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‘i The Flower Season.
There is an invalid woman whose
neighbor has for years, at intervals
of a few weeks, bought her a little
pot of whatever growing flowers are
in season. >
Watching flowers grow is a constant
joy to a sick person, and she says this
choice of ‘plant is so much wiser than
a bunch of cut: flowers.
Remember this the next time you
are buying flowers for the sick.—Indi-
anapolis News.
A Gracious Queen.
Just before Queen Alexandra left
England on her recent continental trip
she received a letter from Martha Mas-
sey, a servant girl who was lying ill
in St. Luke’s Hospital, London. The
girl wrote that she was dying of con-
sumption, and the doctors had only
given her a few weeks to live, and
above all things she wanted to see the
Queen before she died. Alexandra
was so touched by the letter that she
went to see her and took a present of
fruit and flowers to her.
Envelope Guards Against Meddlers.
Thieves and meddlers will have a_
hard” time with-a new envelope, made
in Paris, if they try to seal it up
again, after they have ‘opened it, so
that it will not have the appearance of
having been tampered with. It is
really two envelopes. Each is of thin
paper. One is a pronounced blue, the
other lighter in color and different in
texture. Each has a gummed flap.
First the letter is placed in the dark-
blue envelope, which is slightly small-
er than the other. This is not sealed,
but is placed in the larger envelope and
the inner flap brought outside and
gummed down on the outside cover-
ing. © The outer flap is much larger
than the inner flap and reaches down
to ‘a good-sized star-shaped opening
in the outer envelope through which
shows the inner envelop. So, when
the outer flap is sealed, it sticks not
only to the outer envelope, but also,
because of the opening, to the inner
The letter is thus doubly sealed.
—New York Press.
Women Swimmers.
Of the thirty-four starters in the
life-saving corps endurance swim from
the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island,
the two women swimmers went the
whole thirteen miles, though most of
the men quit. Ome of the women had
never swum further than two miles be-
forey but she finished fresh. Several
of the men collapsed after finishing.
Swimming is vigorous exercise. If
the water is not too cold, it is the
best kind of exercise. The chest mus-
cles are developed and their strength
helps the lungs. The -abdomen and
back are strengthened. The support
of the water lessens injurious internal
strains.
Men have more strength than wom-
en, but women have more vitality than
men. In swimming, the chill of the
water tells more on a man than on a
woman. The same feminine quality
that enables women to be superior
to men in a dentist’s chair helped
Miss Gallup and Miss Hurst keep
cheerful for five hours in the ocean.—
New York World.
The Eldest Daughter.
The task laid upon the shoulders of
the eldest daughter in homes where
the children are many and the" in-
come small, is sometimes an unduly
hard one.
The others’ delinquenicies are so of-
ten visited on her. She, while a little
one herself, is blamed for not keeping
the others out of mischief, and warn-
ed that she must always set a good
example. The governess is shocked
if a younger one does better in any-
thing. And when she comes home from
school people seem to expect, in spite
of proverbs, an old head on young
shoulders.
Other girls are thinking of pleasure;
there are duties waiting for her—du-
ties that are often difficult to do, be-
cause she has to tke mother’s place
without mother’s authority.
Tt is Alice here, Alice there, and
Alice everywhere. “Oh, dear! Am I
never to have any time of my own?”
" It's a difficult post, my dear, but it
is one of the finest in the world if you
do your best to fill it properly. For,
says Home Chat, with all these calls
upon you, how can you help develop-
ing into a capable woman if you try?
You have the choice, you can chafe
against it all and learn nothing, or
you can put your back against it, and:
learn more than you ever learned at
school of helpfulness and sympathy.
Divinely Tall.
Yesterday was marked by the num-
ber of tall individuals met in a brief
stroll “downtown.” Generally the
average -height is maintained and ex-
tremes are too few to ‘attract atten-
tion; but it happened that giants were
abroad, and the observing person took
notes. Any man six feet tall with an
inch or two to spare is conspicuous,
but when a woman towers to that
height she is an object of commeént, not
only with her own sex, but with the
other, gallant as it may be, And yes-
terday there were three of her. At
first it was imagined these three “di-
vinely tall” young women were the
same, until chance brought two of
them side by side at a silk counter,
and then it was wondered if each was
not consciously proud of her
E,
stature,
for both carried their heads nig ond
both were beautifully dressed. But
what pigmies they made of the crowd
moving about them! No sooner had
this lofty pair gone on than a third
“six-footer” of the feminine gender
was encountered. She was as hand-
some as she was tall, with splendid
dark eyes, and her black draperies—
for she was not tailor-made—bespoke
foreign ‘manufacture, and she, too, was
head a shoulders above the men
who passed her by. If one takes to
counting his steps, or the people, short
or tall, he meets, or doing any other
silly thing after the manner of Dr.
Johnson touching the Fleet street
posts, he soon finds there is nothing
peculiar in numbers, therefore giants
may be only coming into vogue, and
we need not remark them any more. —_—
Boston Herald. :
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She's A Don’t Fretter.
Is it not remarkable how unhappy
are a lot of ought-to-be-happy persons?
The women who get nervous prostra-
tion because they have nothing to do,
and others who possess so much mon-
ey they become ill wondering what
they will do with it. That must be
terrible.
You and I and the woman next, who
work like tinkers and who suppress a
shriek at the sight of a postman for
fear he has the ice bill, the rent bill,
the water tax or the coal bill, we rath-
er think we should like to fly our kites
in that other atmosphere, just to see
if it would make us also ill.
Even the masses admit there are
many classes*in the world: There arc
the fretters and non-fretters; there are
the thinkers, and non-thinkers; there
are the dull wise and the happy fool-
ish,
There are those who mount on Pe.
gasus and those who give him a nasty
clip. There are the narrow minded
who see ill in all things natural, and
the broad-minded who go through life
casting a beautiful radiance upon all
persons within their circle.
“Join the non-fretters, you won't re-
gret it,” is the advice the anxious one
needs. They are the only happy ones
who ‘don’t worry” about yesterday.
Thy have forgotten that it ever ex-
isted. Seldom do they fret about to-
morrow, because tomorrow may not
reach them.
Today they live. They may have
their little annoyances; the world is
full of persons who won't sit still and
hold their peace, but must be popping
up and bursting out with disturbing
talk. Thé wise ones regard these as
spring showers—inconvenient, but of-
ten enjoyable because they make a
change.
The non-fretters do not stay awake
nights for fear the cook will make muf-
fins instead of corn bread for break-
fast. They are grateful for the muf-
fins. They don’t get into a stew and
boil over because the .yearly gown
does not arrive in time for the feast.
. The joy of trying it on is thus re.
served for the next day.
We raise our brows and glance back-
ward at the horrible years when we
carried all the world’s worry on our
shoulders and would not have smiled
for a mansion and lot in heaven.
What good did it do? The world
waddled and toddled on at the same
old gait, never changing step, and all
we got for our trouble was dyspepsia
and falling hair.
Just let the world and its inhabitants
take. care of themselves. You look
after little No. 1 and those who are
near and dear to No. 1,
Be just decent to your fellow beings.
If you have a few lovely posies up
your sleeve occasionally hand them
out. Then be content—calmily, respec-
tably content—New York Sun.
Fashion Notes.
High tan shoes will be fashionable
this season.
The vogue for Empire fashions is
not confined wholly to gowns.
The new shade of duck’s wing and
wistaria is expressed in many of this
season’s millinery designs.
Linen and pique coat and skirt
suits trimmed with wide bands of lace
are among the smartest walking suits.
Lace insertion borders the hem of
the skirt as well as the edges of the
coat and is seldom less than four
inches wide.
The classical Recamier scarf wound
twice just below the bust and left to
hang in loose knotted ends at.one side
is one of the popular draperies.
No longer is plain stitching the prin-
cipal decoration of the tailor-made
coat. Whether it be of cloth, linen,
or silk, it is trimmed either with braid
or with straps or bands of different
materials.
With some of the handsomest lin-
gerie and lace robes seen at fashion-
able restaurants there have been di-
minutive little bodices which seem to
be made up of a draped sash, veiled
with white lace.
Soutache braid enters into the com-
positicn of the new hats as a decora-
tion. Many of the latest models show
a tam crown braided in rows, com-
pleted by a brim of satin, and are to
be had in black and colors.
Of course, taupe is an unnatural
color for flowers, but we have them
shaded in a single cluster from black
to the lightest possible shade, and
they blend beautifully with other flow-
ers and materials in the soft, old
shades.
Infinite.
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. CHARLES EDWARD LOCKE.
Theme: Faith's Victories.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. Dr.
Charles Edward Locke Sunday closed
his pastorate at the Hanson Place
Methodist Episcopal Church. He
leaves to assume charge of the great
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Los Angeles, Cal. Large audiences
filled the church at both services. In
the morning Dr. Locke’s subject was:
“Faith’s Victories.” The text was 1
John 5:4: ‘“This is the victory that
overcometh the -world, even our
faith.” Dr. Locke said:
Early in the morning after refresh-
ing sleep amid the fragrant bowers
of Bethany, on the second day of our
Lord's sad and triumphant Passion
Week, Jesus with His disciples was
on His way around the graceful slopes
.of Olivet to the great city. All being
hungry, and seeing a fig tree, they ap-
proached it, confidently expecting to
enjoy the luscious fruit, forthe season
of the ripening fruit had come, but
the time for the gathering of the har-
vest was not yet. When they reached
the tree they found nothing - but
leaves. Christ thereupon pronounced
a curse upon the unfruitful and use-
less tree, and immediately it withered
away. When the wondering disciples
saw the fig: tree withered away they
marveled, but Jesus said: “If ye
have faith and doubt not, ye shall not
' only do this which is done to the fig
tree, but, also, if ye shall say unto
this mountain, be thou removed and
be thou cast into the sea, it shall be
done; and all things whatsoever ye
shall ask in prayer believing ye shall
receive.”
John was the best loved of all the
disciples of Jesus. Our introduction
to him is when he is a young man,
when he and Andrew at the sugges-
tion of John the Baptist, “Behold the
Lamb*of God!” follow Jesus and in-
quire, “Where dwellest Thou?” and
He replies, “Come and see.” Sixty
vears have passed; he is now an old
man standing on the mduntain top of
expectancy with the light of immor-
tality aglow upon his face. Looking
forward into the future he cries, “It
doth not yet appear what we shall
be!” and looking backward upon the
way he has traveled, and upon the
great world struggling for mastery,
he shouts triumphantly, “This is the
victery that overcomeéeth the world,
‘even our faith.”
“Faith is the Substance (assurance)
of things hoped for, the evidence
(proving) of things not seen.” It has
been truthfully said that faith is a
higher faculty than reason. Reason
builds laboriously and often fruitless-
ly its towers of Babel, but faith quick-
ly soars into the very bosom of the
Faith is a grateful arch
which, spans the chasm between man
th2 finite and God the Infinite. Faith
is a gift. “By grace ye are saved
through faith—it is the gift of God.”
Faith is the subtle force by which
man adjusts himself to God.
Faith is pardon, peace—regenera-
tion. “Being justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.” We are saved
from sin, not by evolution, or by revo-
lution, or by works alone, but by
faith—“believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved!”
Faith is life—“The just shall live
by faith” was Luther’s discovery on
the staircase in the lateran. “The
life which I now live in the flesh I
live by the faith of the Son of God.”
Christ is life—He came to interpret
and enlarge life for each of us.
Faith, also, is character. Faith in
Christ is the foundation of character,
the inspiration of achievement. Char-
acter is what a man is doing all the
time. When the disciples asked Jesus
what they should do to work the
works of God, He replied, “Believe on
Him whom He hath sent.” What we
believe will determine what we do.
Great men are great ideas incarnated.
It was said of Abraham, ‘‘He believed
God, and it was accounted unto him
for righteousness.”
“Faith is the substance of things
hoped for.” Faith realizes while oth-
er men dream and doubt and debate.
Columbus first had a vision of a new
world, and then found it. Morse was
a man of faith and prayer, until in
1844 the first telegraph wire between
Washington and Baltimore carried
the message, “What God hath
wrought?” So of Eads with his jet-
ties, Stephenson with his steam en-
gine, and Field with his cable. What
these heroic men worked out was
“substance” to them before their dis-
coveries and inventions were actual-
ities. The same is true of the work
and faith of our Pilgrim Fathers and
Mothers, the founders of the Wes-
leyan movement, Francis Xavier,
William Taylor, William Butler and
Judson. Pioneers of faith have dis-
mally discovered that it is more diffi-
cult to overcome the unbelief of men
than to master the principles upon
which their deductions and inventions
depended. .
After all, the stronger argument
for our Christian faith is not what we
say, but what we do. It has been
thoughtfully remarked that although
the unbeliever may not read the Bi-
ble, he does read the life of Chris-
tians to see how they live. A tru!
incarnated in a consistent Christic
life is the church’s invincible argu-
ment for Christianity.
Faith is salvation—salvation from
sin and self and sorrow and sickness
and adversity. There is no ill of the
soul for which faith is not a specific,
and many ills of the body flee away
like the poisonous fogs before the
sunlight .
Dear Chaplain McCabe had a broth-
er who, after forty years of thralldom
to strong dring, was finally, through
the faith and love and perseverance
of his hopeful brother,redeemed from
the sad slavery. The chaplain used
to say: “When I get to heaven I am
going to take my brother by the hand
and lead him up to my mother and
say: ‘Mother, here’s George; I have
brought him home!’” and nothing
will save a vast multitude of men un-
less their fellows, in love and faith,
help them to fight their battles
through to a victory.
Abraham Lincoln was a man of
boundless faith in God. He once said:
“It is not particular whether God is
on our side, but it is all important
whether we are on God’s side.
ore occasion when his pastor desire
five memorable years of nw
to. make a call, the President fixed the
hour at_5 o’clock in the morning. Iie
found Mr. Lincoln reading the Bible,
and he learned that it was the great
emancipator’s custom to spend the
early morning hour each day in Bible
reading and prayer.
My dear friends, if any substantial
victories have been won in this dear
church during my pastorate, which’
ends with this sacred Sabbath, they
have been faith victories. ~ Nothing
we .haye endeavored to do. together
during these five happy years has
been worth while unless it was what
God wanted done, ‘I am thankful for
the kindly providence which brought
me to this noble church with its mul-
titude of devoted and loyal people. I
am deeply grateful to you all for your
love and patience,: for your fidelity
-and ‘your, prayers.
I wish I could
have served you better. In the ardu-
ous, though happy, labors of this
great parish I have been assured of
your earnest and sympathetic sup-
port. Without your constant co-oper-
ation I should have utterly failed. .I
thank you tenderly for your generous
sympathy, for during these five years
my. greatest sorrows have'come to me.
There was a happy tri-unionate of us;
my" ‘sainted father, my only brother,
and ‘myself. My father was a com-
rade and congenial companion to his
boys. = All unexpectedly, in the morn-
ing of his'brilliant career, my brother
was stricken, and in a few-hours:the
eminent young lawyer stood before
the Great Judge.
It. was a deadening blow. My
“father, advancing in years, bent un-
der the chastening. Though it whit-
:ened- his Jocks, it divinely brightened
hig faith. It was your distinguished
honor to know my father and hear
him ‘preach. His last sermon was
preached in this pulpit, his last public
prayer was offered at these holy al-
tars. He used to sit beside me here,
and love me into better service. Oc-
casionally, when I urged him to do so,
he would visit the other churches and
listen to my brilliant confreres, who
are widely known for their eminence
and eloquence; and, then, with a par-
ent’s fond indulgence and extrava-
gance, he would say, “My son, none
of these men preaches better than
you.” I smiled at the fiction, but
‘nevertheless my father’s opinion was
more to me than any other’s, and his
loving presence furnished tonic and
inspiration to my work; and when, in
that parsonage in the very shadow of
the sanctuary, his soul ascendefl to
meet his Lord, the noblest and most
exquisite Christian gentleman whom
God ever made, ended his earthly pil-
grimage.” In my great sorrow you
sustained me with your tender pray-
ers and sympathy. But the old world
has been pretty lonesome to me since
the going away of these two dear
men.
I leave you reluctantly, but I turn
my face again to the sunset shore
with happy expectations.” Many
friends : await .our coming. Nine
years ago. this very week I laid the
cornerstone of that beautiful church;
and a piece of my heart went into the
copper box. I want your prayers that
my ministry theremay be faithful and
fruitful. ~
A sincere and hearty welcome to
my successor, Dr. Henderson and his
family, will be a token of true love
and loyalty to me. He is most wor-
thy of your highest confidence and es-
teem. He has won many trophies, is
a man who has been tried and not
found wanting. He is a stalwart;
rugged in body, vigorous in mind
and large of heart. He is capable,
resourceful, victorious. Ged bless
him and you, and make his coming
the most notable pastorate in tke
eventful history of this church.
And, now, once more, I thank you
one and all_the trust ees, the stew-
ards, the class leaders, the Sunday-
school, the presiding elders, the dea-
conesses, the sexton, the Epworth
League, the Men's 2-3-2 Club, the
missionary societies, the organists
and choirs, the ushers, the children
who have loved me, the young people
who have listened to me, the older
people ‘who have prayed for me; all
who have in any way helped in these
life, I
thank you with all my heart and pray
for you. To the members of other
churches, and those who have attend-
ed upon my ministry who were not
members of this church, I would say,
-you have gladdened and encouraged
my heart by your presence and kindly
words; and I thank you, one and all,
again and again. Remember when
you come to California Ishall be there
to warmly welcome you to my church
and to my home.
The Real Cause of Weakness.
The decline in numbers among the
free churches of Great Britain is a
subject for lament. The English pa-
pers are filled with anxious discus-
sions of the fact. It appears that the
passion for souls is lacking and evan-
gelism is discredited. The churches
are doing little more than the ethical
societies are doing. Seventy-five per
cent. of the population are reported
as being either indifferent or hostile
to the churches.
The churches are Sunday clubs,
reform societies or benevolent agen-
cies. They are not hemes for the
soul. Prayer is not vital but for-
mal. Conviction is not present.
They have the ethic of religion
without the evangel. This condition
is a warning to all the world. The
primary ncte in all our preaching
and work should be evangelistic.
Stagnation and death stare us in the
face when we cease to seek the lost.
—Baptist Standard.
imei oe Sea Sl
“Tet the Almighty Steer.”
God hath a thousand keys to open
a thousand doors for the deliverance
of His own when it has come to the
greatest extremity. Let us be faith-
ful and care for our own part, which
is to do and suffer for Him, and lay
God’s part on Himself, and leave it
there; duties are ours, events are the
Lord’s.
When our faith goes to meddle
with events, and to hold a court (if I
may so speak) upon God's providence,
and beginneth to say, “How wilt Thou
do this or that?” we lose ground, we
have nothing to do there; It is our
part to let thd Almighty exercise His
own office and steer 1Iis own helm.—
Samuel Rutherford.
Great Toils, Great Rewards.
Nature is just toward men. It rec-
ompenses them for the} ir sufferi
rend d them 1¢ abo
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON CoOM-
MENTS FOR OCTOBER 23%.
Subject: The Joy of Forgiveness, Ps.
32—Golden Text, Ps. 32: 1—Com-
mit Verses 1, 2—Read Ps.51 and
Rom. Chs. 4, 5—Co: mmentary:
TIME.—1034 B. C. PLACE.—
Jerusalem.
EXPOSITION.—I. The Blessed-
ness of Sin Covered by God, 1, 2.
This is a didactic psalm (title, mar-
gin). David is beyond question the
author of it (Rom. 4:6-8). He had
known in his royal position all world-
ly joys, but the highest joy that he
had found was that of transgression
forgiven and sin covered. This joy
is open to every one (Acts 10:43).
If there was forgiveness for one who
had sinned so grievously as David we
may conclude that there is forgive-
The Psalmist multiplies
words for sin, ‘transgression’ means
rebellion. “Sin,” missing the mark
(cf. Rom. 3:23). ‘Iniquity,”
edness, .or curvature. To ‘‘forgive”
means literally to take away (cf. Jno.
1:29; Ps. 103:12). God “covers”
sin (cf. Ps. 85:2). He covers sin
from view. He covers it with the
blood of Christ (Le. 17:11). When
God covers sin no man nor devil can
uncover it. God does not impute or
Tookon to the impenitent sinner his
sin.
II. The Misery of Sin Covered by
Self, 8, 4. In the first verse we see
God covering sin; in the third and
fourth the sinner covering his own
sin. The former is supreme blessed-
ness, the latter supreme misery. The
sinner seeks to cover his sin from
God (cf. Gen. 3:7, 8). This no sinner
has ever succeeded in doing (Prov.
28:13). David sought to keep si-
lence, but only succeeded in ‘roaring
all the day long.” His lips kept si-
lence but his bones roared. He tried
to escape God's hand by keeping si-
lence, but day and night God's hand
was heavy upon him. There is noth-
ing that man can do more foolish
than to refuse to confess his sin unto
God. These days of unconfessed sin
were days of great cruelty on David's
part (2 Sam. 12:31).
III. Sin Uncovered to God and
Covered Up by God; 5. David did at
last with his sin what he ought to
have done first. God’s heavy hand
had accomplished its loving purpose.
David acknowledged his sin to ‘the
right person, to God. He stopped
covering (“hid” is the same Hebrew
word as ‘covered’ in v. 1) his sin.
When he stopped covering his sin
himself then God covered it for him.
It was a good thing that David said
in v. 5. To “confess” does not mean
merely “to own up,” but to “point
out,” or “fully declare.” The trouble
with much that is called confession is
that it is not full and frank and free.
The result of this confession was that
God forgave the iniquity of his sin.
That will always be the result of full,
hearty confession unto the Lord (1
Jno. 3:95 Job 33:27, 28: Lu. 15:29
A hearty confession of sin is al-
ways accompanied by a thorough
turning away from sin (Prov. 28:13;
Lev. 26:40-42).
IV. Forgiven Sinner Himself Cov-
ered, 6, 7. The word “godly” (in v.
6) means ‘‘a recipient of grace.” Be-
cause of God's forgiveness of con-
fessed sin every recipient of God’s
grace prays unto Him in a time when.
He may be found (or “in the tims of
finding out sin’’—see marg. A. V. and
R. V.). There is a time when God
cannot be found (Isa. 55:6; Prov.
1:24-28; Lu. 13:24-28; 19:42-44).
The time when He may be found is
now (2 Cor. 6:2).# The result of
praying to Him in a time when He
may be found will be that “when the
great waters overflow they shall not
reach unto him.” The reason why
they shall not reach unto him is be-
cause God Himself is his hiding
‘place.
V. The Forgiven Sinner Kept From
Further Wandering, 8, 9. It is not
enough that our past going wrong
be forgiven, we need to be guided in
the right way for the future. God
promised to thus “instruct,” “teach”
and ‘‘guide” David for thas future
(and every other forgiven sinner as
well). Some make David himself the
speaker in v. 8, but it is better to take
the words as God's response to
David. The change of speakers is in-
dicated by the sign “Selah.” This is
a most precious promise. The only
way we shall ever know the way in
which we should go is when God in-
structs and teaches us in it. God
counsels us by a glance cf His eye
(see R. V.). If we are to be guided
by a glance of His eye, we must keep
near Him, so as to catch His glance.
God's instruction and teaching come
through His Word and Spirit (Ps.
119:105; Jno. 16:13). Even the for-
given sinner is quite likely to act like
‘the horse” or ‘the mule.” Such
cannot be guided by God's eye. Still
He does not give them up, He holds
them with “bit and bridle.’
VI. The Misery of the Wicked, the
Blessedness of the Man of Faith, 10,
11. Verse 10 states the conclusion of
the whole matter. Two persons are
put in contrast, the wicked and he
that “trusted in the Lord.” The only
righteousness ‘that God recognizes,
even in the O. T., is the righteousness
of Faith (cf. Phil. 3:9). To the
wicked shall be “many sorrows’ (ef.
Ro. 2:8, 9); to the one that trusteth
in the Lord, mercy round about him
on every side. That is a safe wall.
Our duty then is to “be glad in the
Lord.”” This is as much a command
as the one not to steal (cf. De, 12:12:
Phil, 3:1, 3: 4:4). 2
Congress's Anti-Hazing Law.
The necessity for yielding to the
behest of legislative decrees which
are not .the product of wisdom or
experience, or of a sympathetic un-
derstanding of military men or mill-
tary necessities, is common to all
who- wear a uniform, and, irksome as
it is at first, there is no way except
to accustom one's
being
are said to
Navy
nned until they
it..— (Army
eels do to
enjoy
ournal.)
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25.
in the Christian Heart—Eph. 5.
18-21; Acts 2. 1-4; 10. 4448;
: 19.- 1.7.
Every word of the lesson places
tremendous emphasis upon the spir-
itual significance of the kingdom of
Jesus. The descent of the Holy
Spifit will not mark Pentecost mere-
ly as the inauguration of the Christian
Church, but as furnishing for all time
the distinguishing - characteristic of
aggressive Christianity. The dis-
ciples already knew of their Master's
resurrection from the dead, but the
fact was hid in their hearts, or only
spoken of in the seclusion of friendly
gathering. But Pentecost touched
every tongue with irresistible utter:
ance. It endued with power, and
gave the spirit of witness. It was
the enthronement of Jesus in the
hearts of his people. It proclaimed
his present and living leadership.
Christ was so real a presence to the
early church that it caused the Ro-
man government to issue an order for
his arrest, and officers went around
Rome looking for one :Crestus, the
mysterious leader of the despised and
troublesome Christians!
The gift of tongues: a caution.
Whatever may be said as to the gift
of tongues being permanent ‘in the
Christian Church or not, certain it is
that it symbolized the universality of
the gospel message. In view, how-
ever, of the prominence given to the
matter in certain quarters throughout
the country, it may be well to remem-
ber that Paul had to rebuke some
people in the early church for plac-
ing undue emphasis upon it, by de-
claring: “I had rather speak five
words with my understanding . .
than ten thousand words in an un-
known tongue.” = It is also very sig-
nificant and pathetic that from In-
diz and China and Japan comes word
from our missionaries that certain
people who went out to these heathen
lands expecting to be able to mirac-
ulousiy speak the language of these
pecple are utterly unable to do so.
Significant, also, were the words of
Hudson Taylor, the sainted founder
of the China Inland Mission. When
asked why he did not have his mis-
sianaries learn the language before
leaving for the mission field he re-
pled: “Because a knowledge of
tha Chinese people and things Chi-
nese is a first essential, and the mis-
sionaries get that while studying the
anzuage.”
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORNOTES
OCTOBER- TWENTY.FIFTH.
God
Tcric—Foreign Missions; Fidelia
Fiske, and Missions in Per-
sia—Mic. 4: 1-7.
Perzia’s founder. Isa. 41: 1-3.
Its unchanging laws. Dan. 6: 6-15.
A grand banquet. Esth. 1: 1-12.
Persia’s cruelty. Esth. 1: 13-19.
A beautiful queen. Esth. 2: 5-8.
Daniel's visicn. Dan. 8: 19-27.
People are flowing now to ths
Lord’s house: the tendency in every
land is toward it. (v.'1.)
Let us have faith in God's Word,
that it will prevail; it does not depend
upon ‘our feebleness.
War, through its cost, its passions,
its animosities, its worldliness, and
its immoralities, is one of the great-
est hindrances to the progress of
Christianity.
It is those who walk in the name
of the Lord that go to every land.
Fidelia Fiske, and Persia.
Miss FiS®e was born in 1816 and
died in 1864. It was Mary Lyon who
gave her much of her missionary en-
thusiasm.
She went to Oroomiah in 1843, and
was the first unmarried woman to
enter that field. “In 1858 failing
heaith compelled her to return to the
United States: but those fourteen
years were full of blessed achieva-
ment.
When the missionaries reached Per-
sia there was cnly one woman in
Oroomiah that could read. Miss
Fiske founded a seminary which did
a wonderful work.
The first Syriac word she learned
was “daughter,”
! and the next was
“give,” so that she could say, “Give
me your daughter.”
Her pupils studied the Bible three
hours a day. Almost all that came
within the circle of Miss Fiske’s in-
fluence became Christians. One
villainous Koordish chief, who
brecught his daughter to the school,
was . converted before he left the
premises.
The seminary enjoyed twelve re-
vivals within its first nineteen years.
Often the scholars would spend th
entire night praying for {heir 1
tives.
RACKS IN THE KITCHEN.
Racks for kettle and pan covers
may be made on the back of the doors
of kitchen closets, and will save much
trouble. Get brass screw hocks anid
arrange them on the lower edges ot
the crosswise panels of the doer.
Screw larger hcoks at each end o
the panels and door springs
atfached to them acrcss the pane
The distance of the spring from tt
bottom of the panel varies accordi
to the size of the covers. The hooks
fcr the springs for the large covers
should be put about the middle of the
panel and fer the smallest
auite near the bottcm.—New
Times.
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stretch
wu
covers
York
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The great need cf the legal frajer-
nity is not professions but prac tige,
declares the New York World. Its
honor ang purity will never
well irrep
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