i tfHB FULTOJJ COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURQ, PA. feOM RANDOLPH QOTIL LILLIAN QOTCR ur copyiuofir t or cex'POfATtort ILLUSTRATED frC.P.BHODE$ that funny1 angle, and projected his chin with the foolish motion of a 0080. "A direct entrance right slam Into the center of New York! he cx- cluimed, cracking all his knuckle vio lently one by one. "Vedder court! Where's thnt?" "That's the best part of the Joke," exulted Allison, with no thought that Vedder court was, at this present mo ment, church property. "It's just where you said right slam in the cen ter of New York; and the building intd which the Mldcontlnent will run Its trains will be also the terminal building of every municipal transpor tation line In Manhattan! From my SYNOPSIS. 5 At a, vestry meeting of tie Mi'rket .mam cliurrh liall Surgut lixit'im to a .ihkusbIoh iihuiit the s;i!e of ilio ihurcli vm-meius tn Ivlwunl K. AIIimiii. I"cnl ruction kins, and wln Hskt-d her oplii of thu t-linr.-ti ly Ufv. Smith lioyil. ,.ys It In apparently a lucrative uusiii' nilerpriiKi. Allison tukes dull rMIn- In liu motor car. When lie suitirents lie In tutltltil to rest on the IiujicIh of his .lili-vcmcnis. ptio nslia thu illsturblnif question: "Why?" Clill. returning to ln't i'uclo Jlin'g homo from her drive, with Al ison. Ilnils roM dliapproviil In the eyes t( Jtev. Smith Hoytl. who In calling there. At a Imhilnl party (iuil timis thu world ncoinfortiMy full of men, am Allison flu Jim Haiifiu tlmt Ms new ambition ( lo t'oniii.T the world. Allison starts a iirnpHiL-n fur consolidation and control of entire iram-portatlon system of thn "rid. tinll tmi'iiines popjlar and Aunt lc,n thinks It necessary In ndvi.se lijr s to inairlinonlHl prol. abilities. Alllhi iflns control of tmriM onllnentul traf II' ni timinges to absorb the Vedder court Ccnement property uf Atarket 8q.uure I ordinary year's work for the boys, but gtaton piatf0rni8 passengers from CHAPTER VII Continued. "ltow about the Crescent island sub say?" "Ripe any time," and Tim Corniun looked the ashes from his cigar with heavily gemmed linnd. "The boost ers have been working on it right slung, but never too stront; " "There's no need for any particular snaulpulatlon In that," decided AM iuii, who knew the traction situation lo tho lust nickel. "The city needs Uiat outlet, and It needs the new ter titory which will be opened up. 1 4tiink we'd better push the subway riKht on across to the mainland. The (tension would have to be made In u.-n years anyhow." "It's better right now," immediately assented Corman. In ten years he night be dead. "I think, too, that we'd better pro tide for a heavy future expansion," eut on Allison, glancing expectantly Unto Tim's old eyes. "We'd probably Wter provide for a double-deck, eight track tube." Tim Corman drew a wheezy breath, and then he grinned the senile shadow f his old-time grin; but It still had rtie same spirit "You got a hen on," be decided. In '"society," Tim could manage very irtly to use fashionable language, tut In business he found it Impossible after the third or fourth minute of conversation, lie had taken In every fetail of the room on his entrance, this tube pokes Its nose Into Oakland bay." Tin quite aware of the size of trie Job," chuckled Allison. "However, Tim, there'll be money enough behind this proposition to fill that tube wltn Ereen backs Hetween the narrow-slitted and puffy eyelids of Tim Corman there gleamed a trace of the old time genu. Chicago or the far West will step di rectly Into subway. L., or trolley. When they come In over the line which is now the Mldcontlnent, tbey will be lauded, not across the river, or in some side street, but right at their own doors, scattering from the Mldcontlnent terminal over a hundred traction lines!" His voice, which had begun In tho mild banter of "Then it's built." Ho rose ana passing an Idle Joke, had risen leaned on his cane, twinkling down on t0 a ring g0 trUmphant that bo was the man whom, years before, ho had ai10gt shouting. picked as a "comer." "I've heard .i)U.but wait a minute!" Vrbank people say that money's wicked, hut , It aMittprlna Where they never had any. When I die, and dueg lM' MidcontIuent get to the go down to the big ferry, it me uia CreHCent )(iIan(1 tuDer lloy comes along and offers me enougn ..Rl8nt nere." aI1j Allison pointed to money, I II go to hell." h) ..You come out of the tube Still laughing, Allison telephoned to . . , . r ha. ft lonK. the offices of the Mldcontlnent rail- t)me trackng privilege over fifty miles mad, aim dasneu oui to ins ruimuuui of thQ Tow(in,i0 Valley, and term! lust In time to see Tim Corman drlv- , , ,VinrtnIli ForuCBon. bow ing arouml the corner In his liveried , t t ncs after tne L aa lunuau. no luunu iu n.wucui v,.- , if.avPR the Towando. that roau h-fftrl 1 i-: fi' 'T liiiiiiliilii bank of the Mldcontlnent, a spare man who had worn three vertical creases In his brow over one thwarted ambi tion. His rich but sprawling railroad system ran fairly straight after It was well started for Chicago, and fairly straight from that way point until It became drunken with the monotony of the western foothills, where It gangled and angled its way to the far soutn and around up the Pacific coast, arriv ing there dusty and rattling, after a thousand-mile detour from its course but that road had no direct entrance Into New York city. It approached from the north, and was compelled to circle completely around, over hired "Is crossed by our tracks!" Urbank eagerly interpreted. "The Mldcontl nent, after Its direct exit, saves a seventy-mile detour! Then Its a straight shoot for Chicago! Straight on again out west Why, Allison, your route Is almost as straight as an arrow! It will have a three-hundred- mile shorter haul than even the Inland Pacific! You'll put that road'out of the business! You'll have the king of transcohtlnental lines, and none can ever be built that will save one kink!" His neck protruded still further from his collar as he bent over the map Here you split off from the Mldcontl- nent's main line and utilize the White dlnglneas; rather, the sun made It only the more dismal by presenting the ugliness more in detail. "This Is the mine which produces the gold which Is to gild the altar," as serted Manning, studying the sido walk. "I don't think you'd better come In here. You'll spoil your shoes." "I want to see It all this time be cause I'm never coming back," Insist ed Gall, and placed one daintily shod foot on the step. "Then I'll have to shame Sir Walter Raleigh," laughed the silvery-bearded Manning, and, to her gasping surprise, he caught her around the waist and lifted her across to the door, whereat several soiled urchins laughed, and one vinegary-faced old woman grinned, In horrible appreciation. Bnd dropped Manning a familiarly respectful curtsy as he. passed. There was no one In the mission ex cept a broad-shouldered man with a roughly hewn face, who ducked his head at Manning rind touched his fore finger to the side of his head. He was placing huge soup kettles In their holes In the counter at the rear of the room, and Manning culled attention to this. "A practical mission," he explained. "We start In by Bavlng the bodleB." "Do you get any further?" Inquired Gail, glancing from the empty benches and the atrociously colored "religious" tracks, to gain a ferryboat entrance. Run(;e branch. frora silverknob Mv God!" and his mouth dropped open Why why why, you cross the big range over the Inland Pacific's own tracks!" and his voice cracked Kdward E. Allison, his vanity gratl- flt tA tfa vnrv nrp. Rut back Com- uui mumemig tor .amuaua luUu Bmlllnir anJ Bmoklng. Until Gil?" suggested Allison. ,..uJ .l "I don't know." smiled Vrbank. "1 Passengers Inured to coming In over the Mldcontlnent. which was a well- equipped road otherwise, counted but half their Journey done when the came In sight of New York, no mat ter from what distance they had come. .-;vt.ito 'All I Know Is a Guest, and I Don't Tell Guesses." sod his glance had strayed more than nee to the red streaks on the big ap Now he approached It, and tudied it with absorbed Interest. "You're a smart boy, Ed," he con cluded. "Across Crescent Island Is the noly leak you could snake In a rail uad. You found the only crack that the big systems haven't tiid up." "Ail you can got me to admit. Just sow, Is that the city needs an elght Irack tube across Crescent Inland, un r lease to the Municipal Transporta tion company," stated Allison, smiling ith gratification. A compliment of this sort from shrewd old Tim Cor san, who was reputed to be the toxi st man In the world, was a tribute lghly flattering. "That's right," approved Tim. "All I know is a guess, and I don't tell juesses. This Is a big Job, though, Cddlo. A subway to. Crescent island, under proper restrictions, Is Just an MENTIONED IN THE "ILIAD" trios. City Where Francs and Great Britain Recently Landed Troops. It of Great Antiquity. Telling of F.nos, where the allies re cently landed troops to co-operate with their fleet In connection with their at tack upon the Dardanelles, the Na tional Geographic society says: "The rockv rldze of Knos Is a back joorway to the ancient city of the Golden Horn. It UeB about 155 miles est of Constantinople, upon the Gulf of tnos, In the northern Aegean sea. Thirty miles away Is the northern shore of the Gnlllpoll peninsula, round which the allied fleet has been conducting operations for months. "Enos, insignificant, built on a rock ledge and surrounded by broad marshes, becomes of unusual Interest to the world la Its new character as base of land operations against the pi.slcal heart of the Ottoman empire. Tbe respectable antiquity of the town it attested ly mentlor In Homer's Iliad." Formerly, Enos wat a trad ing port of some Importance, but It has Vrbank awoke. 'T suppose we can come to some ar rangement," he mildly suggested Vrbank looked at him still In a daze for a moment, and a trace of tne creases came back Into his brow, then they faded away. You figured all this out before you came to me." he remarked. "On what terms do we get In?" CHAPTER VIII. The Mine for the Golden Altar. Vedder Court was a very drunkard among tenement groups. Its decrepit old wooden buildings, as If weak- kneed from dissipation and senile de cay, leaned against each other crook edly for support, and leered down at the sodden swarms beneath, out of brokenpaned windows which gave somehow a ludicrous effect of bleared eyes. There had once been a narrow strip cf curbed soil In the center of the street, where three lorg-slnce-de-parted trees had given the quarter Its name of "court," but this space was now as bare and dry as the asphalt surrounding It, and, as It was too small even for the purpose of childre at piny, a wooden bench, upon which no one had ever sat, as, Indeed, why should they? had long ago been placed on It, to become loose-Jointed and weather-splintered and rotted, like all the rest of the neighborhood As for Its tenants; they were exactly tbe sort of birds one might expect to find In such foul nests. They were of many nntlons, but of Just two main va rieties: stupid and squalid, or thin and furtive; but they were all dirty, and they bore, In their complexions, the poison of crowded breathing spaces and bad sewerage, and unwholesome I m . I a mains an azcreEate of three hunrirpd or insuiiicieui iuuu and twenty miles of road to be built Into this mire there drove an utterly in four short Btretchps in miiiitinn tn out-of place little electric coupe. At this. I havo a twenty-year contract the wheel was the fresn-clieeked Uall over a hundred-mile stretch of the In- Sargent ana wun ner was me iwin- inn.i Pnciflc n track rirtit ..ntrv i.,in kling-ejed Rufus Manning, whose San Francisco, and this," he dlspiayrd lllte beard PP'ed down to his sec to Vrbank a preliminary conv of an ond waistcoat ouuon. jney arov ordinance, authorizing the Immediate slowly the length of the court and building of an ek'ht-track tube through back again, the girl studying every de Crescent island to the mainland. "Pos- all wlth acute Interest. They stopped slbly you ran understand this whole project better If I show you a map," and ho spread out his little pocket sketch. It It hal been possible to reverse th procets of time and worry and weurlng ct ncentratlon, President Vr bank of tbi Mldcontlnent would have rlsnn from his Inspection of that map with a brow as smooth as a baby's. Instead, his lips went dry, as he craned forward his neck at m ' ilk might look at a few "Here they are." and Allison tossed him a memorandum slip. Vrbank glanced at the slip, then he looked up at Allison In perplexity He had a funny forward angle to his neck when he was interested, and the creates In his brow were deepened un til they looked like cuts, 'T thought you were Jokiug. and I'm still charitable enough to think so What's all this Junk?" "Little remnants and Job lots of railroads I've been pickiug up," and Allison drew forward his chair. "Some I boiiEht outright, and In some I hold control "If you're serious about Interesting the Midcontlnent In any of this prop erty, we don't need to waste much time." Vrbank leaned back and held his knee. "There are only two of these roads approach the Mldcontl nent system at any point, and they are useless property so far as we are concerned; tho L. and C, In the East and the Silverknob and Nugget City in tho west, which touches our White Range branch at its southern terml nus. We couldnt do anytcing with those." "You landed on tho best ones right away," smiled Allison. "However, I don't propose to sell these to the Mid continent. I propose to absorb the Midrontinent with them Vrbank suddenly remembered All! son's traction history, and leaned for ward to look at the Job lots and rem1 nants again. "Tliis list Isn't complete," he Judged, and turned to Allison with a serious question in his eye. "Almost," ana Allison hitched a little closer to the desk. "There ro- lalely lost mnch'of Its export to the adjacent seaport of Dedengatch. The export which it retains today Is due to Its position on the Maritza river, the great water highway from Adrian ople, eighty miles inland, to the sea. "The population of Enos Is largely Greek Beafarcrs, commission dealers and merchants. It numbered In 1905 about 8,000. The first part of the way from 'Cnos toward Constantinople Is through a level country, but the broken, mountainous regions begin long before the Itosporus is reached." in front of Temple Mission, which with Its ugly red and blue lettering nearly erased by years of monthly scrubbing, occupied an old Btore room once used as a saloon. "So this is the chrysalis from which the butterfly cathedral Is to emerge, commented Gall, as Manning held the door open for her, and before she rose she peered again around the uninvit ing "court," which not even the bright winter sunshine could relieve of Its WHERE HUMANS ARE WRONG tie He Dropped Behind to Slip Something Which Looked Like Money. pictures on the walls to the windows, past which eddied a mass of humanity all but submerged In hopelessness. 'Sometimes," replied Manning gravely. "I have seen a soul or two even here. It Is because of these two or three possibilities that tho mission Is kept up. It might Interest you to know that Market Square church spends fifteen thousand dollars a year In charity relief in Vcddcr court alone." Gall's eyelids closed, her lushes curved on her cheeks for an Instant, and the corners of her Hps twitched And bow much a year does Market Square church take out of Vedder court?" I was waiting for that bit of Im pertinence." laughed Manning. "1 shall be surprised at nothing you say since that first day when you char acterized Market Square church as a remarkably lucrative enterprise. Have you never felt any compunctions of conscience over that?" 'Not once," answered Gall prompt ly. She had started to seat herself on one ot the empty benches, but bad changed her mind. "If I had been given to any such self-Injustice, however, I should reproach myself now. I think Market Square church not only com mercial but criminal." I'll have to give your soul a chas tisement," smiled Manning. "These people must live somewhere, and be cause Vedder jcourt, being church property, Is exempt from taxation, they find cheaper rents here than any where In the city. If we were to put up Improved buildings, I don't know- where tbey would go, because we would be compelled to charge more rent." "In order to make tbe same rate, of profit," responded Gall. "Out of all this misery, Market Square churcn Is reaping a harvest rich enough to build a fifty million dollar cathedral, and have sufficient disregard for the par ticular deity under whom you do bus! ness, to feel suro that he would not destroy It by lightning. I want out ot here." "Frankly, so do I," admitted Man nlng; "although I'm ashamed of my self. It's all right for you, who are young, to be fastidious, but your Daddy Manning Is coward enough to want to make bis peace with heaven after a life which put a few blots on the book." She laughed at him speculatively for a moment, and then she laughed You know, I don't believe that, Daddy Manning. You're an old fraud, who does good by stealth, In order to gain the reputation of having been picturesquely wicked. Tell me why you belong to Market Square church." "Hocause It's so respectable," he twinkled down at her. "When an old sinner has lost every other claim to respectability, be has himself put on the vestry." He dropped behind on their way to the door, to surreptitiously slip some thing, which looked like money, to the man with the roughly hewn counte nance, and as he stood talking, ltev. Smith Boyd came In, not quite breath lessly, but as If he had hurried. "I knew you were here," he said, taking Gall's slender hand In his own; then his eyes turned cold. "You recognized my pink ribbon bows," and she luughed up at him frankly. "You haven't been over to sing lately." "No," he replied. "Will you be at home this evening?" "I'll have our music selected," and, In the very midst of her brightness, Bhe was stopped by the sudden sum berness In the rector's eyes. Simple little conversation; quite trivial Indeed, but It had been attend ed by much shifting thought. To be gin with, tho rector regretted the ne cessity of disapproving of a ' young lady so undeniably attractive. She was a pleasure to tho eye and a stim ulus to the mind, and always his first Impulse when he thought of her was one of pleasure. An Incident flashed back to him. The night of the tobog gan party, when she had stood with her face upturned, and the moonlight gleaming on her round white throat. He had trembled, much to his later sorrow, as he fastened the scarf about er warm neck. However, she was the visiting niece of one of hhi vestry men, who lived next door to the rec tory. , Gall Jerked her pretty head Impa- ently. If Rev. Smith Iioyd meant to be as somber as this, she'd rather he'd stay at home. However, he was the rector, and her Vncle Jim was a vestryman, and they lived right next door. "You Just escaped a blowing up. Doctor Boyd," observed "Daddy" Man ning, Joining them, and his eyes twinkled from one to the other. "Our young friend from the West Is harsh with the venerable Market Square church." Again?" and Rev. Smith Boyd was gracious enough to smile. "What 1 the matter with It this time?" "It Is not only commercial, but crlm Inal," repeated Mantling, with a aiy smile at Gall, who now wore a little red spot In each cheek. Ilev. Smith Boyd's cold eyes turned green, as he glanced at this daring oun nerson. In offending the dignity of Market Square church she offended0 his own. "What would you have us do?" he quietly asked. 'Retire from business," she In formed hhn, nettled by the covert sneer at her youth and Inexperience. She laid aside a new perplexity for future solution. In moments such as this tho rector was far from minis terlal, and he displayed a quickness to anger quite out of proportion to the apparent cause. "The whole trouble with Market Square church Is that tbey have no God. The creator has been reduced to a formula." Daddy Manning saved the rector the rain of any answer. "You're a religious anarchist," ne charged Gall. Her faco softened. "By no means," she replied. "I am a devoted follower of the divine spirit. the divine will, the divine law; bul not of tho church; for It has forgotten these things." You don't know what you are say Ing," the rector told her. "That Isn't all you mean." she re torted. "What you have in mind is that, being a woman, and young, I should ee silent. You would not per mlt thought If you could avoid It, for when people begin to think, religlou lives but the church dies, as It Is doing today." Now Rev. Smith Boyd could t. triumphant There was a curl of sar casm on his Hps. "Are you aulte consistent?" he charged. "You have Just been object lne to the prosperity of the church. Financially." she admitted; "but It is a spiritual bankrupt. Your financial prosperity Is a direct sign of your re ligious decay. Your financial bank ruptcy will come later, as It has done In France, as It Is doing In Italy, as It will do all over the world. Humanity treats the church with the goneroslty due a once valuable servaut who has outlived his usefulness." "My dear child, humanity can never do without religion," Interposed Daddy Manning. "Asreed." said Gail; "but It out grows them. It outgrew paganism Idolatry, and a score of minor phases In between. Now it Is outgrowing the religion of creed, In Its progress to ward morality. What we netd la new religion." (TO WE CONTINUED.) jMIMTIONAL aiiwsmooL Lesson (By E. O. BELl.KUS,' Acting Director ot Hunday School Course of Moody IJltile Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1915, Wnttrn Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 5 Perfection -The False and the True BrftEV.UW. COSNELL Sp.Miuxbi M Mm. Moody Obis Isftiuu si Cbicat UZZIAH'S PRIDE AND MENT. PUNISH- LEHSON TEXT-II Chron. tt:8-10, 15-21. (iOI.I)KN TKXT-A man's pride iilinll bring til in low, hut he that la of a lowly vplrlt ahall obtain honor.-I'rov. n. v. Again we consider the southern kingdom. No bettor character could havo been chosen to Illustrate the condition of rulers and peoplo In the declining days ot Judah's glory. Uz slah ruled for G2 years and his reign was almost midway between the daya of Solomon and those of. the Babylon Ian captivity. I. Priest and Parents, vv. 1-5. The namo Uzzluh means "God has helped mo," and no king ever had better ad vantages In the way of parents and counselors. To the Influence of bla parents he yielded In his youth (v. 4), followed the good counsel ot Zacha rluh the prophet of God (v. 5), and as long as he sought the Lord, "God made him prosper." Ancestry and en vironment are not, however, a guar anty of any perpetuity In character. II. Pride, vv. 6-15. Uzzlah or Azariah (marg.) made a fine start and his reign, considered as a whole, was one of the most brilliant In Judah's history. It bears some striking resem blances to that ot Solomon In that the dangerous enemies became subject na tions (v. S). In the conduct of his campaigns Uzzlah "waxed exceeding ly strong" (v. 8 R. V.) Uzziun also greatly Improved and strengthened Jurusulcm and gave much heed to stock raising and forestry (v. 10). The secret of all of this prosperity was that be sought Jehovah. ChriBten aom is not Christianity, yet It Is a fact that In those lands whore God Is most highly exalted and most near ly followed we witness the greatest prosperity and men living amidst the most comfortable surroundings. Seek Jehovah, know his will as revealed tn his word, and do that will when learned, Is the only true basis of real and lasting prosperity. Uzzlah also gave an exhibition of worldly wisdom that he strengthened the defenses of the nation (v. 9-10). Confidence In God does not paralyze human energy or make us presumptuous and care less (I Chroit. 27:25-31). Uzzlah brought the army up to a high point ot efficiency (v. 13-15), using the best weapons known In his day. We, likewise, may be "marvelously helped ' from the same source and upon the sume conditions; viz., that we "seek the Lord" Kph. 6:10; Phi. 5:13). But growing along with all of this prosper ity there was also another develop ment as suggested In the last clause of vorse 14 "he was marvelously helped "till he was strong." There Is no greater burden to bear and no harder test for a man or a nation's character than tliat which comes with prosperity. III. Punishment, vv. 16-21. (1) Pride Uzzlnh's fall and shame Is one of the Baddest chapters In history. His strength became his ruin. "When he was strong his heart was lifted up. Poverty, struggle and adversity are not passports to glory though they have strengthened the moral fiber ot thousands. The tempting tests of prosperity, gilded, perfumed and at tractive are, however, far more hard to withstand. Pride always leads to (2) Presumption Centuries before God had warned men that prosperity would lead to ruin (Deut. 8:11-17; 32:13-15) and Solomon also gave warning (I'rov. 16:18). The subtlety of pride Is the gradual way by which we come to look upon our prosperity as the work of our own hands, there by forgetting the source of our pow er and becoming filled with a feeling of our own solf-sufficlency. Tbe next stop was that Uzzlah assumed lo him self those duties (v. 16) which right fully and exclusively belonged to the priesthood (see Num. 16:40; 18:7; I Kings 12:33; 12:1-4; Hcb.5:4). (3) Pro. testing We now behold the strange spectacle ot the king protesting tor the wrong and the faithful pries: a Azariah for the right ' A sad specta- ': When She Gardens. There Is a very good gardening mat for the special convenience of the dainty woman who loves to dig and plant, but who dislikes to kneol In the garden paths In a fresh summer frock. With a gardening mat In one's pos session. It will not be necessary to go upstairs and change the costume be fore beginning to dig and weed. The mat Is made ot fiber and Is shaped like a large roasting pan, with one side removed. One kneels to - the three-sided pan or mat and the trock Is kept perfectly clean. Philosopher Claims Error In Mating Are Due to Restricted Circula tion Among Souls. In the American Magazine Walter Prichard Eaton has a series ot love stories entitled "The Bird House Man." The first story Is called "Tbe Song Sparrow," and In the following extract taken from It two characters discuss bird mating and human mat ing. "'Did you ever reflect,' said Alec Farnum, 'that the birds never make a mistake In mating? It's only we poor blundering humans who get all mixed up In our mating.' "'Yes, there's that Sally Fisher, she's married a Jew!' said Mrs. Plumb. 'Can't no happiness come ot marrying a Jew, I sav.' "Td go further than that.' smiled the man. It Un't so much Jew or Chinese or Slav that makes the dif ference Id ns humans; It's our souls. Some ot us are wild ducks, and some of us are hermits, and some of us are domestic robins, or merry .chickadees or cantankerous crows. There are nightingales and song sparrows, as well as hawks and grackles. But we don't find our own kind at mating time. Do you know why we don'L Mrs. Plumb?' "'No. Will you hwe some more peas?' said Bhe. ""I will; they are delicious,' he an swered. 'The first early peas are al ways delicious. The answer to my question Is that the circulation among souls Is not free enough. It Is too constricted. Love. Mrs. Plumb, Is with us a matter of proximity. We have to love, It's our nature. It we are a song sparrow, and there Is no other song sparrow In sight, we fool ishly fall tn love with the grackle next door That's the whole trouble with humanity!'" Farmers' Wives. In Farm and Fireside appears a lit tle article entitled, "The Greatest Partnership tn. the World," In the course of which the author comments as follows on farmers' wives: "The fanners w 1 fe knows more about her husband's business than any other man's wife knows about bis She has a fairer, clearer and more helpful understanding of It than the average lawyer's, doctor's, or mer chant's wife can possibly have about her husband's business, for she lives and works sith her husband on their 'plant.' The farmer's wife Is the farmer's partner In more senses than one. In the majority of cases she ac tually operates certain departments of the business. "Moat wives have genuine Interest and some Information about their hus band's business, but the farmer's wife, living with her partner on their plant occupies a unique position among a wives. With their greater opportun ty for helpfulness than her clty sis ters, her responsibilities have In creased proportionately. All honor and respect to her who carries this heav ter burden." TEXT Not as though 1 had already lt. tnlned, Hthff er mlri-suy perreot. Ut u then-fore as many as he psrfwt bt thus inlnded.-i'hll. 1:12, 13. This text makes It clear thnt there Is a sense In which Christians can not be perfect and an other sense n which they may be porfoct. The apostU slates clearly that ho has not already attained, neither Is already perfect, ot as the Itevlsed Version r e a d i, "made perfect The verse preced ing speaks of the resurrection o I the dead, so thai his disavowal evi dently has to do with the perfec tion which will come In the future. It may seem to some unnecessary that a man should disavow this final per fection since he Is evidently not yet rnlsod from the dead; but the human mind Is capable of very strange things, and this same apostle Paul speaks ol some In his day who taught that the resurrection Is past already. On some such basis. It 'seems, that teach ers arose who doclarcd that even no we may reach the perfection which be longs to the resurrection state The apostle Is clearly against such a doc trine. Rlshop Moulo, one of the most saint ly men the modern church has pro duced, In commenting upon JliIs pas sage says: "As far as my own obser vation goes, such views (I. e. of per fection) are not uncommonly attended, In those who hold them. by. a certain oblivion to personal shortcomings and Inconsistencies; by an obscuration of consciousness, and 'of conscience, more or less marked, towards the sin fulness of ordinary, everyday viola tions of the law ot holiness In respect ot meekness, humbleness of mind, loni suffering, sympathy, and other quiet graces." Indeed, the saints of all the age unite with Paul In declaring that thej are not already perfect. The apostle after suffering many things for Christ's sake so that he bore In hli body the marks of the Lord Jesui. writes of himself as "chief of sinners." John Uunyan although he spent twclvo years In Bedford Jail for his Lord, cnlls hh life story "Grace Abounding lo the Chief of Sinners." When John Wesley thought ho was dying, he re viewed his labors of sixty years, but could find no pee npon which to hanr. any hope of salvation; ho could only! repeat tho sentiment of the hymn, I the chief of alnnera am. Dot Jesus died for mo. The same spirit was manifested bn Charles Snurgeon. who said during th serious Illness, that If he got well h-t would have many things to preachi but Just at that time four words wereF enough for him, "Jesus died for me.'t Dr. A. J. Gordon was a man or bucjv saintly character thnt his vory fac gave evidence of tho Indwelling Ihtnt. A servant girl who mot him at thj door one dax told her mistress tha sho did not know his name, but ' had the face of an angel. Tet whoi he came to his last hours, his expre; 8lons of unworthlner.s and of absolute depondance upon the mercy and grart of God were so affecting, that his fan tly could not bear to remain In tM room. These men all agreo In Buying "Not as though I had already attained either were already perfect.' Hut the other portion of our text sneaks of a sense In which we ma be perfect. The context shows tnaf the apostle Is using the figure of a run ner In a race. He has not yet at talned the prize, but forgetting thj things which are behind and rcachln forth unto those which are before, n presses toward the mark. It Is W attitude to which the word "perfect la annlled. The man has laid asW'l cle Indeed when the head of a nation tn wolEht8 and the easily besetting openly avows tha wrong and persists hB i. not content with what hi tn it despite the protests ot the serv ants of God, The last part ot verse 18 indicates the extent and perver sity ot Uzzlnh's prldo. Admonition only aroused the anger ot the all-con quering monarch. No honor ever comes from disobeying God (I Sum. 2:30; Dan. 5:37). Uzzlah apparently (v. 19) was about to use the censer In has attained, but forgetting that whirl is behind, he presses with ner' stretched forth and every musrl strained, to the goal. It will be seel at once thnt this sort of porfectlon vorv Imncrfect and Is In no sense finality. It only prepares us to r made perfect In the day of Christ coming. Nevertheless we are hour his hand .as a weapon in execution ny the race of Christ to fulfill thlt Ideal and not to put him to shame-. Two matters are Involved In the efl hortatlon to be 'Thus minded. Hi-' of nil If we foci like the apostle, M will have the lowly estimate of oui solvna of which we have snoken, tn feeling that we have not attains Verv far from Christian perfection nrlde: on the contrary, humility Is " very essence. Agnln. tf we are VI feet In the sense of which the npo8" sneaks, .we will emulate him of hia wrath, but God Interfered (I Putor 6:6-71. Azariah Is saved and Uzzlah becomes a leper, Leprosy, like sin, begins and devel ops in Its Incipient stages In secret, and Uzztah's act was but the -cul initiation of the long development ot sinful pride. Wrath soon passes away, but Its re sults, physically as well as spiritually, are pcrnrancnt We must not press the' teaching that all sickness Is the result of sin (read prp,gng forward for the prize of nrM glory. This Is the very opposite -i comulacency as to our attainment, Is Bald thnt Thorwaldsen once wet1 hpcnoHfi ho wns satisfied with a stst' he had mado. "Alas," he said, "1 ''! nover Improve now, for I have resent my Ideal." How ought they to aroused whu, because they have com to Christ and are living with o" consistency, are satisfied! Life Job) Uzzlah was forever separated (v. 21) and was In his death "unclean" be causo "His heart was lifted to his de struction There are four suggestions In clos ing: (1) Uiz'ah'a pride had gone too tar; secretly and perhaps unconscious ly lt had slowly but Buroly pormoatel his whole nature. Tho time Is eurely coming when tmtt ltgeif by growth and he who l Rights of Pedestrians. . Winks What are you carrying that boat horn around for? Jinks That's to blow when I want automobiles and bicyclists to get out of my way. New York Weekly. Bin and the slnnor must be Judged (Rom. 2:1-5; 6:23) (2) Leprosy was a fitting punish' ment, for It was an emblem ot the foulness of his slu. Pride will precipitate men the low est and cause thorn to perpetrate the most heinous sins. Satan, we are told, fell because of pride. I i raver la not overcoming L'tzlah, looking tn the glass, could I luctanco, It Is laying hold of ( see reuected the leprosy of his iouL ' eBt willingness. Ar?hblshop not growing may well examli self to see whether be be In tl How good It la that the a post on to assure us that "If in ye be otherwise minded, God veal even this unto you." Ma us grace to walk In this ligl a. n
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