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J A Scholarly Discourse By J
R-. C. E. Jefferson.
New York city. in tno fa tnoti
Broadway Tabernacle the pastor, tlie
Itev. Charles IMwnnl Jefferson. I). I..
on Sunday preached the following ser
mon entitled. "Wanted: A New Vision
of (iod:"
The treat word on tlic lips of the
coming preacher will be "God." The
nnmo which is above every name hug
been too much neglected in these re
cent years, even by the men anointed
to proclaim it.
There have been reasons for this nog
lect. The evolutionary philosophy
awakened a new and thrilling Interest
in mnn. Whence he came, bow he
started, what have liecn the processes
of his climbing, these are the (iiiestions
.which have bewitched and absorbed us
nil. The phenomenal achievements of
the last half century have worked to
ward the same result. Never has man
been so wonderful as now. never has
he done such mighty deeds. He is a
uilracle worker who says each evening,
"I will do greater things to-morrow."
His prowess, cunning and mastery are
astounding, and to chant li Is praises
lias been our pastime and delight.
The miseries of man have ulso con
spired to tlx our attention on him. lie
has come from tno country to the city
and he Is In trouble. He has become
the victim of all sorts of economic and
social forces, which bnve left bltu
lying bleeding and hnlf dead by the
side of the road along which the
strong have driven furiously to wealth
and power. To lift the man who is
down mid place him on our beast and
get him into the nearest Inn Is a prob
lem of vast dimensions, and has taken
deal of our thought and time.
We have been caught in the com
plex of secondury causes, and have lit
tle inclination to consider the Cause
which underlies them nil. To many
minds God's presence has become dim.
His personality vague and doubtful.
His holiness has been by many quite
forgotten. In admiring or pitying the
creature we have gotten our eyes off
the Creator. Our first duty Is the rtep
of the prodigal. "I will arise and go
back to my father."
The prophet of the coming days Is
going to say in the words of one of
old, "I have yet somewhat to say on
God's behalf." .Man's cause has been
pleaded eloquently and !ong, and the
time has arrived for the forthputting
of the claims of Gel. Beginning at
the earth always ends in Itabel, be
ginning at the throne of God 'cads to
I'enteeost.
We are coming back to the old evan
gelism of the apostles. Wherever l'aul
went his message was, "We pray you
in Christ's ster.,1, be ye reconciled to
God." Simon I'eter ir.et the uproar
In the streets of Jerusalem on the Day
of Pentecost with a rrent I'.ee aratlon
of God "I will pour out of My spirit
upon all flesh"; and from first to last
it wa upon what God had done in
Christ that ho based his passionate ex
hortation to repentance.
All doep-pyed men are seeing -with
increasing clearness that it is not by
ecclesiattical might or political power,
but by the rpirit of Jehovah that the
mountains of iniquity are to bo leveled
and the rough places made smooth.
The evangelism of the coming days
will beirln will God.
Three doctrines will be counted car
dinal. In the forefront will be placed
the sovereignity of (iod. If the Puri
tan passion has died out of our blood
it Is becnuse the Puritan conception
of God has failed out of our hearts.
What we need to see to-day Is a throne
with God on it. Democracy has made
havoc with our Ideas of nuthorltv,
and the result Is a llabblness of respon
sibility and a laxness of conduct.whlcli
unless counteracted, will lead to our
ruin. The pessimism nnd hopeless
ness so prevalent to-day. even among
professing Chrlstalns are the direct
Jesuit of a failure to grasp the funda
nentnl doctrine of God's omnipotence.
Along with the doctrine of God's
sovereignity will go the doctrine or
His Immanence. It Is an old doctrine
couched In fresh phraseology and with
new light Bliot through it by modern
science. The doctrine is written large
across the pages of Scripture, and in
every land and time the saints have
known thnt God dwells .t the hearts
of men. In Illm wo live and move
ana have our being, ns tho apostle
long ago declared. And centuries be
fore Paul's day n Hebrew popt thrilled
by the thought of God's omnipotence
wrote the 13!th Psalm.
That God is nbove all and through
all. nnd In til. nnd that of Him and
through Him and to Him nre all
things Is one of the commonplaces of
the Bible; and whether we use tho old
phraw?, "the indwelling (iod." or the
phrase now most popular, "the inima-
Hent God." tun thought needs to be
emphasized and wrought into the con
sciousness of the Christians of our day
that God is in His world nnd dwells
in speelnl fulness In the hearts of those
who love and serve Illm.
ior will the holiness of God be for
gotten. The decadence of the sense
of sin has been caused bv the blur
ring of the doctrine of God's holiness
Holy Father t-.-.s the title by whlcli
Jesus knew God, nnd it is thus that
we must know Him If it Is to be well
with our souls. The forms in which
retribution was often preached In pre
ceding generations were so grotesque
nnd arbitrary thnt some of us have
been ashamed to say it right out clear
and strong, thnt God pun shes men
for .heir slr.s. In the coming day we
are going to believe ngain that whatso.
ever a man sov eth that shall he also
reap, that without hollnpss no man can
soo tho Lord, thnt there Is no peace
unto tho wicked, that the soul that sin
neth Upb in the act of its slnu'.ng, nnd
that God It calling upon men every
where to repent.
No man acquainted with the teach
ing of the latest science need be
ashamed or nfrnld to prencl' tho most
rigorous doctrlno of retribution, "You
preachers do not tell men often enough
that every sin brings Its Inevitable
punishment," is a sentence spoken to
me years ago by a physician. Heboid
the goodness and severity of God! This
is the completing statement of tho
apostle, and the prophets who are re
deem the twentieth century will let the
sentence stand without abridgment.
With cities rotting at our doors nnd
tho wall of the damned ringing in our
ears, and wltU an ancient empire
crumbling to pieces before our eyes,
it is not hard to believe that while
God Is ready always to forgivo the
penitent Ho will by no means spare
the guilty.
Heboid your God! will the stir
ring note of the coming message, and
the only God who will stir tho hearts
of the people will bo the God who is
revealed in Josus Cmist. Christ is
God manifest In the flesh. He is the
express image of His father. Through
Him the revelation of the Infinite
heart has come. In seeing Him we see
the Father, and we come to the Father
only through Him. Wo do not see
.Christ as lie is unless .we sco in nim
the majesty and authority of a king.
We have too much followed the idea
of Goethe nnd Carlyle, that Christi
anity Is a rollglcn of sorrow, and that
Its chief end is tnnt of consolation.
This leads men like Mr. John Morley
to onll the gospel a "sovereign legend
of pity." nnd to long for n wider Gos
pel of Justice and progress.
Christianity Is more than n legend
of plly. It Is a bugle blast culling men
to battle. .Testis Is more than the con
soler of people In trouble. He Is the
nnolnfed King of men. He announces
His Kingship again and ngaln In His
discourses, nnd It Is ns Lord and Mes
siah thnt Peter presents Him to His
countrymen on the Hay of Pentecost.
To submit to Illm unconditionally is
mnn's wisdom nnd peace. It is not the
picture of the earthly Jesus with His
hand upon n leper thnt this age needs
most of nil to see. We need to see
the Son of God ns John, the npostle.
saw Hun, with many crowns upon His
head, the universal Sovereign of the
kingdoms of life.
God's condescension will mso be seen
afresh In Christ. Th great words
spoken in the upper chamber will be
restuilled, nnd upon many hearts they
will fall with the emancipating charm
of a fresh revelation. "Ye shall know
thnt I am in My Father, and yo in Me
nnd I in you." "If it man love Me lie
will keep My words, and My Father
will love him, nnd we will come unto
him nnd make (Mir abode with him."
We do not Know God ns He is until
we have seen Him not only Mgh nnd
lifted up. sitting on n throne, but also
ns the npostle saw Him, standing as n
suppliant, snylng,"P.ehold, I stand at
the door nnd knock: If any man hear
My voice nnd open the door, I will
come In to him, nnd will sup with him,
and he with Me."
In Christ also we see God's Indig
nation against sin. He is the holy
Christ. Though merciful, Ho says to
workers of iniquity I never knew you.
Though gracious, Ho says to trans
gressors of God's will depart from Me
ye cursed. Tender nbove all tender
ness known to mortals. He paints pic
tures of loss nnd pain and doom so
terrible thnt they have burned them
selves Into tho retinns of men's eyes
and Into the gray matter of their
brains forever. Wherever His Gospel
Is preached men cannot go to the Judg
ment saying, I did not know tho hein
ousncss nor the awful penalties of
wrong-doing.
With the Trnctnrlai. method of sev
enty years ngo there began a fresh
emphasis upon the authority nnd sac
raments of the Church. To-day It is
the Church wL.ch is still uppermost
in many minds, nnd its -.vorsblp. Its
unity nnd its government are counted
all-important themes.
With Maurice nnd Kingsley there be
gan a new interest in tho social aspect
of Christianity, and men began to la
bor for the establishment of wlint was
called Christian Socialism. This. force
has not yet spent itself.
But neither High Churchmen with
their sacraments, nor social settlement
workers with their philanthropies are
equal to the crisis which Is now upon
us.
It Is not n loftier conception of tho
Church, uor a wider diffusion of cul
ture nnd social cheer which is most
urgently demanded by our times.
What is needed Is a fresh vision of
God. a new bnptlsm of spiritual life,
a lifting of the heart to higher levels
of aspiration and devotion. Tho world
groans and travails in pain, waiting
for tho appearance of a new ,rnce of
prophets men of insight and of cour
age, who endowned with the Holy
Ghost shall sny to our generation in
tones which burn" with fervent heat:
"Le the wicked forsake Ids way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts; nnd
let him return unto the Lord, and He
will have mercy upon him; and to our
Gml, for Ho will abundantly pardon."
Congregationallst nnd Christian
"World.
HapplueM In Spits of Deprivation.
If I am so happy in spite of my depri
vations, if my happiness is so deep
that It is a faith, so thoughtful that it
becomes a philosophy of life, my testi
mony to the creed of optimism is worth
hearing. My optimism does not rest
on the absence of evil. I can say with
conviction that the struggle which
evil necessitates is one of the greatest
blessings. H; teaches uh that, al
though the world is full of suffering,
It is full also' of the overcoming of it.
My optimism rests on n glnd belief
In the preponderance of good and a
willing effort always to co-operate with
tho good that It may prevail. I try to
Increnso the power God has given me
to see the best In everything and every
one, nnd make that best a part of my
life. To what Is good I open the doors
of my being, nnd Jealously shut thein
against what is bad. Helen Keller.
A Ootid Man' Humility.
An appeal was made one Sabbath
evening in n church for volunteers to
work for Christ. No sooner was tho
appeal made than a Mr. Kotehum, n
wealthy Now York merchant, rose up
and offered bis services to the pastor.
The minister said, "In what way. Mr.
Kctchum?" and the reply was, v'As a
aod currier." What ho meant was
.bat ho was willing to serve in any
Bumble capacity In whlcli he could be
most useful. How often have I
thought of that good man's humility.
And (iod blessed him ns nfterwards
lie went from house to house asking
parents to send their children to the
Sabbath-school that was connected
with bis church.
Present Obedience NtceMary.
If you are truly aroused to seek
heavenly comfort, you will soon dis
jover that this Is only to bo found in
toe path of present obedience. Chimes.
Yon Are Wanted,
Men are wanted to do the hard work
)f pushing the car of salvation along;
md men should welcome tho duty
very day In the week.
Shoemskers Ones Were Well Paid.
Thirty years ago, when all shoes
were made by hand, the shoemaker
earned a fair salary of from $12 to
$16 per woek. Every shoe shop had
from five to ten shoemakers working.
Shoes and boots cost from $8 to $15,
and they received much more repair
ing than do the shoes of to-day. Now
girls are working In the factories and
hundreds of good Bhoemukers are look
ing for something to eat. Over half
of the shoemakers who formerly
worked In the shops aro working at
other linos of business, and making
more money.
A Journeyman cobblor seldom makes
more than $8 or $9 per week.
One may wonder why It la that the
cobbler nearly always finds a mean,
dirty hole to crawl Into and to call
It a repair shop. The fact is, he can
not afford to pay much rent. In the
average shoe shop in the good seasons
spring and Bummer he can do $4
worth of repairing a day, and not
more than $6 if he works In the night
time. Four dollars per day and six
days a week make $"! per week.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE 23.
Review of the I.enn For ttie Mrennrt
(Jnarter of tlie Year-Heart John vl
1-1.1 UnMen Text, John n 31 The
ftutnmnrlps.
Lesson I. Topic: Jesus the Shepherd
Of souls. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus
tells them that He Is the shepherd of
the sheep; He Is also tho door: the
Pharisees nnd false professors were
the thieves and robbers trying to de
stroy tho sheep. Those who trust 111
Christ and enter In through the door
shall bo saved; Christ comes to give
His life for the sheep; the wolf-Satan
tries to destroy the sheep; tliehircllng
fleeth when the wolf coincth; the Good
Shepherd cares for and protects the
sheep; other sheep the Gentries were
soon to be brought into Ills church.
Although He tit 1. 1 down His life yet
He would take it ngain.
II. Topic: Jesus In the crisis times
of life. Places: Bothabiiru, in I'crca;
Bethany, near Jerusalem. Lazarus
was sick and his sisters. Mary nnd
Martha, sent to Jesus Informing Him;
Jesus remained In lietliabara two days;
then took Ills disciples and went' to
Itethany; when He arrived In Beth
nny Lazarus bad been dead nnd burled
four days; Martha met Jesus llrst;
Mary was then called; they mourned
that Christ hnd not been there before
ho died; Jesus groaned In spirit and
wept: the Jews said, "Heboid, bow He
loved him;" Jesus asked them to take
away the stone; Christ prays; calls
with a loud voice; Lazarus then came
forth; many of the Jews believed in
Jesus when they saw the miracle.
III. Topic: Love's service to the
Master. Place: P.etliany, at the home
of Simon the leper. Jesus Is again
in Bethany: n feast Is provided for
Him and His disciples; Lazarus who
was raised from the dead sat with
Him at the table; during the supper
Mary anointed Christ's head and feet
with very costly ointment: the whole
house was filled wiih the odor of the
ointment; she wiped His feet with
her hair.
IV. Topic: The kingship of Jesus.
Place: From llcthnny to Jerusalem
nnd in the temple courts; Jesus took
His disciples and started toward Jer
usalem. The people who had heard
of the raising of Lazarus crowded
around Him; u great throng of people
came out from Jerusalem to meet Him;
they greeted Him as a king and cried,
"Hosanun;" Christ rode on n young
jolt; certain Greeks desired to see Him;
Andrew and Philip tell Jesus; Jesus
came out where the Greeks were and
taught them.
V. Topic: Jesus teaches humility.
PUico: An upper room in Jerusalem.
Jesus nnd His disciples are about to
partake of tho Passover supper; the
disciples disputed over whic h should
bo the greatest and Jesus teaches them
u lesson in humility by rising and
washing their feet; I'eter objected;
Jesus onswors his objection: Peter
says, "Not my feet only;" Christ re
fers to Ills betrayal.
VI. Topic: Aids to fruitful service.
Place: In Jerusalem in an upper room.
The supper is over; Judas 'has left
nnd is plnnuing to betray Him: Jesus
tenches His disciples important
truths through the figure of n grape
vino; Ho is the vine; His Father is
the husbandman; Christians ure the
branches; the branches must be purged
that they bring forth much fruit:
those who abide not in Christ are cast
into the lire; Christ is glorltlcd when
we bring forth much fruit.
. VII. Topic: Christ's prayer for His
followers. Place: In nu upper room
In Jerusalem. Before Christ and His
disciples go out into the darkness of
the night Christ prays: 1. For Himself.
2. For His disciples. 3. For all believ
ers. He desired thnt they bo kept from
the evils that nre in the world; that
they bo sanctified: that, they may know
tho truth; that all believers should be
truly united: that they may be par
takers of Ills glory; Ho asks thut Ills
lpvo n.ny nbide in them.
VII. Topic: Christ's challenge nnd
vindication. Place: Pilate's Judgment
hall. Tho Jews accuse Jesus; He is
taken before the high priest; He is then
taken before Pilate; it was enrly in
tho morning; the Jews would not en
ter tho judgment hall; Pilate went out
to them; demands a formal charge;
questions Jesus; is convinced that
Christ is Innocent; they clamored for
ISarnbbas nnd asked that Jesus might
be crucified.
IX. Topic: The crucifixion of Jesus
Christ. Place: Golgotha. Christ goes
forth benring Hist cross; a great mul
titude follows; He was crucified at 0
o'clock: two thieves wero crucified
with Him; rilato wroto the title in He
brew, Greek nnd Latin; the soldiers
cast lots for Christ's tunic; Psalm 2'J:
18 is thus fulfilled; Jesus provides for
His mother.
X. Topic: The resurrection' of Jesus
Christ Place: A garden near Calvary.
The women were early at tho tomb;
several women, nnd John and Peter
hnd left; Mary tarried: two ongels ap
peared to disciples in tho upper room.
XL Topic: Tho ministry of tho risen
Christ. Place: Isle of Patnios. John
had been banished to rntmos; John
was In tho spirit on the Lord's day
Sunday: heard a voice; saw soveu gold
en candlesticks nnd ono like unto tho
Son of man standing in the midst;
(Thrlst is described; John fell at His
feet ns dead; was told to write what
he had seen; this same Christ Is still
walking in the midst of His people.
XII. Topic: The blessedness of
heaven. Place: Islo of Patmos. John
had a vision of the new heaven and
the new earth: in tho midst of the city
was n beautiful river of water; there
was also the tree of life which bare
twelve manner of fruits; servants
served Him; thero wns no night; the
Lord gave light to the city.
Cow Chased Cyclist.
In a Ceylon newspaper appeared thb
following bit of police couft news: "A
villager of Podanduwa apeared bofore
Mr, Constantino to-day to answer to
a charge of possessing a cow' of a
dangerous and vicious disposition.
Mr. O. A. Purser, the complainant,
gave evidence and detailed Instances
that he was pursued by the animal
whl!e riding his bike through tho vil
lage. The animal was a groat dancer
to cyclists. Tho magistrate ordered
the ar.lrnal to be shot, the village
headman being requested to &ee that
this was carried out."
Hidden Trees. x
1. The helmet ot the soldier was
very bright.
2. The cloak was drawn close around
her.
3. The lash of the whip kurt him.
4. Will owed him a great deal of
money.
5. Give me a pin, Ella.
6. The fire burned very brightly.
7 There was a small arch over tte
road.
8. Such awful looking things.
9. The baby was vorv plunin.
CISTlEiElll NOTES
JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH.
Our National Herltar;s. Isa. 53: 1-13.
This May Also be Used as a
Temperance Topic.
There is no surer test of a nation
as of a man than Its budget of ex
penditures. Is it for battleships or
for schools?
Whoever Is the ruler of this nntlon,
we nr not safe unless the Over-ruler
Is God.
There Is nn height of national glory
more lofty thnn God's thoughts, and
the natlcii thnt comes nearest to
them will come nearest to suprem
acy. There is no national prosperity ex
cept ns the nation does God's will
a f:ict that Is very strangely neglect
ed in legislative IibIIs.
Suggestions.
If ours Is a great nation. It Is great
In spite of the saloon. No one ever
dreamed of thinklne that tho saloon
contributes one jot toward tho great
ness of anything.
There Is no greatness of our nn
tlon In any directum in men. In
goods. In learning, In arms that is
not threatened by the saloon.
No patriot Is more useful than tho
home missionary, and no taxes nre
more truly contributions to our na
tional welfare than our gifts to the
home mission treasury.
You nre actually owner of your
share of the possessions of your city
nnd of yntir country, and you Bhoiihl
lie In active control of It.
Illustrations.
"The Man without r Country." In
Hale's great story, was an exile on
the oeea-.i; but many a careless citi
zen on land l.s practically a man
without a country.
To reserve one's patriotism for war
times Is like cultivating a farm only
hi winter.
A will must be verified In a probate
court, nnd our right to our national
heritage must be proved by service.
A careless voter Is like a soldier
firing with his eyes shut.
Young men and women nre too
seldom trained In the knowledge of
the government of their community,
state, and nation, nnd so are unpre
pared for their civic duties. The Fn
diavor Society may well become the
agent for this preparation.
A group of specially interested F.-n-deavorors
may be formed, or the
whole society mny work together.
Some text book of civics may be
studied under a competent teacher,
nnd talks may be obtained from
Christian men In office, who will tell
about the operation of the parts of
tho government of which they have
charge.
A club may be formed for this pur
pose, using as a basis of organization
the constitution which tho United So
ciety furnishes free.
Whatever plan Is adopted, the
work will be fascinating, and will
continually grow in Interest ns the
members come to know more about
1L
EFWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH,
The Vast Field of Southern Asia.
Mai. 1. 11; Matt. 8. 11; John
10. 1C.
What Is known as Southern Asia
in our missionary work embraces nil
of India, Itombay, Bengal, Burma,
Malaysia, and the Philippine Islands.
There are eight Mission Conferences
nnd Missions In this field. Nearly or
quite two hundred thousand dollars
are annually expended here by the
Parent Board, besides large sums by
our Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety. India alone is a vnst continent
containing three hundred millions of
intelligent peoples. This Is In many
respects the most promising and suc
cessful mission field of the church.
Four missionary bishops have Juris
diction In this field. They nre Els
hops Thoburn, Warne, Robinson, and
Oldham.
India Is a continent more thnn a
country, and contains one fifth of the
population of the world. Its people
belong to th Arynn race, like our
own, and are governed by the Anglo
Saxon. The people are philosophers,
and nro mainly Hindus. Brahmans,
and Mohammedans. Nine tenths ol
the people live in villages averaging
three hundred nnd sixty to the vil
lage. Yet there are many great and
populous cities. Great wealth exists
In many localities. Yet India Is so
many-sldod that there are sixty mil
lions, so poor that they never went
to bed other thnn hungry. Our work
began in India In 1850 under the great
Dr. Butler. To-day we have four
great Annual Conferences, and nearly
one hundred thousand members nnd
probationers. Christian colleges and
native preachers with a rapidly ex
pmirirng work promise permanency
to this rrai. church. The opportuni
ties are exalting nnd the responsibili
ty appnlllng. Men nnd money In In
creasing Btrfams should bo poured In
to India this quiidrrnnium.
Tho Philippines is a most Interest
ing field, t'nder the splendid work
of Dr. Stuntz and. his fallow mission
aries, we have made a most promising
showing In these Islands. The
Agllpay movement has opened the
way for Protestant work. With nenr
ly ton thousand members there now
we mry expect to rapidly Increase
during tho present quadronnlum. In
harmony with the plans of the Evan-,
gelical Union wo limit our denomina
tional work to certain districts. We
have equal privileges in Manila with
other churches, nnd to tho north the
choicest parts of Luzon. The Island
of Mkulonao has opened to us. One
of the most hopeful of our Mission
fields is In the Philitint-e Islands.
No matter how hurried you may be,
no time is ever wasted that Is Bpent In
gratitude.
The devil Is exceedingly solicitous
lest the church acquire a reputation for
undue activity.
Many people see their children grow
up while they are planning on begin
ning to train them.
The models of fashion here cannot
even be certain of passing muster as
door-mats In Heaven.
Men who couldn't organize a peanut
stand know Just how the pastor should
run the church.
It takes as much grace to make
saint out of a Pharisee as It does to
make one out o( a publican.
Tho modern IJolilor falls down bofort
the work of his own Imagination In
stead ot that of bin hands.
night t'ne of Tower,
All nges have tugged nt the problem
Of power. We touch It first in the ma
terial. It Is In the wave, tho storm,
the volcano, the lightning, the earth
quake. But what of those restless
forces, those earthquake of power
that burst from the mind? Gravita
tion binds every atom and world In the
universe, but It cannot bind the mind
that solves the Intricate problems, In
terprets the literature of the stars,
thinks the thoughts of God and dwells
In n sphere but little lower than the
throne of the Kternal! Yet ns mighty
mid marvelous ns is the mind, it is
powerless to -grapple with the problem!
of sin. The world Is full of literature,
the musical thunders of Homer, the
entrancing eloquence of Demosthenes,
tho inductive philosophy of P.aeoii, the
dramatic creations of Shakespeare, but
what power Is there In literature to re
generate tho human heart' Take the
grainiest man the ages has produced,
or take nil the superb intellects of the
centuries nnd by some power of at
tenuation concentrate them into one in
comparable genius, holding in himself
the illimitable reservoirs of wisdom
and let hlni nttempt to speak the word
of pardon, nnd what a mockery, what
blasphemy!
God alone can forgive tho sinner.
His power alone is able to track the
secret paths of sin, pluck out Its sting,
purify the heart, reconstruct man's
fallen nature, and lift him up into the
high places of power and visiuii! Tills
is the power, specified in cur text, the
power of the Holy Spirit. It is a sin
gular truth, but the more carefully we
examine the faith of the ages, we see,
somehow, like n hidden star, tills doc
trine of n divine Influence coining to
the heart of man, throwing its glow
over the horizon of the world. The
Pantheism of the Brahmins involves
this; it !s tho inspiration of Thcosnphy,
the light of Mnnichelsm, the Inner
radiance of platonlsm, the full orbed
glory of Christianity.
When Jesus Christ said to His disci
ples, "Tarry until ye ure endued with
power from on high," and interpreted
thnt power in the language of our
text, "Ye shall receive power alter
that the Holy Ghost has come upon
you," He was bringing to light the
innermost nnd uttermost power of the
gospel. Christianity is more than a
system, it is spirit and life. "It Is the
power (dynamite) of God unto salvation
to every ono that beliovcth." Paul says,
"Our gospel came not in a word only."'
not like a Homeric song glistening with
Incarnate genius, nor n cold Platonic
speculation that chills, but never
warms the heart, "but in power and
In much assurance and the Holy
Ghost."
Now that the power of the Holy
Spirit lias been given to the church, the
great problem confronting, the church
is the right use of power. One had
better crawl in the dust than to have
the erect body degrade the mind. Bet
ter "make haste slowly," than to rush
wildly to certain ruin. I'ower is one'
thing, the science of Its application
quite another. Education brings power,
but it does not always give power over
power. The need of the church Is
power to direct and apply power, to
adapt Its methods to the new ago of
thought and life, to bring Its vast re
sources to bear upon the problems of
the day in the practical spirit of tho
day and to keep step with the world
wide movements of civilization with
that quick response to human need,
born of prinoiples adapted to universal
conditions.
"Ye shall receive power after that
the Holy Ghost has come upon you,
t.nd ye shall be My witnesses," saitli
tho Saviour. All the power of tho
Spirit is to be put forth in witnessing
for Christ. The Holy Ghost is not
promised to restore bodily health or
work dazzling miracles. Mi . power is
given to bo utilized In witnessing. Life
is only of value as It -witnesses to some
tliing better, higher than itself. Mar
tin Luther wns lifted into immortality
by tlie high tide of the Reformation.
John Wesley was enthroned by tho
mighty evangelistic wave thut rolled
forth from his fire crowned ministry.
Abraham Lincoln wns lifted into death
less light by the divine principle ot
liberty for which he stood.!
It is only as we stand for and wit
ness to some exalted principle of right
eousness that life is worth living. The
need of the world is for a witnessing
church. The need of tho church Is
for the baptism of tho Holy Spirit. O,
thnt Ho might descend with quicken
ing, purifying, energizing power upon
us! Then the conquest of the world
will be an easy task. Dr. John Wesley
Hill, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
The War or Peace.
See, then, bow faithfully tho Lord Is
leading thee to true peace, who sur
roumletli thee with so many crosses.
It is called "the peace of God which
passetli all understanding:" that is,
which is not known by feeling or per
ception or thinking. Ail our thinking
cannot attain nor understand it; nono
but those who of free will take up tho
cross laid on them these, tried and
troubled in ail they feel and think and
understand, afterward experience this
peace. Luther.
The Thankful Spirit.
Cultivate tho thankful spirit! It will
bo to thee a perpetual feast. There Is,
or ought to bo, with us no such thing
ns small mercies; nil nro great, because,
the least aro undeserved. Indeed, a
really thankful heart will extract mo
tive for gratitude from everything,
making tlie most even of scanty bless-ings.-J.
It. MucDuff.
Faith lu Ood.
Wo shall bo made truly wise If we
be ninde content content, too, not only
with what wo can understand, but con
tent with what wo do not understand,
the habit of mind which theologians
call, and lightly, faith In God.-Klugs-ley.
A Problem.
Wo may see never so clearly a line of
action thnt we should follow; but hnvo
we tho will and courugo and desire to
support us la that pathway Howard
N. browp.
Small Birds' Night Flights.
Nearly all the small birds make
their long flights by night, spending
the daytime quiotly feeding and rest
ing, so that. It on any day In May the
tree tops are Kill ot flitting little warb
lers, It Is no sign that the following
day will find tbera still there.
Some kinds, tike phoobes, song spar
rows, meadow larks and bluebirds,
come very early as soon as the snow
Is all gone ahd the south sloping
hillsides begin to feel warm atJ
'Smell of eprt:.." St. Kkholpf.
THE GREAT DESIKUYEK
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE;
The Awful Tragedy of a Kncheater Hon
da? Dinner Mow a Peaceable, Inrtnn
trlont Cllurn Wan Transformed Into
Flrnd A Warning to Drinkers.
On May 21) there lived on the corner
of St. Paul and Evergreen streets, in
Rochester. N. Y., a family of four.
Vincent I,ove, n young man of thirty,
was the father, Minnie wns the young
wife, James was the little slx-yenr-old
son, and the two months' old baby
sister wns not yet named.
Ixive was regarded as n peaceable
and Industrious citizen. He wns em
ployed at the Eastman Kodak Works
und made good wagts.
When be reached his home three
hours after lie bad quit work on Satur
day night he had left every dollar of
bis week's wages lu tlie saloons that
line the streets between the factory
nnd bis house. He was penniless,
drunk and quarrelsome. He remem
bered that his young wife had earned
something that week. Needing a dress,
she had taken home some sewing from
one of tlie clothing factories, and bad
earned ..".S( for her week's work.
But when her husband returned with
Ids wages all spent nnd nothing In the
house for the Sunday dinner, she t-ok
this money and started .'or the store.
But what did Vincent Love, witli tho
mud spell of drink upon him, care for
llie childri n's Sunday dinner, much less
his own? lit) barred the way at the
door and cried, "Give lne that money.
I will do tho shopping. You mind your
children." Rut she pushed him away,
and taking James along, left tlie baby
sleeping .in lu r cradle while she went
to the store. Soon she returned with
the meat nnd vegetables for the Sun
day dinner, purchased with her own
dress money.
The house was dark when she went
into the kitchen, and striking a match,
she reached up to light the bracket
lump.
At 10 o'clock six-year-old James stood
at the door of Dr. Hunter, two blocks
away. "Doctor," bo cried, "my mamma
has goii. to sleep nnd 1 cannot wake
her. Please come and wake my
mamma."
On the floor of the kitchen, lying In
a pool of her owu heart's Mood, the
doctor stumbled over her dead body.
James had pushed a pillow under his
mother's head and covered lur with a
comforter to keep her warm.
Baby was crying in her cradle.
Lounging over the kitchen table wns
Vincent Love in a drunken stupor, on
the Hour lay the blood-stained knife.
Angered because she would not give
him the money, he had concealed him
self In the corn -, armed with the
brutal knife, waiting iier .eturn. As
she lifted her arm to light the kitchen
lamp he sprang from the corner and
plunged It in her bosom.
Little James saw the blood, but ho
told the doctor, "Mamma is sleeping,"
nnd to tho police he Laid. "I am afraid
to tell, for my papa will beat me."
In Mount Hope Cemetery lies the
body of the young woman who changed
her name by marriage .'o Love, laid
there by drink. In the county Jail Vin
cent Love nwuits his doom, made a
murderer by drink.
In tho home of the dead wife's
mother nre two little children, made
orphans by drink. On the corner stands
tlie former home, wrecked by drink;
tho grave Is closed; the prison door
is closed; tile door of tlie home is
closed: but the saloon remains open.
Whisky, the real murderer, Is at large.
Six hundred saloon Hoens, that same
week, were renewed for nuotber year
if debauchery and poverty and deviltry
and crime. And the blood of a poor
murdered woman Is upon the hands ot
the Christian men who by their bal
lots consent to the curse. Clinton, N.
Howard, lu the New Voice.
Itninaoi Sodden Willi DrinV.
American Medicine believes that
chronic alcoholism may explain in part
the Japanese victories in Manchuria.
'Hie soldiers of the Mikado are mostly
totul abstainers, while observers with
tho Russians dwell repeatedly on tho
drunken orgies of officers and men. The
immorality und drunkenness lu Port
Arthur tire said to have been so tlug
rnnt as to bo beyond description in
European or American journals. Ameri
can Medicine feels, however, thnt It is
not occasional drunkenness, but habit
ual hard drinking, which docs tho mis
chief. It declares that the mental de
terioration of "old alcoholics" is so
well known to physicians that public
Ignorance in regard to It invariably
surprises the medical profession. It is
also hopeful that the American nation
will take the lesson ot Japanese sv&.'
cess to heart nnd not bestow military
pluces upon chronic alcoholics, so prone
to '.'false Ideas, perverted reasoning
powers, nnd enfeebled Judgments." In
the British unvy men who drink are
promptly shelved, however different
tlie practice in the days of Nelson,
But it will be a long time before our
graduates of West Point and Annapolis
are held up to similar standards. Even
though, ns American Medicine predicts,
the temperance movement Is bound to
win the light with alcoholism. It will
probably be decades before Abraham
Lincoln's Joking wish to supply every
general with the same brand of whis
key used by General Grant becomes
an illustration of a bygone social or
der. New York Post.
Driven Mint Be Tainperate.
The Illinois jlilk Dealers' Associa
tion "said things" to Chicago milk
wagon drivers tlie other day, and af
ter this any driver known tu smoke or
drink intoxicants while on duty will
bo punished by the h. s of bis Job and
expulsion from the union.
Temperance Notea.
The cause of temperance has made
marked progress lu Denmark during
the lust quarter of a century.
There are now about l'JO.OtK) mem
bers of temperance societies in Den
mark, and the Danish Congress ap
propriates annually a lurge sum to
further the movement.
The Toledo Ulado states that there
are 730 saloons in that towu and that
ninety-five per cent, of tliem are owned
by brewers who nre responsible for the
open violations of tho luws concerning
tlie sale of liquor.
A Springfield (Mass.) physician who
committed Kuicide, after shooting two
men and attempting to kill his be
trothed, is said to have attributed his
thirst tor liquor and bis homicidal ten
dencies to the fact that his nurse in
Infancy was a woman who drank In
toxicants. In New South Wales temperance
fondling bus been introduced inti the
schools within the last year. Ia the
other slate of the common weal. h all
thnt is done u yet is to give occasional
temperance lesun, and to hung up
temperance wall sheets In sehoiis, lu;
an eutiv.-Kt (igl'tuloii is being calf. Iod uu
f'V muie tliiui t UJ .-4.
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News of Fennsjlvaaia Told to
Short Ord:r.
Jeremiah RMicll pleaded guilty ifl
court at Heading to involuntary man
slaughter in comirctwn with the shoot
ing of Jamii Gallagher, a tramp, lasl
fall, and was sentenced tj six months in
jail. George I'.inc, who did the shoot
ing, was sentenced last week to fiv(
months in tlie .penitentiary. It was as
serted that the tramp made improper
proposals to young women ami thai
limes and Kiehell defended the women,
At the third annual gold medal con
test in oratory for the pupils of the
Wilkcs-Barrc High School, Miss Helen
V. Barring won iht -M mcc!,il for reci
tations and Robert I.. Kiiead for the
best original production.
The Scran'.on Municipal League, which
has been inactive fur some time, has
resumed operations. By request of its
agent, Robert Wilson, the police confis
cated nearly all the imk-.i-iu-tho-slot ma
chines in Scranton.' The owners of phce;
in which the machine were found were
fined $j- and costs.
The Trenton, New Hope and Lam
bcrtville Railway has been opened fof
travel. Tlie line is sixteen miles long.
The eighth annual convention of the
Pucks County Sabbath School Associa
tion was held at Carversvillc. Rev. W.
Barnes Lower, of Wyticotc, and Rev.
John M. Waddell, of Doylestown, de
livered addresses.
Mrs. Aaron C. driffen, aged 25 years,
wife of a Warrington Township farmer,
was burned to death by the explosion
of a can of kerosene with which she was
kindling a fire in the kitchen stove.
Prof. F. S. Benton, principal of the
public schools of Coatesville, has re
signed and will go to Philadelphia to
study law.
Harry Moore, of Coatesville, a rigger,
employed at the Lackawanna steel plant
in Buffalo, was killed ,n that city by be
ing caught in machinery.
Robbers entered the White Horse Ho
tel, on the Chester Tike, in Prospect
Park, and took five pieces of a silver
set, each piece bearing Mrs. David Mc
Cktre's initials; nine yards of silk dress
goods and a pockethook containing
money belonging to Mrs. McClure, wife
of the proprietor of the hotel.
Daniel Callahan, aged 6 years, of
Thomaston, while on his way home from
school, stopped beside an old mine
breach partly filled with water to throw
stones into it. Losing his balance he
fell down the precipice and was drowned
before the eyes of several little school
mates. The contract for the erection of a
State bridge over the North Branch of
the Susquehanna River, between Ber
wick and Ncscopeck, has been awarded
to the York Bridge Company, of York,
by the Board of Public Grounds anil
Buildings. The York Company, which
bid $.309,500, was the lowest of the 28
bidders. .
After parting with a friend and ex
claiming: "This is the last time I'll
shake hands," Milton S. Shaeffcr swal
lowed a large dose of arsenic in the
barroom of a hotel at Rothsvillc. Friends
attempted to knock the glass contain
ing the poison from his lips. He held
on determined, biting a piece frum the
glass and swallowing the fragment. Jt
is believed he will die.
Mark Ashbaugh, aged 17, and Otto
Robinson, aged Ij, both of Duqucsne,
died in tlie McKeespnrt Hospital. The
boys found a large quantity of gunpow
der and filled their pockets with it. One
of them applied a match to some of the
powder which had fallen on the ground.
The flames leaped up and ignited the
powder in their pockets. Both were fa
tally burned.
The Valley Forge Park Commission
has made arrangements to provide a wa
ter supply for the park. Hydrants for
drinking and sprinkling will be placed
at various points along the roads.
Deputy Sheriff Massi has arrested
John Tozzolino, charged with the mur
der of Frank Colar, whose headless body
was found at Cork Lane ten days ago.
Tozzolino says he can prove an alibi,
and he offers to aid the police in run
ning down the murderers.
Dr. Donato Verna, of Roseto, a grad
uate of the Medical College at Naples,
Italy, was convicted in court at Eas
ton of having practiced medicine, al
though he neglected to register in the
I'rothonotary's office or to appear be
fore the State Medical Board. Judge
Scott fined him $100 and costs.
Jacob Fritz, aged bo- years, who was
accidentally shot by William Cioss at
the Avon Gun Club grounds, died at the
Good Samaritan Hospital, Lebanon.
Gloss, who was seixed with nervous
prostration at the time of the accident,
suffered a relapse upon hearing of the
death of Fritz and is in a serious con
dition. While assisting in placing a large log
in position at a mill dam at Meckville,
Cyrus Gerhart, aged 50 years, of that
place, fell into tlie water and was
drowned.
The audit in the estate of the late
Kdmmid Krucnsky, Norristown, whose
brother's arm established the date of his
marriage, ended by a settlement in which
the property was divided between his
wife and mother.
The taxpayers cf Bisto! Township
at a special election voud 225 against
104 for bonding the township to the
extent of $30,000 for road improvement.
Penrose Wcidman and Raymond Frey
burger, two 12-year-old boys of Birds
boro, were killed by being struck by an
express train on the Reading Railway.
The lads, wiih a half dozen others, were
returning from a swim in the Schuyl
kill River and the two boys were stand
ing on the down track watching a pass
ing freight train when the express train
struck them.
Sheriff Derr, of Carlisle, appointed ex
Deputy Sheriff Goodyear and John Glass
as death watches fur David Spahr, the
condemned murderer of bis wife, and
asked the Court by petition to ratify the
appointment. Judge Sadier stated that
he fails to find acts of Assembly con
ferring the authority on the Sheriff In
appoint death watches, and therefore re
fuses to confirm the Sheriff's appoint
ments. While at work in the Philadelphia &
Reading car shops at S.diuylkill Haven
John Dalton was overcome by heat ait J
died a few moment 3 later.
.
Solcmon G. Krepps lias been appoint
ed postmaster in CiJwallader.
The last two bodies of the five men
who perished in the fire in the Locust
Gap Colliery thirteen months ago were
recovered. Thty are those of Michael
Shannon and John Roy Ian. Now that
all the bodic have been recovered, Cor
oner Drcher will cont'd an inquest.
Frederick Thompson, a negro, of Rich
mond, Va., was Arretted in Lewittown,
charged with being implicated with t' s
other lK-pr.'ts ;.i hoi ' - a
of lt.iliipi I ' -r
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