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One is accustomed to women’s carry- fug money in queer places, but one who recently has taken to thrusting it just inside her collar, is a joke among her friends. They discovered it the other evening when with her husband she went to the house of a friend for a call. On the way her husband had no change to pay the fare, when the re- sourceful woman slipped her fingers deftly inside of her collar and produced some bills. “It’s the best place,” she said calmly. “I used to carry extra money up my sleeves, but I lost it all the time. I've never lost it from my collar, and it doesn’t take up any room, either.” The Mother's Comforts Some months ago, Richard Harding Davis stated, in an extremely interest- ing magazine article treating of camp outfits in the field, that it was his ppinion that a man should be comforta- ble in order to be useful. He meant that the thoroughly comfortable man is always better fitted and in a better frame of mind to do the work required of him than is the man who is harassed by his own physical discom- forts. This seems a most sensible idea, and the same principle applies, although Mr. Davis does not say so, to all mothers. A mother who is perfect- ly comfortable herself is certainly bet- ter equipped for making others com- fortable than she could possibly be if her mind was constantly on her own ailments. 1f a mother is to take proper care of fier own babies, big and little, she must begin by taking very excellent care of herself. For instance, if she {oses sleep at night (and what mother does not?) she must make it up day- times, even if she has to take a nap during that precious leisure time when the naturally wakeful baby conde- scends to sleep. Almost every young mother is af- fected with toothache, because the task of providing teeth for the baby has left the mother's own teeth in an impoverished condition. Consequently the wise mother goes early and often to the dentist, and thus provides at {east one member of the family circle ith a fairly comfortable mouth. Too Careful of the Hair. The non-collegiate woman who had just returned from a three days’ visit to her sister at a woman's college ‘had not got over marveling at the ways of college girls. “But what impressed and shocked me most,” she said, “was the unusual number of gray- -haired girls. Of course, I don’t mean entir ely gray, but so streaked with it that it was noticeable. It made no differénce whether the tresses were brown’ or yellow, titian or black, there were the gray streaks just the same. Of gourse, there were beautiful heads of hair that looked as young and fresh as they should, but in a group of twenty girls I actually counted thirteen whose hair was turning gray rapidly. Their hair did not look neglect ed. It was well kept and glossy, but there were more gray hairs than a girl of thirty should have. It did not seem as if they could be caused by worry, for college girls are not given to worrying, so I thought maybe the strenuous life of work and play was responsible. “The matron of the dormitory had a different theory. ‘It’s because the girls never leave their hair alone,” she said. “They wash their tresses once a week, and sometimes twice a week. Come with me and I'll show you.’ “She took me around to the back of the building, and there hanging out of a number of windows, in the sunshine, were several heads of hair. The sight was as grewsome as a Bluebeard’s chamber. The matron said it could be seen every day in the week, and was the end of the shampoo—the drying process. «hose girls simply wear their hair out, and that’s all there is to it; she insisted, and it really seems as if it were the only practical solution of the mystery.’—New York Press. A Domestic Science Experiment. An interesting experiment in the teaching of domestic science is being tried in the little town of Crete, Neb., one of the oldest and most prosperous towns in the State. It is generally supposed that only large cities can af- ford to teach domestic science in the public schools, but Crete, with its pop- ulation eof 2500, has proved this idea to be fallacious. The superintendent in- terested ten housekeepers in a plan whereby the girls in the high school became pupils in the kitchens of the housekeepers. each one of whom agreed to teach certain branches. One housekeeper teaches soup making and the disposal of remnants; another teaches bread making, while others in- struct in dish washing, serving, clean- ing and various departments of house- keeping. ‘There are thirty items in the course, which was carefully prepared by the superintendent. The lessons and denionstrations are given to smail classes of ten girls, and the pupils practice in their own homes. About once a month there is a meeting of the instructors at the school, and samples of the girls’ cookery are passed upon. December 2 was the last demonstra- an elaborate collation to their teachers. Many of the girls come from the coun- try to attend school, and their interest in the courses is proved by the cheer- fulness with which they walk some- times several miles to attend the exhi- bitions and test classes. A letter from the town speaks of another benefit de- rived from the home instruction: “The instructors and girls are interested in each other outside of domestic science lines. Each instructor is becoming ac- quainted with all the high school girls and each girl learning to know and re- spect the ladies. This means muck of good for the community in its social relations. The girls are called into the homes of the city to serve at private functions, and to help in the more elab- orate club and public affairs.” Said of Women, It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all ‘he modesty of girl hood, without being allowed even to feign ignorance.—Mme. de Girardin. A woman's hopes are woven as sun- beams; a shadow annihilates them.— George Eliot. Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker.—Buckle. The more idle a woman's hand the more occupied her heart.—Dubay. Women speak easily of platonic love, but while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does not drive platon- ism from our hearts.—Ricard. If woman did turn man out of para- dise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him.—Sheldon. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor any- thing that is worse than a bad one.— Simonides. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.—Solomon. How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle women shall be our earliest guides — instilling their own spirits.—Channing. Let woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation.— Lamb. The modest virgin, the prudent wife and the careful matron are much more serviceable in life than petticoated phi- losophers, blustering characters or vi- rago queens.—Goldsmith. * A wise man ought often to admon- ish his wife, to reprove her seldom. but never to lay hands on her.—Marcus Aurelius. A woman of honor should never sus- pect another of things she would not do herself.—Marguerite de Valois. We only demand that a woman should be womanly; which is not being exclusive.—Leigh Hunt. For Women of Brains, Making inventories of the contents of wealthy folks’ houses is the work of five clever young women in the city, who earn on an average $100 a month, often more. It isn’t that the work is! altogether new. Only the clev erest’ girls can do the work. Four out of: 100 is the average number selected: from those who apply. ; “When asked what are the qualifica- tions mecessary for a woman to pecome, expert at the business the young man; who directs the work tersely respond- ed, “Brains.” “Nor is this all,” he went on half smilingly, but biting his words off in a manner that indicated that he meant what he said. ‘She must not only be endowed with brains, but she must use them. “It seems to me that nine out of every ten girls go through life with their eyes shut. They might be stone blind for all the knowledge they re- tain. “If one of my assistants is called upon to classify a leather divan she must know whether it is pebble or calf and the reason why. Hardwood may be of any of a dozen or more varieties. She must be able to recog: nize it by the color, the grain and the quality, and so record it, “One woman may think herself to be an expert on rugs. To her notion a rug is either Turkish or Persian or the produce of some other country. “But that won't do. She must have sufficient knowledge of rug lore to tell from what province a rug comes. “In short she must be an expert on no end of things and be as ready to classify a rare old ivory carving as a Tombola lace bedspread. She must know art from A to Z, and have her knowledge at her fingers’ ends when wanted.” Although the requirements are se- vere, the girls who succeed enjoy the work immensely. A day is eight hours, allowing an hour for luncheon, the girls presenting themselves for duty at 9 a. m. and leaving at 5 p. m. At all times they are surrounded with beautiful objects of art, for none but the wealthiest folk can afford to have the work done, as the fee is $30 a day and the work of inventorying one house will take anywhere from one td three weeks and in the case of a mad who owns several hontes the work 3a) extend over several months.—New York Sun. People have been dying in Mexico of the cold, while up in Maine the old: est inhabitant confesses that he never >| weaken" THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT ‘SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. HOWARD MELISH. Subject: ‘“ Repentance.” Brooklyn, N. Y.—In Holy Trinity Church, Sunday morning, the rector, the Rev. Howard Melish, preached from the text, “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, ‘Repent.’ ” ~—St. Matthew iv:17. He said: I heard one of the ablest men in America, a man who had studied the popular mind carefully and observed it most keenly, say not long ago, that if he were young again the one message he would endeavor to bring home to his countrymen is—spirit, soul, manhood make conditions, not conditions men. Three forces are producing the oppo- site view. The first is materialism. Materialism as a philosophy is discred- ited. Twenty-five years ago it received tremendous importance through the formulation of a doctrine of evolution by natural selection. To-day it is not taught in a single university chair. But materialism, as a popular concep- tion of the world, is more generally heeded than ever before. In it God is identified with His universe. His name is Force. His law is to be found not in the Bible, but in the latest text books on physics. Man is an animal which thinks. He is a creature of his en- vironment. When he dies he is dead as every other beast of the field. The second is the teaching of some socialists. There is socialism and there is Christian socialism. Christian social- ism endeavors to make a place in so- cialism for Christianity’s emphasis on the individual. Socialism is concerned with the economic and industrial reor- ganization of society. As interpreted by some of its expounders it is telling men that they can’t be just or right or pure or honest or humane under the competitive system. To talk about eth- ical standards so long as men must compete to live is child's play. The Sermon on the Mount is impracticable; let a man obey its precepts and he is sure to be thrown by the current of life on io the bank as wreckage. What is needed to make men is a different order of society. Such teachings, such feeling, for it has become more a feel- ing than a clearly articulated system, has weakened the sense of individual responsibility. I can’t be pure living under tenement house conditions. I can’t speak the truth in a modern pul: pit or a modern newspaper, therefore I am not responsible for impurity, dis- honesty, lying. The third force, laying stress on con- ditions instead of will, and so weaken- ing individual conscience, is Christian Science. At first thought this may seem an utterly inconsistent statement. Does not Christian Science lay all the emphasis on the individual—his atti- tude of mind, his thought? Not at all. ‘What "it emphasizes is conditions :of thought. By methods which rival the methods of Hypatia and the Neo-Pla- tonists, they endeavor to work mind into a state where nothing ex- ternal to your mind has any reality. Sin does not exist. The suffering of little children in the Home of St. Giles the Cripple is a mere thought. The dishonesty of business has no reality. The tragedy of much of our tenement house life, vith its starvation, unem- ployment, <warfed lives, or the sinful luxuriousness of much of the “Fifth avenue” life are mere thoughts. Jesus on: His cross was only acting a part. Such teaching has no social mes- sage. ., Christian Science has pro- duced some beautiful characters, “Is- raelites in’ whom: there is no guile,” who recognize in Jesus, as did Na- thaniel, “the Son of God,” brt it has not and. cannot produce a social re- former {0 go into a olack slum and stay there, working and“dying for tlre kingdom of God; because it has np message to the conscience, individual or social. : Over against these three forces whiclr individual responsibility I would put the one truth: of repentance. It is an old word with a long record. The vocabulary of some nations does pot know it. And those nations have died. Wealth corrupted them, power made them arrogant, and arrogancy led to national madness and ruin. They had voices which criticized and com- plained, which ridiculed and despaired, but no voice with thunder and light- ning in its tone to cry “Repent!” But ene nation developed a race of men whom we call prophets. They were men who spoke for God. The word of the Lord came to them. And they spoke that word to the conscience of their nation. They made men feel guilt, they pointed out the right way, and they inspired men to walk in it. And this is repentance. In circum- stances when other nations have dis- appeared, as in transplantation and captivity, this nation was kept alive because of its sense of responsibility for its own deeds, past and future. That nation in the fulness of time gave birth to Christianity. Its imme- diate forerunner was John the Baptist. What he taught is summed up in the one word—repent. The rich man with self-sufficiency, the powerful man with his arrogancy are to be leveled down like the mountains; the poor man with his patience is to be filled up like the valleys. Start now; for the ax is laid to the root of your tree and down you will come if you don’t have fruit. Share your abundance with those who have nothing; cease to squander your money on clothes and food when men are naked and children are hungry. Stop levying unjust taxes on the poor. Abide by the law and speak the truth. Take what you earn and nothing more. Jesus caught up tlrat message and cried “Repent!” John had been preach- ing to classes as the prophets had preached to the nation. Christ brought the truth home to the conscience of the individual. Each one of you knows 9 ne own self what is right. Then g it God who wills to do His will. ism. Your money is your undoing.’ Turn from it. wolves. Joy and will be really free. Jers went to Christ asking your | Otherwise your religion is a sham. Your prayers are words. Your theology is speculation. Only he knows You have no peace in your soul, no joy in your life, but you are weary and heavy laden under all this luxury and formal- Resolve to seek the right and do it, come what may. Your foes’ will’ be those of your own house- hold. You will be as a sheep among’ But you will find’ peace and In this Mediterranean world and quickened individual responsibility. How are we to arouse among us re- sponsibility and quicken our individual and sécial pentarnce. . But is not that | preached’ by every péntance. But is Fnot that preached by every evangelist? It is, and.some men are touched by it. But when they go to the evangelist as men went to John the Baptist and oth- “What wouldst Thou have us to do?’ the an- swer is “Stop smoking, leave off the use of alcohol, keep away from the theatre, joim ‘church, pray daily and read your Bible.” This is the whole duty of man.- And other men, virile men, seeing the insipid character of Christianity thus professed, don’t fight it—this is the age of religious tolerance —but pass it by as good for women and children. I appeal to the conscience of every man amd. woman here to-day. We are follgwers of Jesus Christ. Now. only His" first word to the world is repent. He gave many more, but they all depend upon that for their real meaning. Until we truly repent Chris- tianity for us is a sealed book. Have we repented? We have look over our personal lives. Here was a fault. Here was a sin. There was a mistake. We feel ashamed of this. Henceforth in our personal lives we shall be dif- ferent. God forgive! And we feel for- given. There it ends. Ends in an age where there is more wealth than in any age of the world befere; when that wealth is attained by some men, not by hard labor of hands or brains, but overnight; in an age when because of this wealth there is more luxury in a city like New York than in ail the world fifty years ago; where men and women live for money and sell their souls for money! What should repentance mean to-day? It is a message to those who have money. Search your consciences to see how you came by your wealth. Can you say with Zaccheus, “Lord, if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I sestore him four- fold?’ You know and I know that many of our fortunes have been dis- honestly, illegally and unjustly acs cumulated. By false returns to Stata officials, by false use of trust moneys, by false use of the powers of Govern- ment, by false business methods has this money been obtained. Repentance demands that restitution be made to the individuals or the community from whom this money was taken. Search vour conscience to see what wealth is doing to'you, Since you entered into the possession of money by work or by inheritance are you a nobler man or a truer woman? Or has money made you .little-souled, mean, narrow, proud, extravagant, arrogant, supercil- ious? Give it away at once, every cent of it. It is better to go through life with no money than with money to go down into hell fire. Money is sending thousands of men and women. to what Jesus called hell, in this city. They got their wealth in defiance” of God’s and our country’s law; they ean only keep it by control- ling legishkytures and creating monopo- lies. And. what do they say? They fall back on conditions and dodge re- sponsibility.” Repent. Fail? ably will fail. Conditions are bad in politics and business. But God bids vou fail. Go forth as sheep among. wolves and fail. You will save your soul alive here and hereafter. It is a ‘message to those who have no money. Money itself is not evii, but the love of it, the lust after.,it. Many a man who has not a dollar has the love of it, and is giving his soul to get it. It is his envy of the rich“that is sin. If such a man had money he would become like the rich.he now envies, for his soul is like his brother’s soul. Circum- stances may vary, one may live in Mylberry Bend and the other on Fifth ayenue, but their souls are ‘alike. The idle rich? man in his club and the Bow- ery lowter are dhe and tht same breed. One has.allowed himself to become:the. victim of wealth, the other the victim of.poverty.. Both are vietims, not free men. A Therefore, to both alike, rich or poor, but as men, conquered men, comes this message: Turn ye from your*poverty and your wealth and with God's help stand forth free. Strip vou, make you bare of this money and know the joy of bread earned in the sweat of your brow. Find work, any honest work, and do it like a man in the strength of the Lord. When a man stops blaming condi- tions and takes to himself the respon- sibility for what he is and what he has done he has obeyed the first word of Christ—“Repent.” neither as God’s School. In our Father's school are many benches. This life is school time. Whatever the word God writes on the top of your page— oatience, courage, forgiveness, resignation--copy it over and over until He gives you another word. Never murmur. Do your best to solve your problems. If they are hard, try hard. If you are in the dark, say: “Speak. Lord, for Thy servant heareth.” .When you feel like com- plaining, listen. Be still before God. David said: “I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it.” That is better than moaning and la- menting, but let us leap from David to Jesus, and say: “The cup which My Father hath given Me, shall I not drink it.? “Father, glorify Thy name.” So shall we be made perfect through suf- fering.—Maltbie D. Babcock, D. D. We Touch the Gold, Some time ago, in one of our maga- zines, there was an article entitled, “I Have Touched the Gold,” the exclama- tion of a deep-sea diver who had just come up from exploring a wreck lying in the depths. The writer of the para- graph alluded to the circumstances that often thus in religious life persons “touch the gold” without seizing, pos- sessing and using it. How true this is! We frequent the sanctuary, hear and handle the Word of Life, get a vision of the Cross, put the sacramental bread to our lips—we “touch the gold,” and still leave it unrealized from year to year. For want of a little more reso- lute faith, we miss “the unseard.able i riches” of personal fellowship with Christ. : Character is a Growth. Great occasions. do not make heroes or cowards; they Simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imper: ceptibly as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak, and at last some crisis’ shows us what we have become,—Canolr Wests tion day, and the girls served quite knew of such a balmy winter, wiy He awoke the conscience of tke ‘You prob- |* after.” SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON FOR APRIL (5. Subject: Jesus’ Power Over Disease and Death, Luke vii., 1-17=Golden Text John xi., 25—~Memory Verses, 14, 15— Topic: A Great Faith and Helper. I. The centurion asks aid of Christ (vs. 1-5). 1. “Ended—sayings.” The sayings recorded in the preceding chapter and in the sermon just preached. “In the audience.” What Christ said He spoke publicly. In se- cret He said nothing (John 18:20). “Into Capernaum.” Where most of His mighty deeds were performed. Yet His miracles failed to produce re- pentance (Matt. 11:23). 2. *“Centur- jon’s servant.” A centurion was a Roman officer, ranking with our cap- tain, who had charge of 100 men. This centurion, though a Gentile, was fa- vorable to the Jews, religiously in- clined, generous and kind. The ser- vant was probably a slave. 3. “Heard of Jesus.” Of His ar- rival at Capernaum. He must have known of His miracles before this. “Sent—elders.” The leading men—the magistrates of Capernaum. ‘Beseech- ing Him.” Earnestly entreating Him. These elders of the Jews must have been strongly attached to tie cen- turion. “Would come.” They evident ly thought it would be proper for Him to go to the house, even though the cen- turion was a Gentile. 4. “Came to Jesus.” Distress drives to Jesus, and Jesus comes to those in distress. “In- stantly.” That is, earnestly and with- out a moment's delay. “He was wor- thy.” This is what the elders said of the centurion. “Loveth our nation.” He was probably a proselyte of the gate—that is, one of those who embraced Judaism on the whole, but without becoming a proselyte of righteousness by accept- ing circumcision. II. fhe centuricn’s opinion of him- self (vs. 6-8). 6. “Jesus went.” He was glad to go with them. He is the Savior of the Gentiles as well as the Jews. “Sent friends.” This was the second deputation, and it is quite likely that the centurion also came himself. See Matt. 8:5-8. “Trouble not thyself.” If he had known Jesus better he would have known, that Jesus was anxious to help him. “Not wor- thy.” He was only a Gentile and thus outside of the favored nation. He regarded Jesus as a superior being. 7. “To come unto Thee.” He felt as though he could not approach into the presence of one so great and so holy. “But say in & word.”’ He had prob- ably heard a few months before this how Christ had healed the nobleman’s son when at a distance from him (John 4:46-54). 8. “Set under author- ity.” That is, under the authority of others. He is confident that Jesus can as easily send an angel to cure “this servant of his, as he can send a soldier on an errand. III. The centurion’s faith rew rarded (vs. 9, 10). ] 9. *“Marvelled at him.” The oy other time when Jesus is said te have been astonished is in Mark 6:6, when .He marvelled because of unbelief. Christ was not ignorant of the centur- ion’s faith, He knew -all about that: before a word had .been spoken; but He expressed His admiration with a view to make it more conspicuous. “So great faith.” Faith is that soul God. .It is the medium, through which we receive the blessings of the vine lite." “In Israel.” After’ the réturn from the captivity this fetm’ was ‘given to "all Jews. "10. . “Servant swhole.”- The healing took place at a distance INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS | "Christ’s element which enables us to: grasp-i. from Christ. He could heal by- a word as well as by « fouch.” IV. The widdw’s" son raised from the dead (vs. 11-17). 11." “The day “Soon afterwards.”—R. V. “Much people.” Jesus was now reach- ing the height of His popularity. 12. “The gate.” Nearly all towns and vil- . lages were surrounded by walls as a protection. “Carried out.” .With the exception of kings, all burjals .were outside the city. “Much peéple.” Here was a large company of mourn- ers. Nain is approached by a narrow, rocky path; there was only one en- trance to the city; the two processions met on the western slope of the hill- side. 13. “Had compassion.” He did not wait for her to ask for help, for probably she did not know Him. Her needs and sorrows were her silent prayers. The fact that this youth was “the only son of his mother,” and that she was a widow would convey to Jew- ish notions a deeper sorrow than it even does to ours, for they regarded childlessness as a special calamity, and the loss of offspring as a direct punishment for sin. ‘*Weep not.” The large company came to ween with her. 14. “Touched.” Here again, as in the case of the leper, our Lord sacri- ficed the mere Levitical ceremonialism, with its rules about uncleanness, to a higher law. “Bier.” Jewish coffins were open, so that the dead could be seen; but in the case of the poorer classes there would be no coffin, but merely a board supported by two poles on which the dead would be laid. “1 say.” Life and death are controlled by the will of this “1.” “Arise.” At last death has met its Master! 15. “Began to cpeak.” Which proved that he was fully restored. 16. “Came a fear.” A sense of sol- emnity and rev: ential awe. ‘*Glori- fied God.” The miracle was witnessed by a large company of people, and they all recognized the hand of God on the One who could pcrform such mighty deeds. “Great prophet.” The Jews were at this time expecting Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the great prophets to appear. 17. “This rumor.” It appears that the report of this miracle spread throughout all Palestine; it reached the ears of John the Baptist who was imprisoned at Castle Macherus, Emperor William has issued orders that artists who desire to caricature the imperial person can do so with- out any fear of the penalties for lese majeste. That's a good way to take the point off the cartoonist’s pencil, comments the Cleveland Plain Deal- er. Court suits, such as the one that ) cotte John Burns, M. P., has reluctantly donned, cost at least $150. ourselves and our beloved ones, EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, APRIL 15." The Resurrected Life.—Gal. 2. 20. The fact that we belong to Cne wha has conquered death makes us sharers of his life. His victcry came because he was the Lord of life. He desires to share his life witu us. That was often in his thought: “I am the life;” “He that liveth and believeth in me” shall never die;” “I am come that they may have life.” If we have given ourselves ot Jesus Christ, to accept his lordship and his: love, to be controlled by his feelings and his purposes, we belong to him. More than that; he identifies himself with us. We are branches of the Vipe; we are members of a body of which he is the head; we are one wiih him and with the Father. Then we have come into a mew life. We are “risen with Christ.” There is joy unspeakable in that. But there is also duty. “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above.” This makes it possible for us to set our affections on the things which are above, that is, the things which abide, the eternal things. It is not easy to care for these higher possessions un- less we possess the higher life. But when that comes, as it does in the mo- ment of our complete acceptance of Jesus Christ, it is most natural that we should seek to live in the presence of Christ. We cannot live his life elsewhere. The Old Testament prophets be- lieved in immortality. The living Christ and the regenerated Christian confirm that ancient faith. The Bible and our hunian instincts make us think of death as an enemy. But death was beaten in the struggle for the life of Jesus Christ. Death will be beaten in the struggle for our life if we accept Christ's gift of life eternal. . Death’s sting is gone, Since there is now no condemnation, death cannot harm the Christian. It becomes his servant ushering him into the fullness of life. There is enough meaning to the Christian in the resurrected life of jus- tify the whole vocabulary of thanks- giving. The great pain of life—the pain of unpardoned sin—is gone. The great battle of life—the struggle against the power of death—is won. There is nothing like great 1aith in a great fact to hold people steady. The power of the resurrected life was the secret of the early church’s fearless testimony. It invigorates and tones all the church’s real lie to-day. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES APRIL FIFTEENTH. & Life. Lessons From His Resurrection Miracles.—John 11:1- 46; Luke 7:11-17; 8:41,°49-586. ‘When Christ said of the dead Laz- arus that he merely slept, He said that of all our dead. If. we believe in Christ, we have al- ready entered the resurrection life, and death cannot even interrupt it, What Christ said to the widow of Nain He says to all mourners: “Ween not, but rather rejoice, for your dear ‘one lives now in endless joy.” Do not our fears regarding death, for still put Christ ‘to scorn’? Suggestions. Jt was not merely that Christ told men about their immortality; He was and is their immortality. Unless we begin before death to live “in the power of an endless life,” we never shall live in it. There is no surer test of the reality of our faith than this: Do we look for- ward with dread to our death? The $haree persons whom Christ rais- ed from the dead were martyrs, re- stored to this inferior life that wa might believe. Illustrations. Death, as Whittier says, is a cov- ered bridge over the dark river; but it glows, now, with a brilliant light. Death is like a sleep, leaving the darkness and weariness of earth; and waking where all is light, and strength and morning. The architect that built the house can surely rebuild it. No one can look with seeing eves upon the resurrection miracles of the spring, and doubt his own resurrection after the winter of death, Our Daily Bible. It is good just to read the Bible daily, at any time and place. It is better to read it in a systematic way, at a regular time and place. It is best of all to study it thoughtfully, prayerfully, and with the best helps attainable. With all your Bible-study, make sure each day, the first thing in the morning, of some soul-feeding sent- ence on which to live ‘during the day. President Wilson cf Princeton, at the dinner of the North Carolina So- ciety, brought a grave indictment against the automobile in his state- ment that “nothing has spread soO- cialistic feeling in this country more than the use of the automobile. To the countryman they are a picture of arrogance of wealth, with all its in- dependence and carelessness.” If the countryman regards the automobile in that light, it is a pity, thinks the New York Sun, for rightly used, the motor car will be a great agent of progress. We are inclined to think, however, that it is not the car or its proper use, but rather the motor maniac, that the countryman, with good reason, dislikes. No man who sits in the seat of the scorner, avows the Christian Register, can understand human nature; least of all can he male others less con- temptible: in character and more worthy of honcr.
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