'ifiA vMPwrvPncnvrTCaP :'tF Subject: Contemplation..1 Brooklyn, N. Y. Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "Contemplation," the ReT. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as hts text Ps. 46:10, P,e Still." He said : ThU Is a call to quietude. It Is an Invitation to meditation In the midst of a busy world. It Is a summons to contemplation It Is an appeal to men to seek satisfaction and restf ill ness not In commotion but In thought fulness. In mental, physical, spiritual tranquillity before God. And It Is needed. Noise abounds. Cacophany Is con temporaneous. Racket Is as notice able as anything In the order of the days. Hubbub, confusion, clamor, these are the concomitants of our modern, especially of our modern ur ban, life. It would almost seem as though din were demanded. City life Is characterized by Its diversity of sounds, by its confusion. And that, which Is a featuro of city life is. sad ly, altogether too Increasingly becom ing the rule In suburban life. The countryside Is receiving the evil lnflu-i ence of the commotion of the city.. The noises of the city seem to pene trate with too much frequency and insistency into the solitudes of na ture. And we cannot easily escape. Our life is strife. Man's career Is one of turmoil to a great extent. We must In some measure live In the midst of the bustle, the hurry, the, rush. The Incessant roar is of neces sity, In some measure, an attendant circumstance of our manner of liv ing. It Is largely inevitable. But noise Is not all that Is needed. Neither Is It always a sign of effi ciency. A certain amount of din may be Inexpugnable. But It Is no guar antee of effectiveness. In fact the op posite of this Is the truth. Nolseless ness Is both desirable and Indicative. The stars rush through the heavens in their age long courses silently, ma jestically, tremendously. Their speed is appalling, their energy Is beyond human comprehension And withal the movement of the spheres Is as 1 noiseless as silence Itself. That which Is characteristic of the ' motion of the celestial globes Is the I aim of the endeavors of the mechan IrtlM, The desire mechanically Is to attain nolselessness. We have learned j that noise Is largely lost motion. And ! so tKe energy of the mechanical en gineer Is to reduce friction, to abolish noise, to securequletness In the work ing of machinery. What Is true of the world of me chanics is true of the crowd. The people who make the most noise are not the ones who do the most work generally. The man who fusses Is not the man who is accomplishing the most. Disturbance, disorder, excite ment are not indications of effectual ness. The man who is busiest is not the man always who gives the casual observer the Impression that he is expending energy. The man who shouts the most is not always the man who makes the most telling ar gument. The advocate who rants and tears a passion to tatters and brings consternation to the witness Is not the lawyer who wins the case always. The noisy mob Is never the most dangerous. All this noise Is so much lost motion. It Is waste. So as In the realm of mechanics the ef fort Is in the llf-? of man to secure quiet. That is If the man be wise. We cannot escape labor. In the wisdom and the providence of the Al mighty we must work. But noise is only an Incident of labor. It is never the thing Itself. And while we recog nize that God summons us to a por tion of labor, let us also not fall to realize that He calls us into the stilly, places, that He Invites us to commun ion with Himself, that He invokes us to contemplation. There is a good deal of this com motion In the intellectual and In the spiritual life. Men are striving to se cure a knowledge of the things of the intellectual life and of the religious life by the exercise of excessive en ergy. They are trying to force their way to the truth by sheer Intellectual and spiritual brute force If I may be permitted such an Inexact expres sion. Many men seem to desire to blast their way Into the depths of di vine wisdom, with much tumult and agitation to the mind and soul. We do too much of our thinking with our mouths and not enough with our heads. We endeavor too much to learn of the spiritual truths of the kingdom of God by discussing at great length, and with more or less book knowledge, upon the mighty speculative matters of the theological disciplines, seemingly forgetfill of the fact that an understanding of the eternal principles and truths of the kingdom of God Is not to be gained by theoretical disputation, but rather by communion with the living God. Tho most profit and the greatest progress may be found both Intellect ually ind spiritually in quiet. The soul i ..a' waits In silence and expect ancy, with an open mind and an open heart, while the Father reveals Him self Is the soul that will Indeed know that He is God. "Be still," for this is the way to intellectual and spirit ual wisdom. The great facts of human life are most surely made known to us when we Blmply let God speak to us. We' may force some knowledge. We may enter Into a measure of Information of the facts that Inhere in the multi tudinous life round about us by the exercise of sheer energy, but the finest, the deepest, the most abund ant truths of the kingdom of God, In tellectual and spiritual, are those that are mediated by the divinely appoint-1 ed process of contemplation, of Intel lectual and spiritual susceptibility. I The man who, In the midst of the crowd, out In the silent fastnesses of ! nature, in the quietude of prayer, will' be jtlU before Jehovah Is the man to' ; whose soul the most enriching M.-mh- , lugs come, whose Intellectual appre-' I elation of spiritual truths la most) surely certified, who enters lito the: broadest and profoundest under standing of the wisdom of God. nuweter vmuuUie muwiuas may no to contemplation It is not necessary that wu shall be, numerically, alone In order to be alone with God. In the centre of the Jostling crowd, In the midst of the rush and the roar and the excitement of the street life of the great metropolis, In the midst of the worries, the discomforts, the trials of business life a man may be just as truly alone with God as though he were alone upon the moun tain top with silence only for his com panion. God may teach us lessons that shall clarify our minds and sanc tify our souls In the face of the most .districting conditions It we will. mere is a lesson for us In every man. In every crowd, In the noise and the roar Itself. We need but. In the fam Of humanity, to be still before God and await ills revelations In ord--r to enter Into enlarged knowledge and Into the perception of Increasing vis Ions. In the face of many-sided nature we may read the lessons Oid has for us to learn. But we cannot learn the most enduring lessons until we see In nature not an end In herself, but rather a means to nn end. We cannot enjoy the dlvlnesf blessings until we shut out even nature Itself, with all Its loveliness, Its beeuty nnd Its charm and In solitude and expectancy wait 111 stillness upon God. The loudest prayer Is not th pray er that brings the greatest blessing. The oft repeated words .ire not the surest of reply. The prayer that tells God what we need Is not always the most acceptable or the most effica cious. We are most blessed of God In prayer when we are simply still. Our Father hath knowledge of our necessities before we ssk. It Is a good thing for us to h" constant!? In an attitude of receptivity toward Bod, If we would talk less to Rod and let God speak more to us we should be better off. We learn most of th facts of the kingdom in prayer that is not too voluble. He Is a wis" Chris tian Tho lets God speak to hint. That Is to say, he Is wisest who Is prayer fully contemplative. Relaxation Is as necessary as rush. The man who Is contlnnallv rushing himself 1b the man who la cumula tively wearing himself out. His eud Is at hand. None of us Is a better man because of OVeT-exsrolSe, Noth ing Is more dangerous than to destrov to-day the vital forces that are stored up for to-morrow's use. Men cannot escape the necessity for quietude. They cannot live without It for long. Every man must, for his own self protection, now and then withdraw himself from the world. And that which Is true of the physical man In his material relations Is equally so of humanity in its intellectual and spir itual departments. We must have In tellectual relaxation. To rush the brain Is to invite the madhoiis. To rush the soul Is to invite spiritual weariness. Men must have relaxa tion. And It is In these hours of stillness, of relaxation, of recuperation, of com munion nnd contemplation that tho soul of man enjoys growth and lnvlg oratlon. Much as we may grow In the midst of the conflict and tflo noise we do not expand in the fullest measure ex cept In our hours of communion and contemplation.' Then It Is that we Bee with the clearest vision, then it is that we comprehend the vasty truths of God's kingdom. And ns we do not enjoy the fullest growth except In our ; times of contemplation so true Is It. that we are truly Invigorated by our i moments of communion. The riiBh may glv? us the energy that comes from excitement and endeavor, but It Is but a momentary strength. It Is I Inevitably followed by reaction. Tur- I moll and tremendous endeavor may minister sustentatlon for the time to our nerous force, but It is In tho hours of contemplation, of quietude, of communion that we are really In vigorated, that we find true rest. "Be still." May God give us all the wisdorn to be still and learn from Him, learn that He is God. Home Made Forge. A set of blacksmith's tools saves may dollars on a farm, espoclnlly In busy seasons. A good forgo may be made as follows: Four logs are 2x2 Inches and 2 Vi feel long. Four boards (see No. 2 tn cut) 12 Inches wide and 2'4 feet long are nailed firmly around the top of legs. A bottom Is nailed lo the under sides. Fig. 3 are two plWes 2x2 Inch stuff 5 feet long and fastened to the under side of box 10 Inches apart. Two pieces (4) are 1x3 inches and 3 feet long, the lower end bolted to 3, upper to 4. A pulley (6) Is made of two thicknesses of boards, the edge being V-shaped for a ropo to run the fan. Tho shaft to 6 Is an old wringer shaft, 8 being the crank. A fan Is shown at 7, 18 Inches In diameter and 5 Inches In width. The fnn shaft Is a round piece of hard wood 3 Inches In dlnm eter 10 Inches long with -Inch round Iron bearing la the eud . The The Beat Side. Most of us show our best side to children. We do so because we know that they do not believe us to huve any other side, and we shrink from disappointing them, and from losing their good opinion. A child has not learned to look for deceit and unklnd ness or double dealing. Therefore, grown people who think at all nre more careful to be scrupulously truthful to children, and to keep to the letter their promises to children, than they are to older ones who, as they know, "will make allowances." An unspoiled child does not "make allowances" for evil. He knows no standard but the simple best. Oc casionally a grown man or woman seems to have retained that unspoiled confidence In the best side of every one. And to such a man or woman we all try to show our beBt; when we are with them we try to be our best. Suppose we all lived with each other as with children! Would the world be better or worse for It? The Kingdom of Heaven has beau said to be of such. Church Herald. blocks for these to run In are scrowed to 3. Cut 7 Inches of the fan shaft to a square to fasten the fans to; the 3 Inch that 1b left Is to cut a V In for a small rope that goes In the V of 6. After the rope Is put on and spliced, It can be tightened by raising the top of 4 where 5 Is attached. A piece of Iron pipe 1 Vi Inches In diameter is shown at 9, which is 2 V4 feet long, with two 9-lnch holes drilled In tho middle of the upper side. Tho end toward the fan Is mado a llttlo bell shaped. It Is placed In the box through two holen the same size as the pipe. Tho box Is filled solid with damp clay, leaving a basin shaped place in the centre, over the holes In the pipe, for the fire. Put a wood plug In the outer end of pipe. If any coals get In the pipe, take out the plug and blow out with the fan. In using, start tho fan before putting the iron In the fire. Inside of fan should be smooth. Tin Is nailed around the circle of tho fan case. With this forge and an anvil many other tools can be made at home at a small cost. Frank Gutteuberg, Jr., in The Epttomlst.' How to Avoid Evil Thoughts. How shall we avoid evil thoughts? First, by fear of God an awful thought! A living God, infinitely pure, Is conscious of your contamin ated thoughts. Love and hope will keep us strong against pas Bion, as they kept our Saviour strong In suffering, "who, for the joy that wu set before Him, endured the I cross, despising the shame." Secondly, by the promises of God. Think of what you are- a child of God. an heir of heaven. Realize the grandeur of salntlinuss, and you will shrink from degrading your soul and debasing your spirit. It Is in reading saintly lives that we are ashamed of groveling desires. Seek ex ercise and occupation. Com mit to memory passages of Scripture. Let him store his mind with these as safeguards. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the garden of life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps. Rev. F. W. Robertson, D. I)., In Church Forum. Eyes That See Not. There are aome men to whom It Is true that there Is no God. They can not see God, because they have no eye. They have only an abortive or gan, atrophied by neglect. Henry Drumuiond. Worn Off. One day, after the brakeman had been pointing' out the window and1 explaining the scenery, one of the passengers whispered to the conduc tor: "Conductor, can yon tell me how that brakeman lost bis finger? He hi. ems to be a very nice fellow. It seems a pity he should be crippled." I "That's Just it, ma'am. He to a good fellow. VJe Is so obliging that he Just wore hie finger off pointing : out the scenei-y along the line." i Denver News. Would Ieavc Europe Unscourged. Looking up from bis magazine, a farmer said vehemently to bis wife one night: "Do you know what I'd have done If I had been Napoleon?" "Yes," she answered. "You'd have settled down In Corsica and (pent your life grumbling about bad luck and bard times.9- Kansas City Journal. The Grcnt Anierlcnn Hen. Rightfully does the fowl deserve the name "The Great American Hen," for according to statistics the Ameri can hen yields more money annually than any other one farm product, eliminating the grains nnd cotton. With eggs as low as a cent apiece a very cheap and nutritious food a well bred hen laying 200 eggs a year as developed at tho Maine station, will have a value of $5. An esti mate is made that $1 a year will keep her In comfortable If not luxurious quarters. The trouble Is that mill ions of barnyard scrubs do not yield 100 eggs a year. The farmer's hen Is becoming a worthy companion to his cow. The annual production of eggs Is now a score of billions, and, after supplying the needs of factories, tanneries, bak eries and other trades, they are be coming a substitute for high priced meats, besides sn taring more gener ally Into the everyday food of tho people. Some one has estimated that tho industrious little gallus domeBtlcus produces enough eggs to require a train of refrigerator cars 900 miles long filled with 43,000,000 crates each of which holds 3C0 eggs. If one wants to obtain eggs from Mb hens, it Is necessary to have healthy, vigorous stock, properly fed. To do their best hens shou'-J be fed grain, unlmul ui:J green food. They should be led enough to keep them In good condition, but not overfat, and should be Induced to tako plenty of exercise. A good system to follow for winter feeding Is mash onre a day and grain scattered In the Utter twice a day. The maah may be fed dry or Bllghtly moistened. When tho former, it is usually put Into a trough or hopper hung against the wall, and the fowls allowed to have access to It at all times. . A mash fed at the Maine experi ment station is as follows, In the pro portion Indicated: 2 00 ounds of wheat bran. 100 pounds cornmeal. 100 pounds wheat middlings 100 pounds linseed meal. 100 pounds gluten meal. 100 pounds beef scrap. Another mash may be mixed as fol lows, in the proportions Indicated: 100 pounds cornmeal. 100 pounds ground oats. 100 pounds wheat bran. are "richer." That there are no differences In the physical prop erties and chemical composition be tween brown shelled and white shelled eggs was Bhown by investiga tions carried on at the California and Michigan experiment stations, this work having been summarized In oarllor publications of the depart ment. "The color of tho shell has, how ever, an effect upon the market value. the brown shelled eggs bringing the higher price, for Instance, In the Boston market, and the white shelled eggs In the New York market. In New England the preference Is de cidedly In favor of the tinted eggs. "One great advantage which all breeders producing tinted eggs pos sess Is that they are generally better winter layers than the varieties pro drclng white shelled eggs, this being pernaps due to the fact that they are usually very good sitters and moth ers, and so obtain a rest during the spring and summer months." An ancient Egyptian wig In tho British Museum contains no fewer than threo hundred little gilded pigtails. In Persia there are no distilleries, breweries, or public houses, and na tive wine la the only Intoxicating bev erage used. It has been proposed to build a boulevard from Louisville, Kentucky, to the Lincoln farm In Larue Coun ty, and the matter Is attracting wlde npread Interest. Color of Eggs. The Department of Agriculture Is often questioned as to the relative relation existing between the nutri tion of eggs and thecolor of the shell. It seems that some cities show a pref erence to while shelled eggs, while others Insist only upon having those with brown shells. English dealers who import their egg stock from France go so for as to dip all white shellod eggs In u weak coffee solution In order to satisfy the demand In London and other English cities for brown shelled ecus. A recent bulletin issued by the Deportment of Agrleulture states: "There Is no constant rslntlnn hr tweon the color of the shell and the composition of the egg, although there Is a uouular jellef l.i Klitlltt III- entitles that the dark shslled eggs Keeping n Few Bees. When keeping a few hives I have found, during late yearB, the follow ing methods most successful: There 1b no better place to keep one or more swarms of bees than In the attic of a houBe, or loft of a barn or other outbuilding. 1 am keeping a few swarms In the loft of a barn In the centre of our city. I would recommend this method on a farm or in town. Other things being equal, a loca tion In a house or loft of other build ing, where heat from below will keep It dry and warm during coldest weather Is best. My own bees are benefited by tho fire kept during the coldest weather In the stable below. In such a location bees are less liable to be disturbed, and In their flight to and from their hives they are well above ground, where they might coiibo annoyance. I find also that when operating the hives to take surplus honey, and for all methods of manipulation such a location has many advantages. Tho bees also winter much better than when kept In more exposed locations. Whllo I am an enthusiast In all thnt pertains to the mystery of the hives and honey bees, und find In them one of my chief forms of recreation, I feel that a correct system for the production of strictly wholesome milk Is a mat ter of most supreme Importance. Let the land flow with milk and honey. L. C. Root, Fairfield County, Conn., In The Cultivator. A hundred years ngo the news that Buenos Ayres had been jeenp tured on the 12th of August by Gen eral Iteresford reached London Jun uary 18. Miss Katherlne Helmlg, of Peru, Ind., Is the possessor of a bonnet 110 years old. It was made In Ger many and once was the property of the present owner's grandmother. The first forest reserve telephone put In by the Federal Government will bo a line of 109 miles, costing J6000, In the Big Horn forest reserve in Wyoming. This is to secure prompt help In fighting timber fires. The dealer who sends back to the producer a bottle or can that has held milk without cleaning the same, Is liable to a flue of $500 or a year in prison, under legislation Just passed by the New York Board of Health. Many German cities now have their Richard Wagner streets, but Greater Berlin Is going to name a whole quarter after him. In the Frledenau district there Is to be a Wagner Place, from which there will radiate eight streets named after the hero ines In Wagner'n operas: Elsa, Eve, Sieglinde, Senta, Isolde, Ortrud, Gut rune and Kundry. Farm laborers In England are not migratory. A certain farm In Wilt shire has n regular staff of six men and two boys who have served for the following periods: Forty-six years eight months, forty-four years eight months, thirty-two years eight months, twenty - six years seven months, fourteen years eleven months, four years eleven months, five years six months and three years nine months. There Is thus an ag gregate of 179 years of service. THE MAN BEAUTIFUL. A Calf Food. As a result of a considerable amount of eiperimoutal woi, the 1 following mixture, intended as a calf I food, Is said to give most satisfactory I results: Wheat fleur, thirty pounds; cocoanut meal, twenty-five pounds; , nutrlum, twenty pounds; Unseed meal, two pounds; dried blood, two pounds. One pound of this Is added to six pounds of hot water, stirred for a few moments, allowed to cool to 100 degrees, theu fed to the calf from a pall or calf feeder, the latter preferably. Tho calves uro taken at seven to ten days old, and at flrBt aro fed twice a day on a ration of three pounds whole milk and one-half pound of the above mixture; In a few days four to seven, depending on how the calf thrives It Is put on the full ration of calf meal. Wheat flour tends to keep the bowels from becom ing too loose. Cocoauut meal con tains twenty per cent, protein and nine per cent. fat. New York Witness. Farm Notes. A little sulphur In the salt will tend to drive the ticks from the flock. A farm home is best of till homes; but farm life without homo life is dismal Indeed. The lambs that are found to be tlcky must be dipped If you would koep them in health. Do not let Bheep eat the pastures too closely, but when drouth comes assist with fodder, corn, etc. All the money is made from tho good cows; are you keeping the poor ones for their company? Some meu not stingy with money grudge time spent on themselves or their family. Yet time Is money. Who farms under glass works his soli twelve months in the year. That's where the grcunhouse pays. Puy for everything In dollars and cents. The Jingle of the depurtlug hard-eurned cash makes one pause and consider, but a store account is often taken up in a curuless manner. A feeder uslcs if one shot for each steer Is enough. I should prefer two or three wheu steers are on full feed. When you have plenty of lo.., , thero Is nothing wasted, aud you can clean out the bunks once u day. Don't throw th'j manure out of the aide of the stable aud allow it to lay there until spring, every biiow and rain washing out the most valuable part of It. Bed all stock freely, und get every forkful of manure out on the fields as soon as possible. The man who broeds his farm aril mala without any definite object In view will never do much In improv ing his Btock. Every year should bring a marked Improvement, and every young animal raluud on the farm should bear the breedur's stamp. Hustle Is a good quality. But It l not enough lu Itself. Home men who seem always up to something new, and who do everything upon the run, never seem to accomplish much.1 It one must choose. Judgment is bet ter than enterprise and persistence If better than baste. American Cultivator. More Males In the Beauty I'nrlors of London Than Women. The London Dally Mail has been Investigating "the entire toilet of the man beautiful." It has found that nearly fifty per cent, of the custom ers of the "beauty parlors" of Lon don aro men. The barber shops In England do not offer tho Incidentals to be had In tho ordinary American barber shop, and men go to the "beauty parlors" to huve their com plexions cleured by the application of hot towels, skin food nnd facial mas sage, as well as to have their nails manicured. One "specialist In good looks" tells how hands nre whitened by the skilful use of powder, and says "men love to be manicured in this manner." The "beauty parlors" aid men to reduce their weight, and there can be learned the valuable secret of how not to get bald. This reclpo is de lightfully simple: do not Irritate the roots of the hair by unnecessarily disturbing them harshly with combs, brushes and rough towels. According to the "beauty special ist" in the Mall: "A woman has llttlo tact and no gratitude where we are concerned. It is useless to point out her Improve ments to a woman. She always wants more. But a man expects nothing and Is thaukful." Then the woman who delights In restoring the appearance of youth tells with what heartfelt earnestness one man, after viewing himself In a mirror, said: "I look young again." There seems to be a world-wldo epidemic of fatty degeneration of the waist, for tho periodicals and news papers of New York, London, Paris und Berlin contain an Increasing number of romedles for obesity, chief of which seems to bo the corset, un der such aliases as waistband, cein ture, drees belt and health brnce. The fact that these corsets for men are advertised Bhows that many men buy them. The day seems to bo corning. If It has not arrived, when of the male sex as well as the female It can be said that "gracefulness la deceit and beauty is vanity." New York World. Our Trust. The use of the legend "In God We Trust" on some of the colus of tho United States grew out of a letter written by a Maryland farmer to Salmon P. Chase wben he was Secre tary of the Treasury. The letter was written In November, 18 01, the writer urging that we should, as a Christian people, make some recog nition of the deity on our coins. Mr. Chase referred the letter to Director Pollock, of the Mint, who approved the suggestion, and proposed one of the legends, "Our Country, Our God," or "God Our Trust." Mr. Chase then referred the matter to Congress, and again In 1862 and In 1863 be urged that the mattor be acted on. Flnully, on April 22, 1864, Congress authorized the coinage of a two-cent bronzo piece, aud on It wus i lumped the legend "In God We Trust," Instead of "E Plurlbus l iium." Subsequently, on March 3, 1866, the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, wub authorized to place the legend on all gold and sliver coine susceptible of that addition thereaf ter to be Issued, The legend Is taken from the following line In "The Star Spangled llunner:" "Aud this be our motto: lu Uod is our trust." Chi sagb News. ... r- CHHISTIAK EHDEAVUR NOTES APRIL SEVENTH. The Consecration of One Day In Seven. Jar. 17:19-27. God r .-inclined the Sabbath. Gsn. 2:1-3. We should sanctify It. Ex. 31: 12 14. A covennnt. Ex. 31:15-17. A stanch 8abbath-keeper. -Noh. 13: 1R-22. Jesus kept It Luke 4:16-24. The day He arose Luke 24:1-7. One burden wo may bear on the Sabbath: "Bear ye one another's burdens." The command to "hallow the Sab bath" Is nil-Inclusive; If It Is holy In our hearts It will be hallowed In our deeds. The 8abbath Is a royal dnv; It lifts us up above our common lives, and crowns our whole being. Sabbath-desecration is a lire; It j devours our bodies, our goodB, and our oouis. Suggestions. (be consecration of one-seventh of our time Is the only way toward the consecration of all of.lt. Time "saved" for seculrltles on Sunday Is time lost for eternity. Sunday Is for tho body's rest and the soul's worship. Whoever wor- I ships rightly will find that ho has rested. The strongest nations nre those that bes't observe the Sabbath. Illustrations. The camel got Into the tent by obtaining permission to stick his nose In. Watch ngalnst the llttlo begin nings of Sabbath-desecration. A little Sabbath-desecration will color the whole day, as a drop of Ink will spoil a glass fit water. Our Sabbaths are bound to heaven by the chain of habit ; a Blngle 111 Bpent Sabbath may break the chain. Our weeks are like flowering plants and the lovely blossom Is the Sab bath. Don't cut It off! A world without a Sabbath would J be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, nnd like a homestead without a garden. Beecher. He who' ordained the Sabbath loves the poor. Holmes. There Is n Sunday conscience as well as n Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put tho coat and conscience careful ly by to put on only once a week Dickens. TOE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR APRIL 7. BV the hev.i.w.hi:mi:i.son. EPWDHTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, APRIL 7. Triumphant Grace (2 Cor. 2. 14) Passages for Reference: Rom. 5. 16, 16; 8. 28; 1 Cor. 10. 16; 2 Cor. 4. 15-18; 12. 9, 10. The keynote of the meeting may be taken from the main reference when It says, "Thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph In Christ." Let emphasis be laid flrBt on the condition "In Christ" and second on the constancy of the tri umph "always," If the condition is maintained the triumph will follow. Notice In the reference In Romans that the grace that enables men to atound Is as far-reaching as the sin thnt has brought death. There are many people who fnll to live right because they do not really expect to live right. They do not live on the heights because they do not try. The sin of many is not In positive transgression, but in low aim. They shrink at the word "'per fection." and so excuse as necessities their failures. Think of the lives around you that are useless just be cause their Ideal Is not high enough. They know nothing of triumphant grace, because their conception ol what grace can do for one is so 11m Red. A man has no right to have a "be setting sin," because he should have no sin. He may have a "besetting" temptation, one that Is peculiarly strong for htm, and liable to appeal to him more often than any others. What has this subject to do with that temptation? That Is the place where sin can most easily enter your life. It Is the weak place In the fortifica tion. Jesus loves to forgive sin,. but we believe he would much rather keep from sin. He would much rathet keep a man from getting drunk than to forgive him for getting drunk. He would much rather put words oi blessing on the lips of a man than forgive the words of cursing. Too much of our lives is cpent in trying to conquer one sin at a time. That is the reason why reform is usually one-sided and tends to in-completeuess. rilO.MlXENT PEOPLE John D. Rockefeller Is the latest convert to Federal regulation of rail roads. Sir Edward Elgar, the most noted of English musicians. Is again in thii country. William Dean Howells, poet anc novelist, celebrated his seventieth birthday. President Eliot, of Harvard, cele brated his seventy-third birthday oi shipboard, bound to iiermuda for s holiday. Crowu Prince GustavuB of Sweder has had his private stables cut ofl to correct a deficit of $125,000 In hit private budget. Tho late Thomas Bailey Aldrich was described by Edmund Clarence Stedman as "the moBt pointed and exquisite of our lyrical craftsmen." Robert 8. Patterson, publisher ol the Chicago Tribune, has decided to retire and will probably Bpend thr remainder ot his days in Washington. Tho Prince of Monaco is again afloat on science bent. This time ht has sailed to Spltzbergon, to proso cute his Investigations as to the cur rents of the upper air. Former President Cleveland Is con vinced that, tbero must be Govern mental supervision of railroads und corporations, "but It should bo planned In a quiet hour, not In one of angry excitement. Justice Harlan, of the United Statee Supreme Court, seventy, g. gantic and healthy as a country boy, doesn't believe in cold baths. "I never put cold water on my warm skin In my life," he says. General E. P. Alexander, with whom the only living ez-Presldent shoots ducks down In South Carolina, distinguished himself at West Point anc' In 1866 Appomattox year was General Robert E. Lee's chief ot engineers. Subject: Jacob's Vision nnd God's Promise, Gen. 28 lo-2ti Golden Text: Gen. 28:13 Memory Verses. 13, 14. This story of the Journey of Jacob from his father's house to get him a wife Is replete with lessons that are upremely valuable for us to-day. We shall be' very foolish If we spend our time In disputation over the chronology or the possibility of the jvents depicted 1r this record, while we miss the searching, beautiful :ruths contained in it. Isaac's trust in the ability and willingness of God to continue to his ion and to fulfill the promises that He had made to him. Is the first mes sage that we should take Into our hearts. There Is no note of hesita tion or of questioning In the blessing that Isaac bestows upon Jacob. Get :heo out, Into a proper and wisely selected country, and seok a wife; and God bless thee with the blessing 3t thy fathers. So Isaac speaks to lacob. There la no doubt In his mind concernfng the efficiency ot God. He has full faith in the Di vine fidelity. Tho vision that came to Jacob, as he lay asleep with stones for his couch, contains three striking les ions: First, of the Divine reality; second, of the Divine contiguity; third, of the Divine providence. In the dream Jacob Is certified, first of all, of the reality of God. The ladder stretching from earth to Heaven, with the angels of Jehovah ascending and descending upon It, IS but an incident in the dream. We shall be unwise if we allow this to obscure our clear vision of the Lord. Behold, the Lord stood above it," the sacred writer tells us. And that Is the first great fact that the dream certified to Jacob, the fact of the real ity of God. The ladder was to direct his attention to God. The angels ascending nnd descending had their impulse from the God whom Jacob discerned at the top of the ladder. They were to Jacob the Divine means and method of communication. They were Incidental to the discovery, In a peculiar fashion, to the mind of Jacob, of the fact that God is. No man can do much for God unless he has a lively consciousness of the ac tuality of God. No man can be ex pected to have respect for Divine de crees and Divine promises until he has had a vision of divinity. We cannot have respect, adoration, love for a being of whose existence we are Ignorant or sceptical. It was neces sary that Jacob should have a vision of God for himself; a special, Inti mate, personal comprehension of the reality of God. What was necessary for Jacob, what proved of such value In his life; that is necessary in the life of every man, and It will be In spirational to every soul to which It Is experiential. Jacob, further, was assured In his dream of the fact of the Divine con tiguity; that Is to say, of the Divine nearness. God was not so far away that He could not be seen. He was Just at the top of the ladder. He was clearly and easily visible. Jacob didn't have to strain his eyeB to catch the vision of Jehovah. The Lord was near enough for Jacob to discern His lineaments and to hear the sound of His voice. God was at hand. He was very near. And this was another lesson that Jacob needed to learn for himself. He had to be impressed with tho use of the nearness of Je hovah. The further we picture God away, the less likely we are to be assiduous In His service. One of the greatest motives to righteousness In the world Is the conception that God Is always near. We cannot f 'low an "absentee God" with any .irnlng seal. But we fain would love and die for a God who is. always by our sides. The sense of the contiguity of God made Jacob a better man. It will better any man who is conscious or its truth. Then, too, Jacob received the as surance of a Divine providence. This God who was real and near, beauti fully real and delightfully near, su pervises and directs the lives ot those who love Him and are amenable to His will. Jacob needed the assurance of the Divine guidance. This was a marvellous promise that God gave to him. It was almost beyond human comprehension. Jacob was but a man. And not the most characterful man in the world. Evidently ho was an average man. And, being like the rest of us, he needed to know that the promising Father Is also the en abling Lord. And we, being like Jacob, need to learn this salient truth also. Critics tell us that the promise of Jacob to give God a tithe of his sub stance, in recognition of His guiding, is an Interpolation by another hand at a later time. We shall not debate that. We shall grasp the truth that the church needs. The God of the faiths of Jacob and of America is deserving of at least a tenth of the income of every man. The money question will be solved In the church when Christians devoto a specific por tion of their Income, of one-tenth or more, to the Lord's work. And It will never be solved until we do. Of course Jacob was wrong when he said that Beth-el was the gate of Heaven. And of course Jacob wan right when he Bald It. No particular spot under the skies is the gate of Heaven. But every place may be a gateway unto God. The gate Is uni versally wide; It is open everywhere to the man who will use hie eyes. Muddled Memories. Among the gems of the recent col lection of schoolboy "bowlers" are the following: Charon was a man who fried soles over the sticks. The heart Is over' the ribs In the midst of the borax. A thermometer Is an Instrument for measuring temperance. The snow line stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole, and where it crosses the Alps and the Himalayas It Is many thousand feet high in the air. "Honl solt qui mal y pense" Let htm be honored who thinks evil. A toga Is u Hort ot naval officer usually found in China or Japan. Contralto Is a low sort of musle Which only ladles alng. Kansas City, Journal. ALL HE KNEW ABOUT IT. Knlcker "You can t paint the Illy." Hubbubs "Never got a seed cata 'Ufue, di youtHt-New Yk Sun. ,
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