of Chrlatlnn lore In nil Its business.
Christ Ib leader In the grent Intel
lectual and moral awakenings of our
times. He has led us to this mount
f awakening and we, like the favored
apostles, when we are fully awake
will s?e the glory of Jesus Christ.
Christ Is the niot powerful force
In human Ufa for the Awakening of
the Intellect In search for truth, or
tho quickening of the conscience to
repentance and fulth, and for swing-
Brooklyn. N. Y. The Rev. W. It. 'ng the soul with all Its awakened and
HcMaster, pastor of the Embury Me-,' aroused powers Into service for men,
THE PULPIT,
BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. W. H. M'M ASTER.
Theme: Spirit mil Awakening.
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Silt
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
AUGUST THIRTIETH.
INTERNATIONAL I.KSSON COM
MENTS I Oil AUGUST 30.
morlnl M. E. Church, Lewis avenue,
and Decatur street, preached Sunday
morning on "The Spiritual Awaken
ing of Man.
Luke 9:32:
The text was from
'When they were fully'
vrn to the point of free and glad self-
sacrifice.
As men follow Christ, lie has re
habilitated their faith In the spiritual,
and broken tho Illusive spell cast over
awake they saw His glory." Mr. Mc- I them by the material, the false and
Master said
The common yet strange phenom
ena of sleep and waking provide us
with a significant simile. The state,
when the body Is dormant, the senses
are stopped and reason Is absent, bo
comes the symbol of Inaction, ob
livion, unconsciousness, death. The
state of waking comes to represent In
our language, action, awareness, re
sponsiveness, life. Sin Is said to put
the soul to sleep in moral night.
Christ is represented as the awakener
of those asleep, the lifter of those
dead into newness of life. A sin Is ;
represented by sleep and death, life ti j
represented by light and glory. The i Discoverers of Opportunity,
basal SUgg stlon In the word "glory" It lg a poo i , ar , t y o( ,luman nature
Is that of dazzling brightness, of efful- : lnat WR d'0 not tFv rospon(1 to op.
nee. and It will gather a deepening i ,,ortunltles for doing good unless we
content as he wealth and wonder of j u,C0TM them In ourselves There Is
superstitious views of God lose their
told on their minds and fade away be
fore the sun-like doctrine of tho di
vine Fatherhood. The selfishness of
men's hearts Is softened Into brother
ly good will and the old religions cast
aside their crudities and sink them
selves in the more effulgent light of
Christianity, the basis for the final
nml ultimate faith of mankind. Who
shall say what greater glories await,
to surprise the more fully awakened
powers of man's soul! When we are
fully awake wo shall behold Ills
glory. .
Religion has as its subjeet matter
not the morbid, erratic and abnormal
things of dreams and nightmares, but
the normal visions of the awakened
soul. When the soul Is most normal
and when lt'has most nearly attained
the Ideal state, then Its sight is clearest
and Its vision greatest. When iv.r,
James and John, on the Mount of
Transfiguration, were heavy with
sleep, they saw nothlrng and hard
nothing, but when they were fully
awake they saw Christ's glory and the
two men who stood with Him. The
non-religious mind Is asleep nnd dead
to the all-enveloping realities of the
unseen spiritual world. Having ears,
they hear not the upper harmonies,
having eyes they see not the tran
scendent glories. Tho awakened
mind, on the other hand, has come to
spiritual consciousness. He responds
to spiritual stimuli; ho foals the lure
of moral beauty, his faculties have
found n sphere of blessed action nnd
his whole personality is awakened to
a spiritual sensitiveness which catches
ravishing sllmpses of the divine
glory.
The world of spiritual reality is all
around us. It inspheres us as an nt
mosphere. It Is underneath and im
minent in all material forms. "In
portunlty that carries with it both In
I spiratlon and the sense of responsl
, billty. Tell one that the chance ron-
fronts him of doing this or that, show
t him the human need, nnd show him
also the way to supply It, and he will
: thank you but how seldom he will
: follow your well-meant but more or
less officious advice!
i On the other hand, let one discover
; for himself the thing that ought to be
j done, and most likely lie Will go and .
I do It. The very discovery of human
I need Is an Incentive to human help- '
, fulness. One Is rlpo for tho joy nnd
' Inspiration Of service that begins with :
I his own Initiative.
! Is not this one of God's wise pro- J
i virions for keeping us alive to the :
I constant presence of opportunities?
j He gives us great Joy in the personal j
j discovery of them, and the personal ,
I response to them, whereas an oppor
I tunlty discovered nnd pointed out by
another is a kind of lifeless and re
mote thing, that we respond to, if we
respond at all, perfunctorily and with- I
i out enthusiasm. At such times we j
! feel as If we had been cheated out i
i of the best part of the Joy of doing I
, good the doing It upon our own In-
illative, with the glad heart that is
nlil't n r. ....... ..v. i ..'t, .,U i . 1.
God we lire and move and have our , na8 u been said that "the value of an
"V"l . ,7"', '"" " "V , i opportunity largely consists n baring
and spiritual the body being the Bec.n lt for oue's 8elf.The Watch"
earthen vess?! of the unseen gift ol ; man
life. Our words are visible or audible !
signs of spiritual ideas. Our draw
ings of lines and angles and circles
but visible representations of purely
ideal relations, our books and li
braries but meanB of concreting nnd
preserving that spiritual thing we
call literature. We are asleep and
dead to all we are Ignorant of. If
we are aware of the treasures of lit
erature we are awake and alive to
them. If we are conscious of the un
seen and spiritual things we are
awake and alive to them. Because
One Sure Thing.
One thing is sure, my friends: If
. God Is going to forgive us our siiiB,
1 we hays got to repent of our sins and I
i turn from them. "Let the wicked j
; forsake his ways." Not only must we ;
. forsake our sins, but we must bring I
I forth fruitB meet for repentance. I I
don't know who tho young man was !
i who went to his employer the other
I morning and said: "There's the
money I took from you some years 1
we do not sea these spiritual glories u Vu 1 . """"?,
dos not arena their nm,.ist """""'"V"" "f""1 . . .
but only our dead condition. Those
who se them are the prophets, tho
not only pot to forsake our sins, but
If we have injured any one. If we have
i slandered him and caused him to
'ul ' "".."Slwfcf, we must make restitution as
.www. vujf.. votiai nua jiiol ua
divine and -just as glorious down in
the valley healing the demoniac child
and restoring him Into his father's
arms as He was on Mount llerraon
when tne disciplts taw His garments
as white as snow. The only differ
ence was that on tho mountain "they
were fully awake and saw His glory."
The waking of the soul is a process
far as we can. And when we bring
forth such fruits, men will have confi
dence in our Christianity. I have
heard of a man who had four of his
neighbor's sheep Btray In among his
own, and he took .the marks off them
and kept them. When he was con
verted, these four sheep troubled him.
Don t think that you are going to
The trne object of education isto ! Veace.w.1" lt. iJffi!
awaken and erouse and dvolop tho
powers or the personality. The
growth of the bodily powers Is largely
conditioned by well-directed activity,
hence calisthenics and gjiunastlcs.
The develojrnient of the mental facul
ties is conditioned by stimulating
thought activity, hence systems of In
struction, nnd teachers and courses of
study. The awakening of the moral
nature Is conditioned by doing the
will of Cioj, bene p prayer and
churches and rituals and preaching
and religion. The object of religious
Instruction is to awaken the sleeping
conscience, the dormant foalings, the
Inactive will and enlist them actively
In 1 1 spiritual love and labor of
Christ.
The history of rellgiou when
written from the standpoint of pro
gressive development will bo tho
story of the awakening of the soul
to spiritual things. Professor Bourne
says: "When there Is little mental
or moral development the religious
Instinct ran cling to a stick, or a stone
four sheep that belong tn somebody
else, or have put somebody else's j
money into your pocket. Moody.
Why It Days to Conquer Sin.
It is better to conquer temptation
, than to be freed from It. Therefore
Cod does not, at once, take us out of
the world and beyond tho reach ol
I temptation; He does better than that
: when He keeps us here and offers
us His omnipotence for the defeat of
I our enemy. A victorious, sin-beset
man has more to be grateful for than
I an undisturbed angel. For every vie
, tory over sin brings two notable re
I suits. It Increases our own power
against temptation, and It lessens the
i effectiveness of that temptation In Its
1 next, onset. So God actually helps u
I to get freed from temptation every
' time we use His strength to defeat
i temptation, it may not always ap
! pear so, for temptation dies hard; but
1 lt is so, and wo can provo It If we
will tight on In undlscouragod as
surance that It Is a one-sided conflict.
or some low and hideous animal, i after all, and Cod and we are on that
But as nr.- unfolds and Intellect Is j side. Sunday-School Times.
clarified and conscience becomes reg-, '
nant la our religious t.'iiuklug, it then Teaching Nuggets,
appears that there are certain condl- i They who fear the Lord do not need
Hons that must be met ly any religion to fear.
that Is to onimaud the as;nt of de- , A crooked life cannot lead on the
straight way.
A good life is no small contribution
to any man's logic.
To be true to tho best Is the best
we can do for truth.
The welfare of any people is de
termined by their worship.
All His love In the past calls for
our loyalty In the present.
present consecration Is tho best
velnped humanity." All races have
worship and religion. The aweken
lng of the mind, as evidenced In the
progress of education, hai made wor
worshlp and religion. The awaken
ing of the sense of the beautiful, as
evidenced ly the progress of art and
esthetics, h?.s made worship more
beautiful. The awakening of tho
mo.-al nature, ai evident: d by ethical I
systems nnd ethical emphasis. Uas . corrective of past crookedness.
raaue worship more ethical. When Much moral astigmatism Is duo to
men are fully awake tn y will see the pressure on the money nerve,
glory of Christ, for He Is the truth for 1 Many an ill of the heart would be
tho mind, love for tie hart and j cured If the handB were kept clean
power and guide for the will. No true There Is nothing that will help you
development of the human personality to lend others moro than being nble
will exceed the glory of Christ, nor , to look back over a right life your
go so high that He shall not remain self. Henry V, Cope, In Bunday
Its ideal and its good. We can think i School Times.
or notning in tne moral and spiritual i
scale beyond or better than Jesus
Christ.
utirlst is not only the Ideal of this
spiritual awakening, but He Is tho
great cause of it. He Is the inspira
tion of the modern scientific research
for truth. His challenge was "Come
and see." He exalted the child mind
of inquiry, of openness to tho truth,
as the type and by taking that atti
tude toward nature man has come
Into possession of her truth. By
obeying nature man has come to con
trol her. Uy getting down humbly'
to learn from her, she has exalted)
man by her treasures and her secrete.
The mind of Christ, which obeys,
which is open to the truth, which
shallengus Investigation, which sub
mits the nallprlnts to the most doubt
ful scrutiny, Is the Instrument of
progress In knowledge. So also tn
the moral realm, Christ Is the great
power to quicken the conscience, pro
duct repentance and win the moral
nature to the highest standards. He
has duveloped the morul nature to
he place where no man ran hope to
bo religious beyond the extent that
he Is moral, and no corporation repre
sents Christian things beyond the ex
t ut tliai. 1'. iacjjr.ijoraJ.eiL tun cluicj
A DISCOURAGED FATHER.
Pa "Sometimes I get discouraged
about Willie."
Ma "What's the Liatter now?"
Pa "Hero ho is, eleven years old,
and he can't throw on outcurvc yet."
Newark News.
IT OUGHT TO WORK.
"We have a Progressive Cook Club.
When a cook wants to leave, we pass
her along to the next member."
"And In time you get her back?"
"Yes; but our membership is large
and cook soon forgets." Pittsburg
Post.
HOW THE V GET THEM.
"I notice lots of people are collect
lug silver spoons," said the traveler,
who was rather new at lt. "Is that
a new craze?"
"No," replied the hotel clerk;
"same old thing kleptomania."
Philadelphia Press.
Subject: DftvM Spare Saul's Life, 1
Sam. 20 Golden Text. Luke (1:27
Commit Verse 21 Head Chap
ters 21-25 Commentary.
i TIME. 1 060 B. C. PLACE. The
Hill of Hachllnh.
EXPOSITION. !. David rcasejA
with Saul. vs. 17-20. Saul Is In
David's power and completely at
David's mercy a second time (vs.
1-12; cf. ch. 2 4:.1-S). And a second
time David shows the greatness of
his character. - He will not stretch
forth his hand against the Lord's
tnolnted f v. 11). Abishal was right
in judging that God had delivered
David's enemy into his hand (v. 8; cf.
v. 23; ch. 24:18. 19: Josh. 24:44;
lodges 1:4), but he was wrong In his I
judgment of whnt David should do
with bis enemy whom Cod had de- i
llvered Into his hand. God gives our
nemies Into our hands that we may
save them, not that we may destroy
them. David's real magnanimity
routes out In that he not only refused
to slay Saul himself, but also would
not permit nnothcr (v. 9). The death
of Saul would mean the end of his
tiwii trials nnd his nccesslon to the
throne, but he will not accept deliver
ance and glory by questionable
ft ins. David was truly a man of
faith. In his conscience he had been
less keen. He could easily have satis
fied It by Baying, "I did not kill him."
Dut David's conscience was not of
'hat sort. Saul had been rejected by
Jehovah, nevertheless the fact stood
that he wa3 the Lord'sanointed (v. 9),
and the anointed of the Lord was
sacred In David's sight. No one can
stretch forth his hands against the
Lord's anointed and be guiltless (Ps.
105:15). It Is well to remember In
the application of this principle that
In the present dispensation all Christ's
art the Lord's anointed (1 John 2:20
27, R. V.). David's respect for the
anointed of Jehovah, even though
that anointed one was his personal
enemy, was deep and abiding (ch.
2-1:0. 7; 2 Sam. 1:14-10). David was
entirely content to leave the ven
geance of his wrong and the estab
lishment of himself In the place to
ivhtch God had appointed him entirely
in God's hands. When Saul was thor
oughly awakened to the fact that
David had had him In his power and
yet had spared hlu life he was brought
lo momentary repentance. He ad
dresses the David, whom be had
sought to murder, very tenderly (v.
17), and D:ivld answers with mar
velous humility. He calls his would
be assassin, Saul, his Lord and King.
He seeks to awaken Saul to his folly
by pointing out his own Innoc?nce.
He challenges Saul to point out one
thing that he had done that deserved
his hate. Nothing can exceed David's
marvelous humility (v. 19). The
ihlng that David especially bemoans
is that he is driven away from fellow
ship with Jehovah and His people (v.
14). He scaks of himself as a flea
ar a partridge and points out to Saul
how foolish lt Is for the mighty king
o: Israel to he hunting for a flea or a
partridge in the mountains. There is
no Insincerity In this. David enter
tained the most humble opinion of
himself in splto of his rare gifts. He
bumbled himself and God exalted him.
II. Saul's Brief Repentance nml
Gratitude to David, vs. 21-25. Snul,
blinded though ho was by envy, was
forced to see the generosity of David.
Ho says the very thing that everv
sinner needs to say, "I have sinned."
But there Is no real and savins con
viction of sin nnd consequently no
permanent turning from sin (cf. ch.
15:24, 30; Luke 24:17; Ex. 9:27;
Num. 23:34; Matt. 27:4). There Is
no saving power In conviction of sin
If one goes right on sinning ( ?rov.
28:13). Saul promises that he will
BO more do David harm because his
Ufa had bean precious in David's eyes.
He never had another opportunity to
do David harm. Saul's description
of his own conduct was both true and
expressive. He had "played the fool
and erred exceedingly." That is pre
cisely whnt every sinner and every
one who fights against God Is doing.
Unfortunately, though Saul recog
nized the true character of his con.
duet, he did not quit it. In that too
DS has many imitators. All the Sauls '
on earth cannot prevent a righteous
man from getting hia just and full
due (cf. Eph. 0:8). David would not '
even keep the king's spenr as a me
mentO of his victory. David knew !
that God deals with us as we deal !
with our fellow-men (vs. 23, 24; cf
Pi, 18:25; Matt. 6:7; 6:14, 15; 7:2). !
David's whole future history shows I
how much his life was "set by In the i
eyes Of the Lord." As he had not uu
dertaksn his own deliverance he
looked to the Lord to deliver him out
of all tribulation (v. 24). This the
Lord did, giving complete deliverance
from perils that arose again and
again and threatened to overthrow
his throne. David reaped the good
seed he had sown (cf. Ps. 18). For a
moment Saul was entirely reconciled
to David. He blessed him and de
clared his triumph, but David thor
oughly i-nderstood how little confi
dence was to be placed In tho per
manence of Saul's repentance.
LEADING QUESTIONS. What
truths about Christ are suggested by i
the lesson? What characteristics of
David ore brought out In the lesson? '
What does the lesson teach about I
faith? What does it tench about
Ood? What does It toach about treat
ment c; enemies? What is the best I
Ibheou In the passage?
For a long time Inventors and
manufacturers have been endeavor
ing to utilize paper for the manu
facture of garments. Now a Saxony '
concern has apparently achieved a
considerable success in this endeavor.
Almost every one Is aware of the
increase of warmth possible by simp
ly buttoning a newspaper inside of
the coat, and paper vesta have bad
a considerable sale. The objection to
paper In lta natural state, however,
is that lt Is said that lt rustles and
that It cannot, of eoursa, be washed. I
The Saxon firm has devised a
method of spinning narrow strips of
cotton and paper Into a fabric, and
paper and wood are also combined. -
either making serviceable suits, jack
ets and shirts. Xylolin, as the new
fabric Is called, Is cream-colored, may
be washed repeatedly without Injury
and Is being sold at a very low price,
A sufficient quantity of the goods to
make a suit may be had for from two
to three dollars.
Foreign Missions: Cyrus Hamlin, and
Missions in Turkey 1 Cor.
9; 13-23.
Declaring Ood's glory. Ps. 90:
3-10.
Building waste places. Isa 62: 1-9,
Watchmen on Zlon. Isa. 62: 6-12.
Be strong. Hag. 2: 4-7.
Converting one. Jas. 6: 19, 20.
The Spirit nnd the church. Rev,
22: 10, 17.
It Is woe not to ministers only If
they preach not the gospel, but to all
that have received the gospel, for nil
can pass It on.
No cause In all the world gets so
much unpaid service as the church;
that Is her glory, nnd the proof of her
divine authority. .
The one word of Christian activity
is service, as the one word of Chris
tian feeling Is fnlth.
The one word of Christian activity
Is service, ns the one word of Chris
tian feeling faith.
Christianity adapts Itself to all
men; and the more Christian we are,
the more we can adapt ourselves to
all men.
Cyrus Hamlin.
Cyrus Hamlin, one of tha ablest nnd
best beloved of modern missionaries,
was born near Waterford, Me.. Jan
uary 5, 1811.
Ills father died when Cyrus was an
Infant, and his mother was very poor.
While the boy was learning to be a
jeweler, he discovered a liking for
books, and decided to go through col
lege and become a minister.
With wonderful energy and re
sourcefulness, he carried out this pur
pose without any money except what
he earned, graduating from Bowdoin
College and Bangor Theological Sem
inary. In December, 1838, he sailed for
Turkey ns a missionary. Constantin
ople was the scene of his labors till
his return in 1873.
He promptly learned Armenian,
Turkish, nnd modern Greek, and was
set at the task of forming and con.
ducting n theological seminary for the
training of native preachers nnd
teachers. This task he accomplished
In spite of almost Insurmountable obs
tacles put In his way by native bigo
try and tolerance.
ron tjtis q9iet noun.
LIKE.
Life wht is it?
Ah, who knows?
Just ti visit,
I suppose;
Jot ana Sorrow
For a dy.
Then to morrow
We're away.
Youth, nnd morning,
Manhood, moon;
Age the w.ii-ning
Night conies soon;
Shines a tnr to
Light as; then
Ti not far to
Home ngnin.
-Christian Work nnd Evangelist
EPWOBTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30.
Crosses Or the Cross (Matt. 16. 21
28; Luke 14. 25-35.)
Our theme Introduces us to the pro
foundest subject of Christian teach
ing. The cross is the heart of Chris
tianity. Tnke It out and you have
taken out that which throbs and burns
and vitalizes. It stands for Christ's
sacrifices, It exalts his sufferings be
fore the world, Its victory "finishes"
tho atoning work of the Son of God.
You cannot separate Christ from his
cross without devitalizing all his
work. He makeB It stand out as the
divine challenge to all who would
serve the highest interests of their
fellow-men. Men who look below the
cross for their Ideals of service will,
therefore, fall. All who would do
Christian work must needs be ac
quainted with Calvary, must be will
ing to give themselves (literally) to
tho work.
The cross of Christ has been the
greatest power to move men's hearts.
The crucifixion has transfixed the
world's thought. "Christ and him
crucified" has been the preaching that
has saved. BlBhop Warne tells how
the recent great revival In India has
been characterized by this appeal.
He says that after a sermon upop the
sufferings of Jesus "whole congrega
tions will remain seated In perfect si
lence for an hour, contemplating the
epectcclo of the cross." The con
verts will break down and sob, when,
In their testimony, they come to tho
recital of the crucifixion.
Nothing moves the hearts of men
like the story of the cross.
The cross we are to bear Is "the fel
lowship of his suffering." We can
not bear Christ's cross, but we can
bfar our own ftacrlflcee and pay our
part of the cost by performing our
service, whatever he may require. In
the spirit with which he went to Cal
vary. It means that uur lives must
be lived In the light of that sacrifice,
that we must permit It to Interpret our
problems, allow lt to set the pace for
our activity. Only thus can we follow
him, who sold "Follow me." How
tho Epwonth Tague needs this
vision! If it would only begin to live
moro faithfully "toward Calvary,"
what could lt not accomplish?
The Happiest Man on Earth.
Johann Schmld, who livoB In a cot
iage In the village of Suhr, In the
iauton of Argovle, Switzerland, has
lad painted across the front of his
lwelllng In large letters the sentence:
"Here lives the happiest man on
sartb."
Schmld, who Is flfty-flve yearB of
tge, said to interviewer: "I defy
tou to find a happier man than my
telf. I have never worked, never
married, nover been U and have
aever been anxious for the future.
I eat well, drink well and sleep well.
What more would you have?"
When In his teens Schmld was left
by his father an Income of about 1
a week and a small piece of land. He
built his cottage on the land, and hat
occupied It ever since. London Ex
press. Reason and Will Power.
When the second phalanx of the
thumb Is much longer than the nail
phalanx, there Is a discordant rela
tion between reason and will.
Reasou preponderates to such an
extent that the entire life la spent in
planning to do, without ever ifolng.
A person of this kind sees clearly
what is best for him, bit lacks deter
mination to put It Into execution.
He sees, the goal and the steps nea
essary for attaining it; but In the
Mime glance he takes in ail the obsta
cles, and while be is pondering the
matter the opportunity to win success
escapes. Hw Tork JournaL
BROKEN WORDS AND CHINA.
ajMrs. Neighbors "Are you able to
understand your new cook's broken
English?"
Mrs. Homer "Oh, yes; but I can't
understand why sbe breaks so much
china." Chicago News.
Going to the Father.
I go to the Father John, 16:16.
Five times, Including once paren
thetically, did Jesus declare In Ills
last discourse to His disciples In the
upper chamber before His betrayal
that He was going to His Father. The
circumstances of the delivery of these
words of farewell were peculiar. The
disciples, inadequate as was their an
ticipation of what was toward, were
yet filled with forebodings of disaster.
Being humnn and not realizing all
that was Involved, there must hnvo
been In their minds a leaven of hope.
These things thnt they vaguely dread
ed could not occur. Something would
happen; some power would Inter
vene; they should yet see the Mes
siah trlumphnnt on a throne rather
than a cross. Yet their hearts were
doubtless heavy with premonitions
of despair as they listened.
There was no vagueness about
Jesus' grasp of tho situation. There
was nothing to relieve Hla expecta
tions. He knew that He would have
to drain the cup to the dregs. It
wns even then at His Hps. Yet He
did not allow this knowledge to over
whelm Him. He agonized In the gar
den nnd on the cross, but He never
absolutely nnd entirely gave way. I
like to believe that one of tho
thoughts which sustained Him In thnt
hour was that, no matter how ter
rible the way, how long the Via
Dolorosa, how awful the gateway of
the cross at the end, He was going to
the Father. It seems to add the
dlvlnest and sweetest touch t6 His
humanity when we think that this
was In His mind when Ho repeated
again and again that simple state
ment. His work was almost over,
although Its most terrible hours were
to come, although Its greatest de
mand was to be met; yet there was
light at the end, for He was going
to the Father. He could not refrain
as a man from telling the disciples
that over and over.
How the mind of Joseph, lord of
Lower and Upper Egypt, the vice
regent of the world, went back to
that old man, his father, in Palestine!
How tho mind of that young spend
thrift whose name Is a synonym for
prodigality and filial disrespect
turned from his place with the swine
to his father standing on the hill
and looking down the long road
waiting for his boy's return! How
the mind of man turns to his earthly
father! We hear a great deal about
mothers; fathers have a place In our
affections, have they not?
Jesus went to His Father; the pro
digal went also to his father. So
we may go to our Father which art
In Heaven. There Is thla difference
between our going and Christ's going.
He went alone save that tho Father
was with Him. When wo go now the
Father is with us In His love and
Jesus Is with us In Ills brotherhood.
We cannot go alone. And there Is
no experience which we can go
through In our progress toward the
Father which Is not exceeded Jn bit
terness by that through which our
Saviour passed. Because of Him
anybody and everybody can go to
the Father, except the wilful, persis
tent, determined sinner. You can go
to the Father with tho guilt of mur
der on your soul, but you cannot go
to the Father with the spirit of anger
in your heart. You can go to him
red-handed if you go to Him repen
tant, and though you go to Him red
handed, If you go to Him repentant,
through Christ you can go to Him re
generated and redee.med. You will
have to pay the penalty for your ac
tions here, but if you are spiritually
changed the payment here is all that
will be exacted. 8o that every hu
man being who so desires can look
forward in his hour of trial as well
as in his day of triumph to a wel
come from the Father. "Though
your rlns be as scarlet, they shall
bo as white as snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall be as
wool." Cyrus Townsend Brady, in
t'ae New York Sunday Herald.
Like Judns Iscarlot.
A certain good priest was once
riding in a street car In New York,
and In passing a very handsome and
ornate church, a fellow-passenger
turned to him and said:
"If these Christians would stop
building fine churches and give the
money to the poor, It would be much
more to their credit."
"I've heard a similar remark be
fore." was the quiet rejoinder.
"Indeed! and by whom, may I
ask?"
"Judas Iscarlot!" was the crush
ing answer. Expositor.
Civic Virtue.
The happiness of the republic de
pends on the virtue of Its citizens.
Political health is as important as
physical health. Religion Ib the
guiding star of nations as well as of
Individuals. It alone can safeguard
liberty. The Rev. T. J. Conaty, Wor
cester, Mass.
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
RKPOitTJ OP PROGRESS OF THE
BATTLE AGAINST RUM.
Prayer Is the Window of Heaven.
Prayer, continually lived In. makes
the presence of a holy and loving
God the air which life breathes, and
by which lt lives, so that, as lt min
gles consciously with tho work of the '
day, It becomes also a part of every I
dream. To us, then, lt will be no
strange thing to enter heaven, for
we have been living in the things
of heaven. Stopford A. Brooke. I
Evidence of Loyalty.
Your loyalty to God Is seen In ) our
love for men. Home Herald.
The Wine Cup Mightier Tlinn the
Sword A AVarrlor Whom No
Victory Can Satisfy, No Ruin
Satiate.
It is n warrior whom no victory
can satisfy; no ruin satiate. It pauses
at no Rubicon to consider. It pitches
no tents at night, goes Into no quar-
ters for winter. 'It conquers amid
i the burning plains of the South where
the phalanx of Alcxnnder halted In
mutiny. It conquers amid the snow
drifts of the North where the Grand
Army of Napoleon found Its winding
sheet. Its monuments are In every
burial ground. Its badges of tri
umph are tho weeds which mourn
ers wear. Its song of victory is the
wall that was heard In Ramah: "Ra
chel crying for her children and weep
ing because they are not."
The sword Is mighty, and Its
bloody traces reach across time, from
Nineveh to Oravelotte. from Mara
thon to Gettysburg. Yet mightier
is Its brother, the wine cup. I say
"brother," and history says "broth
er." Castor nnd Pollux never fought
together In more fraternal harmony.
David and Jonathan never joined In
more generous rivalry. Hand in hand,
they have come down the centuries,
like vulture and shadow, they have
met and feasted.
Yea; a pair of giants, but the
greater Is the wine cup. The sword
has a scabbard, and is sheathed; has
a conscience, and becomes glntted
witn navoc; nas pity, and gives quar
ter to the vanqulshod. The wine cup
has no scabbard and no conscience;
Its appetite is a cancer which grows
as you feed lt; to pity lt Is deaf; to
suffering It is blind.
The sword is the lieutenant of
death, but the wine cup his captain;
and If ever they come home to him
the wars bringing their trophies,
boasting of their achievements, I can
imagine that death, their master,
will meet them with garlands and
song, as the maldenB of .Tudea met
8aul and David. But ns he numbers
the victories of each, his paean will
be: "The sword Is my Saul, who has
slain his thousands: but the wine cup
is my uavm, wno hab slain his tens
rtf thm.Bnn.to " Tnm W.i . iK -u. '
.... i, v, u . i., I., t. i. mi, in nit
Weekly Jeffersonlan.
The Farmer's and Laborer's Portion.
A farmer sold twenty-five bushclB
of corn to a distillery for ten dollars.
Out of that corn was made 100 gal
lons of-whisky, worth $18; that ten
gallons of whisky Is taxed until its I
value Is raised to $135; at that price
lt Is sold to a liquor dealer. It Is j
then shown In advertisements In the '
uany papers, Displaying a man
mounted on a bob-tailed horse, wav
ing the devil's colors, and proclaim
ing the devil's message, that it is
"Hunter's Old Baltimore Rye," "Old j
Lexington Club," "Old Dearborn."
"Old Crow," and many other nonnlnr
brands. All "bottled In bond," will
cure any disease, secure good health
and prolong life. Selling at one dol
lar a quart. This 100 gallons of whis
ky sold to whisky drinkers for $400.
The farmer's portion was $10, the
laborers', who manufacture the whis
ky, received as their portion $8. Who
got the other $382? It must have
been the devil himself, for one man
who bought of it, got drunk and
whipped his wife, was fined $25 and
thirty days in the workhouse. The
care of his family, while he served
time, cost the public $50. And yet
we see a defence set up for lt in
some newspapers, that wish to enter
family circles as teachers, saying
that to suppress it would be the ruin
of the family and laboring interests
of the country. The papers that will
show It up In its true light are the
sort for the family table.
The farmer that' would say that
he was benefited by such a traffic
would sell his veracity for a small
fee. M. B. K., In the Indiana Farmer.
Wail of a Rum Seller.
"The Prohibitionists have captured
a large part of the country, and they
will soon vote us out of the reBt, lt
we do not make some very decided
changes In the goods we sell and the
way we buy them," Is the Btartllng
wall of a confidential letter to the
"trade," dated April 15, 1907, and
just sent out to their members by the
St. Louis Wholesale Liquor Associa
tion. "We have unwittingly sold
this accursed poison to the youth nnd
the flower of our manhood, many ol
whom have been crazed, have lost
their manhood, their honor and theli
all, because they drank lt. Their
mothers, their sisters, their fathers,
their brothers and thilr parents are
driving us retailers nut of business.
The only salvation left for the liquor
business lies In a firm resolve on the
part of all retailers to be sure that
they sell nothing but the purest and
best goods that can be had for their
money." ,
Unsupported Idea.
The belief of the drunkard that he
has an hereditary devil whom he can
not resist Is, we believe, Invariably
unsupported by the facts. A man
may inherit an unstablo nervous or
ganization, but whether he shall take
to drink, or opium, or stealing, or
some other form of vicious indul
gence will depend more upon him
self than upon bis ancestors.
Christian Register.
The Precedent.
When Adam was fired out of para
dise he simply went, but when Satan
got his walking papers he at once set
up a claim that the expulsion act was
"unconstitutional." Barrels and Bottles.
I
Experiments conducted by dock
officials in London prove that a rat
consumes dally a half penny's worth
of food. One of the officials who has
been superintending the operations
of the docks says that from the re
ports he has received from various
towns and villages he estimates that
the rats in England number at least
20,000,000. "At a hair penny a day
the rats' dally food bill, therefore,
amounts to over 40,000. Yearly,
on a similar estimate, soma C16,
000.000.
Temperance Notes.
Missouri claims the honor of hav
ing a larger number of judges of pro
nounced temperance views than any
other State.
Great Barrlngton, Mass , voted no
license, the first tlmo lu fourteen
yours. The vote was the largest In
the history of the town.
We find drunkenness clilefly In the
hopeless classes, the class hopelessly
poor and overworked at the bottom,
and the class hopelessly rich and Idle
at the top.
DIFFERENT FROM COMIC OPERA.
"I was disappointed in my visit
aboard ship. We asked the naval
lieutenant to sing."
"And he wouldn't!"
"Why, be couldn't. Wasn't even
a tenor!"
A noted Belgian bacteriologist, Dr.
Leon Berlraud, claims that he has
discovered a much more powerful
serum as a cure for pneumonia than
that now In use. It Is bactericidal,
not an antitoxic agent.
Freeholders
i in France.
Consul-Oeneral Robert P. Skinner,
of Marseilles, Franco, has made nn
Interesting report on the subject of
freeholders and real estate transac
tions In that country, In which he
says that there are 8,000,000 free
holders In France, and outlines a sys
tem whereby French workingman
own their little country homes. Mr.
Skinner says In part:
"There are upward of 8,000,000
separate freeholds In Franoe, as com
pared with about 300,000 in Great
Britain, a fact which In Itself speaks
volumes. A Frenchman will part
with anything rather than land.
When the United States Immigration
Commission VlRlled n cnrlnin mnt
near Marseilles recently It was found
Impossible to ascertain 'the average
price of land' in that locality, because
no transactions ever took place, other
than by Inheritance. In cities It Is
difficult for persons of modest means
like workingmen, to own real estate,
for obvious reasons. Nevertheless,
nnd especially In Marseilles, where
there Is an excellent two-cent fare
street car service, outlying property
is being taken up by families In
moderate circumstances.
"There Is also a local custom
among poor men who feel that they
must reside In the city of buying an
outlying patch of ground and erect
ing thereon a 'cabanon' of two or
moro rooms, where they spend Sun
days and holidays. There are settle
ments where hundreds of these toy
houses are to be found, each with a
bit of a garden, deserted throughout
the week and scenes of great anima
tion on Sunday, the most Intense
rivalry existing to have the best gar
den or the most attractive 'cabanon,'
tho day terminating In a reunion,
where poetical Improvisations are
listened to, songs sung nnd speches
mndc.
"The Government Itself, which fos
ters thrift by every means, encourages
working people to abandon the
wretched, crowded habitations of the
cities and to become householders, by
loaning out the money ol the savings
bnnks ('classes d'epargne') not to the
Individual, but to societies patronized
by the State. These societies effect
the transactions with the individual.
Thus, the Societe des Habitations
Salubres, 32 Rue Paradls, Marseilles,
advances money for the construction
of cottages at tho rate of four and
one-half per cent. As savings banks
pay depositors two and three-fourth
per cent., the margin is close.
''These dealings are regulated by
the law of April 12, 1906. Loans
are limited to 9500 francs ($1333.50)
in the city and to 7000francs ($1351)
in the environs. At present seventy
five cottages have been constructed In
Marseilles under this law, the occu
pants becoming owners, with a cler.r
title, at tho end of twenty years.
Building plans have to bo submitted
to tho architects of the society, and
must conform to certain standard re
quirements as to light, ventilation and
sanitary arrangements."
There aro also at work ou some
what parallelel linos several French
building and loan associations, which
differ from American associations In
that they usually operate over more
or less the whole of France, as do the
great French banks. The attempt is
made by the moving spirits In these
associations to expand their utility
beyond mero public service as money
lending agencies.
While depositors in these building
associations are permitted to build
according to their own plans, they
aro decidedly encouraged to adopt
standard designs, of which there are
many suited to all purses. It Is really
surprising to discover what comforta
ble little houses car. bo erected In
this country for a very small amount,
sometimes $200 and $300. All houses
are built of practically Imperishable
nnd fireproof materials, cheap frame
constructions nover being employed.
Journalism's Bromldioms.
(Being a few of the questions every
newspnper man is asked every day.)
"It must be terribly hard to get
up something new and Interesting
every single day. Isn't it?"
"Can you get In free at all the
theatres?"
"But moBt newspaper men aro ter
ribly dissipated, aren't they?"
"About what Is the Star's circu
lation?" "Do you know Mr. Blank? He's
In the Chimes' advertising depart
ment." "What are your ambitions a play,
a novel or what?"
"Do they blue-pencil much of your
articles?" (Everything, to the Bro
mide, that appears In a newspaper
paragraph, story, verse, obituary
Is an "article.")
"Does So-and-so (the cartoonist)
furnish his own Ideas?"
"Well, there are lots and lots of
people that Just look for Ella Wheel
er Wilcox's things every day. They
must be popular."
"Was Evelyn Thaw really so
pretty?"
"Why did your dramatic critic
roast thnt show? I thought It war
quite good."
"Why don't you get Into magazine
work? The magazines print some
terrible stuff."
"You don't write the headlines to
your own articles, do you?"
"Who writes aU those funny
stories? He's awfully clever."
"It gets you acquainted with lots
of actresses, doesn't It?"
"That's all I buy that paper for."
So on ad llb.; ad naus, and nd Infln.
Franklin P. Adams, Puck.
Poor Judges of Fi-ult.
"It is curious," remarked the
grocer on the corner, "that there l
no fruit in the world which people
are such poor judges of as canta
loupes, and what Is more curious
that they do their best to spoil them
after they bur them. The first thing
a woman does with a cantaloupe Is to
stick U Into the ice box. Now, canta
loupes, like most of our fruit, urn
picked a trifle green, and when they
come from tbo grocer's they should
be put out iu tbo sun tor a whole day,
turning them over overy tew boure,
and then putting them into the lc
box at night." New York Suu.