THE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. DR. W. C. STILES. Thome: Tlie Divine Mobility. Greenwich, Conn. The Rev. Dr. W. C. Stiles, of Brooklyn, editor of the Homlletle Review, preached In the Second Congregational Church hero Sundar. Dr. Stiles had a Ms subject. "The Divine Mobility." In the course of hla sermon ho said: Our attention has often been called to the a 1)1 (II n i? quality of divine llfo and of the inner powers of the spirit, and we are accustomed to set these realities over against the things that change am! pass away. The Psalmist, Is re-echoed by the Apostle Peter In the sentiment which expresses the frailty of the outward things "the Brass withereth, the flower thereof falleth away." and Jesus, referring to the enduring quality of Ills word, said: "Heaven and earth shall pass away." In all these apprehensions of the contrast Involved, wo hove dwelt lightly upon the passing away of things and have usually lixed our thoucht upon that element of eternity that lies within them. Hut has it nev er occurred to us that there must be profound significance also in the oth er Rid of the truth, that when the heavens and earth pass nway and the flower falleth and withereth, and the whole universe In like manner Is seen to be a constant panorama of Hut and change, there must be some divine fsignifk-enee to this phenomenal uni verse. When Paul conies to apply it to his own career, he speaks of that earecr as a continual forgetting of things that are behind and r. constant reaching forth unto things that are before. It Is as though he thought the soul could never stand still; and it Is crrtaln that there is nothing more Inclusive; nothing more completely filling all the consciousness of the life of the man than the mobility of the world we live in and of the lives we live. It Is of this I am reminding you: first, ns a fact of universal experi ence. The heavens and earth do pnps tip her Tinnds In horror, and she sol emnly assures the daughter that such liberty, such behavior, were never Been in her time, and the children must be going to ruin under such nn education. There are new things in the house, and new ways of doing, and a new world around her. What is the secret of it all? She has been holding on and abiding in the things remained. They havo been moving on in the larger life. We think we would like to go hack to the old vil lage, to the old times, and the old ways, but in our reason we know how absolutely unsatisfvtng such an exper ience would be. We sing: "Backward, roll backward, oh time In thy flight, Make me a child again Just for to night." nut if we went back and If we The Sunday School INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR APRIL 3. Subjects The Power of Faith, Matt. 0:18-31 Commit to Memory Verses 28, 29. GOLDEN TEXT. "All things are possible to him that belleveth." Mark 9 ' 23 TIME Autumn A. D. 28. PLACE. Capernaum. EXPOSITION I. Jesus Raisins the Daughter of Joints, 18-26. Sor row brought the ruler to Jesus. It met those whom we knew in the years brings more pe0ple to Him to-day gone by. how quickly conversation and , than almost anything else. He be- i uiu uiuiiiiii wuuiu uv e.-.iuiuMtru, uuu especially if we have been moving on and they have been standing still. It would not be good to be a child again. Our march is onward nnd "the grave is not its goal." With all this wide unlverso of things we are sweeping away from the past every hour, every moment, and Paul expressed the right philosophy of human life and recog nized the wide reach of this law of the universe when he resolved to for get the things that are behind nnd press toward the things which are be fore. Certainly, disaster Must befall the man who stops. There Is freedom and there is life only In moving on. If you were to climb to the apex of the Metropolitan tower, and thero should succeed In stopping, some thing fearful would befall you. The atmosphere of the earth, rushing on nineteen miles In a second, striking against you would instantly reduce you to a little patch of flame, and you would disappear. Something like that begins to happen when a man halts on a journey, refuses to hear the call of God. ceaseB to feel the tre mendous mobility of the universe moving around lilm, and thinks he will sit down content i'.i his place and be quiet. Ood will not have It so; God will not let you keep still. You must move or die. With all of the wide sweep of this moving universe around you, the only safety for man from absolute destruction of soul and life is to enst himself Into the moving BUTE! WAR ON INTEMPERANCE SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CtT.SE GREATLY CHEERED. away; the flowers do fade: human llfo j currents of God and trust himself to dors move on',' the old order chang- eth; every day la a new day; old things have passed away. "Behold, all things have beeomo new," might be written at any moment of our career. A fact of such wide signifi cance Is worth while to inquire about. Doubtless we may complain with Au gustine that our hearts are restless until they rest in God, but is there no significance in a restless heart, and do we, after all, really wish our hearts to be at rest, in the last and best thought with which wo contemplate the highest possibilities of the soul?. 13 there meaning in the passing away of the heavens and the earth? That is a great fact, and one that must have some meaning or other for lis. We do not look on the same Etars not precisely the same as those that shone upon the Egyptians who built the pyramids, and who built the lines of their east and west faces by the pole star, from which these lines now have swerved enough to prove that the heavens have been changing; and the time will come when future inhabitants of this earth will no longer look upon the same constellations in the same places .where now we see them. How much truer might such affir mation be of this far moro changeful earth. We speak lightly of the ever lasting bills. When they built the great Eads Rrldge at St. Louis, on the east Bide of that river they sent the bores down something like ISO feet through the fine silt of the river bed before they 6truck the solid limestone below. That 130 feet of sand, spread with various thickness over wide are;' 3 of the valleys of the Mississippi and the Missouri, la nothing more than the remains of what men call the everlasting hills, washed down through mllennlunis of time to make the great fertile areas of the valleyB. You who havo lived by the sea know what constant changes are going on with the coast upbuilding here and washing away yonder; on our Pacific coast great mountains lifted up, sometimes with great earthquake shocks that destroy cities; on other coasts sinking down to give way to the dominance of the sea. Yes, tho heavens and earth are passing away. A fact. I have said, of such wide roach in human experience must have some significance and must need some Interpretation. I think, therefore, ,we ma Inquire, in the next place, .whether the change and flux of on ward movement may not const Itute a universal law of the world and of all life? Is not this as it should be? Do r.ot things move on and dltfap- them to bear him on. i If now wo have found this mobil ity of the world to l.o a great fact of experience, and It it has seemed to us to indicate that this is really a universal law of lire and of the world, ought we not to think again? Surely these meanings of things reach higher than our little lives and deeper than the mere flood and flu:: of phenome non before our eyeg. Does not this great spectacle of a moving cosmos, ' this great consciousness of on-moving life tell us something as to what is the nature of God Himself? Have ' wo fixed Him sometimes In our theol ogies upon a static throne in the midst of angels and archangels? Not , so was the picture of Him that Jesus drew. So solicitous was He our Father in Heaven that the hairs of our heads were numbered, that not one sparrow could fall without Hla ; notice: and we may not find God at ; all unless somehow we find Him in. this moving universe. Who paints tho superb colors of the sunrise in the morning east, different each passlug morning and beyond the painter's Bkill to imitate? Who Is the vast weaver that threads the fahrlc of the petals of the flowers and weaves green carpets over the fields? Who is the Bpirlt of the mist that lifts itself from the meadow-way under the touch of the morning sun? We should be tired by this time of that wooden fetish of law under which men have bound this frail and mobile universe, and which men have worshiped in the place of God. No. God is not law; Qod Is life, and life is motion, and God Him self is forever moving on. The final explanation of this mobile universe must be sought in the infinite mobil ity of God. God is not a static sov ereign seated on His throne; He is the life of all life, the lijcht behind tne longed to a class that was largely hos- j me io jesus. rie was tnorougniy in earnest and his pride was in the dust let. Mk. 5:22; Lu. 8:41). He wor shiped Jesus. The fact that Jesus al lowed him to do so Is one of the many proofs of Jesus' deity (cf. Acts 10: 25, 26; Rev. 22:8. 9, R. V.; 5:8). The ruler's prayer was short, to the point, Intense (cf. Mk. 5:23). Jesus arose and followed him. He Is al ways ready to enter the house of sick ness or sorrow where He is invited (Rev. 3:20). Jesus went at once. He Is Just the same to-day (Heh. 13:8). The Jewish ruler's faith was not as perfect as that, of the Roman centurion (cf. ch. 8:8 with Luke 8: 41, and note Mk. 5:36), but the faith was genuine and Jesus responded to It (cf. vs. 21, 22). The sick child was the only daughter (Lk. 8:4). Thore are but three recorded in stances where Jesus raised the dead, an only daughter, an only son (Lu. 7:12) and an only brother (.Ino. 11: t). There was work, too, for Jesus to do by the way (v. 20). The wom an's case was desperate (v. 20: cf. Lev. 15:19. 20). The long continu ance of her plague made her case ap parently hopeless, but it was not hopeless when we take Jesus Into the account (cf. Lu. 13:16; .Ino. 5:5. 8, H; Acts 4:22, 2C). She had sought relief In many directions (Mk. 5:26; Lu. 8:43), but had received none. Our Lord often henls those whom no human skill can help. She came to the Lord because there was no on else to whom she could go. Sho had heard the things concerning Jesus (Mk. 5:27), and this gave her faith that He could heal her. The woman's plan for getting the desired healing had much of superstitious erroneous ness mingled with it (v. 31). But there was sincere faith, and that Is all that Is necessary. Heart faith, though mixed with error, that never theless brings one to Jesus, brings greater blessing than views that are correct but entirely a matter of the head. She received a hearty welcome and the complete healing that she sought. Jesus had been delayed on the way in ministering to the woman who had touched the hem of His gar ment and was made whole, and mean time the little girl had died (cf. Mk. 5:35; Lu. 8:49). It seems as If Jesus was now too late. It often seems so (cf. Jnrt. 11:21), but He never is. Jesus found the ruler's house filled with uproarious, ostentatious parade of sorrow. In hearty disgust at It all. He drives the noisy mourners forth (cf. Mk. 5:39). Jesus is always dis pleased with undue lamentations over departed friends (1 Thess. 4:13). He gives a good reason why the lamenta tion should cease at once. "The dam- ( sel Is not dead but sleepeth. The reason holds for all our friends who have fallen asleep in Jesus; they are not dead, but simply sleep (1 Thess. 4:14; Acts 7:60). They may not awaken quite as soon as did Jalrus' I daughter, but wake they surely will, and it will not be long (1 Thess. 4: 16, 17). Jesus' statement was re ceived with derisive laughter. There seemed good ground for tho derision. The scorners had reason and common ; sense on their side, but they were ' wrong. On the other side was noth- Rightly Classified. When one u requested to briefly say why He clnmified thing which he wanted to buy, He gave in n moment this pointed reply: "Mottles and rag! Bottle nnd nut! Where you find bottleo, you always find And when with discernment we calmly look round Where poverty, failure and sorrow abound, We qnickly perceive that the logic it sound : T.ottles nnd ingn! Bottles nnd rags! Where yon tind bottles, you always find rags." For liquor so injures the nerves and the hraia, And weakens the ones whom its fetters enchain, T'.iat soon to all minds the connection is pluin: "Tinttlcs anl rac! Buttle and ran! Where vou tind bottles, you always find rags." And wisdom most surely instructs us to day To banish the bnr-room nn'l liquor away: Because where they Hourixh the people must cay, "Hottles and rajs! Hottles and raus! Where you tind bottles, you always find raps." T. Watson, Granthurst, Ont., 1009. The Early Formation of the Drinking Habit. The Importance of the early educa tion of children and youth to habits of sobriety was shown by a study of 275 alcoholic cases in Bellovue Hos pital reported In the Bellevue Medi cal and Surgical Report by Dr. Alex ander Lambert. Of 259 instances where the age of beginning to drink was known, 4 be gan before 6 years of age; 13 be tween 6 and 12 years; 60 between 12 and 16; 102 between 10 and 21; 71 between 21 and 30: and 8 only after 30 years of age. Thus nearly 7 per cent, began before 12 years of age, or the seventh school year; 30 per cent. ber;an before the ago of 16, and over two-thirds 1. e., 68 per cent. began before 21 years of age. If these statls'.tirs arc representative of general conditions, they indicate clearly that preventive temperance work to be effective must be begun at an early age and carried on thor oughly through childhood and youth. The reasons for acquiring the habit are significant In Indicating lines along which preventive work should be done. False social ideas led to drinking for the sake of socia bility in 53 per cent, of the cases; a desire to dull the sense of misery, as recommended by Professor Munster berg. In 12 per cent.; the UBe of alco hol as medicine in 9 per cent.; par ental example or influence in 5 per cent. Most of the alcoholics, Dr. Lam bert finds, drink for the narcotic ef fect, either to obtain the feeling of well-being and indifference to their environment or to seek oblivion, and like all narcotics, alcohol begets a craving for more. The training of children and youth to assist sobriety must, therefore, definitely teach the dangers In alco holic drinks due to their nature, must emphasize the value of abound ing health based upon Intelligent ob servance of hygienic laws, must stim ulate courage and self-control in meeting temptation, and must fill life with resources so that youth will not be dependent upon low types of sociability for enjoyment. The com plemental external conditions Imply removal of temptations to drink. from the way of young people, the secur ing of healthful homes and public en vironment,, and the providing of op portunities for innocent recreation and fellowship. ing but the word of the Son of God. light, the glory that shines with the The corners and the formal mourn glory. If tho heavens and the earth f ? pn. Jsus works. Note the are passing away, it ia because noth- taking by the hand; it was the fre ing that has God's llfo in it can re- I nujnt Practice of our Lord (cf. Mk main stationary I 1:31; S:23; 9:27; Matt- 14:31). And If, then, we would harmonize our- ' tntre was always power in that hand selves and quiet our restless hearts, ?rasp. To the Jewish mind there in a n. thnf AncniBtinn norhans i was contamination In the touch of did not mean, It shall not be by rest ing in some snug haven of God'3 preparation, it shall be by coming to that triumphant faltli of the soul that is willing to cast itself Into the mov ing providence of God, and go on where God is going. And shall that be forever? Certainly I hope so. This shall be the transcendant joy of tho dead hand (Num. 19: 11), but the Prince of Life will not be contamin ated, but communicate life. Death gave way to the Prince of Life and tho damsel arose. II. Jesus 0'ning the Eyes of Two Rllnd Men, 27-31.. Further work awaits our mighty Lord. Two blind men require His help. They were very earnest, following and crying pear? Do not the old facts decay .an infinite universe. Fear not, oh, and the new facts appear, because , uoui t0 iaUnch thy bark and east this Is, In a way, the divine method awnv; cut thy moorings behind thee; for all of us, and for the universe in j t the old dead past go, and in the wuirn wo nve, iue fimviutjucu m uuu ; Vust to-morrow 100K upward inrougn Via llfo rhit la tn primo thnf-WA nrn forever to pnss on Into the new and i 0,lt- They had 'al,h Him as the the wonderful and the unexpected re- ! Messiah, the Son of David, and in Hla ?lnn am! th uneT.-nlored clorles of ! ability and readiness to help. The accompanying us In our journey and educating us on the way? Surely, if we should come to such conclusion as thlrf, It would dissolve some of the perplexing difficulties that besiege our minds and embarrass our lives. For one thing, it would teach ub that one of the great dominant arts of a hu man soul must be tho art of letting go of things with which God Is through. It Is death or the beginning of death for a man In a living world to hold on to the things that no longer have life in them. Tho flower will facV and the grass will wither, but v.e may not make very much of storing the withered stock und the faded petal in tho old srrapbooks cf our lives. How many a man has be come old and sour und useless hold ing on to the things which he should let go! The only salvation in a mov ing world Is to keep moving with the world, and to keep paco with the di vine spirit that every morning makes all things new. Let the children, easer with curiosity for every new scene, teach us, for they shall have finer lessons for us than we can ever bave for them. We speak of the "good old days." "the old Gospel," "the faith once delivered to the saints." but there are no good old days, and for us there is no old Com pel, and we do not want the faith that was delivered to the saints. Any thing that was delivered yesterday was for yesterday. We are to go Into the larger place; we are to breath (he new airs of the new morning. (There shall be perfume of sweeter flowers for as above the graves of those that fadod for the man of yes. terday. - It often happens that daughters (marry from the old home, and go ont Into new life to some larger and more active community. As the years go by and the children gather In the new home, the old folks from tne farm coin up to visit the children and the grandchildren. Have yon not known how often the grandmother Is shocked at the forwardness of the CbJldreA-lo tbeaa dajrs. and she holds the vistas of that path of the just, shlngitig more and more unto the per fect day, on which no darkness ever shuts down, where no night ever falls, which no barriers ever cut off, and whoso coal has not been fixed for us. because it is the endless path of the onward moving God. The South Pole. Several causes combine to give an-, tarctlc exploration an Interest tc Americans that It has not received formerly. The plan of the National Geographic Society and the Peary Arctic Club to fit out an expedition to race against Capt. Scot'., of Eng land, for tho discovery cf the South Pole has been met with a display ol good feeling from tho oilier side ol the Atlantic. There is apparently no disposition to regard the proposed American expedition as an intrasion upon a field of exploration that right fully belongs to the English, as some have maintained. It U recognized that the Americans, in approaching the Pole from the opposite direction going from Cape Horn over a route that Is to large extent untried, would ba at a disadvantage. If it could gain the coveted point In ad vance of the English expedition It would ileservo the triumph that would mark such an achievament. Sp;'ug field Ualon. How a Town Is Judged. The time has gone by when the publishers of any newspaper, even of the bumblost country weekly, goes around asking support out of person al friendship. But tbe public ought to realize. Just the same, that thepron perlty and progress of Its town is judged by outsiders by tbe kind of newspaper product that Is sent out to represent it. Wstertown Standard. Old Testament bad prophesied that the Messiah would open the eyes of the blind (Isa. 29:.18; 35:5, 42:6, 7). Jesus did not Bef-m to pay any atten tion to them at first, but with persist ent faith they followed Him right Into the house. Jesus put one ques tion to them that went right to the root of the matter (v. 28). Faith is the one condition that Jesus demands if we would realize experimentally the fulfillment of His promise and the enjoyment of His power (Lu. 1:45; Jas. 1:5-7). If more of us could say "Yea Lord" to Jesus, "Believe ye that I am able?" we would know more of Ills power to help. Our faith is the measure of the blessing we enjoy (v, 29). One touch of Jesus' hand and the blind eyes were opened. III. Jesus Casting Out a Demon, 32-ilU Still another needs our Lord's help, a man possessed with a demon. Recent Investigation proves that de monical possession Is a reality to day. The demon In this case had rendered the man dumb. Tbe best thing to do with any man possessed c a demon Is to bring him to Jesus. Our Lord can make those who are dumb from any cause speak (Ex. 4r, 11,12). In giving this man the pow. cr of speech an Old Testament pro phecy concerning the Messiah was fulfilled (Isa. 35:6). The multitudes marvelled and said It was never so seen In Israel, but the Pharisees were ready with a sinister explanation (cf. ch. 12:22-24; Mk. 3:22; Lu. 11:14, 15). Their explanation did. not re veal their superior reasoning powen, but the badness of their own hearts (cf. Jno. 3:20). Thirty feet beneath the surface of a newly built railroad In Spokane, Wash., a ginkgo leaf was found last spring. Its age being estimated at 100,000 years. "It bears a message of more certainty than those carved la tablets of stone," writes Fred Nled erbauser, in Harper's Weekly. "This discovery tends to substitute the the ory that U f coast section has been formed by successive upheavals of the earfVs crust, occurring since the appearaice of the fruit sea dyke, which bas now developed Into the ' system of the Uocky Mountains." One of the Snildest of Stories. The startling robbery of a High land Park bank recently, and the sui cide of the youth to avoid capture, has revealed one of the saddest stories of the drink curse in recent bintory. , The young man was Lamar Harris, scion of one of the most prominent families of California, and drink had transformed him from one of the most brilliant and promising young men of the Pacific Coast Into a reckless criminal and libertine. In a statement made to the Associated Press, October 15th, his mother, Mrs. Will A. Harris, said: "In face of all the evidence and what are apparently positive proofs, the family is forced to relinquish all hopes that It is other than my unfor tunate son who committed suicide in Chicago. Harris was a graduate of the University of Mississippi. Re turning here several years ago, he became associated with the law firm of his father, Will A. Harris. The young man built up a practice that yielded an Income of $15,000. I con sider that Lamar died In reality long before he ran away from this city, and that which Is dead In Chicago is a mere shell of my boy and what was once a briliant, noble, manly man. Of the terrible victories that alcohol has won over mankind, this Is perhaps the most pitiful and aw ful of them all." Alcohol In Fearei. The oculist, the aurlst, tbe throat and nose specialist, and the physician who treats mental and nervous cases, Inquire with great mluuteness as to how far alcohol has been used by the patient. The same facts are sought for, and studied by the obstetrician and the student of children'! diseases. Temperance Notes. The medical side of the aic:ho',ic problem becomes prominent la the statistical studies o! insanity and mental diseases. The most reliable authorities indi cate that insanity is the direct result of alcohol in from flfteen'to forty per cent, of all canes.' In pauperism and idiocy fully fifty per cent, are traceable to the degen eration due to spirit drinking I.: epilepsy thirty per rent, is asserted to be the lowest figure of the number of cases due directly to alcohol. It Is a fact that fifty-five per cent, of the 149,000 persons confined in prisons in this country were com mitted for crimes perpetrated undsr tbe influence of spirits. Churches that bave long discussed, yea, even quarreled uud divided over, the Communion wine, have now agreed to banish intoxicating wine from the Lord's table, and replace it by unfermented wine. Ministers and church officers who, If not opposed to the temperance cause, never did or said anything la advocacy of total abstinence, now urge their churches to sign tbe pledge a a sale example to tbe new converts, DQincrca ror rne "7 1TFT 1-loTVD I JONATHAN'. The unerdwned prince in Isrnel Was ever David s royal peer; Might he liAve ruled his people well, And built a nation's capital? Might he, their stainless knight, and true, Have lived to wear the sackcloth, too? - B-rtha Cooper Fraser, in Sunday-School Times, "Taste and See." We may prove a machine by try ing it. Will the watch keep time? Will the locomotive travel on the track by Its own energy and draw a train of cars over the mountains? Will the telegraph deliver my mes sage a thousand miles away and bring me a reply in a few moments? These things are open to trial. One may provo them for himself. We may prove a science. Take as tronomy. Will It do what it is In tended for? Try It. Make a calcu lation of an eclipse to take place three years hence, according to the rules and tables of the book, and if the event verifies the prediction we know the astronomer Is not a cheat. One may prove a friend. He makes great professions of faithfulness, say ing, "Call upon me at any time for any service I can render, and you will find me ready. Trust me." Is he a genuine friend? Try him. If he will stand by you through evil report aa well as good you need no indorse ment, no argument. He Is worthy. Will God submit His love, Hla truth. His grace to practical tests? This Is one beauty of the religion of the Bible. The Lord of the whole earth has sent out His challenge, "Prove Me." We may prove the existence of God. Let ub not claim too much for our religion. We shall gain nothing by making statements which are not warranted. But we are safe in say ing that anyone who will, may prove that there Is a God. Some say there is no God. Others believe that the evidence for and against the exist ence of such a Being are about equal. Others still insist that this Is a sub ject about which no one knows and no one can know anything. Many tell us that the Bible assumes the ex istence of God without trying to prove it, and we must do the same. Is this true? If you ask for a mathematical demonstration or a scientific demon stration which will satisfy the Intel lect, we confess that it Is impossible. If you insist that this proposition must be proved by philosophical rea soning which will satisfy every think ing mind, we acknowledge that it cannot be done. But there is In every soul a re ligious feeling, or Instinct, or capac ity, or hunger, which reaches out after God as eagerly and peremptor ily as the hunger of the body de mands bread. And as surely as the hunger of the body' finds something without answering to this inner crav ing, so surely does the soul, find God and satisfaction. There Is some- i thing In us akin to God that demands communion with Him, and enjoys Him when He Is found. We are told of one who felt his need of God, but did not believe in Him. In the distress and hunger of his soul be fell on bis knees and said, "O God, if there be a God, mani fest Thyself to me." That feeble grasp of faith took hold on God, and was satisfied. That insatiable hun ger cried out after God in the dark, and found Him. Who has never felt this craving? Who that felt It ever tried to find God and failed? Who that haB found God In this way has any doubt? We may prove the frlendshln of Cod. Many say they believe there' is a God. but is He friendly? They doubt. Everyone feels the need of a friend, a powerful friend, a wise friend, a safe friend, who will not mock those who truBt Him with flat tery nor crush them with criticism, who will never leave them nor for sake them. a The Bible tells us that God is Just'such a friend. Tint will He prove a friend indcwl? lie will, the very friend you need. Someone gays, "If I could believe that I should be perfectly happy, for then I should trust and not be afraid." You may be certain of It. You may prove it. Trust Him. Give Him your burdens. Call upon Him in the day of trouble. We all have trouble, but we usually try every thing else we can think of before we try tho Lord. Try Him. If He should fall you, It would be the first case on record. So you may prove Ills salvation. You may prove that He will dwell In the heart of a mortal. You, may prove that He will answer prayer. One's own experience Is worth more to him than all the bohks on religion that ever were written. We must not ignore the testimony of others. We must not undervalue the Bible and great religious books. Read them. They are full of light. But above all, try your own religious experiments. Your personal experi ence will do more to confirm your faith and hope than all sermons and all arguments. One taste of honey Is a letter proof that honey Is good than the most accurate scientific an alysis. "Ob. taste and see that the Lord is good." There :s within every one an appetite for the -t'.33ii spirit ual good of tbe Kingdom of God. Answering to this longing there is an invisible spiritual universe all about us waiting to afford us the blessing wo are needing. Prove God and His klidom. Christian Advocate. April third Topic Christ Our Teacher. John 12: 44-50. (Consecration Meeting.) A lesson on tbe kingdom. Matt. 6: Ml. On righteousness. Matt. 6: 20-30. On prayer. Matt. 6: 6-15. On fear-thought. Matt. 6: 25-34. On service. John 13: 1-17. s On obedience. John 14: 15-24. We are to believe Christ because what He says Is true; but If we can not understand how It Is true, we are to believe it anyway, because He who la the Truth has said it (v. 44). Belief In Christ gives understanding of what He says, just as the opening of certain doors automatically turns on the light in rooms otherwise dark (v. 4C). Every word of Christ's Is a Judge on a bench, and that bench Is the throne of the universe (v. 48). Christ's words are life because He who Is the Life Is also the Word. Ill we receive them, they become our life (v. 50). Suggestions. .Christ is your teacher not if you en ter His class merely, but if in your turn jou become a teacher. In Christ's school no lesson Is learn ed until it is lived. No other school Is so practical. There is progressive scholarship in Christ a school. Every lesson is learn ed before the next can be learned, o? oven is given out. The more we teach others of what Christ teaches us, the more He can teach us. Illustrations. There are grades in Christ's school as in other schools; only, each scholar ia advanced by himself, and as fast as his progress warrants. The commencement degree In Christ's school is His "Well done, thou good and faithful servant!" Scholars in other schools must grad uate before they can get positions; the scholars In Christ's school must go to work or they cannot graduate. There are many examinations in the school of Christ pain, loneliness, dlf Acuity, failure, slander, neglect, poverty. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, APRIL 3 Love, Love lnsts, It endureth and never falleth. Prophecies fail in that tSey aro fulfilled. Tongues cease, but tbe words of love spoken never die. Purpose of Education. The design of education is to so augment the powers of tbe mind as to make men and women wise, strong and useful. The Fight of Faith. Fight the good fight of faith; there Is nothing like it. The Sabbatn Rest and the Week-Day Toil Mark 2: 23-28; Luke 23: 56. Mark 2: 23-28. This act was ex pressly permitted (Deut. 23: 25), but in the eyes of Che critical Pharisees tbe disciples were guilty on two seri ous counts they "plucked" the corn, which was "reaping," and they "rub bed" it In their hands, which was "grinding." -This was work not per missible on the Sabbath day. Tbe Pharisees were strong on technicali ties, but weak on splritualltes. They were anxious that man should save the Sabbath; Jesus would have the Sabbath save the man. The Pharisees stood for the salvation of tbe law; Jeeus stood for the salvation of life. He allowed nothing to hinder that pur pose. Jesus is "Lord of the Sabbath." It "was made for man." He taught the keeping of the day In its true spirit as a day of personal privilege and beneficent usefulness. Jesus gave the Sabbath a new skyline. He lifted it out of the legalism into liberty, Tbe Pharisees missed tbe soul of the Sab bath rest and made it a shackle. Love lifts life above law. Luke 23: EC. The women had broken hearts' and plenty of tears, but that hindered them not at all in their preparations to "keep the Sabbath." It is no amazing surprise that tbe next morn their eyes were opened to see the empty sepulcher and to behold the risen Christ. There are rich re wards for those who still live "accord ing to the 'commandment." The fourth commandment is tbe first with a promise. Jesus amplified the Sabbath. What ever he touched grew larger. It was an institution in bondage' to small men. He set It free. The Sabbath Is not a slave to form, it is a minister to life. It is too big for a command ment. It has continental relations to our day. It means more since Jesus Interpreted it. . Jesus emphasized the Sabbath. The Pharisees emasculated it. "The Sab bath was made for man." Man needs the day of rest. It bas been shown by actual test that men who keep their rest day are able to do more and better work than those who violate the commandment. Dr. Haegler'a charts show clearly that the usual night's rest is not quite enough to restore the body to normal efficiency, and that the rect day is needed to bring the physical body up to the nor mal condition. It has been supposed that the an cients had some method of harden ing bronze tools, the secret of which bad been lost. Professor Gowland, of tbe British Institute of Metals, says that the ancient bronzes' were very impure, so that tbelr hardness could not have been due, as some times Usumed, to tbelr exceptional purity. On tbe other band. Inasmuch as modern bronzes by careful ham mering can bo made as hard as tbe ancient ones, tbe legend of a lost art Id bronze hardening seems to be exploded. CASTAWAYS IN FROZEN LAND. How the crew and passengers of the ship Farallon were saved Is told by J. E. Thwaltes, mall clerk of the1 wrecked steamer in a dispatch from Seward, Alaska. He says: "We had one passenger to land at lllamna Bay, where we arrived early" on January 5. In a blinding snow storm tbe steamer struck a reef a mile off shore. The Farallon hit the reef at high water. When tho tide receded she was caught amidships on tbe rocks. "Down the Icy sides of the ship we lowered ourselves to the small boats. They were tossed about by cakes of Icjo. The shore could be seen dimly through the snow. We could hear tbe roar of the surf and the reports, as of cannon, when Ice cakes were hurled against the rocks. It seemed for a tlmo that we should be unable to land because of tbe high surf. At last we discovered a small cove that offered some shelter, and landed safe ly. A nore desolate reglou could not bave been Imagined. "Tbe sailors put tbe passengers and supplies ashore, and then turned back to the Farallon, from which they took sails, tarpaulins, baggage, malls, pro visions and mattresses. When eight came the outlook was disheartening. The wind increased In bitterness. Fire was made from driftwood dug out of tbe Ice and snow. We had no lights. We got water for the coflee by melting snow. W ate our meal of coffee, bacon and frovin bread in gloomy silence. , "On subsequnut days we made trips to the wreck and brought off material with which we constructed stoves and other conveniences." ' to EbJ at now ro i Apple Meringue Pic. I Stew and sweeten Juicy applet (! tcr paring ana coring them, tU mash smooth and season with lentod uuLiiieS) ut uuuiuiuu, lunar a qm pie piate witn pun; paste, nil with tu stewed apples and bake until doJ then spread on a thick merlnri made by whipping to a stiff froth til wnites oi tnree eggs ana a tabiespooJ ful of sugar and flavoring with len-l extract. This is enough meringue (J two pies. Each pie should be coveJ to the depth ot three-quarters of J Inch, and the meringue should beJ suit that it will stand alone; set ft. coated pie back in the oven for minute or two until the egg takei delicate brown tinting. Eat wh cold. Mrs. F. B. Fllnn, in the Bc ton Post. Frlcasso of Chicken. Cut Into joints a fine fat chick;: season with salt and pepper miie: Put In a deep iron saucepan a spot: of lard, and when boiling hot put I; the chicken and fry to a light brov: Remove chicken and add a sift heaping tablespoon of flour. Si constantly, and when a light bro: add an onion previously chopped verf flne. Brown carefully, and then a( a tablespoon ot minced parsley, od half clove of garlic minced, a crushe bay leaf. If tomato is used, add o: chopped fine at this time. Retw the chicken, and let all stew togetfc for ten minutes, adding a teaspoo: of butter if desired. Now add a pit and a half of hot water and let sic mer for an hour or until chicken tender. Serve with rice. Washin: ton Herald. Cranberry Dumplings, One cup cranberries, one-half cu: sugar, one-half cup water. Coc quickly and mash until berries ail broken. Prepare biscuit dough c! two cups flour, one spoonful of butts; one teaspoonful baking powde rubbed together. Moisten with swec, milk until like regular biscuit Shape with fingers or roll on boar: to about one-half Inch thickness. I rolled, cut out with biscuit cutte: Butter deep pudding dish, place it circles In, spreading the tops wl;: butter. Put a spoonful of tbe b: cranberry sauce on each and anotbc biscuit on top of that. Pour the r of the berries over all and bake i: medium oven until done. Serve wi;: the following sauce: One cup sugar, one .tablespoonft! better creamed together, one egg yo'.i added. After thoroughly mixed, ad: one cup hot milk and pinch of mac; white of egg, well beaten, stirred I: last. Boston Post. Dried Sweet Corn. Campers and hunters are girir preference to dried corn over th canned, because it is so light and ea: lly carried. A Maine girl last yea: earned over $200 by husking and dry ins unripe sweet corn from her fath er's field, and curing it for wlntc use, after the methods practiced i the early Dutch settlers. A party c hunters ,from New York City fouc this corn so satisfactory in its savin of bulk and weight that other hunter this year are on the lookout for sim lar home-cured products. Corn fo this purpose should be Bweet and tec der. Boll in tbe ear, then, with i sharp knife, cut the kernels from tt cob, removing as little of the husk v possible. Spread this shelled corn o: platters or screens, protect with mos quito netting from the predatory 1: and dry in either the sun or above th- famlly cook stove, or In the over Stir often during the drying. Wne: thoroughly dry, pack in stout pape: bags and hang in a perfectly dr place. When ready to use soak a por tion over night in cold water, the) heat and season for the table. Wash ington Star. IT-- HOUSEHOLD HINTS Dried beans of all kinds are muck bette:- when they are cooked in ' double boiler. To give the bouse a pleasant odo: take some live coals and sprluki ground cinnamon on them. The boy or girl who has a poo: complexion should cultivate a tast' for figs, prunes, greens, oranges, lent ous and other fruits. It eggs are to be stuffed, they niu?t be put into cold water as soon as tbf are taken from the stove. This keep the white In better shape. Food should never be put Into lb' Ice chamber of a refrigerator for l; will become more or less tainted coming in such close contact with tn Ice. ' Always wrap table or bed Unci or any other article of white good which Is to be stored away, in durl blue paper to keep it from turnlM yellow. , A scald is one of tbe most palnf"1 Injuries. One ot the most heallnS remedies Is made by beating castor oi and white of egg together, until cream is formed. Many women use banana skins 11 cleaning their tan shoes. Rub tbe side of the. skirl on the leather: let l dry, then polish with a piece c-'i chamois or cheesecloth. After baking a cake, it It nticka i" the pan the easiest way to tal;e it oti without breaking it Is to wet at clt" . cloth and wrap It around the It wtl' come out all together. . , ; I For burns or scalds nothing 1 more soothing than the white ot ' egg, which may. be poured over t( wound. It is softer as a varnish to'' a burn than collodion'. ! Bread and butter plates are longr r used on formal occasions, I)"1 are too convenient to be (lhtpeni"' wl.'i at family meals. They go to tt' left of each plate above the platb and tbe glass ot water to the rlbt. j
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