Trxr: “They took branches of @ oo forth to meet Him S was that ble? Ho ne et ths wa vel. "Cirist as Di approached Jerusalem? ~ There dre scarcely * anypalm trees in Sobral Palestine. ‘Bven : bd one that was ded for many years at Jericho Has oe I went over the a] road § | which’ Christ approached Jer- ; there arz plenty of olive trees and and fig frees, but no palm trees that I could > ou must remember that the climate Bas changed. The palm tree likes water, but + By fhe cutting down of ‘the forests, which are Jealy prayess I for Tain, the land has be- { Sn nd Tn. Lye ree. Jericho i f. palm grove. oh palms.’ The Dead 0 gi its banks the trunks ‘of oe sib Boated down from -some ol grove and are preserved from Foor © gals which they received from the Lat wooden spare the trees of America, ey would not ruinously change the cli- te and bring to the soil Srpeiiriesy instead ; ertility. Thanks to God and the legisla- ures for Arbor Day, which plants trees, try- {ing to atone for the Sh so “which has them. ‘Yes my text is in har- mony with the condition of that country on * $he morning of Palm Sunday: About three 1 eople have come to Jerusalem to iereligious festivities. ~ Greatnews! Jesus will enter Jerusalem ¥. The sky is red with the morning, ‘and the people are gout to the foot of Olivet, and up and on over the southern shoulder of the moun: § procession coming out from ths city meets the procession escorting Christ, as He comes toward the city. Thero ‘Ma’thrn in the road where Jerusalem sud- ay Sealy bursts upon the vision. rE had ridden that day all the way from - Jerich ad visited the ruins of the house : a Mary ¢ and Martha and Lazarus, and were somewhat weary of sight seeing, when there suddenly arose before cur vision en, She religious capital. of all Christian ages, That was the point of obssrvation where my text comes in. Alexander rode Bucsphali Duke Elio rode his famous Merchega; Lawrence rode the high méttle Con. rad, Wellington rode his proud gen, _ but thé conqueror of earth and heaven rides A cuit, one that had been tied at the roadside. It was unbroken, and I'have no, doubt frac- $ions at the Toc eramon of the populace. An porized dle made ont of the gar- ct of the a was pat on the beast. hile some people griped the bridle of the sol, others reverently waited upon Christ at the mountain, "The two. processions of people now become one—those. who came out of the city and those who came over the hill. The orientals are more demonstrative than we of the western world, their voices louder, their Ee etcuiations more violent and the symbols which they express itheir- emotions more significant. The people who left Phocea, in the far east; wishing to make impressive that they would never return, took ared hot ball of iron and threw if into the sea, and said they would ngver return to Phocaa until Mat: ball roseand floated on the surfacs. Be ‘mob surprised, therefore, at the demonstra- Hon in tne text. # As the colt with its: rider. descends: the ape of of Olivety the palm lining "the are called upoh to render. their contrig ie | scend of welcome and rejoic- THe branches of these trees are high up, and souts must neads climb the trees and tear the leaves and throw them down, and make of these leaves an emerald pave- ment for the colt to trod on. re that morning the palm tree typical of triumph. Herodotus and bo had thus described it. - Leyard finds "the palm leaf 6ut in the walls of Nineveh, with the same significance. In the Greek ‘athletic games the victors carried palms, I sm very glad that our Lord, who five d after had thorns upon® brow, for a I ‘while at least had palms strewn under His feet. Oh; the glorious palm! Amarasinga, Hinddo scholar, calls it ‘the king among » * Linngous calls it. “the pritice of yogel; \Asiong all the frees that ever cast a shadow or yielded fruit or lifted their arms toward heaven, it has no equal: for multi- tudinous uses. Do you want nHowers? One palm tree will put forth a hanging garden of them, one eciuster counted by a scientist goptaining 207,000 blooms. Do you want food? Itis ‘the chief diet of the whole nations. One palm in Chile will yield ninaty gallons of boney.. In Polynesia itis the chief food of the inhabitants. In India there are mul Rates of people dependent upon it for sas. $énance. Deo you want cable to hold ships or cords %o bold wild beasts? It is wound into ropes mnbyeakable. Do you want articles of house furniture? It is twisted into mats and woven . Imto baskets and shaped into drinking cups and swung into’ hammocks.” Do you want medicine? Its nut is the chief preventive of disease and the chief cure for vast popula- DO you want hioxses? Ite wood furn~ ishes the wall for the homes, and “its leaves thatchthem. Do you need a supply for the Hantey? ‘Tt yields sugar and starch and oil and sage and milk and salt and wax and winegar and candles, Oh, the palm! “1fhas a variety of endow- ments, suchas no ‘other growth: that ever rooked the earth or kissed ‘the heavens. To the willow, Sod d save, “Stand by the water J To the cedar He says, oie she” hurricanes Sate your bosom.” ¢e He says, ‘‘Béar fruit and pot # within reach of all the people.” But to iMhs palm tree He says, ‘‘Be garden and * sborehouss and WArarone ‘and ropewalk and /ehsudlery and brgad and banguet and man- Jugactory, and thelt be The of what I meant I inspired David, My servauat, to say, rae, righteous shall flourish lke a palm ha Lord God, give us more mi’ tgees— men and wonien made: for nothing*but to be a dispositions all’ abloom; branches of co laden with fruit; people good for % TSE thing, Las the palm tree. If kind words anted they are ready to: utter them. 3f heipful deeds are needed they ‘are ready 88 perform them, ' If plans of ussfiilness are ~ ®0 be laid out they are ready to; praject Shesn. If enterprises are to be forwarded ¢ are ready to lift them! Psople ‘who WH Yes! Yes!” when they are asked for agtance « by word or de Most of the mysteries that bother others do mot bother me, because I adjourn them; nh the aystéry that really ‘bothers me is God de so many people. who amount 0 DbthiRE ob far o'far as the world’s betterment ening + They stand'in the way. They object, They ‘disenss hindrances, They snr glst possibilities 2 failure, ' Over the ; dnstead of pulling’in the traces, ele in the breschinzs, They No. They are bramble alupys mourning; te or wild cherry track oll or Sab aot vs means usotalaess womplish ir that direction We Sale twenty wr thirty years to get fully read tism work, and in ths after par * ‘fake ten or twenty years for th x loging of active work, gn.l that leaves only ; etime between openinz and 11 | work that all we accomplish | is : Goi needs to xers himsell To a everything I see around, bénedith above in the natural world: i ekvice If there is nothin pires you to usefuiness; tudy pe @ worli aroad you this ; learn’ the greats lesson be mt art pol + doin s i nob. shut thine eyes , instead of ‘Nol Ww little any of us or all of us so owflake comes ee down. Scie wanderer, ‘way onaest thou here?” “1 am noidle wander ar,” onds the snowflake. ‘High up in the was born, the child ofthe rain and the cold, and | at the divine beasst I coms, anil amino straggler, for God ells me where to put my crystal heel. To help cover the roots, the grain and grass, to pleanse the air, to make sportsmen more happy. and the ingle fira more bright, I come, hough so light I am that you toss me from your mufilsr and crush me under your foot, I am déing ny best to fulfill what 1 was made for. Clothed in white 1.come ona ‘heavenly mission, ay when my work is dons and God shall-call,in morning vapor I shall £0. back, drawn by the fiery courses of the sun “What doest thou, insignificant | grass blade under my feet?” *‘I am doing a work.” says the grass blade, ‘‘as best I.can. I help to make up the soft beauty of field — lan. I am sfied, if, with millions of others no bigger than I. we can give pasture to flocks and herds. I am wonderfully made, He who feeds the ravens gives me substances from the soil and breath from the air, and He who clothes the lilies of the field rawards me with this coat of “For what, lonely orn oest thou across the heavens? Through bright air af voice ‘drops from atar, saying: *‘Upand down this sapphire floor T pace to teach men that like me they are passing away. I gather up the waters from lake and sea, and then, when the thunders toll, I refresh ths earth, making the dry ground to laugh with hae- vests of wheat, and fields of corn. Icatch vhe frown of the storm and the huss of the rainbow. Atevening tide on the western slopes I will pitch my tent® anil over me saall dash 618 saffron, andi the purple, and the fire of the sunset. A pillar of cloud like me led the chosen across the desert, and sur- rounded by such as the Judge of Heaven and Earth will at: last descend; for “ ‘Behold He cometh with clouds?” Oh, my friends, if anything in ths inan- imate world be useful, let us immortal men and womatt be uséfu!, and in that respect be Sn ume te at David says o a oe of et that living and ion, pillar of the eastern gardens, as seen in olden times—the palm tree; I ‘must not be tempted by what the Old Pestament’ says of it, to lessen my emphasis of what oa the evan- gelist, says of itin my text. Notice that it was a beautiful and lawful robbery of the palm tree that helped make up Christ's triumph on the road to Jerusalem that Palm Sunday. The long, broad, green leaves that were strewn under the feet of the colt and in the way of Christ were torn off from the trees, What a pity, some one might say, that those stately and graceful trees should be despoiled. The sap ooze] out ap the > places wire in branches broke, ‘he glory of the pa 2a, was appropriatel eg for the Savionrs or eo cession. Bo'it always was, so it always will be in this world—no worthy triumph of any sors without the fearing down of SD Siothing ! Brooklyn Bridge, tho glory of our contis nent, must have ‘two architects prostrated, the one slain by his’ ihe and the other fora lifetime invali od. test pictures of +he world had, in their 1 richest coloring, the blood of the artists who made them. The mightiest oratories that ever rolled throu the churches had in their pathos, the si en and groans of the com who wore their lives out in writing the harmony. American independence was triumphant, bat it moved on over the lifeless forms of tens of thou- sands of men who fell. at Bunker Hill and Yorktown. and the battles between which were the hemorrhages of tha nation, The kingdom 'of God advances in all the earth, but, it must be over the lives of mis- sionaries who die of malaria in the jungles or Christian workers who preach and pray: and toil and die in the service. The Saviour triumphs in all directions—but beauty and strength must be torn down from the palm trees of Christian heroism and consecration and thrown in His pathway, To what better use could those palm tress on the southern shoulder of Mount Olivet and clear down into the Valley of Geth- semane put their branches than to surrender them for the making of Christ's journey toward Jerusalem He more pictaresque, the more memorable’and ‘the more HA Bphant? And to what better use could we put onr lives than into the sacrifice for Christ and His cause . and the appiness of our fellow creatures? Sh we not be willing to be torn down that ‘right eousness shall have triumphant way? Christi was torn down for us. an we not afford to be torn down for Him? ' If Christ could suffer so much for us, can’we not suffer a’ little for Christ? If He can afford on Fala Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to carry cross, can wenot afford ‘a few leaves on onr branches to make emerald His way? The process is going on every moment in all directions. . What makes that father have such hard work to find the hymn $o- day? He puts on his spectacles and holds . the book close up, and then holds it far off, and is not guite sure whether the number of the hymn is150 or 180, and the fingers with which he turns the leaves are very clumsy. He stoops a good deal, although once he was straight as an arrow, and his eyes were keen as hawk’s, and the hand he offered to his bride on the marria age, day was of goodly shape and as God madeit. I will tell yon what is the matter. Forty years ago he resolved his family shoald have no need and his children should be well edu- cated and suffer none of the disadvantages of lack ot schooling from which he had suffered for a lifetime, and that the wolf of hunger should never put its paw on hisdoor- sill, “and for forty or fifty years he has been tearing off from the palm tree of his physi- cal strength and manly form branches to throw in the pathway of his household. It has cost him muscle-and--brain. and health and eyesight, and thers have been twisted off more years from his life than®any man inthe crowd on the famous Palm Sunday twisted off branches from the palm trees on the road from Bethpage to Jerusalem. What makes that mother look so much older than she really is? = You say shs ought mot yet to have one gray line in her hair, The truth is the family was not always as well off as now,’ The married pair had a hard struggle at the start. iixamine the tips of the forefinger and thumb of her right hand, and they will tell yon the story of the needle that was piled day in and day out. Yea, look at both ands, and they will tell the story of ths tims when she did her eéwn work, her own mending and scrubbing and washing, Yea, look into the face and read the story of scarlet fevers and croups and midnight os **Frail, that house were awake, and then the burials’ and the loneliness afterward, which was ing had been, and no one now to putito bed. How. fail. she once was, and. as fuir as the palm tree, but all’ the. branches of her Strength and beauty wera long ago torn off and thrown into the pathway of her honse= He! that sons and daughters, themsélves 80 straight and graesful and - educated, should ever forget that they are walking to day over the fallen strencth of an. indus- trious and honored parentage. A little ashamed, are you, at their ungrammatichl tterances? It was through their sacrifices you learned accuracy of sp2ech.’ Po atience with them because they ote queraions. and complaining 1ess you have forgotten how qui 3 laining you were when you vere er tna Whooping congh' op. baat § aver. "A Jicsle atnoyed,’ lars heari ig'poor and you ‘something twice? oe was d of hearing, . u A our fast. 5 cull more exhausting than the precoding Watch- | |'part of the cost. but call in your best the house of God and and say: Th Tora 0 deris i iso on oF remember ‘when you : blackened my f fatier boots!” *‘¥es,” replied the man,. “and I did : your éarly well?” Soa be “Saiiamed (OL you or surroun as, yes, all the green of we walk pi were torn off sore. alm tree. 1 have caltivated the ‘habit of forgetting . the unpleasant things of life, and I chiefly | remember the smooth things, and as far as I remeinber now my lite has ‘for the ‘most pars moved ver a road’ ‘soft with ‘green eaves. They were torn off two palm trees that stood the start of the road. The prayers, the Christian example, the’ advice, the hard ‘work of By aon father ih ‘mother. How they toiled! were knotbed with hard work. Phir fore; fore. ‘heads were wrinkled with many cares. Their backs stooped from ‘catrying our ens, “They long ago want to. ‘slumber. ain among their kindred and friends on the banks of the Raritan, but the influsnces they threw in: the way of their children ars’ yet as leaves the moment they are plucked froma palm free, and we fesl them. on onr brow and under our feet, und they will strew all the way until we lis down in thé same gun ber. Self sacrifice! What a thrilling word. {Glad am I that our world has so many ‘specimens of it. The sailor boy on’ 0h board was derided because he would not fight or gamble, and they called him a cow- ard, But when a child fell overboard and - NO one else was Jeady to help, the derided “sailor leaped ] into th o sea, and, the ‘waves were rough, the sailor, swimming | with one arm, carried the-child on the other arm till rescued and rescuer were'l ini safety, and the cry of coward ceased and all huzzaed at the scene of daring and self sacrifice, 'When recently Captain Burton, ‘ths great. author, died, he left a scientific ‘book manuserit t which he gxpocted would. b ‘bei he wif {to's fortune. HL Ho often told her ‘He said, **This will make you independent and afficent J after I am gone.” sud pould. nd it was expected that the wife prbln the book.” One publisher tol @ could himself muke outof it $100, oon But it was ‘a book which, though wri syritten with pure scientific design, ‘she felt would do immeasurable damage to public morals. With the two large volumes, which had cost her husband the work of years, she down on the floor befors tae fire and said to | herself, “There is a fortune for me in this | book, ‘and although ‘my husband wrots it with the right motive and scientific ‘people might be helped by it, to the vast majority of people it would 5 be harmful, and I know it would damage the world.” “Then she took apart the manuscript sheet after sheet and put it mto the fire, until the last line was consumed.’ Bravo! She fung her hea her home, her chief worldly resources under the best moral and religious interests of the world. How much are we willing to sacrifice “for Qihiers} Christ is again on, the march, not from Bethpage to Jerusal srusalom, but for the conquest o ir nr ‘He will Surely take it, but who will furnish the palm branches for the triumphant way? Self sacrifice is the'word. There is more money paid to de- stroy the world than to save it. © There ars more buildings put up to ul the race than churches to evangelize it. There is ede | ved literature to blast men than good |i iterature to elevate the: Oh; for a power to descend upon usalllike that which whelmed Charles G. Finney with mercy, when, kneeling in bis law office; and before he entered: upon his a; lic career of evangelization, he said: *‘The Holy Ghost | descended on me in a manner. that seemed tu 20 through me, body and teal the impression like a wave of sledbeicity going through and through me. Indeed if seemed to'come in waves and Yyaves of liquid love. It seemed like ths: breath of I can recollect distinctly that it sesmed to fen me like immense wings. I wept. gloufl with joy and love, These waves came over. me and ovér me one ater another and, nfl, I recollect, I cried out; * T shall di these waves continue to pass over or i *Lord, L cannot bear any mare’? man came into the cfioe ‘and indy, you arg-in pain?” he re. Tm. nom, ag My hearers, the time will | she wher when 2 upon the whole church of God will a such an avalanche of blessing, Py then g of the ‘world od Hl Tom ie ter of a few years perhaps a fov a low days or a fow hours. ' Ride. on, Christ! for the ‘evangelization of all mations. Thou Cl ‘who didst ride on the nubroken colt dowh the sides of Olivet, on the white horse of | eterndl victory ride TR hrougs all nations, and” may we, by our rifices, pad our A ie butions, and our con- secratior throw. palm branches in the ways T olap my hands at’ the » coming wic- Trost this morning. as‘ did the Israelites when on their march to Canaan, they came not under the shadow of one palm tree, but of seventy palm trees standing in. an oasis among a dozen gushing fountains, or as. the Book putsit, “Twelve wellsof water and: score and ‘ten m trees.” Surely ' there are more than seven glorious gouls Pt to- oY a mi ve ol m oot, din 12 33 the Fuptars which I'shall feel when our ast battle fought, and our last burderfcarried, and our tear “wept; We shall’ become one of the multitudes St. John deseribes* ‘clothed in white robes and palms in their hands.” Hail thou bright, thou swift advancing, thou everlasting Palm Sunday of the siies! Victors over sin and sorrow. and death and woe, from she hills and valleys of the beav- jen ly Palestinie they have licked the long, broad, green leaves and all the ransomed— some in gates of pearl and some on battle ments of amethyst, and some on streets of old, and some on seas of sap pphire, they Bali stand in numbers like the stars, in watchings, then none but God and hersel ny splendor like tha orn, waying their Fabs! Putire BcHooLs IN WESTERN Cirigs: sign that public education will not re- main the most costly branch of gov- ernment. ‘There are two ways to look at such 8 condition, but, in ‘my opin- ion, the two ways are not what. they are "commonly supposed to be, One way shold be tolook with envy onthe rich, who thus may send their children to rchobl for ‘eight years, | while the poor, who must put their little ones to work at tender ages, foot the ‘ greater The other way might well be to commiserate the poor who are deceived by sentimental clap-trap into inflating the common-school sys. tem in such a manner that at lefst: ‘roscopic.—From “Western : Modes ‘01 City anagement.” by JuLiax RALPH, in “Havers Magazine: for * Ati ii hoi a # le, a but so happy that 1 cannot live | 8, and on ‘self sac- | —1In no city in the West is there a! Mary Hallock Foote, illustrating her’ their share in its benefits becomes mic: lof truth worth remembering, and illus. trated in the same eenifat in Which doing is speech n language; fhoie “voice. is Bob heard,” Vet they Shins: d Sentiidousty, preaching v i gi Saking up unapprec anked, app yet act he There’ ars ma the same. Shins on; ‘ob, hy God sees and approves; be Their ine is gone out through’ 10’ the end . inh seasons. { =f 14)), to the whole. 's memoria i in all the world ed Scturagss Suhers to do what! sun, 5 br of | Christ ¢ ol, both i A ee 0! ry ‘He ‘tabarnacled i and He now Swelisin i, 14; Ro V,, margin x 28: 11 1, Tvery beliorer : ay be the marriage of the of Bri ang 0 aonsmmated. and then shall Shing forth as the sun (Re IV. . ) heaven, and His circuit from sis end of ie rneayen, and iis: uno the en 3 d there i S583 bid om ia beat here: : 8 Sh Dur His Fons 0 earth ‘and eatise : 7. “The is of the Lord is. pertsch, con. ee the soul; the testimony of the’ ds inaking svise the. simple.” Sun, ‘proclaim’ Him, but kx we find Him'niors SS ony, Sr Lomiand- may. fear, adgments are six times *'of the Lor 5 is tha Fae and the Om nl Helis my salva: tion and my wisdom 8. *‘The statutes OE the Lord are right, Te. Joict the heart; the commandment of the rd is pure, enlightening the eyes.” Heis my joy and my light; His word Soe y and rejeiolg of my] hoary; % Himself d vation. : “and spiro = read ie or xxvii, 13 i 30th ob vif, J 13 : Tiohat wt hi a fe the a Tod Gr ie true and righteous ig salvati yy Wisdom, joy and lig i hteousness” ar ord ara "Even ai eds to dren away i trom bali Psd to other books for sweetness, but while they may know Jesus as Saviour: do not know him as Lord, or they ‘would not turn trom Him for hing, +11. “Moreover by Jham is uy servant | warned, | and in Sd ln, kotping of them 8 Abge is — ees i t “Hi at | eps (ih m agains i 5, cixx., 11). And while here’ Tnthis life we have ‘the consciousness of sins fo i, 6, Nz who.’ can oft he faithful when like Him, we receive from may, have won on. the as i 12 ICor. ix, 25; I Pot, v., 51 Tim. iv.. 8). 2 “Who can understand - his errors? Cie Thou me from secret faults.” The ‘contemplation of the King in His works and His word reveals mors sinfu makes us want to be more ; Roly now fe oh 5 Jab sls 5, 6; I John i if Cor. iii, “Keep back Th Toy servan servant RRL i nd eb : Hi not have dominion aver sins then shall Ibe uj hy, | and I shalt be innocent from the great trans. gression.” ' One has said that the sins we ses also from: wy He desires cleansing all sin secret and manifest, small gud great, Itis a good. Ww ‘when we hate all si bi 14. “Let the vords of my mouth, andthe Shin bia in ny He rd Tn Hon iL, 15), (Only as we ses a to with Christ, and Tien [dn Si 3 and’ ow something oj power Xesur. Procter Lobel hl Ls we can truly say _ 4 ‘then filled with His. sp thoughts shall be Soa Holy Spirit through Paul te not T afiolent of ourselves to think EE a8 ourselves, but our sufficiency is ‘of He also tells us that every. thought is to be brought into sapiivity to the obedience of , Christ (IT Cor. 1. 5; is 5, =Losson Helper. ' Excrunive fiom merition the: many continued stories ‘and articles—of which, however, it may be remarked, there are thrée serials by popular au thors, each worthy of attention because of some special feature, and two other apers in series—-we find 1n the April “St. Nicholas’ plenty. of attractions. The frontispiece after ‘a painting by Counture; and the artistic pictures of vivid sketch of life in the Great West, will ‘no ‘doubt find themselves some: years hence, are of ‘unusual ‘excel lence. “The Lurk’s Secret” is a poetic f 1 bit of simple writing containing a bit : Aid us to conquer mistakes of the. past; Show us our future to cheer us and arm. us, i seiead © ofa temporary relief. It is pven so the ya |ihere co! 1 in a wate A Basvent This is too {only will Every back-slider may become a 5 will only heed Paul's bugle-call, and awake ~— where muny of ‘her ‘young ‘readers. ; z BE : Tap us’ bos Hl on, And show us’tis ‘god-like; to. 1abort nt God of the darkness, God of the sun; God of the tiful, hs Clothe us and feed us, A Tome us and lead us; 4 Show us that avarice hol That the land is ail Thine, and 3 Thon gives Seater on our blindness Help. us do right, allth he day and the ight; love mercy and kitidness;: The up per, the Letter, the mansions Thot |: “And, God, of the grave, that the. grave can | J : not harm us. A > vine ERED PRAYER me “Silver and nd go haye. I none; but, = suck as’ have hee—rise and walk.” This was Hob Ww a gift how far more precious! A cure in the hod answers our prayers. When he ghd sorrow is heavy upon us, when some great evil presses and our needs be come extreme, we cry to him for help, The ke Petiuon for relief on earth per refused; that ‘which we would fenied;” the affliction ' is con: ave and the eHhmare niust be borne. But midst of ita far richer our hearts are cons oxn VERSE READ a ee ‘Moleanr. 2 A missionary in Japan tells’ of a youn man living Yokahama, who atau | ‘of Christianity b iad een to ain Ll LL aut bis evil rn he called to say gobd-bye a end, ‘who oe Rnow ng Ke 0 object of h of Is journey, bade him God-speed gave hima Bible. He started on the j Journey y on the way. He happeped fo. tu first verse of the Seven chapter of Matthew, | and when he read it his conscience was sp troubled that he gave u his purpose and re- turned to Yokoham e continued to read and became a frag wen and then, not |. satisfied with a Jofession, he. he fave himself to the Stady of God’s word and is now a faithful worker forthe Mester in the | or of Tokio. ( + 5 = PUSH UPWARD. What a bugle-blast the heroic old Paul sounded in the ears of his you uger brethern at Colosse when he exclaimed, a ye then risen with Christ, seek those things | which are above!” hatever way we apply these words whether as ‘meaning a reparation for Tieaven, ora coveting of eavenly aires ‘or an upward push in the Christian life, they still breathe the same ration. Jesus A delivered those heath. f sin. The ow instead of stiil Te et in the: Simosphete oO f the charnel use, the great apostle x horts them to cast arti grave clothes, and to live as Christ's freemen and the heirs to a magnifi- “sientinheritance. Look higher! Live higher! These were the inspiring calls of the veteran to his younger fellow-soldiers in the warfare re Christ, He exhorts them to *'set their rs | ais eo on the hen that are. above, and 1m. “There ii i be an ward longing and an outward livin Co hHstaat Pauls bugle- call is needed in our times to ‘vast numbers of God’s people, who, like Bunyan’s man with his muck-rake, are’ grubbing away among one the straws and rubbish, Without even hel eyed towards the crown’ above hive “head Tens of thousands, whose names are ds. the rolls of our churches are barely alive. Instead of growing they are only gasping. ‘Their pulse is-feeble. Their joys are few; only an: occasional sunbeam -8ky. Fhelr assurance of hope is 80 scaiity | at they can “barely say—‘“iwell I hopethat Tama an i think ‘that I was converted se 0, and when I Gio Lirust that T 8 Ne be: Amd? here no muscle’ nthelr faith, no power in their prasers, no ring in in thelr voices, no force in eir daily examples, Ho roi of the’ Spirit. Dun, ercial phrase, their Christian life Pood not pay Expenses; 3 they are Funuing be- ind eve! Now v wha aha ‘shall ‘thesp halting, Joubting, cup) led and almust Miclese. rofessors a Shall al ‘they liestill just w ey: ro esperate hope that a death over- em they wil] Jomeliaw scramble into tremendous a risk to ‘And even if jd God’s'grace they are saved from hell they will have a wretchediy and meager preparation for heaven. Ro” ‘crowns awaiting’ them ‘here! No ‘sheaves; not more than a spear or two of ain. ‘All this style ‘of existence is better an death; but itis not genuine living. ‘Every one of these 'cumberers of the soll way Lecome a fruit-bearer tomorrow if he ‘oyous, useful’servant of Christ at once if he .‘o the glorious possibilities before Bim, “x0 TINE: FOR PEAYER. Prayer is both a duty and a privilege. We are exhorted to “pray always” and ‘without {ceasing 1 And we ‘are assured that, “The | Lord is nigh unto alk sem that eal upon bim in truth. He fulfil the desire of them that hear I a also will hear their ‘ery and wiil save them.” '' And the Psalmist says: “1 ealled Wipon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me set.me ing large place.” And such have often been the ex- DS once of God’s praying people. Many a | pore been the mereiss that they have received in answer to prayer. They have proved: the Lord to be a prayer-hearing God. And yet: je privilege is greatly under- valued, and’ the duty is’ sadly nerlected, And:this by many professing Christians. They find little or no time ror prayer. Many of them have no family altar in their dwel- lings : and their closets, if they have them, are sadly forsaken. “For days they may be unvisited: or. if Wisited, ist 10 hurry. through their devotion in a eareless manner, and then to hurry away to théir business. They find time for ev erything else, but! Little or no time for prayer. i. And what ifthe result? It is that, though the Lord is a prayetdieating God, and ready to bestow great blessings in answer to praver they are none the Reber) for it.’ Their prayers areso few, and so hen ol iby they. have ‘no t#vor with God. a are. a mere form: “and, when offered; it is with no Expectation of an offer and thev get none. They are the better for their brayerd, Sitheras Togardn temporal, or. spiritual They may prospered 1 thet WOT, ‘bus ¢ prosperit at thesoftering beggar asked, but | h per ) without any chemical trea proved Es ‘a8 erbili: vitality, hatching cessfully as if Re The final products the same, whether gas, veod of burnt, . A gas stove gives off | quantities of carbonic acid amounts of moreor less poisonou carbon compounds. Although | sive than the gases arising from a wood fire they are still unhealthful the aly safe: way is to connect This is probably due to sence of a great current like the Stream, which bears with a large am of food, and serves: to supply the sea fauna ‘along ts course. | It is ti Stream which is sapposed to be responsible for the enormous floating: Yegelation known & as Liv Bea. A device to prevent * engineers passing curves at too great speed con of a standing-fork provided with which inscribes a curve on the ‘sm surface’ of a cylinder revolved by able mechanism. | The instrumen at any desired part of the line, and trainipasses the mechanism is set ‘Seventy-five years A20 Thomay Walker, then a mere boy, planted walnuts’ by the roadside oppos father's house in the : District, mear Oedar Bluff, and some miles west of Knoxville. He died ten years ago, yet he lived ‘to sé walnut'trees'grow to a- measure of feet in diamefer, worth, if cut properly seasoned, at least $400 Had he planted’ 300 walnuts on a joitiing acre of ground his heirs'whe died would have been $120,000 bet off. Had he planted ten acres would” be worth at least $2, 00! Had Be planted a huntired ‘acres, ar three feet in diameter, and there reason why: they shouldn’t, as thi is fertile and impregnated with' heirs; and there are only. three would be worth altogether $200,000 If, ‘like old" Johnny" Appleseed, ‘planted thousands of apple trees in Northwest, he had planted all the wo out fields in Tennesseo it ‘walnuts, would be the richest State in the by far.>—Enexville (Tenn. ) Jotirnal, (Shepherd Dogs. “sStonehenge,” in his work e dogs. of Great Britain, has this about sheep tending dogs: In. Reo and the north of England as well Wales a great, variety of breeds is for tending sheep, depending the locality i in which they are ‘and on the kind of sheep ado The Welsh sheep is so. wild that quires = faster dog than lander of Scotlan hl the lo of the latter country and slower shegp is gen Hence it follows that a
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