I THE PULPIT. .AN ELOOUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. W. Q. M'CREADY. Theme: Christ's Supremacy. Brooklyn, N. Y. The new rector. f St. Peter's Church, the Rev. Dr.; ei'llltnm George MrCready. successor b the Kev. Dr. Lindsay Parker, began lis pulpit duties Sunday morning. He rR greeted by a large audience. Dr. tfcCready preached astralght, simple. ,yet forreful gospel sermon and made a fine Impression. Ills subject was "Christ's Supremacy." He took his text from I. Corinthians 2:l-: , "And I, brethren, when I came to you. came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony nf nod. "For I determined not to know Anything anions you. save .Jesus Christ, arid liim crucified "And I was with you in weakness, i and In fear, and In much fromhlins:. "And My speech ami My p-eaching i .was not with enticing wnrd.i of man's I .wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; "That your faith should pot s ,mu In the wisdom of men, but in the pow er of CrOfl." Dr. McCreadv s.iid: It was a cus tom anion the Romans to go up once (a year to Rome, and to renew the oath which they took as soldiers of the empire, to Cae.-ar. Po we come to-day to take our sai ratnentum, and to proclaim afresh our declaration of a purpose to believe, and to follow 'Jesus Christ. In correspondence with that Idea, ,and nlso in correspondence with the .practice which I have preserved through the years of my ministry, I always preach niv first sermon from this text, because I feel that one of the things which the congregation de 'stres is that the mini who stands in the pulpit and who oners the spiritual sacrifice of God's table, shall, without any ambiguity, make declaration of jhls faith in Jesus Christ, that In this age, this disturbed age. this nge of religious distraction, men want some ;harbor of safety, men want some an chor of hope, men want some secu rity, that in the evening of life, when the body is weary, they may lay their heads on that hope. And so, as year succeeds year of my ministry I feel constrained to reiterate these state ments of my faith, first of all, with the simplicity of the scheme of re demption, with the simplicity of the great work of Jesus Christ. Men to-day care nothing about the technicalities of one's creed. Men's , creed to-day Is Jesus Christ and Him crulcifled; that in Him not in some theory or speculation about Him, but in Him men may find their hope nnd security. What matters It to me that men in their speculation shall discov- aced vvTintrm, Tils delicate son, and , his grandson, found perhaps coming to their minds something of the his tory of their country. They had reached the climax, perhaps, of the hlstorv of their Fatherland In that they had Invaded the country of their enemy, and secured a great conquest, and those men ns one man raised their swords above the heads of these three men and renewed their fidelity, their service to their country. Mr. Gladstone went to church every morning of every year at 7 o'clock, because he realized how much he needed the power of Ood in the pre miership. So it was with the Marquis of Salisbury and with Disraeli, the three greatest statesmen, perhnps, that Great Rritaln has ever had. They sought for this solace and comfort and strength, so that they might un derstand their duty. So it is with us. We come this morning l .Tut n T nm. without one plea, Hut tint Thv blued was shed for me. I And tlmt Tlmu bi.ldest me tnme to Thee, , O. I, niuli of God, I come,' 1 come. I hope that there Is somebody com ! inc this morning, some man who for I -ome reason has not been coming to ibis blessed table, who wants to come, to sanctify his resolution to proclaim to God his purpose to take upon him self these responsibilities. ' I remember years ago a man en tered St. James' Church. Chicago. His dress showed he was from the Far West. He said to one of the ushers, "I want to see the rector." The ush er told him that It was too late then to see the rector, that he was putting ,on his vestments for the service The man said, "Perhaps you can hetp roe. Twenty years ago I lived In Cue East. I went to church. Then I went West. There was no church where I was. I drifted away from God. And now, at the end of twenty years, I want to come back. I am hungry. I want to renew the vow that I made In my youth. I want to know if I can como to holy communion and take it." The usher was a practical man. and he took the hymnal nnd showed him that hymn and they went together. Now. my friends, we have talked i about Socialism and the various Isms j that are to deal with various condl- i .Hons, but I tell you. I have studied ! them, and I know that the only one to I solve that Is Jesus Christ and Him rruclfled. Every man Is a brother. It I Is not philosophy, but the affection I which we have for Jesus Christ which I 'makes us love our brother. And the j man who loves Josur Christ and be- j lieves that He was crucified, that is the man who is willing to tnke his i brother by the hand. My friends, let tts have, before the Lenten season doses, before the Whitsuntide, let us have the Holy Ghost upon this congregation: let us have the full power of His truth nnd i our duty, and then we have the out pouring of the spirit here, and others will come. And thereforo I begin my j service nnd my mission as your rector t The Sunday School INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MEXT8 FOR JULY 31. Subject: A Lesson on Forgiveness, Matt. 18:21-3.1 Commit Verses 21, 22. in this Imperfect fashion, simply of er In the confines or this noon oi lioa leim jm '.' the doctrine of election? That they I ' love men. No man hns too fre flnd there that God fixed the number fluently fallen Into temptation to pre to be saved or to be lost? What mat- vent me from leading him back to ters it if men find that those that are j Ood. In God's good time Ho puts of the elect of God can never fall I upon him the stamp of His favor. In away? What matters it if In these I God's good time Ho plants upon him nren.lfitlons men find that I have a ! the sunshine of hone, and puts out his warrant of Jesus Christ, who calls me personally to come unto Him, not calls me In some aggregation, but calls me personally to come unto Him and be at rest. Here, friends, here Is a warrant for my hope. I find warrant also in the conversation between Christ and Nic odemus, who comes to Him by night to nsk Him certain question, and the answer is that "God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Bon. that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but shall have ever lasting life." Let men speculate In the cool, damp prison of CaivlnlHtn, and I shall put the sunshine of "whosoever" opposite It, to say, it matters not how dis tracted men are, I Hhall point them to these placid words of Jesus Christ, and so take Him and find peace in Him. I feel In coming here this morning that it Is a great privilege to stand in this pulpit. It requires but little in formation about this church to find hands for help and strength We are reminded of what the Car- C.OLDEN TEXT. "If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." Math. 6:14. TIME. Autumn, A. D. 29 rince. Capernaum. EXPOSITION I. Keeking: For. glvenem for Self, 21-27. Peter's question is exceedingly Important and practical. It Is a question with which we are all confronted experimentally We all have those whom we forgive, and scarcely hnve forgiven them be fore they offend again. How long shall they be permitted to keep this up? Peter suggested seven times as ! a possible outside limit. That Is far higher thnn most of us go, but Jesus multiplied Peter's high figures by seventy, and said there is where you ought to go, "seventy times seven." I Here we have the perfect number. multiplied by the number of com pleteness, multiplied again by the perfect number. In other words, never cease forgiving. Let your pa tience be Inexhaustible and your for giving love infinite. At the first glance it seems a hard saying, but as we continue to look at it, we see It as a most sweet and gentle saying; for if He bids us to do this to others, He certainly will Himself do it to us. The parable that follows emphasizes this gracious truth. I need, then, never fear again to go to Hlin, say ing, "Forgive me," no matter how often or how seriously I have sinned. If my heart hesitates, I hear Him whispering, "Until seventy times fevon" (Col. 3:13; Eph. 4:32; 6:1). Reckoning a talent roughly at $1200, tho king's debtor was twelve mill ion dollars in debt. And this is a pic ture of each of ns. We are hopeless ly in debt to God nnd we have nought to pav (Lu. 7:42; Ps. 130:3; Ez. 9:6; Ps. 40:12). It is not before an ab stract law, but before a person, that we are guilty (Ps. 61:4). If we could only be brought to fully realize row great our unpaid debt Is that Is freely forgiven us, we would surely not find it hard to forgive others. The debtor was "brought" to the king. We as sinners do not come Into God's presence of our own ac cord, the Spirit brings us there (Jno. 16:7-9). Verse 25 pictures God's dealings with us on the ground of law (Gal. 3:10). But it is only to bring us to sue for mercy and grnce (Rom. 3:19-24; Gal. 3:22-24). The demand of just payment brought this debtor down upon his knees, and that Is where the full demand of law brings each of us if we are wise. And yet this debtor fancied he could ulti mately pay his debts if he onlyliad time. This is true to human experi ence. When first awakened to a sense of our sins, we still fancy we can pay some time. We think we can atone for past sins by future good works. It is only after awnue tnai THE CHEAT lTttO if LK SOME STARTLING FACTS AHOU'l TUB V1CK OK INTEMPERANCE. An Appeal From n Drinker. The following pathetic and tragic tetter Is published in the American Magazine: "About seven years ago I had a wife and one child and held a civil service position which would have insured me a good salary the rest of my days if I had not gone to drink ing. I lost my position on account of drink, was suspended from my lodge for misconduct while intoxicated, and finally got to where I could not even get work as a common laborer. I tried to reform, but found it Impossi ble If I stayed In my home town; I tried to persuade my wife to move somewhere else or to let me go and then come to me after I had become established somewhere else. She re fused to leave or to let me do so, and finally I ran away from them in order to get away from the drink. "I have been spending the past (hree years In the extreme 'back woods' section of this State (Flor ida), guarding prisoners on turpen tine farms, and absolutely away from all liquor yet when I had occasion to make a short trip to one of our larger cities a few weeks ago it was one tremendous and continuos .strug gle to keep out of the bar-rooms, and I hope never to be obliged to spend another twenty-four hours 'In a 'wet' town. "This Is the situation after a three years' trial at overcoming the liquor habit: My wife secured a divorce as soon after I left home as possible, and at. thirty-five years of age I am obliged to stay away out In the woods, cut off from everything I consider makes life worth living fol lowing an uncongenial occupation and afraid to go among the people I used to for fear of again failing. If you can. through your magazine, create a sentiment that will make this coun try safe for those of us who have fallen, It will certainly be appreciated by mo at any rate." monument: "We greatly desired him In the day of battle." And so we de sire Jesus Christ In our day of battle, and all the theories and isms shall be ns wrecks along the road of time. The efficacious work of His sacrament shall be visible to men everywhere, and they shall thank God for the glo rious opportunity of believing in Him. Wliat Christ Wants. Is there nothing that Christ, as your friend, your Lord, your Saviour, wants you to do that you are leaving undone to-day? Do you doubt one in stant that it is His will that you should honor nnd help and bless all the men about you who are His breth ren? And are you doing anything like that? Do you doubt one instant that His will l that you should make life serious and lofty? Do yon doubt one instant that He wants you to be how matters hive gore in the parish, I pure in deed and woi-d and thought? how men and women have gone home j And are you pure? Do tou doubt one lu iiihi so inumtmiiiv uqiupiieii niiu i nrrtuMort ff.r lltr.t lilaauarl liat-ltntra ' which God ha' promised. It has been a privilege for you men and women to live in this hi- s-eil atmosphere, It Is a great prlviltgn to feel that mystic union, that spiritual relationship be tween those on earth and those In that Paradise where Christ shall set up Ills kingdom, and His children will be with Him. And I want to main tain the prestlze of thU pulpit. You say that is a difficult thing to do. It Is not difficult, if I obtain the prayers and sympathy of those who worship here. Christ's process Is a heavenly process, and so the process of reju venation is a heavenly process. I cannot explain to you the coining to gether of the peonle of a congrega tion. I cann.it explain to you how in the taking of this blessed sacrament of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, God Invested the blessed recipient with heavenly grace. I cannot ex plain to you when you are asking a special blessing on the rector who is ministering to you day after dav. That Is a spirit It may seem old fashioned, but that is a spirit of aban don which I possess when it comes to the things pertaining to God. Noth ing Is paradoxical, nothing Is Incom prehensible to me In the scheme of God. I take the Ilible from lid to lid. I take the miracles set forth In the lilble without question. I accept them in the fulueis of rny heart, because God is not God unless He puts into these works His own power. His own spirit, His own love. I have seen men sent from the transcendent belghtsof splendid man hood down to the dismal depths ef degradation. I have seen a face marred with the marks of sin, and the body heavy with the weight of sin. And I have seen this same Individual reluvenated with the spirit of God It is transmutation of the elements of the Individual. Ii Is bringing the whole man Into play, according to Cod's direction. I believe that to-day the church stands forth more glorious than it has ever stood, becausa the Spirit has teen operating In its own way In the' hearts of men. I he Hplrlt now is op. rating more than It has since the vm nf Pentecost, and raising tip de- bout laymen to a sense of their re sponsibility In this matter of mls lons. This Is the work of the church iol God. . i v ramAmtiur that after the Ger jrosns. In the war between France and V.m.Dfir had entered Versailles, thuv rathered lu one of tbe great . ik niui! and there on tbe 'platform stood William, Emperor of 'Germany, his son, Frederick, and his .-..r,n tha nresent Emueror Of -w .nit that araraitallon of linen who assembled, men who there I on which .contemplated the picture of the three,! lfrwn of lUCB wftf mioob-UU thagenians wrote upon Hannibal's It fully dawns upon us that we can - - .. . . . . . 1 1 1 Y. .. . .nli.nllAn ,.1111". (10 nOlUing HI Ull, Lllttl. uanaviun be not only partly but wholly of grace (Eph. 2:8, 9). In verse 27 we nave God dealing in grace. Now It is all grace, Just as it was before all law. "The Lord" does not extend the time of paying the debt, but fully remits It. God never mixeB law and grace (Gal. 6:2-4; Gal. 3:10; Rom. 3:28; 11:6). The basiB of grace is nothing 1 in us, but something in God, His own "compassion." The condition upon which God deals in grace Is In us, viz., that we acknowledge our hope less indebtedness and sue for mercy (cf. Lu. 18:13, 14; Rom. 10:12, 13). 1L- lief using Forgiveness to An. other, 28-35. The one who had Just been fSrgiven-a twelve-million dollar debt went right out and tried to vio lently etact a debt of seventeen dol lnrs from another. That seems In credible, but It Is a scene enacted j every day, and by some of the readers of these lines. God has rorgiven you debts hose greatness defies compu tation, and you go out and exact the paltry debts your fellow-men owe you. How many are harboring grudges over some petty slight or of fence! We should all meditate long nnd deeply over this parable. His debtor acted precisely toward him as he had acted towards his own cred itor, but he remembered nothing and has no mercy. This is true to life. Others suo us for mercy as we have made our suit to God, but we have no mercy for them. "Pay the debt" U our demand. The outcome is start ling, "His Lord called him." If we will not listen to the cry of our debt ors, then we shall hear the voice of our creditor. God freely offers for giveness for all our $12,000,000 in debtedness, but if we truly accept it we will prove it by freely forgiving others. If we do not forgive others It proves that we have despised the proffered mercy of God. We are now back on the law basis, and we shall be delivered to the tormentors till we pay "all that is due." That we can never do, so our torment will be ever lasting. There is no mercy for the man who shows by refusing mercy to others, he has despised It for himself (Jas. 2:13). The only way to learn to be merciful Is by believing In the mercy of God revealed In Christ to ward us (1 Jno. 4:19. R. V.). Jesus points His own parable, there can be no mistaking its meaning (see verse 35). There Is then no hope for many a professed Christian, unless they re pent of their attitude towaras some r-'.o have wronged them. The gate to hell here pointed out Is a wide one, and many go In thereat. I'.ar ami llottle Law. The Boston Herald, after a thor ough investigation, has decided on the reason for the opposition of the brewers of Masachusetts to the new "bar and bottle" law In that State, which goes Into effect next year. The law takes from the saloon the right to sell bottled liquors. It leaves to the holder of the first class license the right only to sell liquors "to be drunk on the premises." Its purpose Is to prevent tbe workingman who has bought drinks in a saloon from buying in the same place frequently' bottled liquor to be taken away, with which to continue his drinking on the streets or in his home. "The brewers," says the Herald, "were the Interests apparently most Interested In the defeat of the bill. Why should a bar and bottle bill, whose purposes are as above described, so concern gentlemen whose business is to brew beer? Here is the answer: More than eighty per cent, of the retail liquor traffic in the city of Eoston is controlled In whole or in part by the local breweries and their business associates." , Instant that His command is for you openly to own Htm, nnd declare that you nre His servant before all the world? And have you done It? These are questions which make the whole matter clear. Not in quiet lanes nor In bright templo courts, as once He spalte, anil not from blazing heavens ns men sometimes seem to expect not so doeB Christ speak to us. And yet Ho sneaks! I know what He there In all His glory He here in my heart iwants me to do to-day. and I know that I am not mistaken In my knowl edge. It Is no guess of mine. U Is ifiis voice that tells roe. Phillips Urooks. A Mood Folson. Heslod Bald: "Dishonest gains are as bad as losses. Whatever a man shamelessly seizes, bo it iver so little. poisons his blood." This is a bottom fact theft, graft, extortion, poisons the blood; it makes a bad character.' We think that a little dishonesty is a definite thing that goes no further than tbe act itself; that a person is guilty of a little theft, and that is all it amounts to; that the sin Is located like a scratch or a pimple. But no; the dishonesty germ gets Into the' blood and poisons that, and makes the fault constitutional, ready to produce all kinds of faultH. There is tbe harm. It is not In the isolated fact. It poisons the blood. It weakens tbe whole man. Ohio State Journal. Our Nation's Million Drunkards. A startling statement, the truth of which there is no reason to dispute, was made a few days ago by Dr. De lancey Carter, of the New York Medi cal Society for the Study of Alcohcl and Other Narcotics, before a session of the society in Philadelphia. He de clared that one million persons In this country to-day are confirmed in ebriates. Of these one-third die year ly as a result of drink, yet this num ber Is annually made up by recruits to the army of drunkards. Thus the total enrolment of 1,000,000 ia kept up. This problem, he asserted, exceeds in sociological importance anything known to modern civilization. He urged Institutions for their treatment, educational efforts and every legal method of restraint. The figures given by Dr. Carter are appalling. They are a tremendous argument against the drink habit. The wreck ing of a third of a million bodies and bouIs by rum every year In our coun try shows the need of increased ag gressiveness by every temperate man and woman against the saloon. Christian Work and Evangelist. QUI fcT "TTOU1V LORD, KEEP ME OXE. Lord, keep me one in deed, and word, and thought; With such distractions all the world is rife And different aspects cleave os with a knife In fragments small the good that must bf sought. Give the controlling motive, for untaught ly Thy divinity I am at strife. And shreds and patches make my trou bled life; From out my chaos order must be brought. .O, unify, direct, subdue, control These warring elements, diverse desires, These conflict! of the timid Hcnh with soul ; Huih Thou the voice that breathes the worldly word. Attune these ears to hear Thee speak, O Lord Quench with Thy Spirit all the earthly fires! Caroline Hnznrd, in The Congregation-alist. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES JULY THIRTY-FIRST The Enemy. The enemy Is often mentioned In the Bible. Men are warned against his wiles. Who Is the enemy? Our Lord does not leave us In the dark. He says plainly and In so many words .that the enemy is the Devil. Some itheologlans and some moralists are .horrified when we warn men against the devices of Satan as though he .were a real, personal being. They 'tell us that the doctrine of the Devil is an exploded fable and that the Devil Is a myth. But Jesus did not think so, and who will say that Jesus was lacking in intelligence or that He was ignor ant of spiritual truth? But tome will .say that while He was a great teacher He lived a long time ago, and His words must be interpreted in the light ;of the times in which He lived. He did not mean to teach that there is a real person called Satan, but the peo ple of His time believed it, and He .accommodated His speech to the low order of intelligence which pre vailed. It Is true that Jesus lived long ago, but His words were not merely for His own time. They were for all time. The words of men pass away. iThey speak In their own time, and with the light of the time, and In a few yearB the world has outgrown their doctrines. Their words fail. But Jesus spoke In the light of God, and His words shall not pass away. They are as fresh and vital to-day as they were nineteen hundred years ago. He spoke of tbe Devil as a real being, and He was either deceived, or 'He was a deceiver in this matter. How can any intelligent man bring his mind to believe either? If there was a Devil then there is one now. If Jesus did well to warn men of that age against his devices we do well to receive that warning now. If it was the business of Satan then to sow tares it is his business now. He is evidently very busy about that busi ness still. Tares are springing up in our cities, in our homes, in our churches, in all the world. "Your adversary, the Devil, goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." If there was ever a time when men should watch that time is now. Christian Advocate. Time to Awake. In October, 1904, there were 3000 legul saloons in Iowa: 'In October, 1907, the number was 2000; July 1. 1908, the number had been reduced to 1757, and on February 1, ltflit, the number was 1368, During the month of January, 1910, twenty-three saloons were closed lu the State, and seventeen druggist permits were re voked. Des Moines, the capital city, with a population of 100, ouo, has ninety-five saloons, which Is fewer than one to 1000 population, the legal limit. It is time for Iowa to wake up again and drive the saloon out! Six new elements, writes the Lon- idon correspondent of the New York Sun, have been discovered, so profes sor Muthmann, of Munich, an nounced fct tbe congress of German chemists, by the Viennese doctor Auer von Welsbach. The news came by letter from tho Inventor himself while the professor was reading his paper on "Rare Earths." It was to tbe effect that Dr. von Welsbach had succeeded in separating terbium and thullumb, previously believed to be elements, into two constituents each, and dysproitlum and gadollnum, two other rare elementary substances. In to three each. Tbe number of ele mentary rare earths ban thus been In creased from sixteen to twenty-two. It may be recalled that last year Dr. von Welsbach simultaneously with the French scientist Urbaln discov ered that ytterbium, for thirty years believed to be an element, was divis ible. Blocs' 1878 the Viennese savant has added ten elements to those known to science, a record for any single Inventor and an. achievement hlcb the congress sent Dim a tele congratulation. Jeans and the Day of Rest. 1, He has authority concerning It. The Son of Man Is Lord of the Bab bath. Since It is man's day, It is con trolled by Him who Is the head and representative of humanity. 2. He requires Inward and real observance of the day, rather than mere outward and seeming obedience to Its laws. 3. He gives man's need as tbe great reason for the day's observance. The Sabbath was made for man. 4. It Is not merely a day of secular tt, but a day of sploUual activity. Let It Work llotli Ways. If a saloonkeeper denies the right of the farmers living outtside of town to vote on the licensing of saloons in the town, ask him what he would think of a law restrlctiug the sale of liquor to people living In the town. Will the saloonkeeper insist that he has a right to fill a man with liquor and Bend him out into the county to create a disturbance and then deny that the people who are disturbed have a right to be heard? The farm ers are beginning to see that they have rights as sacred as those claimed by the liquor dealer. For Not Knowing Better. "I did the best I knew!" protested tbp dressmaker's apprentice sullenly, when she was sharply reprimanded for a piece of ill-judged work that! ruined a valuable dress and vexed a valuable customer. "I don't see what she's blaming me for!" "I'm not blaming you for doing the best you know how!" said the em ployer, overhearing and turning on her crisply; "I'm blaming you for not knowing any better! You ought to you've been here long enougn. You mean well, but good intentions aren't enough to carry on the dressmaking business." They aren't enough In any busi ness. It Is an old proverb that good Intentions pave a place of very dis reputable character. "He meant well," Is about the poorest thing one can say of a person, short of actual detraction; unless we except that other phrase of mild apology; "He did the best he knew how." When ever you hear either of these you know at once that it Is a case of failure on somebody's part to do the right thing at the right moment, and usually, it you look closely enough, there was fault behind the failure. To do the best we know la not enough when we might , know' any better.- Kind Words. A Wretched State. The envious man Is in psln upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is averted; and tbe objects which ad minister the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this pas sion give the quickest pangs to per sons who are subject to It. All the perfections of their fellow creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are provocations of their dis. pleasure. What a wretched and apos tate state is this to be offended with excellence and td hate a man because we approve him! i At the recent meeting of the Amer ican Street and Interurban Engineer ing Association of Atlantic City, a lew system of street railway con duction, was proposed. Tbe Idea tvas to form the csr wheels without langes, but Instead to place tbe langes on the rails. The new con it ruction was ably presented and tisny good arguments were brought forward to show the superiority of luch a system over the present one. I r-Scientific American. Temperance Notes. Statistics show crime In Georgia has decreased sixty per cent, and busi ness baB greatly Improved under pro hibition. Ireland has Introduced the teaching of scientific temperance Into the na tional schools. Temperance legisla tion for Ireland cannot long be de layed. Union Signal. A petition has been presented to the Servian Minister of the Interior for the appointment of a permanent commission to study the question of alcoholism. -National Prohibitionist. Officials In tbe International Har vester Company plant at Sterling, III., so says tbe Chicago Tribune, have placed a ban on liquor drinking em ployes. Hereafter no man who con fesses to taking even au occasional "nip" will be employed. Tie other day a man wearing the button emblem of tbe Personal Lib erty League was brought before Judge Fry, of Chicago. Containing himself as best he could the Judge finally broke out as follows: "You are about the tenth man wearing a button like that who has been before me within tbe last ten days to answer to cbarge of getttpf rirrrk and beat log bis wife." ; . This World a Heaven. For my part, I do not think we have any right to think of a heaven for others, much less of a heaven for ourselves in the world to come, until we are wholly determined to make this world a heaven for our fellow men, and are hoping, believing, lov ing, and working for that, and for Its realization, not In a thousand or a million years, but In a nearer and a nearer future. Stoptord A. Brooke. Where God Works. "God worketb in you." This im plies the actual presence of God at the centre of our being. Tbe very simplicity of the words renders them difficult of understanding; for no man understands tbe complex and mar velous mechanism of his own person ality. Ood worketh In you not out side, but In In the place where thought is born and tbe throne of the will Is set up and the affections have their seat; In tbe inward shrine of tbe being Ood worketh. Camp bell Morgan. ; P. F. Bander points out that no Inly tbe direction and Intensity of tight, but Its color, must be consid ered In estimating Its power to re real fine details. Experiment show that most persons are short-slghtc for blue and violet light. When pat terns are Illuminated alternate!' With red, green and blue light It I found that for eaBe of seeing mlnut fetalis blue and green light are, pre' rsble to red for short distances, be that at greater distances rtd Ugh gives the best results. Topic My Most Interesting Mission ry Item Ps. 44: 1-4; Acts 28: 23-29. Viewing the land. Num. 13: 17, 18, 26-33. The deaf church. Isa. 63: 1; Rom. 10: 19-21. A missionary report. Acts 13: 1-3; 14: 24-28. Objections to missions. Acts 11: 1-18. Favorite reports In Acts. Acts 1C: 16-31. Missionary martyrs. Acts 12: 1, 2; John 21: 18, 19. David could not only bear with his ears the glorious deeds of God's peo ple, but we have that knowledge car ried to us on the wings of the printed page from every corner of the world (Ps. 44: 1). In all our studying of the heroic deeds of missionaries let us remember that we are reading not merely about the acts of men, but of God. Our love to Him should be strengthened as we read (P. 44: 3). The Kingdom of Qod was predom inant In Paul's thought, and should be in ours. All our lire should be one prayer, "Thy Kingdom come" (Act 28: S3). Wo read about educational missions, and medical missions, and missionary exploration, but we must not forget that underneath ' ail is the one aim. to bring salvation to lost men (Acts 28: 28). A Missionary Melange. This is to be a hlt or-mlss mission ary meeting, except that there will be no misses! Each Endeavorer will bring some missionary Item from his own reading, will give It, and say a few words about it. You may wish to enlarge upon one of the following, taken at random from the Infinitely rich treasury of such Items open to every student. There are 637 foreign missionary so cieties at work In the world. In 1896 all Christendom raised for foreign missions only $13,620,972. In 1907 the sum raised was nearly twice that, nr.mely, $22,469,680. There are 18,499 missionaries In the world, laboring In foreign lands. Add to these the thousands of home mis sionaries, and what a glorious army we have! Ultimately, the gospel Is to be car ried to the' millions of foreigners by satire Christians, whom the mission aries are training for this work. If we count these native helpers already trained and at work, the foreign mis sionary force numbers 114.S75. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JULY 31. The Life Hereafter 1 Cor. 15. 53, 54; 1 John 3. 2.. Curious questions concerning the life to come are ever challenging our attention. To those who were over speoulative, Christ said, "What is that to thee? follow thou me." When the disciples were sorrowful and dis couraged he inspired them with vi sions of the heavenly habitations In etore for them. The hope of Immor tality has been the inspiration of many of the highest and holiest achievements of man. It Is the conviction of the apostle that a full-orbed faith must give people a chance In two worlds. It is tbe su preme privilege of the mortal life that It can put on Immortality. It Is worth while to live If the fralllty of mortal life Is to give way to strength In the immortal life. Death has always been the dread of mankind. It was especially the terror of the ancients. It was tbe lignt of Christian faith that dispersed the darkness that gathered about the tomb. The resurrection of Christ fron. the dead becomes the sure ground for man's hope. Inspired by' this hope, millions have entered the valley of the shadow with a smile of confidence. To them death was but a transition, it was merely the Open ing of the gateway Into a larger life. Paul does not explain the glorious change that will take place in us, the increased opportunities of the Immor al life, of the superior joys of the re deemed, but doubt casts no shadow over the conviction he holds that our destiny will be In every way worthy of our highest aspiration and our best efforts. ENEMIES OF THE BIRDS. . Two C's are dangerous enemies of the song birds cats and crows. There is nothing a crow likes so much as a tender baby robin, or thrush, or lark, and many a proud parent has come hurrying home with a fat worm for the gaping bills only to And that the nest has been despoiled by those big black cannibals, the crows. That Is why every bird lover, says Mabel Osgood Wright, In the last number of Bird Lore, should make a point of hunting out the crow haunts In his neighborhood and destroying the eggs as soon as laid. Of course, even crows have their feelings, but their behavior Is not to be endured. These black fellows are so warred upon by farmers because of the dam age they do crops, that to those who don't know their ways It seems strange they are not exterminated. But though they look so stupid, they are really very wary and clever. They have been schooled In adversity and It has sharpened their wits. As to those other enemies of birds, the cats, so many people are fond of them that It Is hardly sate to cry them down. But one man near New York City who loves both cats and birds solved the problem by confining his pet puss In a large, comfortable cage during May and June. The cage stood at, one side of bis strawberry bed, thus cleverly protecting the birds from puss and bis berries from the birds by one stroke. New York Tribuna- Rosebubb 1000 Years Old. Tbe recent rose show given In Paris by the French Horticultural Society recalled the fact that tbe oldest rose 'tree in the world Is believed to be one which grows on a wall of the cathe dral at Hlldeshelm, Germany. Elev enth century records make mention of expenses Incurred by caretakers ef the cathedral In maintaining this tree, which covers tbe wait to a 'height of twenty-five feet and la twsn ty. Inphes thick at the root. In an experiment to ascertain the resisting power of a mass of solidj concrete tbe shot from a twelve-Inch gun penetrated the cement block to the extent of twenty-one feet. ThU la equivalent to penetrating a nine-' teen-Inch armor belt. The Senate has appropriated $50,. 000 for the purpose of establishing a biological station to study the conta gious diseases of fish. Cancer Is one of these diseases. A careful study of these diseases in fish may result in assisting tbe medical profession in alleviating one of the most dreadful of human afflictions. Scientific American. Six new elements have been dig. sovered by Dr. Auer von Welsbach. Last year Dr. von Welsbach simulta neously with the French scientist Un bain discovered that ytterbium, for thirty years believed to be an ele ment, was divisible. Since 1878 the Viennese savant has added ten ele ments to those known. Sclentlflo American. Cold tinned meats for troops In. warfare will soon disappear from the list of the hardships of active Bervlce. The use of the motor vehicle and the Invention of a means of cooking :lnned or fresh meat while moving rapidly have received the approval of '.he authorities. An Irish quarter master has Invented a traveling kitchen, fixed In an ordinary wagon, which can cook for 800 men as It moves with thejn, and at the first halt in a forced march a hot meal can be served at once. Among the most useful of the many ways In which Bdence is teaching us to transform the world Is the choice jf vegetable forms which are capnhla of resisting diseases that practicalb weep some varieties out of existence. At present hope is entertained In France of replacing the native chest nut, which has been destroyed in many parts of the country by a dis- ease of the roots, with a Japanese variety. Experiments were first made with American chestnuts, but theri soon fell victims to the disease. The' Japanese trees, on the other hand, give promise of proving Immune. In one of Chicago's giant hotels .levice has recently been Installed which will liberate steam into the ra diators during the winter, and cold orlne or liquid air during the sum mer, thus heating the rooms through the cold months and cooling them luring the hot. This thermostat Is so constructed that for each variation In the degree of temperature, a cor responding change is made in the quantity of cold or hot material in troduced Into the radiators, thus maintaining an even temperature throughout the year. Many advan tages, It is believed, will be had from this arrangement, probably "greatest rf, which will be the diminution of the number of colds suffered by the lodgers, throat troubles of this na ture being believed due mainly to sudden changes In room temperature. NOBLE HOTEL KEEPERS. Lords and Ladies In England Wli Have Taken Up an Odd Fad. ' Hotel keeping Is a fancy of the mo ment. Besides Lord Leltrlm severa well known people have gone Into business In this direction. Lady Aberdeen Is president of the Green Lady HoBtel at Llttlehampton, Sus sex. This is arranged for workers, who are charged ten shillings a week 'or board and lodging. Lady Burton has built and fitted out a splendid hotel at Aviemore, which commands a fine view of the Cairngorm Range In Inverness-shlre, ind the widowed Lady Augusta Orr Ewing has started a first rate hotel with good golf links at Dunskey, her home near Stranraer In Wigtown shire. Lord Dunraven has built a hotel for golfers close to Adare Manor, his place in Limerick, and Lord Inchlquln is the owner of a hotel at Arranmore, Milltown Malbay, also In Ireland. Then Lord Claud Hamilton, who ia chairman of the. Great Eastern Rail way, takes a keen Interest in the San dringham Hotel at Hunstanton In Norfolk, and Douglass Tollemache, great uncle to Lord Tollemache, i much concerned in the welfare of the Felix Hotel. Felixstowe, which was built after the design of Helmlngham Hall, Lord Tollemache's place In Suf folk. From the Gentlewoman. Manifold Uses of Rubber. It Is probable that no other com modity ever came Into such varied use within bo short a period as India rub ber. First employed practically for footwear and other waterproof appa rel, rubber has come to be employed In electrical Insulation, hose plpet "or the conveyance of water, steam,' r and so on; pneumatic and other 'res for all sorts of wheeled vehicles, iilloons and the planes of aerial ma chines, Innumerable articles for the comfort of invalids, household conve niences, and what not. A point of in terest in this connection is that, thus far, rubber has never come Into use to an Important extent for any given purpose to which it Is not still de voted; In other words. Its advantage re so marked in many uses that, hen once introduced, no substitute ran be found for it Cassier's Msg sine. jj Hawaiian Ballroom Styles. ' It appears that Kabananul dropped into tbe store to purchase an under shirt. He was going to a dance that evening and wanted to look bis best. Honolulu Bulletin. Rembrandt etchings fetched high prices at the sale of the Theobald col lection at Gutukunit's art room Is Stuttgart. One, "Rembrandt In tbe Act of Drawing," was bought by a Berlin dealer for $8260. This Is a proof from tbe unfinished plate, and the oiily other one known to sxlat Is la the British mussum. -
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