the lifies that has g of the hibit rd for ed by yO. F. J. © him ANSAc~ t any 3, To- esale v, act- 1S SUr= t free. rrists. ation. ttery 1 the vonti- Sevre unds fully. his 1 the in in ‘How fore- turn- h the hat I ‘Why 4 yme— | that mita- worth nalist, aan is rn out work yotash, mpan- . sense inciple anew he loss of pot- 1 field en and tter in not an- ate of ure re- 1 mus: y from use of ts, and > value y mak- ‘or ten grocers quanti- Postuin THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY a BISHOP C. C.(MCABE. Subject : The Preacher’s Commission. ! Brooklyn, N. Y.—The New York Ave- She M. E. Church was crowded to its most capacity Sunday morning when Bishop McCabe preached the Confer- e sermon. Bishop McCabe preached nearly an hour. His sermon was a ypical old-style Methodist oration, and evidently pleased his hearers im- mensely, for his remarks were punc- tuated from start to finish with cries of “Amen,” “Hallelujah!” ‘Yes, yes,” and frequent laughter. “ Bishop McCabe's subject was “The Preacher’s Commission,” and he took for his text the passage in Haggai: “And the-desire of all nations shall edme.” He said: Haggai was one of the prophets who went to the captive Israelites to help to rebuild the walls of the ruined tem- ple and of their destroyed city. Zech- ariah was the ether one. They were both men of vast hope and mighty faith, and God gave them vision to read the future, and, because they saw the future, they were optimistic men. They did not believe that anything was too good to be true. We need such men. We have enough men who tell as how much better the past was than the present, and who discourage us, and we need men who talk hopefully; men who speak of the future with de- dight, because they know that the Lord’s prayer—that the will of God shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven—will some day be fulfilled. These two prophets went to the Israel- ites, to Jerusalem, and struggled to rebuild the temple, and they were greatly needed. Cyrus, the King of Persia, allowed them to go. Cyrus was the conqueror of Babylon, and these Jews had fallen into his hands and he treated them finely. Cyrus was a man who believed in religious liberty. Tt is strange that 2500 years ago there was a man in a high on earth position who believed that every man had a right to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. I know Cyrus believed in religious liberty be- cause he was not a Jew, and yet he allowed these Jews to go and rebuild their temple and ruined city. I think God loved Cyrus on this account. I know He did, because He sent him a message by Isaiah, “I will go before thee and make thy way straight before thee” Cyrus would have made a great Czar of Russia; there would be 0 more massacres of the Jews. And what a great Sultan of Turkey. he would have made! There would be no more massacres of Armgnians sim- ply because they were Christians. I trust in God that the time will come when a great man llke Cyrus will oc- cupy every throne on earth, and when the idea that one man can control the conscience of another shall pass away forever. I have myself seen 580 in- struments of torture which were used by men and devils—for I think the devil inspired men to use such instru- ments of torture—to make all men think alike. I looked with amazed in- terest at the “Maid of Nuremberg,” a terrible instrument called by that mame. It consists of great, wide doors, in which I counted nine spikes, several inches long. When the victim was asked for the last time “Will you re- pent?’ if he said “No,” these doors were slammed, and the victim quiver- ing on these spikes would suffer more anguish than Jesus Christ did on the 2. “The tombs.” These tombs were either natural caves or recesses hewn out of the rock, with cells upon their sides for the reception of the dead. “A man.” Matthew mentions two men. Mark and Luke speak only of one, probably the fiercer of the two, with- out denying that two were healed.: “Unclean spirit.” Called unclean be- cause the spirit defiled both body and soul, the outward filth being a type of the inward defilement. : 3. “Could bind him.” Attempts had béen made to bind him because he was exceedingly fierce (Matt. 8:28). Luke tells us that he was naked. 4. “Fet ters and chains.” Fetters were for the feet; chains for any other part of the body. “Tame him.” It was impossi- ble to bring his wild, savage nature un- der restraint. 5H. “Night and day.” He was de- prived of sleep. “Mountains—tombs.” Here the demoniac had his home; for all maniacs wera cutcast as soon as they became violent, for that age had ne provision for taking care of them. Institutions of pity for the unfortunate are among the gifts of Christ; an- tiquity knew nothing of them, or of the spirit that would produce them. “Crying.” Probably with hideous yells. “Cutting himself.” Here is an impres- sive picture of what all men would become under ths absolute dominion of Satan” } . II. The demoniac goes to Christ and is delivered (vs. 6-13). 6. “Ran and worshiped.” As a man he is attracted toward Christ, but when under the influence of the demons he desires to withdraw from Christ. 7. “And cried,” ete. It is‘impossible to account for his strange consciousness of a wonderful power in Jesus, or for the utterance of language which comes, as it were, from a being within the man on any other hypothesis than the ex- i-fence of beings superinduced upon men. “To d> with Thee.” Literally, What is there between Thee and me? What have we in commosn? Why in. terferest Thou with us? The devils ationce recognize their great enemy with divine power. “Torment me not.” Herein the true devilish spirit speaks out, which counts it a torment not to Le suffered to torment others, and an injury done to itself when it is no more permitted te be injurious to others. 3. “What is thy name?” Christ asked the man (not the demon) his name in order to get his attentiecn and bring him to a consciousness of hig own per- sonality. “Legion.” The demon an- swered, speaking through the man. The Roman legion ccusisted of about six thousand men. The svord has cote to piean auy large number—a host. 10. “Bescught.” The demon knew who was in authority over him. “Out of the cquntry.” This is explained in Luke 8:31. They did not wish to be sent “into the deep; that is, the abyss of hell, into the bottomless pit (Rev. 20:3). Send us anywhere, anywhere but to perdition. Send us to the most shattered man; send us to the lowest creature, intc man or Least, bird cr reptile: anywhere but into hell. 11. “Great herd.” Thougl the Jews did not eat pork the Roman scidiers did and the swine may have been kept to Supply their wants. 12. “Into the swine.” How could demons enter swine? We do net knew. But we see many things quite as difficult to under- stand. The connection of mind and body in us is an equally great mystery, 3. “Gave them leave.” The devil cannot so much as irouble swine with- out leave from God. “Were choked.” Cavilers have charged our Lord with wrong doing in “sending” the demons inte the swine and thus eansing such a great loss to the owners: but it should Le noted that what Jesus did was to drive them cut of the man and then permit them to go where they wished. . The effect of the cure (vs. 14-17). 11. “YFied,” Their gone. “In the city.” the sea. “Went out.” The quickness with which intelligence flies in the East. Matthew says. “Behold. the whole city came out to meet Jesus.” 15. “See him—sitting.” There is a marvelous contrast between the man’s former and his present condition. In- stead of wandering among tombs, in nakedness, and filling the people with terror by his wild, maniacal ravings, he is now sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. Those who come to Christ and take Him as their Savior always come into their right wind. . “Were afgaid.” They knew they were in the presence of one who had great power. and perhaps they feared Jesus might send upon them the punishment they knew they deserved on account of their sins. When Christ comes into a place there is either deadly fear or great rejoicing. 16. “They saw it? Those who fod the swine and others who may have been there when Jesus landed. Then, toe, the disciples may have told the story. 17. ‘To depart.” = They no doubt feared greater losses. They pre- ferred swine to Christ. IV. The -saved man at Christ (vs. 18-20). 18. “Be with Him.” How different is this grateful man from what he was before he met the Savior. ide loved Jesus now and de sired to join himself to Christ. 19. “Go homsa—tell.” We owe var first duty to our home and friends. 20. “Decapolis.” From deka—ten, and polis—city, meanirg ten cities. occupation was Gergesa, near work for More Power, There Is only one way by - which more power can be obtained, and that is by waiting en the Lord in confidence, in obedience and in patience.—Rev. W. Y. Fullerton. True Source of Happiness. The true disciple of Jesus needs not to forget himself in order to be cheer- fui in his very innermost soul: for the source of his happiness is not in the outward world, but within himself.— Zschokke, CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES Christ's Life..: ~kessons From His Miracles of Healing. Matt. 9: 27-34; 25: 31-40. Christ is always saying to us, “Ac- cording to your faith be it unto you" Faith is the key to all blessedness. The blind men were healed, not so much that they mignt see as that they might speak. Their gratitude was better than their vision. There are still “dumb devils” need casting out! Do you think of Christ as sitting on a radiant throne? Think of Him as suffering in the body of the next wretched man whom you could help. Suggestions. The only thing at which Christ wondered was the splendid faith of a Gentile. Perhaps He is now wonder- ing at our unfaith. Christ healed bodies in order to the far more important healing of souls. Christ’s promise that we should do “greater things’ than He is fulfilled in the marvels of modern science. Will Christ answer prayers for healing now? Yes, if the prayer is willing to be denied. Hlustrations. To Christ, the Creator, a sick hu- man body was like a halting machine to the inventor of it. " There .was no real marvel in Christ’s healing; the marvel would have been if He had kept from heal- ing,—as if a fire should burn without heat or a lamp without light. Christ’s miracles were the mint- mark stamped upon His teachings. Healing radiates from Christ as light frecm the sun, and the true Christian must reflect it like a mir- ror. that Questions. Are you trying to heal the sins and sorrows of those around you? Has Christ been a Physician to your soul? - Are you spreading the the Great Physician? The medical mission is the out- come of the living teachings of our faith.—Isabella Bird Bishop. praise of Christ is now, through ‘His dis- ciples, healing more sick, opening more blind eyes, binding up more broken-heated, than He did in Pales- tine eighteen hundred years ago.—F. N. Peloubet. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, MAY 13. Investing Our Lives.—2 Tim. 4. 6-8. Anniversary Day. The seventeenth anniversary of the Epworth League will be celebrated on May 13. A complete and attractive program will be prepared, which every chapter ought to use. It is intended to be sim- ple, sensible, and full of interest. Its successful presentation is meant to be within the powers of the smallebt chapter, and yet the largest should find it entirely worthy of being used. Do not permit any light reason to interfere with the use of this special program. It affords every chapter the one opportunity of the year to put its work fairly and strikingly before the whole church. The whole day may be profitably de- voted to the anniversary theme. Per- haps the pastor may be willing to preach a special sermon at the morn- ing hour. The evening service should be entirely devoted to the special pro- gram. Of course, there must be an understanding with the pastor, so that the chapter may have his consent and cooperation. Magnify the occasion in every pos- sible way. Emphasize its importance by careful preparation, by vigourous advertising, by general participation. Let the entire celebration be on the high level of the League’s true import- ance and dignity. If some chapters find that they can- not use the anniversary program they should yet plan to celebrate the day in some way or other. Every year the official program pro- vides for the installation of officers and the graduation of Juniors. These exercises may he made part of the cel- ebration. even though the rest of the program is not used. Wheat has two uses. If may be eaten, or it may be sown. Eaten, it satisfies the appetite of the moment and ministers to the needs of the body. Each grain has one grain’s value, and no more. It abideth alone. Sown, it dies. But out of the death of the wheat comes the life of the harvest. The grains are buried in the dark earth. The fields are brown and bare above them. But soon there is a shimmer of green, then a sea of gold. Each grain of the sowing has risen from death, but with its life and its value multiplied thirtyfold. Life may also be put to two uses. It may be eaten, or it may be sown. It mal be consumed as it comes, each day’s power and worth used to satis- fy each day's desires. That way there is gratification for the moment, but no gain of influence, no strengthening of the forces of life, no enlargement of life’s meaning. Life may be invested for others. And that way comes the increase of influence, the widening of life's out- look, the enrichment of life’s purposes and results On the Pacific Coast fifty years ago only a few gold-made prospectors; to- day thriving, hustling towns and thickly settled farming communities. The huge lumber traffic of northern California, Oregon and Washington is a great attest of American pros- perity. Annually for the last three years more than 1,000,000,000 feet of redwood, pine and fir has been taken from these almost inexhaustible tim- per tracts and shipped to California coast points, and more than 200,000, 000 feet sent abroad. A PIPE OF MANY PEOPLES, Euglish Ladies and Indian Lovers Pined to Play the Flageolet. The flageolet is of peculiar interest to Americans, says the American In- ventor, as from time immemorial it kas been the medium through which the Indian youths courted their sweet- hearts at a distance, when they were so unfortunate as to be unable to gain a persondl audience. The love, or courting, flute of the Apache is made of a round stick of cedar about twenty-four inches long, split lengthwise and hollowed to form an air chamber. A hole is made on each side of this diaphragm, and a shallow air passage cut from one hole to the other. Above it a cap of wood is placed for the purpose of covering the upper hole and the air channel. The lip is made of a thin sheet of lead. and the ‘whole bound together with a slender thong. In the tube part, or body of the instrument, are placed six finger holes, a condition that points unmis- takably t: the influence of contact with the white man. The Adageolet, as ord narily under- stood, may be described as a whistle- headed flute. In the seventeenth cen- tury English ladies often played on it. Sometimes two or three flageolet tubes were constructed, with one head. for the purpose of introducing notes in harmony. * i An old ©nglish diary of 1667 con- tains this quaint referenc. ioc the dou- ble flageolet: “To Dumbleby’s, the pipe- maker, there to advise about the mak- ing of a flageolet to go low and soft. and he do show me a way to do, and also a fashion of having two pipes of the same note fastened together, so as I can play on one and then echo it upon the other, which is mighty pretty.” WORDS OF WISDOM, Farmers make a lot of money for the people who sell whet they raise. Every boy needs a good education so he can realize how little he knows. When a man talks weather to you it is a sign he thinks you are a blamed fool. Everybody's head would be filled with brains if they were no use to him. People can enjoy doing most aay- thing unless they make their living by it. : Either it isn't hot enough in the cold season or cold enough in the warm season. If a man married a rich wife prob- ably it would be just his luck to go and die. To a man spring brings tender thoughts of a fishing rod; to a woman of a bonnet. A nice thing about living in the suburbs is it never seems hard to die when your turn comes. A man gets along with his landlord almost as comfortably as with his wife's relatives. A woman calls a man a good husband when he will blame anything she does to annoy him on the weather. A man always thinks he would be willing to drink less if he had half as much money as he spends on it. It would be much easier to be good if you thought it was smart to keep anybody from catching you at it. A girl is going to have a good time at the stupidest kind of a party if she is going to wear a new dress at it. You have to understand human na- ture mighty well to know that other people aren't any bigger fools than you are. If a woman rode across on a steamer and came right back again without get- ting off the ship she would talk about the time when she lived abroad.—From “Reflections of a Bachelor,” in the New York Press. Little Shoe Sense. The hoe should be three-fourths of an inch longer than the foot, for the foot works forward in walking. Short shoes force the toes back. and finally the joints become distorted and bulge cut on the sides and above. Thus corns. bunions and other disorders are developed, says the Chicago News. Walking shoes should not be worn in the house, neither should the same pair be worn on consecutive days, thus giving them a chance to rest. If the shoes are cleaned every day and oiled once a month they will last much longer. Gil them, especially on the soles and about the stitches where the uppers join the soles. For this pur- pose castor oil is very good. The heels should always be kept in good repair. Rubber heels will prevent the jarring that comes from contact of the heels with pavement. Be carefull always to have laces and ribbons in your shoes. fresh Noth- ing so marks a woman untidy as worn- ribbons or flowing, stringy shoe ties. People Who Never Sneeze. “Africans never sneeeze,” said a globe-trotter, ‘and their desendants, the colored people of our own land, if they are pure-blooded, don’t sneeze either. “A cold; damp atmospheric condition is the cause of sneezing. Since it is practically never cold and damp in Africa, no man sneezes there, whether he be native or foreigner. “The natives, because they have never sneezed in Africa, can’t sneeze when they leave Africa—for the same reason, perhaps, that one who has never been in the water can't swim when he falls overboard. “At any rate, be the fact what it may, the fact remains that the African, either in the jungle or on Broadway, never rends the air with a ker-choo.” —New York Press. Indiana bas the second largest school fund. TETSTONE STATE COLLIS BUYS 1,200 ACRES OF LAND Ligonier Companies. to Develop Timber and Coking Coal in West- moreland County. David M. Menoher of Ligonier, rep- resenting the McConnellsburg Manu-~ facturing Company and the Byers-Al- len Lumber Company, both Ligonier concerns, has purchased from Clear- fleld and Jefferson county capitalists 1,200 acres of timber land in Ligon- ier township, Westmoreland county. The purchase price was $20,000. The tract is along the Pittsburg, West-" moreland & Somerset railroad and will be developed immediately. It is underlaid with coking coal and ovens will be ereeted. Attorney General Hampton IL. Car- son filed a bill in equity in the Dauphin ccurts to restrain the Penn- sylvania and allied companies from collecting a $10 rebate on each in- terchangeable mileage book sold. The reasons cited by the attorney general for bringing suit are similar to those given at the time his bill was sent to the State printer for printing. The date of hearing has not yet been fix- ed. W. A. Stone has bought 150 acres of coal near Smock, from the Pitts- burgh Coal Company for $1,300 an acre. He has also purchased the plant of the O'Connell Coal and Coke Company, near Smock for $70,000, and will increase the plant from 35 to 150 ovens. A new company will be organ- ized with a capital stock of $200,000, and among those interested are W. A. Stone, L.. H. Frasher, W. E. Crow. and Dr. W. H. Hopwood of Union- town. May day in Pittsburgh passed quiet- ly, so far as labor disturbances were concer Building trades work- men, h the exception of the car- penters, remained at work. While some of the larger concerns employ- ing carpenters announced they were unable to continue work many said that the men in their employ were competent and worth the $4 a day that was demanded. The First National Bank of Free- land, which was declared insolvent, and placed in the hands of a receiv- er March 17, 1906, having complied with the conditions imposed by the comptrolier of the currency, preced- ent to resmuption, and its capital not being unimpaired, has been permit- ted to resume business as an active national banking association. The Armory Board adopted plans for a new armory for Company E, Tenth Regiment, at Mt. Pleasant. The siructure will be of brick and stone and up to date in the matter of con- veniences. A committee was ap- pointed to arrange for an armory at Bradford, and the site selected at Corry was approved. Two men were taken to the hos- pital in a dying. condition, a third is seriously stabbed, several others are injured and seven men are in the Windber lockup as the result of a clash between union and non-union men at Paint Creek, near Windber. Newton B. Weddell,. of Chambers- burg, who was arrested while run- ning away with $400 he had secured from Mrs. Zlipha Ruthrauff on the representation that he meant to buy her a grocery store, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Gov. 8S. W. Pennypacker issued a requisition on Gov. Pardee, of Cali- fornia, for the return to Pennsylvania of L. lI. Mitchell, who is wanted in Luzerne county to answer a charge of conspiracy in connection with a min- ing deal. Capt. Charles J. Harrison and Mil- ton J. Pritts of the Somerset County National bank, sold 1,500 acres of “A” and “B’ vein coal to the Pen- wood Coal Company, a $150,000 cor- poration composed mainly of New York capitalists. The hig stock barn of the H. C. Frick Coke Company at Dorothy was burned, with five horses, valuable ma- chinery and much hay and grain. The loss is $6,000, covered byesinsurance. Five footpads held up and robbed Leo Marks of $50 at a lonely bridge in North Bridgewater. Marks was so geverely injured that it was an hour before 1} could crawl into the vil- lage and give an alarm. George G. Gans has purchased from W. F. Paiterson of Waynesburg 300 acres of coal land in Center township, Greene county, and 100 acres of coal land in Marion county, W. Va. Palmyra, 10 miles west of Leban- on, had a serious fire. The blaze started in Shiner’'s bake shop, soon spreading and destroying a residence and several large barns. After living to the great age of over 108 years Mrs. Mary McKit- trick met death at her own hands at the home of her son, Luke McKit- trick, near Uniontown, Pa. The poor directors of Fayette county have taken action to provide needy persons bitten by mad dogs with proper medical attention. The Boston Clothing Company’s store at Connellsville was entered by robbers, who got away with nearly $900 worth of goods. Governor Pennypacker reappointed General John A. Wiley of Franklin and George F. Davenport of Mead- ville trustees of the Polk Institution for the Feeble Minded. The body of Luther Neiman, a Pennsylvania railway engineer wha had been missing from his home in Harrisburg 10 days, was found in tha Susquehanna river. The Governor issued a death war- rant for the execution of John Bod- nar of Chester county on June 28 Major W. H. Davis will be the next postmaster of Pittsburg.