8 The PuijoTTl A SERMON AY tAe nBV rtubjcrt: Tlir Faultless Christ. Brooklyn, N. T. Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme "The Faultless Christ,'' the Rev. Ira Wommell Henderson, pastor took as his text Luke 23:4, "I find no fault In t tils Man." He said: This honest answer of Pontius PI- , late to the statements of the lying I multitude Is the testimony of all men j who study, with Insight and under- : standing, the career of Jesus Christ. ! Put to any teat and Judged by whatso- ever standard you may will, the Mas ter of ua all will be found without flaw, fault or spot. Measured by any rule you may suggest, Jesus meets , requirements to the full. Does your I Ideal of manhood demand more than mortal men reveal of virtue and of worth, there the Savior stands to supply your soul's desire. Do you ask for weight of mind or depth of i thought, who can outmatch Jesus? Do you seek for clarity of vision and ' for spiritual force there is none like Him. For downright manliness j and for that hallowedness of heart which marked Him as divine, none j can compare with the Son of God. i Each of us must declare Him fault- j less, all of us must admire and I should Imitate His perfectness of j life. Pontius Pilate pronounced Jes- i us free of guilt after a limited dls cuss. cm of Jesus' regal claim In this dny and hour millions of men, J after careful analysis and close scru- I tiny of His life and claims, glory In i His perfectness and hail Him Son of Ood and saving Lord. Shall we not do honor for a moment to this self- ' declared Messiah, whom we have crowned as King? To the faultlessness which Pilate : ascribed to Him let us add :he testl ninny of St. John, who has preached . Him as the fulness of truth aiul grace. Faultless, tho possessor and the re vealer of divine truth, powerful In 1 HIb wealth of grace, so was our Lord. I For His excellency In these three ! winning virtues let us pay Him hom- 1 age now. "Then said Pilate to tho chief priests and to the people. I find no ! fault In this Man." Faultlessness Is perfection. To be without fault Is to free from defect. As tho Ital- ; lans would phrnso It, to be faultless is to bo lacking In nothing Jesus was a faultless man only such could have been the mouthpiece of the convincing oracles which the Savior brought from God. Faultl ness, which is but another name for ' falseness, was apart from His na- ' ture. Jesus made no pretensions. He was Just what He claimed to be. Sincerity rang from His every word and made eloquent His every deed. , Deceit and deception were not in His line. Often the Lord sent His truth home veiled with well chOBen words. But at no time did He use deceit to j gain His ends. True enough It Is, I thai plain statement of the truth made Him so many enemies at times, that It la a wonder that, now and then. He did not pare the truth to aave Himself friends. But no, the Christ was not on earth to trim or to cut the truth to suit those whom It hardest hit. His mission wa9 to preach the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as com- lng from the mouth of God. The Savior was no trimmer. Oftentimes His words laid bare the soul Becrets of the men to whom He spoke. Now and then, He cut them to the very quick. But because their hearts were i hard was not His fault. His was the blameless, faultless ilfe and theirs were the hearts that wore dead In ' sin and to shame. Without guile ! and without guilt Is the Judgment of our minds and hearts upon this man IB whom Pilate found no fault. John tells us In the verse which we Just read that Jesus was full of grace. Grace 1 graclousnes3, lovell MM, Coming to us as the dispenser Of the love of God freeiy bestowed upon men In sin Jesus exemplifies in i His own life that gracious loveliness 1 which He preaches. Pure, gentle, noble, upright, kind and true, Christ is a Joy to eye and soul alike. To j gaze Into His face roust have been to walk with God to those who under stood And those to-day within the unhlndeiec. Influence of the Master may bear upon their own faces the marks of inward loveliness of life. The power of transforming grace will change not only the spiritual nature of a man. but also will re mold and transfigure the very feat ures of his face. A countenance that Is hard with Bin will mellow Into gentleness and peaco through tho yielding of the soul to the Savior. That quiet charm of manner 'which mutt have been our Lord's, and which is the badge of Godly living which many Christians bear, may ha the possession of each of us, do we want it. You know the gracious cast of countenance I mean. That quiet, holy, Baintly look which tills the faces of many men and women in whose hearts the spirit moves. Who does not want It? Grace is kindness. Maltble Bab cock put It well when ho said "..ind neas is recognizing another's kin ship." Jesus saw the same ances try in other men which made Him a Son ol God. Seeing the need of dy ing men, Ills kinsmen, our Lord yearned to give them Ilfe forever mo;' Not His own convenience, but their need, moved Christ to ac tion. Personal ambition crept into His soul but once, only to be sacri ficed forthwith to human need. Sa tan offered power, but Jesus hun gered after souls. Satan preferred money, the Savior those men. Kind ness proved the Inner grace of Christ. And u Chrlstly kindness exercised by each of us will not only makes ut friends, but will also cause us to grow In grace. Grace Is good-will. This Is not to Imply 'that we are merely to have a hope that the man next to ua may gain success through the expenditure of his own effort. Good-will that count for anything gets behind the working brother and helps him ahead, it Is the spirit of assistance, not so much the roar of applause, that we want. Good-will becomes concrete and an aid most when It re solves Itself into loving helpfulness. A good round of applause may put heart into the Christian who Is work ing hard for Christ, but ready assis tant from the brethren who watch so sympathetically the progress of his toll will be most a benefit to the harvester of souls. Love for men In In, and words of approval for those who are breaking Satan's shackles from oft their live; are all well enough 10 far as they go, but unless the love and approval are expressed in willing aid, they are not most of awe. God always felt sjid always does feel for men. the Father ever has a good word for those who are leaving sin behind, but the gift of Christ to point to us the way, and the sending of .the spirit who shall send us on ahead toward God, are more necessary and grateful to our hearts than all Jehovah's words of praise. Approbation, applause and approval are good; well wishing and godspeed are full of Incentive to any man; but that good-will which assists and aids and helps to clear the way to material success or to God Is the good-will which most brings us cheer. Good-will Is willing helpfulnes. Faultleis, truthful, graceful was the Lord of our lives. And It Is be cauce He was without pot or blem kn or reproach; became He was the Incarnation of divine virtueB; be cause He showed grace that Is suf ficient unto our salvation, that we crown Him King. Had the Christ not been without blame; had He not been the living expression of the truth that He was; had He failed to evidence a helping grace, our hearts could never hall Him as divine. The first appeal of Jesus to our minds 1 HI faultlessness In the dls semlnntlon of the truth of God; the next appeal I the absolute consisten cy of His actions with His words. The aplrltual fact which Jesus brought to men deserve and fasten their attention. For depth In philos ophy, for Insight Into the furthest reaches of human life; for clearness of application of divine truth to the needs of men; for explication and unfolding of those words of wisdom which point us to a fuller life in God, the Master Is Incomparable. Many of the teachings of Jesus were not new In substance, many of His ut terances may be paralleled In the writings of the Old Testament and In the teachings of not a few philo sophic leaders of the world's great faiths. But Jesus magnified and sanctified all the old material that He touched, by the way He spirit ualized It and turned It up toward God. Many of the more prominent of Jesus' thoughts were not new In sub stance to the men and women of His time; most of them felt and admit ted tho force of His message no doubt, so far as they went with Him; but the central facts are these: that Jesus breathed new life and Impart ed new meaning to their old beliefs; and then lived entirely the life He, preached. Jesus was faultless, full of grace nnd truth. His faultlessness Implied no blame at all. His was tho fulness of grace; that is to say, He not only brought men assurance of His power to save, by word of mouth, but also proved by deed His potency nnd ef ficiency. Full of truth, He lived that life we should expect. He demon strated the worth of His own teach ings by His own allegiance to them. Believing that sin was shameful. He lived a blameless life. Preaching free forgiveness and the possibility of a richer life through the grace of God, He proved His own possession of the grace He claimed to be the need of men. To Him truth Is eter nal nnd Is to be obeyed. Claiming to know and to reveal entire truth Jesus never balks His own best words. How different are we. We hate sin, we want grace, wo love truth Is fact. And we who have tried truth. But yet we hug the wrong; we shut the heavenly glory from our hearts; we block and bal.c by action the truth we try to preach. Jesus Is faultless. His grace Is real. His truth Is fact. And we who have tried the power of His grace to reform our lives and to renovate our souls are sure thut only as we live His truth are we able to be found without a fault. Full worthy was our Lord to be our Savior and to receive our trust and faith. The beauty of His mes sage aud Ills life are paBt compare. Nowhere do we find another such a man. On His divine side He is su preme. As a man He is the manifes tation of the humanity of God. Christ not only spake things but lived them. The spirit of adoration that bound the twelve to Jesus should make us learn to love Him more. Entering into union within Him we may pro gress into faultlessness and grow In wealth of grace and the knowledge of the truth. Dr. Parkhurst has said a true word when he calls attention to the fact that "Christians grow by addition, not by subtraction." When first we think upon It the statement seems to be but hnlf the truth. But do we consider for a moment we will find It fair. The accretion by the Christian of spiritual power will drive Bin out. There will be no room for evil. The life that is drawing close to God has no need to subtract Bin. Let the heart pay strict attention to the work of soul culture and ,'atan will sub tract himself. Most of us spend so much time in subtraction that we never learn to add. Keep lnct easing tho measure of soul forco that la yov.rs and ln will make Itself a minus quantity. Try to do what you know you ought to do and you will llnd the problem of how to escape sin is lightened of Itself. All things in the last analysis must bo brought to the test of Jesus Christ. He is our Savior and our one example. He Is the test of our fit ness nnd the pattern for our faith. His grace may be ours; the appropri ation of His truth Is the business of tho Christian. The vigor of our grace and truth Is the measure of assured succobb. Our faultlessness w"l be Judged of men and God by the sam ples we are of the Influence of tho life and wcrd, tho truth aud grace of Christ. Horse Terms. Grinders, the back tooth. A white eye is a glass eye. A white spot In the forehead ?s a blaze. Hand, one-third of n foot four Inches. A snip can't be anywhere except on the nose. A white face from eye to eya 1 a bald face. Croi'p, that part of a hore back of the saddle. White around the top of the hoof Is a white coronet. Elbow, Joint of forelegs next above knee, lying nett to horse's side. A star, blaze or bald face can't be anywhere except on the face. Fore arm, that part of the leg between the elbow and knee. American Cultivator. to select nursery stock of tho better grades, and to order early. Country Gentleman. 'Jmm CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES m & SCIENCE H APRIL FOURTEENTH. V I I iW Milk Kept Seven Weeks. A new process for keeping milk n long time Is nnnounced by German scientists. The milk Is first treated with peroxide of hydrogen, which kills the germs, but imparts a pecul iar taste to the milk. Then to each quart Of milk Is added a few drops of the ferment obtained from beef liver from which the beef has been ex pressed. This substance, it is claimed, destroys tfie unpleasant taste given to tho milk by the per-, oxldo of hydrogen. At first thought this new plan does not seem to be adopted on a large scale, and tho discoverers admit that It Increases tho cost of the milk four or five cents per quart, so that It would not be practical to use except where freBh milk could not be obtnlned regularly. It is claimed that the milk so treated was successfully kept for seven weeks. Boston Cultivator. Concrete In Farm Const ruction. Among the uses for concrete enu merated are foundations for houses, barns and windmills, sidewalks, fence posts, wnter troughs, cisterns, tanks, anil cesspools, floors for hotiBe and stable, stairs, well curbs, stalls, hog pens, chicken houses, corncribs, Ice houses, incubator cellars, mushroom cellars, hotbed frames, bridge abut ments, chimneys, ventilators and hitching posts. In estimating on cost of concrete sufficient broken stone should bo provided to fill the whole volume under estimate, since tho ce ment and sand merely fill the voids in the broken stone. By a calcula tion of the cost of concrete posts It Is found that posts can be made for fourteen cents each. This low cost would be possible only when large numbers of posts are made. The Cultivator. Buying Fertilizers. Forehanded farmers and market gardeners have already bought their year's supply of fertilizers. Any who have not done so should buy at once. As soon as tho plans for tho year's work aro fairly In hand, so that one can estimate the amount of fertilizer required, tho order should be placed. There are a good many advantages in buying early. These advantages are especially marked when one buys raw chemicals nnd mixes his own fertilizers. By the way, this plan of buying and mixing at home Is now well established In the best farm and garden practice of the country. Any man who pretends to keep his eyes open and to know how to manage agricultural affairs In the modern way Is certainly able to do his own mixing; and the advantages of homo nixing of raw materials are very great. Tho man who has not yet adopted this practice had better look it up at once. Country Gentleman. Wasting Fertility. In a recent lecture on the wastes of farm fertility, Professor Holden, In n very terao and Btrlklng way, showed tho Importance of feeding as much of the farm products as possible to live stock. He has made a careful study f the matter by innlysis, and her? Is what hi salt!: Every time a farmer sell a ton of wheat he sells $11.62 in fertility; In a ton of clover hay he sells $8.62 In fertility; In a ton of airnlfa hny he sells $8.63 of fer'.illty; In a ton of onts he sellB $7.81 In fertility, and In a ton of corn he sells $6.47 In fertil ity. If those productB be fed on the farm under proper conditions, and the resulting manure be returned to the soil, there 18 a very slight los of fertility, fo.- tho following finished products ma." be sold Instead: In selling a ton of finished beet on tho hoof, the farmer sells but $f.37 In fertility; In a ton of live hogs he soils but fS,7tf in fertility; in a ton of milk he sells but $1.48 In fertility; in a ton of cheese ho sells but sixty nine cents In fertility, and In a ton of butter he sells twenty-seven cents In fertility. The best policy for the family to adopt is that system of corn and crop rotation which will embrace not only the growing of grain, but the breeding and feeding of stock, cither for sale In the form of beef or pork, or for the production whether for milk, cheese or butter. Indiana Farmer. The Demand For Good Horses. The Increasing demand for good draft horses has awakened fresh in terest among breeders who have good dams. The Drovers' Journal In re ferring to the Increasing demands In tho Chicago markets says a survey of the horse conditions present an in viting field for intelligent breeders. Demand for all classes of horses for Industrial and commercial use waa nOW bo broad or prices so remu- I noratlve. The fact that farmers have been slow to grasp the situation finds the supply hardly adequate to meet the increasing demand. The out- look Justifies continued high prices until tho surplus assumes propor tions to resume exportation of horses In large volumo again. The supply can only be Increased by enlarging I breeding operations, which, under j the most favorable regime, will re quire half a decade to produce a reasonably largo surplus. The fact that the supply of horses Is short should not lead to haphazard breed- ! lng. ProfltB In tho horse Industry will depend on the quality of the j horses produced. The beBt mares should be selected for tho harem and the choicest stallions of all breeds of horses pntronlzcd. The stream can- . not rise above tho fountain and the : progeny of sire and dam will inherit the characteristics of their ancestors. The opportunity for largo profits in tho horse industry was never more promising to the careful breeder that will produce good commercial offer ings of all classes. Wonderful aro the possibilities In denatured alcohol. It Is now assort ed that cornstalks alone, whfch are now wasted, would yield 10,000,000, 000 gallons of alcohol, nnd that four acres of small potatoes are capable of yielding one thousand gallons. A farmer living $fe northern South Dakota, hns made use of the aurplu water, flowing at a great pressure from an artesian well, by compelling It to run a dynamo. This generator produces an electric current sufficient to furnish light and power for tho farm. A scientist anuounces that he has discovered a method by which he can convert wheat Into a substance tak ing the place of rubber. This sub stitute possesses all the essentials of original rubber. If this discovery proves a benefit, a new field for the use of wheat will be opened and farmers will get the benefit. A new phase of the art of model ing is practised by Mile. Susan Meyer In Paris. The material employed by her Is crumbs of bread colored with various liquids. She has discovered a process of making the mass elastic and almost unbreakable. A proof of her success is the purchase by the State of one of her works represent ing an apple tree In full bloom. It Is one exhibition at the Luxembourg Gallery. The new electrical test of D. Ne greano, a French electrician, distin guishes between different mineral waters, and detects Imitations. It consists simply In measuring the elec trical resistance, which proves to be very constant for the water of any spring at a given temperature, but varies greatly for different springs. Samples from the leading continental springs, for instance, gave resistances per cubic centimetre ranging from 27.5 to 1280 ohms. A Maine company Is now manufac turing turpentine from spruce pulp waste. Southern pine has hitherto formed almost the entire source of supply foi this product. It is said that turpentine obtained as a byprod uct in the spruce pulp Industry fulfils all the requirements of the article extracted from the Southern pines and is so closely allied to it that, the average consumer cannot distinguish between them. The material now being utilized in the manufacture of this new byproduct was formerly con signed to the waste dump. Lessons from the Patriarch. III. Jacob. Gen. 48:1-19. AX OLD CUSTOM. You Are Sufficient. God never sets one of His servant to undertake any task without first sufficiently qualifying him for that task. Scottish Reformer. Jottings by a Hog Feeder. I have been feeding hogs for a number of years and have had almost no losses, while all around me so called cholera has devastated one herd after another. Hero are a few of the things I did and did not do. which I believe kept my herds from disease: Do not feed an extreme green corn diet. Do not crowd the young stock un naturally. Keep dear water before them all the time. Keep the sleeping quarters clean and dry. Have good shade during tho warm weather. Give the hogs salt and ashes, es peclullj hard coal ushes, and an oc casional dose of copperas and nul phur In tho slop. Be particularly careful about this with the hogs that ure in the feeding pens. Keep the hog:; and their yard In a sanitary condition and watch tho herd carefully In order that no dis ease may get a start. All these points should be kept in mind, for they are the only effective Insurance against cholera and kin died diseases. J. P. Fletcher, In The Cultivator. How to Select Poultry. In selecting poultry, the age of the bird Is tho most Important question. In selecting a turkey, remember that a young bird has smooth, shiny black legs, while those of an old bird are rough and reddish. If the bird has been freshly killed, the eyes are full and bright and the feet moist. The combs and legs of a chicken are smooth in a young fowl and rough in un old one. When selecting goose, see that f1e bills aud feet are yellow and have lew hairs on them. If freshly killed the feet should be pliable, for after they have been killed some time they are dry and smooth. Ducks aro chosen by their feet, which Bhould be supple. Wild ducks have reddish feet, while those of tho tame ducks are yellow. A fresh duck should have a plump, hard breast. Tame pigeons are larger than wild ones and tho feet show the ago of the bird. They aro supple It the bird Is young, and stiff if It Is old. Pigeons uro only good to eat when they are fresh. When they have been kept too long they become flab by aud discolored about tho under part. Florida Agriculturist. BLESSING THE ANIMALS. The ancient custom of blessing an imals on the feast of Saint Anthony, by the abbot In Guadalajara, was ob served recently at La Merced Church, In that city, where the observance Is more general than in any other Mex ican city. Within a period of two hours hun dreds of animals, Including horses, oxen, cows, mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs, tats, rabbits, tur keys, chickens, parrots and singing birds were sprinkled with holy wat er. Saint Anthuny, the abbot, is the protector of dumb animals, and Is credited with power to guard them from disease nnd to bring Increase in numbers. .vieiicau ueruid. . GOOD AS SHE COULD GET, The new servant had presented her references, and the mistress read them over with a doubtful eye. "I am not quite satisfied with your references, Jane," she said "Naytber am I, mum, " responded the stulwurt maid, "but they're ths best I could get." Answers. ' Nursery Stock. Many careful farmers anc fruit growers have adopted the plan of ordering all nursery stock eurly In the fall. Many of them Insist on a fall delivery of stock, even when the trees are not to be planted out until spring. The majority of small plant era undoubtedly still prefer to set trees In the spring. This soems to be a more natural time of the year. While there are some disadvantages In spring planting, it is in many ways convenient, and on the whole it Is safe. Nearly all small planters therefore are now looking forward aud planning for trees which are to be set this coming April. If those trees have not ulready been ordered, it la a part of wisdom to make the order at once. This gives the oppor tunity to say onco more that nursery trees should always be bought of nurserymen, never of fruit-tree agents. Reliable nurserymen who grow trees are willing to sell them at a reasonable price, and what is more, they are always willing to be held responsible for their business trans actions. On the part of the farmor and gardoner. It Is wise to buy nursery stock liberally, always get ting it from growers. It Is wise also Farm Notes. Treat a cow well and she will do well by you. Milking with wet hands should bo avoided; it Is not a clean practice. To make ut least $10 clear out of your cow, you must have at least $45 profit. Milk thut is cooled as soon as drawn from the cow will keep much longer. Fresh cream should not be added to older cream until after it la cooled to fifty degrees. Give a little fine bone meal In the soft food of chicks that aro subject to weakness in the leg. It is not a good plan to feed grown up fowls too much soft food; It tends to mako them dyspeptic. With hens It Is much better to keep the appetite sharp, compelling them to bu active und search for food. A dust bath almost every day is necessary to the health aud happl Cjss of a hen, and she should have it. A chick that Is continually chilled seldom amounts to much, because vi tality Is used up to resist and over come abuse. The greater the variety of food given to poultry the better, but it should bo dean, wholesome, and such as they relish. With the early setting hens at least food should be placed within their easy reach so that they need not be long In quest of It. I here are two ways of feeding a vurl.jty. One Is to food several kinds of food at one time; the othsr Is to fued one kind a while, thun another and another. These two methods combined we believe to be the best plan. New Orleans to Lose Hie Habit of Lagnappe For the Children. It things are going to continue their present trend. New Orleans will soon be a city Just like any other one In this country a sort of connecting link between San Francisco and Philadelphia, one might say. Already the Crescent City has installed sew ers. The other day we told of the probable passing of its characteristic sidewalk galleries. But these two blows to Its distinctiveness appear mild and insignificant when com pared with the one administered since then. , By agreement among all the retail dealers of the city, the time-honored institution of "lagnuppo" or "lagnl appe," as most of the local papers spell It has been abolished from tho beginning of the Now Year. The man does not live that, remembers when a sale waa made In the former capital of the colony of Louisiana without "lagnappe" thrown In. The word means something given on the side, as a gratis allowance to the cus tomer. It springs from the word "napa" (pronounced "nyah-pah", n Spanish-Americanism, meaning "to boot." "Tho pleasant institution of napa the pe'.ty gratuity added by tho retailer to anything bought grew the pleasanter, drawn out Into Gal licized lagnappe," says George W. Cable, In bis "The Creoles of Louis iana." No matter how small the purchase, something had to be added "for lag nappe." Generally, this something v-as a small delicacy a piece of candy, for Instance. Increasing com petition and never-decreasing greed made the shopkeepers devise all sorts of schemes for keeping up the custom with the smallest possible cost The children, who have been eager to run errands In the past Just for the sake of the reward found in "lagnappe," suffered from this de terioration of the custom to such an extent that the Board of Health finally had to Interfere. And It was at the instance of the authorities that the retail dealers at last decided to take the revolutionary Btep of abol ishing "lagnappe" entirely. Com plaints have already been heard from numerous mothers that, hereafter, it will be very hard to get the children to do the errand running. But that the change Is for the better, no sen ilble person will be likely to doubt. The custom thus wiped out was pe culiar to New Orleans only through Its particular form and by reason of the firmness with which it was es tablished as an undeniable right. New York department stores giving trading stamps are simply doing In another way what the merchants of Now Orleans have been doing for more than a century. The same cus tom waa common in northern Europe as late ns the seventies. It dates back to the days of plain barter, when it served as a sop to the feel ings of the party that had tho loBlug end of a trude. New York Post. Mnrmalude to lluild a Church Spire, Marmalado Is being made at the rectory, Princess Blsboiough, Buck inghamshire, and sold to tho parish loners, the profits being devoted to the church splro funtj. Pork plea and boadwork have also been sold In -.mi of the same fund, and a substan tial sum has been realized. London Evening Standard. Hi The "supplanter." Gen. 25:27-34. The dreamer.- Gen. 28:10-22. The lover Gen. 29:9-20. Tho covonant-maker. Gen. 43 55. The pendent.-Gen. 32.1-12. The prevaller Gen. 32:24-32. What a man will chiefly remember In looking over his past life are his visions of Ood. One of the great delights of old age Is to trace tho fulfillment of God's promlseB. That will be also one of the chief delights of heav en. There never yet was n godly life that did not find Ood kinder than he even hoped He would be. The wise mnn will seo the angels at work In his life, and will under stand that ho has not accomplished his own ga'-itlon, but has been re deemd. Suggestions. Jacob learned God's friendship by becoming friendless, and Ills power by becoming weak. In many a life, as In Jacob's the climaxes of tho life, the angel cli maxes, aro the times of deepest dis tress. Tho thigh of Jacob's body had to be put out of Joint. In order that the thigh of his mind might be straight ened. No biography In the Bible Is so full of lessons for modern business men as this biography of Jacob. Illustrations. While Jacob was trusting himself, we have night scenes; when he be gan to trust God, "tho sun rose upon him." When Jacob, the "trfpperup," be came Israel, the "prince," he ex changed heels for head! Crafty men. like Jacob, set so many traps that they fall Into one of them themselves. God's promises are like wings, and whoever wears them does not even know that the road Is rough. Thf house of God Is "any place where God lets down the ladder." And how are you to determine where It may be. but by being ready for It always? Ruskln. Men may rise on stepptng-sttmes Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- mi:ms ion APRIL 14, BY the RHV. t. W, HBNUHKSON. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY APRIL 14. God Revealed in Christ (John 1. 14) Passages for Rerefence John 14. 9, 10; 2 Tim. 1. 12; John 1. 1-3. Revelation tells us that "the testi mony of Jesus Is the spirit of proph' ecy." The Bible tells us of God, but points by prophecy and symbol to Jesus as the One through whom Old reveals himself to the world. The statements of the facts In this line are found In the Word. John 1. 14 tells us that the Word which "was with God and was God" was "made flesh and dwelt among us," and In him they '-beheld the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father." Again the First Epistle of John speaks of what they beheld as eyewitnesses, which visions brought them Into fel lowship with both Christ and the Father. Jesus said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?" In Heb. L 3, Jesus Is spoken of In his relation to the Father as "being the brightness of his glory, and the express Image of his pirson." In Second Corinthians, fourth chapter, Paul says that Christ is "the Image of God," and that "God, who commanded the light to Bhlne out of darkness, hath shlned in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." "In the face of Jesus Christ" we see God, and that is the place where wo get the truest conception of what he Is. The names used in the Bible are significant of the character of those to whom they are applied. "He shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their slna." In like manner ho is called "the Word." What Is a word? It la a medium of communlcat on by which one person conveys bis thoughts to another. So Christ Is tho word by which God tella his thoughts to the world. Jesui conveys to us God's thoughts toward us and about us: about us, that we are in a helpless condition, doomed to tho consequences of sin; toward us, that he ''so loved us as to give his only-begotten Son, that whosoevet belleveth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life." In him we see God's holiness opposed to sin; and his compassion providing a way of escape from sin. Jesus la God's best word to mankind. FINDS CHILD PETTING WOLF. A vicious gray wolf, kept In cap tivity at Beaver, Pa., for sever.! weeks by William Patterson, escaped from Its cage and terrorized the town, day and night, tearing to pieces two big dogs. Mrs. Charles Blugo, living in the lower part of the town, went out on a recent evening to look for her daughter Nina, five years old, who had been sled riding, and found the child standing by a big gray wolf In the centre of the street, patting him and gurgling, "Nice doggie! nice doggie!" The mother almost fainted. She called to her child to come away from the "nice doggie who might bite," and with tears the little one obeyed. 3he had stepped but a short disthuco from the wolf when a riflo shot killed the animal. Patterson .nd another man were trying to get a shot at the Wolf when the child ran up to It and began to fondle it. Naw York 'i lines. A BOOK OF REFERENCE. Father "Here! What are you dolug at that bookcase?" Tommy "I Just want to see that big History of tn United States." Father "What for?" Tommy "WfJJle Smith said the Bostons was ohamplous of the League In 1892, an' I want to see If he's right." Catholic Standard and Times. . Subject: Ood Gives Jacob a New Name, (Jen. .12: (1-1 2. 22-30 Golden Text: Luke 10:24) Mem ory Verses, 20-2M. The picture of Jacob at the Jabbok is the picture of a man In distress. First he Is distressed In mind because of the fear that Is In his heart that his brother Esau, whom he so griev ously cheated, will wreak a vengeance upon him that Jacob evidently recog nizes to be founded on good and suf ficient cause. Jacob has escaped from the household and the control of Laban, a wealthy and self-sufficient man. He desires to enter Into the land that God had promised to hint. But the sin of years ago coming into his immediate thought fills him with terror lest Esau should despoil and humiliate and perhaps slay him. Sec ondly, Jacob Is In distress because God sets His power against him to hum ble him. In the midst of his worry ovier the possibility of defeat by Esau Jacob prostrates himself before Ood. He pours out his soul in agony, calling upon God as the giver of the might iest promise of his life to protect him from Esau, the brother whom he had so wronged. There Is no mistaking the terror of his mind. Jacob Is ab ject. "I am not worthy of the least of Thy mercies," he 'say. That Is the confession of his unworthlnes and of his dire need. One thing that Is noticeable I this, that Ood answers this prayer of Jacob In a different manner than Jacob evi dently expected. Jacob wished to be delivered from his brother. That was the burden and the motive of his prayer. He doesn't make an open breast of his own conception of his own perfidy toward his brother to Jehovah. He doesn't ask God's for giveness becsuBe of the sin against his brother. He simply desires to be saved from his brother's wrath.- But God answers the prayer of this de spairing man with distress. He sees that Jacob has no real conception of the enormity of sin, that he has no realizing sense of his utter helpless ness. He sees that Jacob's terror Is simply momentary, that If Esau had not been reported ahead there would have been no prayer. God under stands that if Esau enn be propi tiated by gifts Jacob will lay his de liverance in some measure to the shrewdness for which he Is famous. God perceives that the one thing necessary above all others In the life of Jacob is proof of his helplessness, his actual inefficiency, of his ultimate dependence on God. And so alone In the darkness of the middle of the night until the dawn of day Jacob is tested and tried of God. He emerges a different man, with a new name and the divine blessing. But only after a night of trial and of earnest endeavor with God. This lesson teaches us many les sons. It teaches us first that the rec ollection of sin remains after many years to rise up and overwhelm us with fear. It teaches us also that wo can have no respite until wo have confessed to God our own abhorrence of our own wickedness. It teaches us in the third place that we must ask God for strength from some other mo tive save fear of the consequences. It tells us that shrewdness and self sufficiency and talent cannot avail to save us from sin. It Impresses us with the truth that a vision of God can come only after earnest and In sistent prayer. Finally It assures us that the prayer and earnest desire of the sinner to be blessed will be granted an answer by Ood Himself. Men need to be taught that sin haunts the mind and heart long after it la committed. There Is nothing that has greater longevity than the remembrance of a heinous sin. And even as the memory of sin remains with us, so equally Is It true that we can have no respite from the awful ness of Its memory until we have con fessed it to God and humbly and con tritely asked His pardon. And we must ask for pardon from some other motive save that we fear the conse quences. The sinner who comes to the Almighty merely because he la scared is not likely to receive an en during vision. A godly fear Is a good thing, but far better Is It for us to confess our sin because we are ashamed of ourselves and recognize our unfaithfulness to God. Jacob was as shrewd a man as history re cords. He was sharp and tricky and calculating and cunning, but all his talent and self-sufficiency were not of sufficient value for him to tie to when he considered his life to be at stake. And if Jacob found his wits insuffi cient to save him from the retribution of Esau how shall we In the mere strength of our shrewdness escape In the day of reckoning with sin. Cer talnly that man is a fool who thinks that he can outwit the laws of God. And even as we cannot escape the consequences of sin and Its penalties by our wits alone, so we cannot enter into a vision of Jehovah and of His salvation until we have striven with i Him for the blessing. This vision we all need. This Btruggle must be the portion of every man who desires to escape from the toils of Bin. The adversary will not let us go lightly. God will not bless us until we are earnest In our desire and Intention and determination to serve Him. But to no earnest man has lie ever re fused a blessing. We may. It we will, receive, as Jacob, the benediction of the Lord. Whatever may be our measure of Iniquity and guiltiness the Father stands ready to bless If we will but turn to Him lu earnest, In sistent petition. Each of ub may re ceive a new name, each of us may meet Ood face to face at Penuel. Mighty Interesting Reading. President Roosevelt Is a better hunter now than he was some twen ty years ago, when he first went look lng for deer In Maine" under the guid ance of "Bill" Sewall. On that occa sion he and bis guide camped at a place where deer were abundant. Just before dusk Sewull placed him at a corner where he could watch the runways. "When you see the deer you let drive," said the guide. In a few minutes a fine buck cams trot ting toward tho ambush. Unable to restrain his Joy young Roosevelt turned and wjilspored: "Do you know, this Is the first deer I have ever Bhot." Then he turned to "let drive," but the buck, whose keen eara caught the whisper, had Jumped tide ways and disappeared. What Sewall thought and what Roosevelt said for ho uext five minutes would make what Horace Greeley used to call "mighty Intel eating reading." 8a. vanuah News.
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