer, 78 years old, a
trucker at l'airview, was struck by
a Royal Blue flyer and died of hia
injuries.
Train No. 11, Fast Mail, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, ran from New
port to Altoona, 104 miles, in 90, minu
tes, establishing a new record for this
distance. From Tyrone to Altoona,.
fourteen and two-tenths mile, the
time was l minutes, with a slow up
for water at Bellwood.
Schuylkill County is overrun with
niyriadt of gnats which fill the atmo
sphere to auch an extent as to prove
a veritable plague. Many people
have had to resort to physicians tn
get the insects out of their eyes, eara
and nostrils.
Rosewell Waite, who killed Police
man Frink Skidmore, at Newcastle,
ia believed to bave committed suicide.
He took refuge 00 Thursday niht to
Emery's woods, where there are abau
doned coal shafts and cave. Two pt
ir.i .hnn ur heard late Friday night
' which sounded from tne directioa ol
the Emery woods. This has giv-y
rise to the belief that he shot himself.
Chief of Police Horner gives the aut-
.A. lh.r. rr.Henr. Waite wss not
i a strong msn physically and "' '"
' sence of cocaine and morphine, pot
of which he used, would leave him. 9,
physical wreck.