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    fHE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
THE
DEEP SEA PERIL
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
' (Copyright by W. G. Chapman)
ONE RESULT OF AN AIR RAID ON LONDON
O
PAGET SINKS A GERMAN CRUISER AND IDA KENNEDY
ENTERS THE STORY.
Naval Lieutenant Donald Paget, Just given commund of a sub
marine, "meets nt Wuxhlngton on old friend nnd distinguished though
somewhat eccentric scientist, Captain Mnstermnn. Mnstermnn has Just
returned from an exploring expedition, bringing with him a member of
the strange race, the existence of whose species, he asserts, menaces
the human family. At the club, the "March Hares," Musterman ex
plains his theory to Paget. The recital Is Interrupted by the arrival of
a lifelong enemy of Mnsterinun, lru Mucllcnrd, and the former Is
seized with n fatal paralytic stroke. From Masterman'g body Paget
secures documents bearing upon the discovery nnd proceeds to the
home of the scientist. Paget proceeds to sea on his submarine, the
F53, nnd encounters a German cruiser.
CHAPTER IV Continued.
5
At first the hum of the electric mo
tors domlnuted all other sounds, but
Gradually It became blended with a
medley of noises. Placing his ear n
moment ngnlnst the plating of the
hull, Donald could hear n steady
Hiotigh faint pounding, which came, nl
from within, but from the bearings of
the distant warship, transmitted un
der water. Somewhere, too, Donald
fancied that a destroyer wns speed
ing toward them, for there was a
(Mint nnd almost Imperceptible whir
ling, ns of high-speed machinery.
Mixed with the throb of the screws
there enme the sound of their suction.
At times the seas, breaking over the
periscope, obscured his vision. Some
times, too, the cruiser shifted outside
her nrc; then the periscope motor
started anew, nnd slowly she would
awtug back, growing more discernible.
Below, the men, who understood
that nn enemy ship wns near, waited
la suppressed excitement.
"We'll have to try her nt a mile,
Clouts," said Donald to the lookout.
He carried only three torpedoes. Ho
would have liked to close In and make
sure of his prey, but a shot nt almost
the extreme range seemed preferable
to hazarding the vessel nnd the lives
f his crew.
; "Aye, sir!" answered Sam Clouts.
Clonfs was n man of ubout forty
years, hook-nosed, with bland, humor
ous blue eyes, and a square Jaw under
square, bristling bcurd. When, oft
duty he wns perpetually plnplng a
mouth-organ, nnd Donald could not
.help smiling to sec his hand stealing
covetously toward his pocket even
now.
The German could hardly have been
more than a mile nwny when she sud
denly changed her course to westward
Donald hud been approaching her head
on. with the object of maneuvering,
when within striking distance, to soad
a torpedo amidships. The new course
of the vessel was n bitter disappoint
ment to him.
Donald realized that she was near
lug the Shetland nnd endeavoring to
make the passage between mainland
and Fair island. That was the most
hazardous part of her Joruney. Once
beyond the straits, she would bo free
In the open Atlantic.
He gave the order to rise. The
tanks were blown, the rudders and
diving planes adjusted; the F"i5 be
gan to mount upward. A green trans
lucency appeared. The electric lights
went out. The hatches were opened.
A gust of fresh ulr drove the stale
atmosphere nwny. The petrol Rioters
took up the task of the electric ones.
Donald ordered full speed. The ves
sel drove high through the waves,
achieving 12 knots.
A shndow edged the misty horizon.
It was Sumburgh head, the extreme
southerly point of the Shetland Here
the cruiser wns due to turn.
"Smoke to port, sir l" suld Clouts.
The German had evidently seen It
at the snme time, for her speed began
to diminish. This meant that she wax
steering cautiously to gain the shelter
of Sumburgh, behind which she might
lie unobserved for observation.
If It was nn English battle cruiser
thut wns nppronchlng, the ship would
be hard put to It to escape. It
was not likely that the oncoming ship
hod sighted her smoke through the In
creasing haze.
Donald drove hnrd for the main
channel. He knew that he could catch
the German now, and ho wns ready to
tako chances of discovery. Meanwhile,
Inch by Inch, the stranger came up out
of the sea.
At' first Dowuld believed she was a
British battle cruiser. This hope was
soon dispelled, however, when her fuu
nels showed three black stacks, ringed
with white, the color of the Claude
Une, nnd the heavy hull, built for
freight, not speed.
Ills henrt begun to thump heavily.
For the Beotla was one of the Claude
line's ships, nnd thq approaching ves
sel looked very much like the overdue
Beotin.
And Ida was aboard her, nnd al
ready well within range of the eno
. my's guns I The two ships had sighted
each other. Donald saw the Beotla
diminish to a thread line ns she turned
and ran, prow ou, toward the Orkneys.
A spurt of flame broke from the Ger
man's bow. A coll of cloud followed
1L A few seconds later the boom of
the discharge echoed across the water,
and a pillar of spray shot up near the
Beotla's bow. The battleship turned
toward her prey.
. And Donald's chance had come.
The Beotla had no Intention of sur
rendering. The German, following
her, perceived the lurking danger, nnd
at once bis guns were trained on the
submarine.
The F53 dipped r.t the bow. A shell
hooted over ber, and a second, falling
shorter, deluged the submersible with
r. But tv9 FC5 ytat stern down
and sinking. Her periscope shot
through the waves, the only target,
and In the conning tower Donald sat
wfth his eyes fast on the mirror.
Ten feet below the surface the F55
plunged on toward the monarch of the
sen.
The sound of the guns wns vastly
louder under the waves. A Rlngle shot,
sent home, would smash through the
thin plates ns If they were of pnper.
But Donuld knew that It wns the su
preme moment when danger must be
Ignored. ' Ho seemed to sense the ship,
the crew, ns a single entity, devoted
to a single purpose. He aimed his
bow directly Into his enemy's port
(lank. Se was less than a mile awny.
At that distance It seemed a miracle
that her shells failed to strike home.
Down In the torpedo room three
men birc a torpedo from the rack and
placed It In the slings. They swung
It forward Into the breech of the tube.
One man nt the pump rapidly filled-the
breech chumber with the compressed
air that was to send the missile upon
Its course.
Donald, In the conning tower, still
held the cruiser within the mirror. He
saw the smoke coll from her guns, he
heard their dull reverberation, nnd
knew that nt any moment the blinded
F05 might be scut staggering to her
death through the wake of her wash.
But ho was nnlmated by the single
minded purpose which Inspired ull nnd
made the steel and human mechanism
u bolt forged for death.
Clouts, nt the wheel, did not allow
the littlo craft to deviate a hair's
breadth from her course.
"Stund by !"
The hiss of the oxygen apparatus
dominated nil other sounds. At her
45-knot speed the missile left the
launching tube with a heavy thud, and
the ship quivered ns she shook herself
free.
And Donnld knew thnt his shot had
gone home.
The whir grew less, but nil listened
until the end of the mile-long Journey.
On bourd the enemy ship everyone
could see the air bubbles that came up
from the speeding missile nnd Its
white, foaming wake. There was no
time to maneuver the giant ship. They
There Was a Woman Aboard and a
Man Pulling Wildly at One Oar.
prayed they could do no more that
the torpedo might not have been shot
true; that It might deviate from Its
Imminent path.
It came on Inexorably. The firing
became wilder. The gunners, ab
sorbed ns they were In their , task,
seemed permeated with the contnglous
terror caused by that white, rippling
pencil lino thnt was extending towurd
their ship.
The missile struck the battle cruiser
amidships, blowing out a section of
her hull, a single water-tight compart
ment. The cruiser hardly staggered
from the blow.
Tho torpedo had struck glancing,
and missed the full force of Its deliv
ery. The wound was In Itself too
small to sink or even badly cripple the
great ship ; a triumph of shipbuilding,
aad calculated to withstand Just such
ut Impact.
fjnfortunately for her, the maximum
of the shock was received beneath the
powder room, ndjacent to the ammu
nition chnmber, whose doors were
open at that moment for the removal
of the 12-luch shells by the ammuni
tion hoist.
The shock wns followed by an Infi
nite suspense. Perhaps It lasted for
two seconds. The cruiser drove
through the waves like some sea mon
ster that had received a deadly thrust
unscathed. i
Then, with a detonation that was
heard from Sumburgh to Sutherland,
she went sky-high In tumbling ruin.
Donald, within the conning tower, saw
a blur frost the rolrror of the periscope.
Another second passed. Then the
F05 went reeling under the terrific
force of the . explosion. She spun
round under tho waves nnd thrilled ns
If she herself fuced disruption.
The bilge-pumps clenred her diving
tanks. She rose, nose upward, scent
ing the nlr; her stern followed, nnd
she lay nwash in the water once more.
The hatches were removed.
Not n vestige of the cruiser wns to
be seen. She hud sunk In less than
three minutes.
But hnrd by, not three-quarters of
n mile to port, a pillar of smoke, lit
up by flame, curled out of the Beotla's
hatches. Deeming her the submarine's
decoy, the cruiser's gunners had rid
dled her with shells from the two 12
Inch guns at the bow. '
She seemed to stagger through the
smoke that wreathed her. She was
dying by fire nnd water, too, nnd the
twin elements, In their eternal conflict,
recked nothing of her human freight.
And Ida was there Ida, doomed to
perish, If sh were not already dead,
unless help speedily camel
Donnld took the helm.- The F55
rushed through the waves In the di
rection of the Clnude liner, which list
ed hnrd to starboard. Two bunts hnd
nlrendy been launched, and bobbed
ridiculously beside her; others re
mained high up In the air, Impotent,
because the list prevented their being
lowered, nnd dashed themselves to
pieces against the hull as they swung
from the shattered davits.
As tho K55 drew near the ocean
seemed to open. Silently, softly, tho
convexity of the hull slipped down nnd
was lost to view ns the sun's edge
goes Into the horizon. A' swirl nnd
eddy In the sen, nnd nothing remained
except the two boats nnd some tiny,
doll-like figures that bobbed In tho
water.
A gasp of horror went up from the
thronts of the seamen, clustered upon
the deck of the F55, as the swirl
sucked down the boat thnt wns the
nenrer to the ninelstrom of the wreck.
It sucked down with nil Its living
freight, nnd spewed It forth Into the
nlr ngaln, end on empty.
The engines stopped. The subma
rine glided In. The single boat
seemed empty. Not Thero was n
woman nboard, and a man pulling
wildly upon one oar.
Donald took In tho sltuntlon Instnnt
ly. He turned to his nld, Dnvles, a
little, keen-faced middy who wns mak
ing his first voyage In command of
men.
"Tow us, or run for Fair Islnnd!"
he cried. Then, flinging oil his coat,
he leaped.
A few strokes carried him to the
whirling bont. And now he renllrd
that he hnd known nil nlong thnt tho
girl In it wiy Idn, miraculously saved
out of the great company of those who
had died. His heart beat a penn of
Joy ; nt the sight of her his love awak
ened, nnd he knew thnt this wns no
transient passion, but nn enduring one.
But Just ns he renched the bout ho
saw the sailor nt the oar 'stagger blind
ly toward the edge. It seemed ns If he
were being dragged overboard ngnlnst
his will! He whirled his arms nnd
plunged Into the deep with a honrse
cry that rang out fur above the waters.
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This mass of rujns nnd destroyed dwellings Is but one of many such
mementos of "nlr raid week," la which the Germans paid visits of destruction
to London. The German nvlutors dropped bombs throughout the Metropolitan
district
GERMANS INJURED IN PRACTICE FIGHT
Paget, attempting to rescue his
sweetheart, encounters a horde
of nolsomo creatures and finds
himself In desperate plight.
U'O HIS CONTINUED.)
PRISONERS WENT ON STRIKE
Refused to Go Back to Jail Until One
of Their Number Was "Fired" by
Workhouse Superintendent
Perhaps the queerest strike on rec
ord wns thnt of workhouse prisoners
In Delaware county, Indiana, recently,
when they refused to return to Jail un
less one of their number received his
freedom. And It wns not that they de
sired him to be free, either, but be
cause they wished to be freed of his
presence.
"I had my gang of prisoners way out
by Yorktown, working on a country
road that needed repairing," said
Jumes Cole, workhouse superintendent,
according 'to the Indianapolis News,
"when I noticed, about time to load
them Into the automobile apd bring
them back," that the prisoners were
hanging bock nnd talking nmong them
selves. Finally one of them came to
me with the story mud his demands.
"'The boys here won't go back to
Jail with you unless you fire Dunny,
there,' said the spokesman. 'They won't
ride back In the machine with htm be
cause he has vermin In his hnlr nnd
on lils body. You either let him go or
no more Jail for us. . We've ngreed to
mnke a run for It If you don't, and
you enn't cntch nil of us.'
"Of course, I hnd no right to allow
the man his freedom," Cole continued,
"but the fellow Jumped up and ran
nwny Just then nnd I'm bound to admit
we didn't try very hnrd to cntch him.
Anyway, thnt broke the Btrlke."
Triumph of Justice.
When we attack only Injustice, seon
er or later we must triumph. In order
to Insure triumph, then, wish nothing
but what Is Just. Respect the rights
even of those who have trampled your
rights under foot Let the safety of
liberty, the property of nil, without ex
ception be sncred In your eyes, for
duty extends equally to all. Lnmen
nals. . '
Naturally,
"Motorists never have a good word
i say for pedestrians."
"Of course not It Is the nntare f
things for them to be continually rai
ning oedestrUns down,"
Diary Exposes Carelessness of
Teuton Gunners With Their
Own Men.
REHEARSE FOR BIG BATTLES
Realism Carried to the Extreme by
Germans In Preparing for Trial of
New Strategy Says Human
Strength Is Powerless.
With the French Armies. It Is now
pretty well known that both the
French and Germans frequently re
'jearse their buttles, under conditions
is realistic as possible on speciully
prepured maneuver grounds. But
whereas the French on these occasions
lake great care that no men shall be
Injured, the Germans have carried
realism to such a point that ench exer
cise of this kind costs them a number
it wounded. The fact is nttested by
Ihe following extract from the note
book of a German of the 218th regi
ment of Infuntry:
"The exercise was to represent a
new method of attack used by the
French, nnd was to take place on the
21st, in the presence of the duke of
VVuerttemberg, nnd other personages.
"Ou the 17th our artillery regulated
Its fire preparatory to the exercise.
Men Wounded in Drill.
"On the 21st we were put In place
st 8:15 a. 111. From 0:30 to 10:30 the
artillery nnd the trench mortars fired.
We were given each fifty explosive
cartridges, while the men of the first
nnd second waves were given each,
respectively, six nnd two loaded gren
ndes. From the start, during the fir
ing of the trench mortars, men were
wounded by splinters. At 10:30 the
business begun, and toward 1 :30 p. m.
nur companies were assembled for the
goose step parade on the Hoehwnlsch
Walderystal road. This parade also
tool; place before the duke of Wuert
temberg. The exercise, It appears,
satisfied these gentlemen entirely. So
It will not be long. now before we en
ter Into the hell. Uuhapplly, several
men were wounded, one seriously. It
Is really sad to see exercise of this
kind carried out with real artillery
nnd trench mortars. Aside from the
fact that It costs n great deal of
money, men ure wounded almost regu
larly. So it is not enough that we
should risk our lives when we ore nt
the front, we must even he exposed
to danger when we are supposed to
be at rest."
And here lire some extracts from the
MRS. THOMAS F. RYAN
f.
Chi . ff
t v. .
notebook of a German captured lately
at Hill 304, near Verdun :
"Yesterday Just after midnight' we
went up to the first line. The march
wns terrible. We were shelled, from
every side and the night was black.
We got lost and had to wander two
and n half hours In the open. After
dlfllculty of every description we
finally reached our shelter. And what
a shelter I The entrance and the exit
were half enved In. I hope the shells
won't finnlly block them, for escnpe In
such circumstances Is not to be
thought of. Our safety depends only
on divine nld ; human strength Is pow
erless. "Next day, 9:30 a. m. I have Just
got up. In spite of the violent bom
bardment of shells and torpedoes I
succeeded In getting more or less
sleep. But we have gone without eat
ing or drinking, as the supply men
have not been able to get through the
barrage fire. I still have a piece of
bread and a little to drink ; I will re
tain myself ns long as possible. Who
knows when we shnll be revlctualed?"
Why He Could Not Write.
On the day following the same sol
dier wrote a letter which was found
on him when he was captured. I give
tills extract:
"Thou hast been waiting a long time
for news of mo, my dear Gertrude, but
I enn send thee nothing because the,
nrtlllery fire Is generally so Intense
that the supply men who take our let
ters cunnot get to us. Last night, or
rather today, we went to gather what,
the others threw away when they ranj
and had some success, otherwise w
would have had nothing to eat of
drink. To sutler hunger and thirst
thou seest, is terrible. Every one
says : 'If the French come now It's air
up.' Thou seest In what a state we
are."
And then the French did come.
Paul Scott Mowrer In the Chicago
News.
TMlr PDIMriC IM DDICriUCD
I m 1 1 uiiiuuvj in iii4WllE.il
Mires Down Between the Battle
Lines on French Front but
Takes Wandering German.
London. This Is the way a Brit
ish tank crew took a prisoner. "Our
tank mired down In the mud between
the lines," said the lieutenant, "and
we skipped out Into a nearby aban
doned trench. We saw a Fritz wan
dering around all alone, apparently
dazed, and yelled to him to come In.
There wns such a row of the guns he
couldn't hear so one of the men went
out to bring him In out of danger. He
wns In an awful state trembling all
over but we gave him some cigarettes
and he buckled up."
Safety by
Surrender
CUT OFF HAIR AS SHE SLEPT
Story of Seventeen-Year-Old Girl Con
fuses Detectives of Brooklyn
- Police Department
New York. Detectives of the Sixth
branch bureau are confused by the
case of Miss Anita Brown, seventeen
years old, 1014 Fortieth street, Brook
lyn, who told a story of a person en
tering her room nt night nnd cutting
18 Inches from the end of her long
blnck hair. The hnlr was found lying
on her pillow. The doors of the
House had been bolted and her par
ents were certain that no one es
caped through the basement. The
girl said she did not see anyone in
the room.
BARON VON STEUBEN
FRENCHMAN, IS CLAIM
Indlnnnpolls, Ind. Thnt Ba
ron "von" Steuben of revolu
tionary war fame wns properly
named Baron "de" Steuben and
was a Frenchman and not a
Prussian, Is the claim of A. B.
Gardiner, secretary general of
the Society of Cincinnati, In n
statement mnde public here.
Bnron "de" Steuben wns of
I Germnn birth, but renounced
T Prussia and owed allegiance to
X France when he came to Amcr-
T lea to help the revolutionary
X cause, according to Gardiner.
t He asserts that Steuben ex-
X patrlated himself after making $
a glorious record In the seven f
yeurs wnr, but snys "the full
reason for his expatriating hlm-
self probably will never ' be
X known.
A.
SUBMARINES NOW HAVE A HARD TIME
Activity of Destroyer Convoys Is
Producing Most Satisfac
tory Results.
S MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON
Mrs. Cuyler, u prominent society
woman, who recently married Thomas
F. Byan,.the noted financier.
TO BAKE PERSHING'S PIES
Appeal From General for Pastry Cook
Is Heard by the Salvation
Army.
Chicago. "Mary Sheldon's making
pies for Pershing."
This Is the expression common at
Salvation Artny headquarters here.
When General Pershing landed In
France, MaJ. D. W. Agnew, In charge
of the Salvation Army here, cabled
asking him what the Salvation Army
Diaries Taken From Captured U-Boat
Commanders Furnish Documentary
Evidence of Effectiveness of De
stroyer's Perfect Convoy Work.
Base of the American Flotilla la
British Waters. Diaries taken from
captured U-boat commanders furnish
documentary evidence Unit the de
stroyer Is the most effective of present
weapons against tho submurtne.
"Avoided destroyer" Is the oft-repeated
entry. In fact, these logs show con
clusively that the submarines are hav
ing a hnrd time of It.
The result of the destroyer activity
during the Inst four weeks has been
not only a decrease in casualties of
merchant ships but nlso a still more
sntlsfnctory Increase In the number of
submarines sunk.
Convoying as sn Offensive.
The convoying of merchantmen has
now reached n stage almost of perfec
tion, nfter mnny months' work In train
ing both the officers of merchnnt ships
nnd the personnel of the pntrol flotil
las.' While systematic convoying was
undertaken primarily as n defensive
mensure. It has now developed that
convoying Is nt the same time the best
offensive mensure yet devised ngnlnst
tho U-bont.
The offensive side of convoying mny
best be shown by nn Illustration:
When n submarine tries to torpedo n
convoyed ship as submarines are now
compelled to do owing to the Infre
queney of unconvoyed shipping there
if always n destroyer on the scene, and
the chances of tho estroyer's "get
ting" that particular submarine nre
correspondingly Increased. The wake
of a torpedo Is generally seen by the
destroyer's lookouts, and It gives a
good line on the direction where the
submarine Is lying. The destroyer Im
mediately steers n course full speed
In the line shown by the wake of the
torpedo nnd drops repeuted depth
charges along this course. , '
' In a considerable proportion of cases
this proves effective, for these depth
could do that would bo most appre
ciated by the commander of the Amer
ican forces In France.
"Send me someone who. can make
an apple pie," was General Pershing's
request, and Ensign Mary Sheldon
forthwith was dispatched. Ensign
Sheldon gained fame here showing
mothers of Chicago slums how to
cook.
charges cause serious commotion over
a considerable radius.
Surface Signs May Be Missing.
The correspondent wns told of three
enses In the lust fortnight In which
submnrlnes were thus destroyed. In
ninny Instances, no doubt, submarines
are destroyed without any visible Indi
cation above the water of their loss.
Still others nre badly crippled, ns In
the cnseof the damaged German U
boat which was recently Interned In
Spain.
Another submarlno which will never
return to Germany was sunk under pe
culiar circumstances n short time ngo
This U-bont torpedoed n ship bound
from the United States. It Is extreme
ly unwise nnd unsafe to fire a torpedo
at such close range, but the U-boats
must take their targets ns they get
them these days. The torpedoed ship
was loaded with n cargo of heavy wnr
material, nnd the explosion wns so for
cible thnt It blew n large piece of
heavy material through the deck of tho
ship nnd dropped It on the submarine
ns the latter was submerging. The hull
of the submarine was crushed like nn
eggshell and she sank with nil on
board.
HOW GERMAN SAYS "TANK"
"3 ch utzengrabenvernlchtungsautomo
blle" Is Fritz' Word for
English Monster.
Washington. Thirty-five letters "nre
required to Rpell one word which. In
Germnn, Is the equivalent of the four
letter English "tank" or land bnttle
ship, which has worked such havoc In
the present war. The German word,
as It appears In official dispatches re
ceived here, Is "schutzengrabenver
nlchtungsautomobllc," which, freely
translated, Is "n machine for suppress
ing shooting trenches."
Cnllel With Red Dress Gored.
Sonoma, Cnl. Antoinette Murcuccl,
five-year-old daughter of Tony Maruc-
Sneeze Breaks Glasses.
Rochester, N. Y. Dr. D. J. Corrlgnn
of Webster Is In St. Mary's hospital,
where efforts are being made to save
the sight of one of his eyes. He wns
returning home from Fulrport early
In the night when, In sneezing, his
face came In contact with the steer
ing wheel of the automobile he was
driving. His eyeglasses were broken
and a piece of glass entered tho eyeball.
cl of Sehellvllle. was gored by a bull
the other evening. The child was sit
ting by the side of a fence watching
her father drive stock when the ani
mal made a lunge at her. The bull
split open her Hp nnd threw her vio
lently to the ground. She mny be In
jured internally. The lUtle girl wor
a red 'dress, which was ripped com
pletely off. Her frantic mother wit
nessed the attack nnd nsslsted the fa
ther la driving the Infuriated animal
awny. '
By REV. B. B. SUTCLlPiw
EzUuioa Department, Mood. Biku
lulituti, Chicago
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Not by fleeing nwny but liy drav
senr. Not by opposing him but
yielding to him. To the sinner n
the bncksllder the Lord nppesrs
n enemy. To yield or surrcnte
lny enemy seems like folly, the rt
ng Into dunger. Hut yielding to t
Lord means safety. And so this cf
:o surrender to the Lord Is oIm i A
for the exercise of faltli In theUnl
the protector from his own mnti
Ing Judgment. To liumnn ttt
escnpe would seem to he lmi
How can wo escnpe the righteous Jc
sent of God after having locum!
by our own conduct? It Is nntpMi,'
with man, but with God ull thlnp :
I nnRHllile Fnilnrn la tint In him J
- v im .HIM, M
In Imperfect yielding to him.
A Possible Thing.
The text says: "Let hlin take 1
of my strength." There Is nnobst;
lo be overcome except the Inherent
belief of the human heart, fcrh
Is nffllcted with this. It Is the bin
Ing thing thnt opimss nil safety, H
talnty or enjoyment. It Is theoneo
mon sin of which nil ure guilt; il
by which nM the more or less tun;
It Is the sin which so easily besets
But It Is possible to overcome
When we come to the place where rj
desire exists to escnpe the Jiiilsraect
God, there nre nn real hinilnineei;
may If we will, take hold of
strength nnd In It find wfctr.
A Personal Thing.
"Let him tnke hold." I live for
self nnd not another. I sin for my
I nm Judged for myself. Ami If 11
safety, If I escape the Judgment. I
find for myself nnd escnpe fur nrw
None else can get II fr me.
a personal matter. In the center
my own will lies the answer as
whether I shall go down to eternal
fent under the Judgment of God
whether I shall rise superior lo ill
future holds of wrath. I pi m
opposing myself to God: 1 rl
yielding to film. I find eternal,
by fighting him; eternal life bf
rendering to him. It Is my wtA
which I shall have.
A Peculiar Thing.
"Let him take hold of my siren:
I cannot take hold of his sirentihi.
I let go of that which I now Mi
the things I have relied up"" ,0
me safely through the Jmlinent I r
relinquish. I must have m W
my good deeds, by religion l
ences, my moral code, my hlnh "i
tlons yea, I must have no hnpeH
self. Like Job of old I mint f.
the Lord saying, "I iil'l"'r '
T.IKe Isnliih. "I am undone." '
Taill, "There dwelleth no P"1 H
In me." Myself nnd my pw
my wonpons ngnlnst him. I w"
them down nnd In full nnd
II, nml Kiit-reiwler of Iiivsi"! I" 111
will find safety In the siirrendi-r.
Is therefore, as was said idi"vc.
for faltli In him. He can f mf '
ii.intr, ,-noril me from tisirin nn
tect me from certain ilisnster nn1'
I trust him. Until I do i "'
that he cannot do any work en
half because of my unbelief.
i...n..f M-l.lfh orerls the barrier. I"
case of the nrmy fn liiB certain f
hllntlon, only one thing r',,lllim'
i.,no nml thnt Is Riirreiiilt'f It
be not preferred. As bmg n tl 1
nns nre used nnd battle mitr.
itriiftlnn In pprtnln. The m"
certain perdltlon-he ftfMs nPJH
Judgment nnd wrntn 01 1''
no escnpe, nnd enn he wn I
the wny of surrender. When "M
render Is made, he finds thai im
posed enemy Is reiill''
what was thought to he t
thing Is seen to be the bwt- '
r.l .l,.ll.w. in 111 tun. I"'"1
of God's desire Is to pmwl
4 i, , that th w'
Jill,. " ivh,lt
jurou snoum no un- - ,,ef
will guard the sinner fro"" 1111
of tho Injury.
. r, ThlnJ.
rowel i m . - . ,
it u..miri It wi1",
, . ..... mi 1 8.
possuwe nui . ne - - ,
tune noiii m iii.y .-m'""-
Hoi all tilings are
... . his pen"
noining 100 mini i" tK
ror ne nis oiniuiii" ...
. . , .......in in:. ,l"
deep tor nis uunei.-M. fof
omniscient. Nothing i-
. .,iiiiresi'n1.
to reacn, ror lie is wui"
1 . t. ii n
belongeth unto God j
nay eager, iu "' - ,,,. god
who will cease tlRhtlnS i
themselves to mm. Mt H
escnpe If we negien -tlon?
. '
Temporal sn- t0
We love things iii"' ,t
have them, more tin"'
them, because the soU' , "
them cannot be sntW" M' (fi
ht tiiinifs eternal, when i" ' .
ally possessed, are v"'0tf 1
When our uen". pSpt
...... no n1 .
count neiieve, n . tw
much as charity slm" 15 jv'
- IntA nossi'" ,nI
lime num.-:- r Ho F
no sout In the world. "
ever It thinks Itself 1"", V
Its prehensions bjjnd )
sesses here. St. Aiik