THE PULPIT.
eWLLIANT SUNDAY SERMON
THE REV. J. H. MELISH
BY
Theme: The Trinity.
' Brooklyn. N. V. The Rev. John1
Howard Mellsh, rertor of the C'hurrh
of the Holy Trinity, preached a ser
mon on "The Trinitarian Conception
of God," whlrh hag attracted much
attention and the publication of
which has been requested. The text
was from St. John 15: 26: "When
the Comforter is come, whom I will
Bend nnto yon from the Father, even1 Rllrh lg the flrgt interpretation of the
npiiiL ui iiuill, wiiira truif 'ut?iii, ) T T I n J t V
irom ine ratner. Me snail near wit- i In one.. experience of life our hu
Now, what religions inrerpretntion
shall we put upon nature? Shall we
spell It with a capital N and regard
It as the canoe of all things, as many
do? Or shall we regard It as the out
ward, visible manifestation of a pres
ence whose
Dwcllinn plnee is the setting sun.
And the round ocean snd the living air.
And If behind nature there Is this
Tower, using nature aa a garment,
what shall we call It? What Is Its
name? The old catechUm says: "I
learn to believe in Ood the Father,
vho hast made me and all the
world." What an Interpretation of
man's experience of nature Is this
to know that behind and through all
this unlvcr.se Is Ood. whose relations
to It Is that of rather or creator,
whose attitude toward It Is fatherly!
The"
Sunday a School
IXTl:nX.T10VI, LESSON COM
MENTS ron JtiA' 3.
SiiIi.IitI: Pictures of the Kingdom,
Matt. 13: .11 -3:1, 41.52 Commit
to .Memory Verse 4 1.
ness of Me." Mr. Mellsh said:
n-. M '. , , . ; . mr.nuy as wen as nature
The vital religious thinking of our iniportant part. There wt
T s concerned with experience. A wheu nntu,.e was here ,
la
creed or theology Is of little valuo
iccati.-e it is old and has the author
ity of some council; its worth, Its
truth, sprint from Its ability to
make articulate the facts of life.
"Docs thin theology," we ask, "In
terpret experience or Is it a mere
academic formula which a few intel
lectuals have spun for themselves?"
We of to-day have distinguished be
tween religion and theology. Re
ligion is the life of Cod in the soul
of man. Theology is the Interpreta
tion of this life. It. is therefore re
lated to religion as botany Is related
to the flowers. A man may be re
ligio.is and be entirely lenorant of
theology. Me may be religious and
m:nlty as well as nature plays an
as a time
n all Its
power, but man had not yet ap
peared. The earth was the home of
beast and bird and fish. Then came
the human creature, related to all
other living things In many physical
ways, but mentally separated from
the animal world by an ocean of dis
tance. For unnumbered centuries
now hns this human creature lived
noon this Dlanet, He has work "nt
Institutions, literatures, pnl'osophlcs,
religions, arts and crafts. Here is a
human development corresponding to
nature's life, and yet higher and
more complex.
What is the Interpretation which
throws light upon the facts of human
history? Is man the lord of creation.
reject uie uieo.ogy oi me past, lie . or , tnere Borae Bplrit nlRher tnan
rnay be reliclous and hold the New ) tne numani manifesting himself in
jit-oiuKX. i ne lueoiOK wnicn is oi
real value, whether old or new, is
that which Interprets the religious
life, which takes those experiences of
the common folk, the average man.
and tells him what they mean,
and through the humar, incarnating
himself In humanity? Does man find
his highest life in serving and admir
ing himself, or In serving a divine
spirit which reveals itself to him in
his reason and his conscience? And
In the light of this new approach tf there ,s some splrlti akln to tno
to theology does the Trinitarian con- numan gplrt and yet Aitterent Uom
oept on of Ood mean anything? Or ,tf calllnK Inen evcr to ,ou0W
is It a mere dogma of the church
which sritne will accept out of lovaltv
to the church, and others will reiect
. , 1 ..... ... ... "I lUI Llll.UIHJUU
out of loyalty to the truth and their I Ul Go(, the Son
own intelligence? Is there any real ; one and alI Ilian
eI'erjeiire wucn receives interpreta
tion from tl e Trinitarian theology?
Does this Trinitarian conception of
the life divine bring to our human
life enough to enable a man to accept
it with loyalty and sincerity? It was
once my privilege, as university lec
turer, to come into somewhat inti
mate relations with soma young men
who were studying to become Jewish
rabbis. What Interested them was
the Christian thought of the trinity.
.They wondered how any intelligent
person could believe in the Trinity,
what shall we name him? Again I
find the answer In the old catechism
of our childhood: "I have to believe
who hath redeemed
kind." In mankind
i there is at work, and has been
throughout its life on this planet,
God. He has not been simply a cre
ator, a father calling man into being
; and sustaining man as He sustains
. the physical universe. Ho is in man
as He is in nature, but revealing
Himself to the human as He could
not to the brute, as the Power which
upholds the human, feeds It, inspires
U, calls It ever back from the sens
ual to the moral and spiritual, Iead3
it ever forward to its goal and pur-
Tn Inai.a nf V 'i ... Vi Vi 1 rr Qn
Tor to their monotheism it seemed ! L-.'A,i v, i in v,v mn h..
lnev : manifested Himself most enmnletelv
and perfectly. There is seen, as St.
John says, "the light which lighten-
EFWOHTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, JULY 3.
like deifying a man whom
were willing to regard as second only
to Isaiah and so deriving tho fnnrln-
....v. i ,u 1 1 , ' Jonn says, tne ngnr. wnicn ngnien-
.1 i i . religion that , eth every tnat cometu lnto the
Ood is one. It is only by goiiig .or,.. .. A natura hears witness to
j God the Father, bo humanity bears
witness to God the Son.
So does our human life find its
Illumination in the divine life. Our
deeper into life Itself, by getting a
broader view of the larger human
life we call history, that we are able
to enter deeper Into God. The Trin
itarian conception of the dlvlre life,
i prnprlfnr with nntnro. hnmnn tv
.n. . l,tl CCT Wlth Ioya ty 1 ""I our own souls finds Its interpre
?o Lin inn m ,f f Bl,Ve a J"?re 5a" 1 ton in the truth that God is Father
'"eni. Bn,d !".,8?.ct.ory ?terPre- i revealed to us through the nature
tT ,,,., .. iy , a . wh'ch He has made; that God is Son.
Unitarian conception of God. As ..... -j i .v.u
Gwatkln says in his book. "The
Knowledge of Ood." "The surface
drift seems Unitarian in our time,
and advanced thinkers take it for
certain that the religion of the fu
ture will be some form of Unliarlan
Ism. Were the political outlook dif
ferent I might have less difficulty in
aereeing with them; but a broader
view of history seems to point an
other way."
In the New Testament there is no
Trini-'irlan theology. In fact, there
Is uo theology of any kind if by the
olocy we mean organized knowledge
of religion. Even the Fourth Gosoel
and St. Paul's letters, said to be the
ological, are not theology in our mod
ern sense, of a systematic divinity.
The New Testament is a book of re
ligion: it Is ti:e record of experience;
l. deals with life, not the theory of
life There Is, however, in the gos
pels and ei i.- tles what we may call a
Trinitarian experience. In this text,
for example, there Is reference to the
Con forter. the Father and to Jesus
Himself. Father. Son and Snirit in
this and in many other passages are 1 nth
TP,''.'."88 ''-ri Vth ,,lfe' ,he i these vc
He is redeeming; that God is Holy
Spirit, known in the spirits of each
one of us whom He is sanctifying.
The truth of the Trinity does not
end here. It asserts further that
these three are one. So frequently
men find themselves unable to dwell
at home, in more than one of these
sides of life. Our scientists are stu
dents of nature; they know the world
of physics, chemistry and biology.
Their spirits roam at home within
those fields. They know God the Fa
ther and worship Him. But for hu
manity they have little interest; his
tory does not speak to them; and the
spiritual experiences of individual
men puzzle them and seem morbid j
and pathological. Other men there !
are for whom nature means nothing, j
They are appalled by the apparent
ruthlessness and injustice of her !
ways. Their spirits are at home in
the life of humanity. History is the j
voice of the Kternal to them, speak- I
Ing words of life. God the Son is
their God and about God the Creator I
they are frankly agnostic. There are I
er men for whom neither of
l,f. .v.t, ., ,. , , mese voices lias any nieauin,. j-iih-
IUe which men are llvine here on . ... .k. ... v-
; ture has no voice at all. What is real
j to them is that Spirit which they
' know at first hand through their own
earth. The spirit which is to be in
men, comforting, guiding, Inspiring
then: In all the vicissitudes and ef
fort" of llfp. Is said to bear witness
to .Iet:u3. It will take of Him His
truth and life, and show them unto
men. As a scholar bears witness to
his teacher, even though he may go
far beyond him, so the Spirit wit
nesses to Jesus. On the other hand,
the spirit has lis orig'n la God; it
roinej from the Father, from whom
Jesus Himself also came. P.ehind
both Jesus and the Spirit Is the Fa
ther, who loveth all His children.
This la not academic language, but
the words of life, descriptions of
actual experience of Christian men
and women all through the ren.
reasons and consciences. It is God
tho Holy Spirit which is their Ood.
Again and again we find that these
men misunderstand each other.
Their neighbor seems to speak a dif
ferent religious language. Other
men, they sometimes frankly say,
worship a different God.
Tho undying truth of the Trinity
Is that these three are one. There is
only ono God. But to different men
lie manifests Himself in different
ways; to some through nnture, to
others through humanity, to others
still through Individual experience.
But behind nature, humanity and the
V f.,,i,:i1 1 m..,e r,reon " individual life, binding all together
" ' - ' .--' owi. .vim. ,U1I1(9 Hilll
in a splendid unity, Is the One Soul
of the universe, related to the uni
verse as the human soul is related to
the body. God grant that from this
Soul, our Father, may proceed to you
f , ,11 , , , . mil 1 1 1 C LUC ui, ij O IN II, IV urai w . fc-
J r ,,1 ,?'! 7h- rh'ii rmS ln us t0 th0 llfe and character
tlie foundation of the Christian re- : nf ,,orf,.f rhri Toi,a
who have confidence In the spirit of
truth and believe In tho fatherhood,
nf God have shared this three-fold
life and experience of the men of the
Is'ew Testament.
llgion. Every man who shares It be
longs to the church by virtue of this
life. It 1b the misfortune, nay, the
calamity, of the church that it has
not kept this fact clearly ln mind
I'eare Breakers.
Actd dropped on steel, and allowed
to remain there, will soon corrode it.
Again and again It has substituted, I And If we allow worries, anxieties.
for it some theory of organizzatlon
or doctrinal statement which imme
diately destroyed tho church's unity
and rreated rivalries and separatists.
This Is the only possible basis of a re
united Christendom; not the Catholic
cretds, nor the historic episcopate,
not the sacraments or any external
Ixtnd, nothing but the three-fold life
and experience can fulfil the Master's1
rrayer that "thoy all may be one
even as wt are one; thou in tne and
1 ln thee, that they may be one ln
M." 1
To this personal experience of the
Individual Christian we should add
tho larger experience of the cen'
turlos. What witness does hlr.tory
Lear to the three-fold llfe?
In the experience of the race na
ture has played a great part. At the
present monieut the ulnis ef Inn urn-
Jm.b! persons are turned to tk
lieavens. Whether men Interpreted
b facts correctly or Incorrectly, the'
(acts themselves have Inspired la!
(nan of every age wonder, and. tn the
old days, worship. Both In the stars
overhead and nature underfoot and
around men have felt the presence
of a power not themselves. It has
Inspired poetry and created religions.
The worship of nature was man's
flrt worship. It Is the object of the
man's most exact knowledge. To
know this world ontalde one's self.
In some of Its marvelous workings
- s lieeq Alia, at out sclsasAu -
careworn questioning to brood ln our
hearts, t ley w ill soon break up our
peace, as swarms of tiny gnats will
mak a paradise unln'aubitalle. F.
U. Mjer.
Ixindon's Kx pensive Fogs.
It Is estimated that a genuine
brand fog costs the city $750,000 In
loss and interruption of business. In
1905 tbcre were forty-four fogs re
corded. Since that year there has
been a steady decrease in the num
ber until thiii year there have been
almost nono, and this Is directly at
tributable to the work against the
ft!i.oke nuisance. It is an accepted
fact' bow that tho fogs over London
would be no more denso than over the
adjoining countries If It were not for
the quantities of London smoke which
have mixed with the foci. Ameri
can Educational Hevlew.
OOMF,. TKXT. "The kingdom
of (iod is not meat and drink; but
righteousness and peace, and Joy in
the Holy Ghost." Rom. 14:17.
TIM I", A. D. 28.
l'LAt K. Ry the Sea of Galilee,
nenr Capernaum.
KXI'OSI I IOX. I. Outwnnl
(drouth nml Inward Hot, ftl-ft:). Two
more parables of growth and both
obotit "the kingdom of heaven." Tho
parable cf the mustard seed shows
the marvelous outward growth of the
kingdom from the smallest begln
rlngs. Christ began His work with a
few obscure men, and It spread until
the nations took shelter In its
branches. Some would take the birds
of heaven here to be evil spirits, as In
vevses 4 nnd 19, but It Is not safe to
take the Imagery of ono parable over
into another. The reference seems
ratiicr to be to Ezek. 17:23, 24, where
the birds represent the nations. But
another growth Is taking place, "leav
en" (or yeast, tho product of putre
faction) within. Leaven Is every
where in the Bible a type of corrup
tion. We have nn Inspired interpre
tation of this parable In 1 Cor. 5:6,
7; Gal. 5:8, 9. The woman, the apos
tate church, mixed "the leaven" of
false doctrine (Matt. 16:6, 12) Into
the children's bread and the whole
doctrin and life of the church was
leavened. History fulfilled this pre
diction. H. Finillns? Without Sepkin. 44.
Tn this parable the great value of the
kingdom Is brought out, It Is a treas
ure hidden from the eyes of men.
Jeans spoke the words In a land where
trensuro was often hidden for security
pnd sometimes found by accident.
The man i:i this case stumbled on tho
treanure without seeking for it. Ho
lepiesrtits the man who stumbles on
the Gospel truth entirely without his
own seeking. The fact that the field
represents the world in the parable of
the tares does not necessitate our in
terpreting it as the world in this par
able. In verso 4 4 the treasure repre
rents one thing and In verso 52 some
thin:; entirely different. The mnn
had to sell all that he had to get the
field and the treasure it contained,
r.nd we must give up all it we would
gain Christ and the treasure that Is
in Him Lj. 14:33). What the mnn
sold and gave up was little indeed
In comnnriBon with what he got,
and what we sell or give up to
fcaln Christ is little indeed in
rompariEon with what wo get (Phil.
3:7. S). II is not likely that this
man. nftsr he got his treasure, talked
much of the sacrifice he had made ln
order to acnuire it. It is the constant
teaching of tho Bible that salvation Is
a free gift (Eph. 2:8; Rom. 6:23),
but there Is a sense in which grace is
nought'' (Isa. 53:1; Rev. 3:8; Prov.
3:23; Matt. 25:9. 10). there ere
Eaciiflccs that must he made if we are
to obtain eternal life. Jesus sought
a treasure in us in this world and
pave up that He had In order to gain
u i . or. t: ;
llf. Keeking nnd Finding, 45, 40.
There is a similarity between this
parable and the preceding and also a
difference. In the preceding parable
the treasure was found by one not
looking for it. In this parable the
one who finds tho pearl of great price
Is ecbIcIjis goodly pearls. So there are
those who arc earnestly seeking the
irutn wncn tliey find tho kingdom.
Such tire represented bv this parable '
(cf. Job 28:12, 13, 13, 18). Thai
pearls Fought were wisdom or truth
in general; the One Peaii found is He
In whom all truth is incarnate (Jno.
14:6). Jesus is the one Pearl of
Great Price. In verse 44 the man'
bought the field, ndt for Itself, but
for what was in it. In this case tho
man bousht the pearl for Itself. Men
often seek to gain Christ for what
they can get in Him, but wo ought to
seek Him for what He Is Himself.
The one seeking goodly pearls needed'
to he cn his guard against imposition,
and so do we need to bo on our guard
in this dny when there are so many'
false Christs and so many false sys
tems. The man did wisely when ho
sold all his other pearls to gain this
One pearl, and we do wisely when we
part with all other pearls to gain the
one Pearl of Great Price.
IV. Gathering of Kvery Kind, 47.
BO. In its outward manifestation the
kingdom of heaven at first gathers,
of every kind, good fish and bad fish.
The sea Into which It Is cast Is the
sea of the nations. The time will
come when the net will be full nnd
then will come tho separation. The
bad fish represent the wicked (49;
cf. 38). The good fish the righteous.
Tho good fish are gathered into a
place of safety. The bad are cast
away and burned. The separation
takes place "at the end of the age."
The angels will do the separating.
The furnace of fire represents the ul
timate destiny of the wicked.
V. (living Forth the Treasure
Fonnil, 61, .12. It Is an Important
question that our Lord puts as He
brings to a close the seven parables.
He Is putting the same question to us
to-dny. There is only one way that
we can understand the teaching of
Christ Himself, by the Holy Spirit (1
Jno. 5:20; Jno. 16:12-14; 2:20; 1
Cor. 2:14; Jas. 1:5). The disciples
said they understood, but It Is doubt
ful If they did (Matt. 16:11; Mk. 7:
18; 9:31, 32; 8:15). Neither do we
always understand when we think we
do. The one who Is really Instructed
in the kingdom will prove it by Im
parting the treasure to others also.
The truly instructed scribe does not.
hesitate to bring forth eld things as
well as new. Neither Is be afraid of
the new.
The Christian's Citizenship Acts 21.
39 What the Topio Means
Today.
A great pride In our Christian cltl
senshlp is sorely needed today. Stag
gering revelations of-municipal cor
ruption are being made every day in
our land. Saint Louis tolled through
an investigation that shocked tho na
tion, and landed some men In the peni
tentiary, sending others abroad hur
riedly for an indefinite stay. San
Francisco followed with still more
shameful revelations, and It has re
mained for Pittsburg- to add the last
sickening scene In the disgusting trag
edy of nation-wide civic debauchery.
Nor is the stcry all told in the history
of a few great cities.
Christian citizenship does not mean
the Belflsh furtherance of personal in
terest. True, all that tells for the
betterment of a city helps every cltl
r.en. But this benefit is obtained to
the detriment of no other honest man.
A Just prldo of citizenship seeks the
welfare of the entire body, has an In
terest ln every question pertaining to
the uplift of the community, and
thrusts into the background any sel
ftah Interest that would be gained at
the expense of the common good.
Christian citizenship Is Intelligent
There Is a shameful ignorance of facts
on the part of the average American
citizen. What does he know of or
ganized vice? Has he investigate!
civic affairs? What direct knowl
edge has he of what the city officials
aro doing? And to what extent has
he gone to know the Hfe and record of
men who are candidates for offices
that control the finances of the city?
The fact of the matter is that the aver
age citizen takes his civic food ln the
l"'predigeted" form, choosing either
to Ignore such a trifling thing ts a'
city election, or, that which may be
worse, simply standing by the iarty,
voting the ticket straight, regardlesi
of the man. There is a better way,
the intelligent way, involving a com
plete study of civic affairs, the needs
of the nation, state, or city, as well as
seeking to know the record of men who
seek the power of office, and then to
only vole for those men who stand for
true Christian clt'zenshtp.
JULY THIRD
1C, 17.
C-S; 4:
1 Tim.
Religious Reading
FOR THE QUIVT 1IOVK.
CAST THY
ntrRDE!f
LOUO."
ON THE
THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINlf
PROGRESS MADE M CTIAMTION3
FIGHTING! THE RUM DEMON.
What is Christian (Citizenship? Ps.
124: 1-8; Rev. 21; 1-3 (Con
secration Meeting.)
Pure living. Ps. 24: 3-C.
Social Justice. Eccl. 4: 1-3; 3;
Combating evils. Ezek. 2:
8, 9.
Doing every kind of good.
C: 17-19.
Living as examples. 1 Pet. 2: 13-17.
God's will done on earth. Luke 11:
1-4.
It Is well for a nation to make
strong foreign alliances, but the only
ulliance It really needs is one with
Clod (Ps. 124: 1).
It Is the business of every Chris
tian citizen to try to make all things
new, restoring them to the Ideal of
God's creation (Rev. 21: 1).
The holy city always comes down
out of heaven; it Is not built up on
earth, out of men's crude theories and
faulty action (Rev. 21: 2).
A nation Is safe when God dwells ln
It, and not merely when- a powerful
army dwells iu It, and a powerful navy
along IU coast (Rev. 21: 3).
Suggestions.
Christian citizenship is simply an
application to modern life of the
teachings of Christ, not of those of
any man.
Christian citizenship has to do with
all that concerns our social life, and
not merely with voting. It concerns
Itself with the tin cans in the alley
and the Uttlo child in the factory.
The fact that our citizenship is in.
heaven must not lessen our regard for
our earthly citizenship; rather, Jt
must exalt it.
The Christian citizen Is one that Is
laboring to make his town the city of
God, the New Jerusalem.
Illustrations.
Men are born into their earthly cit
izenship and born again, that is, nat
uralized, into their heavenly citizen
ship. If you are in active association with
a party you are one of a phalanx; if
you are in merely passive association,
Just voting as you are told, you are a
dead block of stone ln a fortification.
Consider the lilies, how they grow. Luke
12:27.
Yes, leave it with Him,
The lilies all dq,
And tliey grow.
Thev grow in the rnin,
An'l tliey grow in the dew
Yes, thov crow:
They grow in the darkness, all hid in the j
Km,
They grow in the sunshine, revealed by
the light;
Still they grow.
Tliey ask not your planting,
Tliey need not your care,
As they grow
Propped down in the1 valley.
The lield. anywhere
There they grow;
Tliey prow in their beauty, arrayed in pure
white,
They crow clothed in glory by Heaven's
own lilit;
Sweetly grow.
The grasses are clothed
And the ravens are fed
From Hi store;
Rut you, who nre loved,
And guarded, and led
How much more
Will He clothe you, feed you, and give you
His care!
Then leave it with Him; He has every
where Ample lit ore.
Oh, leave it with Him,
"J'ifl more dear to His heart,
You well know,
Than the lilies tlint bloom, i
Or the (lowers that start
'Nenth the snow.
Whatever you need, if you a?k ft In prayer,'
You can leave it with Him, for yGu are His
care,
You, you l;now.
K. U. Elinor, in Gospel Herald.
God's Guidance.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him,
c-d He shall direct thy paths. Prov
erbs 3, 6.
When seized with a mortal malady
General Grant passed his last days ln
writing his very Interesting memoirs.
Knowing that his way in this world
was rapidly drawing to an end there
! came to him a deep sense of God's
gracious guidance, and eo he began j
the story of his life by saying, "Man !
proposes and God disposes. There I
are but few important steps ln the af-'
I fairs of men brought about by their i
own choice.
It 1b the common experience. God's I
overruling hand may seem more man- '
lfest in the case of such a man, and ;
yet it Is just as real ln the lot of the I
lowly as in that of those who "sit in !
the seats of the mighty." "His mercy
is over all His works." "In Hiin'we
live, and move, and have our being."
His gracious guidance is not for the
favored few only. It is over us all.
It provides for all men and blesses all
men ln proportion as they are willing
to be blessed. Seeing that it is so, we
should thankfully recognize the di
vine providence that is over us all. It
should be the ground of our confi
dence and the strength of our hope
for ourselves and for our fellow men.
Even though, many seem to live as
if "without God in the world," we
may hope for them still, for the di
vine providence has not yet been ful
filled ln them. If God bears with
them surely we should also. He loves
them still for all their wilfulness and
waywardness, and often in ways that
we know not of He brings the wan
derer back. It may be through a sor
rowful way, but His hand is over
them still, and so we can hopefully
loave them with Him who is doing for
them all He can. He does not force
His way into their hearts, but waits
for an opening door, ready to come in
with blessings as soon as ever He can '
find rdorn. I
Now, as of old, to as many as re-'
ceive Him gives Ho power to become,
the sons of God, not in possibility
only, but ln very deed and truth. Ha 1
cannot help those who do not will to
be helped, but He Is always helping 1
the belpnble and blessing the bless
able and saving the savable, and so
we have the right to say with him who
said:
"I say to thee, do thou repeat
To the first man thou nayest meet,
In lane, highway, or open street,
That he, and we, ami all men move
Under a canopy of love
As broad as the blue sky above."
-Rev. A. W. Snyder, ln the Sunday
Herald.
Slowly Decreasing In Numbers.
In view of the statements of those
Interested ln keeping the saloon in
existence that the agitation against'
the saloon does not seem to be effec
tive, these facts, taken from the New
York Sun, are of more than passing
importance:
There was in 1907 a decrease of
six per cent, ln the number of sa
loons throughout the country, ac
cording to the United States Census
Bureau's forthcoming report 'on the
statistics of .the 168 largest cities,
which had a population of over 80,
000 each that year.
The report, prepared by Chief of
Division E. H. Mallng, contains com
plete statistics of the number of
liquor licenses In force at the close of
the license year of the cities and the
number of inhabitants to each dealer
selling liquor by tho drink.
More than one-fourth of such deal
ers ln the 158 cities were reported
from New York and Chicago; the
cities of over 300,000 population with
the smallest number of saloons were
Washington, 621, and Pittsburg, 181.
In the cities of this class the largest
number of saloons In proportion to
the population were ln Milwaukee
and New Orleans, where in the former
there was one dealer Belling liquor
by the drink to every 142 inhabitants,
and in the latter to every 200 inhab
itants. The number of inhabitants
to every dealer ln Philadelphia was
761, and in Boston 738. The other
cities having less than 200,000 In
habitants to each dealer were: Gal
veston, 134; East St. Louis, 143;
Mobile, 153; Houston, 158; Hoboken,
183; Sacramento, Cal., 188; San An
tonio, 179; La Crosse, Wis., 183;
Springfield, 111., 188, and West Ho
boken, 191.
Tho smallest number of saloons in
proportion to the population is shown
for the cities- of Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts, and the largest for
those of Texas, Ohio and Wisconsin.
In comparing the number of retail
liquor dealers ln 141 cities reporting
for both 1907 and 1905 it is shown
that there was a decrease of six per
cent, in the number of fcaloons in
1907. The dcrease was general in
nearly every part of the country ex
cept Rocky Mountain and Southwest
ern States.
A Sarcastic Editor.
A township correspondent to the
Pomeroy Leader tells of a man who
was hustled to jail because he got
drunk, beat his wife and broke up the
furniture. The editor of the Leader
becomes somewhat sarcastic in com
menting on the question. He says:
" "Folks must be getting very par
ticular at Harrlsonville. This is an
other blow at a man's personal lib
erty. It's got to a pretty pass ln
Meigs County if a man can't whip his
wife and bust up the furniture with
out being bundled away to Jail.
Pretty soon a bibulous husband won't
have any rights, any amusement at
all. If a husband doesn't know when
his wife ought to have a whipping,
who does? And wouldn't he know
better than anyone else ln the world
whether the furniture should be bro
ken to pieces? If he did bust up the
furniture and whip his wife, he prob
ably did not disturb , the God Bless
Our Home picture on the 'wall. Ar
rested, hustled into Jail, deprived of
his personal liberty! And that, too,
on a Christmas Day!"
THE
EPICURE'S
CORNER
Currant Tea Cakes.
Cream one-fourth of a cupful ol
butter and add gradually while beat
ing constantly one-third of a cupful
of sugar; then add one egg well beat
en. Mix and sift two and one-third
cupfuls of flour, one-half teaspoonftii
of salt and four teaapoonfuls of bak
ing powder. Add to first mixture al
ternately with one cupful of milk;
then stir ln two-thirds of a cupful of
milk; then stir in two-thirds of a cup
ful of fresh currants mixed with one
third of a cupful of flour. Bake Is
bu'tered individual tins ln a moder
ate oven. Woman's Homo Companion.
Ripe Cucumber Pickle.
Cut cucumbers ln halves length
wise. Cover with alum water, allow,
ing two teaspoons powdered alum to
each quart of water. Heat gradually
to boiling point, then let stand on
back of range two hours. Remove
from alum water and chill ln Ice wat
er. Make a syrup by boiling five min
utes two pounds sugar, one pint vine
gar, with two tablespoons each of
whole cloves and stick cinnamon tied
ln a piece of muslin. Add cucumbers
and cook ten minutes. Remove cu
cumbers to a stone Jar and pour over
the syrup. Scald syrup three success
ive mornings and return to cucum
bers. New York World.
Manhattan Shrimps.
"For those who enjoy using the
chafing dish, let me suggest Manhat
tan shrimps." says Fannie Merrltt
Farmer, in Woman's Home Compan
ion. "Melt one tablespoonful of but
ter, add one tablespoonful of flour
and stir until well blended, then pour
on gradually, while stirring constant
ly, one-half cupful of thin cream and
one-third of a cupful of stewed and
strained tomatoes mixed with a few
grains of soda. Bring to the boiling
point and add one cupful of finely cut
cheese, one egg slightly beaten, and
one and one-half cupfuls of canned
shrimps broken in pieces. Season to
taste with salt, mustard and cayenne,
and serve just as soon as the pieces
of cheese have entirely melted."
EFFECTIVE DI3GC1SE3. '
"We like progress," explalred th
young Turk, "but we cannot allow
our - women to appear publicly with
out vella."
"Tbat'r all right, declared the
tourist. "You needn't fall behind
the procession. Put 'em In auto gog
etes.1' IonUvtlle Courier-Journal,
Eternity Ilefore Vs. '
We complain, we fret, we hurry, w
strive to make a figure in the world,
and chafe against our limits. Why
should we make so much adoT We
have an eternity before us. -He that
belioveth Khali not make caste.
Stopford Brooke. ..
PROPEn SPIRIT.
"Do you really think it necessary
to give Mrs. Blgwad anything on her
birthday?"
"Yes, Harold, we really must.
She remembered all our children at
Christmas, and now the least we can
do Is to retaliate." Puck.
THE DEADLY PARALLEL.
Madge "What has mad Dolly so
fexedT
Warjorle Tha youog nan ah
wm oax engaged to hppeoed to be
tb tpauoerator who toek fcai eiuw
A-Jadga.
An Eternity of Happiness
By MARGARET MEREDITH.
When I beg you to win for yourself
a bappy 'eternity, neither you nor 1
realize the infinite thing of which 1
am speaking.
The revelation of the depth of Mon
tezuma's well which Is given us In
this sentence of "Some Strango Cor
ners of Our Country,." Impresses me
with actual solemnity: "Toss In a
large stone, and for an hour the bub
bles will struggle shivering up from
Its unknown depths." Think of it!
And yet the bottom Is reached at last.
When we are thinking of eternity,
that long, long descent through the
water is a nothing. The soul that has
started out upon eternity will take no
thought of merely long times: they
are not long to it.
O, is not this eternity of happy llfs
worth your trying for? A trying
which you are so sure will succeed!
We hear that work Is now In full
iswlng ln the radium factory at
Jsllnge, Lldlngo, Sweden. A short
ttlme ago the large now smelting fur
jnace was started, and it Is working
very well. It is calculated to smelt
ton of ore per day, but, as a matter
pt fact, has been doing about twenty
per cent. more. There are thirty
workmen employed in the factory. At
present the most critical work being
fone is the production of radium con
entrate, from which the-pur radium
Will ultimately be extracted. The ore
s obtained at Kohn-Bllllngen, where
sixty miners are employed. It is ex
pected that the annual production ef
iradlum will reach tour U five
'.grammes, which Is a large quantity,
compared with the actual yield of
ptber lands. The value of radium
now la 400,000 fxaaca &i grMM&jk '
A Great Secret.
There is in the heart of every man
an earnest desire to know how he
may be victorious ln the time of temp
tation. -Temptation is not sin, though
yielding to sin, but there Is one sure
way of escaping from the overmaster
Ing power of the tempter, and that is
to keep busy. When David was Idle
he sinned, when Poter was not tolling
ho tailed, and it was when you were
drifting Idly along in Christian expe
rience that you denied your Master.
The secret of a victorious life is to
keep busy. The old saying 1b quite
true, "The ldlo brain Is the devil's
workshop." Christian Intolligoncer.
Ideal Patient.
Some years ago Bishop Warren was
In South America, and it was found
necessary for him to undergo an op-,
eration for appendicitis. The editor
of the St. Louis Christian Advocate'
(Methodist Episcopal Church, South),
remarks: "The heroic bishop was as'
serene and calm as a martyr when hoi
was placed on the surgeon's table,
with a faith in God eo implicit that,
he was less agitated than anybody in'
the room, The operation was a mon-'
umental success. The blood of the:
patient was so pure that his wound
healed like the flesh of a child. Li
a few weeks the bishop was again
hale and hearty, and when the great;
surgeon met him on a street In,
Buenos Aires he remarked with much
enthusiasm: "You are a living, walk-:
Ing, monumental temperance lecture
and lesson; the greatest ever deliv
ered, seen or heard ln South America!'
Had you been a lifetime user of either,
tobacco or alcohol, at your age you;
could hardly have had even tho frac
tion of one chance for recovery."
Stuffed Potatoes.
Take large fair potatoes, bake until
soft and cut a round piece off the top
of each. Scrape out the Inside care
fully, so as not to break the skin, and
set aside the empty cases with the
covers. Mash the inside very smooth
ly, working Into it while hot some
butter and cream, about a half tea
spoonful of each for every potato.
Season with salt and pepper; work
soft with milk and put Into a sauce
pan to heat, stirring to prevent burn
ing. When hot fill the skins with
the mixture, replacing the caps. Re
turn them to the oven for about three
minutes; arrange upon a napkin ln a
deep dish,, the caps uppermost; cover
with a fold of the napkin and eat
while hot. This is a very simple, and
yet a dellciouB ' recipe. Once it Is
tried it will be tried all the time.
Miss Esther Ryan, ln the Boston Post.
Strength Comes by Singleness.
"This one thing I do," writes Paul.
Does not the utter llfelessness with
which we do the work of Chrlstfome
from the fact that we are only halt in
earnest? Most of us are trying to
serve God and to please the world at
the same time. We have not com
pletely broken with the past; that is
our great fault. The trail of the old
life of sin and disobedience is yet
over all we do. We do not love God
supremely, and so we cannot serve
Him with singleness of purpose. For
a divided love always leads to an in
different life. W. A. Brown.
Chrlstly Hospitality.
The Saviour, who overrules all our
affairs, can make us feel truly at
home, wherever His wisdom places us
for the time, were it even In the
midst of a wilderness. Count Zlnzen-dorf.
Wonderful Light.
If you are willing to choose the
darkness of faith Instead of the il
lumination of reason, wonderful light
will break out upon you from the
Won el Cud. A. J. Gordon.
Expenditure ' For Drink - Incrcnsed
With Wages.
Whether poverty is the cause of;
drink or drink is the cause of poverty
Is a question over which social work
ers have sometimes split hairs. Un
doubtedly both views are right, as.
poverty and drink constitute a:
vicious social circle. Dr. Fuchs, how-,
ever, studying working men's expen
diture ln seventeen villages near
Carlsruhe found, according to Der
Abstinent, that the greater the In-'
come, the greater the proportion of
money .spent for drink, indicating
that ln this case, at any rate, poverty,
was not the chief cause of drink.
"Crime nad Disease Sold Here.''
"The injury does not stop with'
the drinker; it goes on down to the
third and fourth generations. Across!
the front of every saloon ought to be
written: 'Crime and disease sold here..
Our goods guaranteed to malm and.'
destroy unto the third and fourth
generations.' " Dr. T, A, Mac-I
Nicholl.
A Chance For the South.
In the South a pound of cotton is
worth fifteen cents now, and yet that
pound of cotton Is taken to Massa
chusetts and 'In less than a month It
will be worth forty cents. It will be
taken to England, and ln less than six
months It will be worth 11.06. That
pound of cotton will then bo taken
to Paris and will sell for $2.50 a
pound. That opens up opportunity
lor tht South. Southtra Workman,
' Temperance Notes.
Statutory State -wide- prohibition
will be the principal issue of they
campaign ln Arkansas. j
Iceland was the first country' lnj
the world to prohibit the manufac-'
ture, importation and sale of alcoholic
beverages. - ,
Eliminate drunkenness and its In
separable evils from the existing'
problems to be settled la these United)
States, and the larger part of the'
difficulties of the situation will vrfa-1
luh. Bishop O. P. FltzgeralS.
As a result of the recent Parlia
mentary elections In Norway, a ma-!
Jority of their National Cougress is'
now said to be friendly to the antU;
alcohol agitation.
Lieutenant-Colonel McHardy, C. B.f
(Edinburgh): "I da not know of
anything which could be put In tho'
placa of strong drink which would
approach It aa a crime-producer.
Art will be Increased and dis
tributed as we emerge more and morel
from the dog-stags. Society will,
have to atop this whisky business,
which is Ilka throwing sand ln vba!
bearings of a steam euglne. TbogjaM
i
Creole Salad.
One-half cup of olive oil, five table
spoons of vinegar, one-hnlf teaspoon
of powdered sugar, two tablespoons
of chopped red peppers, two table
spoons of chopped green peppers, one
teaspoon of salt, one-half a Bmall Ber
muda onion with parsley and lettuce.
This Is easy to make, but you need to
start at least an hour before you will
wish to use the salad. The onion
should be chopped fine and also the
parsley, of which there should be half
as large a quantity. Care must he
taken to remove all seeds before pep
pers are chopped. Put all the ma
terials except lettuce ln fruit Jar and
let them stand for an hour, then shake
them for five minutes ln order to get
them well mixed. When ready to
serve pour the dressing over crisp
lettuce. This dressing gives a deli
cious salad when used with cold'
meats, boiled potatoes or other veg
etables. New York World.
' Allow four eggs to each quart of
milk ln making cup custards.
One teaspoonful of extract will fla
vor one quart of custard or pudding.
One tablespoonful of salt will sea
son one quart of mixture to be .frozen.
India rubber bands slipped over
packing bottles will prevent breakage.
One level teaspoon of salt Will sea
son one quart of soup, sauce or veg
etables. One cup of sugar will sweeten one
quart of any mixture to be served,
chilled or frozen.
A sliced banana added to a grape
fruit salad Is considered an improve
ment by some housewives.
Brush the top of bread loaves when
put to rise with melted butter or lard
I -use lard and the crust will )
very tender. ' '
Small mice that cannot be caught
ln a trap may be disposed of ty
spreading sticky fly paper ln place'
frequented by them.
A large brass hanging cone mossed
with drooping clusters of wistaria
blossoms made an effective corner
decoration ln a country house hall tne
other day.
In case of sudden croup beat a lit'1
vinegar in a plate, wring out a pi1
of flannel In it and bind quickly
around the throat. The smell aod
heat seem to penetrate at once.
.'Spread over the cloth to prevent
scorching a pasta mad of the Juice
from two onions, one-quarter ounc
white soap, two ounces fuller's earth
and one-half pint vinegar. Mil, boll
wall and cook before, using.