Good Beads In the South. Tt Is a very exceptional neighbor hood in the South that does not neeil .litter roads, and It Is an ctiunlly ex- optional community that cannot have better roads. While many tcctlous cannot hope to have tho hen loads I macadam or s"tivel for a Ions tlrao to corr.r, there 13 no excuse for any ; locality allowing its roads to remain j positively and permanently br.d. j A pood road is a (1) hard, (2) j smooth read, (3) free from heavy ' grades. Any rond which answers to j these requirements will Insure easy and i".lek traveling, and permit of j the hauling of law bads and that . Is ail that is rr.T.ilrci of a road. Of course, tho I) rend is the hard?.'! ar.d rmooihest one. t ho macadam road beins superior i the gravel rnad; but reir.enther that even the earth road n-ed pot l.c bad. This Is tho thing we wteh (his j;ood rjads specl.il t s::y to cv ry r.-.aa w ho reads It, "Thc-rj is a way for you to imprne tho road over which you travel, an.l It will pay yo i to do it. If we cm n:;!y pet our reader:, to realize this fu-t we be lieve that they will :i;;t be content to lons'-r waste the Et:vn;;t:i of their team.:, their own time, and their mor.ry by drayglnr, over roe'.;3, pull ing through deep r.and. JoKlng across i ditchc?, splashing about In mudholcs. end climbing stee; hills. Every road rannot bo macadamized, or even grav- I eled; but many mora eouIJ b? than 1 tire. Few bond Lssues for Rood reads In our territorv hava been bad invest- j merits', while the ea;es In which they would be (rood Investments could ba numbered by the hundreds. Tho tax the ordinary farmer would have to pay to build and maintain stone roads, in any moderately fettled com munity, i.; much amallt-r thr.u the tax lie now lays to bad roads in tho in-crt-ared cost of his hauling. (Jeer a large sc-rtion of tho tout!, sand-clay roads could be built at a very suia'.l cost, in :.;d, compared to what ihey would !.a worth to the communities throuth -which they run. Thousands and tb'usanJ3 of miles of earth roads could ba redeemed from their chronic state cf hadncps by the persistent usa of tho Kplit-lo; road drag, and tha cost of doin;i tho work would be so small that no one would feel it. And ' everywhere that there Is a bad road j It could be Improved if the men who . work it would simply remember that j the surface of tho road should always 1 be kept smooth and freo from ob structions, and that the fisrt thin? to do with the water that falb on a road Is to get It orf and away. nai.ih (N C.) Progressive Farmer. !H;iiLI)()(f IN LOVE WITH TEDDY BEAK. Prize Boston Animal Causes a Sensation With Hla Pat In New Orlaana. 1 A two-thousand-do'lnr Boston bull t tenderly carrying n largo Teddy b ir by the nape of the neck and ap j rently trying to keep bruin from h illng his feet on the pavement was u Ight that attracted the nttentlon of j .lestrlans In Canal Street, New Or 1 -.ns, a short time ago, and finally 1 1 a reporter to unearth an Interest i t story. It Is of a dog's pitiful and ti ir.hlng devotion to the toy. On account of tho canine's unusual V dousness and the great number of 1 "ttles he has won, his mistress, Miss I"'.yllls Gllmore, gave him the name t. Ferocious. As Miss (illmore, Ferocious and the Teddy bear entered the lobby c;f a hotel, In an effort to escape the at tention of the gathering crowd that had followed from Canal street, a s"ore of the curious stood 0:1 'ii" l avement and peered in to see what (imposition Ferocious would ma!:.: of ids Btri!i?:' burden. They were soon rewarded by ' : c ing the canine prlzo winner wall: straightway to the most comfo; t .blu looking chair in the lobby and care fully piano his pet thereon. In a nit- The Sunday School INTERNATIONAL LKSSON COM MIC NTS FOB NOVEMUKB 21. THE GREAT DESTROYER Subject: rani's Story of His 1AT, 2 Cor. 11:121-12:10 Golden Text: 2 Cor. 12:0 Commit Verses 21, 12.5 Commentary 011 the Lesson, TI.MK. A. D. 67. PLACE. Ephesus. E.XrOSITION. I. Wlmt Fan! Stifle-red For 1'hrint, 22-S4H. How small the hardships we suffer com pared with these. Yet Paul earlier In this same epistle speaks of them as "our light affliction" (cf. 4:1"; Horn. 8:18). The stoning Is recorded In Acts 14:19. The three shipwrecks I mentioned were prior to the one de I scribed In Acts 2 7, "a night and a I day" was spent in the deep, swimming I or clinging to a spar, or in an open ' boat. "The Journeyings often'' were j not with the comforts of mod rn trav- I another man Is a drunkard? Yes. if SOMR 8TARTMNO FACTS ABOCX THE VICE OF INTEMI'KIUNCE. Testimony For Wedge Signing. "Total abstinence we seek through voluntary action for the promotion of individual virtue and of the general good." Mnrk Hopkins, D. D. "Total abstinence Is the surest way, all other things being equal, of attain ing the highest physical, mental, moral and every other kind of health." Norman Kerr, M. D. "Total abstinence from an Intoxi cating drink Is more desirable for the country's welfare and morality than all the revenue to be derived licensing the manufacture and sale of 'so per nicious a drink.' " Emanuel Sweden borg. "If total abstinence from Intoxi cating drinks were not a wise policy for the Individual. It would be Impos sible to show that prohibition of the liquor traffic Is a wise policy for the State." Joseph Cook. "Ho you ask me to give up what to ni is a lawful gratification because THE PULPIT. tymit f tic"ccii.lcT4Jasr A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. A. H. C. MORSE. Theme 1 The Lost. Ing, but with very great hardships and peril. The perils of r'vera were the perils of swollen streams where many lost their lives, and even to this present day many huo their lives this way In the countries through which Paul traveled. Paul labored with toil nnd pain ( v. 2 7 ). not only with brain and In art and ting posture. He then backed away 1 lips, but with his hands al.-o (Acts Doubly Interested. The farmer Is In a double scr.se more deeply Interested la good roads than anyone ele. To him good roads mean a great decrease in the cost of Renin? his produce to the market and getting his supplies back. They likewise mean a lesie.1i.n3 of the lone liness of life. To the people of every town nnd city the building of food reads is al most as Important as It U to the farmers. It means the betterment of every phase of life and a clo-er Inter mingling of the people of town and city; the lessening of wear and tear on vehic les and tho betterment of all the conditions under which buslne3S is carried on. And then tho building of pood highways Inevitably adds largely to the value of adjacent prop erty. It Is not too much to say that rond-bui;d':i; I3 not an c::pc-r.se, but an Investment, paying a larger profit to every community than anything 'lse it can do. The building of good reads me ans an Increase In the viluo tt farm products by tho 1 -.sjenlng cf tho cost of hauling. In this way it inevitably results In an increased value to all property adjacent, and the cost c f roads Is more than made up by this gain In prosperity. It is a very false Idea of many that the building of roads I3 an e:;per.3i which a community cannot afford. On the rontrary, it is an investment which every v, ell-settled end well-organized community can afford to make, for it returns the 1 irgest possible yield of iron:, and a profit In which every ir.au, woinr.u a;:d child shares. a few feet nnd, crnneiilng upon his I jrrent haunches, razed Intently In the I Klass eyes of his Teddy, all the while beeping up a low whining, ns If try- i Ing to inquire why his pet did not romp with him. 4 When asked for an explanation of the dog's unusual actions Miss Gll inore said: "The truth of tho matter Is that the affection that Ferocious shows his Toddy I3 a really wonderful thing. It Is tho case cf a dog's remarkable depth of devotion nr.d still more re- : r.iarkablo memory. 1 "When Feroclo',13 was n pup nnd hardly able to waddle I owned a cub j bear. In the Fame state of Infancy. As tho two grew up they became fast I 'friends nnd would romp together all : day. But about thirteen months ago the little bear died nud Ferocious has not been the .name dos until last week. "I had hlr.i out In Canal street for j n walk when suddenly I saw him j dart for a show window and try to I lunge through It. Ha Boemed wild with joy and I could not understand his antics until I saw that the win- : dow contained a Teddy bear about ! the sar.10 sire and color of his eld , rlaymat". I bnught him the little ' stuffed animal and ho has Blnco re- j gained hi3 old spirit. "Do you know," continued Miss Cllmore, "I really believe that Fero cious thinl;.i ho has found lib pup hood companion. When I feed him he takes Teddy by tho neck and pokes his nose Into hla food, as If trying to make It share his meals. When I nnko him go to his box at ' night he will not sleep unless I let him rest his head or paws upon hb Teddy." ; 1S:3, 4). He spent whole nights lu vigils of prayer and watching against perils of one kind or another. Ha knew often what it meant 10 no with- , out food or drink (cf. Phil. 4:12). to j have Insufficient clothing and to suf- ! fer from cold; and all this time r.e was a man Buffering from physionl in firmity (ch. 12:7-10; Gal. 4:13, 14). II. I take ple-HHiire 111 infirmities, ill reproaclies, in necessities in prr-c. ! cut ions, in distresses for hi i-t'n nuke, I 1-10. It might not seem expedient for Paul to glory, but his heart was i you do not need the total abstinence pledge for yourself, sign for the sake of thope who are weak and need hel'i." John B. Gough. "Tlie reform found the business world opposed to it, and by facts and arguments the business world has bean convinced that total abstinence is right." John B. Finch. "For my own sake for the sake of others and for the glory of God, I abstain." Father Mathew. "We esteem worthy of all com mendation the noble resolve of your pious ussoclatlons, by which they pledge themselves to abstain totally from every kind of intoxicating drink." Pope Leo XIII. "The temperance pledge will be a Jewel In your nature, and a talisman ngalnst temntatlon when social cus toms would lead you astray." Georgo C Bain. To escape the evils arising from so full he Just "must." There is a I the use of alcohol, there Is only one difference between a "vision" and a perfect course, namely, to abstain "revelation." A "vision'' is some- from alcohol altogether. No fear thing seen, a "revelation" is an un- ' need be entertained of any physical veiling of truth (It ml?ht be through I or mental harm from such abstinence, something seen or something heard, j Every good may be expected from It. or 111 some oiner way; 1:1. 1 nam. ; ; 13, R. V., nnd marsln). In visions i their meaning might or might not bo i explained at the time. In revolutions there was always an unveiling or dis closing of rhe truth. The man to whom Paul refers In verse 2 was him self. This Is evident from verse 7. In verse 5 ho distinguishes between this man nnd himself, for there was a wide difference between Paul as he was himself In his weakness and the A man or woman who abstains Is healthy and safe; a man or woman who relies on alcohol Is lost." B. W. Richardson, M. D. Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rev. Alfred II. C. Morse, B. D., pastor of the St rong Place Baptist Church, preached Sunday on "The Lost." He took his text from Matthew 18:11: "For the Son of Mart is come to save that which was lost." Dr. Morse said: During the summer I saw a Cana dian city moved with a great anxiety because 0 lad had been lost In a neigh boring wood. The papers published a call for strong hearts to assist in the search, and 1500 men hunted the wood for two days and two nights. At .last the boy was found, his clothes torn to shreds, his tongue swollen with thirst and himself almost fam ished with hunger. There was great rejoicing when this little lad was re stored to his home. It was something like this which Jesus had constantly In mind, and In 'a score of ways He Illustrated the ;need of His work. A sheep was lost, land, of course, the shepherd searched for the sheep; a coin was lost, and the poor woman to whom it belonged was unable to sleep until she had swept every nook In her home and found It; a boy was lost, he had deliberately wnlked away from his home, but tho 'father broko his heart with pining; 'the wholo world had gone astray, nnd knew not the way of return, and therefore the need for His mission. He had come to seek and to save that which was lost. The scholars have recently been giving their attention to what they have called "the psychology of sin," nnd It is Interesting to see how their findings have conformed to the teach ing of Jesus; this, of course, without His great simplicity. The biologist tells us that each little child passes through the physical development of the race, and that he actually carries In his own experience the entire his tory of his ancestors. Then the psy chologist tells us there Is the same re capitulation in the psychic life, and that each Individual passes through the stages by which the race has at tained to civilization, morality and right. It has taken the race uncount ed mlllenlums to discover the balance of right, and to discern the things which are essentially good, but the child must achieve all this in the first few years of its lifo. There was a time when might was right, and when No Time For Iteluxntlon. This is a critical time for the cause of temperance. On every hand tem perance sentiment is gaining gain ing bv reason of the efforts of the Anti-Saloon League; gaining through eacn person ten tnat wnat came into tho nr.r-ini-ori ii, if inn o,i.. his hand was his own: there was a rapt and glorified individual he be- j Kainlng by more thorough education tlmo when deception and cunning in hub nuiiuiuus cjviii-i if in i ... .ho nenn a Pmh ii. f nn la cuoor,- were as necessary to maintain one s iigui us iuihb uuu Keys are necessary to-day; and bo we might go through tho whole catalogue of possible wrong. The scholar will tell us that camp e was not exuueu u n a, mm vi Rwav tnc gaiootl. gch splendid us would be, but humbled by It. I he vUence as annesrs In Tho Standard experience occurred fourteen years . tnla wo,k , )nBprlnR. But just be. before, perhaps at the time he was caUB(, tilQ ..watel. wason- appPars to stone, at Lystra and supposed to bo ,,e rollins triumphantly over the sa- dead (Acts 14:19). At that time his ion ,,wpr temmrnnm nonnlo n spirit may actually have left tho body and been taken up Into paradise. It may have been at the time of his sec. ond visit to Jerusalem (cf. Acts 22: 17). Paul himself did not know whether he was In the body or out of in danger of concluding that It runs itself. The saloons have wonderful recuperative power. Brewers, dis tillers and saloonkeepers will often f-ecure the repeal of temperance legis lation. The time for tho expenditure the body at the time (vs. 2, 3). Paul of the moBt tempprance enerBy often Kew Yoik to Have n Xcws Telephone Service. Tha Telephone Newspaper Com pany of America Is the name of a firm Just Incorporated under the laws of tlvj State of New York, with a capi tal of $100,000 to furnish all those who will subscribe to a service which it will Inaugurate with general news ns full a3 a daily newspaper now does. Tha company 1-, headed by Manly evidently believed in the possibility of conscious existence of the spirit "out of the body" and "apart from the body" (v. 3, It. V.). At that time he was caught up even to "the third heaven" "Into paradise." The day of Christ's crucifixion He went Into par adise (Luke 23:43), which was then "in the heart of the earth" (Matt. 12:40), but at His ascension Christ emptied the subterranean paradise and took It up Into heaven with Him self (Eph. 4:8-10). Paradise, the abode of the blessed dead, is now with Christ In haaveu (cf. Phil. 1:23: 2 Cor. 5:8, R. V.). Into this paradise Paul was caught up either in the body (cf. Acts 8::!9) or "apart from tha body." He heard there words which It was not lawful to utter to others. They were Intended for his own edifl Is Just after i temperance victory. The Standard. M. Gillani, advertising counsel of the Now York Herald, a3 president, and i c"n and comfort alone. God shows ' .. - .. . ,. V. .. . V. . II. .11 I Thorough F.miil Construction. Tho rullroad companies have learned that there ii economy In heavy steel rails, In K'.rong brldees and In larse freight cars, and In lilta mariner the farmers wi'.l Ham that good roads reduce the cast of trans portation by wagon. As a chain Is no stronger than Its weakest link, so the availability of a wagon road is de termined by Its Btee'est hill or its roughest place. A latural road, siod In somo places, inty neverthehss muko economic hauling Impracticable because i;f difficult olwtnu Uona a one or two points, llenca arises tho need of thorough road construction and maintenance. Denver Republican. associated with him aro William H. Alexander and Curr.eliuj Eelnssa. It b expected that everything will be in readiness to start the sorvlco within i a year. All new.i of general Interest will be covered. Including political happenings, baseball scores by inn lugs nnd a tcore cf lileo branches will go right into tha subscriber's homo by wire. While thU will bo t'.ie first attempt at conducting a telephone newspaper in this country, the plan ha3 met with more or less success In a number of , llOuropean cities. Pari.-, London, Vien- i ua and Budapest among them. Tho lines on which tho39 In Europe liave been operated will be followed i In this country under the direction of ' Mr. Bclnssa, who has b3en Identified ; with such ventures in Budapest and : 'Vienna, and who owns the transmit- j tin-- and receiving patents. 1 ; The service, according to Mr. Gil- ' : lam, besides supplying Its subs.:rib- I j era with every branch of news, ns an ! added Inducement will furnish on the j i evenings of the grand opera season a : ! special vocal and instrumental mi-:- ' i al ijrvlco. ; us duuiu miiiKtt iuul fie wumu imvu i "- u us tell others; some things that He ! 1 reBS would have us keep to ourselves. Paul apparently did not mention this won derful experience to any one else for fourteen years, and even now tries to put himself out of sight as the sub ject of this remarkable experience (v. B). And he forbore to glory lest some man might account of him above that which he raw him to be or heard from him. What the "thorn In the flesh" was we are not told. The words translated "weakness" and "in firmity" are the usual words for sick ness. The thorn in the tlesl) is also spoken of as "a messenger of Satan." This would be an appropriate descrip tion of physical Infirmity (Luke 13: 16; Job 2:7; Acts 10:38; Hob. 2: 14; Gal. 4:13, 14). Though this thorn In the flesh was Satan's messen ger. It was "given" by God. God per mits Satan to buffet His servants and brings to them bleBsIng out of this buffeting. Even Satan's hate and buN feting brings blessing to the child of God. Three times Paul prayed about It and the first two times God gave him no answer. Seemingly the thorn was not removed, but Christ's power was continually ministered to Paul and gave him strength In his own nat ural weakness. This teaches a num ber of Important lessons uhout pray er: (1) To pray Jo Christ; (2) to ask again and again for the same thing until we obtain It or tho Lord reveals to us that It Is not His will to give It; ! creed (3) to go to Christ with our physical Infirmities, but knowing that there aro times when ChrlBt will not re- r.lotHlhoir.uls. So far as recorded, blcodho.;:: Ja have captured nothing sluco they al lowed Eliza to get away ncross tha floating Ice. Indeed, Eliza's was about tho closest call recorded. But the records, perhaps, are prejudiced. At any rate, tho New Yurk Central I'.allroad has Invened In eight blood- A Boy Who Took a Stand. Abraham Lincoln always attributed much of his success in life to his tem perance principles. From a boy up I ho meant to do right. In everything, I no matter what. Almost everybody j drank then, but there wero temper ance workers, even in those days. -uia uncie jonn was one, preacning In a log schoolhouse. One night he made his plea, but nobody responded to his invitation to come up and sign the pledge, till a tall, poorly dressed boy came forward and stooped to write his name. There It stood alone there were no others. That pledge was part of his determination to live In the glory of God, and well he kept it. SeLlor Quarterly, the Pilgrim Testimony From Maine. After a long visit In Maine, W. II. Anderson, superintendent of the Antl Saioon League of Maryland, has re turned to Baltimore, firm in the be lief that whisky is scarce In the Pine Tree State and that stories to the contrary are base libels, circulated to discredit prohibition laws. "I was told In Portland," says Mr. Ander son, "that If I really wanted a drink I could find one, but I would have to go up back alleys, through filth and amid the Blums to obtain tt. This certainty does not a?ree with the statements that liquor can eaBlly be obtained In Maine. During my whole stay lu the Stato I saw only two drunken men." Bidliop Thoburn's Warning. The whole tropical world Is rapidly romlng under the control of nations j which profess to be Christian lu a . high acceptance of that word. It Is, ; in my opinion, one of the most Im : portant questions of the day. whether I millions of the Eastern tropics are to j bo received as helpless wards, and ele- vatenl In civilization and enlighten ment, or debauched and crushed by a traffic which recognizes no con science, shows no mercy, and Is amenable only to a g03;iel of flanr.;;'' find Been Drinking. William Rose, of fJnrv. Ind.. enured move our physical Infirmities, but , the death of himself, wife and two will give us Btrength In Himself; (4) that the probability Is He will remove them, and we ought to ask Him to do Credential of a Cannibal. A real FIJI man came Into Wash ington to attend the international convention of tho Seventh Day Ad vcntlsts, according to tho Philadel phia Record. Ha win armed with a club with which his former chief la the South Sea Islands used to beat tho life out of American missionaries, and al.so with a big dish upon which the chief used to serve up meat from thesa missionaries' bones. Club and dlbli were brought nloug ai muto evi dences of the conversion of tho Fiji chief, who now head, the Gsvcnth Day Adventlsta' Society In the South Sea Iilc.i. r.ounds, to bo us -d In protecting its ,,hi ho clenrlv make, known ta ! ruieny mi'-i trailing Ulleve3. Ot course, tho dogs haven't caught any thing, as yet, but tho fact that they I have becomo thf nrrmertv nt a lout i transportation company should lm- ! prove their standing In tho canine world, and serve ns vindication until they do. Atchbon Globo. V.i ue AneM'Iitiotn. Said a toucher on tho East Z'.Ze; "Who was Robinson C.-URoe?" "I know," said a little clrl In the front row. "He was a great singer." , "Next." "Oh, I know." chirped a little girl before "Next" had time to repl.'. "Ht was a wonkay." New York Times. Two Million Mile l;y Rail. A locomotive of tho London & Northwestern Railroad, named Charles Dickens, has tha distinction I of having traveled nearly two million ono huudrod thousand miles' In haul- Ing express trains, a feat. It la thought, unique In the annals of rail- tor.diig. Tho Charles Iiickcns, built at Crwe, w3 put Into service Febru ary 6, 1882, nnd until a year or two ago was still one of the fastest loco motives on tho road and In oxctdleut condition. New York Tribune, Ono of tho leaders in New York City's business world, who Is also a conspicuous philanthropist, writes from a vacation resort, where be .went to rest: "There Is no rest In tho trountry for a man who receives snail." us that It is not His will to do so. The Kiel Canal. In shipping and especially la Cer man naval circles 'the stoppage of the Kiel Canal was regarded with deep concern. Was not the canal originally intended to securs "a cer tain (safe) passage" for German war and' merchant ships between the North Sea nnd the Baltic? A compar atively slight accident had rendered the canal worthless, despite the or iginal expenditure of JE10.000.00C ($50,000,000). The German naval authorities have long recognized tha the canal no longer meets the re qulrements of to-day, Oermaa Dread noughts can pass through only with the greatest care, and the warship! of CO.OOO tons now building will not go through at all. Although the canal dues are rather heavy the pass age Is utilized by a great deal of ship ping, and It suves a stormy, round obout Journey of about 400 mlh:S. The sum of 12.600,000 Is to be ex. ponded on doubling the width and in. crmiing the depth of the waterway !by two meters. Dundee Advertiser. the disposition to do these things is only the reappearance of primitive impulses, and that these things are non-moral; that they are simply Btartlng points for the upbuilding of manhood, character and destiny. That the problem of the child is to steady himself past dangerous places to the place where right will be easy, and become the instinctive choice of the soul. How then do the moral anoma lies appear? In this way: The liar, for Instance, Is simply the person who, in passing through the racial ex perience, has been permitted to linger on the level where deception was a common thing; that the habit is fixed and the person is living on tho plane of an ancient and Imperfect age; the thief, he Is simply the person who In making this rapid review of the racial experience was permitted to linger at the stage where each person thought ;that all things were his If he could get them; and so with every other jiossible wrong. The scholars also talk of the man who Is "lost." By this they mean the (man who began with some simple wrong, and has added to this again ,and again, till he can see no way of escape. He began with a simple un ttruth, and added to this for protoc 'tlon, and to this again to cover hlB ishame, till he has built about him a world of falsehood in which he Is ac tually lost. He can see no way to re turn, nor has he the courage to con 'fess. He is like a man lost In a wood. ;In this way the thief is lost. He be ignn many years ago, when he took little trifles at home; he goes into business life, and other things are ,taken, till the habit Is fixed and the inoor man is lost in the maze of dls 'honesty. He is simply bewildered and beyond all return, and 1b "lost." There Is a vast deal of truth In these findings, and our hearts confirm what they say; but It was all taught ;more simply by Jesus. He said very Imuch about the wanderings of men, -and tho Host estate into which they !come. He said men go astray like sheep, which knows that the grass Is sweet, and that there ls"another tuft Just ahead, and so, with Its nose to jthe ground, it nibbled along till it 'was far from the path, and far from jthe shepherd's care and separated ;from the company of the rest of the ' flock, and lost on the side of the 'mountain. It was heedless and it j 'wandered away. , There are people. He said, like i thnt. They do not Intend any eape i clal wrong, but they simply follow ; their instincts, and live like the sheep, j which has no foresight nor conscience and no sense of obligation. These people live without restraint npon their appetites, and unwittingly wan der farther and farther away, till they liud themselves In a hungry place. I saw an instance like that during tho summer. The fellow was young children by stopping his buggy In front of an interurban car. Rose had been drinking, and purposely stopped j an( h3il never been well cared for In his buhgy on the track as the car ap proached. i Temperance Xoles. Close up the saloon on Sunday and every other day of the week. We must teach children to rever ence God's work out of doors In dis tinction from shutting themselves up In dens to drink. Dr. Mury Sturge, England. Temperance work, to achieve per manency, must be supported by wise legislation, especially should educa tion be emphasized and particularly education that will help secure en forcement of laws already passed. Dr. Vogt, Norway. Cortilnly tha Sunday saloon Is net run for the honor and glory of Geid, but for the everlasting de-gradation of Its patrons, many of whom, sad to reluie, are composed of American working-men, whose wives and famil ies need the money that goes over the bar to the man In the white apron. Australia's temperance work has cee'ii helped by giving the vote to women. Women are naturally con servative, but when they see that any Institution Is a menace to husband Mid children, lu spite of conservatism, tbey shut up that Institution like a ilasp knlktt. Sir John Cockburn, Australia. his home. He simply knew that some delights were sweet for the time. He wandered along with no thought of the end, till he was locked In the jail, where he lies to-night. I visited him there and endeavored to help, but his. return will be hard, and the scars he will always bear. Not a bad boy, but heedless and silly as a sheep; and there are ton thousand like htm in this city to-ulght. It a man, who is meant to guide himself by Intelli gence and will and forethought and conscience and the eternal light of" heaven, is willing to follow mere in stinct as a sheep, he will come at length Into a thirsty desert. But the Master used another para ble. Ho said that men fall Into sin as a coin, heavy and round, rolls away Into the dark and is lost. It was not the coin which chose its ruin, but gravitation carried It off, and the coin had no power to resist. This, said the Master, is a partial explanation of the wanderings of men. Some are born Into dangerous circum stances; they are dealt with careless ly by others who ought to know bet ter, and as a coin might be rolled from the hand of a woman, so people are rolled Into ruin. Tbers are peo pie who seem to be powerless to resist their circumstances. THE PERFECT GIFT. "The Lord be gracious unto thee." " "Slay the Lord bless thee, dear," each night I say, "Renew in thee the flood-high tide of faith. The high-held courage that was Christ's stanch shield; Nor leave thee to the soul's worst foes n prey To Doubt, or drear Discouragement, or Fear. Nor ever, in the battle of the years, An inch to Pain or Sorrow let thee yield: But always onward, o'er a well-fought iiclJ, Lend thee to Hia fulfilment day by diiv." Josephine Horton Bruorton, in Christian Register. i How John Dtif.' Found His Mind. ' John Duff Is the solldest man in the old town of Brltton. While making handsome additions to his modest In heritance, he has been open-handed In public benefactions and private charities. Even Schmidt, the social ist tailor, and Gorton, the anarchist shoemaker, have been heard to admit that If all men got property so fairly and used It so honorably, the mis chiefs and miseries of the present economic orJer would soon mend themselves. In fact. Squire Duff, as they call him, has never been suspected of en riching himself by impoverishing others, and many of his townsmen might testify that his prosperity had contributed largely to their own. His rugged Integrity Is In partner ship with a clear and broad Intelli gence. He Is not a lawyer; yet from near and far men como to him for counsel, and refer their disputes to him for settlement. In the town meeting, after other voices have been lieard, the doubtful scale Is generally tipped by a few cool words from John Duff. His name has even been sug gested for a place In the governor's council. The village schoolmaster once called him "Old Brains," and the title has stuck, Just as If Dartmouth Col lege had decorated him with a de gree. But now comes a pretty piece of history. In his youth John Dufl was looked upon as the mtst unpromising lad In Brltton. Old Peter Duff and his wife were among "the excellent of the earth;" and people wondered that so worthy a couple should be burdened and cursed with such a rattle-pated, good-for-nothing son their only child! As parental admonitions seemed to fall upon him like sun shine and rain on desert sand, there remained only the resource of secret prayers and tears. The mother's heart was wrung; the father grew old before his time. As John neared his twenty-first birthday, he exulted In the thought that In a few weeks the last restraint would fall away, and he should be "his own man." But one day the kind-voiced doctor startled him with a message: "Your father can live but a few hours, and he wishes to Bee you." "About the disposition of the property?" was John's Inward ques tion. But a feeling of awe crept over him as he stood by the bed of death and saw the strange change which hid come over the face so familiar to him from childhood. A feeble hand reached out to clasp his own. The voice seemed to come from far away from the boundary lino of worlds. "My son, I only ask from yn on promise. After I am gone, will you go down to the wood-lot every day for a week, and spend half an hour alone. In thinking?" Deeply agitated, yet half-relieved nt being let off so easily, John made the promise. The day after the funeral he re paired to the wood. As he sat among the trees, tho Image of his vanished father rose before him with a solemn and commanding grandeur, which seemed to reprove his own pettiness and worthlessness, "What would be have me think about, and how am I to begin? I seem to have no mind." Could this be the place, where he hnd gone bird-nesting, chasing squir rels, gathering nuts and hallooing with the other boys often to the neglect of hla duties? Ho was here)-1 now on a different errand, nnd tha place was changed. For the first tlmi In his life he was Hmnressed with si lence and solitude, with the soft air, the breadths of sunlight and shade, the pomp of tho sky, the unfolding llfp nnd beauty of the springtime. Some slighted lessons about crea tion and tho Creator seemed to mix with the scene, as if he were a part of the vast order, and yet not in full harmony with It. Then came pentlent memories of his father, whose forgiveness he could never ask; a stirring of tenderness toward his lone and sorrowing moth er; with anger and shame toward himself for having caused them bit ter years. But he could not dwoll on the wasted, wretched past. The future rose to meet him with a challenge nnd a voice of hope. Then all his newly roused forces of thought and feeling gathered to a prayer and a purpose. By the Heavenly Help, might he r.ot yet be a man? - A half-hour Is a long time for an undisciplined youth to spend In soli tary reflection; but John Duff did not emerge from the grove for three full hours. "Mother," said he. In a voice she had never heard before, "you may! trust me now. I have founj my mind." There was much craning of necks on Sundny morning as the wldoW Walked to her pew. leaning on the arm of her son. But not even tht pastor could realize the fitness and force of one verse in the Psalm fo." the day: "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies.'' 8UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21. Bringing ,n the Quests (Luks id. 24; 1 Cor. 9: 19.23)lVnV Evangelism Rally Day Luke 14: io-24. The main t0, of this parable Is that soZ w1"! would naturally expect to T And kingdom-of Ood may lose thai k"? tage through Indifference. ' hetl' Jesus is the guest of a Phon. dinner. He notices how ome " the chief seats, and urges on the wisdom of humility. On" h? company remarks, with unctuous .2? complacency, ' Blessed Is he Zt ,h', eat bread In the kingdom of qi& Jesus replies with this parable of fjreat supper. He evldenUy ha Jews la mind, and meant his 1 ombpeanay Warn,n8 " the "'55 Jhfaf T tateprr ' Note that the excuses in the nr?" relate to things perfectly themselves. They are the Interest, if business nnrt .nlo,.. . ... S"M modern world. These Interests6 Z now supreme In the lives f ffiU udes. In their preoccupation w ' their own little affairs their sin , neglect and unbelief puts then, really outside the kingdom as if tC lives were vicious. elr But the cause ol God moves on tor while some refuse, others accept fh, feast must be furnished with guest, Paul said to the Jews of Aittlorti' 'Seeing ye thrust It (the word of q from you, nnd Judge yourselves 1. 1 Cor. 0: 19-23. pnul here sets be. fore us his own evangelistic spirit and Ideal. His words are a commentary on the command In the parable, "Con. strain them to come In.'' Note hit love, wisdom, tact, perseverance Compare 1 Cor. 10: 32. He wrote' later to this same church: "I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls." To the Jews I became as a Jew ... To them that are without law as without law. He did not need, lessly run counter to their prejudices Look up some of the illustrations o( this wise method of Paul's: Acts 1C 3; IS: 18; 21: 2G. To the weak I became weak. Com pare 1 Cor. 8: 13; Rom. 14: 13; 15-1-3. The bearing of these teachings It plain. We are to seek to win people to Christ through sincere love for them. There Is danger of profession alism and mere mechanics here, an that is fatal to Influence. The desire for members is legitimate, hut we must be very careful not to fall Into tho habit of thinking of those we seek os grlBt for the mill. STlEiniES NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST. Our Father's World. This Is our Father's world. He loves us and Is watching over our lives. ThU Is the world In which Christ died to save us. Only our own hands can defeat the blessed purpose of God's love. Only our unbelief can turn the divine good into evil for us. Wp need pever bo defeated; we need never fall. Whatever our sorrow, our discouragement, our defeat,, our fail ure, there Is no day when we' may not look Into the face of Christ and say;' "It U well." ACCOMPLISHMENT. Knlcker "The Government has been after the railroads for years." Bocker "And yet hasn't succeed ed In opening a car window." New York Sun, , AN INDOOR - PICNIC. , Why won't you go to the picnic?'' "Aw, I'm too tired. Let's soak a few sandwiches In lemonade and est em on tha kitchen floor." Wasbina ton Herald. . "The Blessing of a Thankful Heart" Neh. 8: 8-12. Altars of thankfulness. Gen. 35: 1-8. Cause for thankfulness. Deut. 8: 210. A psalm of praise. Ps. 103: 1-22. Thanksgiving In all things. Col. 3: 12-17. Thanksgiving In trouble. Acts 15: 22-34. The eternal praise service. Rev. 5: 814. Some Bible Hints. Every holiday should be a holy day; If It Is not, -It ceases to be a real holi day (v. 9). The best sweetening for food Is the Joy of sharing It with the needy (v. 10). Joy Is always strength, and morose man Is ever a weak man (r. 10). If a man tries to be grateful In hit own wisdom, he will, find only glcim. In the Bitble is the secret of perpetual thanksgiving (v. 12). Suggestions. . Thankfulness for blessings Is almoit always a greater blessing than thou Joys for which we are thankful, An ungrateful man has his good things only once; a grateful man hai his es often as he thinks of them. Gratitude Is contagious,, as most precious things are; be grateful for the sake of others. Gratitude Is the only coin In which God will accept payment of our great debt to Him. ' Gratitude nnd memory are like twt mirrors, endlessly multiplying all that come between them.. Some people put all the gratitudt of their year into Thanksgiving V. which Is as foolish as It would be to put all the dinners of the year Into the Thanksgiving dinner. A photographic plate, w.hlch receive the image instantly, Is developed intc a permanent picture slowly, in the dark. So our gratitude Is made per manent by quiet meditations on our blessings. No one can know how rich he Is un less he keeps a ledger and strikes balance. Keep a written account 01 your m"cies! ...He Remembered... i Poets are more apt to be modert !than self-assertive. In his blograiihf jof T. B. Aldrlch, Mr. Ferris Grenl tells a story of the youth of the p ishowlng that he, for one, believed 1 himself. Aldrlch bad dropped Into (publisher's office with a copy of veree ,ln his pocket. The publisher, 'was also the editor of a niagailM. was absent. . 1 The young- poet sat down M , waited. Presently nU eye fell op ;a memoradum book lying thert. spread out like a morning newspap and almost la spite of himself read: i "Don't forget to see the binder. '. "Don't forgot to mail B. hl0 coo-tract." Don't forget H.'s proofs An (aspiration seized upon th youth. He took a pencil, and t tall of this long list of "don't for gets" he wrote: , f a 1 "Don't forget to accept, A.'s Poem' I He left hla manuscript on the table and departed. That afternoon, wn the publisher glanced over bis eB loranda, be was not a little aton!ha at the last Item, but bis sense of n mor was so Btrong that he did accP the poem, although It required 'strong sense of bnmor to do that, and sent the lad a chock for it. t,UI :the verses remain to this day ua' printed. Youth's Companion.
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