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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELCQUENT DISCOURSE cNTITLED
“LIVE IN THE SUNSHINE."
The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Says
Faith Produces Men, and Their Living
in the World is Contending For the
Faith—Keeping in the Love of God.
NEw Yorg Crty.—The following ser-
mon, entitled “Live in the Sunshine,” has
been furnished for publication by the dis-
tinguished and eloquent evangelist, the
Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. It was
preached from the text “Keep yourselves
in the love of God.” Jude 21.
Jude's is cne of the briefest of all the
letters in the New Testament, containing
only twenty-five verses. It is. perhaps, the
last of the epistles. Theugh the'date is not
definitely settled, it was probably written
after the destruction of Jerusalem, when
most of the apostles had finished their
work. There is a most delightful ‘spirit of
humility in the letter. The writer called
himself a servant, and the bondsman of
Jesus Christ and the brother of James, and
that is a beautiful modesty, for, in fact,
it ‘is generally believed that he was the
Loord’s own Brother and the son of Joseph
and Mary.
To no particular church or people was
the letter written, but the accounts make
it especially applicable to us. It is very
practical. The heart of Jude was stirred
because certain men were denying God
and the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, be-
cause of this, “I exhort you that you
should contend earnestly for the faith once
delivered to the saints.” That expression
in the Greek, howeveg, reads for the faith
delivered “once and for all” to the saints.
No the doctrine is the same to-day as in
the days of Jude and before then. Read:
ing on to the twentieth and twenty-fifth
verses they indicate that we are expected
to contend as did the, early disciples.
It has always seemed to me that faith
produced men, and their living in the
world was a centending for the faith. We
have the pattern of the life of -the apos-
tolic Christian given to us. If you study
the Acts of the Apostle, the letters of Paul,
Peter, John, and. better still, the wonder-
ful prayer of Christ in the seventeenth
chapter of John, you will see that there
were three great elements in their char-
acter. They, were in the world. but not of
it; they were constantly looking for the
coming of Christ, and they were filled
with missionary fire and zeal. These three
«characteristics must predominate now if
the church is to have power. When one
is in the world and not of it he realizes
he is a pilgrim and a stranger here, and he
endures trials and temptations because he
knows that they are but for a little while.
The second characteristic has just as great
an influence. The disciples were constant-
ly expecting the return of our Lord; they
remembered the testimony of the men who
had heard the angels on the slopes of Oli-
vet, and again and again they opened their
eyes, expecting to ‘behold Him face to face.
It was this hope in their hearts which in-
‘spired their lives, transfigured the cross
and its shame and kept them pure in the
midst of all temptation and sin.
The third characteristic is equally im-
portant. How much we need to long for
the salvation of others! Nothing so
touches the hidden springs of the Christian
heart as to feel in some measure that he is
responsible for those about him. Some one
has said, when God would draw out all the
~ fathomless love of a woman’s heart, He
lays a helpless babe upon her bosom, and
it is true that the church will awake to
‘power when she awakes to responsibility.
There is something which I have in mind
“which will give us all the things I have
spoken about. It is described in the text. |
Ii thers could be any snbject ‘growing out
«of the text to describe it, I should say that
it would be “Live in the sunshine.”
know what the sunshine does for the
-clouds; it gives them a silver lining. I
know what it does for the grass-and the
trees and the flowers; it warms and nour-
‘ishes until they blossom into beauty and
fruitfulness. = Take the plant’ away from
the light and it will droop and die; place
“it where the sun will kiss it and every leaf
rejoices. This is the very poorest illustra-
tion as to what the love of God will do for
us, so let us keep ourselves in the love of
oda.
I. That word “keep” is the key word of
“-Jude’s epistle. In it we are told that God
will keep us. but we are also told to keep
ourselves. We are told to persevere, but
it is also said we will be preserved. This
is Ged and man working together, and it is
singular, to say the least, that the word
“preserve” and the word “persevere” are
composed of exactly the same letters. The
literal rendering of the expression that
“God will keep us is “as in a garrison.” Ilow
secure, then, we must be!
HOW MAY WE KEEP QURSELVES IN
THE LOVE OF GOD?
1. No way so efficient as by prayer.
“There are different kinds of prayer. Jacob
prayed when he met the angel of Jabbok,
and had his name changed from Jacob to
Israel. Moses prayed when he plead with
God to look with favor again upon His
chosen people. Christ prayed in the gar-
«den, for it 1s said: “Being in an agony, He
prayed more earnestly.” But this is not
the kind of prayer I have in mind; it is
rather the kind that Christ offered when
He was alone on the mountain with God.
1 imagine the Father talked with Him
more than He with the Father. It is the
kind that David describes when he says:
“My meditation of Him shall be sweet.”
Iaith is the eye with which we can see
«God, and meditation the wing with which
we fly to Him. It is the kind of prayer
offered when the suppliant feels that he is
the only one in all the universe; it is the
kind of prayer which if our mother could
hear, or the dearest friend we had on
earth, we should feel that it had been di-
verted and had not reached God. It is the
kind of prayer we offer when we let God 1
talk to us as well as talk to Him. This will
keep us in the love of God.
- 2. Few things will so help as this old
book, the Bible. Two gentlemen were rid-
ing together, and when they were about
to separate ene asked the other, “Do you
<ver read your Bible?” “Yes,” said his
friend; “I do, but I receive no bencfit be-
cause I feel that I do not love God.”
“Neither did 1.” replied the other, ‘but
God loved me,” and that answer fairly
lifted the man into the skies, for it gave
him a new theught. The question is not
at all as to how much I love God, but
rather as to how much God loves me.
Read the Bible in that way and it will help
you to live in the text.
Love dictated every word, love selected
every sentence, love presented every prov-
idence, love sent Christ to die upon the
«cross, and you can not read it in this way
without” keeping yourself in, the love of
God. :
3. All the means of grace will keep us,
‘but if there is one above another it would
be the Lord’s Supper. The very coming
to the table and taking that which repre-
sents His body and His blood really Fee
‘the soul into such a condition that it is one
with Christ. He that hath seen Christ
hath veen the Father, and he that is in
Christ is in the Father. What better way
could there be of entereing into His love?
There must be emphasis upon the
preposition “in.” The Greek signifies the
«losest connection, the most intimate asso-
<iation and the most perfect communion.
All these things are possible. ‘The soul of
Jonathan was knit to the soul of David,
and there may be just as close a fellowship
between Christ and His: followers... Now
and ‘then in this world we find persons
whose lives are so blended that they al-
most 'ook alike. This is oftentimes true
of the husband and wife. Tennyson had
it in his mind when he said: “In the long
years liker must they grow.” This commu-
nion of the believer with Christ is suggest-
cd by the stones in a building, which take
hold upon the foundation; by the branches
which take hold upon the vine; by the dif-
.
ferent members of the body knit together;
by the union of the husband and wife; by
the union of the Father and the Son; so
that in this union there is a stability, vi-
tality, consciousness, affection and perfect
harmony. If one is in Christ, he will live
above the world and the storm’s effect.
The earth may be covered with storms,
but a little way up the atmosphere is clear
and the sun in shining. If we wait upon
the Lord we shall renew our strength; we
shall mount with wings as eagles.
THE LOVE OF GOD.
IIT. Would that we might understand
the meaning of the expression “the love of
God.” It is hinted at in this world. Pass-
ing along the streets one hears the words
of a song or catches the strains of a piece
of music being ‘played, and he says, “that
is from Beethoven or Mozart. I recognize
the movement.” Se in this life we catch
strains of the love of God. We behold it
in the mother’s disinterested, self-denying
‘love; we see it in the Jover’s glow, and. in
the little child’s innocent affection. but
these things are only hints. The Bible
gives us the best revelation. Beginning
with Genesis the scroll is constantly un-
folding. Patriarchs and prophets. judges
and kings each tell their story. So, little
by littie we get flashes out of His great
heart until they all come together as the
rays of the sun are converged in the sun-
glass; then we begin to understand. It
was not, however, until the Son of Right-
eousness arose at the advent that there
came the morning light which gives us the
thought. not of the administration of God,
but of His heart. What is infinite love?
The purest, sweetest, tenderest thing
known on earth is the overhanging heart
of a mother over the cradle that contains
her babe that can give nothing back: re-
ceiving everything and returning nothing
—vyet the love of the mother is but a drop
in the ocean when compared with the love
of God. It is infinite, infinite!
There’s a wideness in God's mercy
Like the wideness of the sea;
There's a kindness in His justice,
Which is more than liberty.
Tor the love of God is broader
Than the measure of man’s mina,
And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.
Over in England .an archdeacon, having
reached almost the end of his life, had his
home so constructed that he could spend
his closing days in sunshine. In the morn-
ing they placed his chair so that he could
turn his face toward the east and see the
rising sun; at noontime they wheeled his
chair into the south window, where he
could behold the sun in his meridian, but
in the evening hours they would place
him in the west window, where he could
behold the king of day sinking behind the
distant hills. So let me ask you in the
morning of your life to keep your faces to-
ward the east window, and at noontide
live in the south window, but when even:
ing comes turn your face toward the west
window, so that all your jonrney through
you may live in the sunshine, and thus
keep yourselves in the love of God,
The Right View of Life.
If we could restrain our often too-ready
tongues and fiery tempers until the storms
of human, every-hour and every-day trials
pass over, what shadows we would arise
through!-—aye, smiling, as we saw them
vanishing into the distant nothingness of
oblivion. If weecould but reason calmly
and patiently and resolutely with our-
selves, as we betimes must bear the foot-
bruises - along life's rugged pathway, and
bathe them in His heavenly dew of hope
until even the scars leave not a vestige of
their existence as we gaze upon them
again with the solacing eves of eternal
| faith; if we could only train our human
ears to listen to the tolls of sorrow that re-
bound upon them as ye perforce must of-
ten see the heavy clouds falling"upon some:
beloved -breast; if we could only train our
hearts to thrill with the ecstacy of ‘a higher
trust and a supremer love instead of mor:
bid human despair when some mortal eye,
some hand. some voice in which we Jeinly
trusted. oh! so fondly. desecrates the ped-
estal of loyal friendship and honor upon
which our love elected their endurance,
had turned to mock us, or thrown us help-
lessly aside, or traduced us by calumny or
distrustful suspicions. Ah, ves! if we only
could do these things how different would
our lives seem in their passing. But we
must only try, remembering our Saviour’s
heavy heart and cross-wearied shoulders,
and His bleeding feet on the lonely road to
Calvary. He also had to reach the immor-
tal goal of peace through life’s bitterest
shadows. He smiled angelically at His en-
emies, and to-day He turns—oh! we know
not how often—to blot out the sins of His
wandering human fold as they crv out to
Him for mercy below.—Christian Work.
The Father’s Hand.
Nor is the sense of safety all that is
awakened in the memory of a’ father’s
hand. It tells also of guidance and com-
paniouship. Not only in stormy evenings
was the large hand reached down to clasp
the little one. But memory is filled with
pleasant outlines and beauties of the coun-
try, always guided by the father’s hand.
The hand of father came to mean so much,
both of pleasure and. comfort, that the
phrase is never seen or used but a sacred
tenderness steals into the heart. All this
and much more the Heavenly Father is to
His children. We reserve our thoughts of
the Father too frequently to the days of
stress and grief, and forget it is the Father
who gives the joys and pleasures, too. We
think so much of the pitying Father, and
imagine falsely that His care is confined
to circumstances that call for pity. His
hand is a bountiful hand, filled with pleas-
ures. “The way is dark; my Father takes
my hand,” is often upon our lips, but just
as true and far more frequently the path
has many flowers, all planted by one hand,
life has many gifts all planted by one hand,
the days are crowded with joys all show-
cred from one hand. And this hand is
“my Father’s hand.”—Episcopal Recorder.
Lack of ITome Fecling,
“More of the evil in the world than we
often think for can be traced back to the
lack of home feeling in childhood days,”
says the Watchman, of Boston. “Where
that does not exist, the young man or
woman loses the invaluable consciousness
oi the solidarity of the family. They come
to feel that they stand only for them-
selves, that they need not consult the in-
terest of others, and they miss that happy
restraint of affection for those with whom
God united them in the closest of ties. In
spite of all that is said about the misdoings
of the children of devout parents, we be-
lieve that it will be found almost univer-
sally true that the children of happy Chris-
tian homes turn out well. They have a
special guard in their hearts against the
seductions of evil. They do not sin against
the home, and the memory of their own
happy households weaves an ideal of the
homes they desire to build, which keeps
them brave and pure and human.”
When Prayer is Needed.
Tt is well to let our spirit of prayer find
expression according to God’s grace and
our needs. It is said that “when a Breton
sailor puts to sea his prayer is, ‘Keep me,
my God; my at is so small, and the
ocean is so wide.””” We need (God’s loving
care at all times, and no place or degree of
danger is beyond the limit of His ability
or readiness to give protection.—Sunday-
School Times.
Keep Up Spiritual Tone.
Cease to live in the atmosphere of your
sin, by which I mean that you must see to
it that your mind is occupied by thoughts
as far removed as possible from those in
which your temptation can take root. It is
a great mistake to loiter around a sin to
which one’s nature is prone. Your moral
strength will depend upon your spiritual
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tone.—R. J. Campbel .
The Waistband.
Soft silk encircles most of the slen-
der waists of today; it is superseding
the stiff waistband, and is inimical to
the straight-front corsets. The soft
cinctures display the most beautiful’
buttons and buckles, and many pretty
ornaments dangle therefrom, for the
chatelaine is by no means banished.
The new waistbands require a great
deal of fitting on, and a certain
amount of trimness.
The Golf Girdle.
The ‘golf girdle is much worn by
girls who are often seen upon the
links. It is the easiest low-cut stay
upon the market, just the comfortable
support one requires and which does
not interfere with free movements
of the body. No golfer can drive a
“long-distance” shot if her arms are
pinioned down by oppressively tight
clothing. You must be able to raise
your arm suddenly and high above
your head to achieve any reasonably
respectable score in golfing.
Card Case of Lace.
Lace card cases represent the height
of luxury and elaborateness, and their
appearance is due to the prevailing
fancy for lace both for garniture and
entire dresses. * An ingenious jeweler
has introduced a lace purse and card
case combined that is a model of
daintiness. The case is made from the
richest of white silk, the corners
rounded with gold and the silk veiled
in fine black chantilly, Another de-
sign is of black silk overlaid with
white duchesse lace. Tints harmoniz-
ing with certain costumes may be se-
lected for these exquisite coin and
card receptacles and veiled in white
or black lace, at the whim of the pur-
chaser.
Worn on the Wrist.
‘White satin fitted with sterling sil-
ver trimming, and wrist chain, and
embroidered in seed pearls, in a small
running pattern rather resembling
true lovers’ knots, is the bridal com-
bination that goes to make up one of
the very handsomest of the “wrist
bag’ novelties. Black moire, with
gold cla®ps and ball link chain, is used
for dressy .afternoon wear to hold
cards and handkerchief, as well as
money. Other bags are of the flowered
pompadour silks, with a background
of ‘white, pale blue, old rose and Nile
.green, with rosebuds
massed in bouquets or scattered over
the surface. The shape is still oblong, -
rather larger than the ones used .in
early spring, although many square
ones are shown, on
Hats of Long Ago.
Again the beaver hat is a part of the
feminine world. Its great popularity
years ago came from the fact that it
ever made a fitting frame for a lovely
face. The same is as true today as in
cur grandmama’s time. The big, broad
Aapping brim is becoming to a mature
face as well as a childish one, so the
nats come for little women as well as
grown ones. 3
From pure white fur fine-napped
ones are made for dress hats, but as
they are very expensive they are not
likely to be commonly worn. For af-
terncon teas and receptions beaverhats
of all light shades are to be had. But
it is the black ones that appe€al to
mothers with little daughters who are
stil] in the schoolroom. With a single
bow this hat is considered sufficiently
trimmed,
A Beauty Secret.
The beauty of freshness, though not
of feature, may be secured by any
healthy woman, and it is certainly
worth striving for. To secure a nice
clear complexion, bathe =night and
morning, using warm water and a
good soan, which must be thoroughly
rinsed off before drying. IZat in mod-
eration, avoiding all indigestible foods-
strong tea, coffee and alcohol. Keep
as cherry and amiable as possible, for
nothing causes uglier lines in the face
than depression and ill temper.
When washing the hands, rub them
over with a bit of lemon, for the juice
has a cleansing and softening effect
pon the skin. Lemon juice, diluted
with an equal quantity of water, is
sometimes used to remove freckles,
but for many people this remedy
weuld be too drastic, and would cause
a rash all over the face,
Pretty Neckwear for Women.
The collar often makes the success
of the gown. If it suggests the per-
sonality of the wearer, harmonizes
with the whole effect, and has that cor-
rect dash of color which blends with
the eyes and brings out the best tints
of the complexion, then half the battle
is won. This.is the season of exception-
ally pretty effects in neckwear, and
the charming possibilities of a bit of
lace at the threat are even more em-
phasized than ever. The newest stock
and bow give the girl who is skilful
with her needie the chance to make
for herself a bit of neckwear which
will lend a distinctive, smart look to
any gown with which it is worn. It is
of lace hand-embroidered in colored
tionalized fleur-de-lis worked. in diffar-
conventional patterns in bold relief
give the best effect, A lace of a
creamy tint should be used, but one
and . violets,
_ Queen made a sign to him which he
Lh and dashed. across the railway, not
p smartest of the new fabrics.
an artistic design. Clusters of cher-|
ries and leaves, with the best fruit
embroidered in different tints of red,
look especially smart on the ends of a
creamy lace bow. If a smaller, less
pronounced design is preferred, pink
"roschuds scattered over the lace, or
sprays of forget-me-nots, would be
dainty and fetching.—Woman’s Home
Companion.
Secret of Woman’s Charm.
Some women are as harmonious as
sweet music. "We cannct analyze the
secret of their charm, we can only won-
der what makes them so charming?
Not one gift, but a hundred, makes a
woman irresistible! One might write
volumes about the sense of touch; a.
limp, weak hand gives us a disagree-
able sensation, but the quick, thrill
ing pressure of a sympathetic hand,
lingers in our memory for years. I
have known a woman whose touch was
so magnetic that it was life-giving to
feel her hands in times of illness. :
Unselfishness is the first step to-
ward being charming. The selfish wom-
an, no matter how beautiful she may
be, never has a long reign. Man is by
‘education, as well as by instinct, an
egetist, and little inclined to love a
woman whose self is her god. He is
often (as the cleverest of men are) an
overgrown boy. He wants to be looked
after and loved. He is craving to tell
come sympathetic feminine soul that
his scap bubbles have hurst, and
metaphorically speaking, he wants to
lay his head on a kindly shoulder, and
let the Lethe sweep over the battle
and the strife—to forget, and be a child
—a pure, white-souled child again for
a brief space of seconds. Therefore
the woman who would be charming
must be kind and full of that divine
maternal instinct that makes erring
mortals do homage at her shrine.
—New York News.
A Queen’s Daring.
The talk about the Queen of the
Belgians’ memoirs is all stuff and
nonsense. Marie Henriette kept a
diary, but not regularly. She jotted
down merely for the purpose of re-
freshing her memory in after-time, and
always in the baldest and dryest man-
ner. All her mental energy ran into
music, in which she attained high con-
noisseurship, and into horsy affairs.
She was not a writer, and never knew
what the writing impulse is. In a cir-
cus she would have been the right
woman in the right place. I think, as
I ‘write, of her daring drives in her
pony phaeton across the railway near
Laaeken. She generally timed her
crossing for the closing of the gate
across the high road. When the man
at the station came out to shut out
the public because a train coming at
full “speed had been signalled, the
understood. She then gave whip and
.rein to her four cream-colored ponies,
much too -_soon - to escape being
crushed: by -the train. When on the
other side she was pale as death, but
thrilling, ‘The man at the station had
become too accustomed to this oft-re-
,newed feat'of the Queen to feel uneasy
about it. But ‘when new to the place
his heart almost ceased to beat as he
eaw her and the team fly across the
railroad while an express seemed al-
most to thunder down on them. She
never took any of her children or an
‘attendant in the phaeton when about
to dare death as I have described.—
Paris Correspondence Eondon Truth.
J FASHioN
Embroidered hop sack is one of the
Melange zibeline is a combination
favored by fashion this season.
Dainty figured selvages on the thin
wool fabrics make smart trimmings.
All the modish sleeves show big,
baggy effects between the elbow and
wrist.
A smart little blouse for house
wear is made up in ivory white vel-
veteen.
Novel in brooch pins is a rather
large sized frog of green enamel with
diamond eyes.
Stitched corduroy hats for the wee
ones have long streamers of ribbon in
the back the color of the hat.
Velvet shirred in narrow bands and
appliqued in scroll paterns is a novel
trimming on one smart costume.
The box coats of velour with fur
collars are quite the prettiest of the
not too heavy—antique lace, point Ven. |
ise or guipure would answer.
Conven-
tionalized fleur-de-lis worked in differ- |
ent shades of purple and green make
| idea can be successfully carried out,
4
ioose and flowing coats of the sea-
son.
Aprong are modish, and pretty house
aprons are made of blue, red or gray
chambray with bibs and bretelles of
embroidery.
Jasper gray is a pure gray—that is,
a mixture of black and white without
a thread of any other color. It may
be light or dark.
An almost white blue is one of the
smartest effects noted among some ex-
ceedingly handsome light-tinted long
cloth cloaks for evening wear.
A ‘plain white net gown strapped
lengthwise with narrow ribbon in
pompadour colorings makes a dainty
evening gown for a young girl.
White, putty-gray, extremely light
blue, various shades of tobacco brown
and very attractive shades of claret
red and garnet are the favorites of
Dame Fashion this season.
Wear brown suits; there is no more
effective = costume than a complete
study in this color. from the crown of
‘e hat to the feet. With the excep:
tion of black and white, brown is
about the only color in which this
‘ed. but the senators have an
THE PRESIDENTS POWER
WHAT ROOSEVELT,WHEN COVERNOR,
‘WROTE ON HIS OFFICE.
The Great Power of the President and
His Tremendous Influence — Compares
Him With Heads of Other Nations—
Mistakes He May Possibly Make,
In its issue of November 6 the
Youth’s Companion published an arti-
cle upon “The Presidency” by Theo-
dore Roosevelt. The editor in a note
says that the article was written by
Mr. Roosevelt in 1900 while he was
governor of New York and previous
to the Republican National convention
which nominated him for vice-presi-
dent.
“The views expressed in the article
are, therefore,” says thé editor, “those
of an outside observer, and are not
to be regarded as those of an incum-
bent of the office. It will be clear to all
readers that the writer of the article
could not have foreseen the place he
was destined to occupy before its pub-
lication.”
Mr. Roosevelt says in part:
“The president of the United States
occupies a position of peculiar impor-
tance. In the whole world there is no
other ruler, certainly no other ruler
under free institutions, whose power
compares with his. Of course, a des-
potic king has even more, but no con-
stitutional monarch has as much. In
the republics of France and Switzer-
land the president is not a very im-
portant officer, at least, compared with
the president of the United States.
“In kingland the sovereign has much
less control in shaping the policy of the
nation, the prime minister occupying
a position more nearly analogous to
that of our president. The prime min-
ister, however, can at any time be
thrown out of office by an adverse vote,
while the president can only be re-
moved before his term is out for some
extraordinary crime or misdemeanor
against the nation.
“Of course, in the case of each there
is the enormous personal factor of the
incumbent himself to be considered en-
tirely apart from the power of the
office itself. The power wielded by
Andrew Jackson was out of all propor-
tion to that wielded by Buchanan, al-
though in theory each was alike. So a
strong president may exert infinitely
more influence than a weak prime min-
ister, or vice versa. But this is merely
another way of stating that in any of-
fice the personal equation is always
of vital consequence.
“The president and congress are mu-
tually necessary to one another in mat-
ters of legislation, and the president
and the senate are mutually necessary
in matters of appointment. Every now
and then men who understand our con-
stitution but imperfectly raise an out-
cry against the president for consulting
the senators in matters of appoint-
ment and even talk about the senators
‘ursurping’ his functions. These men
labor under a misapprehension.
“The senate has no right to dictate
to the president who shall be appoirn:t-
entire
right to say who shall not be appointed
for under the constitution this has
been made their duty. In practice,
under our party system, it has come
to be recognized that each senator has
a special right to be consulted about
the appointments in his own state, if
he is of .the president’s political party.
“Often the opponents of the senator
in his state do not agree with him in
the matter of appointments, and some-
times the president in the exercise of
his judgment finds it right and desir-
able to disregard the senator. But the
president and the senators must work
together if they desire to secure the
best results. :
“But although many men must share
with the president the responsibility
for different individual actions, and al-
though congress must, of course, also
very largely be a factor in his useful-
ness, yet the fact remains that in his
hands is infinitely more power than
in the hands of any other man in our
country during the time that he holds
the office; that there is upon him al-
ways a heavy burden of responsibility,
and that in certain crises this burden
may iecome so great as to bear down
any but the strongest and bravest man.
“It is easy enough to give a bad ad-
ministration, but to give a good admin-
istration demands the most anxious
thought, the most wearing endeavor,
no less than very unusual powers of
mind. The chances for error are lim-
itless, and in minor matters, where
from the nature of the case it is ab-
solutely inevitable that the president
should rely upon the judgment of oth-
ers, it is certain that under the best
presidents some errors will be com-
mitted.
“The severest critics of a president's
policy are apt to be, not those who
know most about what is to be done
and the limitations under which it
must be done, but those who know
least. In the aggregate quite as much
wrong is committed by improper de-
nunciation of public servants who do
well as by failure to attack those who
do il.
“There is every reason why the
president, whoever he may be and to
whatever party he may belong, should
be held to a sharp accountability alike
for what he does and for what he
leaves undone. But we injure ourselves
and the nation if we fail to treat with
proper respect the man, whetner he is
politically opposed to us or not, who,
in the highest office in our land, is
striving to do his duty according to the
strength that is in him.”
“We have had presidents who have
acted very weakly or unwisely in par-
ticular crises. We have had presidents,
the sum of whose work has not been
to the advantage of the republic. But
we have never had one concerning
whose personal dignity there was so
much as a shadow of a suspicion, or
who has not been animated by an ear-
nest desire to do the best possible work
that ae could for the people at large.
“Of course infirmity of purpose or
wrong-headedness may mar this integ-
rity and sincerity of intention, but the
integrity and the good intentions have
always existed. We have never hitherto
had in the presidential chair any man
who did not sincerely desire to bene-
fit the people and whose own personal
ambitions were not entirely honorable,
although as much cannot be said for
certain aspirants for the place, such
as Aaron Burr. :
“Corruption, in the gross sense in
which the word is used in ordinary
conversation, has been absolutely un-
known among our presidents, and has
been exceedingly rare in our presidents’
cabinets. Inefficiency, whether due to
lack of will power, sheer deficiency in
wisdom or improper yielding either
to the pressure of politicians or to
the other kinds of pressure, which must
often be found even in a free democ-
racy, has been far less uncommon. Of
deliberate moral obliquity there has
been but very little indeed.
“During the president's actual in-
cumbency of his office the tendency is
perhaps to exaggerate not only his vir-
tues but his faults. When he goes cut
he is simply one of the ordinary citi-
zens, and perhaps for a time the im-
pertance of the role he has played is
not recognized. True perspective is
rarely gained until years have gone by.
“Altogether there are few harder
tasks than that of filling well and ably
the office of president of the United
States. The labor is immense, the
ceaseless worry and harassing anxiety
are beyond description.”
CALIFORNIA DESERTS.
They Are Being Made Extremely Pro-
ductive After Lonz Neglect.
It is unsafe to condemn any of the
desert lands of California as worthless
because the surface is barren of vege-
tation. Some of these desert wastes
are proving immensely valuable owing
to their mineral deposits. The barren
lands of Kern county have been found
to cover inexhaustible reservoirs of
crude patroleum, and ground which a
few years ago no one would buy from
the government at 25 cents per acre is
worth at the present time much more
than the richest agricultural land in
the San Joaquin valley. The discov-
ary of gold on the confines of the Mo-
jave desert at Randsburg and on the
edge of the Colorado desert at Hedges
and other points opened new mining
fields of great importance, which have
since added materially to the mineral
productiveness of the state. Copper, bo-
rax, salt and niter are among the min-
eral products which these deserts and
their inhospitable and uninviting en-
vironments are also yielding for the
world’s enrichment. dik
The saline deposits of the California
deserts promise, however, to be the
most valuable of their varied mineral
resources. Death valley figures in the
early annals of California in the role
of Dante’s “Inferno,” and, like the lat-
ter, on its portals was plainly en-
graved: ‘“He who enters here leaves
hope behind.” In later years this
graveyard of emigrants and luckless
mining prospectors who attempted to
cross its parched floor and died of
thirst and the absorption of the moist-
ure in their bodies by the intense heat
and dryness of its atmosphere has
proved to be an inexhaustible source
of mineral wealth. Covering the bot-
tom of the valley are great beds of
borax and the bleak ranges surround-
ing it contain niter deposits, which
are destined to outrank the famous
beds of Chile and Bolivia in product-
iveness and wealth. Added to these
are enormous veins of rock salt and
beds of chlorides capable of supplying
the wants of the world for all time.
The climate of this valley and its en-
vironments has undergone no change,
but its terrors have almost wholly dis-
appeared through the discovery that
nature has made it a great mineral
storehouse. :
Dr. Gilbert E. Bailey's account of the
saline deposits of California, which is
given in a California state mining bu-
reau bulletin, throws new light on the
mineral resources of the deserts. The
known area of the niter beds in these
wastes aggregates 35,000 acres. The
minimum thickness of the surface de-
posits is put at six inches. Rejecting
5000 acres as unworkable, the remain-
der of this saline veneering of the min-
eralized district is estimated to contain
over 22,000,000 tons of a commercial
product. For there are strata in the
formation ranging in thickness from
three to 10 feet, in which the niter is
in places practically pure. These
strata contain, taken as a whole, from
15 to upward of 40 percent of the pre-
cious mineral. Figures fail to express
the aggregate contents of these veins.
Dr. Bailey shows the wonderful sim-
ilarity between these niter deposits
and the Chilean fields, which are now
practically supplying the world and
from which the little republic is draw-
ing enormous revenues. For the past
10 years they have been yielding an
average of over 1,000,000 tons a year,
valued at $35,000,000, in round num-
bers. But as the niter in the Califor
nia deserts is more extensive and the
volume of the mineral infinitely great-
er than in Chile, we may form some
idea of the immense wealth which will
be finally drawn from these wastes
when their mineral deposits are intel-
ligently opened.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Jaw Breaker.
A man with an unusually large
mouth has the habit of opening it on
some occasions very wide.
His dentist the other day adminis-
tered a mild rebuke.
‘Net so wide, please; I prefer to
stand eufside and work.’—Life.
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