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THE PULPIT.
SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. HUBERT B. MUNSON.
Theme! Tower of Clod.
Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rev. Hubert
f). Munson, pastor of the Bushwlck
'Avenue Central M. E. Church, had for
Ms subfect Sunday morning "Power'
of find." The text was from I. Cor
inthian 1:24: "Christ, the power of
Ood." Mr. Munson said:
I wonder, If we could have stood by
Paul's side, as he began writing his
letter to the Corinthian Churrh, If he
should have asked us for a definition
In two words of the character of
Christ, If we would have had the sa
gacity or the Inspiration which hp evi
dently possessed when he defined
Christ to be God's power and God's
wisdom. It Is comparatively easy
for us, with the record of so many
years of Christian progress behind
us, to see how Christ embodies both
the wisdom and the power of divin
ity: but It was an Infinitely more
difficult task, standing as close as
Paul Btood In time to the Nazarcne,
to have seen in that work such mani
fest intelligence, such wide nml en
compassing power, as to lend lilm to
nay concerning that life that it was
the embodiment of Gnd's wisdom and
the Incarnation of God's power.
The wisdom of i5od might well give
lis pause, as Christ, in Whom were
hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge, declared it: but the
power of God, reaching out from the
life of this humble Son of Judea,
touches the lives of twentieth-century
dwellers and thrills and changes their
motives, their characters, their desti
nies. The power, a Pascal defined It,
Is of three kinis: physical power,
mental power, spiritual power: the
power of brute force, of mental acu
men and soul life. If the early home
of the race was by the seaside per
chance man's first Idea of the physi
cal power came as he watched the
waves beating in ceaseless rhythm
against the shifting sand of the beach,
and It spoke to him of a great,
mighty force. Hut men did not have
to dwell by the sea long before they
saw the power of the wave, plus the
power of the wind, held In abeyance
as a vessel that both wind and wave
would drive reslstlesaly upon the
Bands, held Its even course, because
one stood at the helm and steered;
that Is. the physical power was over
come by the power of the will and
the mind of the helmsman, and we do
cot have to look very long either at
the life of JesiiB or at the lives of the
followers of the Christ before we be
come familiar with the great spiritual
dynamic which, moving out from His
person and touching the hearts of the
men of every age, has given to them
spiritual passion; and when we trace
the uplift of the human spirit back
to the force which started It on this
upward way, It Is no surprise to And
It In the power of God, revealed
through the life of the person of His
Son. There are some aspects of the life
of Jesus to which our attention la
directed, which reveal the way in.
.which Christ shows God's power. ,
First. Christ is the transforming
power of God. The process of trans
formation Is a familiar one to the
manufacturer, who takes the crude,
aw material of the mine, of the for
est, of the field, and changes that ma
terial, through the wonderful alchemy
tof civilized machinery. Into the fln
lahed product of commerce. The
ipound of iron ore that. In Its crude
Btate may be purchased for a few
cents, is changed into the skilled in
strument of the carpenter, into the
.sharp-cutting tool of the machinist.
Into those delicate and tensile springs
that move the most delicately ad
'justed chronometer. What has been
done in the process of change? That
which was comparatively valueless
to human need, responds to the rry
for help and gives forth the power
which Is In Him. Note. If you will,
that Incident so charmlncly told us
by the gospel writer, of that poor wo
man, who, having heard of Christ,
Joined herself to the throng that
crowded around Him on the street
that day; how engerly she followed,
hoping, as only desperate persons
hope, to gain His notice. But the
dense crowd stood compactly and un
yielding between her and our Lord,
until at last. Is despair, having suc
ceeded In getting reasonably near to
Him, she thought, "Oh, If I can but
touch His garment, 1 shall be whole."
And. acting upon the suggestion, she
reached her long, slender arm
through the crowd and touched the
edge of His robe, and Instantly she
was healed. Christ turned around,
and He said, "Who touched Me?" for
He perceived the power had gone out
from Him. Such forces dwelt In Him
that even His garments were Invested
with them, and human need, coming
In touch with Him, felt the power of
His life.
The point where many of Christ's
followers fall Is In this very point of
transmitting His power. If the pow
er of Niagara can aid the commerce
and the transportation of Lorkport
ami Rochester, surely the power
which dwells In Christ can be trans
mitted by human channels to human
need: and yet many of us who have
felt the transforming power of Christ
fail to transmit thnt power through
us to other lives. The familiar parlor
experiment of the battery and the
joined hands of the company Is capa
ble of being applied to the transmit
ting of Christ's saving grace, through
us, to those who, by heart, by the ties
of love, by the close associations of
the years, were touched.
At a reunion of veterans some years
since. In a Western State, this story
of Lincoln was told by the man who
was saved from a drunkard's grave by
the President:
"I was a private In one of the West
ern regiments that arrived first In
Washington after the call for 75,000.
We were marching through the city,
amid great crowds of cheering people,
and then, after going Into camp, were
given leave to see the town. I.Ike
many others of our boys the saloon or
tavera was the first thing we hit.
With my comrade I was Just about to
go Into the door of one of these places
when a hand was laid upon my arm,
and looking up there was President
Lincoln, from his grand height above
me, a mere lad, regarding me with
those kindly eyes and pleasant smile.
I almost dropped with surprise and
bashfulness, but he held out his hand,
and as I took It he shook hands In a
strong Western fashion and said: 'I
don't like to see our uniform going
into these places.' That was all he
said. He turned immediately and
walked away, and we passed on. He
would not have gone into that tavern
for all the wealth of Washington
Cltv."
Here, then, we have these two
characteristics of God's power manl
ested In the life of Jesus, our Lord.
It Is His work to transform and
change us from glory unto glory, or,
as Drummond put it, "from character
unto character, or until we come unto
the measure of the stature of the life
of Christ." It is our province, stand
ing In our place In human history and
in the development of the work of the
gospel, to transmit to those who stand
just beyond us in time, the same vital
breath of life, the same holy Impulse
of love, that has been transmitted to
us by our Lord.
The
Sunday School
IN'TEHN'ATIONAL LESSON COM.
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Sentence Sermons on Faith.
No man ever broke faith with man
who did not first break faith with
God.
No man ever kept faith with God
and deceived his fellow men. No
matter what a man has, If he lacks
faith, he lacks all; if he can't be
trusted, the more brilliant, powerful,
successful be Is, the more he Is to be
dreaded. The one fruitful source of
failure In business and social life Is
and without utility has been changed unfaithfulness. It disintegrates the
into thosi. instruments which give
value to human labor and nld to our
liveB. The added value of the tool
represents, commerce tells us, the
skill of the labor which is put upon
it, plug the capital Invested lu the
great factory of which It In the out
put. That which Is thus done for com
merce and for life, in transforming
the raw material into the finished
liroduct, Christ does for humanity,
.lie takes humanity In its crude state,
nay, in its worthless forms, and
changes slnnerslntosalnts; the worth
less Into priceless Jewels of eternity.
Take your stand, if you are wise,
ty the side of some poor fellow who,
by his plea, has elicited your sympa
thy and for whom you wish to secure
employment. He has told you his
story. Let it be only the average
story of the man whom bad habits
and vicious associates and Idleness
has produced. Stand by his side In
the labor market and try to secure
employment for him. The man who
wants a laborer turns from him be
cause he has passed the meridian.
The philanthropist to whom you may
present the man, making an appeal
tor him upon humanitarian grounds,
may tell you that all of his energy
and all of his capital he is Investing
home. The bonds which hold homes
In peace are eaten off by the acid of
unfaithfulness. Fruit shows the sap;
work proves the words.
Faithfulness Is the fruit and out
working of faith. "Show thy faith by
thy works." Our claim Is that we are
saved by faith in Jesus Christ, but a
faith which does not make faithful Is
not a saving faith. You trust Christ, I
but do men trust you?
No subtler temptation can come to
man than to use God's given power
for self. Many break down right
here: they are faithful, not to the one
apnolntlng them, but to self. For
this men speculate with trust funds,
expecting to return the principal, hop
ing to absorb the profits. For this
men pervert political office, entering
It poor, leaving it rich, but Jesus
Christ is "faithful to him that ap
pointed Him."
Heaven Is a place of business be
rause there all keep faith. When
men are faithful to God as God is
faithful to men, heaven will be on
earth. Jesus Christ, an apostle and
priest, was faithful In temptation.
Many men break down when the test
ing time comes. Testing does not
create, It simply reveals, weakens.
You cannot tell whether the ship will
Moat till you launch it, whether the
In young life; he is building a fence seed will bring forth till it Is sown.
at the top of the precipice rather than
asylum at the foot. Even the poli
tician, eager as he la for help, may
smile sadly and turn away. You may
stand by this man's side until dis
couraged and tick at heart; you be
come convinced that as part of life's
lotsara ha la scarcely worth anything.
3ut listen! This man, who has made
nch a sad wreck of life, meets a new
jower: Christ meets him on life's
way and changes his heart and bis
life. The drunkard no longer drinks;
the gambler no longer plays for
stakes; he has changed; the power
has laid hold of his life which has
transformed that life. Whence ram
It? Where Is the source of it? Trace
It back, and you will find that It la
Christ God's power. Notice how
jwondrously this transforming power
cf Christ ahows itself forth in the
gospel tales; the blind see, the deaf
tear, the lame leap, the dead are
raised; because power comes out from
Him, hearer, have you experienced
(be power of God In transforming
your life?
i Second. Jesus Christ Is the trans
talttable power of God. What Is most
wonderful about the dynamo! Su
perficially, we might answer that It
is the great charge of elrtrlr!ty
which It possesses, but really the
most wonderful thing about the dyn
amo Is that It yields so readily the
electricity which It . possesses. We
re told that enough electricity Is
latent In the earth that our feet prj
to give us immediate death, but bo
cause the earth does not readilr yinia
this force we are unharmed, though
one touches the live wire at bis netll,
because It yields so readily its force.
Bo the most wonderful thing about
the life of Christ Is the reodlDesa .
..ihj jjase-srwitlL wblf h. Jle.yJeJds
ine tesnng time comes sooner or
later. Eugene tf. Willard, in Pitts
burg Christian Advocate.
A candle that will not shine In on
room is very unlikely to shine In an
other. If you do not shine at home,
It your father and mother, your Bis
ter and brother, if the very cat and
dog in the house are not better and
happier for your being a Christian, It
is question whether you really are
one. J. Hudson Taylor.
1 Spelling Backward.
Some persons find amusement in
spelling words backward when read
ing newspapers and signs. And in
teresting discoveries are made.
' Perhaps at the head of the long
lift stands the name of a New Yorker
Leon Noel which Is exactly the
same either way it Is spelled. Other
.othcgrapblcal curiosities which spell
without change when reversed are
Anna, Hannah, Otto, noon and very
many others. But the dazxllng star
In this odd galaxy Is word of seven
letters, and It may be the longest
one In the language, that spells the
same forward or backward. That
)word is reviver. New York Press.
I Why Is WIldernessT '
"The reason there's a wilderness
at all," says a Georgia philosopher,!
"is becaute the lazy chaps get out of,
It In hurry, being afraid that they;
might, be put to sawing wood. Yon;
; wood when he has to take to the
oods." Atlanta Constitution. J
Subject: The Transfiguration, Mntt.
17:1-8, H-20 Commit to
Memory Verses 1, 2.
CJOLDEX TEXT "This Is My be
loved Son, in whom lam well pleased;
hear ye Him." Matt. 17:6.
TIME. Summer, A. D. 29.
PLACE. Mount Hermon.
EXPOSITION. I. Jesns, Moses
and Elijah, 1-4. This experience was
not granted to Peter and James and
John for their own blessing alone,
but that they might become channels
of blessings to others; we have strik
ing proof that It made a profound
impression upon their minds (John
1:14; 2 Pet. 1:17, 18); it qualified
them to be more efficient witnesses
for Christ. Jesus went up Into tho
mountain to pray (Luke 9:28) and
took them along as companions, as in
Mark 6:37: Matt. 26:37, 38. He was
"transfigured before them" the lat
ter part of the Greek word transla
ted "transfigured" has the same root
as the word translated "form" in
Phil. 2:6, 7. There also we see a
transfiguration, Jesus taking off the
"form" or "figure" of God and taking
on the "form" and "figure" of a ser
vant. Here we have the reverse pro
cess the "figure" of a servant being
changed Into the glorious appearance
of the Son of God. If things had
been allowed to take their course,
Jesus would have been glorified right
then and there with the glory which
He had with the Father before the
world was (John 15:7). But things
ore not allowed to take their course.
The work of redemption was not yet
accomplished. Not only the incarna
tion, but also the crucifixion, was nec
essary for our salvation (Heh. 9:22;
j-pn. i:n; so He who had already
turned His back upon the divine
glory and been made in the likeness
of men (Phil. 2:6, 7) again turned
His back upon It and descends from
that mountain to die on Calvary (v.
12). Not until upon the cross of
Calvary He can utter the triumphant
cry, "It Is finished," will He consent
to resume the glory that He laid
aside to redeem us (2 Cor. 8:9).
Having finished that atoning work,
He will not be transfigured alone,
but in due time we shall be trans
figured together with Him (Phil. 3:21,
II. V.; Col. 3, 4, R. V.). There Is
for us an anticipatory transfigura
tion in the life that now is (Rom.'
12:3, the Greek word for "trans
formed" la the same as translated
"transfigured" in v. 1). The details
of the transfiguration should be
noted, "His face did shine as the
sun;" "His garments became white as
light;" in Mark "His garments be
came glistering exceeding white, so
as no fuller on earth could whiten
them;" in Luke "The fashion of His.
countenance was altered and His"
raiment became white and dazzling."
This all gives us some idea of how
He and we will appear in the resur
rection glory. The highest Bplendor
of earth seems dim indeed compared
with this. It all occurred as "he
prayed" (Luke 9:29). Nothing,
even in the life that now is trans
figures like prayer. As the disciples
gazed upon their glorified Lord, they
beheld two others talking with Him,
Moses nnd Elijah, the two great rep
resentatives of the law and the proph
ets. Moses had died (Deut. 34:5,
6), and tho theory of non-existence
or non-conscious existence of the
holy dead until their resurrection at
the second coming of Christ goes to
pieces on this rock. It was no mere
ly subjective vision that the three saw
(2 Pet. 1:10-18). The word trans
lated "vision" in v. 9 means "thing
seen," just as It does etmologlcally.
It is translated "sight" lu Acts 17:
31. Tho three disciples were not
dreaming, but "fully awake" (Luke
P:32, R. V.). Moses and Elijah "ap
peared In glory" (Luke 9:32). Moses'
longing to enter the promised land
once denied him Is now satisfied, at
lust be Is there. The disciples evi
dently recognized Moses and Elijah,
whom they . had never seen In the
flesh, and that ought to settle the
question whether we will recognize
in glory those whom we have known
on earth. The one subject that en
gaged the attention of Moses and Eli
jah and Jesus on this wonderful oc
casion with His "decease" (Luke 9:
21 ), the atoning death Is a subject of
great interest to the heavenly world
(cf. 1 Pet. 1:10-12).
II. Jesus Only, 5-8. God now de
scends upon the mount a cloud
overshadows the disciples; fear falls
upon them in that awful presence.
Ood speaks (cf. Luke 9:35). Who
can measure the depth of God's Joy
in that Son who again turns His
back on the glory and chooses the
cross. God passed by Moses and Eli
jah, great as they were, and points
out Jesus as the one Son and Bays,
"Hear ye Him." Destruction awaits
the one who will not hear Him (Acts
3:22. 23; Heb. 12:25).
III. At the Foot of the Mountain,
14-20. It was well that Peter's sug
gestion that they remain In the moun
tain was not followed, there is work
to do in the valley. The disciples get
Into difficulty as soon as Jesus was ab
sent (vs. 14-16). They were in a
great extremity, but Jesus comes on
the scene at this moment of their
defeat and distress (cf. Mark 9:14,
15). The moment be sees the Lord,
the father of the demoniac boy for
sakes the disciples and runs and
kneels to Him. The boy sorely need
ed mercy. The devil bad tried to do
his worst with blm. (v. 15; cf. Mark
9:17, 18; Luke 9:39). The condi
tion of this boy gives us a hint as to
what the condition of this world will
be when the devil has unrestricted
charge of affairs. The disciples aould
not cast out the evil spirit becauyie of
their little faith (vs. 18, 20; cf. Mark
9:28, 29). But this man did not
miss the desired blessing because of
the failure of Christ's disciples, and
we do not need to miss the blessing
because of the church's failure in
faith and prayer; we can do what he
did, go right to the Lord.
The language of those who walk
by faith must be always that of
thankfulness WatU Wilkinson.
WRITINO IT UP"
"The wealth and intellect of toe
town were there."
"Well, describe what the wealth
wore, and work In a few of the epi
grams that the Intellect let fall."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
ALL ALIKE.
"There's an awful lot of sameness
bout life."
) "Oh. cheer up. Road some Jokes.
I "I have Just been reading eome.
Jbht is what prompted my first re-
ir. Mtuisviiie courier-Journal
Evil of Intoxicants.
Hugh F. Fox need not apologias
for asking for space In which to pre
sent the liquor dealers' side of the
anti-saloon controversy, nor should
any newspaper hesitate to grant any
reasonable request of that kind from
advocates of either side, for there Is
no question now before the people
which Is attracting greater attention
the country over than the problem of
how best to reduce to a minimum the
evils of excessive use of Intoxicants
without unduly Infringing. on personal
liberty.
In a business trip through Georgia
extending over ten weeks, which has
taken me Into all of the larger cities
and into most of the smaller ones, I
have studied with a great deal of
Interest the experiment they are try
ing here. Not being a partisan on
either side, I have observed, I believe,
with an Impartial eye. If anything, I
was rather prejudiced agalnBt prohi
bition as the best method, especially
for the cities.
Ignoring statistics, which are easily
manipulated and usually unreliable,
I will only say that In these ten weeks
I have only seen seven men at all
under the influence of Intoxicants, and
none of them was 'seriously so. One
can see that many In ten minutes on
the streets of any city In New Jersey
almost any day or night. The small
amount of drunkenness In the cities
of Georgia has been very surprising to
me, as I have read so much about
how prohibition does not prohibit. In
cities of other States, where my busi
ness takes me from time to time, It Is
so common as to attract no attention.
There Is a great deal of "near beer"
Bold In some of the larger cities, and
much of it Is very "near" the real
thing, but stronger drink Is harder
to obtain except In the clubs. There
its use is restricted to those not likely
to abuse the privilege. The net re
sult Is that any one who behaves him
self need not be consumed with thirst,
while those who are likely to give
their neighbors or the police trouble
find It very difficult to get into a trou
blesome condition. Everybody seems
to be satisfied except "the trade,"
and I have been unable to discover
any sentiment among the solid busi
ness element In favor of restoring the
old wide-open order, such as we have
In the North. On the contrary th
tendency seems to be toward more !
stringent laws and better enforcement '
of those they have. i
Prohibition is evidently not injur
ing Georgia commercially. Its pros
perity and development are simply
marvelous. No unbiased observer
can travel through the State without
being impressed with Its wonderful
growth and prosperity, and the order
ly government of Its cities, so differ
ent from the wide-open condition of
cities of the same size in other States
which have even a smaller proportion
of population eaBlly made disorderly.
The experiment in Georgia is well
worth watching. M. A. Nupatree,
At.'nta, in the New York Times.
viv.nrnona mff t7ifrnani nciu &mi
TOE HEART THE TI'ACE OP
PRAISE.
The Other Side.
It Is admitted by everybody that
the saloons make a town lively. They
keep police courts busy, supply occu
pants for jails and prisons and con
tribute sensational incidents for news
papers; but heretofore little has been
said about the moral benefits exerted
by them. In the campaign coming
on, this moral Issue should be kept
to the fore by the saloon orators and
organs. They should prove that
towns are made morally better by the
presence in them of a large number
of saloons. It should be shown that
the presence of several saloons In
each block downtown Improves the
appearance of business streets, and a
sentiment of pride in the existence of
saloons and a desire to Bee their num
ber Increase would be a natural corol
lary following a demonstration of
their moral benefits. From the
Rockford Republican.
Saloons In Chicago.
To every church In Chicago there
are ten saloons, and the drinking
places outnumber the police two to
one, according to a report of the
Juvenile Protective Association.
There are 7155 saloons in the city.
"A conservative estimate of the cost
fit maintaining the average saloon,"
says the report, "Is 11000 for license,'
$1000 for salary of bartenders and
$500 for rent a year, making a total
of $2500. If we multiply the 7155
saloons by this amount we have a
total of $17,887,600. Now, If we
take the population of Chicago as
2,000,000 (Including every man,
woman and child), then it Is easy to
be seen that the cost per capita at
this conservative estimate, which does
not Include any profit whatsoever, is
$8.94."
Cse of Liquor Waning.
Americans have lessened consump
tion of alcoholic beverages during the
past two years by $110,185,600, ac
cording to the American Grocer.
The figures say that during 1909
the consumption was: Whisky, $566,
913,331; beer, $879,872,642; wines,
$107,219,990; total, $1.5b4,005,863.
For 1907 the estimated total retail
cost of liquors was $1,664,191,463.
According to the Government Bureau
of Statistics, during the same period
the population Increased 2,749,966.
The per capita use of spirits Is the
smallest since 1900, and of beer since
1905. Last year's consumption of
tea, coffee and cocoa was the largest
since 1905.
Temperance Xotes.
In Florida eighty per cent, of the
territory is "dry," there being only
340 saloons left in the State.
The smaller the drink, the clearer
the head and the cooler the-blood,
which are great benefits in temper
and business. William Penn.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
decided that a saloonkeeper who Is
mobbed, and gets hurt, can only re
cover nominal damages. Hla busi
ness being illegal Is without the pale
of the law's protection.
Kansas Is simply protecting us peo
ple from the srch enemy of human
happiness. Prohibition has simply
muzzled ths brute that is 10,000
times more destructive than s mad
dcg. It has established a quarantine
azalnst a plague more destructive
than cholera. Governor Stubbs of
Kansas.
in one of our Cleveland missions
an old man of seventy-four, a recent
convert, spoke and said it was the
teccrd Sunday in bis working life
that he bad uot spent behind the bar
of a salton. "I have one foot In the
grave. 1 he said, "but I thank God that
my haud is on Ihs doprkoia e( bv
ta.
The heav'ns are not too high.
His praise may hither fly;
The earth is not too low,
His praises there may grow.
The Church with pnolms must shout.
No door can keep them out;
But above all the heart
Must bear the longest part.
Let all the world in ev'ry corner sins
My God and King!
George Herbert.
The Lesson of the Flowers.
Consider the lilies of the field.
Matt., 6:28.
There are very few who are not In
fluenced by the presence of flowers,
nnd the influence is always whole
some. If one can see In them noth
ing but weeds It. la because tbero Is
nothing in his nature to which any
thing but weeds can appeal.
If we could consider the lilies In
the sense that Christ would invoke
we could see God In them JuBt as
surely as in the face of a child. If
we could fathom the life of the flow
ers how they grow, why one is
white, another red, another blue;
why one Is star shaped, another like
the face of a babo, another suggest
ing the full lips of love we could
fathom the mystery of life, the mys
tery of God. For He directs tho life
of the lily Just as surely as our own.
The words of the text occur in
Christ's Sermon on the Mount, and
in It, as in all of His discourses. He
goes to .nature for His illustrations.
He likens the Kingdom of Heaven to
the growth of a mustard seed, and
there has never been a clearer, more
convincing definition. Just as the
smallest of seed grows Into the larg
est of trees, overtopping and domin
ating the forest, bo an ideal, an as
piration, a truth, touching the heart,
may live and grow, transforming the
character of man.
Over and over again He seeks to
make plain these truths in simple
stories, parables, conversations. He
did not speculate, philosophize, theor
ize. He simply looked upon the face
of sky and earth, saw God, felt Him
self In harmony with that God as the
Father, one with that Father, as the
lily, the vine, the mustard seed and
the grain of corn were one, and
straightway sought to teach the world
what He saw and felt and knew; and
in doing so He brought Into use all
the wonderful manifestations of God
about Him the sunset, the sky, the
rosy horizon at morn, the sower on
the upland, the fig tree a landmark on
the landscape everywhere Christ
saw sunshine and flowers and man
suggesting and radiating the pres
ence of the Father, and always it was
a Father of love, a Father that loved
man and every living thing.
It was because the Father was in
His own soul that He saw Him every
where in the face of man and nature.
And is it not a truth that the God one
believes in will color and fix his
thoughts of earth and heaven and bis
fellow? And Is it not true that the
thought and knowledge of God given
to us In His Son has changed and is
changing the face of nature, the face
of our brother, the face of God? And
when we love nature as Christ loved
nature, when we can consider the
lilies as Christ considered them, then
will we behold the face of the Father
In every living thing. Guy Arthur
Jamleson, St. Stephen's Church, New
York City, in Sunday Herald.
The Law of Growth.
Can anyone become a Christian at
.once? Yes, for one Is accepted of God
when he puts himself on God's side
and begins to follow Christ.
Can one become a full-grown
Christian at once?
No; that Is as impossible as for'a
child to become a man In a day.
What is the great law after 'one
has begun to follow Christ?
The law of growth.
Do we grow in the Christian life
as we grow In body and mind?
The law Is the same. We learn
about the teachings of Jesus as we
learn arithmetic and history. The
power of the soul Increases with age
and use. We advance in love, faith,
self-control, and in efficiency for ser
vice, and the most difficult things In
religion become plain If we are pa
tient and live near to ChrlBt.
Ought a young Christian be dis
couraged because in the beginning he
knows so little about the great things
of religion?
Not In the least. He should follow
Christ; that will keep htm a Chris
tian, Then let him grow and work
and learn. Rev. Worth M. Tlopy, In
Western Christian Advocate
Influences That Harden.
A half-hearted and unylelded soul
will grow hard and indifferent, even
on the side which Is Inclined to truth.
It is not sin only that hardens the
heart. Good things will do It. The
hammer of truth itself may harden it
not yielded to sincerity. Passive Im
pressions always harden us. The
man who hears, but has no Intention
to obey, will at length become Indif
ferent to the call. The whole counsel
of God will not be known to him, and
that which he does know, being held
apart from God Himself will only
dry and wither up his soul. For to
hold truth aright, it must be held in
secret communion with the Ood of
truth. Rev. E. W. Moore.
Ideal Praying.
I cannot contentedly frame a
prayer for myself in particular with
out a catalogue for my friends, nor
request a happiness wherein my so
ciable disposition doth not desire the
fellowship of my neighbor. Sir
Thomas Browne.
The Fuller Life.
Life Is fuller and sweeter for every
fulness and swtetnees that we take
knowledge of. And to him that hath
cannot help being given from every,
thing. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
Ripening Chilled Beef.
Australians are chilling rather than
freezing their beef for export, so that
;on the long voyage over to Britain It
may have a chance to ripen, the only
way your English beefeater likes his
meat. Chilling means keeping the
dressed carcasses in a ship's hold Just
at, not below, the freezing point
thirty-two degretis. The carcasses are
sterilized as soon as the cattle are
slaughtered, and the sterilizing
process is continued throughout the
Voysge. Tip, in the Nsw York Press.
JULY TWENTY-FOURTH
Topic A Life Lived With Christ
Gal. 2: 20; 1 John 6: 1-12.
With Christ in storm. John 6: 10
21. With Christ In Joy, John 2: 1-11.
With Christ In loss. Phil. 3: 7 14.
With Christ, strong. 2 Tim. 4: IS
IS. With Christ in service. 2 Cor. 4:
1-5.
With Christ In glory. Eph. 1: 8-10.
We are born of God If we believe
that Jesus is the Christ; but it is vital
belief, and not merely the belief of the
bead (v. 1).
It Is our faith that overcomes; that
Is, the faith that we have made ours,
but Christ has given It to us, helping
our unbelief in answer to our prayers
(v. 4).
Real belief In Christ needs no out
side witness or argument or evidence)
we know whom we have believed (v.
10).
it Is bo true that Christ Is the life
of men that whenever you Bee any
token of life love, or faith, or cour
age you may be sure that Christ la
there (v. 12).
Suggestions.
One way to get close to Christ Is to
live much with the words He uttered.
So one can be a live Christian and
neglect His Bible.
Another way to get close to Christ
Is to do His will. Christ's love is with
the needy among men, and if we are
helping them, we shall find Him by
our side.
You cannot get close to Christ with
out long talks with Him. Stinting the
time for prayer Is pushing Christ
farther and farther away.
Living with Christ Implies an eager
ness to get ever closer to Him, and
spend ever more, and not less, time
with Him. Can you stand the test?
Illustrations.
Husband and wife, living lovingly
together, come to look alike. So with
the Christian and Christ, living to
gether. If two people lived In the earn
house and never Bpoke to each other,
we should think that they had quarrel
led, and before long one of them
would move out.
EP1RTH LEAGUE LESSONS
8UNDAY, JULY 24.
The Christian's Reward Hereafter. 2
Tim 4. 8; Pet 1. 3, 4; Psa. 73.
21-28 What the Scrip
ture Means,
2 Tim. 4. 8. It is a figure of the old
Greek games. ' Paul has contested!
a good contest, and a reward is his
the crown of the victor. But it is no
fading chaplet of leaves, this reward
for righteousness. That gift of the
Judges in the stadium soon lost its
freshness, and the memory of the peo
ple for a last year's winner was not
of much more worth. The crown
which the righteous Judge would give
the man who had run his race and
fought his fight for Christ's sake and
the gospel's would never fade. It was
to last as long as he did, that Is, for
ever. And this Is one of the glories
of heaven we shall never be the neg
lected survivors of a forgotten strug
gle England may let some soldier of
the empire find a refuge in the poor
house, but God rewards not so stingily
as that.
1 Pet 1. 3, 4. The Jew was espec
ially familiar with the Idea of inheri
tance. Palestine was his inheritance,
to which he looked while sjill a desert
wanderer. And the promised land it
self waa only a type of a better inher
itance to which all God's Israel may
look while pilgrims here on earth. The
Christian's inheritance cannot be cor
rupted or defined by sin and wicked
ness. Its joys will not grow taste
less with time. .
Psa. 73. 21-28. The center of this
passage, for our purpose, is verse 24:
guidance here and reward hereafter.
That Is the history, in five words, of
every true servant of Jesus Christ; to
day direction, tomorrow distinction;
today God's providence, tomorrow
God's presence.
DOG DIE8 SAVING BABIES FROM
BEAR.
Three little children of S. B. Walte,
who lives on the mountain near Ty.
rone. Pa., the eldest of whom Is but
nine years old, were saved from an
Infuriated female bear by a faithful
pet dog, which was torn to ribbons In
their defence.
The children, accompanied by their
canine pet and playmate, were strol
ling through the woods, Intending to
visit an aunt, who lives a short dis
tance from the Walte home. Pass
ing a piece of dense brush, the oldest
child, a girl, saw three young bear
cubs at play. The children stopped,
and she ventured Into the bruBh and
picked up a cub not larger than a
kitten and began to stroke it.
While the younger children
watched, half afraid to approach the
other two cubs, who began to wtlle,
the mother bear came crashing
through the brush and charged. The
little dog, not one-tenth the size of
the bear, leaped to the sescue, tack
ling the animal and distracting her
attention while the three children.
dropped the cub and fled back over
tne train to their home.
. Arriving there they told their fa
ther of the occurrence. Mr. Walte
promptly summoned neighbors and,
armed, went to the spot, hoping per-'
haps to And the brave little dog alive,
but the faithful little pet bad fought
the bear and aiven the children ttm
to escape safely and died In the task.
ine ooay or tne aog was carried
home and burled, the parents of the
children and their playmates acting
as chief mourners. Over the grave
a marker was placed with the in
scription, "He was only a dog, but lie
died for bis little friends."
iy?oUSEHOLDpjpip
r
Probably True. '
A raw Irishman shipped as one of
the e'rtw on a revenue cruiser. His
turn at the wheel came around, and
sifter a somewhat eccentric seaslon-ln
the pilot bouse he found himself the
butt of no little humor below,
"Begorrah." he growled at last,
"and ye needn't talk. I bet done
I more ateerlu' In ten minutes "a ye
jdone In yer howl watch." St. Paul
Dispatch, i
I
For Brilliant Windows.
Take ay pad of cotton rag soaked ln
glycerin, and rub the glass all 0vsr
inside. Then take a piece of clean
dry rag and lightly polish the gla3
until the glycerin is Invisible, but not
entirely rubbed away. Do this when
the glass Is fairly warm and dry, and
you will get brilliant windows', no
condensation' and a great saving a
the amount of cleaning Woman's
Life.
Suggestion For Fireplace In Summer
A very pretty way to arrange ths
fireplace ln summer Is to have a car
penter make a box of one-half inch
plank, having It narrow in back and
broader in front to fit the fireplace
and have the bottom pierced with
holes. Paint a dark green' and fill
with earth. Plant ferns and arrange
them, having long graceful ones fait
over the hearth and small ones he
tween. Use '-green moss to cover ths
earth and you will be very pleased
with the effect. Mrs. M. A. Capen,
In the Boston Post.
Lace Curtains.
Cut strips of strong muslin a4out
one and one-half Inches wide, the de
sired length of the curtains. Dust
strips to the plain edges of fine cur
tains with a long stitch. Pin curtains
into frame the usual way and when
dry the stitches can be easily ripped
(while still on the frame) with sharp
scissors. By this method the curtain
edges are perfectly straight, thui
avoiding the points always made by
pinning into the edge. The same
strips may be used year after year.
Elva F. Westgate, ln the Boston Post.
Easy to- Wash Bed Quilt.
Make your quilt ln four large
squares and bind each square and sew
them together with over and over
stitch, the same as seams in sheets.
Stitch them across back and forth on
your sewing machine, but leave the
presser foot np It will run very fast
and you have a quilt made ln a very
short time. When you wish to wash
them it is very easy to rip out the
stitches and put together again. It
you make them ln three or four strips
it will eaBlly pass through the
wringer. Emma Pinet, ln the Boston
Post.
A Friendship Cushion,
From a distance It had the effect
of a wheel with spokes radiating out
wards, or If one had a poetical turn
of mind, It could have suggested King
Sol himself with all his glory rays;
but on closer examination it resolved
itself into a friendship cushion.
My friend explained apologetically
that it was merely an elaboration of
the old teacloth Idea, but the effect
was so good I mentally resolved to
copy it as soon as possible.
The cushion cover was made of a
rather coarse linen of a soft green
shade, while the embroidery was
worked in a darker green lustrine,
though naturally it could be copied
ln any range of colors selected by Its
maker.
The centre was composed of a big
circle worked ' In satin and cross
stitch, though, of course, the actual
stitches would be merely a matter of
Individual taste.
In this circle, Inscribed ln bold let
ters, were the words, "Le Temps
passe, L'amatle teste," or some other
appropriate motto might be used.
From the centre radiated faint pencil
lines (easily washed out after they had
served their purpose, and the em
broidery was finished), and on these
lines my friend had asked her friends
to sign their names.
The signatures were many and
varied, but when embroidered ln stem
oc-outline stitch the effect was re
markably good and had a far better
result than the Inartistic and promis
cuous scattering about of names on
the now commonplace teacloths, says
Home Notes.
A row of feather stitching In an
other shade of green finished off the
frills' junction to the cushion, while
more names formed the border of the
well stuffed cushion. The frills them
selves had charming little star shaped
stitches to form a finish, worked
along the hem, and the whole effect
was so satisfactory I thought others
might care to make themselves a
friendship cushion for their own par
ticular den.
Potato Cones. Boll potatoes till
soft; season with a very little salt,
pepper and a tablespoonful of milk;
mash to a cream; mold In small tea
cups; when cold, turn out of molds,
dust lightly with bread crumbs,, put
a little melted butter on each, and
brown In a moderate oven for twenty
minutes.
Plum Meringue-- Stew the plums,
press them through a colander or
sieve, sweeten to taste, and put In a
glass dish; pour over them a plain
boiled custard, In which the yolks of
the eggs only are used, then spread
meringue, made of the whites of the
eggs and sugar, over the custard and
serve cold.
Coffee. Four tablespoonfuls of
ground coffee; scald the coffee pot;
put In coffee the shell1 of one egg;
cover with one quart of ! freshly
boiled water; boll for three minutes;
put in one-quarter of a cup of cold
water; cover the cofTee pot with a
"cqsey" and let- stand Ave minutes;
scald one-half cup of milk. Berve
very hot.
Apple Pudding. Peel and slice
three medium-sized apples; make a
batter of one-half teacup of sugar,
two teaspoons of butter, scant half
teacup of milk, one teacup of flour,
halt teaspoon of baking powder, one.
gg; stir ln the apples; bake In a
moderate oven thirty or forty min
utes. Serve with one cup of wilt
and tour tablespoons of sugar.