The First Suffragists. The London Jewish World suggests hat the first suffragists recorded in history were. the daughters of Zelop- bhehad, and-adds that it is unfortunate that Mr. Dickensen’s. bill could not be referred to the seeret arbitration of Urim and Thummim. The same jour- nal mentions that one of the, pioneers -of the woman: suffragémne’ ent in America was a+ Jewess, Mrs. Ernes- tine L.. Ros®, Who addressed meetings as early as 1836. 2 Pcsition. position of Qu2en Alexan- curious So. far as her is concernad shea is the laws and customs married woman. The jdea of the law is that affairs of state consume all the time of the King and therefore no responsibility Queen’s private business him If Qusen contracted in her husband's nam2 he would he resnonsiil them as any cther husband S The King cannot sued for but the Qu<en can be.— «Chicago News. Health Health means happines means = or -at least the state of affairs is true. Poor hedlth means discontent, merging into happiness, and this in its beauty. Xion: gels sai The Que The lega dra is very private business not regarded by of England as a en’s Legal rests upon ihe ihe not for be What Means. SS happinse rever and un- fretfuiness absolut hope tt and unhaniy, YORKIE Wom juroly pina; and the: 1 speedily becom marriag world,” ary the United t Marry. This is na the Cermun p [t does not that they are no x than the people of other n means that reflection Tey or the density of pe lati and the great | number of make (it nec- essary fer financial xf -marriags America, where we are makiaz fortune hunters are po people young lots more V man makes 2, 060 Maris a Fe money—-is ood living. But how can wife on: that? Hence questions before the contract of how wnnrh the young woman's tamily will give her on her wedding day and how much of an inheritance the young man wil] have,” ton Post. “vse ‘College Girl These college girls,” said a clergy- man, gazed at the ite and su- perb ranks of the heanutiful graduates “gare a bocn to the r They intro- juce new ideas. “1 christened the other dav Haby of a married coileze girl “5abies usually cry while they are be- ing christened, but this ore was quiet asa lamb. Throughout ceremony it smiled up ally thy face. + Well madam,’ i yeut $509 in our to a fairly ! support & he the daa. as he the first ! Now as the beau into said I to the yonng wife at the christening’s end, ‘I must congratulate you on little hehavier I have christened more than 2,000 babies, tened one that yours.’ “The 3 * *ND your one's but 1 never before chris- behas so well as demurely. ‘oung mother smiled wonder he be haved well, said. ‘His father and 1, with a pail of water, have Dbten warkisiog chris- tening on him for the lam ten days.’ “The ideas rehearsing a baby for a christs ning Who | but a college girl would think of or sne Fr G1 ' syeh a thing? Bediime Too much stress cannot be laid on having tie little ones go to bed happy. Whatever may have been done in the day, or if there is some inevitable dis- apointment or grief ahead, large or small, say nothing abeut it at night. Except for some strong reason, let a mother put a child to bed herself; let the evening prayer be said at her side; let the hour be associated with story .or song or loving, confiding talk. For scnitary reasons, it is very im- portant that Ledtime should be happy, and the night's rest perfect—never de- layed or breokem by childish grief or fear. Important, too, for mental vigor and most of all, for the soul's life. The good-night kiss should nev- -er be omitted. “There are times when disobedient or deceit has occurred, that, in the sweet and affectionate evening talk, the child «can be imperceptibly led to confide to 4he mother the whole story. This «opportunity is a valuable one and should never be overlooked. But any- thing of the nature of punishment has zo rightful place here—Mrs. Mary Johnson, in American Motherhood. for thoi well educated, debts | | offering { that and that she would | tenement house than to live (way. | and | body eise's home and the keep i she i he mend i on | mean | ES book iolks to consider the | >, Here in | in Ge v who | | —till she have | The New woman. “What on earth has become of all the aunts and cousins and sisters and grandmothers?” said a woman to me the other day. “I've been trying to get some employment for a well edu- cated, competent, middle-aged woman. I've tramped the town from on2 end to the other. I've hun up a telephone bill that I'm -afraid to look at. I bored all my friends to death, and now, just as I'm ready to give up in despair; I find that the woman I'm trying to help has a sister in good circumstances, a prosperous businesseman for a nephew and two comfortably married nieces. Now, twenty years dge, that woman wonld*have had-the choice of half a dozen homes whare she could have been a comfort and a help. What's the reasen hasnt got. ev one now?” she en thing about the middle-aged not warrant I don't know a competent, relatives who bat I'il kind fo rather Now, her are a home, the now weman or her she’s starve with relatives. The new kind of woman is made that She isn’t an. aunt or a or even a grandmother. She's her- shelf, with her own >, her own likes dislikes, and her liv: daetarp sistel life own way of ing. She'd die than go into some- elp take care of the socks. or ordsr, She lives and rather children or the maid: hers<lf, t yaon doing it conldn’t ‘ She The won her own hers and hous live for Kittie's things wnd’s € the nurse to coax sent to the la cook to Hoss an So other people's meet the mother of particula: radiant, pieasure foun 1 a family ine dort imvzine trip sr i bought a a’ new to hor liking. Kittie has been invited to party, or Johnny's teacaer the brichtest boy in the hare is a. new dish for the fogs yal Re) class, or husband's woman is a: graat success After that she’s he is so se that to whims, T he n° vy thircy. a dismal and so couldn't pay her into the her headaches and her tired spells. that's become of all the anuts and the sisters andl the grandmothers? There aren't ; They committed sui ney made up their awn lives after their no matter who liked : i fred Black wavs encugzh with her nenpie family, 1 minds Fashion No tes. hats immensely In Perisian all kinds The The morning this season. The fancy 12 thin fabrics with contrasting one of the scason's stronzest preferences. New French flannels are in and s a variety of attractive "designs colors superior to the usual output. On nearly all modish gowns is pas- sementerie of Persian or Japanese col- oring or brocaded ribbon, or some aeli- cate enrbroidery. Navy and royal blue are both looked upon as fashion leaders. Copennagen blue and Nattier blue, or old blue, are both high-style shades The fiounced taffeta the greatest favor on the other side and among the smart dressers who have just returned from foreign wan- derings. Often hats are quite destitute of trimming at the back and sides, hav- ing no other adornment than. a huge bunch of aizrettes or ostrich plumes in front. : A delicate pink Japanese cotton crepe cloth has the lavender figures on its surface well brought out by bands of plain lavender about the edges of front and sleeves. Tulle edged with curled ostrich feather is used as a hat trimming, and looks deliciously soft and dainty. Let no one with gaudy taste grow ajarm- ed. Her love of, color should * be more than gratified in the gorgeous- ness. purpie arg will first bronze greens glory is for linix tones is show and parasol is in No Faith In It. “No,” complained the young painter, “1 can’t believe that I am producing genuine art.” “The critics haven’t they?” “Yes, but nobody has raised an out- cry against it as being indecent.”— Chicago Record-Herald. praised your work. SERMON’ TH E REV~ HR HENDERSON x Subject: Lille. Brooklyn, N.¥.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg avenue and Weirfield street, on the above theme, the pas- tor, Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, took as his text John 1:4. He said: Last Lord's Day we discussed»in some measure and manner of death. To-day we shall discuss for the moments that we are together the fact of .life. The reality with which we have more presently and immediately to deal. Life is among the mightiest reali-’ ties with which humanity is familiar. It thrills and suffuses every living one of us. It energizes ail that is active. and moving: and sentient round about us. It is at the sonrce of all that is; at the centre of all crea- tion.” It is divine, for it is of God and imparted from Him. It is real .and the one thing in "all the world of which we are conscious. For we sea it outworking itself into the pulsat- ing, throbbing universe about it. All nature sings the praise and mani- fests the force of life as it chants the glory and the might of God. In it we live and move and have our being. It is at the centre of humanity's ex- istencse. AH of. whieh is trite and obvious and old. There is not much that is new that we can tell about concern- ing life. For the primal man knew life in its fullness and its beauty as do we. He heard the songs of the feathered host and witnessed the manifestations of the majesty of Je- hovah as He revealed if in the heav- enly galaxies and expressed it in the varied forms and the diverse beauties of nature. The primal man may not have been so familiar with so many of the actual laws operated in life as we are. He may not have been so conscious of the subtler forms of life that modern scientific investigation the revealed to the world of to- day. Put. taking in the broad we mayv safely say that there is not much that is mew that we can say about life. In fa life is so intanzible that it is in an properly indefinable. We cannot define life exactly. -We may appropriate a definition, bul we can- not compass in the forms of finite speech the fullness of life itself. For life is divine and limitle l.anguaze is {finite Aan circums hed in its scope and POS ssibiliuey, Life LOOows no bounds. ‘Lang guard J Confined, Lito 1s (ho creation of @od and is co- T= = : v2 vith jim. Language is Hathed of human intercommuni- cation, and as such it is hemmed within the horizons of humanity. Life per se is intangible. It is as in- teangible as it is ultimately indefin- able. We may touch a man!s hand that is sentient with life; we may lcok into his eye that is alive with life: we may hear the sound of his voice and witness the exhibition of his strength; expressions of the life that vitalizes him. But we do not see his life. We may roam ‘the fields and sail the seas and climb the hills and till the pas- tures till God calls us home. We may see the evidences of life, but life it- self we do not see. Life is intangible. We may know it in its manifestations and through them. But we shall not know life—that mysterious, wonder- working energy that enlivens us— until we enter into the presence of Divinity hereafter. For life is as in- tangible as God. Life is indefilnable. We may de- fine life in the terms of life's expres- sions. Woon we see. life in cloud or tree or drop or bud, this is ever so. For the ee of the cloud is not the life that brings the beauty into being. ace and dignity and Aa that :3¢ in bumanity is ndt the that animales humanity. We may define human life in the terns of life's g=21f-expression, through the medium of humanity as we may de- scribe its manifestations in the nat- ural world about us. But when all is said and done, to define life in the terms of its manifestations is not en- tirely to define life. For life is more than its manifestations, as is God. Life is more than what we see and know of the expressions of life. And yet, for the sake of definition and in the interest ot the culture of the moral and spiritual life of man, it is not really necessary that we shall be able to do more to-day than define life in the terms of its expres- sions and relations. For it is not necessary to know-all about the con- stitution of the world in order to live happily within it. It is not need- ful that we shall know all about the inner and hidden laws of electricity in order to ride on an electric car or to enjoy the illuminating power of the electric light. It is not necessary that we shall be able to define God with comprehension and finality in order to draw near to Him and to enjoy the pleasures of communion with Him or enter into the realization of the potency of His love. Not oth- erwise is it with life. We may not understand it all, we may not be able to define it with finality, we may not be competent to penetrate its mys- tery, but we know that it is, that it is central in ourselves and in our society; we are aware that we-are in the midst of it; we view its mani- festations and. experience its expres- sions. We may state our experiences and the results of our investigations and observations in the terms of hu- manly understandable speech. And that is enough. We shall know more. But that is enough for now. We may, therefore, define life in the terms of opportunity, responsibil- ity, possibility, divinity. Lite is definable and to be grasped in ¢he terms of opportunity. To be alive to have a chance. A chance to be a man, to do a man's work, to foliow in the footmarks of the Al- rniighty as we tread through life, to be kind, to be gentle, to be noble and pure and holy.- Existence correlates opportunity. To be a live man is to be a man divinely gifted. For the whole world is the field of living humanity. And opportunity is not only within the reach of every living 8: It fareer itsalt, whetiter we wilt or no, upon us. the fact’ we may see the various [# It is insistent, It is inescapable. It is omnipresent. Whether our position be high or low, our’ labor great or inconsequential, our capacity much or small, oppor- tunity erters into the sphere of our activities... It dominates our vision. He is a dull man who cannot hear the insistent call of opportunity to the soul. We may in our wilfulness close our ears and shut our eyes the entreaties of opportunity. we shall be held to aceount by Life is determined in the tarms of responsibility. To he -alive with pressing and eager opportunity at hand is to invested with responsibii- | ity. -For the apportunity implies our ability to use it. For God . never sends opportunities to men that taey are unable totally to use. For never jests with men. dinan to a hopeless taskais to jest with him, to make light of him. upon every man to whom: the golden opportunity comes is laid. the respon- sibility to utilize that chance to the glory of God and to the best of his own ability. The church, not other- wise than nian, is under compelling responsibility to make use of the op- portunities that are hers. She can- not still the appeal of those oppor- | es | suffering and sorrow tunities; she ought not to deny them; she ought not to endeavor to avoid or evade them. She should gather the opportunities to herself with joy | ezponsgibilities | thereto attendant with happiness un- | and welcome the feigned. Life is determined in the terms of | : | denied ne Chat is to say. that life is hope. ‘While there is }ife there hope,” is no uiere cate is profound philosophy For live men who are are expectant. They. look Their faces {front the faut are interested in that which attained, that which may be ac that which is not yet i life is full of possibili sibilities made progre ssible: be alive is to progre But where there are no possibilities there is no progress. Life is delightful because of its possibilities; possibilities for self-culture, for moral. and spiritual advancement, for constructive ser- vice, for the doing: of deeds both doughty and glorious f man and for God. This is thas salt of Hie This lends life tan flavor. Life is de possibilit) y. ina sentence. real i termined in : of Lid may partake of tne beauty of the perso Whatever you and I are noi, of wa may be sure, we N Ged, And are should Ries into 2 ships with 1 Ga Y thot oy poriuniiils, 2 bility, augme the achicveme maturing the indwells us. the Fulness of God. This is how the Rev. Dr. Dixon il- lustrates the thouzht of being filled with the fulness of God: “Standing on the deck of a ship in widecean;, you see tae su reflected ‘rom its depths. From a litt!2 boat on a mountain lake vou see the sun reflected om = it3 shailow waters. Looking into the mountain spring, not more t six inches in diamater ; you see the e “Look into the dewdrop. cf. the morning and there it is asain. : The sun has a way oi adapting itself to its reflections. The oczan is not too large to hold it, nor the dewdrop too small. So God. ean fill any man. whether his capacity i 1 the ocean, like the mu ake; like the spring. or deswdrop. Whatever, therefore the capacity, thera is ovenad up tn= possibility of being ‘filied with the tulpnsss ol Cod.’ ’—Moeothod! = 1 > Filled With Jetter Than Ten Th Give me ten thous ona revers=a 6f fort it away. Bat let hold of this divine as Lord is My Shepherd. want,” and then I am am set up fcr life with such steck I never can be a hold this security, Shepherd, I shall not give me ready me a check book what 1 like.:: This with the believer. He does not im- mediately transfer his inheritance to ig but lets him one what he n<eds out of the riches of bis fulness in Christ.—Spurgeon. I shall ali right, I cannot break as this in hand. bankrupt. for 1 “The Lord is My not want.” Do mohey now; give and let me draw is wnat God does Development of the Divine. The highest aim is the develop- ment of the divine in man. Those who have the keen signt of love may detect its presence in every one. They know that as the slime hides the lily root and blossom, as the hard rock holds the precious ore, =5 the acorn encompasses the ocak, so every hu- man life contains ‘the potentiality of the divine. They are not deceived by the external slime and hardness and meanness, but perceive ‘and have faith' in the inherent and the ulti- mate. To be aware of the divinity of .the sou! and of every soul is to know the sublimest truth disclosed to the human mind.—Paragraph Pul- pit. How Divers Escape Drowning. “The diver at the sea’s bottom lives still, though in a foreign ele- ment, because his close-fitting armor with its air-tube reaching up above the waves, keeps him Surrounded with another and finer- element suited to sustaining life; otherwise he would be speedily suffocated by the briny waiters. And so the Christian, immersed in the world's choking wa- ters, can preserve his spiritual life only by fencing them away from him by ‘‘the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,” and by keeping up constant communion by faith with th2 heavenly world.— Rev. F. E. Tower. The Irreducible Infinite. There is no less suniight because my lense is full; there is no less di- vine power and love because my heart is full; vou cannot subtract from the Infinite. God | And to call | But | is phrase. It | have S we i SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON (NTPRNATIONAL NAL LESSON | COM- MENTS FOR SEPT. 22 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Death of Moses, Deut. 34:1-12—Golden Psalm 116: 10-12 —Commentary. Text, 153—Memory Verses, One nf the most pathetic events in the history of Israel is the death of Moses. For forty years he had watched, as a mother watches ovet her children, over the people of God. For forty years he had planned and hoped and prayed for the salvation of Israel. For forty years, the most congpicuous man of his day, he had led the people toward the land of promise. For forty weary, heavy laden, grievous years he had endured suspicion and calumny and cursing | that he might guarantee the blessings | promised of God to his people and to | their children’s children. For forty privation and for them and with them. Nurtured in a palace he had been conspicuously a man of God.” With the entree to the courts of Bgypi he had preferred to be a man of the people—his peovle. And yet after the bitterness and the bnft- feting and the deprivation he was entrance into the land of promis Pisgah and no further. Its pathos is sublime. And vet, sad as the situation must heen, there could have been naught but joy in the soul of Moses. God called him to his reward after vears he had faced i He had granted him the vision of the promised land as from Pisgah. it stretched northward and southward, and westward to the sea. But He did not summon him until He had given him the vision. - Moses died secure ‘in the confidence that his effort had been availing. He must have died with a song of rejoicing upon his lips and a psalm of tnanksgiving in his heart. - It could not have been other- wise. Cod took him to a larger re- ward full of years and honors. Centuries had passed away since God first made the promise to-Abra- ham. srael had suffered tortures under raohs and hardship under ship of Moses. They had ed for Canaan in the hard schools of penury and want and toil. But they were about to enter into the on and © fulfillment of the of God and the dreams of gnty leaders. God’s patience e i The goal was at hand. The word of ths Lord to their fathers bout to becoms eifsctive- And ith the Promises of God. are infuliihie. They never de- They ave always profitable for encouragement. and comfort... They never fail. Regardless of their mag- nitude, their extent or their seeming impossibility, God always is able to Pull them. He has given the world wider and a grander He gave to Israel thi rough Abram. But He is able and Alling to fulfill it so soon as human- Toy desires it to become effective and active. There is nothing imnoasiblsy with God. = God took Moses it {3 They nda, to Himself when Moses’ work was finished. God has a strange way of doing that with men of peculiar genius. He sent Moses to Israel when Israel nesded a Moses. He took Moses away from [srac]l when Israel needed a Joshua more than a Moses. Moses was blessed of God in his death as in his life Many a man has attained to great success only to lose his lustre in his declining years. Moses was fortunate. He died at the zenith of his power le is remembered as a man of pre-eminent ability His re- nown is as glorious as it is imperish- able, Moses' death marked the opening of a great epoch in the history of Isracl. It emphasized thz fact that many are prone to forget, now and than, that po man is so supremely catuabie to the world that his place cannot be filled. Joshua was not Moses, but he was competent to carry on the mighty work to which Moses had dedicated his life. When Moses died God consecrated Joshua to do the work that was yet unfinished. And Joshua did it well. He was as much of a genius in his way as Moses was in his way. And his capabilities came seasonably. God has a fashion of calling men seasonably. The great men of history have been the men who came in the fullness of time. Fach fitted into the niche which God neaded to be filled. A genius out of time, it would seem, is an impossi- bility. For every mighty genius has performed a labor for God and hu- manity that has wrought itself indel- ibly into the fabric of the world’s life. The seventh verse telis us Moses died in the pink of perfection at the age of 120 years The lesson is obvious. Moses lived near to God. He kept faith in Him. He got his peace from Him. He obeved the laws of God. Sickness is ancient, but it is. not really neces- sary. It can all be traced to viola- tions of natural laws that, if hg ed would insure us all a ripe-ol ge. I a man ean live without a day i seri- ous illness for fifty years, as many men have, then by the same token a man can retain his health until he goes home to God simply from phys- ical fatigue. Constitutional:and in- herited illnesses may be traced=to an- tecedent violations of natural law. The need is-that humanity shall obey the will of God. We were created for health and happiness. We were not born to sickness. God means that we shall be able to enjoy life and Him. Only a well man can really enjoy life.." We could all live in the health of Moses if we 'livell according to the mandates of the God of Moses. that manly Soldiers Exclude the Can. The officers and soldiers at Fort McKinley, in the Philippine Islands, have built a'“canteen” of their own devising from hich the “can” ig barred. This chmp contains 5000 soldiers, and the fort is situated in thie midst of an 1800-acre reservation which is one of the garden spots of the islands. The conduct of the recreation hall has been put in ths hands of the Young Meu's Christian Association and $5080 will La spent upor the rooms ang grounds. ; must be CHRISTANENDEAVOR NOTE SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SECOND. God's omnipotence. 1 Chron. 29: 9-13 Whatever Him. Ps. 1lo: 1-3. “Nothing too pleases “Omnipotent: ‘All power.” Matt. 2S: Everything, in heaven God's, except what to let pass from His of man. God is “exalted as head above all.” and yef Ilis' exaltation is not com- plete while sinners defy Him and in- sult His authority. There are many cess, but how few to the the matter, the will of God! David would seem to thank God for His majesty. His divine power and glorv: and indeed; what befter cause of thanksgiving could there be? Suggestions. In comparison with power, our power may.-be neglected. It i3 as easy: for God to give the victory to an unarmed lad as to Alexander. The best cure for pessimism is. a studv of 1's omnipotence. Let the heathen rage. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh! 7 In estimating the chances of right- eousness, do not weigh the power of righteous men, but the power of di vine Rizht. All that opposes God exists merels by permission, and could be annihilat ed by a breath from His mouth. Hlustrations. 16-18 and cart] i, is God has chosen power, the will of suc- root of manuals 80 God's Could a mechanic make a machine that was greater than the mechanic? And must have control ol the universe : formed? The earth earr with like. ease Napoleon and an f,. So God carri with equal ease a man and a world of men. : God's omnipotence is at dispas al of God's children. but as the ocean is at ti sal of the vessels that dip up; it matters ittle whethe: the yo: are 4 not ies the Am: I afrai or comforted 1 Do I fear of SO tn God's omni; OWN powers? EPWOVTH LEAGUE LESSONS SEPTEMBER 22. The Word of God Perverted—Matt. 7: 15-20. » referettee: 2 Tim. 4: 13, 16 7 SUNDAY, zos for 13. We Bust the spiri systems whi Iondly bre biblical basis are: erroneous harmful. © The dav has come men cannot got a hearing unless rolate their the Bible. Hence Mormonism and Chrisiian Sci ence. make large claims to interpret the Rible correctly. It is not fair to declare that many of the. ‘new thought” leaders are not sincere. It does little good to abuse them. It i3 hetter to show the: logical fallacy of the teachings when put to test. Tha “false prophets” here specified desig: nate those who. wilfully deceive. Tho old Helirew word for “prophet” em. bodies tho idea of a “fountain burst inz forth from the heart of a man into which God has placed it." This may exnlain Christ's term, ‘a weil of water springing up into everlasting lite.” The “Indweller’ gives direction to the end. not limit it to willful are to test the ‘sy3- fruits.” Satan often uses instruments. - Whatever of the “prophet” we must him by the fruits. If they are ‘“‘ravening,” rob and plunder peo- ple instead of enrich and liberate, then they are wolves, no matter if thev have the professional robe of a sheep following the shepherd. Deeds speak louder than professions. As- sumed meekness, suave friendliness, published piety, extravagant liberal- ity, self-attracting church activity accompanied by the gennina the Spirit; otherwise these Pharisee cloaks; makinx them white sepulchers. We may “know accurately” (“know’) or ‘“re- coznize a thing to be what it really ' by the fruitage of deed and spirit. 5 they are “cast carelsssiy— as worthless™ (“cast’) into the fire. Novelty, greater promised freedom, ar and more immediate material results, cause people to take up with so-call- oF nw movements. Obscure pas- sages are given far-fetched and even fanatical meanings, often diametrical- lv onposite, by people who thus claim to exhibit smartness and insight. Hts Many thair ani * - when they elaim message to nies: But de- sages: of we. ne vr] ceivers, tem by unconscious be the spirit for we its test fruits of things are GOD GIVETH REST. God sends sometimes a stillness in our life, The bivouac, the slee When on the silent battlefield the striia Is hushed in slumber deep; When wearied hearts, exhausted, rest, Remembering not the struggle, quest. sink nor the He giveth rest more perfect, pure and true, While we His burden bear; It Zpeineetly not from parted pain, but Tou The oni blessing, there— The lesan pondered o'er with thoughtful The faith "that sees in all a meaning wise. Deep in the heart of pain God's hand hath set A hidden rest and bliss; Take as His gift the pain, vet A truer happiness. God's voice speaks through it all the high nent That bids the people enter into rast. : —Lucy Fletcher. the gift
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