FOR HIE
The I'nnn HUhc-r.
The armor's profit Is mostly In
making his farm richer and more
valuable t very year. He should 11 vo
within his mentis and Incur no debts
possible to avoid, but he ran have n
good 1 1 v I n or from the farm If ho will
determine to buy no article that he
can produce himself. The homo mar
ket (the one owned by the farmer) Is
to be supplied first, and tho farm that
docs not contain a variety, and also
provide an abundance, hag not been
properly utilized. Komist.
Manure Sled. ,
No nw -isoful a device than a
manure sled can bn found on any
arm. Tien- Is hardly a day tnat It
will not be used.- if not for manure,
then for other purposes. The bed we
made of Inch stuff and la fourteen
Inches deep by five and ten fret In
leneth and breadth. Tho runners are
Hindi; of 2x pieces, rounded ctl at
the front. When not In use we keep
this near tho stable, and when clean
ing up mornings wheel manure out
and dump on the sled. When full we
haul out and spread on land broad
cast, which we find better then ustn 5
In hills or drill. L. E. C.Uclcy, iu
VUe Epitomist.
when we stopped feeding In the latter
part of May was not moldy at nil
when we began feeding the middle of
July, except for about a foot around
the walls, the surface being merely
dried over a bft and all right for feed
In:;. For summer feeding It seems
far better than corn ensilage, for
there was no waste by spoilage, no
matter tow slowly wo fed."
To prove that Mr. Pope has been
successful with his large herd of Jer
seys I ne?d only add that notwith
standing pastures burned by drouth
ami grain ruinously high In price, hla
average production for tho year end-
i.)00 pounds 01 milk per cow (to be
exact, 7420 pounds). There Is no
g.icFp work about it, for tho ml1!: of
ever cow Is carefully weighed and
recorded at each milking. It means
an average of better than 400 pounds
of butter per cow In a bad year liko
130S.
What r. large value the silo ha3 for
crops difficult to cure, like second
cro'i clover. Hurrah for clover ensilage:
Value of notation Demon -lratcj.
The value of rotation In ridding
land of weed3 13 well Illustrated by
two plats at the Minnesota station.
One plat on which who.it hf.s ben
grown continuously for eleven y?ars Is
quite badly nfe.u?d with wild cats.
Another plat two feet away from the
first oa on which a five-year rota
tion (wheat, grass, oats and corn) 13
followed, Is free of wild oais.
If any farmer who Is troubled with
any of our common annual weeds will
lay his farm oft In convenient shaied
and sized fields, and follow a system
of rotation, using a well cultivated
crop of corn once In five to seven
years, end one to thre? grass crops
during the same time; he will have
but little trouble with weeds, and will
Increase the products of I1I3 farm.
Veekly Witness.
Effect of Fatigue on Milk Snpply.
In experiments roado by the Ver
mont Experiment Station to deter
mine the effect of fatigue on the milk
flow, the cows were driven ten to
twelve miles and shipped fifty to sev
enty miles by rail. In the first trial
with twenty-five cows, half gave rich
er milk tho night of their arrival,
and all richer milk the next morning
than they did two weeks later, the
at being tho most variable constitu
ent. The quantity was unfavorably
affected. In the second trial it was
found that fntiguo lessened the flow
temporarily, affected Its quality seri
ously for the flr3t one or two mllk
Ings, and raised the quality after a
little while. On the third trial six
cows, eighteen hours en route and
not milked during this time, showed
temporary enrichment of the milk
for a day or two. Apparently there
was no serious milk shrinkage. It
seems sa(e to conclude as a result of
the three trials that fatlcuo tends to
lessen the flow temporarily and vari
ously to affect the quality for one or
two mllklns. The folly of t-atlng
milk before a cow has become nccus
tomed to her new surroundings Is
clear. Fanners' Homo Journal.
TSlucbprry Farming.
I give a great deal of my time to
blueberry growing as a buslr.pss. The
fields where I grow the bushc3 are on
a hill located In the town of Wilton,
on the west shore of Varnum pond.
The hill rises nearly 300 feet above
the l;vcl of the pond, overlooking tho
pond and the valley. It contains
nearly slray acres, and Is part of a
farm ot 140 acres on the hill.
A great deal of work has been done
smoothing and working the fields. I
plant the bushes in the fields that
have been plowed and smoothed so
that carriages can be driven whero
the h?rrle3 grow, and I want to say
that I am very much pleased with the
returns the berries have brought me
on one acre planted seventeen years
ago. The berries were not so good
as last year on account of the drouth,
but I harvested 100 bushels.
The berries grow on bushes of nine
different varieties, and In flavor are
from sub-acid to sweet, and color are
blue, pink and black. The bushes
are from the dwarf to bushes that
will grow five or six feet high.
I have taken care to get bushes
that will bear large berries and have
thera corno to ripening from the first
of July to the middle of September.
I think I have planted at the present
more than twenty acres, and I plan
If I am prospered to plant the greater
part of the bill to blueberries and
other berries. David L. Pratt, In the
American Cultivator.
Clover Ensilage.
Hitherto corn bas been almost en
tirely relied upon or filling the stln.
There bas bean much inquiry as to
tho possibility of clover or this pur
pose, and the best we have yet seen
on this subject Is In a letter of W. A.
Conant, ot Massachusetts, to the
Country Gentleman, In which be says:
"I write briefly ot a matter of no
small Interest to dairy farmers. Two
years ago, at Bonnymeade Farm,
Main. I suggested patting the second
crop ot clover In the silo, at the bot
tom, underneath the corn. It made
an almost perfect feed for the follow,
log early summer, before grass bad
started much In pastures. Now, Mr.
rope bas made a further advance, as
'1 have JuhI been Informed by recent
letter. Will you kindly print the
4 notation from that letter, as I be
lieve If to be ot much Importance to
Eastern dairy farmers."
"Perhaps you will be Interested to
inow," writes Mr. Ned Pope, under
data of Beptttmbor 18, "that the clo
puf feiisUege, left without covering
THE PULPIT,
BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON
GIPSY SMITH,
BY
"Tllnmcd Fool Kduration,"
That is what sonio knowledge ot
agriculture and dairying Is called by
a mr.n who says he never took or read
agricultural or dairy papers In his
life. He assumes that he knew It all
when he was born. Here Is an in
ventory of that fellow set out by
Hoard's Dairyman. In referring to
one of Its cow census correspondents
who was looking over tho dairy field
of Wisconsin, It says of this man:
"He found a farmer with a herd ot
sixteen cow3, the milk of which he
wa3 taking to a creamery. Actually
he did not get money enough from his
cows to pay for their keeping, and he
lost about 3 a tead. Within a quar
ter of a mile of this man was another
farmer, a patron of the same cream
ery, whose herd of nineteen cows paid
a profit above tiio cost ot keeping of
$17 apiece. The difference between
those two mt n was, one man's loss
added to the other's profit, or a dif
ference of $23 per cow for the poor
herd.
The census taker tried to arouse
the dull man to a sense of the situa
tion he was In, and showed him the
figures relating to the more success
ful farmer. This seemed to anger
him, and he said it was "all a lie,"
and he knew it. So low and sunken
was this man's mind that he had
never had a dairy or agricultural pa
per In his house. That showed clear
ly tho amount of brains ho was bring,
tng to bear on his work. He boasted
to the census taker that he had got
all he had wlthoutanyof this "blamed
fool education."
Recovering Wnto Places.
How many farmers have ever taken
the trouble to make a careful esti
mate, cf the amount of unutilizad
land on their farms? There may ba
several acres overgrown with brush
and each year becoming more difficult
to clear off and put In productive
condition, or there Is a considerable
area from which the timber has been
removed, but which has not been
suitably cleared of the brush and re
sulting rubbish. It is left to produce
berry bushes, and a great variety of
weeds until the soil is so abundantly
supplied with the enemies to profita
ble culture that it will require years
of patient toil to eradicate or subdue
them. There are on many farms
acres ot valuable land rendered utter.' -ly
worthless by permitting the water
from springs to run over the leach
through it. A small outlay In drain
ing would put tho land in a pro
ductive condition and in many cases
tho spring water might be conveyed
to distant pasture fields, or the housa
or barn, where its presence would be
worth mors than the cost of the im
provement. In close times like the
present it behooves farmers to have
a careful regard for tho principles of
economy. If an outlay of five dollars
will make a return of twice that
amount in a single season, then sure
ly hard times furnish no excuse for
neglecting the Improvement, but
rather are an argument and Incentive
for prompt action. But tho con
spicuous wnste places are only a part
of, the land which year after year Is
permitted to lie Idle, or worse, to
produce only weeds. The unutilized
land along the fences about our grain
fields amount to a considerable in
the agErcsate, and close economics!
management will reduce this loss to
the minimum. Careless plowers will
leave much more untitled land next to
the f once j than there Is any need of
leaving; on a large farm, fenced Into
small fields, It is plain to see that a
strip of a few feet will amount to
several acres. The loss of this land
Bhould be charged to the cost of
fencing, which is made needlessly
high on most farms. Weekly Witness.
Theme: Prevallinj Prayer,
New Tork City. Gipsy Smith Is
conducting a mission In this city, and
Sunday ho preached In the Fifth Ave-
nue Presbyterian Church.
Gipsy Smith said: You will find the ' to-night?"
text in .Mark . beginning at the
twenty-eighth vprse, "And when
Jesus was come Into the house His
dlseinles asked Him prlvattlv, why
could not we CHst the devil out? Jesus
said unto them, this kind can come
forth by nothing but by praver"
prayer! This Is only one picture out
r-f the life of Jesus, Just a little view
cf what was going on all the time
with Him. You who are students of
this boo):, remember that He hnd Just
ben unon t ie Mount of Transfigura
tion; that He had taken with Him
Peter. James and John: that He was
transfigured before them. We are
told that while He proved up there
on the mountain the fashion of His
countenance was changed, and all
countenances change as men pray,
While He prayed His face was
changpd. The glory from within and
the glory from without met. That
happened always, I believe, when
Jeaus prayed, but this was the first
time that the disciples had been al
lowed to see Him communing with
His Father. They were allowed, for
certain reasons, to s-e what happened
when He talked to Ills Father. While
He prayed there appeared Moses and
Elijah. Moses representing the law
and Elijah the prophets, and Jesus,
the fulfillment of both, In the midst.
And the apostles had a wonderful ex
perience to eciuip them forever to go
forth and evangelize the world. The
scene was soon over, and Jesus and
the disciples came down from the
mountain. Down in tho valley was
another group, the other dlseinles.
ask amfsa." I wonder" hpw" many of
you knelt down to-day Just to talk to
God. One of my friends In the old
fountry, a woman, the mother of six
boys, with her husband, came to one
of my services In the city ot Lincoln.
It was the first service of the mission,
snd as they left she said to her hus
band: "Holt, what do you think of
that man?" He said, ".I don't know
what I think of him, but I will tell
you what I think of myself. He
madn me see myself; I am all wrong."
When they got home and sat at the
English tea tabl- she looked at him
and said. "Are yon going to hear him
No. he said (he was a
signalman on the Great Northern
Railway), "I could not go unless I
went In my uniform, for I have to go
on duty. You can go and take one
if the boys." They came, the mother
and her boy, end before the meeting
was over both of them entered the in
quiry room and gave themselves to
lesus. When you looked at the worn
n her face showed that a change had
taken place. The light ct the morn
ing was there, a little bit of the light
that breaks over the tops of the clIfTs
of eternity, and made it beautiful.
She had been praying, and the fash
Ion of her countenance was changed.
On tho Saturdav night following, at
the prayer meeting, this woman got
up and said: "God has done great
things for me this week. Last Sun
day Ha sa veil wc and. since, five, ot
I my boys have been converted." And
now I am praying for my husband.
! He Is a wicked man and drinks and
swears.- But he Is the father of my
I boys and I am praying for him and
my nrst norn. 1 nave Deen praying
I for them all this week, night and day.
1 "They will both be converted to
morrow. If God does not save them,
that book (holding the Bible up in
her hand) is not true." I cannot tell
you the thrill that swept through the
room as that woman made that state
ment. Sunday morning broke crisp
ind clear, for It was a January morn
nlng, and that man left his signal bot
and started for his little cottaze.
vhon ho reached It his wife was still
up stairs. Jt was her custom to be
np and waiting for him, but she was
who had been left down there to go so exercised about her husband and
on with the work while Jesus was ab- ' ha
Where a Miner 1I11 Her Coins.
A death In a poor part of Budapest
has just brought to light an extraor
dinary story ot a woman's double life.
She had lived apparently In poverty
and semi-starvation, subsisting partlj
on charity, but a search ot her rooms,
which were in a terrible state of neg
lect, revealed that she was worth
more than a million kronen, chiefly
in bouse property. A number ol
stufTud cats in nor room were full ot
cold.
The woman was well known In the
better part of the city, where she
owned several blocks of flats, the rani
ot which she collected herself. ju
don Globe.
Busy All the Time.
The New York man who commuted
uicidt because ba failed to discover
perpetual motion didn't have a labor
atory within bailing distance of a
country weekly newspaper office.
Atlanta Constitution.
sent. When the people see Jesus and
the three dinciplc-3 coming, they run
to meet thorn, and one of them, a
father, outstrips the rest and runs to
.Tpfus with bis child, who is possessed
with a devil, an unclean spirit, and
says: "Master, I have brought to Thee
my son. He has a dumb spirit. I
brought him to Thy disciples down
here that they might cast the devil
out of him, and they could not."
Pleasa remember that; they could
not. Jesus made no excuse for His
disciples' failure. He never does
when they o'.nht to succead. He did
not pxcuse them.
He said: "O, faithless generation;
bow long shall I be with you? How
long shall I suffer you? How long
shall I suffer because of you?" I
want to say this: If Jesus said that of
a few fishermen, who had only been
with Him for two and a half years,
because they failed once to bring
a poor lad out cf darkness Into light,
out of the thralldom of the devil Into
the liberty of the people of God, what
do you think he would say to some of
you here who have been professing
Christ for ten, fifteen, twenty and
even forty years, and you do not know
a soul in this city whom you have
brought to Jesus Christ? Hear me!
Your religion Btands or falls by what
It does for the next man. Your relig
ion Is tested by what It does for hu
manity Does it get into your life?
Does It mnke you pity with a divine
pity, love with a divine love, spend
yourself with a divine prodigality?
It made Jesus empty Himself. He
took upon Himself the form of a ser
vant and humbled Himself, even to
the death of the cross "even Christ
pleased not. Himself." Listen: The
unanswerable argument for your re
ligion Is the healed man. What the
world Is waiting for is a bit of hu
manity out of whom the church has
cast a devil. It waits for that. God
help us to be able to product it! No,
Jesus did not excuse these men, and
He does not excuse 113, either. You
know what happened. Jesus said to
the man: "If thou canst believe, all
things are possible to him that be
lleveth." And the man cried out,
with tears. "Lord, I believe, help Thou
mine unbelief;" and Jesus said,
"Bring him (the child) to Me," and
then JeBus snake the word that did
the work. The diBclnles did not for
get tho rebuke, and they went to
Jesus and I want you Christian peo
pie to remember this and said,
"Master, why could not we cast him
cut?" and Jesus said. "This kind can
como forth by nothing but by prayer."
They, were not praying; they were
discussing with the scribes and Phari
sees, doing anything else but praying.
And that is the weak part of the
church to-day the prayer meeting.
Have you tried to do anything in
the way of helping anybody up who is
down? Have you spoken to anybody
lately about Je3us and His love? Your
boy, for whom, you havo to sit up late
sometimes? You do not tell anybody,
but your tetrs can tell volumes you
never put Into words. You know
what It is to sit up for an unsteady
step, end you are bearing that trag
edy alone. Have you prayed with
that boy? If I came to your house,
could you show me the place where
you kneel to pray? Has your boy
ever seen you pray? Have you ever
put your arms around him and said,
"My boy. Jesus can break the power
of the sin that is binding you?" Have
you ever prayed him into living can
tact with Christ? That is what Jesus
means. All about us are men and
women, parr.lyzed bysin.half damned
by sin, and we are doing nothing to
deliver thorn and we profess to be
Christians! And Jesus is looking at
us, and. from a broken, disappointed
heart. Ho is saying: "How long a in I
to Buffer because ot you?"
How often do you ladles got Into
your carriage or automobile and set
out for an afternoon's calling to pray
with people? 1 know that would
mean a good deal, but that la what
Jesus wants you to do, and that is
what you will have to do if you are to
carry out the mission Jesus wants you
to carry out. How often do you busl
.less men go home earlier to apend
an hour with somebody that the devil
bas got hold of and try to liberate
that soul from tho thralldom of sin
and Satan? Why, If all th people In
this bouse who take communlin and
'all themselves by His name were "
the work God wants them to do. .
Ciuld ut this city la a blaio.in less
.ban a week. "This kind can coma
lortli by nothing but prayer." Do
not think you are going to have It
done because you have sent for a
stranger. The stranger cannot do It.
He Is no magician, be Is no conjurer,
no trickster, no quack. He Is only a
man; an old-fashioned preacher of
Christ's gospel. I do not believe In
gettlpg up a revival. I believe In
praying one down. If It comes down
It will bo right. These things come
to rass as we orsv, and what is need
ed lu our woik for ChrlU Is mora
prayer.
Will you begin to pray? We "have
n1l bfcijuee we ask pot, it pecan? w5
ad worn herself out praying for him.
lhat sho had fallen asleep and over
slept. "Not down yet?" he shouted
up to her. "I am sorry," she replied.
''I will be down directly." When she
got down he said: "Let mn have my
breakf.-'t. T .will rjet what sleep I
can this mornlmr. I am going to
hear that man this afternoon and to
night." "That's rl,ht," she said, "we
have been nraving for you." "Pray
ing or r.T? You nraved?" he ask3d.
"Yes." said the wife. "I have not had
a chanc to t?ll yci. but God saved
me last Sunday, and five of our chil
dren nre converted, and we hnvs ben
pravlng for yoi all or lis." "For
me?" "Yes. and Ginsv Smith prayed
for you last nlht." "For me?"
"Yc3. and everybrdy in the church
said 'Amen. What time was it?"
the husband asked. "As near as I
can tell, It was half-past, eight." The
tears ran down the man's cheeks like
hubbies on a mountain stream, and
for a few minutes he could not find
words, but when h? did he said: "At
half-iast eight the line was clear, and
I had nothln? to do but think. I was
left aivn with mv conscience, and I
thought of you and the boys and what
a wicked life I have lived, a Chrlstless
life, and I threw myself on the cabin
floor and cried 'God b merciful to
me. a sinner.' H heard me, and at
half-tiast eight, while you were pray
ing for mo. He answered your prayer
and saved my soul." That woman
grinned Gcd snd her husband with
mighty, prevailing prayer, and you
and I may do the same, thing If we
only have faith in Gud. The Lord
teach tis how to pray!
Don't you think there is great need
for something to be done in this great
city? Something needs to coir to
rass to mik the peoile cf New York
City stoi In their mad rush for money
and pleasure and their selfishness and
think about God and better things.
Listen! That will come to pass if
you and I will pray. The Lord help
us to pray! Jesus prayed, and He
asked His dlseinles to pray. And
Jesus prayed "the Lord of the hrr
ve it" to "send forth laborers into His
harvest." Will you, for His dear
sake, get beneath the weight of this
ritv and lift it a little nearer to God?
Lift It In your arms of faith, in your
heart ot pity, In your believing and
prevailing prayer, nearer to God. We
must all pray, you, me, and pray all
the time.
The Light of Faith.
Faith is truly a light In the soul,
but It Is a light which only shines
upon duties, and not upon results or
events. It tells us what Is now to be
done, but it does not tell us what la
to follow, and accordingly It guides
us but a single step at a time, and
when we take that step under the
guidance ot faith, we advance directly
into a land ot surrounding shadows
and darkaess. Like the patriarch
Abraham, we go, not knowing wither
we go, but only that God is with us,
in man's darkness we nevertheless
walk and live In God's Ugh:. A way
jf living blessed and glorious, how
ever mysterious It may be to human
vision. For "the Lord God will en
lighten our darkness."
Missing Life's Melody.
There's no music in a "rest" that
I know of, but there's the making of
music in it. And people are always
missing that part of the life melody,
always talking of perseverance and
courage and fortitude; but patience
Is the finest and worthiest part ot
fortitude and the rarest, too.
ltuakin.
,' ' Confidence.
, Live, for the great convictions.
Carry I with' ytra an atmosphere of
toDttdsn. sol victory.
French Interest In Professor Beh
ring's researches for the treatment
of tuberculosis bas drawn from him
a new statement on the subject, from
which It appears that the Investiga
tion ot bla preventive system ot im
munising against the disease has tak
en a decisive step forward. Until
few week ago, saya the London
Globe, the professor's system has
been confined to animals, and the di
rector cf the Pasteur Institute al
Mile claims to have succeeded in Im
munising goata by means ot It. Bea
ring himself now announce that b
bas taken the definitive step, from
which be had previously shrunk, ot
lnocculstlng a number of persons al
different .times, and Is now. watching
developments.
THE" CRANK.
"Yon say there Is nearly always
something broke about your automo
bile?" "Yes," answered Mr. Chugglns,
nervously.
"'What la It, as rule?"
"Me." Washington Star.
INTKHXATIONAf. LESSON COM
MENTS FOIl JANUARY 17.
Subject! The Beginnings of the Chris
tlun Church, Acts 2:22-47
Golden Text, Acts 2:42 Commit
Verses 82, 83 Exposition.
TIMK. Sunday, May J8, A. D. 30.
FLACK. Jerusalem. -
EXPOSITION. I. God Hath Made
Jcmis Roth Lord anil Christ, 82-80.
Jesus could not be held fast by death.
No more can we If we are in Him.
David hundreds of years before had
caught a glimpse of the Greater David
who would go down Into hades, but
who would not stay there; who would
not even see corruption, but would
be raised before corruption bad over
taken His body. Peter, though an
eye-witness to the resurrection, goes
to the Scripture for proof before ap
pealing to his own experience. Some
to-day think that their wonderful ex
perience does away with the necessity
of appeal to the sure Word of God.
Let all such learn wisdom from Peter.
But Peter's testimony had its place
and our testimony has its place,
though It Is not the first place that
belongs to the Word of God. Peter
na the rest were witnesses of the ful
fillment of this prophecy. Their tes
timony is unimpeachable. There was
Jtlll another witness to the certainty
at the resurrection of Jesus that
was the outpoured Spirit (v. 33).
IT. What Shall We Do? 37-40.
Peter told his hearers that Jesus had
been exalted by God to be both Lord
snd Christ. This fact carried home
by the Holy Spirit produced the deep
est and sharpest conviction ot sin.
No other truth Is calculated to pro
luce such profound conviction of sin
s the truth concerning the glory of
lesus and our consequent enormous
jullt In the rejection and crucifixion
it such an one. The Spirit came to
them and through them convinced
:he world (Jno. 16:8). These con
victed Jews cried out to know what
they were to do. Peter's answer was
ery nlaln, and perhaps nothing in
:he Bible makes the way of salvation
tnd blessing plainer. (1) "Repent,"
:. e., change their minds about Jesus.
Hiey were to change from that attl
;ude of mind that crucified Jesus to
:hat attitude of mind that accepted
Htm as that which God had exalted
Him to bo. Lord and Christ. This, of
:ourse. Involves repentance of sin, 1.
., renouncing all sin. And it in
volves the absolute surrender of our
wills to Je3us as our Lord. (2) "Be
iaptized." There was to be outward
water baptism. But there must be
Bore than the mere outward symbol
mere was to be the great Inward
Tact for which the outward symbol
itood, the renunciation of sin, faith
n Christ and the putting on of Jesus
Christ (cf. Gal. 3:28, 27; Ro. 6:3,
I). Being "baptized In the name of
lesus Christ" means more than hav
ng some water sprinkled upon you
(or being Immersed In some water)
while a certain baptismal formula Is
repeated. It means confession and
enunciation of sin. faith in Christ's
Jeath and resurrection In our behalf,
identification with ChrlBt in His death
ind in His resurrection. When there
is real repentance and real baptism
there will be remission of sin and
there will be reception ot "the gift of
ihe-Holy Ghost" (v. 38). The gift ot
the Holy Ghost is the blood-bought
Mrthrigbt of every believer In Jesus
Christ. If one does not have the gift
of the Holy Spirit experimentally it
is either because be does not claim
his birthright by simple prayer and
faith (Acts 4:31; 8:15. 16). or else
because he has not really made Jesus
Lord and Christ by the absolute sur
render of the will to Him and by
Identification with Him In His death
and resurrection by a real baptism of
which bis water bantlsm was a sym
bol. "The promise," 1. e., as the ian
guage ussd and the context unmistak
ably demonstrates (cf. en. 1:4, 6: 2:
23, 38), the promise of the baptism
with or gift of the Holy Spirit was
tor them as well as for the apostles.
TIL A Model Church. 41, 42. Pet
er's sermon bad a tremendous effect.
suuo were saved by It. No such ef
fect had fcUowed Jesus' own preach
ing, and His promise that they should
tlo greater works after His ascension
than He Himself had wrought during
His humiliation (Jno. 14:12) wasthus
fulfilled. And we to-day are united
with this same exalted Christ In the
place ot power at God's right hand,
and may speak In the power ot this
same mighty Spirit. The Inward re
ception ot the word was outwardly
expressed In baptism. These 3000
baptisms in a day were the outcome
ot the ten days of waiting upon God
In prayer (cf. ch.l:14). Surely those
ten days had not been wasted. The
work proved td be lasting, "they con
tinued steadfastly." The four things
In which they continued steadfastly
are worthy of note. (1) "The apos
tles' teaching." There was no run
ning away after every new religious
fnd that came up. (2) "The apos
tles' fellowship." Fellowship Is one
of the necessities of healthy Christian
growth (Eph. 4:13, 16). Tho one
who seeks to grow In seclusion, separ
ated from the brethren, is doomed
not only to disappointment, but worse
still, to sad distortion of character.
( 3 ) "In the breaking of bread." Tbey
rtlij not neglect regular obedience to
Jesus' commandment to show Hia
death and to feed upon Him In the
communion service. (4) "In pray
ers." Just bora lu the point where
the average Christian of to-day de
parts most lamentably from the ex
ample ot the apostolic church.
EPWORtH LEAGUE LESSONS
THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK
8UNDAY, JANUARY 17.
How Wa Know the Father-Matt. 11a
27; John 6: 38-46; 141 fi
ll! 17! 4, 6. -Matt.
11. 27. Jesus here de
clares hllnself to be India
pensablo to tbo soul who wishes
to know God. Kj tells us that knowl
edge of himself ij the necessary pre
lude to knowledge of God. He first as
serts his own dependence upon God;
that the Father is source and authori
ty for all things in his life. Because
of this Intimate relation with God and
the knowledge which comes from it
he claims a unique position of power
toward other men. He not only had
control by divine authority over all
things, but from his divine-human na
ture he la ablo to reveal God as Fath
er to men; and he Is the only one
who can do so. Many parallel pas
sages repeat t...j substance of the
verse.
Natural men 1 ay have some rudi
mentary ideas I a supreme power,
but In their unaided mental and spirit
ual weakness they are unable to grasp
tho final Ideal of God as "the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of men les and the God ot
all comfort" Cl.rlst alone has power
to reveal to men the nature and at
tributes of such a God.
John 6. 38-46. Here we have
in larger -statements the mean
lag, of our first reference.
Christ came from heaven with a pre
arranged purpose to do the will ol
God. The Father's will Is that every
one should see the' Son, believe on
him, and have everlasting life, being
raised up at the last day. Christ is
the sole agent whereby that plan shall
be worked out.
John 14. 8-11. Those familiar
words embody the beautiful
fact that God Is like Christ
at work. Christ of the healing hands
and gentle speech, of the tender heart
and quick sympathy, Is the pest pro
trait of God the Father that the world
has ever seen. We must say It rever
ently, "God was made flesh and dwelt
among us." If we want to know what
God Is, we must study the life of
Christ.
This is In anticipation of the "It Is
finished" on the cross. Like Saint
Paul Christ had fought the good fight
and looked away to the victor's crown.
The work which Christ had finished
Is described In the preceding verses
as given "eternal life to as many as
thou hast given him. And this Is life
eternal that they might know thee the
only true God." The business of
Christ In the world, then, was to give
men the vision of God.
' TEMTERANCE I1ATTLE GATHERS
STRENGTH EVERY DAY. :,
JANUARY SEVENTEENTH.
! "BITE BIGGER, BILLY."
; One day a gentleman saw two boya
going along the streets of a large city.
They were barefooted. Their clothes
were ragged and dirty and tied to
gether by piece ot string. One of
the toys was perfectly happy over a
half-withered bunch of flowers he
!had picked up in the street.
: "I say, Billy," said he to his com
panion, "wasn't somebody real good
to drop these flowers JuBt whore I
jcould find 'em? and they're so pretty,
and sweet. Look sharp, Blllly, mayv
be you'll find something by and by."
Presently the gentleman beard hi
merry voice again saying: "Ob, Billy,.
;lt there ain't a pear, and It ain't mucn
'dirty, either! 'Cause you haven't
found anything you maks take tba
first bite."
Billy was Just going to take a very
llttlo Uste of it when his companion
said: "Bite bigger, Billy! Maybe
we'll find another on 'for long."
I Have you anything that wou!d give
pleasure or help to others! Don't
give them Just a we little, but say,
f'Blt bigger, Billy." Bseblv.
It
tjplc Pilgrim' Progress Series. I.
Leaving the City of Destruc
tion Act 16: 25-34.
The burden ot sin. Ex. 5: 4-9.
The awakening of conscience. Act
2: 87-42.
The flight of danger. Gen. 19: 15
22. Grace opens a way. Matt. 11: 28
30. What a pilgrim gives us. Phil. 3:
4-11.
What a pilgrim has In view. 1 Pet.
1: 3-9.
An earthquake or any other calam
ity, should be welcome If it takes us
out of tbe City of Destruction (v. 20.)
It Is well to tremble, and shows
courage, If we only tremble for the
right cause (r. 29.)
What shall I do to be saved? Noth
ing. Let Christ do it (v. 30.)
What is the most Important word
of our lesson? This "straightway"
(v. 33.)
A About "Pilgrim's Progress."
We .are to enjoy this year twelve
lessons based upon Bunyan's "Pil
grim's Progress." It Is, next to tho
Bible, the world's greatest religious
book.
It Is the most Biblical of books out
side tho Bible, and is Indeed a pic
torial commentary on the Bible. We
shall need our Bibles at every step.
Every Endeavorer should own n
copy of "Pilgrim's Progress," and
resd the entire book, i
Do net confine each lesson to the
one tonic suggested, but read the In
tervenlng portions and speak of them
in the meetlne.
It Is one ot the most practical of
books, and all part of it are to be ap
plbd to modern life.
Suggestions.
Every worldling Is clothed In rags
and bears a heavy burden. When he
beel-s to realize it he berlns to be 0
Christian.
Fvanpeilst has only to point to the
light: he Is not obliged to furnish It.
Fvorv man must seek salvation for
himself and by himself. Thus Cbrls
tlnn runs away from his wife and
children when they would hinder him.
j A Good Sermon.
', Dr. Smtth E. Jelllfte, the noted
alienist, was talking about campaign
oratory.
"Blank," he said, of a certain Sen
ator, "la such a thoroughgoing,
painstaking and vltbal tedious cam
paign orator that whenever I hear
him I am reminded of an old-fashioned
minister of my boyhood.
"This minister on 8unday morning
spread before him on the reading
desk a very thick packet ot notes
and launched into a long, dry, heavy
sermon. '
"The reading of the sermon ab
sorbed bim. He did not once lift his
eyes.. . On toward the end, however,
happening to glance up, he perceived
almost tbe entire congregation to be
sound asleep. . 1
"The minister frowned and paused.
Ha struck the desk a resounding blow
that awakened bis parishioners. Then
bo said:
'My good friends, this sermon
cost me a great deal ot labor, and I
do not think you have given It the
attention It deserves. I shall, there
fore, repeat it from the beginning.' "
Washington Star.
On hundred thousand gallon ot
water sterilised by eloctrlcally gener
ated osone ars used dally by the
Pittsburg Homoeopathic Hospital. Pry
air 1 passed through the osonlxera
'and the owns produced Is mixed with
the water by means of aspirators.
Three oxonliers are used for stertllx-
Inv wit'tr while twi orovlde OZOOS
used for, sterilizing instruments and J
bandages. .,
" " """ " 7
A Wife's Prayer.
Mary, go out for the evening beer,"
The stalwart husband said,
'And she blimhcd with pleasure the words
to hear
They were onlv a hnlf-ycar wed
'And ere now he had listened, in doubt
and fear,
For the staggering midnight tread.
"To-niitht he will stay with me here," sh
thought,
"And perhaps In our own still room,
The iweot hnme lesson nmy yet be taught,
Forgotten before the bloom"
Of love that faded, that surely ought
To have lasted through the gloom."
For ploom and distrust, indeed, had come,
And darkened the homestead now,
And the patient wife sat stricken and
dumb
As her husband, with angry brow.
Said things thut were cruel and harsh, and
some
That belied his marriage vow.
She had borne it lc3. but another life
Would aoon be at her breast;
Could she bear it then as mother snd
wife?
Tier hand to her lifrut ihs pressed?
"flti f!nH " aim ran-.iJ. "oivs atrenuth for
the strife.
Or grant me c'.emal rest."
She soon was br.ck -m across the street,
In her hnnd th- -. timing can,
Expei.-t.ing her hu md's face to greet,
A moody, imp jut mnn.
She heard but t .e sound of her startled
feet
As into the room she ran!
"Gone out," she bitterly thought, "to stay
While I sit here ancf weep,
And await his step at the break of day,
Faint and weary from want of sleep.
He will come to his home, not as true men
may.
But as dogs to their kennels creeo.
The daylight came, and the husband, too,
But not as he came of old.
The silent river its pale dead threw
On shore, but no tale was told
Of the midnight death that the drunkard
knew
In the water, cold and dark.
The blight on her life in a night bad
flown,
But the love of her youth returned,
And the heart that was once the dead
man's own
Again with affection burned;
But the "sweet home lesson" they both
hnd known
Could never again be learned.
Was it better that thus the praver she said
IV as heard, and a wrecked life go.
Than that six lung months should be years
instead.
And children should share her woe,
Bagged and wild-eyed from lock of bread?
Only One over all may know!
Edmund Lyons.
A Sod Confession.
Talking with a brother minister
not long since, we asked what was
being done for temperance In hla
town. "Practically nothing," he re
plied. Urging upon him the personal
duty of beginning an attack on the
saloons, he parried our appeals for
a while, but at length broke out sub
stantially in the following confession
and statement:
"I know I am not doln? what I
ought. It la a question of bread ami
butter for myself and family with
me. But If I satisfied my conscience
by attacking the saloons, I would
alienate some of the financial sup
porters of my church mho are In
terested in them. This would crlppra
my church finances, and some of my
official members would at once com
plain to the Presiding Elder (he was
a Methodist) that I was an Injudicious -man,
and that they must have a
change. At the conference the Pre
siding Elder would report this to the
Bishop, and as a consequence I would
be sent away to a place unable to give
me decent support I say my silence
Is a matter of bread and butter with
me."
Methodist Episcopal Presiding Eld
ers and Elshops, how much truth I
there In this man's statement? If
there is even a color of fact In It, as
there Is too much ground to fear, we
need to cleanse oursalves of such sin.
Should the church ever become a
terror to righteousness, Instead of
evil-doers, then would she Indeed be
that anti-Christ which it would be the
duty of all good men to destroy as
the chief hindrance of Christ's Incom
ing kingdom. Epworth Herald.
The Worth of a Single Life.
Dr. Torrey tells. -of a well which
was being dug In an American town
ship by two men, one working at the
bottom filling a bucket, and the other
at tho .top drawing It up by a wind
lass. Presently quicksand was
truck, which began to pour in upon
the bottom man; but, sheltering hi
head under a plank which was there,
he wa able to breathe. News ot bis
danger spread in the township, and
the whole townshln turned out to dig
that man out, and worked tor many
hours till he was saved.
. Was it worth It for the whole
township to go to work to save one
man? Was it right?
There is one man going down a
victim of the liquor traffic In your
township. Will It be worth it for the
whole township to vote the liquor
traffic out to save that man? Will It
be right? Temperance Advocate.
Chicago's Saloons Decrease.
The number ot saloons in Chicago
has been - steadily decreasing until
there are over 1000 fewer to-day
than there were In 1905. Tbe growth
ot temperance sentiment has operated
to bring this about Indirectly, but the
Immediate factor In the case was the
law which raised the license tee to
(1000 In 1905. There are still 7180
saloons within the city limits, but the
suburbs and better residence districts
are very largely dry.
Temperance Notes.
A glass of Prevention is better than
a barrel of Cure. '
Kansas, under her new law, nomi
nates all State officials by direct vote,
with no conventions. Recent returns
show overwhelming victories for tem
perance candidates.
Th rum traffic enslaves many pub
lic men, subverts public justice, de
bauches the public conscience, schools
It patron to perjury, and la xhe Im
placable enemy of both church and
State.
The liquor trade broed every so
cial disorder and wars persistently
upon tbe bom and til organised so
ciety, if
I would rather be a doorkeeper In
the house ot prohibition than to dwell
In th tents ot the saloon. Watklns
at Monarch Park.
Although ot all nations tho Gorman
baa th greatest capacity for culture,
th general culture of the highest
clusses 1 undergoing frightful retro
gression because the beer consump
tion of the student youth Is affording
neither Urn nor sobriety for what Is
demanded by the advanced require
ments to prepare tor professional life.