THE PULP1T.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
BISHOP H. C. POTTER.
Subject : The Chnrch and I.nlMir.
Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rt. Rev.
Henry C. Potter, Bishop or New York. !
preached In Sr. Ann's Church on the
Heights, Sunday. His subject was
"The Church und the Labor Ques
tion," and for his text he took the '
two passages: St. Luke 3:10 to -14
(R. V.): "And the multitude 1
nsked Hlin what then must we do? !
Ho answered and said unto thm,
'He that hath two coats let him im-
part to him that hath none: and he !
that hath food let him do likewise.'
And there came also publicans to be
baptized and they raid unto Him,
Master, what must we do?' And He
said unto them, 'Exact no more than
that which Is appointed you.' And
the soldiers also asl;ed Him, saying,
'What must we do?' und He said unto
them, 'Extort from no man by vio
lence; neither accuse any one wrong- '
fully; and be content with your
wages." And St. Matthew 11:2 to 7:
"Now when John had heard In prison
the works of Christ he sent two of his
disciples and said unto Him: 'Art
Thou He who should come or look wn
for another?' And .lesus answered
and said unto them, 'Co your way
and tell John thp tilings which ye
see; the blind receive their sight and
the lame walk; the lepers are ;
cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead i
are raised up and the poor have the
good tidings preached to them; and
blessed Is ha who shall find no occa
sion of stumbling In Me.' " Bishop
Potter said:
I wonder If it has ever occurred to
you to ask yourselves the question,
how far the absolute Incidents of the
gospels are a witness to their truth?
There are Incidents like that which '
must present liself to you In connec
tion with John the Baptist, and that
Other which occurs at the close of St.
Matthew's and St. Luke's gospels In ,
connection with Peter which make
us feel that If any one were wrl:ings
book In which he desired to present
to us simply a favorable impression
of this or that man there are certain
things in the gospel which would
have been left out. Nothing is finer
for example, In Its way, than the lan
guage of John the Baptist in connec
tion with the coming to him in the
desert of the people, nnd o.' the sol
diers, and the tax gatherers and the
rest. It is a singularly direct and
explicit way in which he lpys down to
each group what should be the law
nf their life. And It Is entirely an
other man, if we stop and th'.nk a
moment, whom we encounter In the
gospel for the third Sunday In Ad
vent: "Art Thou He that should
come? Really, I do not know WBtth
er you are or not."
That is the Implication of the
frords, and I can Imagine an unb?
lever using these words as a very :
effective argument against the bellel
of Johu tiie Baptist In the divine
claims of Jesus. Here is a man wan
ka3 been sent as the forerunner ol
Jesus, who had baptized Jesus, who
was profoundly persuaded of the mis
sion and truth and divine character
of Jesus, and yet there comes a mo
ment In his life when he says: "Well,
really, I am not clear about you. You
claim to be the Messiah. You havd
appeared to this nation and to this
era In the history of the world with
i revelation of the Supreme Force In
the world. Art Thou He who should
come?" But the fine thing about
these two texts is the fac: that each
one of them Is a distinct and explicit
witness to that thing of which you
and I are perfectly conscious in our
selves. That Is, that every man and
every woman is made up of two men
and tw i women; that there are types
of che xter which are so contradic
tory i. 1 so unlike each other that
abstr. ly we should say they are ab
solute. ' 'lrrecone'lahle and yet they
belong o the Lame person, Influenced
by C... -rent circumstances and chal
lenged by different perplexities. There
can be no doubt as to the Impressions
which had been niRde by the. teaching
and life of Jesus upon John the Bap
tist in the words I have read. John,
in other words, grasped and seized
with singular clearness and force the
fact that here In the advent of Jesus
there had entered the world an abso
lutely new law in the conception of
life and of the individual's relations
to other lives about him.
Go back to the beginning of civlll
2&tlon and trace step by step to this
hour and yon will be amazed to find
bow largely they built ou the compli
cations and philosophies of caste. My
brother (Dr. Alsop) might make an
Interesting sermon upon the tragic
and dramatic forces of caste in In
dia, whose religions it would be well
to remember are older than ours. In
other words, the moment that bar
barism begins to lift Itself by organi
zation, by the creation of the govern
ing society, it differentiates barbar
ltm from civilization. It begins also
to emphasize the distinction of caste.
Do you know that to-day a Pariah,
one of the classes in India, cannot
walk on the sldewulk of the street
after 3 o'clock in the afternoon be
cause it is possible that this Pariah,
whose touch Is defilement, might
brush against a Brahmin? In other
words, the Brahmin has pushed the
theory uf the isolation of the caste to
that point where he cannot allow
one not of the same caste to walk on
the same side of the street with him.
When I was In India I asked a Hindu
on a boat on the Hoogly River to sit
down and eat with me, and he turned
as if I had struck him nnd said. "My
caste forbids; I cannot eat with you
because you are a Christian."
Now, Jesus came and John the
Baptist sees first of all that He had
truck at the foundation, at the sys
tem of the theory of caste. The the
ory of caste carried with It the right
of certain privileged people to main
tain a certain autocratic and imper
ious sovereignty over the lives and
property of others. "No," said Johu,
having been long enough in the pres
ence i..' his Master to --rasp that great
centrtil truth of the Master's teach
ing, '.to, you and I, the soldier and
the tax gatherer and the men who
pay taxes, and, all the rest, are one
family lu the family of Hod, and In
your relations to one another you
must govern yourselves by the law of
equity and not by the power which
ciines Into you' hands because of any
mora caste Inheritance whatsver
your office or place mpy be In taste
Inheritance of power over another."
The believers in the religion of
Jesus Christ were slow to grasp that
truth. John the Bapllat himself be
gan to doubt whether Christ had
come to create a new system under
which men should sustain new rela
tions to each other. "Art Thou He
who should come? If so, why don't
you strike at the foundation of this
concrete, ucoleslasttcal-polltical-soclal
order of which you and I are a part?"
Now, we come to the great truth
which Jesus strives to get to the
4'ilnds of His disciples. "Go tell John
tne tnings you nave seen." What
wss th" d"flnltlon of the Master's
method? That He put Into human
sorlety an absolutely new conrentlon
of the relation of man to man and left
It as a seed. He did not deal with
the miseries of society, as you nnd I
are often tempted to deal with them.
Ho did not dismiss the blind and the
lame and the rest out of His sight
and teaching. He denlt with them
four-scfnare. and relieved them. He
translated the mind and the heart of
find to the consciousness of man nnd
He made them realize at last that His
religion was In the world to be a re
creative force. First of all, begin
ning at the Individual heart and life
and then bringing about tha recon
traction Of society because of the 1
different wny In which men regarded I
each other.
That brings me to tho subject on
which I have been specially asked to
speak to-night. You nnd I. whether
we aro dlsnosed to like the situation i
or not. nnd most of us resent It as an I
Insufferable Impertinence, aro con
fronted In this republic, and In this
twentieth century, with Inrompara- I
bly the most tremendous problem. In
Itl relation to the right construction I
of human society, with which the re- !
public has vet had to deal, and that j
prODtMB ls the problem of the unifica
tion of the Ideas nnd sympathies and j
purposes and alms of men. nnd you i
cannot go home to-night and lay your
head upon your pillow without being
COntOlOtM, whether you choose to ac
knowledge It or not. that there Is In
the depths of poverty and want and
shame all about you a profound so
cial discontent, and that there are
earnest and able men (let us be Just,
although we don't love them), who
are deeply persuaded that there can
be no peace In human soclpty unless
tttat peace Is wrought by the absolute
desiruction of principles which are
precious nnd beautiful and dignified
In human society. They say the
whole social fabric must be pulled
down and thrown to the ground and
the man who stands In the way of
that must be got out of the way. Now,
the question which confronts you and
me is: How are we to deal with this
s ate of mind and what are we to do
to remedy It? We know that If such
a social revolution were to come to
Dass to-morrow It would be attended
by cruel and brutal Indignities and
that the guardianship of the family I
and the safety of the State Itself
would be imperiled. Our social prob
lem here In Am-rlca, and especially
those problems which Involve our re
lations to the men wno work with
their hands, are not to be solved by
revolution, but by quite another
method.' First of all we are to recog
nize the situation, the tremendous
convolution, tho transformation I
may venture to call it, which has
come to pas3 In the worklngman's
life by the Invention of machinery,
by the building up of great central
forces for the employment of men un
der conditions which separate him
absolutely from the master whom ho
serves. The workman is as absolute
ly unknown to the man or the cor
poration and It Is often a corpora
tion who employs him as If he lived
In Dahomey. It Is along these llnee,
whether you choose to recognize It or
not, thatdanger lies; and the church's
relation to that problem Is one, after
all, which Is In the hands of every
one to whom I am speaking. How
much do you know of the life of the
workingman? How much time have
you given to understanding It or to
soften it or to Inspire it? It Is not
the giving of money, or the creation
of charitable Institutions that builds
up tho feelins of brotherhood among
men. The poor man resents our con
iescension. He does not want that
Dr your gold; he wants recognition of
lis manhood. The shop girl wants
vou to honor her womanhood; to re
jpect her In the task In which she Is
.oiling and suffering. You can do
uiuch to make that task easier and !
:reate an atmosphere In which she
ind you can move alike as members!
ii me same umne society mm lenuw
loldlers under the same Master.
That brings into view the relation
if the church to theso great social
jroblems. You and I somehow or
nher must bring the man who works
vlth his hands to recognize his place,
lis right, his office, his calling In the
i.iurch of God. The first business of
he church is to place her houses of
vorship at the service of the people
vho work with their hands and then
n the life of the church to encourage
hat spirit which will help us to un
lerstand and to serve it. There Is
ut one way to do that. Instead of
urnlng to any "Ism" of the hour or
heory of social reconstruction, or
iny new philosophy which under
akes to re-create society upon theo
les which ure essentially barbaric in
.heir nature, you and I muBt go back
ind look Into the face of the Master
ind find In Him the secret of our ser
fije and our triumph.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSOR COM
M KN I s nil! .1 WI AKY M,
A 1 rnycr.
Soul of our souls. Thou to whom
tea turn for life and health, Inspire
ind quicken us, and by our worship
r3pare us for our work. Give us a
iteadfast spirit, a heart enslaved by
10 appetite or passion, a will guided
y wisdom and firm for the right.
lve power to work and power to
valt. mercifully look upon our In
firmities and those evils, which by
jur frailty, our sin, or our ignorance
we have Invited, turn from us.
Transform evil Into good. Out of
mortal weakness bring forth immor
tal strength. May the fire purify,
and not consume; and, when we pass
through the rivers, may they not
overwhelm us. Stay with us from
dawn till eventide. Should the way
be rough and gloomy, may we put
our hand In Thine, and, It we are
led out into the dark, still let us bold
fast by Thee, and cast away fear. In
the crush- and clang of life, may a
blessed calm often visit us, telling
that a Holy Ghost has entered In,
and will not leave us till we bid Him
go. Amen. P. E. VUard.
Another wireless telephonic feat
has Just been accomplished by the
Amalgamated Radio Telegraph Com
pany, of Berlin, Germany. Perfect
communication was obtained over
fifty miles on land between tho com
pany's laboratory, near Berlin, and a
small station at Juterbog. This feat
Is regarded as all the more remark
able since tho whole city, with its
multitude of disquieting Influonce, In
i tervened. It Is said that this long
; distance communication without wires
i was achieved by using the undorfed
I and continuous waves generated by
j the Poulsen system, and that ques
tions and answers wero exchanged
without Interruption.
REALISTIC. '
Wlggs "Scribbler's now novel Is
very realistic, don't you think so?"
Waggs "Yes, Indeed. When I
came to a six-page description of a
yawning chasm it actually put me to
sleep." Philadelphia Record.
Subject: Jesus Cloansoth the Tem
ple. Johfl 2:1.1-22 Golden Text,
I'snlni Mffl Commit Versos 1.1,
1 fl "om m e n t a vy .
TIME. 27 A. D. PL.ICh. Jcrus-
.),
EXPOSITION. I. The cnl of
Thine house luitli eaten Me up, H-17.
Josus was an obedient Son of the
law nnd went up to the passover ac
cording to the commandment (I)eut.
10:16; Luke 2:41). He found In the
temple men selling oxen, sheep and
doves, and also changers of money. A
similar state of affairs can be found
In many churches to-day. All the30
things had something to do with the
temple services, but It was being car
ried on for private gain, and Jesus
was greatly displeased. The defense
of buying and selling In the house o?
Gcd often made to-day Is that all this
has to do with the support of worship.
But this does not make It right In
God's sight, as 13 plainly taught by
this lesson. Jesus put It all out of the
temple In no gentle manner. If He
were to go to-day to our places of
worship with our fairs and festivals
and auctioneers of pews, etc., etc.,
doutbtless He would put them out
also and would be no more gentle
than He was with .hose ancient de
filers of tho house of God. It was
not the force that there was In the
scourge of cords, nor the muscular
energy that Jesus displayed that
drove those defllers out. It was the
niBjesty of His presence and the con
sciousness on their part that they had
no business there. Gentleness and
thoughtful consideration for even the
birds were mingled with His severity:
He did not drive out those who sold
the doves, but simply bnde their own
ers carry them out. He gives a rea
son for His action, namely, that God's
house should not be made a houce of
merchandise. How many that profess
to be followers of Jesus have for
gotten these words of their Master.
In the use of the words, "My Father's
house," He shows His right to act as
He did. It was His Father's house
and it was His business to cleanse It.
The cleansing of the temple was only
temporary. All these things -wera
brought back again (Luke 19:45).
All religious reforms among men aro
temporary. Man Is prone to back
sliding and we cannot live to-day In
the power of a reformation wrought
twenty years ago. Every new genera
tion must have Its own reformation
and every new year must have Its own
revival. When Jesus cleansed the
temple a second time He was even
more sevore. He said that they had
made the house of God a den of rob
bers Instead of a house of prayer
(Luke 19:46, R. V.). Men In their
defiling of God's house thus go from
bad to worse. At a later date the
disciples In recalling this incident saw
In It a fulfillment of Old Testament
prophery regarding the Messiah (v.
1"; cf. Ps. 69:9). It was zeal for His
Father's house that constrained Jesus
to the present action. Is It zeal for
God's house or Is It zeal for o-ir own
Ideas that constrains some of us to
attacks upon the modern defilement
of the house of God?
II. The sign that .Tesns was the
Messiah, 18-22. Both the disciples
and the Jews recognized In Jesus'
assumption of authority and In His
words, "My Father's house" (v. 16),
a claim to be the Messiah. The Jews
at once demanded a sign to back up
this claim. Jesus gave them a sign,
a sign which they did not understand
at the time, the sign of tho resurrec
tion (v. 19; cf. Matt. 12:38-40;
16:1-4). His resurrection from the
dead Is God's seal to all the claims of
Jesus. The resurrection of Jesus
from the dead Is one of tha best
proven facts of history, and It proves
everything that Is essential In Chris
tianity. It is God's seal upon Jesus
Christ's claim to be a teacher sent
from God who spoko tho very words
of God (ch. 7:16; 12:49; 14:10,
11, 24). It Is God's seal upon Jesus
Christ's claim to be a divine person
in a unique sense (ch. 6:22, 23;
10:30; 14:9; Mark 12:6, R. V.). It
Is God's seal upon Jesus Christ's
claim that He was to be the Judge of
the world (ch. 5:22. 23, 28. 29). Not
even the disciples of Jesus understood
His words at the time, but after His
resurrection they remembered them
and they served to confirm their
faith, as well they might. The final
outcome was that the disciples be
lieved the Scripture and the word
which Jesus had said, I. e., they be
lieved the Old Testament Scriptures
which prophesied these things and
the words of Jesus upon which God
had set the stamp of His own endorse
ment. Happy. Is the man to-day who
believes the Old Testament Scrip
tures and the word which Jesus
speaks. Jesus' miracles at this time
led many to believe In Him. but Jesus
saw the superficial character of their
faith and did not believe In them (vs.
23-25. R. V.). When men.belleve In
Jesus with that true anc saving faith
which leads them to commit theni
serves to Him, then and only then
does He commit Himself to them.
LEADING QUESTIONS. What
characteristics of Jesus come out In
this lesson? What fulfillment of
prophecy Is there In the lesson? What
sins of the modern church are re
buked by this .lesson? What does tho
lesson teach about the resurrection of
Christ? How did the disciples show
their wisdom? What Is the best les
son In the passage?
It Is God's.
Government Is the lamp. Public
opinion Is the oil. Leadership Is the
light. The mystery of the combustion
belongs to God. Home Herald,
"Next!"
"I was counsel for a railway com.
pany In the West," says a prominent
New York lawyer, "In whose employ
a section hand had been killed by au
express train. His widow, of course,
Bued for damages. Tho principal wit
ness swore positively that the loco
motive whistle had not sounded until
after the entire train had passed over
his departed friend.
' 'You admit that the whistle
blew?' I sternly demanded of the
witness.
" 'Ob, yes. It blew.'
' 'Now,' I added Impressively, 'II
that whistle sounded In time to give
Morgan warning, the fact would be
in favor of the compan:', wouldn't It?"
" 'I suppose so,' said the witness.
" 'Very well. Now, for what earth
ly purpose would the engineer blow
bis whistle after the man bad been
struck?'
" 'I presume,' replied the witness,
with great deliberation, 'that the
whistle was for the next man on the
track.' " Harper's Weekly.
New York City. Fancy wnlsts make
an Important feature of the ward
robe, and at this season when so many
coat suits are worn, are especially
In demand. This one Includes a very
dainty and attractive chemisette ef
fect, and Is adapted both to silk and
to all the wool materials that are
liked for the purpose. Again, It suits
the entire gown and the separate
blouse equally well, so that Its use
fulness Is extensive. As Illustrated
one of tho pretty plaid silks showing
lines of brown and tan on a whlto
White Kid Gloves.
Heavy white kid glovei faced wltb
color are the smart kind for mourning.
ground and the chemisette and sleeve
trimmings are of tucked taffeta.
Darker colorings could be used, how
over, If something more serviceable
Is liked or the chemisette and cuffs
could be made of the muslin that Is
ilways dainty and charming and va
rious other changes might easily be
made. If the cbemlsotte Is made of
muslin or of chiffon and the lining
beneath cut away It will give the
transparent effect that always Is so
pretty and so dressy.
The waist Is made with the fitted lin
ing, and consists of front and backs
with the chemisette. The front Is
Substitute Veil.
Tho face veil of net with a heavy
thread or two run along the lower
edge like the ribbon or crape border
Is a satisfactory substitute for the
mourning veil as one lays aside first
mourning.
Passementerie nnd Fringes.
Passementerie ornaments In tas
sel and other forms and fringes of nil
sorts, including chenille, are much
employed for trimming long coats.
Satins and heavy soft silks aro also
extensively used, while lnce coats
with chiffon interllnlngs and warm
satin Inner finishings are still mo
dlshly Indorsed.
Favorite Hat Trimming.
A favorite trimming for handsome
hats Is the uncurled ostrich feather
In boa effect. This Is wound around
the crown of the hat In very grace
ful fashion, and Is often completed
by an ostrich feather pompon. The
latter, however. Is not always used.
The boa effect can be combined with
floral trimmings or a long plume can
be substituted.
Buttles on Shirts.
Last season we had a fashion of
arranging ruffles on the bottom of
skirts that wore raised on tho two
sides; now we are setting them on
high in the front, In a point, some
reaching as far as the knee, where
they gradually descend to the hem,
covering It In the back. Large drop
ornaments or handsome bows of rib
bon hold down the point In a pretty
way. The arrangement Is a graceful
one, but should only be attempted by
a slight and tall, girlish figure.
Girl's Bloomers.
Bloomers such as these are ex
ceedingly deslrahlo garments, not for
the exercise suit alone, but to be
laid In tucks, but the backs are plain
and the closing Is made invisibly. The
sleeves are distinctly novel and are
arranged over fitted foundations.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size Is three yards
twenty-one, two and three-eighth
yards twenty-seven or ono and five
eighth yards forty-four Inches wide,
with five-eighth yard of silk for the
vest and five-eighth yard elghtoon
Inches wide for the chemisette an I
cuffs.
Rose Rosettes Returned.
There Is a return to the tobo ro
settes for hat and dross trimming,
and thoBo are not nearly so difficult
to manufacture as are the genuine
rosettes. The material Is cut on the
bias, then folded around and around,
beginning In the middle, until one
reaches tho deslrod slzo. Silk, satin,
gauze nnd chiffon are appropriate
matorlals, and. lu addition to being
used as hat trimming, evening frocks
are most successfully decorated with
them. They catch waist drapery,
hold laco flounces and sometimes fin
ish the ends of ribbon Btrands.
For Hat Pins.
tiavo you Invested In a pair of fur
hat pluB with which to pin on your
fur hat? If not, you should realy
do so at once. They are a most
charming accessory. Little fur heads
to match the fur of your huts are
attached to long hat plus. They may
bo used to "really truly" pin on your
hat, or they may be stuck in simply
ns trimming.
No Strict J'ullor-Mude.
Where Is the strict tailor-made?
We see so few of them nowadays that
by comparison with the fluffy, half or
lulte dressy cloth suit, the tiw
I ;enre would appearqulte old-maidish.
worn In place of petticoats during
the winter mouths. They are much
warmer, much snugger and altogeth
er more satisfactory, while they do
away with a great deal of unneces
sary bulk. The ones Illustrated are
made from dark bluo serge, simply
stitched with beldlng silk, but they
could be made from mohair or from
light weight cloth or from silk, flan
nel lined, Indeed, from almost any
thing that is warm and comfortable.
A great many girls like them made
from soft silk with removable lin
ings of flannel or cashmere, which
can be washed and replaced, but
such elaboration Is by no means nec
essary, for light weight serge or flan
nel are the material., most generally
used.
The bloomers are made with leg
portions that are Joined and gathered
at their upper edges while they are
finished with bauds and are closed
at the aides. They are drawn up be
neath tho knees by means of elastic
Inserted In the hems.
OMNIPRESENT . .
We have learned to bear the speed
ing motor car of the crosswayt, and
have grown used to Its chug, chug,
as it brings the odors of the nether
world to our sweet, leafy country
roads; but It Is with a certain dismay
that we realize how fully the Inst
retreat of a quiet mind, literature,
has been invaded by the machine. I
can think of few recent American
tales whero It has not been a chief
feature. We can dodge It upon the
highway; but who can dodge It In
tho magazines? Tho escaping vil
lain uses it only to be overtaken by
the victorious horo In one of better
make; the eloping lovers find It In
dispensable; philanthropy disdains
any other vehicle fdr swift rescue of
suffering; birth nnd death seem un
worthy, and burglary unsuccessful
unless associated with It; and, In the
matter of adventure, whether It
dashes off the cliff Into the sea, or.
wrecked by striking miners, serves
as a barricade for the heslegnd capi
talist, It hns no rival.
We find It pictured on every spot
of earth from desert sand to moun
tain height, and Kipling's "They"
shows It running between tho visible
world and tho Invisible. It has
dimmed the glory of tho football
tale, tarnished the splendor of the
yachting romance, and made the bi
cycle, amorous or adventurous, a
thing of the past. As England moves
through Shakespearo'B historical
plays, dim hero of tho whole, repre
sented now by Richard, now by John,
now by Henry, so the automobile
moves through our fiction, the true
hero, mere man being Introduced
chiefly to manage Its exits and Its
entrances. Tho thing becomes alive;
pleased fancy plays with It as a cat
with a feather, Imagining It senti
ment. With the good auto we be
come heroic and perform wonderful
deeds of prowess; with tho bad auto
we are frankly villainous and add
murder to our other crimes; breath
lessly we speed with the detective
auto, the very Sherlock Holmes of
manufactured things, In ferreting out
crime. In fine, this has absorbed
all known motifs, and no novel or
story can go without Its motor car.
From Scrlbner's.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Man's life on earth Is a temptation.
Bible.
Good news sweetens the blood.-
Shakespeare.
He scolds bcBt that can hurt the
least. Danish.
God tempers tho wind to the shorn
lamb. Starne.
Men are but children of a larger
growth. Dryden.
Accidents rule men; not men acci
dents. Herodotus.
How poor are they that have no
patience ! Shakespeare.
Anger begins in folly and ends In
repentance. Pythagoras.
Avarice Increases with tho Increas
ing pile of gold. Juvenal.
Not unacquanted with misfortune,
I learn to succor tho wretched.
Virgil.
As wo act toward others, bo we
may expect others to act toward us.
Syrus.
A man who Is young in years may
be old In hours if he has lost no
time. Bacon.
Equality may bo all right, but no
human power can convert It Into a
fact. Balzac.
To love abundantly Is to live
abundantly; to love forever is to live
forever. Drummond.
The really happy married people
aro where love, sublimed by horse
sense, 13 content to deripen back Into
friendship. Puck.
When you begin to think every
other man's business Is superior to
your own, you will soon realize that
your own business is superior to
yourself. Spare Moments.
They say that at the sight of Apol
lo the body erects Itself and assumes
a more dignified attitude; In the same
way the soul should feel itself raised
and ennobled by the recollection of a
good man's life. Souvestre.
Much of our lives is spent in mar
ring our own Influence and turning
others' belief In us into a widely con
cluding unbelief, which they call
knowledge of the world, while It is
really disappointment In you or me.
George Eliot.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
I 8UNDAY, JANUARY 26.
I
The Planting and the Training of the
Church In -the Foreign Field
Acts 14. 21-28; Ian, 19. 18-22.
This Is a story of the last days ot,
tho first great missionary Journey.
Paul and Barnabas had gone out
I from Antlooh Into Asia Minor by
I way of Cyprus. They camo hack
; with a story such as returned mls
j slonarles always bring; of open
j doon, persecution, opposition and
j success! That Journey of tho first
missionaries was a prophecy and pic
ture of nearly every missionary
Jnurney that hns been taken since
Its time. The details vary, the
names differ, but wherever the
preaching of tho gospel among those
who have not hitherto heard It la
attempted In faith nnd courage tho
result Is always the same. A church
Is founded, and converts are gather
ed into It, to form the nucleus of a
new Christian community.
When Isaiah's prophecy was wrlt-
i ten, it was the height of Improbabil
ity that an altar to Jehovah should
I ever be set up In Egypt Perhaps In
j other places a man might worship
the true God; hut Egypt --how could
Egypt be won to him? Doubtless
the prophet himself did not know,
but his vision leaped across the ages
ro see Egypt with an established
worship of God. her Idols forsaken,
her historic but mistaken faith aban
doned, and altars everywhere. What
waB hard to believe concerning Egypt,
was oven more incredible concerning
the rest of the world; but altars to
Jehovah have been set up In every
land, and In every land they multi
ply. There are those now living, In
all probability, who will survive
until the c'ay when It can be said
thnt the gospel has boon preached to
every tribe and nntlon of the earth.
From the very beginning the Chris
tian Church has Insisted that it
knows no racial, political or linguis
tic boundaries. It has dared to go
everywhere; sometimes with the pro
tection of the civil power, but oftener
without any other guarding than that
afforded by Him who commanded the
foreign missionary movement. So It
has come to pass that "the history
of the church and tho history of the
world are Inseparable." The church
Is undertaking Its work more faith
fully In this generation than ever be
fore; It Is facing greater problems
and Is meeting with far greater suc
cess. There Is not space here txj
recount the story of tho church's ad
vance, or even to suggest It; a single
glimpse must suffice.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size (ten years) It
three yards twenty-seven, one and a
half yards forty-four or fifty-two
Inches wide.
Last Chance.
Captain John E. PillBbury said the
other day in Washington of a recruit
who could not shoot: "The sergeant
tried the fellow first at 50Q yards,
nnd ho failed to come within a mile
of the target. Then he tried at 300
yards, then at 200, then at 100. and
his last shot was worse, if possible,
than his first. The sergeant looked
at him disgustedly, got very angry,
and, walking up close to him, shouted
in his face: 'Attention! Fix bayonet!
Charge the target! It's your only
,; Pittsburg Dlspatct
Gettlng Square.
Tho following notice was aeon Ik.
the shon of a barber: "Notts Tho
partnership heretofore subsisting be
twixt mo and Moses Jones in the bar
ber profession Is dlssolutlonlzod.
Persons who owe money must pay
the subscriber. Them what the firm
owes are referred to Moses Jones."
Reynolds' Newspaper.
Too Risky.
"Do you really like me, Charley?"
"Sure. Don't I conio to see you reg
ularly?" "But men often call on a
girl for whom they care little or
nothing." "Not with Christmas
looming up." Houston Post. .
Lite Some Others.
"But she sings more than she
plays; why do you speak of her wuslo
ui Instrumental?" "Well, It'a in
strumental in making the neighbors
move out." Catholic Standard and
rimes.
JANUARY TWENTY-SIXTH.
Tcplc The home mission work of our
denomination: a survey.
Isa. 58: 1-14.
Philip a missionary. Acts 8: 26-31.
Missions a duty. Luke 19: 29-40.
Our stewardship. 1 Pet. 4: 7-11.
Sending His word quickly. Ps. 147:
11-15.
Giving ourselves. 2 Cor. 8: 1-7.
Declaring God's goodness. Mark 1:
35-45.
Is ours a Christian nntlon? Tho
test Is not outward religion, but in
ward character (v. 2).
Freedom from what? Ours Is a
land of freedom only os It Is froe
from sin (v. 6).
Tho best, way to deal bread to tho
hungry (v. 7) Is not to give It to
him, but to p-ivo him a chance to
earn It.
Tho national fame that is be3t
worth having (v. 8) the only fame
worth having is tho renown of Just
dealing with all.
Men from all the world are here.
Make them Christ's, and our nation
will havt a Christian relation with
all the world.
There Is romance In home missions
as well as In foreign missions, but it
needs more knowledge to see it.
The home missions of to-duy moan
our notion of to-morrow, to provide
for which is the great duty of to
day. The best way to learn about this
complex work of home missions Is
llrst to take ono branch of It, such as
schools nmong the Indians, familiar
ize yourself with that, and Uien pass
on to another branch.
Illustrations.
Home missions stand at the cross
roads, with lines from everywhere,
and also lines to everywhere.
Home missions are a form of na
tional hospitality. Theae foreigners
are our guests.
Success In business requires the
choice of a specialty, and so does
success in learning about home mis
sions. Specialize on the Chinese, or
the Italians, or on city missions.
A mill soon becomes valueless If
more raw material continually comes
In than finished product goes out. So
with our country.
A POET'S VUHON.
For years the poet Francis Thomp
son had been one of the "sub
merged," selling matches, calling
cabs, anything to obtain the pence
necessary to buy food. At last be
yielded to despair and having for
some days saved up all he could earn
he devoted It to the purchase ot a
single dose of laudanum suulclont to
end his troubles. With this be re
tired at nlgbt to his haunt, the rub
bish plot in Coveut Garden Market.
Then by his own narrative the follow
ing incident occurred. He had al
ready taken half the fatal draught
when bo felt a band upon his arm,
and looking up saw one whom he
recognized as Chatterton forbidding
bliu to drink the rest, and at the
same Instant memory came to him
of how, after that .poet's suicide, a
letter had been delivered at bis lodg
ings which if he hud waited another
day would havo brought him the re
lief needed.
It happened so with Thompson,
for after infinite painB the editor of
a magazine who had accepted and
printed an essay and a iioem of his,
but could not discover his address,
had that very morning traced Thcnip
pou to the chemist's shop where the
drug was sold, and relief for him was
close at baud. -Front the Academy.
; Corundum is an aluminum oxide,
the colored varieties of which aro
the sapphire. Oriental ruby. Oriental
topaz and Oriental amethyst. Em
ery Is tho granular variety of corundum.