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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