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Y.2 Dr. John Reid, pas- tar of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, preached an eloquent sermon Sunday morning. His text was taken from Ephe- sians v:1: ‘Be ye therefore followers of d, as dear children. eid said: he Revised Version giveswa better and Songer translation: “Be ye therefore imi- taters of God. as beloved children.” TImi- tators, as children. Dore children of God, be ye imitators of Truth 1s tractally alw ays achievement, superstriicture, the keystone, a last stroke, There are avhat the metaphysicians call “immediate truth,” that is, truth in con- nection with which our knowledge is intui- tive, and where it comes in as the direct and undeniable testimony of the senses, but as a general thing, acquired trut is the result of work done, the issue of a bat- tle which has been won. In other words, ‘truth has to conquer before it can com- mand. But in conflict or warfare of what- soever ki nd, disguise is ever a worse foe to meet than denial. And I suppose that what is frequently affirmed is probably true; namely, that the Christian religion has always suffered more from those who, sometimes intentionally and sometimes un- intentionally, have perverted and misrep- rensented it, than it has ever suffered from those who have even formally opposed it. There, for instance, is the somewhat trite criticism that Christianity as a scheme is narrow in its spirit and contracting in its effect: under it as a system men do not at- tain the highest possible development, and, therefore, They cannot display the fairest i finest fiber of human character; it de- elopes the passive and uninfluential, more To the puissant and productive, elements of our nature: it keeps its hand on life’s brake. to check ‘and hold in, rather than on life’s throttle valve to. open and let go; itis in face a lion, buf in heart a deer; the th 1ou shalt nots outnumber the thou shalts; there, is an unmistakable flavor of pusil- la inh of cowardliness, of spiritlessness, which nothing: every wholly rémoves from many of its principles and profe y pentance, humbleness, meeknes ness of injuries, .relinquishment of rights, submis sion to what ca wmnot be seen, accept- ance of what cannot be 'known—these are not among the heroic virtues. All this has been felt “and expressed, not only by the superfie i=} and scofling, but by the respect: ul and tl! shtful. And certainly it is all forceful. If ib were trie, it might be even fatal. Yet from the beginning to end this whole criticism that- Ghristianity is narrow in its spirit and.contraeting in its effects moves on a misconception. Human life can never be 1 by a lifeless process. It is of ne- i 1 to a living Person. And in tv. it is the Almighty God who andard. lou is the st Men are everywhere" ex- horted and expectedsto ascertain His will, to leep 5 word, to. lay hold of’ His is strength, to walk in His light, and so to adorn His doctrine in all, things. It is the example of God that is publishe as the pattern. It is the purity of that 1s put forth as. the test. It is the will of God that is prescribed as the law. It is the Tove of God that is. presented as the motive power. It isthe glory of God that is pointed to as the end. It is the appro- bation of God that is urged as the inspira- tiori and the sweet rew ‘ard. Likeness to Godhood—that is Christianity’s ideal of manhood; likeness; not simply a represen- tation, but a reproduction; an image; a likeness which has its place, not in a one- ness or identity of attributes, but in a one- ness or community of life. Tn Him we live and move and have our being, said Paul. with all clearness and confidence. “Tor me golive is Christ,” said the same great apostle, to the Gentiles. Literally, for to me, that is, in my case, in so far as Iam personally concerned, life is Christ. In my view and understanding of the term, life is but another name for Christ. Whatever of life. or of time, or of talent, or o strength I have, it is all His. “I live, yet not J, but Christ liveth in me.” That man’s great endeavor was, as near as pos: le. to reproduce in his life the life of his Mast So here his exhortation to all others: “Bd ye therefore imitators of God, as be- toro children ? We have all known chil- dren who were so impressed with the char- acteristics of their fathers that we could never hear their form of expression or see their modes of action without thinking of | those from: whom their opinions and con- duecthad ree eived direction and form. (We say; ‘ehivs of the old block; the father lives: again’ in HL son, Just so the true life of the Christian is, potentially’ at least, simply a am of the life of the Christ. “Imitators, as children of God.” ever the sentiments we may entertain re- garding the. claims of aristoeracy or the of democracy, we all make much of r. The son of a lord may become a . dauchter of a queen is of the Everywhere men’ believe in Family glory is a good intro- < ction and a great help to any man who can lawfully point to it as his. The valid- itv of that introduction is never ques- tioned, the integrity of that help is never i yt where the man himself nally deficient or person- v deaenerate. For doubtless everywhere, Ww ‘hen it comes to the purely practical side of things, ‘what is he?” is of far greater z than “whence did he come? To from ‘a little tree is wort more than a little fruit when it is 1it that the market is manding. And what this intensely pr age demands is not so much ancestral s palatable fruit. I confess that sometimes I have found it hard to preserve the proprieties when I have heard people boasting of ancestry. I have some wondered what the an- ces x would if they suddenly saw the progeny. Pate i not alwavs eas iza yosterity. Neither in i in things moral does yossession: ever pay for present’ pov- Gl must be some wv rin the nel to make a river out of it, and it is alwavs the present ‘water volume of the stream that determines the real water . value of the river. “Oh, East is East, and W. o5t is West, And never the twain shall meet, 11 Earth and Sky stand presently at Godls great judgment. seat; But there is neither East nor Wi est, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, Though they come from ‘the ends of the Earth.” These are strong lines of Kipling; brave ‘words, wise and true. When it comes to the solemn strife and stress of lif weighs more than “whence.” “Every man in his own saddle” and “‘every tub on its own bottom.” Nevertheless, all people are disposed to recognize the possibility of high honor in honorable descent. But admit this to be true, and it carries its own serious claim along with it. It was the observation of one of the ancients that the burden. of government is increased to princes by’ the virtues of their immediate predecessors. Commenting on the saying, Dr. Samuel Johnson, in one of his essays, remarked it as always dangerous to be placed in a state of unavoidable comparison with excellence, and that the danger is always greater when the excellence 1s consecrated by death. Privilege of ancestry means responsibility of heirship. Duly and morally considered, from a big tree, de- © Til it can never be the prineiple unc de ‘has a Father in God. | able to res What- ii is" essentially stewards ship. And ~*to ~ whom much i giv en, of him-shall much be Tenaired,” the law universally here anplied. That i is ing this whole matter. Children of God. be imitators of God. No- blesse oblige. Nobilitv imposes the obli- gation of moblehess. ‘Be ye therefore ime itators of God, as beloved children.’ Whence am I? It is‘the old question by ] which every man is confronted as soon as he begins to draw lines of distinetion be- tween himeelfsand his’ surroundings. “And here, as.everywhere. no comment: on the works of God like the word of God. the beginning Gad created theheavens and the earth.” That sentence seatters dark- ness and doubt. The world: s" nof “eter- nal; it had an actwal and definite begins, ning. Man is nof theérehild of chande: he' Afger that God had spent much time’ and labor in fitting and furnishing the globe, to be an abode. He said, “Let us hake’ man in our image. af- ter our likeness.” It is written, “So God srented man in His own image; formated man of the dust of the cronnd and ied into his nestrils the breath of ife, and man became a living soul”’—the masterpiece of divine ingenuity and pow- er, in whom there is no nremonition what- soever of any higher physical Jife. = “Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl! of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, ind over every creeping thing that ereeneth npon the earth.’ Divinely anthenticated on heart and on brain, a being of boundless aspirations, separated in moral and spirit- ual nature, as by an impassable gulf, from all other animal orders, man is at the head —rational. responsible, immortal. How often we speak that word “immor- tal!” Man does not die— “There is ro death. What seems so transition; : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb’ of the lifa elrsian, Whose portal we -1ll deat The good which a man Joes lives for- ever. And the good man lives in it. Au- gustine in’ his confessions.. Calvin in his vindication. Watts and: Wesley in the psalms and | ns ‘and spiritual songs by which Christendom’s praises ave skill at- tuned. Robert Raikes. the publisher, anc Henry Difco, the divine—the ‘one still gathers the children and the other still guards the {réasures of the poor. Through- out alli Germany, amid their restless lives and the many emptations of their career, hundreds. of yolne is NIPREV He n mechanics, who knew fot ‘the namei=still bless the hard of Clembns Por thes. the learned bro- or of Bonii really a part of the gown itself.” Cn ono gown, for instance, the folds of the bcdice are high at the back k, carried 3 ir gq point.—Harper's Bazar. us rN Elements of Character. Writing on character building 1a the October Delineator Mrs. Theodora W. Birney places above all others the fol- lowing elements of character, go far toward enat blia g their possessor to achieve a aad legitimate success ir e"’—honesty, decision, punctuality "and perseverance. Elsec- where she say “The very forunda- ticn cf che ter is sincerity—honesty and truthfu 33 are but other nar for the same thiing<—and if parents con- tinually set their children an S turned. hack double revers faced with: a miniature diamond but- scme distinciiviesazote: about their: dress. *ciates with their mote.paper, their visit’ as Ww ell | reversed. latest’ “adiices, some ‘women even ‘per- way gold 7 introduced into the gowns of te- i . Shire Wi Waist Snits, ; There e is quite a little fancy for buil 3 ter will ‘be fashionable as ever, and certainly tliey are a great addition to almost any “down, besides raking #4 “which’ example i ser- in of what avail are of insincerity, mons and maxims from their lips? ‘every way children fashion their con- duct after that of the adults about ‘them. Fortunate are the children whose training and environment are such as to, establish habits of all the virtues, who are trained in habits of reverence, honesty, courtesy, etc. Habit is indeed ‘en’ natures,” and will stand by one under stress and strain that would weaken the average moral fibre; hence, it behooves us every day .to see “that uninterrupted habit has an opportunity to perform its marvel- ous work in ‘the moral nature and in the wonderful brain cells which reg- ‘ister with such unerring accuracy all that is said and done.” eros ve Timely Gossip. A woman can control a man’s opin- ions by seeming to agree with them. A girl’s purse always has a healthy look until its contents are displayed. While women have a lively imagina- tion they try to keep the fact a secret. The man who undertakes to instruct a woman in politics must be madly in love with her. A woman's Voice’ ands much making her popular with men. Spinsters write the best love probably because their ideas tender passion are imaginary. Girls,. don’t speak of other girls -oung persons because they are not in your set. Don’t attract the notice of ingers by actions of the loud order. are so ready to fight against love, says a writer in the Philadelphia Bulletin, we doubt it and push it away from-us, giving it only a half welcome when. we find that it is.useless to re- sist'it. But wen the ugly. little demon ‘hate. thrusts himself forward, we en- ‘courage him by the mere fact of our faith in him. Things should be exactly We should seek love and give him every encouragement to tarr ' Do 'you think the multi-millionaire is happy if he has no love in his home, or that the most beautifully gowned woman on earth is satisfied without love? A woman who toward stories, of the as is. sarcastic winces 1swhen it comes back. to her in kind. For Old Folks.’ If ‘the ‘young people of the family have never given an old people's party they don’t know how much pleasure they have denied their elderly friends and themselves. There comes a time when one’s: work seems dohe, the usefulness passed. Then it is that old people sit down with ‘more or less patience to wait. No young person can appreciate what patience this requires—this waiting for the sum- mons to take the long, long journey. VWhat do these elderly friends of yours and mine find to think about? Time was when they were sought, their advice is not asked, their desires are not considered. ' Their tastes are old fashioned and not to be followed. As they sit in this enforced idleness of age and think and rock, the contrast between these days and better, livelier, more fruitful days, can but strike sor- Tow to their hearts. " Do you young folks ever think what it nreans to be old, neglected, for- ‘gotten? * Have the dinner party. Have prom ptiy at noon and have good thing to eat—good, old-fashioned things, oi the now fangled s salads and mixtures that your own grandmother never ‘eats and that your grandfather scorns. Invite a congenial party and be sure there are comfortable: chairs enough ‘to'gy around. it ny pleas- “ It is seldom, .indeed, that any ure. is planned for the old folks. The young people really belicve that egrand- father and grandmother have lost in- terest in things of to-day. Try them and ‘see. plain to''them that the party is theirs, just fori them: There will benno need to plan entertainments. They will ar ost enjoy talk 1g over old tim Xs If .possitle ~-a comfcriable carriage should be .scnf for thr gunesis and shonld, be ready 1> take them home when the is passed.—New afternoon Haven Re Seasonable Apparel. of dot.ed net aro onz {2 CF rill ng for collars and cufi BOY by .the.yarc, " Tor most figurcs -a high belt coraing with a shox skirt. Muslin [Ss comes c pretlisst clirred and habg folds all sx.nnd, Cne can Bre half a .dez:n {ailefa geywas without cchieviny mon. ony. Brown hclignd i ccarse brown canvas apaar ty be in Harlcular favor. * Whilc, lien ah Co, casily that Twvsy women prefer the heavy cotton Iatrics: If ome Cocsn’t like buttons up the girdle, throe pert little bows are highly approved. If you are‘going away, have one of those chambois-lined silk neck bags to carry your jewelry ia. The kimonos and negligees shown in the - shops arc fascinating enough to make any woman {c3l indisposed. A skirt yoke is convenient when the figure is not cuficiently ' slender to have the skirt full around the belt. Thdre is a wee toilet case that slips into your pocket as easily as an en- velope, yet contains brush, comb, nir- vor, nail file and cleaner. ! 4 rm — | Tatler, 1 position avhich then WHAT : SEA {SERPENTS ‘ARE.’ ‘Blonsters ‘That Have Survived Most of Their Species. Professor Charles IL. Edwards, of Trinity College, told the Hartford Sci- entific Society recently a lot about the sea serpent and had shown on a screen pictures of .the monsters calculated to scare an innocent youngster out of vear’'s growth, says the Hartford Conr- ant. Unfortunately, none of the piec- tures was an actual photograph, but the lecturer seemed to tend to the be- lief that there was something doing in the monster line, and the Rev. Jas. Goodwin, the President of the society. said at the close of the lecture that he for-one believed more in the thing than he had before. ‘As to how great that previous belief had been he did not say. Professor Edwards, in the first part of his lecture, had thrown on the screen pictures of sea monsters as rep- resented in years past. He explained in his talk that, while he spoke of “sea serpents,” the so-called and oft-re- peated sea serpent could not be a big snake, but some other kind of a mon- ster (if it was anything). As back as far as Job mention is made of a great leviathan, and accounts of some great things are found in all early histories. One myth seems to have come from a sperm whale and another from a squid. Even the Indians had a belief in a monster serpent and thought one lived in the great lakes and broke up the ice in the winter when it became irri- tated. Professor Edwards gave a long list of dates when the great sea serpent has been reported, and related some of the circumstances. ‘They streteh from 1639 down, into 1903. A bishop. Com- modore Preble, crews of British war- sliips, ,and many persons have made the reports.” A noted appearance was at Gloucester and Nahant, Mass., in 1817. when hundreds of reputable cit- izens saw something and testified to it. Tt is estimated that from” 600 to T00 persons Baw it,- and people even drove’ glong the beach ip crowds, keepingiup, with it as it swam off the shore. Professor Edwards said there was no doubt that something was seen at that time. It is always described as black or brow nish, with eyes in the. upper part of the head, swimming at a. speed of ‘five or six knots, carrying its ‘head out of water, generally with a mane, and proceeding Wifi “a "humping motion like a caterpillar. A curious appear- ance was one reported in 1898-99 in a Swedish Lake, where, it was declared, a huge animal’ had been’ seen*a num- ber. of times, and ‘had ‘been watched through glasses for long, periods. Ii- nally a newspaper Sent an eminent nat- uralist to ‘investigate, “and he reported as his conclusions that several mon- sters from six to four feet long had certainly been seen in the lake. Professor Edwards said that prob- ably in all the many cases reported something had been seen, for it is im- possible to believe that all these people were liars. The universal declaration that the thing proceeded with an un- dulating motion does away with the theory ‘of ‘its being actually a big snake. - H¢é showed that the stories might grise fr om the appearance of a manatee, a big stingray, a gigantie squid (one yas caught with arms and body 100 feet-long), a basking shark whales, or school of porpoises. A few vears agoswhat was called the Fiorida monster was found near, St. Augustine, vith arms nearly 100 feet long. the basking shark grows to f-rty feet long certainly.” There is no known lim:t to: the growth of fishes. : Telegrams in 1903. It is, just sixty years ago since the first telegraphic message was sent by the Morse system -from Baltimore to Washington, and the first message by the Atlantic submarine .cable was dis- patched six years atterward—that is to say. in June, 1850. Siuce then the use of the telegraph has developed at a marvelous rate, until at the present time a million messages are sent over the world's lines -every tw enty-four hours. According to some returns re- cently issued the dite ‘of telegrams dispatched in all in 18 reached the enormous total of 36+848K.- 474. As a user of the telegraph Great 3ritain heads the with 92,471.000 dispatches, the United States is second with 91,391,000, ang France rd sith 48,114,15 Germany. 1 a, Austria, SA and Italy foi in the order named, countries et list —— ie A We have had the bicycle honeymoon and the motor honeymoon, the town honeymoon and the country honey- moon, the yachting honeymoon and th sporting honeymoon. but, says The it was reserved { an Austrian nobleman to revive the walking honey- Valking IToneymoon. moon. rinee Waldenburg and his bride, immediately after their mar- ringe, started on a {rawp through It- aly, their only companion a milk- white mule, which carrics their traveling out- fit; or such of it as happens to be ab- solutely Indlsponmanie But while they have zll {lic cnjoyments of va- grancy, they do not entirely turn their backs upon civilization. - An army of servants in advance to make things comfortable for the couple at the places svhere they nightly lodge. {ravels hanges ia tho Churches. Dav. Dr. Edward Evcrett ZIale, in the International Quarterly, says that with every year it becomes more and nore certain that by the year 2000 no ceclesiastical organization now existing in America will retain its present form. This statement was made as early the year 1870 by the distinguished President of Brown University. Thir- ty ave more than justified a seemed somewhat swaartlinZ,, . back KEYSTONE STATE GULLINGS RETIRED ON PENSIONS. Three Men of Altoona Who Have Reached Age Limit—Fight With Burglars at Beaver Falls. Patrolman William Kircher, of Beaver Falls, detected two men trying to force an entrance into a Seventh avenue clothing store. through the rear door. When the would-be-thieves saw the officer they started to run. Kircher fired at them and they stop- ped and returned the fire with inter- est. No one was hit, and when other officers, attracted by the shoot- ing, arrived on the scene the burglars escaped in the fog. Five Italians boarded a car at Bag- gley Sunday evening. One of the men lowered a window. Conductor An- thony ordered him to close it. The man refused and Anthony shut it. While his back was turned the Ital- ian suddenly whipped out a stiletto, plunged it into the conductor’s neck and drew it downward, making a wound more than a foot long along the spinal column. Two other Italians then attacked him. One stab- bed him on the shoulder and the other thrust his knife into the con- ductor’s abdomen, ripping ‘it open and almost disemboweling him. William McGary of Baggley was the cnly other passenger and he sprang to Anthony's rescue, and knocked two of the men down. The rioters threatened him with their knives and he was un- able to prevent their escape. Ab- thony died on the way to the Greens- burg Hospital. : A Hallowe'en prank cost the life of Roy ‘'Saltsgiver, aged’ 20, and Charles Monilla, an Italian, is in the Greensburg jail charged with murder. Saltsgiver was one of several boys who in.a. spirit of fun toek the de- livery wagon of Antonia Primeron, an Italian grocer of Vandergrift Heights, intending ‘to. drag it .te. some out-of- the-way place. They were. seen by young Monilla, who was employ ed by Primeron. Monilla tried to,make the boys give up the wagon, but they are said to . have taunted him. He followed the boys for several blocks and fi- nally whipped out a revolver and shot into the crowd four times. One of the bullets struck Saltsgiver in the of the head and he fell: dead:: Fire in Jchnstown destroyed the three-story. Cobaugh. building .and the residence of ex-Mayor. .L. D. Wpod- ruff, causing a loss of $44,500, partly Sovhyse by insurance. ‘The, losses are: s follows: Crofford, Adams & Ripple, Be building, $20,050; Barnhart:& ‘Co., plumbers, $8,000; W. Al Adams gro- cer, $5,000; 'L. D. Woodruff, .$6,000; tenants of second floor of building, $2,500: five secret societies on third floor of Cobaugh building, parapher- nalia, $3,000. The fire is said to have been caused hy spontaneous combus- tion in the plumbing shop. Three employes of the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona have been retired on pensions. Adam B. Hamilton, fore- man of the tin shop, after 35 years’ service, reached the age limit. Ths employes of the shop presented him with a gold watch and a purse of gold. R. B. Bartley, for 45 yeas in service, most of the time in the boiler shop, received a gold-headed cane and gold watch and chain from his fellow- employes. Amos Beatty, who for 44 years worked in the paint shop, re- ceived a leather’ rocking chair from his associates. : Roy James, 16.'years old, accident- ally killed himself with a shotgun at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Woods, of Bakerstown. James and reorge’ Weakland went to the Woods home last night, to meet Charles Woods. While he finished his supper his boy down in the, Fuisnen. A shotgun was sitting’ in corner. James reached for the weapon, and drew it toward himself, muzzle first. There was a logdsrepork and James friends sat fell to the floor, shot near the he: He died in five minutes. The First, "Evangelical | Tiutheran congregation of Leechburg, dedicated their handsome’ mew “ church. The dedicatory sermon was delivered by Dr. D. H. Geissinger, president of the Pittsburg. Synod. Rev. William J. Miller, who was pastor of the old chur¢h for 11 . years; delivered the evening sermon. * The edifice was at a cost of $30,000, of which has been paid. Rey. M. L. is the present pasior. sw, lev. C. H. Hess, a Dunkard dropped dead: in the Dunk- at Wrightsville while de- livering the sermon at the funeral of levi Strickler. The Rev. Hess had just made the remark, “I am ready to die” when he fell to -the floor .and died... He was 65 years old. Harry Swoop, of Lewiston, special fish warden of that section, of ithe State, has been arrested of the charge of embezzlement, because st is ;alleged, she withheld fines ch should have gone to the department of fisheries. : SRR At Irwin all the mines have taken a spurt in produétion’ apd shipping. The Westmoreland Coal Company last week Fade a news record, having reached an output of 7.000 “tons "3 day at St kafton, Larimer and Ex- rected B00 sweizing The preacher, ard church € £25 Q = its St port colleries. Nick Schotti, an Italian miner Velsten, was crushed to fall of rock” . The’ Rainey. coke works and coal mines at Mt. Braddock started Mon- day, giving employment to 1,200 men. of death by a 18 her Miss Lizzie Taylor, years committed suicide at home near Meadville, Pa. M Taylor, while her parents were away from home, swal- lowed carbolic acid and died before a physician could .be summoned. oid, The First Baptist church, of Ro- chester, has extended a call to Rev. J. E, Darby D. of W aynesburs Pa. Br erly preached in Union ty, Uniontown and Pittsburg The Methodist i 1] ‘Church at 1eboro « was rededicateds Rev. liam H. word Allegheny College, deliv mon. # a