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rheme Th i if.- Spiritual In Christ.
Brooklyn. N. Y Preaching at. the
Irving Square Preabjrterlan Church
on toe theme. "Tho Life Spiritual In
Christ: the Fundamental in Chris
tianity, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Hen
derson, pastor, took a his text John
1:6: "Verily, verily, 1 say unto thee,
xcept a man be born of water and
of the Spirit, ho cannot enter Into the
kingdom of God." He said:
It Is my desire, as the Spirit may
give me wisdom, to unfold to you
what, to my mind, la the fundamental
In Christianity. From the words of
our Master 1 conceive the truth to
be that, save as we apprehend the
spiritual verities revealed In Jesus
Christ; save as 'e Bee the world,
man, onr Ood, with the spiritual vis
ton, we cannot become partakers of
the glories of the kingdom of our
Father. Only as we open our hearts
and minds to the Indwelling Spirit of
Almighty liod do we enter Into the
promised land of the new dispensa
tion, to possess it, to enjoy It. Filled
with the Spirit we live, but If the
Spirit of Ood abide not In a man he
la none of His.
In that beautiful figure of the vine
Christ cuts clear for us the nature of
the spiritual life. It Is our oneness
within the Author of the universe and
of us. It Is the merging of our lives
Into the life of God. The perfect
spiritual life expresses itself In union
within the Maker. Entirely within
the living Christ moves the flawless
human. Fashion a man according to
the ststure of Jesus Christ and you
have a spiritual man. The spiritual
life is that life within Christ which
will make you always ask. "What
would Jesus do?" The eihlcal Judg
ment always referring for Its sanction
to the spiritual.
Spirituality and godliness are syn
onymous. Apart from the glorified
Nazarene there Ib, Chrlstlatily speak
ing, no spiritual existence. Spiritual
ity is no mere statement of philoso
phy: ir Is a faci. A vital and a vivi
fying reality Is the life within the
Son of Man. The Christ life is not
merely a state of mind, but a mode
of action. The living of the man
within Jesus and for the Father, and
the Holy Spirit dwelling In him, that
Is the life Bplrltual. As the late Dr.
Maltbie D. Babcock well said: "Spir
ituality is seeing God in common
things and showing God in common
things."
Now this spiritual life is not eso
teric in its nature. If Is not a life
for the few. It Is a life for us all.
The economv of the good news of the
Blaster 13 worldwide In its application
and Incluslveness. To all men the
opportunity to dwell within Christ Is
offered. To all the higher life has Its
appeal. From Nlcodemua of the San
hedrim, to Onesltuus the slave. From
the mighty in intellect, to the unlet
tered and unlearned. To the banker,
to the beggar, without money and
without price, are given all the wealth
at God's command if they will.
The highest Christian life is In
separable from the highest spiritual
ity. We cannot understand the soul
of the message that tile Master brings
to us until we enter Into His point of
Mew. The mightiest Christians of
all the ages were men of the deepest
aanctiflration. And sanct ideation Is
the soul's progress toward the per
fectness of God Witness Peter as ha
stands before the wondering, poly
glottous multitudes, on the day when
the Spirit filled the church. Witness
Saul of Tarsus, as. "ringing down the
grooves of change" he sends the
Watchword, ."For to me to live Is
Christ." Tire secret of the success
of Wesley, of Spurgeon. is spiritual
force. The most helpful power in the
world to-day Is the strength of soul
of consecrated nu n and women. Men
may come and men may go, but the
Influence of the soul which is grow
ing into Oodllkeness is the Influence
Which bends hardest upward and
heavenward. To be truly Christlike,
we must be truly spiritual.
The greatest value of the spiritual
life is that, through it, we are en
abled, more and more, to understand
gesus Christ Himself. The Christ
cannot be comorehended save through
the spiritual depths of His nature
As true It is to-day as it was when
Mcodemus went through the sable
night to learn wisdom at the feet of
Jesus: "That which Is born of the
flesh is flesh Tnat which is born of
the Spirit is Spirit." Save as we en
ter into the Spirit we cannot enter
Into the things of the Spirit. We can
ot grasp heavenly things until we
let Heaven into our hearts. Only as
we discern the soul fqrees which un
derlie the activities of the Saviour
can we understand Christianity and
Christ. Onb as we are filled with
the Spirit ui we understand the
Lamb of God.
The fullness of the promises of the
Prince of Peace can come to those
only who are strongest in soul ser
vice. Christ has left us certain prom
ises. He has conferred upon us cer
tain privileges. But those promises
and those privileges are realized, in
their fullest measure, by those only
who live the fullest life. Christ says
to us with reference to pryer: "If
ye abide in Me and My words abide In
you, ye shall ask what ye will and
It shall be done unto you." A prom
ise and a privilege. But to whom?
To us all Indeed. But fully to those
of us only who live fully within
Christ.
The promises of Christ are con
stant. Prayer Is tbe same blessed
privilege to-day that It was on that
fateful night in Gethsemane. To you
and to me Ohrlst grants tbe same ac
cess to the Father that He had Him
self. But we need the deepest spir
itual Insight to learn the secret of
success In prayer. Read that peti
tion of our Lord In the seventeenth
chapter of the foarth Gospel and see
If It is not the spiritual fervor of it
which enthralls you. The secret of
the success of Christ In His earthly
career Is the secret of the prayer In
tho grove by the Kldron. Christ has
revea'ed the secret to us. It la for
us Us decide whether oi no, using the
spiritual energy that we have, we
shall 40 on to further glories In the
lite within our Saviour.
in our time the, material needs of
men are, instead of being subordi
nated, pushed into primary Import
ance. The mad rush for wealth and
Cower among the leaders In society
as its influence on those in the rear
(ranks. Materialism masters all men.
gave those who see clearly and think
profoundly. And in this there la
cause for fear.
Would that we might look less at
the world njaterlal and mora to the
realm spiritual. Christ ..mt not to
save the pockets, or tbe power, or tbe
Vusition of men. The Saviour, cru
cified on Calvary, died, not that we
might be enabled to gain riches or
1 honor or glory In this world. Rather
did He 8tiffr that, through Him. we
might be led 13 discern the spiritual
realities of life. Rather did He offer
up Himself that, through Him, we
might gain an eternal weight of
glory: that, through Htm, we might
I gain Bplrltual plenty, power, peace.
Would that we might discern that
the spiritual life that we are to live
' hereafter Is the normal life now.
Would that to-day we might cease to
sear our souls with sin. Would that
we might, here and now, re-dedlcate
ourselves to the spiritual service of
our spiritual God. Let us cease to
make the passing pleasures of the
present the motive In our lives. Let
us rather strive for the primal and
the fundamental In life. To the at
tainment of the eternal graces, the
endless powers, the everlasting pos
sessions, let us bend our energies. If
we are to live the life spiritual here
after, then, by all means, let us gain
all spiritual wisdom now. If, through
the aeons, wa are to dwell within the
light of the counteuanceof the Christ,
then lot us become accustomed to the
gb.ry of His presence here.
The student studies against his
life's labors The scientist devotes
his larger energies to his field of In-
j vestlgat.ion. The disciplines of tho
I student subordinate all else to them
selves. The scientist specializes. All
I else Is secondary. Not otherwise is it
with the Christian. The Christian Is
fitting for spiritual specialism. His
duty it is lo draw so near to God that
the divine life Is within him and he
I within the divine. His duty it is,
re and now, to subordinate all
things in this life to the soli's devel
opment. WeVth, position, power, all are
secondary, all are Incldenta. None
Is primary None Is fundamental.
Poverty with purity Is p' ;ce. The
; true wealth Is tlve wealth spiritual.
Real content monies from above and
abides within The purest happi
ness is the gift of the Spirit. The
power that persists is Pentecostal.
i Do you doubt? Come then to the
' hovel that they call home who are
poor in earthly possessions but who
are rich toward God. Poor? No.
Rich? Yes. Unhappy? No. Happy?
' Yes. And you ask: "How can this
be?" Listen to the words of our
blessed Master: "Let not. your heart
be troubled. Ye believe In God. be
lieve also In Me." "I will not leava
you orphans, I will come to you."
"These things I have spoken unto
you that ye might have life." "I au
the bread of life." A son of God tin
happy? A daughter of our Father in
tears?
The need of the church and of the
I individual Christian to-day Is spirit
uality. The power of the Holy Ghost
! the Comforter Is sadly neglected. The
church relies too much upon the
might of man and not enough upon
the grace of God. We need to se
cure, as a real and virile fact in our
own lives, the consciousness of our
being within God through Christ.
Thus may we be clothed with the
might of the Master. Thus may we
gain in soul energy. Thus may we
grow from spiritual childhood into
spiritual maturity. Leaving the mi
asma of the prison house of the body
material, we may climb ever higher
to the spiritual heights where the air
is pure, and clear and vigorous. Es
caping from the bonds of sin we may
clamber upward toward the pinnacle
of perfectness.
Beloved, we must lead. The posi
tion of the church Is at the front.
We must move up to our colors, our
Ideal Is Christ. Our aim the spiritual
regeneration of the world. An
aenemic church cannot lead. We
; need red blood in our veins. Tho
church of Christ must be filled, indi
vidually and collectively, with th
1 deepest spiritual grace. The Chris
1 tian man must be "one who measured
' by the spirit level of his own Ideals
' Justifies." If we are Christians lei
j us live the life. Let us place the em
', phasls upon the enduring things. Let
I us bring men to tbe knowledge ol
the spiritual truths revealed In Jesut
' Christ. Let us teach mankind that
he is richest, who Is wealthiest toward
God. Let us live as we pray and
preach and teach.
And having dedicated ourselves to
the service of the Lord of Light and
of Love let us go out to meu with the
truth. To the highest, to the lowest,
the cultivation of the soul's powers
has its appeal. The spiritual chord
struck by Jesus Christ can awake an
antlphonal note in the soul of every
man who wants to hear.
JANUARY THIRTEENTH
How God's Image is Preserved In Us
or Lost. Gen. 1:26; Col. 3:
1.10.
"Man in God's Image" and "Let
them have dominion" these two
thoughts belong together.
The more a man stands In nwe of
Ood. tho more will ha stand In awe or
himself, since he Is made In the Image
of Ood.
The more we love God. tho more we
shall hate everything that defiles
Ood's Image In us. and soek to mor
tify It. that Is. put It to death.
God's Image still remains In the
worst of men. It has only to be re
newed, not recreated.
Suggestions.
Change a single line of a portrait,
and you destroy the likeness. 80 a
single sin wlil destroy our likeness to
Ood
Wo alwafl Ilka to see children look
Ing llkf their noble parents. How
proud we should be of our likeness tc
Ood!
If a drunkard knew that a oertalr
number of drinks would make his face
permanently black, how many men
would drink? And shall wo be los?
careful about the face of our soul?
The first glass is a very little mat
ter? So Is the click of tho handcuff"
about tho wrist!
Illustrations.
Doubtless there are stll many price
less paintings or the masters hidden
behind coatings of dust and dirt. Clean
every canvas and look for tho artist's
name.
One of tho oldest Bible manuscripts
is a palimpsest tho precious words
erased and the parchment used for
worthies writing; the ancient book
could be restored with extreme dlffi
culty. How many lives are palimp
sests! How Is a file de-filed ? By rust. And
so Is a man defiled when he is not
kept clean by service.
They are to move the Boston Muse
urn of Flue Arts away from the centre
of the city to a more open region, for
fear of fire. How careful men are of
Images of paint and marble, and how
earless of the Image of Ood In the
soul!
Questions.
Am I losing God's likeness simply
by neglecting It?
Do 1 diligently pattern after God's
Image as mirrored In God's Book?
Am I growing leas like God, or more
like Him?
EPIWDRTH LlftGUTLESSONS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 13.
THE AGRICULTURIST.
ny -s mi l. 1 owi.i tt. jr.
Selfishness
in Prayer. Matt.
5-7.
Wales.
The waves of the ocean spring up,
WS kuow not where or why. They
come careering past us, the very enw
blems of resistless power. They sub
side and are lost among the succeed
ing waves. In like manner, on the
vast sea ol human life, individuals,
then empires, mysteriously emerge.
They raise their ephemeral forms
conspicuously high, overwhelming
whatever stands in the way of their
march. They also subside and are
lost, but the unfathomable abyss of
humanity still remains, and God's
eternal purpose moves on toward the
accomplishment of tbe determined
end. Diapers
Hoggin, Letter Writer.
The ingenuity of . li" oesging lei-ter-writer
was Illustrated anew by a
story told by the Bishop of Salford
recently Dr. Casarteiil told the
Dante Society that tliero ware both
advantages and disadvantages in
having an Itn'.ian name. "This morn
ing.'' be said, "I received a begging
letter from au Impecunious Irishman,
who said he had noticed my name
was Italian. He appealed to me to
support hlmsej. and his family be
cause 1 myself happened to be born
on the birthday of the Kins of
Italy." " Manchester Guardian.
SHE KNEW.
An architect remarked to a lady
that he had been to see the great
nave in the new church.
The lady friend replied: "Don't
mention names; I know tbe man to
whom you refer." Pittsburg BuM
letln.
Passages for reference: Job. 27. 8
10; isa. 1. IS: Lake IS. 10-14; 20. 47:
James 1. :'..
Jeusus gives us two classes of men
as a warning on the subject of pray
er. They are the hypocrites and the
heathen. Ho pictures tho former
I standing on tho most conspicuous
! street corner, and In the most pro
mlncnt place In the church, where he
I can be the observed of all observers
I There ho stands and recites his pray
ers that ho may be seen or men. It
Is not a lifting of the heart to God
I because of need, but a glory In the
I "holler than thou" spirit. In that
I other scene when tho Pharisee and
publican go to me tenipie to pray ne
gives us another glimpse of the same
man. Boastful of his own Belf
rigbteousneas, be wishes to impress
upon all beholders bis own holiness
Ho cares more to got a reputation
1 gmong men than he does to get right
wiih Ood. In Luke again he calls
his disciples' attention 10 the scribes,
! whose religion consists In the form
nnd ''for a show make long prayers."
1 that men, may think them holy while
j they themselves -devour widows'
houses." Beware of such people. Tor
"the same shall receive greater dam
i nation.'' Away buck In the early
1 days, Job discounts tho hope of the
I hypocrite and asserts In the form of
a question, to make it more emphatic,
1 that GocJ will not hear his cry when
i trouble conies on him. Tile prophet
j Isaiah, in the first chapter of his
' prophecy, plainly told the Jews that
' their prayers would not be heard bo
cause their hands were full of blood.
Their injustice, their evil doing, and
1 their iniquities were so cherished by
j them that thair prayers meant not h
I Ins and God could not answer.
Did you ever see two words that
kjok more out of place together?
Huve you ever seen two words thut
! more accurately described the actual
j quality of soni" yea, many -of your
j prayers The I'eut ness of Ood to
many enlreutles which we have ut
tered is not his fault for we have not
met the condlilons. -'Ye ask, and
receive not, because ye ask amiss,
thut ye may consume it upon your
lusts." There is nothing more con
trary 10 the spirit of the Master thun
selfishness. There Is nothing more
necessary to answered pruyer than
"a right spirit toward our heavenly
Father."
One of tbe early records in the Uni
ted States of a protest against convlec
labor occurred at a mechanics' con
vttutlon held lu lilcu, N. Y , iu 1834.
Address to it 'Possum,
"I des wants ter romembcr you
er de sayln", 'Dem what laughs bos'
laugh laBt,' " said Brother Williams
to the possum that was ,1 inuisitj at
his from tbe treetop. "So you
needn't show yo' tootles ter me in
dat fashion! You well knows I too
knoik-kneed ter climb up eu git
you. et I'd dos been bo'n bowleg, on
didn't have de rheumatism, on
wuzn't b'.ln' in one eye, en wui
young ez what I use ter be, en hud
a good, sarchln' dram dls mawnln'.
1 you alio' would have somepln' mo'
ter grin fer than what you got now
jou trlflln' gray devil, you! You
look laV a rat anyhow, en I half
suspects you des nachully no good!'
Atlauta Constitution.
Near Ashcroft, In British Colum
bia, are a number of small lakes,
whose shores and bottoms are cov
ered with a crust containing borax
and soda in such quantities and pro
portions that when cut out It serves
as a wasnlng compound. The crust
is cut into blocks and handled in the
same manner as ice, and It is esti
mated that one of tho lakes contains
20,000 tons of this material.
In the world's dictionary the farm
er is defined as a plain tiller of soli,
and Die agriculturist or planter as
one who has. lifted the farm on to
the plane of business.
The term "farmer," however, cov
ers that vast company of workers,
who, by the planting of the seed,
raise nny kind of a harvest, or who
breed and raise cattle nnd other
stock.
The planter of the South and the
agriculturist of the West nro both
farmers, but, by right of courtesy,
are described by other titles, because
they carry farming into business, or
rather apply methods of business to
planting and harvesting.
The railroad may cease running,
and things will continue to live. The
stock-board may board up Its doors,
and the world will continue to move
us it has been moving for centuries,
subject only to transient financial
cloudiness. Most businesses may go
out of business, and the professlonal
lst may no longer continue to prac
tise, yet people will continue to live
and propagate. But where there is
no longer any farmer, there will bo
no longer nny people, for the world
will have starved to death.
The farm, with what the farm
stands for, Is the essential factor of
human maintenance.
Tho farm, then, Is an Indispensa
ble necessity, without which the na
tlo ijvould never have begun their
exittflSce.
The wealth of the world is not in
Kb business, is not even In its miner
al resources, but consists In the cul
tivation of the earth's surface in
the farm.
The farmer ,1s the original pro
ducer of that which makes life pos
sible, and without which no life can
be maintained.
The fundamental corner-stone of
all physical progress was originally
placed upon the farm, and there 'It
will remain bo long as we have physi
cal natures and require material
food.
Farming Is our industry, the in
dustry preservative of all industries.
Notwithstanding the existence of
hundreds of abandoned farms, and?
the constant exodus from the farm
to the city, the farm, in its numerical
and financial strength, Is to-day the
greatest power in the whole civilized
world.
The farmer Is not recognized as
he should be, because he seeks nelth
er notoriety nor prominence, but
quietly does his work, allowing
others to play at society and to re
ceive Its shallow reward.
Here, however, has been made a
grievous mistake. The farmer, like
the lawyer, should be proud of his
profession, sufficiently appreciative
of it to contribute to it the full meas
ure of his self-respect. Because he
does not do so, he has lost both the
social and business prominence
which really belongs to his calling.
To be in love with our work does
not fully suffice. It Is necessary to
have the lovo for the work so appear
berore men that they may honor us,
and, by respecting us, be more will
ing to become of us or to help us.
Some farms do not pay, partly be
cause some farms cannot be made to
pay. The barren farm Is a worthless
piece of property. The sooner It Is
abandoned the better.
Probably not more than one-half
of our fertile farms pay as well as
they would pay If the right effort
wus made to make them pay. It is
but a common remark that a great
majority of farms are unprofitable
because of the indifference on the
part of the owners.
Altogether too many farmers, In
stead of working their farms, allow
tholr farms to work tlieni. The situ
ation, or rather the farm, is Lhelr
muster, instead of their being master
of the situation.
Tho principles of business, the
laws of progressive economy, are not
applied to the farm as they are to
:ither trades or businesses; conse
quently, the farmer Is not always
luanelally well-to-do; and usually,'
through no fault of the farm, but
because he does not exact what he
should from It.
The tendency to-day is unmistak
ably away from the farm. The farm
er's boy, partly because he wants a
change, but largely because the great
unknown shines with a light appar
ently brighter thuu all the lights he
has ever seen, desires to leave the
farm and to earn his living under
entirely different conditions, away
from Nature as he had experienced
It. where he may lead a life dia
metrically different from that of his
childhood.
But the farmer's boy Is noL alto
gether to blame for leaving the
farm. The fault, In more thau hair
the cases, la due to the rarmer him
self and to the way the farm Is con
ducted. The boy brought up upon
(the farm which Is not properly cul
tivated, and where most of the work
Is drudgery, or Is made to be drudg
ery, where Intellectual growth Is
stunted, naturally, in the ignorance
f hiri youth, assumes that all farms
are like the farm of his childhood,
and that the opportunities of life
jmust be elsewhere. Therefore, he
gravitates to the city, not so much
because he loves the city, but be
cause he feels that thaf which he
knows nothing about, although he
imay think he does, is better than
that which he does know about from
actual boyhood experience.
The farmer, rather thau the farm.
Is driving the boy to the city, and
the boy Is going to the city simply
beccuse In a negative way he has
been forced cityward.
If tbe average farmer works hard
er than does the business man, It Is
not always because ho has to, but
generally because he thinks he must.
I do not deuy that there Is much
drudgery in farm labor-'-there is.
So there is in almost any other call
ing or work. But the excess of
drudgery is often the fault of the
drudge, not of tbe work Itself.
So far as the loug farm hours un
concerned, they are no longer thau
those required of the majority of
meu ir bailing! tor thaniselvat ud
of members of all professions. The
farmer has as much time on his
hands, and generally more, than
does the city business man or pro
fessional man. It may seem to blm
that he works longer, but he does
not. As a matter of fact, the chances
are that he works fewer hours than
does his city neighbor.
Lack of success in farming, unlesa
the farm be unmistakably barren,
generally comes from lack of Intelli
gent application. Altogether too
many farmers Imagine that success
Is wholly due to hard and laborious
labor. Labor Is necessary to any
successful result, but the labor In
which the mind acts the uart of nart-
ner Is the kind which pays and which
does not wear men out. As hard as
farming Is. and as small as is the
compensation it usually brings, It
gives the rarmer more than Is re
ceived by the average city dweller
more, even, of actual dollars and ;
cents.
The average city clerk, at the end
of the year, has less money, and leas 1
ready money, than has the farmer; 1
and tbe chances are that the city man
has worked harder, although he may
have enjoyed stated holidays and va- j
cations.
Although the average city busl-
ness may may take In more money
than the farmer can possibly gain i
under the most favorable circum
stances, he pays a greater penalty j
for what he obtains, and in the ma- I
jority of cases Is worse off than Is !
the rarmer.
If the farmer treated his work aa
he should, and applied to it the in
telligence that is given to other
trades, he would reduce the drudg
ery to a minimum, and ready money j
would not be a stranger to him.
Nearly all farmers make a living.
Comparatively few, of course, grow
rich from the proceeds of the farm; i
but more than half of the farmers,
whether located on the rocky hills
of Maine or on the rapidly produc-
Ing Western 30II, not only make ex- I
penses, but are able to save some- !
thing every year.
The farmer Is seldom found in the
poorhouae.
From farmers' children have
sprung the majority of our great
men, both of business and of the
professions.
Many a man, who does not know
anything about It, and therefore
speaks with posltiveness, claims that
the farmer's life is narrower than
most others, and that the farmer has
little opportunity to better civiliza
tlon, 8 a matter of fact, the farm-
er, unless he is located miles from !
t'ua heart of progress, has a better
opportunity to learn what he should i
know than has the artificially-living j
citylte, whose broadness consists not
so much in the good things, but to !
an alarming extent In the bad things,
of life.
The city clerk or city business
nan, working in a block and housed j
In a flat, does not have one-half as
much opportunity to progress, In the 1
truest sense of the word, as does the I
farmer on a fairly fertile farm, I
working as his own master on his j
own property.
The farmer, above all other men.
U Independent. His vocation Is the
only self-supporting business on !
earth.
The successful farmer is a man of
education, although he may not have !
been book-taught. He is well
equipped, so far as general kuowl- 1
edge is concerned, aud, further, he is
a man of business.
With the modern periodicals, and i
tne distribution of every class of
reading matter, the farmer has much
opportunity for mental development.
There always will be some poor
and half-starved meu among farm
ers, but this class is far less promi
nent upon tho farm than Iu the
marts of business; and there are
ten times more impecunious city
workers than there are farmers in
actual want. But right here let It
be said that even the poorest farm
ers are better off than ure the aver
age strugglers of the great city.
From "Starting in Life," published
by Little, Drown & Co., Boston, Mass.
COMMERCIAL COLUMN,
Weakly Review of Trade and Latest
Market Reports.
New York R. O. Dun ft Co. 'a
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Christmas week made a favorable
comparison with previous years as
to the volume of trade. Retailers'
storks of wt.iter goods have been so
well distributed that there remain
loss than the usual assortments for
bargain sales. Wholesale business
Is good for the season and collec
tions show further improvement.
Jobbers are delivering spring goods
In some lines, adding to the freight
congestion, which has not been re
lieved, except In Isolated cases.
Manufacturers complain ot the light
receipts of fuel and raw material,
which has reduced activity at many
plants, and there Is also some Inter
ruption because of Inventories and
repairs. On the whole, however,
there Is less Idle machinery than Is
customary nt this time. Lack ol
snow greatly facilitated building
operation" at many cities and work
is n, aaing rapid progress, although
delayed deliveries of materials retard
operations In Industry nlso.
High prlcces are maintained In all
sections of the Iron and steel In
dustry, which is only natural when
all departments are crowded with
work and contracts run so far into
the future that there Is no prospect
of Idle machinery for at least tho
first half of next year.
Wool goods continue to develop
a little faster than worsteds. Indicat
ing that the trend hns changed, ot
ha larger socks of the latter were
carried over.
Prices for packer hides are firm
ly maintained and some varletlet
have risen still higher, an element
of Btrength being the extent to
which hides are sold ahead.
Leather is quiet, but more active
that Is customary at this season
large sales of Union backs being re
corded at Boston.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Stuttering.
Of the etiology of stuttering we
know nothing definite. Direct Inher
itance in race, and possibly imitation
Is the chief factor when father aud
son are affected. There Is usually a
well-marked neurotic inheritance,
others in the family having various
forms of nervous complaints. But I
have not been able to confirm Char
cot's statement that stuttering aud
ordinary facial paralysis frequently
occur in the same famllj. Shocks,
irights and debility after iome acute
illness are the causes to which the
onset is most frequently attributed
by parents, imitation la undoubtedly
an occasional cause, children I avlng
often been known to start the habit
wheu put in chargu of a stuttering
uurse-maid. A friend or mine who
was eitremely fond of horses and
was hardly to be kept out of the
stables acquired a most obstinate
stutter from the groom. Adenoid
vegetations are often met with and
are Important aa a predisposing cause
since they tend to prevent the proper
filling of the chest with air. Wl en
present they ahould be removed as a
preliminary measure, although it
must not be expected that their re
moval will lead to a prompt cessation
of the atuttar. Lancet.
Wholesale Markets.
Baltimore.- Flour Dull ana un
changed; receipts, 10.212 barrels;
exports, 211 barrels.
Wheat Quiet: spot, contract, 73
74; No. 2 red Western, 76
76-; December, 73 74; Janu
ary, 74 74; May. 79 79;
steamer No. 2 red, US 69; re
ceipts, 8,253 bushels; Southern on
grade, 68 74.
Corn Firmer; spot, new 47
47; year, 47 47; January.
47 47; February, 47 47;
March, 47 47; steamer mixed,
4545; receipts, 134.684 bushels;
new Southern white corn, 45 48;
new Southern yellow corn, 4547.
Oats Steady No. 2 white, 40
40; No. 3 white, 39 fit 39; No.
2 mixed. 39; receipts. 4.365 bushels.
Rye Firm; No. 2 Western do
mestic, 7677; receipts, 5,188 bush
els. Butter Steady and unchanged;
fancy Imitation, 25 ft 27; tancy
creamery, 33 34; rancy ladle, 21
23; store packed, 19 21.
Eggs Firm, 26.
Cheese Active anJ unchanged;
largo, 14; medium, 14; small,
14.
New York. Wheat Receipts, 53,
000 bushels; exports, 26.941 bushels:
sales, 1,500,000 bushels futures; spot
Arm; No. 2 red, nominal elevator;
No. 2 red, 81 f. o. b. afloat; No. 1
Northern Dultith, 90 f. o. b. afloat;
No. 2 hard winter, 85 f. o. b. afloat.
Corn Receipts, 77,400 bushels;
exports, 76,781 bushels; sales, 15,
000 bushels futures, 40,000 bushels
spot; spot steady; tio. 2, 52 ele
vator and 50 f. o. b. alloat; No. 2
yellow, 50; No. 2 hite, 50.
Oats Receipts, 39,000 bushels;
exports, 14,955 bushels; spot Arm;
mixed oats, 26 32 pounds, 39
39; clipped white, 36 40 pounds,
4044; natural white, 3033
pounds, 40 41.
Hay Firm: shipping, S5 90.
Cabbages Firm; unchanged.
Philadelphia. Wheat steady; con
tract grade, December, 7474c.
Corn firm, c. higher; December,
47 48. Oats steady; No. 2 white
natural, 41c.
Butter steady; fair. demand. Ex
tra Western creamery, official price,
32 c; extra nearby prints, 36.
Eggs unchanged; nearby fresh,
29c. at mark; Western fresh, 29 at
murk.
Live poultry firm, fowls, 11
13c; old roosters, 9 9; spring
chickens, 11 13; ducks, 13 14;
geese, 13 14; turkeys, 16 017.
Cheese quiet, but steady; New
York full creams, fancy, 14 c;
New York full creums, choice, 14;
New York full creams, fair to good,
13 14.
Live Stock.
New York. Beeves Dressed beer
In moderate demand at 6c. to 9c.
per pound, with fancy beef bringing
9c.
Calves Veals steady at 6.50 to
9.50; culls, 4.50' burnyard and West
ern calves uomlnal; dressed calves
steady to strong; city-Jressed veuls,
8c. to 14c. per pound; country
dressed 7c. to 12 o.
Sheep and Lambs Sheep slow;
prime lambs steady: medium grades
slow; theep, 3.50 4.50; no prime
sheep sold; lambs, 6.70 M0.
Chicago. Cattle Common tc
prime steers, 4.00 (it 7.40; cows, 2.75
M 4.75; heifers, 2.60 5.00; bulls,
2.40 4.60; calves. 2.75 8.50; stock
era and feeders, 2.40 (fl 4.50.
Sheep Sheep, 3.75 6.00; year
lings, 4.60 6.50; lambs, 00 -8.00.
Poet o Mushrooms.
Cornellle la kaown as tbe poet of
many things, but it has required the
finding ot a hitherto unknown MS.
at tbe Blbllotheque Nationals to re
veal him aa the poet of cooked mush
rooms, which ha apoatrophlzea aa
"glOrioga In their eud If their origins
are obMure." He compares "ita
white body and atem" to a parasol,
relates ita "life," Ita "struggle with
tbe sun," suggests Its relish with
cream or mutton ragout, aud declare
fts savory excellence as compared
with asparagus, truffles or artichokes.
The verse is not exactly that of the
"Old" or of "Polyeucle," but It is
UuruvUJs. Louioa Globe, .
WORTH REMEMBERING
About 1,760,000 acres grow the
world's tobacco.
The jerboa is the desert rat and is
found in the Soudan.
The Asiatic ports of Russia are at
the present time free of customs dut
ies. Employees in salt works uever get
cholera, scarlet fever, iutluenxa or
colds.
The production of copper In the
United Statea in 1905 exceeded 901,
000,000 pounds.
Commercial traveler's licenses iu
the British South African colonies
aud protectorates amount to $600 a
year.
When Hawaii waa diacovered by
Captuin Cook In 1778 It has a popu
lation of 200,000. There ure uow
only 31,000 natives on the Islands.
There la a training schools for ele
phants at Apl, in the Cougo State,
where 28 elephants are taking les
aona. The training operations have
produced encouraglug results.
Consul Roger S. Greene writes th.t
American tobacco seems to be un
known at Vladivostok Russian be
ing used for tho beat aud Chinese for
the cheapest.
fVTKRXATlONAI. LESSON COM
MI N IS I OH JAM HV t ! BY
THE REV. I. W. HF.NDKKSON. .
Subject: Man Mailo In the Imago of
God. Oen. 1.20:2.3 Uoklcn
Text. Gen. 1:27 Memory
Verses, 2, 27.
Having created. In order, the beav
en and the earth, light. Heaven.
Earth, vegetation, the sun. the moon,
the stars, the fish, the fowl, the tame
and the wild animals, Ood creates
man In His own image, after His
own likeness And having created
man and woman Ood. blessing them
as creatures of His own heart, dellv
rs unto them dominion over every
thing alive upon the earth.
The central point of this story is
that man was made in the likeness
of God. To him Is given a similar
though not identical creative capac
ity; to him Is given sight, hearing,
the sense of sound. of taste, of touch.
To him Ood gave the power of
thought and the added power of the
exercise of a sovereign will. For
Ood says "Thou shalt have domin
ion." Ood, In man. creates a per
sonality like unto Himself. A per
sonality not so full and not so infl
nlte. but a personality essentially
the same as His own. God creates
man as a ruler and In order to rule
in the likeness or God It is evident
that man must partake In some
measure, at least, of the moral ca
pacities of Ood.
The second part or the lesson
deals with the seventh dav of crea
tion, the day on which God finished
His work. This seventh dav has
come down to us as the Sabbath, the
day of rest. Here also we find in
simple language the record of great
economic, physical and spiritual
facts. If God had not rested. If Ood
had not by example, If we may so
Bay, set upart the seventh day as a
day of rest, we should nevertheless,
as human beings, require one day in
seven for cessation from economic
cares, for the recuperation of our
physical natures, for the culture and
the cultivation of our spiritual ca
pacities. It is a well-known fact
that too murh attenton to business
affairs dulls the fine edge of business
power. It Is an equally well-known
fact that we must have at least one
day's recreation and rest out of
every seven In order to the proper
health or the functions of the human
body. It Is a scientific physiological
fact that, each day. a busy man or
woman uses up precisely one-seventh
more of vitality than is stored up for
any one day's use. And as a horse,
who is worked seven days a week
gets weary and worn out, so must we
or we shall alao become weary, give
one-seventh of our time to rest. This
Is t;-e law of God written In the life
and the experience of humanity.
And not less true Is It that the pro
per husbanding of our spiritual re
sources demands the giving of
an equal and regular portion
of our time to Ood. The bouI
of man needs refreshment and
invigoration as well as his body or
his mind. Especially is this so in the
case of men who are, by virtue of
their callings In life, brought face
to face with the materialism and the
endless distracting influences of our
generation. Such men need a rest
day, a day of recuperation, a day de
voted to the strengthening of the
whole man.
The following notes on the various
verses in the lesson may be found to
be of value:
Vs. 26. "Us." Ood Is understood
as being surrounded by the angelic
heavenly court, by cherubim and
seraphim, etc. "Man," Heb. Adam, a
collective, common noun. "Image
Ikeness," Bomewhat synouvmous,
double statement of same fact; the
writer tbrowB no immediate light
upon what Is the constituency of the
Image of God; he probably inferred
that without longer description his
leaders would grasp his meaning.
Vs. 27. "Created," the third
greatest formation of God. He
created first the heaven and the
earth, und secondly the conscious
life. Mun was the third and by a
cumulative process the greatest di
vine creation.
Vs. 29. "Meat," in its earlier
meaning of "food." As it stands we
might be led to suppose that tbe
writer was announcing a vegetarian
diet as a divine decree. But however
much some of us might wish to have
it that way, and despite the undoubt
ed god points of such a system of
living, the writer hasn't this evident
ly in mind. It is likely that in the
peaceful early days they did live on
the fruits of the earth, but the wri
ter cannot be accused of making a
pro vegetarian argument.
Vs. 30. "Beast herb." universal
peace, it would seem, ruled then
among men and animals. "Life," R.
V. "Living soul," animal life com
mon to all creatures, man lucluded.
This Is not to be confused with the
spiritual lite.
Vs. 31. "The," In all except the
first and sixth days It Is "a day.:'
This Indicates the Importance of the
first und sixth beyond the others.
Vs. 2, Chap. 2. "Ended," V.
"Finished. " It seems likely that
English is uuuble to define just what
the writer means here. QoaV finished
all His six days' work with the Imme
diate beginning of the seventh day,
and in a certain sense He may be
understood as having finished it on
the seventh day by His divine decree
concerning rest. If hallowing the
day is labor, then it seems that Ood
did not finish the work till the sev
enth day was started. But if wa
consider "work" in the common ac
ceptation of that term then Ood'a la
bor must be considered to have
stopped with the last moment ot the
sixth day.
Distances Unthinkable.
Light, which travels at a speed ol
186,000 miles in a single second ot
time, takes over tour years to reach
ua from tho nearest star. The thread
apun by a aplder la so excessively fine
that a pound of It would be long
enough to reach around the earth
It would take ten pounds of It to
reach to the moon, and over 3000
pounds to stretch to the aua. But to
get a thread long enough to roach
the nearest atar would require halt
a million tons. It a railroad could be
built to this star and the faro fixed
at one cent a mile, the total cost ol
the journey would be 1260,000,000,
or more than alxty tlmaa the whole
amount of coined gold in the world.
New York American.
THICK WEATHER.
Gunner--"Do tbe automobiles In
London have the same kind of noma
as those over here?"
Ouyer "Oh, no. In London they
have fog horns." Chicago News.