THE PULPIT. . BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. WILLIAM T. PATCHCLL. "Tlicro: Testimony of a Jinn. ?nn Jose, Cal. Sunday the Rev. Dr. William T. Patchell, pastor of the First Congregational Church hero, preached on "The Testimony of a Man." The text was from I-ialah 40:9-11. Dr. Fatcholl laid: So far as man is concerned, tho master problem is tho question of Ma place or standing In 1bo universe. Ho wants to know whether ho is a machine or a ro'. la ho a cunningly 'OortrTvcd picco of moelianism, assem bled by the four winds and organized by tho sun. or Is ho a frea creative pc-sonallty? His conquest of tho poll, liia control of tho groat nature forces, his adaptation and adjust ments, his analysis and synthesis, wit ness Ms oneness wlih tho physical universe: but he handles it rntlier aa a creator, ns a god. end his very suc cess sets him apart from that ho control;-. So. too, whn:i ho Investigates ird classifies the forms of life, his discovers that he is, and 13 not, ono wit!) that he reveals. We read: "And the man savo nnmoE to all cattle, aad to tho birds of ll)o heavens, and to every beast of tho field: hut for nir.n there una not found a helpmeet for him." To havo such lightning utterance blaze out of the dim past and take its place at the head of our proud modern sci ence is significant and tremendously Interesting, for it ptatos as a fact that which our science is rapidly veri fyine. that by way of knowled?o man 3ocs hut Isolate himself, lie tells the star?, but himself he cannot tell. Ho claslfic? all for:ns of being cscept himself. He Kecerall7.es everything but that which generalizes. The arrester his knowledge, the darker thn problem he himself becomes, for "It is evident that he U excepted who did subject all things unto him." He Isolates hlmcclf. He Is dark with ex cess of light. He Is escaped from a universe to which he Is organically and vitally related, for to his confu sion he learns that In all tho wide ranees of creation there Is "not found 11 helpmeet fcr him"; that this uni verse of life and matter Implicates a deeper undiscovered universe to which something within himself re acts; that except he discover and re late this unknown within himself to this unkrown without himself, he must Biirely die. And henceforth his iuest is become th mad search for that which shall be "bone of his bone, flesh of his fiefih." Ho must find an other being llko hlT.relf if ever he is to discover hlmpeif, for hs must de termine and define himself In torms of another. The challcpse is imperious, and so terrible that he can find no rest. Ho roust go forth! To it he will sacri fice every interest and subordinate every desire. His own body he Tierces; his fl-Ft born he slays. Iu darkness. In cold, in pain, in wild Joy, 1)0 seeks to liberate this awful pas sion which smolders In his bones tike fire he must find another being like unto himself ono compacted of his cwn unrevenled being and hi3 lone ly cry, "What am I?" lears across the abv:s. He searches the spaces tr Cod. This need he call spiritual. Ho declares that within himself lie cer tain Imperious qualities nnd enerctes; love, joy, truth, peace; that these must discover and relate to another unlrlt, else life shall turn to ashes, fio we witness in tho long process of development that man. every man In rorce measure, tries to Interpret tho secret of his spiritual being. Tho philosopher, the artist, the statesman, tho roet, tho scientist, the theologian these are the outstanding ones who have given themselves to tho utter most In this Mad quest. Out from these many strivings and Kroplng3 emerges one unique and sig nificant figure, which by Its persist ency witnesses above all others to the r.olldity and strength of the spir it's need. It is tho speaking-prophet, whoso conventional expression la modern llfo is tho n;r.3 In the pulpit. When wo r, to church Sunday TT.or. ling wo accept the pulpit as we nrcept most things without much tkojsht. If wo glvo it thought, w tre at once that back of tho pulpit rtands tho church. Were we to qucs tlon the presence of this church jrnd lulplt very likely we would say that we wanted a church nnd then built It; that we decided to organize, to build, to have a choir, a Janitor, perhaps a ventilating system, ushers, a Bible school, a prayer meeting, Sunday ser vices, a pulpit, a preacher. But. thi3 is not true. Back of a -church lies a Ion; historic process, without which no church could be orjpnized to-day. Out of the clash of Irnurccra'ilo Interests the church emerges, not as an arbitrary creation but by way of a selective process. Ey selection and rejection It bears witness to certain powerful and per elfitnnt human meauinxs. It sums up a history; It becomes at last a sym bol. The organized universe as man sees H la very transitory. Like clouds In the nlr, the svstems take shape and dlcapneur. Nothing is stable, nothing remains. You recall that only tho other night we w?ra roused from early sleep by the house rocking on Its foundation. I leaped to the floor only to Cud It twisting horribly under my feet. Even as I called to the deat ones, and groped my way through the reeling building, I bad a vision In the darkness of some vast unhuman beTng of another creation, who had strayed this way. Her head wa lost In the sky-depths, ami as she moved across the world toward somo awful un known purpose her sweeping gar ments struck the tiny building In which we lived, and the solid earth shook under her tread. Nothing; Is stable; nothing remains. The roBes rt to-day are born of yesterday's -'eath; cities crumble, nations dis appear, civilizations perish, planets die, and suns blow In dust down the Told. Everything Is momentary, fleeting; change, decay, death; this la the order. True of the moth, equally true of the star to which It aspires. The church witnesses to man's su perb and pathetic determination to discover In all this mad movement bo me ultimate meaning to which b mar attach. it this p'llplt Is valid. It mean that a searching God ana a searching humanity bare found each othert that they Cow together In the soul of A ruin; that be shall be ttio meeting point of man and Clod; that be shall experience, apprehend and speak this anion this oneness; that he shall Interpret God to man; that he shall Interpret man to O'mI. Like the slen der red of the wireless transmlter, he , shall he attuned to respond, out of million vibrations, to those which ran n cow out of the 'Heart of the Infinite, ,T'iteie he shall translate to tho world. Hut to do It be tnuat be attuned, as well to every cry of .suuth; Us Jars and auonias mutt bo his own; the wnrs and sorrows or man. his dim nsplratlons; all wrongs f.c ' Injustices, all science nnd art and cul'.ure: all coarseness; the grotesque criminal, tho mowing Idiot, all beau ty; the lovo of a mother, the sacrlflco of a friend theso must be his. Above the din of tho factory he must honr the shriek of the child; through tbn cltv'8 roar must como to him the low gob of the opprossed, the muffled groan of tho underworld, where men wr'the, the hot curse In the palace where men sin, all selfishness, all moral grandeurs must be his, and all the wandering cries of earth must bre-'k at last upon his heart. Vis commission Is the 63d of Isa ah, bis Inspiration Is Calvary; in Hr In his soul, God aiid man must flov together, two vast tides meeting nnd mlnsling nnd blending not a flare of Are, not an altar and a ritual, but a man; a living soul; sweating blofi drons, agonizing and Interpret ing, and bringing together man and Ood. This Is the pulpit and its mean ing. ITumanity Is not long out of the woe la, standing erect and looking at the stars Is a recent achievement. The llfo of tho spirit Is still somewhat Mien. The airs from that land touch, our brows strangely; but tho marvel, the wonder, the Incredible blazing wonder Is that we respond at all! That we hear, however fl".iiyt Uiat we apprehend, however dimty; mat nm!d the fierce multitudinous cries wo do detect this ono high note and. how ever falferlngly, respond! This Is the wonder! For through thick dark ness and across unknown heights a far journey have we come! But we have come, and though In our strong crude moments we may Jeer at our own spiritual nsplratlons, neverthe less tho church, the pulpit, and tho speaking. Interpreting man, witness to our final conviction of the reality of the spirit's life. And It svmbolir.es and reveals at last the loftiest and most powerful achievement of the race. Greater than Industry, greater than com merce, greater than government, or philosophy or literature or science or art, it reveals the hidden forceB of the human heart, and by It we declare tho secret conviction of our soul that we are spiritual beings related to a vast thrilling spiritual order whoso meaning Is thus revealed. Tho man who believes himself called to oc cupy It may well cry: "Woo, woe Is me!" for he shall stand between tho living and the dead. lias tho nulnlt Justified Itself: hni It revealed tho secret? Has It brought God and man together, mak ing valid his dimmest aspiration? Wlr.r?a Paul: to'-tured. wrung, until at last he sings his hymn of love and the world grows suddenly gentle and .till to listen. Witness Joseph Palter or Philips Brooks. Have not these succeeded? Wltnccs Brown, tho drawn face of the man; his tragic mien. What crushes him so terribly? "Wherefore art thou red In thine ap parel, and thy garments like him that Ireadeth In the wine vat?" What Is It but the crucifixion of a soul trying to relate a sorrowing, suffering hu manity to a loving, suffering, sorrow ing Father! Day and night tho cry breaks up against his heart; the cry 3f man's pain nnd his sin; day and right he hoars tho volco of God ijaklng tenderness and love; nnd ho Is trying to brlnj thorn together, to make them ono. Wherever In any pulpit stands ono who brlcg3 God down Into llfo, ono who can translate the confused voices )f mankind nnd speak thera up to Mini, there stands one who reveals jnd interprets man's placo In tho uni verse. I know not what God's expectations may be, nor how bitterly we fall short of the achievement which might be ours, but this I know: tho way has l;;en long and very rugge'd. I seo tho .-rudeness, the confusion, the Impo tence; but through these running I catch strange and marvelous light cleams as from tho very throno of Cod. No, not meeting God's expectations, and yet perhaps God smiles even whilo He weeps, perhaps He 13 pleased and proud a little bit, even while He holds us to be broken in the shallow?. As I look over the process, tho fearful process of Crea tion; as I behold the first dull face blinking at the stars: as I hear the first awed whisper "God;" as. I seo dynasties, nations, civilizations, races, move shadowy across the horizon; ns I behold the savage bending low be fore his fetich; as I sse this act be come tbo gorgeous ritual; ss I seo at last a father ascending the mountain to bind his son. hla only son Isaac, as a liviDg sacrifice upon the flaming altar; as I heboid men sinking them selves in the slums; as I bear the call from the plains of China where mar tyred men and women gave their lives; as I hear the voice of prayer ascending and tho clarion call to righteousness. I sometimes think we have discovered and revealed the meaning at last. And when a?aln I behold Himself, even God, binning His own Son, tbe Child of His heart, upon that same mountain top, as I witness the cross, the dark heavens open and through the rent veil I catch a glimpse of the Heart of tho Eternal, and It seems to me that at last In Josus Christ, God and man have come together. That In Him we have found the way. For we gave Jesus to God; He gives us the Christ. And to-day wherever men live that Christ, wherever a father carries love into his crushing service, wherever a mother brings joy and tenderness, wherever a sacrifice Is made and unselfishness prevails, wherever men And themselves In los ing their lives Into sweet helpful up lifting service, there is verified the reality of the spirit and man finds his place In the universe with God. 1 Taxlcab Trick. "I'm Just pinning on my braid." said the young woman who had been called to the telephone. ""Ob, about twenty minutes, I guess." "That Is a trick." she said, "that came In with taxlcabs. A man going anywhere with a woman in an old fashioned cab would have squandered talt a wock'a salary before be would telephone ber about the stage of her toilet. But with taxlcabs It Is differ, ent. They eat up money faster tban tbe old cabs, and It Is nothing unusual now for an escort to ask how much longer It will take to get ready. Wltbln fifteen or twenty minutes of the time set be calls a taxi and sots hore rs you are going down stairs. Mt vtry romantic, no; but It's sensi ble and saves money." New York Sun. The Sunday School INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM. MEXTS FOIl APRIL 24. Subject: Wnmlnjt nnd Invitation, Mntt. 1 1 :20-:j0 Commit Verses 8-30. OOLDEN TEXT. "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matt. 11:28. TIME. Midsummer. A. D. 23. PLACE. Capernaum. EXPOSITION. I. Warnings of Vnuttcrnhle Wop to the Impenitent, 20-24. The works of God are a call to repentance (cf. Ro. 2:4; Acts 17; 30, 31 ). The greater and more man ifest the works the louder the call to repentance. If we see great works of God and do not repent, we bring greater guilt and condemnation upon ourselves. Chorazln and Bethsalda had been witnesses to marvelous workings of God's grace and power In Jesus Christ. These should have brought them to repentance and the acceptance of Jesus Christ as the Sa viour and Lord. But they had not re pented. They had closed their eyes nnd hardened their hearts and that which was Intended for their salva tion became their condemnation. Christ accepted brings salvation and eternal llfo; Christ rejected brings greater condemnation and more Intol erable Judgment and penalty (Heb. 10:28, 29). Their Impenitence was utterly without excuse and Jesus up braided them for It. But we have more light than Chorazln and-Bethsalda. How then must Jesus regard those who do not repent among us? Sodom was a very guilty city. Its vlleness has become the synonym of all that is most indescribably loath some In vice, but the guilt of New York and Chicago, London and other American and English cities Is great er than that of Sodom; for these cit ies havo rejected greater light. The amount of light given and rejected Is tho measure of the guilt of the na tion and of the Individual. Caper naum thought It would surely be ex alted to heaven because of the great grace bestowed upon It, but Jesus said this would drag it down to hades, because that boasted grace was de spised and neglected. Our blessings as a nation will drag us down to hades unless we repent. Jesus con templated the coming Judgment of Chorazln nnd Bethsalda with unut terable sorrow (cf. Matt. 23:37). How great must be the sorrow with which He contemplates the judgment roon to come on the men and nations Of to-dav who reieet tha wnnrirnna light given them. Jesus puts the re I jectlon of Himself as the supreme sin I and the one meriting heaviest con demnation, another proof of His deity. Jesus is the supreme raantfes. tation of truth and God. The rejec j tlon of Him Is, therefore, the final , revelation of a heart wedded to dark ness, error and sin; It Is the supreme, decisive, damning sin (cf. Jno. 3:18, I 19). II. Promises of Unspeakable Joy I to Those Who Come to Jesus, 25-30. In v. 25 we find ono of the most Im portant principles upon which God deals with men In the revelation of His truth. It we are to get God's in finite wisdom we must renounce our finite wisdom. The man who Is full of his own wisdom cannot have God's (cf. Is. C:21; 1 Cor. 1:18-27). If we are to be wisa with the true wisdom, we must taKe our place as fools to be taught by the All-wise (1 Cor. 3:18 20). Jesus Christ rejoiced in the Spirit and thanked God that this is so (Luke 10:21. R. V.). The 27th verse contains a tremendous statement of tho authority committed to Jesus. It is to be taken In tho broadest and most absolute sense (Matt. 28:18; Jno. 3:35; 13:3; 17:2; Eph. 1:20 23; Phil. 2:10, 11; Heb. 2:8-10; Acts 10:36). God has actually committed the whole universe, celestial as well a9 terrestrial, into the handa of Jesus Christ. We have a wonderful and mighty Saviour. He Is also a wise Saviour, Ho thoroughly knows God. He alone does, and those to whom He wills to reveal Him. How foolish then are those who seek to know God by a study of philosophy or theoso phy. or comparative religion. Out side of the revelation Jesus Christ makes of the Father, God Is, indeed, as the agnostic says, "the Unknow able." But there is one who knows God and who Is ready to give to any ono who will believe on Him an un derstanding that he also may know God (1 Jno. 6:20). The words of v. 2S aro among the most wonderful that ever fell from the lips of Him who spake as never man spake. Here again His deity shines out bright and clear. What presumption or lunacy It would have been in Jesus to have said this if He were mere man. But that It is neither presumption nor lu nacy is amply proven by the fact that thousands upon thousands have put these words to the test of actual ex periment and found them absolutely true. Jesus does give rest. Note four things in this wonderful invi tation: (1) Who invites Jesus. (2) Whom He Invites all that labor and are heavy laden. Commentators have sought to sot various limitations upon this, e. g., "those who labor under burden of guilt." It Includes those, but Is not limited to them. It means Just what it says, "All that labor." Christ Invites every one that has a burden. It . may be sin, remorse, doubt, sorrow, slcltness. No matter what, overburdened man, Jesus says, "Come." (3) To what He invites rest. That is what the human heart craves, that is what Jesus gives. (4) The condition, "Come." That Is all. Note also to Whom we are to "Come," "unto Me," not unto a creed, not unto a church, unto a person, and that person, Jesus Himself. Not to a priest, not to a pastor, net to some great theologian, not to the Pope, "unto Me." right straight to Jesus, He only can give rest, but He can. If you haven't rest. It Is because you haven't come to Jesus. Come now. Then Jesus proceeds to tell of a deep er rest still rest in service. "Take My yoke upon you," surrender abso lutely to His will (Jno. 14:21-23; 16:10-14). 7. .- - . FOLLOWINO INSTRUCTIONS. Mabel "Granny, Teddy's eaten my cake." Teddy "Well, Granny, didn'l you tell tne always to take Mabel's part?" Ally Sloper, THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK TEMPERANCE RATTLE GATHERS STRENGTH EVERY DAY. ITow Io Yon Like the Samples? Pntnpjes of wine nnd snmples of bpr. Pnmples of nil kindu of linnnr sold here; SnmplCT of whisky, samples of gin. Samples of all kind of bitters step in. . Samples of headache, samples of gout, Pnmples of costs with the elbows out, Pnmples of boots without heels or toes, Snmples of men witii a broken nose, i Samples of men in the gutter lying. Samples of men with delirium dying, Snmplcs of men cursinit nnd swearing. Samples of men all evil daring, Snmplcs of lonely, tired men. Who long in vain for their freedom neain; Samples of old men, worn in the strife, Samples of young men tired of life, Snmplea of ruined hopes and lives. Samples of desolate homes and wives. Samples of aehinn hearts grown cold With angituh nnd minory untold; Samples of noble youths in disgrace, Who meet you with averted face. Samples of runery little ones Starving to dc:itli in their dreary homes. In faet, there is scarcely a woe on earth But our "samples" have nurtured or given them birth. Oh, all ye helpers to sorrow nnd crime, W lio deal out death for a single dime, Know ye that tho Lord, though Ho may delay, ITns in re.orve for the last great day flie terrible "woe" of whoRcsolemn' weight Jo mortal can know till the pearly gate Is closed and nil with one nccord Acknowledge the justice of their reward. Virginia J. Kent. The Curse In Fiance and Switzerland. A poster prepared In 1900 bv the Medical Society of Nancv and signed by nearly all the physicians in that Department, stated that more thnn eleven per cent, of France's 36,000,- 000 inhabitants, I. e., 4,000,000, are alcoholists. Figures given by Magnan for the Parisian (Insane) Hospital of St. i Anne for the year 1894 show that ! 30.11 per cent, of the men received and 9.05 per cent, of the women were I alcoholists In the truo sense, but If all those are Included "for whom al ( cohol opened the door of the insane , asylum" tho corresponding numbers I would be 38.12 and 12.81 per cent. France stands third on the list of countries where suicide Is the most frequent, her rate being 24G per 1,000,000 inhabitants. During tho debate on the abolition of the death penalty in the French Chamber of Deputies, July, 1908, Jo seph Relnach, vice-president of the anti-alcohol group In the Chamber, said: "It Is not the penal laws that are responsible for the increase in crime; It Is alcoholism. Of that statistics allow no doubt. And why should not crime increase with the Increas ing consumption of alcohol, which weakens the will nnd dulls the Intelli gence, delivers the brain up to un resisted Impulses, and so paralyzes moral resDonsiblilty that It becomes only a fiction? It is much easier to rub the rust from the guillotine and set it up again In our public places than to Institute an effective fight against alcoholism, this scourge of our time, this destroyer of our mili tary strength, this annlhilator of our vital energy; and it takes less courage to set up and maintain the guillotine than to touch the privilege of the pri vate distillers to reduce the sale of alcohol!" "In 1SS4," writes Dr. R. Hercod, of the International Temnerance Bu reau, "the Swiss Federal Council was of the opinion that moderate beer drlnklng was an antidote against spirit-drinking. It afterward recog nized this as a mistake, nnd In the message of March 15, 1901. admitted that we were threatened in Switzer land with a beer and wine plague." Switzerland has been for a number of years the centre of an active scien tific investigation of tho alcohol prob lem. And Is the only country thus far that requires in her mortality statis tics definite Information regarding al coholism as a contributing cause of death. Her official statistics for 1901 gave the rate of deaths due wholly or In part to alcohol as twelve per cent. For the decade from 1892 to 1902 the average rate was 10.2 per cent. These statistics have furnished tha basis for the often recurring state ment that In Switzerland every tenth man dies from alcohol, Dr. Herman Blocher says the alco hol question is tho question of exist ence for tho Swiss people. LIKE DADDY. . V"Tou mint go to school, child, and Team to be Intelligent and Indus trious. " - "Don's want to be Intelligent and Industrious. I waot to be tike daddy." ton Vlvant. . . . . Industrialism nnd Drink. The use of alcohol to drown trou ble and to make a man forget the worries of the day, as suggested by Prof. Munsterberg, Is not favored by the industrial leaders in Germany and Austria. A resolution passed at tbe Fifth Industrial Congress, held In Vienna, declared that alcohol weak ens the thinking power of tbe labor ing man so that be is not in a condi tion to consider means of bettering bis condition, and that in that country alcoholism Is one of the greatest hindrances to the physical and mental tCvancement of the working classes. This Congress re solved, says Der Abstinent, to en gage in an active campaign of lec tures and literature to teach the peo ple the destructlvo consequences of tbe use of alcohol for tbe workman and his family. A ROAST. "It takes Freddie so long to make op bis mind?" "Why should It?. He has almost no material to work on." Cleveland Leader. ' Abstainers Have Advantage. In the treatment of typhoid fever, pneumonia and malaria, the fact that the patient has used spirits either in so-called moderation or excess Is a very Important one In the treatment. The mortality of these and other diseases is very much larger aad the complications more positive when it occurs among drinking men, than In total abstainers. reusious Truths From the Writings of Great Preachers. Temperance Notes. In surgery the treatment of inju ries, dislocations, fractures and sprains will vary widely in persons who use spirits from those who are abstainers. Every advance of scientific medi cine along etiological - and clinical lines brings into increasing promin ence the influence of alcohol In the causation of disease, and tbe neces sity of recognizing this in the quev tions of diagnosis, prognosis and thf various health probloms which occur In everyday life. Wounds and Injuries are more eas ily Infected and heal more slowly, and are followed by greater depression, lower vitality and longer convales cence In drinking persons. . In private Dracttce the svmntoma of fever and local Inflammation and" localized pains, are very often trace able to alcohol which, when removed, la followed by recovery. Preliminary announcement of the plans for the World's W. O. T. U. Coaventlon to be held at Glasgow, B:otland, In 1910, are already being ibVuod. and Indicate a gathering of reWd-breaklng Interest In White Kif'boo circles, Story of Jim Owen. The Rev. Dr. George W. Truett, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Dallas, Texas, told this remarkable story during the special services held In the Greene Avenue Baptist Church: "I'll tell you of the most marvelous conversion I ever saw. I have told you It was my Joy every summer to preach in the cattle camps In West Tetas. One year when I went some of the men came to me and said, 'Thore Is ono man here on whom you need not waste your time, and that Is ex-Sheriff Jim Owen. He'll come once, then he'll curse you all over the mountains; he always does.'- They described him to me so that I could not miss him. One evening I went to preach, and as I stood before that great congregation in came Jim Owen. I preached and the Spirit of God moved mightily over that great audience and many sinners came, but there Jim sat with a most intent gaze upon his faco, but apparently un moved. "After the service we stood around talking, and some said: 'Jim Owen was here to-night, but he'll never come again. He'll curse you out; ha always does when any preacher comes. He'll como once and then curse you and the church out,' but some of the others said, 'No, I believe he will be back; he had a peculiar ex pression on his face that he never had before; he'll come again.' "I started for my lodging place, some rods from the camp, away from the noise, over a mountainous region, when I heard someone talking, but as I drew nearer I realized there were two of them, and that they were pray ing. I did not mean to eavesdrop, but I was held to the spot. "They prayed something like this: 'Oh, God, Thou hast promised that It two of us shall agree on earth as touching anything that we shall ask, that Thou wilt give It us. We are praying to-night for Jiin Owen. They say he can't be saved, but oh, God, Thou canst save the vilest sinner, save htm and let the people know that nothing Is too hard for God; save Jin Owen, that Thou mlghtest close the mouth of the people and get glory to Thyself.' That's the way to pray, that's the way to pray. "I slipped away they never knew I heard their prayer but I did not sleep. The next evening, when I stood up to preach, in came Jim Owen. All the sermon that I had prepared fled, and I said, 'We'll sing a stanza, and then I'll ask this brother in front to lead In prayer, asking that God will give me the right message. His Spirit knows the needs of these hearts.' "I preached that night from the parable of tho Prodigal Son, telling It aa simply as to a little child. I said: 'Here was a man well reared, but be abused It; good environment, but he trampled it under foot and went away despite tbe protests of his father and friends and wasted his substance; but when he had spent all he came to himself. Oh, that men would come to themselves! He said, "I will arise and go unto my father, and shall say unto him, father, I have sinned against Heaven and In thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy son; make me as ono of thy hired servants." " 'He not only made the good reso lution, but he kept It. He arose and came. Now I see that old father at the gate; he's watching. "Oh, how I wish my boy would come home; how often have I longed for him! Who Is ttts coming? It walks like my boy, but bo many have passed that I thought walked like him, but as he draws nearer, be looks more like him,'! and when he was yet a great way off the watching father recog nized him and ran and fell upon his nock and kissed him. " 'If there is a man In this audience that is in this poor prodigal's condi tion, I've a friend for him. It there la such a man and he wants to come back, let him come down the aisle and take my hand,' and Jim Owen sprang to his feet and came, reeling like a drunken man because ot tbe intensity of bis emotions. Everyone was on . Is feet in a moment. "Jim took my hand and satd. 'Mr. Truett, do you mean to tell me that if I surrender myself to Jesus He'll aave me?' 'That's exactly what I mean.' " 'But,' he said, 'I'm the worst man this side of Hell, can He save me?' 'He died to save the vilest sinner this aide of Hell and He'll save yon if you will surrender to Him.' " 'That's right, Jim, the preacher's right,' said the men. " "It I surrender now to Him, when will He save me?' 'He will save you now, Mr. Owen, right now.' 'That's right,' said the men, 'that's right, Jim.' "Then he said, 'Lord Jesus, the worst man out ot Hell surrenders to You Just now.' Everyone was crying, the men and women-kissed him, and there was great Joy, for the chief of sinners had been saved. God loosed his tongue and he turned to those men and gave the most marvelous testimony I ever heard. "For years there had "been a great feud between him and another man, and the next day he went to his enemy and satd, 'Friend, you're not afraid of me and I'm not afraid of you, and I've come to ask your for giveness for all the wrongs I have done you. I'm a new man now.' Thus the breach was healed, and they came together singing the praises of God. "Friend, - Jesus of Nazareth Is mighty to save," Brooklyn Eagle. CHRIST IftH EHOEAVIJai MOTES APRIL TWENTY-FOURTH Topic Christ Winning the World. John 12: 20-32. The broad declaration. John 10: 14-18 The prophetic announcement. Isa 49: 513. Salvation for all. John 3: 14-18. Drawn by love. Hos. 11: 1-4. Love uniting humanity. Eph. 2: Il ia. The end one family. Eph. 3: 14-21. The world, full of the sick, the Wvary, the lonely, the sad, the sinful, Is still saying, "We would soe Jesus" (v. 21). Men are brought to Jesus by a chain of men, each telling his brother about Him (v. 22). Where Christ Is, His servants will be; and we may be sure that Christ la on every mission field (v. 26)! No man Is driven to an enthroned Christ, but all men are drawn to a crucified Christ (v. 32). Suggestions, Christianity ia winning the world, rather than conquering It; gaining Its victories, not by force or even main ly by argument, but by love. No less tban the whole world will answer Christ's plans. Is less than the whole world In our plans for Christian work? Christ wins the world, but oaly through Christians. Wo are nothing without Christ, but Christianity is nothing without us. - Illustrations. In the swing of battle a man will do what he could not do otherwise. This will be true of us If we get luto the swing of this peaceful war 'of Christ. The momentum of a falling object grows as it moves. Christianity Is a falling upward, and men progress ever faster as they draw near the throne of God. Christianity wins the world aa quietly yet as reslstlessly as the sun wins the world each spring out the control of the Ice. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, APRIL 24 A Secret With God, No attempt Is ever made In the Scripture to reconcile tbe two agen cies of God and man. Had such a reconcilement been necessary, God would certainly have suggested it It is one of the "secret things that belong to tbe Lord our Ood." Hitch-cock. The Toke Easy". Mix the Word with faith, and yon will find that His yoke is easy, His burden light. He will finish His work in yeu. J. Hudson Taylor, A PRETTT COMPARISON. . Daughter "But I don't Intend to marry yet; I want to study." . Mother "Absurd I Tbe men will only think less ot you In the end it you know much." ' , $ Daughter "Oh, now, mamma! you always expect other men to be like papa." Beston Transcript YOU NEVER CAN TELL. "I'apa, why Is it tnit the deaths of celebrated people are' always put In the papers and never the births?" Hire. ',... ' Missionary Topic The Christian Awakening of Korea 2 Pet. 3: 9; Jonah 4: 10, 11. Let us first consider Jonah. God always speaks tq men In the terms they can most easily understand. Jo nah had a wayward, stubborn heart which found it difficult to enter Into the loving-heart purpose of tho Eter nal toward his children, and yet he could appreciate the kindly service of a gourd vine In shading him from tha heat of a tropic sun and sorrow over it eudden destruction. So God uses the incident ot the gourd and Jonah's tender pity for It to teach him ot the mercy and love of Jehovah toward a vast city like Nineveh, in which the babes alone number six score thou sand persons. Turning now to the Second Epistle of Peter, we find a somewhat broader and different view of this great thing. There are scoffers In every generation who, in their blindness, fall to see the unending evidences of the presence and power of god In the affairs of the world. The judgment and the final recompense for good and evil are the subject of their constant sneers and Jeers. Peter rebukes them by calling our attention to the fact that they err In two great fundamentals. 1. They err as to the nature of God and the processes ot his nrovldence. ! which, in their eternity, measure days Dy periods of a thousand years, while in actual achievement he often does the work of a thousand years in one finite day. . 2. The delay In judgment aad ret ribution is not due to any slackness or fault in the divine nature, but to the unfaltering love and tender mercy ot God to all his creatures, he giving this period of probation and new trial to bis wayward children that they may find the way of repentance and salva tion. In this lies the hope of all heathen nations, for he is long-suffering toward them, and not willing t'uat any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. MST WHAT REAL SCHAPPLE IS. .Writer Gives m Few Hints Abeut the Preparation and Eating of This Dish. Scrapple comes In with India sum mer and last year's overcoat, says the Baltimore Sun. Next to buckwheat cakes, sauerkraut and hog-and-hom-lny, it Is the most delicious break fast dish known to the human race, but it behooves the consumer to have a care In buying It. . Bogus scrapple, unluckily, is all too plentiful. . The basis of the real arti cle Is tbe fragrant liquor in which country sausage hus been boiled, and its body or substance is furnished by home grown corn meal, ground In a water mill. Such scrapple, is more palatable than venison and more nu tritious than pemmlcan. It is partic ularly rich In proteids, carbohydrates, alkaloids, manganese, lime, naphtha and other bone and sinew making conteats. Iu the old days all of Baltimore's scrapple came from Pennsylvania. It came across the Mason and Dixon line at midnight, and was brought down to the city In Conestoga. wagons. When the season's flrat wagon came rum bling down the York road, usually about October 20, thero waa a rush for it, and sometimes Its cargo brought fancy prices ten cents a slice, or even more. But to-day Balti more Is no longer dependent upon Pennsylvania for Its scrapple supply. That made in Maryland is equal to the best. No doubt the future will see Maryland scrapple supreme In all the markets ot the world, for the Eastern shoremen, as welt as tbe Western Marylanders, seem to have an uncanny talent for the manufac ture and Improvement of delicatessen. Tbe case of sauerkraut comes to mind at once. Twenty years ago that queenly victual had to be Imported from Bavaria, but to-day tbe sauer kraut ot Salisbury and Crlsfleld' has left that of Munich and Weimar far behind it. Broiled Frenli Herring. Cut off the heads of the fish, but a, not open. Dip in olive oil season with salt and pepper and leave an hour. Arrange on a buttered grij. iron and broil over n clear, slow nr, for about fifteen minutes, turnim frequently. A Tasty Dessert. A tasty dessert was Invented by t Brooklyn housewife the other day Sherbet glasses were filled with api pie sauce the red kind that ( cooked until it Is mahogany color a little nest was made in the centn and this was filled with whippy cream and around the cream theri were scattered finely minced nutj. This apple sauce may be kept in cani for an indefinite time, and is nlwan useful, either as an accompaniment for the meat course or for dessert. Indianapolis News. Jugged Eels. Take two pounds cleaned, skinny eels, remove all the fat from the In. side and cut in pieces about two Inches long. Dredge with salt anil pepper, and place in n jar with i quarter cup of butter. Chop an onion and scatter over the eels with i tablespoonful minced parsley. Cover the jar closely and stand over the fire in a saucepan ot cold water. Let it come slowly to a boil, then cook from an hour and a half to two hours, un til tender. Serve in a deep hot dish. New York Telegram. Fish Steaks An G rat in. For this steaks of halibut, cod or any firm, white-fleshed fish may 1 used. Cut about three inches square and an Inch thick. Butter a small dripping pan, and having salted and peppered the squares of fish on both sides, lay them In the pan. Sprinkle with a few drops onion juice, a little minced parsley and somo buttered crumbs Squeeze over them the Juice of t lemon and bake about twenty min utes, covered the first ten. Serve plain or with ' a cream sauce New York Telegram. .. The colony of Barbary apes, en the Reck of Gibraltar, Is the only one of its kind In existence, and is being protected ttr the British Government. Creamed Yarmouth Bloatcrr. Remove head, tall and fins. Split In half all the way through, put into a saucepan full of cold water and cook just five minutes after the wa ter comes to a boil. Lift out care fully and most of tbe bones will come to the surface so that they can be readily picked out. Have ready a hot sauce prepared as follows: Melt In a saucepan a tablespoonful butter, add a tablespoonful flour, and as soon as melted and bubbly pour in, little by little, a cupful rich milk and cream. As soon as thickened, re move and pour over the fish on a hot platter. New York Telegram, Sweetbreads and Mushrooms. Blanch two pairs of sweetbread) and Bllce them. Cut the stems from twenty mushrooms. Beat the yolki of three eggs light. Cook together In the chafing dish blazer a tablespoon' f ul of butter and one ot flour. When smooth pour upon them gradually one and a half cups of rich milk or cream Into which a pinch of baking-soda has been stirred. Stir until smooth, then lay In .the sweetbreads, cook for two minutes, and salt and white pep per to taste, and put In the musb' rooms. Cook until very hot; pour ia gradually the egg yolks and cook just long enough to heat thorough!; but not long enough to cause the egg) to curdle. Serve Immedlately.- Harper's Bazar. Ribboned lettuce makes a prett! nest tor an egg salad. . A spoon rest that hooka over tht edge of a kettle Is ten cents. It save keeping the spoon in the kettle whlU cooking. An old tobacco Jar in the shape ' a brown mushroom, with yello stalk, has a forest gnome and fie" mice in halt relief on tne xroni. . When packing tie In bottle corW well, and put the bottle ia tbe mid die of the trunk. If packed in thU way It will carry around the wona. Brass polished only with rotten stone and oil will have a deep, rlct yellow tone, while the acid polUW leave It whiter and more brilliant. ' When coal Is needed on the flr i- k. .ink rnnm tt hnnM be brougu1 Into the room In paper bags, wnlc11 should be laid gently on me mo -prevent noise. Cold water with but little oM should be used for washing colore silks. If the color runs vine-' should be stirred Into the water un til the color sets. A teaapoonful ot glycerin added V a gill ot glne makes a cement that a great convenience In tbe kltcw' and Is especially good for fastenlnl leather, paper or wood to metal. A stain remover that has prow successful with fruit and vegetal discoloration la made by adding tot' drops ot carbolic acid to a half P"" bottle ot glycerine and roiewatef. Powder a little alum and mix wi sugar. First put a little sugar teaspoon; then sprinkle a little PJ dered alum over It and cover with sugar. It has saved a little Jlr many a time from croup. ' Take three large carrota, P then grate on a coarse grater; every cup ot carrot add ue-tBJ' cup fresh lard, set on back of " In earthen or porcelain lined o where It will dimmer all day. rr through cheese cloth . and put " small glass Jars. , It will keep ' months. ' ' .... ..,. . , ;
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