tftttittstf9tttttfttssr 8 SUNDAY SERMON 3 A Scholarly Discourse By Rev. Robert Collycv. jj Brooklyn, N. Y.-The Bev. Robert Collyer, tlie oldest Unittirlan pastor in Greater New Y'ork, preached in the Second I'liltnriiin Church, Clinton nnd Congress streets, Huni'my morning. His Inst uppL'iirnnco in tlint church win Inst fall, when lie delivered on address on tho late Ilev. Dr. John White Chad wick, tho former pastor, who liail Just died. The eloquent preacher took fot Ills text: Genesis xxxUl:13-14, "The children nre tender; 1 will lead on soft ly," and said: It was one of the secrets of my craft, In the old days when I wanted to w Id iron or work steel to a tine purpose, to begin gently. If I began as all learners do, to strike my heaviest blowi at the start, the Iron would crumble instead of welding, or the strel would suffer under my liammer, so that, when It came to be tempered It would "fly." as we used to say, and rob the thing I bad made of Its finest quality. It was the first condition of a good Job to begin gently, later I could strike with a firmrr baud, and In the end poor out all my might In a storm of sturdy blows; but If I began so It ended, as n rule, with a wreck. The perfection of the Nnsmyth hammer lies in the blend ing of Its gentleness and Its ponderous might, so that It can come down os gently as a Juno shower or smite like n tornado, according to the ueed of the moment. So the skillful mechanic starts new machinery, a locomotive, a steam engine or even a sewing n;u chine, gently. It Is the first condition of keeping the balance true that the machine shall not tear away at first at high pressure. I noticed tho same in the building up of n grand organ. The builder began gently In bringing out its harmonies, with some tine chords, made those true and went on to the others, and so wrought on to the end. Again an animal trainer, while he smites tho tiger with an Iron bar. If he Is wise talks to a liorse, al lures him, courts him and makes him Ills friend. We do not speak of "break ing" a horse, so mtu.'h now; wo "train" Lim. So I love to note such things as these as I watch the perpetual advent of little children Into this life of ours, and wonder how we shall deal with them In the one wise way which will weld them, shall I say, to whatsoever things are true and lovely and of good report, start them to the surest purpose and train thoui so as to bring out the whole power for good which God has bidden In their nature. There must bo one right way, and I think this father found it when he said: "The children are tender; I will lead them on softly." They may seem crude, mere machines or little brutes; there are some men who seem by their actions to have such notions of a child's nature, to their eternal shame. Here is the prin ciple: They are tender; we must lead them on softly. Solomon may slip in with his cruel maxim of "Spare tho rod and spoil the child." He has no busi ness about my place while my children are tender. I can no more be hard on them than JeSus could. If I hurt them in this evil way I hurt thos-; who are of the kingdom of Heaven. Sly white hairs have brought me this wisdom: That the unpardonable sin is to bo hard on n tender child. I do not wonder that the old grniidslre Is so gentle with the second generation. He will not tell you, or himself, perhaps, why he is, but he would fain recall some passages of his fatherhood, but that cannot be done, so ho chokes back the Inextinguishable regret and humbly tries to get eve n through the over measure. My good mother was some thing of a Spartan, a very gentle Spartan, with her children, but it was wonderfully beautiful to see her In her old age spreading her wide, grand, motherly wings over the children of the new day. She could no more bo hard upon them, no matter what pranks they played, than your May sun can be hard upon your May blos som. It waa the return of the heart to tho soft answer, the sweet submis sion to tho better plan, the vision of the Infinite worth of gentle ways with tender folk, tho endeavor, unknown to herself, to ease her dear old heart of what little pain there was from tho old days, tho feeling that perhaps she might have gone more softly once. These chlklren are not things at all that we can turn out to pattern, but human beings, each one living to him self or to herself, holding a se cret we cannot fathom, possessing powers perhaps we cannot even guess at our children after the flesh; God's children after the spirit, but intrusted to our hands and homes that, coming out of Heaven with hints of the angels in them, they may go back when their time comes as sealed saints. Tho boy may be tho .'mage of the father, yet totally different within. We vainly try in our children, some times, to see our image, we detect a faculty or temper we never had. The Holy Spirit, which watches forever, selects and saves, by a law we do not half understand, ami we do not un derstand these tender natures until we know what these powers are which are waking out or their sleep. My boy may have a faculty which In thirty years may be a benediction to tho human family, but to-day it may look like a vice to me, and may grow to be a vice if I did not say, "The child Is tender, I will lead on softly." He may be born with an overplus of imagina tion and things that havo no existence may seem realities to him; I Imagine he is lying right and left, and then instend of a gentle guidance, through which he can find the line between things and thoughts, I give flrBt a stern warning and then a sound whipping. Here, is a case whero a father and son are alike, but with a difference. The father, a minister, has been draw ing on his imagination, time out of mind, for matter for his sermons; the son has come honestly by the faculty, but he is not shrewd enough to see how far he can go without being found out. The father pray for him at the family altar, as if ho were a son of perdition, and helps to make him one through such prayers. "Gently," I would sny, "pray for insight and fore sight; this may be a rare gift you do not understand. The loftiest poet that ever sang may be but a vaster liar by your criterion." Children are tender we must remem ber as we try to educate them. Wo could hardly light on a wiser or bettor woman than Mrs. Itarbnuld; but she was so eager to make a very remarka ble man out of her little nephew, Charles Aiken, that sho educated him out of his mind into idiocy. So good Parents, who would shrink from inylng heavy burden on their children's backs, lo not hesitate to lay burdens on tho nerve and brain. They urge them on at their books, or permit tho teacher to do this, until the poor young things lose more iu wealth of life and life' worth than their dueatlon will ever pay for. Lead on softly in these Bath of aducutlon It your children want to rush ahead at h pace Vhlcu will leave them learned but invalids, hold them back; a true education Is not a long fevor. Here nnd thpre a child may need to be urged on a little, but I frankly confess that under the high pressure of our public schools I would take the children's Kkle In their little plots to stay away a day from school when they have been hard at work for many days. I like to pint with them; their rncoess pleases me more than their failure. In the culture of the heart, nlso. we must lend.on softly. I can no more bo lleve that hard nnd cruel thoughts of God will bo good for my children than I can believe In hard nnd erui words nnd blows, and I have no doubt there are more so-called Infidels made, and confirmed to that end. by fathers who thought they were doing God's service than there are of any other type. Such thought may bn but theology to the father, but they nre very often grim, hard, real biting torni"nt to the tender child. It shuts out Heaven nnd opens hell to him: It I cruel as the hissing and bltlua of si rpents to some delicate small souls. I suffered more agony at one time In my childhood when a re vivalist got hold of mo nnd made me believe I might wake up In hell when I laid, my poor little head on the pillow than from any othrr thing that ever struck me. There lies tho way to do a fatal mischief, the way the seeds of in fidelity nre sown In many a noble na ture. It is simply the revolt at. the re sistance to, and the rejection of, a God their nnture Is too large and sweet and tender to tolerate. If In these early days there Is no day star of a lovelier light, no dawning for the small, bright soul of n better day, then there may be no chance for that soul to pass Into the kingdom until It has passed out of the world. When wo quote the Scripture: "Train up a child In the way ho should go," we must still take heed to our ways lest we think more of the Scripture than we think of the child tlx our mind and purpose on the other rather than the hither end of the way and train him for what he should bo at forty rather than what he must be In childhood and youth. We must answer for what Is written In the book of the life of our children. I must lay the patriarch's gentle purpose to my heart: "The children nre tender. I will lead on softly," for these In my care, who also have the long hard Journey before them. If this Is true of the shadow, how true It must bo of the light. If ours Is a hard and poor lot, no man or woman, father or mother, need ever fear the children will fall to look back ward to the early years with a tender love, if by all the mean In our power we make good for them the patriarch's purpose. I think. Indeed, our love for the old home Is very often deepest nnd purest In those who have had to face the hardest times If we havo fought through them In this bright, good way. nnd led the children on softly. There were homes in this country fifty, sixty, seventy years ago bare of all things save this one secret they are the dear est place on the earth to-day In mem ory of men und women who have every thing now the heart can desire. And when we havo done this, what better can we do than put the whole wealth of our endeavor in trust Into the hands of God. "Thou Art My Light." A touching incident was narrated by Dr. K. F. Horton on the second Sunday after his return from mouths of treat ment by a celebrated (Jermun oculist. He was waiting in the oculist's con sulting room, not knowing whether or not tho remainder of bis life was to bo passed In darkness, when he put his hand Into his pocket und drew out his little Bible not to read It, but to see if he could. As he opened It his eyes fell on the text: "For Thou are my lamp, O Lord; and the Lord will lighten my dark ness." "I had not been aware of the very existence of this text," he said, "and I do not know who but an ungel could have led me to It; but I felt that, whether I received my sight or not, those words were enough for me, and from that time I seemed to know thnt ( should continue to proclaim the wor" of this blessed Book." Duty Above Life. Life Is a matter of very small ac count to any one in comparison with duty-doing, whether a man realizes this truth or not Whatever is worth living for is worth dying for, if dying bo an Incident to its pursuing. When the Homan General, I'ompey, was warned against the danger of hi re turning from Egypt to Italy, to meet a new trouble in his own land, hi heroic nnswer was: "It is a small mat ter thnt I should move forward and die It Is too great a matter that I should take one step backward and live." Life is never well lived when it is held dearer than duty. He who would tell a He In order to live is will ing to pay a great deal larger price for his life than that life is worth to him self or to others. II. C. Trumbull. Short Meter Sermons. Kindness makes kin. Faith gives fiber to life. Blessed are the buoyant live. The selfish cannot be sanctified. Purity doe not rest on a plebiscite. It takes more than a syllogism to save men. Hot air is always succeeded by a cold wave. Deeper science is the cure for scien tific doubt. There are a lot of people who would rather gather to-morrow's thistle than to-day' flgs. What Brings Hop. i It 1 necessary to distinguish care fully between submission to the will of God aud to an inevitable fate. The ono brings hope, but the other despair. Presbyterian Record. i To Scare Away Crow. I can give a sure preventive against corn pulling by the black rogues. I had tried all sorts of devices, and was rigging a scarecrow, when a gawky came along and said, "Tie ears of corn to the tops of poles around your Bold, and the crows won't stay nigh It." . I said, "They will eat the corn, and you and they will both laugh at me." I tried the plan, however, and sure enough they looked at those poles and went away and stayed away. I sup pose it was on the same principle as that of the Trojan warrior who said, "I most fear the Greeks when offering gift." B. P. Powell In Suburban Life. Pure Water in Demand. A New York paper is responsible for tho statement that there is scarce ly a family In that city which does not buy spring water for drinking pur poses, and estimate tho value of the total consumption throughout the country of "potablo water other than those supplied by municipalities" at 110,000,000. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL iNTErJVTIONAl. LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 2. ' BuhjBrti ftennarhnrln's Invasion, fi, Chron. Xxxil., O-StlOolOii Tut. II, C hron. xxxll., 8 Memory Verses, Cniinn-ntHr)r on the Day's Lesson. I. Sennacherib's delimit messages (vs. l)-l!. it. "After this." Alter re ceiving the present from Ilczeklnh (!i Kings IS: H-Xii. "Sennacherib." The son and successor of Siirgnn. He says he built towers around Jerusalem and shut Hczeklnh In "like a cngod bird." "Assyria." This was a great and pow erful country lying on the Tigris. Its boundaries differed greatly at different periods. "Send his servants." S-e 'i Kings IS: 1". Tartan, or general; the rabsarls, the chief of the eunlchs; and the rab-shakeh. the chief cup-bearer, these being the olnVes which their names imply, with a grent host. None of these nre proper names. Tartan wns the ordinary title of an Assyrian general. They were to demand the un conditional surrender of tho king and capital. "To Jerusalem." Sennacherib was encamped before Lnohlsh, thirty miles southwest of Jerusalem, seated In state. From this proud position he sent a large detachment to Jerusalem. They took up their position on the north of tho city, on a spot long after wards known as the camp of the Assy rians. Ilczeklnh feared to appear; or perhaps, careful of his dignity, he sent officers of his court, who were nearer the rank of those sent. In hi place came Kllaklm, now chief minister: Sliebna, now In the office of secretary; and Joan, the royal historian. "All his power." All his army. ID. "Whereon do ye trust?" Liter ally, "Whereon are ye trusting nnd sit ting in restraint?" Judah was In al liance with Egypt, Assyria's arch-enemy; and reference Is here made to this. 11. "Doth not Hezeftiuh." Hen eklah Is abused most vilely nnd over whelmed with scorn nnd Insult. VI. "Worship before one altar." Itiib-slui-keh was not familiar with the Jewish law, and he naturally supposed that the destruction of so many altars would Incur the displeasure of the gods; but the reason he gave to prove that Judah was weak was the very rea son why God was with them to make them strong. 13-15. "Know ye not." etc. This boast was natural. The As syrians had had an uninterrupted ca reer of success and might well believe that their gods were more powerful than those of the nations around thorn. They had utterly over-run and de stroyed the kindred tribes of Galilee, Giload and Samaria. They had for years exercised lordship over Judon. nnd the very king who now defied them had purchased his safety by the payment of a heavy tine. 10. "Against the Lord." Hezeklah treated this blasphemous speech as he ought. He refers the matter to Jehovah. 17. "Wrote also letters." A little later another Insulting message in the form of "n letter" (It. V.. margin) was sent. The king took the letter and at once went again to the house of the Lord. He spread out the letter before the Lord nnd poured out his soul in earnest prayer (12 Kings 10: H-U: Isa. 37: 14-1!0. 18. "A loud voice." An al lusion Is here made to what occurred 02 Kings IS: 2S-3.' before Sennacherib wrote his letter. "Jews' speech." The Hebrew language. The Syrian lau gunge was not understood by the com mon people. "To affright them." It was a day of great suspense. Already there was a rumor that the king of Egypt was on his way to the rescue. Senacherlb had heard the rumor, and It was this which caused him to put forth every effort to intimidate Jerusa lem Into submission. 11). "Spake against," etc. They saw no difference between the Jehovah of the Jews nnd the gods of the other nations. II. Hezeklah aud Isaiah call on the Lord (v. 'JO). ".. "Prayed." King Hezeklah rent his clothes and put on sackcloth nnd went to the house of God, while his messengers sought out the prophet Isaiah to know what to do. The prayer expressed the deepest need, the highest faith, the utmost earnest ness, the wisest plea, the highest mo tive. It wns united prayer, a prayer meeting. Isaiah Joined with Hezek'h. But they not only prayed, they worked. The king built walls and towers, and prepared arms aud shields and encour aged the people to be strong and cour ageous, and not to be afraid of tho As syrian king, "for there be more with us than with him" (vs. 0. 7). III. The Lord destroy the Assy rians (v. 'il). 21. The word angel means "a mes senger," "one sent," nnd may be ap plied to any messenger sent from God, whoever or whatever that may be. Thus In Psa. 104: 4 the winds are said to be His angels or messengers. The use of tho word "angel" here dees not determine the manner In which the de struction was accomplished. It may have been a storm, a pestilence or flood. It Is generally understood to have been the simoon. "Cut off." In one night God's messenger smote 1S5, 000 men (2 Kings It): 35). This gives some Idea of tho Immense size of Sen nacherib's army. "He returned." The king and a few others were preserved. "Own land." Nineveh. "When he was come." Just how long a time elapsed between this calamity and Sen nacherib's death we do not know, but It was probably about twenty years. He records other campaigns, but he never again came to Palestine. "His god." Nlsroeh. "Slew. him." "Adram melech and Sharezer his sons smote' him with the sword; und they es caped" (2 Kings 19: 37). IV. .Hezeklan is exalted (vs. 22, 23). These verses tell us that God not only saved His people f.'otn the hands of Sennacberlb, but from all others nnd "guided them on every side." Many presents were brought to Hezeklah, and he wns exalted In tho sight of all. Henry Clay In HI Prime. An Englishman who traveled in tho United states In the early part of the laBt century visited WasHngton and describes Henry Clay a tollowa: "He Is tall, thin and not a very muse liar niau; his gait is stately, but swinging, and his countenance, while It indi cates genius, denotes dissipation. Though there is want of rapidity and fluency lu his elocution, yet he has a great deal of fire and vigor lu his expression. When he speaks he is full of animation and earnestness; his face brightens, his eye beams wllh ad ditional luster and bis whole figure Indicates that he is entirely occupied wllh the subject on which his elo quence Is employed." New Remedy for Imomnla. A Damarlscotta, Me., bachelor has a new remedy for Insomnia,, A few nights ago while tossing restlessly on his couch he began to count up the widows In the village. He enumerat ed thirty-four and was about to start on the other uumated women when he tell into a sound and refreshing slumber. SUNDAY, JULY 2. The Making of a Christian". His Des tiny. I. John 2: 15-17; 3: 1-3. It makes a great difference, even to an indestructible gem, whether it belongs to a crown or a Junk heap. Look around and see how the world Is treating God, and If you are the child of God. do not expect to be treated any better. Could you explain to a caterpillar what it is to be a butcrfiy? No more could God explain to us what we shall be. We become like whatever we truly see, as the sunlight lightens up whatever it fnlis upon, und covers the roughest stone that receives it with the brilliancy of the King or day. Suggestions. Our destiny is not to be measured by our accomplishments, but by our purposes; not by time, but by etern ity. If you want to glorify your earth, think great thoughts of heaven. True thoughts of the hereafter con tribute to the present; weak and dreamy thoughts only weaken the present. Half of Napoleon's power was his consciousness of a splendid destiny. When ono loses that consciousness, he loses his power. Illustrations. Every Christian is a king traveling through a foreign land incognito. That your life Is of pure marble does not make it a lovoly statue. Take it to the Sculptor. The sky begins on the earth; so does your heavenly destiny begin with the duties of to-day. Questions. Am I living as one with an immor tal destiny? Am I consciously preparing for my endless future? Quotations. Without a belief In personal Im mortality, religion Is surely like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending In an abyss. Max Mil ler. I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all teat's, all time, all fears. Byron. As often as I hear of some unde served wretchedness, my thoughts rest on that, world where all will be made straight. Flchte. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JULY 8ECOND. The making of a Christian: His des tiny. I. John 2: 15-17; 3: 1-3. The Word. This exhortation from John is an appeal not to love a godless and evenescent world a world as tran sitory and unsatisfying now as then. The destiny of man Is immortality. The end of all about which wo have been studying In previous lessons on the "making of a Christian" is to fit him for another life. The wicked lover of the world will go down to everlasting death; but the righteous doer of the will of God shall abide forever. There is no term used in the Scrip tures to describe the relations of Christians to the Lord more signifi cant than this one of "son." The re lations implied, the results obtained, and the destiny secured are all Bet forth In the terms used. Born of God, and adopted Into the divine family, we are entitled to the prom ises made to the children of the Father In heaven. The Implications are suggestive and glorious: Every truly converted soul is adopted into the family of God. He dwells even In this life in the so ciety of God's elect. He has fellow ship with the other members of the family, and enjoys the favor of the Father. He has the sweet sense of communion and fellowship with the Elder Brother. He belongs even now to the great family a part of whom are on this earth, and the majority of whom are In the skies. This mem bership in God's family Insures eternal life and eternal fellowship with God. We may not know Just what we shall be. But we do know some things. We know that there la an eternal life. We know that that life is conscious: we shall see and know and feel. We shall enter into com plete fellowship with tho Father. We have reason to believe that we shall eternally progress and develop in m'lnd and affection. The Scripture teach that this future life will be one of growth and service. Whatever punishment may be given to the wicked, the children of God are to have a glorious destiny. "They are to see God, they are to dwell with him forever, and they are to be like him. How important, then, to be "born" of God, to be "built up In him." and to be "faithful unto death," when we have such a glorious destiny await ing us? RAM'S HORN BLASTS RUE beauty is heart deep. He who guides will guard. Confidence is con tagious. A soft snap is Sa tan's trap. Too many think that they test their faith by testifying about it. A failure to niaae living Is not a fit ting to preach the Gospel of poverty. Some men will feel cheap when they read their own advertisements at the Judgment. Sin is not imperfection; 1t is corrup tion. The light that ia not reflected soon dies down. The sermon that comes out of the life gets into lives. The new mun is more Important than new methods. To be going God's way is to get the good of the land. The spirit of consecration doubles the value of any recreation. The bitterness of our way may be the best part ot His wisdom. The nearer you are to the Savior the farther are you from sin. ireoJtRx-Sl UNTIL THE DAY BREAK. I otton wondered, when at niuht Tin- cuti.linintf lids hail phut from siqht Those eyes so ever-brimmed with light. How I could lrep tho long hours through As oven the wutciifnl-liearled do. Nor have their violet onee in view. Sometimes, as love late vigil kept, Ilcirinij her stir, I've closer stepped. iiuii-uiiuueu, u sue uguuy slept, To test her with a whispered wile. Meant my own reiuoti to begin it. To see il she wouid turn and smile. T'.inn I would hush my heart .and make Myself ashamed that I should break Such sleep, for love's own sellisli sake. "Wait till the morning," I would say; Wait till the slumber drills invny; Then where are eyes so bright as they? I wonder now. as, with my head Rowed on my knees uucomtorted, My heart keeps watch above my head. How can T live and meet the sum Ot years that stretch, a martyrdom Oi yearning, till the dawn shall come! Yet in this vigil of my woe Starts forth the thought that shamed me so Beside her cradle long ago. "O aching, anguished soul!" 1 ,, "Until the day bleak watching stay, Until the shadows flee away. "And thou shalt find that God has kept The eyes whose closing thou hast wept.. All liejivpn tin, hfitiitior fliit fl.i.v .!..,., .Margaret '- I lesion. The Green ol Content. One of the rarest gems of Christian character is the sweet grace of con tentment. It may not have the nrrest lve splendor of righteousness, nor hush us with the subduing of purity; but it is an exquisite ornament of ton dor grace, and its sweetness lllls every room of the house o( life. Like the modest- violet. It reveals Its presence and fragrance by an atmosphere that is laden with the sweet spirit of rest fulness and peace. It Is the delicate flower of trust and submission to the perfect will of God. und its beauty Is the smile upon a soul which knows that in the bund of our Lord every good tiling Is completely guaranteed. Life Is not without its limitations. It has bitter deprivations und pathetic disabilities; the bleak wind whistles sometimes through its desolations and sudden and starless dark settles upon everything, but the eye catches tha vlslou of the hand of God, the heart His voice, and the whole life rests it self In the unerring wisdom ami the boundless love. And so life is liberated from carefulness and anxiety, the heart Is at leisure from Its own load, and distills the gracious sweetness of n beautiful content through every bit of life. Are not the blessedness and the min istry of life to be found perhaps in tempers and places which we have not always suspected? We have given our wants a loose rein and Ahey have car ried us wheresoever they wotfld. And many of i s spend tiring days and rest less nights !u trying to overtake our capricious wants. Simplicity Is one of the surest marks of n groat life. Wants have to be disciplined and held In strong and remorseless cheek. Cares have to be carefully sifted, and anxieties scrutinized, and multitudes of them banished to the dark land of the needless. Then there will be room in life to live deeply because simply, blessedly because trustfuliy, nnd the peaceful .serenity of our lite shall be the power which we contribute to the world to aid Its sanity, to re-enforce its quietness und to re-establish its har mony. Ills Mother's Troyers. O. the saving power ot mother's prayers! It cannot be estimated. Chil dren may grow up apparently indiffer ent to their home training: they may even become vile and profligate; but the. memory of the family altar, the father's Bible aud tho mother's onivei-s will cling to them. These thoughts should encourage Christian parents to live consistently lu the presence of their children, Hiid to persist lu main taining the family altar. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman relates the following incident, which is in point right here: "One of my dearest friends wns a profligate until he was a man grown. In a great Western city he had deter mined to take his life, threw himself down on his bed just to collect himself before the awful deed, and Jarred a lit tle book from off a shelf Just above his bed. and it struck him iu the face. Witli an oath, ho threw it from him. and then it dawned upon him that It was his mother's Bible, given him to read. He walked across the room to pick it up, just to show her some mark of respect, and read upon the flyleaf, written in her own bund: 'Dear boy, you can never get away from your mother's prayers.' Instead of becom ing a self-murderer, he became ono of the country's greatest preachers. "O, for a revival of the old custom of having a family altar in the home, where the father acts as priest, und the mother as a saint; we could stir tho whole country for Christ. I wish that we might dig again the wel! Hint our fathers digged before us. and make homes heaven." Iteliglous Tel escope. What We Cannot Ustluinte. Not until we know alt that God knows can we estimate to the full the power and Uie eacreducss of somu one life which may seem the humblest lu the world. John Rusklu. Harmons In llrlet. Praying lips cannot square up tor protaue living. A crusty tongue seldom has a chance to get rusty. You cannot do God's work and wulL your own way. Leisure of Japanese Generals. Dining the winter Just past Jupan'a generals along the Shaho spent their time variously. "Gen. Nodzu," accord ing to Japanese newspapers, "studied calligraphy. Gen. Kurokl kept barn yard fowls. During the Heliautal en gagement Gen. Kodama scarcely slept at nil for a whole week, but did not seem one whit the worse for his ex perience." Gen. Oyania was reported ig 'brting "the same robust, tuerry halted gentleman as ever." THE GREAT IJJfliilUiM SOME STARTLING FAvlJ ASO'JT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE; Whisk?! What It lliirs I node a Mun-A Klrlkinit A.tdrew It fir rr-Mtrl-k TrfS, Hart., K. C, V. O., LI.. !. He Kprnk With Authoritative Voice. The following Is from an address de livered by Sir Frederick Treves, Bart., K. C. V. ., I.L. D.. In the grent ball of Church House. Westminster, London, before the Woman's I'nion of the, Church of England Temperance So ciety, May 4. l'.Mr.. Sir Frederick is physician to King Edward. The point with regard to alcohol Is simple enough. It Is. of course, dis tinctly n poison, and it is a poison which, like other poisons, has certain uses, but the limitations of the use of nlcohol should be as strict as the limi tations of the use of any other kind of poison. Moreover, It Is a curiously In sidious poison. In that It produces ef fects which seem to linvp only one an tidotealcohol again. This applies to another drug equally as Insidious, snd that Is morphia, or opium. Unfortu nately, the term poison Is by no means an exaggerated one. when It Is realized that with alcohol ns drunk by the ma jority of the poorer classes there Is mixed a virulent poison In the form of fusel-oil. There Is no disguising the fact that alcohol is yenr by year less used by the medical profession. It Is said that it has a certain position ns a medicine, nnd no one will dispute that, but look ing back over hospital drugs for the past twenty-five years, there is no ques tion thnt the use of alcohol Is emphati cally diminishing. Let us take two or three points nnd remember that I am only speaking of the very moderate use of alcohol. In the flrst place, some people say, "It is a most excellent appetizer. There can he no possible hsrni In Just a little be fore a meal. It Is, as the French say. an aperitif appetiser, and helps diges tion." Wbnt are the facts? First of all, no appetite needs to be artificially stimulated. If the appetite wants food It clamors for It; If there is no appe tite, there is no need for food. There fore there is no need, supposing the be lief were true. So on that ground I do not think there is much to be made out for Its use. Then It Is snld that It is strengthen ing, and that It gives great working power. We hoar a great deal of this iu the advocacy of British beef and beer. That sounds very well, but let us view the facts. Alcohol, curiously enough, modifies certain constituents of the blood in the nourishment of the body. The process that underlies the building tip of the human frame is very much modified. The output of carbonic acid is very much lessened, wlUi the result that the drinker nt once becomes ill nourished obviously so. No man dreams of going Into training and tak ing alcohol. He must reach the acme of physical perfection, and that must be without alcohol. It has a somewhat stimulating effect, and that Is the unfortunate part of it, Tho effect, however, lasts only for a moment, nnd after It ..as passed awoy the capacity for work falls enormously. It does this: It brings up tho reserve forces of the body und throws them into action, with the result that when these are used up there is nothing to fall back upon. Its effect is precisely like a general throwing the bulk of his army Into the fray and then bringing up, as fast as he can, all his reserves and throwing them In also. Tho imme diate effect may be Impressive, but the inevitable result is obvious. As a work producer it Is exceedingly extravagant, nnd like all other extrav agant measures, leads to a physical bankruptcy. It is also curious that troops cannot march on alcohol. I was. as you know, with the relief col umn that moved on Lady smith, nnd, of course. It was an extremely trying time by reason of the hot weather. In that enormous column ot 30.000, the llrst who dropped out were not the tall men, or the short men, or tho big uren, or the little men they were the drink ers, and they dropped out ns clearly as If they bad been labeled with a big let ter On their backs. With regard to the circulation. Of course it produces nn increased heart beat, a fuller pulse and redder skins, but the moment the effect has passed off the action of tho heart Is absolutely and emphatically weakened. Conse quently the temporary effect Is pro duced at nn enormous cost. Then there Is its action on the central nervous sys tem. Here its action la thnt of a poi son. It first stimulates the nervous system and then depresses it, and, as with other poisons which act upon this part of the body, the higher centres go first. They become n little dull a lit tle less quick und ncute. It is very tri fling, but there it is; so thnt the man who does bis work on alcohol even a very moderate amount is not at bis best. Moral Tone Changed, Governor J. Frank Hanly.of Indiana, has caused n great change in the moral tone of tho State. He has made It a rule that no man who drinks shall be appointed to olllce, and his appointee have extended the rule to thoso whom they iu turn choose. An important rule in line with the Governor's policy is that in ull cities having boards of metropolitan police commissioners no man who drinks shall be on the police or detective force; that no otMeor shall enter a saloon either when off or on duty, except to make nn nrrest. and that no member of the Are department shall enter a saloon. Kevlval Hurts Saloons. It is reported from Wules that as re sults of the widespread revival which is there progressing the receipt at the saloons are gTently diminished, and the police nnd magistrates are having a comparatively easy time of iL Temperance Notrs. When peoplo understand what alco hol Is and what it dors, they will put it out of existence. Wllllard Parker, M. D. Alcoholic drinks are poisons In the same sense as are opium, arsenic, chloroform, etc.. and should be Bold under the sumo laws as these poisons. N. S. Davis, M. D. Hotels und drug stoves iu Boston sell ing liquor to women have suffered the penalty ot withdrawal of their licenses, l'ollce Commissioner Emmons' new broom Is doing a deal of sweeping. I hardly know any more potent cause of disease than alcohol. Sir W. Gull, M. D. At the annual business meeting of the Norway Grove Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wis., the following resolu Hon was adopted: "God's word tenches us that neither drunkards nor gluttons shall inherit the kingdom of God." Tho Michigan Christian Advocate ex presses the sentiment of every true American citizen iu those words: "If we could we would transform every brewery into a manufactory, every sa loon Into a store, every saloonkeeper Into a farmer, and every drinker Lata I total absUiLner." Tilt KtYSiONE STATE Latest News of Pennsjlv-jiia Told to Short Ordsf. Bi;raiic he is alleged to have jilted her, Miss Martha B. l!-joe, of Lancas ter, baa sued Kcv. II. Jerome Lc-.nbach, pa.'tor of Oiivet Kcformcd Chore!:,. Heading, to rrcover ?to,ooo damages for Alleged breach of promise, kcv. ir. I.cifihach was married on May 4 to Miss M. Mary Swavely, of 1'ine Iron Works. Mis Hooic lives with her parents in I.aii:isu-r. She became acquainted with Mr. i.cinbacli in !, while the latter was a student at l-'r.inklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, and from that time he paid her addresses of a most marked character, jays the plaintiff's bill of com plaint. This, she say, in her affidavit, resulted in a s jl.tnn engagement of mar riage on January 1701. In June, 1901, she nays he gave her an engage ment ring, which she wore and he con tinued paying her attentions until April, 1903, and he Jiad agreed that the wed ding shnitlit take p'noe on January 19, 190O. Miss Boose allege. that in pursu ance of the promise she began to pre pare for the wedding and pur.-i'.ascj hct wedding outfit and riN i kitchen uten sil. Rev. Mr. I.cinhich became pastor of Olivet Church a year ago, immedi ately after his ordination. lie is 25 years old, and is a native of Oley Town ship, Berks county. He entered bail and ik-clinrj to talk about the suit. Mrs. Ida May Zieglcr, of Altoona, sent a comic valentine representing a long tongued woman to her next-door neih lwr, Mrs. Lulu Shellcnbcrger. The c.iurt refused to accept the plea of the license of St. Valentine, and directed Mrs. Ziegler to pay $J;) fine and costs. The vestry of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Nnrristown, has accepted the gift of another cloister bay for Wash ington Memorial Chapel, at Valley l'Virge, to be erected to the honor of the Pennsylvania soldiers of the Revolution. It is the gift of T. Broom Belfield, of Philadelphia, and is given in memory of his parents, his wife and thildren. The Pennsylvania bay will correspond to the New Jersey bay, dedicated on Monday. It is expected that the new bay will be ready for dedication next year. The new bay will be adorned with richly carved tracing in Indiana limestone set in massive masonry of Holmcsburg granite. The ceiling will be of carved oak, adorned with the arms of the State and the Colonial seals w iil be set in the floor. Theophila Komyeck, 26 years old, now lies at rest in St. Peter's Churchyard, Brownsville, after three burials. About two weeks ago she leaped into the Mo nongahela River and was drowned. Her body was buried in a field nearby. Ne groes said they heard her calling from the grave and the bidy was removed. She was proved dead and buried again. I earing the girl was a Catholic, Father Glynn, of Brownsville, next had the body removed to the church cemetery in that city. Burgess Pennypackcr, West Chester, has fined Jesse Darlington, owner of a creamery, $25 and costs because he had his creamery connected with the town's sewers in violation of the borough ordi nance. Darlington has appealed from the decision of the Burgess and will isk the court to decide the legality of the fine. The Witcb, a special combination en gine and car on the Reading Railway, while running at a high speed, bearing officials to their homes in Schuylkill county from Shamokin, collided with a shitting engine in the Locust Summit yards. The car was wrecked and the passengers were thrown into the debris and badly hurt. Scared by an automobile, a pair of horses attached to a carriage containing Frank Fox, his wife and two children and Andrew Grater, wife and child, of Skippack, dashed down a steep hill. At the bottom the carriage upset and all were severely injured. Lillie Resh, also known as Mrs. Geo, Weibush, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lancaster, from morphine poisoning, the drug being self-administered. One story is that the woman had been drinking beer in a hotel, where she swallowed the drug, but the hotel people deny she wai there. Another story is that she swal lowed the dose while sitting on the stoop of the hotel. The directors of the York County Agricultural Society have decided to en large the grand stand, build an annex t: the poultry house and make other im provements to the exposition grounds. Bishop Talbot laid the cornerstone of the new $16,000 Trinity Episcopal parish house at Pottsville. Addresses were made by the bishop, Rev. Dr. James P. Powers, Rev. II. W. Diller and Rev. Dr. J. H. Eastman. Charles Wolfe, of Lewisburg, who jb.mt a month ago fired 011 robbers at tempting to gain entrance to the chair factory office, was attacked and sand bagged while attending to his duties as night watchman of the plant. His cries for help brought aid and his assailants escaped. Andrew Voder, 27 years old, ,died at his home, near Longfellow. He was married in Vanwert, Ohio, a few days :no and became sick while on his wed ding lour. Samuel Grcason, the negro who wai acquitted of the murder of John Ed wards, last week, after having been un der sentence of death for over two years, will not place himself on exhibition, as he had agreed to do. A storm of pro tests was aroused by Greason's signing a contract with a carriival company im mediately after he was set free, and a committee of citizens had asked the city authorities to prohibit the exhibition, . Within a few days the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will begin the con struction of the system of pipe lines from the Indian Creek district and other mountain streams, from which they hope to get an abundant supply ol pure water for use in the engines. The American Pipe Line Company, of Philadelphia, which has. received the contract for the greater part of the work, will put over a thousand men on the construction of the reservoir at Hawkeye. Other gangs will be started at places where reser voirs are to be erected. Thomas H inkle, aged 12 years, of South Bethlehem, while standing upon a freight car, throwing stones at birds, fell headlong to the cinders below. He was killed, his neck being broken. Mrs. Anthony Lear, of Easton, who had been suffering from a weak heart, became greatly excited while witnessing a fight and lull dead In an effort to put an end to crimes in Pittston snd vicinity, Mayor Lan gan has decided that every person found carrying a revolver, dirk or stiletto snail be fined $1 or sent to jail for thir-f days, and he enforced this at once V ' sending two Italians to jail.
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