mmm r " w mm m ' i it mii -You, Your Highness, and ttTOTRAIlONJ COPYRIGHT 1903 by THE COPYRIGHT 190g by THE 8YNOPSI3. Count dl Roainl, the Italian ambas "wlor. Is at dinner with diplomat when messenger summons him to the ern buasy, where a beautiful young woman ufl for u ticket to the embassy bull. iie tli'ket ia made out In the name of Miss Isabel Thome. Chief Campbell of he s ret service, and Mr. Grlmin. Ill neail duteetlve, are warned tlmt a plot la 'Tewlnii In Washington, and (irimtn goes ' t.ie mute b:ill for Information. Hla at tention la culled to MIbh Isabel Thome, who with hix companion. disappears. A s "'t Is heard and Henor Alvarea of the .Mex.can legation, la found wounded. . .riinrii la assured Miaa Thorne did II ; he '!"", her, ilemanillng knowledge of the 'Hair, and arreata Fletro I'etrozlnnl. .Vina I nurne Halls an old bomb-iiiaker. and thev lls.-uss a wonderful experiment. Fifty Htousunil dollara la stolen from the office "t Henor Uodrlifuei, the mlulater from eneiuela, und while detective are In '"stbutlng the robbery Miaa Thorne au-P-ais m a guest of the leKtlon. Grimm H'luaes !i,.r of the theft; the money la restored, but a new mys.ery occura In , illauppearnnee. of Monsieur Rolsaegur '.'!" Tench ambassador. Klualve Miaa il lmrne r.upt.ea,s, bearing a letter whlcb m.,,1 1 f . """haasa.lor liua been kld- P.J und demanding runaom. The am ' uJi'.'r rI""'rn1 "n'1 "f"1" strangely dla l;n'"T ls rescued from an old "I "1. . Ih? ",nlr,,a. It la dlacofered ,"nd tl ,r rV 1 ?,rVI,nnl h Senor Alvarez i S rel in 8 ' 'r""e d'AhrtiMl. Orlmm r, T. n'V'i'rl..Ui jail delivery. He 1 L. '"'A'1 Ml" Thorne and d'Ahruzxl w '.llV"Un,lry,: thy ar conveyed but rHn.r,.0'8,"'1 V,Hr-1 on "earner 1 H m " ,rl",m c"tr'"' druKited i v ,1rTlnln cnnaclousness he find v! " '"f "" I'uhel Thorne. ' 17 b 1'"? ,iK,lln',, ,he f"vernment ' ; L""'1 ,l','lr ''h"'K l over Hin.J ,., (,rlnim orders d'AbruMl to du "iruy the unsigned compact. CHAPTER XxiTu-(Continued. "Miss Thonio hag stated the mat- " r lainy, 1 believe, your Highness," nu Mr. Grimm permitted his eyes to iiiiRit a moment on the flushed face of t ils Mmmn who, In a way, was de fading him. -Hut there la only one '"R to do, Msa Thorne." IIU was 'allilng to her now. "Thero Is no mid- urne. It is a problem that has enly one possible answer-tho de struction of that document, and the Tr .Italy uadT n,y Personal natter had ended that day on the waTnh .I'11106 glaned nKaIn at bla iwc, ' " thou8ltfy weighed the li ' W,"h a curl0llB '8h. he Walk- ci,oHtr 16 S',URt lron 8l"he in an opposite corner r.f t, t cvr It half . VMU iuuiii. xio oeni a minute, then straight- npd up. advlm C".P' Mr 0rlmm- has one dls "When he renarkel casually. WMo t " aUaChed t0 a mlne or lthm, I , Ca" not be '""connected Sen t r !'8lt- "'"ached." He to 1 U'e 0thers- 18 neHs ;0wdl8'"ss th matter further just .; you will follow me? " We ' " ""we Mr. Grimm hcr.. ngUr ' a 8tranB9 llttIe wither v lhymy ot each-Iaabei et ,Kly t0 the prince. 8h tW dllre you d0 such a thing?" manded fiercely. -Xt frTyo8ur8tn?t,a Ume' MIs8 Prtnw ldyern0e",,rePlled th8 ay on7nP nt Where th feelln8S of "e Womn0,n Ven the feelln88 cmPacreWKU hag eeered the n !! Kb" conaldl. A single orld n, . ! con8utnniatlon of this meas thPI0j0ct- Mr" Ornm alive iiaeZ ",p8Slble: Mr. Grimm dead na ,0 I" Yo" have Jne your duty done " we: but now 't1nvoy0lrti..enJa. and I, the spe- 1nti"umaed 10mnt-p,ease-" Mr- 0r""n Wana u vCourttOU8ly- "As I un Lorain 1 " yUr "'Bhness, the mine 'Ye V. . urner 18 charged?" tor ,," JU8t happened to be here "The Z , 0t Pr!ment." iae Is attached?" Mitt Thome, Will Accompany Mb." JACQUES fUTRELLE by M.G.KKlttveir- ASSOCIATED SVKQM MAGAZirES D05B3 - MERRILL COMPAiy "Quite right." The prince laughed "And at three o'clock, by your watch, the mine will be fired by a wireless operator fifteen tulles from here ?" "Something like that; yes, very much like that." assented the prince. "Thank you. I merely wanted to understand It." Mr. Grimm pulled a rhair up against the door and sat down, crossing his legs. On his knees rested the barrel of a revolver, glit tering, fascinating, In the semi-dark-ness. "Now, gentlemen," and he glanced at his watch, "It's twenty-one minutes of three o'clock. At three that mine will explode. We will all be In the room when it happens, un less his Highness sees fit to destroy the compact." Eyes sought eyes, and the prince removed his mask with a sudden ges ture. His face was bloodless. "If any man," and Mr. Grimm gave Miss Thorne a quick glance, "I should say, any person, attempts to leave this room I know he will die; and there's a bare chance that the percussion enp will fall to work. I can account for six of you, If thero Is a rush." "Hut, man, If that mlno explodes we shall all be killed blown to pieces!" burst from one of the cowled figures. "If the percussion cap works," sup plemented Mr. Grimm. Mingled emotion struggled In the flushed face of Isabel ns she studied Mr. Grimm's impassive countenance. "I have never disappointed you yet, Miss Thorne," he remarked as If It were an explanation. "I shall not now." SI10 turned to the prince. "Your Highness, 1 think it needless to argue further," she said. "We have no choice In the matter; there Is only once course destroy tho compact." ."No!" wns the curt answer. "I believe I know Mr. Grimm better than you do," sho argued. "You think he will weaken; I know he will not I nm not arguing for him, nor for myself; I am arguing against the frightful loss that will come here In this room If the compact Is not de stroyed." "It's absurd to let ono man stand In the way," declared the prince angrily. "It might not be an Impertinent question, your Highnoss," commented Mr. Grimm, "for me to ask how you are going to prevent one man stand ing in the way?" A "quick change came over Miss Thome's face. The eyes hardened, tho lips were set, and lines Mr. Grimm had never seen appeared about the mouth. Here, In a (lash, the cloak of dissimulation wns cast aside, and tho woman stood forth, this keen, bril liant, determined woman who did things. "The compact will be destroyed," she said. "No," declared the prince. "It must be destroyed." WHERE IS CIRCUIT RIDER? Old-Fashioned Itinerant Preacher Seems to Have Vanished From Present-Day Warld. What has become of the old circuit rider? He seems to have gone, to have vanished entirely from the present-day world, although to the older generations he figured In the lives of the people to whom he ministered. In their day the circuit rldors knew little of home or rest, for each had from seven to fifteen parishes, miles apart from each other. When night overtook the circuit rider and his horse this was the minister's usual mode of travel he stooped with some "Must? Must? Do you aay must to nie? "Yes, mtiBt," sho repeated steadily. "And by what authority, please, 10--" . ' isy tnat antnonty!" She drew a tiny, Wlgreed gold box from her bosom and cast It upon the table; the prince stared at It. "In the name of your sovereign must!" she said again. The prince turned away and began PHdng back and forth across the room with tho parchment crumpled In his hand. For a minute or mora Isabel stood watching him. "Thirteen minutes!" Mr. Grimm aa nouneod coldly. And now broke out an excited chat ter, a babel of French, English, Ital ian, Spanish; those ninked and cowled ones who had held silence for so long all began talking at once. One of them snatched at the crumpled compact In the prince's hand, while all crowded around him arguing. Mr. Grimm sat perfectly still with the re volver barrel resting on his knees. "Kleven nilnuteB!" he announced again. Suddenly ihu prince turned violent ly on Miss Thorne with ruge-dlstort-ed face. "I you know whut It means to you If I do as you say?" ho demaniid savagely. "It means you will be brand- I ed as trnltor, that your name, your property" "If you will rardnn m0i y0ur mRj, lifss," stsn Interrupted, "the power tint I have used was given to m to use; I have used It. It Is a mnttor to bo settled between me and my government, and ns fur bs It affevta my person Is of no consequence now. You will destroy tho compact." "Nine minutes!" said Mr. Grlmra monotonously. Again the babel broke out. "Dn we understand that you want to ee the compact?" one of the cowled men asked suddi nly of Mr. Grimm as he turned. "Co, 1 don't want to seo It. I'd pre fer eot to see It." With hatred blazing In his eyes the prince made his way toward the lamp, holding a parchment toward the blaze. "There's nothing elso to be done," he exclaimed savagely. ".lust a moment, please," Mr. Grimm Interposed quickly. "Miss Thorne, Is th.it the compact?" She glanced at It. nodded her head, and then the flame caught the fringed edge of paper. It crackled, flashed, flamed, and at last, a thing of ashes, w as scattered on the floor. Mr. Grlnwu rose. "That Is all, gentlemen," he an nounced courteously. "You are free to go. You. your Highness, and Miss Thorne, will a. company me." He held open the door and there was almost a scramble to get out The prince and Miss Thorno waited until the Inst. "And, Miss Thorne, If you will give us a lift In your car?" Mr. Grlmra suggested. "It Is now four minutes of three." The automobile came In answer to a signal, and tho three In silence en tered It. Tho enr trembled and has Just begun to move when Grlmra re membered something, and leaped out. Walt for me!" he called. "Thore's a man locked In tho coal bin!" He disappeared Into the house, and Miss Thorne. with a gasp of horror sank back In her seat with face like chalk. The prince glanced uneasily at his watch, then spoke curtly to the rhauffeur. "Run the car up out of danger; tnereu be an explosion there In a moment." They had gone pprhaps a hundred feet when the building they had Just left seemed to be lifted bodily from the ground by a great spurt of fiamo which tore through Its center, then collapsed like a thing of cards. The prince, unmoved, glanced around at Miss Thorne; she lay In a tlend faint beside him. "Go ahead," he commanded. "Dat tlmore." , 1 CHAPTER XXIV. The Personal Equation. Mr. Campbell ceased talking and the deep earnestness that had settled on his face pnsscd, leaving Instead the blank. Inscrutablo mask of be nevolence behind which his clock like genius wns habitually hidden. The choleric blue eyes of the president of the United States shifted Inquir ingly to the thoughtful countenance of the secretary of state at his right, thence along the table around which the official family was gathered. It was a special meeting of tho cabinet called nt the suggestion of Chlif Campbell, and for more than an hour ho had done tho talking. There had been no Interruption. "So much!" he concluded, at last. "If there Is any point I have not made clear Mr. Grimm Is here to explain It In person." Mr. Grimm rose at the mention of his nnme and stood with his hands clasped behind his back. His eyes met those of tho chief executive list lessly. "We understand, Mr. Grimm," the president began, and he paused for an Instant to regard the tall, clean-cut young man with a certain admiration, "we understand that there does not actually exist such a- thing as a Latlo compact against the English-speaking peoples?" "On pnper, no," was the reply. "You personally prevented tho sign ing of the compact?" (TO UK CONTINUKD.) 1 member of one of his parishes. And be It said It was great honor, Indeed, to have the great fortune to entertain the minister at a meal or over night Probably the much overworked man would get to spend one night In a week at home, perhaps not that. Hla life was uncertain and wandering, but bis faith was that which "passeth un derstanding." But his dnys were num bered and are gone, probably never to be revived. He wns a figure, however, that Is typical of the pioneers of Amer icahe knew his duty and was faith ful In the performance of it Persuasion Is Better Than Force. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but a grievous word stirreth up anger Proverb 16:1. For the A Good Musical Contest. Thero seems to be no end to must cnl games. Perhops our young read ers do not remember this one as It was printed many years ago. On cards write the following questions: 1. Where la tho earth? I. An old mnn'a friend? 8. What do the woury need? 4. A uaeful article to a cook? 5. Found plentifully In moat rivers? 6. Tart nf a fish? 7. An Important part of a le'ter? 8. What titla la coveted by military men? 9. What do all public speakers do sometime? 10. Not servoil In barrooms? II. The moat popular stylo of mualc with lehutantea? 12. What locks the talla when the florae la gone? lil. The onu who ifiieaaes the most an swer! '.' ANSWKrtS. 1. In apace. 8. MaJ ir. t. Staff. 9. Il-prvit. 3. Rent. J'l. Minora. 4. Meaaure. II. Hymns. 6. liars. ' Y2. Key. 6. Bi-ale. 13. Ut-.it 7. HlKiuiture. Choosing Partners. To choose partners for a card party or a cotillion have small cakes baked In what are called "patty" cake tins and Ice with pink for the unmarried girls, with yellow for the men In the snme state of single blessedness; w ith white for the married women and green for the married men. In these cakes put such tiny favors as thim bles, duplicate mottoes, hooks and eyes, keys, rings, etc. Then the man who gets a key finds the person hav ing a ring and they are mated, tho girl with a hook finds the man with an eye, etc. This Is great fun and Is adnptablo to any game where a choice of partners Is necessary. A Novel Shower. A girl who was to marry nnd go to Maine to live wns the recipient of this pretty and novel shower. She was Invited to luncheon at the home of her best g!rl friend nnd found a most exquisite table ornamented by a circle of small pine trees, each In a white Jardiniere. Alternating with Simple TIIK costume at the left has the bodice mude of broderle An glalse, cut Magyar, and with wldo right front that Is tnkon over to the left and slopes to basque, l '"h has rounded corners; tucked law n forms the yoke and under-sleeves. The skirt has the upper part made In zephyr with a band of broderle An- glalse at the foot. A ribbon to match zephyr Is taken round tho waist. Materials required: Threo yards broderle 27 inches wide, three yards zephyr 28 Inches wide. For the second there are any num ber of pretty Btrlped cottons that might be used; In the panel front and back the stripes run perpendicu larly, and the sides extending to meet panels at lower part, but nro separated from them by a narrow piece In which Much pink linen in coarse weave Is seen. Uncurled feathers of every descrip tion appear on hats. Wool embroidery Is used In either long stitches of In simply crocheted flowers on velvet girdles or on sum mer fabrics. Hroderle anglalse or English eyelet "inbroldery has returned to fashion ler a short rest and Is a greater ivorite than ever. A few cnllnrless waists are being shown for fall, but the majority of waists are made with a high collar, to look s-'o much better when worn with .1 wrap. New clo"i coats In tho fall sbow 'ns are generally of neavy rough ma 'eil:iK double faced, with the reverse !t!e of plain color, which ls used for -.lie trimming. Skirts ari actually wider; fait I J f' M 11 IIS mm 1 If P . mi l liiP i mh' ' fi til I t Ngk IN PQUC Hostess the trees were glass candlesticks hold ing green candles capped by white shades. Inside this circle was a huge wedding cake, on top of which were a miniature bride and bridegroom. All went merry as the proverbial marriage bell, tongues flew and the bride-to-be told ot her new home. When the lees were served the hon ored guest was asked to cut the cake nnd behold, her knife went right through Into white tissue paper and she found a shower of dainty and use ful articles concealed within the fake cake, which In reality was a cheese box topped with tissue paper and thin card hoard, which had been cleverly li-ud over. A Knickerbocker Party. A mother who w;as about to put her small son Into his first trousers con ceived the clever Idea of holding 9 party In his honor on the eventful day. On her card she wrote: "Come to meet our little man Jack at three on Saturday, September 10." The first gnlne ls for the amusement of the children and Is culled "nienag erle." A picture of an anlmnl Is pinned on the coat or dress of each as they pass In line. The lender should be a ten-year-old boy, who will be able to manage better than a younger child. He Bays he wishes to catch a menagerie to go with a circus, and then the children scntter over the house and grounds, making the noise of the animal they are suposed to represent. All the nnltnalH must be cnught, and If they are especially wary the hunter may employ those al ready cnught to help get the others. When all are caged (placed In a corner designated) he forms them In line, two by two, and they march around to the owner of the circus, who removes the anlmali This Is a lively game, keenly en Joyed by all children. For favors have little clowns and serve pink lemonade, lee cream In shane of nnlmals and animal cookies; of course have the snapping motto caps which all chll dreu love. MADAME MF.RRI. Dresses stripes run horizontally; buttons form trimming on lower part of sides. The sides and sleeves of tho bodice are cut together, the front and back being panels to match skirt; tho horl zontal stripes are carried up between panels and sldo. The yoke ls of tucked spotted not; lace falls over shoulder like a collar. The sleeves are trimmed with bands of horizontal stripes, the undor-sleeves being of lace. Hat of black and white crinoline, trimmed with ostrich feathers. Tho ribbon waist band Is passed through rings each' side, both back and front. Materials required: Six yards 40 Inches wide, 32 buttons, five-eighths yard net IS Inches wide, one yard piece lace ie Inches wide. models from the greatest manufactur ers are cut so as to give a narrow ef fect, but measure tvrt) and a half yards around the bottom. Repousse Lace. What the dressmakers term pushed dot lace Is the new kind to use on thin frocks. It Is really repousse lace worn on the wrong side. The Indented, part of the dot ls turned toward the eye. It Is quite an attrac tive lace, as the patterns are In long sprays of leaves and small roses. This dotted lace ls quite fashionable and promises to rank with the best Imitation Venetian and Mllnuese. Milan l.Tre Is also coming Into first fashion. It has a coarse mesh and a wide, bold design worked out on It. Filet mesh Is also attractive and It Is widely used for handsome gowns and coats when It is half covered with thick padded Chinese embroidery. Birds' Fine Sympathy. Parrots and even canaries have been known to refuse to eat and have died In sorrow and grief over the loss of their human companions. Prophet Ezekiel a Watchman Modir School Lnoa for Oct. 1, 1911 Specially Arranged lor Thii Ppr I.E80N' TEXT Kzeklel 3. MKMOUV VKKSKS-1MJ. OOLDKN TEXT-' Itear the word at my mouth, and give, them warning from nie." Kzek. 3:17. TIMH-Kxekh-I was rarrM Into exile B. C. 597, in the s-rond deportation by Nehuc-hadnezzur from Jerusalem ; when lO.ftlu were carried to Uubylon With King Jeholachln. The prophecy of thla leanon was written R. C. &(!. five years later. Th ;t 21 chapters of Kzeklel, concern :r. the destruction of Jerusalem were written during the 4 years B. C. .'S waa the beginning of the last alego of Jerusalem which ended In Its complete destruction. P LACK The Took of Kzeklel was writ ten at Tel-ublb ( : Cornhll!) on the river Chilmr, one nf the large irrigating canals of Uahylonla, running across the plain between the Euphrates and tha Tigris. Ezeklol's namo means "God strengthens." He was a priest, the son of Iiuzl, probably a family name. He was al.-o one of the greatest of the prophets. He was probably 30 years old when he began to prophesy In D. C. 507, which would put the date of his birth In Joslah's reign, abou. the time Jeremiah begun to prophosj, and five years before Joslah's great reformation and the finding of the book of the law. Ho wns a married man; and the sudden death of his wife was made by divine Instruction a lesson to the peo ple. He went on with his work "with a broken heart, but an unbroken pur pose." He was a man of power ami courage, holding his face ns adamant against wrong, hut attractive and per suasive in encouraging the people to prepare for their return from exile. He was a man of great Imagination, using simile, allegory, parables in ac tion, symbols, symbolic actions. He saw visions, nnd dreamed dreams. He had spiritual experiences. But he wns also the most practical of men. nzeklel's model heroes were Noah, Job, Daniel. They all had lost their world, but "Noah Inaugurated a new world; Job ended by seeing God in the whirlwind." Daniel did great things for his native country In his new country. Kzeklel was an exile, but In that exile was a mighty force In the renewal of his native land. The God of Israel was an Invisible God, without any representation to the senses. It was hard for the peo pie to realize his existence nnd his presence. It Is hard for us, but much harder for them. The temple and Its ritual were an aid. God's works In nature were his manifestation. The visible effects of obedience, and dis obedience, were revelations of God's nature. Hut times of trial and dis aster at first hid his face from them as storm clouds hide the sun. Hence In this dam period Ezekiel was taught to express God's presence, Tower, glory, goodness, providence, by apocalyptic symbols, I. e., by symbols which expressed Ideas, but could not be put Into any pictorial form which might lead to Idolatry. The first chapter Is a vision to these symbols 10 niaae uod real to the people; as to Job God made hlniBelf known In the whirlwind and the storm. Nothing Is more suitable than that the voice of God should come from the whirlwind. For air, wind. Is one of the chosen symbols of God working through his holy spirit, as at Pente cost. It Is Invisible, as are tha irreat natural forces of the earth. The prophet was presented with Hebrew roll, the form In which their books were made, nnd was bidden to eat It. The roll represented the word ot uou, bis message to Israel. The prophets eating the roll meant that he was to become so saturated with God's message that it would become a part of his very being. This gives us some guidance in forming a prop er estimate or what is Involved In in spiration. The prophet is to absorb nto himself what is given him from above, and then give It out with bis own lips nnd in his own language. n was in my mouth aa honey for sweetness," thnt Is It was good In it- eir. nut afterwards It became bitter. for it was a terrlblo message to give to his people, so that God made his face as'adamant harder than flint, for all the house of Israel were Impudent nu hard-hearted. Ezekiel welcomed the watchman on the walls. He went from trance to action, coming out of the trance, like Peter on the housetop when he went clown to the messengers of Cornelius. "And I went In bitterness ... of my spirit," sharing with God his righteous Indignation against Israel, or the bitterness of having to deliver such an awful message as h uttered In the following chnpters, to hla friends and neighbors and country men. 80 that when h came to them, he remained 'here astonished, in a 6tupor of grief, seven days. , The watchman's duty Is clearly set forth. He must warn the people ol their danger, as by the voice of God. While his business was to warn, the results were with God and the free will he has given his children. God warns us in love in various ways that we may not go heodlessly on to our ruin. He gives warnings In our bodies, by slcknessw, pains and weakness, against courses that will ruin the body, and to teach us to pre pare for death. God gives warnings to the soul, by the pangs of con sclente, by troubles and afflictions, to keep us from losing our souls. He warns our country, by discontent. In ternal commotions, by strikes, out breaks, anarchies, war, against th oppres lions, Inequalities, luxury, Irre llglon. Injustice, which will bring Dual mtn unless we turn from thetu. Courage, It Is not moral courage that wakes a man lace me gnuows wituout a quiver; it Is the callousness ot vln. ThlB false Idea of bravado and cour age Is leading multitudes ot young men to the pit. Rev. W. IL Geiat- welt, llnptlst, San Dlego. Helping. When you give help to him who In down and out you project your life. If you cannot help another your life Is not'worth much. Rev. VV, Q. Him son, Baptist, Portland, Ore. SOCIAL. CRISIS By Rev Dr. Ceorge W. Andorsoo Pulor of I'nina Mribodiil EpucopaJ Church, &(. Luuu. TEXT-Jacnb was a plain man dwelling among the tent: and a a plain mua haat thou prevailed. As men do not pick diamonds from trees, but rather search for them among the barren stones and soil, so God seeks for great leaders, not among the exalted, but from the great mass of common folk. Desiring to start a new race preparatory to Christ's com ing, he searched among the common ones of C'lialdea until he found Abra ham, a worshiper of Idols, and sent him forth not only to be the father ot the Jewish race, but of the three great est forms of monotheistic religion the world has ever known. God search ed for an emancipator and he found Moses, an alien, bom In servitude, and sent him forth to lay the foundatolns of civilization. Desiring to reveal the power of the strong will and the Indomitable ambi tion, ho searched among the open fields until ho found Jacob, a plain ninn, dwelling among tents, and sent him forth as a prince of God. The story of Jacob Is tho story of ambition, had and good, laying hold of every means to meet Its end; fill ed with mingled pathos and Joy. As the bad ambition It sends Its harvest of sorrow, and as a holy ambition Its harbest of Joy. In no life Is the fail ure of ungodly ambition and the suo cess of rlvhteous ambition mole marked. Jacob desired to rule, to lift hlmsolf out of the common place, to become a prince among men, and falling to real Izo the difference between right and wrong, broi'ght dismal failure. He be lieved that birthright gave the power to rule, and unjustly sought to secur one not his own. At the doorway of a weather-beaten tent he sat on evening, a mere lad. The lengthening shadows wore silent ly wrapping tho landscape with haze. Ilefore him burned a blazing fire that laughed at tho thickening shadowt with defiance, cast Its rich glow on his clear-cut features nnd caused the tent folds to stand out distinct against the dull background. The atmosphere Is fragrant with th stream of cooking porrhlg", which he Idly stirred, lie was dreaming of leadership, when out from tho shad ows came one staggering with weak ness and hunger and crying out for food. Here was the age-long problem of supply and demand. Jacob, being' rareful, shrewd, far sighted, had provided for a time of need. Esau, careless, Indifferent, wan dering in disposition had mndo no such provision. It was strength pitted agnlnst weakness. Strength said: "What I have Is mine, and If any would seek It, let him pay my iirlce." There ls orly one thing that Esati had, his birthright, the very thing that Jacob seeks. And in that hour the voice of ambition says: "Put your price high, young man. Get all you can." And Jacob, looking at his starv ing brother, said: "I will give you to eat lf you will give nie our birth right." Faint with wearl.ies and hun ger. Esau mnde the bargiln. Wilh uplifted hnnds Esau gives to Jacob that which Jacob Sad no right to own, but possessed solely through the power of capital. Non, Jacob Is a shrewd nnd rich nil n In the sight of the world. He has deceived his broth er, has gotten his brother's blessing; and he Is the priest of the commu nity. Rehold him several days after flee ing In the darkness from his broth er, an exile nnd empty handed. WhyT Itecatise money and power gotten by unrighteous methods never enrich. Be hold Jacob In the open fields, with no bed save Rand, no pillow save stones, no covering save. the open sky. the plcturo of a thousand characters of history. Then conies the vision V Jacob, the ladder reaching up to heaven and the angels ascending and descending. Jacob sees tint while uigodly ambi tion brought failure, goHly ambition could lift him up to God. The angels ascend and descend; ther go up only that iliey might come down. Ambi tion should lead a man up, only that. In the heights, he may gsln powor and strength to come back Into the lowly fields and serve his feliow man. He must climb the ladder to God only that he may come back to serve those who need help. A man becomes a prince, not through birthright, b it through serr- ce. Euau came with his armies to catch the fleeing Jacob, but Jacob, having wrestled with the angel, comes to meet bis brother with arms extended, not to rule but to serve. And Esau, beholding the change In bis brother, leaps from his horse and embraces Ja cob. Jncub has now become the prince of his own in-ople, not through ambition to rulo, but to Bcrve. A Prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we Thee for Thy countless gifts, and full each passing moment. thank fresh. With what soft graco Thy light enfolds ue. Through every sense. Thou dost pour thy Joy Into our lives. Yet more we. thank Thee for making our hearta Thine abode; for soothing our dis tresses; for Thy healing touch for the sorrow and grief we meet by the way; for tho solace of Christ's companion ship for Thy patience, and gentleness, when our wayward wills lead us wrong; for Thy full and free forgive ness ere we aBk It. We seek the con tinuance of Thy compassionate loving kindness. Leave us not to ourselves. Purify and strengthen us and make ua channels of Thy grace to needy souls. Teach us to live day by day in th Joy of the Lord, looking unto that hotter day when we shall se our King in the beauty of holiness and praise '.lira evermore. Sin. fn our own hearta Is a world of wickedness. We have not yet resist rd unto blood, striving against sin. Rev. E. T. Root, CongrcgationalM, Trovldenco.
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