$Trt PtPT SONDAV ill INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- Mnm for pkbruahx o, y THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Sultji-ct: m Separated People. that mold his life. - unniaiimunuLHiunnuiu: for the- py-2f' Lessons from the Patriarchs. I. Noah. jCttLHb -ii .w. B -itf-Vl'WW., OY THE: RfcV-J IRA W- H&NDER.SoN,, THE: DMNt. mi . . .. , i V. . - .... . , . t tn' 1UOU1 I11H lilt. 1111- t-"f Ul 111B Brooklyn. V Y Preaching at the christian ls 9nKie na when he looks 1 li ving Square Presbyterian Church j at xo may read th3rpi the n the theme. "A Separated People, ihe Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson. pastor, took as his text Titus 2: 14. "A " people tor His own possession." He i , said: The mission of Jesus Christ to men was to reveal to them the rulness of divine truth unto the establishment of the Kingdom of God In their hearts. Those who are citizens of that kingdom are la a very lively sense an "elect race; a royal priest hood; a holy nation; a people for God's own possession." To serve God well and to the end Is not child's play but a man's work To swear al legiance to the King of Kings Is to cut loose from sin and to enter into the warfare against Satan upon terms of decided and continuous opposition and resistance. The tight against evil is not a sham batile, but a hitter struggle to the death, with "no quar ter" for the slogan. Constructively, the Kingdom is for men who are workiug up toward godliness entire through the yielding of self to do the will of the Father. The memburs of the Kingdom are men who are not the servants of the world. Citizen ship is conditioned upon loyalty to revealed truth and upon growth in the appropriation and realization of divine verities. If there is any one thing that needs emphasis In this day and time It Is the fact that Christians are different from those who serve the Baals of the present. The difference is not t Msorlal or sartorial or educational, but vital. It depends not upon the cut of the hair, or upon the fashion of clothes, or upon the lack or abun dance of schooling u man may have experienced, but upon his manner of life. To walk our streets and dis tinguish Christians from the men who are not brethern Of Christ, (except they be marked with the plain, facial, disreputable evidences of sin) is not easy. The thief and Ihe church trus tee may each be shaven In the same shop and both he Immaculately neat. The same style of ready-to-measure garments may array the deacon and the crook. Ever where we may find men who under similar or identical exteriors yet harbor ;:ud foster total ly opposite ideals, motives and thoughts. K Is not my purpose to intimate thai in many an instance it is not perfectly easy to mark good men from evil. The lineaments of sin sootier or later are impressed indelibly upon the faces of those who lead lives of shame, no matter what sort of clothes they wear or how neat they may.be. Contrariwise, the purity of Christ Is revealed in the countenance of him who lives near to God. Even a child may point a drunkard by his rags and a priest by his garb. These diffen ences are patent. But it Is not of the difference in the clothes, or cash balance at the bank, or the mental culture of Christians and non-Christians that I wish to speak. The difference between those who love Christ and those who care noth ing about Him is not in externalities but in fundamentals. We are con cerned not so much with what a man eats or wears, as with what he thinks, with the motives by which he is ac tuated, with the principles by which ;hls actions are tested and justified, with the sort of soul life he lives. The possession of a Christ Inspired soul, energized by- God blessed no li v.-s and aspirations and Ideals is what differentiates Christians from ;the world. Titus tells us In our text that we have been redeemed by Christ that we may be set apart "a people for His own possession." and St Peter Informs us also that we are "a people for God's own possession." These two statements state much truth in a nutshell and lead us to in quire what manner of men "God's own" are. The Christian is a man of fine jrtn- riple. Paul tells us that all things deepest motives of his soul. There Is no mud there. But how different are the motive of the men of the world. Lacking principle, it is well to be wary of their motives. Thp man who I continually looking out for himself may, not unjustly, be suspected of having an axe to grind. His chief aim Is to throw dust In your eyes that you may not see through him His ways are devious and his motives double and dangerous. But the greatest thing that differ entiates the Christian Irom the world Is the soul life. The man who puts his trust In temporalities has little of that and generally wants more of it Being chiefly zealous to get a full 1 store of this world's goods he hasn't j lime to waste over the inner man and Intangible realities of life. His j time Ik preoccupied by the present. The Christian, however, is not so. Living a full, rich, free, helpful life In the world, he yet realizes that af ter all the soul life Is the thing. His chief Interest In the material things of life lies in the fact that through them his soul may ilnd expression. To live near to God Is his first desire and endeavor, for he knows that then the basis of life is sure. Ah. yes. there is a difference be- j I ween God's men and Belial'.-!. There j Is a sharp line of demarkation be tween the life of felflshness and the life of selfllessness. On the one hand we have an army of pure mluded, clean hearted, noble acting men uud women; and opposed to them a bos; of unprincipled self-seekers. The man who is clothed upon by Christ cannot be happy and and do wrong; UlA servant of Saian thinks It happi ness If so be he only gets on top. i The Christian views his actions In the 1 light of eternity and considers their everlasli.ig consequences. 1 am not anxious tut Christians i should be labelled by the clothes they . wear. 1 am solicitous that their de- ; portment should mark them as j Christ's; that when they open their ! mouths men shall know without any : guesswork upon whose side they ; stand; that when the rub comes be tween wrong and righteousness they shall stand up and be counted with the hosts of heaven Heb. 11:7; 2 Pet. 2:4-9; 1 Pet. 3:17-22. One faithful man. Gen. I: Ml. The God-taught man. Gen. 0:12-21. The obedient man. Gen. G:22 7:B. Hellglon In the fninllv. Gen. 7:0 S: 19. Public worship. Gen. 8:20--9:7. (I d s covenant. Gen. 9:8-29. There ate two kinds of fear. Noah was moved, not with fear, but with 'godly fear." (Heb. 11:7, revised version!. A good man never saves himself alone, but comes bringing seven others (2 Pet. 2:5). Certainly no one will doubt that the Lord knows haw to deliver the righteous; and does any one doubt that God lacks the will lo dO it? (3 Pet. 2:9.) Baptism, like Noah's venture, Is a glad putting forth on the seas of faith it Pet. 3:21). Suggestions. The secret of Noah's success was that he -'walked with God." That Will bring success to nuy man. Noah, like all great men, dared to do nn apparent absurdity at God's command, sure that It would turn out anything hut an absurdity. Noah planned largely; or, rather, ho accepted God's large plans. God's servants build big arks. What ridicule Noah must have had to Ince before the rain came; and then, what entreaties! Illustrations. A trusting man climbs a Jacob's ladder. The top Is hidden In the clouds, but the bottom is Ann so lie knows the top must be ulso. Whoevi r sets out to voyage God Will land, like Noah, a great deal higher than his point of departure. Boats must be built in dry times, or llley wlil leak In wet times. A mountain never did better ser vice than when it held up Noah's ark, like a beacon ligt of faith to all the world . Questions. Am I ever afraid to obey God? Is my religion for storms, or only for fair weather? Am 1 trying to save others, or mere ly myself? Sunstroke, It is pointed out. Is dun to the chemical and not to the heat rays. The active rays penetrate any thing except a color screen, and an Egyptian army officer has effectively protected himself by lining bis helmet and coat with yellow.' and firm with A Good Farm Tool House. I notice In last week's Farmer a writer under the heading of "Farm Machinery of the United States," gives an interesting comparison of the work performed by machinery and without. It seems that the use Df machinery cornea nearer solving the scarcity of labor problems of any thing that I know of. But with high priced implements as with high priced stock it has to fte taken care of If we are to get the best results, hence the necessity of good shelter for It while not in use. It believe after a lot of thinking and planning that I have a house nearly "filling the bill." Most of the tool houses are con structed In a way that Is inconveni ent to get the tools in and out. 8uch bouses usually have the doors In tho nd of the building and you have to run probably half of your tools out to get the one wanted. Not so with this one, as you can put mower, plow r any other implement in or take It out without disturbing the rest of machinery; a wonderful help when you are In a hurry or tired and think you will put off running that binder 'into the dry. The house I have Is eighteen feet wide and thirty-two feet long al though I would prefer one longer If any difference was to be made. To build the house cut ten oak posts nine feet long nnd of a size as large as you would use for end post of wire fence, or smaller, will do. Mark The Common Denominator. It seems to be taken for granted by a number of writers that the only way of rendering the Gospel of Christ acceptable to men Is to show Its like- I ness to other religions, and to try to Bad the common denominator be- tween them all. This Is u line of. de- j fense with which we are becoming familiar; but it does not require much foresight to see that It is doomed to fail. It is one thlug to show (what Is very necessary to be shown l that the Gospel is the perfec tion of all light and truth iu the world; ic is quite another to attempt to make all the light and truth equal There is no need to disparage the broken rays of light nnd the partial morsels of truth which are found outside Christ, but the fact remains that they are broken und partial at the very best. The Gospel has hith erto achieved its victories by insist ence upon what is unique in it, and this special note must be insisted upon, if the victories are to continue. Loudon Christian. EPWOflTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10. Prayer a llarinonlzer. Peter had a praying band about him; tor ten days tho disciples con tinued iu prayer. When the preacher stands us Peter did. surrounded by a praying church, the result Is a multi tude of converts, steadfastness in church life, self-denial and gladness. Peter's sermon wus born of prayer. A praying people cannot quarrel; strife, malice. back-Mtlng open springs that feed church quarrels I are dried up by the south wind of prayer. A church on its knees look ing to Christ, overlooks much. He t Hilt studies tho yl:.r. tuts mi limn 1,, are lawful unto us. but tnat all things , crltlcUe hla (tnowf; the telescope are not expedient. The man of prin- tnat walla ln the ,anet wallj out clple acts, not that he may be Insured mell A praying people do not oppose In the exercise and prerogatives of the paator. ,uoiten metal easily takes his personal rights only, but in order ,;. stiai)e . mol(! , ... that the welfare of society may be en hanced. He inquires not what are luy rights, but what are my obliga tions'.' His chief concern Is not to gain all that is coming to him in a material way, but to live that the sum of human happiness shall be in creased. The Christian is the last man to Insist upon bis right to en joy anything that in Itself is harmless and that in his hands may result in no wrong, that ln its influence upon other men may lead to their souls' destruction. The worldly man. on the other band, is chiefly anxious that he shall reap his share of all things. The influences, conscious or uncon bcIous. of his actions weigh Utile up on his heart. He is not worried about the life of his brother, because lo him his brother is a law unto hlm aelf. I am not only my own but my brother's keeper, Is a part of the phil osophy of men of principle alone. The Christian would rather be right than to win; the worldly man would nn right If convenient and anything to gat the victory. The Christian ruts the way for the onward move ment of the world with the axe of truth; the worldly mail marches with the ranks, content with conditions as they are. ThoBe who love Christ give the world not what they wish al ways but what trey ought to have; they point us to what we ought to he and what by the grace of God, if we eared, we might be. The world servera keep their ears to the ground aud give us only what we say we need. The difference la only one of principle. Christians are principled, finely and highly; the men who serve mammon are unprincipled and irre sponsible. Christians are men of pure motives and of high ideals: worldly men are not. Where there are noble, uplift ing. Modifying motives there Is the eaaence of the Gospel found. Those who are princes ln the Kingdom of Jehovah are men of single purpose, of unsullied devotion to the truth, of unified motive. There Is no double dealing In the heart of man who real ly lives within Jesus. He does busi ness on the square and is not merely watting his chance to knife you. If ha does good he does It not that he may secure praise or profit thereby, but ln ordar that he may be and bring a blessing Into a needy life. The pro testations and pronunclameatos of the Christian, his affirmed convictions and declared ideas, are not different front the tuner desire a,Ud baliefs hearts united in prayer conform to the pastor's plans, fill up, and glva value in hi, purposes. Ram's Horn. No Kln-ngHi Held in ll.--.crve. Trivial incidents get ao engrossing that life becomes unprepured for the great issues. A man gets all absorbed in his business and Intends some day to enjoy his home; a woman gets en snared in the burdensome details of life and loses her peace of mind; and one day some great overwhelming ex- i perlence of trial or sorrow suddenly , attacks such a life, and the life sltn- ply surrenders to the unforseen as sault, stricken and unprepared, be cause tho strength which ought to have been nurtured for the crisis has been Yixhausted In the insignificant, skirmishes of daily affairs. F. G. Peabody, D. D. The Deceptive Fingerpost. The most dangerous thing about ,:ho path of sin Is that many believe jit a short cut to happiness. It never has led there, aud never will, but its hying fingerpost deceives thousands levery year, Just the same. Ram's Horn. PULPIT STATESMANSHIP. Young Minister "I don't see, doc tor, why my people don't increase my salary; .hey seem ;o appreciate what I do for them " Old Minister "Have you had any , calls lately?" Young Minister "Not a call." Old Minister 'Well, that's where I you're lame. No minister ever gets u , ralB2 unless ha has several flattering calls, del em, my boy, get 'em." Young Minister - "But how will I I get them?" The remainder of the conversation ; being strictly confidential is not re ported. He got 'em, however. T edo Blade. THE ANNUAL. "I'm glad they didn't adopt spell ing reform." said the man of slow , mentality. I "it might have been u good thing.' I "Not for me. It would have kept l me worried for years. It's going to ako me three weeks merely to learn to write 1907' Instead of '1908.' " ,"'hluciOT) Star. The Blessing of Helpfulness. Isa. 58. 6 12. Southern Educational Work. Passages for reference: Psu. 102. 1S-22: Luke 10. 25-37. That the spirit of Christianity Is unselfishness Is very evident from all the teachings of the Bible. In the main reference for our topic we find clearly set forth the ideu that tlod gave to the people through the prophet Isaiah. They had formed a wrong Idea of what a fast meant, and while claiming to' be religious they had abused their religious observan ces. In brief, the true idea that la Hjollied is that relief to the needy, whatever the need may be is the true expression of a right uttitude lowurd God. He needs not our help, but his weuk ones do. and we pay our debt, to him hy helping them for his sake. More and mote the contrast between Christianity and the world Is being brought to the front . The world says, Look out for this mutt self; Chris tianity says. Look out for the other man. In the world spirit all the world pours Its contribution Into the hopper of self to enrich the individual In the Christian spirit the iu.llvbiuul pours out of his resources our. drains his forces to scatter abroad and en rich the world. It is all a difference of direction. The contrast may be I seen In great combinations. Gradu ally there has come to the knowledge of' the country the schemes und , methods by which itreat organizations and trusts hove conspired to enrich themselves tit the expense of the public. No Individual Is able lo meet his full obligations to ollters unless he Is at his best. Neither Is any laud or nation equipped to do Its full tusk iu the world's work that Is not at Its best. It Is not at Its best when any considerable number of Its citizens are ignorant, untrained, and so ex posed to every vice and degradation that humanity Is heir to. The mil lions of colored people that constitute so large a part of our Southern popu lation did not come here at first by their own choice, neither was their continued state of Illiteracy, while ln contact with the white man, their own fault. Their condition when set free from slavery and thrown on their own resources under stu b burdens for self support and self-government was not their own fault. No one questions the great menace to a nation of mil IIohb of Illiterate people, whatever their color. For the safety of our own national life we must settle the I blem. It is one that Is America's pioblem so far as citizenship Is con cerned. It is the church's problem so far CJ9 their character Is concerned. A Handy Farm Tool House. your site conveniently near barn rard for building, eighteen feet wide and thirty-two feet long, set post three feet in ground and ten feel apart excepting the last which will be twelve feet. Of course you will aave to put one post In centre of each snd. I filled around each post with moulders which makeB it solid and seeds no brnclng. Put a 4x4 on top jf posts entirely around the structure ind also two sets of stringers 2x4 a sides of posts about three feet (part. Now side your building in with some good lumber (mine Is rough oak). Go inside and nail a braces for double bar doors between svery poBt on each Bide of the build -Vig, but not in the ends. Outside ;u' hinges or plank over posts; saw roui two stringers in two to corre ipona with your doors and swing rour dcors open. Don't nail siding to '.op plate as you could not open doors If you did. Cover building with V :rlmped Iron roofing; no danger of Ire then. Throw all of the doors open on jolh sides of new building, run clov sr cutter ln wide apartment and Iteel rake ln opposite wide doors, !ap tongues, run the rest of Imple ments In, in same way lapping iongucs in centre. Whenever want ing any implement open doors imme diately back of it and back It out. The good points of a building of this kind are Its cheapness, conven ience and durability; it is almost as easy to store implements as to leave ;hem ln the field, und It ought to last almost a lifetime If roof Is painted occasionally. The accompanying dia (ram represents house closed up and til farming tools in the dry. W. R. a., In the Indiana Farmer. Whnt Children Swallow. In the London Hospital there la at present a tiny patient, one year und three weeks old, who Is suffer ing from the effects of swallowing a hair curler. Seven weeks ago, following every baby's instinct of putting anything and everything into its mouth, she seized upon a fascinating object used by ladies to induce a becoming wave iu the hair, and promptly swallowed It. The baby is kept under elos? ob servation with the X-rays, and It is hoped that, as there Is no inflamma tion or high temperature, an opera tion will not be necessary. A Dally Mall reporter waa in formed that the case was by no means exceptional. Recently a child was under treatment who had swal lowed a toy bicycle, and another was brought in with a brass monkey In his iultrlor. Coins. and boot buttons were very frequently swallowed; w.'ille thimbles, pins and even knife blades have been removed from tiny children. Owing to the X-ray the treatment of such cau has been much simplified. London Mall. and ti e farmer, (he pedigrees enable them to arrive at some degree of knowledge as to the proper families from which to select. The farmer who desires to grade up his stock Is enabled to breed from animals of certain strains, or from families that have produced a certain large pro portion of extraordinary individuals, and to increase the yield of his herds or flocks by grading the flock to a higher standard. The farmer should select from the best famlllea of the breed he desires. While pedigrees are esentlal In knowing how to breed for the best, yet pedigree and out ward points should be compared with the records of the animals. The horse that trots, the cow that yields the most milk and butter, and the sheep that produces the heaviest fleece, whether possessing a nob1 pedigree or not, will stand at th head until their records are beaten. The animals that have secured rec ords are not superior in points, not Is the color of any consequence. Actual work, or performance, must be the test, and on such a founda tion all classes of stock will be rap Idly Improved. Hay Land Needed Nitrogen. By way of illustrating the lack of tntellegent discrimination often shown by farmers ln making a pur chase of fertilizing materials, I will cite an Instance that came to my per sonal attention In one of the New England States. The farmer in ques tion had a soil which was greatly In need of nitrogen, ln fact, for his grass this was the manurlal constit uent chiefly lacking, yet with the spirit of economy filling his aoul and with an utter disregard of the guar antees on the bags, he bought a lot wholly a mixture of kalnlt and acid phosphate and then applied a lot of it to his grass, with the result that hardly appreciable benefit was no ticeable. Had he understood hla business and gone to the expense of purchasing in addition 2R0 to 300 pounds of nitrate of soda, costing from )C.25 to $7 per acre, he might readily have increased his hay crop from two to three tons per acre. i Dr. H. J. Wrheeler, Washington Coun ty, R. I. Turkey Shelter. In colder climates, where shelter must be provided, a house may be built that is fashioned after many of o-jr poultry houses, with the slant ing roof; and an open ventilator should be placed In front, close to the roof, and never be closed except In cold weather. The roost should be placed on a level ln front of the house, with a sliding or rolling door in the rear. Only light enough is needed for the turkeys to see tho way to and from the roosts. The door should be left open all day that they may come and go at pleasure. With in this house they may be fed ln cold, snowy weather. In the cold northern climate of Canada one of Vi Farmer's Turkey House. Qood Authority in Feeding Horses. No people In the world are more skilled ln horse feeding than the French. For hundreds of years they Have tested methods of all kinds of feeding, and the following comes !rom that country on this subject: "Three meals are necessary and lufflclent with an interval of four jr five hours between, to keep a lorso iu good condition. Oats take it least two hours to digest, hay :akea three -hours, and because It :akes so long to digest it should be jlven when the day's work Is over. The evening meal should be a full neat, the animal being then at rest, and able to digest its food at lels are. There should be an Interval f half an hour between the return f the hoi-Be to the stable und his ! getting his evening feed. Too much !ood at a meal or too long abstln 1 tnce between meals, followed by vo , raclous feeding, is conducive to colic ; and indigestion Irregulnrlv fed lie is given to showing nN Impatience y letting his hoofs play about the ivoodwork of his stall. Oiving 're freshers' at odd times Is also bad. Remember that both stomach and bladder should never be loaded ln work time, whether light or heavy work la done. A horse, therefore, hould not be ridden or driven Im mediately after a meal, on the same principle that It ought not to be ted ooner than half an hour after wotk ll over. Between one eud of the year and another a horse consumes an amount of dry heating food which calls for special regimen to neutralize the excessive proteid consumption that has taken place. ThuB, iu autumn, a ration of oats is good, and bo in spring, at the fall of the winter coat, a little green meat is beneficial, mlted with hay und oats, for the evening meal. Another max tm much disregarded in practwe Is that the horse should be watered long before being put to work, and then very sparingly." Testing tin- HreedK For .Merit. Of one fact the breeder is usaured, and that la that certain families ex cel, and are more successful than others, among all classes of stock, and, toKunately for both the breeder the most successful turkey growers has a double enclosed apartment house for his breeding stock in win ter, connected with which is an en closed run, that will protect them from the elements, at the same time furnishing opportunity for open-air exercise during the day. This kind of house Is most useful ln cold cli mates, but It might be used ln all localities and prevent midnight mar auders of all kinds from carrying away the turkeys. T. F. McQrew, United States Department of Agriculture. Hauling Manure Daily. Experiments made by the Ohio sta tion prove that when -manure was thrown into the open barnyard and permitted to lie there for five months before being hauled to the field it had a value of $2.40 per ton. When drawn directly to the field as fast as It was made the value was $3.20 per ton. hen the manure was sprinkled with ground phosphate rock as fast as it was made In the stable, thus preventing loss from ammonia, the value wau $5.18 per ton. The claim Is made that at least one-third of the value of the manure Is lost as it Is usually put on the land with a fork and that ten loads put on with a ma nure spreader go as far and do as much good as fifteen loads put on ' the old fashioned, careless way. Feed For Sheep. Cora la not wholesome food for sheep, aud should be given sparingly. Good clover hay and some roots will keep sheep lu excellent condition. The small gain If any from regu lar grain feeding for a breeding flock win not pay for the food. Regular ity in feeding is worth more to the flock than a good deal of grain given by "fits and starts." Sheep do well In a well littered floor without re moving the manure all the winter. All the manure Is saved, and the con stant trampling keep It from heating uud fermuutiug. Forty or fitly sheep will make u lurge quantity of manure in this way. and clover hay and bran lunnot be turned into plant food In any cheaper or easier way. New York Witness. The nervous headaches of brain workers yield more quickly to me chanical treatment and active muscu lar exercise than to any other form of cure. A half-hour's change from one's writing table to the gymnasium three or four limes dally, or to prac tice of exercises without apparatus, such as posing, bending, stretching and rolling, is of Inestimable value In overcoming nervous tenBlon. Long-diBtance photography lias had many to claim solution of the prob lem, and another Is now to be added In the person of Professor Korn, of Munich University, who has brought to the evolution of his process tour years of patient research. The ap paratus permits a perfect photograph to be transmitted to any distance along the telegraph wires, the time required being about twenty minutes. It la claimed that successful testa have been made over a distance of 1100 miles. The direct action of light on wire Is utilized. As a weaver, nature produces fine work. Certain tree barks and leaves furnish excellent cloth, as, for In stance, tho famous tapa cloth used in the South Sea Islands. Nature is a glassmaker, too, according to the Indian Review. By discharging her lightning Into beds of quartz sand she forms exquisite little pipes of glass. She makes valuable ropes of various kinds ln the shape of trop ical vines and creepers, and she Is even a lacemaker, as witness the lace trees of the Ve9t Indies. An interesting experiment ln the adapting of automobiles to purposes of traction In regions so little re claimed as the Congo is now being made in the Rubi-Welle district of the Free State. Up to a couple of months ago a practicable road rather more than ten miles long had been made, and motor wagons loaded up to a ton or slightly over were mak ing the journey dally at a speed of about 'six miles an hour. It has to be remembered that this road is not the paved street of civilization. The aim is to cut a jivat main road for these motor wagons through the whole region. Plant memory Is a problem for the Inquisitive botanist. In 1901 a plant allied to the squash and pumpkin was brought to New York from the desert of Sonora, in Mexico, and since then it has been kept without watering ln a strange climate 3000 miles from home. During the six weeks of rain in the desert the plant grows its leaves and flowers and per fects its seed. Then it dries up and leaves only a water tilled gourd which a thick, hard shell seals against ani mals and evaporation. The trans planted specimen Btill remembers the rainy season cf six weeks. It wakes Bends out rootlets, stems end leaves, and then dries up again until the fol lowing year. MEXICO HAS GOOD ARMY. Can Muster 27,000 Regulars and Can Muke the Number 60,000. In the quarter of a century that Porflarto Diaz has been enforcing peace in Mexico he has been prepar ing for war. In the promotion of railroad construction, the encourage ment of agriculture, mining and man ufacturing, the establishment of schools, and ln the .improvement of harbors the national defense has not been forgotten. Starting with the disorganized troops that placed him in power in 1876, and those that opposed him, he has built up an army of 27,000 men an army woll fed, well clothed, well equipped and well officered and has perfected arrangements quickly to Increase the fighting force to at least 60,000 ln case of war. Crediting the country with a popula tion of 14,000,000 Mexico now has a soldier to every 525 Inhabitants, and within a short time following a dec laration of war against n foreign foe the ratio could be changed to one to every 233. At the present time the armed men of Mexico are not confined ln the reg ular army. In fact, those constantly carrying arms and possessing knowl edge of military organization and discipline outside the army almost equal ln number the regular troops. They form what is known as the first army reserve and Include State police organizations, the rurales, the fiscal guards and the police of the various cltieB, in all about 2 6,000 men. ln the event of war the forces compt R lng the first army reserve would be immediately mobilized, and, ln addi tion to the regular army, would be placed on the war footing provided by the military laws of the republic. This law requires an Increase of thirty-three per cent. In Infantry and ar tillery end twenty-five per cent, la Ihe cavalry. Review of Reviews. Wood Rats' Treasury. The KauBas wood rat is small, no larger than a common rat, hut his ambition and acqulsitlvenoas are in satiable. His one insane desire seems to be to Increase the size of his pi to of sttcka. The neighboring field is placed under tribute. First of all the near-by sticks are gathered into the pile. Then, as these are cleaned up, he goes further and further away from home for more sticks. And In this huge pile of stlcha he stores his winter supply of nuta. Many a time, when we were enjoy ing life by living mostly on aorghum .ml cornbread, buttermilk and Mis souri dried apples), have we gone to the woods with the other boys and taken nicely bulled walnuts from the nests of a wood rat. Eldorado Re public n. Subject: Alirnm Called to Be n Ulcus lng, Gen. 12: 1 -s Golden Text: Gen. 12:2 Memory Verses: l-a. The call of God to Abram to leave his home in Hnran and go into a new, unfamiliar and untried land Is the beginning of the separate hiBtory of a nation. The Scripture Immediately preceding the lesson Introduces us to the beginnings of Hebrew racial ex istence. The call of God was also a test of Abraham's submission to and trust in God. However deeply religious Abram may have been and however much he may have enjoyed a specie! vision of the personality and provi dence of Jehovah this still remains true that he had a surpassing trust in God and was also uncommonly de voted to Him or he never would have obeyed the command of God as he did. No information was offered to Abram as to the terminus of his jour ney. God simply called upon him to gather hlB family, his possessions, his retainers, those who were worthy to go with him, and having gathered them to lead them forth whither God should direct. The command neces sitated the breaking of the ties which hind to country, relatives and friends. To obey it was to be supremely obe dient. Also to obey It was to be par nmountly trustful. Abram stands as the one mighty, Imposing figure in these earliest days of Israel's history. The names of the mass of the people, of both great men and small men. are forgotten. He alone stands out in monumental stature. Amidst polytheistic people he worships the one true God. When fidelity is needed he exhibits it, when a leader is required he comes tor ward. How long Go.l t spirit labored with Abram before he reached the high plane to which he attained we do not know. We are informed only of the result. Abram was, in the light of contemporaneous history, in deed a man to whom Jehovah might reveal Himself. The object of God's call to Abram was that in separateness a nation might be raised whose Ideal should be religious perfectness, and whose heritage Bhould be the promise given unto Abram that, contemplating their prosperity and plenty, material and spiritual, all the nations of the world should call Israel blessed and become deslrouR to become in a like fushlon the recipients of the divine favor. Abram was. under God, the leader In a new movement in the history of the world. Heretofore God had dealt with the peoples ln a mass. Twice, we are told, the people defied His authority. Before the flood they sunk themselves ln sin; after the del uge, Babel. And so God Bets apart a people who shall be to the nations and to all mankind an ensample of religious worth. In order to cateh Ihe truth of this story it is not neces sary to do either of two things that are occasionally done. It is not necessary either to forget that Abram is entitled to be considered as an historic character, nor is it necessary to fdrget that this is not the march of a single Individual and a few adherents, bound to him by the ties of collateral consanguinity. Abram looms too large, not only in the records of Israel, but also ln the history of humanity, to be lightly brushed aside. And when in Gen. 14:14 we find that Abram "led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen," we un derstand that a considerable nomad tribe followed Abram in his pilgrim age into the land foreordained for them by God. The lessons fcr us are immediate and real, however remote the exam ples may be. Abram's trust and sub mission are the pattern for ours. Our fidelity should be Abraralc and more. He had only the dawn of the relig ious day to light- him on his way. We have the sunshine of God's truth for the illumination of our pathway. God made Israel to be the envy of the world. He will make America so to be if America will be obedient and faithful to the heavenly vision. If America will put her trust, active ly and effectively, in Him. Vs. 1. "Country." From Haran. He had previously left "Ur of the Chaldees." "Will shew." Notice the future tense. No advance informa tion is granted. Vs. 2. "And." Better, "that." It wus a prerequisite to greatness and the blessing that Abram should leave Haran. God had to get him away from his surroundings in order to do the work He had in mind. A new en vironment was as necessary as obe dience. Vs. 3. "Blessed." Possibly better, "So that all the families of the earth shall invoke a blessing like thine for themselves. " This promise Is ful filled ln our day through Christ. Vs. 6. "Went forth came." The beginning and fruition of faith and submission are ln a few words here epitomized. Vs. 6. "Shechem." Between Mts. Ebal and Gerlzim in Central Pales tine. "Oak." R. V. Terebinth. Called "The Oak of Divination." Vs. 7. "Appeared." It was a common experience ln the lives of the holiest men lu Israel. It is no less common to-duy, and it would not be at all uncommon if men would practice the presence of God. "Al tar." Abram Is represented as erect ing altars at the places where he had received a special insight into the designs of God. Vs. 8. "Beth-el." House of God. In Central Palestine. Chicago Huillerr. Representative Maun, of Illinois, never loses an opportunity to ex patiate upon the glories and material prosperity of Chicago. One day he was holding forth in his usual strain, when he touched upon the part played by the railroads In that prosperity. "Statistics show," declared the member from Illinois, "that 1150 trains arrive in Chicago dally. These trains run by some twenty-four companies carry over 105,000 passengers. The railway" tave been a strong factor in making (Jblcago what it is to-day." Whereupon Congressman McOall, of Massachusetts, smilingly inter jected: "Mann, that's an awful charge to prefer against the railways!" Ha" por's Weekly. A verdict of 'found drowned" weal returned in Loudon by a coroner's) Jury at Lambeth on Thomas WillottJ eighty-three years old, who was) found dead with bis bead ln a horsef watering trough.
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