THE PULPIT. UN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY REV. DR. JOHN CURTIS AGER. Theme: Tabernacle of God. Brooklyn, N. Y. Sunday morning the Rev. Dr. John Curtis Ager, pastor emeritus of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborglan), nsw professor In Cambridge Theological School, preached In the pulpit which he filled for so many years. Ilia sub ject wan "The Tabernacle of God With Men." The text was from Reve lation 21:3: "And I heard a great voice out of the (new) hpaven, nay. Ins. see. the tabernacle of God with men, and He will tabernacle; with them, and they will be His peoples, and He, Clod with them, will be theli God." Dr. After said: The preceding verse?1, with the greater part of what follows In t'.ils chapter, are a description of what John saw coming down from God out of the new heaven. The remainder of the prophecy tells lis what John heard out of that heaven. John rep rizes this distinction when He says In the next chapter, "I John am he who saw and heard these things." This reflects an important bplritun! dis tinction, that is In some measure rec ognized in the common language of the world. Seeing o thing mentally Is a purely Intellectual act, but hear ing implies also such a giving hoed to the truth as calls for some response from the will. So In this prophetic vision the things John Is said to have seen picture those aspects of the new truth now coming Into the world that appeal to the understanding, while the things he heard represent those aspects of truth that appeal also to our emotions and volitions. The new heaven and the new earth, the holy city descending from the new heaven upon the new earth, complete in .all its parts, with its walls and gates and foundations of precious stones, its streets of pure gold, and the whole city as transparent as the purest glass, and resplendent throughout with a divine light, for the Lamb was the light of it all this Is a divine symbol of that body of divine truth which will illuminate and fill and quicken all our intellectual faculties as fast and as fully as we are pre pared to receive it. But the prophecy appealed both to John's sight and John's hearing to picture the Impor tant truth that man is not a purely Intellectual being, and that he cannot be made a new creature by any change, however greut or radical, in his Intelligence alone. The new truth has not done its work until It has touched the emotions and has quick ened and directed the will to higher purposes and reformed the conduct and filled It with a new spirit. And this aspect of the truth Is especially pictured In that part of the prophecy that John heard. It is said out of the new heaven that he saw, John heard a great voice, which means, not a loud voice, but a great volume of sound, such sound as would be fit expression of heavenly love. And this great voice said, "See, the tabernaclo of God with men, and fyy will be tabernacled with them, and they will be His peoples, and He, Uod with them, will be their God." Tlfls pictures another aspect cf the Tiew truth that Is now coming Into the world. This truth Is first pictured as a holy city to indicate how completely It would meet and satisfy all the In tellectual needs of men, a perfect be lief for man's mental abiding place and peace. It was pictured as a bride attired for her marriage to teach that the requirements of this belief will not no sausueu until ine nie is brought into harmony and union with tho belief. And now It is pic tured as a tabertiucle In which God will tabernacle Himself with men, to teach that this belief will furnish not only a most perfect spiritual abiding place for men, but also un abiding place for God with men. To realize tho full force of this symbol we need to recsll that the tab ernacle was under tua Jewish dispen sation. The Jewish dispensation, as wo knuw, was a dispensation of types and symbols. Its sole function was to symbolize or picture the ti .ie church of the Lord or the true human life on the earth, and to maintain that repre sentation in the world. Thus Its laws and ceremonies, ns prescribed by the Lord, were simply a body of prophetic symbols. The tabernacle which was built at Mt. Sinai under diviuu direction was, In a tense, the centre of this whole leprw.-cntativo order. Until the tem ple to:k its place It was the centre and scat of tne entire Jewish -system of worship, and for u time the centro of s icli civil organization as the Jera possessed. In itself it wus simply n t'-nt. fimilar in many respcorj to tho ten's in which the people themselves live'd, and as readily transported from place to place during their nonidd life. It wai made after a pattern hhov. n to Moses in heaven, and every detail of its construction was typical of Leavur.ly thing. And to the Jew ish, people It was the dwelling placq of the Mort High, the tent of the fcreai unseen captain of the host, by wbcm all their movements were di 10. ted. His presence aud His com mands were made known by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of lire by night, which moved forward to guide the host la Its movements and rested whtru the hcrt was to encanwi. And Loth on the march and In cimp this h;Iy tent was at the centra and was ieparded with a reverence and awe it Is impossible for us to realize. And whenever specific direction wero needed Moses sought the will of the Lori la the tabernacle, it It had be fore been revealed to him in the ir.ouU, and tiie Lord Talked with hiiu iters face to face. In th. way tho I'levcnce of the Loid was luaiii mani fest and the will of the Lord was made known to the Jewish people during all their forty years' life In the desert, and afterward with less fullness during tho conquest of the promised lund. And when at last a luore permanent abiding place for tho Ixird wai built, aud the ark was brought and placed In the holy of ho lies of the temple, this manifestation of the divine preface by h cloud "filled the house of the Lord, so thai the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for lue glory of the Lord has filled tb house of the Ird." And this wonderful cloud of glory, this symbol of the divine pres ence, called by the Jews the Shekl nab, continued to rest upon the ark until the temple was burned by N Jjuchadneizar and the ark was de stroyed. But the tradition remained that when, the Messiah came, and their government and worship were re-established, the Bbeklnah would be restored and the presence of the Lord with thera again made manifest by jtbia outward sign. 1 This hope ana expectation of the Jew, In which doubtless the early SlilifttUC? aaazed..lt U necessary to recall to make clear the meaning and force of this prophecy. As tinder tha Jewish dispensation God's actual pres ence with His people was made phy sically evident by this visible pillar of icloud and fire In connection with the 'tabernacle, and as those who followed this cloud and got from it immediate direction from God know themselves, by this visible symbol, to be His cho sen people, so In these tatter days, (when a new Jerusalem would descend ifrom God out of a new heaven, there would be given a new tabernacle of God with men. In which He would In a new and higher way tabernacle or dwell with them, and they would be His peoples, and He, God with them, .would be their God. v Thus the old returns In the new, But It returns only as a type fulfilled, jas a symbol realized. Between the ,old and the new there Is the Immeas urable difference between shadow and substance, between type and fulfill pnent. With the Jews God's presence I In tho tabernacle was only a typical ! presence. His revelation of Himself in the cloud wag only a typical manl- I (testation, they were His chosen peo- ! Iple only in a typical sense, and He I I was God with them, their God, only I j In a typical or representative way. ' And this brings us back to the ! j ame primary truths respecting the I true life of man that the Divine Word j I 0verywhere reflects. The true life of ; j man is not a product of human pru- I i dence or of human ideals of goodness , "and human strivings after such good- ! ness In which there is little If nny ref- j erence to the Divine life. The true i , life of man is simply and solely the 1 iDlvlne life flowing Into tis and be- ! doming active In us. This Is the fun- irlamental truth revealed In the lncar- i ' nation, whereby God became taber- I I "tiacled with men, and whereby as I ! '"Immanuel," God with us, He became I I our God. Thus in Jesus Christ this ! prophecy became potentially fulfilled. I ! When God took unnn Himself our na- I ture and glorified it lie became tab- I . ernacled In' every minutest capacity 'and activity of that nature. In a I fuller sense than man has ever known ; or ever can know did He then become j God with us. But the dim percep tions of this truth that the apostles I gained were soon obliterated, and In 1 the Christian Church in us retol sense has the "God with men" become their God. To some He became a type or example of the possibilities of human nature, to others He became an Infi nite victim to expiate the infinite sin fulness of the nice, but to none did I Hb become a bringing down of the Divine life into such contact with fal- len human nature as a whole ai would restore that nature to Its true order and its true relation to the Dt ! vine life, and thus also Into such eon I tact with our Individual life as to i make the restoration of everyone'! life to Its true order and to its true relation to the Divine 11 To an easy I task. But In the now opened word this Is the truth that Is everywhere pro , claimed. What tho Old Testament ipreflgures the New Testament de 1 dares fulfilled. To the Jews God marie manifest His presence and re vealed His will by physical signs, be cause they had no eyes to see His spiritual presence, no ears to hear , His spiritual voice. But those to-day who choose to be God's chosen peo j pie are able to see. In the light of , spiritual truth shining into their opened spiritual intelligence, that : these Jewish signs are actually ful- filled; to see In the Divine human life i of our Lord Jesus Christ the taber i nacle of God with men; to see that, I by what the Lord did in His assumed human nature, the Divine life is in j actual contact with every minutest i movement of our life; to see that In every least Issue between right and ' wrong that comes before our thought : the Lord is really with us, to help us and uphold us to the fullest extent I that 1b good for us, and that, by aim I ply bringing all our thinking and feel i ing into harmony with this truth, all ' the requirements of spiritual lifting i will be made easy and Hi burdens light. This simple truth, which makes I clear to us the relation of the Divine life to our life, Is the good tidings of 1 great joy which the world Is now be- ginning to hear. It says to us: "See ! In the Lord Jesus Christ tho taber I nacle of God with men." And seeing . how He is the tabernacle of God with ' men, we have only to open our minds and hearts by the repudiation of evil : and falsity and He will come In and I tabernacle In us; and we shall then ; be In reality His people, and He, ' "God with us," will bo our God, for His Divine human wisdom will then become our wisdom. His Divine hu man love our love, and His Divine human life our life. And this truth Is to come, not merely 10 our spiritual vision as a truth seen, but to our spiritual hear ing as a truth heard, and heard as a great voice out of the new heaven, In that our affections as well as our : thought will be moved and quickened by the limitless love that is revealed In that supreme truth. For when we spiritually hear this truth, we not only see but also feel that God Is our Heavenly Father, yearning to make us veritably His children by making us consequently partaken of all the Joys and delights that spring from that life. Aud no voice that ever entered human ear can compare with, the fullness and sweetness of that voice when It Is heard. It Is the voice that salth: "These things have I spoken unto you that My joy may be In you, and that your joy may be full." , Fairness. Let us be open-minded and fair toward all men; let us judge them, but not prejudge them. Let us treat others a we would bare them treat us, . Golf In Turkey, Probably few golfers are aware that the royal and ancient game ha taken root In Turkey, and that a golf :lub has been In existence In Constan tinople for the last five years. The ttlub owes Its origin to tho members if the British Embassy and a few Mllclals, and otir Ambassador, the late Sir Nicholas O'Conor, was Us first president. The members play over the historic Yok Maldan, or Arrow 'lain, just outside Constantinople. The ground has been for centuries a playground for the Suitans and tholr suites, and many small marble pillars mark the. distances of phenomenal shots with bow and arrow. It la per haps appropriate 4. bat to the man of the long bow golfers should succeed, but It to to be hoped that they will oof imitate the Turk by erecting marble monuments In memory of their "long drive. -London Globs. GOOD GUESS. Bill ! te the mines of Mon tana town have a combined payroll of 18.000,000 a year." Jill -They mast be Butte'a then." Yonkore Mtatanmaa. y e " The Sundays School INTERNATIONAL LKSSON COM MEMS I'OIt JANUARY 30. Subject: Koine Laws of the Kingdom, Matt. 5:17-2(1, 3H-40 Com. mit Verse 44. GOLDEN TEXT. "Be ye there fore perfect even aa your Father which Is In heaven la perfect." Matt. 6:48. TIME. Midsummer A. D. 28. PLACE. Horns of Hatlln. KXPOHITIOX. I. The Law of the Kingdom Regarding Anger, 22 iifl. By the old law murder was for bidden (v. 21; cf. Ex. 20:13; Dent. r:17); by the higher law of the King dom anger, which la Incipient murder, Is forbidden. Terms of contempt, whereby a brother's feelings are In jured and his reputation endangered, are forbidden. .Testis teaches that there Is a "hell of fire" (v. 10). If we have wronged another In the smallest matter so that he "hath aught against" us we should first be reconciled to him before we seek to bring an offering to God. The secret of many an unanswered .prayer Is that some brother has a Just claim against us which we have not settled. One should not allow e Just claim to re main unsatisfied a moment. He should seek agreement with every ad versary quickly. "Have aught against thee" does not mean, as so often in terpreted, have a grndse or bitter ness against thee, hut have a just claim. We are not necessarily re sponsible for the grudge others hold against us, but we are responsible for the just claims. All lust claims must bo settled sooner or later. II. The Law of the Kingdom Re garding Injuries, .'18-11. The law of Moses required etact Justice In the punishment of offences. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth;" but the law of Christ, the law of the King dom, which Is not for the administra tion of public JuBtlce, but for the government of Individual action, de mands the most thororghgoliig for giveness of injuries. Evil Is not to be resisted, even as JeBiis Himself did not resist it, leaving us an example that we should follow in His steps (I Pet. 3:18-23). When one Injury Is done us, Instead of resisting we should stand willing to receive an other. III. The Law of the Kingdom Re garding Giving and Lending, 12. The heart should be open in love toward all and the hand ever ready to give. We should not only be ready to give to the good and to the worthy, but to the unworthy, to the unfaithful and evil (cf. Luke C:30-35). We should give to every one that asks of us (Luke 6:30). Should we take this literally? Yes, but note that It does not say that we should give to every one that asks tho very thing that he asks. "If a man wilt not work neither shall he eat" (2 Thess. 3:10). But while we may not give the very thing that Is asked, we ought to give. Giving with unstinting hand, always giving, giving to all, is the law of the Kingdom. That most bothersome of men, the borrower, should not receive the cold shoulder, but a hearty welcome. IV. The Law of the Kingdom Re garding the Treatment of Enemies, 43-4H. Love should go out to all, not merely to friend and neighbor, but to the enemy as well. The roan who does everything In his power to undermine us. to blast our reputation,- to curtail our Influence, should be the object of our kindest consid eration. When others curse us, we should bless them; when others hate us, we should do them good; when others persecute us and despltefully use us, we should pray for them. The more people there are to persecute us, the more there are for whom we will have the privilege of praying. In this way persecution becomes a means of unalloyed. blessing, a stepping stone on which we step higher into the life of Jesus Christ. Happy Is he, indeed, who takes these words literally. He will have no more anxiety from perse cutions and lies aud slanders. By loving our enemies we shall ourselves be sons of God. for the son Is like his father, and this Is the way the heav enly Father acts; He returns blessing for cursing, kindness for hate: He maketh His sun, with all Its healing, fruit-giving power, to rise ou the evil and the good. That is a very sug gestive phrawe, "His sun." When you look up at.the glorious sun again just say, "That Is His sun and H gives it to me." To love them that love us Is no Indication of grace; even the publicans do the same. The last verse Is very wonderful, holding un the perfection of God as our standard. It Is really a promise more then a command, "Ye therefore shall be per fect, even as your heavenly Father Is perfect" (It. V.). The Immediate reference is to perfection In love, lov ing enemies as well as friends, bad as well as good (cf. Luke 6:35, 36). But It Is clearly Implied that in all things God's character Is our stand ard (Eph. 5:1). Nothing short of absolute likeness to Him Bhould sat isfy us, and It is to this that we are finally to attain (1 Jno. 3:3). JANUARY THIRTIETH The Most Stirring Events of Foreign Missionary History. Acts 14: 8 22. The gospel In Samaria. Acts 8: 14 24. The Gentiles enter 1n. Acts 10: 34-48. Organized missions. Acts 13: 1-12. Medical missions. Mark 16: 14-20. Misused missionaries. Acts 14: 19 28. The gospel and the king. Acts 26! 24-32. The wonders of missionary history depend on faith the faith of the mis sionaries, and of their converts, and of the churches at home (v. 9). The missionaries have won their triumphs, as all Christians, must, by being nothing In themselves and by making God their All-ln-All (v. 15). Paul's persecutors left him, "sup posing he had been dead." How many times the church has thus been left, as In China and Turkey! (v. 19.) Paul had the courage to return to the fields where he had been so cruel ly persecuted. Thus the missionaries have gone back when driven from China, and Madagascar, and many other regions (v. 21). Great Missionary Scenes. It was a stirring event In India when, on July 3, 1878, after careful examination, 2,222 Telugu believers) were baptized In a single day. And this was in a mission that had been so discouraging the "Lone Star" mis sion that the church at home had often been on the point of abandon ing It. A terrible event In Burman mis sions was the Imprisonment of JudBon during the war between England and Burma. He spent seventeen months In horrible confinement, bis heroic wife ministering to him. The most stirring vent In Chinese missions was the Boxer massacres of I is:! ana imuu, in wnicn ibs rroiesi i ant missionaries and their children I were slain, and about 50 Catholic mls I slonarlfs. with 5,000 native Protesi- ants and about 20,000 native Cath olics. The stanchness of Chinese Christianity was proved beyond all ' posnlblllty of future doubt. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JANUARY 30. The New Acts of the Apostles (Matt. 28. 20; Acts 18. 10.) Matt. 28. 20. Here Is the commis sion; it leaves the Christian no alter native. We are under bonds, as sure ly as were the Christians of the early church, to spread the tidings of the salvation that is in Christ to every body we can reach. And we are to teach them not merely a few selected parts or the gospel but all of it, "all things whatever I commanded you." That text alone Is sufficient excuse for all forms of missionary effort, all forms of social service, all forms of teaching and healing and preaching and helping. There were deacons and deaconesses In the old church, as there are In the new; revivals and ministration to bodily needs are not modern Christian inventions. Acts 18. 10. The promise of Im munity from all real harm is God's pledge to every servant of his, from Paul down to the latest convert. Not always by the same means, not always with the same outward results, but al ways In his own perfect way, God bag kept his people and has saved them from the power of the evil that sought to destroy them. The book of Acts has been called the first volume of missionary his tory. It tells of the beginning of the great endeavor to win the world; and It tells of the perils which came to the early church and Its leaders. To read the book of Acts Is to get Into the very heart of the missionary movement. Here we find active, eager evangelism; messengers of the gospel speed from city to city and from country to country. And here we find peril, persecutions, and even : martyrdom. Fit For tlie Master's I'se. If the Joy of youth has more foam and sparkle, the Joy of age has greater depth and substance. One Is like the reflection of sunlight on the lumps of ore, where there Is much dross mingled with the metal, the other like the glance of tempered steel which has been through the furnace and between the anvil and the hammer, and has come forth wholly fitted for the Master's use. . The phenomenon of "auto-rota-tlon," to which much attention has been given at the "aerodynamic la boratory" at Koutchlno, Russia, be cause It Is thought that it may lead to Important results affecting the use of aerial machines heavier than the air. Its principal significance seems to be In the light that It throws on the im portance of form in connection with the performance of bodies moving through the air. An Illustration of "auto-rotation" is furnished by taking a round wooden stick a few Inches long, splitting It Jn two longi tudinally and channeling the flat side. Then mount it on a handle with a small pivot, placed at the exact cen tre. Now If the flat face is exposed to the wind, and a slight rotatory move, ment is Imparted, tha stick will con tinue to turn as long as .the wind lasts, but if the rounded side is pre sented to the wind the stick cannot be made to continue to rotate. Many other eurlous results have been dis closed, la the experiments by the us of a variety of form's. ' . ELECTRICITY IN DOLL'S HOUSE. I s&w a letter in the New York Tri bune written by a little girl who owns a doll house, so I thought you might like to hear about mine. I have a cousin who la very Inter ested In electricity, and we decided that he should make a house and wire it while 1 furnished, papered and painted It. It is a very cunning house, and no one would dream it was made from grocery boxes. There are four rooms, five counting the attic, and two porches. The rooms are eight by ten. I looked through art magazines and cut out panels and friezes the right size for the rooms, and colored them. I then dyed pieces of un bleached mu:!ln and burlap for the curtains and carpets. I made a fire place for one of the bedrooms, and made a couch for the living room from a match bos (three by four). I covered it with a piece of cloth dyed to go with its surroundings. The furniture I bought. It Is of plain un painted wood of simple design. The kitchen has a coal stove and a gas range, also a stairway In one corner that leads upstairs. The living room has lace curtains that t dipped in cof fee to make them a softer tone, to go with the champagne colored portieres. There is an electric light in every room and a yard at the back for the dolls to play in. Karen. Busck, In the New York Tribune. "Beautiful" Authors. In a Beauty show of Victorian au thors Matthew Arnold would surely have secured a prize. "Disgustingly young and handsome," Is Crabb Rob inson's comment ou meeting htm soon after the publication of "The Strayed Reveler." And to the end of his days Arnold retained a singularly youthful and fascinating appearance. And Sir Leslie Stephen should not bo left out. Mr. Oosse has pictured blm at a gath ering in Lambeth Park, "with a tre mendous light upon him. It was ex actly like a Holbein the magnificent bead, with its strong red hair and beard, painted against the porcelain blue sky." And Stephen's biographer tells us that Meredith has drawn a vivid portrait of bl Jlfelpng friend in Vernon Wbltford, the "Phoebus Apol lo turned fas tins; friar." who gulns the heart of the bewitching heroine of "The Egoist."-London Chronicle. Hi THE HAPPIEST HEART. Who drives the horses of the sun Bhall lord it but a day; Better the lowly deed were done, And kept the humble way. The rutt will find the sword of fame, The duftt will hide the crown; Aye, none shall nail so high his name Time will not tear it down. The happiest heart that ever best Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. , John Vance Cheney. The Getlisemane of Life. For every one of us, sooner or later, the Gethsemane of life must come. It may be the Gethsemane of struggle and poverty and care; It may be the Gethsemane of long and weary sick ness; It may be the Gethsemane of farewells that wring the heart by the deathbeds of those we love; it may be the Gethsemane of remorse and well nigh despair for sins that we cannot overcome. Yet, in that Gethsemane aye, even In that Gethsemane of sin, no angel merely, but Christ Him self, who bore the burden of our sins, will, if we seek Him, come to comfort us. He will, If, being In agony, we pray, He can be touched. He is touched with the feeling of our In firmities. He, too, has trodden the winepress of agony alone; He, too, has lain downcast In the night upon the ground and the comfort which then came to Him He has bequeathed to us even the comfort, the help, the peace, the recovery, the light of hope, the faith, the sustaining arm, the healing anodyne of prayer. Dean Farrar. The Grateful Heart. Blessings beyond what can be counted are enjoyed by the children of men. Every breath is adding to their number, both ns regards the body and the soul, and yet, as if we had a title to them all and more, we seize upon the gift, and forget to praise the Giver. As when the ten lepers were cleansed, only one re turned to thank his Deliverer, few are ready now with thanksgiving for the mercies which they enjoy in such ample abundance. It cannot be doubted that the re- i liglon of Jesus Is designed to make us j happy. The very God of peace would tnereby Qlffuse a portion of the Joy of heaven through man's heart upon earth. And how can that be better promoted than by cherishing the spirit of praise by recognizing God's goodness in every gift, and thanking Him for It by acknowledging our own unworthiness, and the Lord's loving kindness! When life on earth is thus a hymn, existence in heaven will be one long hosanna. W. K. Tweedle. The Universal Lesson. The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine of the mountain top waves Its somber boughs and cries, "Thou art my sun!" and the little meadow violet lifts LU cup of blue and whispers with its per. fumed breath, "Thou art my sun!" and the grain in a thousand fields rus tles in the wind and makes answer, "Thou art my sun!" So God alts, ef fulgent, in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life, and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with child like confidence and say, "My Father, Thou art mine!" Rev. Henry Ward Beecber. To Know His Love. God is love, and we need day by day to grow into a deeper experience and more vital apprehension of that truth. It is our duty, as well as our privilege, to "know and believe" the love that Ood hath for us. But while "God is love" Ho may not be deemed irrational benevolence. His love is controlled by reason and actuated by a concern for the total well being of His children. It Is this sort of intelli gent, well ordered benevolence that is the only love worth having or exercis ing. "God Is love'.' wise, boundless, all-powerful love, which can withhold as well as bestow in conforming us unto all spiritual grace. Christ In the Heart. The risen Christ Is tho hope of the believer Christ, not in the heavens, but in the heart. And this hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enter eth into that within the veil. There Is saving power in this hope, for it Is not a theory or dogma or experience, but a divine personality, even Jesus, the Forerunner, who has for us en tered the upper sanctuary, and thore ever llveth to make intercession for us, and "hath begotten us unto a liv ing hope by His resurrection from the dond." The Enlarging Vision. The grandeur of the Christian life consists in the ever enlarging vision of truth which It affords to all true disciples of the Blaster. Jesus is a teacher as well as a Saviour, ""and all who do His will are continually learn ing new wonders of truth and grace. It is a blessed thought that they who follow on to know the Lord shall know -Him ever better and better. Jesus said of Himself. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life." Christ is thus our way to the truth, which in storm be:omes a stay and instrument of life. THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK PROGRESS MADE BV CHAMPIONS FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON. Neglect of God. What is the reason for tho spread of the plausible fanaticism called mental or psychic healing? . Tho neg lect of God. . The Ideal Woman, i The ideal woman does not consider work unwomanly. She believes that whatever concerus her husband con cerns her, . Moral Goodness. Life is a sham aud a failure unless It is a success la moral goodness. Painted His House With Oplnm. -Silas Morgan, living on Whldbee Island, Washington, found several dozen cans containing a substance re sembling paint, and believing a case of 'red paint .had washed ashore, painted bis bouse with the material. On taking a sample to town he was told that the sticky fluid was pure opium, and each can was worth about 1300. As be had used or spilled nearly thirty cans of the opium ha had wasted more than $000.- Greenville New a. ' , Does It Pay? A few weeks ago a Mrs. M. 3. Mayne, of Dayton, Ohio, wrote to her daughter, who had recently moved to York, Neb., asking about her daugh ter's new home and whether or not York was a good place in which to live. In reply the daughter sent Mrs. Mayne a postal card with the picture of a policeman, under which appeared the following Inscription: "Entire police force (night and day). York, Neb., a city of 8500 peo ple." On the same postcard were printed the following statements about condi tions in York: No saloons for twenty-eight years. No drug store permits since 1906. One police (night and day), salary $60 per month, no fees. Mayor's salary $100 per year. Councllmen's salary $50 per year. No occupation tax for business bouses. Police Judge no salary, fees only $33.45 a year; averagefor eight years less than $30. Total number fined foe, intoxication for one year, eight. Arrests for disturbances and mis demeanors, six. No city paupers and nine county paupers, all over sixty years of age. Total city Indebtedness (no float ing), bonded $37,000. Taxable property $5,542,707. as sessed one-fifth of the value; levy twenty-seven mills. . Value of school property $110,000. Two and one-half miles of brick pavement. Two telephone companies and three railroads. Public library of 5000 volumes. Two city parks. Four banks, combined assets $2, 040.372.24. Deposits $1,388,250.18. County Court House, $75,000, paid for. Brick city hall and fire depart ment. Post office in course of construction, $80,000. Two building and loan as sociations. Y. M. C. A., $25,000. Elks' build ing, $25,000. Opera house. $20,000. Thirteen churches. York College, 566 enrolled. Business college, 225 enrolled. American Issue. OADS Renin Fruit, forthcoming No Respecter of Persons. Edward Dunbar, author of tre Sunday-school hymn, "There's a Light in the Window For Thee, Brother," sleeps in a pauper's grave at Coffey ville, Kansas, where he died a tramp in the town jail. One night he called at the Coffeyvlllo Jail for shelter. He was slclc and the authorities took him In, and the next day he died. Some good people have lately erected a marble Blab over his grave, on which these words are Inscribed: "Here Lies Edward Dunbar, Who Wrote There's a Light in the Window For Thee, Brother.' " Thousands and thousands of chil dren have sung that' pathetic song. It is too bad that poor, unfortunate Edward Dunbar ended his career in darkness and saw only the light that came through the window of a Jail as he was about to end his earthly career. Drink the cause of his fall. Hill Roads Bar Drinkers. "We do not wish to havo in our employ men who drink liquor," Is the official word belngsent along through out the operating departments of the railroads controlled by Jams J. Hill. "Do not employ drinking men. If men now working under you drink, tell them they must stop or mako way tor men who will not drink," is the instruction given. It is the result, of the investigation of a number of mis haps on these roads, where it has been discovered that the loss of prop erty, life and limb has been the result of drinking by employes. The Great Northern has detailed a man to act as "spotter." Ho doei nothing but maintain a generul super vision over the train operative' per sonal habits. Cheerful! A breezy letter from Admiral Charles Beresford, testifying to the benefits of temperance, was lead at a temperance meeting at Malta. "I du not. believe," wrote the Admiral, "that alcohol in any form ever has i ever will do anyone any good. I nm now sixty years old, and since I liav entirely given up wine, enlrlls R.nd beer I find I can do as much work o? more, physically and mentally, than 1 could do when I was thirty. 1 am al ways well; always cheery; laugh it 1 tho 'downs' of life equally with tha 'ups;' and always feel fit aud iu condition." G OOD Good Roads Movement Frequent evidence Is of the fruit of the Georgia good roadi automobile endurance contests inau gurated by The Constitution and held Just a month ago. Not only Is it apparent along th routes over which these contests wera held, but other counties are busy with a view to securing improved and con nected roadways which lead some where, and which bring them Into closer contact and communtcatloa with other trade centres. The routes themselves ore now well established avenues of travel between Atlanta and Augusta, Savannah, Fitz gerald and Albany, as well as inter mediate points, and are coming into dally and general use as such. I Realizing the Importance, not only of maintaining these routes, but of improving them as rapidly as possi ble, the counties through which they pass have not been content simply with putting them in shape for ths contests; they are stilt at work upon them and will continue to better them. I A word of assurance and apprecla I tlon in this connection comes from I Mayor P. H. Lovejoy, of Hawklna- ! ville, who, in acknowledging receipt I of the first prize of 1200, awarded to I Pulaski County for the best roads be- i tween Fitzgerald and Macon, says: "Our people are greatly pleased ' with the result of the contest and your courteous treatment In the mat ter. We not only appreciate the fact that Pulaski County won the prize, but we feel gratified that our effort in building good roads through the county will bear fruit In the future. For myself and in behalf of the citi zens of Pulaski County, I wish to thank The Constitution for its noble effort in bringing about the good roads movement in the South, and se curing a route through this section of our State." The good roads contests and their attendant prizes were but a second ary, a minor feature In the movement. The real prize is what each county has achieved In the direction of bet ter roads. Just to the extent that the compet ing counties have Improved the roads passing through thera, and, more par ticularly, those roads which give them access to the world beyond their own borders, in that measure are they en Joying a prize of lasting value, the fruits of their own effort. That the contests, prizes and agita tions attendant upon them have, in many instances, stimulated to greater and more productive effort cannot be questioned; it is because of this good effect that The Constitution has de termined, as has been announced, to arrange other State good roads con tests next year, with a view to bring ing every section of Georgia into the movement. We are, as yet, only upon the threshold. There is a monumental work to be done and all Georgia should have a shoulder at the wheel. Atlanta Constitution. Never Sun a Saloon. There are people grojvlns tip Jn this country who never saw an optn drinking place. A young man ol twenty-three in Kansar wrote recent ly (hat he had never seen one. An other about thirty-one years old writes that ho too had yot to have his first sight of a saloon. He adds that he had nover come across mom than ten drunken men in all his life. He lived In a town of C000 people In Kansas. ... An Approved Ttlll. The Congress will be asked to past a bill bearing upon interstate com merce in intoxicants, which boa been favorably considered by able lawyers, and which It is believed will meet both the need for protection In pro hibition territory and the objections of those who have believed former proposed measures to be unconstitu tional. ' ' Temperance Notes. Every effort is now being made In Wales to make It easy tor the revival converts to keep their pledges, aud many of the churches are discontinu ing the use of fermented wines at the Communion tables. John B. Lennon, treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, says the liquor business lowers the stand ard of efficiency of the workins man, and prophesies that the time will come when the forces of labor would be arrayed agalnfct the saloon. The revival is solving many phases of the drink problem. It is the great est movement la the Interests ot tem perance reform within our memory. ' The opponents ot the liquor indus try have the powerful press, the churches and the women's organiza tions on their side, and the outcome of their war on tho lu'.oon soeuis hardly to be in doubt. Wouldn't It be better to give the drunkard a rofugo from bis whisky, to offer him an asylum beyond the reach of temptation now, rather than have the expense of his burial, his maintenance in tha hospital, the car of hU children later t ,, . Modern Road Construction. An address was delivered by C.i." ford Richardson, Member American Society of Civil Engineers, before the Oneida Historical Society at Utlca, N. Y., in which the subject of modern road construction and the present limitations of its effectiveness were set forth. "There are," says Mr. Richardson, "several points in connection with the road problem which have received too little and demand the most careful attention." .. . "We are, apparently, expending to day very large sums of money in building a large extent of macadam and other improved forms of road way. But England and Wales, with a mileage of 149,759 expended in the year 1905-6 $63,316,874 upon her roads, principally In their mainte nance, or at the rate of $415 per mile. The mileage is about twice as great s in the State of New York, but the ea is only twenty-two and a half per cent, greater. The amount annually - being expended In ' New York is, therefore,' comparatively small, although relatively larger than in previous years." 1 ' In commenting on the outcome of the International Good Rpads Con gress at Parts, and the opportunities afforded for examining continental highways, Mr. : Richardson expresses satisfaction in the knowledge that American roads, when opened to traf fic are In no sense inferior to those of Europe; that it was the damage to French roads caused by heavy motor traffic, and the problem of how to meet it, V-bich caused the congress to be called. ."From this point of view, it will be of Interest to determine whether the macadam roads ot the State ot New York that are now being con structed are of the highest , type, whether it is wise to construct such roads where they are exposed to mo tor traffic, and whether they are being economically , constructed. The gen eral opinions expressed at Paris by the ablest English and French engi neers was that the road to meet mod ern motor traffic must be constructed with a more resistant surface, which is brought about by introducing into the wearing surface some bituminous cementing material." Good Roadi Magazine. ' Washington Portrait fnii(( The $10,000 Milkwurk portrait, of George Washington, which was re moved from the Governors' Room at City Hall some time ago at the order of the Municipal Art Qoiuniisslon, on the ground that It docs not conform to the accepted Ideas of the first, Presldent'a features, , was bung yes terday in the Aldermunlo Chamber in accordance with a resolution intro duced by Alderman Brown, toe Re publican floor, leader. , , . . The picture was mude by women of Lyons, France, over fifty years ago, and was presented ; by ' them to tUe citr. . i . . . . . If' the Art Commission wishes. It can order tha portrait removed from the Chamber, It having Jurisdiction over the works cf art In all the mu nicipal buildings. Nw York Times.
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