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THE UGLY AMERICAN GIRL.
Comments of Two Japanese Women Over=
heard in That Country.
The beauty and charm of the Ameri-
can girl is so generally conceded that
it may be a surprise to learn that there
is a spot on the earth where her ap-
pearance fails to make.a favorable im-
pression; where, in fact, her features
are regarded as the reverse of prepos-
sessing. In this respect an American
girl, recently returned from the Orient,
relates an expericnce that has since
kept her wondering if the compliments
she so often receives are not the most
Larcfaced flattery and the looking glass
a miserable deception.
It happened in this way: A short time
before leaving Japan she was visiting
a friend who resided in a part of the
country little frequented by foreigners.
One afternoon they were sauntering
dower the quaint main thoroughfare of
the town, much observed by the popu-
lace in general, when they became con-
scious that they were the objects of cu-
rious attention cn the part of two Jap-
anese girls, evidently of the well-te-do
class, in particular, who followed close
on their, footsteps.
Presently the resident turned to her
visitor with a smile and remarked: “It
seems we are the subjects of a good
deal of comment on the part of the
young women following us. What do
you think they are saying?”
“I cannot guess,” the visitcr replied.
“Please tell me.”
“Well, you must promise not t> turn
and violently resent their criticisms.”
“Certainly.”
“Then this is a translation of what
they have been saying about us. Said
Miss Peach Blossom to the Hon. Miss
Chrysanthemum: ‘Oh, do look at those
foreign women. See how strangely they
are dressed. They wear short kimonos
just like the men. How very improper!”
“Yes,” acquiesced the other. ‘The
foreign women have no taste in dress.
In Tokio, where I have been once, no |
foreign woman’s toilet is complete
without a stuffed bird on her head. If
she has not enough money to buy a
whole stuffed bird she buys a head, the
wings or some feathers. They are very
strange, the foreign women?!
“ ‘But,’ exclaimed the first, ‘did you
notice the terrible size of the noses of
these two foreign women? Are the
noses of all the foreign women as large
as these?
* ‘Yes, they are as large, but they are
proud of their large noses. The foreign
women do not consider a large nose a
disfigurement.’
“ ‘How very strange! And see, their
eyes are as round as the full moon?
“Yes, as round as the full moon.
They stare at you without any expres-
sion or feeling.’
“¢And their walk! Do look at their
walk, so ungainly; just like the great,
big birds!”
“Stop!” interposed the visitor. “I've
f.eard enough, or I shall begin to im-
agine I'm the mcst hideous creature on
earth.”
“You will get many such shocks to
vanity if you stay long enough in Ja-
pan,” laughingly returned the resident.
—IKaasas City Star.
A Study in Dress.
It is a wise woman who takes care to
secure a hat to match each waist. First
get your hat. Then, in picking out
your waists, try to make them match
or at leasi “go with” the hat. A waist
of steel color may have no more than
a hat trimmed with steel. A waist of
blue may be matched with a hat whose
only blue is found in the polka dots
that adorn the silk with which it is
trimmed.
It is a distinct study in dress, this
matching of one garment to another,
but it is one no woman can afford to
neglect. Better a cheap outfit that cor-
responds throughout, skirt, waist, hat
and parasol than an expensive one that
looks as though it were picked up here
and there.
The black skirt, the blue waist, the
tan hat and the brown parasol may be
ever so well selected and of the cost.
liest, but the result is seldom pleasing.
Better far to match the black skirt
with a black waist trimmed with me-
dallions of ceru lace. Then the tan hat
will match well, and the brown parasol,.
if dressed with an ecru bow, will look
as thcuzh it were part and parcel of
the whecle.
That is the dress scrraon which is
being preached by M. Le Bardy, the
great French dress apostle, and it is
one that all should ponder well.
Speaking of the natter of making a
right selection a New York modiste
tells a story.
- Having at one time a wealthy patron,
a weman of unliriited money, but pocr
taste, th. riodiste refused tu 1aake her
clothes.
“Why not?’ derizaded tac customer,
on being refuscd.
“Because, madar:, yorr cclors do not
harmonize,” replied thie mcdistc, bold-
ly. “I should losc my reputation.”
+PBut—but—-" the customer gasped.
“If raadam will be wise,” insinuated
the moliste, “and will follow rules,
then TI might make the gowns.”
Then followed directions. Che was
to buy all reds and browns and blues—
three colois that rever swear at each
other.
This rule applied te this season wculd
call for tomato and coral and blood rea.
I'or autcmobile, cardinal and beet. It
swould call for yvvood brown, for butter-
nut color and for tan. It would call for
navy and duck’s egg. With these one
could really do a great deal.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Smart Millinery.
Milliners are so clever nowadays that
that there are some very happy compro-
mises between the eminently practical
and the distinctly becoming hats. There
are certain things which, if put upon a
hat at all, must be the best of their
kind—for instance, flowers, feathers
and lace. Directly these get in the
least indifferent they become an abom-
ination.
The best milliners are giving individ-
ual attention to the manipulation of
smart country hats. Many leaders of
fashion nowadays indulge in various
sports, and the hat for motoring has
become a great consideration. Most of
those people who possess a motor use
it whenever the weather permits, con-
sequently they want something smart
as well as practical. The great thing
is to have nothing that is injured by
dampness or dust. Feathers and flow-
ers are incongruous except for short
distances. Glace seems to fill the want
of the hour in this respect. Burnt
straw shapes trimmed with glace or
foulard make ideal hats, while colored
straws adorned with quills form charm.
ing toques.
Bright shades of emerald green
blended with myrtle tones and mixed
with two or three shades of dark blue
make a charming combination when
trimmed with metallic wings to har-
monize.
Floral hats show the long lace ends
falling on the shoulders. Many of the
large flat picture hats have a drapery
of lace terminating in extremely long
ends behind. Apropos of hats, the mil-
liners are showing some distinctly pret-
ty novelties this season. Large, flat
shapes in crin, fanciful straws, lace
and mousseline are almost hidden be-
neath a wealth of flowers. Sweeping
amazone ospreys in black and white
garnishing a broad brimmed black
straw lined with white straw is a be-
coming chapeau de style. Another
straw covered with embroidered limen
is a becoming mode for the summer
days, while smaller marquis shaped
straws and toques decorated with cou-
teau wings and speckled or spotted rib-
ben are popular for morning promen-
ade hats.
Exaggerated Elaboration.
White is to have a wonderful vogue
this year; white cloth, alpaca or voile
gowns for daytime, white silk or crepe
de Chine for evening, and white lace
gowns remain forever paramount. A
novel fashion, which is not perhaps en-
tirely admirable, is a combination of
three or four sorts of lace, thus, white
Irish lace will be found trimmed with
Alencon and black Chantilly and Mal-
tese, and the whole will be seen gar-
landed with chiffon roses, says the De-
lineator. Elaboration on ‘elaboration
piled might aptly describe such fash-
ions, but these, however, do not domin-
ate the market, simple and most admir-
able frocks for evening wear being
made entirely of lace and bearing as
their sole trimming kiltings of chiffon
beneath the pointed outlines,
Fluttering Veils. 4
More than ever before are fluttering
chiffon and sewing silk veils worn
this summer by women when they
travel. Seldom are they lowered over
the face; the black or black and white
cobweb veils hold stray locks in place.
A thread the color of the veil keeps its
upper edge in place; the lower, turned
up over the hat, is caughtby any chance
zephyr, and made to waver becomingly.
Golf green or chestnut brown are the
usual colors, with the preference for
green. Now and then a woman chooses
violet chiffon. Nothing adds a touch
of grace to a shirt waist costume so
readily as the loose veil,
“>.
Bands of embroidered pongee are
among the dress trimmings.
Lady apples with flowers and foliage
form one of the fashionable hat decora-
tions.
Red poppies and wheat encircle a
wide, drooping rimmed hat of a deep
straw color.
A shell comb for the hair with the
top set with large pieces of pink coral
is rather new in the way of combina.
tions.
Wild strawberries — replicas in size
and color of the natural fruit—form the
trimming on some summer hats. Fol.
iage is mingled with the berries in ar-
tistic combination.
Perforated hearts are used for the
young woman who likes an atmosphere
of sweet odors about her, and they
take the place of the ordinary round
perforated scent balls.
A simple straw is trimmed with blue
and white polka dotted silk, and with
two quill-like affairs, which look like
two broad blades of grass. The deen
green with the blue is good.
Foreign fashion notes say that black
silk gowns have been raised again te
the pinnacle of triumph which they
held fifty years ago, in Paris, and alsc
that it is the smart wonien who weat
them,
! Tie lng strings of coral which are!
worn about the neck and knotted just
below the waist line are cfte.: fitted
out with a tiny fan or with a small
rourd box, like a bond~n box. This
holds a small powder puff.
There are exquisite things scen in
matched sets of fancy bodice fronts,
shculder collar and deeply pointed
trun-back cuffs, usually of fine linen o1
lawn, all hand wrought and conse:
marine, sca and ink blue; for lLiuet,
qucLtly rather high in price.
WORLD'S COAL SUPPLY.
PRESENT CENTURY WILL SEE THE
END OF ENGLAND'S DEPOSITS.
China Will Be Able to Contribute Enor-
mously to the Fuel Fund-—Great Coal
Beds of the Whole of America—Ger-
many Well Fortified.
In view of the enormous consumption
of coal in the past forty years the ques-
tiox as to how long the supply will
last has been much discussed. Eng-
land has not been particularly alarmed
by the prediction that the end of her
coal resources was almost within sight.
The majority of the people have adopt-
ed the view that the economists who
affirmed that two generations more
would practically see the end of her
coal beds were unnecessarily pessimis-
tic. England therefore continues with
much serenity to sell more coal to the
countries which import it than all the
rest of the world together. It supplies
far more coaling stations than any
other country. It is the only land that
does an enormous business in the ex-
portation of coal.
The business of selling coal abroad is
usually very profitable, and one reason
why England surpasses all competitors
in this business is because she has spe-
cial facilities for it. Her coal is so near
the sea that England is able to ship it
less expensively than any other export-
ing nation. Owing to our more exten-
sive use of coal mininz machinery, a
great deal of our coal at the pit mouth
does not cost so much as British coal
when raised to the surface, but by the
“irae we ship our coal on the ocean it
usually costs more than British coal.
Another reason why usually, when
the price of European coal is not abnor-
mally ‘high, we cannot compete with
British exports is because our sea car-
riage to the continent of Europe, which
is by far the greatest importer, is very
much longer than that of England.
Thus England has special advantages
for the export coal trade, and she im-
proves them to the utmost, in spite of
the fact that economists are again be-
ginning to reassert that the present
century will undoubtedly see the end
of her coal resources.
The most interesting contribution
that has been made for a long time to
the question of the world’s future coal
supply is that which Dr. Ferdinand
Tischer, of Gottingen, has just pub-
lished. Dr. Fischer has collected with
much care all the best attainable data
as to the coal resources of the entire
world. Such work as this can be re-
garded only as a striving to reach con-
clusions that are worthy of considera-
tion for the time being and as satisfac-
tory as the present condition of our
knowledge will permit. They are like-
ly to be very much modified when we
have more light on the question, just
as the prognostications thirty years ago
with regard to the world's coal re-
sources needed amending when we
came to understand how enormously
China is able to contribute to the sup-
plies. But though we must continue to
regard such estimates as those made by
Dr. Fischer as tentative, they are not
only interesting, but important as
painstaking, critical and able summar-
ies of our existing knowledge and of
the conclusions which it seems to jus-
tify.
Briefly summing up the estimates
which Dr. Fischer has based upon his
studies, he concludes that the attain-
able coal supply of Germany amounts,
in round numbers, to 160,000 million
tens, that of Great Britain to 81,500
million tons, that of Austria-Hungary,
Belgium and France together to 17,000
million tons. The coal deposits of
Russia are still so little known that Dr.
Fischer does not attempt to estimate
the attainable output, though he says
that the resources are undoubtedly
enormous, particularly in the southern
regions from the Government of Pol-
tava eastward into the land of the Don
Cossacks.
He estimates that the coal resources
of the whole of America are at least
684,000 million tons. All our later in-
formation with regard to China has
tended to confirm the conclusions
reached by Van Richthofen as to the
enormous wealth in coal of that em-
pire. There is as yet no reason to be-
lieve that this very careful scientific
traveler overshot the mark when he es-
timated (his figures are reproduced by
Dr. Fischer) the coal provision of the
eighteen provinces at 630,000 million
tons of anthracite and an equal quanti-
ty of bituminous coal.
It is a curious commentary on that
really civilized land which, as far as
we know, is richer in coal than any
other country in the world, that almost
none of it is yet available for steam
power. It is largely used by the Chi-
nese, but mainly in the regions where
it is mined. The land routes are so
miserably poor that it does not pay to
haul coal more than twenty-five miles.
Unless a mine is within this distance of
vater carriage the area of the distribu-
tion of the output is confined to the im-
mediate neighborhood. Steamships at
Shanghai are to-day filling their bunk-
ers with coal brought from Europe, be-
cause it is cheaper than coal expensive-
ly brought from Chinese mines in the
interior.
The United States now far surpasses
all other nations in the employment of
machinery in coal mining. The cheap-
er and more rapid methods of machine
mining have undoubtedly been a factor
in the influences that have made us the
first among the coal producing States.
The quantity of our machine mined
coal increased from 6,200,000 tons in
1861 to 43,063,000 tons in 1899. Dr.
Fischer advises the Germans to give
more attention to the mining of coal by
machinery.
In his opinion Germany has a coal
supply that will meet the needs of the
country for about 1000 years to come.
Dr. Fischer also reaches the conclusion,
ate information, that probably within
the next fifty years, and certainly with.
in this century Great Britain will ex-
haust her coal resources, at the present
rate of consumption; that is to say, she
cannot go on supplying the larger part
of the world’s export coal without
reaching the end of her tether, as*far
as home coal is concerned, long before
her industrial competitors have ex-
hausted their home supplies. Dr. Fisch-
er entertains the gloomy view, cher-
ished by so many Germans, that when
England becomes a coal importing na-
tion she will lose much of her impor-
tance as an industrial state and will
cease to be the leading world power.
Japan has large coal resources, par-
ticularly in the southern province of
Kinshin. Borneo is rich in coal forma-
tions, as also is New South Wales—a
fact that is enabling Sydney to forge
ahead of the other Australian cities in
industrial development. Africa and
South America are poorer in coal than
any of the other continents, but the de-
velopment of coal mines in South
Africa and South America are poorer
in coal than any of the other conti.
nents, but the development of coal
mines in South Africa bids fair to sup-
ply the industrial needs of the country.
—New York Sun.
Birds vs. Fish.
A curious controversy has arisen in
Scotland with reference to the legality
of the destruction of wild fowl which
destroy fish. W. G. Rawlinson, Hope
Lodge, Sutherlandshire, had suggest-
ed to proprietors and tenants along
our northern coast to combine and de-
stroy the cormorants and shags, as
these birds, in his opinion, were in a
great measure responsible for the de-
crease in the number of sea fish round
our shores. Replying to the sugges-
tion, R. H. Betts, chief inspector of the
S. P. C. A., writes that W. G. Rawlin-
son, in suggesting to proprietors and
tenants the destruction of shags and
cormorants, is inciting them to an un-
lawful act, viz, the contravention of
the wild birds’ protection act, 1880 till
1896. There is something like a moral
dilemma involved in the question thus
raised. The wild birds’ protection act
arose out of the humanitarian feeling
of the nation, yet here it is seen to op-
erate in something like a contrary di-
rection to its object.—London Daily
News,
Longest English Word.
Which is the longest word in the
English language? The controversy
on this subject may break out afresh
over a note of Dr. Murray’s in ‘The
Oxford English Dictionary.” He
points out that “incircumscriptable-
ness” and ‘“honorificabilitudinity” both
contain twenty-two letters, says the
London News. But these are beaten
by a word coined, or at least first used,
by Dr. Benson, the late Archbishop of
Canterbury, “Antidisestablishmentari.
ans,” which contains as many letters
as the alphabet, viz., twenty-six. We
think, however, we can go one better
than this. For each of the above
words an authority is given. But if
“honorificabilitudinity’”” be allowable,
why not ‘honorificabiliaudinarians?”’
This has twenty-seven letters and four-
teen syllables, and we have seen the
word used somewhere. After all, if it
be allowable to build up compound
words on the German system, our lan-
guage has infinite possibilities in syl-
lable spinning.
A Remarkable Locomotive.
According to the London Colliery
Guardian, one of George Stephenson's
locomotives, which was placed in com-
mission in 1822 on a railway running
from the Hellar colliery, Durham, to
the wear, a distance of eight miles, is
still In dally use. Very little
of the original engine, of course, re-
mains, but worn parts have always
been replaced by duplicates. The two
cylinders are placed vertically on the
top of the boiler, one above the front
pair of wheels and one above the after
pair. The piston rods point upward,
and have cross arms from which four
long connecting rods convey the pow-
er to the four wheels. |
“In 1822,” says the writer, “the en-
gine could draw about sixty-four tons
at four miles an hour on the level. To-
day it can haul 120 tons at seventy
miles an hour. One may be excused
for asking if this is also ‘on the level? ”
The French Beaconsfield.
When French history is written,
says the London Sketch, the name of
Waldeck-Rousseau will figure very
orominently. He had the biggest prac.
tice at the French bar, and his income
was close on $100,000 a year. The ad
ministration cof the Iebaudy estates
was alone a fortune. He came into
power with the streets filled with cav-
alry and troops, and he leaves France
in peace. Waldeck is a man to whom
life is an outlived thing. At the thea-
tre he looked on but took no interest,
and beyond drives in the Bois, extend-
ing over hours, be seemed to have no
recreation. He has been called the
French Beaconsfield, and to those whe
have seen. hour by hour, for the last
three years what he did the title
seemed not inappropriate.
Where Rock Crystals Are Found.
There are a number of well defined
regions in this country where rock
crystals are found, and mining for
them is carried on with more or less
regularity most of the time. But the
most remarkable ones have been found
by chance rather than by any definite
clew as to their whereabouts. One of
the well defined regions where quartz
crystals have been found in the past
dozen years is at Hot Springs, Col, on
the banks of the Ouachita. A remark-
able feature about these stones is that
they are so worn by the tide and cur-
rent that they are round like pebbles.
In most cases they are very clear crys.
tals, and they are of fair value. Some
have been cut and sold for good prices
based upon the latest and most accur-
| —Scientific American,
DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON
A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
PASTOR-EVANGELIST.
Subject: A Novel Race—Self the Greatest
Enemy of Most Men-—-Two Ways Into
Heaven—Wealth and Power Will Not
Avail the Sinner on Judgment Day.
NEw York Crry.—The Rev. J. Wilbur
Chapman, the popular pastor of the Fourth
Presbyterian Coenh whose reputation as
an evangelist is second to none, has pre-
pared an interesting sermon upon the sub-
ject, “A Novel Race,” which is preached
from the text, Proverbs 14: 12, “There is
a way which seemeth right unto a man;
but the end thereof are the ways of
death.”
Some time during last summer the Rev.
Joseph Parker, the pastor of the City
Temple in Boston, was asked to take the
editor’s chair of the London Sun. He was
given full liberty to print just what he
wished in the paper or to keep out of the
columns what in his judgment was nof
conducive to make an ideal paper. One day
in the place of the racing news which the
readers of the Sun had been accustomed
to peruse he printed under the caption of
“A Novel Race Record” a description of
the race of life, and for each point made
emphatic in the lives of those who fre-
quent the race course and follow racing as
a business he presented a passage of Scrip-
ture. This was, to say the least, startling.
One of our New York papers, quoting
from his utterings in the London Sun,
printed the following:
A NOVEL RACE RECORD.
London.—The Rev. Joseph Parker prints
in the Sun to-day in place of the usual rac-
ing column what he calls a corrected race
record, as follows:
The Eternity Stakes.
The Start—Born in sin, etc. Psalm LIL: 5.
The Race—All gone out of the way, etc.
Romans III: 12.
The Finish—After
etc. Hebrews IX.: 27
The Weighing Room—Thou are weighed
in the balances and art found wanting.
Daniel V.: 27. .
Settling Day—For what shall it profit a
man if he shall gain the whole world and
lose his own soil. Mark VIII.: 36.
This outline for a sermon has been in
my mind since first my eyes lighted upon
it, and to the great London preacher I
am indebted for the suggestions of this
sermon, and yet I am quite free to confess
that the only a have chosen “the
outline, and indeed the only reason I
preach the sermon is that I have a great
desire that those of you who are running
the race of life should lay hold upon eter-
nal life. It is a great mistake for men to
preach without giving their hearers an op-
poreiniey to confess Christ. When Mr,
oody first began his public ministry in
Chicago he went through a course of ser-
mons on the life of Christ, and came at
last to the crucifixion, when the most pro-
found impression had been made. He felt
as if he ought to give an invitation, but
neglected to do so. The audience was dis-
missed never to come together again, for
that night the great conflagration in Chi-
cago was upon the city, and many of his
hearers were qiosly ushered into eternity,
and so while 1 present this novel race rec-
ord I present it only that you may run the
race with Christ.
If T had the time in this connection I
might say some words concerning the book
in which the text is found. It has been
said by some one that there is no part of
the Bible which more thoroughly proves
the inspiration of the Scriptures, bE no
mere man could have written these wise
sayings; another has suggested that the
thirty-one chapters in the book contain a
lesson for each day of the month, and no
man would find himself failing so frequent-
ly if he should imbibe the wisdom of these
sayings. Indeed, there is not a condition
of life that is not met by the wisdom of the
writer of this book. I might also suggest
the different figures which are used in the
Bible which describe a human life. It is
spoken of under the figure of a voyage
with its days of calm and nights of storm,
its south winds blowing deceitfully against
us, and telling of prosperity that never
comes and its hurricane which almost
drives us against the rocks and to death,
but one of the best figures is that of a race
for no man walks when he races, but runs.
He must be desperately in earnest. and no
one really makes a success of his life with-
out this same thing is true of him. There
is little place for the laggard in human
life to-day. We must run if we would
win, and no race is permitted without con-
testants. In this race of human life which
we start there are three contestants which
strive earnestly to defeat us. The first is
self—the greatest enemy that the most of
us have is self. Other men fight battles
and rest when the victory is won, but no
man has ever yet been able to rest in the
struggle with himself. The Bible is true,
“Greater is he that ruleth his spirit than
he that taketh a city,” and many a man
has been a hero in the battlefield and
made a miserable failure with his struggle
with himself. The world is generally
against us. ‘Woe be unto you when all
men speak well of you,” and if no one op-
poses you it is well to stop and see where-
in you may be wrong, but possibly the
greatest adversary of all is the devil, the
third one of this trinity of contestants, for
he flatters and deceives until at last the
strongest character is made weak and the
purest soul tainted; but I am not so much
concerned about the running of the race
just at this time as the preparation for the
end. The text is a striking one. “There
is a way which seemeth right unto a man:
but the end thereof are the ways of
death.” “There is a way that seemeth
right.” I take it that none of us have de-
termined deliberately to be lost. Our
mother’s memory is too sacred and our
father’s example too powerful to permit us
deliberately to choose death instead of life.
We are merely procrastinating. We have
chosen a little more of the world’s pleas-
ure, falsely so-called, and determine to
have a little more of the world’s honor,
and the way seemeth right, for some day
we may be saved, and yet no one has a
certain prospect of salvation if he neglects
Christ to-day, for he has made no provi-
sion for the morrow. The end batlles’ de-
scription. There is weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth, ons present this
outline in order that we may know that
we cannot afford to run the race alone.
I.
The start. Psalm 51: 5, “Behold, I was
shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me.”
This is a Bible statement, but experience
proves the truth of it and history empha-
sizes it in every particular. However men
may rebel against the doctrine of original
sin, and speak of it as an injustice and all
of that, nevertheless, this we know to be
true that we are born with a bias to sin,
and also that if we were to speak honestly
we would say that from the very first it
has been easier for us to do wrong than to
do right. We have been in a great com-
pany in this experience, for even the great
apostle said, “When I would do good evil
is present with me.” I do not for a mo-
ment imagine that we are guilty, any of
us, of great sins, but the existence of little
sins will prove the existence of a sinful
nature.
A famous ruby was offered for sale to
the English Government. The report of
the crown jeweler was that it was the
finest he had ever seen or heard of, bait
that one of the “facets,” one of the little
cuttings of the face, w ghtly fractured.
The result was that that almost invisible
flaw reduced its value by thousands of
pounds, and it was rejected from the re-
galia of England. Again, when Conova
was about to commence his famous statue
death the judgment,
t of the great Napoleon, his keenly observant
eve detected a tiny red line running
through the upper portion of the s lendi
block that at infinite cost had been
fetched from Paros, and he refused to lay
chisel upon it. Once more, in the story of
the early struggles of the elder Herschel,
while he was working out the problem of
gigantic telescopic specula, you will find
that he made scores upon scores before he
got one to satisfy him. A scratch like a
spider thread caused one to be rejected,
although it had cost him weeks of toil. y
II.
The race. Romans 3: 12, “They are all
gone out of the way, they are together be-
come unprofitable; there is none that doeth
ood, no, not one.” If we object to the
first statement, which, nevertheless, ex-
perience proves to be true, we certainly
cannot resist the power of the second
statement, for the apostle writes that we
have all gone away from God. When
there came a time in our lives when it was
possible for us to choose either the right
or the wrong we well remember that the
tendency all along has been to choose the
wrong, or at least to permit it, and when
we remember that it is the wrong in His
judgment that we are responsible for the
message is a solemn one that we have to do
with, who taught the commandments and
made the look of lust idolatry, and the
feeling of murder against a brother mur-
der. There are two ways in which men
might get into heaven; one is the way that
is marked with blood, “And though your
sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as
snow,” and the other is the keeping of the
whole law. If we could do that God will
accept us, but we cannot, and we certainly
know we have not. ‘He that offends in
one point is guilty of all,” not that he has
broken all, but in the single offense he has
broken away from God. But from the
standpoint of the unregenerate man at
least this statement is true, and I speak
now in the language of the unregenerate.
You are not lost because of Adam’s sin,
or an inherited tendency te evil, but
rather because you have rejected Christ
for yourself. Let us imagine a case. You
have consumption, and it has come to you
from a long line of ancestry, and I went to
you and know a cure for consumption,
and if you will but take it you may be
whole again, and I recite to you the in-
stances of hundreds of people who have
been sick and now are well, but you re-
fuse the cure and die, not because you were
a consumptive with an inherited tendency
to this disease, but because you have re-
jected the cure, and men are lost because
they have rejected Christ.
TH.
. The finish. Hebrews 9: 27, “And as 1t
is appointed unto men once to die, but af-
ter this the judgment.”
I never speak the word judgment that I
am not startled, not for myself, and when
I say that I do not mean to exhibit the
spirit that I am holier than thou, but
startled because of the unsaved man who
is in danger of the judgment, for God has
distinctly said concerning the saved,
“There is therefore now no judgment to
them that are in Christ Jesus.” This is a
ersonal matter. No one can appear in
judgment for us. We must stand there for
ourselves, and the thought of the judg-
ment will make us think when everything
else has been banished from our minds.
“All IT know of the future judgment
Or whatsoever it may be,
That to stand alone with my conscience,
Will be judgment enough for me.”
And he will meet his record. It will not
be necessary that the book shall be
opened. The bock of one’s own record
will condemn; that sin of last night which
no one knows but you and God is against
you; that sin in London which no one
dreams of but yourself and your Maker
has made its record, and the things that
we have forgotten are standing against us.
God pity us if we do not make ready for
that day, and we cannot make ready ex-
cept by faith in Christ and we can meet
God. We have sinned against Him, we
have trampled His love under our feet,
we have rejected His Son, and in that day
we shall meet Him and who shall be able
to stand?
TV.
The weighing room. Daniel 5: 27, “Thou
art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.” }
There is a machine in the Bank of Eng-
land that in a very wonderful way sifts
the sovereigns. You could hardly Loins
it. There 1s a whole case of sovereigns
there by the man, who, like an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop
and shovels up these sovereigns that men
have tumbled the one over the other to get
hold of, and he puts them in his machine.
He feeds his mill the same way as the old
farmer feeds his threshing machine, and it
takes hold of the coins and tests them. It
weighs and poises each, throwing the light
ones to one side, and allowing those that
are good and solid and up to the mark fo
flow into another receptacle. It is a mar-
velous bit of human ingenuity, but its
testing qualities are nothing beside the
bar of the judgment of God; nothing to
the final assize, when the dead, small and
great, shall stand before God. You had
better put it right. The Spirit says you
are a happy man if you realize your short-
comings In time and get it covered.
When that day comes He shall weigh
our motives. It is not what we have done
but the motive that prompted the doing,
and He shall test our acts. It is not the
good to others which we have accom-
plished that shall count for us, but that
which has been for His glory; and He
shall seek out our thoughts, and woe be
unto that man whose motives and acts
and thoughts are against Him. “Weighed
and found wanting.” That was a solemn
scene in the Book of Daniel where Bel-
shazzer and his guests forgot the splendor
of the room in which they feasted, the
brilliant lights, the beautiful women, the
sweet music and see only the fingers of a
man’s hands writing on the plaster of the
wall, “Weighed and found wanting,” and
a more striking scene than that shall be
our experience if we neglect Christ.
The settling day. Mark 8: 36, “For what
shall it profit a man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul.” It is
a possible thing for one to almost win the
world. We can have its music and its art
and its honor and its pleasure, and in a
sense its wealth, but what shall it profit us.
A great Illinois farmer who years ago
took Mr. Moody over his farm said to him
with pride, “All this is mine, Mr. Moody,”
and then took him to the cupola of his
house and showed him the extent of his
possessions. He pointed out the land
fence in the distance, and the lake in an-
other direction, and the grove in still an-
other direction, and said, “All this is
mine,” and Mr. Moody said, “It is a great
farm, but how much have you up yon-
der?” pointing heavenward. “‘Alas,” said
the man, “I have been so busy here that I
have made no provision for the country
there.”
In one of Tolstoi’s books there is an illus-
tration of that part of Russia where it is
said in the story a Russian peasant can
have all the territory he can measure out
from sunrise to sunset, and "l'olstoi tells
of a peasant who started in the mornin
at the break of day and ran with all ond
to mark out his possessions. He sees the
waving trees in the distance and deter-
mines they shall be his, and the lake be-
yond him, and he says that shall be mine,
and the splendid plain, and runs to take it
in, and lifts his eyes to find that the sun
18 beyond the meridian. Then he bends
every energy to reach the starting point,
and just as the sun goes down he reaches
it, falls upon his face from sheer weakness,
and the land is all his, but Tolstoi says
they stooped down to pick him up and he *¢
is dead. He has gained it all and lost his
soul. This is a picture of many a man
striving for honor and for pleasure and for
power. What shall it all profit in that
great day?