JCY COM ETT H Iff THE MORN1W, Pears; was here yesterday Joy comes to-morrow; Why wilt thou, heart of rain Dark bo lings borrow' Bhrllly thn tempest shrieks, Fierce, roar tho waves, High roll ths curling rrsts, fteep tho Mack grave : Kow thn col. I midnight falls. Cloud overwhelm. Memory lights th ses! Hope holil.i the h'W rrace was hero yesterday, Joy come to-morrow, Why wilt thou, heart of initio, t'ark bodlngs borrow. Chiu'l'itta W. Thurston, lu bookman. HER PICTURE T JUIIMSA M. TALLMAf. II li picture lay, face up ward, in tho ruin-. It had a SWCet, sen sitive mouth nul earnest, intent ryes, whoso seri ous retard wemcd toplrnd mutely for restoration to tnoro fitting environments than t lie flnsli nu l ntiow f (ho u-it,y March twilight. Tin stalwart young man who tmv.ro. 1 above it relumed tho enrnoKt gazo with iiti irresolute smile. A noili'd photograph was hardly worth Ht iininir one's gloves, but tho gaze of. the earnest eyes trmislixp I and hold bin. 11 o stooped a;id picked up the lit of pasteboard, denned it an best ho might with lis immaculate hand kerchief, wrapped it within its eoft linen folds ond went bin way down tho darkening Mrect with the leisurely, Kwinging stride that wan quite as reu.l'a Mo an index of tho man in were Lin voice and smile. Jack Hnylcr was that favored crea ture, it man with genuine innate artis tic talent. Tho man with a talent for 'ujiuK nun -.uunig, uicj man witu a talent for languages, tho man with a talent for invention all theso and their liko must bo content with tbo rank of mediocrity unions financial success in vest theni with its golden halo of rev cronco; but the man who paints pic tures, though a doubtful Holietniun, may hobnob with the great and mighty of tho earth, albeit bin nolo "expecta tionb" may rest on tho possibly ioitu nato sale of bis la8t cuuvas. Whether or not Jack Ilnyler could support u . family by tho fruits of hi dilettanto tiannt -rings through the Held of nrt was a question (.till unsolved by tho young man's moat pertinaciously re maining single. Jack was uufortanotely handsome ; for beauty is undoubtedly a misfortune to its possessor, though a most pleas ing property to gazo upon and admire impersonally. 1 hyitieul charm staud a man in lead of thoso mental graces which eP'kiftt him te tbo fai- 'tU uideratiou, tbo easy grace of repartee nnd that genial camaradetio more pleasing in the eyes of a truo woman than mere physical cuiiielinoHs. And bis many experiences with tho light J hooded uu.l callow specimens of their kind who openly lay mares for his en ticing, dull his belief in sweet womuuly reserve and modest sensibility. In bis own self-coutldout convictions to this end, Jack was acquiring a sys tematic avoidance of blushing maid enhood. Ho grew cynical, dogmatic, nnd most fastidious and exacting in tho staud'ird of ideal uoliiaiibood he eventually reared for himself. Meanwhile Jack was awiuging leis urely borne undtr the scudding clouds of tho wrathful March iky with a sen nation of actual interest dominating bim. Had tbo original of tho f ur faeo now repoaing in his breast pocket itself confronted bim, tho fate of its mauy predecessor might have been hers, but tlm odd chauco wuich had throwu it in his way seemed to invest it with a sort of proprietary interest; and, arriving at his own door and let ting himself iu, our erring hero made hi way up to his rather sumptuous rooms ami struck a light. Ho set tho photograph on a carved easel ; ho lighted a tiny lamp beside it which di tinned a suit rose color turongh the room; ho took down some clinging folds of embroidered amber silk uud draped them about the soiled edges. Ho oat a while in absorbed contempla tion of tho pure young face that sbonoout like a white star from its clouds of roao ami amber. Theu ho rose and gravely placed before it a 1'anau group of adoring angels. So, prosperity had not spoiled her;, tho sweet, womanly faco with its ttU?adfa?t eyes looked gravely past lis aesthetio surrounding with tho changeless serenity of a Madonna above her suppliants, and transfixed Jack's gazo with her own. The tender curves of her lip wero full of sweet womanly meanings; tho eyes uuder thoshadowy hair soft, dreamy, starry eyes held untathomed store of wit, wisdom, love and pathos; only a high, truthful, unstained soul looked out of them. Jack rcse. "Sho seems to say," he said meditatively, " 'My young friend, what a consummate idiot you are.'" And he turned the picture to the wall. It was about this time that Huyler's friends began to comment ou hi sin gular predilection for that last resort of entertainers and entertained, the photograph album, and au odd habit he had acquired in that connection that of occasionally slipping out one of the bits of pasteboard and glaucing at its back. In fact, A. Stanton Boy den, as Jack's long-time acquaintance Allan Boyden now signed himself, in conformity with the fad of the day, was roused to suspicion not only by this new freak in his eooentrie friend, but by the frequency with which he aauutered into Boy4eu' own photo- jrrph studio above stairs, and the diligence with which he inspected the collections of hie own and contem porary artists' j work. Jaok held his peace, however, and was not to be sounded by mere impertinent inquiry, as A. Stanton Hoyden well know, and some weeks had elapsed since the epi rode with which oar tale opens, when the door of Haylcr's stndio was one day flung wide open and the steps of A. Stanton wero arrosted as tie was about mounting the stairway leading to his own apartments. "Come in here a minute, will yon." called Jack in a tone of mild despair, "And toll me what's the matter with this portrait. I've bothered with the thing so long it has lost all semblance of bntnnnity to me." Hoyden stepped in, placed himself knowingly in a good light, and stared at his friend's canvas. It bore An un finished portrait, the life-size head of a young girl. Trctty hair," he remarked scnten- tiously. "Put what in thunder is the matter with it?" cried Huyler petulantly. "I can't tuako it look" and hero ho paused consciously, with a somewhat Lightened color. "Can't make it look how ?' "Anyhow," answered Jaok, shortly. J lattrrs tho original, I wouldu t wonder," s.iid tho wily Hoyden. "Ha! perhaps it doeB," said Jack wini a iiojiow langn. "Here, my friend," iiinl ho alid tho photograph out from beneath tho native, "look at I tins picture, then on that, and tell mo I if mino begins to do tho photograph even half justice." "ft is a lino face, a remarkable face." mused the diiiMtnatio Hov.lcn. gazing hi it. "I would give," quoth Jack, "half my fortune to Hud the origiualof that face. She is a rcmarknblo girl, a girl in a thoitsan f, you may depend :" and ho lovingly cleared the pictured face of an infinitesimal speck of dust. "Then you don't know tho origi nal?" Huyler shook bis head, but bent a keen glance upon his friend. "Do you?" said be. "Never saw it before in my life," said Hoyden imperturbably, "but I think I know who's tho photogra pbor." "Well?" said Jack, in breathless monosyllable. "I'.eesc, of Xew York." "Why do you th'nk so?1 "Know his style," said Uoydon with n yawn, removing hii hands from his pockets and preparing to depart "It is a peculiar style," said Jack, with a line show of indifference as he scrutinized it; "tho featnres so clear and tho outlines to shadowy. "1 I rather like it." I3oydcu made no reply as ho saun tered from tho room, ;bnt his always open countenanco was flnrned with a i i . broad In tho hush that de- pnrture, tho shriek of loud at tu its rain liko a cat, but ho was al ready getting into his coat, and fig uring ou tho curliest return from tho New York mail as he absently took hat and umbrella from tho wardrobe. There was no time to bo lost. Ho had long ngo determined that tho sweet, eirlish face, full of tender, womanly grace though it was, was not too faco of a wife; but even now a suitor might bo kneeling at her feet. His own entry tipen tho lists must not bo delayed at auy hazard; ho would seek her out svinii how, and it would be veui villi vici over again, but with a now joy to the winner, for "None km w me tmt to lovo me, N-m naiuod mo but to praise," muttered Jack with a sardonio grin, as ho fought hi way through the storm, while turbid streams in the gutter gurgled and gasped along beside him, to the nearest express otlloe. His own power of fascination sometimes struck him with a grim sense of humor, and yot, the face of the girl in the rose lighted room was not one to be lightly won. Well, timo would tell. There fore he set his dripping umbrellacare fully in tho rack at iho express ofllco, and requested a New York directory. Ho would have walked seven times around the city rather than ask Boy den, the scotVer, for Ueese's address. If his search failed no one would be tho wiser. "IU Keb-Hce " yes, this was surely it. There could bo but one lleeso who pursued the calling of ar tistic photography, and uero lie was. glauced down the remaining names to inakedouoly sure, snapped the big book loudly together with a nod of thanks, aud retraced his way homeward, tho wind howling unheard. A half hour later tho clemency of Mr. Reese was thus invoked : "Can you give me any information concerning a photograph supposed to havo boen taking at your studio, and numbered on the back 20179? A oopy of it came into my hands under rather peculiar circumstances, and I have been unable to obtain any clew to it until this evening, when a pho- I cognized the style as your own. Will you ve kiua euougn to uoiiry me n such is the case, and also give me any information concerning theyonng lady whose portrait it is," Jack h.ad hesi tated here "her name'or address and probable age if it. w ould not be violat ing professional secrecy." "Sounds as if I were addressing a priest," muttered Huyler with a criti cal frown. But there was no time to choose felioitious phrases. The mail would be collected in fifteen minutes, so after hesitating a moment longer he added the conventional epistolary amenities, and looking dubiously at the little easel with its burden, took down the photograph and added a brief postscript : "As better aid to identity I inolose the phot). Kindly retitfo." It seemed long before reply came. The corner where the carved easel stood looked strangely barren, and the adoring angels seemed bowed in sorrow. By the blank aspect of the easel Jack was apprised of the ire quoncy of his involuntary glances tn that direction, as one will only believe he looks at the clock fifty times a day, when the timekeeper Is a way for re pairs. But the Xew Tork photographor was a punctual and obliging man, and in three days a big yellow envelope lay on Jack's table among half a dozen surronnding epistles of paltry value. Jack was conscious of excitement. It was a novel sensation, but he did not tarry to analyze or indulge it. Ho tore open the envelope, glanced at the picture that wasall right and hastily read the inclosure : rwrfllr: I am very hnppv to he aMo to oMlKuyou. Wb have tho nif:itlv 2017-n. corresponding to your print which w here with return. The ng of the original wo should plao by c.infiil approximation st about treuty-ono year; w aro not good at nverazing naiiM. ami mint therefore foil short In that particular, though wo can send you tho full llt If you divsire. Tho photo graph It'flf lan eTivllont composite of siv piitoen of thn young ladies of tho class of 'OJ of collei-p. Vory glad to Lavs hrim of service, lours truly, J. Recsc, Thedoor opened presently, but Jack sot with his eyes riveted on tho epistlu, and did not stir. As a step resounded acrcss tho tiled floor ho rousod him self with an effort, and hastily crushed tho letter in his hmd. Hut tho yellow rnvelopo with tho colossal stamp, "U. T.eese, artistic photographer," across its corner, caught tho inquiring eyo of A. Stanton Hoyden. He looked at Huyler with a grin. "Aro you going to marry tho lot, Jock?" ho asked. American Agricul turist. In A C'nmly Factory. 1 rom top to bottom tho floors of tho factory nro covered with tiles, and i noticoil tuat there wero people en gaged in all parts of tho building scrubbing and washing these tiled Moors. For a candy factory it was tho least sticky or smeary placo I ever suw. Absolnto cleanliness and sweet ness was tho rule. There was a slight drift of sugar about, as in a mill where wheat is being ground, and your coat might get a littlo powdered, but there always was sweeping going on. Chocolato-making I need not do scribe, only to state that everything was dono hero by machinery, for tho chocolato as produced enters for a large percentage into the bonbons manufactured. In the sugar-plum departments hand-work seemed to be onstant. Tidy-looking young women, all with caps on, wore working away, each one with a littlo saucepan before her full of sugar; the suzar was in a nastv condition, tho heat being derivod I from steam. In these saucepans were colored sugars of all the hues of the -""nbow. Tho work-women would - up an almond or a pistacbe-nnt, jd drop it in the saucepan, then fish it out with a bit of wire fashioned in iuup ioiui. xue ai l was lo get just the proper coating. Then with a dex terous motion of the wrist the 6ucar plum would bo placed in a tin pan, and with a doft motion of tho wire loop a nice finish would be given to the top of it. There wero some very small sugar plums, aud it would take two hundred of them to make a pound. They wero all exuot in form. Those little things, so tho foreman told me, bad goue through ten pro.-estos beforo they had nrrived ot their present con dition. Home of tho sugar-plums wero tua io iu moulds. There was puro leg erdumaiu about these. A man took e funnel, and dropped tho sugar, Ut at tho crystalliziug point, iu moulds. They were very email things, not more thau an inch long by half au inch wide, but tho confectioner never poured a drop in tho wrong place. Dear mo I if I tried to do that, I should mako a prociout moss ot it. Hero wero sugar-plums of many shadeB, every work-wo'.nan seeming to havo a specialty. It was something not alono requiring alertaesi of hand, but constant watchfulness ns to tho condition of tho material mol. If it had been too soft, tho bonbon would have run and been out of shapo. If the sugar paste had boen too hard, it would havo boun intractable How they managed not. to burn anything vass wonder. Harper's Hound Ta ble. Ills Stock In Trade. A middle-aged man, with a business like air, walked into a hardware store the other day. He laid a good-sized valise upon the couuter and took from it several dozen four-ounco bottles. "I would like ton pounds of whiting," ho informed the proprietor. With this the stranger partly tilbd tho bot tles, and, taking a small flask from his pockot, poured a few drops of vinegar into each. "I will have totroubioyou for omo water, he said, as he completed this process. Filling tho bottles, he corked them tightly, smoarod tho tops with sealing wax au J labeled each "Silver Polish, Twenly-hve Cents." "There, he said, "1 am now on the road to rapid wealth. Fortune favors me with her smiles," and he started forth to dupe the unsuspect ing public. Now York Press. Immense Sculptured Arrowhead. An interesting relio was discovered near San Bernardino, Cal., last week. It is an immense sculptured arrow hoad, four feet four inches long aud weighing more than 200 pounds. It is of bluish granite and shaped in per feet imitation of the smaller arrow heads frequently found in that region. On the mountain side, near where the stone was found, is a natural forma tion in the shape of an arrowhead many feet in longth and conspicuously visible for many miles. New York San. .- KAFFIR CORN. DLESSINU TO OUK RKGIOX. ARID It Grows In Spite of the Lack Water-It M ill Make the Amer ican Sandy Wastes Valua ' ble Farm Ins Lands. "T yAFFIR corn, first introduced on the American continent I V from the Kaffir country, in (, Africa, less than a decade since, Is still an unknown product to nine-tenths of the pcoplo of the United niaies, writes a correspondent from Guthrie, Oklahoma. At first planted here and there as a curiosity, it was found to grow readily in all localities and nn lor all condi. Hons, and experiment developed the fact that it would mature a crop in the dryest and hottest seasons on the high Weetern plains. A more extended planting of the new grain and a com parison of results obtained soon de veloped the fact that whether tho sco son was wet or dry, cool or hot, long or short, this now product would tbrivo on all kindi of noils with tho minimum of caro Hnd cultivation, and, planted any timo between tho 1st of April and tbo middlo of July it would inaturo an absolutely suro crop of grain and fodder beforo tho frosts of! autumn. It will grow luxuriantly ou tho sod oi newly broken ground, produce lino crops cither on bottom or upland, is a natural enemy of weeds, nnd will bo as clean with two cultivations ns Indian com will bo wi'u four limes ns man v. It is rather slow in germinating and getting a start in groth, but is cor respondingly sure, not requiring rains to sprout it, and when ouco well under way it grows right straight along cloudy weather cr bright, drought or rain, hot winds or northers being all tho samo to it and seemingly of equal benotlt to its growth. The stalk looks somewhat liko a sin gle shoot of common corn, but short er, attaining a hight usually of from four and a half to six feet, and having pointed loaves of a rich green color. Tbo gruin forms in a head at tho ex treme point of tho shoot, whore the tassol is on ordinary corn, tho bead being from seven to Wolve inchoH in length and six to eight in circumfer ence, and when ripo look like great white or red plumes standing proudly erect. Tho grains are almost round, a littlo larger than a grain of rico and much resembling a grain of wheat in interior structure. There ore two varieties, red and white, the latter being tho favorito crop, and tho grams taken separately compare iu appearance most romrka bly with ancient descr manna sent the during their v and, coming tho Western wheat and al 7.... I V v tt. lie UJ WK U."l ' Ilk auothor supply of manna sent by tho God of Israel. Though raised as au experiment here aud there throughout tho West for several years it was not until 1H1I5 that it became a prouiiucnt crop. When the drought of last spring killed tho wheat aud oats and seemed almost certain to ruin tho corn, t:io few who had had experience with the new gram began to advise their ucighbor to plant Kailir corn, ns it would grow all ri'.'ht iu lry weather, aim tuey could thus at least raise feed for their stock. Tho newspapers took uptho advice uud soon every tanner throughout tho West was plautiug Kullir corn, utiliz ing the ground wherohis wheat nn I oats had failed or planting ou sod or scattered patches where his early corn hail been burned out. Tho pluutiug was continued nutil well along iu August, tho acreage be ing in many suction greater thau that ever devoted to a single srop. In Oklahoma alono nearly 50,000 acres wero planted with the new crop. And every grain oi it planted grow and thrived to maturity, aud before tho summer was over the farmers began to wonder what they rjwould do with it all. They know it was good for stock, but there was not stock enough in tho Territory to begin to consume it, and tho product was yet so new that it was not recognized iu tbo outside markets. Experience has already developed the fact that it made a most admir able feed, either to winter stock or fatten them for market, but, with un abundance of tbo grain ou hand, Ok lahoma farmer soon discovered that it wa butter for horse than either corn or outs, makiug them fat and btout and giving thorn a sleek, glossy appearance. Both horses aud cattle not only like and thrive ou tbo gram, but do us well ou tbo fodder as on the best of hay, and will eat up the eutire stock, even after it is quite dry, and cows produce richer milk and more of it thau when fed ou hay and bran. When it came to feeding hogs it was found that they gained tiejh more rap idly than when fed ou common corn, and poultrymen have found tho Kailir grain an admirable egg producer, and when fed unthreshed the fowls are giv en exercise in picking it from the head. The boys and girls soon discovered that it would pop as well as pop-corn, the grains popping out large, white and tender, and women in the country found that boiled like rico the grain was excellent eaten with cream and sugar, that mashed into a pulpy mass it made an admirable pudding, and it was also a first-class substitute for hominy, being prepared much easier than the regular grades. Still the quantity produoed was so great that the people continued to wonder what they would do with it. The owuer of the roller mills at Medicine Lodge, Kan., on experiment bout, ran some ot the grain through his cot;n meal grinder, and produoed a meal pronounced in every way equal to the ordinary corn meal, but he was not content with this, but rigged up special set of burrs and produced a new product that bids fair to create a revolution in the world's breadstuff's Kaffir flour. Some of this flour was taken by Mrs. I. W. Stout, of Medicine Lodco. and mado into light bread. The bread was fully as white as oread mado from second grado wheat flour, and waa sweet and palatable. Tho flour was handled bv Mrs. Stont Inst as lin does wheat Hour in making light bread, and the bread in no war resembled corn bread. Samplos of this first batch of it? ko..1 1 . Oie. it wan ve,.X;. VJT I ' i lb WBS AVer V IV line A hfAAnnttii.H 1.ml to bread mode from wheat flonr. tlm - j . " only difference being its dark color. n is, However, not darker than tho ordinary Graham bread, and is pro nounced much better in flavor by the majority of those who have triod it. Nearly every woman in Oklahoma is experimenting with the new products, and new uses nro discovered for them in the culinnrv line almost dailv. while tbo farmers end stock raisers aro also ciperimcnting along their lines with increasing success nnd satisfac tion on every side. Had n Kcmirkablo Kxiipricttcc. The bark Oaklau I pitt iuto San Frnniisoo last week in distress, having had a remarkable experience Tho vessel was becalmed in tho Southern Facilio so long that, though tho crew was on half rations for a mouth, tho galley was bare when sho reached .San Frsncisoo, so bare that the crow bogged food of tho crew of tho pilot bunts that met them. Tho bark w.s hound from Run Joso do Guatemala for Fort Mad ison. Sho had little wind from tho start, and finally drifted iuto a region of calms in which sho floated about for days with tho sails hanging Hat upon tho masts. Calms aud winds so ngui as 10 do insntnosnt to keep her on her course delayed her several weeks, ami tne crew wero put ou half ration;. Then tho ship's chronome ter got out of order, and tho Captain had to depend on his watch. A littlo later the Captain was taken ill. and diod in a few hours. Then tho mate headed for San Francisco, but not having a chronometer ho was obliged to cruise about in tho neighborhood of tho port for two days searching for tho lighthouse on the Farrallones, be ing only able to guess whero tho ves sel was. New York Suu. Australia's Tall Trecu. Tho tallest trees in the world are to be found in theStuto forest of Viotoria. Australia. They belong to tho eucalyp tus family, and range from 330 to 500 ' feet in height. One of them that had 1 fallen was found by measaromont with . tapo to be 43H feet from the root to ! where the trtlnk had been broken off I y the fall. At that point the tree 1 t three 'oct in dia letor. '1 'io tree row witu asionisuing rapiuity. a Eucalyptus globulus planted in Florida grew forty feet in four years with a bole a foot in diameter. Trees of the same species iu Guatemala grew 120 feet in twelve years. The stem of one was nino feet thiok. In 1800, a monster petrified tree was fouud iu liaker County, Oregon. It was GGG feet long aud sixty feet in diameter at tho butt. Detroit Free l'ress. A llievele limit. A bicycle boat has beou invented by ' a telegraph operator iu Seattle, and has been buccessfully operated on tho waters of tho harbor there at a speed of nino miles au hour. It is a com bination of whalebuck boat aud bi cycle. Described iu tho simplest way, it is a boat with a bicycle mounted amidships, tho power exerted on tho pedals boiug transferred to a propel ler nrraugeineut at the steru. The rudder i operated by tho bicycle han dle bar, just au an ordinary bicycle is steered. Tho boat fehell i a steel framework covered with canvas, and the whole thiug is kept right side up by a UOO-pound keel of load. The in ventor thinks he will be able to get much more than the present uino miles an hour out of his bicycle bout when he has perfected it. Substitute lor the Natural Skin. A process has been patented in Ger many for making a substitute for the natural skin for use on wounds. The muscular coating of the intestine of animals is divested of mucous mem brane, aud then treated in a pepsin solution nntil tho muscular fibers are half digested. After a second treat ment with tannin and gallio acid, a tissue is produced which can take the place of the natural skin, and which, when laid ou the wound, is entirely absorbed during the healing process. Argonaut. The Chinese Almunac. Tho Illustrated World and Geogra- pbio Magazine says: "ihore is no other work in the world of wbioh so many copies are printed annually as of the Chinese almanac The almanao is printed at Pekin, and is a monop oly of tte Emperor. It not only prediots the weather, but notes the days that are reckoned luoky or un lucky for commencing any undertak ing, for applying remedies in diseases, for marrying and for burying." Novel ScIipuis to Raise the Wind. An impecunious German, a citizen of Munich, finding himself short of funds, bad recourse to the following novel scheme for raising the wind. He ordered a oonfeotiouer to make a cake for his wife's birthday, contain ing, as a surprise, a lining ot new twenty-pfennig pieces. The German's finanoial stringency wrs relieved, bat up to the time of writing the con too tioner it still looking for his money, RELIGIOUS READING. OOP SEyriStS FAITtt l! PRAYER. We do not gt half the g. od out of prayer which we mlifht twelve. Our faith Is too weak and our love too fm.dile to lead us to Ood with our dally burdens and our fretting care. We forRot that prayer Is a spiritual telephone between our lips and hearts nod our Father's ear ond heart. We ought to know Hint the slightest whisper of our own hearts Is heard ly our Fath.-r In heaven. eouht to remember that It Is possihln for us to make direct requests and to m celv tmme.lntn answers. Abraham said tinto Ood, "O that Mimael mlRht live be. for lhoe!" and tlm Immediate answer was, "As for Ihmsel. I linve heard thee." Iiavld Inquired of the Lord, "Shall 1 go and smite these Philistines?" nod the answer of tho Lord came to David, "Oo and smlto tbo 1'hlllstlnes." . . . Wherever there It a pray- ,D I"'" ,h"M rl" " ,onnA P Praf 1 n - . . . I J ;, - . i.nmm luiinu nn oratory in the lion den ; I' niiHii une in a nuui;non i Jonah on In I the depths of the sea:'eter one on the liouse topj and the thief one on tbo cross. Ye re : celve little because our requests are so f w.o I small, nnd so feeble. Wo havo been satis. ; fled with the crumbs which full from our : lather stable, when wo might go iuto tho hlnn s place and enjoy a full meal. Wo never po too early lu the mornliur to thn , berivcnlv throne i its gate of neeess is always ; open . Wo run never go too Into at tilbt ; Its ; gate Is never el..snl. Wo need not ascend i soiuo Morlah or I'lsgahi wo need not enter ; some s:iereil nbrlne or no to any h-ily piece. I we shall lln.l Ood whrever we seek lllm, , and to the seeking soul every place Is holy I ground. To the eyu of fitltli every buli ; Is aflame with Ood. Prnver can fiprn tho w indows of lier.ven; prayer eau rlegniitels d.:fln; prnver ran open the 1 heavens find bring" ft plentiful rain: prnver can put (iod In harmony with His own n eious promim s iitnler a holy constraint f'r our help. Wmild tu tiod Unit we realized th nr'iitiies ef our privileges, and tlm bl'" Iness 1,1 e..n-tiuit cnmmuiilrntliiti with our 1'niher In lo-uveu ! Hubert S.M:ie Arthur D. l., iu l.'uiek Truths lu gualut Texu" TUF. CM WAT OF SAI.VATlo. The fa. t that there is but a simjio way of salvation needs to bo Insisted upon as ern estly ns ever. Iu our time tho temptation to di-belei it is peeulmrlv Ktrong. More than ever men live, what -ve'r they hhv and thousands do not heslinto to assort It -ns if culture, wordly success, or rensou ably correct outward "life were nil thnt Is tieees-arv her) to insure tbo salvation of the foul I'ereafter. There nro niiiiiv, umiueHtioii- ntly, wlio nro truo lollowersof Christ, but who f.ir one or another r'HHou, nftaiu from unlt- i lug with his people, nnd wo may not judge one another too eonlldently. Nov rtheless, mm fuHuim iruo uiiu mo omv way l sal vation is, and ever will remain, through re pentance of sin uud Itiitti iu Jesus, tho lie doemer. Hut auothor truth needs emphasis. The heavenly city iu tlm in-plre. 1 isfon of John mis seen to have twelve gates; three allien in its northern, extern, southern and west, em walls. Ho from evry quarter of the moral universe nnd by wholly dllTereut pathway-, men seek uud tiud thn commou goal. au uiusi euier mo i nristlun lifo through ac ceptance of Jesus Christ, but no two need I expect to have precisely Identical experl- r-uees. To one prosperity reveals the divine i benefactor and gratitude stimulates to ur. i render. Iu another casa affliction convinces I of helplessness and the sense of utter neod i prompts a ''e tuiico of his saving grace. A I thousand (lift. -rout experiences have worked ma samo result. miller tdo Holy Nplrit guld utiee, as lu many dlfToreut Instances. Po not expect, then, you who aro thinking about your duty to b a Christian, to undergo the same experience in detulls which n friend line described. Follow your own pa way to him. Ue guided by your own inwi Illumination. Do not ba uiioaiy beeni yo- have them for your own and find tl so of others. Christ does no i- erel" as ouh of a t 'ndi 'Idoul welcomi you.' There is ono way ot salvation for oil. llut ulso tuero is your own wuy lur you. "cnoosF te tub Lonn." I There aro always two huudle presented to ' us; mid every day, if we listen, we shall hear (iod say to us, "Choose today which to take!" ! Wo can take hold lu everything which boialls lis of thn haudlo of douU. of anxiety, of , !ault-ilndliiu, of fear, of plcmnre, of custom, ; expediency, personal gralilleatiou and selt I eeklng; or wo can take bol l of tho handlo I ot trust, of hope, of candid, liberal judgment, I of duty, personal cnnvictloii, right, aud gen- srous, self-forgnttlug good-will. Our days will lo sweet or bitter the world a good world or a bail world, according m wo take everything by ono handle or tho other, i 1 ho art of lite, constat iu taking each even! which befalls us with a contented itiiiid.ronll dent of good. This makes us gr w younger i wo grow older, for youth uud Joy com from the soul to tho body morn tnau from I the soul to the body more thau from tho i body to tho soul. NN ith this method aud urt tud temper of life, we live, though we may ; bo dying. Wo rejoleo always, though in the i midst of sorrows : uud posebs all things, : though dostitulo of everytnlng. Jaiues Froo aiuu Clurko. Tni'ST WREN THE SHADOWS COME. "In tho shmlow." We must All go there sometimes. Tho glaro of the daylight Is too I brilliant : our eye become Injured uud un- ! able tu discern tho delicate snades of color. or npnrnclate neutral tints tho shadowed obuuibcr of sickness: the shadowed house ot monrulng; the shudowed life from whloh tbo suullght has gone. But fear not I It Is the shadow of Ood s baud. He Is lending theo. There are lessons that can only bo learned there. Tho photograph ol Ills faco run only bo fixed tu the dark chamber, llut do not suppose that He has east thee Aside, Tliou art still la His quiver i He bus not Hung iliee away as a worthless thing. He Is only keeping thee closo till tho moment comes when Ho can s-n I thee most swlfllv aud surelv ou somo errand In which He will be glorlli-d. OH, shadowed solitary ones, remember how closely the ipilver I bound to the warrior, within easy reaotl ot the baud, uud guarded jealously ! liuv. k B. Meyer. 7UI CHBIST Or -ESTF.llllAY, TODAY AND rOR ICVKH. Jusus of Naziroth is something more than tho Christ of history a blessed memory i or the Christ of prophecy a sublime hopes ho is the Christ of toJuy, und of every day, a hvlug reality la our lives, u very present help lu t'.Min of need. I'ullli lays hold upou btm Duo who 1 ever with us In til church, In tbo !ioueliold and In tho world. ID I mo cio.-e voiupuinou ui our dally lives. We walk the hard bill-roads of life with burning heart becAuso b bears us company We pass through vallov or dentil shade with fearless step, led by his In visible baud. Ia the glory of hi i.--nce toll and piuu are tin usllgured. Thero U no break lu our trustful intimacy. No ehadow of possible cbau.t mirs our Joyful follow ship.-Junes M. Cuuipboll. TATiaST WAITINU KO LOSS." Drifting is not waiting. The one is an Ills, passive uouditlou, the other Is activity. ' Suiting Is not simply a negative mute i It oiteu means a oonttuual girdiug ol the spirit, lest It chute against It burners; a building ot fortillcatlous lo protect us agaiutt the enemies of our peace; n raising of dykes and holdlutf them .enure to prevent thn ud mission of vexing rebelliuu thoughts which surge about like a restless sea, uskiug an on trauoe, Ob, uol to wait nnd be strong, to wait and eudure to wult und grow, muau in orvastng activity. It is tbls very uoilvlty whloh will brlu- A strength for our future that we may use to groat advantage. ltov( Louise b. baker. , " Hie uieiriui v. vi. ... ----- -- - candidate in ui i i .it cholera and li auu'U uout um ui.
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