Raise Some Sheen, Every farmer who has any grazing land can profitably raise some sheep. Hilly pasture land Is In abundance in many sections hills that have not been cleared of their timber and there are millions of acres of such land which wlil afford good browsing for sheep or Angora goats. Farm ers' Home Journal. Allowance of Food. Of course Borne brood sows have a greater tendency to lay on fat than others, and this tendency Is kept with in proper nllowanceby uslngless corn. A sow at farrowing should not be overly fat. but should be put In good round condition as soon as practicable after Dies ar? weaned. Farmers' Home Journal. A (jnod Idea. Dr. L. O. Howard, entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, has sailed for Southern Russia, for the, purpose of securing further Introduc tion of parasites to prey on the gypsy and brown tall moth3. It is well known that something has already been done by the department at importing enemies of these moths. Such has been the success attending this measure of aid ngaiii3t these destructive Insects that the authori ties are encouraged to follow up this lln of defense against their spread. Weekly Witness. and put It "down In clean hay. Meat treated. In this manner may be left hanging all summer and will remain In the best condition. V. Hanson. I LEAGUE SUNDAY, JUNE 13. Hog Killing on the Farm. In order to do neat and rapid work at hog killing time It la necessary to have a good scraper, sticking knife, a hog hook and a place that is conven ient for working. For scalding a barrel Is commonly used, and it Is all that Is needed un less tht hogs are very largr?. If very large hoss are killed, a scalding tub will answer the purpose for scalding much better than a barrel. I have one which Is made of two-Inch planks for the sides and ends and sheet iron for the bottom. It Is six feet long and three and one-half feet wide, with a depth of two and one-half feet. Two hooks are fastened near tho top on one side, with a pair of trace chains to run under the hog to facilitate the burning and withdrawing from tho Horses and Blind Rrldle. Those who use blind bridles on driving horses assume to supplement nature In behalf of the horse, where as they aro seriously obstructing na ture. The eyes of the horse are given him to see all about him and to thus aid him In giving the best service possible In the safest way possible. It is not only cruel to use blinders on horses but It handicaps his useful ness and makes him more dangerous. The following in a letter to the Breeder's Gazette from a man who has for many years been training horses, is excellent and to the point. He says: Most any of us would ns eoon be ' burled as to lose our eyesight, and yet men, by tho use of blinders on bridles, unhesitatingly deprive the horse of all the means he has of satisfying himself that nothing will hurt him. They also deprive him of seeing what little beauty and sunshine there Is about him. Not content with making a slave of this noblo creature seven days of the week, they must deprive him of this last pleasure, his life and beauty, this little index to his emo tions telling his fears, whether he is happy or sad, hungry or weary, sick or well. When permitted the use of his eyes he uses them with great Judgment: he sees better than we do, can meas ure distance? better and if allowed , tho use of his eyes would save him- i self from collisions on the street, i washouts and had ruts In the road. ! Should you be thrown suddenly out , of the buggy, or the buggy break, he could see the trouble and stop. j Break a horse in a blind bridle nnd , never let him see the buggy; a month ; later you are driving along the road, , the blinds get adjusted wrong, the colt looks back over the top of one, I sees the buggy and kicks it all to j pieces, endangering the life of jour self and family. Eut he is not to blame; self protection Is his first ! thought. I saw n man not long ago lead a horse with a blind bridle up to a Accepting and Rejecting the Truth Matt. 4: 23; 7: 28, 29; Mark 6: 2-5; John 7: 45-43. The quest for truth under the di rection of the ideals set forth by Je sus In his words and acts this la what I understand Christian educa tion to be. And what pursuit In life Is so fascinating as the search for truth? Poet, preacher and phllosoph sr, painter, sculptor and musician, are all alike In search of truth; and all are great Just In proportion as they Jiscover and realize truth. The geolo- , gist succeeds only as he wrings the I truth from lips of stone; genius I breathes from the canvas of the paint. ?r In exact proportion as truth Is de lineated In his picture; in vain Is the white marble chiseled Into speaking life by the sculptor's hand unless the : form that Is liberated be the divine 1 Image of truth. No eloquent Hps, no tongue or flame, no tuneful chord un touched by truth's magnetic thrall! Now. in Jesus truth has had Its ; most perfect incarnation. Have we rnnsld.'red his claims? What place ioes Christ occupy In our lives? Do we realize that ho stands as the cen tal figure in time? Are we conscious :hat our own age, liberal and tolr-r-i nt as it is, does not Justify loose ; views concerning this person? As the morning mists of doubt nnd supersti tion lift, as the debris of dogma, au thority and tradition are gradually cleared away, and as the sunliu'ht of unclouded truth pours Its sieady and . ,umlnous rays upon the outline of this majestic figure that stands in chisel ed repose against the horizon of his tory, the effect of his unique and deal personality more overmasters the. thought and sentiment of the human race. Now, what does Christ expect of tho pupil who would enter his University of Truth? He requires, first, that the mind of the student be open and re ceptive; second, that he be willing to suffer and toll for truth; and. third, that when convinced of any truth, he be willing to Incorporate It into his life. There Is nothing that so blocks the avenues that lead to truth as. pride, arrogance, and prejudice. The spirit Df humility has been the distinctive mark of the genuine scholars of all nations. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES JUNE THIRTEENTH. tub. It Is placed over a furnace, which Is made by dlggins a trench In the ground, and when In use I place pieces of wood across the bottom, In order to keep the hog from coming In contact with the iron bottom and get ting too hot. I find that tho proper temperature for good scalding is from 180 to 190 degrees, and if a barrel is to be used the water Bhould be boiling when dipped out of the kettle, as the barrel will cool It some. If a scalding tub Is used the water should be cooled by adding a bucket of cold water before the hog is put in. To Insure a correct heat of tho water use a thermometer. Small quantities of lye, ashes or lime will have no effect in removing tho hair, but will cause the scurf to come looio more readily. Keep tho hog in constant motion while being scalded, and draw it out to air occasionally. When tho hair and scurf slip easily from the body tho scalding Is com pleted. In scraping nnd cleaning the hog I clean the feet and head first, then the legs ar.J last, but not least, the body. I hang the hog with a rope and pul ley, as it Is more easily hung In this way than any other. But It may be hung with the ordinary gambrel, a tick which is sharpened at each end and Inserted under the twndon strings or the hind legs. A short singletree w ill be found to answer for a gambrel stock. If there Is sufficient help at hand the hog may be hung on a pole put up for the purpose. After the hog Is hung up, rinse It down with scalding water, remove the entrails by running a sharp kulw Mghtly down. marking the belly straight, cutting to the bone between the thighs and In front of the ribs, which bones I split with an axe, being careful not to cut beyond them. I usually salt down on a bench or In a box as soon as It his cooled enough to trim. The amount of salt I use Is ten pounds to every 100 pounds of meat. In addition to the salt I also use two pounds of granu lated sugar and two ounces of saltpe ter mixed. Itub the meat once every throe days with one-third of the mix ture. While It Is curing pack It In a box In a cool room, where It will neither become warm nor freeze. Two barrels may be used, changing the meat from one to the other each time it Is rubbed. After the last rub bing let the meat lie in a box for a week or ten days, then take it out to smoke. When taken out of the box dip each piece in a kettle of boiling water and let it remain balf a minute, after which sprinkle with a little pow. dered borax on the meat side and hang. Smoke It four or five days with hickory chips or corncobs, then lip and sprinkle U with borax again wagon. As the horse stepped arourj" ' he tumbled over the tongue. Oi course his master whipped him for it. Cruel master. First deprive him of his eyes, then whip him because he cannot see! Is it any wonder he does j not want to lead up to the tongue? I This is an every-day occurrence, and not only does it happen at the wagon tongue, but the horse runs against i tho barn door, steps on your toes nnd gets a good beating all because he cannot see. No horse Is so bad about shying n? the horse with defective eyesight, and a horso will get scared much worse at any object when the blind gets be tween him and that which he fears A man ouco paid me 20 to break a team that would get scared and run away. I took his money, gave him a pair cf open bridles and the team Is perfectly safe; but it had cost him a broken icg and had torn up twe sets of harness, smashed a buggy and broken a vtagon tongue. And yet they say a blind bridle Is the best I was talking to a man one day on this subject nnd he said he knew blind bridles were tho best becaus nearly everyono used them. With as argument! There was a time when nearly everybody thought the earth was flat, but they were wrong. He said, too, that a horse looked better In blind bridles. What an Idea! A little piece of black leather look bet ter than tho eye tho life and beaut) of this noble creature! Yet few men have a tetter reason for using tbeni. Humus in the Soil. Of HIL H m . n . . in the soil and absorbs toxic polsoni which are given off by the plant roots However this may be the farmei must add humus to bis soils to mak them produce good crops. There ar several ways In which humus Is in creased In the soil. To make the mat ter clear to those who do not under stand what humus is it might be well to state that humus Is the dark-colored mold left after organic mattei or vegetable matter has decayed Then la the light of this explanatloc farmers will understand that any or ganic matter turned under and al lowed to decay will form humus Barnyard manure, straw, stalks, etc. the ploughing undor of green growini crops, such as clover, cowpeas, rye oi any other crop used generally foi green manuring will add humus tc the soli. The lack of organic mattei Is usually noticed by the soils be coming out of condition. They rut together and cake after heavy rains When such a condition occurs th farmer should spare no pains to lit this highjr essentia! part Topic The Noble Life of Frances Willard. Prov. 31: 10, 17-20, 25, 26, 29-31. The mother of us all. Gen. 3: IS 23. Sarah obedience. 1 Pet. 3: 1-0. Kuth trustfulness. Ruth. 2: 1-12. Mary spirituality. Luke 2: 46-55. Martha service. Luke 10: 38-42. Mary worship. John 12: 1-9. Frances Kllzabeth Willard was born In Churchville, N. Y., September 2S, issa. In her childhood the family re moved first to Oberlln, and then to a pioneer home near Janesvllle. Wis. Her education was finished at the Northwestern Female College, Evans ton, 111., where she won a host of friends, displayed great intellectual power, at,d became valedictorian of her class. Taking up the teacher's vocation, after highly successful work In many Institutions she became dean of the Northwestern Female College and professor of Aesthetics In the North western 1'nlversity. . Mi.-s Willard was moved to take up temperance work by the Woman's Crusade, that "whirlwind of the Lord which In fifty days swept the liquor traffic out of two hundred and fifty towns and villages." At great finan cial cost she became president. In 1S74, of the Chicago Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union. In 1879 she became president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, until her death, February 17, ISM, being the acknowledged leader of the. temperance women of tho Unit ed States and the world. Among the outstanding events of her llfb are her pioneer work for temperance organization in the west, labors for prohibition constitutional amendments in many states, the ed itorship of The Union Signal, tho writing of an autobiography and other books, heroic work for the Woman's Temple, the National Tem perance Hospital nnd the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association. Tho Polyglot Temperance Petition ad dressed to the governments of the w-orld, and the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union were her plans. She spoke everywhere, being heard often on Christian Endeavor platforms, fer sho was a warm friend of our society. Rightly has she been called "the uncrowned queen of America, THE CAPTAIN'S BRIDE. Captain Hudson, of the schooner Henry Clausen, hailing from Bath, Maine, took with him his young bridt for their honeymoon trip, on bis last voyage from the Gulf to the Azores. When still 500 miles from "the haven where she would be," the little vessel Sprang a leak in a hurricane. For three days and nights 9f horror the ship's company of only .tight fought the lnfloodlng sea and he pitiless firmament, their food spoiled by sea water, and "not a drop to drink." During that time all that kept up the courage of the men was Mrs. Hudson's singing and story-telling. Her dauntless refusal to succumb to the desperate situation kept the men ct the pumps and the well-nigh foundered craft afloat until a steam ship, noticing ttjelr fluttering signals of distress, bore down upon them and (rescued them all in the lifeboats. No sooner were the brave little woman and her companions safe upon the deck of the steamship than the aban doned schooner took fire from 'some unknown cause and burned to the water's edge. i As Sir Walter Scott pointed out in his oft-quoted poem, woman in ber hours of ease may be "uncertain, coy and hard to please," but when the emergency has arisen, In numberless occasions of which the present is a Telatlvely insignificant one she has mot the crisis with something more) than the courage of a man, still hop ing, still enduring when even strong men gave way to despair. Philadel phia Lsstter. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM. MENTS FOR JUNE 13. Subject! Heroes of Fnlth, ITebrews, 11:1-40 Commit Verses 24, 25 Golden Text, Hebrews 11:1 Commentary on Day's Lesson. TIME. Uncertain. PLACE Un certain. EXPOSITION. I. Whnt Is Faith, 1-8. Faith looks at the Word of God, sees what He promises and rests assured that it will all come to pass Just as He says. It puts It to the test by acting as If it were so. It asks no questions, but believes what Cod says will come to pass and obeys what God commands. To be lieve God is to rely upon or have un hesitating assurance of the truth of God's testimony even though it Is un. supported by other evidence, and to rely upon and have unfaltering as- Durnnce oi ine rumiiment or His promises even though everything seems against such fulfillment (cf. 1 John 6:10, R. V.; John 5:24, R. V.; Acts 27:22-25; Rom. 4:3, 19-21; Heb. 11:13). It was In faith that "the elders," the heroes of the past, obtained a good report. Believing God they went ahead and did as Ho said. Faith in the certainty of God's Word lay at the foundation of all their achievements. It Is by faith that we understand how the worlds were made, I. e., by the mere word of God. II. Four Heroes of Faith, 17-22. Abraham stands out ns the first and pre-eminent hero of faith in the Old Testament (Gal. 3:7-9). It was by simple faith in God and His word that he left his country and kindred and went out, not knowing wither he went (v. 8; cf. Gen. 12:1-4). By simple faith in God and His Word be saw his seed as the stars lnthe heavens and sand on the seashore innumer able (Gen. 15:5; Heb. 11:12), and "it was counted to him for righteous ness" (Gen. 15:6). By simple faith in the certainty of God's Word, when he was commanded to offer up Isaac for a burnt offering he did so. Whether he was to actually slay him he did not know (Gen. 22:7, 8), but he stood ready to do even that (Gen. 22:10), accounting that God was able, if necessary, to raise him up even from the dead. Abrahams faith stopped at no sacrifice. True faith never does. It was only when his faith was tried that hi3 faith Bhone forth (1 Pet. 1:7). It was through the trying of his faith that' Abraham's name came down for ad miration throughout the ages. The sacrifice that God called upon Abra ham to make, God Himself made (Gen. 22:2, 16; cf. John 3:16). So Abraham became a type of the Fath er and Isaac a type of Christ. There had never been a case of resurrec tion before Abraham's time, yet Abraham accounted that God was able to do it, though he had never heard of such a thing. Isaac's return home with his father was like a res urrection from the dead. Abraham knew that Isaac would return with him (Gen. 22:5). Isaac walked in the steps of his father's faith. He made prophecies of rich blessing on both his sons (Gen, 27:29, 39, 40; 28:2, 3) though he had no ground for expectation of the fulfillment of the prophecy except the bare Word of God. Jacob followed In the steps of the faith of his father and grand father. As he died he prophesied great things concerning tho future of Ephraim and Manasseh (Gen. 48-6-22). Joseph in turn followed In the footsteps of his father, grand father and great grandfather. He would not allow his bones to be bur ied In Egypt, nor even to be taken over into the promised land at the time of his death. He had God's Word for it that the whole people were to return and gave command ment concerning his bones, that they should be kept until the people re turned (Gen. 60:24, 25). His en cofflnod bones were a constant index finger pointing the children of Israel to the promised land. III. How Moses Walked by Folth, 23-20. A mighty king issued a strict commandment, but the father and mother of Moses knew a mightier King than he and believed the might ier King's promises and were not nfrald of the mighty king s command ment. Faith knows no fear. How can a man who believes in God fear man? (Ps. 27:1-3; Heb. 13:6; Ps 5:4; 118:6; Is. 8:12, 13; 4i:in, 13, 14; 51:7. 12; Dan. 3:16-18; 6: 10; Matt. 10:28). It was a great honor to be called the son of the mighty Pharaoh's daughter, but it was a greater honor to be called the child of God. Moses refused the for mer for the sake of tho latter. The path he chose was one of buffering affliction (cf. 2 Tim. 3:11, 12). We are called to be soldiers and must expect to be glad to endure hardness (2 Tim. 2:3). But it is better to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. "The sorrows of the Christian are sweeter than the Joys of the world." Sin has its pleas, ures, but they are "but for a season" (cf. Job 20:5; Ps. 73:12-20; Luke 12:19. 20; 16:25; James 5:6; Rev. 18:7). Moses bore the same kind of reproach that Christ did, reproach because of loyalty to God and the right. The Old Testament Scriptures prophesy of the reproaches the Christ (or Messiah) shall bear (Ps. 69:7, 20; 1 Pet. 1:11). All who follow Christ must suffer reproach (ch. 13: 13). Even th reproach of Christ is greater riches than all the wealth of Egypt. A Truthful Verdict. Farso, N. D.,' once boasted a com- I coslte postmaster and coroner. He was called one day to give his ver I diet upon the case of a stranger who bad been the victim cf a fit on the main street. As the man was known to nobody he was hurried to the much-prized new city hospital. There the case was diagnosed as appendicitis, but wbeu I the operation took place the attend ing surgeon aiBcovered that the pa tient has been previously relieved of bis appendix. The doctor endcavorod to retrace his steps, but the strange man died from the effects of the operation. The postmaster-coroner, in render. Ing bis verdict, filled in the space after "Cause of Death" with a rub ber stamp which read, "Opened by Mistake."- Success. Ths Duk of Saie, who is alio man -agar of ths C: irt Theatre, lately Is iut an o.der fcibUlisg klstlrj u tbi I'-tfi, THE PULPIT. ' A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY REV. O. P. EACHES, D. D. Theme t The Lost Sense of Sin. Proressor O. R. Smith, of Chicago Lnlverslty, in the reported discussions of the Baptist Congress, finds almost no place for the term sin In theologi cal thinking. His words are: "What does sin mean to the modern man? It certainly does not menn what our systematic theologians define It to mean. Sin is not thought of so much as an offense against. God as it Is an offense against men who deserve something better than to know op pression and greed. Jt is the social sins which make our blood hot to day." Professor Smith would put so ciology In place of theology. If the time comes when sanitation shall be perfect; poverty disappear, child labor be a thing of the past, social comforts abound, then the term sin will be an obsolete word in our lan guage. There Is an utter remove between the teachings of the New Testament and those of the divinity department of Chicago University. Jesus dwelt on moral reconstruction, not on social changes. Two men out of three In the Roman empire were slaves; the sanitary arrangements In Jerusalem then nnd now were wretched; social injustice prevailed. Jesus had open eyps and a wise mind nnd a tender heart, but He emphnslzed the mean ing of His ministry as that of saving lost men. Sin was a very real and serious thing to Him; He came to save men from it. A woman came from the slums, in Luke 7; Jesus forgave her sins. NIc odemns came from the Sanhedrin, with fine social surroundings. Jesus Insisted on the necessltv of a cleans ing and a changing. The prayer of the publican and the prayer of the prodigal alike both of them the words of Jesus placed on human Hps reveal a strong sense of sin. It wes the penitence, the confession of sin that got hold of God's heart of mercy and brought forgiveness. A weakening of the sense of sin ns a wrong against God will of neces sity weaken the desire for salvation, destroy the power of the cross, make the Christian life Itself a superficial thing. If there be no sin, how can Jesus be a Saviour? why will men nea a salvation? A man may wrong his nelchbor; he can sin only against God. The true conception of sin ap pears in Psalm 51:4: David had wronged his own moral nature; had wronged Uriah; had wronged Bath shoba; had wronged society and the godly commonwealth; but his chief wrong was done to God. "Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned." A lost sense of sin will lead to a lost Christ. Principal Forsythe. in Ms "Positive Element in Preaching," declares that the weakness of modern preaching, Its lack of effectiveness, is due to a diminishing sense of sin. Dr. Henry G. Norton said In print a few years ago that one of the things for which he was profundly. thankful was that God had granted him a sense of Ms personal sinfulness. Large salntshln always grows side by side with a large sense of sinfulness. The fundamental factor in theol ogy is a right doctrine of sin. If there be a superficial definition of sin, there will be alongside of this a su perficial definition of the person and work of Jesus Christ; He will be not a Saviour; a Redeemer, but only a reformer of social wrongs. The urgent need in modern life Is a elear view and profound conviction of sin as lawlessness against God. Until men are brought to see charac ter and conduct and belief, in the lleht of their relations and responsi bility to the Divine law, all social bet terment will be but superficial and temporary. If there be a clear sense of sin against God there will be the sccompanying sense of guilt, of con fiemnation, the felt need of an atone ment of forgiveness. Wanted A ministry, a preaching, a theology, that will restore a fading sense of sin! BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE SOLDIERS FIGHTING TniS CURSE GREATLY CHEERED. Says Women Make Drink the Vogue. In an address delivered Id the Church of the Covenant, Washington, Dr. John D Quackenbos, of the Lon Ion Society for Psychical Research, founded a warning over what he sailed the alarming Increase in the ase of alcoholic liquors by women. "There is no more artfully organ ized, no more unscrupulously exe cuted an intent to imbrute and devil Ire human nature," he said, "than that implied in the existence of the public bar the grossest insult to American intelligence, the most bru tal assault on the Christian con sciousness of the centuries. "The notable increase in the con sumption of stimulants, especially among the upper classes, estimated at ten per cent, during the last decade in the case of men and a much larger percentage in that of women, is inviting anxious attention. Up ward of one billion dollars are spent annually m the United States for in toxicating drinks, and another billion for the relief of tho destitution. the. punishment of the crime, and the care of the physical and mental dis eases that result directly from the drink habit. Especially alarming is the growth of the practice among our women. When the American woman gives herself up to anything she pushes her devotion to the utmost limit. She makes a god of her very sjellgion, and If Bhe affects a habit sTie affects it in the superlative de gree. "The punch bowl figures at all functions, and proud-pled women dip freely therein, ten drinking to-day where one drank a dozen years ago. School mlsBes and college girls are conspicuous among the throng. Debutantes, not necessarily of the fast set, unblushlngly assert a right to drink wine and smoke cigarettes at luncheons and levees, to say noth ing of private indulgence, and not a few of this class, as well as young married women, have been brought I to my office in a state of intoxication. sucn has become the vogue; and, worse than this, girls in their teens see no impropriety in drinking pub licly with men companions. "The abstinent, unobtrusive young woman of the past generations is giv ing place to a coarse and boisterous bon vlvant, controlled by unworthy Impulses, and wholly unfit to fulfil her function in society as an insplrer to meritorious action, or her func tion in the home as a character former and a wife. Many a clergy man can date his downfall from his first dose of Jamaica ginger. "Our very school children are be coming beer and even wine drinkers, especially those of foreign parentage, and the Increasing prevalence of this habit Is leading to a mental sluggish ness, If not defect among the pupils of the public schools that is attract ing the attention of educators and philanthropists. "Experience has proved that you cannot make and keep people sober by act of legislature. In the total abolition of the public bar will be found the alembic." Immensity of the Universe. Suppose that a row of telegraph posts, twenty-five thousand miles long, were erected around the earth at the equator suppose that a wire were stretched upon these posts for this circuit of twenty-five thousand miles, and that then another complete circuit were taken with the same wire around the same posts, and then another, and yet another in fact, let the wire be wound no fewer than seven times completely about this great globe we should then find that an electric signal sent Into the wire at one end would accomplish the seven circuits In one second of time. Telegraphing to the stars would, however, be a much more tedious matter. Take, first, the case of the vry nearest of those twinkling points nf light, namely. Alpha Centaur!. Th transmission of a telegraphic roesaeo to the distant sun would, ln e'eed. tax the patience of all con cerned. The key Is pressed down, the circuit Is complete, the messaze bounds off on its Journey; it winds its wav along the wire with that velocity fflclent to carry it one hundred nnd eighty thousand miles In a single sec ond of time. Even the nearest of the stars Is. however, sunk into spice to a distance so overwhelming that the messsge would be four years on the wire before reaching its destina tion, and there are stars so remotn that if the news of Christ's birth bsd hesi telegraphed from Bethlehem in A. D. 1. it would now have been aneodlne; on for nineteen hundred e-s without arriving. Yet It would take but wight minutes f"r a telperam to reach the sun. The Christian Work and Evangelist. Divorce..' Divorce tears un the roots and putls nway the foundations of the family and family life. Differ as we may about the ground on which divorce tr.y be allowed, there is a consensus of oolnton in all churches that di vorce Is a menace to soclet and fi.tn ruin to the home. Bishop William C. Doane. Social Unrest. Social unrest is the most hopeful sign of tho tine; without it there can be no progress. Rev. Charles Stelzlo. Temperance. Let the virtue of temperance be proclaimed In all the churches. Let the family inculcate in the children the spiritual and temporal blessings which spring from a life of teraner anca and sobriety. Let the father and the mother impress upon their children the terrible consequences of drunkenness. Ruining Characters. Authority has ruined as many char acters as neglect; there Is no devel opment of any value without respons ibility. Rer. Frank Crant. l Beer Drinking by School Children, Some interesting facts regarding the use of alcohol among German school children have been collected by a Government doctor In Rotten burg. His Investigations included sixty-eight classes with 4240 chil dren. Of this total 4178, or ninety eight per cent, had tasted intoxicants and seventy-one per cent, drank beer or wine dally; 641 drank half a litre (nearly a pint) or more, while 3214, or seventy-six per cent., drank a quar ter of a litre. Ten children admitted drinking a litre (a pint and three-quarters) of beer every day, and one drank a litre and a half. The doctor made no in quiries as to the drinking of spirits, assuming that such a practice among school children was unknown, but he says that he was greatly mistaken. One teacher told him that in a class of seventy-one children between seven and nine years of age, twenty one had drunk brandy. Alcohol and Tuberculosis. Dr. S. A. Knopf, of New York, tn his International prize essay on tu berculosis says that statistics In hos pitals for tuberculosis and scrofulous children show that the majority of them had parents addicted to the use of alcohol, and that it has been proved that when one or more parents were p.ddlcted to such use their offspring has become scrofulous. This is in harmony with the resolution passed in 1905 by the International Congress on Tuberculosis, viz.: "In view of the close connection between alcohol and tuberculosis, this congress strongly emphasizes the Importance of combin ing the fight against tuberculosis with the struggle against alcoholism." A Huge Orgnnized Criminal. -I now say that the liquor traffic rot only breeds criminals, but tho liquor traffic Is largely a huge organ bed criminal itself. I do not mean to say, and I shall not be heard to say. that every man engaged in that business Is a violator of tho law, but I am prepared to prove that in every section of the country where 1 have clvcn It care ful examination a large majority of the liquor men themselves are law breakers. I am not here to impeach the veracity of them all, but a great majority of them belong to tho Ana nias Club. I chanctt to have In my possession some interesting facts concerning which, of course, you will hav4 a full explanation later ou. Temperance) Notes. The saloon might have a right to Its ways it our sins Involved only our selves in suffering. The Gann bill for statutory prohl. bltlon passed the Arkansas House by a vote of fifty-three to twenty-seven. A Pennsylvania Prohibitionist. In writing to State Chairman McCal mont recently, coined a striking ex pression. He said that the people of his section had through local option been "vaccinated" against prohibi tion. A singular result of the annua) elections In Vermont on the license question was that ten towns that were no-license voted for license and towns that were "wet" voted "dry." Echhouse Brothers, wholesale liq uor dealers in Cincinnati, have turned their business over to a receiver. The prohibiten ware, they claim, has forced them for some time past to run their business at a loss. . (There Is more Intemperance pet capita right now in Boston than there was when there were no licenses re quired and when every man made and sold liquor regardless. Hon. E. W. Chafin at tho New England Con- foreaca, carncrca ror me 1HE HEAVENLY HOME. ( wish 'twere so thnt I could know Tust where the heavenly home may be But this is sure, a love all pure ' Must live throughout eternity. The One who gsve and took away Will give my dear ones back some day, The power of faith that conquer death. The love supreme that gave God'a Son, The promised word of our dear Lord Have rolled away the grave's great atom, Tuat on the other side I see My own at home, awaiting me. In each loved fare, a sweet new grace Changes the old familiar guiae. A hand divine haa touched each line. A wondrous light shine in dear eye. And so they praise, and serve, and wait Till I shall paas the pearly gate. When we shall meet, and 1 shall greet Each loved one in that golden strand With Christ tits Son, who brought u home. We'll atudy heaven' slory land. There, day by day, taught by my own. I'll learn the wondera they have kno-.Tn. Nell R. Blount, in Chriatian Herald. The Name High Over AH. We have new theologies, but Christ remains. It is remarkable in what variant and almost countless crear' and faiths Jesus Christ is the para mount and all-glorious light and cj. tre. Thinkers and teachers, sects and cults, have arisen in astonlshlLg numbers that have seemed to us to reject almost every precious tenet ol tbe Christian faith, but, with one voice they have proclaimed "Jesus the Name high over all." Almost every heretic who has ever been burned at the stake or cast out of the synagogue of Christian believers has protested his belief In Jesus as ths supreme object of his faith and affec tions. Mr. George R. Wendllng, In his most beautiful book. "The Man of Galilee," shows that In Jesus there is a cote of universality, and says: "No power on earth can set Him aside as p. factor in life. He cannot be elim inated. The aegis of His name has been used to shield countless crimes, countless hypocrisies, countless ambi tions, still He does not fall. Cruel wars have prospered in His name, the horrors of religious persecution, ths Intolerance of sectarianism, the ab surdities of cruae builders, still He will not down. Ecclesiastlclsm grows weaker. He grows stronger. Dogmas pass away. He abides. Churches grow corruot, but the effulgence ol His glory is not dimmed. At this very day, here m the twentieth cen tury since His birth, more men and women gather about Him to touch the hem cf His garment than any age since He walked the shores of Galilee. More men and women love Him, love Him with an absorbing and passion pte devotion, and In the single hout that has passed sine the reader be gan these pages, a host of souls all over the world have faced death with a gentle smile and gene cheerfully into the urknown. soothed by His surpassing love, "and sustained In the sublime transition by His strane? power." Northern Christian Advo cate. How Old Must 1 Be? "Mother." a little child ones said, "how old must I be before I can be a Christian?" The wise mother answered: "How old will you have to be, darling, be fore you can love me?" "Way, mother, I always loved yon; T do now, and I always will. But you have not told me how old I shall have to bA." The mother replied: "How old nrjst you b before you can trust yourself wholly to me and my care?" "I always did," she answered, "but tll me what I want to know," and she put her arms around her moth er's neck. Th3 mother asked again: "How old will you have tc be before you can do wht I want you to do?" Then the child whispered, half guessing what her mother meant: "I fa" now, without strowlng older." Her mother said: "You can be a fhrlstlsn now, darling, without wait Ing to be cider. Don't you want to bp"'n now" "h oMld whispered: "Yes." Then the both knelt down and in her prav. the mother gave to Christ ber lit 1 o who wanted to be His. Homo Herald. A Triumph For Clirltlnnlty. As sn instance of the obstacles la r-e way of pagan people adopting rh-lstlanltv. the Rev. T. H. Dobrs. of Shoal River, in th diocese of Ru pe'a Land, relates the following: "There 1j here at present a dear old woman who has made a really (treat sacrifice for our Master. Sh wp-i one of two wives to a really good old man. who Is still arnong us, hale and heartv. They all became Im pressed with a desire to serv Christ ind abandon paganism. But the nlurallty of wives stood in the way. In order to make the way clear for them all to embrace the religion of Crrlst. the wife I first referred to volunteered to relinquish her claim to husband and home, and they all b cme Christians, the old man and the oher wife becoming. united in Chris tian wedlock. . "The old lady in living alone, and the two women often come together to divine service nd are in every wav excellent friends. W ma" snr iv cllm this fact s being a triiimtiti f Christianity. Church Missionary Gleaner. Wounds That Ileal. Christ often wounds In order to heal; and If He gives pain It is that we may find peace and rest In Him self. His wounds are full of ktnl ness to life and health and peace. R. C. Chapman. The Important Thing. After all, the kind or world one carries about In one's self Is the Im portant thing, and tbe world njtjide lakes all Its grace, color and value fi-om that. Lowell. ! The sound-deadening arrangements tried on the Berlin elevated railways jlnclude felt under and at the sides of the rails, wood filled car wheels, steel and wood ties resting on sand and cork lined floor planas. Low rails on dep wooden stringers proved the most effective. I Whlls'tbe seeds of ths dorowa, an East African leguminous tree, are ex tensively used for food, tba pods and leaves form an excellent cement when n-Ued with crusbsd stone.
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