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AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: Christian Character.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church
on the theme, ‘Christian Character,”
the Rev. I..W. Henderson, pastor,
took ‘as his text I. Peter 2:9: “That
ye may show forth the excellencies of
Him who hath called you out of
darkness into His marvellous light.”
He said:
Character is determined in the
terms of an exercised moral and spir-
itual consciousness. Character at its
highest is conformity to the best
moral and spiritual consciousness
that is within us. It is both the con-
summation and the limitation of the
will of man. It is not only a matter
of the outward life but it is also the
indication and the manifestation of
an inward grace. Character is the
sum of any man’s characteristics of
soul and social life.
Motive is, in the last analysis,
more of account than the outward
act. Feeling is a factor in the human
life. Intentions must be counted.
Desires may draw down or up. But
with all these in the tally, you are
what you will to be. More than your
will desires you will not become.
Character is not only what you
wish you were, nor what the world
thinks you are, nor yet what you
consider yourself to be; but what you
are. It is neither your reputation
nor your record, save as those two
align to the measure of manhood ac-
cording to the rule of God.
Character is the mark of inner
worthiness as well as the emblem of
a good life before the open eyes of
men. Character is not merely hon-
esty, it is more. It is not only out-
ward purity but also inward cleanli-
ness of heart. It means not only to
walk just within the statutes of the
penal code, and just beyond the
clanging iron of a prison door, but
rather to love righteousness and to
practice uprightness because they are
right. Character is virtue, honor, in-
tegrity, godliness. It is deserved
reputation and the glory of a well-
spent life. It is a mark and the vic-
tory of moral worth. More to be de-
sired is it than great riches and its
ripe, rich, satisfying fruitage is peace
and quietude of heart.
Christian character is conformity
to the character of Christ. It is to
bear the express image of the saving
Son of God in the inner man and
through all the problems of the so-
cial life. As the Saviour bore the
impress of the divine will of our com-
mon Father; as the faithful Friend
of men showed forth the mind and
the manner of our God, so must we
as true men and women, disciples of
our Lord, be sealed with the evi-
dences of divine guidance.
The highest character of this life
and for the world beyond is that
which finds in Jesus Christ the ideal
and harmonious working of the will
of man with the divine. Character,
as we Christians view it, is concerned
not only with the Christian’s conduct,
not only with his doings in the field
of human action; but also with his
trueness to his personality and to his
God. Christian character includes,
for it can never exclude, a due and a
willing regard for man’s obligations
toward his Maker. It affirms the
basic necessity for absolute and un-
swerving loyalty to self. It insists
and asserts that motive is more than
manner, while demanding that all so-
cial responsibilities be met squarely,
honorably, manfully and in the fear
of God.
The character of Christ is positive.
Christ is remarkable not for the
things that He refrained from doing
but rather is He ideal ia the acts of
nobleness, virtue, good-heartedness
which He did. His was no puny
soul. Obeying the words that came
out of Sinai’s mighty glory, He went
beyond them. Keeping well within
the requirements of Pharisaic legal-
ism, He pushed on and out and up,
above and beyond and ahead of all
the self-complacency and moral blind-
ness of the ecclesiastics, and did
things positive and powerful for men
and for God. Feeling within His
heart the call of immortal duty the
Christ exemplified in His own life
those qualities of character which
have for all time secured Him in His
proud place as the ideal man and
proved to a multitude in this sad and
sinning world His Godhood and His
grace divine.
To you and to me the call comes
down the centuries bidding us ‘to
show forth.the excellencies of Him
who hath called us out of darkness
into His marvellous light.” Having
accepted the Christ and been sealed
with His love, we must bear in our
lives the express image—that is to
say the signet stamp, that is to say
the character—of the Son of God.
The character of Christ presents to
us a double study and preserves to us
a two-fold duty and example. With-
in the characteristic attributes of
holiness and righteousness are com-
prised all the qualities that pertain
to the Saviour in His social sphere.
Holiness toward God, righteousness
toward self and society, these two are
the broad truths that come to us from
the character of the Christ and which
summon us to show forth His glory
and His love. Spirituality and mor-
ality. A sanctified sense of oneness
with the Father, a courageous de-
termination to stand square before
society and upright at the bar of his
own conscience, these are the two
great lessons for us from the charac-
ter of Christ, and the mighty truths:
within which all else in the world of
human conduct is embraced.
To be holy is to be sanctified—that
js to say pure. Not merely purity be-
fore men but a radical purity that
really goes back to the root of things
and that enables the man to be fit,
through the grace of God in Jesus
Christ, to stand before His Father
and His Maker and be glad. Purity
js not merely a matter of soap and
water but of inward wholesomeness.
Christ cares not whether your hands
are dirty with the molder’s clay. He
does weep over a soiled and sullied
soul.
“what an antiseptic,” says Low-
ell, “is a pure life.” What possibili-
ties indeed for good and for uplift
and for God are ever within its power.
But it must be healthfully, honor=
ably pure, with the richness of holi-
ness all about it ere it can count for
most and reap a heavy harvest unto
God.
Righteousness 1s rectitude. That
is to say, erectness. Righteousness
is uprightness. Uprightness is
straightness, moral rectilinearness.
Righteousness means not only to pay
your debts promptly, to keep well
within the limits of the law, not only
to respect the rights of others and
the mandates of society through fear
of theconsequencesofsin,butratherto
seek to do good because it ennobles,
to think of the needs of others be-
cause they are our brothers in Christ.
Righteousness is uprightness in the
home, in the church, in business, in
politics, secretly, socially, in sun-
shine and in shadows, everywhere
and at all times.
Righteousness is virtue. To be vir-
tuous is to be a full fledged man.
Virtue is vigorous with virility. Ety-
mologically it is sprung from the
loins of Latin manhood. Virtue is
goodness which has «stood the strain,
which has weathered the trials of
temptation, which has fought a
manly fight, and won out. It is the
glory of a good man’s life. Virtue
has grit. It is no weakness to be
pure. True men do honor te a
blameness name and only a fool will
laugh at nobleness of heart.
Righteousness is justice. Legali-
ty and justice are not co-terminous.
Justice is the ideality of law. Justice
co-ordinates the right. The law
often hardly approximates it. Jus-
tice enquires not what are my rights
but what are my duties. The just
man sympathizes with the longings
and the needs of men and sustains
their aims. The ‘legal’ man may
oft forget that God exists and right
should reign that law may be evaded.
In the apocryphal Wisdom of Sol-
omon we find these words: ‘Honore
able old age is not that which stand-
eth in length of time, nor is its meas-
ure given by number of years, but
understanding is gray hairs unto men
and an unspotted life is ripe old age.”
Virtue, justice, uprightness, these are
the things that count for righteous-
ness and the man of years is the man
who is godly.
Christian character is the need
and it should be the hope of us all.
To the men who are Christ’s is given
the leadership of the world. Let the
salt retain its savor and all the leav-
en its uplifting power. If we .are
Christ's let us show forth His holi-
ness and righteousness. If we are to
lead, let us be fit. It has been well
and truly said, that ‘immoral life in
one leader of the people is more per-
nicious than a whole strest full of
impurities in the lower quarters of
the community.”
Character counts. Christian char-
acter is the consummation of human
power and of human beauty. To
bear the impress of the character of
Christ is to be worth while to men
and to God. Holiness brings happi-
ness. Righteousness is more of ac-
count than riches. Purity is peace.
Virtue is vigor and strength and the
mark of moral decency. Justice is
profitable and well-pleasing, to
God. Moral rectitude and a holy life
are the riches of the soul laid up in
the treasuries of heaven. Character
is good. Christian character is glor=-
ious. To ‘show forth the excellen-
cies” of Jesus is the business of His
church.
The Soul's Growth.
Temptations do not decrease, but
rather increase, with the growth of
the soul. The little man fighting his
little battles wishes that he were a
great man so that the more easily he
might overcome them; but when he
becomes great himself he sees that
storms circle the higher altitudes that
make the petty battles of the lower
level seem insignificant.
Many seem to think that tempta-
tion lays its hands only upon our
weak spots. But think a minute.
Here is a lawyer who has little abil-
ity, seldom wins a case, always gets
on the off side of a jury, and is no-
toriously incompetent to plot a case
or plead it. Does that man know
what it means to have a confessed
criminal offer him a hundred thou-
sand dollars to get him clear? Does
he know what it is to have a princely
fortune dangled before his face if, in
legislative halls, he will stand on the
wrong side of the question for just
one hour? He knows absolutely
nothing about it.
So it is in the Christian life; the
stronger we grow to be, the stronger
will be our temptations. The nearer
we grow into the likeness of Christ,
the fiercer will be the onslaughts of
the enemy. We cannot escape life’s
battles by moving into a different
or higher sphere. Each stage or
sphere has its own temptations. As
Jesus was tempted, so will be His
disciples. But, as He was made per-
fect through sufferings, so our trials,
which are but for the moment, will
work for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory.—Ram’s
Horn.
Winnowed Wheat.
A good man does good merely by
living.
You are not very holy if you are
not very kind.
God ‘often comes to visit us, but
generally we are not in.
What is each man but one little
thread in the loom of God?
Bind together vour spare hours by
the cord of some definite purpose.
No grip is so hard to shake off as
that of early religious convictions.
Our remedies frequently fail, but
Christ as the remedy for sin never
fails.
God’s silences may be long, but
they are never the silences of forget-
fulness.
A little thorn may rend the finest
fabric; so may a little sin mar the
fairest soul.
There may be movement, but there
can be no progress, in traveling with-
out God.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom
which springs from the soul, and the
heart of man knoweth none more
fragrant.
We sleep in peace in the arms of
God when we yield ourselves up to
His Providence, in a delightful con-
sciousness of His mercies; no more
restless uncertainties, no more im-
patience at the place we are in, for it
is God who puts us there ‘and who
holds us in His arms. Can we be un-
safe where He has placed us?
New York City.—Every variation
of the shirred blouse is and will be
in vogue. The one illustrated is
made with a deep narrow yoke and
with absolutely new sleeves. In the
case of the model the material is
corn yellow chiffon cloth, with a yoke
of cream colored lace over chiffon
and trimming of silk banding and
little buttons, but every material that
can be shirred successfully is appro-
priate, and the list of such is a long
one. Crepe de chine, louisine silks,
Oyama crepe and a host of other
things might be mentioned, while the
chemisette always can be lace or in
lingerie style as preferred.
The waist is made with a fitted lin-
ing and consists of front and backs.
The lining is faced to form the chem-
isette, and the waist itself is shirred’
on the shoulders and again on the
centre front and at the waist line to
.| as all girls’ dresses should be.
~The Sailor Serviceable.
A trim round sailor with fluttering
streamers is one of the jauntiest and
most serviceable of hats that can be
chosen for general wear for little
folk.
. Bands For the Neck.
A stitched band, decorated with
French knots or tiny embroidered
figures, follows the edge of the neck
opening of some of the blouses worn
with a guimpe. A circular band fits
the round opening nicely.
From Plain to Dainly. . :
There are so many pretty embroid-
ery bands for collar and cuffs that it
is a very easy matter nowadays to
transform a plain waist into a dainty
garment by this simple means.
Girl's Russian Blouse Suit.
There is no dress that more per-
fectly suits the needs of the school
girl than the one made with the Rus-
sian blouse. It is exceedingly stylish
in effect, it is very generally becom-
ing, at the same time it allows per-
fectly free movements and is simple
This
one includes some novel features and
is trimmed with banding at the edge
of the front as well as on the sleeves.
In this instance royal blue serge is
trimmed with a pretty banding and
collar and cuffs of white, but while
blue is well liked it is not obligatory
and other plain colors and checks
will be greatly used throughout the
coming season.
The suit consists of the skirt, the
body lining and the blouse. The
body lining is smoothly fitted and the
straight skirt is gathered and joined
thereto. The biouse is entirely sep-
arate and consists of fronts and back.
It is closed at the left side and is
finished with a hem on the lower
edge, in which is inserted elastic that
| regulates the size. The sleeves are
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made invisibly at the back. The
sleeves extend a little below the el-
bows in conformity with the latest
decree of fashion and are shirred and
finished with roll-over cuffs and frills
of lace. :
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four yards
twenty-one, three yards twenty-seven
or one and three-quarter yards forty-
four inches wide, with three-eighth
yard of all-over lace and one and
seven-eighth yards of binding.
Crossover Belts.
Deep crossover belts of silk or
moire are useful substitutes for the
corselet of cloth which economical
folk are severing from their early
spring purchases in readiness for the
first snap of autumn. These belts
are made, of course, on the bias, and
at the point where the folds cross in
front the belt is drawn down slightly
and finished sometimes with orna-
mental buttons, sometimes with
bows, or with a buckle.
Buttonholed Scallops.
Wide scallops buttonholed with
contrasting silk outline the shaped
neck opening and the short sleeve
caps of a school girl's frock. This
is not an altogether new idea, but
a very simple and pleasing means of
decoration.
Vest and Girdle.
Cinnamon brown serge, black vel-
vet for vest and girdle, and gilt but-
tons in three sizes, are the materials
from which a charming suit is devel-
oped. The nine-gored skirt is accom-
panied by a nobby little pony coat.
moderately full and can be finished
either with turn-over cuffs or the
bands.
The quantity of material required
for a girl of ten years is five and
three-quarter
yards
three and five-eighth yards thirty-six,
three yards forty-four inches wide,
with three-eighth yard for collar and
| cuffs and five yards of banding.
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Birds differ very muen in the
heights to which they commonly as-
cend. The condor, the largest of all
vultures and of all flying birds, has
been observed soaring over 29,000
feet, or about five miles and a half
above the level of the sea.
There is now hardly a town or even
a village in the district of Bilboa, es-
| pecially when situated in the vicinity
of running water, where electric light
is not used. A great use has teen
made during the year of electric mo-
tors for small industries and work-
shops, these replacing in many cases
small steanr engines. As far as Bil-
bao is concerned, some further 4000
horsepower was :atroduced from
Guipuzcoa, while 1906 will see some
‘8000 horsepower more employed.
A naturalist relates that the ap-
pearance *of perch, bream and cray-
fish in newly cut dams near the Mac-
quarie River, in New South Wales,
was at first a perplexing mystery, the
fishes even being noticed after the
first rains in the dams, and for some
years spontaneous generation was re-
garded as the only possible explana-
tion. Then came a simple and credi-
ble solution of the problem in a Syd-
ney zpologist’s discovery of half-
hatched fish ova on the breast and
wings of a wild duck.
Our much neglected sense of smell’
When |
well developed it may serve in med-,
can be put to important uses.
ical diagnosis, and some English phy-
sicians have pointed out lately that
diabetes, enteric fever, acute rheuma-
tism, plague, abdominal fistula, un-
dressed cancers, erysipelas in some
cases, gangrene of the lung, pyaemia,
septic mouth, bleeding hemorrhoids
are.
and undressed varicose ulcers
among the disorders that emit charac-
teristic odors, and that can be recog-
Care is neces-}
nized by smell alone.
sary, however, as the physician, after
influenza or the taking of alcohol
himself, may fancy his own odor to’
be that of his patient.
Records show great risk to workers
in caissons at pressures of four at-
mospheres, and by divers at depths of
100 to 150 feet, and the British Ad-
miralty has fixed the limit for divers
at 120 feet. The most daring pearl
and sponge fishers reach 145 feet, ac-
cidents being frequent. Lambert,
who brought $500,000 from a depth
of 160 feet, remained below twenty
minutes each trip, taking an equal
time in ascending, but at last he was
permanently injured by too long a
stay below. The deepest recorded
dive is 204 feet, but the diver died
from too rapid ascent. Two recent
British investigators of the effects of
high pressure have shut each other
into a steel cylinder of a capacity of
forty-two feet, with a pump raising
the pressure to seven atmospheres in
forty minutes. In this pressure they
suffered no harm when decompression
was gradual and circulation was aided
by movements of the body. The con-
clusion is confirmed that fatal results
to divers are due to the rapid decom-
pression.
EIGHT CITIES SUPERPOSED.
Gezer Built on Homes of Cave Dwell-
ers as Old as 3500 B. C.
Excavations of the ancient city of
Gezer, mentioned in early sacred and
profane history, carried on by mem-
bers of the Palestine Exploration
Fund for the last three years have
developed numerous ‘finds,” accord-
ing to advices from Jerusalem pub-
lished in the number of the Biblical
World recently issued from the Uni-
versity of Chicago press.
Eight cities have been found, su-
perimposed upon each other, on the
side of the old defense to the western
road to Jerusalem from the moun-
tains of Judah. The culture, his-
tory, religion and customs from as
far back as 3500 B. C. have been
revealed by architecture, jugs, weap-
ons, masonry, etc.
Dr. E. W. G. Masterman, a mem-
ber of the excavating party, writes
as follows:
“The earliest inhabitants lived in
caves and made all their weapons
and instruments of flint. In the mid-
dle period bronze is the only metal
known, while at a time roughly syn-
chronous with the coming of Israel,
iron appears ‘and gradually replaces
bronze.
“Work of excavating is temporarily
suspended, as the three years’ Turk-
ish firman has expired. It is hoped
to get a new firman, when the re-
searches again will be resumed.”
Beyond Him.
In th: staging of one of his earlier
plays, Joseph Jefferson, accompanied
by a friend, attended a rehearsal,
at which a lively disagreement arose
between two of the actresses as to
the possession of the centre of the
stage during a certain scene. While
the manager poured oil upon the
troubled waters Jefferson sat care-
lessly swinging his feet from the rail
of an adjoining box. The friend could
stand it no longer.
“Good Lord, Jefferson,” he ex-
claimed, ‘this will ruin your play.
Why don’t you settle matters? You
could if you only would!”
Jefferson shook his head gravely,
but with a twinkle in his eye. ‘No,
George,” he replied; ‘‘the Lord only
made one man who could ever man-
age the sun and the moon, and you
remember even he let the stars
alone.”’—Harper's Weekly.
UNITED STATES SENATOR
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
PRAISES PE-RU-NA.
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Dyspepsia is Often Caused by Catarrh
of the Stomach—Peruna Relieves Catarrh
of the Stomach and is Therefore a Remedy
For Dyspepsia. *
Hon. M. C. Butler, Ex-U. 8. Sena-
tor. from South Carolina for two
, in a letter from. ‘Washington,
D. C., writes to the Peruna Medicine
Co., as follows: ’
“TI can recommend Peruna for |
dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I
have been using your medicine
for a short period and I feel very
much relieved. 1t is indeed a
wonderful medicine, besides a
good tonic.” \
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ATARRH of the stomach is the cor-
rect name for most cases of dyspepsia.
In order to cure catarrh of the stom-
ach the -atarrh must be eradicated.
Only an internal catarrh remedy, such
as Peruna, is available.
Peruna exactly meets the indications.
4
Tax Keeps Chinese Out.
The $500 Canadian head tax on
Chinese immigrants is causing a scar-
city of unskilled labor at Victoria.
The British Columbia salmon canners
are petitioning for a reduced head tax
in order to permit Chinese to enter
the province.
Drought and Locusts.
Drought and the invasion of lo
custs are causing damage to the grain
areas in the province of Santa Fe,
Argentina, reports Consul General
Cole. The drought is so bad in one
section that one meat-freezing com-
pany has had to suspend killing, due
to a shortage of suitable animals.
SAVED BABY LYON'S LIFE.
Awful Sight From That Dreadful Com-
plaint, Infantile Eczema—Mother
Praises Cuticura Remedies.
“Our baby had that dreadful compiaint,
Ini: le Eczema, which afflicted him for
seve months, commencing at the top of
his head, and at last covering his whole
body. His sufferings were untold and con:
stant misery, in fact, there' was nothing
we would not have done to have givenihim
relief. We finally procured a full set of
the Cuticura Remedies, and in about three
or four days he began to show a brighter
spirit and really laughed, for the first time,
in a year. In about ninety days he wag
fully recovered. Praise for the Cuticura
Remedies has always been our greatest
pleasure, and there is nothing too good
that we could say in their favor, for they
certainly saved our baby’s life, for he
was the most awful sight that 1 ever be-
held prior to the treatment of the Cuti-
cura Remedies. Mrs. Maebelle Lyon, 1828
Appleton Ave. Parsons, Kan.,July 18,1905.”
How to Save Millions.
The United States imports anmually
about $60,000,000 worth of drugs and
dyes made from products that could
be grown in the United States just
as well. Camphor now sells for 25
cents’ a pound, and while not an
ounce of it is grown in this country
the government has demonstrated
that camphor trees are successful
here: I.icorice root is another thing
that possesses great possibilities.
The Department of Agriculture has
demonstrated that the licorice plant
is hardy as far north as Pennsylva-
nia. Belladonna has also been shown
to do well in good garden soil. The
only way to determine absoluely
whether these various special crops
can be grown successfully is to try
them and it is well to do this in a
small way at first—Farming Maga-
zine. =
A WOMAN'S KIDNEYS.
Women have *so much to do, so
many pains to suffer, so many critical
periods to go through, that it is im-
portant to keep the
kidneys well and
avoid «the backache,
bearing down pain,
headaches, dizziness,
languor and other
common signs of
weak kidneys. Mrs.
Charles F. Smith, of
22 Boyden St., Woon-
socket, R, 1., says:
“M% kidneys wera
weak from child-
hood, and for eight or ten years past
my sufferings were terrible. My
back was very painful and I had
many annoying symptoms besides.
When I began taking Doan’'s Kidney
Pills I weighed only 120. To-day I
weigh 165, and am in better health
than for years. Doan’'s Kidaiey Pills
have been my only kidney medicine
during four years past. They bring
me out of every attack.”
Sold by all dealers.
box. I'oster-Milburn
N.Y.
50 cents a
Co., Buffalo,