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IRRITATING TRIFLES.
It is the little things of life that of-
ten do the most mischief, so that it
behooves one to look out for trifles
and deem nothing unimportant. A
man who was greatly attracted to a
girl and would probably have fallen in
love with her if some little thing had
oot intervened, told one of his intimate
friends, who noticed that his atten-
tions were discontinued, that the lit-
tle habit of laughing at the end of each
remark was the wedge that first start-
ed the “rift within the lovers’ lute”
which, “widening slowly,” made ‘the
music mute,” so far as he was con-
cerned. Almost every one has one or
more little personal habits more or
fess annoying to his associates, of
which, he himself is quite unconscious.
“I do wish Salina X. would not be-
gin to hum a tune in the middle of a
conversation,” said one of-her friends.
“It is very annoying and shows that
she is not paying the least attention
to anything that I am saying. It is
certainly not complimentary, and I
have heard a number of people speak
about it. Some ore really ought to
tell her.”
Unfortunately,
one never will.
however, that some
We ail dislike to be
told of our faults, and the task of cor-
rection is an ungrateful one. There
are other little habits that are even
worse than faults of manner—unpleas-
ant little traits, which develop all un-
consciously, but which are exceeding-
ly dertimental. It is not necessary to
specify the little tricks that jar one's
sensibilities. Ivery one has noticed
such irritating trifies in others, al-
though he himself fecls perfectly sure
that he has no such idiosyncracies.
REDUCING YOUR WEIGHT.
From fashion's standpoint there is
ao more important question just now
before the feminine community than
bow to get thin.
The elongated, almost attenuated,
type of womanhood is now in favor,
with the result that women who do
not match that type are worrying over
the problem of how to reduce their
weight or at least how to keep from
adding to it.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no
foyal road to leanness. \
Systematic, ps ] starvation is a
method that never fails to work, but
few woinen have the courage to under-
go this treatment year in and year out;
and the moment it is stopped two
ounces of flesh, it seems, come hurry-
ing back for every one that was lost.
Strenuous physical culture exercises
will often do the business; but, then,
4s a woman said:
“Life isn’t worth living if one must
give up the greater part of every day
to doing all sorts of hard and uninter-
esting stunts. When I tried it the only
happy time I had was when in bed,
and I used to dread waking up in the
morning because of the hour's hard
gymnastics that awaited me before I
Lould have a mouthful to eat.
“However, I found a simple form of
exercise that has performed wonders
for me, as by the process I have re-
duced myself from 225 pounds to 154
pounds, and for the benefit of other
fiesh-hardened sisters I will disclose
dhe secret:
“Twice a day, morning and night, I
take off my corset, lift my chest as
high &s possible, draw in the abdo-
iaminal muscles and hold myself in that
position as long as I ean without get-
ting too tired.”—Pittsburg Dispatch.
BELIEVE IN YOUR FRIENDS.
Human beings live up to our ideas
of them. If you require much of a
man, the chances are that he will try
to meet that requirement. You pay a
tribute to the manhood or womanhood
of an individual every time you show
belief in him; and since even the low-
est has a spark of bigness in his na-
ture, he cannot but be touched by that
belief, says tlie Woman's Home Com-
panion. It is, if you will, a subtie sort
of flattery to expect goodness and
truth and wisdem from poor human
beings, but it is flattery in the right
direction; it is not selfish; it tends to
aid the flattered, and not the flatterer.
Cynicism and disbelief are, on the
other hand, an invitation to the cow-
ardiy. They are nothing more than a
condonement of wrong. To the man
who expects nothing, nothing will be
realized. Do you care to prove to a
man that you are manly if he sneers
at you for a fool and suspects a dark-
er motive for your goodness? Not so.
But do you not feel bigger and better
and fresher when you have come in
contact with a soul who believes in
the inherent good of the race and of
you as an individual?
The lesson is plain. Not only at-
tempt to reach a higher mark in your
own living, but be one of those cheer-
ful souls who believe in the people
about them. Require of your friends
that they act wisely. Show some trust
in their motives. Believe in their vir-
tue and goodness until you have ob-
solute proof in the other direction. So
will you be giving them a push up the
hill, instead of, like the cynic, contin-
ually dragging them down by the coat-
tails. The cynic may tell you that
you are foolish, he may laugh at your
innocence; ‘never mind, his belief is
no mere philosophy, and it has the
added disadvantage of not being cheer-
ful. Belief is positive, disbelief is
negative, and positiveness is the most
bracing philosophy.
WISDOM IN CONVERSATION.
“Talk about ‘things,’ not ‘people,’ if
you do not care to be considered prov-
incial,” recently advised a well-bred
woman of the world when one much
younger than herself complained to
her that through a careless remark
about another she had been accused
of disloyalty when no such thing was
intended. “It always argues a local
atmosphe.e when one or more women,
assembled for pleasureable pastime,
can find nothing to discuss save some
absent friend or acquaintance.
“Even if the conversation is agree-
able at the beginning, when it contin-
ues any length of time the ‘ifs’ and
the ‘buts’ will creep in, and some fault
or failing of the one CGiscussed is men-
tioned.
“This failing, whatever it may. be,
up to that time has been observed®by
only one pérson, but when the vice
mentioned becomes the knowledge of
the party assembled—and then in time
to as many more,
“If in days aftegward any of the
three or four friends who began the
friendly converse about the absent
one happens to be accused of circulat-
ing the report, which has now assumed
that proportion, they will indignantly
deny the charge, assert that loyalty
again and really feel innocent of what
they are accused.
“Yet they are directly accountable,
through their idle conversation, their
careless indulgence in personalities, of
having probably done a friend a hope-
less injury.
“True, it is more interesting to dis-
cuss people—the people that one knows
best—but if the conversation too con-
tinuously hinges on one person, no mat-
ter how loyal the talkers may think
they are, thiere is ¢ .nger of something
being said that may be misconstrued,
or misunderstood, or perverted in re-
petition.
“It is superfluous aiways to ob-
serve,” ccntinued the wise woman of
worldly experience, “that the woman
who ‘continually criticises, abuses or
ridicules another woman to that de-
gree when it becomes noticeable, that
she injures l.erself far mor than the
object of her dislike. In the case of
the abuse being indulged in before
men, the latter are at once touched
with feeling for the one being roasted,
as they term it, and the general impres-
sion justly entertained by well-bred
men and women is that nothing is so
condemned in woman as her uncharit-
able comments about another.
“These little comments may be direct
or they may be insinuating; they may
even have their effect for the time be-
ing on those who hear them, but in-
variably the woman associates will in
the end be recognized as more ‘sinned
against than sinning,” and the harsh
criticism will always react upon the
one guilty of it.”
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A narrow, hard bed is said to be the
best preventive of bad figures. If one
can also forego pillows, so much the
better.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is said to car-
ry a larger amount of insurance than
any other woman in’ the world. Her
policies amount to more than $1,000,-
No doubt of it that girls of the pres-
ent day have better complexions and
are healthier than their grandmothers
were at their age; but there is room
for improvement yet.
Japanese women are showing an in-
creasing ‘disinclination to wearing Eu-
ropean styles of dress. Many of them
faint away after wearing corsets for
a time. Others see the superior beauty
of their own kimonos.
Headquarters for women's clubs are
to be provided at the St. Louis Expo-
sition. The woman managers of the
fair, of which Mrs. Daniel Manning is
the President, will ask the manage-
ment to provide space outside the wo-
man’s building to accommodate the
large number of associations which
have applied for quarters.
straws
mixed
There are many
among the early hats.
Ruffles of fringed silk or lace on a
net foundation form the boa of the
moment.
Little sleeveless boleros of fine lawn,
done in Irish hand embroidery, are
coming in.
A vest and collar of gold or silver
braid seems the proper finish for all
cloth Doleros.
Rice cloth is a thin, coarse woven
fabric, flecked with little white grains
resembling rice.
Wide straight belts are the newest,
from cords in place of tassels in sev-
eral imported gowns.
The Kind of Man to Marry
By Beatrice Fairfax
RITELY speaking, every girl has an ideal man. Fortunately for her
she seldom marries him.
Her ideal is an impossible person, with noble brow and piercing
eyes, commanding features and dear knows how many other soul-
inspiring attributes. : >
She does not talk much about her ideal, but keeps him buried in
SSS the depths of her heart and slyly compares him to every other man
S59 | she meets to the great disadvantage of the latter.
Then some day along comes Mr. Right and she forgets she ever
Lad an ideal, or if she thinks of him at all, it is only to wonder how she could
ever have admired any other type of man than that represented by Mr. Right.
And now, girls, a word as to this same Mr. Right. In the first place the
fact of a man’s being handsome or plain will not add one atom to your married
happiness.
I remember once hearing an old woman say, “My husband was a very plain
man, but he was a good and kind provider.”
The whole sum of earthly happiness does not, of course, lie in the fact of
being well provided for, but the man who provides well and “kindly” for his
family is pretty sure to be a good husband and father.
The young man who is gentle and tender in his manner toward old people,
children and animals is pretty sure to make a good husband.
Not long ago a person occupying a very high position in this country sent
a request to a young man to walk wiiwu him on a certain afternoon. The re-
quest was an honor and almost a command. The young man wrote courteously
declining the honor, his excuse being that he had made an engagement to
walk with his mother. Not much doubt as to the kind of husband that man
will make.
Do not be dazzled by the man who talks brilliantly and holds the attention
of the entire room: do not be carried away by the exploits of the hero who
makes a brilliant dash on the football field.
Keep your eyes open for the man that is manly and gentle at the same time,
the man who is not ashamed to say that he does not like cocktails, the man who
is earnest and doing his share of the world’s work. When you meet such a
man consider yourself fortunate if he offers you his love. A good man can
pay a woman no greater honor than by asking her to share his life.—New York
Journal.
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The Making of a Soul
By Felix Adler
HE common saying is that man kas a soul. I should like to
amend that by saying that we come into the world with a kind
of phantom-like outline of a soul, a kind of shadow, which
we can cenvert into a soul.
The whole aim and purpose of a man’s life as I look upon
it is to get him a soul—to convert into substantiality that
which is a shadowy outline. In other words, the aim of a
man’s life is to become an individual, ‘a personality, to acquire
distinctive selfhood.
be acquired in two ways, intellectually and morally, and the
This may
work that we do, whether it be in business or as a mechanic or in the higher
vocations, is the means of developing in us a distinctive selfhood. That is the
kind of litany of labor that I would like to chant—that the glory and dignity
of our labor, of our daily task, is to give us a soul. .
This is true intellectually as well as morally, because that to which we give
constant attention is the means of enabling us to master some one little field
of knowledge, to get down to bedrock in something, to gain a footing in reality.
The honest hod carrier, the sailor on his ship, the factory hand, as well as
your priest and your President and your statesman, find in the things they do
every day the chance to become real, to get into contact with reality, and to let
the solidity of reality flow into them. : .
To get hold of things, to really know something, what a happiness that is;
what a sense of stability it gives to a man, not to be a borrower, not to get at
second-hand, but to feel that somewhere we are masters! :
It is the daily task that helps us to do this, if we look upon it rightly. No
one can deal with real things in a thorough-going way without somehow dealing
with them in a unique way. Every man's eyes look upon the world from a
different angle. Every man feels things in a different way, and if he is only
real he will develop distinctiveness. His selfhood will become different from
that of others, though they be engaged on similar tasks. :
It seems a most audacious thing to say, but it is true, that down there in
the counting house, down on the wharf, down there in Nassau street, and not
in the church, is the place where the soul is born. Your daily task is the anvil
on which you beat out your selfhood. .
When this year is done and merchants take stock and calculate their profits
ard losses, let them calculate how much they have gained in mental entire,
how much the problems that have come to them have forced them to put forth
greater mental strength, or how much their experience has depreciated and
lessened their mental power. Let them do the same with regard to character.
They will find that their true profits or losses can Le stated in terms of mind
and character. : :
What sort of a man are you getting to be? That is the question. We ar
always looking at the outward objects—at what we do and get, but the real
question is—what are we cetting to be? . .
Even a philanthropist may be a loser at the end of the year. His losses may
sum up greater than his profits, if he tries to work his philanshrony—as many a
poor fellow does—by base means, by resorting to impreper methods, in order to
3 a e good ends. :
re the service the physician renders, it is not the house the arelitont
builds; it is what the architect becomes himself while he is building it. Fs
great question is—what kind of mind and soul is he building up in himself?
This is my litany of labor.—YVerbatim by the New York Journal sten-
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By Dorothy Dix, ice
The Most Famous Woman umorist in the World
NE of the greatest drawbacks to woman's real advancement is
“the senseless horror she has of being an old maid. Disguise
this as she will, bluff about being a girl bachelor and the joys
of a latchkey as she may, the feeling is there that it is a retiec-
tion upon her attractiveness not to have a husband, and thou-
sands of women annually offer themselves up as sacrifices to
Hymen, just to prove that they ean marry if they want to.
Everybody will admit that a good husband is the best thing
that can happen to a woman, but a bad one is so much the worst
that one of the great problems of the world is how to save the
woman from her folly who is marrying not for love, but to prevent spinster
from being engraved on her tombstone.
Strangeiy encugh, the answer to this enigma comes from China—the very
land that these misguided old maids Lave been calling “heathen,” and in which
they have been supporting missionaries by means of making pincushions and
fiannel petticoats, and knitting fascinators for church bazaars. In China a few
weeks ago a young maiden of high degree had the misfortune to lose her be-
trothed by death just before the wedding, whereupon, feeling that her heart
could never be another's, yet desiring the dignities and perquisites ¢f a matron,
she was solemnly and with great pomp married to a red flower vase.
There, in a nutshell, you have the solution of the whole case of the woman
who marries just to be married. Let her marry a dead thing, instead of a live
thing. Nor is the idea so startling as it appears op its face. Many a woman
discovers after she is married that she has wed a whisky bottle instead of a
man, and would be glad enough to swap it off for any kind of a flower vase.
There are men so full of conceit and vanity that their wives might just as well
have espoused a gas bag in the first place. There are other men so stingy
and so hard to get money out of that they might with advantage to their wives
be cash registers.
The woman whose husband sits up like a graven image all evening will
the paper glued before his eyes would find a wooden Indian just as entertain-
ing. A vinegar cruet might be substituted for many a sour lord and master
without his wife finding it out, while there are millions of men so absorbed in
their business that they are no more company for their wives than a double-
entry ledger.
On the other hand, the advantages of being married to a flower v
band are many and obvious. It would have no bad habits, it would never row
about bills, it would never complain of the cooking, and it would never go out
of nights. True, there would always be the danger that a red flower va :
like a human husband, might get full, or go broke, but these hre
wife is bound to take anyway.
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Acorns of gold and silver dangle :
In a word, if the flower vase idea can be popularized it will give a woman
* ail the privileges and none of the penalties of matrimony, and it is hereby
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A SERMUN FUR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE
REV. A. B. KINSOLVING, D. D.
Subject: Presumptuous Sins—The Com-
monest Sin Among BIen is Sacrificing
the Interests of the Spiritual and Eter-
nal to the Carnal and Temporal.
BroorryN, N. Y.—Dr. Arthur B. Kin-
solving, rector of Christ Church, preached
an excellent sermon Sanday morning, on
Presumptuons Sins.” The two texts
were from Matthew iv: 5 and 6: “Then
the devil taketh him into the holy city
and he set Him on the vinnacle of the
temple, and saith unto Him, if Thou art
the Son of God cast Thyself down, for it
is written, He shall give His angels charge
concerning Thee; and on their hands they
shall bear Taee up, lest hapnly Thou dash
Thy foot azainst a stone. Jesus said unto
him, “Again it is written, thou shalt not
tempt the Lord thy God;” and Psaims
xix: 13: “Keep back Thy servant also
from presumptuous sins; let them not
have dominion over me; then shail I be
upright and innocent from the great trans-
gression.” Dr. Kinsolving said:
In pursuing our purpose of trying to in-
terpret the unfolding life of the Lord Je-
sus and to read its lessons for ourselves,
we preached last Sunday the tempted Je-
sus. We found in the narrative of the
temptation a record of just a mental and
spiritnal struggle as we should have ex-
pected Him to go through at this stage of
His career. It is impossible to suppose
that He could have decided instantaneous-
ly and without long meditation and con-
flict upon the plan of His life as*the ‘“‘sent
of God.” Clearly He had a plan and ad-
hered to it throughout life.
We remarked upon the deep interest
that each one of us has in the moral struc-
gle and victory of Jesus. and how just in
proportion as we are led by the Holy
Spirit to lofty and noble ideals of life, we
are conscious of these subtle earthly lures
which would deflect us from our truest
paths.
We spoke of the fatalistic non-resistance
to temptation so much in vogue nowadays
as something not worth while, because in
a world where the frailty of man is ex-
posed to such overwhelming allurements
of worid, flesh and devil, it is certain be-
forehand that a vast percentage of men
and women will fall. The Maker of men
and not the victims of sin is the most re-
sponsible, so this school teaches, and by
such doctrines the person assailed is in-
duced to yield without a struzgle. Jesus’
conflict and victory teach us that this is
a libel upon God. Throuzh a putting
forth of such strergth as we have,
throngh a prayerful desire to be and do
what is right, our vision is cleared and our
wiils grow strong, and while God can
rever entireiv sheiter us from temptation
He can and does defend us in temptation,
and with every solicitation to wrongdoing
show us the way of escape.
Then we tried to learn the lesson of
hrist’s first temptation. The question
which first confronted Him as our repre-
sentative was the old and ever-pressing
question of daily bread. The tempter pro-
ceeds upon the assumption that all man
needs for his sustenance is food for the
physical life. You have a right to this,
he says, on any terms, and there is nothing
else to be considered by comparison with
this. So make provision for yourself and
the body’s bread first. ‘You are to feed
the hungry; feed first yourself.” ‘If Thou
art the son of God, command that these
stones be made loaves—and then You may
live to exccute Your Father's business.”
The answer of Jesus came from a Man
gaunt and weary by long fasting and days
of conflict. “The physical life is not man’s
only life, and I will not act as if it were.”
He says, “by exempting Myself from pri-
vations which I have come to share with
My brethren. If I am hungry. that lies
within the will of God for Me, and I
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choose hunger in that will, rather than
satisfaction outside of and azainst that
will. I will not hurt or kill My moral or
spiritual life as the filial, dependent and
obedient Child of God by providing on
guilty terms for the feeding of My bodily
life. Yor if, through privation, the bodily
wrapping of life should perish there would
still be left My essential manhood and
My eternal relationship with the Father.
Therefore I choose the obedient and de-
pendent life, and will trust the care and
wisdom of My Father unto the end.”
Jesus there enunciated a philosophy of
life which is as sane as it is lofty and spir-
itual.” Perhaps the commonest sin among
men is sacrificing the interests of the spir-
itual and eternal to the carnal and tem-
poral. All about us they are prone to live
as if man did live by bread alone, and
where this is true they will have bread on
any terms, and getting it becomes the con-
suming passion of life. By choocsing, in-
stead, the hunger that resulted from dwell-
ing in the will of God, rather than the
passing gratification gotten at the price of
disobedience, our Master won for us the
great initial victory over temptation. and
by His spirit and example has been lead
ing millions to victory along the
path cover Since. warm ®TE
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order given in Nf. Matthew ag the natural
g+deci—the point of attack has changed.
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obedience or Christ by af :
His physical ap¥etites and faith in His
Father's care. He had overcome the temp-
tation through the strength of His trust
in God. So now the attack is made upon
Him through that very trust. An un-
swerving loyalty and confidence in the will
of God has been discovered. That loving
trust it was which made Him choose to
suffer the pangs of hunger, rather than
bitrarilv terminate them by a miracle
wrought for Himself. Ah. then, here is
His ength, so near-by there must lurk
His weakness! “Then,” we read, “the
devil taketh Him into the holy city and
setteth Him upon that corner of the wing
of the temple which overlooks from its
dizzy height the priests’ court below,
where the thousands of Jewish pilgrims
have gathered from all over the world.
‘If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself
down.” That will be an ideal and perfect
test of your filial relation and your
Father's care for You. Descend, heaven-
borne, into the midst of pri and people,
win instantly the acc ion and popu-
lar welcome which Y.
conquer by long vears of sufferin;
ure. What worship and honor an
wil be Yours! How quickly You will
at the head of believing Isr: Surely,
there is nothing to fear, for it is written,
‘He shall give His angels charge concern-
ing Thee; and on their hands they shall
bear Thee up, lest, haply, Thou dash Thy
foot against a stone.” ”
The very choice of the location of the
temptation attests the subtlety of the
tempter. He is taken to the Holy City
and to a pinnacle, or wing, of the temple.
Think what must have been Jesus’ sacred
love for Jerusalem and how naturally and
deeply His mind would have been influ-
enced by the surroundings. All the pas-
sionate religious patriotism of His nature,
all His deepest springs of feeling would be
touched by the sacred associations of the
Holy City. ‘Beautiful for elevation, the
joy of the whole earth, the city of the
great king, whither the tribes of the Lord
» go up year by year for worship.” How
precious were its sights: “As the moun-
tains lie around about Jerusalem, so en-
campeth the Lord about them that love
Him HW orget thee, 0, Jerusa-
lem, let my right hand forget its cunning.”
If for a devout Jew there was a spot on
earth which warranted the most unc i
tioned trust, it was the temple of Je
vah in the first capital of the
wor.d. He His soul was
{ vibrating v . sense of trust
ou will else have to
won by overcoming the first temptation,
that the insidious attack is made whose
effort was to betray Him into presump-
tion. All the wonderful past dealing of
God with His covenant people would stand
out in memory; all the wealth of tender-
ness over hopes and promises sorely and
long deferred, and now on the eve of ful-
fillment—a tenderness which afterward
came out in words wet with tears, when
He cried: “Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how
often would I have gathered thy children
tozether as a hen gathereth her brood
under her wings, but ve would not.” It
was in the heart of* His own Jerusalem,
and .rom the summit of His Father’s house
that He was tempted by His cunning and
wily adversary to commit the plausible
sin. Beside the influence of the sacred
place and associations, the voice of the
tempter appealed to something not less
sacred—to the written word of God—as
the guarantee of truth and action. The
devil, too, can quote Scripture to his pur-
pose. “If Thou be the Son of God, cast
Thyself down; for it is written, ‘He shall
give His angels charge concerning Thee,” ””
ete.
First, we must have recourse to the prin-
ciples of sanity and common sense; find
out if what we are tempted to do is in
sincere accord with what God has taught
us generally in His word and in common
sense, and, then decide. For Christ to
have cast Himself from the wing of the
temple into the abyss that yawned below
would have been to tempt God. “We do
not make experiments with those whom
we absolutely trust.” When a man be-
gins by a prayer test, or any like thing, to
make experiments with God, he shows
that he lacks the subtle, spiritual quality
called faith which is the only means by
which he can reach God. Therefore, it iz
the habit of trust to caimiy abide in God
not trifle with or put Him to the test.
As long as Jesus remained within the
sphere of the revealed will of His Father,
He could trust Him. If He should break
or contravene that wiil, then He should
no longer feel He had a right to God's
care. n other words, Jesus Christ, in
His second temptation, flushed with a
victery which must have given an impulse
to faith in the Father's power and suf-
ficiency, declares to us that it is necessary
to have a care for ourselves as well as
commit ourselves into the keeping of God.
Because we are God's children we 1
break the laws of the world to v
belong and expect Him
interfere to prevent the
Contempt for nature and prac
is a wretched policy to begin
life with. Ve live under phy
under moral law, under spiritual
fancy that because we have come
the of the spiritual and
supernatural. we are at libert
the face of known physic
and widely ved moral
error, and for it men are alwa;
in the end. God is the source n
laws and we tempt the I.ord
when we break them. We are
either, “too exclusively or pr
ly” upon the care of God.
practical reason serves us
take counsel of that, recoznizin
and self help, action and patie
in equilibrium” and complete eae
f Jesus, the exceptional and pre-e:
nent object of divine care, had vieldad
this ‘Cast Thyself down.” He adi
have broken away from us. His
who live under moral and phys
and second, He would have x
to feel
even the
< vin
for life environed by natur
guided, fed by it, rartici
bee bject to its I:
Sul
from nature, hostile to it, refusin
tempt God or to break away from o
man lot and world, sh I
and strength of
is prudent,
step limits of a so
vet, when the will of God clearly de
it in the path of duty, it bravely faces
death and dares all hel}!
My friends, the modern sin of pres
tion turns up under many forms. No
appears in the gui f i
p-
wit
se of religious pride,
in the purblind assumption of some cc
stical chariatan uttering with great
swelling words of vanity some oracular
opinion which he claims to be of equa! au-
faonity with the teachings of the Son of
God. it i
the
You have it in the
v7 of Chri
vaticinations of
ian Science with
iteralism and prepos-
! e contempt for the
ical that the system breathes and
breeds, the refusal to give medicines out
of those stores which God has laid up for
us in leaf and plant and flower and min
eral, and which millions of educated men
hate given their lives to make available,
the willingness to cast themselves or a
child over the ipice, claiming the sane
y ptures as their warrant
1g destruction is, in the eves of
most men and women to-day, a sin of pre-
sumption. The s is against the cor-
porate common s race, against
the proportion of th; it discards
trines like the blessed truths of €
deity and atonement,
held by the overwhelr
t
cen
ing majority of the
9 the Christian church in every
he beginning. “It is written,”
“hrist teaches A
_ which have
us to an-
$2, aad “ag b 13 writfen: Thou shalt
not make thé trial of the Lord hy God?
You have it—one hesitates to allude in a
IPI 12.403 yuliar poole too
my of the Myiisi.
: rming expose haa been
Congressional committee during
past week. Not that the Mormon is
the oily adulterer; would God he were
but he 13 the only man now before the
Christian public who claims a new revela.
tion of later and higher authority than
that made tl gh the holy and sinless
Jesus, expressly sanctioning his lustful
creed.
. “I as the chosen of God hav: had a vis-
ion which uproots and supersedes the mor-
ality taught by the Lord Jesus Christ: I
like Mohammed's about the family better
than Christ's, therefore I hear my pref-
erence sanctioned by a voice from heaven
Henceforth my revelation shall .
above the law of the land. C
may have to eomply, but I s
ignore it.” "here ! +s not
modern times a more pestiferous e
of religious hypocrisy and delusion!
when we remen
cent years emissari
0
which suc
made by a
2 )
tne
"i
1p!
And
that repeatediy in re-
ars 2s from Utah have pro-
med tals accursed system here in the
Ilast, chiefly among simple minded rustics
and mountaineers, we realize the sin of
permitting it thus tong.
Lnis country can never endure part
po ygamist and part monogamist.
But, my friends, the capital sin of pre-
sumption is committed nearer at Lome
than this. There is self satistied credulity
which makes men fancy that they can
break all manner of spiritual laws, cast
themselves down all sorts of religious preci-
pices, take all kinds of ri i: the af
fairs of the soul at Sitan’s dictation, and
vet that somehow at the end they will
come out without loss! It is not, too, the
ignorant about God, but those who have
had good opportunity to know Him and
obey Him who fall into this sin.
When any Christian man lets himself
orf easily and airily from a plain duty to
God, or does a sin against light, he nears
the sin of presumption. When a man of
the world deliberately violates the express
will of God, our Saviour, year after ve
relying upon some vague hope of deliver-
ance for which we have no divine warrant
he is approaching the sin of persumption.
Brethren, our safety lies in learning the
periect humility and simplicity of Jes
Curist.
“Keep back Thy servant also, from
sumptuous sins; let them no
1 then 1
from
the great