! Finnish Women Spin.
Every cottage woman of Finland
‘knows how to spin and weave. These
accomplishments are matters of na-
tional pride, because the women of
- the Kalevala, the great national epie,
wove and spun, and as well, indeed,
embroidered, and worked in silver
and bronze.—Indianapolis News.
Watch Attached to Purse.
Instead of carrying her timepiece
‘dn a leather bracelet on her wrist, as
the English girl'does, Miss New York
carries hers mounted on the outside
of her purse. The watch in set in the
centre of the side of the purse; en-
circled by a jeweled rim. It can be
removed for winding or adjustment.
The prettiest are of suede, intended
for carrying with the tailored suit.
The bag is mounted in dull gold or
.gilver.—New York Journal.
Artifice Condemned.
If women- only knew how much
better looking they are without arti-
ficial aid they would save themselves
a good deal of trouble, time and ex-
pense. Young girls, especially of the
high school age, detract rather than
add to their good looks when they
arrange their hair in any way except
the simplest style or when they tam-
per with dyes or cosmetics.—Editor-
{al in the New York World.
t A Nap After Dinner.
| Complete relaxation after eating
~—a suspension of mental and physi-
cal activity—will favor the processes
of natural digestion, not only because
of its tranquillizing effect upon the
nerves but because the stomach may
use the surplus unused cnergies of
the body in the process of digestion.
Happy the man or woman who can
take an ‘‘after dinner nap.” It means
health, happiness and long life.—
New York Journal.
Birds on Postal Cards.
* Mrs. Nicholas Longworth has been
sending to her oldc: chums beautiful
postal cards showing birds in gor-
geous natural plumage. Such feath-
ered souvenirs are enjoying a vogue.
The birds from Hawaii and the
Southwest are exquisite in coloring,
and a couple of dozen of them mount-
ed on cards make a striking screen.
Mrs. Longworth has almost two hun-
dred specimens and she has been gen-
erous in dividirg her spoils. The fad
will not come under the ban of the
'Audubon Society, for the getting of
the feathers entails no danger to the
gongsters. The pictured birds are
much smaller than the real one and
are made up of feathers obtained
from fowl and colored skilfully.—
New York Press.
Trouble Over a Hat.
* wish you would stop hitting my
fiat!’ snapped the girl in the end
geat of an open car to the conductor.
“I can’t help it, miss,” replied the
conductor. ‘Your hat is in the way.
it is interfering with my work, that’s
what, Every time I have to walk
past you on this footboard to collect
a fare your hats spreads out like an
ambrella and~1 have to run against
if.”
“Well, if you do it again I will
take your number and report you at
the office!” said the girl wrathfully.
‘““All right,” answered the wrathful
conductor; ‘‘report as soon as you
please. You women ain't got no busi-
ness to ride in cars with umbrellas
on your heads.”
At this point a little woman sitting
next the,girl with the exaggerated
headgear joined in the discussion.
“I must enter my protest against
your hat,” said she quietly, ‘and re-
quest you to keep it off the top of
my hat. It is crushing my feathers.
I quite agree with the conductor that
women with hats two yards -and a
half in circumference have no busi-
ness riding in street cars.”
And the girl said nothing.—New
York Press.
Strange Wedding Account.
“f had a wedding account sent in
to me,” said a ]Jocal society editor a
day or two ago, ‘‘that was rather un-
usual in a way. 1t was an unusually
elaborate account. The account went
into a minute description of every-
thing. !
“But claborate though it was, it
occurred to me that there was some
.detail missing. I read all through
the aureate phrases again and was
unable to detect just what it was that
was missing. It told all about the
bridal bouquet and the going away
gown and hat to match—everything
seemed to be there—but still I had a
feeling that there was some slight
detail that was not included. Well,
I read the account over the third
time and then at last it struck me
that there was nothing in the account
to lend any information as to the
name of the bridegroom. He was ab-
golutely not mentioned. I had known
of plenty of cases where the best the
groom got was the conventional
black, but that was the first account
I ever saw in which he was ignored
entirely.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Family of Swimmers, .
The mother, seven daughters and
one son, all expert swimmers, and
many of them repeatedly prize win-
ners—this is the record of the Berlo
family of 804 East Sitth street,
South Boston. :
There is another daughter too,
only three years old, and she is in a
good way to be a swimmer before
long, for she takes to the water like
the proverbial duck, splashes about
and tries hard to swim. The nine
children and the mother are fre-
quently to be seen in the waters of
Dorchester Bay, particularly off the
headhouse.
Although father and mother were
born elsewhere, the children are all
natives of the peninsula district, and
it is but natural that they should
have attained skill in swimming,
especially as their mother is an ex-
pert. ~ With the exception of the
father, the entire family keep at the
sport all summer and far into the
cold season.
Few if any families possess such
a collection of swimming prizes as
the Berlos. No . less than fifty
trophies won in races adorn their
home, and the gold and silver cups
make a splendid display.—Boston
Globe. :
Confessions of a Professional Woman.
In Harper's Bazar Anne O’Hagan,
who has been writing brilliantly of
spinsters, now turns her attention to
the spinster as a professional woman.
Miss O’Hagan knows her sex and
writes of it frankly and entertaining-
ly. If she dispels some of our fond-
est illusions, she gives us in their
place the sunny elements of humor
and common sense. In the September
Bazar she says:
“And there you have one great re-
ward — perhaps the greatest — of a
profession. It so mold its followers
to its requirements that there is no
room left in them for bemoaning the
loss of the good things which it has
cost them. That it does cost them
good things is undeniable, and is per-
haps the measure of its own value;
those are trifling benefits for which
we pay nothing. My career has
doubtless cost” me the realization of
that house and garden—mnot, of
course, that I ever held sonorous de-
bate upon their respective claims, not
that I ever ‘crushed my natural in-
stincts’ at the command of ambition,
or subdued womanly longings for the
sake of—Ilet us say a picture on the
line. It is, I think, only in stories
that things happen so crudely. In
real life the matter is more subtly
adjusted. We—weprofessional wom-
en—are busy, we are interested in
our work, we are profoundly inter-
ested in getting ahead. The atmos-
phere which surrounds us — our
‘aura,’ I suppose they call it in eso-
teric circles—partakes of the nature
of our thoughts and ambitions. Ours
is not the atmosphere of invitation.
In the circle of our influence a man
is not led inevitably to breathe an air
impregnated with fancies of love,
passion, marriage, as he is with those
unmarried women from the imme-
diate foreground of whose fancies the
house and garden and the children
have not been banished by other tem-
porarily more insistent ideals. There-
fore, men are not se likely to fall in
love with us and we with them, and
marriage is not so likely to come to
pass as in those youthful circles sur-
charged with sentiment.”*
Fringes like earrings
sied popularity.
A woman can wear a short sleeve
without being out of fashion.
Bordered taffetas are among the.
very new materials of the season.
The gored tailored skirt is neither
plain or trimmed with a single plain
band.
The shamrock is one of the best
designs in the embroidered filet
laces. 5
A lavender tie gives a pretty
touch of color to a walking suit of
linen color.
High bust tapering front and prin.
cess hip are the three characteristics
of the new models.
The waistcoats, real or simulated,
of the fall are marvels of embroid-
ery, often Oriental. .
The broadcloths with designs in
the weaves are being used by young
girls for evening coats.
The gored skirts are seen even
among dressy gowns, but of course
they are very much trimmed.
A velvet coat over a velvet skirt
is seldom satisfactory. Far better is
a skirt of cloth or silk with coat of
velvet. .
A slender gold chain with pear-
shaped mother-of-pearl pendant is
very popular, and can be worn with
any costume.
The gown of broadcloth is
trimmed with two bands of the em-
broidery, which stop on either side
of the front breadth.
The odd hat pins that are appear-
ing in the shops are turning the
thoughts back (0 certain pieces of
old jewelry stored away at home.
A simple negiigee may be made
quite dainty by the addition of a
deep collar of embroidered strips
set together with narrow lace inser-
tion. :
are prophe<
In Pickett County, Tennesszo, there
is not a negro between the ages of six
and twenty-one.
tmen happy.
THE PULPIT. |
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY ‘SERMON BY
DR. CHARLES EDWARD LOCKE.
Subject: Crime of Unhappiness.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Dr. Charles E.
Locke returned to his pulpit in the
Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal
Church Sunday. Dr. Locke's subject
was ‘“The Crime of Unhappiness; or,
‘Where Happiness May be Found.”
His text was Isaiah 85:10: + “They
shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
Dr. Locke said in the course of his
sermon:
Jt is our duty to be happy, it is our
right to be happy. The philosopher's
stone, which can transform all the
dross of life into purest joys, is hope.
The fabled fountain which will in-
sure eternal youth and beauty is con-
tentment. True happiness is not only
a duty and a right, but it is a pos-
sible possession; it is the sure prize
of those who seek aright.
The rapt prophet Isaiah boldly
foretells the time when the people
‘shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away,”
and ‘‘everlasting.joy shall. be upon
their heads.” The radiant promises
of the Word of God are not to torture
and to tantalize mankind into woes
and slaveries more abject, but are
intended to awaken our lethargic
natures and somnolent consciences
that we may be aroused to claim our
high and holy and happy estate. .Un-
happiness is a crime against God and
our fellows, as well as against our-
selves.
There is an intricate and exquisite
conspiracy in the universe to make
There are carnivals of
beauty, panoramas of -splendor, ora-
torios of music, laughing waters,
dancing sunbeams, singing birds,
chanting seas, delicious fruits and
enchanting flowers. Nature is not
cruel, health is contagious, there is a
survival of the fittest. ‘The com-
mon course of things is in favor of
happiness; happiness is the rule, mis-
ery the exception.”
As God made the sun to shine and
the flowers to bloom and the seas
to ebb and flow, so He made man to
be happy. “If any man is unhappy,”
said a wise man, ‘“‘this must be his
own fault, for God made all men to
be happy.” The very law of our
being is happiness. A crime is an
offence against the laws of God and
man; unhappiness is such an offence;
hence a crime. .
Happiness may be discovered in
life’s activities—in unremitting en-
deavor, not in the bluster .and haste
which enervate and defeat, but in the
constant use of our capacities. Un-
rest and atrophy occur when ener-
gies are allowed to become stagnant.
An aimless life is always an unhappy
life. Leisure and rest have exquisite
flavor where they are the punctuation
points of duties faithfully discharged
and ambitions steadily realized. Ac-
tivity defies infirmity, and octogena-
rians like John Wesley and John
Whittier, Gladstone and Pope Leo
XIII hold old age at bay while they
elaborate the c.osing achievements of
eventful careers. Thé& benevolently
inclined young lady who cut off the
tail of the pollywog to hasten the
stages of its evolution wept in dis-
may when she found she had ended
the life of the little dismembered
creature. It needed the labor of get-
ting rid of its tail to develop strength
for the responsibilities of its promo-
tion. If there are stunted growths
and undeveloped lives among the
youth of these prosperous decades,
may it not be that our educational
and domestic methods are affording
too much assistance, or ease, or lux-
ury to these little human pollywogs?
Iivery faculty of our being is made
more robust by constant and sensible
activity. To be able to bring things
to pass conduces to true happiness.
What real joy is stored away in a
good book! Study may be found an
unfailing source of pleasure. The
culture of the mind brings forth the
flower and the fragrance and the
fruitage of our intellectual natures.
Truth invigorates; it makes buoyant
and youthful. Truth is never old,
never discordant. Then, too, what
perennial fountains of sparkling hLap-
piness are music and art and poetry.
And what shall be said about nature?
If people would be happy, they must
get out of doors. God made -the
heavens, but man made the houses.
Many houses are devices of Satan to
shut man away from his God. All
nature is redolent of divinity. It is
hard for a naturalist to be an un-
believer. Some great nature students
have despised creeds, but it was be-
cause their great God was too mighty
to be bounded and -measuréd by man’s
dialectical tape line or foot rule. Let
us get out of doors. God, music,
might and men are out of doors, and
if we would be happy we must asso-
ciate much with the world outside,
for we have a divine commission to
subdue the earth. The ‘flower in
the cranied wall” has yet many beau-
tiful lessons to the thoughtful visi-
tor. Like the story of Edward Row-
land Sill, let us fling open the win-
dows of our grim towns amd let in
the ‘‘gust of sunshine and the sum-
mer scent of rose, and be sure that
the window sill stands open and shall
never be shut again!”
Exquisite happiness is__ found in
life’s true friendships. The widow
of Schumann says that whenever she
was to play in public any of her hus-
band’s music, she would read over
and over again the dear lave letters
he had written her during his life.
All true love is divine, and what we
call human love is really divine love,
and is one of our earthly faculties
which is the sure prophecy of the
estate of infinity to which we are
going, as it is the token of the in-
finite heart from which we have
sprung. No man can be truly happy
who does not love or is not truly
loved. The greatest of these is love!
Happiness is always found in ser-
vice. He who would be -‘happy”’
among you, as well as ‘“‘he who would
be chief among you, must be the ser-
vant of all.”” .When the old French-
nobility ehose as their motto, ‘“No-
blesse Oblige,” they simply accentu-
ated one of the finest principles of
the social organism, that “rank or
privilege is obligation.” Autocracies,
feudal systems, wars and all selfish
ambitions’ must gradually go down
before such a sceptre. He who is not
‘of the Union, in a speech of medium-
capable of serving is not capable of!
joy. Any man who wears upon his
helmet *Ieh Dien’ will soon have a
crown and a kingdom,
Since all clouds have a silver lin-
ing and every dark shadow a bright
side, for there would be no shadows
if there were no sun, if any one would
be happy, he must look for the bright
side. It may be his duty, unlike the
sun dial, to mark other than the
bright hours, but he will not be wise
unless he adopts the motto of a ven-
erable English bishop, “Serve God
and be cheerful.”’ It.is hard to per-
suade some people to be Christians
when it is seen that occasionally the
most unhappy angd_mrost disagreeable
people pose in a community as Chris-
tians. One of the first things true
religion does for people is to make it
possible for péople to live with them.
It may be probable that fault-finding
and complaining people will escape
purgatory, but it is certain that these
who have to live with them do not.
1 am sure God has a special crown
of beauty In heaven for those people
who are compelled to live on earth
with disagreeable people.
In possessing Christ as our life
and our truth and our way, we have
a specific for the world’s unrest and
care and a sure prescription for hap-
piness. He was a wise and skillful
doctor who, when one of his patients
describéd to him her symptoms,
wrote this prescription for her: “Go
home and read your Bible for an hour
every day.”’ I notice that somebody
is proposing that the office of priest
and physician be combined. I should
have no objection if there could be
a corresponding doubling of time and
capacity. There is no doubt that
soul sickness is the cause of much of
the world’s ailment. Christ came to
heal the world’s woes, and the bur-
dens of humanity contemplate that
men shall be wise enough to accept
divine help in carrying the loads
which would not have been laid upon
‘the race without a Great Burden
Bearer. It must be remembered that
true happiness is a celestial exotic, as
Sheridan sings:
True happiness is not the growth of
“earth,
The soil is fruitless if you seek it
there;
"Tis an exotic of celestial birth,
And never blossoms but in celestial
air.
Sweet plant of paradise!
are sown
In here and there a breast of heav-
enly modd
It rises-slow and
known
To blossom here—the climate is
too cold.
And however Bobbie Burns may
have failed to fulfill in his own pa-
thetic career the theology of his
songs, it was not because his lips or
his lyre lacked the true gospel of
happy and useful living:
It’s no in titles nor in rank;
It's no in wealth like London bank,
To purchase peace and rest.
It’s no in making muckle mair,
It’s no in books; it’s no in lear,
To make us truly blest.
If happiness hae not her seat
And centre in the breast,
We may be wise, or rich, or great;
But never can be blest.
In the advent the angel said he
brought good tidings of great joy.
David sang long ago, “Happy is that
people whose god is the Lord!” The
Christian religion has set the world
to singing. Christianity is truth set
to music. Sin and death go out of
the world when Christ and life come
in. A little boy understood his father
to say that children should be brought
up in the ‘fear and ammunition’ of
the Lord. There is an old classical
adage that ‘Every lover is a sol.
dier.’ Horace dedicated to his
favorite deity his lyre, his torch and
his bow. So if we would be happy
we must be useful; knights of the
Cross, armed with the shield of faith
and the sword of the Spirit, and girt
with the truth according to Jesus
Christ!
Its seeds
buds, but ne’er was
ee
“Lying Spirits.”
Some nofeworthy admissions were
made by several speakers at the an-
nual Convention of Spiritualists held
in London recently. The secretary
ship, warned his hearers that there
were grave dangers attending the
practice. Two city gentlemen who
also gave their testimony, admitted
that a ‘spirit’ had grossly deceived
them. By several professional Spirit-
ualists it is freely admitted that lying
spirits may deceive even the “elect.”
The history of Spiritualism leaves no
doubt that these ‘lying spirits” have
been very numerons. Then what can
be the value of communications from
the other side which are thus imper-
iled? What guarantee has any one
that the truth is being told?
To certain people there is a great
fascination in the idea of communi-
cating directly with the “beyond.”
But what information = has ever
reached us from the other side. that is
really trustworthy, or of any practi-
cal use? From an intellectual and
evidential point of ylew, there is
nothing less satisfactory than the re-
sults of Spiritualism. On the other
hand, according to Spiritualists them-
selves, there are grave dangers at-
tending the medium.
The Bible, in forbidding medium-
ship is our friend. God does not wish
His children to be at the disposal of
lying spirits. He has told us all that
it is necessary to know in this life,
and if men refuse that word, they will
not be persuaded though one rose
from the dead.—London Christian.
isda ede ide bliin
A Prayer.
O my God, Thou wert in my heart,
and requiredst nothing but a turning
of my mind inward to Thee to make |
me feel Thy presence. O Infinite
Goodness, Thou wert so near, and I
ran hither and thither to seek Thee,
but found Thee not. My life was a
burden, though my happiness was
within me. I was poor in the midst
of riches, and starving with hunger
near a table spread with dainties and
near a continual feast.—Mme. Guyon.
- Peace, Quietness, Rest.
If you will be rich, you must be
content to pay the price of falling
into ' temptation and a snare, and
many foolish and hurtful lusts; and if
that price be too high to pay, then
you must be content with the quiet
valleys of existence, where alone if
is well with us, having God for your
portion; peace, quietness and rest
with Christ.—F. W. Robertson.
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS
INTERNATIONAT; TYWSSON COM-
MENTS FOR NOV. 17 BY THE
REV. L W. HENDERSON.
Subject: Gideon and His Threc Hune
dred, Judges 7:9-23 — Golden
Text, Deut. 3-22 — Memory
Verses, 17, 18.
The lesson deals with one of the
famous characters of Israelitish his-
tory. It exemplifies how powerful a
tew Spirit-filled souls may be in the
tace of seemingly insuperable diffi-
culties. It shows how thoroughly
God can help us, how thoroughly He
keeps His word. It is a revelation of
what we all might do if we so de-
sired.
When the armies met Gideon was
putnumbered. When the battle be-
came imminent he was in a hopeless
minority. It was a handful against a
multitude. But the 300 were Spirit
filled, divinely chosen, consecrated.
They were without fear, they had
:ourage. And because they had cour-
age and .faith in Almighty God, ‘be-
sause they had trust in the capacity
5f their God to deliver the Midianites
Into their hands they were victorious.
And they won by the simplest and
2asiest of means. They didn’t even
have to use their weapons. Their
bravery brought consternation to the
hearts of the enemy and the rout be-
same complete. They were stout
hearted and victorious because they
were indwelt of the presence of God.
God had promised to deliver Mid-
ian into the hands of Israel. And
He kept His word. Without His help
the conflict might have resulted dif-
ferently. But when God helped the
vietory was assured. It didn’t make
any difference: whether or not the
Midianites and Amalekites were like
the grasshoppers for number and
their camels as numerous as the
sands of the seas when God gave
promise and aid. In that contingen-
cy numbers were a secondary quanti-
ty and great supplies inconsequen-
tial. For their power was augmented
by the personality of God. Their
strength was in no sense dependent
upon the commissariat.
Gideon earned a reputation for
consummate intrepidity that night.
His 300 consecrated, divinely com-
missioned followers enshrined them-
selves for all time. Their dauntless-
ness has become historic. They are
the epitome of daring. They are sy-
nonymous with surpassing fearless-
ness.
Now what Gideon did in his way
any consecrated soldier of the Lord
Jesus Christ may do according to his
opportunity and his power. The trou-
ble is that most of us are like the
20,000 and more who went back to |
We are without the
necessary courage. We are too much
consumed with fear. We don’t dare
to dare. And no man can do any-
thing whe lacks heart, who hasn’t
nerve, No man certainly can war
against the principalities and powers
of the empire of unrighteousness who
has no faith in God, and who is lack-
ing 'in a necessary trust in divinity
But putting our faith and trust in
Jehovah we may do anything. For
God trusts those who sincerely put
their trust in Him. He has faith in
the faithful. It could not be other-
wise. And with Him with us we
need fear no obstacles. Whatever
may be the difficulties and oppositions
that confront us He will guarantee
us the victory if we will do His will.
And we shall find that His methods
are the simplest. We shall find how
utterly cowardly and inefficient are
the forces that oppose us and how lit-
tle it takes to put them altogether to
rout.
The lesson ought to be an inspira-
tion to every man who in the name
and for the glory of God and the con-
servation of the interests of human-
ity wars against wickedness in any
place. It ought especially to be an
inspiration to those who have banded
themselves to fight the plunderers in
every walk of life are laying plans to
rob the people of their birthrights, as
Midian attacked Israel, or who al-
ready have annexed to themselves the
properties and the possessions of the
people. ‘For as sure as God lives if
we do God’s will we shall confound
them all. And by the most unex-
pected and simple methods. And it
will need but a few valiant souls to
do it. A host is no more necessary
to-day than it was that famous night
when Gideon led the 300 against the
multitude.
It is necessary that we shall have
faith in God. That we shall band to-
gether the men whom God has fitted
to do His holy work. It is necessary
that we shall take our orders from
that Spirit of truth who is the light
of the world and the salvation there-
of and do His bidding and remain
steadfast. For God is helping us.
God has promised us victory as truly
as He promised victory to Gideon.
Whenever we get discouraged let
us look at Gideon. When we are in-
clined to doubt God’s capacity and
promise fulfilling power let us read
anew what He did for Isra®l and for
the endless fame of Gideon. When
we think we are few against the
hosts of sin that are oppressing us let
us receive courage from the victory
He insured for Israel. For He is
with us as He was with them. If we
trust Him He will trust us. If we
will have faith in Him He will glorify
us. For the God of yesterday is the
same to-day and forever.
their tents.
An imperial edict issued at Pekin
provides for the creation of a “coun-
cil of deliberation” to aid the govern-
ment in considering State questions.
Local selfgovernment will be -estab-
lished, and when the people have be-
come familiar with this delegates will
probably be elected to a national con-
vention with the purpose of founding
a Parliament, prophesies the New
York Herald. China has entered upon
a new era, and her transformation
will probably be the greatest event of
the twentieh cenury.
You can stave off appendicitis by
walking around on all-fours, like a
donkey, but nobody minds appendici-
tis as bad as zll that, suggests the
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17.
The Natural Method—John 1: 40-42,
45-46—Personal Evangelism.
Passages for reference: John 3.
1, %etc.; 4. 7, ete.;. 9, 35-38: Acts: 8.
206, etc.; 20. 20; Bccl. 11. 4-6; Matt
6. 14-16. :
Religion is normal to man. He
needs it as the heart does oxygen.
It is not a strange and strained
thing. It develops with the years.
It has to do with the deepest and
most beautiful thoughts. It is re
lated to all subjects. It unfolds and
takes on new meaning under discus:
sion and convérsation. Men are
gladdened and enlightened by its
facts. Everyone ' is spontaneously
and logically interested in it. Yet
it is much misunderstood. Old no-
tions hid it in the darkness of mysti-
cism. Many miss its helpfulness.
Each person grasps various phases
of it, It is never exhaustea. it
fits every day and demand. It is en
tirely Teasonable and can be handled
by the fingers of the mind. It is
subject-.to, built up by, and open to
reason. It is therefore a subject for
natural, thoughtful, common conver:
sation . It. is easier and more profit
able to talk about it than politics, the
weather; or the latest "scandal. It
makes friends, it draws companies
close together, it starts all kinds and
grades of minds. Bring religious
conversation, interviews about Jesus,
into the hearty, encouraging atmos-
phere of the welcome, value-giving,
congenial talks between friends and
about a friend. When we make our
personal work plain, practical, pur-
poseful, pointed, and profitable, peo-
ple will listen with an open and a pli-
able mind.
Dwight L. Moody said a little be-
fore his death, “After all, tne most
effective and fruitful work of grace
can only be secured by the consecra-
tion of the great masses of our mem-
bership to reach people one by one.”
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman quotes‘a
Methodist who gives these figures:
“If Methodist pastors would win one
soul a month, 460,000 would be reach-
e¢d in a year; if Baptists the same,
426,000; Presbyterians the same,
146,000. If every evangelical minis-
ter in the United States would win
one a month, 1,620,000 would be add-
ed in a year.” The “woman at the
well,”” Mary Magdalene ,the cemetery
maniac, the man born blind, hand-
touched, were Christ's loyal and use-
ful followers
CART EXDENOR NOTE
NOVEMBER SEVENTEENTH.
men for Gideon's
Judg. 7: 2-7.
Servants of sin. Judg. 6: 1-6.
Promised deliverance. Judg. 6: T-
Wanted: band!
10.
The deliverer chosen.
24.
Gideon prepared. Judg. 6:
A sign given. Judg 6:
A splendid victory. Judg.
Sometimes a man’s resources
wealth, health, and other blessings
are abridged, God knowing that there
is no other way to abridge hip pride.
“Whosover is fearful and trembl-
ing” never has his part in God's ac-
tual army, though his name may
stand on the muster roll.
God is continually testing men, and
some of your least considered deeds
may decide your fitness for your
most glorious opportunity.
One of the finest indications of fit-
ness for a task is eagerness.to be.
about it.
Judg. 6: 11-
Suggestions.
belongs to Ged's army
No one is pressed in-
Whoever
must want to.
to that service.
Though God can accomplish His
work with many men or few, how
about the men that stay at home?
All work best worth doing in the
world is done with ‘remnants’ —rem-
nants of money, of time, of strength,
of men.
There is nothing to fear in joining
Gideon’s band; the really terrible
thing is not to’ join it.
Illustrations
It is the sharp points that make
the best weapons; and so God whit-
tles down His forces to a few.
In a yacht race the captain does
not care how many pleasure boats
are speeding with him; what he
cares for is the wind.
If you see a soldler polishing his
musket, you may know that the battle
‘has not begun.
“ Incidentally the soldiers that tossed
the water into their mouths did not
get too much of it.
Alaska’s Need of Railroads.
The gold in Alaska is gradually
making of an Arctic wilderness a civ-
ilized country. But Alaska’s growth
is slow outside the mining camps be-
cause of its lack eof railway facilities.
This lack retards the mining opera-
tions and all forms of trade. At the
present time there is only one rail-
road that penetrates to the interior
of Alaska and of that only thirty
miles are on American soil. This road
runs from Skagway, at the head ot
Lynn Canal, and connects “‘dewater
with the Yukon river. Except during
the four months that navigation i%
open—from June to October—this
railroad centrols the trade of the Yu-
kon valley. It is as if the enly rail
road between the Atlantic and the
Mississippi were from Albany to Troy.
—New York World.
Having installed elevaters and roof
gardens in their latest ships the man
agers of the transatlantic liners insist
on making New Yorkers feel still more
at home, observes the New York
Press, by adding a rogues’ gallery,
made up of the photographs of card
sharpers, to the adornments of the
‘smoking rooms.