; SUNDAY SERMON J . 5 J A Scholarly Dltcount By JJ Bi.hop W. A. Lt.ena.rd. 2 sttscsstsssssss3 Brooklyn. N. Y.-At Holy Trinity Church the lit, Jtev. Wllllnin A. Leon ard, Bishop of Olilo, preached Sunday morning on tlie subject. "Giving Free ly." from the text Matthew x:8: "freely ye lmve received, freely give." Tlie prencber said: "Our blessed Lord had Just endowed Tils apostles with some of Ills power. He hud granted them authority to preach, to heal the nick, to baptise converts and to lay the foundation of His church. As all power In heaven and on earth had been conferred upon Him, so now He Imparts the tre mendons donation to them. This Is what Is meant by the divine origin of the ministry. But this power and those gifts must be utilised; they can not be retained or burled; they must lie dispersed abroad. They are glveu only for service. 'Freely ye have re ceived, freely give.' In some measure we must generously give to tlie world. "These words, however, may be ta ken from their primary plnce. so that they have a general reference and ap plication for every child of the king dom, and thus we use them to-day for our instruction and guidance. Tills text, 'Freely ye have received, freely give,' Is classic In its clear expression and In Its world-wide application to literature, science, music In the art of centuries; and many races find their Ideal In tills fact, for Christ, tlie In carnate, Is Himself God. Christ Is here In our human nature since the period of Ills Incarnation. You can not drive Him forth, for He lias found room for residence In the very lieart of this old world. It is of this con scious liberality of Cod to us that I want to speak, and of the sincere and willing response which we ought to make to Ilim for His gifts to us: 'Free ly ye have received, freely give.' The gospel of our Father has this word 'give' written all through. Its first letter Is the initial of His own name. Its first Introduction In the Garden of Eden and n picture of the Divine Pa rent, whose hand Is ever outstretched with loving Intention to us, and it is His desire that we should realize this. The Bible Is replete with the story of His giving and our receiving. Read your Bible this year with this thought In your minds. Recall what God lios given to His children, and you will be amused at the snm: it will be such a great one that at leas', you will lie constrained to sing a benedleite, to praise God for His goodness: you will cordially begin to appreciate how 'free ly ye have received.' Is it not well to make some sort of n tally, to run tip our account with God? We who take so much for granted and simply accept the blessings He gives us without a word of thanks. We think if them and use them as If they were ours and are sometimes angry If we happen to miss or lose them. 'We hnve re ceived so much and so freely from Him that we have' omitted Him and His relatloiiHhtp from otir calculations. Wc have credited Him only with our spiritual blessings our religious priv ileges, the church and sacraments, of course, our salvation. Hut what nbout the ordinary things that He never for gets, that He never neglects? He keeps Ills work going on every day In the year, while we, like the children of our modern time, nre satiated with luxury. We are aroused sometimes, as at Christmas time, to realize how good God Is. '"Freely ye have received, freely give.' Tims lie gave out of Ills gen erous heart the very creation Itself; the world and oil In It. at the very hour of Its conception, Its power of production, teeming life, vegetable and anlmnl. We take possession of It; w-e bargain and barter Its fields and Bocks and herds; we call It ours; we call the land after our own name. But these things are not ours. They are His. He controls. He directs and per mits; we are but the tenunts of His Will. "Then consider In the next place Ills providence. That Is, the continuous remembrance of our needs food, rai ment, climate, and so on. The seasons that God only swings round In their course; the sunshine think of the sun shine, that is God's gift. Suppose He covers over the sun for one dny! Man cannot, with all his genius, manufac ture another. Suppose it stops shining for twenty-four hours. Such a chill of Ice would result that all life would go out. Do you ever thank God for the sunshine? No. We take It for granted It belongs to us we consider it our Inherent right. "God gives us power as well as crea tion to utilize. So lavishly spread that all man has to do is to pluck the fruits of it. We dig mines, sail ships, write books, paint pictures; It Is only the exercise of power which God gives. Wealth, competency, wages, all the capacity of power (Jod grants it ail. He gives the brains, the ingenu ity, the business, the opportunity for every advancement and all you and I have to do Is to utilize all the power He gives us. Some other men uso these nnd prosper; other men waste them and are failures In life; but those who are opportunists In the best sense gain rewards. Do you ever real ize that God could becloud nnd ob scure your faculties of reason so that you would become insane In a mo ment? He might be excused from so doing because of your ingratitude, your neglect of Him, for all these things you call yours are His. I often wonder how many successful men can retain their Belt respect, can make their treatment of God agree with their ethics. They never enter His house to thank Him and yet He asks thera to- do so. They are getting ou without Him tlfey believe, but they 8i-e as helpless and powerless as the weakest imaginable thing. They nro absolutely His dependents' In wham they, have their being. How long suf fering and patient He Is. His only rebuke seems to be found in His uu falling love. He simply says, 'My son, do not forsake' Me utterly; hear My voice; come to Me; give Me thy heart, for I love thee, I am thy Father. I can afford to Ty.ait.' "So with our virtues, they are all Inbreathtngs of the Holy Spirit; every man, no matter how depraved, will have some spark of good that God put there to b fanned into burning heat. They do not gvow there, they were given and are intended to mold and model us Into n iiearer semblance to Ills linage. Your capacity of Joy And lovo are from III in. You could not lii id happiness or gladness or any kind ot pleasure In the material, intellectual or moritl sphereB unless uie Holy Ghost permitted it. You could not love your wife, your child, your pnrent, your friend, without Hint. You Chris tians, you could not have happiness oi lova for God uuless He gruntu you the power. Stones and earth have them not, Animals only huve as much In stinct as He gives them, but you and I huve received more thou this. We huve received inspirations and aspira tion that reach from soul to soul unJ heart to heart.' ' Thore Is a bedutlfril prayer In the prayer book. I do not consider it in exactly the light In which I nm presenting this truth. 'Oh, God,' It says, 'pour Into our hearts such love for Thee that we loving Thee Above nil things may at hist at tain Thy gracious promises. We can not love God 'unless the power be given lis; we have not the capacity ourselves. "Now, the greatest gift of all; the gift of His dear Son. Creation, provi dence, power nnd faculties, can have n reason or right of operating unless Interpreted y the coming of Jesus Christ to earth for yon nnd me. This incarnation Is the key to unlock the cause of our being. His birth Is the solution of each man's existence. He Is In this sense 'The Light of the World.' Now God gnve the best that He .hud, the very best that He was capable, of bestowing His only begot ten Son. Nay, more. His Son Is God He gave Himself. Wc shall not try to explain Its mysteries; It is ttnsolv able. It Is an Illustration of what we may do In small matters. It means sacrifice and surrender and unselfish giving, for He enme to do God's will, That will was to save us from our sins. God gave up Ills liest and left the joy and sanctity of Heaven to clothe Himself with our broken hu manity Hint we might see the godhead bodily, touch Him with our hands and go to II I in with our sins nnd knowing Hiin might accept Him as our Savior. He folded His eternal nature around His person and lie led It forth to sac rifice, so that His earthly life was a long series of siicriticlal acts. When He lay in the manger this life of sac rifice had begun; when He hung npon the cross It was the continuation of it. In the last moment of agony nnd shame He was controlling forces thai seemed to be mastering Him. He was the priest upon the cross; He was III! own victim. Ills life was not wrunu out of Him; He, Himself, pronounced its dismissal. lie gave It up to Him whose It was, saying: 'Father, into Thy hands 1 commend my spirit.' All this for our redemption, for our rescue nnd that we might have peace In be lieving and serving and following, fot our eternal Joy and peace hereafter in the Divine comradeship. Now, will yt 'freely give'' "Tills Is our practical issue:, the question of our life experience. Dc we give, nnd what, nnd when? But try and consider the paradox of out lives. What do we give? When do we give? Do we give ourselves? Yes hut how? Is It unreservedly? Is It bountifully? Yes, we give something sometimes some prayer, some wor ship, some money. Is it enthusiastic? At the price of sacrifice? Does it real ly cost us much? We give ourselves to this world our time nnd ability, with zeal and zest In business affairs. That Is right. Christ does not tell us to be sluggards In business. But He does tell us to give In the same meas ure of earnest Interest to Him some measure of earnest Interest to Him. I mean no standard of gold. I am not talking nbout gold to-day. I mean no measure of payment. I mean the full and long living surrender, of every thing to His will. I mean the conse cration of each stroke of the laborer's brawny arm, of euch device of the In rentor's power, tlie consecration of our whole being and service to the su preme Master of our destiny. Such a consecration makes life beautiful. It snnctlfies labor, trade and business: it lifts every project of human ambition up to a level on which angels trend und where we may talk to God Him self. It tires itself out In Its arms for the redeeming of the world. It sees Jesus walking up nnd down In the earth and It must Impel every human being to follow Him. It Impels men to go forth Into tlie world to others. The saint leaves his closet and goes abroad Instead of pondering by him self homeless that he may carry the Gospel, that he may lift tlie cover off Ignorance for some benighted soul; the missionary makes himself homeless that he may carry the Gospel to the heathen. Where we do the service and will of Jesus Is our free giving In re turn for what He has given us. Then, and only then, do we amend the con tradiction. There Is the soul nnd spirit of the Incarnation. 'Freely give.' is the word. Really that means fully fully give. It requires us to say. 'Here Lord ami. I have no reservation, no propect, no duty, no joy that I will place between Thee and mei I yield myself absolutely to every manifesta tion of Thy will. I nm all the time eager to know whnt Thy will Is. This Is my duty; show me whnt Thou . wouldst have me to do nnd give.' The snlnt of old said: 'Master, show me Thyself and then show me myself.' Such n prayer should be offered from hour to hour, nnd then nt last there will bo the gradual glad consciousness coining to us that we have rroely re turned to God a thank offering. "Then the giving of our time to His service nnd to other people will he so ' natural that we shall do It sontan eously. It will be so easy to offer money and heart nnd Interest to Christ's service that It will be second nature." Love Lends to BerYloe. , A loving heart nnd ifn obedient life are inseparable. The one cannot ex ist without the other. As soon ne a man loves God, he has the spirit of consecration, the spirit of obedience, tho spirit of service; nnd while love continues to dominate the lieart. that spirit of service manifests Itself in the life. It is true that "love Is the ful filling of the law." Heurt religion Is the only kind of religion worth having. It is the pure in lieart who shall see God. Methodist Itecorder. Yon Will (let It. Look, expect, watch; look as If you wanted the blessing, and you will get It. Joseph I'urker. How Bees Embalm. Bees, says Horbls, can embalm as successfully aa could .the ancient Egyptians. It often happens In damp weather that a slug or snail will en ter a beehive. 'This is, of course, to the unprotected Blug a case of sudden death. The bees fall upon him and sting blm to death at once. But what to do with the carcass becomes a vital question. , If left where It Is, it will breed a regular pestilence. Now conies In the cleverness of the Insects They Bet to work and cover It with wax, and there you may see It lying embalmed just as the nations of old embalmed their dead. When It Is a -snail that la the Intruder, he Is, ot course, Impenetrable to their sting; so they calmly cement his shell with wax to the bottom of the hive.. Imprison ment for llfo, with no hope of pardon! Cyclists Polloameti, In order to aid the police In main, tainlng order on the occasion of a re cent motor race, the authorities of the town of Rozomburg, Germany, com pelled all local cyclists to enroll them selves among the police. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 29. aldectt Powrr Through God's Spirit, , Zfteh, It., 1-10 Oolrton Tt, Zech. lr O Memory Vereaa, 8-10 Commentary on the Day's Leaaon. I. Zeoharlab's vision (ts. 1-6). 1. "The angel." The same Migol who had shown Zecharlah his other visions "came again." '-.'Waked me." The prophet had slept after the first series of visions, and he Is now aroused to bo Instructed further. 2. "Behold a can dlestick." This was ho doubt similar to the seven-branched candlestick of Solomon's temple, although lhe bowl, the pipes and the two olive trees were pecullur to this vision. The candle stick was, 1. A type of the Jewish na tion. God's chosen people to shed light to the Gentiles. If they were witling to carry out God's purpose they could not fall. 2. A tvpe of the Christian church (ltev. 1:201. (1) Its purpose was to give light. I'Ji Its material was precious nnd costly, showing the preclonsness of the church, (.'il Its seven lamps in one denote tlie unity, of God's people. (! There was a con stant supply of oil. so the Holy Spirit supplies the church with the grace of God. (5) The candlestick was not the light, hut held the light: It is the work of the Christian to hold up the true light, which Is Christ. "All of gold." Pure In doctrine and practice nnd Indestructible the true Ideal of the church. "A bowl." The fountain of supply of oil to the lamps. This is the emblem of Christ, through w.ioni the Spirit is given.. "Seven lamps." There was only one lamp stand, de noting the unity of God's people, but It had vnrlous branches nnd lamps, denoting their multiplicity In unity, nnd the number was seven, the symbol of their completeness. "Seven pipes." See 11. V. Each lamp had seven pipes connected with the bowl. 3. "Two olive trees." The oil usu ally burned In the la tups was olive oil. pressed from the fruit of. tlie olive tree. The olive trees, one on each side of the lump stand, express the source of supply. The bowl of oil would soon le exhnusted unless n continual supply flowed Into It. The trees represent nn inexhaustible fountain connected with the very nnture of tho Creator. The supply of power does not come through human ministrations, but directly from God. 4. "Whnt nre these." Kven In spired men do not always understand divine teachings. It Is sometimes wise to ask questions. 5. "No, my lord." If we would receive Instruction we must be ready to acknowledge our Ig norance. II. The interpretation (vs. 0-14). 0. "Word unto Zerubbnbel." This vis Ion was to Inspire the people with con fidence In their lenders ns divinely sus tained, nnd the leaders with confidence in their divine appointment to the work, and to lead ull to the true source of strength nnd success. "Not by might." Of thy own. Not by their ar mies, for they bad none. "Nor by power." Authority from others. "But by My spirit." The providence, au thority, power nnd energy of the Most High. No secular arm, no human pru dence, no earthly policy, no suits nt low, shall ever be used for the found ing, extension and preservation of My church. 7. "O great mountain." This was a figure suggesting the great work to be accomplished nnd the many difficulties in the way. Tlie opposition from his enemies and the lack of zeal among his own people had tended to discour age Zerubbabel. "Become n plain." Be wholly removed. At that very tlmo God was influencing Darius to refuse the desires of the Samaritans and give his favor to Jerusalem (Ezra fi). "Headstone." As he had laid the foun dation stone, so shrtll he put up the headstone; as he has begun the build ing, so shall he finish It. "With shout ings." .Tovful acclamations. 1). "Shall also finish." An encour aging assurance to the prince of Jiulah. 10. "Day of small things." Zerubba bel belonged to the dny of small things. He did not nppenr like Solomon In all his glory, but more like a common man than a great ruler. He seemed infer ior to the governor of Snmnrln. and was subject to the King of Fersln. We people the past with heroes. Wo dream of a future full of heroes. But how blind we are to tho heroes of our own day and our own timet This is a universal error. "Shall see tho plum met." The perpendicular line with which ho should try the finished work. He Is master builder, under God, the great Architect. "With those seven." Referring to chapter 3:9. "They are the eyes of the Lord." In contrast with those who might be despising the dny of small things, tho eyes of tho Lord were beholding with Joy tho work in the hand of Zerubbabel. Tho Jews themselves despised the foundntlon of the second temple because It was likely to bo so far inferior to the first (Ezra 3:12). Their enemies despised the wall when it wns in process of building (Neh. 2:19: 4:2. 3). "To nnd fro." A benutlful figure of God's oversight over tlie whole earth. 11-14. Three times Zechsrlah (vs. 4, 11, 121 asked as to the two olives before h got an answer; the question be comes more miiiuto each tlmo. What he nt first calls two olive "trees" ho afterward calls "branches," ns on closer looking lie observes that the branches of tho trvos nre channels through which n continual flow of oil dropped Into the bowl of tho lamps; and that this Is tho pnrposo for which the two olive trees stand beside the candlestick. Primarily the "two" re fer to Joshua and Zerubbabel. Zerub bnlicl nnd .les.iun typified Christ ni nuolutcd with the Holy Spirit without measure, to be King and High. Priest of the church, nnd to build, Illuminate nnd ' sanctify tho spiritual temple. Many Ways to Take Tea. "Pickled tea is a Burmese delicacy," said the Bailor. "A Burmah girl once gave me some. It wasn't bad. Sweet ish and spiced. A cross between pick les and preserves. "Tea ain't only drunk. Down Slam way thoy chew It. It Is stuck together with melted sugar Into little cakes and every Siamese carries one of them cakes in his pocket. A plug o' tea you might Bay a plug o' chewln' tea. "Some folks smoke It. An English girl once gave me a tea cigarette. I finished It, but such a headache. "Stewed tea la the national dish of the Tibetans. Tea, fat, salt, flour and VmllK are COUKeu up lUKCiuor iu in thickness nf oatmeal aud eaten cold.' Fisherman Gives In. W. H. Rothermol of Wllkesbarre, Pa., who baa been contesting In the courts since August, 1303, the right of the state of Pennsylvania tostop fish ing on the Sabbath, haa conceded the point and paid the long-pending fine. ! The Quaker state was bound to 'sua I tain tho principle Involved. Fishing Gazette. EflDE, OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH. The Foreign-Mission Work of Denomination. Dan. 2:31 45. Oui The stone was cut out of, the moun tain without hHmis. Missions need our hands, but they are powerless un til God tuts set Ilia baud to tbu task. Thre is not an evil on tho earth but the spirit of Christian missions will smite to Its doom and this not only In distant countries, but In our own land. The world has seen nothing so small grow to anything so big aa the beginnings of Christian missions compared with their present stupen dous size. If mere men had to do the work that Ties before missions, they might well bo staggered: but it is God's kingdom, and God Himself Is setting It up. A Programme for the Meeting. While the missionary committee should oversee this work, plunnlng fcr It long In advance, yet thoy should get all tho society to take part In the meeting, bo far ns possible, as Signing the (llfTcrent parts to differ; ent Endeavorers. The missionary Boards and the pastors will direct you to full sources of Information. Alt Endeavorers Should Know. There nre some things that every Endeavorer should know about the foreign missions of his denomination; Just what fields are occupied; how they are occupied, whether exclusively or with other denominations; where the princlpnl living missionaries are at work; the names of the greatest missionaries of the past, and what, they did; the characteristics of tho missionary work of his own denomi nation; the Boards, and periodicals, and other means by which mission ary work is pushed among the churches; the present condition of tho work abroad, at least In outline. How many of these things do you know? To Think About. Is there any one foreign missionary for whom I pray dally? Do I long for the spread of the gos pel over the earth? What are my direct contributions to foreign missions? EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29. African Missions. . Paa. 68. 31; Isa. 9. 2; 45. 14. Africa is the oldest field in the foreign work of our church, and was begun In 1S33. The first missionary was Melville B. Cox, who went to Liberia. His famous utterance, "Though a thousand fall let Africa be redeemed," was a potent factor In arousing the church to missionary en thusiasm. Wo have three ' distinct mission fields here the Liberia Con ference, the West Central Africa Mis sion Conference, und the East Central Africa Conference. Africa Is an im mense continent embracing 12,000,000 square miles, with a population of about 150,000,000. There are only some 3,000 missionary workers of all kinds in Africa. Our church has about CO altogether. The eupeiin tendoncy of our Bishops Hartzell and Scott Is rapidly ' strengthening the work 1n Africa, and the Increase of colored missionaries will, In tho be lief of many, solve the problem of Africa's redemption. Liberia was born In a mistaken zeal to colonize the colored man in Africa. We have had varied success In thla oldest mission. But the out look is more hopeful In recent years We have a strong church in Monro via, the capital. It is not only self- supporting, but gives much money to the college work of the mission. We have our college in Monrovia and nbout thirty other schools In differ ent parts of the republic. We also have a printing Jress which scatters good literature over Africa. Tho In dustrial schools are giving new hope to the natives. New churches are being erected In this mission. Bish op Scott, the new Bishop elected by the Inst General Conference, resides In Llbrlu. There are three presiding elders' districts and a membership of about 3.000 In this Conference, West Central Africa field includes the work on the West Coast south of the oouator. and has a line ot mis slons extending from Saint Paul de Loanda about 350 miles Into the ter ritory of Angola, which Is undor the Portueuese uovernment. It also In cludes our work In the lands. Our work began Bishop Taylor in 18S5. Centrul Africa Mission was organized In 1902 Madeira Is here under The West .Conference by Bishop Hartztll. Over 20 missionaries neurly 1,000 members are in and thts field. We own fine property at Loan, da. East Central Africa Mission in cludes our work on the East Coast and lies south of the equator. The mission was organized at Umtall Rhodesia, in 1901. We huvo two cen tors of mission work one at Umtall and tho other at Inhambane. The Umtall Academy la doing a good work. This Is our newest and In some sense our moBt primitive field In the character of the Inhabitants RAM'S HORN BLASTS RUTH is a matter of more than the tongue. Reason always balks - when you try to drive it into the belief that things just hap pen. No sorrow waj ever sweetenod by scowling'.' A pulpit gas light ma v be a Door headlight. Tho light heart nevor makes light of holy things. Clod is not eliminated by calling Ilim nature. Truth is a matter of more than the tongue. No man is right nt heart until he is rifrht ull over. There is no- rest without the pros pect of renewed toil. Working the church is far from do in;r church work. T7 rT 'IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE HE SHALL HIDE ME." Lay not, my soul, thy griel too much to heart; When God doth empty thee He doth im part Himself, in place of earthly joys removed; When tie thy love and truat in Him hatli proved. Lie still, my soul, nor dare to think Ilim hard. Lest thou, by murmuring, His work retard. Think'st thou thv God can ever make mis take? Or cause thee needless sorrow to partalte? la this thy Father's love, which once did irive . His Son to die, that thou in Him might'at live? He only seeks to burn thy drosa away. Return, my aoiil, "return unto thy rest," And trust thy (Jod to order what? is best; To Ilia kind arms thy welcome is most sure, His heart of love hnth solace firm and pure; Therein, e'en now, thy faith can surely read In "paths of righteousness" thy God doth lead. And when thou knowest as thou here art known. In deep humility thou then ahalt own That what in time wns grievous unto thec Kxeeeding gain hath wrounht eternally. Then rest thee in thy fathers cnoice to day. To guide thy ateps in IIU appointed way. Faith nnd lhe HIble. Ti e word of the Lord endurcth for ever. I. Peter. I.. 25. Pcrhnps the words of the Irish hymn writer voice the deepest religious feel ings of to-dny: Change nnd decay In all around I see; O Thou who changost not, nbide with me." There has been a change in mental attitude toward all things thnt pertain to religion. Vhe doctrine of evolution lias unveiled a new world. And yet It is the same old world; we Lave simply revised our opinions about It. The uni verse did not brenk tip Into chaos with the downfall of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy. We simply awoke one day to find thnt In reality the earth, in stead of sitting on a throne receiving the adoration of the sun and stars, It self paid homage and In rotation nnd revolution besought the sun's light and heat and was content with the worship of one little burnt up cinder. Simi larly, though Charles Darwin has changed men's views of science nnd history and of nil human speculation, the facts of life remain the same. Now some lament that their religion Is being taken away; that the Bible Is being destroyed as God's word to man and Its position of authority un dermined; that tho Church, the sacre ments. the creeds, the ministry no long er hold the attention and reverence of men. and thut all authority for faith itself is shattered. They look back .with longing to the days when there was no higher criticism, when there was no questioning of the dogmas of religion, when men believed their the ologies as they did the multiplication table. It would be simple truth to observe that those days never existed; they nre part of an Ideal Imagination. There has always been septielsiu; there have always been questionings. "All Is vanity nnd vexatlou of spirit" is only one ancient testimony. Then what must be the attitude of the religious mind to-day? Simply to assert more vigorously the old doctrine of inspiration, to proclaim with more defiance the old formularies? If there is nothing better, nothing surer, tho voice must grow fainter nnd weaker until finally it shall die away entirely. For even tlie supposed days of simple faith and the unquestioning mind can never return. You have some time, possibly to-dny, engaged In worship, in praise nnd prayer, and now you are reading this. Why? Because of some thing alien to your nature thnt has been imposed upon you by some liook, some church, some creed? No, but be cause of some unmistakable fact of your Inmost being, some part of your own nnture, that finds no satisfying nf finlty with nny of the transitory things oiLeurth. and from its depths cries out. "O Thou who chnngest not. nbldi with me;" some hunger of the soul that dis covers no sustenance for Its life ex cept In communion with God. This is the foundation of your relig ion, your deepest faith. No science, no criticism, no philosophy can shako it. Without it no religion would be possible, no Bible, no church, no wor ship. Because it is there all forms of expression nre possible, yes, inevit able. As one of these forms consider briefly the Bible. The muln truth is that the Elble did not precede this foundation faith wo huve Just men tioned, but blossomed from it. Iu tho words of one New Testament writer, "Men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit" As their nature, their generation, their habits ot thought per nitted them to be moved, so they were moved. And whnt they snake is of value to us not ns an In fallible rule of faith aud practice, but as an actual religious experience of men of tleBh nnd blood alike our own. Much we can appropriate and make our own becauso our own religious natures respond to It. Much we can enlov and feed ou because It actually does nourish. It goes straight to the heart without the aid of uny theory or inspiration. Romllly J Humphries, Hector of Trinity Church. South Nor- walk, Conn., In the New Yory (Sunday Ilcrald. A Saruaon to Self. To work fearlessly, to follow earn estly after truth, to rest with a child like confidence in God's guidance, to leave one's lot willingly aud heartily to Him this Is my sermon to myself. If we could live more within sight of Heaven, we should enre less for the turmoil ot earth. John Richard Green. Two An Antaajontatlo, He that hath slight thought of sin never has great thoughts of Ood. D.wen. Monstrosities of Goldfish. The goldfish, zoologically speaking, appears to be an exceptionally "plas tic" animal. By skilled breeding al most anything can be done with it, and one varloty recently evolved In China has huge eyeballs, which pro trude sideways from the head. This varley, called the "telescope fish," Is surpassed In point of queerness, how ever, by another, likewise ot Chinese origin whose eyes have not only start ed out ot Us head, but have turned up ward ninety degrees, so that the piir pls Took directly skyward. Is notb, ipg less than a niouauvavr. THIS MEAT1 DESTKOMU SOME STARTLING FACT3 ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. " Tha RT. Ttiomu B. Oreory Talla In the Maw York American What MniteraM Jrinklnff la Doln For Frnnea A Tnr rlbl Kneiny la Perannal Hmlth. The French Government Is face to face with the most serious problem It ever hod to deal with. France is dying from "alcoholism," or will be pretty soon unless something Is done to prevent it, nnd that some thing the authorities are trying hard to do. All France Is being placarded with large posters describing tlie evils of al coholism, and Imploring the people to refrain from the use of all alcoholic liquors. Tracts upon the blessings of temper ance and the evils of the drink hsbtt are lielng scattered throughout the Be. public; the clergy are preaching upon the ravages thnt alcoholism Is working among the people, and the whole force of the Government Is being centred In the one grand effort to save the nntlon from the destruction with which It i threatened. Let it be said Just here that the trou. ble In France Is not that of drunk enness, ns that term Is generally un derstood. The claim, long made with pride by the French people that they nre a nation of "moderate drinkers'" Is a perfectly correct,one. It is this "moderate drinking" not drunkenness, but continuous, respect able alcoholism, the screwing up of nerves and heating of blood, day and night, year In nnd year out that Is to. day threatening the very existence of the French nation! A drunken man, other than a for eigner. Is a rare sight In France, and yet while very few Frenchmen drink excessively, nenrly all Frenchmen "drink moderately" with the result that they ?re being actually threatened with national extinction! It is an open secret that, for ft gener ation or more, France has been losing Its vltal'.ty. It was only a little while ago that the fact nppeared that the de creased vitality was due to nlcoholism, -the poisoning and weakening and gen eral demoralization of the system by the steady, though moderate, use of spirituous liquors. That France Is in n most dangerous way is clenrly shown by the statistics gathered by her own Government offi cials. Suicide, insanity, tuberculosis, dia betes, Brlght's disease, epilepsy and idiocy are alarmingly on the Increase. The physique of the French people is being undermined. Their blood is turning white. Moderate drinking is killing them. For a decade or so the birth rate has been abnormally low, as compared with the death rate. The "desire to live" and to perpetuate one's self is losing its hold upon the French mind. Government, alarmed by the steadily decreasing birth list, is obliged to offer rewards for maternity! There are here and there in France a few spots that are unalcoholized, and in those areas the human animal la still strong and vigorous, as he was in Caesar's day, as he was even so late as the time of Napoleon the First. In the unalcoholized departments there are not only a great many more children, but a mnch greater percent age who reach the adult age. The comparatively temperate depart ment of Gers loses annually but nluety one children in thetr first year; the Nord. strongly alcoholized, loses 284 out of tlie same number; the Seine In ferleure 250, nnd so on In proportion. And so, it appenrs, the moderate drinking of the great French people is slowly but surely destroying them. Brilliant, affable, generous, brave, among the oldest of the friends of lib erty and of man, with a. past that is glorious to reticct upon, tho French people must soon do one of two things wipe out their alcoholism, or at Uie hands of thnt alcoholism perish! We of America would do well to carefully note one of the posters that nre now being placed throughout France. It reads as follows: 'No one requires alcohol either as food or tonic. Alcohol weakens a mnn's self-con trol while exciting his passions, hence the number of crimes committed under Its influence. "Whisky rapidly produces alcohol ism, but milder drinks, such as beer and cldii nTOino" af's a- tlrr.o. alco holic poisoning with equal certainty 'The sins of nlconoiic parents are vis ited on their children. If the children survive infancy they nre threatened with idiocy, epilepsy and consumption. 'In short, alcoholism is the most ter rible enemy to personnl health, to fam ily happiness and to national prosper ity. New York American. Tha Fifth Vie. "Four gTeat vices confront the United States," said Dr. Lyman Abbott to the students of Columbia University the other Sunday. Then tho doctor gave a list of the "vices," to-wlt: -Materialism. Self-conceit. Lawlessness. Cnste. While we are not disposed to deny thnt these "vices" are more or less ramniuit in the country, we are in clined to suspect that the vice of drink ing alcohol visits upon the country nearly ns great a burden of distressing results ns either "self-coucelt" or "caste." New Voice. Keep Them Out. Moundsvllle. W. Va.. a prosperous city of 70)O people, not counting the penitentiary inmates, cnusea out uieir sixteen saloons in their receui munici pal election. Now keep 'em out , Damagea Awarded, Mrs. W. K. llenner has obtained verdict of 15000 against a brewery company of Atchison, Kan. Her hus band shot and killed two men, for which he Is serving a life term In the penitentiary. The shooting was the re sult of trouble while the men were drinking beer. Mrs. llenner alleged that the beer came from the brewery, that it led to the tragedy which caused the Imprisonment of her husband, and that she wns therefore deprived of his support aud entitled to damages. Maaona Shut Out Liquor Dealer. The Masonic order of Iowa In Its re cent annual gathering at Bloux City pnssed a resolution debarring liquor dealers from membership In that order and making special provision surround ing those who are now Masons and en gaged in the liquor traffic. The same order In Ueorgla a few months sines passed a prohibitory clause, without any limitations debarring liquor vend ors and dealers from membership. On the opening night of a temper ance crusade in Melbourne, Australia, father Hays' secured the pledges of 2200 people. Commercial Revievr R. G. Dun Si Co.' "Weekly Review of Trade" says ; Recent mild weather might have been expected to retard busincsa, but freight blockades and several similar conditions testify to the contrary, and the last hall of the week brought a seasonable (all in temperature. Higher rates for money tend lo pre vent excesses in Wall street, yet there is no difficulty in securing funds for mercantile undertakings. At some cities fall trade has become more quiet, first necessities being covered, but supple mentary orders are confidently awaited, especially in dry goods, of which stocks sre not burdensome at any point The first interest in holiday trade is noted, ind this element promises to supply un precedented business this year. Crops were not seriously injured by '.he fro?t, -nd such a small percentage af thenar's yield still remains exposed to danger that agricultural results may !e summed up as most favorable. It is :o be hoped that large crops will restore liberal exports, which have made very joor comparisons of lale. Failures this week numbered ai4 in the United States, compared with 208 a year ago, and 25 in Canada, against 24 last year. Bradstrect's says: Wheat, including flour exports for the week ending October 12 are 8,774462 bushels, against 1,072,643 last week, 1.357,15 this week last year, 2,865,610 in 1003 and 5,240,088 in 1002. Corn exports for the week are 962,474 bushels, against t, 186,3X8 last week, 857,517 a year ago, 1410,412 in 1003 and 180,674 in 19x32. WHOLESALE MARKETS. Baltimore. FLOUR Firm and un changed; receipts, 7,871 barrels; exports, 17; barrels. WHEAT Steady. Spot contract, B4&S $454; spot No. 2 red Western, 8s'4 -Yi : October. elifaeUH : December, SoM B6J4; January, 87!4; steamer No. 2 red. fa-roli ; receipts. 14,714 nusneis: Southern, by sample, 658o; Southern, on grade, 7S'2(ii&4'i. CORN Dull. Snot. 58(ffi584; Uc- ober,soI4(& 58V$ ; year,50ji&sov4 ; Janu ary, 49)aT.,40!-S ; February, 494f?4954; March, 49;4494; May, 49!449H; steamer mixed, 56"456JS ; receipts, 45,287 bushels; Southern white corn, 5658; Southern yellow corn, jcgjos. OATS Firmer. No. 2 white, 34H sales; No. 3 white, 3iM3il4; No. mixed, 33 bid; receipts, 33,072 bushels. RYE Quiet. No. 2 Western, 60 ex port; 7l72 domestic; receipts, 8,699 bushels. BUTTER Steady and unchanged. Fancy imitation, 191320; fancy creamery, Z222Yi fancy ladle, 18S19; store packed, ii6. fc.llj frirm and unchanged, 22. CHEESE Easy and unchanged. Large, 124; medium, liA small, 13. JjUIjAK bteady and unchanged. Coarse granulated, 5.00; fine, 5.00, New York. BUTTER Steady, un changed; receipts, 6,867. CHEESE Firm, unchanged: receipts, 2,635- EGGS Firm, unchanged; receipts, 8,236. , POULTRY Alive, steady; Western chickens, 14; fowls, 15; turkeys, . 14. Dressed weak; Western chickens, lifaJ 15; fowls, 12(9)13; turkeys, I4ia. BEEF Steady; packet, 10.5oj3iII.0a LARD Firm ; Western steamed, 7-6S 7-75; refined, steady; continent, 8.00. SUGAR Raw, quiet; lair rehmng. 33-l6; centrifugal, 96 test, 3ftj 311-16; molasses sugar, 242 13-IOi refined, quiet. POTATOES Irish, steady; sweets, dull; prices unchanged. WHEAT No. 2 red, 80S4; elevator, No. 2 red, 90? f. o. b. afloat ; No. I Northern Duluth, f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Manitoba, 0254 f. o. b. illoat. CORN Receipts, 19,825; exports, 10,076. Spot, steady ; No. 2, 62 nominal tlevator, and 62 f. o. b. afloat; No. frcllow, nominal; No. 2 white, nominal Dption market was dull, but iairly Mcady, closing net unchanged. January rlosed, 51 $4; May closed, f.olA Decem ber, 54s54J4, closed, 54'S. OATS Receipts, 230,600 ; exports, ; 078 : snot, steadv : mixed oats. 26(0)11 jounds, 3334J natural white, 30(S)3a pounds, 34W35; clipped white, 3640 jounds, 36ia39. Uva Slock, New York. BEEVES Common Iteers, steady; others steady to loc lower. Butls, steady; cows, steady to Itrong. Native steers, 4-oo5.50; West trns, 4.15; bulls, 2.753.oo; cows, I.4C3 CALVES Veals, firm; grassers, higli ;r; no Westerns; veals, 4-595: 5.50; grassers, I.5o375; fed . calves, 4.00; little calves, 3.oo4.oo. Dressed ralves, steady; city dressed veals, d'iOft (35 ic. per pound; country dressed, 75 '2SHEEP AND LAMBS Sheep, firm; lambs, steady; sheep, S-Jo'SS-So; culls, 8.50(3.25 ; lambs, 7.257.90; few choice !o outside buyers a 8T50; culls, 5.00(3) 5 co; no Canada lambs. HOGS Market weak; State and Ptnnsylvania hogs, 5.801(16.00. Chicago. CATTLE Market s:rdy; demand light. Beef steers, 3.20.6.33; ?tockers and feeders, 2.251)3.85; cows and canners, T.504-Oo; bulls, s.oo(3) 3.65; heifers, I.6jf(i4.25. HOGS Market 5. 1 oc. ' lower. Ship ping and selected, S4oy5..65 ; mixed and heavy packing, 4-8.J5-37! : I'gbt, 5 2cx&) 5.50; pigs and'roush, l.sofif5-15- SHEEP Market active and strong. Sheep, 2.5o6.oo; lambs, 4.sp8.oa - FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING. In the traveling circuses of France the babies of the company are put to work as clowns. A trout was taken from the Thames, near Hampton, with its head tightly, fixed in an old meat can. ' The value of the Pennsylvania ferries between Jersey City, New York, Brook lyn and the. Bronx is $5,698,000, Professor Reulaux, who died In Berlin recently, is said to have originated the phrase, "cheap and ugly," or, as It is more commonly quoted in this country, "cheap and nasty. Sir Wyndham Spencer Portal, who died the other day, was the head of the family that since 174 bai had the privi lege of making banknote paper for lhe Bank of England. The Portal wers a Huguenot family. ' For the purpose of studying the kabits of birds 'of passage a "vogelwarte" hsj been established at Rossiten, in Eastern Prussia, where birds are to be caif' and liberated again after small r have been attached to their f-t. directors request that th feet i 1 ringed birds killed snywhert bt them.
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