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THE WORLD’S WONDERS ON DISPLAY
St. Louis Working Night and Day to Be in Readiness
For the Opening of the World’s Fair on Saturday,
April 30th Next..
201% HE first few thousand car-
§ loads of the twenty thou-
oS ns Q sand cars of exhibits that
Su arrive at the World's
QO IFaip in St. Louis within
the next few weeks have been re-
ceived and unloaded. Large forces of
men are employed night and day in
receiving and placing the valuable
products from
world as they
many nations of the
come in. Any one wio
lias .not been over the World's Fair
grounds cannot, with the wildest
stretch of his imagination, realize the
magnificence of this latest and great-
est of Universal Expositions. With
ts thousand buildings spread out over
an area of two square miles, enclosed
by six miles of fence, the great
World's Fair glistens in the sun, and
is the centre of interest to all this part
of the country.
The management has very consid-
orately arranged many of the prin-
cipal, exhibit palaces in a compact
group. While there are more than
twenty-five buidings of. considerable
ize given -up to exhibit purposes, the
ery large buildings are some fifteen
n number; eight of these, the Palace
pf Transportation, Machinery, Elec-
fricity, Varied Industries, Education,
Manufactures, Mines and Metallurgy,
{.iberal Arts, are situated in the north-
2 oo
palaces. Near by are the Government
Fisheries building and sea coast de-
fense guns.
The Palace of Agriculture is the
largest of the Exposition buildings
and stands in the central western
part of the grounds, upon a high ele-
vation. This building covers twenty
acres of ground, the equivalent of a
small farm, and contains many thou-
sands of exhibits, not only from the
States of the United States but from
countries of the world. The Palace
of Horticulture stands directly south
of the Palace of Agriculture and is
400 by 800 feet.
The Palace of Art, composed of four
large pavilions, is one of the most in-
teresting parts of the Fair. The several
buildings contain a total of 135 gal-
leries, filled with the priceless treas-
ures of Europe and America, gathered
with great care by discriminating
committees. As an example of the care
with which these selections were
ma Italy may be taken as an ex-
ample. Some four thousand paintings
were offered, yet only four hundred
could be selected.
buildings of the Palace of
voted entirely to statuary.
One of the four
Art is de-
The Palace of Forestry, Fish and |
Game is in the western part of the |
grounds, covering four acres. The
Bich LO
physical culture exhibits is situated in
the western part of the grounds, and
adjacent to it is the fine large ath-
letic field, with amphitheatre seating
twenty-seven thousand people. Upon
this field the games will take place dur-
ing the summer.
In this hurried glance at the Expost-
tion of 1904, we must not forget that
very interesting quarter, known as the
Pike. This is the amusement street
of the Exposition. The visitor will
certainly open his eyes in amazement
when he sees the array of amusements
spread out for his delectation. It is
a long story in itself, to tell what has
been prepared for his entertainment.
The Pike is considerably more than a
mile long, and upon either side are ar-
ranged about fifty elaborate and ex-
tremely novel shows. Some of them
cover as many as ten or eleven acres
each.
The World's Fair will open on’ Sat-
urday, April 30, with fitting ceremon-
jes. Upon that occasion an anthem
written by Edmund Clarence Stedman
will be sung by :a chorus of six: hun-
dred voices. The musiec—by the om-
inent composer, Professor John? K.
>aine, of Harvard University—as well
as the poem, was written especially
for this occasion upon the invitation
of the Exposition. Frank Vander-
PALACE OF
—— Copyrighted, 1904, by the
MACHINERY.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
a
WORLD'S ITAIR,
COVERS TEN
ACLES,
eastern part of the The
main entrance to the Exposition will
jet the visitor into the centre of this
group. As each building covers from
eight to fifteen acres and contains
several miles of aisles, lined on either
side by most interesting exhibits, the
visitor will see his time slipping away
with a world of things yet remaining
to be seen.
The Government has spent more on
this Exposition than it has ever ex-
pended before. First, it gave $5,000,000
to the general fund of the Exposition,
upon consideration that the city of St.
Louis would raise $10,000,000. This
of course was promptly done. Then,
the Government appropriated nearly
a million and a half more for buildings
and exhibits, and a few weeks ago de-
cided to make a loan of $4,600,000 to
the Exposition in order to have the
elaborate plans carried out to their
completeness. The Government can-
not lose much on this investment at
St. Louis, for the reason that St. Louis
returns in internal revenue taxes for
the Eastern half of Missouri alone,
over $15,000,000 a year.
I wish I might describe the great
beauty of the Government building.
It is 800 feet long and stands on a
4road terrace upon the hillside, over-
tooking the grand group of exhibit
grounds.
new science of forestry has here a
most interesting exemplification.
In the central western part of the
grounds are many of the Foreign Gov-
ernment Pavilions. Some fifty for-
eign nations are taking active part in
the World's Fair, several of them
spending more than a half-million dol-
lars each. These are England, France,
Germany, Brazil, Japan and China.
Japan alone has brought seventy-
eight thousand exhibits.
The displays from the Philippine Isl-
ands form a very attractive feature
of the Exposition. There are some
eighty thousand of these exhibifs ar-
ranged in buildings upon a reserva-
tion of forty acres, lying west of the
Palace of Agriculture,
About thirty acres are given up to
an exhibit of the North American In-
dians, their industries and home life.
A large space is devoted to the aerial
concourse, Here will be held the series
of airship trials and contests, upon
which the Exposition has planned to
expend $200,000. Of this sum, $190,-
000 is to be given as a grand prize to
the aeronaut who will sai! an airship
in the quickest time over a fourteen-
mile course.
The quadrennial Olympic games are
to be held at the World’s Fair this
year. A large building devoted to
director of the Cincinnati Or-
chestra, has written a march, and
Henry K. Hadley, of New York, has
written a waltz, also upon invitation
of the Exposition, for its musical pro-
grams.
The central feature of the
sition, or what is intended to
most beautiful scene in the
grand picture, is made up of Cascade
Gardens, the Colonade of States and
the Hall of Festivals. The gardens
with their cascades and statuary, and
the elaborate architectural features,
are nearly a half a mile from east to
west and represent an expenditure of
one million dollars. It is the most a an:
bitious scheme of formal gardening evar
undertaken at an Exposition, or else-
where. The Festival Hall, 200 feet
in" diameter and 200 feet high, con-
tains the largest organ in the world,
and has a seating capacity for thirty-
five hundred people,
Practically all St. Louis is preparing
stucken,
Expo-
be the
to accommodate World's Fair visi-
tors. The private homes will be open
for the reception of guests throughout
the Exposition. The prices will be from
50c. to $1.50 per day for each person
for rooms. Restaurants are so plenti-
ful that meals may be had in almost
any locality where the visitors may
happen to stop.
RUSSIA'S VICEROY.
Admiral Alexeieft a Master Mind, a Master
will and a Masterful Hand.
E. I. Alexeieff, described
3everidge in his book,
as “a master
a mas-
Admiral
by Senator
“The Russian Ad
mind, a master will, altogether
terful man,” is the subject of
forming article by Charles Johnston,
in Harper's Weekly. Admiral Alex-
aieff has toiled for years at the build-
fing of a new region of Russian influ-
rance,”
an in-
lence, a region nearly as large as the
kombined area of France and Ger-
many, and with a fringe of possible
future acquisitions many times great-
er, only to see the whole of his life
work threatened with dissolution. “In
this lifework,” says Mr. Johnston, “he
has accomplished miracles almost, fac-
ing conditions of great and unexpert-
ed difficulty, amid surroundings alter-
nately picturesque with the glamor of
the East and squalid wi ith intrigue
and physical wretchedness. Through
all these difficulties Admiral Alex-
eieff has acted with constant resolu-
tion, force, rapidity, and constructive
power.
Po en
Youngest Cavalryman of Civil War.
The death of Oscar Arion Frost, at
Ottawa, brings out the claim for him
that he was the youngest cavalryman
enlisied in the Civil War. He went
into the Third Missouri Cavalry at
fourteen years of age, and served
through the war. It cannot be claimed
for Mr. Frost, though, that he was boy-
ish in appearance. At the time of his
enlistment he was six feet tall and
weighed 180 pounds.—Kansas City
Journal,
MUSIC AND ANIMALS.
The Puma is the Most Sensitive to the
Influence of Melody.
Some very curious experiments have
recently been carried out in the Ger-
man Zoological Gardens in order to
ascertain the actual influence of music
upon animals. The instrument was
the violin and Herr Baker was the per-
former,
Of all the animals the puma was the
most sensitive to the musical influ-
ence. His moods changed rapidly, ac-
cording to the nature of the melody,
the animal frequently becoming very
excited and nervous, “just like a
Frenchman,” &s the report s Says.
Leopards were entirely uncone erned,
but the lions appeared to be afraid, al-
though their cubs wanted to dance
when the . .usic became livelier. The
hyenas were very much terrified, but
the monkeys were merely curious and
the monkeys were merly curious.
The experiments are to be continued,
and with a variety of instruments, in
order to distinguish between the men-
tal states which are actually produced
by the music and those which are
merely the resuit of an unusual ex-
perience.—Scientific American.
Interesting.
To hear the music
and also to test solid
solid-silver tablespoon, and tie two
cords of equal length to the handle.
Hold the ends of the cords to each ear,
at the same time closing the ears with
the fingers. Then by a motion of the
body swing the spoon, letting it strike
the back of the chair or like wooden
object. You have no idea what sweet
music you will hear. Try it, and see
—Woman’'s Home Companion.
11
of sweet bells,
silver, Ake a
N-RAYS AND DIGESTION.
This Process Causes Their Emission, as
Does Muscular Activity.
That the processes of digestion, as
well as mental and muscular activity,
seem to cause. .the.emission of N-rays,
is the conclusion reached by M." Liam-
bert, in France, after a series of imter-
esting exper iments He believes that
these curious rays are produced by
ferments, especially by those con-
cerned in the digestion of albuminoid
matter. In his experiments on diges-
tion, says a writer in Harper's Week-
ly, M. Lambert placed a small quantity
of fibrin in tubes containing in one
case activated pancreatic juice, and
in another artificial gastric juice made
by mixing five per cent. solution of
pepsin with a four per cent. solution
of hydrochloric acid. From these
tubes the N-rays were emitted, and
were detected not only by preducing
increased luminescence of a phos-
phorescent sereen, but also photo-
graphically, thus removing the sub-
jective element from the experiment.
As a result of these experiments, M.
Lambert believes that in the course
of digestion the fibrin 'undergbdes
strains hie} act to produce N-rays.
Prosperous Yu
Yucatan simply boils over with pros-
perity. Her railways are paying, her
banks grow fat dividends, and her
nulti-miilionaires are buying the best
there is to be had, whether it be lux-
uries for the family or a first-class
education abroad for their sons.—
Mexican Herald.
A Machiav ellian Maxim.
Whatever is the occasion of another's
advancement is the is own
diminution.—From
cause of h
Pri
the nce.
4
CUT OUT. THE, MAKERIS NAME.
What Happened to Debutante’s Coat Made
‘by Paris Tailor.
It is natural for a. man who is the
possessor. of an expensive hat to dis-.
play it so that the name of the fagh-
ionable hatter may be seen, and as for
the woman who owns an expensive
tailor coat, she can’t remove it without
showing the- distinctive mark of the
maker inside.
A Lincoln woman used to wear a
cloth suit made at a famous New York’
establishment, and. when she took oft
the. jacket in church and. carelessly
turned back the lining over the, back
of the pew, exposing the maker's name
on the'gray satin lining, not a woman.
for. several seats behind could hear @
word of-the sermon. It does not seem
to have occurred to any of these ladies,
however, to cut out the coveted mark.
That is what happened in Omaha. in a
similar case. A young lady had.in her
debut outfit a handsome cloth coat
made by-'a- Paris tailor during her re-
cent visit: to .that- city, the garment
bearing the maker’s name, perhaps one
by three inches, made fast to the lin-
ing. The feelings of this debutante
can be imagined when a few days ago
she ‘discovéged that the tailor’'s mark
had been;cut out of her coat,-and in
such a waysthat it might be attached
to the lining of another garment.
Just when the clipping was done she
is unable to tell, but she had worn the
coat bugéthree times since she last no-
ticed thé ark, and on these occasions
the ,gaPment wis laid off only in the
dressing rooms of her hostesses. The
mark was’ evidently taken by some
member of the set: that attends the
most fashionable and exclusive affairs,
and of course would be valueless to
people in general. — Nebraska State
Journal.
WISE WORDS.
Peace is too big a price to pay for
prosperity.
Gold crosses do
Christians.
To be a man is to have a mis
a message.
The consciousness of wisdom is us-
ually a dream,
There is a deep spring of comfort in
every desert of sorrow,
Actions are the hands on the clock of
the heart.—Ram’s Horn.
Many
an hour
not make golden
sion and
men deliberate at sixty mil
and act at three.
The biggest sins the
which we have no appetite.
es
ones for
are
Why the Japs Are Short.
are the Japanese undersized?
e they don’t use chairs. That
is the answer to the conundrum given
by & rumber of Japanese army sur-
geons and scientific men. Under their
direction careful measurements of sev
eral thousands of soldiers were taken.
and it was found in almost every case
that the shortness of stature is chiefly
due to the shortness of the lower
limbs, Ta2 lcgs are short and stunted,
because almost from the day it is
born the Japanese baby is taught to
i sit on the floor, with its legs doubled
whole
vnder it at the knees. This posture
results in an actual dwarfing of the
legs, and is the main cause of the na-
tional deformity. Among the Japan-
ese coolies, who spend most of their
time in standing up, working, or run-
ning in the. open air, the legs are no-
ticeably . longer than in the more
sedentary classes. It is believed that
the general uze of tables and chairs in
the empire of the mikado would even-
tually result in adding several inches
to the average height of Japanese sol-
diers, which is, at present, five feet
and four inches.—Chicago Tribune.
A Dog’s Fidelity.
Last week a gamekeeper
ITeary Osmond, in the employ of Lord
Falmouth, was fatally shot in a poach-
ing affray at the Tregothnan Woods.
The evidence shows that Osmond
must -have died betwveen €.50 and 7
o'clock on Tuesday ~vening, January
26. . His body was not discovered until
5:0'clock on the following Wednesday
afternoon. All these hours, during
which it rained. pitilessly, a retriever
puppy remdiined immovable by the side
of his dead master and in her: fierce af-
fection ‘would not. allow the search
iparey to touch the bady: At last it
Way secured and fastened to a tree,
at fife. “faithful animal gnawed
itAwoxigh - ; thé#rope- and: returned. to- its
i camer ads Bip: oF the dead. = Hoan;
‘Spec fie : . fo
sd ~ » Matrisge Superstitions.
Tfatrimony is Surrounded with super-
Attias thany of which apply only to
the marriage ceremony. The wedding
rig is ‘made plain and thick only for
the reason that its thickness and plain-
ness secure it against breakage, for to
break it is the very worst of luck for
both bride and groom. White is the
best color to get married in, but a wid-
ow may get married in any color save
yellow. Should a bride drop one of
het gloves woe betide her! She must
exercise great care in getting in and
out of her carriage, and a false step
is an ill omen which brings misfor-
tune.
England’s First Railroad.
|
The traveling on the first railroad in
Engziand was not very comfortable un-
doubtedly. The coaches were at first
only coupled with chains, as wagons
are now, so that they jerked the un-
fortunate passengers nearly off their
seats at starting and clashed violently
against each other when the driver put
on his brake. When fairly in motion,
if the speed was any but the slowest,
the very short wheel base produced a
pitching action so trying that if the
journey had not been a short one it
would have seriously affected the pop-
ularity of the'railway as a means of
passenger transit.
named,
!A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE
REV. DR, HOWARD DUFFIELD,
Subject : “ Footmen and Horses ”’=Every
Man Hears at Times in His Soul a
Resounding Cry Which Beckons Him
to His Highest Destiny.
New York City. — Dr. Howard Duf-
field, pastor of the Old First Presbyterian
Church, Fifth avenue -and Twelfth street.
preached Sunday on “Footmen and
gu rses.” He took his text from Jeremiah
ii:5. Dr. Duffield said:
Tt is healthful for us to test our hopes
to-day as experience shall test them for us
to-morrow. Squarely, individually and im-
mediately let us face the challenge of Jer-
emy, the ptophet: “If thou runnest with
the footmen, and they have wearied thee,
then how canst thou contend with horses?”
Let us first study the pursuit of happi-
ness. The pursuit of happiness is intense
and universal and rightful. The pursuit
of happiness has enlisted the unwearied
energy of the most of men throughout all
time. Pleasure surely cannot be a very
hard problem to solve. Certainly it can be
no difficult thing to win happiness. Brave
and bonny is this pleasure house of an
earth in which we live. Dazzling bright is
this Vanity Fair of a world in which the
lot of mortals is cast. Its booths are most
alluring. Its wares are most seductive;
skillful are its traders, and eager faced its
throngs of ‘buyers. Behold the shimmer-
ing flash of its gems and the rich rustle of
its soft silks! Hearken to the sweet notes
of its music and the golden chink of its
coin! Lend your ear to the rhythmic beat
of its dance and the gladsome rapture of
its revel. Mark the gleam of its flashing
eyes! Heed the spell of its silvery laugh-
ter! The idea that this world is not a
minister of happiness is hermit logic; is
the crabbed fruit of cloistered seclusion; is
the harsh inference of Puritanic prejudice.
The 'n voices of the world are ever
summoning men to a wealth of pleasures—
pleasures of the palate, pleasures of the
passions, pleasures of the intellect. The
blaring trumpets of the world are ever
heralding the triumph of its votaries as
crowned with laurels and clasping the
brimming cup of its satisfaction. one and
another ascends the throne of its dominion.
Very well, point me out the happy ones
Those smile-wreathed lips repress a rising
sigh. Those laughter-lighted eyes but mask
a wearied heart. The glitter is tinsel. The
trappings are fustian. The ornament is
stucco. The mirth is hollow hearted. Do
you not know that those men who have
filled all, of fortune’s coffers are the most
brain wearied and heart burdened of the
children of the earth, in their efiort to fill
one more? Have you never learned that
the man who has climbed the throne is
smitten with heart sickness because there
is some Naboth's vineyard .unpossessed?
Has it never been told you that a man may
wear the jeweled tokens of a king's favor
and yet writhe under the pang of disap-
pointment because some beggar Mordecal
stands in the palace gate? lf not, let me
put in evidence the testimony of competent
witnesses. Listen to that pampered pet © £
fortune, bedecked with the insignia of
English nobility, and standing upon the
pinnacle of earth- given happiness. In the
swiftest swing of “ple asure’s whirlpool, in
of life, upon his thirty-
Lord Byron wrote:
the very hey
sixth birthday.
“My days are in the vellow leaf,
The flowers and fruits of love are gone,
The worm, the canker and the grief
Are mine alone.”
Recall the words of Chesterfield, who
teduced the pursuit of happiness to a fine
art, and had taken every degree in the
freemasonry of human pleasure: “I have
been behind the scenes, 1 have seen all the
coarse pulleys and the dirty ropes which
move the gaudy machinery, and have
smelled the tallow candles which illumin-
ate the hollow decorations to the a astonish-
ment of an ignorant audience.” Listen to
the peevish wail of Heine, that richly
gifted poet, critic and master {ainker w
wrote in his diary: “What lists it 10 me
that at banquets my health is drunk out of
golden goblets and in the best of wine, if
1, myself, separated from all the joy of the
world, can only moisten my lips with the
physician's potion? * What lists it to me
that enthusiastic youths and damsels
crown my marble bust with laurels. when
on my real head a blister is being clapped
by my old sick nurse? What lists it to me
that the roses of Shiraz glow and smell
never so sweetly? Alas, Shiraz is 600 miles
from Rue I’Amsterdam, where I get noth-
ing to smell in the melancholy solitude of
my sick room but the aroma of warm poul-
tices.” Behold the trophies of the world
are wetted with a rain of tears! The re-
verberating plaudits which greet the
world’s suc cesses oniy serve to waken the
wailing echo, “Vanity of vanity, it all is
vanity.’
The works of earth are frail.
lose their fire. The luster of its gold will
tarnish. Its garlands will wither and thei
bloom and fragrance will vanish® away.
What shall that man do who cannot taste
delight in the midst of his pleasures, when
the lights of the revel begin to grow dim,
and sorrow as with a harpy’s hi nd, sweeps
bare the banquet board, and amid" the
gathering shadows the fingers of destiny
begin. to write doom sentences upon the
wall? What is that man to do who cannot
pack a single hour with unalloyed pleasure,
when he crosses the threshold of a long,
long eternity? »‘1ot blink the question.
Meet its thrust fairly :Mlfyou cannot run
with footmen how will you contend with
horses?”
Apply another’ test. There is a deeper
longing in many minds than the thirst for
pleasure. It ds the craving for truth.
There is genuine grandeur in the achieve-
nients of the infeliéct.” The coronet of cul-
Its jewels
4 ture is brighter far than a king's diadem.
The robes, ¢ of mental royalty- are more im-
perial than the mantle of Caesar.
It would’ seem "is though the mind mon-
archs of the present age had realized that
dream of the Hebrew bby<“in the olden
time, when sun and moon and stars bowed
down to do obesiance. It would seem as
though the princely thinkers of the pres-
ent day wore the signet ring of Solomon,
in obedience to which all elemental powers
vield ready response. hey say to the
genii of the electric fluid, “go,” and they
render a ready service. They beckon to
the coal and to the iron, to the silver and
to the gold, and from the secret caverns of
the earth they hasten to do their bidding.
They say to the veriest vapors, “do this,”
and they do it.
Bat, after all, what is the sum total of
human know!e lge? “Behold we know not
anything?” We have mapped a few square
miles of space, and immensities lie around.
We have numbered a few odd centuries of
time, and eternities lie beyond. We have
garnere ed a stray stalk or two from the
mighty harvest fields of fact, and illimit-
abl e sheaves are nodding in the breeze un-
. WW ithin the he r1Zon of observed
we only know how things appear to
not what things are. We know
where the light dwelleth, but onl
certain light rays affect us. We
teil what atmosph is, we have only
covered some of the offiges which atmos-
phere renders us. Our vaunted knowledge
largely consists of shrewd guesses concer n-
Ing surface appearances. The last
of culture is the coronation of
Its proudest achievement is fix
its of thought. The most sinewy brain
cannot scale those adamantine barriers
that convert reason’s highway into a *‘no
thoroughfare.” There are nuts of fac
which the st toutest blows of the hammer-
h of human knowledge fail to :
e are Gordian knots of thouzht
turn the edge of the most finely te
lade of human rese .
Nineteenth century intellect,
3
tae
result |
nescience. | !
1g the lim-
E and low and dar
—
mind, in that age when mind touches the
meridian is not able to tell the story of the
little lichen that clings to the stone in the
wall, “root and all and all in all.” How,
then, shall human wisdom answer for me
those awful questionings concerning origin
and duty and destiny which I, reasonin
and feeling, sinning and suffering, Boris
and immortal, must know? What lore of
man will unveil to me the face of the great
God, my maker, and roll back the cloud
that enwraps His throne?
What mechanic skill will suffice for un-
raveling the dread secret of this dark woof
of evil which is woven into human expe-
rience? What scholar, though he have
drunken at every Castalian fount, can
tread with me the brink of the grave, and
peering down into that abvss of dreadful
night give me any assurance that confined
dust will rise resplendent in some resur-
rection morning? What pupil of the most
cultured Gamaliel can sit by my bedside in
the shour when heart and flesh are failing
and set one single star of hope aglow in the
dark midnight that gathers around me?
Just one star beam to tell me that beyond
the cloud and darkness are the many man-
sions of an eternal home, that yonder
waits a father’s w elcome to love. and light
and joy ineffable? Most majestic are the
achievements of Etolloat.
Greek tragedy tells us how King Edipus
at the close of life heard a cry—a strange,
weird, imperious summons, far off, yet
near, in some distant world, yet close at
hand; a voice that drew like gravitation.
So does every man, in virtue of that royal
nature which allies him with heaven’s
throne, hear at times just such a cry re-
sounding from some distant sphere, even
from that spirit realm which is his true
fatherland, yet near, within his very soul,
that beckons him to his highest destiny.
“Oh, soul of man, awake, awake, shake
off the chains of spiritual slumber and
sloth. Escape the earth- bornd life. Heav-
en-born and heaven-aspiring, live for God!”
The Hindoo palace echoed with that cry,
and Buddha swept out to brood in the wil
derness depths over its mysterious mean-
ing. Those accents floated over the land
of Pallas Athene, and in academy and por-
tico there gathered groups of thinkers that
sought to follow its leading as the wise
men followed the Orient st: Every
dweller in Christian lands hears that cry
more plainly. It is borne to him in the
quiet peacefulness of the Sabbath that
whispers to his toil-worn spirit of that rest
that remaineth when the toil of this work:
aday world is done. It comes to him from
the open church door that telis him of a
home shelter for his storm-beaten soul. It
speaks to him from the Seripture, where it
syllables the splendors of the Christ, and
declares that such is the glorious image
which God has planned to reproduce in
him now sullied and sickened with sin.
But where, in all the ages, is the man that
girding himself at this signal call has won
in the race for holine “Are we not some-
times glad that thoug are not audible?
that motives are not visible? that we are
not breastplated with transparent glass,
through w hich the working rs Of the inner
life might lie open to the curious eye?
Are we not glad that it is sor
funetion of language to conc
to convey thought? If our
holiness be as honest i as that of
the old pagan seekers after God, we will
unhesitatingly echo their sad SCOVal
voiced by one of that high-souled but dis-
couraged company, “I approve the better
courses, but I follow the worst.” And if
our own hearts, sin-darkened an d
warped, condemn us, how can we
serutiny of Him who is
hearts and knoweth ail things?
with the footmen,
“If thou contendest
and they weary thee, how canst thou con-
tend with horses? There is but one
method by which this problem of the He:
whi prophet can be wrought out ta an
encouraging z solution. Let its terms be
verted. Read the formula backward. If
the horsemen could be conquered first, who
would waste a thought upon footmen? If
we could meet the mightiest foes and over-
ride them there would oe little difficulty
in outmatching lesser needs. If we could
run, with horses and outrun them, we
should Be the dust of a sandaled scorn
in the face of the footmen. a solu
tion is hinted at in scripture. Turn the
Bible page. Put the apostle against the
prophet. Reply to the challenge of Jere
miah with the triumph shout. of P Paul,
I can make money in the market place,
I can obtain pleasure in the playhouse. 1
can win culture in the school room. But
the remission of my sins I can secure only
upon Calvary. Christ is the solitary Sa-
viour.
When the sin want 1s appeased all want
is met. When this is righted all is right.
With the regal robes of righteousness go
the sceptre of power and the op of
peace. Bring the matter to a test of a
personal experience and see if it is not so,
and imagine that every one in this assem-
bly was a Christian; that each one of ug
began the week's work as a saved soul.
You go forth to-morrow morning, your
ow with a brighter splendor than
glory- bath with which sunrise floods
the earth. “The light of the knowledge of
the glory of God as it shines in the face of
Christ.”” You go down-town, not knowing
what the hours may be bringing to meet
you. Kvery footstep carries you into a
realm untrodden. Every ck-tick swings
you into a mysterious ire. But you
know some things now. You know that
Jesus died for you; that God loves you;
that, as far as the setting of the sun is
from the rising, so far has yar sin been
carried away from you. Toil begins. Jesus
ort Trial approaches. Jesus suf
fered. Your truest words are i ah
vour noblest acts are misinterpreted, .for
your manliest endeavors mean motives are
suggested. Jesus drank the same bitter
He who told Capernaum fisher folk
- dlink out and cast net calls you to
take up the pen or the plane or the y rard-
stick or.the nes edle or the loom. 2 who
said to Peter “Feed My lambs” has said to
yofi: “Sit: by the ertidle-side and: do nurs-
ery wor k.” He who said to Matthew
“Take up the cross and follow Me” has
said to you: “Come after Me into the lone-
ly payiiion of pain, keep midnight vigil
with -Me in the shadowed paths of Geth-
semane.” Evening- tide draws on. ome
shelter beckons to res Fireside reunions,
with their heart deep rte tions. whisper
to you of another home that waits beyond
the toil of earth. Empty chairs and van-
ished faces stir your heart with the glor-
ious certainty that the Saviour is placing a
chair for you where the home circle is
forming, never to be broken. So a life of
work resolves itself into a life of worship.
So the days, with ever quickening step,
shall hasten by. So the night time shall
draw on apace. And the lengthening of
the shadows and the waning of the light
shall bring to your Chris -enriched nature
the message which life's setting sun
flasl red into the heart of an old nursemaid,
who, becoming blind and deaf, said:
Cou're worrying about me, dear. There
is no need of that.
I am happy as a little
child. I sometimes think I am just a little
child whom the Lord is hushing to my
long ep, for when I was a nurse rl my
str always told me: ‘Speak very soft
ken the reom so the little
ynes may go to sleep,” and now the noises
are hushed and still to me
earth seems dim and or and
is my Father lulling me away
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