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.