THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA. MUCL STWiGS LYRDE MSTMIIQNSCI!MtOIS CHAPTER XXIV Continued. 12 lie had climbed the steps of the broad veranda when he heard his aame railed softly from the depths of ae of the great wicker lounging chairs half hidden In the veranda shadows. In a moment he hud placed another of the chairs for himself, dropping into It wearily. "I saw you at the gate," she suid. "The men are still holding out?" ' "We are holding out. The plant is closed, and it will stay closed until we can get another force of work men." "There will be lots of suffering," she ventured. "It's no use," he said, answering her thought. "There Is nothing in me to tppt ul to." There was yesterday, or the day be fore." Bhe suggested. "Perhaps. Hut yesterday was yes Urday. and today is today. As I told Raymer a little while ago, I've changed my mind." "No," she denied, "you only think you have. I!ut you didn't come here to tell me that!" "No; I came to ask a slnele ques tion. How is Mr. Galbralth?" "He is a very sick man." "You mean that there Is a rhnnce that he may not recover?" "More than a chance, I'm afraid." After a moment of silence Griswold uld. "I did my best; you know I did my best?" Her answer puzzled him a little. "I could almost find it In my heart 1 hate you If you hadn't." Silence again, broken only by the whispering of the summer night fcreeze rustling the leaves of the lawn oaks and the lappings of tiny waves oa the lake beach. At the end of It, Griswold got up and groped for his tat. "I'm going home," he said, "it has been a pretty strenuous day, and there in another one coming. Rut before I go I want you to promise me one thing. Will you let me know Imme diately, by phone or messenger, if Mr Galbralth takes a turn for the better?" "Certainly," she said; and she let him say good-night and get as far as the steps before she called him back "There was another thing," she be Can, with the sober gravity that he could never be sure was not one or her many poses, and not the least al luring one. "Do you believe in Clod. Kenneth?" . The query took him altogether by surprise, but he made shift to answer tt with becoming seriousness. "I suppose I do. Why?" "It Is a time to pray to him." she aid softly; "to pray very earnestly that Mr. Galbraith's life may be spared." He could not let that stand. "Why should I concern myself, spe cially?" he asked, adding: "Of course, I'm sorry, and all that, but " "Never mind," she Interposed, and she left her chair to walk beside him to the steps. "I've had a hard day. too, Kenneth, boy, and 11 guess It has got on my nerves, But, all the same, you ought to do It, you know." He stopped and looked down Into the eyes w hose depths he could never wholly fathom. "Why don't you do it?" he demand ed. "I? oh, God doesn't know me; and, besides, I thought oh, well, It doesn't natter what I thought. Good night." And before te could return the leave-taking word, she was gone. Kaymer's prediction that the real trouble would begin when the attempt should be made to start the plant with imported workmen was amply fulfilled during the militant week which fol lowed the opening of hostilities. Kach succeeding day. saw the Inevitable in crease of lawlessness. From taunts and abuse the lnsurrectlonaries passed easily to violence. Street fights, when the trampish place-takers came In any considerable numbers, were of daily occurrence, and the tale of the wound ed grew like the returns from a bat tle. By the middle of the week Ray mer and Griswold were asking for a sheriff's posse to maintain peace in the neighborhood of the plant; and were getting their first definite hint that Bomeone higher up was playing the game of politics against them. "No, gentlemen; I've done all the law requires and a little more," was the sheriff's response to the plea for better protection. "In other words, Mr. liradford, you've got your orders from the men higher up, have you?" rasped Gris wold," who was by this time lost to all sense of expediency. "I don't have to reply to any such charge as that," said the chief peace of ficer, turning back to his desk; and so the brittle little conference ended. "All of which means that we shall lose the plant guard of deputies that Bradford has been maintaining," com mented Raymer, as they were de scending the courthouse stairs; and again his prediction came true. Later In the day the guard was withdrawn; and Griswold, savagely reluctant, was ASCRIBE VALUE TO SMILE Physicians Advise Patients to Prac tice Good Humor as a Preserva tive of Health. There Is an Interesting theory In psychology known as the James Large theory, after the psychologists, Wll Ham James and C. 0. Lange. This theory relates to the emotions, and tuslfits that, contrary to the popu lar belief, the muscular and other physical changes which accompany forced to make a concession repeated ly urged and argued for by the older men among the strikers, namely, that the guarding of the company's prop erty be entrusted to a picked squad of the ex-employees themselves. During these days of turmoil and rioting the transformed Idealist passed through many stages of the Journey down a certain dark and mephltlc val ley not of amelioration. Fairness was gone, and In Its place stood angry re sentment, ready to rend and tear. Pity and truth were going; the daily re port from Margery told of the lessen ing chance of life for Andrew Gal braith, and the stirrings evoked were neither regretful nor compassionute. On the contrary, he knew very well tiiat the news of Galbraith's death would be a relief for which, in his heart of hearts, he was secretly thirsting. CHAPTER XXV. Margery's Answer. "Well, it has come at last," said Raymer next morning, passing a new ly opened letter of the morning de livery over to Griswold. "The rail road people are taking their work away from us. I've been looking for that In every mall." Griswold glanced at the letter and handed it back. The burden was lying heavily upon him, and his only com ment was a questioning, "Well?" At this, Raymer let go again. "What's the use?" he said deject edly. "We'fe down, and everything we do merely prolongs the agony. Do you know that they tried to burn the plant last night?" "No; 1 hadn't heard." "They did. They had everything fixed; a pile of kindlings laid In the corner back of the machine shop an nex and the whole thing saturated with kerosene." "Well, why didn't they do it?" queried Griswold, half-heartedly. After the heavens have fallen, no mere ter restrial cataclysm can evoke a thrill. "That's a mystery. Something hap pened; just what, the watchman who hud the machine shop beat couldn't tell. He says there was a flash of light bright enough to blind him, and then a scrap of some kind. When he got out of the shop and around to the place, there was no one there; nothing but the pile of kindlings." Griswold took up the letter from the railway people and read it again. When he faced it down on Raymer's desk, he had closed with the conclu sion which had been thrusting Itself upon him since the early morning hour when he had picked his way among the sidewalk pools to the plant from upper Shawnee street. "You can still save yourself, Ed ward," he said, still with the colorless note in his voice. And he added: "You know the way." Raymer jerked his head out of his desk and swung around In the pivot chair. "See here, Griswold; the less said about that at this stage of the game, the better it will be for both of us!" he exploded. "I'm going to do as I said I should, but not until this fight Is settled, one way or the other!" Griswold did not retort In kind. "The condition has already expired by limitation; the fight is as good as settled now," he said, placably. "We are only making a hopeless bluff. We can hold our forty or fifty tramp work men just as long as w e pay their board over in town, and don't ask them to re-, port for work. Hut the day the shop whistle Is blown, four out of every five will vanish. We both know that." "Then there Is nothing for It but a receivership," was Raymer's gloomy decision, "Not without a miracle." Griswold admitted. "And the day of miracles Is past." Thus the Idealist, out of a depth of wretchedness and sejf-exprobratlon hitherto unplumbPd. liut If he could have had even a momentary gift of telepathic vision he might have seen a miracle at that moment In the pre liminary stage of Its outworking. The time was half-past nine; the place a grottolike summer house on the Mereside lawn. The miracle work ers were two: Margery Grlerson, radl ant in the daintiest of morning house- gowns, and the man who had taken her retainer. Miss Grlerson was curi ously examining a photographic print; the pictured scene was a well-littered foundry yard with buildings forming an angle In the near background. Against the buildings a pile of shav ings with kindlings showed quite clear ly; and, stooping to Ignite the pile, was a man who had evidently looked up at, or Just before, the Instant of camera-snapping. There was no mis taking the Identity of the man. He had a round, pig-jowl face; his bris tling mustaches stood out stiffly as If in sudden horror; and his hat was on the back of his head. "It ain't very good," Rrofiln apolo gized. "The sun alu't high enough yet to make a clear print. Rut you said 'hurry,' and I reckon It will do." Miss Grlerson nodded. "You caught the different emotions are actually the causes rather than the effects of these varying mental states. That Is, according to the James Lange theory, Instead of saying that we weep because we grieve, we ought to say that we grieve because we veep. Similarly, we do not strike be cause we are angry, we are angry be cause we strike. And we do not run because we are frightened, but we are frightened because we run. While few psychologists accept this doctrine, all are agreed that there 1 him in the very act, didn't you!" she said coolly. "What did he hope to ac complish by setting Are to the works?" "It was a frameup to capture public sympathy. There's been a report cir culating 'round that Raymer and Gris wold was goln' to put some o' the ring leaders In Jail, If they bad to make a case against 'em. Clancy bad It fig ured out that the flre'd be charged up to the owners, themselves." Miss Grlerson was still examining the picture. "You made two of these prints?" she asked. "Yes; here's the other one and the film." "And you have the papers to make them effective?" Broftln handed her a large envelope, unsealed. "You'll find 'em In there. That part of It was a cinch. Your gov ernor ought to fire that man Murray. He was payin" Clancy In checks!" Again Miss Grlerson nodded. "About the other matter?" she In quired. "Huve you heard from your messenger?" Iiruflln produced another envelope. It had been through the mulls and bore the Duluth postmark. "Aflldavits was the best we could do there," he said. "My man worked It to go with MacFarland as the driver of the rig. They saw some mighty fine timber, but it happened to be on the wrong side of the St. Louis county line. He's a tolerably careful mun, and he verified the landmarks." "Affidavits will do," was the even toned rejoinder. Then: "These pa !ers are all in duplicate?" "Everything in pairs Just as you or dered." Miss Grierson took an embroidered chamois-skin money book from her bosom and began to open It. Ilroflln raised his hand. 'Not any more," he objected. "You overpaid me that llrst evening In front of the Winnebago." "You needn't hesitate," she urged, it's my own money." "I've hud a plenty." "Then I can only thank you," she said, rising. Ha knew that he was being dis missed, but the one chance In a thou sand had yet to he tested. 'Just a minute, Miss Grlerson," he begged. "I've done you right in this business, haven't I?" "You have." "I suld I didn't want any more money, and don't. Hut there's one other thing. Do you know what I'm here In this little Jay town of yours for?" 'Yes; I have known It for a long time." "I thought so. You knew it that day out at the De Soto, when you wai tellln' Mr. Raymer a little, story that was partly true and partly made up what?" "Kvery word of the story about Mr. Griswold the story that you over heard, you know was true; every sin- Miss Grlerson Was Curiously Examln Ing a Photographic Print, gle word of it. Do you suppose I should have dared to embroider It the least little bit with you sittiug right there at my back?" Ilrollln got up and took a half-burned cigar from the ledge of the summer house where he had carefully laid It at the beginning of the Interview. "You've got me down," he confessed with a good-natured grin. "The man that plays a winnln' hand against you has got to get up before sun in the morning and hold all trumps. Miss Grierson to say nothln' of being a mighty good bluffer, on the side." Then he switched suddenly. "How's Mr, Galbralth this morning?' "He Is very low, but he Is conscious again. He lias asked us to wire for the cashier of his bank to come up.' Ilroflln's eyes narrowed. "The cashier Is Blck and can't come," he said. "Well, someone in authority will come, I suppose Once more I'.roflln was thinking in "rms of speed. Johnson, the paying teller, was next in rank to the cashier, If be should be the one to come to Wahaska "If you haven't anything else for m to do, I reckon I'll be going," he said hastily, and forthwith made his es cape. The telegraph office was a good ten minutes' walk from the lake front and In the light of w hat Miss Grlerson had just told him, the minutes were precious. Something leis than a half-hour aft er Rroffin's hurried departure, Miss Grlerson drove by quieter thorough a certain amount of truth In tt. and that It Is entirely possible to produce In oneself any specific emotion by vol untarily assuming the characteristic physical expression of that emotion If any emotion can be produced by deliberately adopting its distinctive physical expression, tt manifestly Is profitable to endeavor to produce In this way the various emotions and moods Joy, happiness, contentment which are known to exert a favorable influence over the v hole organism. Consequently It la not surprising to V' fares Into the Btreet upon which the Raymer property fronted. Smoke was pouring from the tall central stack of the plant, and It had evidently pro-1 voked a sudden and wrathful gather, Ing of the clans. The sidewalks were filled with angry workmen, and an ex cited argument was going forward at one of the barred gates between the locked-out men and a watchman inside of the yard. The crowd let the trap pass without hindrance. Though It was the first time sbe had been In the new offices, she seemed to know where to find what she sought; and when Raymer took his face out of his desk, abe was standing on the threshold of the open door and smiling across at him. May I come In?" she asked; and when he fairly bubbled over In the ef fort to make her understand how wel come she was: "No; I mustn't sit down, because If I do, I shall stay too long and this Is a business call. Where is Mr. Griswold?" He went up town a little while ago, and I wish to goodness he'd come buck." You have been having a grent deal of trouble, haven't you?" she said, sympathetically. "I'm sorry, and I've come to help you cure It." Raymer shook his bead despond ently. I'm afraid it has gone past the cur ing point," he said. Oh, no, It hasn't. I have discov ered the remedy and I've brought It with me." She took a sealed envelope from the Inside pocket of her driving coat and laid It on the desk before him. I'm going to ask you to lock that up n your office safe for a little while, Just as it is," she went on. "If there are no signs of Improvement In the sick sltuutlon by three o'clock, you are to open It you and Mr. Griswold and read the contents. Then you will know exactly what to do, and how to go about It." Her lips were trembling when she got through, and he saw it. She was going then, but he got before her and shut the door and put his back against it. "I don't know what you have done, but I can guess," he said, lost now to everything save the Intoxicating joy of the barrier-breakers. "You have a heart of gold, Margery, and I" Tlea.se don't," she said, trying to stop him; but he would not listen. "No; before that envelope Is opened, before I cun possibly know what It con tains. I'm going to ask you one ques tion In spite of your prohibition; and I'm going to ask It now because, after ward, I may not you may not that is, perhaps it won't be possible for me to ask, or for you to listen. I love you, Margery; I " She was looking up. at him with the faintest shadow of a smile lurking In the depths of the alluring eyes. And her Hps were no longer tremulous when she said: "Oh, no, you don't. If I w ere as mean as some people think I am, I might take advantage of all this, mightn't I? liut I sha'n'L Won't you open the door and let me go? It Is very important." Heavens, Margery! Don't make a Joke of It!" he burst out. "Can't you see that I mean It? Girl, girl, I want you I need you!" This time she laughed outright. Then she grew suddenly grave. "My dear friend, you don't know what you are saying. The gate that you are trying to break down opens upon nothing but misery and wretched ness. If I loved you as a woman ought to love her lover, for your sake and for my own I should still say no a thousand times no! Now will you open the door and let me go?" He opened the door i:nd she slipped past him. liut In the corridor sbe turned and laughed at bin again. "I am going to cure you you, per sonally, as well as tho sick situation- Mr. Raymer," she said flippantly. Then, mimicking him as a spoiled child might have done: "I might pos sibly learn to think of you In that way after a while. liut I could never, never, never learn to love your mother and your sister." And with that spiteful thrust she left him. CHAPTER XXVI. The Gray Wolf. As it chanced, Jasper Grlerson was In the act of concluding a long and ap parently satisfactory telephone conver sation with his agent In Duluth at the moment when the door of bis private room opened and his daughter en tered. He hung the receiver on Its hook and was pushing the bracketed tele phone set aside when Margery crossed the room swiftly and placed an en velope, the counterpart of the one left with Raymer, on the desk. "There Is your notice to quit." she said calmly. "You threw me down and gave me the double-cross the other day, and now I've come back at you." Another man might have hastened to meet the crisis. liut the gray wolf was of a different mettle. He let the envelope lie untouched until after he hud pulled out a drawer In the desk, found his -box of cigars, and hud lei surely selected and lighted one of the fat bluck monstrosities. When ho tore the envelopo across, the photographic print fell out, and he studied It care fully for many seconds before he read the accompanying documents. For a lit tle time after he had tossed the pa pers aside there was a silence that bit. Then he said, slowly: "So that's your raise, is It? Where does the game stand, right now?" "You stand to lose." Again the biting silence; and then: "You don't think I'm fool enough to give you back your ammunition so that you can use It on me, do you? find that many physicians who are xwa.-e of this striking psycho-physio-logical fact are advising their oatients to practice smiling as an aid to the preservation of health. Smile even when yon don't feel like doing so. Soon you will find the sen timents of Joy, strength and courage dominant In your heart. H. Adding ton Druce In Kansas City Star. Bright Salesman. The depression In business caused a local Jeweler to discbarge his ex- "Those papers and that picture are copies; the originals are In a sealed envelope In Mr. Kaymer's safe. If you haven't taken your hands off of Mr. Raymer's throat by three o'clock this afternoon, the envelope .will be opened." Jasper Orlerson's teeth met In the marrow of the fat cigar. Equally with out heat and without restraint, he stripped her of all that was womanly, pouring out upon her a flood of foul epithets and vile names garnished with bitter, brutal oaths. Sbe shrank from the crude and aavage upbraid Ings as If the words bad been hot Irons to touch the bare flesh, but at the end of It she was still facing blm hardily. "Calling me bad namos doesn't change anything," sbe pointed out, and her tone reflected something of bis own elemental contempt for the eu phemisms. "You have Ave hours la which to make Mr. Raymer under stand that you have stopped trying to Bmash him. Wouldn't It be better to begin on that? You can curse me out any time, you know." Jasper Grlerson's rage fit, or the mud-volcano manifestation of It. passed as suddenly as It had bioken out. Swinging heavily In his chair he took up the papers again, reread them thoughtfully, and then swung slowly to face the situation. "Let's see what you want show up your hand." "I have shown It. Take the prop of your backing from behind this labor trouble, and let Mr. Raymer settle with his men on a basis of good-will and fnlr dealing." "Is that all?" "No. You must cancel this pine land deal. You have broken bread with Mr. Galbralth as a friend, and I'm not going to let you be worse than an Arab." Grlerson's shaggy brows met In a reflective frown, and when he spoke the bestial temper was rising again. "When this is all over, and you've gone to live with Raymer, I'll kill him," he said, with an outthrust of the hard Jaw; adding: "You know me, Madge." "I thought I did." was the swift re tort. "Rut it was a mistake. And as for taking It out on Mr. Raymer, you'd better wait until I go 'to live with him,' as you put It. Resides, this Isn't Yellow Dog gulch. They hang people here." "You little she-devil! If you push me Into this thing, you'd better get Raymer, or somebody, to take you In. You'll be out In the street! "I have thought of thut, too," she said, coolly; "about quitting you. I'm sick of it all the getting and the spending and the crookedness. I'd put the money yours and mine In a pile and set fire to it, if some decent mun would give me a calico dress and a chance to cook for two." "Raymer, for instance?" the father cut in, in heavy mockery. "Mr. Raymer has asked me to mar ry him, if you care to know," sheJ struck back. "Oho! So that's the milk in tho coconnut, Is It? You sold me out to buy In with him! "You may put It that way, If you like; I don't care." She was drawing on her driving gloves methodically and working the fingers Into place, and there were sullen fires In the brooding eyes, "I've been thinking it was the other one the book writer," said the father. Then, without warning: "He's damned crook." The daughter went on smoothing the wrinkles out of the fingers of her gloves. "What makes you think so? she Inquired, with Indifference, real or skillfully assumed "He's got too much money to be straight. I've been keeping cases on him." "Never mind Mr. Griswold," she In terposed. "He Is my friend, and I suppose that is enough to make you hate him. About this other matter- ten minutes before three o'clock this afternoon I shall go back to Mr. Ray mer. If he tells me that his troubles are straightening themselves out, I'll get the papers." "You'll bring 'em here to me?" "Some day; after I'm sure that you have broken off the deal with Mr. Gal bralth." Jasper Grlerson let his daughter get as far as the door before he stopped her with a blunt-pointed arrow of con tempt "I suppose you've fixed It up to marry that college-sharp dub so that bis mother and sister can rub It into you right?" he sneered. "You can suppose again," she re' turned, shortly. "If 1 should marry him, It would be out of pure spite to those ' women. Because, when he asked me, I told hltn No. You weren't counting on that, were you?" And having tired this final shot of contra diction she departed After Miss Grlerson had driven home from the bank between ten and eleven In the morning, an admir ing public saw her no more until Just before bank-closing hours In the after noon. As she passed In tho basket phaeton between half-past two and three through the ovorcrosslng suburb there were signs of an armistice ap parent, even before the battlefield was reached, l'ottery Flat was populated again, and the groups of men hunched on the street corners arguing peace fully. Miss Grlerson pulled up at one of the corners and beckoned to young Iron-molder. "Anything new, Malcolm?" she asked. "You bet your sweet life!" Bald the young molder, meeting her, as most men did, on a plane of perfect equality and frankness. "We was hoodooed to beat the band, and Mr. Raymer's got us. comln' and goln'. There wasn't no orders from the big federation, i all; and that crooked guy Clancy, was a fake!" perlenced man, replacing him with a high school graduate a youth Just out of school. He appeared very anxious to learn, and the pro prietor at the end of the first week was much pleased with results. One day the merchant was obliged to be away from '.he store, and upon his return Inquired: v "Well, Frank, did you sell any thing r "Yes, sir; 1 sold five plain band rings " "Fine, my boy:" said the Jeweler, "He has gone?" she said. "He'd better be. If he shows him self 'round here again, there's goln' to be a mix-up." Miss Grlerson drove on, and at tho Iron works there were more of the peaceful Indications. The gates were open, and a switching engine from the railroad yards was pushing in a car load of furnace coal. By all the signs the trouble flood was abating. Raymer saw her when she drove un der his window and calmly made a bitching post of the clerk who went out to see what she wanted. A mo ment later she came down the corri dor to stand In the open doorway of the manager's room. "You are still alone?" she asked. "Yes; Griswold hasn't shown up since morning. I don't know what has become of him." And the labor trouble, Is that going to be settled?" He looked away and ran his fingers through his hulr as one still puzzled and bewildered. "Some sort of a mir acle has been wrought," he said. "A little while ago a committee came to talk over terms of surrender. It seems that the whole thing was the result of a of a mistake." 'Yes," she returned quietly, "It was Just that a mistake." And then: "You are going to take them back?" "Certainly. The plant will start up again In the morning." Then his cu- rloBlty broke bounds. "I cun't under stnnd it How did you work the mir acle?" Perhaps I didn't work it." 'I know well enough you did, In some way. She dismissed the matter with a toss of the pretty head. "What dif ference does It make so long as you "You Can Wade Ashore Now, Can't You?" are out of the deep water and In a place where you cau wade ashore? You can wade BBhore now, can't you?" He nodded. "This morning I should have said that we couldn't; but now " he reached over to his desk and handed her a letter to which was pinned a telegram less than an hour old. She read the letter first. It was a curt announcement of the withdrawal of the Plneboro railroad's repair work. The telegram was still briefer: "Dis regard my letter of yesterday;" this, and the signature. "Atherton." The smaller plotter returned the corre spondence with a little sigh of relief. It had been worse than she bad thought, and It was now better than she had dured hope. (TO HIS CONTINUED.) SWISS HOTELS WONDROUS Stand In Solitary Grandeur, But Laca Nothing That Makes for Comfort of Traveler. You may climb up the heights by the aid of railways, funiculars, racks- and-plnlons. diligences and sledges, and when nothing but your own feet will take you any further you will see in Switzerland a grand hotel, magic ally and incredibly raised aloft In the mountains. It is solitary no town, no houses. nothing but this hotel hemmed in on all sides by snowy crags and made Impregnable by precipices and treach erous snow and ice. At the great redrawing of the map of Europe, when the lesser national Hies are to disappear, the Swltzers will take armed refuge In their far thest grand hotels and there defy the mandates of the concert. For the hotel, no matter how remote It be, lacks nothing that is mentioned in the dictionary of comfort. Beyond Its walls your life Is not worth twelve hours' purchase. You would not die of hunger, be cause you would perish of cold. At best you might lilt on some peasant's cottuge In which the stand ards of existence had not changed for a century. Hut once pass within the portals of the grand hotel, and you becom the spoiled darling of an Intricate organl zatiou that laughs at mountul'is, ava lanches and frost. Tent for the Children. A tent In the tck yard Is a great Joy to children, it helps to keep house and yard looking neat, for the children can ( expected and required to keep tdt plnythln;s in the tent when they are told that It Is their exclusive pluyroom and that thy must confine any untidiness to that particular spot. Today enthusiastically. "We'll make an At salesman out of you one of these days. You got the regular price for them, of course?" - "Oh, yes, sl- The price on the In side was I'.o., and the man took all that was left, sir." Harper's Maga zine. Man's Learning. There probabl; are men wh" couldn't learn to loaf successfully but most of them would l!ko to tnk a few lessons. AtchUon Globe pi Hi Instruction for the Sinner Br REV. B. B. SUTOJFFE AaaUM Supmtedtal tk Ma, Moadr BU, ImiMHoiCUcM TEXT We have trespassed against our God . . . yet now there Is hope , , , concerning tills thing. Now therefore Ut us make a covenant witn our Uod.-liin 10:2, 1 This text is full of Instruction for the sinner who would find peace for the conscience. It tells of the prop er confession, the gracious comfort and tho wise con duct for every sinner. I. The proper confession for ever sinner "we have trespassed against our God.' Tho Bible pro claims the fact that "all we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way," and "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Our history and our conscience bear witness to the truth of It. The present writer and reader must make the same humiliat ing confession: "I have trespassed against my God." The evil thing is already dono and the record Is already made. Ths temptation to think that we ran do enough good to blot out the evil li a subtle one. We cannot go back over the road and live it over In such i manner as to hide the rocord we have left. We sometimes say, "I wish I could go back and do it differently," but time refuses to turn back for us. The record Is there and all we ran say of It is, In the words of l'ontlui Pilate, "What I have written I have written." The words spoken that should have remained unuttcred may be forgotten but they are all record ed. The deeds of evil we cannot undo. The Bins are already committed and the sinner should not be so much ex ercised about what will happen In the future as alio 'it what has happened In the past. There may bo a difference In the number and character of sins commit ted, but trespass there Is against earn one To trespass means to get "over the fence" or "out of bounds." God has set bounds for man to walk in and as fur as the fatal results are concerned one might as well be t mllo out of those bounds as merely a foot. God says that "he that keep eth the whole law and yet offendeth In one point is guilty of all." If a man's life depended on tho strength of a chain, nine strong links would not avert the catastrophe resulting from a weak link that breaks. One sin li enough to put one "out of bounds." Therefore this Is a proper confession for everyone to make, "I have tres pnssed against my God." II. The gracious comfort for the sin ner "yet now 'there Is hope concern ing this thing." In spite of the trespass whether large or small, every sinner has this hope. God says to all, "Como now and let us reason together: Though your Bins be as scarlet, they shall be os white as snow." The natural thin; for a ffmner to do Is to hide from the One who has been offended. This Adam did when God came Into Eden after the fall. But not In Judgment, but in grace does God come. Net to condemn but to save. In the future he will come to Judge and to condemn, but today there is hope for all. The nVssage from God's Word Is, "No Is the accepted tlino, behold today li the day of salvation." Many say, "I will think about the matter," but the Lord says "today" at once, now, not tomorrow. Many have gone to a hope less eternity Just because they per sisted In thinking about Instead of accepting God's gracious offer of presont salvation. And this text pro claims a universal hope, including who have trespassed. It Is extended to evoryone. Over and over God's Word declares that "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." "Whosoever will may come and take of the water of llfo freely." "Whosoever bellevelh on him shall not perish but have everlasting life." III. The wise conduct for the sin ner. "Thorefore let us make a cove nant with our God." This is not merely a covenant to turn over a new loaf or to mend out -ays or any of the many expedients resorted to to give peace and rest M the troubled conscience, but it is turn ing to God, coming out from behind the tree to him who alone can blot out the record of the trespasses and give us a clean record. The word of tho prophet are as true today they were when tittered, "Let tin wicked forsake his way and tho un righteous man hs thoughts and W him return unto tho Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon." There Is abundant pardon with the Lord for every trespass and for every sin an' the blood of Jesus Christ God's Son can blot out every mark and stsl from the sinner's record. Women In Church Management. -The action of the Asylum Hill Con gregational church In adding two wom en as members of Kb prudential com mittee is a recognition of women that should receive universal commend Hon. Women are no doubt a major" of the members of practically " churches. They are the mothers up on whom the opportunities and tW duties of Christian nurture naturally fall. The Christian church could nl survive without them and as a the Christian graces are best Hlu' trated In them. They belong as nat urally In the management of tP' church as of the home. Our old frien St. Paul was a bit astray In his vl1 on this subjoct. Hartford Courant ( i
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