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.