YTbe PuipJt f
A SERMON
Subject: The Son of God.
I
Drooltlyn. N. Y. Preaching at Hie I
Irving Square Presbyterian Church j
on the thme "The Son nf Ood," the
Rev. Ira Wemmell Id denton, pastor I
took br his text 1 l Matt. 33, "Of a j
truth Thou art the Son of Ood." He i
Mid:
In this expression of the fnlth of '
the boatmen In the Christ ns the Son '
of Ood we have the consensus of a
host of men nnd women who, for
nineteen centuries, have followed the
gentle Galilean. The disciples pro
claimed their faith In the reality of
the Sonshlp of .Testis after a visible,
external. Objective exhibition of Ills
pow-r. In ages past, however, many
a song-Rung martyr nnd many an !
unknown saint has held Arm to the
aamo faith, seeing only with the spir
itual eye. And to-day every sincere
follower of our T.ord acknowledges,
with a joy that passes all human un
derstanding, "of a truth Thou art
the Son of God." From the fullness
of a rich and enriching spiritual ex
perience do we, here and row, re
iterate our belief in the supreme di
vine Sonshlp of our Savior and our
Lord.
Jesus of Nazareth the place from
which nothing food was htd to come
the Messiah of the chosen people
of God, proclaimed by angels, adored
by the wisdom of the East; youthful
confonnder of priests and prolate).
He it is of whom the apostle writes.
Jesus the man of ) arable and of
miracles; Jesus, the expounder of
those wonderfully well-put doctrines
contained In the Sermon on the
Mount; Jesus the Christ, the King of
Israel, th" Savior of the world. He
is the divln? human of whom the
disciples said: "Of a truth Thou art
the Son of God."
Let us look for a moment into the
"'aims of this Man, this despised Naz-
rene, this carpenter's son, to the
'itle and to the office of the Son nf
lod. Has He any claim that we are
bound to respect? Is there any rea
son why we are called upon to serve
Him, shall we believe upon Him, or
shall we reject Him. What. In the
last, analysis, is the proof that is final
that Jesus is divine.
If you will glanc through those
pages of the Old Testament which
give the history of the life and of the
hopes of the ancient Jewish people,
you will find that, running th ouch
them all. the coining of a Messiah
that Is to say, u Savior is prophes
ied. To His people God lias promised
a King who shall give to them eter
nal power and an endless peace.
Step by step. Incident by Incident, is
unfolded in the old prophetic books
the coming of a Christ.
Thus we see that the Man who is
to be the Son of God, the Messiah of j
the Jews, the King of Israel must be
a man who measures to the standards !
of the God-given prophecies of the I
centuries.
So much for h) historic demands
Open the claims of the Messiah. No '
less imperative, however, is the need I
that the Man who Is to be the Son
Of God and the Savior of the race j
shall be such u revelation of God as j
our hearts demand. You and I can- I
not trust in the Son of God save as
He meets the requirements of our
reasoning faculties and highest sense.
The Christ must not only be a God
declared Messiah, but also a self
proven incarnation of Almighty God. I
He must not onI bear divine letters
of recommendation to us, but also
convince us by a living divinity that
He ia what Ho claims to be. Aud
above all the truths of His messages
must be proven practical forces lu
our own lives ere we can believe.
Jesus Is the Son of God. the Savior
of the world, the Messinh of the
Jews, the King of Israel. As we have
seen the man who Is these must
measure true to the standards of the
God-given prophecies of the centur
ies. JesuB so measures. Throughout
'.he whole of the New Testament the
revelation of Christ as the fulfillment
Of prophecy is set forth. He is the
Mes:slah. He is the King whom God
has promised to His people Israel.
He Is the Son of David tor whom the
holy men of many generations
yearned. Christ satisfies all the de
mands of the Old Testam mt pro
phetic writers. From that stand
point lie is the Son of dud and Sav
ior. But whether or no there had
been given prophecies afor time,
there are grander and more glorious
reasons for faith lu Christ as the Son
of God. Christ is such a revelation
of God as our hearts demand. For
as we read the story of His life we
aee manifold Instances of His divine
power, purity and perfectness. Time
and again we Bee His godhood and
divinity in His workings and His
.words. He is the fullness of gran'
and truth. Yis. my friends, In His
miracles and His messages. In His
acts of love and His con fence-touching
truths, this man of sorrows and
of griefs reveals His Sonshlp divine.
The iiower of God shows through His
physical miracles, the love of the
Father shines through the spiritual
transformations that He wrought.
From whut other lips do we hear
such deep, such soul-satisfying prom
ises and commands. Nowhere In the
history of all the world has there
men another such a man. Mohamet,
unluclus, lluddha the ethical and
ihllosophieal teachers of all peoples
nd of every age are Incomparable
rli that personal, sanctifying Savior
A the Christian soul, whose name Is
Light aud Love.
But Jesus not only meets demands
as a rcvelator, He is also assured of
our confidence through the fact that
His words and His lite are in har
mony. Jesus not only revealed by
word the sort of God for whom in
wardly wo yearn, but He also exem
plified in His life the fullness of truth
which He preached. Telling of the
love that crowns the character of!
God He was lovely. Preaching the
essential spiritual nature of the Fa
ther He was Himself spiritually con
trolled. Telling men that the truth
of Qpd aud Jehovah Himself were to
b si'i.tually apprebecdad and dis
cerned. Jesus walked aud talked with
flod. Presetting the Kingdom of
leaven as lov. peace, 1ov. nurlty
pf life, the Bavlor went about loving
men, seeking and pursuing peace,
bringing Joy Into sad lened souls,
leading hardened hearts into purity
Of life. relieving that the cultiva
tion of godliness Is the business of
mankind Jesus was holv. upright,
godly HlmsHf. And It Is because Ha
not only nreaebed truth unto life
jetern.il but lied also the life that
hall gain nnd keen the crown of
rejoicing that we hail Hint Lord
Hlstorv'malrcs Jesus tie Son of
Ood. His rlegr-eut reasonable rev
elation of ,ho character dt GoJ by
t words so derlflr'-1 Him: Hta consist
ent p'acMcl revelation f dlvlnl'v In
i His dally life marks Him as God's
Son. And vet It Is not until we have
taken His truth Into our hearts, pnd
nroveu the richness nnd prnetlenhil
ttv of His theories In our own lives
that we can vMd to Him the adora
tion that Is due Him. The implica
tion bv a normal man to his own
life In true fnshlon of the truths of
Jesus Christ wl'l prove them to bo
mighty unto npllftment and enlight
enment and practical principles that
shs'l make fo' good when iract'callv
used in life. The truth of ChrUt will
be found so full of divine Inspiration
and revelation, and the life of the
man who revealed It will then be
found to he so godly that tho human
heart will hail the great reveater Son
of Ood. Jesus Christ cannot be un
derstood save by those who have en
tered into that manner of snlrltual
life that shall open their eves unto
the divine wonders of His life. No
man cet. enter Into the fullness of
the truths revealed In th messages
of the Master snve as he stands readv
to be born again and move ahead In
the spiritual life. The dlsrlnles did
not glory In the divine Sonshlp of
Jesus until they had had their eyes
opened In part to the snlrltual mvs
terles which underlay the objective
miracles that Jesus wrought. We
know how slow they were to P"o the
depth and the application of His
principles as He preached to them
the truth. And yet with them as
with us the secret of their faith in
the Master lay In the fact that there
was no discord between the truth
that He nrearhed and the life that He
lived. Thev waited the lnng-nrom-
i 1 Messiah from God who should
deliver Israel; they gave Jesus a
hearing as a self-styled and heaven
! proclaimed Christ; they heard the
music of heavenlv truth In all He
said, and above all they marked the
fact that He not only talked divinely
! well, but lived even as God would
I live. And so they followed Him.
I Hut they were not able to have con
I fldence in Him that should enable
; I hem to hear witness of His divine
power until they had tried for them
selves the sort of life He lived nnd
' applied for themselves to their own
1 lives the eternal principles that He
! propounded and found them practl
1 cal.
1 Men say to me, "1 do not believe
I Jesus was the Son of Ood." "I can
not accept Him as the incarnation of
! the Father." And my first question
is whether or no they nre fully com
: petent to jndgj. Are they in posses
! r.lon of such spiritual eiperlence as
will enablo them to pass good Judg
! luent upon the case in hand? Many
I a man who has no experience in tho
! Christ life will without a blush re
I ject nil the truths so dear to Chrls
1 tian hearts. If I as a minister pre
sumed to pass expert Judgment upon
astronomical truth, having never
even seen or marked the coursings of
the stars or galued experimental
knowledge of the wonders of the
heaven above us, you would hoot ine
from this church. Yet many a man
I with no Christian experience at all
i will pass final and irrevocable Judg
i ment upon Jesus Christ without so
much as a shred of personal testi
mony that could be worthy of notice.
Jesus is the Son of God. And the
' onlv wav you can come to know that
is through the spiritual, personal ex
perience of the fact. Jesus is tne
Savior of our souls from sin and the
only means to a convincing knowl
edge of this truth is through the en
trance of the saving truth of Jesus
Christ into your life. Jesus revealing ,
the truth, you testing, trying, proving
Its reliability and reasonableness lu
our own personal life.
MAY TWELFTH
i.essens from the Pstrlarchs. IV -Jos
eph. Ps. 105:16 24.
Loved nnd envied Oen. 37: 3-3B.
A good servant. Oen, 39: 1-6.
Helpful In prison. Gen. 39: 20
4ft: 22.
Wiser thnn kings. Gen. 41: 14 4f.
Forgiving. Gen. 4ri: 1-15.
Relieving the promise. Gen. 50: 15
28. It makes no difference In what way
we are "sent before" others, to pre
pare their way. If only we are thus
sent.
Trials are the highest compliments.
God does not test a man that has not
In him the possibility of something
worth God's while.
Joseph, becoming lord of himself,
was made lord of other folks.
God's people are alwayB stronger
than their adversaries; but they do
not always know it:
Suggestions.
Joseph's life was a series of trials
and triumphs; nnd every triumph
came out of a trial.
N'oble dreams are the supremo real
ities. If, like Joseph, one holds them
to be realities.
Joseph did things because he was
sure he could do things, and because
his pureness upheld thnt suroness.
Joseph had no thought that he was
pre poring the way for n great na
tion. The good mnn always lives,
better than he knows.
Illustrations.
In one of his stories Dr. Hale Imag
ines Josenh escaping from the Mldl
anltes nnd a little yellow dog barking
eod about to wake the Midianltes so
lhat they would recapture him. He
was about to kill the dog when an
angel prevented him, an! took him to
an unreal world where he was per
mitted to make the experiment and
see the results the famine and no.
food. Kgvpt ruined, civilization fallen,
Ihe family of Jacob blotted ou.'., no
Hebrew race into which a Christ could
be born for the lost world! "Hands
off from providence!" Is the. mornl.
The life of a good man comes up
against many obstacles, just ns does
tho Water of n strong stream; but the
obstacles are the mill-wheels of God's
great designs.
Quotations.
There's a Divinity that shapes our
ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Shakespeare.
Oh. when will men learn that the
spirit of God may be in them when
Ihey are buying and selling, nnd ar
ranging all the details of business or
home? F. II. Meyer.
No knife, no flame, touches tho
real nian.---Reecher.
A Way to Pick Geese.
After killing the goose Immerse It
In scalding water and then wrap it
in a thick cloth for five minutes. All
the pin-feathers and down will then
lomc off easily. In marketing geese
Ihey may be scalded after all tho
dry, clean feathers have been re
moved, but care must be taken not
to break the skin. After removing
the feathers Immerse the carcass In
cold water for an hour. Weekly
Witness.
Stop the Cracks.
There Is a timely and valuable sug
gestion. A very complete filling for
open cracks In floors may be made by
thoroughly soaking newspapers In
paste made in one pound of ordinary
flour, three quarts of water and a
tablespoonful of alum. These in
gredients should be thoroughly boiled
and mixed, the final mixture to be
about as thick as putty, and It will
then harden like the papier mache,
ana may also be used for molds for
various purposes. Weekly Witness.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, MAY 12.
Who! Is Worth Coveting.
It requires a well kept life to do
1 tho will of God, and even a better
1 kept life to will to do His will. To
! be willing Is a rarer grace than to be
doing tho will of God. For he who
is willing may sometimes have noth
ing to do, anil must ouiy ue willing
to wait; and it is easier far to be do-i-.g
Cod a will than to be willing to
have nothing to do it is easier far
lo be working for ChrUt than it is to
be willing to cease. No, there is
ujthlng rarer in the world to-day
llian the truly willing soul, and there
is nothing more worth coveting than
the will to will God's will. There in
in grander possession lor any Chrls
tlan HI" than the transparently sim
ple mechnnism of a sincerely obeying
art. Professor Drummond.
t rue Prayer is a Great Achievement.
Believe me, to pray with all your I
heart and strength, with the reason j
md tho will, to believe vividly that j
3od will listen to your voice through
,'hrlst nnd verily do the thing He
ileaseth thereupon that is the last,
the greatest achievement of the
'Jhristian's wariare on earth. Teach
as to pray, O Lord! Samuel Talor I
Coleridge.
Character Alone Endures.
Nothing is eternal but that which
! is done for God and for others. That
which is done for self dies, Perhaps
: it Is not wrong, but it perishes. You
! la? it is pleasure well, enjoy it.
joyous recollection is no longer
That which ends In self is mor
That alone which goes out of
Into God lasts forever. Fred-
Hut
I Joy.
I ta).
elf
srlck W. Robertson.
He Appreciative.
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, Joyous
lense of the crowded kindnesses of
Clod in your dally life. Alexander
MacLaren.
A
Ills
t Icto-y
Christ.
A Poor Reward.
Christian citizen who sacrifices
lctlons for a small and dirty
advertises a pus.llaJlnjous
- v-
Ripples.
A woman can bear anything with
! fortitude except wrinkles.
The more a youth spends at col
' lege, the less he will earn when he
gets out.
, Nearly everybody who can do one
I thing well has an idea that he could
; do something elBe better.
! One reason why so many people
are discontented is that they know
oo much. Birmingham Age-Herald.
Accounting for Our Time. Luke 12.
35-48. Epworth League Anniver
sary Day.
Passages for Reference: John 9. 4:
Gal. 6. :-10; Col. 4. 5; 2 Pet. 3. 10, 11.
If a man assigns a task to his work
men and then goes elsewhere to attend
to other matters, every one of us
knows how the time of the workmen
ought to be put In while the head man
is away. Every such one left In
charge Is supposed to be so occupied
that whenever the good man shall re
turn all things w ill ha in readinesB as
he wishes them. The fact of uncer- j
talnty as to the time of his return has :
no effect to relieve him of responsl-
MUtjr. The character of the servant Is j
brought out all the more in the fact
that he does not presume upon a long I
delay and so neglects the work till
near the lime when he expects the re
turn of his lord, but faithfully fills
the time of separation as If the good
man were there all the time. Men re
veal their nature In the use they
make of their lime. Whoever Is found
unfaithful to his tasks wlien the Mast
er returns will have to suffer.
Jesus realized that as the time was
brief In which he could do work for
others, and so honor the Father, he
must not let nny time go to waste. So
shall we as Christians feel that tho
time Is so brief that we huve to uso
that we "must bo about our Father's
business." There are men and women
In need today. Tomorrow they may
be past help. We shall have to do all
we can quickly, that no work be left
undone. Galatians warns us ngalnst
the idea that we can spend a part of
our time as we please and have no
dire results. Many become Impatient
In doing good, but tho word warns
ngalnst being weary In welldoing.
We are wont to mark off the circle
of recurring years by anniversaries.
This is the "anniversary" Sunday of
the organization of the Epworth
League. In 189 the Boclety began.
These have by no means been barren
years. They have witnessed many ad'
vances among the young people of the
church. Wo rejoice in the victories
that have been won. Rut these have
been days of transition. They have
witnessed marvelous changes in meth
ods In every line of work.
We may not record so many en
thusiastic conventions, where great
numbers have thronged together, but
there has been a deeper searching
ufter the real helpful things for Inspir
ation and practical Christian living.
There comes a time when growth by
extension must in a manner ceaso. But
real prosperity need not be retarded
thereby. If any chapter has reached
the practical limit for extension as to
numbers It need not cease to grow. It
may not broaden, but it can rise.
Sell Poor Cows.
The figures of really representa
tive herds must mean something to
the thoughtful farmer. Tho herd of
low production and the Individual
cows that do not return the owner a
net profit of $12 or $15 per year
scarcely Justify this investment of
money, time and labor In keeping
them. A study of these herds shows
that the economical thing to do Is to
sell the poor cows to the butcher as
fast as they can be replaced with bet
ter producers. The latter can be ac
complished either by more judicious
buying or by raising the heifer calves
of 'high-producing mothers mated to
a pure-bred sire having a lino of such
mothers In bis ancestry.
This Is not so difficult to do when
once the dairyman sets his standard
of a cow, determines definitely what
kind of a cow he will buy or produce,
and goes after that cow Instead of
taking something else that may bo
cheaper or easier to get. The great
est practical difficulty is in discover
ing what cows are poor and how poor
they are. This is quite easily done
in just one way by weighing and
testing the milk of each cow often
enough throughout the milking
period to get a fair estimate of her
worth. Scales and a Babcock test
cost but a few dollars and their use
may easily lead to an Improvement
of the herd that will add hundreds
to tile profit annually. Should not
every dairyman ask (and answer) the
question, "On which side of tho profit
line and how far from It is my
herd and every individual In It?"
Indianapolis News.
Home-Made Cow Stanchion.
F. G. Semple, a Canadian farmer,
furnishes Farm aud Fireside with his
plan of making cow stanchions. He
says he has used both chains and the
ld stationary stancMon, but has
inmo to consider his plan superior to
?ither of them. The figure at the
right in the Illustration shows the
stanchion closed. The one at the
left represents the stanchion as It ap
pears when open.
One of the reasons why pneumatic
tires gradually become exhausted,
even when unpunctured, Is that the
compressed air within slowly escapes
through the rubber, and this. process
la hastened by the oxidation of the
rubber, which causes it to crack. As
at least a partial remedy for this, it
has been proposed to Inflate tires not
with ordinary air, but with nitrogen,
on Inert gas which does not affect
the rubber. Tests of nitrogen-inflated
tires for automobiles have been
made In France, and the results are
said to bo encouraging.
Why IIo Did Not Marry.
As a reason for not marrying
Brahms once wrote to a friend:
"At the time when 1 should have
wished to marry, my compositions
were either hissed at or at any rate
very coolly received. I knew their
worth, though, and that sooner or
later the page would be turned; and
in unmarried solitude I never really
took my reverses to heart. 1
"But to be questioned by a wife at
Such moments, to have her inquiring
eyes anxiously fixed upon me, to hear
her ask: 'Again a fiasco.1'
"No, that I could never have borne.
For, however much she loved me and
believed in me, I could not have ex
pected her to have unwavering faith
in my subsequent victory. And had
she attempted to console me' l'gh!
I cau'i even think of It. It would
have been little loss than purgutory!"
Monthly Review.
The two sides are made of hard
wood four feet long, one and a quar
ter Inches thick aud two and a halt
inches wide. The end pieces aro of
hardwood, and aro one foot long and
three and a quarter Inches square.
They are mortised to receive the side
pieces, as shown in the sketch at bot
tom of Illustration. The sides aro
fixed to the ends with bolts, which
being loose enough so it is movable.
When tho sldo falls, as shown on
the figure on the rlghthand side, the
clevis raises and when the side comes
back Into position again the clevis
falls as shown in the lefthand figure
and holds it securely. Mr. Semple
says this stanchion, including mate
rial, labor, etc., should cost from sixty
to seventy-five cents each.
Irretrievably damaged. If such a
treo should survive. It will never
prove healthy or prolific In the yield
of apples.
After the treos are large enough to
be In full bearing, no efforts are
made to protect them by spraying
against the numerous insect enemies
The bark of the tree cracks, and these
cracks soon encircle the tree and the
tree dleB. An orchard, to be profita
ble, requires tho greatest of caro.
The land must be fertilized from
time to time. Weeds, brushes and
briars must bo kept down. The trees
must bo watched carefully, and any
appearance of disease must bo ar
rested by proper remedies. Unless
the orchard receives careful atten
tion, It will prove a waste of time and
a cumberer of the land. Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LK8SON COM
MKNTS FOR MAY IS BY THE
IU0V. I. W. HENDERSON.
Thinking of an Orchard?
Numerous apple orchards aro
planted from which no adequate re
turns aro mado for the amount of
work performed. Oftentimes the
trees nro purchased from some peri
patetic and irresponsible tree peddler.
The trees nre planted accordiug to
the best methods, but a failure to
protect them against rabbits or other
vermin causes the destruction of
probubly a fourth of the number the
first winter after they are planted.
The following summer ti.o land
may be planted In some crop roquir
lug clean cultivation, as potuloes, to
bacco, cabbage or tomatoes, and In
the plowing of these crops it often
happens that mora pains are taken
to protect a cabbage or tobacco plant
than a fruit tree.
The result is that many are skinned
by the singletree or trace chains and
The Yankee Milk Pall.
While citlOB are demanding a bet
ter quality of milk and health officers
are doing their host to make the
farmer sit up and take notice, my
method of obtaining the slmon pure
article may bo of Interest. DuBt proof
ccillngB and walls, whitewashed in
teriors, clipped cows, white duck
suits, etc., are all well enough, but
farmers are few who will pay any at
tention to such rules.
The combination of the Hoard Btnll
(plans for "which appeared In tho
Tribune Farmer not long ago) and
the covered milk pall produce the de
sired result for me. The first essen
tial is a clean cow. The Hoard stall
will take caro of the cow she
couldn't get dirty If she would. Our
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The Yankee Milk Pail.
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Plan of Making Cow Stanchion.
cows come out of the barn In the
spring as clean as they are when on
paBture. Make no mistake about the
stall; this stall Is the ideal method
for tying up cows.
Next in Importance Is the covered
pall. Mine Is made after my own
ideas, and looks something llko an
ordinary milk pail turned upsldo
down- Binall end up. Tho top is
seven inches in diameter. A shallow
pan two Inches deep fltB tight in the
top and is fastened there. A few
holes one-sixteenth of an inch In
diameter in tho bottom of the pan
near the centre let the milk run
through Into the pall. The spout of
the pall has a tight fitting cover.
One or two thicknesses of strainer
cloth are slipped under the pan before
It Is fastened in place, aud the re
sult is a dust and dirt proof pall.
There Is no patent on this pall.
To work this combination I pro
ceed about as follows: I take my
pall and stool and sit down by the
cow, tie her tall, milk out tho fore
milk, wipe her sides and udder with a
cloth, and proceed to milk Into the
Bhallow pan. The milk strikes the
bottom of the pan, runs through the
holes In the pan, through the strainer
cloth and into the pall, where It Is
practically sealed from outside condi
tions. It comes in contact with the
air of the barn only while it is pass
ing from the teat to tho pan a dis
tance of perhaps six Inches. I have
received many helps from the Tribune
Farmer, and hope this will point the
way for cleaner milk for others. L.
R. Hall, In the New York Tribune
Farmer.
Farm Notes.
Whatever may be said for or
against the practice of dehorning,
breeding the horns off is the better
way.
The farmer should tako active In
terest In tho condition of the roads
of his town. Their excellence In
creases the value of the farm.
The entomologists of tho Depart
ment of Agriculture have found that
the common red ant and the larvae of
a wasp fly are the best parasites for
the boll weevil.
Piobably not halt the farmers give
lime in any form to their fowls.
Those who do not can hardly expect
the fowls to be particularly generous
to them in the supply of eggs, or In
thickness of shell on those they do
furnish.
Wherever sheep feed new sweet
grasses flourish and weeds are de
stroyed. For this reason farmers
should raise more of them, if for no
other. But there are several other
and oqually good reasons why every
farm should have Us flock of these
useful animals.
When feeding meat to hens do not
use the fatty parts. The object la
feeding meat to hens is to supply
them with nitrogen and albumen and
not fat, as the grain contains all the
fat and starch they require and in a
cheap form. If the fat is fed it doen
not assist. In any way to provide ma
terial for eggs, but rather retards
than assists laying.
Snhjcrt : Joseph Forgives His Rroth.
era, Gen. 40:1-111, B0:1S-21
Golden Text, Eph. 4:1)12 Mem
ory Verses, 4, 5.
In all the range of literature there
is no single story, save that which re
lates the Incomparable deeds of our
Lord and Saviour, which surpasses
I the story of the life and the deeds of
i Joseph. It has Its peers, perhaps. It
I has no superiors. It Is so very hu
, man, so entirely probable, so realis
tic that It compels attention and stim
ulates our thought.
This is the fourth and the last les
I son upon the life of Joseph. We find
I him a dreamer In tho first lesson,
boyishly egotistical, perhaps, before
' his brethren. We leave him a man ol
maturity, of noble qualities, a man of
j delightful magnanimity, of abiding
I affection, of forgiveness.
The magnanimity of Joseph
throughout his life Is an Inspiration.
It Is never more Inspiring than in
those days when In the midst of dire
; famine and distress his brethron
come to him for aid and succor. He
, might have been vindictive. He
! might have wreaked vengeance upon
I them in retribution for the unholy
! manner and unbrotherly fashion in
which they had treated him in the
days when they were at home to-
gether. He might hnve killed them
: all and none would have been the
wiser Bare God Uiat he was a fratrl-
clde. But Joseph did none of these
things. The sight of his brethren
evidently aroused the finest Instincts
I of his nature. All the godliness of
his ciracter shines forth as he re
. members not so much that they had
; sold him into slavery as that they are
his brethren. To be sure we notice
that the more human side of his
make-up also has rein in this situa
tion. He cannot refrain from testing
hl3 brethron In purely human fashion
: before he lets them Into the secret of
I his identity. But in all his dealings
! we find that the hardness Is only ap-
parent, the sternness is only super-
1 flcial. In his heart of hearts Joseph
is inclined to be lenient. He has no
desiro utterly to humiliate his
brethren. His great-heartodness is
akin to the magnanimity of Jehovah.
Another characteristic that the les
bou pointedly sets forth is the abid-
: lng affection of Joseph for the friends
of his youth, for even the unworthleBt
i of his own brethren, for Benjamin,
child of tho same beloved mother as
1 himself, for Jacob his father. Busy
man and ruler of a nation that he
was Joseph never forgot the days of
his youth, those who were near and
dear to him by the ties of relation
ship. The cry of distress of the
brethren who hud so cruelly sent him,
as they thought, to death, fell upon
a responsive ear. He did not shut
up his heart against tliem. Love for
his own kin declares itself markedly
in his treatment of his brethren. Hla
heart yearns toward Jacob and Ben
jamin. And the closer the tie of re
lationship the warmer the affection.
His first call is for the father who
had so Delighted In him. The second
Is for the brother whose soul was
knit to his own by the blood and the
spirit of the common mother. This
shows forth in his conversation and
his gifts. For every portion that he
gives to the unworthy brethren he
gives Benjamin five. Possessing the
renewed companionship, of his
humbled brethren he rests not until
he has Benjamin and Jacob near his
side. His affection is abiding.
A third commendable characteris
tic of his dealing with his brethren Is
his forgiveness. It marks him as in
deed a man of God. Many men in his
position would have been proud,
haughty, unyielding, unrelontlng.
Many men would have evened things
up. Many would have utilized the
opportunity to wipe off old scores, j
The baser nature of many a man I
would have dominated at such a
crisis. The temptation for many
would have been to take as a motto j
not "To err is human, to forgive dl- i
vine," but, "He who laughs last !
laughs best." But Joseph was a man
of God. Ho saw in the denouement
the unravelling of tho mystery of the
vision God had given him in his i
youth; he saw the fulfillment of his
dreams This was not a situation j
wrought by man, it was tho handi- I
work of God. Before the leadings of i
Jehovah Jealousy, rancor, spleen, vln
dlcttveness were discounted and dis
countenanced. This was the oppor
tunity of a great man to test and re
veal his greatness. And Joseph acted
after the similitude of Gcd. The
prayer for forgiveness preseuted by
his brethren was heard and affirma
tively answered.
These qualities that the lesson dis
covers to us in the life of Joseph are
qualities that we ought to have lndi
tdually. The lesson will be of no
value whatsoever unless It Impresses
each of us for himself. It will be
useless unless we feel the impact of
the application in our own lives.
Magnanimity 1b one of the things that
many otherwise good people lack.
They are good at heart, but they are
not great-hearted. No man can be
magnanimous and be small. Like
wise no man can be magnanimous
who does not consider life in the light
of eternity and without having his
horizon broadened, his interests en
larged, his vlBlon deepened. So Is it
with ribidlng affection. It lu no credit
to a man that he easily forgets thg
old associations, the earlier compan
ionships of his lite. But best of all
is the capacity to forgive. That Is
divine. Godliness will manifest it
self In a forgiving spirit.
Great Men and Their Cats.
That the cat always falls on her
feet is a proverb, but not many, per
haps, have heard that this enviable
faculty Is a miraculous privilege be
stowed by Mohammed. Richelieu, it
seems, kept twenty cats; Tasso had
the "fancy," and merely to mention
Baudelaire, Chateaubriand, Victor
Hugo, Beranger and Maupassant, one
almost regrets lo learn that Petrarch,
after so far departing from the spir
itual tone of his Bonnots to Laura as
to half cherish thoughts of suicide on
her death, finally found consolation
lu the caresses of a cat, whose skele
ton may still be seen in the museum
at Pauda. Loudon Globe.
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also the widening of the Wetland
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In relating his experiences a man
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the seventh comes along, he expects
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Woman SiilTragist In England.
Kelr Hardie had a trylpg experi
ence the other evening. Addressing
a meeting mainly attended by the
other side, he failed to get a hearing
until the chairman said: "Oentle
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quietly ho will be happy to answer
any questions you may put to him
at the end of his speech."
When the honorable member had
resumed his seat a question written
on half a Bheet of notepaper was sent
up to Mr. Hardie, and passed by him
unopened to the chairman, who read
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"Read It out!"j,oared a dozen men,
nnd the chairman at last obeyed.
The question was, "Why do they
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Put In The Same Class.
Dr. W. C. Farabee, the Harvard
ethnologist, complained quaintly one
day before he set out en his ethnolo
gical Investigations among the In
dians at the head waters of the Ama
zon about the slighting way In which
the world still looks on science.
"Only In Germany," said Dr. Fara
bee, "does science get her due. In
some countries she is so hardly used,
indeed, that the deduction of the
Western trapper comes to mind. -
"This trapper, noticing a place
where roots had been dug up, exam
ined the spot and then said calmly,
as he rose and brushed the dust from
his knees:
" 'This must have been done either
by a wild hog or a botanist.' "
Washington Star.
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"At other tlmeB I had severe head
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed and dlornatlon so imnafred that I
' bad serious chronic dyspopsla and
constipation. A lady, for many years
State President of the W. C. T. U.,
told .me she had been greatly bene
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said It was no cross to quit coffee
when bhe found she could have as
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"Another lady, who had been trou
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another friend told me that Postum
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her heart trouble having been re
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