THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON 01
THE REV. SYDNEY H. COX.
Theme: What Is It to Live?
Brooklyn, N. Y. Sunday morning
the Rev. Sydney Herbert Cox. pastor
of the Church of the Evangel,
preached on the special subject.
"What la It to Live?" The text was
from Matthew 4:4; "it i written
Man shall not live by bread nlon?,
but by every word that proceed Hh
out of tho mouth of Ood." Mr. Cox
Bald:
It la written! Whore? In Deuter
onomy, the second giving of tlie law,
tho recapitulation of man's experience
with Ood, and his Interpretation
thereof. It Is declared that man's life
Is something more than escape from
a wilderness of hunger to a land of
rk-h harvests.
The temptation of Jesus Is the p""
trtype through which every p.i
rouality must pass. This profound
foct of Bplrltu.il consciousness hrtnss
man face to fnce with the elemenul
questions of his being. What Is our
life? Why are we tempted, and how?
What Is hill, and how can we be free
from It? What la to be the end of
tho battle, with lt deep failures and
few successes? What docs it mean to
liv? I
Tho answer of Jesus Includes a !
denial and an affirmation. He sets
forth (1) the unity of life. His re
ply to the tempter was surely unex
pected. He does not say, I am divine,
I am unique, I am in a social sense
the Son ot God. He speaks for the
race as its representative and refers
to a fundamental law that man has
experienced, though rarely Inter
preted. Man does not live by bread
alone. His living is something more
than the means to live. There la one
life. Only part of it depends on
bread. Bread, like the plow and the
soil. Is hut an agent, a tool. It pre
serves the body, but the body also Is
only a machine In which the person
who has llfo for a little while dweirs.
The answer of Jesus does not define
life, but declares the source of Its
fullest expression. "Your fathers did
eat manna In the wilderness, and are
dead. The bread that I will give, if
a man eat, he shall live forever."
There is a distinctness of the life that
Is purely physical, or Intellectual, or
moral, or spiritual, but with the dis
tinctness there Is also the Impossibil
ity of separation. The sourco of each,
and the unity of all, originate in God.
This, then, is the denial of ma
terialism. Man docs not live by bread ,
alone! God has given to each phase
of life Its need, and no lower nature
In us can supply the needs of the one
sbove it, though It may Influence it 1
more or less. A bilious body may ;
cause a pessimistic philosophy, but it j
could not be the sole cause. The i
pugilist acquires a perfect physique, I
without gaining an atom of Intel
lectual force, moral perception or :
spiritual desire. Tbo skeptic may
Inherit wealth without faith, and the
hypocrite may own libraries and art :
galleries. These live that is to say,
they exist; they eat, drink and aro
merry, because the bread of the
world, the things of time and place
and of the present are theirs in abun
dance. But In the deeper, profound
er, timeless, ageless sense of life. In
the vision ot tho true, the beautiful
and the good, do they live?
Jesus denies it. He affirms the real
ity of the spiritual. All things proceed
out of the mouth of God. Tho soul
must receive llfo by an incarnation.
Thct Is the representative miracle or
sign ot the being of Christ. God
must pasB into our consciousness as
He had always been In that of Jesus,
dominating our nature, but only with
our voluntary acquiescence. What is
It to live? To have the force of the
life of God put in control of our hu
man forces at the command of our
own will, the higher controling the
lower, and yet making more of the
lower. The spiritual, feeding on the
vision of God and then expanding the
moral, the Intellectual, and the phys
ical, so that, for the whole man, lim
its disappear; time, death and the
grave are but temporary expedients
and all his nature cries, "I live, yet
not I, Christ live.th In me." Thus life
eternal Is something more, and some
thing different from life prolonged.
It is a new quality of life, involving
the recognition of God's share in the
making. It Is God lifting man into
the new spirit of being. Man lives
by the things that proceed out of the
mouth of Jehovah, said the Deuteron
omist. He does. The words of God
are symbols of his volition, whether
his will reveals a new harvest, a new
idea, a new duty, or a no- sacrifice.
The spiritual man greets either of
these words of God by giving them
their holiest expression because now
he lives. He lives In growing har
mony with tho perceived will of bis
eternal Father. He has a stronger
life than the pugilist, because his
physical powers are only at the ser
vice ot the world's need. He Is
mightier than tho physical champion,
because his superb bodily endowment
cannot escape his spiritual ideals of
service.
His mind towers above tho skep
tic's because, In spite of poverty or
bodily weakness, or ninny sorrows,
or grave problems of truth, he has
the power to prevent these things
from obscuring his vision of a child's
r'.mpliclty, a woman's tenderness, a
man's courage, or those larger suc
cesses seen when races struggle up
through fearful toll to days of laugh,
ter and powers a thousandfold
greater.
He sees that men have risen above
the level of their dead selves to
nobler living, and be finds that
neither money, nor land, nor power,
nor luxuries have explained the
primal forces that bare urged man
on.
The eternal choice. And always
that cholc Involves sacrifice. It did
for Jesus. It must for us. He de
sired nothing mora eagerly than the
rapid conquest of His people by His
Ideals and mission. His triple tempta
tion suggests Improper ways of se
curing it. His public ministry was
quickly Oiled with opportunities for
gathering disciples, prestlgj and
power. Yet be denied Himself, un
easy popularity, a legitimate pleasure,
worldly wisdom and current methods
of success, la order that absolutely
all that He was and did might be
true and right and holy.
He refused the lower whenever It
threatened to weaken the blghur.
He made wine at Cana, He cooked
food for His own exhausted disciples.
He attended public dinners. He par
ticipated -In the normal social life of
His day, but at all times He lived, aud
bado others live, In the calm Joy and
Immovable confidence born of a bid
den source ot supply, even m spirit
fed every moment by uninterrupted
communion with Ood.
Does not the devil of self tempt
ui continually, by urging the legiti
macy of our strugglo for bread and
t'-ilitt i eaclUx and. thiamin. ua'Jl
the co'nfTtct to secure the'thTn'gs oS
cures the reason for their use?
What value lies In food, and sleep,
and friends, save as these make ua
men and women who live to make
life for others a purer and more per
fect life?
Whenever that motive has been
superseded, progress has ceased, dis
integration has set in, whether In the
nation or in the Individual. So tbat,
for Jesus or for me, for my com
munity or my soul, there Is always,
as the test ot living:
The search for bread Is legitimate,
but only as It Involves the search for
a faith whose dally cry Is, Nearer my
God to Thee, nearer to Thee!
He who reforms, God assists.
GHRISTIPiV ENDEAVOR NOTES
JULY TWENTY-FIFTH.
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BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE
Tod c Heroes of Missions In China.
Matt. 5: 13-16.
Tli- Ideal Servant. Isa. 42: 1-1.
Itrdi'iiiption by units. Isa. 44: I S.
A promise to the Orient. Isa. (it).
1-3.
Good soldiers. 2 Tim. 1-9.
A missionary's life. Acts 20: 17
33. I.ove under persecution. Matt. 5:
43-48.
Is there In all nature a more use
less substance than salt that has lost
Its Baltness So of a Christian with
out the missionary spirit.
Light Is a radiation. It Is not light
unless It Is continually outgoing.
Light under a bushel Is still light,
but how useless.
Let your light so shine thnt It may
cast radiance, not on yourself, but on
the Source of the light.
Some Missionaries to China.
Robert Morrison, the pioneer mis
sionary to China, asked to be sent
where the difficulties were greatest.
"0o you really expect to make an im
pression on the great Chinese em
pire?" he was asked. "No." he re
plied, "I expect that God will." He
baptized his first convert after seven
weary years, and won only ten con
verts In all; but they were the first
of a mighty host!
The committee that examined Will
iam Milne thought that he "would not
do." But he went out to China and
became a great pioneer In educational
work and translation, though be died
nfter only ten years of service.
Walter Medhurst. the pioneer of
printing work In Chinese missions,
could speak and write In nine lan
guages, and was often urged toward
secular employment and worldly gain,
but kept his great powers solely for
Blble-translatlon.
David Abeel, American pioneer -to
China, was so faithful that a member
of his family said he never sat with
them or even passed through the
room without making some remark of
a religious nature. He founded the
Amoy mission.
Elijah Brldgman. the other Ameri
can pioneer, edited the Chinese Re
pository for twenty years. "Will the
churches come up to the work?" was
his one anxilety on his death-bed.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, JULY 2j.
The Healirg Touch Mark 1. 40-45.
Lepiosy is a type of sin and well
Illustrates its unclean, Insidious, al
most hopeless aiiu ineradicable char
acter. The leper of this Incident
saw a Healer In Jesus. Would that
all lepers In soul could discern In
Jesus their only Saviour!
This man's cuse was probably des
perate. Others had given him up.
Jesus can save the worst cases. This
leper had faith in Jesus ability.
Where did he set It? There Is somo
thing In Jesus which wins faith In his
ability. "If thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean." If Jesus Is lifted
up" he will impress men that he has
power. It Is our work to thus declare
him, even though we do nut sue Im
mediate results.
Jesus said, "1 will; be thou clean."
He meets our faith, "Thou canst,"
with his quick, "I will." He is pleas
ed with our fuith in his ability, but
wishes us to believe also In his will
ingness. It is as It Is with a father
who would wish a child to believe in
his willingness up to tho measure of
his ability.
This cure was immediate. Not all
of Jesus' cures were so. The Imme
diacy Is probably dependent upon the
umuunt and character ot the faith ex
ercised. The leper was told to fulfill
the law with respect to the recovery
from leprosy. Jesus does not violate
law; he fulfills. The leper was for
bidden to declare bis healing. Jesus
did not wish to have a reputation as
a mere heuler of the Blck. His great
work was and is for the soul. He
never told any one to keep silent con
cerning; sin forgiveness. Have we
been as earnest In telling of our for
giveness as this leper was, and as
some people are now about healing?
More noise Is Bometlmes made over
body-healing than soul-saving; but not
by Jesus' command.
Leathered for rhe
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PECCAU "I HAVE SINNED."
Trembling T came to Jesus,
A rebel doomed to die;
But pitiful compassion
Beamed in His kingly eye,
As He His golden sceptre
Of love stretched out to me,
And wrote, in blood-traced letters,
My pardon, full and free.
Mourning, I came to Jesus,
Pining and sad and lone;
But lie in mercy hearken d
lo my I'eccavi moan.
He pave me pence for warfare,
(lad tniHtfulness for fears,
Tho spirit of rejoicing
For licavineas and tears.
Weeping, I came to Jesus,
Degraded and forlorn,
Tliiixting and faint and fontenre,
With rniment soiled and turn;
When in luve'a pity stoonitu;.
With welcome, robe ana ntw,
He brought mc to Ilia bampi'.'t
And taught inv heart to snip.
Harriet Julia Kvans.
The Incidental Word.
A prominent attorney, who says
modestly that he tries to Improve
every fair opportunity for conversa
tion on religion with men of his ac
quaintance, testifies that men are
constantly growing more and more
willing to talk about religious . mat
ters. In evidence of which The Inte
riors relates as follows:
"One rainy day some years ago,'1
be recalled, "going down one of the
principal streets of Chlccgo I sudden
ly ran into a member of the City
Council. 'Say,' be said, bluntly, 'are
you a candidate for anything thii
campaign?'
"I really didn't Intend to say it,
but quick as a flash the words popped
out of my mouth: 'Me? I am a can
didate for heaven.'
"The man gripped my arm ner
vously and pulled me Into a doorway
out of the rain. 'Look here,' he said,
tersely, 'what made you say that to
me?' J
" 'I don't know, I'm sure,' I an
swered. 'It flashed Into my mind all
of a sudden. I wasn't planning it. I
mean it, though.'
" 'Well, you've knocked me all In
a heap," he said huskily. 'I'm a can
didate for heaven, too, but I've corns
pretty near forgetting It. I'm church
member, and' I thought I was a pretty
good Christian when I went Into poli
tics. I haven't done anything verj
shameful yet, but I have been losing
Bight of my religion and getting aw
fully careless. This Council buslnesi
hasn't been good for me. I've been
kent out lnte nights, and I always go
with the boys for supper at some res.
taurant after. Council meetings are
over. They're a hilarious crowd, and
we go around the town more than it
good for anybody. I've neglected ms
family and neglected my church, and
this thing you've said brings it al!
back over me. I'm going to do bet
ter. I don't have to let this political
business lead me off. I'm glad thai
thing was pu'. into your head to say
to me. I needed It.'
"Ons dny," continued th attorney,
"I had been working with anothei
lawyer over a case, and when we
finally wranped up the papers and he
was ready to leave, the words slipped
out of my mouth sort of musingly,
'Well. It's all so; "the wages of sin It?
defth!"'
"He whirled around and stared at
me fiercely. 'What do you mean bv
that? You trying to preach to me?'
" 'Not a bit of It,' I answered.
'What aro vou eettlng excited about?
That's In the Bible. Don't you think
it's true?'
"Ho paused and studied several
seconds. 'Yes, It la true,' he an
swered, slowly. 'I know It's true
And I haven't been living like I ought
to: I know that. There are a lot ol
thlriTs I have been dolne that 1
wouldn't dare have my wife know.
I'm going to try to cut them out. 1
don't want the wages.' " Brother
hood Star.
OLDIFItS FIGHTING TniS CIT.SU
GREATLY CHEEKED.
It Is a Poison.
Is alcohol a poison? It may seem
t little strange that science regards
my Btibstance as a food and also as
t poison, but this point can be cleared
jp when we take into consideration
he definition of a poison. The pop
liar conception of a poison Is some
.hlng which Is capable of producing
leath very promptly, but the sclen
,lflc definition Is less exacting, and Is
srlefly this: "Any substance which,
when applied fo the body, or digested,
sauses disease." The term Is a rels
:lve one and means that a substance
:o be a poison docs not necessarily
leu to be capable of producing death
.nstantaneously. Many articles which
ire used as foods. If Indulged In to
excess, will produce irritation and
llsease, and henca are, in a technical
lense, poison. ToxlcologiBts classify
poisons as corrosive, Irritant and nar
cotic. Alcohol ranlt3 with tobacco,
chloroform, Caffeine, ether and nit
rons oxide gas as a narcotic poison.
The effects are very similar, the first
oeing that of a stimulant: the second,
that of a narcotic, and if pushed too
far will produce death. The reason
why the system can tolerate so much
alcohol Is because It becomes gradu
ally Immune In the same way as im
munity Is produced by antitoxins. As
a poison its first effect Is that of n
stimulant, increasing functional ac
tivity for a time, but Its second effect
Is that of a paralyzer, so affecting the
brain cells that they refuse to perform
their functions, and we bave tbe
blunting of tbe higher sensibilities,
the incoherent speech and the stag
gering gait. By its local action tho
secretions of the stomach and other
digestive organs are changed, and It
produces structural changes In the
liver and kidneys. Persons subjected
to it are more liable to disease, more
easily fatigued, and are more suscep
tible to heat or cold. If Immunity
has not been produced. It Is perfectly
possible to produce death If sufficient
ly large doses are given.
A Poisonous Food.
From the standpoint of technical
dietetics, alcohol Is a food. In tho
scientific world, however, foods are
classified as either good or poor, and
as such they perform the function of
either tissue-builders or energlzers.
For example, wheat bread, beefsteak
and eggs are considered good foods,
but onions, cabbages and radishes
are considered poor food in a strictly
technical sense. That Is, foods have
a greater or less value according to
the ease with which they are digested
and assimilated, and also as to
whether they produce any injurious
results. With this classification we
are forced to say that alcohol Is a
poor food. It Is a poor food for sev
eral reasons. First, because only a
small amount about three ounces,
which is far less than Is required to
sustain the body can be oxidized,
the balance passing through un
changed. Second, because it has been
determined tbat it is not a tissue
builder, and only serves the purpose
as an energlzer. Third, to give suf
ficient amount to sustain the body
would, considering the small percen
age that can be oxidized, leave enough
residue to create Irritation to such
an extent that the rhyslolo?lc func
tions necessary to life would not go
on. In a limited sense. It is a food,
because it is a generator of energy,
but It Is not a builder of tissue. Thus
we bave the soundest scientific sup
port, for the statement that it Is poor
food, and has no use In the category
of foods. As an energlzer it acts
only as a whip to the flagging organs,
and, as one authority remarks, "we
have no more right to use it than we
bave to lash a willing horse."
6unba:j-&cf70or
NTEHNATIONAL LESSON COM. I
MENTS FOR JULY .-.. . I
Poultry for Profit j
The Need of Religion.
"Small, narrow, one-sided men, nc
matter how earnest, cannot suppls
leadership for the moral and rellgloui
forces, which alone can redeem na
tions,." kpvb former President Roose
velt. "They can do good In their own
way, but the strongest are needed
men of marked personality, who tc
tenderness 'add force and grasp.
Every great city calls with Insistent
longing for leaders able and willing
to suffer and fight, to show fortitude
and daring, to grapple with iron will
and undaunted front the terrible evlli
that grow up where men are crowded
togather, where llfo Is led under a
constant and feverish strain, and
where great wealth and biting pov
erty Jostle one another. The service
can be rendered in the ministry, as 1
have known It to be rendered bj
Protestant clergymen and Catholic
priests, aye, and by Jewish rabbis."
No Place For It.
Civilization has found out the sa
loon. After several centuries of ex
perience with It. It has written its
epitaph. One of our great railroad
lines in America has recently made a
sweeping order that any employe of
the road who cashes his pay check In
a saloon will lose his Job. Twenty
years ago one of the great railroad?
In this country paid so little atten
tion to the habits of Its employes tbat
from the writer's own knowledge a
train crew of twelve men lay drunk
nround a freight station sobering up
from a day's debauch and the freight
train which they were to man waited
inoro .ban half a day before it pulled
out. Such a situation at present
would be impossible on any railroad
In America. One of the finest things
about the agitation rising up all over
the world against the liquor business
Is the hand which business has begun
to take In It. After awhile no bust,
ness worthy of the name will employ
i "n who dr'.uks at all. Home Her-aid.
Making a Newspaper,
Ey JOHN II. McXKELV.
The managing editor of the metr
polltan newspaper sat at his desk,
with a weary lick upon his face.
There was nothing stirring and bis
mind was sick with lethargy. Sud
denly his eyes brightened and a tri
umphant smile played around his
thin lips. Seizing the telephone re
ceiver, he put in a long-distance call
to the Washington correspondent.
Then he lay back In his chair and
rubbed his bandi together in cheerful
satisfaction. The bell rang.
"hello! Is this you, Slggs?" he ex
claimed. "This Is Smith. Not much
going on, Is there? Say, 81ggi! Get
in A KffLnflM tin ,rt a iftivfirnmanl
Mn an Aft IrtTi a n .1 , n ( . . . I . J I 1. . I
inueui-iiuii ."j laiugrniiu 11 111 ri,ui
away. Don't lore any time. Make It
sensational and be sure It Isn't so.
We don't want a word of truth in it,
understand!"
Tbe editor hung up the reiolver
with an expression of delightful and
keen anticipation.
"It'll bring one of those fierce and
frenzied denunciations," be said, bait
aloud, "and then our paper will
spring Into Immediate popularity and
renown. We can help the , thing
along, too, by raving about the free
dom of the press." From Judge. .
Albert Richardson, ot Eskrldge,
ICan,, died last week at the age of
110. He was so old at the time of
tbe Civil War that bis enlistment was
refused.
One Sin Enough.
A single sin, however apparently
trifling, however hidden in some ob
scure corner of our consciousness
a sin which we do not intend to re
nounce Is enough to render real
prayer impracticable. A course ol
action not wholly upright and hon
orable, feelings not entirely kind and
loving, habits not spotlessly chaste
and temperate any of these are Im
passable obstacles. If w know of I
kind act which we might but do nol
Intend to perform if we be aware
that our moral health requires the
abandonment of some pleasure which
yet we do not intend to abandon,
here is cause enough for the loss ol
all spiritual power. F. B. Cobbe.
Peace ot Spirit.
Prayer Is the peace of our spirit,
the stillness of our thoughts, the
evenness of 6ur recollection, the seat
of our meditation, the rest of our
cares, and the calm of our tempest.
Prayer la the Issue ot a quiet mind,
of untroubled thoughts; It Is tbe
daughter of charity and the slater of
meekness. Jeremy Taylor.
Whatever you undertake to do, re
alize tbat tbe Infinite Is with you;
therefore you cannot fall. L. May
Dean.
The results ot experiments at the
Government farm at Pusa, India, In
rearing silk worms were highly suc
cessful. Last year 160,000 worms
were fed on leaves of the castor plant,
".'he silk produced was valued at
J2U.50 per eighty pounds.
QUITE SO.
The Corsack Is a hardy fdlow. A
beating Is a mere picnic for blra."
"Sort of a kaoutlng, so to speak."
Louisville Courler-Jourual.
! Cultivating Inebriety.
"Alcohol is a causa of race suicide
mens pntmals," declared Dr. W. S.
I VI. of Chicago, in pointing out that
I It cannot be considered a food. Dr.
'' WllHmis also took a fling at
! alcohol when he declared that the
mother who gratifies every canrlce
r f t'.ie child to keep It quiet and the
father who studies every form of
nni'iBement to attract and Interest
his boy are cultivating inebriety in It ,
w-Mrh wl develop In the future with i
t.'.e slightest exciilnr causes.
Why States C;o Dry.
The foolish manner In which the
retail liquor business Is conducted li
o latent and general that It may
easllv be rated as the most important
tingle factor In bringing victory tc
the Anti-Saloon Leaguers throughout
the country,
Tcmprranro Notes.
Poorlv cooUcd food often ijrlvei
men to drink.
A California chemist declares thai
he has discovered how to rob whisky
of its powers to Intoxicate. But every,
body knows how. Don't drink It.
The saloon must have boys or It
mint shut up shop. One family out
of every five must contribute a boy In
order to keep up the saloon buslnesi
to Its present prosperity. Will you
help? Which of your boys shall It
be?
' Czar Nicholas of Russia, having
vetoed Prohibition In Finland. 300,
000 citizens of that country will start
on June 1 to abstain from spirits, as
a protest.
Nineteen "local Prohibition" Re
publlcun and Democratic law maken
in the Illinois Legislature showed
their great loyalty to tbe Prohibition
movement by electing as speaker a
Dotorious liquor politician,
"The tools of robbers, burglars
and assassins are not very sacred,"
Is the response of The Kentucky
Patriot to the demand of the liquor
men for "compensation" of their
property iu tbe event ot Prohibition.
lubject: Paul' Scroml A'ixionnry
Journey Athens, Acts 17:!ff-3!
Goli'en Text: John 4:21
Commit Verso 20 Commentary.
TIME. A. D. C2. TLACE.
Athens, Mars Hill.
EXPOSITION I. The 1'nknnwn
3od Made Known, 22-20. Paul had
jnproved such opportunities of
preaching the Gospel as were open to
Mm the synagogue and the market
place (v. 17) and now he Is brought
oefore this ctlebrated gathering of
philosophers and university profes
iors of Athens. He has no new Gos
pel for this distinguished throng, but
ftlth divinely given tact he Introduces
t In a new way (vs. 24. 23, 2S). Paul
uenlns with what nnnenra like words
it approval, not with words of rrlti
clsm. (Sc3 Am. R. V.). He would
win the favor and attention of his au
dience before cnlllng them to repent.
People will listen iintlently to the
sharpest rebukes nnd sternest calls to
repentance If you first w in their confi
dence and favor by words of kindness
and praise. "To an unknown God."
There Is something very pathetic and
touching In this. Thero are many to
day who are reaching out blindly to
ward a God of whose existence they
have a vague apprehension, but of
whose name, character nnd person
they have little clear knowledge. But
there la no need that God be unknown
(Jno. 1:18; 1 Jno. B:20; Jno. 14:9;
2 Cor. 4:6). It Is of the highest Im
portance that we know God (Jno. 17:
3). It Is our own fault If wo do not
know Him (Rom. 1:20-22, 28; 2 Cor,
4:4). It was an apt stroke unou
Paul's part to begin with this well
known object In their own streets,
nnd thus to lead on to the creat truths
with which hi soul was filled. "God
that made the world and all thlncs
therein," etc. Paul would carrv with
him the philosophers in his audience,
nnd at the same time bring in new
and higher thoughts abort Gol, nnd
step bv sten lead them face to face
with God Himself, and mak them
feel their personal responsibility to
Him. He would lead them to see that
God was not a mere philosophical
conception, but a person against
whom they had sinned, snd who was
now calling, "Repent." Tho very life
we live, the breath we breathe, abso
lutely all we bave, Is His gift. Every
thing thus given should be used for
Him. Weshoulddraweverybreath for
Him. "He made of one every nation
of men." Do we bellve this? Do we
really believe It? Do we believe In
our ktnshtn to the negro, the China
man, the Hindoo? "That they shor.ld
Beek God." This was God's great and
gracious purpose In the maklns of the
nntlons and appointing their seasons,
and the bounds of their habitation.
How little the nations have fallen In
with this benevolent purpose of God
( Rom. 1 : 2 8 ) . It Is of the highest ire.
nortance to men that they should seek
God (Amns 5:4, 6; Ezr. 8:22; Prov.
28:5; 2 Chron. 26:5: Ps. 34:4, 10;
Ps. 69:32; 1 Chron. 16:10: Lam. .1:
25; Heb. 11:6: Ps. 119:2). Ho Is
not difficult to find for trypse who tni
Him with the whole heart (Jer. 29:
13). "He Is not far from every one
of us." How absolute Is our depend
ence upon God. No life, no motion,
no existence outside of Him. This
belnir. so, there can be no pepce In our
souls until our wills are absolutely
nrrrndered to Him and our afectlons
sbsolutalv centred In Him. Paul an
proves the sentiment of the Greek
poet. Aratus. But while all men are
Hod's offspring, they are not all truly
-hlldren (Jno. 8:44. 47: 1 Jno. 3:10;
Matt. 13:38; Gal. 4:4-6; Heb. 12:8;
Enh. 2:3). Those only nre children
rf God who receive Jesus Christ (Jno.
1:12. R. V.). Those who are led by
His Snlrlt are sons of God (Rom. 8:
14: Gal. 3:26, R. V.).
II. God's Comnianil to AH Met
Everywhere, Repent. 30-34. Paul Is
nw reaching the point toward which
HI this time he has been so skilfully
rteerlng. It was an unexpected cli
max to these theorlzers. Many ot
them had been delighted with the
Fublirolty of Paul's conceptions, with
the deftness of his logic, with the apt
ness of his quotation. They were nil
run: their guard was down, and he
r'rurk a stunning blow just at the
right moment. God's one call Is "re
pent" (comp. ch. 2:38: 3:19: 20:21;
26:20; Matt. 8:2; 4:17; Luke 13:6:
16:30; 24:47). This was God's one
cry also, through Old Testament pro
phets, "turn ye." This same cry
needs to ring out to-day. Men nro an
apostate race. Notice whom God
commands to repent, "all men every,
where." Notice when He commands
it, "Now." Notice why, "Because He
bath apnolnted a day In which He will
Judge the world," etc. There Is a
Judgment coming. People mock at
this truth to-day, but God has given
assurance ot It unto all men by the
resurrection ot Christ from the dead.
It Is Impossible for any candid seeker
rfter truth to examine the evidence
for tbe resurrection ot Christ without
being satisfied that Jesus really did
prise as recorded In tho Gospels. But
the resurrection of Christ Jesus In the
past points with unerring finger to a
judgment by Christ Jesus in the fut
ure. "When they heard of the resur
rection of the dead some mocked." A
very common way of trying to dis
pose of unpalatable truth. But It
never works, and truth Is never any
tho less true because yon eneor at It.
Manv are trying to modernize a
Chrlsttlanlty that has never changed
nnd Is as unchangeable as the ever.
lasting bills.
Bad Debts.
Credit Is the beginning ot progress,
prosperity and bad debts. Front im
plies foolishness, and bad debts an
tbe fruitage.
Bad debts are an exception to th
law whereby cold contracts and heal
expands. Tbey are contracted or ex
panded simultaneously, and In all
seasons alike.
Bad debts are eventually paid bj
good people. They are the Inheritance
tax which the meek bave to pony u
before coming-into their own, tor tbi
earth falls to no man until be bai
been cheated out of at least tbro
times as much as It is worth, In proof
ot his humility.
Bad dobts bave brought motorlni
within reach ot tbe musses, not to
mention the lessor blessings of pear
and plenty, with nothing to give ut
for these but the funclful comfort ol
a clear conscience. Puck.
DISTINCTION.
'She's a very intellectual woman."
"So 1 hear. Is she intelligent?"
Life.
Sanitary Poultry Nest.
The present day tendency to em
ploy sanitary measures In the dairy,
the stable, the doghouse, etc., has at
last extended to the poultry yard. The
Industrious hen Is to be provided
with a sanitary nest, which can be
readily washed and scrubbed as occa
sion demands. This recent develop
ment Is shown in the accompanying
illustration. The nest Is made ot
wire and is snnnorted in a suitable
niirjvnri'o
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5
Easily Cleaned.
housing, both of which can be re
moved from tbe chicken bouse when
cleaning Is necessary. When thus
removed they can be conveniently
placed In a suitable receptacle con
taining boiling water and thoroughly
cleansed of all Impurities and unde
sirable Insects.
Care of Little Chicks.
Quite an argument has been going
the rounds as to the length ot time
that should elapse before giving food
to newly hatched chicks, some regard
ing twenty-four hours as time enough
before feeding, others that to feed
when two and a half days old was
soon enough.
No doubt but thai; more chicks are
killed, or stunted from feeding too
soon, than are hurt by a longer fast.
Note the healthiness ot chicks when
a hen steals her nest, and Is not dis
covered until the chicks are several
days old.
Strong, healthy chicks, hatched In
dry, warm weather, will require food
sooner than puny ones hatched In a
damp, cool time, because the first
chicks will grow much faster. Make
this an Iron clad rule: Never feed
sooner than twenty-four hours after
hatching, and let the first feed by dry
bread crumbs or oat meal sprinkled
In sharp sand. Also let the bulk of
the first few meals be of sharp sand.
Give water that has the chill taken
off, for several days after hatching.
This is Dot necessary in mid-day of
the summer, but is a good rule for
little chicks, of a morning, no matter
what tbe month.
Have water vessels clean, and so
arranged that tbe little chicks cannot
get Into them.
A teacup filled with water, then
Inverted in a saucer, makes a fine
fountain, that is easily kept clean,
where there is a small flock of chicks.
A quart can is almost as good. It
the water does not run out fast
enough, place a nail under the edge
of cup or can. (
House the chicks In a weather
proof coop, with enough clean dry
litter and a good mother. Do not put
more than two dozen chicks with one
ben.
It bowel trouble appears, dissolve
lime in water, pour th? water off
carefully, and stir corn meal In tbe
lime water until It crumbles. The
lime water should be strong enough
to make the mass to look as if lye
bad been poured on It. They will not
relish this, but If given no other teed
will eat it. Do not allow other food
antll they are recovered. Rice cooked
tender and fed dry Is good for bowel
trouble in fowls of any age.
If chicks are not allowed to get
chilled or wet from rain or dew, fed
wholesome food, kept a little hungry
all the time, never allowed to have
any but wholesome, water and milk
to drink, have sizable grit, and ure
kept free from lice, there will be no
bowel trouble, if they ere healthy
wLen hatched. E. C, Vermilion Co.
ind Liver nil, k,0!
1 .um iot COB.
ttnatton. Indl
M I r e. and all Mm'
rising irom ui,or-
iumacu of
,luglah llvnr. Th
contain In conrentut
ed form all tb, Y,f.
tiic and vnliit, L
Munyun's l'.p,
tonic nnd nra ,.,.
w irom me jule 0( :
Ptw-Psw fruit. I unheltntliiKlr tml!,
Diend these pllts a being tti i'
live and cathartic evT couipoiunliii r-!i
. l.nltU l At.. .... ''
...-iiii ...... io n't jv.i ,. p HOI
feofly antlxtled I vlll refuud Jour uion..
luii-i MiKDnnd JKFKKHSO sts
l'HILADKLPlllA 1'A.
Salts and Castor
ajl bad ituff never cure,
11 only makes bowels move be
cause it irritates and sweats then)
like pokinz finger in your eye. The best
Bowel Medicine is Cascarett,
Every Salts and Castor Oil user should
get a box of CASCARETS and tj
them just once. You'll see. w
Ca,caret, 10c box wtk', treatment.
All drugtriata. llinrsnl aaller la li,
world million bozoa month.
The Department of Agriculture ex
pects this year's sugar beet crop to
total more than a million tons, thi
greatest on record.
It is a mother', Uuty to keep rontitiY
on hand some reliable remedy for un ii
cnae of sudden accident or mishap to th
children. Hainlina Wizard Oil can he rlr-
pended upon for uat sucn emerReneiei.
In the so-called "tree high schooir
of Illinois 9,965 students pay pri
vate tuition.
A Pnalclau lit Home
,s Or. Blgtiri H'Jo'tlabirry Cardial. It al.
wny .)ur Sto a td!i aaJ B)nl Tnuiiiii,
Coil. Ipu Twtiiu :, eto. A: Driilm ft
sad 6 Jo per uot'.lu.
New York street cars killed 411
persons In 1908 and injured 35,-
060 others.
A Rar Good Thlnn;.
"Am using Allen's KuoI-Khho, and at
truly say 1 would not hsve been without it
o long, had I known the relief it wuuil
give uiv aching feet. I think it a rare iwd
thing for anyone having ,ore or tir-il it
Mrs. Matilda Holtwerl, 1'roviilenit, R
I." bold by all DruiiKinta, 35". Auk Icnli;
France has x 7, 883 . postal savlna
banks B. N. U. I
This anil That.
It Isn't at all necessary to have a
fine and fancy poultry house. Com
fort Is all a laying hen cares for.
The best fowls are none too good.
The medium fowls are only tolerable.
The Inferior fowls aro a snare and a
delusion.
Poultry should hare access to grpon
fcod If possible, and when they can
roi, should be furnished with eabba;a
loaves or a vegetable ot some kind.
Keep the fowls away from tbe
ba:ns, stables and carriage bouses.
In such places tbey are nuisances.
Resides, they are more comfortable
in a place by themselves.
Carelessness and laziness go band
in hand, and togather are a fruitful
iource ot failure.
Notes ot the Poultry Yard.
- Tbe older the egg the less Is that
sweet, rich flavor noticeable.
Remove at once from flock any
chick showing signs ot sickness.
A woman who makes a success ot
poultry raising has th? laugh on tbe
man, who makes a failure at farming.
Hons that are expected to lay dur
ing the winter must be provided with
a varmroostlng place, warm enough
to avoid danger of frost to comb and
v.&ttles, but well ventilated.
THE PENALTT.
Sunday-school Teacher ' "What
was Adam's punishment tor eating
tbe forbidden fruit, JohnnloT"
Johnnie (confidently) "He had to
marry Eve."
THE CONSISTENT CYNIC .
"Fairy stories usually end 'and
tbey lived happily ever after,' "
Yes," answered Mr. Slrlus Barker;
"that's one ot tbe reasons why I don't
believe la fairies." Washington Star,
For COLDS null GKIP.
Hick's Capcdibs la tho host rem-dr-relievea
the aching- and fcvertliin-i:ufl
the Cold and restore normal conditions. Ill
liquid effects lnimedlautly. inc.. 26c H
Kc, staruir more
Waste Paper Heavy Ixiss.
Hearing of processes for the r
clamation of waste timber brings to
mind the tremendous quantity of pa
per dally thrown aside as useless. Ai
office of ordinary size produces it
least a ton of waBte in paper a month,
which is disposed of at a price mus
ing from five to ten dollars. Tbt
purchasers of this office by-product
feed it to machines that bundle tbt
paper by a sort of bay-press procwi
and the magic of machinery return
the soiled scraps in pristine white
ness. Waste paper has become k
much a matter of course that nei
offices are built with a paper shed,
a contrivance for caring directly fo'
this waste. In some businesses tbii
product amounts to hundreds of toni
in a year, and where the amount l
large, as in a city printing office, It
is gathered every day.
In addition to the paper of com
mercial and manufacturing concern
there is the constant waste golm
on in every home, which would ag
gregate thousands of dollars ever)
year if accounted for in the econom
ics of the country. Possibly, whet
the Conservation Commission hu
disposed ot its big problems, It vill
find means to eliminate this soura
of waste. National Magazine.
Great Head.
Mrs. Kicker If you are going to
another one of those banquets I
don't suppose you will know the nun-
of the house when you get bacs.
Mr. Kicker Oh, yes, I will; 1 1
screwed it from the door and
taking it with me. Kansas ClU
Journal.
HOME TESTIMJ
A Sure ant Easy Tent on Coffee.
To decide the all lmportuut Q"
tlon of coffee, whother or not It
really the bidden cause of pbyni
ails and approaching fixed dlc
one should make a test of 10 day '
leaving off coffee entirely and unw
well-made Postum.
If relief follows you may know"
a certainty that coffee bas been yoj
vicious enemy. Of course you t
take it back to your heart as13
you like to keep sick. . .
A lady says: "I had suffered
stomach trouble, nervousness W
terrible sick headaches ever since i
was a little child, for my people
always great coffee drinkers sn4 J
us children have all we wante d.
got so I thought I could not
without coffee, but I would not r
knowledge that It caused my uBfr
"Then I read so' many srtlcj
about Postum that I decided to I'
It a fair trial. I bad not used It
weeks In place of coffee until I
to feel like a different person
aches and nervousness
, i,.m,. t ..u,.! to be I'
two or three days out of a week
drinking coffee I am now well
strong and sturdy seven dsys
thanks to Postum.
"I had been using Postum w"
. l . J - koan llCB
mooing auu iiau lienor - .
rf.v whan T Ihnnctil I would 611"
ment and see If It really was eo
tbat caused the trouble, so I bega" f
drink coffee again, and inside o
i. i. j ii i was W'
I was soon convinced that coffee f
the cause of all my misery,
. . ..4. thM reel"
went back to Fostum, whu .-
that I was soon well and strong
B"
and determined to stick to
j . -i l tha futur
auu leave cuuoo aiuno it. n..Att
Read the little dock,
Well vllle," in pkgs. "There s
son." , i
Ever read the above i'
new one appears from ,l"'6 !
They are genuine, true, and
bitniua interest.