THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAV SERMON BY
DR. CHARLES W M'COKMIC;;.
Theme: I'nltri
Brooklyn. N. Y. fir. Charles W.
McCormlck, raptor of the N'ostrand
Avenue M. E. Church, preached Sun
day morning the sixth In a series of
notable sermons on "The Fruits of
the Spirit." The. sporlal subject was
"'Faith." The text was from Gain
tlans 5:22: "Now the fruit of the
Spirit ia faith." fir. McCormlck said:
What Is faith? Perhaps no one
ran answer. Certainly no one will
tie able to give a scientific definition.
For faith is one of those ultimate Im
pulses of the soul whlrli defies ae.
curate metes and bounds Like love. ,
Jt is fo wrought into the fiber of per
sonality that It cannot h separated
and viewed apart Yet faith Is one
of the most l:lnt;ly of all human quail- i
ties. The old question, which Is j
frreater. faith or love, may ncvpr find i
Its answer. Karh is croat and in or- J
tain aspect? supremely so. and each I
conditions the oilier. Without faith I
there can he no love, and without !
love there can he no faith. Ve. It '
would seem as if faith lias a certain j
priority in that It holds up the lisrhc
for love to walk by. If love and faith
are one In their Iniilal manifestation,
they travel but little way hand in
hand Soon faith takes a step ahead
and becomes the guide of love.
thoui;h sometimes faith falls back on
love when it is itself menaced. I.Ike
wise the question, which Is greater,
faith or reason, may be difficult to
answer. Reason in its low rauges
has to do with facts and phenomena
and their arrangement. But reason
In its high ranges draws mighty In
ferences, makes great generalizations
and reaches conclusions that may de
fy demonstration for generations, if j
not forever. Here reason merges into I
faith and faith finds its foothold in
reaFon. It seems that faith is after j
all hardly other than the highest tit-
terance of reason. Especially does ;
this seem true when we remember !
that reason in the large meaning al- j
ways assumes dome great and inde- i
monstrable principle. It seems easy
to say that a grain of wheat will pro- ,
duce Its thirty or sixty fold of wheat !
when planted in congenial soli, but
the great assumption underlying this j
simple statement is that the laws of
nature are uniform in their operation j
and this Is demonstrable only to :
faith.
But what is faith? Can we pet any '
nearer to an understanding of it? At '
any rate, we may clarify our thought j
by determining the use we will make .
of the word. The term faith Is ap- ;
plied either to the act of believing or
to the content of belief: that Is, to
belief as a function of the soul or to
what the Individual believes. The
latter meaning is found in tho phrase,
"the failh once delivered to the l
saints." Here Paul has In mind the I
great body of Christian doctrine rc- j
c-elved from Christ and generally ac
cepted by the church of that day. On '
the other hand, when Paul exhorted
the Phlllpplan jailer to believe on '
the Lord Jesus Christ, lie referred to
an act on the part of the Jailer though
he did not forget that the Christ upon '
whom the jailer was to believe wiia i
the Christ of the Gospels, and thert'
fore possessed well-known and ac- I
cepted characteristics. We have j
taken a short step toward under- j
landing what faith is when we make '
thin distinction and limit ourselves to i
faith as an action of the soul. But ;
we need to make clear also that faith j
Is not the action of some special soul
power. It Is nothing less than the 1
act of the whole spiritual nature, j
This conception excludes any definl- !
tion of faith which makes it a mere j
Intellectual process. Pure Intellect j
Is only a theoretical concept. It. ts .
not found In reality. All Intellectual i
processes are the outgrowth of the in-
dividual soul ns It Is. and no soul can
be separated for a single Instant from
Its feeling, lm trend and Its accumu
lated volitions or habits. Faith, then,
can be nothing less than the action ot
the whole nature of man. In like
manner, a distinction must be drawn
between a transient and a permanent
activity. Faith In the New Testament
sense Is not a single act complete in
itself. It is a constant and enduring
movement or trend of the soul.
In the Interest of further clearness,
St may bo noted also that faith as an
action may relate either to facts 01
persons. Wo may believe either thai
certain statements are true, or we
may believe in a person. Faith l:i
the Christian sense involves both
facts and a person. Here we must
speak very guardedly. There is much
In the present trend of theological
thinking, which finds its echo In jiop
ular thought, that tends to looseness,
and. It would seem, to vagui-nt's-a.
When we are told that faith has to do
with God as a person, or with Jesus
Christ as a person without regard to
any definition or clear historic set
ting, wo are asked to do either the
lmxsslble or the absurd: perhaps
both. It U bard to think of God
without giving to Him some definite
qualities. If we know I It in at all, we
must know Him as we know our fol
lows, through His manifestations.
That Is, through the display of His
qualities. The "unknowable" of Her
bert Spencer may bo a fine refuge for
intellectual Incompetence when the
mind has failed In Its vain endeavor
to account for the universe and ex
plain Its processes. It U worth some,
thing to fall back upon the assertion
that there Is an unknown and per
haps unknowable power working
everywhere and always In nature,
which on the whole makes for right
eousness. But that conclusion grows
out ot the Inability of the human In
tellect to go any further In Its search.
And this assertion, empty as It Is, Is
the assertion ot faith and not ot the
intellect. It is a postulate which man
must make because he is made as be
is. But It ts impossible either to love
or to believe In a postulate. Faith
must And tor Its full exercise much
more than a mere force without qual
ity or attribute. The personality ot
Ueaus Christ means something If we
pecept as substantially true the Gos
pel narrative. Illuminated and en
forced by the progress of Christian
klatory. But It deny the Gospels, 01
with Bchmledel reduce the biography
ef Jesus to two or three sentencss of
the most ordinary sort, It docs not
seem credible that Jesus as a person
aaali long nurvlve. Whatever else
may be true. It Is true that the Christ
Is whom the world believes, and be
lieving Bes found a regenerating
power from age. to age. Is the Christ
of the Gospels. In all our present-day-thlnklng.
It Is this Christ whose
Image stands before us, whom we
iove and i whom we trust. A Christ
Who has no history and whose life
therefore presents no fact for (re
1 dence would be a vanishing Christ.
Nevertheless, the faith of which the
r't .Testament rulatvs itlelv
to persons. Christianity is not funda
mentally a creed, but the manifesta
tion of God in Christ Jesus, to which
man may respond trustfully and loy
nil v, and It Is this response which we
call faith. The mission of Christ Is
to bring its to Cod, that wc may love
Him and believe in Him, and, there
fori', serve Him. And I am per
suaded that many a man finds God in
Christ with whose technical theology
I could not agree. If all men had to
believe the same creed, salvation
would be impossible to many of us
who do not find It difficult to believe
in the same God and the same Christ
with difference of definition.
What, then, is faith? Four our
purposes to-day as It relates to God
It Is the continued and loyal move
ment of the entire soul of a man to
ward God as the rever.ler of truth and
the authoritative Lord of life.
We may note also two other mean
ings of faiih which crow out of this
larger meaning, for faith not only
comprises the entire nature of the in
dividual, but also the whole field of
his activities. Faith in God implies
faith in our fcllowmen as the creation
of God, or from the Christian point
of view, the children of Cod. Hy this
we may not mean a foolish disregard
of ail distinctions of character, nor
the assertion that all men are equally
to be relied upon ; but it does mean
a recognition ot humanity as in
volved in the purpose of a trust
worthy God, and therefore, itself
worthy of confld'-nce. He who be
lieves in God as his Fa! her, believes
nlso in man as his brother. Faith in
God implies also good faith on the
part of the believer. To accept God
as the giver of liqht nnd the Lord of
life is to acknowledge ourselves
bound to be utterly sincere In our re
lations to Him. And to acknowledge
the brotherhood of man, Including
ourselves, is to enthrone the princi
ple of good faith among men. In a
word, faith is the expression of the
soul's love of truth and its loyalty to
truth; to God who is truth and whose
plans, though not understood by us,
are the embodiment of His truth; to
man, who, created in the Image of
God and redeemed by God's only be
gotten Son, preserves yet amid the
ruinous results of his sin, some traces
of the Father's image and the capac
ity for unlimited development; to self
as the creature of the true God and
as part of the constituied order of
things where truth forms the only re
liable basis of harmonious action.
Faith thus defined bulks large. It
(3 seen to be not merely the transient
activity of a single, phase ot man's
nature, the Intellect, but the contin
ued movement of man's entire being,
intellect, sensibilities, will, toward
truth .and ultimately toward the God
of truth. It Is not for a day nor an
hour, hut for all time and for all eter
nity. It is not limited to a single fac
ulty of the human soul, but Involves
the whole soul. It has not for its ob
ject a limited area of truth, but
reaches out toward all truth, even the
infinite God of troth.
It Is difficult. It not impossible, to
draw a clear line of distinction, be
tween what is called "natural" and
what Is called "religious" faith. To
one who believes as I do that man is
a religious being through and
through, the faith which arises in the
ordinary so-called "secular" processes
of life and has to do with practical
daily affairs is itself a fruit of the
spirit. By this I mean that man is a
creation of the Almighty, upon whose
soul and its consequent activities God
has stamped His own nature. Fur
thermore, God has Interwoven Him
self in tho very fabric of the universe.
If, as we have said, faith is necessary
to all progress, then the exercise cf
faith on the part of man displays
something of the divine nature within
him. It is because God has gent forth
His spirit into the heart of man that
man Is able to think God's thoughts
after Him in tho nnlverse and to
reach forward with those majestic
reaches of confident expectation
whlrh have wrought the great accom
plishments In the material and Intel
lectual development of human life in
relation to the world outside ot man.
Yet It must be conceded that re
ligious faith is of a higher order than
this general faith because It deaU
with a higher order of facts. The
moral nature of man Is his crowning
possession. The apprehension of God
marks the highest reach of his moral
intelligence. Fellowship with God is
at onco his crowning glory and su
preme privilege. To believe In God is
the highest attribute to faith and the
exercise of this attribute Is condi
tioned by personal fellowship with
God. As with every one else. God
must first be known and then be
lieved. When one knows God, es
pecially ns a personal friend end
Saviour, It Is not difficult to believe
what otherwise would be most In
comprehensible, nor to trust God
where without such knowledge trust
would be impossible. This kml
edge of Cod Is made possible through
tliu Holy Spirit whom God hath sent
Into the hearts of those who believe,
crying, "Abba, Father."
In like manner it is this knowl
edge of God which underlies and con
ditions faith in our fellowmen ami
good faith on the part of ourselves.
If God has faith In man, the believer
In God must have also, and If God
has faith in man, then the individual
who realizes that God has faith in
him must make a fitting response of
good faith.
Great heights give wide visions to
open eyes. It 1b only when the spirit
of God leads men to those exalted ex.
perlenree where he knows and feels
that God Is, that the very ground
about him becomes holy ground and
the horizon Is pushed back so that he
can behold the Infinite glory beyond.
The
Sunday School
lA'TFItNATIO.N A I, LESION COM
MENTS FOIl MARCH 20.
au!).(ert: A Paralytic Forgiven nnd
llcaletl, Mntt. 0:t-i:i Com.
mil Verse 2.
MARCH TWENTIETH.
Topic Money a Curse or a Blessing,
Luke 12: 13-21; Matt. 6:
19-21.
I-ot's temptation. Gen. 13: 10-13;
19: 15.
Hlest Abraham. Gen. 13: 2, 14-18.
Deceltfulness of riches. Matt, 13:
I 22.
Creed.
A creed Is that which a man thinks
in bis heart, and what be thinks In
ieart he U and does.
How Slinkespenrc Spoke.
Shakespeare would find his lines
cs recited by tho actors of to-day al
most unintelligible, according to Dnn
Icl Jones, who gave an address be
fore the Elizabethan Society.
To prove bis contention, Mr. Jones
recited "The Seven Ages" as Shakes
peare himself would have spoken It.
The effect was a hotch-potch of a
doion dialects of to-day. The broad
"a's" justified the Lancastrian "fey
ther" Instead ot father, and the cock
ney naisV "!" sounds found full satis
faction In words such as maid.
Other of Mr. Jones' examples of
Elizabethan pronunciation have no
parallels in modern dialects. Watch
wsi made to rhyme with catch,
should with cooled, brew with new.
Fifth and sixth, be said, were pro
nounced without the flusl "th" sound
and the word sea was accorded a final
sound equivalent to the French "c."
lindon Dally Mall.
CIOLDEN TEXT. "The Son of
Man hath power on earth to forgive
sins." Matt. 9:C.
TIMK. May or June. A. D. 28.
PLACE. Capernaum.
EXPOSITION I. The Healing of
n I'lirnljllc, 1 -. Tho full account of
this miracle Is found in Mark 2:1-12,
and Luke 5:17-26. They brought
this man to Jesus because there was
no one else who could help, and they
were confident that lie could and
would. H was because of their faith
that Jesus did what they sought.
Their faith was a faith that could bo
seen (v. 2). True faith can bo seen,
it materializes in works (.las. 2:18).
Jesus is ready to say to-day to every
paralytic and to every soul in distress,
"Son, be of good cheer." if the one In
distress will only trust Him. Jesus
forgave before healing. As always,
so in this case, the prnfjssional fault
finder was presen:, and as often, he
was a high ecclesiastic, a scribe (the
ological professor). Tho Scribes
were there for the purpose of finding
something to criticise (Luke B:17;
John 5:16). They found It. They
brought a very common charge and
very serious charge against Jesus,
"this man blasphemes" (John 10:33;
Mark 14:64). Their reasoning was
right up to a certain point, no .one
but God can forgive Bins, nnd-if Jesus
was not God, He was n blasphemer.
Granted the Unitarian conception of
Jesus and the Scribes were right, and
His execution justifiable, but If Jesus
is God. then it is the Scribes and the
Unitarians who are the blasphemers.
Jesus demonstrated to His Btartled
accusers that He was divine, and had
the power to forgive sins by reading
their secret thought (v. 4; cf. 2
Chron. 6:30; .Ter. 17:9, 10: Ps. 139:
1. 2). Then He gave another proof.
He healed the palsied man. Jesus
wishes men to "know that the Son of
Man hath power on earth to forgive
sins," so He performs an act that we
can see, and which demands divine
power for Its accomplishment that we
may know that He has the power for
that which we cannot see and which
also demands divine power for its ac
complishment. So It Is proven that
Jesus has power on earth to forgive
sins. We not only hope that It Is so,
but we "know" It is so. The palsied
man knew that his sins were forgiv
en, because Jesus said so. We may
know that ours also are forgiven on
the same ground (Aats 13:36, 39).
II. Jesus Hating With Publicans .
nnd Sinners, 10:13. As Jesus passed 1
along His eye fell on a Jew gathering j
taxes for Rome, lining bis pockets at
the sacrifice of his patriotism. He be
longed to the class despised by the
Jews, but he was to write the dis
tinctively Jewish Gospel. His busi
ness fitted him admirably to write
the Gospel, as a tat gatherer, he had
been trained to accuracy, to judge
men and to be proof against impos
ture. It was very humiliating and of
fensive to the self-righteous religion
ists ot the day that Jesus should
choose one of His most intimate disci
ples from the class they most de
spised. He acted in the most direct
opposition to the accepted notions ot
the ecclesiastical leaders when He
made this choice. Matthew was at- j
tending faithfully to his business
when Jesus called him, while the mul
titudes had forsaken their usual avo
cations and "resorted" to Jesus
(Mark 2:13). This may have been
from sturdy fidelity to business or it
may have been Indifference to relig
ious enthusiasms. The call was very
sitdden, very brief and very much to
Use point, "Follow Me." There was
n world of meaning In It. It Involved
the renunciation of self and taking
up of the cross and saying farewell to
earthly ambitions, possessions and
prospects (Matt. 10:24; Luke 9:57,
58; 18:?2), but it would bring re
ward and honor and blessing immeas
urable (John 8:12; 12:26; Matt. 19:
2 8). Nothing else costs so much as
to follow Christ; nothing else pays so
well. If Matthew had said "no" to
that call of Jesus, he doubtless would
have gained by it Jlnancially, but by
taylng "yes." he became one of the
very few men of that day whose
names have survived the storms ot
centuries, and also became an heir of
God and a joint heir with Jesus
Christ. There was r.o hesitation on
Matthew's part; he arose at once, for
hook all and followed Christ (Luke
5:28, R. V.) It was the voice of
Jesus that transformed this keen
money-getting publican into a devoted
disciple. Matthew made a great feast
.it hi3 house (Luke 5:29). Jesus at
tended this gay party. Matthew's
purpose was evidently not to display
Ills wealth, or merely even to honor
his new-found Master; he sought to
gf t hold of bis old business associates
and friends, and succeeded (v. 10).
The publicans and sinners were wel
come to the companionship of Jesus
here on earth. There will be a great
multitude who were once publicans
and sinners who will sit down with
Him In glory. Jesus associated with
publicans and sinners In order to save
them. We can never save them un
less we Imitate tho Master's example.
In associating with them, wo must be
careful to do it for the same purpose
He did, or they will drag us down
rather than we lift them up. The
Pharisees were around as usual to
find fault. Where, then, is the
church's true place? Jesus came to
call sinners. He has no Invitation ot
grace for the righteous man. Before
a man can get anything from Jesus'
hand he must first take bis proper
place, that of a sinner, at Jesus' feet,
then he gets all (Luke 18:9-14; 1
Tim. 1:15). Blessed Is the sinner
who bears the gracious call ot Christ
to repentance (Acts 2:88, 39; 26:18;
Luke 15:7-10).
A rich man's privilege. Matt. 27:
C7-G0.
Proceeds of oppression. Jas. B: 10.
Gold used for God. Luke 8: 1-3.
It is well to lay up enough money
to keep want from out dear one3, but
not enough to keep the boys from the
necessity of work (Ltue 12: 20.)
No money harms where It is riches
"loward God" (Mike li: 21.
Only a little looking forward into
the eternal ageo will show us how
fcol'sh is our absorption In money
getting (Matt, (i: 20.)
Know yourself bv asking, not what
you do, or what you think, but what
you desire (Matt. C: 21.)
Thoughts.
Your money is a blessing when you
bless others with It; It Is a curse when
you seek to bless only yourself with
it.
Money is always the substantia! ex
pression of the life of the one that
earns It no more, and no less.
Money Is not "the root of all evil."
but, as the true translation Is, "a
root of all kinds of evil."
If you do not learn the right use of
money while you have little money,
you are Utile likely to learn it when
you have much money.
Illustrations.
The power of money Is like that of
a storage battery; It is stored human
energy.
As it Is no kindness to a strong
man to go and till his field for him,
so tho giving of money is a harm If
It Is given when it should be earned.
As grain, heaped up beyond what
can be used, moulders away, so does
gold.
"Money makes the mare go," but
that Is a very poor sore of mare, and
that Is a very pood sore of mare, and
'ts going is toward no worthy goal.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
8UNDAY, MARCH 20.
The Dreamy Theorist.
If the man of fattn dreams dreams
and sees visions, what is to save him
from being, a dreamy, visionary theo
rist T
How to Flflht the Good Fflht (Eph.
6. 10-18; 1 Tim. 6. 11, 12.)
The apostolic texlvortatlon to "be
strong la the Lord" Is quickly follow
ed by a full equipment of armor for
tho conflict. The girdle is no elegant
silken sword-sash, such as an officer
in modern war folds around himself,
but one of toughest leather armed
with Iron. It was secured about the
waist with the utmost care, keeping
the armor firmly In place. Thus truth
should surround the Christian with
something worth living for and. If
need be, dying for. "The breastplate
of righteousness" should defend the
truth, and keep life's daily conduct In
harmony with the Christian program.
The very sandals of the feet should
protect the Christian soldier by their
readiness for duty. "The shield
(from dura, "a door") of faith" should
protect the entire person like a strong
door from tho "darts" lighted with
fiery and flaming tow, which sin hurls
nt the soldiers of Christ. To let one
flaming dart pierce our armor leads
on to conflict, but faith, neutralizing
Us po'son. leads on to God. "The hel
met of salvation," protecting the
thought of the Christian soldier
against the depressing and miserable
thought of sin and failure, kindles the
light of hope in the confidence of vic
tory. With this panoply of God the Chris
tian soldier grasps his weapon both
of offense and defense "the sword
of the Spirit, which is the word of
God." It is sharper than any two
edged sword of Roman soldier. With
this he enters Into conflict with hu
man and superhuman foes, not trust
Ing in his own strength, but in the
majesty and might of God. "watching
thereunto with si! perseverance."
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
, The source of the world's clove
fjpplr to Zantlbar and (be neighbor
Ing inland ot Peruba.
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The Milk Standard.
The clubwomen ot Massachusetts
are fighting against the movement to
lower the milk standard In that State.
This fight la said to be winning more
recruits to the cause ot woman suf
frage than anything that has come up
In the last ten year. Mothers have
come to agree with Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gllmsn In asserting that poll
tics which affects the purity of milk
j and water Is "not ontsido the home.
J but Inside the baby."
Geraldine Farrar, prima donna, Is
twenty-seven.
Judge Mills signed the deer?" di
vorcing Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob
Astor.
Sixteen girls, prize winners In an
Ontario popularity contest, visited
Florida.
Miss Traphagen, of Flushing. L. I.,
fought a highwayman who shot and
wounded her escort.
Mrs. Morris K. Jesup. rf New York
City, has given Yale Corporation
$50,000 for the School of forestry.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who had a
nervous collapse, was ordered by lrr
physicians to take absolute rest, so
she arranged for a trip to Europe.
. Damages were paid and an apology
written to Miss Edith M. Burton bv
Theodore B. Heller, of New York
City, who had assailed her character.
Mrs. M. E. Read has celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of her ser
vice as passenger arrent at AH more
station on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Mrs. Ehrlieh, of New Vork City,
caused the arrest of a driver for cru
elty to animals, and the policeman
paid a high tribute In court to her
courage.
Miss Annie Curran, a public school
teacher in EaBt New York, was cau
tioned In court on a boy pupil's ac
cusation that she struck him on the
head with the sharp edge ot a ruler.
Mme. Anna Rogstad. the first wom
an member of the Storthing, the low
er house in the Norwegian Parlia
ment, waa a teacher In one of the
primary grades of the public schools
In Cbrlstlanla when elected.
The Iowa State Capitol Js to have
a portrait of Lillian Russell, the State
Commissioners asking her to give It
as one of "its noted sons and daugh
ters," and she Is having a $5000 por
trait painted by Carol us Duran for the
purpose.
THAT WILL HOLD HIM A WHILE.
Mr. Hubby -My wife thinks there
Is no one like me on the face ot the
earth."
Miss Keen "She hasn't traveled
much, I guess. There are some home.
ly men in Pittsburg, where I lire."
Boston Transcript.
Red glass hastens vegetation, wuue
blue glass suppresses It. Sensitive
plants, like the mimosa, grow fUtucn
times higher under red glass tb.au un
der blue,
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l,(mono the beaant fields
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"THY KINGDOM COME.
"Thy Kftigdom Come!"
Into the ways of human woe
Where rnoant snd heartaches come And
go:
Where the wild rnrm of sorrow sweep,
Where anxious souls lone vigils keep,
Where eyes with weeping ache and burn.
Where lonijiiiji lieHrt for day-break yenrn,
Shine with the brightm-M of Thy face,
Glcum Willi the henuty of Thy grace
"Thy Kingdom Come!"
"Thy Kingdom Cornel"
O'jr V.ir' red fields rough plowed bv fire
In live weed-grown with foul desire;
In souls ot men ice-hnrd and cold.
Chilled I y the drnth-like greed of gold;
Into bne lives of liistfiilnesH,
Dry-rotted liciirls of eltishnes.
Into the plensures. vain nnd light.
Info the shaiiie-tr.ii ki-d ways of night,
Shine with the snlcndnr from above.
Th pure white light of Saving Love-
"Thv Kingdom t'onie!"
-Robert J. liurdittt. in Pacific Baptist.
THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGADNA !
CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK
WINNING ALL ALONG LINE.
Wli-n Christianity is I'mler Fire. -
The enemies of God have been as
sailing Him since the world began,
but His throne is unmoved. Demons
by the legion glared at Jesus and
sought to overthrow Him, but His
Kingdom ts more secure than ever.
The Word of God has been scissored
and burned, but every jot and tittle
of it remains, and will remain till
earth and tho heavens pass away.
The saints have been sneered at.
scourged, and slain, but they have
multiplied till for multitude they are
as the sands of the sea and the stars
or the Bky. And till the end of time
the foes of right will do their work
and go their way, leaving the church
triumphant, the Flble undestroyed,
and God forever upon His throne.
Therefore when Chrlstlnity Is un
der fire, as it is to-day, be not nerv
ous, trembling for the ark of God or
fearful that the Kingdom of God can
now or ever be destroyed.
And do not "fight fire with fire."
Abuse and sarcasm, chicanery and
falsehood are in the hands of your
foes, but to bring down the giant j
navia must not wear the armor of
Saul.
Nor rely altogether upon Intellect
ual weapons. Argument for the sake
of argument Is seldom convincing.
Be spiritual, first of all; for a spir
itual life is the best possible answer
to the critics of the cross. In wordy
argumentation men may muddle your
brain, but they cannot pump the life
blood out of your heart.
Be loyal to God and His Word.
Allegiance to His sovereignty and un
wavering confidence In His Word are
torts of strength In time of war.
Be aggressive, evangelistic, mis
sionary. Instead of stopping to
shiver with fear, or parley with foe,
herald the good news of salvation fer
vently, faithfully, persistently. Do
not wait to even contend that the
Word Is the Word: proclaim it and
see It win Its own way!
And in all, be courageous, wise,
hopeful, persevering. For they who
are "blasting at the Rock of Ages"
can do nothing more than remove
hits of the moss that have gathered
there. And they who would dissect
the Bible are unable to insert the
scalpel deeper than the cuticle of a
creed or the wart of a theological sys
tem. And they who by dispute and
denial would destroy the deity of
Jesus might as well attempt to warm
Greenland with a candle or overpalnt
the sun with an Ink-drop.
"Our God is marching on!" Bib
lical Recorder.
Service.
"An angel of tho Lord spake unto
Philip and he arose, and went." ,
The Lord of Angels paused one day
to hear a report from His messengers
upon the earth. With Joy or sorrow
each told what he had seen. The
youngest, Amslel, stood alone In ear
nest thought. When his turn came to
speak be said: "Lord, In the city of
Lupton I found three of Thy servants
renowned above th rest. One ts very
wise, one has the gift of golden
jpeech, the third has no rare gift or
grace, but he wins the people's hearts
by doing good. Lord, I would know
which loves Thee beBt."
The Lord ot Angels answered: "All
men's hearts are open to Me, and I
well know which loves Me best, but
that you may know, go to each and
say: 'Thy Master bids thee go to Spl
ran's huts across the snow; there you
shall find a task to do for Him.' The
one who answers best thou shalt
crown for Me."
The youngest angel passed that
same hour through the gate of the
city. He came to the temple where
the people thronged to hear the
gifted preacher. He, Bernol, knelt at
the altar; the angel touched him and
gave the message. His face went
white, and he answered, "Why?" He
faltered. The angel turned away. To
the wise man intent on holy thought
the message was given. He saw the
perils, and answered, "How?" The
angel was gone. The third was hur
rying down the street on service bent;
the angel stopped him with the mes
sage. Quick came the eager answer:
"When?" The angel answered,
"Now," and crowned him with the
golden circle from his brow, saying,
"Not ours to answer how or why.
The Master knows the cause; His
ways are wise and just. Who serves
the King must serve with perfect
trust." Rev. Henry Van Dyke, in
"A Legend of Service."
Imagination.
Imagination Is the most essential
element In any great invention,
knowledge, business enterprise and
religion, If it was not for the powers
ot Imagination, the nations would be
stranded long before this.
Right Feeling.
A man is right when right feeling
stimulates right thought, in a disci
plined and finished manner, and turns
upon the feelings and becomes their
master, directing them with right pur
pose. Any one who waa familiar with the
Appearance ot the Niagara, Falls be
fore the present power Installations
were built and opened can settle the
question as to whether the appearance
ot the falls has been affected by going
to see for himself. Small though the
total amount ot water taken for pow
er purposes, in proportion to the total
amount passing over the falls, may
be, It has been sufficient to cause the
shallower portions of the overflow at
the edges of the falls to become en
tirely dry, thereby greatly1 reducing
the total length of the crest line.
. Atcoiiol HurU Race,
Alcohol and alroluiiBtn are two of
the real an.i substtctlnl enemies of
moral, artistic anf commercial pro-1
gress of the Lunv.n race, according
to the report o;' the United States
delegates to the twelfth International
Congress on Alcoholism, made publlo
by the State Department, Washing
ton. The delegates were appointed,
by Secretary Knox as one of his first
official acts. The congress was held
last July In London, and twenty-five
governments were represented, the
delegates of each concurring In the
general finding that alcohol not only
was unnecessary to human life and
comfort, but was Inimical to both.
Three departments of the Govern
ment were represented the State,
Navy and Treasury. Twelve repre
sentatives went abroad, and all of
them signed the unanimous report
made public, the finding of which Is
to condemn the drinking habit as
dangerous to public health and morals
and subversive of national, moral,
commercial and military greatness.
While the congress urged the neces
sity of Imposing the most rigorous re
strictions on the sale and traffic in
alcoholic liquors, it regarded as equal
ly important the need of educating
the younger generation to a true
knowledge of what alcohol Is and
w-hat its effects upon the human sys
tem are. The delegates believe that
the numerous recent discoveries as
to the harmfulness of drunkenness
and even ot "moderate" drinking
also should be set before children In
order that they may see the danger
of the practice. The American dele
gates sum up this phase of their re
port by saying:
"Increased teaching as to its char
acter and influence should be pro
vided, to conserve industrial efficiency
In the commercial competition of na
tions, as well as to promote two of the'
chief objects of government the
public health and morals."
The value ot this method of com
bating the growth of the liquor habit
is emphasized in the report. While
acknowledgment Is made that the or
ganization of associations of juvenile
abstainers is useful. It is asserted the
chief reliance should be placed on sci
entific temperance education in the
public schools as a means of ridding
the public mind ot errors about the
effects of alcohol and substituting the
facta that science is believed to have
evolved about the use of the bever
age, even when taken in small doses.
Miss Cora F. Stoddard, of Boston,
another American delegate and sec
retary of the Scientific Temeperance
Federation, also devoted to the same
subject her address, which was the
first paper of tho congress. In It she
put forward the benefits derived by a
number of countries through the
adoption ot such a plan as proof that
it should become universal.
The United States, the report says,
made an unusually good showing in
its exhibits. Germany also was to
the fore with a particularly fine col
lection of colored charts showing the
effect of alcohol on the body, the fam
ily and upon society. Especially effective,-It
is said, were the stereoptl
con slides of the National Temper
ance League of Great Britain.
These stereopticon pictures, the re
port goes on to show, were largely
reproductions of municipal posters
that are being Issued by the City
Councils of about 100 British bor
oughs. The posters deal In a popular
way with the deleterious effects of
alcohol on the human system, and
ana. posted by order of the regular
officials of towns In which the sale ot
Intoxicants is licensed. This fact,
however, does not prevent the offi
cials from warning the public against
the use of alcohol. .
Following the example ot Great
Britain the city and district officials
of France and Australia likewise have
adopted the "public warning" method
ot advising the people against indul
gence. The report deplores the fact
that the same method has not yet
found a foothold In the United States,
although such a plan has been noted
In certain cities, where posters In
veighing against the use of alcohol
have been Issued by authority of the
Mayors.
The Chief Justice of England, Lord
Alverstone, announced that In his be
lief ninety per cent, of the crimes
passing under his observation were
due to drink.
Judge W. F. Pollard, of St. Louis,
who presides at the Second DlBtrlct
Police Court in that city, said that ot
the cases passed upon by him fully
eighty-five per cent, of those convict
ed could charge their degradation to
the use of alcohol. Lieutenant-Colonel
McHardy, ot Edinburgh, Scotland,
coincided with Judge Pollard as to
the percentage of crimes occurring In
the former Scotch capital.
Judge Pollard won the support ot
the delegates from twenty-three coun
tries for the adoption of his plan to
suspend sentence in the case of every
first offender who Is brought into
court charged with drunkenness. This
involves such first offenders signing
a pledge to abstain for one year. It
the probationers fail to live up to
their pledge they may be arrested
and summarily sentenced. The
knowledge that one drink may mean
a prison sentence. Judge Pollard ar
gued, kept many a man straight until
he had time to collect himself. The
penalty for failure to keep faith with
tne court was not settled, several of
the delegates arguing In favor ot va
rious degrees ot punishment. The
principle, however, was regarded as
admirable, and 400 delegates urged
its adoption by the various govern
ments ot the world.
Effective truyers.
A number of school children, be
tween ten and fourteen years ot age,
held a prayer meeting outside a pub
lic bouse at Newport, Wales, some of
tbem praying for their fathers, who
were Inside. The scene so affected
the landlord that he put out the gas
lamp around which the young Chris
tians were congregated. "Never
mind," said one of them, "we'll pray
to the Lord to send His light upon
all,' and they continued to pray until
the men left the public house.
What One States Does for Roads,
Just before his departure for Parli
to attend the International Confer
ence' ot Road Builders, Samuel Hill,
of Seattle, Wash., president ot th
Washington Good Roads Association,
told an interviewer In New York:
"The building of good roads Is the
most Important question that can.
fronts the American people to-day.
Every man, woman and child must
use the highways at some time,
whether afoot, on horseback, la t
road wagon or In automobiles."
Mr. Hill, who has spent much ot
his time end money in the work of
public road Improvement, Is one ot
three delegates the State ot Washing
ton has sent to this International
roads conference to get Information
and Ideas that will prove of value in
the important work which the State
Is doing.
Not only has Washington put her
convicts on the roads and had them
ithere for some years now, but she hat
established a chair ot good roads in
her State university, the first Institu
tion In the country to provide such a
course, and Samuel C. Lancester, pro
fessor of goods roads In the Washing
ton University, is one of the three
delegates to the Paris conference. The
other is R. H. Thompson, City Engi
neer of Seattle.
With 125 students last year and
200 at the beginning of the present
term, the good roads department ot
the Washington University Is one of
the most popular In the Institution.
It not only educates young men in
this important work, but serves a i
bureau for the dissemination of valu
able information relating to constric
tion and maintenance ot public highways.
Some of the things Mr. HU1
In his interview, published In
New York Herald, will be ot part
lar Interest and value In Georgia
at this time, when the State is a
to enter upon the era ot substantial
progress which good road building la
volves. DtscusBlng the tremendons aggre
gate cost ot bad roads to the farmers
and, in a general way, the work &'
being done in his State, Mr. Hill said:
"When I became interested active
ly In the subject about four years ago
I made up my mind that I would as
certain JuBt what it cost one of eur
farmers to haul along the roads lor
one milo garden truck and other ma
terial weighing one ton. Fox on the
farmer principally falls the burden of
our bad roads. I learned that be
cause of the poor roads the United
States lost, with the setting of the
sun every day, nearly $3,000,000,
which might be saved were the rotds
in proper condition. Just think
that! And yet not a cent has come
from the federal administration for
the betterment of these roads. Soine
States, as Washington and a few
others, have appropriations, but hot
in proportion to the calling necessity.
Then we began to get busy in bur
State ot Washington.
"We put the convicts at work and
we found the process was a gieat
success. Each convict netted to the
State t4.03 for each day of work,
which amounted to something. And
not one convict turned out .to this
task tried to escape. North Carolina
led in this system of convict labor,
and that was fifteen years ago, and
now it has eighteen hundred miles of
macadamized roads built by contict
labor, and only two per cent, of he
men employed in this way tried. to
escape. In Washington the majority
ot our roads are constructed over
mountains and at a maximum grade
of five per cent. This convict labor
did not Interfere with union labor,
either, for with the construction -of
the roads there was more work tor
the union men in other branches of
the task.
"Let me tell you ot our method In
Washington. We build our roads
usually about one hundred feet wide.
First, we have in the middle a strip
about sixteen feet wide. On the bot
tom we take from the screen cube
of rock about two and a half inches.
This rock is put down wet, and a ten
ton steam roller goes over it from the
Bides, to make it cement and rise
high In the middle. Then comes rock
one-halt the size of the other, and
then the rock - three-quarter inch
cubes. Over this is poured tar, malt
ed to about 180 to 200 degrees Fah
renheit, and over all this is thrown
the fine pebbles. Then the Bteam rol
ler gats to work again. Parallel to
this strip we make a path ot light
material, designed for horses and ve
hicles; alongside that comes a bridle
path, for equestrians only, and then
comes another strip of grassy lawn,
with flowers and trees. Wo maintain
that strip in all strictness."
There are suggestions and informa
tion bese worth considering. "Ther
come from a man who is well quali
fied to speak and who has seen and
actively participated in the work Ik
his own State similar to that which
Georgia now has to do. Atlanta Cos
stitution. . - '
Temperance Notes.
Studies ot pauperism and its causes
and dtseases which follow from the
peglect of hygienic living show that
alcohol Is both an active and predis
posing cause to an extent practically
unknown, and at least beyond any
preseut estimation oi us innuence.
. Mr. M. T. Stead, writing to Mr.
Hugh Edwards, Liverpool, says In the
course of his communication: "I was
much struck laBt Sunday when I waa
in Pontypridd by the fact that it is
everywhere becoming manifest that;
for all practical purposes, drink is the
devil la South Wale."
The Eternal Feminine,
Queen Elizabeth, In a character!
tic rage, had proclaimed the doom ol
the courtier. "Off with bis head!"
The culprit courtier was beard to
mutter something to himself.
"What said the caitiff?" demanded
Elizabeth.
"May It please Your Majesty," falt
ered one of the guards, "his words
were: 'Pretty rough. It is becom
ing ' " I
The virgin Queen plumed herself;
her eyes sought her mirror.
"Ha! Pretty ruff! Truly, tho fal
low hath good taste, and it were
pity Let sentence be suspended.
We have need of men of good jud
raent and sound discretion about u
I will hear further what he may b'
to-say." Harper's Monthly.
The wife of a farm laborer nef
Exeter has given birth to her tweuty
second child. All the family art ali
tMi well.