Christ nre the exemplification of modern advance. And they are. But they ought to be more. Unfortunate ly the church Is associated In the heathen mind with the vices aa well as with the virtues of latter-day civil ization. We as a church at home, blessed beyond computation by the (race of God, owe It to the heathen over all the world to be such an edu cational and Inspirational force that they shall see God In us a.nd the salvation af the nations In the beauty 1 of our religious self-expression. If iL'. - - J we have an obligation laid upon us Rrooklyn. N. Y Preaching on the J t0 nsplre, to enthuse, to lead up and I The Puio7F A SERMON Subject: The Church at Home and the Foreigner. theme, "The Church at Home and the Foreigner," at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church. Hamburg ave nue and Wolrflcld street, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his texts Ps. 98:3, "Declare His Klry among the heathen. His won ders among all people," and Mark 16:15, "Preach the gospel to every creature." He said: The foreign duty of the Church of Jesus Christ In America Is most In sistent. The call to the service of those who are not native to the land Is mandatory. Whether we look about us or abroad we find the foreigner our mightiest problem and the sat isfaction of the needs of the alien our greatest care. From many climes the multitudes have herded to our shores. Sheep they are that seek a competent shepherding. They look to the land of their adoption for the best that the world holds dear. To us they come expecting a larger vis Ion and a larger life. Their hero ism is magnificent. Their hope Is Inspiring. Their courage should be sugniented by the power of our as sistance. Their faith should be jus tified by the character of our leader ship. We have men to make; the destinies of a nation to determine, For the fate of the foreigner Is the future of America. The welfare of the alien is the concern of the coun try. The duty or the church of America to the foreigners Is most. Insistent because It 1b her largest duty. At home they are fast out-numbering the native born in not a few local ities. Abroad they are unnumbered. .The foreigu duty of American Chris tianity Is largest because, there fore. It Is most numerous. The Christians, influential and :onslderable though they are, com prise a minority of the religious peo ple of the world. A massive horde of Mohammedans and B:iddhists, Confuclanlsts and followers of a hun dred sects, have yet to learn the beauty of the unrestricted truth of God as It la revealed to men. and to us, In Jesus Christ. The Jews, here and abroad, are a burden on our souls. The followers of philosophers and priests and sages ovor all the Jarth are orrr special field to whom In the providence and under the di rection of the living Christ we must declare the glory of the one true Ood and the saving value of His gospel. We shall sub-divide our duty to the foreigners, as Christians and as heathens, at home and abroad. Cod has sent to our midst a mul- found that win, miu i.utiai, .lieu WUU veil! II LU understand Him more. To these and to the Christian brethren of other lands the church of America ha3 a duty to fulfill. And that duty is both inspirations! and educational, The church In America both Catholic and Protestant ,n spite of ehort-comlngs and in spite of her apparent sins is the fairest flower of the universal church of Christ. Nowhere else Is there more open mlndedness and less of self-complacency. To be sure, we may find much of intellectual arrogance, of spiritual narrowness, but taking It by and large the church In America. In all Its branches, Is the freest and l.ost vigorous production of Chris tian experience, endeavor aud of Christian fervor that the world has seen. The duty of that church, stnndlng as It does at the zenith of religious progress, 13 to be an Inspir ation to the Christian churches ol the earth. Since the days of Christ the world haa not seen the time when to be an Inspiration to hu manity was a more glorious occupa tion or when the role of prophetic leuder was more divine. Seldom has there been an epoch readier to respond to the call of In spired leadership than Is ours. Rare ly has inspiration been more neces sary or more certain to enter Into Its reward. And the church abroad needs the uplift of the example of the church at home as much as any foreign Institution in the world. The Greek church is anything but a credit to Christianity. The church of Rome In the United States is the Bait that savors Catholicism whenever the mass is sa.d or sung. Much of Euro pean Protestantism needs a Luther. The duty of the American Church of Christ Is to Inspire the multitudes that are rushing westward to oar shores to enthuse the soul of the church abroad by such an example of fidelity to Christ and of obedience to His spirit as shall make them all to feel and to know that the enduring truth of God Is still Inrlnclble, that the power of the personality of the risen Jesus is still supreme. The duty of the church of Amer ica la likewise educational. It U not enough to inspire. It Is not enough to enthuse. It is not enough to kindle the fine flame of religious devotion. We must give Inspiration, wisdom. We must direct enthu siasm. We must guard the flame of devotion and control Its fire. Inspir ation run riot spells fanaticism. En thusiasm without direction may in vite excess. The unmatched flames may cause a religious conflagration. And nowhere Is undirected or mis directed enthusiasm and fervor more dangerous than In matters religious. The pagos of authentic history reek with the record of the crimes of re ligious arrogancy and of Ill-directed spiritual exaltation. Many a ghastly deed has been done. In the name of the Prince of Peace. Many an In tellectual and spiritual silliness has bsi propounded and propagated by unbridled zeal. The church In Amer ica, fragrant with the sanity and vis Ion of the Saviour, ought to give direction and education to the alms and yfforts of the church abroad, i Aa with the church abroad, so with the Christian foreigners who are our neighbors. Tu eradicate false notions and to supply new Ideals; to purge the foreign mind of all that Is lesj than noblest and to suffuse It wit. vitalizing and superb wisdom; to take the raw material of other nations and to fashion it Into sub lime temples for the abode of the Spirit of God, la the opportunity and luty of the church at home. Not otherwise la the duty ot the church at home to the heathen who arA here and In the corners of the earth. The civilization that is most modern la co-tcrmlnous with the pro gress and the Influence of Christian ity I Modern civilization as we under stand that term is the product ot Christian lands and of the genius of Christian psople. To the heathen both at ho-iie and abroad modern civiUza ton uud Christianity are syn onymous. To bin) the followers of on and out the Christian hosts of God, we have at least an equal com mission to do as much for those be nighted souls who worship God un der other than the ensign of the Cross. But how shall we be fit to In spire, to educate, In short, to save? How may we effect the transforma tion of the world? How may we make actunl the majostlc vision of "the salvation of theworld In thlsgen eratlon? We can accomplish It only by being Inspired, educated, snved 1 ourselves. Till we arc these the work will remain unfinished. Till we are ' consecrated after th(s fashion the la ' bor cannot be completed. For how I can an uninspired church enthuse'' Can the blind lead the blind? How I can an Ignorant church educate any i one In the knowledge of the deeper truths of the Kingdom of Almighty ! God? How can a people who have not experienced the Joys of a sure i salvation declare the glory of Ood to the heathen and declare "the gos I pel to every creature?" It can not be done by any save a church that Is Itself Inspired, that is Itself versed ' in the eternal mysteries of the truth ! of Ood. that has had the spirit of life breathed of God Into Its soul. I By such a church it can be done. For the world Is ready to receive ; the truth of the simple goapel of I Christ. In spite of many very in 1 auspicious signs, the times ware nev j er readier. We are told that in China, by way of example, Dr. Rob I ert Morrison labored from 1807 to , 1834 to secure In the end but two i converts to the faith of Jesus Christ. ' In 184 0 there was but one Christian I as the result of missionary effort In the 1 midst of a multitude in China. To j day there aro 150,000 Chinese Chris I tians. Of the.se 50.000 have come to Christ since 1900. The great awak- enings In Waljs and In India. In Ko I rea and In America, in e"very quarter of the globe, prove that the world Is ready to be Inspired, ready to be led, ! ready to .receive the truth. The church In America may move . in tho van of the effort to lift the l world toward God If she will. Her 1 position Is exalted. Her call Is dl ! vine. Shall we lift or shall we leave the world? Christ or paganism? ' Which? Only Christianity can elevate hu i manlty to the level of the best. Only I the Church of Christ can transform I the heathen. The church of the Itv I ing God in America may, If she will, I enthus" and regenerate and educate the worm. For in Christ alone 13 catholic universal mes sage that meets the necessities of all the world. Blessed with our vision v.e shall be cravens If we do not tear the Pag of Jcbus high aloft and ahead. "Neither head-strong nor heart weary," but. in the words of Dr. Stryker, of Hamilton College, "as I mediators and contributors to tho j only time we shall evter have to do ; with," let us "declare His glory I among the heathen," let us "preach I the gospel to every creature," let us ' snthuse. Inspire , educate mankind. ! Let us be alive in Christ. The Sure Guide. The late Dr. Andrew A. Bonar re- lated to me the following incident: j "A man once asked me. 'Is not con i sclencs a safer guide than the Holy 1 Spirit?' I Just took out my watch I and said, 'Is not my watch better l than the sun?' Suppose that I said to you, 'I will tell you the hour by ! my watch, and you must always take the time from me.' That Is con science. It Is the sun that Is to rule j the time. Conscience Is fallen and t corrupt. If we had an unfallen con- science, like holy Adam, it would be i as If my watch were always to agree , with sun. But now it is a most tin i safe guide. Sometimes we hear men 1 say, 'I don't see any harm In this ! practice; my conscience doesn't con demn it.' it Is not your conscience : Or your consciousness that Is the rule of right and wrong; tho law is tho standard. By the law is the knowl edge of sin; sin is the transgression of the law, not of conscience." Home Herald. EPWORTH LEAGUt LESSONS SUNDAY, AUGUST 18. God's Care for the Young Pta. 73: 1-8. Sunday School Interests. Passages for reference: Deut. 11: 19 21; I'aa. 103: 17. 18; Prov. 3: 1-10; Isa. 51: 13; Matt. 18: G. 6; Acts. 2: 39. If parent's taught Ood's truth to the children they would "set their hope" In him, and his would be fol lowed by a remembrance of "the works of God" and an effort "to keep his cnniiiinndments" bo that his favor ml'zht remain upon them. If children ire thus started enrly, truth will so deeply root that there will be no old "roots of stubbornness," but glad obe dience as they work toward their "hope.'' Home religion must be cul tivated by teaching and precept (Deut 11: 19-21) lileRslngs follow the whole family when It steadily obeys God (PH I OS: 17. it). Finest health and prosperity nre Insured to children who love good and depart from evil (Frov. 3: 110). Pence, not worrlment, conies from religiously taught children llsa. 51: It), Little ones are pre cious to and protected by I he Master ( Malt. 18: C, 61. ko that If they appro priate the offered blessings God's Mod promises become theirs (Acts 2: 3? 3ft). ll iel!gloas svsie-ns that endure bfl ,;in Willi the children. It la constant ly enforced In the Bible. Mnthusrla'i was a teacher of the Mislina (a col lection of traditions and interpreta tions of Scrlptjre) before the flood. Shem and Ehor opened a "house of Instruction" ton the study of the Hal acha after the deluge. Abraham was a st-'dent of the Tornh at three years of age, Jacob, a good boy, went to Bible sclnxil, while Esau, n bad one, did not. Dinah got Into trouble by remaining away from Bible school, while her brothers were there. Sam uel started Bible schools which con tinued until (lie days of Ellsha. .Joshua was made Moses' successor be cause zealous and apt In Moses' tiiilning school. Ahaz closed the lilhlo schools In order to exterminate the religion. The chief purpose of tbo Synagogue was to instruct In and dis cuss the law. Tl ere was no surprise at the boy Jesus talking with the re Hglous doctors. Plato said, "He who would Ix good In anything must prac tice that thing from his youth up." Th Scriptures say, "Train up a child lu the way he should go, and when he Is old ho will not depart from it." Saint Prancil Xavler (a Roman Ca thollc) said, "Give me a child until he is seven years old and you can have him Uw rest, of the time." AUGUST EIGHTEENTH. The Bridge of Faith. Are we not dally all through life's iourney trusting ourBelveB to bridges whose supporting piers are away town beneath the water, believing In their strength without a doubt, won dering or complaining when by chance one of them trembles or swerves a hair's breadth In the storm? We walk the bridge of life, fan we not trust its safety on the sreat resting places of Ood's wisdom that are hid from 01 In the depths it the two eternities? Phillips Brooks. The value of decision. Eph. 4: 14, 15; Jas. 1: 1-8. Israel's decision. Josh. 21: 15-22. Sincere decision. 2 Chron. 15: 813, An oath bound decision. Neh. 10: I 28, 29. Decision demanded. 1 Kings 18: i 1921. Decision rewarded. Josh. 1 : 7, 8. Firm decision. Acts 21: 1114. It Is the beauty of tenrhable child hood that It believes everything; it : Is the g'.ory of taught manhood that J It proves all things, holding fast that ( only which is good. I Firmness of character Is a slow growth. No reed but outgrows an oak tree. Doubt, harbored In any part of tho life, renders it all unstable. N'othing so contributes to flrmnojj of character as simplicity of aim. Suggestions. One of the best ways to train th" j mind tn decision Is to do hard and I disagreeable things. i)b,t!iu.cy is decision, plus selfish ness and egotism. I Indecision Is a terrible waste of I strength and time, doing with each of a soi ies of acts what need be done only with the first. I Indecision is a habit which grows upon one, as a river, when It begins to bend, winds ever more meander ingly. Illustrations. Obstinacy Is the firmness of a frozen post; decision, the firmness of Iron set In stone. Kven delicate frames become de cisive through earnestness, as a can dle may be fired through a board. However sharp Its point, an arrow Is valueless without its feather, ns firmness is useless without good Judg ment. All the life of an undecided man 13 Mice a legal deed that lacks the signature. The ;race That Brings Happiness. Let ub seek the grace of a cheerful heart, and even temper, sweetness, gentleness und brightness of mind, as walking In His light, and by His grace. Let us pray to Him to give us the spirit of evor-abundaut, ever spiinglng love, which ovei powers and sweeps away the vexations of life by Its own richness and strength, and which, above all things, unites ub to Him who is the fountain and centre of all mercy, loving kindness and Joy. John Henry Newman, Tull Shooting In West Virginia. There is an old Confederate soldier now visiting some friends In Green brier Cour.ty, W. Vs., who was a holy terror In buttle. He was a shot from wayback. He came to the reunion at Richmond and stopped off. Among hlB feats or marksmanship the fol lowing simple exploits, we are told, are performed: He can suspend a bottle by a. string, shoot and cut the string and then break the bottle with another shot before It hits the ground. With a small calibre gun und a large lead pencil he can knock the lead out when the pencil la thrown Into the air, and not Injure ;he wood covering. A favorite pas time with him Is to start a hurrel roll ing down hill and put a bullet through the bunghole every time the barrel turnB over. We call this good shooting. Staunton Spectator. London's newest music-hall, the vast Coliseum, In St. Martin's Lane, ompleted at Christmas, 1904, a structure erected at enormous ex ptvuse, U to be sold by auction FLOWERS CHANGE COLORS. "This bed of flowers was blue this morning, and now it Is pink. That one was white, and it is now rose. The one by the hedge was yellow yesterday, and to-day It Is purple." The gardener chuckled delight fully. "i call 'em my fairy flower beds, ma'am," he said. "You see, they change color. It's a grand Idea, iBn't It?- It gives a garden such variety." "But I didn't know that any flow ers change their color." "Oh, yes. That bed you first men tioned is the mutable phlox. At sun rise it 1b blue, and in the afternoon It Is pink. "The one to the right Is hibiscus hibiscus mutabllls. It goes through three changes tn the day, from white In the morning to rose at noon and red at sunset. "The bed by the hedge La the lan tana. The lantana la yellow one day, orange the next, and red the third Its changes are slow. "There's other flowers, too. ihat change. There's the chelranlhus chamele, that shifts from white to yellow and from yellow to red There's th gladiolus versicolor, that's brown In the morning and blue In the evening. There's the coles Iscandens, that moves slowly from 'greeulsh white to a deep violet." New Orleans Times-Democrat. BREAKFAST FOOD. Racks -"What kind of breakfasf food do you use?" Sacks "Whatever happens to j on the first page. Generally a mur der." Harper's Weekly. Peary's Last Dash For the Pole ! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Pasture For Hogs. For late pastures for the hogs bow a mixture of rape, oats and barlsy on the earliest harvested grain fields. Besides furnishing a fine supply of green feed, the hogs will do a good Job cleaning up the field. Farmers' Home Journal. Clean the Trough Thoroughly. It is very essential, if you want your lambs to eat, that you always sweep your troughs out thoroughly before you put in fresh grain. And when you teed more grain than the lambs will clean up In, say, twelve hours, don't leave It until Lhey have finished it. but sweep it out and put In fresh. These sweepings need not be wasted, as other live stock will eat them, but you might better waste them than to attempt to make the lambs eat them. Delaware Farm id Home. Fertilising Value of Clover. A speaker at a Wisconsin farmers' Institute calls attention to the fact that clover has a big value ns a fer tilizing crop. For Wisconsin there io about eight dollars of fertility In a ton of clover hay, and It 1b worth three-quarters of that In manure after it has been fed. Therefore, If an acre yields two tons of clover hay, having a feeding value of $ 1 C, and It Is fed on the land, so that $12 of fer tilizer can be returned to the soil, a value of 28 would be realized, and In addition there would be one-third of the crop In the ground, which would remain In the soli to fertilize It, supplying the important element of humus. Weekly Witness. Removing Stones. Do you know of a machine mp.de for gathering small siones on n field? I have beer told that some one manu factures a machine for that purpose that works to great advantage and is a great labor-saver, but I have never seen one advertised myself, and the man who told me that he had sjsn it did not know where It was purchased. J. N. C. ' Stones six Inches and smaller may be gathered in rows with an A-shaped frame and harrow teeth. Load with four or alx-tine fork, unload by dump-boards or square pointed shovel. A mud-sled Is best for short hauls, but must be unloaded by shovel. If you use a mud-sled, have a five-foot stake at hind end, and fasten MneB to this; then a touch to either line with fork-handle guides the team and saves time. Country Gentleman. Calf Scours. Professor Shaw, of the Michigan College, says concerning the treat ment ot scours in calves. "One of the best things we have used and are using almost altogether with which to suppress outbreuks of calf scours, Is a mitture of tincture of rhubarb, camphor and opiate, equal parts in hot water, about a teaspoonful. One of the most interesting recoveries I have ever seen was about three weeks ago lu the case of a calf that scoured and was so near death the feet were stretched out cold und stiff, and there was every symptom of death. The calf was treated In that way twice, then fed with raw eggs and milk oecaslonally, and he recovered. Ho wbb the Blckest calf I ever saw; so sick his hair all came off after a week or ton dayb, but ho Is one of the best feeders we have in the bunch to-day." Too Much Alfalfa. I am Inclined to believe that some Of us have made mistakes by sowing too much alfalfa seed. Two years ago, on our farm, we prepared twenty acres of land for this crop plowing in July after wheat, and harrowing it eight or ten times, get ting it into the finest tilth Imagin able. This made an Ideal seed bed We sowed twenty pounds of good alfalfa seed to the acre, and I am confident that the stand was entirely too thick. There Is a distinct rela tion betweou the uniount of seed to use and the state of preparation of the land. I think that on land pre partd like that above described ten pounds of seed would have made an excellent stand. However, if the land is cloddy or otherwise In bad condition, it may be necessary to use even as much as thirty-five pounds of seed. Usually It will be cheaper to put the laud In an Ideal condition of tilth and use a smaller quantity of seed.-W. J. Splllman, in Hoard's Dairyman. Practical Poultry Points. If hens lay soft-shelled eggs, U Is a good Indication that they need lime, ami a supply should he kept where they can help themselves. Whitewash the hen bouse fre quently Lime will not only arrest disease to a certain extent, but de stroys lice, also 111 odors, and gives a neat, clean appearance to the place. Have movable perches, tbey are more easily kept clean. Plant sunflowers in the waste cor ners. They are said to he valuable In warding off malaria, and they cer tainly furnish, lu their seed, a fine dessert for the poultry In winter, es pecially the laying hens. Place the mother hen's coop in, or near, the garden, so that the little chicks can halp you In your warfara against Insects. They are too small to do any harm by scratching, and by having the run of the garden they will very materially lessen the rar ages by insects there. American Cultivator. A Valuable Leguminous Crop. Many farmers do not reallzo the value of nitrogenous plants In the Im provement of the soil, being disposed to estimate only their food value or market price compared with other crops and the labor required for their cultivation. It Is a great mistake to look only to (the Immediate cash re turns regardless of the condition of the land after the crop has been har vested, for there Is a great difference In the comparative values of crops that exhaust the fertility of the soil and those which do not exhaust, but, on the contrary, add fertilizing ele ments thereto. All leguminous r'anls do this and therefore they should be planted In rotation for the benefit of crops that are to follow them. The soja bean, which Is not well known In this country,- being from Japan, contains more protein and fat than the cow pea. Ono of the advan tages with both crops is that the vines are highly relished by cattle and where crops are grown and hogs turned in to do the harvesting, the results have been very satisfactory and the land improved. Those who have grown the soja bean commend it highly. It has but few beans in a pod, while the cow pea (which la really a bean) has half a dozen, but the soja bean has many more pods than the cow pea. The boJb bean grows from two to four feet high and ripens about the first of October, but if the vines are preferred for hay they may be cut down about the lat ter part of August. As much as forty bushels of seed per acre have been grown on good land, under favorable conditions. There are several varie ties, the dwarf kinds being mostly preferred. The soja bean is quite hardy and can stand a slight touch of 'frost, but the cow pea thrives only under climatic conditions favorable for garden beans. It is better to procure seed of the soja bean grown in the North, if possible, as the seed from very far South is not well adapted to the Northern climate. The growing of the soja beans and cow peas widens the farmer's privileges by giving him two crops rich in seed and vine and of qualities that serve to assist him In winter when variety of food may be necessary In order to keep the stock in thrifty condition. Canada has made her field pea a leading crop for years and greatly to her advan tage. With cow peas and soja beans our farmers can grow better foods with no additional expense than from grain crops, while the soil can be greatly Increased in fertility by plow ing under the vines, especially If lime Is also used on the laud. Epltomist. Beautify the Farm Home. Every farm heme should have a lawn regardless of the size of the farm and of the dwelling. There ii no more eujoyablo place to live than In a comfortable farm home, which is snugly surrounded by a beautiful lawn and shade trees. A pretty lawn and shade trees are necessary luxu ries within the reach of every farm er. The co3t for trees,' plants and grass seed Is comparatively nothing, while the benefits and pleasure to be derived are considerable. If farm homes and farm life were more at tractive and pleasant, there would be less trouble encountered about keep ing the children on the farm. More over, pleasant surroundings have an uplifting effect upon character, es pecially those of immature persons. A farm house may appear small and uninviting lu a treeless yard, but if it were to be surrounded by a lawn, a few ornamental or fruit trees, there would be a decided change for the better and the same place would be made to appear cozy and cheerful. And it only takes a few trees and some grass to make the change. Those who already have lawns and, perchance some shade trees, should endeavor to make the lawn still more beautiful. Provide better trees and more of them if there is plenty of room. Replace those old Cottonwood and soft maple trees with better and more beautirul ones. There Is noth ing better for both landscape effect aud windbreak purposes than hardy varieties of evergreen spruce, pine and fir. Many a farm has a tidy and comfortable appearance because such treeB are set wide apart In the lawn and associated with arbor vltae hedges that are properly trimmed and cared for. Fine flowering and foliage shrubs are cheap and plenti ful these days and should have a place around every farm home. But it Is by no means necessary or de sirable to crowd the lawn with trees aud shuhbery; indeed one of tho first principles of correct landscape gar dening Is to feBerve a wide expanse of lawn, placing the shrubbery main ly In masses in corners. After trees have been set out in the lawn, the matter should not atop there. The highways would look much belter If the owners of the farms would set out some good trees along the roadside. Of course they should not be set so close together that the;- would shade und sap the fields too much for the good ot the crops. But a row of hard maple, elm or black walnut trees, set at regular Intervals, is a valuable addition to every farm. And besides improv ing appearances, the trees may be utilized sometimes for wire string ing. Uncle Rural, lu The Epltomist. Killed Uninjured. "Gentlemen of the Jury," erupted tho attorney for the plaintiff, ad dressing the twelve Arkansas peers who were sitting in Judgment and on their respective shoulder blades, lu a damage suit ugalnst a grasping cor poration (or killing a cow, "It the train had been running as slow as It should have been ran, If the bell had been rung as it ort to have been rang, or the whistle had been 'blown as It ahould have been blew, none of which was did, the cow would not have been injured when she was killed " Kansas City Times. By FRKDKRK'K noVD RTEVENSON Will he make ItT" I : sked him this question the Mher day. He turned In his chair and looked at me. The muscle In his face half relaxed. Peary seldom smiles. "I hope to make It," he said, quietly. "This will be my 1. at at tempt. I believe It will be success ful." Despite the softnesr of !b voice one felt the conviction of conquest. He gave no promise, no hint of t.u breaking of the Far North record in 1906, when he advanced within tv i hundred miles ot the goal. There was no boasting of past achiv.-emen:; no speculating on future glories. Peary is perhaps better qualified than any other In this quest of the pole. He began It twenty years ago, and on each of the seven Journeys 111 has made to the arctic zone he has been pushing farther and fartbe: north. In hla heart Is the confidence of sue'eda on this eighth Journey. The beginning and the end of a polar expedition may be expressed lu one word," said the Commai 1--. ' That Is too- It la not the cold, .: Is not the exposure, but the fai.ure . supplies that wrecks the enterprise. Three things are actually needed for f : In the north: pemmican a dried meat that can be made into soup ship-biscuit and tea. lea is . stimulant, so one can get clon;; with out that; ship-biBcults nre a luxur;-, so one can get along without them; but pemmican is a necessity that one must have In the arctic region." But a car who confesses to have eaten raw dog with a relish may not be generally considered as a pur veyor of tempting menus. "Dog meat?" Penry repeated. "Why, one who can cat hog moat or cheese can have nothing to say against dog. To be sure, the hind leg of an overworked dog Is a little tough and rank sometimes, but a man who has eaten mutton stew In a cheap i tain in. cannot complair, nor is he apt to complain when tha gnawings of his appetite attack him with the temperature seventy degrees i elow zero. The dogs reai'.lly eat their comrades when they fall by the way, and t Is, to a great extent, solves the problem of feeding tb ) animals. I have considered the question ot taking dog-biscuit with me on my dash to the polo; but while the Slberlau dogs will eat it, the dogs which I use on my expedi tions practically all wolf will eat nothing but meat." "How about alcoholic drinks?" I asked. The answer came decisively: "No man can drink alcoholic liquor who goes to the north. It would mean death to the man and a menace to tho expedition." "And smoking?" "The man who is dependent on his cigar or his pipe might better remain at home. Why, I should as soon think of taking a man who had to have a piece of pie ever so often. The personnel of your men Is the first consideration. Upon them de pends everything. In the first place they must be of cheerful tempera ment and not subject to fits of the blues, and every man must under stand in advance that he must meet the greatest hardships and seif-de-nlals. He must be willing to suffer cold and hrnger, to forego Bleep In a word, to be ready to sacrifice his life, if need be, for the Buccess of the undertaking." "Have you found such men?" He nodded. "Yes; for the most part they are the same men who went with me be fore. 1 can trust, every one of them under every circumstance." Peary has been so long In the arctic game that the question dress for the North has ceased to concern him. While on his sledge trips he sleeps in the open air on the Ice in a sleoptng-bag ot fur, clad only In an undershirt. When he arises ..3 has tily pulls on a pair of drawers which have frozen during tho night. H! I trousers and socks are fill a! with snow, but he puta them on undaunted and, quickly thrusting his feet into a pair of kamiks, or shoes, also filled with snow and Ice, and pulling on a big fur overcoat, he is ready for hie day'a Journey. "One does not mind the cold I.i the north," said he. "The tempera ture ransos from fifty above to seventy-five below zero, and If a man takes care ot himself he need suffer no Inconvenience on account of the weather. There Is really no danger of freezing to death in the arctic zone." Harper's Weekly. INTERNATIONAL LKSSON COM MENTS FOR AUG. IS BY TflK REV. I. '. HENDERSON. , His Use For a Fork. A Denver man had a friend from a Kansas ranch in the city Saturday on a business deal, and at noon they, went to a downtown restaurant and had lunch together. The Kansas ranchman ute his entire meal with his knife. When he was nearing the end he discovered something he dis covered that he had no fork. "Say," he said to the Denver man, "that waiter didn't give me a fork." "Well, you don't need one," re plied the Denver man seriously. "The deuce I won't," came from the Kansan. "What am I going to stir my coffee with?" Denver Post. Subject: The Day ot Atonement, Lev. 10:5-22 Golden Text, Hch. 7:80 Memory Verse, 2 Commentary. The day of atonement and the ceremonies thereto attendant Im press upon our minds facts that are Inseparable In our religious expe rience. First, the fact of sin. Sec ondly, the necessity for confession of sin. Thirdly, the forgiveness of sin. Fourthly, the forgetting of sin. The day and the lesson of that day, which we shall study. Impress other thoughts upon us but wo shall con fine ourselves to these. The day of atonement Is a recog nition of and an emphasis upon the fact of sin. The offering Is for sin. The confession Is a confession of sin. The scapegoat atones for sin, is an earnest of the forgiveness of sin, Is the example of Go-I forgetfulness of forgiven sin. And all this rests up on the basic consciousness of human sinfulness. For whatever may be our opinion as to how and when and why sin enters Into the lite of the Individual and of humanity we must all agree that sin Is a fact, that the consciousness of sin Is the first step toward the affirmation of proper re lationships with Ood after we have fallen away from Him. Whatever the Ideal Itfo may be we are to-day sin ning against God. However useless and fruitless and wicked and unnec essary sin may be from any point of view the fact of humanity's present and prevalent sinfulness remains. The fact of sin Is inescapable. Equally conscious are we that the only hope of escape from sin lies in the confession of our unworthlness to the living Ood. However philo sophical we may be, and however learned we may be; whatever may be the peculiar twlats of our state ments of the problem of sin and sal vation, we must all come, and all of us do come, to this common ground that without confession of and re pentance for sin there can be no for giveness, no salvation. Also we know that forgiveness follows In hot haste upon confes sion. Perhaps we had better say .hat forgiveness meets confession ind more than half the way. Even is Ood met the high priest on the arth as the commissioner of the people so He stands just beside the sonfession soul and holds forth par don for confessed sin. The scapegoat never carried a sin io far into the dessert of forgetful ness as God can and does. When God forgives He forgets. And He ex pects In the proper sense to do the same and if experience counts for anything He aids in this process of a proper forgetfulness of sin. For giveness that is not correlated with forgetfulness Is no forgiveness at all. We would not want even God to hound us with tho memory of for given sins. All these lessons are linked with the story of the day of atonement. It is no wonder that the day of atonement Is even to-day the mighty day in the Jewish calendar. The modern Jew may not go to syna gogue for fifty weeks a year, but he Is no Jew who forgets the day ot atonement. Why? Because the day of atonement touches the universal note in the Jewish heart. It taps the spring of his deepest experience and of his direst need. The fact of Bin is one that we ought not to overlook. It ought not to be overemphasized, but It had rather be overemphasized than for gotten. Man is made in the Image of God. He Is created a little lower than Jehovah. He has Inalienable birthrights as a son of God. But man Is also a sinner. And his sin la .worse as we understand his relation to divinity and his ancestry. We must not let men forget the fact of sin. We must not withhold condem nation of their evil. We must por tray the exceeding vlclousness of sin. 1 For if we do not convict men of sin they will not confess it. And no man without a comprehension of tho real nature of the consequences of his wilfulness will confess his sin. We must make men understand the enor mity of sin or they will not confess It. And conscious unconfessed Bin Is the worst hell that Ood or man can de vise. "Confession Is good tor the soul" Is more than a phrase. Forgiveness follows confession. And forgetfulness completes the work. God pardons and He erases the record. His forgetting enhances His forgiving. And He not only for gets, but He enables us to forget. And It Is right we should. The mem ory of sin is one of the most spirit ually debilitating things that we can Imagine. To be sure, we should profit by our mistakes. But we should not be unnerved by our re membrance of them. What you vere you were. Forgiven of God In Christ iyou are no longer what you were. Behold, all things are passed away. You are a new creature. You are what you are. There are few, if any, greater joys in life than the sense of forgiven and forgotten sin. A Bin unconfessed Is a scar unhealed. A sin confessed Is a sin healed. The day of atonement is a profit able subject of study because it Is linked with facts. And It Is linked with facts that we can well discount or avoid if we are as a church to do Our work for the regeneration aud salvation of the world to God through Christ. Christ recognized the fact ot fin and we shall be Imbeciles If we hut our eyes to It The solution ot ts problem In the world Is our work. God grant we shall face It with cour- Paternal Duties. Modern life, with Its haste and hus tle, leaves too little time for the Joys of fatherhood. One father comes home late from business, tired und peevish, and cannot devote much time to his children, even If he would. 1 Another has had euough of the cares 1 and worries of the day, and seeks dls- 1 slpation outside the home. Yet fa thers can give their children some thing better than money; they can give themselves. Deutsche Mount-schrift. Welcoming the Stork. Out at Ellla the stork was wel comed thus by the Review-Herald ; "A feather from the wJng of the angel of love was dropped into the lap of motherhood at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walz on the 20tlt of this month. Dr. Howell reports j 'mother and son In first-class coudl tiou. Kutisas City Journal. MtrrQM as Detectives. "It is not solely to pleaso the lady patron:, " said an Interior decorator, "that mirrors soaboundlnshops. The) serve another and a more Important purpose. They detect shoplifters. "If you should study the various watchers In the employ of big retail stores you would find that they don't watch the patrons directly. They watch their reflections In the mirrors. "Of course their watching done that way Is unperceived. The shop lifter glanoea at the watcher, sees' that his back Is to her, and secrets a pair ot silk stockings in her blouse. "Alas! the next moment she feels an unfriendly and terrifying tap on the shoulder! and the watcher, who aha caught her by the mirror's aid, bids her sternly to accompanying hlni to the office " Philadelphia Bulle tin. EXTRA BAD. "Your cook " "Oh, she is so careleus that I don't believe she could drop a remark with out breaking her word." Smart Set
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