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Walking Sticks Adopted.
Many society women have adopted
walking sticks since the crown prin-
cess of Germany set the fashion, and
it §s expected to immediately find fav-
or in Paris, New York and other
centres of fashion.
New Profession for Women.
A. woman who appeared in a Lon-
don police court the other day was
described as a “pawning agent.” She
makes her living by pawning things
for her neighbors, who pay her a com-
mission, because they believe she can
décure larger loans than they could.
Veils.
Styles vary.
The dot remains.
Tuxedo meshes hold good.
Fine nets are favored by some.
Chenille and crochet dots are rivals.
Velvet dots continue in evidence.
Chantilly is seen in black or white.
Chiffon is prettiest for automobiling.
Philadelphia Record.
On Choosing Presents.
Never give anything that pretends
to be of better material than it is.
Therefore, shun rolled gold, electro-
plate, velveteen and artificial gems. A
hall marked silver thimble, costing
two shillings, does more honor to the
giver and shows more respect for the
recipient than a sham silver teapot
éosting ten times that sum. What-
ever is given should be, so far as its
kind is concerned, without superior,
says Home Chat. A carefully chosen
rose has this character; an imitation
Dresden tea service has one directly
opposite.
{ Escorts Are Prohibited.
The. Aberystwyth university senate
at their meeting received a deputa-
tion from the students protesting
against the rule which prohibits the
escort of lady students, and further
protesting against the conduct of the
professors in enforcing the obnoxious
rule. The senate heard them in si-
lence and the deputation withdrew.
Nothing is known as to the decision |
of the senate, which may be deferred
pending the return of Principal Rob-
erts, who is away. There were ru-
mors in the quad that some of the
students are to be sent down.—Lon-
don Daily News.
i Humiliating To Pride.
1 wish that women had more pride
of the right sort, that they were not
willing to gratify revenge and cupidity
at the price of reputation. Why should
a woman expect a man to marry her
after he has ceased to care for her, or
demand a cash payment for the loss
of affection? No woman should place
herself in a position to suffer damage
to anything but her feelings, and a
heart wound should be concealed.
How. can one lay bare the details of
a courtship and reckon caresses on a
business basis like vegetables? The
only explanation is the absorbing de-
sire for money, as if it would pay for
humiliation and public abasement,
There are some things money cannot
buy and one of them is respect which
has been wantonly thrown aside. Some
of the big men of the country are
learning that to their cost.—Betty
Bradeen in the New Haven Register.
Jeweled Buckles for Hats.
Girls who are lucky enough to have
a jeweled buckle may produce their
treasures and add greatly to their hats.
Buckles of all shapes and sizes are
perched up high on the straw hats;
in fact, as one debutante says, “have
a wisp of straw, a buckle and a quill
and you are fixed for the street.”
Rough straws seem to possess undy-
ing popularity and they are bright in
hue and of most remarkable shape.
Madam Bakmitieff, wife of the Russian
ambassador to Japan, who has been in
this country visiting relatives, wore
a straw hat which was barely larger
than a saucer and the straw was so
rough that it seemed almost coming
to pieces. It was trimmed with a
green wing and a huge buckle of dull
gold with green gems. But Paris has
placed the seal of approval on these
got-up-in-a-minute coverings, and
American women are hastening to fol-
low suit.—New York Press.
Why French Women Dress “Well.
Cheap fashions in Paris do not mean
cheap finery, and that is why French-
women dress well. When they want
finery they pay for it, and when they
can’t afford it they go without and
dress according to their means. That
is the whole secret. They dress as
well, relatively, on £10 ($50) a year
as on £1000 ($5000). The style is
everything, and that—within limits—
is as accessible to a short as to a
long purse.
Experts say that the very cheapest
dress which a Parisian shop girl can
buy—one at 19f. 90c., for instance—
has a style about it and is in the
fashion. Would she find its equiva-
lent in England? In Paris it is an
axiom that there is only one fashion
for rich and poor alike, and East End
hats and coster-girl modes have no
French equivalent whatever. It is
true that the French girl devotes two-
thirds of her life, as a rule, to the
study of dress. She knows within a
week or so what the great ladies are
wearing, and > carefully refrain-
a
ing from aping their luxury, she fol
lows their fashions closely. In short,
she asks for style without finery. She
would no more think of going to her
work in an unfashionably cut dress
than she would of hanging cheap rib-
bons, sham lace and tin ornaments
round herself. Hence her own special
shops must keep as much up-to-date
as the great couturiers.—Paris Let
ters to London Telegraph.
Hats and Low-Cut Gowns.
It is not considered good form to
wear gowns cut low at the neck in
public places such as the play or
when dining in public. Abroad gowns
made in such fashion and worn with
large hats are considered correct, but
as yet the fashion on this side of the
water has not received the stamp of
approval, although it has been at-
tempted several times during the past
winter. When the models for gowns
of this description are sent over from
the other side, American dressmakers
change the style only by putting in
a yoke or guimpe, unlined, of lace or
chiffon. The original design is, there-
fore, left quite unchanged, and the
general effect is practically the same.
These unlined yokes and guimpes are,
besides, far more becoming to the ma-
jority of women when a hat is worn
with the gown, for there is something
hard and trying in the combination of
a low-cut waist and a hat that, ex-
cepting in a picture, makes the effect
crude.—Harper's Bazar.
If You Would Be Good Looking.
Don’t take a hot bath more than
twice a week and then only at night,
just before going to bed.
Don’t dry your face in a hurry. ‘A
quick rubbing coarsens and injures
the skin.
Don’t rub your face downward. It
makes the cheeks hang down. The
forehead should be rubbed .from the
center to the temples.
Don’t eat your meals in a hurry. If
you do you will have indigestion and
very probably a red nose.
Don’t use soap on your face if it
doesn’t agree with your skin. Almond
meal is an excellent substitute. Used
with warm water it is not only cleans-
ing, but refining for the complexion.
Don’t eat fat meats, highly spiced
food or stimulating coffee if your face
is inclined to redness. A careful diet
and plenty of exercise should remedy
it.
Don’t go out for a five-mile walk one
day and stay in the house ail of the
next. :
Don’t get into the habit of blinking
your eves nervously. It is a strain
on the eyes and renders the sight
weak and irritable. Keep the eyes
shut for at least ten minutes in every
hour if you find the habit growing on
You, and bathe the lids in warm water.
Don’t read until midnight. One
hour’s sleep before 12 is worth two
afterward, to say nothing of the good
effect on the eyes.
Don’t neglect drinking water and
plenty of it. Many a woman suffers
from an ugly, blotched complexion
who could remedy ‘the trouble by
drinking plenty of water and eating
fresh fruit.
Don’t sleep six or seven hours one
night and ten or twelve the next. The
-amount of sleep needed depends on
the individual, but there is nothing
so conducive to health and good looks
as enough sleep at regular hours.
Don’t sleep with your window
closed. Fresh air is absolutely neces-
sary, and the temperature should be
from 45 to 60 degrees.—New York
Mail.
Fashion Notes.
In millinery as in dress, black and
white with a touch of palest blue is
a favorite combination.
No circular skirts are used for out-
ing suits of any sort. Only the well-
gored styles, as there must be no sag-
ging.
Everything points to a short coat
season in linen as in cloth. Eton jack-
ets, boleros and pony coats rule in
the styles shown so far.
Ribbons are lavishly used on ail
sorts of hats, from those intended for
dress occasions to the severest little
type for every day wear.
Remember that although cellars and
cuffs of white are dainty and pretty
at first, they soil easily, and are a
nuisance unless detachable.
A sacque coat with its semi-fitted
back is more stylish and serviceable
than a box coat which, while it may
be a passing fad, is never really pop-
ular.
A small detail in regard to the new
suits is that only a single row of
stitching appears on bands and folds,
instead of numberless rows, as hereto-
fore.
The most fashionable coats this sea-
son are lined with the same color in-
stead of white, as formerly, a fact that
will, no doubt, be appreciated by the
economical woman. *
Tiny adjustable waistcoats of pique
or linen give a quaint little assump-
tion of mannishness to some serge
suits, simple and practically un-
trimmed, except for buttons.
Raspberry red, Alice blue and a new
shade of green will be popul
yet gray, from the
to the various tones of
checks, stripes and plaids
ionable.
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A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR.
. TORREY, THE GREAT REVIVALIST.
Sabject: One Miser Worse Than Twelve
Whisky Fiends.
Philadelphia.—The Rev. Dr. Torrey.
the great revivalist, on Sunday deliv-
ered a compelling sermon entitled “One
Miser Worse Than Twelve Whisky
Fiends.” His text was Acts xxii., 16:
“And now, why tarriest thou? Arise
and be baptized, washing away thy
sins, calling on the name of the Lord.”
“Why tarriest thou?’ It was God
who asked that question of Saul of
Tarsus, who, as you will remember,
was a most bitter enemy of Christ; I
doubt if Jesus Christ ever had a more
bitter enemy, a more determined, more
relentless enemy than Saul of Tarsus.
Saul of Tarsus sincerely believed that
Jesus Christ was an imposter, that His
claim to be the Son of God was a false
claim. and he hated Him with all the
intensity of a. sincere soul. There
were times when the thought would
come stealing into Saul’s soul, ‘“‘Per-
haps He is the Son of God.” Espe-
cially when Saul stood and saw
Stephen stoned to death and heard
Stephen's dying testimony, “I see the
Heavens opened and the Son of Man
stands on the right hand of God,” the
thought came to Saul, “Does he really
see Him? Is Jesus really the Son of
God?’ But Saul would not listen to
these suggestions.
He kicked against the goal and be-
came all tlfe more bitter against Christ
in his enmity, because there was a
lurking suspicion that he was wrong.
He breathed an atmospliere of threat-
ening slaughter. He went down into
the streets of Jerusalem, going from
house to house, dragging from their
homes men, women and children, spar-
ing neither age nor sex, all those who
professed belief in Christ; he dragged
them to be tried and punished, to be
put to death, and if anyone was to be
killed he always voted for their death,
until at last he had exhausted all his
opportunities for persecution of the
Christian people of Jerusalem, but he
‘had not exhausted his hate of Christ.
He heard that 130 miles away from
Jerusalem at Damaseus there were
other Christians, and his heart went
out in bitter hatred toward those Chris-
tians he had never seen. So he went
to the High Priest and asked the au-
thorities to allow him to go to the city
of Damascus and to do what he had
done in Jerusalem. They were only
too pleased to allow him to go, so he
started on the long, weary way to Da-
mascus, hurrying there, neither stop-
ping for the intense noonday heat, but
pressing eagerly on, so intensely did he
hate the Son of God.
And now he has almost reached Da-
mascus; he stands on the last foothill
and stands looking down into the val-
ley at Damascus. Damascus was a
city noted throughout the ancient
world for its beauty. But as he stood
there looking at the beautiful city Saul
did not think of its beauty, but of the
thousands of Christians there whom he
wished to drag from their homes to
death.
As he was standing there, there sud-
denly shone around him a light
brighter than the sun, and in the midst
of that light the brightest and most
wonderful face and form that Saul had
ever seen appeared. It was Jesus.
With a cry Saul fell on his face to the
ground, and out of the cloud came a
voice saying, “Saul, Saul, why perse-
cutest thou Me?”
From a humbled man came hack the
answer, “Who art Thou, Lord?’ Back
comes the crashing response, “I am
Jesus, whom thou persecutest.”
And now from a thoroughly humbled
man came the answer, “What would
you have me to do?’ ‘‘Arise; get on
thy feet and go into Damascus, and
there thou shalt be told what thou
shalt do.” He arose, and found him-
self totally blind, and thus he entered
the city where he had expected to come
as a conqueror, blind, helpless as a
cripple, where he spent three days and
three nights fasting and praying. But
still he did not accept Christ.
Christ sent a certain disciple to Saul
with the question, “Why tarriest thou?
What are you waiting for? You know
[ am the Son of God; why don’t von
arise and be baptized in your accept-
ance of Me?”
I am going to ask that question of
every man and woman in the building
to-night. “Why tarriest thou?”
There are a great many in this build-
ing to-night who in their secret hearts
believe in Christ, but have never open-
ly professed that faith in Him. Why
tarriest thou? What are you waiting
for? Why don't you accept Christ to-
night? Why don’t you publicly con-
fess your acceptance of Christ to-night?
I wish it were possible for me to de-
scend from this pulpit to-night and
go from seat to seat, from man to man,
woman to woman who has not publicly
accepted Christ and put to them the
question, “Why tarriest thou?”
I beliete that if I could do so that
almost every man and woman who is
out of Christ in this great building
would be brought to Him to-night: But
that is impossible, so the next best
thing to do is for you to forget that I
am speaking to a great congregation
here, and just think you and I are hav-
ing a personal talk together, and that
I am asking the question.
And while IT am asking that question
[ want everybody to draw near in
prayer for a few moments, at the end
of which time I shall have your honest
answer. Let us have a few moments
of perfect silence. Why tarriest thou?
[Perfect silence for a few moments.]
I know what the answer of some of
you is. It is, “I am waiting until 1
am convinced, and just as soon as I
am convinced that the Bible is the
Word of God and that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God I will accept Jesus.”
Now, to every. one here who makes
that answer, I will make the offer: If
you will come to me at the end of this
meeting I will show you with absolute
certainty that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God, and that the Bible is the Word
of God. Nowif youarereally an honest
skeptic you will accept that offer. If
you don’t accept it, don't go around
saying you are a skeptic: you are mot
a skeptic, you are only a humbug.
Of course, if you are a mere quibbler
I have no time to waste on you. But if
you are an honest skeptic I have all
the time in the world for you. But let
me say, right here, that I have yet to
find the first honest skeptie, infidel ag
4 nestic, Bnitarian, or Christian Scientist
who Teafly wanted to know. The truth
is that4l:-could. show them that the
Bible is*the “Word of God and Jesus
1 Christ the Son of God.
It has been accepted by millions all
*over the world, and I know that every
one that has accepted it has found joy
in Jesus Christ and is rejoicing in Him
to-night, and if you come to me really
4 wishing to know and are willing to
obe¥ your conscience; I will put you in }e. -
the way of finding out, and if I don't
succeed, you will be the first one I
have ever failed on.
A few years ago I lived in Minneapo-
lis at a time Shen the boom was on
and men made fortunes in a day. 1
came back to the State of Ohio on a
visit. © One night I and my wife were
stopping with a friend who was then
seventy years of age. He had accumu-
lated half a million dollars. One foot
was inthe grave.
One night when everybody else was
in bed he and I remained up for a
talk, and what do you think he wanted
to talk about—about eternity, or about
the future of his soul? Is that what he
wanted to talk about? No. He leaned
over that old white hand of his and
whispered. “Archie, do you know any
place up in Minneapolis where I could
invest a little money where it would
bring big interest?’ [Laughter.]
You laugh, but there is nothing laugh.
able in it; it was appalling. Thousands
of men in Philadelphia to-night are in
the same grip of that awful curse, that
love for gold. I would rather under-
take to save twelve whisky fiends than
one miser.
How is it with the love of pleasure?
Al, friends, as the years pass by the
less and less pleasure there is in the
world, But the more pleasure you seek
and endeavor to enjoy, the more of a
slave you beconie to it. You go to a
theatre and you will see women old
enough to be grandmothers, dressed
in low-necked gowns, exposing their
thin, weazoned old forms, blazoned
with diamonds, as eager to see the
play as the miss just making her debut
in society. The longer you live for
the world the more of a slave you be-
come to its pleasures, but the less
pleasure there is in it, and the time
will never come when it is easier to
give up the world than it is to-night.
Some years ago I was stopping with
a friend, and after we came home from
meeting he told me the story of his
life. He said: “I had heen happily
married for more than fourteen years.
X the public
1 was the principal of
school in the town where I lived. My
wife and I quite agreed in everything,
and we were very happy together.
“One night something over fourteen
and a half years after we had been
married my wife said to me, ‘Husband,
I have decided to become a Christian
and wish to unite with a church. I
laughed at her and said, ‘Tut, tut!
vou're not going to become a Christian;
I have no idea of becoming a Chris-
tian, and don’t see why you should
wish to become a Christian. Now we
have lived happily together for four-
teen years, and if you will do that it
may result in my going my way and
you going your way and virtually in
a separation.’ ;
“After some further talk I finally
promised to let my wife become a
Christian, but on her promise that she
should not unite with the church; so
she became a Christian. but did not
unite with the church. It went on this
way for about six months, and you
know that no really converted Chris:
tian can really be happy out of Chris.
tian fellowship.
“At the end of six months one Sat:
urday night she said, ‘Husband, I have
been trying for six menths to be a
Christian outside of the church, and 1
have decided that it is my duty to
make a public confession of my faith
and unite with the church.’ Then I
was angry and I said, ‘Wife, see here,
now, I have no intention of becoming
a Christian, and I want you to under-
stand that if you unite with the church
you are nothing more to me.’
“That was a pretty stern test to put
to a loyal wife, but that wife was loyal
and not only loyal to her husband but
loyal to God and man. That wife said,
‘Husband you know that I love you,
but I must obey Gid, and His Word is
clear. I have made up my mind to
make a public confession of religion
to-morrow, and to unite with the
church.’
“1 was very angry and said, ‘Very
well, wife, then you go your way and
I go my way: you are nothing more to
me.” We both went to our rooms and
retired for the night. I could not sleep.
At 2 o'clock I cried, ‘Wife, I am con-
verted; we will go to church to-
gether.” ” «
When he told me that, he was a Con-
gregational minister, and now he is in
glory. If that wife had waited for him
perhaps neither of them would have
Leen converted. She went first and
brought him in. If you will come first
perhaps you will bring your friends
along. “Suppose they won't come?”
you say. Then come without them. I
had rather go to Heaven alone than go
to hell in company. If I were not a
Christian to-night and not another per-
son started for Heaven to-night, I
would start though I Started alone.
Men and women, don’t you know you
are lost? Oh, yes. Don’t you know
that Jesus Christ died for your sins?
Yes. Don’t you know that if you ac-
cept Him He would save you to-night?
Yes.
Well, will you aceept Him? Will
you accept Him? Will you accept
Him? Feeling or no feeling, tears or
no tears, agony or no agony, will you
receive Him?
The Teacher’s Religion.
It was said of a good Christian min-
ister that wherever he went he made
people fall in love with the Lord Jesus
Christ. Evidently he had the right
sort of religion. 1t would be well if all
Sunday-school teachers had the same
kind.. There are some people, Chris-
tians too, godly and conscientious, who
live honestly and uprightly, and who
are active in good works, but who do
not make peopte fail in love with
Christ. It was said of a very earnest
church worker the other day, “I sup-
pose he is a Christian, but somehow. he
never makes me think of Christ.” Yet
are there not too many such church
members? The teacher ought to have
think of Christ.
religion.
world.
for Christ was always joyous. If
should be a religion of love, for Christ
It should be a sunny
was all love.
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
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fNTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FCR MAY 27.
Thousand,
Text, John
41 — Topic:
Subject: Feeding the Five
Mark vwvi., 30-44-—Golden
vi.,, 32 — Memory Verse,
The Great Gospel Feast.
“I. Jesus and His disciples retire to
a desert place (vs. 30-32). 30. “the
apostles—told Him.” A few weeks be-
fore this Jesus had sent the apostles
out among the villages of Galilee (Matt.
10:5; Mark 6:7-13), He Himself going
also (Matt. 11:1). When the news of
the death of John the Baptist reached
them they hastened to Jesus. They
made a full report of their missionary
tour. 31. “A desert place’ Not a
sandy. barren desert. but an uninhab-
ited place. “Resta while.” There were
two chief reasons for taking this
course. ‘Herod might attempt to slay
Jesus and His disciples. The second
reason is here given. They needed rest
and communion with God. “Ne leis-
ure.” The door stood always open, as
in Eastern houses generally, for all
who chose to come in or leave at their
pleasure. No one can do his best work
without periods of rest from work. 32.
“By ship.” They took a boat and
sailed from Capernaum across the
northern end of the lake.
II. Jesus teaches a great multitude
(vs. 33, 34). 33. “The people.” From
John 6:4 we see that the Passover was
Just at hand, and there were throngs
of people going up to Jerusalem.
“Many knew Him.” Because of the
many miracles which He had wrought
(John 6:2). The whole country was in
an agitated state. “Ran afoot.” The
people, watching the sailing of Jesus
across the northern end of the lake,
ran around the northern shore so rap-
idly that they ‘“outwent” the boat and
met Him as He landed. “All cities.”
At this time the western and northern
shores were populous with cities and
villages.
34. “Compassion.” Although weary
yet Jesus was moved with pity for this
people. He walked among them teach-
ing them and healing their sick. “Not
having a shephérd.” They were desti-
tute of teachers to feed, to guide, to
protect, in a word, to shepherd then.
III. The disciples confer with Jesus
(vs. 35-38).
35. “Day—far spent.” Matthew
says “when it was evening.” The
Jews had two evenings. The first be-
gan at 3 o'clock, the second at 6
o'clock. This was in the afternoon.
36. “Send them away.” The disciples
called Christ's attention to the fact
that this was a desert place, and as
the multiude had been there since
morning, it was time to dismiss the
congregation so the people could go and
buy victuals, lest they faint by the
way. Many of those present were on
their way to the I’assove: and Lad no
homes near.
37. “Give ye them to eat.” Jesus
was testing His disciples. Just before
this He said to Philip, “Whence shall
we buy bread that these may eat?”
(John 6:5). But He said this “to prove
him,” for “He Himself knew what He
would do” (John 6:6). Our Lord saw
that His apostles needed lessons in
faith, and this miracle was as much
for their benefit, as for the benefit of
the hungry multitude. “Two hundred
pennyworth.” The penny was a silver
coin, and was worth alout sixteen
cents. The value of the bread neces-
sary would be, therefore, about $32.
And give them.” The import of the
question is, Would. it not be unwise to
take our last penny and spend for this
. purpose?
38. “How many.” Jesus knew just
the amount ot food there was, but He
desired to have them tind out and tell
Him so that the miracle would make a
greater impression. “Five, and two
fishes.” There were five barley loaves.
Barley was their poorest food. The
loaves were round, flat biscuits or
crackers. The fish were small and were
dried cr pickled and eaten with bread
like aur sardines.
IV. The multitude fed (vs. 39-42).
50. “He commanded.” Christ bad fed
their souls, and healed their bodies,
and now He purposes to feed tneir bod-
ies, and thus show that He is able to
provide for all their necessities. “Sit
down.” They sat in orderly ranks for
the convenient distribution of the food
and se they could be easily numbered.
41. “When He had taken.” Accord-
ing to Matthew Jesus said, “Bring
them hither unto Me.” All must centre
in Him. We may have but little, but if
we will give the little we have to Jesus
He will multiply it a thousandfold and
pass it back to us, and grant us the
privilege of passing it out to the starv-
ing, sin-burdened multitudes. ‘Bless:
ed.” Jesus thus sets us an example;
we should never eat without first
thanking God for our food and asking
His blessing upon it. 42. “Were
tilled.” No one ever need leave Christ's
table hungry. He is able to satisfy
every need of soul and body.
V. The fragments gathered up (vs.
43, 44).
43. “Twelve baskets.”
translated “baskets”
wallets. The
The word
means pockets or
twelve baskets were
probably the twelve wallets of the
apostles, which they carried on their
journeys. “I'ragmenis.” Broken pieces
which remained over. According to
John, Jesus directed them to gather up
the fragments, ‘that nothing be lost.”
Why were they required to gather up
the fragments? 1. It would teach
them a lesson in thrift and economy.
2. It would show them that the move
>y gave the more they would have.
It would teach them that nothing
was to be wasted that God had given.
There is no surer way to receive the
full sweetness and blessing of the gos-
pel than to carry it to some hungry
soul. 44. “Five thousand.” Here is
one miracle wrought by our Lord ate
testad by 5000 men, probably 10,000
persous.
English humanitarians have advis-
ed a scaeme for send the pauper
children in London to colonial farms
in Canada. Each farmer will take
care of from 135 to 20 children and
teach them 1 r to cultivate ¢érops ang
care for
STOCK.
The Sahara has over
area of the
states Its popu
lation i
Libyar
a coutir
one-half the!
CHRISTIAN ENOEROR AOTES
MAY TWENTY-SEVENTH.
John Williams, and Missions to the
South Seas. Ps. 97: 1-12.
ianity came to the is-
word 1s ‘‘fear’’; now,
their word is “joy.”
ionaries know well what
darkness’ are, but they
~
p B
more,
clouds and
also know that God is at the heart of
them;
they are “round about Him.”
ssion field, and none mora
islands, has known God as
sterious Destroyer of opposi-
tion. The foes of missions melt away
before Fim.
hippers are confounded;
they worship many gods, lest they
miss some true god; and the mora
they worship, the more they miss
Him.
John William's Life in Brief.
He was, born in England, June 27,
1796.
He Lecame an
prentice in I.ondon,
skilful mechanic.
A devotee of the world, he was im-
portuned by his employer's wife on
day to go to church and was con-
verted in that hour.
Hearing of missionary successes in
the South Seas, he decided for that
life, obtained release from his appren-
ticeship, and on November 17, 1816,
set sail with his voung wife for the
southern Pacific.
He took up work in Ralatea in the
Society Islands, where he built a re-
markable house and introduced civil-
ization.
Bv the end of the first year the na-
tives had contributed $2,000 to church
work, and had built a wonderful
church.
Williams contructed, in all, five
vessels. One was called the “En-
deavor, One, the “Messenger of
Peace,” was sixty feet long, built al-
most without nails, and with todls ha
made himself.
He energetically
ironmonger’s
and a
ap-
very
reached out over
the Pacific, and discovered Raro-
tonga, the largest of the Hervey Is-
lands. They had barely heard of Je-
hovah and of Jesus Christ, and the
king had given those names to two
of his children. Within seven weeks
William’s converts built a church
that would accommodate 3,000 per-
sons.
The missionary carried the gospel
to the Samoan Islands; where the
converts drowned the national god
of war,--—-a piece of rotten matting:
Finally the heroic toiler went to
work in the New Hebrides. The na~
tives of Erromanga, on November 20,
1839, mistook him for one of the
cruel white {raders from whom they
had suffered, and’ murdered him.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, MAY 27.
The Philippines Unparalleled Results.
—Ilsa. 41. 1-5.
Americans knew little of the Phil-
ippines, until the thunder of Dewey’s
guns in Manila Bay echoed round the
world. Then we began to ask ques-
tions about this far-away archipelago.
We found that we bad become pos-
sessors of 1,200 tropical islands, 115,-
000 square miles in extent, populated
much more densely than. the
United States. Most. of the
population is nominally Roman Cath-
olic, though some tribes are Moham-
medan in faith, and others are frank-
ly and entirely heathen. ’
The Christianity of the Philippin
after four centuries of Spanish oppor-
tunity, produced, among other things,
a popular rallying cry, which was rais-
ed the moment Spain's power was no
ionger feared: ‘‘Death to the friars!”
That menacing shout is in itself an
eloquent commentary on the sort of
religion taught by foman Catholic
Spain. The friars have been the sole
religious teachers, and as the outcome
of their instruction their parishioners,
through much bitter experience, de-
sire nothing so much as to be rid of
them.
The Philippines are 0 be given po-
litical sell-government-—some day.
Both great parties are committed to
that policy. The Republicans promises
to prepare the Filipinos for political
liberty; the Democrats premise to give
them political liberty when they are
prepared for it.
The preparation, however, will be a
long and weary task. To imagine it
can be done by any patent short cut
is to cherish the daydream of the fool-
ish. Education and religion must pre-
pare the way. The first is fairly pro-
vided for by the government: the sce-
ond must depend on the faithfulness
of American Christians. If we do not
evangelize the Philippines nobody will.
The ciaim of other mission fields on
our interest and help is strong, but
the claim of the Philippines is impera-
tive.
In the Philippines to-day, There is
more than one missionary who had
scarce so much as heard the name of
the islands five years ago. But all the
worid has heard it now, and Methodist
missions are there in force and to
stav.
The mission began March 2. 1899,
withh a sermon preached by Bishop
Thoburn in the Filipino theater. Ma-
nila. Iu the same work among
the natives began and’it has continu-
ed with unbroken success.
The Filipinos are nominally Christ-
i They are Roman Catholic by
baptisni, but the real meaning of re-
could not be taught them by re-
leaders who were themselves.
examples of shameless living.
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