Zhc pulpit J9 SULtr ?0(V Subject: Death. Brooklyn. N. Y. Prearhlng at ths . Irving Square Presbyterian Church. Hamburg avenue and Y l treet, on the theme. "Peat!: " t;- Rev. Ira Wemrnell Henderson, pas tor, took ns his text those words which are found ro frequently in the earlier part of the Old Testament scriptures, "And he died." He said: Death Is a subject of which we do not like to speak It la a subject we avoid. The most of us endeavor to forget that there Is such a fact for us. Many of us live as though we had eliminated It from our Uvea. It Is the fashion in the church nowadays not to preach about death with any frequency. For the people quite largely do not dehlre sermons on that theme. Ministers forbear to press home Its consideration. They do not care to urge men to come to Christ by playing on the element of fear In their characters. And strange ly enough death and fear have been correlative terms for generations. Death used to be a forceful and popular subject for pulpit presenta tion. The divines of a century and more ago made their lasting reputa tions because of their masterly expo sitions of the scriptures about death. Many a soul was swung Into obedi ence to God by the Impulse of an In tense and vivid sermon on death. However unwise It may be to lead men to Ood and to Christ through fear of death, It Is much more un wise never to bring this fact to their attention. For the life after death Is the major part of our existence. The days that Ood allots to us here are but a minute fraction of the ages we shall live, If we be righteous, within Him forever. This life is not all of life. Nor does death end all. However difficult and distasteful a subject death may be to discuss. It repays Investigation and considera tion. We may not care to. study it, to face It. to analyze It. .But we ought. For death Is Inevitable. It is cer tain that as we have come Into this world we shall. In all human proba bility, go out of it. We cannot es cape death. We cannot avoid it. We ought not to hasten it. We must give it consideration. For It Is sure to come. We do not know the day or the hour. We cannot fqrecast the time. No man can tell the order In which we shall go hence, you and I. But the last day will dawn upon earth for each of us. The chimes will ring a last farewell upon our ears. The call of relentless death will ring through every soul We may not lie able to forecast death's coming, but he will arrive. We may not be able to enumerate the order of our going, but we shall go. For death is In evitable. His coming Is Inescapable. Ht stands waiting at the terminus of every life. And we should not fe;ir if we fear God. For death is natural. It Is as nat- ural as it Is inevitable. It is as nat- 1 ural as birth. There Is nothing un usual about It however mysterious Its processes may be. It is as natural to die as It Is to he born. Men talk of death as though it were a hlat-is. Death Is not a break. It is a method of procession. They speak of death as something that ought not to be. We shall not discuss that to-day. ' But we shall assert without fear of contradiction that In the world as It in at present constituted death is a ! valuable asset to humanity. For death is not final but tran sitional. It is not a goal. It is but an Incident in the life of the soul as it flle3 through life into eternity. Death Is not ultimate. It Is not ter- j mlnal. Death Is not an end itself, j It Is not the last of life though it comes at the end of this life. For If death is final it is at least question- . able whether it were, any use to live , at all. If death Is absolute and ulti mate, if it writes finis to the close of every man's life, then In the words of Paul, "of all men most miserable." ! There may be use and there may be wisdom in living simply for the sake of living and then dying, with no hope of eternity, with no expectation of a life beyond, with no promise of immortality. But such a philosophy, howtver sound it may bo for some minds, does not appeal to me. For I am persuaded that we live to some greater purpose than just to die, and go back Into the dust and be forever : forgotten forever 1 am persuaded that we are more than the flower of the field or the grass thereof, which to-day is and to-morrow is consumed by the quenchable fire. For God has written in my heart, and I hope He ' has In yours, a promise of another life and of a nobler and a fairer world. I look for a land and a life 1 that Is eternal, a heavenly country. For, to me, death Is a portal. 1 ft is a gate. It is a boon, a gift of ; God, a blessing. To my mind it writes "to be continued" after the last word of the last chapter of the record of every soul's earthly life has been inscribed upon the pages of , human history. For death is more a beginning than un euding. It Is a door through which we enter Into the , undiscovered country. It affords us a vision of another world the view of which is wlthholden from our mor tal eyes. It releases us from the cir cumscriptions of earth. It unlocks the mystery of eternity. It unfolds the future existence before us. : Through It wo achieve a knowledge of 'fie unknown. To those of us who ' haVe endeavored sincerely, however ; purtially we have succeeded, to do 1 (he will of God and to submit our selves to His divine control, death onus as a friend over whom we may i rejoice. Not that we should desire 1 to die. For this Is a good life. Not j that wo should regret that we have j days ahead that we must Oil full of ! action und of holy living. Not that I we should pray for death as a sur- I cease from care and from pain and 1 from disciplines. But we welcome I and expect death, if we be in Christ, l as a friend, because It augments our I ' days, and expands our opportunities, and clarifies our vision, and lntensl- . ties our knowledge. And that is good. This death, which !t Inevitable and natural In the career of every man, j whether he be rich or poor, wlao or . Unorau. ?;- or bad, may be tr rlble, doubtful or beautiful, accord ing to the manner of our lives and the quality of our characters. For death cannot be bought off by riches Neither does he pass the hovel. He Is no respecter of intelligence. His hand is heavy and his arm is long to seise and to project Into eternity that which is Immortal in good and vll men alike. And it simply de pends upon the kind of man you are whether death will be terrible, doubt ful or beautiful to you. To a bad man death must be ter rible. That is to say. If he possesses the least spark of moral conscious ness or spirit:: a) susceotlblllt','. Aye, It Is terrible. And It ought to be. A bad man ought to be afraid to die. A man whose whole life has contra vened God's law, whose continued and cumulative effort has b'en to fol low the lusts of his own heart nnd Ihe dictate of his own will, who has sought not to please God, but to find favor with men, who has construct in ly plrnnrd and effected overt sin, who he dented the call of conscience and deified Satan dally, ought to be afraid to die. Death ought to bo ter rible to him In his last hours such a mp.n could best evidence that he -vnr n man an 1 not a b?aBt by elevat ing the fear of God to supreme prom inence In his mind. A man whose whole life as n consciously active free moral agent has been dedicated to the stuUlftcatlon of the mandates of the Almighty and to the epila tion of sin as n method of living ought to be anxious to reverse the call of death and the decision of fate. He ought to want ano'her chance In this lire to fit hlni for th" next life. It would be strange if bad men were not afrnld to die. It would be curi ous If they could i'ace eternity un abashed. For death to a sinful soul must be terrible. To go forth Into a new life unprepared, to enter Into the presence of eternity at enmity with God: what could be more aw ful? Death may be doubtful. Many men there are who, obeying the dic tates of Co l as they hear them nnd His laws :us they rod th-jn, have at tained a morhl eminence that Is not Inconsiderable; hut who, as they stand In the presence of the usual but Inscrutable mystery of death, confess that thev uwsit Its power without hope and with simply a sci entific spirit of lnqulsltlveness. There is for them no certainty of a future life. They do not protest that death necessarily ends all. They simply ex press the opinion that, so far as they aro concerned, death is a locked gate, a sealed portal, a bolted, barred. Im penetrable door. They declare that while there may be a life beyond this they have no valid ground for ex pressed hop? therein, no reason to stay their souls In the expectation of eternal existence They know not. Theirs Is the philosophy of agnostic ism. Still others deny that there Is another life In another world. Theirs Is the negative phlloBonhy of athelRm. And neither is scientific or satisfying in the largest or most enduring way. For we need and desire and demand as rational and expectant human beings something more than Inde cision and negation. The soul re quires a true soul food. It does not thrive on agnosticism or Infidelity. Death may be beautiful, it may bo welcome, It may be an inspiration. It is so to godly men, men of faith and of vision, men who are versed In the philosophy of heaven and who are acqtinlritcd with the scientific for mulae of the discipline of the soul. It is beautiful and gracious to thosa who are God'3 In Christ supremely bo. For the Christian knows that death is not only inevitable and na tural, but that it is simply transi tional, that it is a portal. The Christian is certain that eternal Ufa Is. The Christian believes from a conscious experience in the fact of God. He hopes, not without reason, for eternal life and eternal blessed ness within God in heaven. For has not Christ assumed him that God and heaven are? Has He not said: "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto Myself?" And Christ not only h?s said that to the Christian through the ' medium of the Scriptures. He has also spoken these words of comfort presently to the human hearts of Christian believers. And God has ceaselessly thundered the truth of Immortality through the recesses of human souls. "Blessed are the pure In heart, for they shall see God" eter nally. Oeath, for the Christian, Is to bo welcomed, whensoever it may come, with a holy awe, without fear. For death Is sublime. It is the cap of the climax of the Christian earthly life. It is our Illumination, our in spiration, our reward. It enlarges our joys and certifies our hopes. We should await it in the spirit of that man of God whom the other day, In the presence of a multitude of men. as he stood upon the eminence of four score years and upon the bor derland of eternity, I heard say, "I await death with Joy. To me the thought that I shall dio is sublime. For 1 know that If I die I sall llvo again." Ills hearers were electrified. His tones thrilled. His hope was con taglouB. We, too, should await death with a cheer. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL L BR HON COM MI NTS FOR SKIT. H BY TIIK KBV. I, W. HENDERSON. The Color of Life. The world Is not made Up to the eye-of figures, that is, only half ; It Is also made of color, wrote Emerson, How that clement washes the uni verse with its enchanting waves! The Bculptor has ended his work, and be hold a new world of dream-like glory. 'Tis the last stroke of nature; be yond color 3he cannot go. In llko manner life is made up. not of knowl edge only, but of love nlso. If thought Is form, sentiment is color. It clothes the skeleton world with space, variety and glow. The hues of sunset make life great; so the af fections make some little web of cot tage and fireside populous, lmponant and filling the main space in our his tory. Home Herald. Evil Companionship Destroys a Child. Wo put down as the worst thing that can come Into the life of a child low, vile association. We doubt if any human being ever got beyond the Influence of evil associates for tho first ten years of life. Such associa tion will produce an insanity of na ture against which the victim will find It necessary to fight for all the years that remain to him Western Methodist. Building of Petrified Wood. A building at New England, Hot tinger County, N. D., Is made of petri fied wood. The building belongs to Charles Mead, a rancher. It was constructed for a residence but Is no longer used for that purpose. It has been used .'.or a private school the last year. It stands on the edge of a bluff at the foot of which runs the Cannonball River. The various col ors of the petrified wood glisten in the sunshine. The wall ia left un polnted, thus exposing the uneven projecting specimens of the wood thit have become, through nature's mys terious Influence, beautiful stones. Here and there scattered over a wide area on the Missouri slope are groups of specimens, usually one or two wagonloads in a place. But there Is a field in the western part of Het tinger County where these petrifac tions are thick over two or three eras. Olen UUln Correspondence Minneapolis Journal. Subject: The Brazen Serpent, Num bers 21:1-9 Golden Text, John it 14, IB Memory Verse, 0 Commentary. Doubting, trustless Israel Is con founded. When the Canaanltlsh king hears that they are coming his way he sets forth against the Israelites and takes many of them prisoners Having no faith in God Israel falls an easy victim to his prowess as a warrior. The calamity sends Israel back to God for ronsolatlon and for comfort. Misfortune is the dynamic that, impels many a man and people Godward. A trial of her unaided and unenthused fighting ability displays Israel's weakness to herself. Strength Is found In communion with Ood. Israel prays And petition brings power. Israel's prayer Is a confes sion and a dedication. It Is a confes sion of human incapacity and of hu man reliance on God. It Is a dedica tion of the divinely empowered mili tary energy of Israel to the service of God. All prayer ought to have these elements. And all true prayer will ffeet results that are beneficial to humanity and well pleasing to God. Many a man who is battling with little success might do wonders for Ood If he would apply to God for strength. Self-reliance that discounts the power of Ood is egotism. Self reliance that comes from the con sciousness of God's favor Is glorious. The effectiveness of each Is Illus trated Id some measure In the first four verses in the lesson for the day. The circumstances surrounding the raising of the brazen serpent are sug gestive. Thirty-eight years have passed since the ten spies advised agalMt doing the will of Ood and obeying the call of Jehovah Implicit ly. The years of wandering in the wilderness are nearly over. Another generation has grown to manhood. Ood has cared for them all the years In spite of their weakness and sin. And yet Israel has not gained that spiritual consciousness that she should possess The way, though short, becomes besot with difficulties. And the people, discouraged with the obstacles along the way, revile against God and against Moses. Moses had labored with them and for them for nearly forty years of desert wanderine God had fed them. And yet they forgot all that. They cursed God. They cursed Moses. With Canaan just In Light tlmy looked back through the long perspective of the years of sorrow that, they had brought upon themselves, upon the leeks and the garlic and the flesh pots of Rgypt. And. as always hap pens, leaving their faith in God they were assailed by worse terrors. The Serpents wrought havoc among them. The results of their sin brought them bade to their senses and to a realization of the enormity of their sin. They prayed Mosus for aid. And Moses prayed for them. God's pa tience went out to them , the flery serpent was given as a cure for their ills and a sign of the interest and the grace of God. The method of salvation from the Serpents' bites was simple and ef ficient. It is worthy of note. Out of the midst of their trouble Israel cried unto God and He heard them. And He afforded them a way of escape from their afflictions. As Boon as they cried In sincerity and humble ness with a sense of their own sin, God answered them. His method of relief was simple. They had but to look upon the brazen serpent and they were delivered. But they had to look. The salvation became ef fective when they accepted it. That is to say, it became active when they looked. Not otherwise do we experience salvation in the Christian economy. Out of the depths of his sin and shame man calls upon God for aid. Christ holds Himself up as the gift of God to the age for the healing of the sins of the Individual and of the nations. But the salvation does not become effective until the man looks and accepts. Anil It becomes ef fective then. Tho moment that a man takes Christ as the active truth of Ood In his life and renders himself subject to the control of God as He reveals Hlmscir In tho person of Jesus Christ and mediates His truth to men to-day tlsough the person of the Holy Spirit, that moment the man is a saved man. His salvation begins there. Then he is born anew. He starts a new existence. He Is a new creature. He matures In another sphere. We are bitten with sin thot is more harmful than the bite of any serpent. For the sin that destroys us Is the power that 1b able to, confront God and to utterly confound' unaided man. But even as tho serpent of brass saved tho men who were poisoned with the venom of the desert snakes so the crucified Christ saves us from that body of the living doath that men call sin. Israel always made a mistake when she forgot God or attempted to pro gress without him. And there is a les son there for us. Many men to-day, as we march toward better and diviner things, are prone to curse God and the better leaders of the time. Many a philosophy of social regeneration leaves God out of account entirely. Religion as an active force Is mini mized. This is a mistake. The sur est foundation of success is that which Is built upou the religious con sciousness of a people. If we pro ceed without God that is to say, without a proper religious motive we shall bs bitten with the serpnt. Scours In Pigs. An Iowa correspondent In Wal- i lace's Farmer says that he has found ' ......... ........I Af . mit In a ana' 'u slop before feeding once a day for two or three days to be an effective I cure for ordinary cases of scours In young pigs. Value In Disposition. Disposition Is Indicated very large ly In the brnln development, and dis position means lots of money In a horBe. When I was a boy we didn't think half as much about the dispo sition of a horse as we do to-day. Millionaires, people who are looking for fancy teams, are willing to pay for disposition, because they don't waut to have their families, their children's lives endangered by having rattle-brained horses, and other men are looking for good die positioned horses because they don't care to have their fine turnouts, their fancy wagons broken up by a horse that will gel rattle-brained. George Mc Kerrow, Madison, Wis., In The Cultivator. keep them killed In the potato patch then they cannot travel to the to matoes, r If growing for a cannery, the early fruit pays best as the vines make more fruit per plant "and the can nery will not pay any more for the very late ones than for those grown when tomatoes are plentiful. j5 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES popular vr ! 1 SBV SCIENCE , September eighth. V it ri IB-. Milk nnd Cream. Recent Investigations nmong tho herds whlrh supply the Pennsylvania State College creamery with milk and cream, show that on some farms it requires nine cows to produce as much net profit as produced by flvo average cows In the herd of grade dnlry cows kept by the college. Some men receive as little as ninety-nine nts, 11,08 and $1.20 for each dol lar's worth of feed consumed, while others receive from $1.50 to $1.80 for each dollar Invested In pasture, hay, grain, etc. As a result of this work twelve farmers are now keeping ! records to determine which are tho least profitable cows. Samples of I each cow's milk are tested by the col I lege creamery. Early Cutting of .Alfalfa. Many start out with the erroneous impressions about cutting alfalfa. They have been Induced to put In the crop because of Its great feeding val ue and that some three or four cuttings may be taken Horn the field during one season. If you want a strong, vigorous stand of alfalfn, don't be in too big a hurry to dip it to get rid of weeds, or don't cut the crop from a newly seeded field too Boon. The crop should be pretty well matured before It is cut. It la im portant that the plant be well estab lished and the crown buds set for subsequent crops, before the first crop is taken off. After the first year three or four cuttings may be made, providing each one is done at the right time. Indiana Farmer. Light in the Stable. To the absence of proper light In the stable may be attributed many of the diseases to which the eyes of horses are liable. It is easy to imagine how the animal must feel and the conse quences which are likely to be the result, from our own pHlnrul sensa tions on Issuing from a dark place to the full blaze of tho sun. A repeti tion of this several times during the day would be Inevitably attended with most injurious consequences. A stable ought to be as well lighted as a house, so that this source of Injury may be avoided and also that any want of cleanliness may be readllyJ ueiecieu. in siaoies wnicn nave a proper quantity of light, the Bhut ters may be partially closed when the animals have fed properly and He down to sleep. Many animals ; stand too long and this subdued light 1 is more apt to produce drowsiness, Inclining him to repose, during which ; time the food is well known to have i the most salutary effect In Increas- ing the muscular fiber and the cellu I lar and adipose substances. W. R. Gilbert, In Tho Epitomist. Selling Fertility. Every time a farmer sells a ton of wheat he sells $11.62 In fertility; in a ton of clover hay he Bells $8.62 in fertility; In a ton of alfalfa hay he sells $8.63 in fertility; In a ton of oats he sells 17. 81 in fen mi v 1 and In a ton of corn he sells $6.47 in fertility, if these products be fed on the farm under proper conditions, and tho resulting manure be returned to tho soil, thero is a very slight loss of fertility, for the following pro ducts may be sold Instead: In selling a ton of finished beef on the hoof tho farmer sells but $6.37 In fertility; In a ton of live hogs he sells but $3.70 In fertility; In a ton of milk he soIIb but $1.48 In fertility; In a ton of cheese he sells but sixty-nine cents in fertility, and In a ton of butter he sells twenty-seven cents In fertility. The best policy for the farmer to adopt is thai system of corn and crop rotation wnicn win embrace not only the growing of grain, but the breeding and feeding of stock, either for sale In the form of beef or pork, or for the production, whether for milk cheese and butter. Professor Hoi- den. Glasses For Weak Kycs. Blue or else smoky glasses have long been considered the best pos sible things for weak eyes. Recent investigations, however, have altered the views of oculists on this subject, un amber colored glass being found preferable in many Instances. It seems that the rays of light that are trying to the eyes are at and about the upper end of the spectrum that is to say, In the region of the violet and ultra-violet. These rays penetrate blue or Bmoky glass to a greater or loss extent, but are entire ly stopped by amber glass. The discovery in question seems to have been first made by mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps, who, for a protection agalust the glare of the snow, are obliged to wear some sort of colored spectacles, it became the fashion not long ago, on such excur sions in that part of the world to use amber. Saturday Evening Poet Hints on Breeding Sheep. As the result of several years of experience, the Wisconsin station publishes the following conclusion: From the breeding records of r 1 4 ewes nt this station we conclude that, for such animals and condi tions as ours, the normal period of gestation ranges from 144 to 160 days after tile date of service, and that more owes will lamb 146 days after service than at any other time. There Is no appreciable difference In the period of gestation for male and female offspring In sheep. There Is nn apparent relation be tween the duration of the period of gestation and the period required for maturity. Quick-maturing breedB appear to carry their young for a shorter period than those breeds re quiring more time to mature. Large lambs are on the average carried In the utero for an appre ciably longer period than small or medium lambs. Lambs dropped before the 14 4th and after the 14 9th day of preg nancy are lacking in strength and vitality at birth. Shropshire ewes are more pro lific than any of the other breeds and crosses, except the fourth cross of Shropshire rams on a Merino ewe foundation. From the data presented It is apparent that twins are the normal increase for ewes of the mutton type. Farm Notes. Decaying food and stagnant water will Injure the health of the cow, and the quality of the milk. The hours of milking should be regular, and each cow should be milked in regular order. A good maxim for the farmer is "Always be on the alert for Ideas that will serve to better your condition." A surplus rooster is an expensive ornament In the poultry yard. Eat or kill the surplus roosters before they eat double their value. When cows teats are tender and they are sensitive and inclined to be Irritable when being milked, apply linseed oil after each milking. A dairy cow should not be allowed to wander over a very large field, as the energy spent In walking about will show in a reduction lu quality of milk. Unsanitary surroundings cause more disease, puny and unhealthy birds, and more general loss In the poultry yard than all other causes combined. We agree thoroughly with any proper scheme that may bo intro duced on the farm that will be pleas ant, helpful or entertaining to the women folk. Fowls do not require so much care as an Inexperienced person might think, but the care must be Intelligent und given regularly and at the right time. Some fowls are better adapted to cold than to warm weather. Corn is a cold weather food. Feed more oats and wheat and less corn as the weath er grows warmer. Set your hens In movable nests. One advantage in movable nests is that they may be removed, sprinkled with oil and burned off, If mites be come troublesome. Tho best possible time to separate cream from milk is when first drawn, and while the animal heat is still re tained. The farm separator takes out the cream before the milk cools or becomes sour. No matter how successful you might be, it Is a good plan to never feel really satisfied. The man with out some high aim in view is more than likely to lose a great deal of ambition which Is unworthy of anyone. In tho Chicago fire department are two engines each capable of throwing ten tons of water a minute. There are said to be at present 250,000 miles of cable In all at the bottom of tho sea, representing $250, 000.000. This works out at about $1000 per mile to make and lay. The unique floating Ice bnrrler pushed out from the mysterious Ant arctic land was found by Captain Scott's expedition to extend five hun dred miles westward from the vol canoes Erebus and Terror, and more than four hundred miles toward the Pole, reaching beyond eighty-two de grees seventeen minutes south lati tude. The front rises ten to 280 feet above the water. Consul Frank Hannah of Madge burg sends 'nformatlon of a new Ger man composition to take the place of cedar In lead pencllB. The prin cipal Ingredient of the substitute is potatoes. The pencils aro now being manufactured and soon will bo on the market. It is estimated that to manufacture these pencils will take about half of the time required to make cedar pencils. Tho loss of many English fishing boats Is now believed to have been duo to the fnct that the man at the wheel carried in his pocket a special ly forged fisherman's knife. These knives possess strong magnetic prop erties sufllclent to deflect the compass two or three points. Many wrecks have occurred while steering an ap parently true course, and the dis covery of the knives Is now believed to account for many wrecks. Probably no substance Is adapted to a greater variety of uses than rub ber, but Its applications are restricted by the limited supply and high cost. Among the purposes for which it has great advantages but is not likely to be extensively employed, is that of paving roadways. A rubber pave ment laid at a London railway sta tion was In 1902 worn down to flve elghths of an inch In its thinnest place. Notwithstanding the scarcity of the material, the cost was less than three times as great as that of wood, and its life has been more than twenty years instead of four years which the wood or asphalt would have endured. The recent Increase In the use of electricity in Spain has been so rapid that an official report states that to-day very few localities exist where the electric light Is not employed. This Is particularly true of places sit uated near swiftly running Btreams. The consumption of electric lamps, even In the smallest villages, Is de scribed as being enormous. Every where electric motors are found tak ing the place of steam-power. Yet the construction of electric apparatus In Spain has not kept step with the growth In Its employment, eighty per cent, of the dynamos and motors being Imported from Germany. Most of the remainder come from France and Switzerland. God's cmnloresence. Pst 139: 1-12. Ood Oreater than all. 1 Kings 8: 22-27. Maker of all. Isa. 6B: 1, 2. "A Ood at hand." Jer. 23: 23 .".J. "In Him we live." Acts 17: 22-28. "In the midst of thoni." Matt. 18: 19, 20. Ever present. Matt. 28: 19, 20. It Is a comfort as well as a terror to know that Ood knows us wholly Ood knows not only the words on our tongues, but the words In our tongues, that have not yet gone out. Even before studying about Ood, one could be sure that the study would be beyond our powers; other wise, Ood would not be Ood. Since one cannot flee from God. the only wise life Is to learn the do sire to flee toward God. Suggestions. Take Jeremy Taylor's noble thought, nnd "practice the presence of Ood," bt) that you can realize Hla nearness at nil times. You are n spiritual (King so far as the existence and presence of spirit CUtl beings are real to your mind. Remind yourself continually, "God Is here." No thought will so serve to dignify und purify your dally life. You will be helped to realize God's omnipresence by studying the lives of those to whom It. was a reality, and above all the life of our Lord. Illustrations. The best illustration of God's om pip-esence Is the physical concep tion of the ether, that wonderful un known element which Is the bend of the physical universe. If a child's hand Is laid In the ooean, we know that the level of the great sea everywhere Is raised to cor respond. So God responds every where to the hand of a child. Try to understand how thero can be anywhere an end to space, and you will see how Impossible It is to conceive any limit to Ood. Questions. Am I trying to escape this omnl present God? Is the source of God's presence a delight to me, or a feat ? Is my life such that I welcome Ood In every pnrt of It? EPWQHTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. COST OK POLICE. Cloning Good Tomntn-.-s. Any ground that will grow pota toes Is good for tomatoes. Plow the ground, harrow, and drag till it Is well pulverized, lay off In rows about four feet apart and set plants about four feet In row. When setting, cover all the stem up to the leaves. This has a three fold purpose. It protects the plant from drouth, keeps them from break ing down during a wind and gives them more room for roots. Cultivate as for corn or potatoes until vines cover ground and there is danger of breaking them. It vines are pruned and tied up to a stako the fruit will be larger and more uniform In size, but vines do not yield as many tomatoes as those left to spread on ground or on a rack. We find they do spleudldly and the fruit keeps clean If they are mulched with strejw after they are cultivated the last time. It potato bugs get on vines when they are small, use parts green, but do not use it i fruit nets a 1 1,,.,-,. I is danger of poisoning the fruit. The oosi way to Keep clear of bugs Is to They Hnd Lost Track of Him. In a town of a few thousand in habitants in the Interior of Pennsyl vania thero resided an ambitious young man, David Simpson, who, as soon as he was well out of his teens, removed to New York City and went into business. He was successful, and when ho became u middle-aged man, went into politics. In this also he succeeded, and at laBt rose to dis tinguished official position in the city. Then a longing to rovlsit the old home of his boyhood, which he had not seen for a quarter of a century or more, came over him. it woud bo pleasunt, he thought, to witness the look of surprise aud gratification on the fuces of his for mer townsmen when he made his ap pearance among them again, un spoiled by fame and prosperity. With out communicating his intentions to any one, he went aboard a west bound train one night and arrived at his destination tho next morning. . The Orst man he saw as ho stepped out on the platform of the railway station whs one of his old playmates, with whom he had grown up. He walked up to him and grasped him by the hand. "Charley Bennett, how are you?" be said. "I'm pretty well, thank you," an swered the other, "but you've got a little the advantage of me." "I'm Dave Simpson." "Why, hello, Dave! Where have you been all this timer" "In New York, of course." "Well, I'm mlibty glad to see you, Dave. What aro you doing for u living nowT Clerking In a drug-store, as you used to?" Mr. Simpson Hpent several days In bis old home town, and eujoyed his visit, but be did not do any more posing. Youth's Companion. It Totals Over Five Million Sterling For England and Wales. It costs just under 5,750,000 sterl ing to maintain for a year the 46,000 police who guard the interests of citizens of England and Wales, 4,195,000 being absorbed lu salaries and pay. Tho most expensive of all the forces In proportion to its size is the City of London, in which the cost of the individual constable works out to 112 a year. This loaves a considerable margin over tho 93 which Is the average of the pro vincial forces, and is even appreciably higher than the upkeep of a con stable in the Metropolitan force, which Is 105. There are in the city 1,006 police men of all ranks, and as the' popu lation is only 26,923, every twenty seven inhabitants can claim to have a constable to themselves. The calculation Is, of course, somewhat illusory, for the census Is taken at night, and when Suburbia pours its thousands Into tho city streets In the early working hours of the morning the police are quickly lost in the throng. Tho same destructive facto; does not apply to a similar calcula tion In regard to other areas, and ac cording to a Blue Book Issued re cently, from which these figures are taken, there was a constable for every 470 people residing In the Met ropolitan district nnd one for every 94 2 persons on the average of the rest of England and Wales. Since 1905 thero has been a total addition of some 600 men to the police forces of the country, while in twenty-five years tho strength has risen from 30,000 to 46.000 an Increase of over fifty per cent. Tit Bits. Receiving the Word Luke 8: 11-15 Pnssages for reference: Josh. 1: 8; Psa. 1: 2; Isa. 55: 10, 11; Mark ! 13: 31; John 5: 24; 8: 31. 32; Heb. 2: 1-3. Christ's gospel renuires mental at I tention and can fullv and profitably occupy the largest brains. Thought .fulness, spiritual stupidity, sleepy lis tening causes us to miss richest truths dropped In public address, j private conversation, and burled In read words. Looking for and de l mandlug truth we find It. Inconsld j erate impulsiveness and misunder stood and overemphasized feelings j often cause one to take a weakly for ! tilled or shallowly Investigated posi tlon. Religion will meet windstorms and droughts. Follow one truth to j the end rattier than merely snatch up i a dozen. Double mindedness will lead I to the overgrowth of the material , thing and the choking of the spirit I ual. We must make riches and plea sure feed the spiritual. If put on a level, the material, growing more easily and rapidly, will eat up the smaller, the spiritual. We cannot absorb truth as a ! sponge does water. We must "seek" I to find, and "knock" to have it open ed. Our bodies "lire big with de ! mands. The Spirit speaks with a I "still small voice " We must be quiet and hear It. We must put it In the seat of power in spite of the clamor ings of "old man" flesh. Good health, good food, good surroundings make us less conscious of the body than tho old monk's plan of abusing it. Kind treatment makes a better servant than rough. But the body must be kept in Its place. It is man's servant. The spiritual Is king. Insist on It ruling. Heed Its demands. Feed It and care for It as you do the heart of the growing babe. Give thought ful attention to the spiritual. We must "think on these things." We muBt "study to show ourselves ap ! jiroved unto Ood." We must "medl j tate on thy law." This is the day of I splendid spiritual opportunity. Truth i Is thick around us. We must beware I else It will find poor soil In our - hearts. Plow, mellow, fertilize, up root weeds, care for the soli In every I possible way, so that It will be good I and the harvest be large enough to honor God and bless the world. Concrete in Steamer Repairs. A British trade newspaper states that concrete has come into uso iu connection with steamship repairs. The Iron Age declares that It waB suc cessfully employed to patch up the hull of a steamer. She struck on a jagged rock, and several holes were made In the Iron bull of the vessel. The largest one was about eighty feet from the bow, and It measured about thirty-five feet In each direc tion, and through this great gap came the rock, projecting for nenly eleven feet Into the hold. Those responsible for the salvage operations managed to patch up the breach by meaus of concrete, and although leaks devel oped, the water was pumped out of tho hold and ship was towed forty miles to a drydock. The father of Nicholas II. of Rus sia julded his actions by the advice of an American spirit medium. Ways of Reading. Reading without purpose is saun tering, not exercise. More Is got from one book on which the thought settles for definite end than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden nous to the hv terfly. Lord Lytton. Some American Kascals. It has been a good many years Blnce we left the practice of the law for other things we like much better, but It used to be a criminal offence for a man or syndicate to buy up all or a large portion of the wheat, coal, corn, pork or other products of the country necessary to sustaiu life, for the purpose of raising the price and compelling the poor to pay a profit of a million or millions to the man or syndicate that does it. It the old laws do not apply, then one of the first things whirl, ought to be done Is for alt our State legis latures and Congress to pass new ones, making such offences punisha ble by Imprisonment. Our Dumb Animals. For testing tho power of lamps a Mayence optician has devised a novel photometer based upon the varying electrical resistance of selenium un der different Ulumlniatlon. The ap paratus includes two mirrors lighted respectively by a standard lamp and the lamp to be tested, while a selo ulum cell rapidly oscillating between two given positions Is alternately, lighted by either. The electric oscil lations set up are shown by an am meter. One lamp la moved until these oscillations cease, and the re spective distances from the photome ter will then give, according to a well-known rule, the light Intensity nt th i .I.... .....i..,. ...... - with that of the standard lamp.
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