THE PULPIT.
BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON
REV. DR. JASON N. PIERCE.
BY
Theme: Co-operative Success.
Amherst, Mass. The Rev. Jason
Noble Pierce, pastor of the Pnrltau
Congregational Church, Brooklyn,
preached before the faculty and stu
dents of Amherst College. His sub
ject was "Co-operative Success." He
said:
The theme of mysermon this morn
ing Is "Co-operative Success." In one
sense, of course, all success is co-operative.
We can not have success
without society. It takes travelers to
run a railroad, customers to support
a store, and men In ell professions
must have their patrons In order to
succeed. All success is In a, way co
operative. But I bring to your con
sideration another side to this subject
success that rests upon co-operating
not so much with men of the pres
ent as with men of the past nnd of
the future. Let us begin with nn his
toric case. You will find my text In
the last verse of the eleventh chapter
of the Epistle to the Hebrews: "That
apart from us they should not bo
made perfect."
Who should not be made perfect?
Read the chapter which 13 the setting
of our text. It Is a glorious record of
the greatest men In Israel. Here are
recorded the names of the fathers of
the race, the men who led It Into po
sition and power. Here are written
the names of Joseph, the great ruler;
of Moses, the lawgiver, whose influ
ence outlives the centuries; of Gideon
and Barak, generals, whene very
names inspired terror within the
hearts of the enemy; of David, the
King of Israel's golden age, and of
Isaiah, the immortal prophet. These
are the men at whom the finger of
the race points and the voice of the
people cries "Behold our heroes:1'
What grand men they were! Men
"of whom the world was not worthy,"
says the writer of the epistle. If
there were time I could preach you a
sermon on that text alone, "Men of
whom the world was not worthy."
Not the kind of men who thought the
world was unworthy of them, who set
themselves up as little tin gods on
wheels, who had the heart of a pessi
mist and the Up of a scorner that
was not their style. Rather they
were men who felt this was a grand
old world and a glorious life; they
had the far-seeing eye and the warm
beating heart; they assailed the stout
est enemy, performed the hardest
tasks, courted danger nnd difficulty,
and left the world better and richer
for their having lived in It. They are
the ones "of whom the world was not
worthy," and yet here come the sig
nificant words of o:ir text, "That apart
from us the7 should not be made per
fect." The meaning of the passage Is cl"ar
when we study It In the light of the
whole chanter. These were men nf
faith. Over and over again we read i 'n
I good cause, but in a great cause. I
mean by th"t. a cause larger than our
Individual lives', v.hose successful Is
sue will be realized In the distant fu
ture and through the efforts of others
besides ourselves. It would not be a
bad thing hv any means if every man
were to ask himself this question:
Are all the things In which I am in
terested going to be achieved com
pletely while I am alive? The signifi
cance of that question rests unon this
fundamental fact, that a man's great
ness depends unon his ability to rise
above his selfishness and see things
In the large and then with broader
vision and nobler motive work for the
good of humanity. What a host of
great tasks stand waiting to be done!
What magnificent, oooortnnltlcs stand
us a cnanenge to our nower of
achievement! We dream of the Cru
saders of the twelfth century, while
the twentieth century offers us cru
sades far more thrilling and worth in
finitely more to the public good! Here
Is the field of modern Industrialism
with its questions of ownership, wago
and working conditions: here Is the
field of government with Its problems
of International peace, political hon
esty and public service; here Is the
work of education with its noble In
fluence reaching round the world and
raising all classes of people; here is
the mlnistrv of medicine concerned
not only with the healing, but with
the prevention of disease and need
less suffering, and here Is the Chris
tian Church whose pronbets and
priests are to lead the world Into a
more rational and fervent conception
of the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man.
It. matters little to the world what
profession the average man enters,
whether he become a man of business,
a doctor, a minister or lawyer. But
It matters everything whether he be a
man of faith, a man who believes In a
great cr.nse. who makes his contribu
tion to It. and knows that in the end
It will succeed.
So far I have been directing your
thoughts forward, t have been em
phasizing the possibilities of your
own future with the desire that every
man might determine to consecrate
his strength to a worthy task. Let us
each make the venture, have faith in
our fellow-man, trust to co-operation,
undertake some great cause, and. if
It be right and therefore finally vic
torious, our lives will gain the great
er perfection! Now, however, I call
your attention to another aspect of
our theme the look backward. Here
Is the thought: Those who have pre
ceded us and have had faith in us and
what we shall do cannot become per
fect apart from us! They have done
nil that thev could, but they have
been compelled to intrust to our
hands the completion of their tasks.
If we succeed they are perfected. It
we fall their lives are incomplete.
Apart from us they shall not become
perfect. .,
I know a noble father whose name
Is known and honored across this
country. Ho has two sons. One of
them is as fine and manly a fellow as
you would ever want to meet. He has
rhosen a noble profession, works hard
it, and each additional success
the expressive words "By faith." They
were men wbo lived, tolled and
wrought by faith. Faith in what?
Reducing a large question to a con
cise answer I would say this was their
faith that by the grace of God Israel
was to furnish leadership to the
world. And generations afterward
tbat faith was realized when Israel
gave to the world the master charac
ter of all time.
Here, then. Is the argument of the
writer: (1) The greatest and most
able men of Israel were men of faith
who foresaw, toiled and hoped for
brings joy and delight to his Barents.
The other son entered the service of
our Government, rose to a position of
trust and honor, was discovered to
have betraved his truet and embezzled
the funds intrusted to his charge, and
to-day he Is serving his sentence as a
I :onvlct in one of our prisons. What
shame, what disappointment, what
bitter sorrow has it not brought to his
noble father and to his loving moth
er! Their lips are sealed from speak
ing his name, their eyes have long
ago been wept dry, and they have
learned again how to bravely smile.
something that posterity could I But forever there is a sorrow In their
achieve. (2) When the dream of the
years came true, then were they Jus
tl8od in their faith and their lives re
ceived the full-rouuded completion
and perfection that their faith de
served. In order to bring out the
point of the argument more clearly,
let me state it again in somewhat dif
ferent terms: (1) There are men who
undertake a cause that Is largsr than
life and give their strength In loyal
allegiance to It because they believe
It to be right and bound ultimntely to
succeed. (2) These men of faith
grow or shrink, surceed or fall, are
perfected or undone, proportionately
ad the object of their faith Is finally
realized. The fame of Washington
would never have been what it Is to
day if we had lost the Revolution, or
If the Union had been broken at the
time of the Civil War! Washington
had faith not only In the success of
the Revolution, but in a glorious and
brilliant future for this republic, and
the more we see that this faith was
justified, Juut so much the more do
we see a larger and a greater Wash
ington. For more than a century af
ter Oliver Cromwell died his charac
ter was torn to Bhreds and scattered
to the four winds of heaven, but to
day men vie with each other In doing
him praise. The great Issues for
which he fought Individual liberty,
religious toleration, the enforcement
of a Just and equltablo law on all
alike, whether It be on the common
people or on the licentious nobles of
England, the protection of hla coun
trymen In foreign lands, the extension
of commerce and the sweeping of the
hearts and a disappointment in their
lives. Never, never, will their lives
be completely perfect because the one
who held that perfection In bis power
oroved false to their faith.
The Secrent Prayer. .
Christ's command to enter one's
Jloset and there pray to the Father
In secret was exemplified perfectly in
His own life. All through the Gos
jels are references to His departing
ilone to a mountain or some equally
julet place where He could, without
Interruption, pour out His heart to
God. In those days we are wont to
;haracterlze as "busy," we are some
times tempted to think there is no
spportunity for the carrying out our
Lord's Injunction. We should not al
low ourselves to be so easily defeat
ed. Christ found the quiet place
Hla "closet" because He was deter
mined to find it, not because it was
lways at His hand. Somewhere Is
i "closet" for everyone, a place where
God waits to hear and to answer to
prayer which mty be uttered only
'la secret."
Fidelity to Our Daily Trust.
It was while engaged lit the monot
onous and prosaic duty of flock-tending
and that on the edge of a desert
that Moses received the divine rev
elation which transformed the whole
plan of his life. Many a soul waatcs
years In longing for the "halo" with
out realizing that It generally comes
by way of the commonplace. It Is in
the common acacia bush of an unro-
Mediterranean pirates from the seas. 1 God appears and makes It glorious to
the watchful, faithful soul. What
In short everything that promoted the
common good these Issues have now
captured the world, and In nronortlon
as they have been victorious has the
character of Cromwell gained in maj
esty until to-day he is regarded as the
greatest Individual of a mlghtv peo-
pie. History Is replete with Illustra
tion of the truth of our text that great
men become greater as that for which
they lived and died achieves the vic
tory. This is co-operative success.
This is the demonstration of our text:
"That apart from us tbey should not
be made perfect." 1
Let us now face certain considera
tion that spring; from this subject.
In the first place, there comes the re
alizing sense tbat no man llveth to
himself, but tbat the life of every
man Is inseparably associated with
the lives of others. Whatever w
do affects others, and the more se
rious the action the more important
the result. Have you over aeen
careless or Incompetent physician?
Such man is a menace to society,
for befor all people can be warned
against blm he has caused Irreparable
harm. Have you ever seen an un
crapulous lawyer or politician, a
nan wbo care not how b via out U
only he ran win? Such a man may
soon stifle his conscience and forget
disquieting memories, but the harm
he causes affects society and its un
happy Influence may live long after
him. It makes a vast difference what
we stand for and what we do. What
a blessing rorae to society In the life
of a man like Professor Carman, or
like the heroic old soldier so recently
pone to his reward. General Howard!
These were men of mighty Influence,
and the fact that they lived the kind
of lives tbey did has made a real and
vital difference In the world '
Then, igaln. we are forcibly re
rnlii!ed that it in possible for us to
exert our Influence not only In a
stupendous Issues for time and eter
nlty bang upon fidelity to our dally
trust we may not realize at the mo
ment, but God will see that truo loy
alty will never miss Its mark.
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Sunday "School
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOK JANUARY 23.
THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK
PROGRESS MADE RY CHAMPIONS
FIGHTING Til 10 RUM DEMON.
Subject: True Blessedness, Malt. 6:
1-10 Commit to Memory
Verse 2-9.
Salvation,
Salvation Is not mere salvage. Sal
vation Is high and holy service; It Is
doing tbe will of God; It la a call to
share in a divine purpose. Rer. W.
11. Stevens.
Victor Emmanuel's Rare Coin.
King Victor Emmanuel, according
to a French newspaper, Is a numis
matist of the first rank, and his maj
esty possesses a collection which may
foe termed a museum. His cabinets
contain 60,000 coins, some most rare
and almost priceless. The king is a
scientific collector, and will shortly
publish a treatise on numismatics. It
will run Into several volumes, and
will be entitled "Corpus Mlnlmorum
Itallcorum." The work will be a
complete catalogue of medieval and
modern money struck by Italy or by
Italians in foreign lands. The print
ing of the first volume is almost com
plete; To Insure correctness proof
sheets have been submitted to the
keepers of tbe coin departments in
the principal museums of the world.
London Globe. .
GOLDEN TEXT. "Blessed are the
pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Matt. 6:8.
TIME. Midsummer A. D. 28.
riiAfTK. Horns of Hattln.
EXPOSITION. I. How to Be
nappy, 1-12. In this lesson Jesus
answers the great question that man
is ever asking, How to be happy.
Jesus points out eight classes whom
God pronounces happy. They are not
those whom the world esteems happy.
Indeed they are In part those whom
the world esteems most unfortunate.
But time has Justified, and eternity
will more abundantly Justify the
declarations of Christ. (1) The first
class are "the poor In spirit," I. e., the
lowly In heart, those who recognize
their need and are contrite and hum
ble in spirit (comp. Ps. 34:18; 61:
17; Prov. 29:23; Isa. 67:15; 66:2;
Phil. 3:3). Theirs Is the kingdom of
heaven. The good of this present
evil age belongs to the self-assertive
and self-esteeming; the good of the
coming age belongs to the self-renouncing
and self-abhorrlng. The
door of the kingdom is only open to
those who realize their utter moral
poverty and humble themselves in
the dust (Jas. 4:9. 10: 1 Pet. 6:6;
Luke 18:14: 1:53). The spirit of
the twentieth century Is utterly op
posed to the poverty In spirit here de
scribed. (2) The second beatitude
sounds equally strange. The world's
estimate Is "blessed are those who
are not called to mourn; those who
have no bereavements and no sor
rows." "Not so," says Jesus, "deep
sorrow is one of the greatest blessings
of the life that now is." All who
have learned to know the deeper Joys
that are in Christ, have been led into
them through great heart-aches. The
reason why those who mourn are
happy is because "they shall be com
forted." It is "the God of all com
fort" Himself who comforts them
(2 Cor. 1:3. 4). (3) The third class
who are happy are the "meek," I. e.,
the bumble, gentle and mild as dis
tinguished from the self-assertive
and contentious and harsh ( 1 Cor.
4:21; 6:1; Enh. 4:2; 2 Tim. 2:23;
Tit. 3:2). The world's thought Is
that there Is no chance for the meek
man in a selfish, hustling age like
this; and that his gentle voice can
never be beard amid the universal
clamor. Jesus says, "they shall in
herit the earth" (comp. Ps. 37:11;
Isa. 67:13). Certainly they are the
most fit, and it will be a happy day
for the earth when they do. Even
now the words of the meek travel
farthest and are remembered longest.
Many a man who has had a message
has failed to get the world to listen
to It, because of his self-assertive and
censorious manner In declaring it.
How we cry to God for something
more, something higher, deeper,
more perfect! How we long to be
perfectly like Him, between whom
and ourselves we see so wide a dif
ference! Jesus says, "you shall be
filled." But If one Is satisfied with
present attainment, there Is nothing
more for him (Luke 1:53). (6)
"The merciful." Mercy is that genu
ine loving kindness toward the needy
that leads to helpful action in their
behalf. The man who helps others In
their distress will be helped of God
In bis own distress (L'ake 3.68; Ps.
41:1). On the othev hand, he who
has a deaf ear to the cry of the
needy will find that God has a deaf
ear when he cries to Him (Prov. 21:
13; Matt. 18:23-35). (6) The next
happy ones, "the pure In heart."
Theirs in the supreme ble.isedness,
"they shall see God." God Is Infinite
beauty and infinite glory in personal
manifestation. Tbe joy of beholding
the greatest masterpiece of art, the
most wondrous landscape, the fnce of
most matchless beauty, is nothing to
the Joy of gazing into the face of
God. The pure in heart and they
alone have tbis Ineffable joy (Heb.
11:14). A sinful heart raukeu a
blind eye. Tbe pure In heart al
ready see God (Jno. 14:19, 21, 23),
but "in a glass darkly," but in the
coming day "face to face" (1 Cor.
13:12). (7) "Peace makers." their
blessedness la because "they shall be
called sons of God" (R. V.). The
God of the Bible Is "the God of
peace" (Ro. 16:33; 16:20; Phil, 4:
9; Heb. 13:20). Surely then the
peace makers are Justly called His
sons. On the other hand oue who
atlrs up strife must he son of the
devil. All discord and strife has en
tered the world through the devil.
The wisdom that leads to bitter envy,
lng and strife "Is earthly, sensual,
devilish." Those who are persecuted
tor righteousness' sake, upon them a
two-fold happiness is pronounced.
II. The Disciple of Jeus the Salt
of tlie Earth and the Light of the
World, 18-10. Believers In ChrlBt
are the salt of the earth, It Is they
who keep human society from spoil
ing and who give a proper savor to
it. Salt lose Its savor by becoming
mixed with earth. The Christian
loses his savor by compromising with
tbe world. They are then good for
nothing but to be cast out and trod
den under foot of man. Believers are
not only salt that preserves but light
that illumines. Jesus Is the "Light of
tbe world" (John 8:12). and we by
receiving Him become lights to the
world also. It Is our business to let
our light shine before men. We do
not need to make It shine. God does
that, hut we should let It shine
Satan's Vicegerent Earth's Greatest
Curse.
BT JOHN W. OOtlOH.
We might almost fancy Satan
seated upon his high and burning
throne in Pandemonium, crowned
with a circlet of everlasting fire, call
ing around him his satellites, to show
their respective claim for certain
privileges, by the power one possessed
more than another to bring men to
that burning lake. We may Imagine
Mammon, the meanest of all the gods,
standing up and saying, "Send me I
can send men from their homes across
the burning desert, or the trackless
ocean, to fight and dig in the earth
for yellow dust, and so harden the
heart that the cry of the widow and
the fatherless shall be unheard. I
will so stop up every avenue to hu
man affection that ray victim shall
stand as If made of the metal he
loves, and when the cold fingers of
death are feeling for his heart strings
he shall clutch closer and closer to
his heart the bag of yellow dust,
which is the only god he ever wor
shiped." Belial, filthiest of all the
gods, neit proclaims his power. Then
the Destroyer asserts his claim: he
holds war, pestilence and famine in
his hand, and makes men whose
trade It shall be to deface God's im
age, rank themselves in hostile array,
and hurry each other shrieking, un
shrouded. Into another world. While
all is silent we may suppose a mighty
rumbling sound, at which all hell
quakes; and far In the distance is
seen, borne upon the fiery tide, a mon
strous being, his hair-snakes all
matted with blood, his face besmeared
with gore, he rises half his length,
and the waves dashing against hla
breast fall back in shower of fire.
"Who art thou?" "I am an earth
born spirit. I heard your proclama
tion and come. Send me me I will
turn the hand of the father against
the mother, the mother against the
child, the husband against the wife;
the young man in the pride of manli
ness I will wrap in my cerement and
wither him. That fair young girl I
will make such a thing that the vilest
wretch shall shrink from her In dis
gust. I will do more. I will do more.
I will so deceive them tbat the moth
er shall know that I destroyed her
first-born and yet give to me her sec
ond. The father shall know that I
destroyed the pride of bis hope, and
yet Hit the deadly draught to the lips
of the second. Governors shall know
how I have sapped the root of States,
and yet spread over me the robe of
their protection. Legislators shall
know the crime and misery I cause,
but shall still shield and encourage
me. In heathen lands I shall be
called fire water, spirit of the devil,
but in Christendom men shall call
me 'a good creature of God.' " All
hell resounds with a shout, and Satan
exclaims "Come up hither, and take
a seat on the throne till we hear your
name." As he mounts to the seat the
spirit saya aloud, "My name la Alco
hol!" and the name shall be shouted
in every part of hell, and tbe cry be
ratBed, "Go forth, and the benlson of
the pit go with you."
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MY THANKSGIVING.
, NO OBSTACLE.
. "What's to prevent me from kiss
lng you?" demanded the man.
"My goodnmis!" exclaimed the girl.
I. Rut it didn't. Louisville Courier
Journal, '. !
A PET SNAKE. " '
I am going to tell you how a friend
of mine captured a caake. - We were
up In tbe Kearny woods playing In
dian, and were gathering leaves to
make a bonfire. Gordon (for that
was my friend's name) went to a hol
low to get nice armful, when a
small anak Jumped out from under
tbe leaves and started away. Gordon
picked up a atlck which he found and
hit the anake lightly on the head.
We thought It was doad, and put tt
In an old tin can to take It home.
Wbco we got tome we discovered
that It was alive. We measurod It
and found that It waa Just twenty
inches long.
I still have lt,.-nd it seems to be
as happy as ever. , It plays In the
grass, and Is not afraid of me any
more. Philip H. Coe, In the Now
York Tribune.
Have Had Their Work For Nothing.
Tbe following striking extract from
tbe Liberal Advocate, organ of the
liquor forces, published at Columbus,
Ohio, in one of lta Issues, should
certainly set those temperance people
to thinking who Imagine local option
will settle the liquor question:
"When all has been said and done,
It will It must become apparent to
even the most narrow-minded of
those ' lon-whiskered bucolics that
they have bad their work for nothing.
When .the campaign has been finished,
the most they will he able to point to
as a result of all the froth and fury
of their fanatical campaign will be
in the neighborhood of 2000 out of
10.000 saloons in Ohio closed. The
remaining 8000 will continue to do
business at the old stand. There are
nine counties In Ohio - which have
voted wet. So It will be seen that
those who have a Lucas and a Frank
lin in which tbe arm of the fanatic
is Impotent, and there are others of
tbe remaining .two score or so which
will remain wet. So it will be seen
that those who have a desire for alco
holic drinks or stlmulauts (especially
by the aid of express companies) will
bo able to procure them."
Converted.
"When I took charge of the North
Dakota Penitentiary I was not a Pro
hibitionist. But I want to say to you
delegates of this congress that after
being in office two years In a State
where prohibition la in force, If I had
my say I would not only prohibit tbe
manufacture of Intoxicating liquor,
but I would absolutely prohibit lta
importation into this country. I am
convinced that ninety per cent, of
the crime of this country is due either
directly or indirectly to intoxicating
liquor. We have in our
prohibition State of North Dakota
but 260 people in our penitentiary,
out of a population of 600,000, and
half the Inmates are non-residents."
F. O. Hellstrom, Warden of tbe
North Dakota State Penitentiary, in
an address before tbe Congress of the
American Prison Association, at
Fargo, N. D., August 23. 1909.
Parent of Crinic.
After fifteen years on the bench I
believe that four-fifths of all crimes
are the result, directly or Indirectly,
of tbe use of Intoxicating liquors.
Much of if. is due to beer. It follows
that three-fourths of the expense of
the State for prosecution of criminals
Is attributable to the same cause.
Judge White, of Pittsburg.
Santo Domingo, according to) )
English mineralogist who explored it,
la a geological curiosity shop, contain,
log scattered samples of nearly ever
wull known mineral.
Temperance Notes.
The Catholic Church la not de
pendent upon tbe saloon for its sup
port. Aa a matter of fact, the church
l. . . ,.m 19 V-. ..Inin
wuuiu uJ Holier uu 1 1 iu .wm
'never existed. New World.
It the saloon did help a community
'financially, we should close It up be
cause It destroys character! Don't
sell character for coin put man
above the dollar. An epidemic of
smallpox would help tbe business of
the doctor and druggist Sunday
School Register.
Memphis, Tenn., has been the
largest prohibition city In the world
since July 1.
State and National option la the
only option that will satisfy the Pro
hibitionists. Give us this and a Na
tional Prohibition party behind It and
we ahall hear no more of prohibition
cities returning to license. J. O.
Wooley. ,
"At the taut meeting of the Brew
ers' Association just concluded In Mil
waukee, tbey were forced to admit
that the bad saloon must go. I would
bexlad if tliey could show mo a single
; grfod saloou." Father Ward,- of
Uelolt, Wli. '
I have walked amid the shadows, '
Scarce could see the gleam of light
Shnt across the path of darkneas,
In the gloom of sorrow's night.
But amid the tempest raging,
Ever walked a Friend with me;
God be trained, that Friend has ever
Been the Man of Galilee.
I have felt life's keen affliction,
I have walked beneath the rod,
But He crowned the year with goodness.
And I've found new faith in God.
God be prained, for this Thanksgiving,
And the lighthoune by the sea,
With its glen in Vtom sorrow's waters,
And my Friend of Galilee.
Life now means a larger service,
Else the sorrow ana the pain
Would have loat their deeper meaning,
And life's loaa exceed its gain:
So I come, this glad Thanksgiving.
From beneath the "cloud and sea"
With a larger life and service
For the Man of Galilee.
And I bring, this glad Thnnkaniving,
Love's sweet incenae to His shrine.
And a life that aaya. while trusting,
"Not my will be done, but Thine."
Onward, forward, this my purpoae,
Till I reach the narrow sea,
And croaa o'er to meet my Brother
Meet the Man of Galilee.
Trust and Wait.
The Bible commands us to not only
truBt In God, but to wait for Him to
do -for us what He has promised to
do. The trusting and the waiting
are linked together. A trusting which
Is not accompanied by a willingness to
wait for God's time of delivering ua
from trouble, or for giving us what
we must have as a necessity, la a very
poor kind of trusting.
In all true trusting there la an
element of patlenco, and the stronger
the trusting Is, the more patient is
the waiting. The weakness of much
of our trusting in God is that of im
patience. We are apt to be in too
great a hurry for God to fulfil His
promise of help or deliverance. We
can trust for a short time with a feel
ing of safety and satisfaction, and
then, because the help does not come
to us as soon as we desired or ex
pected It, we allow impatience to rule
us and make us miserable. We then
fear tbat God has cither forgotten us,
or else we will be left without His
aid. His promise having failed.
Isaiah says: "I will trust, and not ba
afraid." While he was trusting he
was not afraid that God would leave
him to trust In vain; and so he pa
tiently waited for God to grant him
the needed deliverance or the neces
sary support.
Think of Abraham's long waiting
for God to give him the son of prom
ise. When God told him that Ha
would give him a son he at once trust
ed in that promise. The basis of his
trusting was the revealed word of
God. He not only belloved that it
was God who made the promise, but
he trusted In God's unchangeable
veracity, and also In His ability to do
Just what He promised him. And ho
continued to wait for the fulfillment
of that promise; and he had to wait
vastly longer than he at first bad any
Idea that it would be necessary for
him to wait. It seems that he got
discouraged some of the time, and
there 1b nothing strange about this
assumption; but he allowed nothing
to destroy his trusting, even when
natural conditions were hopeless.
And if we be very strong In trusting
God we must be long patient In wait
ing for Him to deliver ua in His own
way. C. II. Wetherbe, in the Ex
aminer. A Dally Prayer.
Teach us. O Lord, to see the bright
side of things that we may radiate
the sunshine.
Save us, we pray Thee, from petty
ness and fault finding and self-seeking.
And may our minds be too big
for prejudice and our hearts too large
for hatred.
Keep us, on the one hand, from tbe
pride of pretense and on the other
from self pity and moroseness. Help
us that we may be sweet. Guide ua
that we may be glad.
May we be charitable in thought
and generoua In deed, white souled
and helpful.
Mar we be straightforward and un
afraid. Help ua to lovs and laugh and give
as we loved and gave and laughed In
childhood. And so lead us tbat we
may be mean to none of Thy children.
Keep us In the ways of temperance
In our working, our resting. Help
us that we may tako the time to do
the things that we ought to do and
that we may cot do the things we
ought not to do.
Forglvo ua our waywardness and
forgetfulness and the deceit that Is In
us nnd lead us Into the serene and
biased ways of peace.
May that which is good in ua be
made stronger and that which la bad
!n ua made weaker.
And save us from pessimism and
npltefulness and narrowness and
haste of Judgment.
' Look with tenderness upon those
wo love and divide, we pray, our hop
pinass with them.
May we forget those who hate ua
and cherish those who love ua and O
Lord, we pray Thee
Make ua very kind.
Dumb Need.
Noed la never so desperate aa when
It Is dumb. It la never so apparent
to the eye of God, never so apparent
to His pity as when shut up in tbe
aoul of some speechless man.
Centre of AU Things.
Jesus Christ la both tho condemna
tion of what we are and the promise
of what we can be. - He Is the centre"
of all things, and the final interpret,
tlon of the uulverse.
PWDRTH LEAGUE LESSONS
8UNDAY, JANUARY 23.
Vitalized Truth.
New truth doea not need the anni
hilation of old truth. Better one
truth vitalised In your Christian ex
perience than whole systems of truths
lying fallow In your brain. '
J An Italian inventor, Luciano Buttl,
.la credited with having produced a
photographic apparatua with a film
jso sensitive that It will record 2000
soparate Impressions per second.
.This abould possess much value for
.scientific purposes, since even tbe mo.
Itlona of an Insect's wings might ba
made appnrent by a series of bio
graphic pictures taken with such ex
;trome rapidity. At present, bow
ever, the new film is said to be so
costly that tbe expense of UHlng It,
reckoning by the time of exposure, ia
f 10 per sucond. j
How to Have a Conscience Void of Of
fense .(Acta 24. 26; I Tim. 1.
6-19; 1 Pet. 3. 15, 16.)
The original word for "conscience"
in these and other New Testament
texts, means, . literally, "a knowing
with oneself," and Is used once by
John, three times by Peter, and twenty-six
times by Paul. The word
means "self-knowledge,'' or "self-inspection,"
and has reference, chiefly
to a man's knowledge or inspection of
his own moral conduct and character.
Consciousness is the notice which
we take of our mental states. Wu...
we think, we may or we may not oe
conscious; but when we think, and
think that we think, then only do we
become conscious. In a similar fash
ion conscience Is the notice which we
take of our moral states, or of the
moral quality of things. Conscience
Is the moral sense, a faculty of the
coul. It not only takes notice of our
moral status and of the moral quality
of things, but It produces an exper
ience of pleasure In that which Is mor
ally right, and a feeling of . pain in
that which Is morally wrong.
Therefore to have "a conscience
void of offense" In the meaning of
our tests, evidently means to live a
blameless life, to so live that our
character und conduct win the con
stant approval of our moral sense.
That Is tbe only happy life, for thus
our morul acts become a constant
source of satisfaction and pleasure In
stead of pain und remorse.
This theme practically places be
fore us the whole subject of man's
moral nature. His spiritual nature
is the product of divine grace, and Is
the special bestowment of the Holy
Spirit; but man's moral nature la an
Inheritance in which every man
saint or sinner la equally Interest
ed. A man may reject divfne mercy
and miss hla spirit nature altogether;
and great would be his loss. But man
already has a moral nature with
which he must constantly square ac
counts. Hla conscience Is a part of
himself. He cannot reject It nor es
cape the consequences of bis treat
ment of It. Some themes therefore
become exceedlugly practical.
JANUARY TWENTY-THIRD
Topic Doea Religion Pay? 1 Cor. 3:
18-23.
Religious for nothing. Job 1: C-22.
What religion costs. Matt. 16: 21
26. What religion yields. Gal. 5: 22-25.
What religion promises. 1 Pet. 1;
1-9.
What religion gives. Matt. 11: 2S
30. Where religion takes us. Rev. 22:
1-5.
No real wisdom Is foolishness, but
worldly wisdom, The wisdom that does
not look beyond thla world. Is not real
wisdom (v. 19).
All things aro yours only as He Is
yours to whom all things belong (v.
2D- ,
You nre glad to own life; but are
you also glad to own death? Yes,
when you understand that death Is
the portal to eternal life (v. 22).
When are we Christ's? When His
will Is ours. And It la part of His
will to give us all things (v. 23).
Suggestions.
If Americans, as 1b Raid, are partic
ularly Interested in the things that
pay, they should be especially Inter
ested In religion.
To find out whether a thing pays or
not, do not go to those that have not
tried it.
Religion pays for this world and at
once, but it goes on paying at an In
creasing rate and forever.
Religion Is the only enterprise that
carries its profits into the next world.
Shall we there think that It has paid?
Illustrations.
The less substantial the worldly In
vestment, the higher Interest la paid;
but in religion the reverse is true.
Some things pay like an endow
ment policy: at the end of the term
we take out what we have put in;
but religion returns to us daily all
that we put In, and with Interest.
In renting a house one muBt get ten
per cent on the cost of the house in
order to clear four or five per cent,
the rest going for repairs, taxes and
Insurance; but in religion there are
no discounts and deductions, but all Is
clear returns.
IMPRISONED IN HEATING BOILER
Imprisoned In a big boiler under
neath which a fire was gradually
heating the flues to a point which
would have meant a horrible death 11
his escape had been delayed but a
few minutes longer. Is the experience
undergone by Arthur McDonal, a
young boiler maker of Arkansas.
He has Just left tbe hospital, a
nervous wreck. Hla hair, which was
coal black, now hanga over hla fore
head, a soft, glistening white.
At a sawmill at Hope, Ark., a new
set of boilers had been put In. Some
thing went wrong, and McDonal wai
called upon to repair the difficulty
After filing tbe first boiler, he or
dered the firemen to fill It with watet
and build a fire under It. McDonal
then entered the aecond boiler, and
had been working about an hour,
when he noticed hla candle growing
dim, and atarted to Investigate, Sick
with horror, he realized that the ne
groes had misunderstood his orders
and were building a fire underneath
the boiler In which he waa at work.
He atruck his hammer against th
sldea of the boiler, hoping to attract
their attention. Soon the beat began
to ba felt. With hands torn and bleed
ing, and eye almost bursting front
their sockets, the now tborougbl)
crazed man crawled back and forth
In his prison, panting and praying
and moaning. Tbe flues became sc
hot they burned his feet, and his heatf
swam with the heat. At almost the
last moment a way of escape dawned
upon htm. Grasping tbe chisel hi
placed It against one of tbe flues un
der water and dealt It terrific blows
The chisel broke through the flue
letting tbe water follow. The negroet
heard the water when It struck th
flames, and, believing that the bollei
still leaked, opened tbe water plug
and raked out the fire. McDonal had
a faint recollection of a patch of day
light when the manhole was opened
but knew nothing icoie for five days
THE Nj?
EPICURE'S
CORNER
Plowed Field.
Put into a saucepan a pint of gran
ulated augar with three tablespoon
futs of water, one cupful shaved choc
olate, a piece of butter the size of an
egg and a tablespoonful of vinegar.
Place the pan over the fire and boll
twenty minutes, stirring enough to
prevent burning. Test by dropping a
little Into Ice water. If found too
brittle, stir very hard and pour Into
a buttered tin. When partly cool,
mark the candy Into squares. New
York Telegram.
Potato Salad.
Boll six medium sized potatoes In
the "jackets" and peel-them while
warm. Cut them ldto pieces about
a quarter of an Inch thick. Boll five
eggs hard, remove the yolks and cut
the whites up with potatoes. To this
add a bunch of celery, cut in small
pieces, a small onion, chopped .fine,
pepper and Bait to taste. Mix all this
by shaking It up, as using a spoon
would break tbe potatoes. Mash the
yolks and add a little salt, mustard
and pepper. Then stir In gradually
three tablespoons of melted butter.
Make this Into a smooth paste; add
enough vinegar to reduce it to the
thickness of cream. Boston Post.
Oysters Indian Style,
Put one-half tablespoon each of
flour and curry powder In a small
saucepan, mix In gradually one-halt
pint of cream, a tablespoon of finely
chopped onion "and a teaspoon of
grated apple. Season with salt and
pepper, simmering gently for twenty
minutes. Have a cup of rice that
has been boiled, and with thla form a
narrow border on a plate. Set in oven
to keep hot. In the sauce put to
heat a pint of small oysters; when
hot dish in the centre of the rice
border. Instead of using the cream
you can make a thin white Bauce of
flour and milk. The rice need not
be used at all, simply serving in a
round dish. Boston Post.
Savory Mutton,
Cold mutton is not the most sav
ory of meats under ordinary circum
stances, but It may be made Into
tasty dishes when some snappy sauce
Is added. A curry Is one of the prac
tical ways of utilizing It for curry
lovers. Cut the cold mutton Into
small pieces and fry them brown with
two onions cut into slices. Butter
or drippings may be used. Cut two
sour apples Into Bllces, add them to
the meat and onion, turn In a table
Bpoonful of curry powder, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, a teaspoonful of
salt, a scant tablespoonful of vinegar
and three cupfula of gravy ot water.
Simmer the mixture for two houra
and serve with boiled rice. Thla
recipe calls for about two pounds of
meat. New York Sun.
Parker House Rolls.
To two cups of scalded milk add
three tablespoonfuls ot butter and
two of sugar. When lukewarm add
one yeast cake, dissolved In one-quarter
cup ot tepid water, one teaspoon
ful of salt and three cups of flour.
Beat thoroughly, cover, let rise until
light, cut down and add sufficient
flour to knead. Let rise again, toss
on a slightly floured board, knead,
pat and roll out to one-third Inch in
thickness, then Bhape with the bis
cuit cutter, first dipped in flour. With
the blunt edge of a knife make a
crease through the middle of each
piece, brush over one-half with melt
ed butter, fold and press the edges
together. Place in greased pans an
Inch apart, cover, let rlso and bake
In a hot oven fifteen to twenty min
utes. It the sponge Is made over
night one-third ot a yeast cake will
be sufficient. Boston Post.
HOUSEHOLD,
HINTS
- Fresh meat, after beginning to
sour, will sweeten if placod out of
doors In the cool of night.
Milk which la turned or changed
may be sweetened and rendered fit
for use again by stirring In a Uttle
soda.
Boiled starch . Is much improved
by the addition of a little sperm salt,
or gum arable dissolved.
Salt will curdle new milk; hence, '
In preparing milk porridge, gravies,
etc., the salt should not be added
until the dish is preparod.
Clear, boiling water will remove
tea stains, and many fruit stains.
Pour the water through tbe stain,
and thus prevent it spreading over
the fabric'
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and
other stains from white cloth; also
from the hands.
A tablespoonful of turpentine
boiled with white clothes will aid In
tbe whitening process.
Kerosene will soften boots or shoes
that have been hardened by water and
render them as pliable as new.
Kerosene will make tin teakettles
as bright as new. Saturate a woolen
rag and rub with It. It will also
remove stains from varnished furni
ture, f '' , 1
Cool rain water and soda will re
move machine grease from washable
fabrics. 1 ,, ;; . v ..,,.
, The flavor of a cup of cocoa is often
made more delicate it the least bit ot
vanilla Is placed In It. In restaurants
a teaspoonful of whipped cream or
marshtnallow is served In each cup ot
coooa. ...
Beeswax and' salt will make rusty,
flatlrona aa clean and smooth as glass.
Tie a lump of wax lu a rag and keep.
) for that purpose. When the Irons
are hot, rub them first with the wax
raff, then scour with, a paper cloth
sprinkled with salt.
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