THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. CURTIS LEE LAWS.
Inbject: Christianity anil Ituslncs.
Brooklyn, N. Y The Rev. Dr.
TurtlB Lee Laws, in the Greene Ave
nue Baptist Church. Breached on
"Christianity and Business." The
text was from Deuteronomy 8: IS:
"Thou shalt remember the Lord thy
3od, for It li He that glveth thee
power to get wealth." Dr. Laws said:
When a man becomes a Christian
lie does not sever his relations to the
world in whlrh he lives. He is given
ro Christ by the Father as a personal
nd ptrpelual possession, but Instead
af translating hint, Christ sends him
back Into the very world from which
ne has been saved. Christ, said to
the Father: "As Thou hast snt Me
Into the world, even so havo I also
aent them Into the world." Tint when
Christ sends the saved man back l'i
tbe world, Hp sends hint hack as n
new man. "They are not of the world,
even us I am not of the world." The
Christian Is In the world, but in the
world With a new motive, a new pur
pose and a new power. Our Master
well knpw that it would bo difficult
for Ills disciples to be In the world
without being of the world, and so He
prayed: "I pray not that Thou
shor.Mst take them out of the world,
but that Thou shouldst keep them
from evil " From the beginning,
therefor;, the relation of the Chris
tian to the affairs of life has been a
problem worthy of the most serious
ttudy. In the early times th ire wore
fanatics who felt that it was below
the dignity of a Christian to enter the
secular pursuits in which they had
formerly been engaged. Thev gars
up their business and brought dis
credit upon their profession by the
vagaries of their other worldlsm. The
Apostle Paul tried to correct this
abuse In his second letter to the Thes
salonians. In his first epistle. In view
of the second coming of Christ, he
had urged the people to separate
themselves from the world. Misinter
preting his purpose, they had given
up their regular employments, and
had gotten into mischief. In tbe sec
ond i plat Is the apostle says: "For we
hear that there are some which walk
among you disorderly, working not at
all but spending their time as busy
bodies. Now. them that are such we
command and exhort by our Lord
Jesus Christ, that with quietness they
work and earn their own bread."
The greatest problem for the Chris
tian man Is to adjust hlmseK to the
callings and pursuits of this life, that
he mav best serve God. his f?i!ow men
and the highest interests of his own
aoul. Instead of translating us to
glory at our conversion. Cod leaves
us here that we may perfect personal
holiness, working out our own salva
tion with fear and trembling, and
that we may win tbe world to cur
new-found King. These are the two
functions of the Christian. It is the
will of God for His people to engage
In the ordinary vocations of this
world, that they may earn an honest
living and at the Bame Urn? show
forth to the world the saving and
keeping power of Jesus Christ.
Though It is the will of God f.ir His
people to engage lu the business of
this world, It can be readily seen that
there are certain limitations which
arise from our relations to God.
But. again, the Christian man car.
engage In no business which will
Harm his fellow men. whom hp has
been sent to win to Christ. If you
are in a business which Is honest and
legitimate, others will share with yuu
the benefit of that business. If your
gain means loss to others, then your
business Is not the business in which a
Christian man cau engage. If you
cannot conduct this business your
self, you cannot own stotk in It and
share In the profits of it without bar
tering your soul for goi'J. If you
can't conduct the business yourdelf,
you cannot rent your property for the
conduct of such a business without
adding hypocrisy to your other sins.
May God have mercy on the hypo
crites wto will not soil their hands by
engaging in a wicked business, but
who will stuff their pockets full of the
dirty money received as dividends or
rent from the conduct of this same
wicked buslnesg.
Note now some of the incentives to
business activity. "Thou shalt re
member the Lord thy God, for He has
given thee power to get wealth." The
money-making gift la from God. The
apostle urges us to be diligent In bus
ness, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord. God has no patience with In
dolence and sloth. All through the
Bible the stamp of God's approval Is
.put upon Industry, while His curso
ever rests upon idleness. It Is God
like to work. Our Lord said. "The
Father worketh hitherto and I work."
.There is no place In God's economy
for the Idler, ile cumbcra the
'ground.
Business activity brings wealth,
and this Is an Incentive which ought
to appeal to the generation In which
we are living. Wealth ought to be
desired by every man, because wealth
la a mighty factor In the world in
which we live.
Think of what wealth can do for
the Individual. It can give oppor
tunity to acquire high and noble
tastes. It can give leisure for study
and research. These lu turn will
cause the mind to grow stronger and
the character to grow nobler. Wealth
can purchase length of days, and it
can secure to us the atmosphere In
which human love can blossom and
bear fruit to perfection.
Think of what wealth ran do for
the fa'mlly. It can surround our
loved ones with books and paintings
and Btatuary. It can provide the
highest culture for our children. It
cau enable us to dispense a generous
hospitality and to make our homes
tbe centre of a delightful and en
nobling religious, social and Intellec
tual circle.
Think of what wea.th can do for
society. It can lift up those shattered
and maimed victims of vice and pov
erty. It can cleanse the augeau sta
bles. It can send the brightness of
day Into the loathsome, fetid haunts
of darkneas. It can lay out and beau
tify parka. It can establish and per
petuate universities and libraries. It
can support artists and scientists that
thi may devote their time to creat
ing the beautiful and the useful. It
cau set the spindles and wneela of
manufacture In motion. It can give
the poor the chance to earn an hon
est living, that self-respect may not
be lost by receiving charity. Oh, the
value of wealth to society!
Think of what wealth can do for
tbe church. The cause of Christ I
languishing all over the world be
cause there is not money sufficient to
earry on Christ's work to the glory of
God Our local churches r.re suffer
Ing because of poor equipment aad
Ihe lack uf workers who ran devote
their who o time to the cause. Our
(Christian colleges, orphanages and
bosMitals could double tblr B: ucv
l( thev had nrp mon?y. our mis
sionary societies are all poverty
stricken. Th" missionary force In
the great cities, on the frontiers and
In heathen lands could nil be doubled
In twelve months If we had sufficient
means. This Is true of all Christian
denominations. May God prosper the
people and then make them willing to
lay their gold at Ills feet!
Business men, I exhort you In the
name of the King to he diligent and
self-denying and frugal that success
may crown your efforts; for no one
can cstiraat? the good that your
wealth can do to yourself, to your
family, to society, nnd to the Kingdom
of God In the world.
Let us now consider the perils of
business success.
I hnve exhorted you to fidelity,
persistency, energy in your business
life. I have told you of the glory
which comes with wealth, but I would
be false to your highest Interests If
1 did not hold up before you some of
the awful perils which confront the
man who niukes a great success in
business.
What shall It profit a man If he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?" No man can gain the whole
world, or a millionth part of the
world, but If he gained the whole or
It at Ihe cost of his soul It would be u
calamitous bargain. The text means
simply that In the effort to gain
wealth many forfeit their own soul".
The temptation Is to neglect the high
er for the lower, to give up the spir
itual for th" temporal, to give up the
unseeu for th? seen. How pitiful the
thought that men spend a lifetime In
the vain effort to corral the wo id and
l!nd themselves nt last without a soul.
What does It mean by l03lng one's
soul? The expression is not equiva
lent to being condemned, though of
course it lends to perdition. The soul
here spoken of by Jesus means the
faculty In man which apprehends God
and goodness. Jesus says that the
man who pays too much attention to
motaey getting Is apt to lose the fac
ulty by which he apprehands God and
spiritual things. He loses the faculty
becausp he refuses to use It. His ear
Is dull to the voice of God. His eye
Is clouded so that he cannot see the
beauty of God, and by and by through
i process of deterioration death comes
and the faculty is lost. Oh, men, do
not lose your souls! Keep your ear
!;;en to the voice of God. Keep your
heart attuned to the will of God; but
alas, aim:' some before me have al
most lost their souls. In seeking a
ood thing they, are giving up the
ijest thing.
Jesii3 said: "It is easier for a
Sanaa to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich man to enter
into the kingdom of God." and, "How
hardly shall a rich man enter the
kingdom of heaven." There are many
perils about the gaining of wealth
and the using of it We have all
seen the Influence of wealth upon
character. Too often it makes the
humble man proud, the generous man
stingy, th" rlmritable.maii suspicious,
end the bones! man dishonest. Some
times the man w ho makes the money
scapes the perils, but succeeding gen
erations are almost Inevitably cursed
by the wealth which they Inherited.
The Master knew human nature per
fectly, and so He said, "How hardly
shall a rich man enter into the king
dom of heaven." There Is one way
to escape from theBe perils, and I
commend It to the rich, to those who
would be rich, and to all Christian
business men alike. Write the words
Df my text in the front of your ledgers
and on the tablets of your hearts:
"Thou Shalt remenibi-r the Lord thy
God, for it Is He that alveth thee
power to get wealth."
JULY NINETEENTH.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MKNTS I'tlll .H'LY 18.
Pmmswered Prayer,
An Unanswered prayer Is no proof
of an unhealing God. There may be
reasons in the great purposes of our
heavenly Father why u petition may
fail of a direct answer. The creature
may err, not understanding the will
of God; but the Creator cannot err.
As many a child of God has looked
back over his life he has hesn where
the goodness and benign wisdom of
God lias been manifested lu with
holding the things asked for.
But if tile direct answer to the pe
tition has been withheld we believe
that in tome way there will come a
blessing because of it, and that no
earnest, faithful prgjter la ever lost to
the suppliant. "It may not be my
way; it may not be thy way; bul y'
in His own way the answer will
come. It may be years lu coming; It
may be In some wholly unexpected
way, through some channel we never
dreamed of. and which at the time
of the prayer wo knew nothing of;
but it will come to us with blessing.
indeed, we in our obniseiiess may
be living in the very atmosphere of
answered prayer and not ba aware of
it. If the answer does not come In
the way we look for li, 1st us look
around and see If the flower we
longed for Is not blooming elsewh rer
or if our life ut some angle does in
touch God more intimately than bo
fore. We may loal: for the answer In
a tally-ho, but it may come In me
form of some poor beggar on the
street.- United Presbyterian.
Profitable Things.
The sooner we are Impressed that
this present life Is uncertain and very
short, and that the future life is sure
and endless, the better it will be for
us. Also to learn that material
things cannot satisfy the soul, but
that a man must be rich toward God
before thai aching void can ever be
tilled, and thut godliness is profitable
unto all things and we may add unto
all time. The Kev. W. F. Bryau,
Methodist, Dallas, Texas.
Be u Soul Winner.
It Is'easier to preach publicly to a
great congregation than to win one
aoul by private means.
The Snake's Whistle.
I found myself somewhat muddy
and breathing a little hard, but I
was not wholly chagrined. I had
heard ond seen a black snake whistle.
I had uever even known of the habit
before. Since then I have seen one
other snake do It, and I think I have
heard the sound three or four times.
It Is almost indescribable. The Jaws
were closed as It was made, not even
the throat moving that I could see.
The air seemed to be blown violently
through the nostrils, though sound
ing as If driven through the teeth
a shrilling hiss, One and piercing,
which one not so much hears as
feels feels It crisping cold along bis
nerves. Dallas Love Sharp, in Na
tional Magaslne.
Subject: Samuel Warns Saul mid the
People, I Samuel 12 Golden
Text, 1 Ham. 12:24 Commit
Verses 2:1, 24 Commentary.
TIME. 10 V B. C. PLACE.
Gilgal.
EXPOSITION. T. Obey the voice
nt Ihe I.dkii. M5. Samuel had
spent a little time In dwelling upon
his own fidelity (vs. 11), but had
quickly passed to a recital of the mer
cies of Jehovah (vs. 6-12). God had
given them a king only because they
had demanded one (vs. 12, 13, 17,
19). It was not God s first and best
choice for them. Now Samuel calif
them to look upon the king whom
they had chosen and whom God had
given. The king they were called
upon to gaze upon was a fine speci
men of a man (eh 10:2.3), but how
poor a substitute f r God. and how
bitter was tilt disappointment and
defeat Israel was to experience In
him. So will it always be with those
who desire an arm flesh Instead of
God t; lean upon (Jar. 1 7 : f. , 8). But
God Is long-suffering, and even yet
there was mercy and help for them.
In these verses we have the whole
secret of having the Lord for us or
against us. To have the Lord with
us. and consequently to have It well
with us. all that is necessary Is ( 1 )
"fear the Lord.'' I. e.. hold Him In
that reverent regard that leads to a
prompt and constant obedience to His
will as expressed in His word (Prov.
8:13; 16:6; cf. 1 Jno. S:3). (2)
"Serve Him." (3) "Hearken unto
His voice." (4) "Rebel not against
His commandment." (5) "Be fol
lowers of the Lord your God" (cf.
Eph. !:1). If on the other hand we I
"will not hearken to the voice of
Jehovah," the hand of Jehovah shall I
be against us. There can be nc great- !
er calamity than to have the hand of i
Jehovah against us. Samusl pointed
them to the whole history of Israel
aa a confirmation of his worda (cf. v.
9). For a comment u;.on vs. 14. ID,
turn to Lev. 26:1-39; D u. 2.:1-6S;
Isa. 1: 16-20.
II. Samuel Prays and Owl An- !
avion, 1619. Samuel sees the need ,
that the people be brought to a deep
realisation of their si a. A sign is
needed and he has faith la God that 1
He will give it. He acted under God's
direction, hence the outcome. He
calls Upon the people ti stand still
and ste the "great thing the Lord will
do." The Lord is always ready to do
great and wonderful things, for those
wh-j call upon Him with an intelll-
gent faith Jer. 33:3). In Palestine j
rains ware almcst unknown at the ;
time nf wheat harvest (cf. Prqjk '.
26:1). But God gave thunder anTl
raia in answer to Samuel's prayer (cf.
ch. 7:!. tO; Josh. 10:12; Jas. 5:16
IS). There are some who are too
jvlse to believe Buch stories as this, :
out their wisdom is a wisdom born of
.gnorance and prejudice. No one who
.andldly studies the evidence, both
IB the Bible and outside of it, can I
ioubt that God does give rain, as well
as do many other wonderful things, I
in direct answer to prayer. To doubt :
It is not scientific: for it ignores un
luesUoiiable facts. The Lord did pre- I
cisely as Samuel had counted upon
Hia doing, and as he had said that He
would do. The result was that "the
people greatly feared the Lord and I
Samuel." Nothing makeB God more !
real to men than a direct answer to I
prayer, and no man Is more feared
than the man whom the wc.rld knows
baa the ear of God. But the world I
soon forgets ( Ps. 106:12,13). The
sign was effective, the people suw
themselves as great sinners deserving
to die. That is the way in which we 1
all need to sea ourselves. That Is the
way ia which we shall see ourselves
when we are brought, ;:s Israel was,
face to face with God. They did not
feel fit to pray for themselves, hut
fit the need of Samuel's prayers.
III. Fear Not, the Lord Will Not
Forsake His People, 20-215. God's
oft-repeated message to His people is,
"'Fear aot." Here He says It t His
people- even when they have greatly
siuaed. But they had just made eon
fessicu of their sin. There was par
cel for them still. The devil de
lights to use our past sin to discour
age us. God says, "Though you have
sinned greatly In the pust. fear not
and turn not aside from following the
Lord" Iff. Josh. 23:6; Ps. 40:4 1.
Though we may have sinned griev
ously In the past, still it is entirely
possible for us to serve the Lord with
all our heart lu the future. How true
It Is of the things of this world, after
which theheartsof mngoaslru from
the Lord, that they cannot profit nor
deliver." If our salvation depended
upon anything in us we should never
be saved: but because It depends en
tirely upon Him, It is always sure. It
was the Lord's good pleasure to make
Israel " a people unto Himself" (cf.
Den. 7;7, 8; Matt. 11:26; Ro. 9:13
18; Jno. 16:16). It is the Lord's
good pleasure to-day to make all who
receive Jesus as their Saviour and
their Lord, a people unto Himself (cf
1 Pet. 2:9, 10, R. V.). For Samuel
to cease to pray for God's people
would be for Samuel to "sin against
tht Lord. " There are many pro
fessed Christiana In our day who are
sinning against the Lord in this very
way (cf Ro. 1:9; Col. 1:9; 1 Thess.
3:10; 5:17). But Samuel would not
only pray, he would also teach. Note
well what he would teach, "the good
and the right way." The way of
obedience to God Is not only the right
way, it is also the good way.
Topic Temperance Meeting: How to
Promote Total Abstinence.
Gal. 5: 16-24.
Appeal to civic motives. Prov. Ml
1-5.
Thp exnmple of the Nazarltes. Num
t: 1-3.
Denying lusts. Rom. 6: 12-14.
Christ's example. Matt. 4: 8-10.
For better warfare. 2 Tim. 2: SB
Surrendering lawful things. 1 Cor.
10: 23-29
To wnlk In the spirit Is to live for
eternal things and not for fleeting
things; we cannot live for both.
The crippled, the pal'ted. cannot do
what they would In the body; so a
man who cannot do what his better
Impulses would have him do is crip
pled and on i i, I In mind.
The evil cannot Inherit the King
dom, not because God shuts them out,
but simply because they are not the
sons of It; they havo chosen another
adoption.
Lot no one expect It to be pasy to
brpak with the bodily passions and
worldly lusts: It Is a real crucifixion
Suggestions.
Modern temperance agitation has
wisely dealt much with the lnws; and
yet we must not forget that, we can
not make men good In masses.
A pledge arouses manhood nnd
binds the will: but what If alcohol
has burned out the manhood nnd the
will?
Take the pledge when young: never
miss a Christian Endeavor temper
ance meeting; make those meeting?
shine!
Though there Is no saloon In your
town, yet your society can help the
national temperance work, and your
members may go where there are sa
loons. Illustrations.
Be the Columbus of the voung and
discover their lives for purity: that
Is so much better than a war of con
quest.
Moderate drinking Is letting a man
fire bird Shot at you while you will
not let him fire cannon balls.
The best way to keep n city from
burning Is not to let the first house
get afire.
Taking a pledge Is like buying a
ticket for home: one does not necea
sarlly go home, but one Is likely to.
EPWOflTH LEAGUE LESSONS
fjEUGIOUS ffEADlNG
FOR THE QUIET HOUR.
SCATTER FLOWERS AMONG THIS
LIVING.
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
REPORTS OF PROGRESS OI THK
11ATTLK AGAINST RUM.
Scatter flowers among the living,
I )n not aava all for the dead;
They no longer need their fragrance,
Keating in their nurrow bed;
They arc witli the bleesad nngela,
Vhere the flowers never fade;
Clothed in garments puce and spotleas,
In the mansions God hath made.
Some nre bant with heave burdena,
Aa they journey on life's road:
May we not strew sweetest blossoms
If we carry half their load?
Then Ihe God who watches o'er us,
He who knoweth every thought,
He will send us many bieaaingH,
With the sweetest fragrance fraught.
May the aunahinc on our faces
Shine upon some face that's sad!
It may help to haniah sorrow.
It may help to make them gl.id.
Give to them the choiceat blossoms,
Some of kindneaa, some of love:
Help I hem feel there! hope reninining.
Point them to Ihe home above.
Mr. D. L. French, in the Christian
Herald.
SUNDAY. JULY 19.
From Doubt to Devotion (John 1,
45-51; 20. 24-29.)
John 1. 45-51. Life was harder for
Nathanael than It Is for some men.
He had a sensitive nature, and high
Ideals. And he also had an alert,
critical habit of mind. The very
eagerness and fineness of his inner
life. In combination with the keen
ness and candor with which he look
ed upon the ugly facts of the world
about him, tended to make Nathanae;
not only critical, but even to give
him a touch of cynicism. But. such
cynicism as his. Is the pain of an
eager, tender nature. beating l!:!
wings against the hard and cruel
things of life. His skepticism was
tbe skepticism of one In whom lofty
hopes fight with the disillusioning
facts of experience. When he heard
of Jesus his first Impulse was the as
sertlnn of this critical, skeptical habit
of mind. But he was In earnest. He
was willing to Investigate. And he
was willing to be convinced. So he
came to Jesus. The Master's first
word was a recognition of the Innei
nobility of Nathanael's life. "Be
hold." ho cried, "an Israelite Indeed.
In whom Is no guile." Then he
showed the doubter that he knew no!
only his heart but the tery external
facts of his life. And" Nathanael's
overwhelmed by such spiritual pene
tratlon and miraculous knowledge,
and touched as much by the sense of
trustworthiness which he felt In the
presence of Christ, cast doubt to the
winds, found the greatest words he
knew, and called Jesus the Son of
God. and the King of Israel.
John 20. 24-29. Thomas was the
victim of a slow moving mind and a
gloomy temperament. Then hp was
Influenced less by Ideas than by
things. What he could see and touch
meant more 1o him than what he
could think. It is not a very high
type of man he represents. But
Thomas was real and loyal. If slow
and gloomy. The beautiful thing
about the story of this disciple of al
most stubborn doubting Is the way
Jesus understood his temperament,
and condescended to meet the need
of (ho devoted man imprisoned in the
walls of a narrow llfp. The Mastei
Is ready to go great lengths to meet
the genuine need of an earnest mn
So Thomas, too. castB doubt to the
winds and cries: "My Lord and my
God "
The Cost of Kronomy.
And King David said to Oman,
Nay; but I will buy It of thee for the
full price. I. Chronicles 21:24.
Thus did one man decline to take
advantage or what the world would
call n "bargain " Such refusal, how
ever, might be little better than quit
otic. One needB a good reason when
he persists In making things costly
to himself. David evidently thought
he had such reason.
He had gone up to Oman's thresh
ing floor for the purpose of there
erecting an altar at his own expense.
The shame of his recent crime was
so keen that he was willing to pay
any reasonable price for expiation.
Judge then his surprise to be of
fered the property without cost to
himself. What a chance to econo
mize! But David knew a thing that we.
sometimes forget. The soul's pro
cesses can never be cheapened. To
shave the cost of one's altar is to
cheat oneself. Life has no real short
cuts to triumph. Ood appoints no
bargain days on whlrh the shrewd
trader may enrich himself at the
expense of the Almighty. To attempt
the payment of one's spiritual debts
in the property of another, to offer
the sacrifices of a contrite heurt with
out personal drain, Ib a specious
fraud.
What Is the "spoiling" of a child?
What, but the payment by parents of
the price which the child ought to
pay? "My child does not know the
meaning or self-denial." said a moth
er overrond. Pity Buch a child! Miss
ing the meaning of self-denial, he
will miss all the real prizes of life.
I knew a young man who made a
"hit" at his first public venture. But
that first bit was his last; hp has
never found the range since. Easy
success ruined him. The short cut
was a blind alley. The sorriest thing
that ever happened to Coleridge was
when his friends guaranteed him
against a rainy day. His muBe sick
ened with the absence of bracing airs.
Hardship had kept hia soul awake,
but ease drugged him. Oh, the cheats
we practice against ourselves by our
economies!
The last place for a man to save
money is on bis gifts. Let him wear
thp old overcoat another season, If
need be; let him reduce the length
of his bill of fare, let him not shave
the coat of those altars which love
builds. The dearest, economies we
ever practice are those which touch
our benefactions. Our l:ss is great
er than that of the cause we refuse
to help. Charity can better stand my
withholding of help thnn I can stand
withholding it. To let another do
my giving is to let him have my
blessing. If Oman bulldB my altar
for me he also takes my joy.
That man who asks how much he
must give up In order to be a good
man has gotten hold of the wrong
end of the matter. The question is
rather how good he wants to be. A
disciple who finds thut his path In
cludes no crosses may well pause to
aBk which master he Is following.
Life's real altars represent the shed
ding of blood. To repeat, then, Da
vid's great renunciation at Oman's
threshing floor, to hold bravely to
the sacrlflrlal quality of human life
at Its best, to refuse all Ignoble light
ening of loads, to bleed that we may
bless th spite of all complacent
voices to the contrary this is one
of the rich truths of life. George
Clarke Peck, St. Andrew's M. E
Church, in the New York Sunday
Herald.
Me Srorclicil Them What Judge Col.
Ilns. of loin. Knnn. in P.inalng
Henlcnec, Snld to So:.ie Root.
Leggers.
I bSta carefully observed ft)
crumbling fragments of the wrecked
lives unon either side of the dark
nnd sullen stream of Intemperance,
and I have noted well the effect, of
the hellish stuff upon Its victim since
I have been Judge of this court.
We have now to deal with a class
of low and degenerated lawbreakers
commonly known as "boot-leggers"
and you who are now awaiting the
decree of thin court belong to that
vile horde.
I would hnvp you know that thera
Is no unlawful act that contribute
more to higher crimes nnd bears th
qualities of low nnd vicious audacity,
contemptible, despicable and detest
able meannpss than the selling of In
toxicating liquorn In defiance of the
laws of our country.
You are trying to live In unlawful
Idleness while you decorate the run
els of your putrid souIb with raiment
nnd lewels bought with money which
your patrons should have spent foi
garments to cover the shivering bod
ies of Innocent, helpless and half
clad children.
Your business is a stench to the
nostrils of society, and the law-abiding
and Inw-supportlng men nnd wom
en of our community Intend to train
the conquering guns of temperance
and the chnin lightning of law-enforcement
against you until reform::
tlon Is secured, or until not one Of
you Is left within the borders of our
city outside of the prison walls. For
you are Inwardly and morally a set
of warty, slimy, ulcerous vampires:
and unless you cleanse yourselves and
enter some legitimate occupation you
will perlah, trembling at the feet of
respectability, from the effectB of the
virus with which you are constantly
trying to inoculate purity and inno
cence. You may think that T am harsh and
that the sentence of this court Is un
justly severe, but I assure you tha:
It is mild in the extreme compared
with the misery and crime that can
be credited to the infliieuce of one
qwart of the vile stuff called alcohol,
or to the suffering of the sorrowlng
and broken-hearted widow and moth
er who sat In this room a few days
ago with a helpless babe In her arms,
and. with tears streaming down her
cheeks, related in pathetic tones
broken by sobs or grief and nnguish
known only to a loving and devoted
mother, how her son, whom she had
watched over aud protected with :i
Christian parent's love from Infancy
to early manhood, and how upon
whom she was now depending for
support and protection, was being
lured away Into Idleness and mid
night debauchery through the de
grading Influence of tho seductive
poison that you are continually in
jecting Into the veins of respectablo
society.
The smoke from the bowl of one's
pipe is blue becauae, coming direct
from tbe red hot tobacco, It la very
highly oxidised, but the amoke from
one's Upa la gray, becauae It la high
ly watered and bydro-carbonlaed.
MuLe Fire Extinguisher.
Have at hand small fire extinguish
ers made In the following inexpensive
manner: Take some common lime,
twenty parts; common salt. Are parts,
and water, aerenty-Ove parts Mix
well and put in thta bottiea. In case
of fire a bottle so thrown that it will
break In or near the Ore will put It
out. This mixture la better and
cheaper than many of the high-priced
extinguishers sold for the purpooe of
fire protection.
Serloua gastric troubles among
workmen in large electric planta are
attributed by a German authority to
ozone polaoning and not to electric
radlationa. Oxone la produced In
large quantises, and with atmos
pheric nitrogen it forms nitric acid,
explaining the acid taste often no
ticed. An effective remedy la free
ventilation and aeparatlon of high
tension apparatua from workrooms.
ENGINEER SAVES WILD TRAIN.
After running wild for several
miles at high speed with au engine
out of control by the blowing out of a
"stud" In its boiler, the Chicago and
Northwestern fast mall train No. 10
was' barely saved from destruction
neai Boone. Iowa, by tbe resourceful
uess of Louis Shull, the engineer.
Shull was driven from his seat by
the scalding vapor and boiling water.
Dazed for the moment, and knowing
It was Impossible to reach the throt
tle and bring the flying train to a
stop, the engineer climbed out on to
the fender and drew himself over
tho coal to tbe express car beyond.
The express messenger, fearing rob
bers, refused him admission. Shull
hammered at the door, and It was
suddenly opened by the messenger,
who pointed two revolvers at the
engineer's head.
When Hhull finally staggered in
bleeding and halt-dead he had Just
enough strength left to reach up and
pull the rope connecting the air
brake. The train came to a stop
soon afterward
EXPERIENCED.
"Never mind, dear," he said, reaa
aurlngly, aa ahe ralaed her aweet face
from his shoulder, and they both saw
the white blur on his coat; "It will ail
brush off."
"Oh Charlie," she burst out. sob
bing, hiding her face again upon his
whitey shoulder; "how do you
know"" .Somervllle Jouraal
Character is BverTthing,
Saints are made by saints not do
ing extraordinary or uncommon
thlncs ill nn uncommon u , .... ....
I commonly high principles. In an un-
uoiuiuoiny seu-sacritiring spirit. Be
iure that this Is the only substantial
thing.
The bits of kuowledge that we call
our learning, the bits of property
that we call our wealth, the moment
ary vanities of delight that we call
the conquests of social life how
swiftly they hurry to their graves,
or are lost in forgetfulness! Noth
ing, nothing else but character sur
vives, and character Is Christ formed
within. Character 1b a symmetrical
growth, having its roots In unseen
realities, and its conscious source in
the living Ood, and Its perpetually
replenished supply by communion
with Him. There cannot be a de
veloped und healthy saint without a
constant putting forth of vitality and
vigor in a principled activity of use
and exercise of righteousness. Huntington.
A Poet's Testimony.
Heir Dehmel, one of the greatest
living German poetB of the "modern
school," says: "I have attempted sev
eral times to write poetr - under the
Influence of liquor, but the next morn
ing It appears to me to be mere
word play, monstrous fancies or con
fused unconscious reminiscences." It
Is needless to say that Herr Dehmel
Is now a total abstainer. A certain
author and writer in Chicago who
was accustomed to stimulate a
fagged brain with the use of brandy
died a few years ago under peculiarly
distressing circumstances. Many
newspaper men who aro obliged to
work very much at high pressure on
rush editions are accustomed to keep
themselves up with stimulants. The
practice Is always fatal ultimately to
the best results, and the writer who
forces himself by such means It
doomed to disappointment.
May Reduce Revenue.
Law makers and officials around
Washington aro beginning to talk
about the certainty In the near fu
ture of a national prohibition move
ment. Prohibition has been sweep
ing the Southern States. Oklahoma
largely populate . by Southerners, has
JUBt gone "dry" by a pronounced
vote. Missouri, In the heart of the
teeming Southwest, has recently
shown a powerful sentiment for local
optlou In a considerable majority of
its counties. Georgia has adopted
a prohibition law. and the Dtuocrals
of Kentucky, where ninety-six out of
119 counties are against the sale
of Intoxicants, have declared for State
prohibition. It Is said that Tennes
see Democrats will lake a similar
stand.
i 5500 Accidents a
: MONTH.
Every cltiaen should know whnt a
corporation like the Metropolitan
rosta the average man. In "Great
American Fortunes." In McClure'e,
Burton J. Hendrlck sums up the case
very clearly. Professional Jurymen
hired to defeat the law; children's
signatures bought for a nickel for
what purported to be a popular pe
tition to the Legislature; the public
literally bought and sold at every
turn those are facts which Mr. Hen
drlck brings to tight.
"Probably no street railway capi
talists ever had so rich an opportunity
for legitimate profit. The Income
from nickel fares amounts to $37,
000,000 a year. In spite of this, the
whole Metropolitan system Is In a
condition of deplorable decay. The
story of the road, and the enormous
fortunes which have been made by
Its exploitation. Is clearly written In
Its physical dilapidation. Crasy ve
hicles, with machinery so out of Joint
that Its rattling can be heard blocks
away, are running upon the most pre
tentious thoroughfares. Their filthy
condition renders them a constant
menace to the public health. The
quality of the employes, nccordlng to
a statement recently made by Oren
Root, the Metropolitan's general
manager, is constantly deteriorating;
the men are so poorly paid that only
those desperately in need of work
Join the Metropolitan force.
"Thp surface cars are not provided
with the most ordinary safety de
vices. New York Is the only large
city in the country where the old
fashioned hand-brake is still In use.
The Third uvenuo road, before the
Metropolitan acquired it, used power
brakes on all Its cars; the first act
of the Metropolitan, when It assumed
control, was to remove these safety
anpllanrRB. and the etplanation usu
ally accepted Is that the management
feared that the successful use of
power brakes on one railroad would
cause the public to demand that -the
reform be extended to all tho lines.
This failure to use proper safety ap
pliances and the Inexperience of the
employes makes the casualty list a
heavy one. An Investigation recently
made showed that in twenty-seven
days there had been 2500 accidents
on the street railways or New York
City; forty-two people were killed
outright, ten skulls were fractured,
ten limbs, amputated, forty-four
limbs broken, while eighty-three
other passengers were seriously in
jured. In proportion to the traffic,
the New York street railways killed
eight times as many people as those
in Liverpool. Their record Is sur
passed only by the Wldoner-Elklna
roads In Philadelphia, which killed
801 passengers last year. As a re
sult of its accidents, the Metropolitan
spends annually nearly a million and
a half dollars In damage suits."
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Power.
Very few men have been able to
keep their balance when invested
with power. Power Is dangerous
men thirst for It; they perjure them
selves for it; they will compromise
for It, and be destroyed by It at last.
The Rev. C. F. Wlmberly, Meth
odist, Louisville.
A Distillery Secret.
a man who had been employed In
a distillery told the writer that during
one night more than a thousand gal
lons were taken from the distillery
to Cincinnati und sold without tho
paying of a cent of tax. When asked
what the officer was doing who had
been employed to watch that distil
lery, he replied that It 1b sometimes
convenient for an officer to bo else
where, toward which absence a few
'undred dollars is a strong Incentive.
Campaigning Without Parallel.
The Illluols church choirs in whltf,
singing before tbe saloon doors, the
processions of Suuduy-sebool chil
dren, the solicitation of votes by
women and their use of their car
riages to convey voters to tho polls
the ringing of church bells, the pray
ers, the doxology suug on street cor
ners this Is campaigning of a kind
which has had uo parallel since abo
lition times.
Saintllness does not grow bv sigh
ing. Doing Is a safe path to any doc
trine. Love lifts the lover more than the
oved.
Selfishness short-circuits any
n-ayer.
It's a poor kind of good cheer that
makes others sad.
You cannot possess any more re
ligion than you practice.
Genius Is simply making the most
of whatever you may have.
Crowns on the head are not won
by wearing frowns on the face.
YouM-annot grow in grace while
you're fattening old grievances.
When the preacher Is fishing for
praise he does not catch souls.
Woeful looks nre sure to come
fi:.in too much looking within.
Ho who makes light of love soon
loi4a himself in the night of hate.
Respectability Is Satan's best present-day
substitute for righteousness.
There's little virtue in abstaining
from the evil When wa ought to op
pose It.
In the light of the larger life we
will be able to measure our gains by
our losses.
The mnn who wants to be first la
thr parade never wants to be lu front
in the battle.
The preacher who rides a hobby
seldom tries to harness it to the Go
ri wagon.
When a riian scoffs at good things
: o may be trying to appease envy
With derision.
It's the little sins we cherish that
ht last set us around chasing to do
their bidding.
When a man lookB on repentance
aa a city of refuge for the future,
he Is likely to find .he gate locked
when he gets there. Home Herald.
Wealth.
Some of the best friends God ever
bad In this world were rich men
The Rev. 8. B. Dexter, Aurora, 111.
Pause and Reflect.
"If two-tulrda of the girls who go
oa tbe stage would go to the kitchen
instead," saya the Birmingham Age
Herald, "there would be a whole lot
more happtneae la this world." Think
it over, brother. How would you
like to hare your dinner cooked by
the average chorus girl?
The colony of Barbery apes, on tbe
Rock of Gibraltar, la the only one ot
its kind in existence, and la being pro
tactod by the British Government
A Thought For the Week.
Whisky drinking is the greatest
evil that confronts the human race at
this time. It stains tbe character, It
Is the advance agent of poverty aud
distress; It Impairs the intellect, It
humiliates kindred, alienates rriends
and eradicates pride. First It exhila
rates, then exalts, then baulahes re
sponsibility; but when tbe reaction
comes, the pendulum swings just aa
far the other way Judge Jeter C.
Prltcbard lu bis recent address at
Wilmington, N. C.
Philadelphia's Anti-Saloon Parade.
Two thousand achool children of
Philadelphia paraded a few days ago
through the leading thoroughfares of
that city, in proteat against tho sa
loons. It waa a pretty alght to wlt
neaa theeo enthualaatlc young cru
saders bearing their banners nnd
marching proudly to military mulc.
Oreat crowds lined the sldowalks
along the route and cheered the chil
dren. Christian Herald.
In New Hampshire the liquor 11.
censea for druggists hare bean abolished.
Tim Slippery Pronoun.
Many are the circumstances which
havo been devised by civilized races
in order to avoid the bluntness of
direct address. In fact, It may be
said that nt the moment when a na
tion standardizes its language it be
gins to have trouble with its pro
nouns. ,
"Thou" has, of course, become ob
solete, except In prayer, although it
flourishes colloquially in the north of
England. The second person plural
Is substituted. In parts of the South
"you all" is heard, a further step
toward refined eluslveness.
In France and Germany "thou"
has been retained In familiar or semi
contemptuous speech. In Spain and
Italy, on the other hand, the third
i ii ia aubatltuted habitually
place of it. Harper's Weekly.
The Cltiaen and the Press.
. "The papers are afraid to aay any
thing," aneered tbe flrat cltiaen.
"Some people don't feel that war
about it," replied the other. "Brer
run tor office T"
"No; but I wrote a letter roastluf
some fellows that needed roastlnf
and the paper didn't print a line."
bid you algn your name?"
t "Certainly not. Dye think I'm a
'.chump '." Philadoiphla Ledger