"IMITATORS OF COD" A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev. Dr. John Reld. Answers Ihs Criticism That Christianity Is Narrow to 1(4 Spirit and Con tracting In I s Eflccl. Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. John Reid, pin tor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, preached an eloquent sermon Sunday morning. Hi text was taken from Ephe sians v:l: "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children."' Dr. Reid said: The Revised Version gives a better and stronger translation: "lie ye therefore imi tators of God, as beloved children." Imi tators, as children. Being children of God, be ve imitators of God. Truth is practically always achievement, superstructure, the keystone, a last stroke. There are what the metaphysicians call "immediate truth," that is, truth in con nection with which our knowledge ia intui tive, and where it comes in as the direct and undeniable testimony of the senses, but as a general thing, acquired truth ia the result nf work done, the issue of a bat tle which has been won. In other words, truth has to conquer before it can com mand. But in conflict or warfaro of what soever kind, disguise is ever a worse foe to meet than denial. And I suppose that what is frequently affirmed is probably true; namely, that the Christian religion has always suffered more from those who, sometimes intentionally and sometimes un intentionally, have perverted and misrep rensented it, than it has ever suffered from those who have even formally opposed it. There, for instance, is the somewhat trite criticism that Christianity as a scheme ia narrow in its spirit and contracting in its effect: under it as a system men do not at tain the highest possible development, and, therefore, they cannot display the fairest and finest fiber of human character: it de velopes the passive and uninfluential, more than the puissant and productive, elements of our nature: it keeiia its hand on life' brake to check and hold in, rather than on life's throttle valve to open and let go; it is in face a lion, but in heart a deer; the thou shalt nots outnumber the thou shalts; there is an unmistakable flavor of pusil lanimity, of cowardliness, of spiritlessness, which nothing every wholly removes from many of its principles and professions; re pentance, humbleness, meekness, forgive ness of injuries, relinquishment of rights, submission to what cannot be seen, accept ance of what cannot bo known these are not among the heroic virtues. All this has been felt and expressed, not only by the superficial and scoffing, but by the respect ful and thoughtful. And certainly it is all forceful. If it were true, it might be even fatal. Yet from the beginning to end this whole criticism that Christianity is narrow in its I pint and contracting in its enects moves on a misconception. Human life can never be bound by a lifeless process. It is of ne- 1 ' 1 l , 1 ' ' T, A I cessuy iinKeu 10 n living icisun. nun ut , Christianity, it is the Almighty God who is the standard. Men are everywhere ex horted and expected to ascertain His mil, to keep His word, to lay hold of His strength, to walk in His light, and so to adorn His doctrine in all things. It is the example of God that is published as the pattern. It is the purity of God that is Sut forth as the test. It is the will of od that is prescribed as the law. It is the love of God that is presented as the motive power. It ia the glory of God that is pointed to as the end. It is the appro bation of God that is urged as the inspira tion and the sweet reward. Likeness to Godhood that is Christianity's ideal of manhood; likeness; not simply a represen tation, but a reproduction; an image; a likeness which boa its place, not in a one ness or identity of attributes, but in a one ness or community of life. In Him we live and move and have our being, said Paul, with all clearness and confidence, "For me to live is Christ," said the same great 1 apostle to the Gentiles, Literally, for to me, that is, in my cajc, ia so far as I am personally concerned, life is Christ. In my view and understanding of the term, life is but another name for Christ. Whatever of life, or of time, or of talent, or of strength I have, it is all His. "I live, yet net I, but Christ liveth in me." That man's great endeavor was, as near as pos sible, to reproduce in his life the Ufa of his Master. So here his exhortation to nil others: "Be ye therefore imitators of God, as be loved children." We have all known chil dren who were so impressed with the char acteristics of their fathers that we could never hear their form of expression or see their modes of action without thinking of those from whom their opinion and con duct had received direction and form. We say, chips of the old block; the father lives again in the son. Just so the true life of the Christian is, potentially at least, simply a reproduction of the life of the Christ. "Imitators, as children of God." What Sver the sentiments we may entertain re garding the claims of aristocracy or the rights of democracy, we all make much of ancestry. The son of a lord may become a lord. The daughter of a queen is of the blood royal. Everywhere men believe in association. Family glory is a good intro duction and a great help to any man who can lawfully point to it as his. The valid ity of that introduction is never ques tioned, the integrity of that help is never rejected, except where the man himself becomes personally deficient or person ally degenerate. For doubtless everywhere, when it comes to the purely practical side of things, "what is he?" is of far greater importance than "whence did he come?" A big fruit from a little tree is worth more than a little fruit from a big tree, when it is fruit that the market is de manding. And what this intensely practi cal age demands is not so much ancestral trees as palatable fruit. I confess that sometimes I have found it hard to preserve the proprieties when I bave heard people boasting of ancestry. I have sometimes wondered what the an cestors would say if they suddenly saw the progeny. Paternity is not always easily recognizable in posterity. Neither in things material nor in things moral does past possession ever pay for present pov erty. There must be some water in the channel to make a river out of it, and it is always the present water volume of the Stream that determines the real water value of the river. "Oh, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet, Till Earth snd Sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, Though they come from the ends of the Earth." These are strong lines of Kipling; brave words, wise and true. When it comes to the solemn strife and stress of life, "what" weighs more than "whence." "Every man in his own saddle" and "every tub on its own bottom." Nevertheless, all people are disposed to recognize the possibility of high honor ia honorable descent. But admit this to be true, and it carries its own serious claim along with it. It was ths observstion of one of the ancients that the burden of government ia increased to princes by ths virtues of their immediate predecessors. Commenting on ths saying, Dr. Samuel Johnson, in one of his essays, remarked it a elwtya dangerous to be placed in a state of unavoidable comparison with excellence, and that ths danger is always greater when the excellence is consecrated by death. Privilege of ancestry means responsibility of heirship. Duly sod morally considered, it can never be lordship. It ts event's.!? stewardship. And "to whom much is given, of him shall much be required," is the law univcrsnlly here applied. That is the principle underlying this whole matter. Children of God. he imitators of God. " No blesse oblige. Nobilitv imposes ths obli atiou of noblcne. "Be ye therefor im llntors of God. as beloved children." Whence am I? H is the old question be which every man is confronted as soon as he begins to draw linrs nf distinction be tween himself and his surrounding. And here, as everywhere, no comment on the iworV nf God like the word ( God. "In 1li li giiiningfiod created the hen vens and ilia earth." -hat ajateucc. scatters, dill- M" anil doubt. The world ' not eter nal; it had an actual snd definite begin ning. Man is not the child of chnnee: he has a Father in God. After that God had spent much time and lnbor in fitting and furnishing the globe to be nn shade, III , said, "Let us make man in our image, nf- i ter our likeness." It is written. "So God 1 created man in His own image; formed mnn of the' dust of the crrnund and breathed into his nostrils the breath ( life, and man became a living soul" the masterpiece of divine inienuity and pow er, in whom there is no tiremonition what soever of anv higher physical life. "Let them have dominion over the fish of the s-a, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over nil the enrth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Divinely authenticated on heart and on brain, a being nf boundless asnirations, separated in moral and spirit ual nature, as by an impassable gulf, from all other animal orders, man is at the head rational, responsible, immortal. How often we speak that word '"immor tal!" Man does not die "There is no death. What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is hut a suburb of the life elvslnn, Whose portal we -ill death." The good which a man does lives for ever. And the good man lives in it. Au gustine in his confessions. Calvin in his vindication. Watts and Wesley in tho psalms and hymns and spiritual songs by which Christendom's praises are still at tuned. Robert Raikes. the publisher, and Henry Duncan, the divine the one still gathers the children and the other still guards the treasures of the poor. Through out all Germany, amid their resllcss lives and the many temptations of their career, hundreds of young journeymen mechanics, who know not the name, still bless ths hand of Clemens Perthes, the learned pro fessor of Bonn, because he laid the foun dations of the homes which open to them their hospitable doors. Yonder at Wei mar, that "Necropolis of the poets of Germany," and hard by the grave of Uoethe, who was the pnnce ot them all, ia the resting place of one whose fame was different indeed from theirs, but on whosa tomb the epitanh runs: "Under this lin den tree, freed from sin through Jesus Christ, lies John Falk. Let every strange child who visits this peaceful place dili gently pray for him. And because he cared for little children, receive him,. O Lord, Thy child, unto Thyself." "Gone forever! ever? No for since our dying race began, Ever, ever, and for-ever was the leading light of man." How are we to explain this? What is the philosophy of such power over the rav ages of time? My dear friends, we ought to take some things out of the region of speculative or ecclesiastical doctrine, where they seem sometimes to have been con signed. We cannot contemplate immor tality simply as a doctrine of the Bible, ot a teaching of the church. It is more. It is a vital power in the life. Given the Fatherhood of God and the immortality of man is the demonstration of human life. Do you seek the strongest and clearest evidence of the existence of God? You take it with you wherever you go. You yourself are that evidence. "The argu ment from design?" You have it in your own body, the most wonderfully complete of all known organisms. "The argument from being?" In the consciousness ot your own dependence, you have a convic tion not to be gainsayed of Him on whom you depend. Created as be is in God's im age, man is an epitome of all God's crea tion. He is a duodecimo universe. The human soul is a mirror which reflects God. It is true the image is marred and ob scured; there is but little of the intuitive knowing; the traces of the inherent right eousness are very feeble; the flow of the essential holiness is torpid and inert the image is a broken one; the picture ia a moving picture; the lines in it are not straight; they are vibratory but the like ness is there. To he a man ia to have some perceptible trace in God. My dear friends, however broken and marred the image may be in any, Christ is able to restore it in all. And that verily ia the whole aim of Christianity: to bring us back to what God first intended us to be. Believers in Christ are in Him created anew unto good works and have renewed in themselves the whole man after the im age of God in knowledge and righteousness and true holiness. Cod Dominates All, As the mountain of Fujiyama dominates the landscape in Japan, as the temple hills of Jerusalem commanded the scene far all around, so we believe God is to be exalted in this vast community, so as to dominate it all. The sense of God is not fading; it is increasing. To Him we lift up our eye a unto the mountains. The church is to nourish this consciousness of God, and to express it in lives of spiritual power. Oh, then, bow one comes to love the church when once her real mission is seen. W are set to invite the world to come to its only true home. Wandering hearts, un easy consciences, troubled souls, come to the home of homes, in God's great lov and blessed service. Let the gate open wide, that the multitudes may press into, the home of their hearts. Ob, church of God, let your faith be large and bright, that the world may come home. Erect no false barriers that God would disown and more and more become a home to the chil dren of men, through Jesus Christ, the Sa viour. Ths Christian's Answer. This is the reply we Christians make to those who say that religion is mythical and that it retreats into some secret place where no mere intellectuality can wholly follow it. It surely is mystical in these in timate experiences of the soul, but does it not come forth again and move through the activities of human life, out ia ths open world a chastened, beautified ana Christ-like spirit? This is our answer. Conscious of sin and imperfections, this is still our answer. God is our home. Slowly we yield our stubborn natures to His con stant pressure. His presence is our best education. He is the great beautiiier of human life. Differ as we may in our creeds and philosophies, this is the issue of relig ion, this is the' product of fellowship witjl Him, our Father, our God, our eternal ref uge and home. .... An Implvs Spaetael. When you stop to consider what ths church of God ia, the spectacle of hun dreds of thousands, even millions, of souls wending their way to the places of worship throughout ths land becomes impressive. Why do they come? What is the perma nent element in life that maintains this vast interest? Changes occur among na tions, institutions rise and fall, traditions wax and vane, creeds ar made and un made, and yet men continue to worship. Lead tnnpl Lit; Bs content to lesd a simple life where God has placed you. Bs obedient; bear your little daily crosses you need them, and God gives them to you out of pur mere. Fenelon. Mummy YVheav Would Not Grow. In view ot the oft-repeatod and coin monly believed statement that miimmj wheat that Is, wheat found In trie cases of anqlent Egyptian mummies baa been known to germinate when planted after thousands of years. It la of Interest to- note that cxperlment with specimens of wheat, of the anti quity of which there is no doubt, have Just been carried but at Kow Gardons, England, with the view of ascertaining whether ancient Egyptian wheat, say 3,000 years old, would germinate oi not. In every case the experiment made by the officials at Kcw was un luccessful. . Novel Milking Prooess. In the new Umschau electric milk, Ing process a rubber cap la placed over the cow'i udder, and the milk Is drawn br the auction ot an electrically driv en pump. The method la claimed to b both cleaner and quicker than hand-mUklnf. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 13. (tnli.feett Joash Itepnlt the Temple, TT Kings XII., 4-10 Golden Text, Nell X., 80 Memory Verses, 0-13 Com mentnrjr on the Pay's Lesson. The reformation under Joash began at the time of his coronation. 1. A solemr covenant was made "between the Lord and the king and the people," and "be tween the king also and the people," that they would be the Lord' people (2 Kingl 11:17), 2. Baal worship was immediately overthrown, from the inner court of the temple, which was the scene of tho coro nation, the multitudes, beyond all doubt encouraged by delioiada, streamed forth to the neighboring seat of idol worship, bent upon its comnlete demolition. "The people of the land went into the house of Baal and brake it down" (2 Kings 11:18; 2 Chron. 23:17). The altars and imagei which adorned it were broken to pieces, and Mutton the high priest slain as he officiated. Haul worship was thus for s time completely rooted out of Judith, and the old religion resumed its place. 3. The priests and Levites were appointed to serve in the temple "as it was ordained bj David" (2 Chron. 23:18). I. liaising funds to repair the temple (vs. 4-9). 4 "Jehoash." The same as Joash. It must Y ve been some time after his coronation before he began this work. "Said to the priests." It is remarkable that the first movement toward restoring the temple should come, not from Jeho i.'ula, but from Joash, not from the priest, but from the king. Jchoiada had allowed the mischief done in Athaliah's time to re main unrepaired during his whole term of ftovernment. Remembering that he owed is preservation and restoration to the temple, and that God had made him iii guardian, and that he had covenanted so to be, Joash uicides to repair it. "All the money," etc. There are three kinds of offerings mentioned in this verse: 1. The "atonement" money, the same amount half a shekel, about hirty-three cents for rich and poor alike; illustrating the truth that the souls of of men are equally prec ious in God's sight. This was probably a poll tax (Exod. 20:11-10). 2. Money from special vows, which was regulated by law and circumstan.-es (Lev. 27:1-8). 3. Free w;ll offerings (Exod. 35:5). 5. "Let the priests," etc. The meaning is made clear in 2 Chron. 24:5. The priests and Levites were asked to go into the cities of Judah and gather of all Israel" money for the repairs. They would naturally go to those with whom they were acquainted. "Breaches." Years of neglect had allowed the walls to crack nnd crumble, and the sons of Athaliah had broken it to pieces (2 Chron. 24:7). 6. "Had not repaired." This plan proved a failure. 1. Probably because the priests took but little interest. 2. Perhaps the 5eople were afraid to trust the priests, here are those in our churches to-day who imbibe too much of the spirit of these priests. They would see the sanctuary almost tumble about their heads in ruins before they would initiate any movement to rcnair and renovate it. Piety is ot a low ebb in that soul which is so indifferent to the outer, fabric of God's house. 7. "Culled" for Jehoiada." It is strange that the high priest should be negligent; but he was a very old man (2 Chron. 24: 15), even if, with most critics, we read one hundred and three instead of one hundred and thirty years. He had become accus tomed to the dilapidated state of the tem ple and perhaps sympathized with the priests in their reasons for delay. "Receive no more," etc. The plan was now entirely changed, and the collection which at first had been ordered was now to cease. 8. "The priests consented." They had found the work too great for them and were no doubt glad to tie relieved. 9. "Took a chest." This was done by direction of the king (2 Chron. 24:8), and was "a much more popular measure than the one tried before." Joash did not be come discouraged, but when he failed on one line he tried another. "Bored a hole." "The chest was locked and had a hole bored in its lid iust large enough to ad mit pieces of silver." It was placed be side the great brazen altar which stood in the priest's court. It was therefore out side of the temple proper, "The priests put therein' In 2 Chron. 24:10 it appears that the people cast the money into the chest, but it probably passed through the hands of the priests. There is not the slightest evidence that the priests and Levites had been guilty of any dishonesty." II. The temple repaired (vs. 10-15). 10. "Much money.'' The new plan had put life into the work. The givers saw that others were giving and that success was likely to attend their efforts, and accord ingly there was money in abundance. From verse 6 we see that the money for the support of the priests was not given with the other, so that every person knew exactly for what purpose his gifts were used. Joy and delight in the object made liberal givers. "The king's scribe," etc. It appears by comparing 2 Chron. 24:11 that the chest was carried unopened into the king's office and that the money was placed in charge of two responsible per sons, who put it in bags, counted and marked, ready to be paid out to the work men. 11. "Being told." See R. V. We would say, "They counted the money:" but its value was found by weighing. "They paid it out" (R. V.j. J. he money was placed in the hands of tue overseers and they faid it out to the workmen.' From versa 3 we see that thev were trusted perfect ly, "for they dealt faithfully." 13. In this verse mention is made of certain ves sels and implements which were not made at this time, while in 2 Chron. 24:4 men tion is made of those which were made; the passages are not contradictory. 14. "They repaired the house of the Lord." The labors of all, from the king to the humblest carpenter, were es sential to the success of the great under taking. It is not for any worker in the Lord's cause to say he has of himself done any good thing. At the best he is only one of the many aeents in the perfecting of God's plans. The restoration of the house of ths Lord was accomplished only by a resolute and united effort. 1. There was a willingness among the people to give liberally. 2. 'there was a strict and im partial administration of the funds. 3. All unnecessary expenses was avoided. 15. "They dealt faithfully." Those who handled the money as well as the work men were conscientious and faithful. In this reorganization we observe all the cle ment of success prompt and decided ac tion, generous giving, careful expenditure, turnest and faithful toil. If you wish suc cess in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, cautieh your elder brother and hops ycur guardian genius. His Source of Inspiration. On Ibsen's tablo beside the Inkstand was a small tray. Its contents were extraordinary dome little wooden carved Swiss bears, a diminutive black devil, small cats, dogs and rabbits made ot copper, one of which was playing a violin. "What are thoze funny little things?" I ventured to as'.t. "I never write a (tingle line of any of my drama' unless that tray and Itr occupiuits ere before me on the table, r could not write without them. II may aeora strange perhaps it ia but 1 cannot wrltex. without them," he re pented. "Why 1 use then Ls my own seer' " Would Name the Dog Care. ' The family bad added a bull terrier to Ita stock, of pets. The first day after bis arrival the new member ended the career of a pet cat. He was forgiven, however, and 1,hat night there was a discussion ovtir a name for dog. Six-year-old Paulino listened to several suggestions, and tbeo said, gravely, "I'd call him Care, lthluk. You know grandma aaye, 'Care killed a cat." CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH. "Our Partnership and Fellowship." 1 Cor. 12:23-31; 13:1-13. Scripture Verses. Mai. 3: 1G; John 13:31; Acts 1, 14; 2:1, 42; Gal. 6: 10; Eph. 2:19; Phil. 1:3-0; 1 Thesa. 6:11-13; 2 Thesa. 1:3; 2 Peter 1:1,2. Lesson Thoughts. "Let us not permit any human brotherhood to be closer than the brotherhood of Christian believers." "When the denominations work to gether as effectively as the mem bers In the body they will reach the Christian Ideal and the Christian power, and not until then." "As the right band does not desire to be larger than the left hand, or one eye than the other, so compari sons among Christians to the disad vantage of one another are un worthy." Selections. A mass of quicksilver dropped on the floor, will split Into many glo bules; but gather them up and they will coalesce as before. God's elect below are found divided Into many denominations, but when gathered together In heaven they Will unite as one undivided church. You are In the wood, but cannot find it for the trees; but you ask which of these sorts of trees Is the wood. Is it the oak, or the ash, or the elm, or the poplar? Or Is it the hawthorn or the bramble? Why, it Is all together. Thus they Rre In the midst of the church of Christ Inqu'!r lng after the church, and asking whether it be this party of Christians, or whether It be the other. A thousand men united are worth more than ten thousand working In dependently. For this reason armies are formed, manufacturing Industries are established, and populations cen tralize Into cities. For the same rea son Christian fellowship adds strength to the church. One great value of Christian fel lowship results from the fact that "there ore diversities of gifts." While one builds up the other guards; Christian fellowship affords oppor tunity for the useful exercise of all our various talents. EPMTII LEAGUE LESSONS NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH. Our Partnership and Fellowship. 1 Cor. 12. 23-31. 13. 1-13. In Berlin there lived a shoemaker who habitually spoke with rigid se verity of all who did not bel.leve ex actly as he did upon religious mat ters. His pastor felt that he must give him an object lesson In the bopo of correcting this fault. To this end he sent for the shoemaker to take his measure for a pair of boots. "With pleasure, your reverence. Please take off your boot." The minister did so. Having finished his task, he was preparing to leave the room when the clergyman called out, "Stay! My son requires a pair also." "I will make them with pleasure. Can I take the lad's measure now?" "O, that is not necessary," said tho pastor. "The boy Is only fourteen, but you can make his boots and mine from the same last." Thereupon the shoemaker expressed surprise, hesi tated, even became indignant. The minister Insisted. "They must be made on the same last." The shoe maker suggested that the minister must be losing his wits. "Ah, then," said he, "every pair of shoes must be made upon their own lasts, If they are to fit; and yet you seem to think that every Christian must be formed exactly according to your own last of the same measure and form as yourself. That will not do, either." There are many, many forms of Christian character, but only one srJrlt and that Is the spirit of Christ. This ls the one distinguishing char acteristic. This Is beautifully set forth in our Scripture lesson! The purest snd sweetest Joys known to mortals are those which spring from fellowship In unselfish work with and for Christ. This thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians creates an atmosphere of beaming brightness and genial fresh ness. It is where we all ought to live. How grand that life which is in conscious partnership with God, and In cheerful fellowship with his most obedient children! Normal, sane, wholesome ls such a character. The Sun of Righteousness Alls the air of Buch a life with its golden beams of spiritual health and buoyant vitality. O, that we, as young people, might realize the glory of living 4n a love planned, love-governed, love-lighted universe! RAM'S HORN BLASTS. HERE Is no com munion with Christ where there is no sympathy with Him. If happiness were a sin gome people would make the world brighter. It takes bread from Heaven to give strength for the business on earth. When a man loves God he will think once in a while about the feelings of men. The church that quarrels over the tricks takes a long time to build the bouse. If you cannot see Christ In people, will you be able to find Him In Para dise? If a man bis any selfishness In him It will come out when be aits next the window. It Is easier to test the Bible by your logic than it is to test your loving by its laws. It ia very comforting exercise to rip up the devil while you are riding ou bli road. A man must be blind to the wrongs of society to talk about the rights of the aaloon. It ls a good deal easier to trust God when you are poor than it ia to prove your trust when you get rich. Tortoise 300 Years Old. ' One of the oldest known living ani mals on earth ls a tortoise In Now Zeak-nd that weighs 970 pounds. It Is knowo to be over 800 years old. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOWS STARTLING FACTS AS0UT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Tlii. Mfo Slnry ot n Young Man Wlins Cnreor r.nl.vt In tlm ri-nlli-ntinr; Owing; tn Vldnu. tlnlilt Formed Through Hntilhml tnilul 3cnce. , "Drink brought me here. Nothing makes it sii easy for u fellow to get into trouble as drink. I face a life in the penitentiary became of drink and bad companion. "Tell every voting man to steer clear of both of these nnd he'll steer clear of such a nisition as I now tind myself in." Ifnrrv Mapleson. twenty-three vears old. wait in a cell at the county jail to be t-ikeu to Columbus to begin a lire term in the penitentiary for complicity in the mur der of an unknown man on llcssemcr street, on the night of Sentembpr 2", 1903. Ho wis sentenced Thursday. The words minted he spoke to a Press man in his cell rriday morning. There was despair in his voice, hopelessness in his eyes: "Ill-ink did it," he kept on repenting. 'Drink and bad companions. God! how I wish I lind never touched the one and avoided the other. And the sad part of it is, they wrecked not only my life, but brought sorrow and woe to my poor old parents.'' J here were tears in his ryes, and his voice shook. He turned his face nwnv and looked toward the wall of his cell, his frame slinking with emotion. It was sev eral minutes before he spoke again, and then he inld the whole story. "I think," he said, "the first drink I ever took was 'bought for me by a rela tive. When I was twelve years old and made my first communion I took a pledge not to toifh liquor till I was twentv-one. During all that time I followed the pledge faithfully and while other boys met nnd 'rushed the growler.' I stayed away and when I wanted company I sought those I met at church. When I became twentv one 1 made up my mind to keep on ab staining from intoxicants. But just a month afterward I came down one day with this relative and he took me into a saloon. We met some friends and they all wanted to buy drinks. I drank several bottles of pop. and hen, because this rela tive said pop wasn't good for me I took a glass of beer. The next thing I took was a irlass of whisky. In a few minutes I was drunk. "It was months afterward before I tasted it again, but when I did the rest was easy. "I begran meeting with boys nnd men nnd took part in their 'growler rushing.' I drank as much as any nf them. The night we are supposed to have killed the man I was drunk and so was Neuman. "I had been in the saloon next door to where I lived on Atlantic street nnd had a few drinks. When I went out Neuman followed me, keeping abaut lot) feet behind me and calling for me to wait. "We met the fellow that was killed neat the railroad track. He was an inoffensive looking fellow nnd passed me without say ing a word, though he looked as if he wanted to ask something. "When he got back to Neuman ho asked him where some one lived. "Neuman was in n ipiarrelsome mood and struck him and the fellow struck back. I ran to heln Neuman, and that's all there ivas to it. We put the body alongside the track to mnl;e it. appear he had fallen from train. If I hadn't been drinking 1 would never have mixed in. And if Neu man hadn't been drunk, the quarrel wouldn't have started. "We didn't wnnt to rob the man, be cause we didn't need to. I had money und s good job.' Why, ever since I was sixteei? T have never earned less than S?2 50 a day. Onee I was earning 3.i a month. "I was just twenty-three the-day before I was arrested, so you see it was onlv dur ing two years that I drank at all. How 1 wish those two years were blotted out. 1 ee. now the only way for anybody to avoid the possibility of mv present position is not to touch it nt all. I! lit I have found '.t out too late, as many nnother man has.' East Liverpool (Ohio) Tribune. Tenernble Lawyer's Opinion of TO lilsk One of the oldrst lawyers in the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. M. E. Sayera, lately icot a pointed reply to a distiller's circular. dilrcssing the sender he said: "Your letter at hand recommending your good old whisky. I have known the good jld copper-distilled rye whisky to send seven sons and three grandsons of the dis tiller to drunkards' graves. If I wanted to direct a man straight to hell I would advise him to engine in the manufacture or sale .if whisky. I have been sixtv-nine years a lawyer and have seen no good, but evil con tinually from whisky." Mr. Savers, like some other total ab turners, had grown tired of opening letters bearinc no business card, to be r.reeled with a big liauor advertisement. Mr. Bay ers is the father of Miss Mary E. Savers, a most active Y secretary, and wo are told that it is largely due to him, his daughter and his wife, an abio white ribbouer. that Greene County, Pa., has been dry for twenty-five years. Christian Companion. How 1 Tills T tady Henry Somerset, in a recent inter view, 'published in "Great Thoughts," speaks nf a visit made by her to Mr. Edi son, whose vast laboratories she inspected with much interest. On being asked who were his best workmen Mr. Edison replied that the Germans ami Italians were good routine workmen, but that he could de pend on them for little else. The English and Scotch were remarkable, but he could not count nn their return punctually after holidays; .their hand was not steady, nor was their eye accurate, for the simple rea son that they used alcohol often to excess. A Connecticut American-born workman was the only reliable man he had, for he was not only a total abstainer himself, hut had a total abstaining ancestry behind him. Edison could count on his accuracy tnd steadiness, the time he would put into his work and the hour at which he would return. Irish Tempcrunca League Journal, Belfast. A Vile Decoction. A Tlodge City (Iowa) bootlegger admit that he made most of the stulf he sold as whisky. His formula was: One gallon of alcohol, two gallons of water, one pound oi prunes, Halt a pound ot tooacco aim an ounce of glycerine. Ituil the prunes and siucer.e the juice out and the same with the tobacco and thoroughly mix. "This," he s ;vs proudly, "makes a fine drink, and is warranted to do the work." He used to keep it in kerosene cans to avoid suspicion. KngUml's l usolTsble I'rolilciu. "For full 300 years." says the Indian Witness, "the license system has prevailed in England, and with what result? It is said that no fewer than 470 acts of Parlia ment, all swking to regulate the houor tinlie, havo been framed, but bow miser ably thev have failed to accomplish 'the ar rest of this gigantic evil of modern times. Tlie Table That Mqnor f pr-.l. The story is told by the Montreal Wit ness of a poor woman who went recently to a sn'.oon in search of her husband. She found him there, and. setting a cov ered dish, which she had brought with hr, upon the table, she said. "'J linikiiig thai you ure too busy to come home to diniif r I have brought yon yours," and di-partcd. With laugh the nisn invited Ins friend to dine wjtli him, but un lemoviug the cover from the dish he found only a slip of paper, on which was written: "I hope you will enjoy your meal. It is the name as your family bas at home." Xeuiperanoe Towns More Prosperous, The Sterling (Col.) News call attention to the difference between saloons and mi saloon in comparison between the towiu of Greeley and Evans, and Colorado Springs and Colorado City. Starting with e-pil chances, the prohibition towns have been moje prosperous and are better provided for at lower taxes than the saloon town. A Laaau of Lawbreaker. The saloon system is itself a league of lawbreakers, whose example affords u munt uuwoi'ful stimulus to disorder of all kinds. It openly proclaims its purpose to duobuy all law which iiitvit'rru with its supreme purpose to inske money in it own way nnd at whatever sacrifice. lion. William WmJuni. bvwvury ul the Treasury, U. S. rGtMuiX5I rtie Atheist. BY ALICE r. TILDE. Courage of heart and of so-.il, of mir.d and of sense; Courage to work in the dark and claim no reward ; Courage to strain in the toil, eacn nerve still tense, Facing the final silence, knowing no God. Courage to livo out a life on the terrible road, Knowing that at the road's end all things must cease; Other with self nt strife, not fcelinz the ;;oad Of punishment following wrong, nor re ward of peace; Courage to givo of his best, when put to the touch; Courane not once over-ridden by sloth leaden-shod: Courage to bear and to die. All, but liow much More might his courage avail, harnessed with Godl For the Christian Register. The Sacrament of Love. Lovingness is not so easy an acquirement as we sometimes suppose. It comes not al together by nature like breathing, or. as the old adage says, like reading and writ ing. It is easier to noiuirc the habit ol hating than that of loving, as it is eas:cr to acquire a scpiiiit-eyed, nerverted view of life than a sane nnd healthy one. Lov ing enters into the religions con ioune? of believers in varying degrees, but it i cafe to say that God prciVrs in His chil dren one ounce of love to a pound of uogma. The soul is like a garden that cannot safely be left unteiniul ; for weed-, grow much faster than whole-one plants, unci there is no beauty of holmes-- that can be expected to come up oi itsclt and keep self free from contamination and evil con tact. The sacrament of love is that tlowet on tho holy life. It irradiates the soul with beauty, it fills it with fragrance und sheds peace and rest upon the nature. It is the secret of the highest, devoutist na tures. We look up to them with avvo ar.o longing, feeling that their gills cannot l;c attained by us, but the puwer of love is open to us all. It is especially the uttri bute of the humble heart. To be sure it requires discipline, subju gation of the grosser parts of the being be fore it yields mellowness and ripeness, an atmosphere more than act or word. The nature becomes, as it were, solvent in th? religious element, so pervasive that noth ing, however small, escapes its touch Ceasing to be nn occasional thing of cus tom and world, love so vivifies it, makes it so beautiful nnd radiant, it is like n white winged angel shaking fragrance and li'lil from its wings. It is love alone that can save a fniih from fossilizing. Habit indur ate our feelings, lays them out, corpsei ke, where often there is no Jesus to raise, this Lazarus. Love alone can do it. It was the sentiment with which Dante con templated the divine in Ueatrice, thus knitting earth to heaven. The exaltation of beauty passed insensibly into the mys tical passion of love, which perhaps he alone of all men was capable of feeling. Hut his revelation of the highest oHicc oi this nassion has been of areat value, not only in purifying the earthly sentiment, but in connecting the religious nature in a permanent union with God. The sacrament of love is a recognition of heaven v gifts, the sralitmlc this recount tion awakens, the peace it brings in the contemplation of the universe, and those broader views that show us the all-containing power of the divine thought and the reconciliation of seeming opposite. It is the sentiment that makes ot life worship. Oftentimes life is cold, the sentiments nn moribund, praver spring from the lips, the sense nf dutv has un illumination, liut to partake of the sacrament of love is to send a glow through all parts of the nature, and to change the habitually dull into the con secrated, to hallow nil relations, and to lilt them to a higher level. It is the inner meaning and power of re ligion, nnd renders it easy, nay, natural, to know God as friend, companion and communion with Him like the breath we draw. It is the ideal for which we should aim, the rest of the soul in the sunshine ot His presence; for haviiw partaken of the sacrament of love, everything is easy. Not always can we tind that enchanted garden of the heart where human love blends with the divine nnd is part of the tender over brooding of the spirit. It we wander away, let us be careful that wc do not lot get the path of return. Having this inestimable treasure of love, it matter not much what we are denied. Soul rest nnd quit-tilde will come nf them selves. We cannot hide away from utliic tion. but the strength to bear will come ns a holy visitation, as if Go. I Himself should stoop and overshadow our littleness, our incompleteness, with the sense of the all sufreriiigmss oi Ills presence. For love is like a dove that iias made its nest un let our roof, and soothes us with its tender cooing. We may not see it, but we know it is there. The greal heart oi things heats responsive to our own. We are nevt'i alone, for God is the constant, the un changliir; fra ud. Such love breathed in the soul of M. iy, sister of Lazaru, as she iwit at the P.'i-t ot the Master. It was well thai she put away the tritles cf life for a time, to be with linn who could visit her only on a favored daw and was soon to demit, leaving the holy gift of His spirit. Such a visitation chances the i urrent of life. iiat was ouec all absorbing ia'.1.! into sc-onii.uy ivla-nms After partaking of the ho'y Liead and wine of a Jovimi spirit a great experience revealing infinite tiuntrs takts us u hence we may never return to our frivolities. To partake of this sacm-m-nt we must 1c made worthy. Gaiuhad could only behold, after many trials and long wanderings, the Holy Grail. There is a llo'y Grail for each of us if we are worthy to possess it, a cup filled with divine love that God presses to the lips of His children when they como to commune in the right spirit. The Christian Hcgister. MlnUtt-rln:; Angels. It is In the path where God has bade us walk that we shall find the nnveis around us. We mny meet them, indeed, on paths of our own choosing, but it will be tho sart of angel that ll.ilaain met. willi a sword in his hand: mighty and beautiful, but wrathful, too, and we hail better not front him! Hut the friendly helpers, the emissaries of God's love, the apcwtles of His grace, do not haunt the roads that " make for ourselves. Alex. Maclaren. No Christ or No Home, In the city of Kuang-ucn, Ki-chuen, which is eaid to be a specially idolatrous .tity, a woman recently burned all her idol and her ancestral tablet at the grave of her deceased hushaud, who during his life time forbade her destroying the idol. When "hi became released from hi voke he embraced her earliest opportunity of piving eOeet to her lung cherishtd denire, 1'he position of women in China being what it is, it ia not often eaay for them to follow their conviction when they aro out of harmony with those of their husband. When the question of believing th sjosttel is involved it is frequently a choice b twsen bom and religion - loins' Millions. Too Heavy for Cab Floor. While alx burly Yorkshlremen were driving through the streots of Paris In a cab tho floor gave way beneath their weight, and two cf them were dragged along and severely cut abc Oe bands and face. Aged Men Cast Votes At MldUlebury, Vt., tlxteou men whoso rungfd from 80 to 05 tp poared at the polls within a few mli, tites of e.tci other at IU last election. THE HABIT OF QUOTATION; N Has Spread With Ih Growth af a Certalst' Unity Pplrlt. Since most of us find It easy to copj) nnd difficult to Invent, the linblt o( prolific quotation bns grown wltU the) growth of n certain bnsty end Idle) epirit cnsily to be discerned In mod ern literature nnd the London Sab urtlny ltevievr hns recently etood foa nn honest nnd wholesome) reaction In fnvor of writliiff nently woven from the author's imltrldun' thought, and unbedecked with nin.Tims from fa mllinr sources. It offered some months ngo n prize for the worst throe "tngs" In use at the present day, n tns bi-lntt understood to menn a quotation th.it hns grown afnle wltl repetition. Hundred flowed Into thsj columns of the Hevlew, nnd not nntll the? were there did mnny a reader recognize lion- oi'ten their nged faces hnd seen upon the races of yonnaj books nnd ningnzlnes. Here are a few of them: "It Is the nnexpected thai happens," "more honored In the breach! tlinn In the observance." "Homerlo laughter." "the tbln end of the wedge "the right man In the right place "there Is much virtue In an If." If the time has come, nnd apparently It ls here, for those nnd similar phrases borrowed from the lilg grab bag of the classics, .frequently without nny distinct knowledge of their origin to be discarded from the product of the average writer, the naked dtilness of tho average style will bo more than ever conspicuous, nnd Inevitably there) will be more or less striving to create verbal ornaments of a reasonable orlginnlity. Already the popular parodist has found way out of tba tlilicultj that Is not without Its ap propriateness to a flippant oge. In stead of illuminating bis text with the wise sayings of his predecessors, be ndopts them only after fortifying then with his mother wit, as the prudent physician fortifies his anaesthetic rem edies. For "A word to the wise is suf ficient"' bo gives "A word to the wise) ls superfluous." or for "Procrastination Is the thief of time' ho sagaciously substitutes " Punctuality Is the thief of time," altering, with consummate Impudence, dignitlod gray sentiments! that have walked with Shakespeare and Milton. From "The Point ot View," In Scribner's. Largest Cut Glass Vase. The largest piece of cut glass In the world, a vase as tall as a man and as brilliant in every part as the finest small piece, has just been completed la this city, and will be shipped in a fevn days to the St. Louis Exposition, where It will be placed in the indus trial ni t display. The vase is live feet six and tbree quarter inches in height, and every, inch of It Is perfectly worked in sun bursts, chrysanthemums and beaded n ml notched effects that shed prismnt. lc rays of brilliance ami luster. The sunbursts o:i the star are too largo to be designated by that usual cut glass term, so they bave been given a new name, the Louisiana purchase 6tar. In all there are 10O,0fX) cuts or deep incisions on the vase, which required turning It io,0(i'l liiv.es. The vase weighs 200 pounds. It was produced by nine men, who spent L'ooo working hours upon it. The man who made the blank Is six feet seven inches lull. A shorter man could not have handled the great piece of glass. Twenty blanks were turned out before a per fect one was produced. The remurkiilile brilliancy of the vase Is caused by the fusng in the glass of tcu per cent, more lead thua Is ordinarily used. The vase is several limes larger than the previous great est piece of cut glass, completely ihvaruiig it. Philadelphia Press. lllnl Mimicry. "The roar of the ostrich resembles the ronr of the lion because the os trich stole from the llou this sound, even as one playwright steals from another a plot." An ornithologist made that odd assertion In a taxider mist's shop. He went on to elaborate it. "liirds from the ostrich down are Imitative. The ostrich, where be livee nlone, Is silent, but in a country where lions abound he roars. Why? Be cause for centuries, ndmirliig the maj esty and grandeur of the lion's roar, lie gradually learned to roar himself, lii'lieve me, It Is flue to see an ostrlclt throw back bis little head and emit at roar like thunder. "Itiintinrs imitate pipits, and green finchc.s Imitate yellow hammers. They sick their food In the winter together, and tbey gradually steal each other's calls. "The Jay Is nn Insatiable Imitator. Pome jays will Include in their reper tory not only the whoo-oo of the kite, the scream of the buzzard and the limit of the owl, but also the bleat of the lamb nnd the neigh of a borse. "Kven the nightingale Imitates. Ia a nightingale's perfect song I bave often beard the tip-slp-slslsls of the woodwurbler and the bub-ub-ubble oX the nuthatch." Washington Post VlmllrBtlon of Hoston Ivy. When the Advertiser called tbe at tention of Landscape Architect Olm stead to the wall at Trinity Church, where tome people had thought a de composition of tbe stone Itself had set In, uwliig to the presence of Boston ivy, be fomid the alarm false. lie baa yet to see n single building built ot brick or atone that bus been affected by the Boston Ivy, tbe popular theory to tbe contrary notwithstanding further proof of l'rof. oiuistead'a Idea that tbe Ivy Is perfectly safe, cornea from Professor Vatt, one ot the lead ing landscape architects of Canada. After careful Investigations be learna that while brick and atone walla absorb moisture, the try actually ab sorbs it from them, thereby protect ing tbe walls, not dauiagtaf thenu Boston Advertiser. rrmwrvatlon of flower. Professor Coustantlne tiregory, oi Naples, bns discovered a now chemi cal process for tbe preservation of flowers and leaves which bas won a silver initial from tbe Neapolitan In stitute for the Advancement of He!- , ence. Plant leave difficult )f preservation ,s those of the rcbl and bvgoui bave been Uept wonder fully well' by thU method, aud Irt fessor Gregory i hopeful of pre re. lug even fungi lu a ruiurkubly a. urai condition.
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