L11 II V
Milch Cunt.
The first annual meeting of tho
Connecticut Milch Goaf Keepers' As
sociation was held at West Hartford,
Conn., on February 2, 1909. Presi
dent Smith, to compare cows' and
goats' milk, made a demonstration
analysis for milk-fat and mllk-sollds,
With tho following result: Cows'
milk. 4.4 per cent, fat, 14.1 C per cent,
iollils; goats' milk. r..S per cent, fat,
16.40 per cent, solids. The society
is constantly receiving Inquiries from
various partg of the country, Indicat
ing tne Increased interest that Is be
ing manifested In the milch goat In
dustry. Wickly Witness.
Heifer vs. Mature Cows.
A bulletin of the Connecticut Sta
tion given some Interesting and valu
able facts about th comparative pro
duction of cows and heifers.
Tables are given summarizing offi
cial records of "i9s 1 lols'.eln-Krle-tans
Bnd 4 o cin rnseys, classified ac
cording to the aci of the animals. In
the HolstcliiH "the- quality of milk Is
quite uniform for animals of different
ages. The milk or two-years-old heif
ers contained 0.2 per cent, less of
butter fat than that of cows In the
mature five-year-old form." The cal
culated butter fat yield In seven days
at even age of two ycar.-i Is 9.o5
pounds; at three years, 11 " 1 pounds:
at four years, ir,..' pound.2, and at
five years, 14. 3) pounds. The aver
age yearly yield of butter fat of the
Guernseys for tin? two-year-old clas3
was S25.28 pounds; tin? three-year-old
class, 403.9 potiinls, and the four,
year-old class, .5 pounds. The
mature form class five years old and
over) averaged 4.".V7 pounds.
, Five in One.
t find the following arrangement
to be the most convenient and useful
contrivance of its kind on the farm.
Hence I s'l'miit it to the benefit of the
public.
I will not give any particular
lengths, as that depends on size of
wagon and the preference of the
farmer.
No. 1 Is about 5x6 inch light wood.
No. 2 Is 2x3 Inch. Sink holes In No.
1 about 1 V4 inch deep by 2x3 for
No. 2. This hold3 No. 1 in place.
Now if you want to haul logs simply
place two bunks (one at each end of
wagon) on No. 1 and you are ready.
Then If you want to haul 4-foot wood
put in standard No. 3.
Then perhaps you may want to do
some transferring on the farm sim
ply place boards on cros3 pieces No. 2
(after putting In about five) and you
are ready. Next you may want to
haul out manure put in standard to
hold sideboards and you are ready.
Now you see a rain coming up and
you waut to change to getting In hay.
Then remove standards and bring out
the following which you should have
hanging at the side of shed on two
pins, place on pieces No. 1 and you
are readv. No. I are cross pieces 2x1
inches iO hold boards (No. 5). Put
In standards at front find rear end of
No. 1, just inside of pieces No. 4, to
bold No. 4 and No. " at proper place.
When through using either of the
above, drive in shed, remove stand
ards and hang from No. 5 on pins;
have pins on opposite (.-!! of shed
for pieces No. 1; then you have every
thing in the dry and out of iihe way,
without any hard lifting. Levi J.
Bhenk, In The EpitomUt.
a cow, Just as too many chocolates
are bad for daughter Susan, or too
much taffy disagrees with young Hill.
But a steady diet of a small quantity
of molasses Is a great thing for a
dairy herd. My cows don't relish
their fodder without It. I feed it to
them all the yenr round, except In the
breeding season. The carbons In It
are dangerous then.
"I hove had occasion to go rather
deeply Into the subject of the rela
tion between tho nerves of taste and
the nerves of digestion. As a general
thing, It Is true of human beings that
the things they like are the things
that are good for them. Tho same
thing Is true of animals. The most
profitable feed for the farmer in a 1
general way id the feed his stock 1
likes." j
Cultivating Seedless Toinntor. !
Since 1899 Professor Hals'ed, of
New .Jersey, has bten giving some at
tention to seedless tomatoes. The
firs; seedless plant occurred among
the progeny of a cross between two
standard varieties. At the very s'ert
the fruit was large and was called the
Giar.'.. The stems of the plant were
noted for their long joints and slow
growth. The variety seems to be well
fixed and the flavor Is excellent.
Another hybrid produces seedless
tomatoes of a different type. A fair
proportion of the fruits in each clus
ter do not attain a size larger than
peas, but go through the regular
stages of ripening and remain seed
less. Professor Halsted has also ob
tained seedless fruits from several
other crosses, showing that this Is
quite? a common phenomenon In the
breeding of tomatoes. Most of the
seedless fruits possess a desirable
flavor, but it is not always like that
of the other tomatoes; In fact, In
somo cases tho flavor has been pro
nounced more like that of a straw
berry. Recently Professor Sandsten, of
Wisconsin, has demonstrated that the
use of excessive quantities of fer
tilizer exercises a truly remarkable
effect upon tomato plants. It ap
pears that the plants react differently
to overfeeding. Some are dwarfed,
some greatly elongated, some lie flat
upon the ground, and In many the
flowers and fruit are very abnormal.
On two different types of plants thus
produced seedless tomatoes grew.
One type produced a large, solid to
mato, while the other bore fruit not
larger than a walnut. Both types
come true when propagated from cut.
tings. Several other plants were ob
tained which produced fruits of an In
termediate character, with fewer
seeds than In normal tomatoes and
Irregularly distributed. Professor
Sandsten does not consider either
type of seedless tomato of any com
mercial value at present, but in time
they may become so, and in any event
it Is important to know that such
profound changes in the growth and
habits of a plant may be produced in
a Eingle generation by changing the
amount of the fertilizer, Country
Life in America.
Partial Cow Hat ion.
No one would attempt to run a
(team engine that was driving a mod
ern threshing outfit with but thirty
pounds of steam. Yet many dairy
men nt tempt to get profitable re
sults from their cows by feeding them
a partial ration. They attempt to
run thi.ui with bit' "thirty pounds of
steam." Cliemis's tell ua that two
thirds of what a cow consumes goes
to maintain her body. The remainder
goes roward miik production.
It is evident to all that ths profit
must como from tho feed over and
above that, which the cow requires
for maintenance, and that tho more
she eats the great'-r will bi the profit.
Thera are many good cows In the
country that are not recognized as
such and cannot be n:ado profitable
unless they receive more feed. There
is no profit In feeding partial rations
to milch cows. We cannot get profit
able results running cows on "thirty
pounds o itcam." If there is a food
shortage, tne might better feed full
rations to bait the number rather
than feed the many on half rations.
In the latter case there will be much
work and little profit. Ia the former
the cows are sure to give profitable
returns and the labor of caring for
the herd would be much lessened.
Milk Reporter.
Kweets For the Family Cow.
H. W. Heard, of LaFarge, Wis.,
states that when the American farm
er's wife, a few years bonce, hands
her husband the shopping Hat, there
will appear the following:
"Chocolates for daughter 8uian,
taffy for little BUI, and a gallon of
molasses for the cow."
"Cows like sweets," be said. "I
feed my herd a regular ration of mo
lasses every day, and I find tbat they
thrive on it. It makes their flesh fat
and their skins glossy. It gives test
to their appetites and helps their
digestion. It Increases the quantity
and Improves the quality of their
milk, for it puts the cow In a good
v humor, and a good-humored cow is
the best milker.
"Of course, the thing can be over
don. Too much molasses la bad for
To Gi t I'oitili' Eg?.
A great many experiments have
been conducted to ascertain, if possi
ble, the caus9 of lack of fertility In
eggs. Many experts are at sea who
have thought the discovery had been
made.
One plan Is purposed to ascertain
strong fertility and when the expert,
mcnt 13 made a second time there is
a different result. Aguln, there may
be strong fertility and low vitality in
the chick that Is hatched or in tho
embryo which fails to hatch.
The best of us are willing to con
fess that tbero Is much mystery In
the business of Incubation and the
catiBes of eggs falling to hatch.
Some experiments have been con
ducted In tho Canada Kxperlment
Station to gain some Information
along this line. Different breeds and
crcssbreeds were testsd and also egi
from hens which were kept in houses
that were a3 cold as the ordinary
houses where poultry is kept. Fresh
air and exercise are important anJ
such cannot always be obtained in
warm houses. The following is a
summary of the results of such ex
perlmcnts :
The generous and gently stimulat
ing rations given to the fowls kept in
cold houses did not seem to affect
the strength of the germs of the eggf
laid by them as similar rations ap
parently did In the caso of hens kept
in artificially warmed houses.
Eggs laid in early Deccmbor bj
the hens kept in artificially warmed
houses showed a greater percentage
of strong germs than did eggs laid
by them later in the season.
Eggs laid by the same hens ic
early spring showed a greater per
centage of fertility, but the weakest
germs.
Tho most striking and gratifying
results were obtained from the fowli
which, like their parent stock, hac
never known warm quarters. From
forty-eight eggs laid by these fowli
In early spring rafter laying wel!
during the winter forty-five strong
chickens were hatched.
In contrast with this are soventeet
chickens from fifty-two eggs laid b
hens kept In warmed but compara
lively limited quarters.
Results were strongly in favor o'
the average farm conditions. Oni
successful farmer has an open shef
attached to his poultry bouse, an
to this shed, which Is protected b;
a curtain in stormy weather, his fowli
have access, so obtaining fresh nil
iritl exercise. Tbe latter Is securer1
l throwing grain In Utter, which It
always on the floor of the shed. In
land Farmor. .
THE PULPIT,
A SCHOLARLY 8UNDAY SERMON BY
DR. ALVAH S. HOBART
Theme: The Unlisted Asset..
Brooklyn,
S. Hobart,
N. Y. The Rev. Dr. A.
of Crozpr Seminary,
preached Sunday morning in the Em
manuel Baptist Church, Lafayette
avenue and St. James place. His
subject was "The Unlisted Asset,"
and his text was Matthew 22:4144:
"While the Pharisees were gathered
together Jesus asked them, saying:
'What think ye of Christ? Whose !
son Is He?" They say unto Him, 'The
son of David.' He saith unto them,
'How, then, doth David In spirit call
Him Lord, saying the Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
till I make thine enemies thy foot- ,
stool. If David then call Him Lord,
how Is He his son?" And no man
was able to answer Him a word,
neither durst any man from that time '
forth ask Him any questions." Dr.
Hobart said: j
Sometimes In the summer the ther
mometer runs up Into the nineties, 1
and we call it hot weather, but we
take oft our coats and attend to oui
business and say to our frien'ls: "Thli 1
is summer, but after all I rather like
summer. I do not see that the sum
mer is to br? so much dreaded." And
the next dav the thermometer stands
Just as it did the day before, but we
are nearly smothered, and we say:
"I cannot stand It at nil. I think this ,
19 about the worst climate; it i!
enough to kill a man." What is the
difference? The thermometer does
not tell the whole Ftory. To-day
there are only sixty dezrers of hu
midity, but yeBterday there were nine
ty. There Is a certain unlisted ele- ,
ment In the weather that the thermom-
eter does not make any account of,
but that unlisted element makes all
the difference In tho world. A man
Is sick and his doctor tells that he
has an Incurable disease and cannot
live, because the medical records do
not show a single case of recovery
from that particular disease. Never
theless the man recovers completely,
and the only way the astonished doc
tor can account for It Is by saving
that the man had a great fund of in
exhaustible vitality. That vitality is
the unlisted asset in the case.
This Is tbe Idea I have in mind
when I ppeak to you concerning the
unlisted asset in Jesus. These people
wanted to know certain things and i
He wanted them to believe certain
things. There seemed to b some
doubt as to the Messia'e, and Jesus
asked thera what sort of a man they
thought the Messiah was going to be.
"Whose son will He be when He
comes?" and they said. "Why, Da
vid's son." Then He said, "Have ye
not read the psalm wherein David
said. The Lord said unto my Lord?"
In the Jewish realm no man would
ever call his son "Lord." How was
It? They did not know. They found
in the Old Testament Scriptures that
there was an unlisted asset. Now, ,
history presents a similar problem, ,
Things have happened that we cannot j
account for in the ordinary way. Be.
fore, or soon after, A. D. 300, the pa- :
gan kings of Rome ceased to be, and
a confessedly Christian king sat in 1
the centre of the Roman Empire.
Now the teachers of that gosnel did i
not have philosophy like the Romans 1
or literary culture like the people of
Rome or Athens. I
They suffered persecution and were
called "theoff-scourlngof the world." j
They had no armies, nor temples, and
yet Inside of 150 years they displaced ,
the Emperor on his throne by the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. How are you
going to account for that? Somehow
these untrained fishermen, and that
cast-out Pharisee of the Jewish eccle
siastical institution, had gone ahead
with tho unlisted power-and won
these marvelous victories. Something ;
was there besides, something greater
than a son of David. A humble peas,
ant's son In Palestine prophesied that
His name should be above everything
and that all the nations of the world
should know it and bow down to it.
What do we see to-day? Why, the
statesmen of the world are being '
guided by the fundamental principles
that that peasant taught. To-day the i
philosophers of the world are slough- ,
ing off all tho speculations that are i
not in harmony with the fundamental
conceptions and the peasant's ideas
of God. All are admitting that they (
must come to the recognition of the
existence of an Infinite source and 1
personal God who controls all things. ;
and this Is the specific statement of
Jesus when He said: "Pray, our 1
Father, who art In heaven." . Every i
statement and every theory of the
sociologists of this time is pre-Btated
in the language of the old Jewish
peasant's son and every great princl
to start 9purgeun clubs In every town
In America and vorshlp Spurgeon;
or suppose 2omo one wanted us to
j start Phillips Brooks clubs and be
come jirooKsucH, we woiuq say,
"There i9 a ranltarium over there;
you had bettor go there." You see
that if Jnsu3 were nothing More than
a pre-eminent con of David He would
be on tho tamo piano with Spurgeon
and Brooks. We will honor such
men and tako counsel from their wis
dom, but never bow down to them.
And men would novor bow down to
and worship Jesus Christ If He were
not something i,,o;e t'mn a son of
David. "But," you any, "that hy
pothesis does not account for the fact.
"We admit the my story, but there
Is a certain unlisted clement that we
cannot see yet." Lot us yen what His
apostles say. Paul had hla own the
ory when he said that Ho was "In the
form of God, yet Ho nindo Himself
of no reputation and took upon Him
the form of a servant, and was found
In tho likeness of tho flesh and suf
fered death, even the death of tho
cross." Thoro Is a notion of pro-ex-lstence.
That is Paul's conception of
the unlisted asset, that pre-existing
glory with God. That does not an
swer the Question, but it answers
something. Ho did wnat David never
did. He took on Him our form and
went back to accomplish the finish of
the work. In tho Hebrews we rend
that He was the "express image" of
Cod and "by Him nil things consisted
and held together. " So you have the
hypothesis of His being larger than
David's son, who too if on Him tho
form of David's sot'. Then wo find
Jesus speaking with authority, "it
hath been said by m n o old time,
do so and so, but I say unto you tio bo
and so." Again, "I ramo down from
My Father, and all authority Is given
unto Me and all judgment Is given
unto Me that men may honor tho Son
as they honor the Father," and "he
that hath tho Father hath tho Son;
he that hath not the Son hath not
God." It does not solve nil the mys
tery, but it tells lis of a certain ele
ment of divinity about Mm which no
son of David ever had.
Then again Ho says iht whosoever
believes and follows Jesus will be
with God. That does not solve the
mystery, but it telis us that so far as
God can teach mankind Ke teaches
us by His Son Jesus Chris;.
You say: "I am handicapped, be
cause peoplo calling themselves
Christians have not Christianity
enough to distinguish them from the
rest of the world." Confine yourself
to those whom you will recognize as
genuine Christians, those whom you
would like to have pray with you
when you aro sick. Ask thsso people,
"How is it you have managed to over
come when others have failed? How
is it that you have kept straight for
ward with a cheerful spirit where oth
ers were discouraged? And they
will te'l you this: "Since I believed
in Jesur., a strange Inside power has
come to me that has changed my af
fections, that has opened my eyes,
strengthened my courage, nursed my
virtues, nerved my will and has kept
me steadfastly going toward the Ideal
that I regret I have followed so far
away." I say that such testimony Is
the strongest testimony that this Son
of David has an asset of power that
He imparta to His peoplo to give them
victory.
This is the New Testament expla
nation: He was the Son of God and
had in Himself certain immeasurable
assets of divlaenesa tbat belonged to
Him, not because Ho was the Son of
David, but because He came to bo
the Son of David from on high, and
because of that ho has a claim to our
obedience and worship and confi
dence. What sort of a Christ do you went?
You need a saviour. What do you
want Him to do? First, to forgive
you. Second, to purify your tetrt.
Third, to give you grace. Can aay
body do it except it bo the Son ot
David to come In touch with you, and
tho Son of God to have power? I
hnvo spoken these words to you this
morning that you might believe, not
only that Jesus is the Christ, but that
Christ is tho Son of the Living God,
and that believing in Him ye also
misht h?.vo life.
(Jht
INTERNATIONAL LESSOX COM
MENTS FOR APRIL 25.
APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH.
I-.vcry Christian a Worker.
Each member of a Christian
church should be a worker for Christ.
Our Lord has never granted a dispen
sation to a single one of us; would
any of us desire that He should? His
vows are upon us all without excep
tion. Are we each obedient to His word,
"Occupy till I come?" Are we put
ting out our talents to interest? If
we are not doing so, we can never
enter into rest. Rest Implies prevl
qus labor. We are bidden by the
Holy Spirit to labor, to enter Into
the rest of God; It is the way thereto. J
Idlers are unrestful. fidgety, worried
and worrying, fretful and fanciful.
troubled and troublesome. Thev are
pie that guides us is stated better by the happiest who are the most com-
Him. Wneu you toon over wo uuu inuieiy consecrated lo ine service OI
vnn find that where this Gospel has
gone the world has new conceptions
of man. Nowhere else do you find
the conception of man "In the image
of God" und standing in all funda
mental essentials on a common plat
form. It has given new conceptions
of man's attitude toward God, of his
God and most fully absorbed In obe
dience to His will. Oh, that all our
church mem-bers were constrained by
Divine grace to do their utmost for
tho Lord! C. H. Spurgeon.
The New TcUmcnt.
It Is an easy thing to tal.-e into
Manias Are Epidemics.
Manias and delusions arc mental
phenomena, but tbey are social. The)
are diseases. of tbe mind, but the)
are epidemic. Tbey are contagious
not as cholera Is contagious, but con
tact to others Is essential to them
They are mass phenomena. Profe
sor W. Q. Sumner, In "Folkways."
There are la all thirty-five electrU
furnaces In operation In this countrj
and Europe for steel production.
the New Testament aright? It la
colossally subltmo. It has no parallel
in human language. It Is the power
of God among men. It Is tbe critic
of our thoughts. And It is all this
because it enshrines the Christ. It
exists to perpetuate th Master.
Rev. David Gregg.
Be Emotional.
A man can never move the wcrld
who lets the world move him. Mar
tin Luther.
duty to his fellow man. There was j one g hand tne New Testaraent. and
no conception of 1ntern'lt,lona,1la.w,u,n; ; turn Its pages; but do you estimate
tu unnauanuy oruusui n. uu m.
peasant's son In Palestine prophesied
all this recognition of these princi
ples 1800 years before. What are
we to say about that? Is He more
than a peasant's son or Is there some
unlisted element there?
We must look around to find the
cause ot this unaccounted for phe
nomenon ot history. We have ex
' bausted the assets ot David's son, and
; we must find something else. Some
I things, it Is true, can be accounted
for as the son ot David, but not all.
Tbe times and the character ot Jesui
' will account for some, but there is
i larg residue left that cannot be ac
counted for that way. Some say,
' "Jesus Is undoubtedly the pre-eminent
teacher ot the world. Nobody
1 ever equaled Him before or since of
Is ever likely to, but," they say,
I "Shakespeare was undoubtedly th
. tlghest genius In his line, and be
went so high that nobody aspires to
, touch him. Socratea was a pblloso
! pher, and In bis line nobody aspires
: to take awar hla crown. And so
1 Jesus in Hla line was the pro '"-" nt
Hla day. Ha cam from tbe . .b
people, a most pious family. In a time
when tot world was trying to be sc
wicked, and tie was a spleudld reli
gious genius and we bow down to
Him pre-eminent In His sphere." Will
It do? We will admit that tbe cir
cumstances and times did for Jesus
about all tbat could be done to make
Him pre-eminent as a moral teacher,
but wby did not other people tbe
martyrs, tbe disciples why didn't
Paul rise to the same pre-emlnencef
No man could lay a finger on Paul's
life and say, "Here Is a moral weak
ness tbat accounts for It." If Jesus
was no more tbon a peasant's son He
sever could, then or since, have com
manded' the respect of a. single man
such as Hi has now. Suppose a man
came from England and wanted us
Remarkable .Thermometer,
Some curious thermometers were
made. Otto deGuericke, burgomaster
tit Magdeburg, made one which was
twenty feet long and gorgeous with
blue paint and gilt stars. It consist
ed of a large globe fastened to a tube,
both ot copper. Tbe tube was bent
Upon Itself to form a very narrow U,
In which was placed the requisite
imount ot alcohol. One arm of the
U waa shorter than the other and
9pen at the top. On the liquid was
a float, to which waa attached a cord
passing over a pulley. At the other
end ot this cord waa hung a gilt an
gel, Its finger pointing to a acale on
which the degrees were painted.
The Writer's Power.
Newspaper Influence and power
rill widen, Just as newspapers are
more and more read, and correspond.
Ingly It behooves newspaper men to
look weH to every word they write,
for they write not as one man to an
other, but as one man to multitudes,
New Havea Journal and Courier,
Subject: Tho Gospel In Antlocli, Acts
11:10-30; 12:2.1 Golden Text,
Acts 11:20 Commit Verses 22,
U:i Commentary on the Lesson.
TIME. A. D. 42, 43. PLACE.
Antioch.
IMPOSITION. I. Great Revival
at Antioch, 10-21. It took years for
them to learn that the Gospel was for
men of every nation. But while these
early Christians had not as yet
learned all things, they had learned
some things well: (1) what to preach
"the Word;" (2) how to preach
"speaking the Word" (R. V.). They
Just talked the truth in a natural, un
stilted, conversational way. (3) Who
ought to do the preaching the rank
and file of the church, for "tbey that
were scattered abroad" were not the
apostles (comp. ch. 8:1). God had
led on step by step; first, Jews, then
Samaritans, then Jewish proselytes,
but at last genuine Gentiles. The
first missionaries to tho heathen were
Just ordinary lay Christians, whi had
gotten so full of the truth as it is in
Jesus that they could no longer fol
low the slow lead of tho authorities
in the church, but were forced to
lirpnV thn hrniHs nt Jewish tirciudlce
and narrowness and speak out to the
perishing Gentiles. The movement j
was of God and soon carried the I
whole church with It. Tho word for
preaching In v. 20 is not the same as 1
in v. 19. It means "telling good tld- i
ings." Those good tidings which
they told are summed up in three
words "the Lord Jesus." Tbey did !
not expend their strength in attack- I
ing heathen superstitions and immor
al practices. They told the good news ,
of salvation in Jesus Chrl3t. There Is .
no proof that these men had the hand ;
of bishops, presbytery or council upon
them, but tney naa me nuuu ui mo
Lord with them." The great secret
of success In Christian work is here
indicated. The outcome of the
hand of the Lord being with
them was, "a great number believed
and turned unto the Lord." State
ments similar to this abound in the
Acts (v. 24; 2:47; 4:4; 6:14; 6:7;
9:31, 35, 42; 12:24. etc., etc.). We
would do well to ask why the Gospel
does not make the same uniform
headway to-day. The answer, in part
at least, is suggested In Acts 2:42:
6:4; Acts 1:8; 8:4. The faith of
those converts In Antioch proved its
genuineness by Its effect they
"turned unto the Lord." What is
meant by turning unto the Lord Is in
dicated by 1 Thess. 1:9; Acts 26:18,
20. We have in these verses a very
clear setting forth of God's part, the
worker's part, and the convert's part,
In repentance and conversion. The
workers preached the word, the Lord
Jesus (vs. 19, 20).
II. Barnabas Follows Lp the
Work. 22-24. As soon as tidings of
the Gentile revival at Antioch reached
Jerusalem there was great Interest
there. They sent one of their best
men to investigate and co-operate.
"He was a good man." It Is far more
Important that a man be good than
tbat he be brilliant If he Is to edify
young converts. He was also "full of
the Holy Ghost." He was also "full
of faith," and no man that Is not need
undertake the work of Instructing
and developing young converts, espe
daily converts from heathenism so
dark as that in Annocn. ne wua inw
from the love of gold (ch. 4:36, 37).
He' was free from personal ambition
and Jealousy in his work (vs. 25, 26).
He was very sharp-eyed to see the
sincerity and promise of a young con
vert (ch. 9:27). "When he was
come, and had seen the grace of God,
was glad." Barnabas was In sympa
thy with G3d and His work. It Is sad
to soy that not a few who see the
grace of God wrought tnrougn omer
hands than their own, are mad. and
try to belittle It. Note the character
of the working of God's grace In An
tioch: it was a grace that could be
"seen." We need more of this visi
ble grace in our churches to-day. Bar
nabas knew Just what to do. Exhor
tation was Barnabas' forte (ch. 4:36,
R. V.). His exhortation was precise
ly that which should be given to all
young converts. It Is not enough to
"turn unto the Lord," they must
"cleave unto the Lord" or continue
in the Lord. This must be done with
"purpose of heart." There Is always
much In the way of persecution or
worldly allurements of one kind or
another to draw a young convert
away from the Lord, and unless they
cleave to Him with fixedness of pur
pose, there 1b little hope.
III. The Ministry of Barnabas nm?
Saul at Antioch, 23-30. Barnabas
showed his largeness of spirit in still
another way. He said to himself,
"This is JuBt the place for Saul. I
will go get him." For a whole year
Barnabas and Saul worked together
In Antioch, and their work was great
ly blessed. Their ministry consisted
largely in teaching, systematic incul
cation of revealed truth. The disci
ples got at this time the name by
which they are best known since
Christians. The name was given to
them by others (perhaps in contempt,
rf. ch. 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16). "It was
a glorious name and they clung to It.
The real prophetic gift was mani
fested In the church (vs. 27, 28; cf.
ch. 21x10, 11). The self-sacrificing
love of this young but rapidly grow
Ing Gentile church in Antioch to their
Jewish brethren in Judea la very
touching. No sooner did they hear
of the bard times coming than tbey
determined to send relief "unto the
brethren that dwelt In all Judea."
A Considerate Captain.
At Portsmouth, N. H., where they
were to unveil a atatue to the mem
ory ot T. B. Aldrlch, during an autb
or'a argument on International copy
right, Thomaa Nelson Page broke up
a rather acrimonious discussion by
deftly Interposing a story.
"After all," he said, "there Is nol
much real help in tbat Idea. It is
such an idea an emanated from tbe
mind of a bard, cruel aea captain.
"In mid-ocean the cook approached
tbe captain timidly.
" 'Captain,' be said, 'the men are
growlln' about the beef. They say
they can't chaw it nohow. They say
It's only fit to mend their sea boots
with.'
" 'How much beef are you glvln'
em cookie?' the captala asked. ,
" 'A pound apiece a day, sir,' said
tbe cook. y
" 'Well,' said tbe captain, gently,
'give them half a pound apiece from
now on. I should be sorry to force
'em to eat what isn't to their, taste"
Rochester Herald. 1 -
Heroes of African Missions Jer.
1: 6-12.
The missionary's passion. 1 Cor.
9: 10-23.
The missionary's danger. Ezek. 2:
3-7.
The missionary's faith. Isa. 49: 1-6.
His reward. Mark 10: 28-31.
The missionary's Joy. 2 Tim. 4:
C-8.
The missionary's triumph. Rev. 7:
1317.
God's messenger may be a child,
but God Is not a child, and the mes
senger Is God's agent (v. 7).
If ever a man had an excuse for
fear, very often it is the missionary;
but he least of all men is afraid, be
cause most of all men he Is conscious
of God's presence (v. 8).
Missionaries are n ' always elo
quent; but God's . .rd in their
mouth's does God's v ork on human
hearts, which Is far U.ter than elo
quence (v. 9).
Missionaries are reai.y set over na
tions, to make thera strong, build
them, and change history, as in
China, Hawaii, Japan, the Islands (v.
10).
Heroes of Africa.
What missionary f iat has gone to
Africa, the Dark continent, Is not a
hero? The "great" missionaries are
those of whose heroism we know
more than of others.
One of these is George Schmidt,
pioneer missionary to Africa, who was
on his way thither seven days after
travelers brought him news or the
neglect of the blacks there. He toll
ed among them six years, till he was
sent back to Europe by the godless
colonists.
p Sixty-one years later, In 1798, Van
derkemp of Holland went to South
Africa at the age of fifty. He was a
converted Infidel, a learned physician.
In thrpe years he himself spent $5,000
to redeem slaves.
Robert Moffat, tho Scotchman, fol
lowed In 1817. One of hU triumphs
was the training of the fierce chief,
Africaner, whose conversion is one of
tho miracles of missions.
David Livingstone followed Moffat,
In 1841. His great work was heroic
exploration, and he died on his knees,
alone in African wilds.
Krapf, a German, was the Living
stone of northeast Africa, and he a'.do
died on his knees In prayer.
Cox, first Methodist missionary
from the United States, went to Afri
ca though he knew he could not live
there long; and Indeed he died In five
months.
Bishop William Taylor tolled to es
tablish self-supporting missions in
Africa. This heroic man for years
carried a stone with him, his only
pillow at night.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
' SUNDAY, APRIL 25.
Our Spiritual Birth John 3. 1-13.
John 3. 1-13. The truth of a aplr
ltual or new birth is fundamental in
Christ's method of salvation, and It
is therefore given a prominent place
here in the Gospel of John, corre
sponding somewhat to the position of
the Sermon on the Mount in the Cos
pel of Matthew. The time Is early
In the ministry of our Lord, so that
there Is still In part an attitude of
honest Inquiry on the part of the
Pharisees Into tho new teaching,
though there are also already the be
ginning of a spirit of hostility, and
it is stated concerning some of
Jesus's hearers at this feast of the
Passover that he "did not trust him
self unto them" (John 2. .24). But
we are fully warranted In regarding
Xicodemus as a sincere Inquirer, while
he comes partly as a representative
of the Pharisees, Indicated in hia
words, "Rabbi, we know that thou art
a teacher come from God" (John
3. 2.)
Christ's Initial statement. "Except
one be born anew, he cannot see the
kingdom of God (3. 3), at once puts
In clear light tho great truth that
the kingdom requires In everyone
who- enters It a radical transforma
tion. The new Christian Impress
reaches to the very center of person
ality, and Is as pervasive and poten
tial as that which Is given by one's
natural heredity.
A little later Jesus says: "Except
one be born ot water and the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God" (3. 5). By tils use of the term
"water" the Master shows that he Is
loyal to the mission and ministry of
his forerunner, John the Baptist, for
"the Pharaslsees . , , rejected
for themselves the counsel of God,
being not baptized of him" (Luke 7.
30). Christian baptism had not yet
been Instituted, and John's baptism
was distinctively "the baptism of re
pentance" (Mark 1. 4). Also tho
term "the Spirit" here stands for the
'work of renewal or splrltuul change,
which makes the converted person
tike God In nature and character.
Thus our spiritual birth or regenera
tion embraces the two factors of re
pentance and renewal.
J CANARY TIP.
I think you will be Interested In
this letter about my canary, Tip. He
was given to me as a Christmas gift
from a friend. He Is a very Interest.
Ing pet and does some amusing
things. When I first saw him, on
Christmas morning, he was singing
sweetly In the window, only stopping
to plunge his head from time to time
In 'hla little drinking cup. I lmme.
dlately opened. tbe door ot his cage,
being careful to close all the windows
ot the room. At first Tip seemed
frightened at finding himself thus
liberated and ceased chirping. Grad
ually, however, hla courage returned,
and he began an inspection of th
room, flying here and there at will.
Finally he selcted an old rolltop desk
as his permanent - abode. So at
Finally he selected an old rolltop desk
that I had great difficulty In catching
him when tbe time came for Mm to
get Into hla cage, as he would hog
Into a remote corner of some pigeon
hole. Now every time I open his cage hi
flies straight to the desk, perching on
tbe inkstand, and often ruining fa
ther's papera by hopping on then
with Ink-atalned feet. Gerald W
Lane, In the New York Tribune.
I fill ! SI
! Child SforUllty In ew rork.
There ia a weekly average of 4 Si
deaths In New York City among, oil!
drea under five years old. , '
THE GREAT DESTROYER
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SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOtJJ
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE,
Who Are Alcohol's Defenders?
The discussion as to whether si.
cohol is ever a food Is equally lju
and evasive ot tbe main issue, .
Clares Dr. Frederick Peterson, of Net
York. It Is not a food like bread
and butter, for it has venom in t
As Professor Abels, of Johns Hopkiy
University, says: "It is an easily oi.
idlzable drag with numerous unto,
ward effects, which inevitably appear
when a certain minimum dose is ei.
ceeded."
I have emphasized the word drug
because It Is as a drug that alcohol li
now regarded by most physicians.
a piacea among tne narcotics and an.
aesthetics.
I should like here to present a very
brief summary of what scientific in.
vestlgators have recently determined
to be the action of this drug:
It is no longer considered to be i
Biimuiani, dui ratner a depressant.
it perverts aigestlon.
It depresses and weakens the heart
action.
It decreases the capacity to do
muscular work.
It diminishes the intellectual func.
tlons by dulling the cveat've faculty
Impairing Judgment, v -atlng the
correctness of percerlions and bjr
generating timidity.
tl brings about s!"v, far reaching
anatomical changes, such as fatty de
generation of the heart, kidney dis
ease, diseases of the blood vessels,
changes In the muscular tissue and
In the cells and fibres of the nervous
system.
Its habitual use lessens the normal
defences of the organism against In
fectious diseases, especially tubercu
losis. If you find here and there some dls.
senting voice, that of some university
professor perhaps, you may be sure
that is It not that of a person with
medical experience or any one famil
iar with the material which all may
read but rather the voice of some
one perversely Interested. You might
well question whether such a one Is
simply seeking sensational exploita
tion of himself or whether he might
not even be subsidized by the vast
commercial Interests at stake, for you
must remember tbat the annual con
sumption ot alcoholic drinks in the
United States Is over a billion gal
lons. I believe that human evolution has
now reached the stage when the abo
lition of the use of alcohol as a bev
erage is expected and required. Ab
stinence Is one of tbe principles ot
human eugenics, that new science
that is just being born.
There is no one here present who
would feed- alcohol to his dogs,
horses, sheep or cattle. These pos
sessions are too precious for that
He Is too Interested in Improving
their breed. He would recall Pro
fessor Hodge's experiment with al
coholized dogs, in which among twenty-three
pups born in four litters to
one pair of alcoholized dogs nine
were born dead, eight were deformed
and only four apparently normal.
Our best method ot eradicating the
alcoholic evil is that of a campaign
ot education. Every man, woman
and child should be made familiar la
one way or another with what is
known by the medical profession of
tbe ravages of alcohol.
A Strong Argument1.
The following card made Into a
blotter, signed by a dozen grocery,
firms of Delaware, Ohio, has been
scattered by the thousands, and has
proved very effective In a campaign
which, writes Dr. C. W. Barnes, "Is
moving splendidly:"
"Anyone who drinks three glasses
of whisky a day for one year and
pays ten cents a drink for it, can
have In exchange at any of the firms
whose names appear on this card
three barrels flour, twenty bushels
potatoes, 200 pounds granulated
sugar, one barrel Crackers, one pound
pepper, two pounds tea, fifty pounds
salt, twenty pounds rice, fifty
pounds butter, ten pounds cheese,
twenty-five pounds coffee, ten pounds
candy, three dozen cans tomatoes,
ten dozen pickles, ten dozen oranges,
ten dozen bananas, two dozen cans
corn, eighteen boxes matches, half a
bushel beans, 100 cakes soan, and
twelve packages rolled oats, for the
fame money, and get $13.30 premium
for making change in his expendi
tures." Western Christian Advo
cate. ,
It Is a Cancer.
The liquor traffic Is a cancer In so
ciety, eating out its vitals and threat
ening destruction; and all attempts
to regulate it will not only prove
abortive but aggravate the evil. No,
there must be no more attempts to
regulate tbe cancer: It must be erad
icated The most effectual
remedv would be the passage of a
law altogether abolishing the liquor
traffic, except for mechanical, chemi
cal, medical and sacramental pur
roses. Abraham Lincoln.
Just Remind Him.
When an adherent of the liquor
forces tells you tbat the S45.0OO.O00
now paid for wages in liquor manu
facturing would be withdrawn were
traffic in intoxicants itopppd. remind
him that there would be, without sa
loons, an increase in factory wages
:f more than $286,000,000.
Kivllerland's New Sunday Law.
The General Council of Geneva,
Switzerland, has Just passed a new
Sunday law, which la tar in advance
of anything we have In thlj land.
Temperance Notes. . "?
Booze has made beggars feel like
kings and baa dragged kings from
tbeir thrones.
Massachusetts, last election,
showed a "no-license" majority of
18.710 votes; twenty of her thirty
three cities are without saloons, and
so are J60 of her 321 towns.
More than all other causes put to
gether. It is repsonsible for the an
nual crop of 10,000 murders and tbe
10,000 suicides in this free, prosper
ous and Intelligent republic.
Tbe last week of the year la the
annual holy-week of Booze, when lta
friends and victims shout, : "Here's
looking at you!" "Happy New
Year!" "Skoal!" "Prosit!" or
"Whoop-la!" and then go Into a
trance.
It Is dt well known that alcohol
causes a certain receptivity for other
diseases. In pointing out this fact,
Professor F. Martins, director ot tbe
Rostock Medical Clinic, aald at the
XXII. Congress ot Internal Medicine
In 190B that alcohol affects the gen--rative
as wall as other organs of the
body, and that this Is the main factor
In the degeneration ot the human
vacs.