A SERMON IX Y "Me r.b , iiw w-ni-Nucityw Subject: The Church and the World. Brooklyn, N. Y. Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, on the theme, "The Church and the World," the Hey. Ira Wemmell Hen derson, pastor, took as his text If. I 2:3, "Come ye, to the house of the : God of Jacob." He said: The work of the church Is properly , dcftuable In universal terms alone. The church has no partial mission. It ha no restricted message. It Held Is the world, and Its opportuni ties are as wide as the universe and as diversified as nature. The wide expanse of the earth as It stretches eastward and westward, from frozen 1 land to frozen land, Is the sphere of j the church'a activities. Only as the church of Jesus Christ accepts her universal responsibilities and honest ly engages to transform the world is she true to the commission that she has roe 'Ived under Qod through Jesus Christ. Just In the measure that her message Is partial the church Is a partial failure. For the universal concepts of Christian truth are the strength of the church. Her universal constitute her compelling appeal. It Is only because Jesus had a world wide, an eternal vision of the needs nnd the possibilities of human ity under the providence of God that Ho has any claim upon the world at ' large. And it is only because the church has a treasury of truth pre served to her through Jesus that to day she has a claim to universal at- . tention and to a universal hearing. The DK fit ant that the church ceases to declare truth that Is universal In Its application that moment the church ceases to be a universal fac tor. Wo must be unconflned by na tional boundaries or by geographical revisions or by ecclesiastical distinc tions If the church of Jesus Christ Is to do Christ's work. We are capable of securing and of retaining universal sway over the lives of humanity be cause of our universals. For they appeal to men in every age and In every land regardless of their color, their creed, their caste. The Christian church has a uni versal revelation, a universal mes sage, a universal mission, a universal opportunity, a universal responsibil ity. The church has In Jesus Christ a universal revelation that is the funda mental uport which ail else in the Christian system is upreared. Every- i where and always men have recog nized that there are limits to the comprehension of divinity by the finite mind when unaided by a reve lation from on high. Men have been conscious that while they were able to know God partially through the media of the senses and to formulate in some measure Ideas of divinity through the power ot human Intelli gence, they have been finitely unable to know God to the entire satisfac tion of their souls until God has re vealed Himself to them. There has always been a desire upon the part of humanity for a revelation of Him self to them. And the desire has been met. Humanity has not recog alzed always the full content of the divine self-revelation, but It hae never been without a revelation from God. Before the days of Jesus men had only a partial consciousness ol the character, of the personality of divinity. Multitudes have no full comprehension of God to-day. And It is to the world that has the light ol half the truth to which the church to day must address herself. For the revelation ot God- in Jesus Christ If a universal revelation. The truth that is revealed in Jesus Is supple mental to all that humanity outside of Him now knows. Wherever thsre Is a soul that is longing for a knowl edge of the truth concerning God there is the field of the church. The revelation of God In Jesus Christ Is universal in Its outreach because It meets a universal need, is universally satisfying, is universally intelligible, Is universally the culmination of re vealed truth. The church has a universal mes sage. The sense of sin Is a universal consciousness. Likewise the realiza tion of human incapacity to deliver self from the bondage of sin is uni versal. Everywhere men acknowl edge the need of ft. Saviour. The longing of every heart is that it shall experience a salvation from sin that is satisfying, sufficient and eternal. The church of Jesus offers Just that. Its message Is that of the universality and the reality of sin, Its conse quences and Its woe. The church declares that humanity cannot un aided from above free Itself from sin. It proclaims the necessity of a Re deemer. It otters a sure, a comfort ing, an everlasting salvation by the gift of God In the personality of Jesus Christ. And this salvation Is not restricted. It Is not conditioned by any captious commands. It is not confined to r.ny class. Whosoever will may come. It Is for all men. And If the church will declare this universal message the church will receive a universal hearing. We can not do God's work with any less mes sage. It is useless to trim it or to pare It or to endeavor to change It In any essential manner. It Is God's message In Christ. It Is universal. The universal mission of the church Is to carry this universal message to the whole world. The chutch has a liationafemlssion to the land to which It goes and to the land In which It Is; but It has more than this. It has a mission to all lands, a mission that shall lead It to fit the Gospel to the peculiar necessities of the peoples to whom It is declared. But It has a larger mission even than this. It has A nrisslon to all lands and to every people to declare unto the nations the truth ot God that we are all of one fifth and blood and that the Interest ot each man is the Interest of the world; that the welfare ot one people Is the concern ot all the peoples; that Individual uud national lives are to be transformed by the grace of God not for the mere sake of Individual and national salvation, but for the larger purpose tnai a racial salvation may become effective. All of which Is to say simply this, that the mission ot the church In the world Is to lead ludlvlduals and nations everywhere and In all times to a proper under standing of the truth that salvation Is It the last analysis racial and uni versal. The Lord Jesus Christ dted for the salvation of the world, and a gospel that does not declare the plan of God to save the rape as the ulti mate In Christian truth has fallen short ot the whole counsel ot God to the world. The church has a di vine call to spread this message to the whole world This Is the unl iVersal mission of the church. The opportunity of the church Is universal. " The church has a chance to do the work for Christ at home. It has a chance also to do valiant service for the Master abroad as well. The Influx of aliens Into America pro sent a foreign mission problem and opportunity to the church n the homeland. To our shores there are rushing millions of men and women nnd children from the four corners of the earth. The list of the nation alities that have come to make their abode with ub Is startling. They aro of all classes and adherents to a mul titude of creeds. The languages that are spoken round about us remind us of the confusion of tongues at the tower of Babel. The nationalities of the peoples remind us of the famous congregation that heard Peter at Pentecost. And all these peoples flocking to our shores provide the greatest opportunity that any church oan conceive or that any church has had forced upon it. If we can so mould these diverse peoples Into the unity of the Christian fellowship and suffuse their minds and hearts and souls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ so that they shall seek righteousness before all else In life, then shall we have accomplished the mightiest work that any church ever undertook. The opportunity of the church nt home is sublime. It Is no less stupendous abroad. The very evils that in an economic way are afflicting the peoples on the other side of the world are the opportunity of the church of Jesus Christ. The awful famine in China and the like catastrophes in Russia and in other parts of the world are the opportun ity of the church. Heretofore alto gether too largely In the heathen (so called) mind Christianity has been inseparably associated and linked with opium and whisky and beer nnd Infidelity nnd aggression and aggran dizement. The nations of the East have felt the curse of the Christian civilizations of the Occident. And mistaking the wickedness of civiliza tion's representatives for the simple truth ot Jesus Christ they have had very little sympathy wlthChrlstianity. And we ennnot be too harsh In our Judgment of them. But happily this feeling of antagonism Is passing slow ly away. And If In this hour of their need America and the Christian na tions of the West shall show the Chi nese the spirit of helpfulness and of disinterested service in the name and under the ministry of Jesus Christ we may open the way to the conquer ing of China for Jesus. And what Is true of China Is true of ocher lands. The conditions may be different, but the opportunity Is the same. The whole world is awaking. We are on the threshold of a universal awaken ing the like of which the world has never seen before. It Is the oppor tunity of the church and it is uni versal. In the fare of this opportunity the church has universal responsibilities. It is Impossible for us to fold our hands in selfish case and be true to the command of our Master. The re sponsibility of the church at home is so to transform America that it shall be a safe haven for the oppressed, the ambitious of every land. We must make America tit to do the work that God has destined her to perform, The church Is under a di vinely imposed obligation to trans form the world. And first of all we must transform the Individuals in the world. We need also a social transformation. But no social trans formation Is at r.ll possible until we shall have gotten the individuals right with God. No man will have a realizing sense of .his social obliga tions until he has had his soul thrilled with the salvation of God In Jesus Christ. Contrariwise, while we are saving Individuals we ought not to relax our efforts to reform society so that we shall have no evil economic or political conditions. This trans formation must be not only moral; it must be also religious. No mere system of ethics will ever keep the world straight. Men must have a firm grip on the religious verities be fore than can be sure of themselves or the world be sure of them. The universal responsibility of the church is under the guidance and the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to effect these transformations. The church must accept these responsibilities. She cannot do other wise. Possessed of her vision of the Lord and blesBed with an experi mental realization of the effectiveness of His Gospel it Is her duty as it ought to be her Joy to accept the op portunities for eternal service that the Lord has prepared for her and measure up to them. tPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JUNE 2. High Standard 1 Pet. 2. 9. Passages for Reference: Matt. 5. 29, 30, 48; 2 Cor. 6. 14-18; I Thess. 3. 12, 13. Peter thought that It meant some thing to be a Christian. He saw In that life a company of people whom Got) had set apart to a special work They were brought Into a closer re latlon to the King than others were, nnd so hud access to him In their ca pacity of priests. By this fact cm- nhasis was to be laid upon the fact, The Had Seed Swindle. Prof. L. H. Pammel, of the Iowa Agriculture College, has been mak ing Investigation to asrertnln to what , extent feeds are adulterated. He has found that through the sale of al- ' falfa a veed native to Europe nnd common In the West, known as the Knapweed, has been spread all over the State. Bird clover, a troublc- J some weed, has also been widely dis tributed by means of alfalfa. Clover I dodder, the common field dodder, and other noxious seeds-are now rap idly getting a foothold In the State, and all because dishonest seed deal ers have sold the seeds of these not that they were a nation, but that they were a holy nation. In this fact also they would become 'a peo- tiltt fnr Tj nvu fi r ,i . .. . i . 11 1 " Tilt' great purpose to bt wrought out in ' weeds for pure grass Beed. It is es them was that thev who had been so timated that It will cost the farmers small should be mrds a nation of of Iowa $15 per acre to rid the land such a char. icter that they qjuid I of foul weed seed. show forth the praises of the One who has dona SUOh great things for them. In Matthew, Christians lire called1 to a life whose one Idea Is holl ness. H0W VST dear a thing may be, It Is to be set aside If It interferes with the development of a holy char acter. The referepce In Corinthians sbcuM be very caTefully studied by the young people. Yoking up with the world Is the weakening of the church always. To -abstain from all Spp rsncas of evil" is the only sale way to live. The world dl3 counts a parson's Christianity If it does not separate him from the world. We can't afford to sacrifice the Fatherhood of God for the sake of tying up to the world. In the final reference G.id sets love working U) tii' heurt as the means of work ing out a character that shall be 'un blama'ola In holiness before God." Every person has an Ideal. There Is something in each life that be comes the practical standard of Mr ing. That standard or Ideal Is n great determining factor in shaping that life. Low Ideals make low lives. Tin' s-i :it :-: of many lives Is not In the positive wrongs that they do, but la their low alms. Our condomna tlon Is not to be found In the low station In which we are born, but the low station WS are content to remain In. It is surprising how many are con tent with the second-rate achieve ments and with low alms A Grape Umbrella. A pood substitute for missing , shade trees Is made as follows: Plant i a stout-post, nine feet high, where you want the bhade, selling the post In two feet of earth; then nail firmly ' to the top of It, at right angles, two I seven-foot strips of two-by-two Inch Btnff. I The next thing to do is to get two old tires from cart or wagon wheels, have a blacksmith weld them into a big ring, and fasten the ring tightly l to tho end of the crossplcces, says ! the Delineator. Set a three-year-ohl : grapevine right against the post, coax It to rapid growth, and the thing is done. When the vine ends lap over the , rim and let them hang down all around it. Seats may be set underneath. course requires more work, but the result is that when the ground is plowed In tho fall It will break up nice and mellow, whether there has been much rain or not, since the binder harvesting a former crop pasRed over it. Another result Is that the ground Is In such good condition to receive the seed for tho ne-A crop that scarce ly moro than one-half of the seed sown under the old method need bo sown under the new system of soil culture, since the ground being mel low and moist every grsln has an op portunity to sprout nnd reproduce it self. Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Separator Pays Well. There arc hundreds ot dairymen Who have a clear idea that the separ ator would pay well. In fnct. they bailors they should hnvf) one, but they look a long time at the cost nnd try to convince themselves that they cannot afford It, says an exchange. Secretly, they reason that half that is claimed for the machine Is not true, There i and ,ncy wl" wait until more im are comparatively few of 118 that hold . . , 1. ourselves to ua Hiannaru wa uugin to set for ourselves. A glimpse of possible service dawns upon us and we make a feeble effort to realize it, and then lapse into Indifference. No man has dune entirely right until ho has done his best to reach his best. JUNE SECOND. Christ with us. John 17: 20-26. Alive with Him. Rom. C: 3-11. We in Him. 1 Cor. 1: 26-31. Members of Him. 1 Cor. 6: 15-17. "Christ liveth In me." Gal. 2: 19-21. How to Realize the presence of Christ. John 14: 15-23. Wo must love Christ before we can realize Ills loving presence, and we must obey Him before we can love Him. Worldlings realize only what they see; a spiritual man realizes also through the spirit. A Christian is one In whom Christ really lives; he Is as sure of Christ, therefore, as of his own life. No one can read this passage with a receptive mind and not perceive In It the doctrine of the Trinity. Suggestions. Christ will sometimes force even a skeptic, even a Saul, to realize His presence; but usually Ho manifests Himself only to believers. v One of the best ways to come to realize Christ's presence is to act as nearly as possible as we would act If we did realize that presence. provements are made. Time goes on and the convenient moment for in vesting money Is past. The dairy man keeps promising himself that he will get it a little later. In tho fall he says, "I will buy a machine In the spring." In the spring rush of work conies on and he putB it off until fall. All this is wrong. Every month of delay makes it more difficult for the man to raise the funds, and it makes a larger hole It the profits. You may be better ft tad financially at a future time, but the chances are you will not, iii.i- you take advantage of every opportunity to Increase your profits at the present moment. Weekly Witness. How to Test Corn Seed. Lay out the ears to bo tested side by side on a table or on tho floor; re move ono kernel from near the butt, another from the middle and another from the tip of the ear; turn the ear over and take three kernels from the opposite side In like manner; place the six kernels at tho end of the ear from which they were taken, using care that they do not get mixed with the kernels from the ear next to It. Boards may be laid over the rows of corn to keep them In place until the germination Is known. A germination box may be made of nny shallow box filled about half full of thoroughly moistened saw dust. A cloth ruled oft Into blocks or squares is placed on the sawdust nnd fastened at the cornero and edgeB with tacks. Place the six kernels from ear No. 1 (in tho row ot ears) In square No. 1 of the germination box, and the kernels from oar No. Preserving Eggs. In view of the very high prices now to be obtained for eggs experi ment reports to the Department of Agriculture on methods of preserv ing oggs should be of Interest to farmers and poultrymen. Of tho many processes reported to the department the water glass method, using five and ten per cent, solutions, nnd llme-water-salt-brlne mixture method (ono pound of quick lime, half pound of Bait and one gal lon of boiled water) were found most valuable. It has been found that eggs can be kept in good condition for home use for at least eight months by immersing them In a wat er glass solution or in lime water nnd salt brine, although those preserved In water glass appeared to come out n better condition than those kept in the lime nnd salt mixture. Tho following directions are given by the department for packing eggs n water glass: Use only perfectly fresh eggs. Stale eggs will not keep by any method of preservation. Clean out he vessel In which the oggs are to be packed (preferably a atone jar) by scalding with boiling water. Prepare the solution, using water that has been first boiled and then cooled to ordinary temperature. To each fifteen quarts of water add one quart of water glass. Pack the eggs Into the jar and pour tho liquid over them, covering tho eggs com pletely. Do not wash the eggs be fore packing them, as this injures their keeping qualities by removing a natural protectivo coating on the outside of the shells. Keep the eggs packed In this man ner In a cool, dork place, such as a dry, cool cellar. Each day's gathering of eggs may be packed immediately after gather ing by placing them in the Jar and pouring over them just enough of the solution to cover them. This is better than to hold the eggs for sev eral days at. the risk of their becom ing stale In order to have a sufficient number to fill the entire vessel at ono time. In some of the warmer sections of the country, during the summer months, the temperature of ten rises high enough to start incu bation In eggs. In such localities eggs must bo packed soon after they are laid or kopt In some cool place until they are to be packed. Water glass is a somewhat alka line liquid, but the diluted solution is not injurious to the handB If they are dipped into It in packing succes sive gatherings of eggs, or in remov ing the eggs from the solution. It Is stated that eggs packed by this method will keep for some time (as long as four weeks) after they have been taken out of the preserva tive solution. rhere are places the church, the in square No. 2 and so on with all "Knowledge Puffeth Up; Love HniUl eth Up." We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the sig nificance of the universe, God can no more be pleased with our knowl edge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with Its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dream ing of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied In the colors. Van Dyke. closet of prayer where Christ is rooBt easily found. Find Him there, and you will realize Him everywhere else. It Is tur privilege to have a strong er faith In Christ than the disciples had, whose faith was so easily built on what their eyes saw. Illustrations. Some whose hearts are not pure are yet trying to see God, as if an astronomer should attempt to use a telescope with a dirty lens. Put yourself In Christ's way and your doubts will all be cleared up, as the frosted window-pane Is clear ed up as soon as the sun shines upon It I the ears. Then place over this a cloth con i Biderably larger than the box, cover with about two inches of moistened sand, earth or sawdust and keep in a , warm place; tho sitting room is suit able. When the kernels have ger i minated, in four to six days, remove the cover carefully to avoid misplac , ing the kernels in the square. (If a piece of thin cloth were placed over ! the kernels before the covering is put on, It will prevent them from stick- ; lng to the upper cover). I it ont or more kernels in any square have failed to grow, find tho ear from which they were taken (by If ou wanted to get an Introduc- I its number or order In the row of tlon to a man. you would associate ears) and throw it out. The ears with those who knew him. lowing weak germination should bo rne aearer a menu, cue mure , rc,jected the Bame UH worthie88 earB qutcKiy you recognize aim in iuu dark. So with Christ. Man's Chief End. The older I grow and now I stand ; on the brink of eternity the more comes back to me that sentence in the ! catechism wnicn l learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper Its meaning becomes, "What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever." Thomas Car-lyle. Final Advice. "Now, James," says the old physi cian to bis son who has returned from medical college and is about to Bet up for himself, "there Is Just one piece of advice I will give you, and if you follow it you cannot fall to be popular and successful." "What. Is it, lather?" "Tell every woman that she needs a change of rceno, and tell every man that he .' working too hard." Lite. Ilipeu Fruit to Order. An English electrical expert has llscuvered a means of ripening ban 1 Alias to order. The bunches are hung In an air-tight glass case, in which I are a number ot electric lights. Tha artificial light and b-at hasten the I rlpenlug process In proportion to the i number of lights turned on. Records I have been made which enable the 1 operators to make delivery of any quantities at any ajrved date. Kau ! sas City Star. TREK THAT GIVES MILK. In South America is a remarkable tree growing in the valley of the Amazon. Its :-ap 1b a milk singularly I grow when the root started well. In ninety-nine casea out of a hun dren when farmers see the root sprout start out in germinating a kernel of corn they will say it is "all right." In many tests It was found that the stem sprout often failed to like ths finest cow's milk. It 1b high ly nutritious and will mix with water, hot or cold, and never curdles in hot mixtures. It keeps good for a week, even In this climate, and has much the taste of cow's milk In which cin namon has been steeped. It is thicker than ordinary milk, and has the feel ing In the mouth of liquid juice. It left standing for a time a thick, oily cream arises. When dry this has the consistency of wax. Mr. Paul Fountain, a recent traveler In South America, sayB he has drunk laige quantities ot it, both as It came from the tree and also mixed with tea or cocoa, with which It combines better than cow's milk. He declares that It Is extremals nour ishing When he could get this sap he always preferred It to cow's milk. The sap Is obtained either by wound ing the bark or thetrunk or by break ing the smaller branches. It runs freely, so that several quarts may ba obtained, from a single tree In the course ot a tew hours. Chicago Tribune. Richmond Times-Dispatch. What "Dry Farming" Monns. Opposed to the old idea of raising stock only and doing nothing which could not be done on horseback, is the new Idea of thorough cultivation It has remained for the new settlers to demonstrate what the new country is most valuable tor It is Impossible to raise the best crops any place unless the ground Is cared for and seeded in a proper manner. In the past the method of tilling the Boll was such that no rea sonable person would expect a suc- csssful crop For ItiBtance, until recently, it has been the common practice of farmers while harvesting wheat, oats and other small grains, to let the stubble lay as the binder passed over li until time to plow for fall wheat. In such cases the result Is that if wo hnvu any dry weather at all the land cakes, and when plowed In the fall brefiks up In large chunks, per mitting the air to penetrate to the bottom ot tbe plowed ground and thoroughly dry It out unless the plowing is foil, wed with rain; but Notes For the Farmer. The Judges at tho International very kindly gave to the King of Eng land a prize for one of his shire horses. This is a very nice eomnli- ment to pay to a King, but a good many judges of horses say that the animal which took the prize was not entitled to it. One objection to the steam plow Is that it enables WeBtern farmers to put in more wheat than they can har vest. It Is now up to the manufac turers to Invent some sort of rapid fire harvester that will take care of the wheat after the steam plow has done its duty. The prize steer at the Interna tional was raised by a plain every day farmer. He puts on no frillB about anything, but knows his busi ness from Btart to finish. There are thousands of boyB on farms in this country who can raise Just as good steers as he did, if they first learn how. Some people make a hobby of their chickens. Well, there Is no higher mission of humanity than to Induce men and women to ride some hobby that will make them forget the cares of business for a while each day. Let the hobby be chickens, ducks, tur keys, pigeons or anything that will take them out into tho fresh air and sunshine, away from the enervating atmosphere of four walls and a roof. If one of the boys on the farm takes kindly to the care of poultry, encourage his ambitions by getting him some thoroughbred poultry, or, if you cannot afford enough money to start him with poultry, give him enough money to buy a setting ot thoroughbred eggs. Many a success ful man owes his start In life to ths ownership and management of some thing he "took a notion to" In bis boyhood days. Whitewash will do great work In killing off lice and other vermin. As cold weather approaches lice are less numerous, but enough hide in the cracks and crevices ot tbe houses dur ing the winter to produce armies on the approach of spring. You can do telling work by killing the remaining few now. Put the whitewash on thick, aud n you add an ounce of carbolic acid to each pall of wash you will kill any germs ot disease that may be lurking In the building. A QUESTION OF SELF-INTEREST. PruhlrttTI' A i-ptalri man think it,., automobile Is an Invention of the !h pr"p.?r th!nK d ln !"ch ca'ei devil. Does he own an automobile him self, or doesn't he? Somerville Jour ual. Is to follow the binder with a disc barrow and thereby mulch the land about two inches deep. Attar each tain this mulched ground should at hr.nrgwsd. This el Hare Jumps Into an Automobile. During a .coursing match at Bish ops Sim i lord a hare ran to the high road and Jumped Into a passing auto mobile. It was closely followed by, two greyhounda, and there was u scrimmage In the car until the hara slipped out and fall a prey to one ol the hounds. The Father of Physiological Teaching By DR. W. H. GASKKLL. As ono of the few men who formed Sir Michael Foster's earlleBt class In the University of Cambridge, may I add to yonr obituary notice of the 31st ult. my personal reminiscences of the rise of the biological school at Cambridge? When Foster came, Sir George Murray Humphrey was pro fessor of anatomy and physiology, and no practical Instruction was given In the latter subject. The ex perimental method had not yet been Introduced Into the teaching of biol ogy, and physiology was regardod as a branch of medicine, not as part of the great science of biology. Trinity College was far-sighted nnd liberal enough to recognise the need of tho young and growing subject and de termined to endow a praelcctorshlp In physiology, knowing that the uni versity was not prepared to found n new professorship. Huxley was ap proached ,ii the subject, and without hesitation recommended his young friend Foster. Tho university allowed the use of I small room now parr ot the philo sophical library and there Foster fiave his first coutso of lectures. From that time till 1RS3, when he was made professor of physiology, ho remained a private Individual as far as the university was concerned, hav ing no vote in the Senate, no direct Influence on nny university board. Yet, owing to his personality and his enthusiasm for the ndvancement. of knowledge, helped by the steadfast aid and support of Trinity College, especially by Contts Trotter, Henry Sldgwick, J. W. Clark, and later by F. M. Balfour, ho effected, in despite of 3teady opposition In the university, a veritable revolution. No student who fell under his spell ever deBlred to leave him, and so, having gathered round him n band of enthusiastic pu pils, he began to select from them teachers of various branches of biol ogy, recognizing always that physiol ogy was part of a great scientific sub ject and not merely n branch of medi cine. In this way he founded a school of animal morphology under Balfour, of physiological botany un der Vines and F. Darwin, of experi mental histology under Langley, nnd Df physiological chemistry under Lea. In his lectures, both on physiology and on elementary biology, Foster, acting upon the precepts which he had himself received from his teach ers, Profs. Huxley and Sharpey, had always impressed upon his students the Importance of the experimental method ln teaching as well as ln re search. These young and enthusias tic teachers, Imbued with his Ideas and following his methods, soon pro duced a most remarkable effect, and the university, to its astonishment, woke up one day to find that, without any effort of its own, it possessed a school of biology second in reputa tion to no other In the British Em pire. From England Foster's teaching and methods spread to America, es pecially through the energy of his pupil, Newall Martin, and there to this day be is looked upon as the father of modern physiological teach ing. On tho Continent his Influence has been very great, and of late years ln Germany, where the teaching of physiology used to be confined to lectures. Foster's methods have been followed, and practical work ln the laboratory, as part of the teaching curriculum, Is becoming the rule, not the exception. It Is Impossible to overestimate what he has done'for the teaching of physiology. To all of those who loved him his place can never be filled. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. WORDS OF WISDOM. A girl sees nothing wrong in kiss ing tbe right man. As long as a man lives he Is a dead loss to the undertaker. A back stoop may' be all right If It isn't on your shoulders. With the amateur piano thumper It seems to be all work and' no play. How frequently has a large hopo been created on a small foundation! And the man who knows It all never falls to tell Just a little more. Somo men's preaching is as bad as the piano practice of some women. As a knocker opportunity cannot compete with the strenuous end of a mule. Men who whistle at their work sel dom work any better than they whistle., No, Alonzo, a pianist isn't neces sarily an idiot because he plays with his fingers. A changeable climate is all right as long as it can bo changed for a better one. Get on to the sidetrack when yon meet men who point with pride or view with alarm. Did you ever notice what a lot of friends you haven't got when you happen to need one? Vanity of woman looks like a plugged nickel when compared with tbe conceit of a man. The man who really knows a lot about women Is usually willing to admit that he knows nothing. No poor man has any business to marry a woman who has a mania for making nothing out of something. Even when a friend urgently re quests you to point out his faults, don't do it If you value his friendship. Every man ought to marry a wom an who Is a good manager, for few men are any good unless they are properly managed. When a man's first baby arrives, he wants to treat all his friends; when the seventh comes along he ex pects all his friends to treut him. From "Pointed Paragraphs," in tbe Chicago News. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR JUNE a, nY Tin; REV. I. W. HENDERSON. high Modern Education. "So Johnny Is almost ln school?" "Yea; he's had splendid marks In whittling and beadwork and baking powder blscuts. If he were only a little more careful lu sewing squares I shouldn't be a bit afraid about his passing' Pnek. Subject: Moses Called to Deliver Israel, Ex. 8:1.14 Golden Text: Ex. 3:12 Memory Versos, 2-4 Commentary. The call of Ood to Moses to do the work which he did among the children of Israel Is shown In the third and the fourth chapters of ths book of the Exodus. In this call we nnd many lessonB that are applicable to human life to-day. To us each day God comes with a duty, bo It great or small, as He came to Moses In the unconsumlng fire of the bush at Horeb. To some of us it Is given to do work beside which the work ot Moses was a gigantic task; to others of ns It Is given to shape the destinies of a people even as Moses shaped the career of Israel. Moses gave His people a higher, no bler, more uplifting economic and religious system. The first lesson that we have here is In the emphaslB that is laid on tha holiness of the place where the spec ial presence of God is conceived to be. To Moses the place about the burning bush was holy because there be communed with God ln an espec ial nnd peculiar manner. To-day we consecrate the house of God to His use and then oftentimes without any reasonable excuse whatsoever treat that place without proper and duo consideration. We do not have to take our shoes off as do the Eastern peoples when wo go Into church. Neither should we take off our man ners or lose our sense of the propri eties. The church Is entitled to es pecial consideration. In it we meet for the holiest purposes and In It we enter Into our finest visions of God oftentimes. It should bo treated with respect. To be sure a church building is only so much wood, and brick, and stone, but the memories and tho Influences which hallow It consecrate It, or ought to consecrate It, ln a special manner. While not forgetting that God is everywhere and that Ills dwelling place Is not made with hands, we ought not to forget that the places where wo meet in common worship and communion are inexpressibly dear to God and that they ought to be incomparably sacred to us. And we should teach our youth the saeredness of the church building. Too often they leave their manners outside when they go Into a church. And too of ten their elders do the same thing. The second thing that the lesson points out to us Is the value of hum ility and dependence upon God. When God charged Moses to go down to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt he was not over-confident. Moses felt the weight of the respon sibility. Like a true and strong man Moses saw Immediately that the task was too great for his unaided powers. He saw that his education, bis intellectual endowments, his spirituality, were not sufficient for the upbuilding of an enduring work 'Who am I," says he, "that I should go unto r,nraoh and that , 8hould bring fo th the children of Israel out of Egypt?" His humility was that o. a strong man. We must gain i.hls Mosaic humbleness if wo would do true work. For this Is not the humility of self-depreciation but of open-minded self-valuation. The third lesson Is a dual one. Gifted of God with a divine task and with the evidence of the validity of his call Moses still feels himself un equal to tho work. His tongue is slow of speech. Ho pleads for a spokesman. And God gives Aaron to h m to be "instead of a mouth" to him. The lesson that we ought to learn is that men of power should be ready and willing to receive assis tance from other men of power es pecially when the help they may be able to secure is superior to their own abilities. JWoses was a thinker a seer, an organizer of immense abil ity, a wise lawyer, but he was no speaker. Moses recognized that he needed aid along the very line in which personally he was inefficient. This shows his greatness. An honest declaration of the limits of personal ab Uty 1b, with the power to select able helpers and ubb them at their value, a true test of greatness. The lesson also reveals to us tha power of God In the world. His power Is shown through His deal ngs with humanity. Israel, repent ing of her sin and lifting up her P.rar t God for deliverance from the heavy hand of the Egyptians Is noi iorgotten. God never forgets fnPetEle. W,1 turn t0 HH1 neliev W He can and will aid. Steadfast prayer, In every national crisis, reaches the ear of Jehovah pS-?k 222? to e7ery Petition! For ea, h crisis Ood perpares a master. Moses led Israel out of bondage He of whbaheM ? llberators. The class everv land 6 h ' Drtotype exists In every land. He was the man for th hour. And 0od every ray. ing people with a fit leader To-day, In this land, God is rais ing up men who shall lead humanity nearer to Himself. They are be i g divinely nurtured In every walk In ,lfe- To-day and ,n America we have conditions that need rectifying just as tbe conditions ln Egypt among the Jews needed to be rectified. And wa need a Moses. We need a man who shall guide this people out of tho darkness of sin and Ignorance Into the promised land where the econo mics of Christ shall rule and where the eternal and spiritual principles of the Christ life shall control. Nothing will give you a better out look on this world than some sky lights to heaven. D JG SAVES ii RA3BIT. A si ortsman on. the Huntshatn estate, North Devon, had a rabbit brought to him by his spaniel, which had etiught It an; -I a hedge. The rabbit could walk only very Toebly, though ill Its limbs were found to be sound. In its mouth, howover, was t. thick twig about two inches long, which had become cved.ged ln behind tho teeth In tbe rabbit's rush from some threatened dasger. The animal was unable to extract the twig with its paws and wis gradually starved to death vAen It was found by tho O. -Loudon Evening Standard. THE REST WAS INDISPUTABLE. "I'll sua the scoundrel!" exclaimed Algy In a terrible rage. "He calls ma a blithering Idiot!" "I wouldn't pay any attention to It," counselled Percy. " 'Blltharlng' doesn't really mean anything, you know." Chicago Tribune.
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