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, © ANEW OCCUPATION. _
A new occupation - for women is
that of the “grateful patient.” Well]
“dressed women are hired by unscru-
pulous men in Paris to "sit in their
waiting rooms, enter into tomnversa-
tion with genuine patients, and hold
forth in glowing terms on the bene--
fits to_be derived from the doctor's
treatment.
I WOMEN AS UNDERTAKERS.
Article of incorporation were sub-
mitted to.five well known women of
Oakland, Cal., who will constitute the
board of directors of the California
‘Women’s Undertaking Company. The
only mere man who figures in the or-
ganization is an attorney, whose serv-
“ices will not be needed after organi-
zation. The business will be under
the direction of women.
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LITTLE PHILOSOPHIES.
(By a Woman.) Fo
Heaven is far if we make it so. .~
Women dissemble to hide their
hearts; men to hide their motives.
An unbeliever is one that does not
believe as you do.
That which I cannot help I endure;
and that which seems unendurable
I try to forget. 7 :
My heart: If you and I told. all
we know our best friend might for-
swear us; and perhaps our worst en-
emy pity.—Indianapolis News.
ADVISES WOMEN TO SMOKE.
Dr. Rachel S. Skidelsky, one of the
best known women medical practi-
tioners in Philadelphia, and a mem-
ber of the Philadelphia County Medi-
cal Society, after startling the Wom-
en’s Club by advocating smoking by
men, startled them still more by ad-
vocating smokingramong women.
Men had for ages, she said, found
relief from petty worries, rest for
worn nerves and general physical ben-
efit in good cigars and cigarettes
when used in moderation. Carefully
qualifying her statement, she said
THEIR WORK. \:::"
THEIR ART
ol
A
culture which is the portion of the
woman who has no terror of bottles
or gallipots. I am not recommending
paint. To rouge the face by way of
hiding the ravages of time {s as bar-
smart hat to hide a dirty head.
the skin of a lovely child. She has
always taken intelligent care of her-
self in every way. I believe she sel-
dom washes her face with water. The
occasional use of distilled water, of
the oatmeal bag, of fine and delicate
creams, and the intelligent use of tis-
skin in a state of pink-and-whiteper-
fection. She is by no means a house
bird, nor is she a coddling woman;
indeed, I may say that she braves all
weathers, but with inteHigence.”
FINEST FOR MISS ETHEL.
The bravest apartments in the
mansion are the rooms to which Miss
‘Ethel Roosevelt fell heir after the
marriage of Miss Alice. These are
directly over the family dining room
and part of the state corridor, and
occupy the northwest corner of the
‘Presidential home. They consist of
bedchamber, boudoir and bath, all of
heroic, size, and from . the daintily
painted azure ceiling to the. velvet
druggets, everything is white and
blue. Last year Miss Ethel selected
a border of morning glory vines for
a dado, but this year she is consid-
ered out of the morning glory class,
and her room is French effect, deep
blue with ghost flowers dimly out-
lined on the walls. There is no dado,
but many well selected water paint-
ings and oils give all the mural deco-
ration needed. Bird's-eye maple is
Miss Ethel’s favorite weod, and the
articles in her room are exquisitely
carved and inlaid with mother of
pearl. Her boudoir is filled souvenirs
of her travels, and no doubt she will
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while stirring constantly, the hot liquid.
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there probably would be less of the
loudly proclaimed mnervoushess of
American women were they to devote
five minutes three times a day to a
cigarette or two, preferably after
meals.
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i MELBA A SUFFRAGETTE.
| Mme. Melba is the latest notable
adherent to suffragettism in London.
She says she has been impelled to join
the movement for humanitarian rea-
sons. She visited recently Glasgow,
Liverpool, Manchester and other large
industrial centres, and the poverty of
the workwomen touched her heart.
It compelled her to believe that their
condition could be bettered if the in-
fluence of women were used in select-
ing members of Parliament.
She also sees political justice in the
demand for woman suffrage. She
believes strongly in the wisdom of the
lawmakers of Australia, who have
enfranchised: women.
“There is also,” she adds, ‘“‘the fa-
miliar claim that women like myself
should not be denied the power which
is given to our.butlars and grooms.”
MRS. ARCHIE HAMILTON'S VIEW.
“Several of the New York newspa-
pers have recently published articles
advocating the whipping post for
wife beaters and like offenders,” re-
marked Mrs. Archie N. Hanrilton, of
Philadelphia. ‘The idea is abhorrent
to enlightened sentiment of to-day,
and I do not believe for an instant
that the proposal could obtain popu-
lar indorsement if it were practicable
to get an expression at the polls. The
whipping post is the last relic of more
barbarous days and the disappearing
emblem of those who centuries ago
indorsed the Inquisition .and all its
horrible devices of torture.
“Tt is doubtless true that the con-
trol and reclamation of wife beaters
is a problem which has not been fully
worked out. However, there should
be no more talk of the whipping post.
Surely some other effective, punish-
ment can be devised which will stop
the disgraceful and inhuman practice
of wife beating and make it unneces-
sary for us to resort to the use of a
relic of barbarism.”
. BEAUTY OUT OF A BOTTLE.
That fresh air, plain living and ex-
ercise will not produce beauty with-
out assistance is the message of John
Strange Winter (Mrs. Stannard), in
a series of articles on this’all impor-
tant subject in Home Notes. These
things may produce a lovely skin to
start with, as it does in Ireland, she
gays, but if a woman wants to pre-
gerve her complexion and not fade at
thirty, as the Irish do, she must have
resource to artificial means. Men
may scoff as much as they like, but it
is the -plain truth, Mrs. Stannard
gays, that one can get “beauty out of
a bottle.” The body requires to be
pourished from within, of course, but
it does not follow that it is useless to
nourish it from without. “No food,
however good and however whole-
er
have many treasures to add after the
eventful summer. She is a fine pho-
tographer and so are her brothers.
Family groups in curious frames,
snapshots of friends and drawing and
paintings of her own cover her bou-
doir wall. She has a fine rosewood
desk, the gift of her .godfather, the
Surgeon-General of the Navy, Dr.
Rixey.—New York Press. F
For .dinner gowns net and tulle
seem a bit more fashionable than
lace.
Many chic and durable little collars
are fashioned entirely of liberty satin
ribbon.
Light gray, combined with silver
and steel, is once again a fashionable
evening shade. oS ]
Checks and plaids have lost no fa-
vor, and will be prominent throygh=-
out the season. :
With the cutting away of coats,
vests will be much worn to fill in the
wide-open front. -
The strictly pompadour coiffure
calls for a small hat to be worn far
back on the head.
Buttons are large for the coats, but
not of such great dimensions when
adorning the skirt.
Flesh color holds first place for
evening gloves, and those matching
the gown come next. ;
The pure directoire gown is only
for the woman who can have many
rich and costly costumes. E
Black taffeta or peau de soie sep=-
arate waists are elaborate with tucks,
and are made open at the front. They
have long sleeves.
Allgthe latest coats are completely
directoire, although they are liberal
adaptations of the vogues of the late
eighteenth century. ;
Coiffures are increasing in size.
The most fashionable arrangement,
next to the Psyche knot, is flat, wide
and huge at the back.
One of the newest notes for trim-
ming skirts and coats of tailor-mades
is the use of cut-out embroidery on
black over colored cloth.
A wing that is colored & brilliant
cerise on one side and an equally
striking black on the other is a mod-
ish addition to the hat.
Newest veilings include the hexa-
gonal mesh and the square velvet dot
in brown, black and combinations of
brown and tan and magpie.
A fad for morning wear is the one-
the left side with a row. of satin bute=
tons made to match the gown.
The fantastic hand carving that
has for some time been seen oil ums
i
brella handles—such as zodiac signs
—has been adopted for hat pins,
some,” says Mrs. Stannard, ‘‘will im=
part to ‘the skin that look of care and’
barous. a .proceeding as putting en a.
“I know a woman who is no longer.
young, quite fifty years old, who has | out after bears.
sue paper; have kept that woman’s.
piece velvet dress, which opens on’
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JIM GUARDED BEARS WHILE JOE
WENT FOR A GUN.
_ “Jim Palen and Joe Batch came to
camp with two bears and an amazing
story abbut how they got ’em,” said
Captain Sam Lyman, of the Kettle
Creek country, down in Potter Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania. . “The boys weren't
K They were trimming
logs. = :
“Palen had his dog, a whippet,
along with him. The dog was nosing
around in the woods, and by and by?
began barking furiously and persisted
in it so that Jim and Joe went to see
what it was all about. They found
the dog all bristled up-and barking
at the upturned roots of a fallen tree.
The hole in thé ground where the
roots had been was covered by an
accumulation of
leaves. ; :
“Jim Palen gave this dome of
debris a whack with his axe.. The
blow made a big hole in the roof, and
instantly a bear shoved its nose out
of, the hole and began to snarl and
snap its jaws. ad
“From a hole on the opposite side,
where Balch was standing, a second
bear stuck. its nose out and snapped
and snarled. These apparitions were
so unexpected that both men dropped
their axes. Palen’s axe slipped into
the hole it had made in the heap of
leaves and sticks and Balch’s dropped
down among the roots of the tree. -
“The men had seen bears before,
and as soon as they recovered. from
the start the appearance of these two
gave them and had sworn some at
themselves for being scared. into
dropping their axes they got a heavy
cudgel each and went to whacking
the noses of the bears, which caused
the noses to disappear within the
mound of leaves and sticks. 3
“Balch had a rifle, but it was home,
and home was three miles away. He
wanted those bears, but there was no
way to-make sure of them without a
gun, so Palen said that if Balch would
go home and get his gun Palen would
stand guard over the bears and keep
‘em from getting away until Balch
got back. v
“Joe started on a run for home.
He ran all the way there and all the
way back with the gun, he says, and
Jim says it must be so, for Joe was
gone less than an hour. But that
hour had been a tense time for Jim.
“Joe had scarcely started for his
gun before the bears attempted to
get out from beneath that roof with
fire in their eyes. First one bear
would endeavor to come out at one
of the holes, when Jim would whack
it on the nose with his club. By the
time it was beaten back the other
bear would make a break to get out
of the hole on its side of the mound.
“They kept Jim jumping from one
side of the mound to the other, to
and fro, and constantly swinging his
club. If Joe had been gone ten min-
utes longer, Jim would have had to
drop and surrender to the bears.
“Joe got back with the gun in time
to relieve Jim and rescue him. Jim
dropped his club and stepped back.
“¢‘Now come out, blame ye,’ he
yelled to the bears.
“But the bears wouldn’t come out.
Whether they were shocked at Jim's
language or knew there was a man
out there with a gun Jim nor Joe
doesn’t say, but they wouldn't even
show the tip of ‘a nose at either hole.
“After vainly trying various means
to induce the bears to come out, Joe
Balch dropped a piece of Blazing pine
into one of the holes. Both bears
then came out of the den with a rush
that dismantled it, and Joe killed
them.”—New York Sun.
A DYING MAN'S RECORD.
The first explorers to perish on the
| ice cap of Greenland were Mylius
Erichsen and his two comrades, in
November last. The earlier report.
that they had drifted on an ice floe*
away from the east coast was inac-
curate. Here are the facts as given
by the surviving members of the ex-
pedition upon their arrival in Den-
mark: ; :
In the spring of last year Erichsen
started from his winter quarters in
latitude 76 degrees 40 minutes, where
his ship was in harbor, to explore the
unknown northeast coast of Green-
land. He had ten sledges, divided
among four sledging parties. The
work was successfully achieved, the
northeast coast was outlined and was
found to extend much further to the
east than had been expected.
Three of the sledge parties re-
turned to the ship, but the, fourth
party, consisting of Erichsen, the
commander, and Lieutenant Hagen
and Mr. Bronlund, did not come back.
Several parties were sent out to hunt
for the missing men, but it was not"
until last spring that definite news of
their fate was obtained.
Erichsen and his two comrades had
remained behind on the north coast
to complete some details of their
work. Bad weather set in and they
were detained until late in the sum-
mer, when they set out over the high
ice cap of Greenland to regain their
vessel. Their fate was revealed in
a remarkable manner.
One of the search parties in March
last reached a crevice in the ice in
which they found the body of Bron-
lund. Near the body were sketches
showing the results of the final ex- |
plorations, and the dying man had
sticks and dead’
written in his diary the following
2h [pu
“I am dying in latitude 79 degrees
north under the hardships of the re-
turn journey over the inland ice in
November. I reached this place un-
der a waning meon and cannot go on
because of my frozen feet and the
darkness. The bodies of the othérs
are-in the middle of tue fiord. Hagen
| died on November 15. Mylius Erich-
sen some ten days later. .. -
. .. “JORGEN BRONLUND.”
The body, of Bronlund was buried
| where it was, found, but thé Snow
Was very ‘deep and the remains of the
others were not recovered: Thus per-
ished the Men who paid with their
lives for the honor of completing the
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York Sun. ;
A FRACTIOUS HIPPOPOTAMUS.
‘Mr. Simpson, a visitor from Bir-
mingham, England, and hig niece,
Migs Simpson, recently arrived at
Buluwayo from thie Victoria Falls,
and Mr. Simpson related to the Chron-
icle representative some details of a
startling adventure which the party
had during their visit. ~ in
One morning Mr. and Miss Simp-
son, having engaged a boat, em-
barked on a trip of inspection of the
islands on the river. Besides Mr. and
Miss Simpson, there were also the
boatman on board, and six native
paddlers. After getting out some
distance a hippo was seen protruding
his ugly mouth and making directly
for the boat. The natives commenced
‘instantly to paddle to the shore, and
then it was noticed that the hippo had
sunk into the water again. The
boatman, fearful of some misadven-
ture, had reached for his rifle, and
was just in the act of loading when
the boat was heaved into the air by
the brute, who had got underneath it,
~ Every one was flung into the water,
which at this spot was estimated’to be
about thirteen feet deep. The over-
hanging branches of some trees on
the island were sufficiently near to
permit of being grasped by Mr. Simp-
son as hé came to the surface, and he
hung tightly, as he had already
grasped the hand of his niece, who
had disappeared beneath the water.
Each was in great danger, however,
for Mr. Simpson’s leg was entangled
in a part of the branch in the water,
and he was unable t9 move. Mean-
while, the boatman, who was an ex-
cellent swimmer, had made his way
along to them, and after a desperate
struggle, succeeded by means of the
branch in getting them to land.—
Bulutwayo Chronicle. rting -
BOY OF 10 RESCUES BROTHER.
Paul Pomroy, ten years old, saved
his brother, Carl, eight years, from
drowning in. the Delaware River, at
Trenton, while a large crowd of-per-
sons, not one of whom offered to go
to the assistance of the struggling
boys, stood at the water's edge'look-
ing on. Little Carl was playing on
thé river bank when he slipped and
fell into the water, which is ten feet
deep at that point. His cries at-
tracted a crowd, but the swift cur-
rent carried the lad far from the
bank and deterred any one from try-
ing a rescue. Several women in the
crowd pleaded in vain to the men to
save the drowning lad, but they did
not dare to try their strength.
As Carl’s cries were becoming
fainter his brother, Paul, who had
been attracted by the crowd, ran up
to find out the cause of the excite=
ment. :
“Carl is in the river!” cried one of
the men. Without an instant’s hesi-
tation Paul plunged in and brought
his exhausted brother to the shore.
Both lads were hurried home, where
doting parents brought them arouni
by the best of care.
His Morning Shower.
The soda fountain clerk was en-
gaged in vigorously shaking up a
chocolate and egg, when suddenly the
glass broke in his hands and the en-
human eclair. The horrified custom-
er leaned over the counter, trying to
be sympathetic. Not knowing exact-
ly what to say, he finally blurted out
consolingly:
“Oh!—er—too bad—did the glass
break?” Dripping . chocolate. from
head to foot the clerk looked at him
witheringly, ‘‘Did,the glass break?”
he roared. ‘Did the glass break,
eh?” And then, with freezing sar-
casm: “Oh, no—not at all, not at all.
You just happened to step in while I
was taking my morning shower.”—
Bellman.
A ———— TT ———r
A Modest Request.
Mr. J. M. Barrie, the author, tells
a good story against himself.
A lady of his acquaintance had tak-
en a friend to see one of his plays,
and, quite astonished, he asked her
why she did so.
“Oh,” was the reply, “it’s such a
quiet street for the horses.”
He, also tells of a playgoer who re-
ceived no response to his repeated re-
quests to a lady in front of him to Te-
move her huge hat.
At length, exasperated, he said:
“If you won't take off your hat, my
dear rradam, will you be so kind as
to fold vack your ears?”’—Woman’'s
Life.
Pr —————— nmr
There Are Others.
“] haven't had a holiday for a long
time,” said the Philosopher of Folly.
“Just about the time my plans for a
vacation mature, a bunch of thirty
day notes do the same thing.”—Cleve-
land Leader.
The Igorrote provinces of ,the Phil-
ippines have been combined and will
be managed by one governor and sub
| governors. Bontoc will be the capi-
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outlining of the great island.—New.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
/ THE REV. DR. C. W. M’CORMICK,
Theme : Prayer.
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Brootlyn, N. Y.—A large audience
gathered in the.Nostrand Avenue M.
E. Church, Sunday, morning, to hear
the first ‘serfnon by the new pastor,
the Rev. Dr. Charles W. MeQormick.
He was greeted by hundreds of the
people at the close of the service.
fold: 1. The Spirit of God recreates
the spirit of man so that it becomes
a spirit of wisdom. 2. In like mane
ner it becomes a spirit of revelation.
By the term “spirit of wisdom” is
meant, not merely a wise spirit,
though so much is, of course, implied,
but a spirit which is essentially wise
even in its temper and action. Like-
wise the “spirit, of revelation” signie
fies, not the revelation, or the power
to make revelations, but a spirit
which can receive—is susceptible to
revelations.. Such, ,a spifit results
partly . from the removal of limita-
tions, partly from a change in ‘point
of view, and partly from added power.
Only such a spirit can see.God: truly.
or life wholly. =Only-heart vision is
His morning subject. was “The| qjear vision. Hence the prayer of the
Ground and Scope of Christian] tore that the eyes of the heart may.
Prayer.” The text was from Ephes- It was with the eyes
fans 1:16-17, “Wherefore I alsp cease
not to give thanks for you, making
mention of you in my prayers.” B= {
McCormick said:
Saint Paul was _a man Of prayer:
He was fully
He believed in prayer. ;
persuadéd that between himself,
persecuted and imprisoned apostle,
and needy saints: everywhere, there
was a vital and effective relationship
To
him the question, Does God answer
Had he
by way of the throne of grace.
prayer? had no existence.
be enlightened:
of the heart .that the. father saw the
prodigal afar off. It follows, then,
séxce a knowledge ‘of God involves
and :canditions a man’s wisdom and
spiritual understanding, -and is essen-
tial to wholeness of vision, that the
a | very sanity of our views of life is
wrapped up in our conception .of God.
In the knowledge of Him all other
knowledge has its beginning and ine
terpretation. iis =
Three great corollaries are involved
in the knowledge of God "for which
lived in our day he would have had
little in common with those who find
the chief value of prayer in the self-
inspiration and self-culture which un-
doubtedly are among its good results.
The nearest he ever came to speaking
of the reflex influence of prayer was
in his letter to the Philippians, where
he says: “Be careful for nothing;
but in everything, by prayer supplica-
tion, with thanksgiving, let your re-
quests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth
all understanding, shall guard. your
Paul prays: 1.
If God be the trans-
cendent- and immanent God of his
experience, and if men come to know
Him as such, the call of God tp salva-
tion and holiness is a perfect guaran-
tee of His loving interest, and a suf-
ficient reason for unfailing hope. In
the knowledge of God, the child of
God perceives the hope of his calling.
2.
The riches of God’s glory is in His
saints, His inheritance, and the. peo-
ple of His possession.
The nature
and work of God display His valua-
tion of a redeemed race.
The saints
hearts and your thoughts in Christ
Jesus.” . Here the result of prayer is
It is the peace of a soul
that has joyfully confided everything
But
it.is. not the mere relief from anxiety
which follows -the shifting of one’s
It is
the “peace of God,” God’s peace,:the
kind and measure of peace which God
subjective.
to the care of God, the Father.
burdens to the back of another.
has, and which He imparts to His
children who trust in Him, of which
Jesus said, “My peace I give unto
you.”
The ground of Paul's confidence in
prayer is his conception of God and of
his own relation to God as a chosen
Back of all his theology
and ethical teaching lies his own per-
God had touched
ambassador.
sonal experience.
are His cherished possession. 3. To
know God as -Paul knew Him in
Christ Jesus is to see the very forces
at work which God relies upon to save
the world, and to apprehend the
greatness of His power toward us who
believe. To know God is to under-
stand that all power in Heaven and
in earth is at His disposal and that
it is pledged to supply-all the needs of
,His children.
Both the other subjects for which
Paul prays are impossible. without
this knowledge of God; with it, they
are possible and almost assured. The
perfect walk and the perfect work
would seem to be the normal out-
growth of such spiritual understand-
ing. To know Him and Jesus Christ
whom He hath sent, is, and must ever
his life and spoken directly to him.
This experience was at once his point
of outlook and his unfailing ground
of confidence for himself and fer the
church.
His conception of God was: that
God is both transcendent and im-
mament; above the world and in the
world; not the logiéal concept of
philosophy, nor the unknowable force
of science. He ‘was.a personal God,
whose eternal power. and Godhead are
displayed in the works of His crea-
tion; who gave law to sinful men;
who upholds all things by the word
of His power; who seeks toi redeem
‘the world in Christ; .who works in the
saints by His spirit to will and to do
of His own good pleasure; and who
has promised in Christ the complete
restoration of all His children.
Chiefly, however, his view: of God
was from the standpoint of Christ as
Redeemer. Here he saw the mystery,
hidden through the ages, which the
angels desired to look into, revealed
in Christ, the unfolding of God’s eter-
nal purpose:to redeem a. lost world
from sin... This purpose:is not new.
It antedates and is involved in crea-
tion. It is as strong and changeless
as the nature of God Himself. Such
was Paul’s thought of God.
And his conception of his ewn re-
lation to God and of his mission ac-
cords with this thought. He was sim-
ply God’s man or as he loved to say,
God’s bond-servant; the least of all
the saints, but called of God to de-
clare the mystery of redemption to a
perishing world. Necessity was laid
upon him; the love of God con-
strained him;
men because of the great grace given
unto him; he was part of God’s plan,
implicated from the very beginning
in the eternal purpose. .. As such he
could do nothing but-obey and trust
he was debtor to all
be, life eternal.
lence.
Ir. Frank Crane's Epigrams.
he truest! prayers are simple gie
To feel God is to pray.
Prayer is the orientation of life]!
findinz God, as sailors find a star.
Littleness -is .self-hood; -greatness
consists in being a vessel for the ine
finite.
Our sole disease is impotence. No
man ever had enough vitality, enough
passion.
Our passion trails its flower
in the slime, not because it grows too
stronz, but because it has not enough
vigor to raise its bloom toward Heave
en. :
tle love.
cuts.
Love knows no crime, but too lit-
it is the dull razor that
The sickly rose plants are they,
that are attacked by vermin.
Impurity comes from a morbid
love; when love strikes” its tap root
down into the infinite it purifies it-
self—*‘“even as He is pure.”
Half dead souls secrete poisony
hardy, sunlit, out-oci-door souls make
and such like,
honey.
Our eyes are adulteries, envies
because there is a
worm in the core of our souls.
My hand is lame when my soul is
dry.
Work is a sort of substitute for
play and law is a substitute for life:
for with children it is all play and
in Christ there is no law.
There are two kinds of law; as
gravitation and a statute; the latter
was Moses” kind, the former Jesus’.
— From Sermon Preached by
Dr.
Frank Crane at Union Church, Wor-
cester, Mass.
a chemical process to
pe ————————
A Fresh Beginning.
An Indiana chemist has discovered
revive gas
as becomes a co-worker with God.
It is not strange, therefore, that
with such ideas of God and himself
It is in-
not.
he should believe in prayer.
wells, apd is having great success.
He has taken hold of a number of
dead wells and brought on big flows
again. He uses a chemical which,
lowered to the bottom of the well,
suing deluge made him look like a
conceivable that he should
Prayer in such a case is simply the
confidential request of a weaker part-
ner in a work dear to both partners.
The answer is assured. Besides, God
had alréady given ‘His Son; what
needful thing could He withhold?
Whoever prays with Paul will have
no narrow or exclusive views of
prayer. Listen to some of the peti-
tions he offers. He prays that he
may be prospered by the will .of God
to come to the Romans; for the
Ephesians, that they may have the
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of God, being strength-
ened with power through the Spirit,
and having Christ constantly dwell-
ing in their hearts that they may per-
fectly know God’s surpassing love.
He asks God. to give the Philippians
the spirit of wisdom and discernment
and discrimination, that they may be
sincere and void of offense, filled with
all the fruits of righteousness. In
like manner he prays that the Colos-
sians may be filled with the knowl-
edge of God’s will in all spiritual wis-
dom and understanding, walk worth-
ily, bear fruit, increasing in.knowl-
edge and power. Finally he prays
that God may count the Thessalon-
jans worthy of their high calling, and
fill every desire growing out of good-
ness, and every work of faith full of
His power.
In all of Paul's prayers we miss a
familiar note. He seems to disre-
gard the ordinary needs of life. Yet
he did not really do so. He simply
subordinated them and assumed that
God would withhold from His chil-
dren no good thing. With him God's
work was everything. ‘Surely, if he
did that work faithfully, God would
supply all his needs. Hence he prayed
for what he thought was of highest
importance. As to the rest, he was
in God’s care.
The great petitions of Paul's pray-
ers are three: For a satisfying knowl-
edge of God, a worthy life, and ac-
cordant power. These are man’s
great needs. Our text to-day deals
chiefly with the first.
An essential prerequisite of a sat-
isfying knowledge of God is a cer-
tain soul-preparation which God only
can give.
eats its way through the Trenton
rock, dissolving and cleaning out a
cement which has
formed in the
pores, clogging the way for the gas
to pass to the well.
Another charge
is“put down with nitroglycerine on
top and shot into the rock.
It is
claimed the revived wells are as good
as new.
who need to be revived.
How many Christians there are
It is not
that their religious capabilities are
exhausted, but that some worldly ce-
ment has shut off the communication
between the heart and God.
brought to the people of Israel a new
Joshua
chapter of spiritual power that their
lives might again be opened Godward,
and His grace flow freshly to them.—
Baptist Teacher.
to civil authority.
open to penalty.
5 —a
Ambassador of Christ.
Laws are made, men are subjected
Broken laws are
The governments
are powerful enough to enforce. If
men in authority are weak or unwill-
ing, is it in the power of the church
to say thou shalt?
Is the church los-
ing the noble standards that it has
won?
dor of Christ?
Is she no longer the ambassa-
Has she become the
spy of government?
Fountain is Always Open.
After the poor labors of the day are
open, my heart still cries,
merciful to me a sinner.”
“God ber
I am deep-
ly sensible that daily, hourly and mo-
mentarily I stand
sprinkling of my
in need of the
Saviour’s blood.
Thanks be to God, the fountain is al-
ways open.
Oh, what an anchor is
this to my soul!—Lady Huntingdon.
Wet and Dry Goods.
One of the things that is breaking
up the American home to-day is the
woman’s love for dry goods and the
man’s love for wet goods.
est enemy the
The great-
American home has is
the American saloon.
Be Beld.
Don’t be a weak-kneed participants
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