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CUPID CARDS.
Tiny works of art are some new
‘place cards, to be used at engage-
ment dinners. The desgn shows co-
quetting cupids encircled by a wed-
ding ring. They are hand-painted
most cleverly and may serve as
the
function.
EVENING WEDDINGS.
Evening weddings are very un-
fashionable, the hour generally cho-
sen being noon or 3 o'clock in the af-
ternoon. However, if the wedding is
10 be celebrated in the evening wear
regulation full dress, that is, a low
neck gown without a hat, and, of
course, gloves. Wear a wrap and
take it off either at the church door
or when you reach your seat.
TALLEST WOMAN.
In the Austrian Tyrol a woman
has been discovered who is supposed
to be the largest of her sex in the
world. She is seven feet four and a
half inches tall and weighs 326
pounds. She is well proportioned,
and her age is twenty-seven years.
Her parents and other relatives are
normal in size and weight. Unlike
most giants, ‘“Mariedi,”” as they call
her, is intelligent. She rcads much
and writes a good letter. She dis-
likes to pose as a curiosity, and it is
with great difficulty that showmen
have been able to prevail upon her to
appear before the European public.
MAKE MONEY FERN GATHERING.
During Indiansummerdays (which
a humorist long ago said ought to
be canned, so that we might have
something warm and comforting
stored up for winter emergencies)
‘the women and children of Hunting-
ton, Mass., have a profitable indus-
try. They gather ferns for funeral
wreaths, church decorations and
weddings and ship them to the large
«cities. Some large city dealers pay
well for leaves, and these, in many
instances, are kept in cold storage
until Christmas, when there is a
heavy demand for green decorations.
Wintergreen picking is also prac:
ticed, and women in the rural dis-
tricts gather in much pocket money.
—New York Press.
DON'T FOR TALL WOMEN.
Don’t select the smallest chair in
your friends’ drawing rooms. It may
suit your fairylike sister to sit on a
stool with her hands clasping her
knees, but you should cultivate the
stately.
Don’t choose the shortest person
in the room to talk to, and so call at-
tention to your undue height.
Don’t, when choosing a new frock,
select stripes or those with a trim-
ming from waist to hem. By wear-
ing a well cut wide skirt trimmed
round and round, you can take at
least an inch off your height.
Don’t crown your heads with lofty
hats or a high coiffure. Dress your
hair rather full and curl it fairly
low. Wear moderate sized hats that
have no upstanding plumes.—Wom-
an’s Life.
UP-TO-DATE RINGS.
There are two styles of rings
which have outrun all others in pre-
vailing fashion. One is the large
single stone, about which no setting
is to be seen other than tiny bril-
liants running down on the finger
band; the other is the antique ring
of curious and exquisite workman-
ship.
The mistake, however, which many
women make in the wearing of these
rings is that they do not consult their
becomingness to the hand. A ring
should be as carefully and individu-
ally chosen as a hat.
Fat, dimply hands, or those that
are short and thick set, look infinite-
1y better without rings of any sort.
It is the long, slender hands that
can’ best stand large rings, even
bony, thin ones, so long as they have
a look of whiteness and delicacy, can
wear them with advantage.
WOMEN CHEFS IN DEMAND.
It isn’t easy to satisfy everybody,
as the best of cooks are well aware,
so the women who are beginning to
replace the men in fashionable clubs
shouldn't be discouraged if unkindly
critics say they will drive men to
dine in hotels and restaurants if they
want a really high display of the cu-
linary art. Most persons, however,
are beginning to feel that the wom-
an cook is perfectly competent to
reign over a club kitchen, and that
if it isn’t “manned” as well as by a
man chef,” at least well enough—
and, besides, it saves a lot of money.
The engagement of a high salaried
chef is becoming less a necessity in
clubland, for men are eating less and
less in their clubs. The stir caused
recently when it was announced that
a woman cook was to be “It” in the
kitchen of the Marlborough Club in
London will shortly be forgotten, for
other clubs have been quick to fol-
low suit.—New York Press.
“A WOMANLY GIRL.”
To Dorothy— You ask me whether
a ‘womanly girl” is atiractive to
most people.
In the true sense of the word she
fs most attractive.
She thoroughly knows how to
make those around her comfortable.
She Knows how to give the most
simply furnished room an air of re-
inement as well as comiart.
She is unaffected and simple in
manner and even though she may be
very clever, she never tries to im-
press people with her superior
knowledge.
She is willing to listen and does
not act as though she knew every-
thing about each topic which is
brought up during the conversation.
She adapts herself to every situa-
tion as far as possible, and is
thoughtful and considerate of others
and forgets herself.—Elizabeth Bid-
dle, in the New York Press.
FRENCH WORKING WOMEN.
The prejudice against the working
woman is deeply ingrained in French
society. It exists even among per-
sons in very moderate circumstances.
The little functionary of the post-
office would be horrified if his son
were to marry a girl who had some
occupation of her own that took her
from the domestic fireside. The tin-
iest rente makes her a ‘‘demoiselle,”
a ‘femme du monde’ almost; the
least profession of business degrades
her in the eyes of the ‘‘concierge.”
Nevertheless, France supplies more
working women than probably any
other country in Europe. At least
sixty per cent. of the feminine popu-
lation work. The husband foilows
his occupation in the shop or faec-
tory; his wife is employed as ‘“femme
de menage,” or in some similar ca-
pacity. This arrangement has its ef-
fect upon the populaton tables, tend-
ing to restrict childbirth and to
cause children to be placed out with
a “baby farmer’ in the country, the
parents being themselves unable to
look after their offspring. It is, from
this point of view, certainly unfortu-
nate. But the main question is that
woman has to work; in many cases
she can no longer be supported.
Sometimes she makes a virtue of ne-
cessity, and claims the right to work.
There are many employments of
an official and routine character for
which the woman seems especially
qualified. It is a melancholy feature
of the time that many young French-
men, robust and well fitted for the
struggle of life, are content to pass
their lives in a heated and badly ven-
tilated public office, performing oper-
ations that are almost mechanical,
which could "be done perfectly by
women. They are tempted by the
regularity of the small salary and
the sureness of the position. This
state of things points to a lack of
manly initiative and vigor. Moreover,
it has its reflex on politics. The men
who fill the public offices frequently
owe their position to political “pull.”
They are not there because they are
really wanted by the State, but be-
cause they or their fathers have been
useful to some Deputy. This over-
crowding of the civil service is one
of the reasons why the budget pre-
sents the disquieting phenomenon of
a perpetual increase, though the pop-
ulation does not expand and there
has been no serious war for thirty-
five years. It is because each succes-
sive republican Ministry finds the
distributior ‘of offices indispensable
to power. Every outgoing Govern-
ment is forced to fee its supporters.
M. Clemenceau tilts against exces-
sive officialdom in his program.—
Nineteenth Century. :
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Leather bands and buckles give a
military ‘air to one of the long separ-
ate coats.
The lace panel down the front of
the evening gown may be made de-
tachable.
The jewel-framed miniature finds
an appropriate resting place upon the
heavy gold bracelet.
Bands of heavy lace, wide fancy
braid, or embroidered cloth are
equally favored for trimming cloth
suits.
The jumper waist is particularly
youthful in appearance, and perhaps
*this accounts, in part, for its great
popularity.
The day is not far distant when
larger surfaces, like skirt panels,
will appear on the cloth costumes of
plain color. .
For long journeys there is a great
deal to be said for the fur-lined
leather garments, the vogue of which
abated when strenuous styles became
less prevalent,
A hint of the Watteau idea (which
is predicted for both hats and gowns)
is suggested by the drooping bows
which hang over the back on a num-
ber of the new hats.
The number of designs that may
be developed in soutache and other
braids is limited only by the inge-
nuity of the wearer, for almost any
design is fashionable.
Crossed bands forming a panel in
front or at the side of the afternoon
gown are of velvet or silk of a dark-
er shade than the gown, and finished
with small dangling tassels or che-
nille balls. ~
Many-pointed girdles of lace out-
lined on both edges by velvet ribbon
or folds are becomingto most figures,
the fulness of the gown being are
ranged to puff slightly above the
deep girdle peints.
Wages in the machine factories of
Germany advanced last year ten to
fifteen per cent.
Subject: Vision.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Speaking at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church
on the theme, “Vision,” the Rev. I.
W. Henderson, pastor, took as his
text, Ps. 119:18: ‘Open Thou mine
eyes.” He said:
Of all the physical gifts which we
have received at the hand and by th
grace of a loving Father the natural
eyesight is the best. What a blessed
Lestowal it is. I fancy that most of
us, had we to give up any of the
senses would relinquish the sense of
sight last. Most of us, I believe,
would lose all our other faculties be-
fore this one. The eyes reveal to us
the. animate world. They are the
windows out of which we look upon
the universe of God. With them we
study the nandiwork of Jehovah in
nature and in human kind. Through
them we search the wonders of the
Heavens and view the brilliant beau-
ties of the paintings of God in sky
and cloud, in hill and vale, in wood-
land, stream, in lake and sea.
The eyes are for use. They grow
strong and acute and increase in
power of discernment by
alone. Visual facility is the result
of visual activity. The man who
does not, or cannot, use his eyes,
sooner or later loses the faculty of
vision. The poor vrisoner in the
donjon keep, with only darkness for
companionship and with no consola-
tion save the slow approaching hand
of death, after years of dark confine-
ment and of torture hideous. and
maddening, loses the power to see.
Seeing is not looking. Many peo-
ple look who never see. They look
upon things, but they rarely see into
things. Their eyes cateh visions, but
they rarely pierce beneath the sur-
face. Many people look at things,
they cast their eyes upon things, but
they do not see.
Seeing is a discipline.
a habit of the lax. To sez we must
cultivate the power of perception.
We must school ourselves to look he-
vond the superficial to {he eternal un-
derlying realities. And because they
Jack perception, bezcause their eves
have not heen opened, because they
do not poss 3, through exercise, the
ability to differentiate, to discern, to
perceive clearly, mauy people really
do not see. Tt was not until the clear
vision of a Ruskin showed to me the
purple haze at sunset that I learned
to know aud love the darkening beau-
ty of the hills.
Those who have used their eves are
the world’s greatest men. *‘‘As one of
our wisest teachers has said, the
greatest thing a haman soul ever
does in this world, is to see some-
thing, and to tell what it saw in a
plain way. Hundreds of people can
talk, for one who can think. But
thousands can think for one who can
see; to see clearly is poetry, prophecy
and religion, 211 in one. Therefore,
finding the world of literature more
or less divided into thinkers and
seers, 1 believe we shall find also,
that the seers are wholly the greater
race of the two.” For, as Dr. Hillis
has said, “greatness is vision.”
fancy that many a man bad bathed
in a tub before Archimedes, at his
bath, discovered the eternal fact of
the displacement of bodiss and for-
mulated the truth of displacement
into law. Multitudes of men un-
questicnably gazed upward into the
heavenly firmament and studied the
movement of the heavenly spheres
before Copernicus; but it remained
for him,
Looking i=
ciples of the celestial galaxies. New-
ton was not the first man who had
watched an apple fall from a l=afy
bough; but he was the first one who
really saw the apple fall. Other men
had seen it and had not heen by it
impressed. = Newton used his eyes
and to us was given the law of gravi-
tation.
man who sto~d upon the shores of
Portugal and watched the ships sail
hull first over the horizon’s edge, into
the unknown bosom of the sea; but
in the disappearing vessel Columbus
saw the prophecy of the rotundity
of the earth. Multitndes of kettles
of diverse form had steamed on
many a hearth before the days of |
but only Watts saw the loco- |
Watts;
motive in the wasted, superheated
vapor. ‘With a kite ‘and a Sirtro
many a boy and many a man had
wiled away the pleasant hours; but
it was not until Franklin, with a pre-
vision born of application, sent his,
frail sky-craft up into the clouds that '
the wonder of electricity becama re- |
alized to men. Darwin, Wallace and
Agassi, delving into the inysteries as |
well as the superficialties of natural
life, were not the first to gaze unon
the animal life that is teeming
round about us; but they were the
first to understand, with insight and |
clear vision, the handiwork of God
therein. It is said that Henry .’ard
Beecher could see and reveal! more
beauty in the top of a head of celery
than the average man is able to dis-
cern in the full-bloom beauty of the
rose. Yes, “greatness js vision.”
The world needs discernment. That
fs to say it needs seeing eyes. It
needs to cultivate the habit and the ;
faculty of perception. This is true
in the intellectual, in the civic and
the spiritual world, not to mention
others.
We need vision in the intellectual
life. Too great insistency cannot be
laid upon the need for clear-cut, def-
inite, incisive thinking. We cannot
afford as men or as a society to do
less than cultivate our powers of in-
tellectual discernment to the full. If
we are to have a theory of knowl-
edge which shall be valid; if we
are to have a wise statement of the
underlying principles of iife, we must
have men who, with keen intelligence
and with prevision extraordinary,
shall be able to analyze their experi-
ences and ours, and give to humanity
a philosophy which shall explain, as
well as be founded upon, the facts
of our human existences. All honor
to the men in every school, in every
land and in every age, who have
exercise |
with the seeing eye, to re- |
veal to humanity the underlying prin- |
Columbus was rat the first |
est wisdom to the task of the inves-
tigation, delineation, revelation of
the phenomena of which humanity
is conscious. They have placed the
world in debt. And if we in the com-
ing generations are to continue the
meritorious service that the philoso-
phers of the past have achieved for
us, it is absolutely requisite that we
shall have an intellectual fidelity and
power of pre-vision which shall be
commensurate with the need, the op-
portunity and our time.
Not otherwise is it in the civic life.
Here, if anywhere, we must have
vision. The memories of Washing-
ton and Jefferson, of Webster, of
Gladstone, of Lincoln, project before
our minds the erying necessity for a
civie vision. As we stand at the part-
ing of the ways, when to go forward
is to accept new onportunities and to
be invested with larger responsibili-
ties and obligations unto service, it
is imperative that we shall see clear-
ly and far-reachingly into the future
of our civic life. Blind men cannot
lead us. Only a ‘eadership that sees
is fit for the frort in the march of
nrogress,
But great as is the call for an ex-
ercise of insight and for men of vis-
ion in the intellectual and civic af-
fairs of men. still greater is the de-
mand for profound vision in the spir-
itual life, As Moses and Isaiah saw
the truth of God unto spiritual sat-
isfaciion, for the men and women of
the Israelitish race; as Paul and Lu-
ther and Wesley and Joun Knox and
John Calvin and Channing and a
myriad of other saints of God laid
bare the truth of God to the gaze of
tha Gentile world; as the Lord Jesus
Christ with divine incight revealed
the eternal truth of the Father for
the hevefit of sinning souls; 30 must
we, to-day, as we dezire to be lead-
ers in our time. have the vision of
the prophets f son of God,
given their best years and their rip-
and of a
nnto the portrayal of the truth of
30d to the race. No man is fit to be
a leader for the souls of men until
first he has had a vision of the Lord.
Nore of us is eapable of lifting men
to the level of the lila of Jesus Chri-t
until he has had himself a clear dis-
cernment and pracention of the truth
of God. The blind cannnt lead the
blind. The blind do not desire to be
led by the blind. The blind should
nct bave the temerity to attempt to
lead the Blind. Only a man whose
I spiritual vision is unciouded should
hava either the courage or the au-
dacity to try to show the beauties of
the God-Ylessed life to other men,
That man. alone, is competent to be
a guide through tha wilderness of
life, and to lead men along the road
of righteousness to the goal of spir-
itual! victory, who has seen already
for him=elf the truth of which he is
the revelation.
Tha spiritual vigion is the best vis-
ion. Wo may not, as did Moses. walk
, With God. We mav not sense His
presance with the faculties of the
natural man. But we may, in the
fineness of our spiritual perception,
ba and become as intimate with God
in a spiritual manner as Moses or
Abraham or Enoch cr Tsaiah ever
were, Spiritual vision is the best
vision. As the Psalmist pleaded, so
shoull we ery out to Cod in earnest
supplication. “open Thou mine eves.”
Not onlv that we may learn won-
drous thires ont of His law, hough
we may do that: but that we mav
| also receive such a vision of the heav-
| enlv realities; of the eternal verities;
af Fim who dwelleth in the secret
chambers of the Most High; as shall
! sustain, uplift and inspire our immor-
tal souls.
Oh, that we might have our eyes
orened wide by God unto the discern-
| meat of the truth of His Kingdom
and of the life in-dwelt by Him.
| Wonta that Christ might be allowed
{to lay His hand upon the eves of
those who are spiritually sightless.
What joy would be theirs. What
| contentment would he their portion.
| What peace wonld pervade their
{ sonls. What a vision of God’s in-
finite and eternal glory would be
opened to their gaze.
Yea, Lord, open Thou the eves of
Thy church. Oven Thou the eyes cf
Thine erring children. Grant us a
vision f Thy truth. And may we
with oven eyes, beholding the glory
of the Lord. live as ever in His pres-
ence until thers shall come into our
vision the reality of the common-
wealth of God. the City of God, the
hahitation of the saints, the land not
made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.
Are You Working For Temperance?
| The great question, after all, in
temperance is not whether all people
are working: in the same way, but
whether they areworkinginsome way
for this urgent cause. People will
never wholly agree upon methods in
temperance any more than they will
in church policy. It is useless to try
to round up all temperance sympa-
thizers in the fold of one society or
under the leadership of one reform
, Or .one newspaper. This is not to
{say that all methods are equally
good, for some are better than others
and some may do well for one set
of circumstances, but not for others.
The best methods must be sought,
with charity for those who differ
from wus. And yet, the great, in-
. sistent moral question is not “Are
, you working in any way for tem-
perance?’ but “Are you con-
scientiously and prayerfully and defi-
nitely working in some way to re-
| form the drunkard, to abolish the
| saloon, to educate the children, to
oppose the exportation of American
rum to American colonies—in a
word, to make the world a cleaner,
quieter, happier place to live in?—
Caleb Jones, M. D., in the Corner-
stone.
Priests to Other Souls,
Every humble soul that sees the
Father, and lives inthat sweet vision,
becomes a priest to other souls. A
sacramental power goes from the
voice, the touch, the look,
one who is himself loving God.
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pF aCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR DECEMBER 30.
Review of the Last Quarter—Read
John i., 1-14—Golden Text, Isa.
ix., 6—'Topic: Lessons by the Trie
umphant Redeemer—Summary.
Lesson I. Topic: Love the su-
preme duty of man. Place: In Je-
rusalem, in the temple courts. The
Herodians, Sadducees and Pharisees
ask Him hard questions, testing Him;
all are silenced; the great command-
ment is given by Christ; we should
love God supremely; sin, the world
and the self life must all be re-
nounced; we should love our neigh-
bor; Jesus asks the Jews a hard ques-
tion; warns His disciples against hy-
pocrisy; calls attention to a widow
casting two mites into the treasury.
II. Topic: Guarding against false
profession. Place: On Mount Olivet.
‘the subjects of Christ’s kingdom are
likened to ten virgins; Christ is toe
Bridegroom, and the oil represents
the grace of God; the foolish virgins
had the lamp of profession,but lacked
oil—true spiritual life; they endeav-
ored to make good their preparation
at the last moment, but it was too
late; the wise are the true Christians
who not only have a profession, but
the love of God in the soul. We
should always be ready to meet the
Bridegroom.
III. Topic: Reasons for fidelity to
duty. Place: Mount of Olives. The
talents are given and the master
takes his journey; two servants make
a large gain, the third buries his tal-
ent; the master’s return, though de-
layed, is certain; so Christ will surely
come again; two servants come to
their master and bring the talents
given them and as many more; they
are commended and rewarded; the
idle servant has no increase, but hard
sayings and excuses; he is cast into
outer darkness.
IV. Topic: The believer's heart
devotion. Place: Bethany. Mary
anoints the head and feet of Christ.
While this offering was costly, yet its
great value turned on its element of
sacrifice and loyal love. The motive
and spirit of the gift is of first im-
portance.
V. Topic: The Lord’s Supper.
Place: Jerusalem. It was Thursday;
Jesus sent Peter and John to Jerusa-
lem to prepare the Passover supper.
He establishes a perpetual memorial
of Himself. By the Lord’s Supper He
graciously appeals to the disciple and
Inspires him to love and obedience.
VI. Topic: The agony of Jesus.
Place: Gethsemane. He sets a pat-
tern of prayer and submission. The
Gethsemane agony is expiatory and
also exemplary. The believer gets
comfort and inspiration from both
points of view, We should watch
and pray.
VII. Topic: The trial of Jesus
Christ. Place: The palace of Cai-
aphas. Jesus is sent from Annas to
Caiaphas, the high priest; Peter fol-
lows afar off and thrice denies the
Saviour; theSanhedrin is hastily sum-
moned; false witnesses are sought
and are found with difficulty; at last
two testify that He said He could de-
stroy the temple and build it in three
days; Jesus is silent; Caiaphas asks
Him if He is the Christ; Jesus replies
that He is; Caiaphas rends His
clothes; Jesus is condemned to death;
they mock and abuse Christ for some
time.
VIII. Topic: Warning against
wine-drinking. Place: Probably Jeru-
salem, Isaiah’s home. The drunkard
follows strong drink; wine inflames;
God’s judgments will fall on the
drunkard; all classes go down to-
gether. There is nothing too bad or
too vile for a saloon-keeper or for a
man under the influence of strong
drink to do. The drunkard’s charac-
ter is always bad.
IX. Topic: The wordling’s treat-
ment of Christ. Place: Pilates
judgment hall. Jesus is taken to
Pilate, the governor, who investigates
the charges and finds them false;
Jesus is sent to Herod, who finds no
fault with Christ. He stands the
most rigid investigation of enemies.
In and from this crucial test He
comes forth unscathed—perfect in
His life as He is in His work.
X. Topic: Jesus dying on the
cross. Place: Calvary. Christ on
the cross; mocked by the soldiers;
vinegar offered; the superscription;
the two thieves crucified with Christ;
one railed on Jesus, the other con-
fessed his sins and asked to be re-
membered in Christ’s kingdom; the
prayer answered; darkness from 12
till 3 o’clock; Jesus cried with a loud
voice and died; the centurion’s testi-
mony; Joseph begged the body of
Jesus; wrapped it in linen and placed
it in a new sepulcher.
XI.. Topic: The resurrection of
Jesus Christ. Place: Garden near
Calvary. Christ was crucified on Fri-
day, April 7; rose early Sunday morn-
ing, April 9; He puts the seal on all
His words and works; this is the
great value of the resurrection. ‘““He
Is risen, as is said,”’ therefore all He
did is endorsed and all He promised
[s certain of fulfillment.
XII. Topic: Jesus’ parting words
to His followers. Place: In and
near Jerusalem. The disciples
(Thomas absent) are assembled in
an upper room; Jesus appears; He
has entered upon His eternal work of
Intercession. This is the blessed sig-
nificance of the ascension—parted
from the believers that He may be
more effective for them.
Christ Must Tell.
We want a Bible and we want a
Christ to tell us what is duty.—Mace
laren.
Some preachers think they are
flaying the devil because they are
raising a dust in the pulpit.
Rum at the Bottom.
“lt might interest the public to
know,” remarked Clerk John P. Man-
ning, of the Suffolk superior erimin-
al court of Boston, in submitting his
recent annual report for publication,
“that nearly ninety per cent. of the
cases that passed through our court
last year were for drunkenness. This
supports the argument I have always
clung to, namely, that rum is at the
bottom of all kinds of crime and
vice.”
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
DECEMBER THIRTIETH.
Topic—Carey and Missions in India.
Isa. 54:2, 3 (the Text of Carey's
Famous Sermon.)
Workers for missions.—Matt.
16-20.
Money for Missions.—2 Cor. 9:6-11.
Prayer for missions.—Luke 11:1-4.
Missionary obstacles.—Acts 18:5-11.
Missionary triumphs.—Phil. 1:12-18.
Missionary promises.—Ps. 27:1-9.
Outline of Carey’s Life.
He was born in Paulerspury, Eng-
land, on August 17, 1761.
His father was a weaver, and for
twelve years the boy was a shoemak-
er.
He was converted by a fellow ap-
prentice, and became a Baptist
preacher. Preaching was his busi-
ness, he said, but he cobbled shoes
“to pay expenses.”
He was a great student, though
very poor, and learned Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, Dutch, and French.
Missions soon became a passion,
and he kept by his cobbler’s bench a
large, homemade map of the world,
which he covered with notes regard-
ing the religion, population, and con-
dition of the different countries.
At a ministers’ meeting at Notting-
ham he preached his famous sermon,
the text of which is this week’s
Scripture. His sermon outline was:
“Expect great things from God; at-
tempt great things for God.”
As a result of this sermon the first
English missionary society (the Bap-
tist Missionary Society) was formed
at Kettering, October 2, 1793, and
Carey was at once sent to India as its
first missionary.
Settling near Calcutta he earned his
living by superintending an indigo
factory. Later he became professor
of Indian languages at Fort William
College, Calcutta, with a salary of
$7,500 a year. He and his family
lived on $200 a year, and gave the
rest to his missionary work.
Carey was an evangelist, a preach-
er, and a teacher, but his great work
was translation. This ‘‘conseccrated
cobbler,”” as Sydney Smith sneeringly
called him, translated the Bible into
twenty-four languages and dialects of
India, giving the Scriptures to 300,-
000,000 human beings.
He labored for years toward the
abolition of the ‘‘suttee,” the cruel
burning of widows on the funeral
pyre of their dead husbands. When,
in 1829, the government sent him for
translation a proclamation fixing for
the suttee the penalty of homicide, he
threw off his gown, for it was Sunday
and he was about to preach and went
to work at once on the translation,
lest some life should be lost by de-
lay.
The great pioneer died at the age
of seventy-three, on June 9, 1834.
Sr sp a t—_
EPWORTH LEAGUE LES30NS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30.
Our Purposes for 1906.—2 Peter 3. 18.
28:
Daily Readings.
Perseverence in the observance of
the Quiet Hour.—Matt. 6. 6.
Faithfulness in the Fellow-Worker’s
Covenant.—2 Cor. 6. 1.
Fidelity in Christian Stewardship.
—1 Pet. 4. 10.
Diligence in Bible Study.—Acts 17.
11.
Loyalty to my Church.—Col. 1. 24.
“Ebenezer.”—I Sam. 7. 12.
“No one can harm me but myself,”
somebody has said. We have learned,
also, that the example of none is so
powerful upon us as is our own.
Therefore, it is well for us to look
back over the twelve months and
‘‘take account of stock,” call oursel-
ves to judgment, and so make a good
starting-place for another year. With
what good resolutions we began the
vear! How well have we kept our
promises to ourselves and to our
Lord? ‘The year has brought to us
many opportunities, but in the
abundance of opportunities life does
not consist, but in seizing them. Mul-
titudes go through life meeting thous-
ands of opportunities but failing to
take advantage of them, and they are
as though they were not. It is usu-
ally because thev do not recognize
the opportunities. Sometimes we
have met persons on the street whom
we would much like to greet, but, be-
ing occupied in thought, and having
downcast eyes, we have let our
friends slip by. A little later, as the
others passed over the hill, or turned
a corner, we aroused, and cried,
“Why there go So-and-So; I'm so sor-
ry 1 did not see them!” But it was
too late. “Too late’ shares with “It
might have been” the distinction of
being ‘the saddest words of tongue
or pen.” Men have lived great lives
in dungeons who, had they been free,
and had the universe before them to
exploit, lacking the right quality of
manhood, would have lived inglorious-
ly. Life’s greatest opportunities come
only to those who have a right con-
ception of life, and that conception
involves the spiritual being, and re-
lationship to the world to come. If
this were not so, then only opportuni-
ties for getting rich, for achieving
fame in one’s vocation or for opening
new avenues for pleasure-getting
would be worth considering. But this
is not true. We were made for spir-
itual reaiities and eternal destinies.
Prevailing Prayer.
To each of us is given the power to
touch the hand of omnipotence and
minister at the golden altar of pre-
vailing prayer. One censer only we
must bring—the golden bowl of faith
—and as we fill it with burning coals
of the Holy Spirit’s fire, and the in-
cense of the great High Priest, lo,
there will be silence once again in
Heaven, as God hushes the universe
to listen; and then the living fire will
be poured out upon the earth in the
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mighty forces of providence and
grace, by which the Kingdom of our
Lord is to be ushered in.