Cf 2 h We —about 1ds his .- Pab- wis life lic ser- worth n who ither a hing, if ning it. e right ing the which , in the ry e kinds akes of ho does the in- hi or to do 11 think ribution that he rusiness ollar by e than 2 + things rates, it hese un- he great . - ey have at deeds ave for- haracter ing daily neet any ~3 Q 5 ering the weather. 1 is made therefore, ~ we must der rain; yw that it shine, but without a of it; to e,—this is at, or fish, . the dash d dryness not affect- wand blows, Are your hers gone y with the ‘ord, pres- 2 YC KY 4 w 53 ved ers, is just a peculiar onomic ad- 8 nd the tre- rried on in r had in “worth of “fo nonths. So , in money in the first ‘and during pairs. Our the confla- gly normal ure to $90,- 1e “normal” . No other to feel it.— a aa 1 4 or the PT iviy vending that > (Rameses) ns over the races, every- young Egyp- ; gentleman, * : “How can s, and lifting Rameges the fe nd two hun- ow it seems fe movement i. Thus can ress its own” ved to be the ® Purchase of Wives. - Wives are still obtained by purchase in some parts of Russia. In the dis- trict of Kamyshin, on the Volga, for example, this is practically the only way in which marriages are brought about. The price of a pretty girl from a well-to-do family ranges from $100 to $200, and in special cases a much higher sum is obtained. In the vil lages the lowest price is about $25.— ‘American Cultivator. What Drew Them. i Scores of women crowded in front of a department store in a throng so dense it was impossible to see to the centre of it. They pushed and el- bowed one another, trod on toes and tore skirts. Now and then little cries of anger broke from those whose feel- ings were more deeply injured. It was evident the attraction was great. Wo- men who could not fight their way through the press became positively ~ peevish. Several of them had tears their eyes. The excitement was so intense that at last a curious man, seeing a momentary chance, slipped far enough into the crowd to see what {ft was that made women of such re- fined appearance struggle so vigorous- ly for precedence. He craned his peck and saw. Then he fell back in dismay. It was only a white -goods display.—New York Press. Preacher and Painter. The Rev. Elizabeth Bruce has cele- brated her seventy-ninth birthday, her thirtieth year as editor of the Univer- salist Sunday school paper called the Myrtle and the seventeenth year of her pastorate of the Wayside chapel at Maplewood, Mass. The Wayside chapel is unsectarian and was founded and built through the efforts of Mrs. Bruce, who has conducted a service in it daily, with few exceptions, all the years since it was opened. Besides being pastor of the church Mrs. Bruce has with her own hands gompleted and beautified the interior. She has painted on the walls a series of allegorical pictures illustrating the flow of the “River of Life.” Bible texts @nd flowers are embroidered on the @ushions of the settees, both embroid- ery and upholstering being done by Mrs. Bruce.—New York Sun. Children’s Games. The nursery and the playroom are constantly being attacked by men of géience who wish to show mothers the bad influences they are thoughtlessly bringing into the lives of their chil- dren. They have laid their sacrileg- fous hands on most of the pleasantest 3 the charming little amusements a all children love. Here are a ew of their criticisms of famillar nur- sery entertainments: : “Puss in Boots” and “Sleeping Beau- ty” contain marvelous indications as 0 the origin of mdnkind and the uni- ersality of particular beliefs. “One, two, three, four, five, six, sev- en,” and other counting out games are remnants of the dark and deadly incantations. “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” and “Oranges and Lemons” are hown to have deep political and moral meanings. “The Cow That Jumped Over the Moon” is a piece of gnosticism. “Ten Little Nigger Boys” is prob- ably a charm against the rheumatics. “Hickory, Dickory, Dock,” though sounds like nonsense, is composed gypsy language—a Romany lyric.— ew York Press. The Woman and Her Pen. One of the most delightful sights for a warm day is a woman wrestling ust be arrayed in white ducks, with fu a fountain pen. To enjoy it, one 3 ie coolest of drinks on a wicker table beside him and an electric fan in the offing; not so far off, at that. Put the woman in a sunny spot on the piaz- za, fill her with a burning desire to write and tell her bosom friend all about it, lay a few sheets of writing paper in front of her, then place a fountain pen in her hand and tell her to do her worst. She will. First she adjusts the paper at the angle. best suited to her vision. Then she chang- es it to another angle. Finding that wrong, she tries another and another until she returns to the first and pro- er one. She essays to write. The ink fails to flow. Again she tries. Omce more it fails. She gives the pen a little shake and tries again. And yet again the ink is sullen. Then she dashes the point against the paper, gives it a couple of wipes in each di- rection, presses it viciously against the snowy sheet and in the end tosses it aside with a petulant gesture -and goes indoors in search of an ordinary pen that won’t balk on the flat nor re fuse the jumps.—New York Press. So He Couldn’t Forget. A smile lurked at the corners of Mrs. Lombard’s mouth as she listened to the plaint of the school friend whom she had not seen for more than ten years. “I'm afraid, dear,” she said, “you’ll have to reconstruct some of your plans. You see I married a for- getful man, too.” “Why, you told me not ten minutes ago that your husband bad never vet forgotten wour birthday or your wed- ding anniversary,” cried her friend; “and you told me you'd been married nearly eleven years! That’s - ever since the year after father took us all abroad.” “Yes,” said Mrs. Lombard, demurely. “I have; that’s a long time, isn’t it? But you see one thing was in my favor —I was born on the Fourth of July. Mr. Lombard couldn’t very well forget the national holiday. And as soon as I'd found out how forgetful he was I decided to be married on another holi- day. “I suppose as you were abroad you didn’t realize that the date of my wed- ding was unusual—people aren’t often married on the twenty-second of Feb- ruary, I think. But you see by* a lit- tle judicious planning I’ve been saved the necessity of reminding him about. our anniversary.”—Youth’s Compan- ion. s Meta Warrick, Sculptor. Philadelphia’is the birthplace and home of the one negro woman in the United States whose work as a sculp- tor has attracted wide notice. She is Meta Warrick, and her work has been exhibited in the Paris Salon besides having won thé commendation of Au- guste Rodin. One of her best groups was exhibited at the Jamestown Ter- centennial and represents the advance- ment of her race since the landing at Jamestown. Miss Warrick is a descendart of slaves and is not at all ashamed of it. Her father was a barber and her mother a hair-dresser. Her people are all of the laboring class and poor. Her art work began with moulding clay in the kindergarten. When she was old- er she won a free scholarship in the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art. It was in this school that her talent attracted attention. The piece that won serious atten- tion was her first attempt at being or- iginal. It was a head of Medusa. In 1899 she went to try her fortune in Paris, where she suffered all the hard- ships that fall to the lot cf the aver- age poor art student, but she also came in contact with such men as Saint Gaudens and Rodin and had the satis- faction of obtaining serious recognition in the Paris Salon,—New York Sun. Heredity. People are only less interested in their descendants than themselves, and they are always interested in the ques- tion whether their children will be boys or girls, sometimes for grave and sometimes for merely sentimental rea- sons. The question has hitherto been insoluble before the birth of the off- spring, and so late as a month ago Prof. Thomson, in his book on “heredi- ty,” showed how extremely limited our knowledge on this subject is. The paper which Dr. Romme contributes to the current number of La Revue seems, however, to show a step in ad- vance. After studying the statistics of some thousands of eases, he as- serts that a boy is born when a father is the weaker of the two parents and a girl when the mother is the weaker; by a law of nature the child must re- semble the weaker of the two par- ents, for it is Nature’s effort to re- store the sexual balance. In all coun- tries 106 or more boys are born to every 100 girls but the female has the better chance of life. The propostion may, however, vary according to the age of the parents, the number of males percent increasing as the age of the father above that of the mother increases. But Dr. Romme’s theory of weakness and prepotency does not seem to be much aided by his own examples—the Kaiser with five sons and one daughter, the Czar with four daughters and one son. Nor do we think that his researches have gone deep enough at present, his statistics are interesting, but there are not enough of them.—London Globe. Fashion Notes. The walking coat is long and the walKing skirt is short. The sack shape is very smart and becoming to good forms. Rich and dark colors have the great- est vogue in hat trimming. Brightly colored heels are found on many of the new smart pumps. A great vogue for the pastel and semi-pastel shades in silks is predicted for next season. The humble brier stitch is used most effectively in some of the most ex- quisite waist designs of the season. New gowns rarely show the de- tached belt, but are rather in one piece with the soft, high girdle that is made an integral part of the gown itself. Some of the big black hats of the season show the wide brims rolled off the face in front and on one side and caught back with two or three ostrich tips. Though never obtrusively fashion- able, the grays are the choiee of many really well-dressed women, particu- larly for evening dresses that are to be worn often. Crape- is being revived as a mourn- ing material, and in its new form is so soft and supple that it is bound to be welcomed by those who like to wear signs of grief. Fashionable big picture hats are made of velvet to match the gown with which they are worn, and are trimmed only with long ostrich feathers, all carried out in the same shade. The Capuchin hood is the latest night headgear, and is something like a glorified sunbonnet, the best ones being made of taffeta, bewitchingly arranged around the face with shir- s and ruchings. thrusting home the shot. 4—The Adams, in Leslie’s. ; FOUR STEPS IN THE PRACTICAL USE OF A TWELVE-INCH PIECE, WITH DISAPPEARING CARRIAGE. 1—Gun raised on its massive carriage in position for firing. ered for loading, out of sight of the hypothetical enemy. 2—Low=- 3—Gun-crew discharge.—Photographs by W. E. Ye Water Clock. The measurement of time by the trickling of water or sand from one vessel to another dates as far back as the days of the Babylonians. The clepsydra, or water clock, was’ ih com- mon use both by the Athenians and Romans, and was employed in courts of law to limit the length of the pleadings. Thus, a counsel was al- lowed so much water, instead of, as we should say, so much time, to ad- dress the court. Clepsydrae were also used by. the/ Romans in their camps, chiefly for the purpose of measuring accurately the four vigiliae into which the night was divided. It is believed that the first water clock was brought into Paris about the year 1695, from Burgundy. The one illustrated will probably be a relic of those days. It is dated MDCCX. It is three feet one inch in height, and the framework 1s made of oak. The cylinder and dial plates on the upright posts are of brass. Ths hours are marked from VI to the following but one IX, twenty-seven hours, so that the cylinder requires to be wound up once every twenty-four hours. It is hardly a very trustworthy time- keeper, but, as an exceedingly inter- esting old curio, it has a very promi- nent place in a certain hall. The small cooper-jug hanging on the right-hand side is used for filling the ¢ylinder.—-Philadelphia Record. Larch : 2000 Years Old. Italy can boast of .a larch-:trge, the age of which is estimated to be 2000 years. It is situated on the northern flank of Mont Chetif, in the direction of the huts of Pian Venti above Courmayeur, a few steps from the footpath that skirts the limit of the meadow land. Due. allowance being made for the extreme’ slowness with which the larch, grows, for the altitude above sea level (1650 meters) at which it is rooted and for its northerly ex- posure in the near neighborhood of the glacier, where the cycle of its development is barely five months every ‘Year, this venerable larch, un- touched alike by woodman’s axe and thunderbolt, cannot be less than 2000 years old.—Scotsman. Every Watch a Compass. That every watch is a compass is a fact probably unknown to most peo- ple. To prove that such is the case, lay your watch flat on the palm of your hand, with the hour hand point- ing to the sun, as shown in the ac- ) Hy 3 Na EE companying sketch. The point ex- actly midway between the hour hand and the figure 12 will be due south. It is well to remember, however, that during the time from 6 in the afternoon to 6 in the morning our rule gives the north point instead of the south. - In the southern hemis- phere the rule will be reversed.— Good Literature. - The Spanish Main, The Spanish Main meant the circu- lar bank of islands forming the northern and eastern boundaries of the Carribean Sea, beginning from Mosquito, near the Isthmus, and in- cluding Jamaica, St. Domingo, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands, to the coast of Venezuela, in South America. There is a lot of poverty in Man- hattan Island, but the assessment rolls give $2000 in taxable property to each inhabitant. THE TRIUMPH OF FEMININE ARTIFICE. +1 / pe NS WY HII re L5 rs X/ r your new ball dress.” z} "—London We Husband—“Oh, I say, Hilda, your dressmaker has charged a pretiy nything about pretty figures until +} oh. | can we have the spiriteof good fellow- , which Christian growth and progress . let us first make it known to all men THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. C. B. ETSLER. Theme: Future of the Church. Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. Clar- ence Bartlett Etsler began his pas- torate Sunday morning in the- Church of the Good Tidings (Fourth Univer- salist). He preached on “The Future of the Church of th& Good Tidings.” He is a strong, vigorous young man and a fine speaker. He was listened to by a large audience. He said: 1 would ask you to consider with me this morning something of the future which we are to work out for our church. In ‘the first place, I be- lieve that in order to achieve the best results we must be essentially one big family, that we must realize that relationship, and that as members of the family we are responsible for the welfare of our church home. We know that the home is the cor- nerstone of the nation, that the home is the foundation whereon are reared the superstructures of society and of the State. And we would repeat, that for this our church organization we should have as our example and pat- tern—the old-fashioned home. We want this our church home to be the dwelling place of our church family. We want every man, woman and child of us to look upon themselves as members of this family and inmates of this home. Then, and only then, ship and brotherly kindness, without is ‘impossible. But before Wwe c¢on- sider the future of our family here, that as our creed we have inscribed above our altar the Saviour’s con- densed statement of the substance of both law and .gospel: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.” If a man can subscribe to this statement then he is a man to- gether with whom we can plan and work, and he is a fit member for this our family. In considering the future for our church, it may perhaps be well if we but glance back upon the work of past and present. The religion of yesterday was a religion based on a conception of God as a being fearful and terrible. He was regarded as a great judge or ruler who adminis- tered law in justice, but who must be feared, and whose anger must be ap- peased. Universalism has given us an idea of God as the universal Father, the Father of us all, the Father who so loves us and who so desires our best welfare that He chastens and dis- ciplines us, not for His own satisfac- tion, but rather that the chastening may yield for us the peaceable fruit of righteousness. The old idea, too, of a physical hell as the eternal abode of unrepentant sinners has given place to the teach- ing of Universalism that all life, both here and hereafter is one—that it is a great school—that opporotunity for repentance and salvation never ends, but that God will discipline each soul with His tireless love, until all souls know and obey Him. All these changes have been toward that broad- er religion known as Universalism— “that Universalism which means har- mony—man at harmony with himself, at harmony with his neighbor, at har- mony with his God.” “That Univer- salism which teaches also that Jesus is the great Harmonizer, that He came to reconcile man tc his duty,-to dealing unselfishly with his brother, to honor and obey his God.” What other religious conception can point to so many changes in the old-established ideas of God and re- ligion. and can say these are the changes; these evolutionary changes toward the light and truths that have been brought by our maintenance of the principles of our church? But people tell us: “Oh, you Univer- salists cannot progress, because the other denominations have ceased to preach hell fire and endless torment; they have stolen your thunder. Al- though their creeds recognize the old ideas, yet they now preach a theology which is practically Universalism, but under another name.” What does the argument amount to? Universalism has brought about the change from the old theology of hell to the new theology of God’s love, and other churches have seen the light and have modified their preaching. But we maintain that this is no reason why Universalists should cease to preach God’s endless love. If others preach it, how much more should we, the original supporters of the faith, seek by our works to maintain and spread abroad the good tidings of joy and love. But for a fully successful develop- ment we must have within us, within each individual member of our fam- ily, a strong spiritual life. We must meditate upon and consider well that conception of God as our Father, our universal Father, who watches over us to lead and guide, even as did our earthly parents in our weak and help- less infancy. Then shall we be able to think of God as He truly is—reach- ing down His hand of love, for us in turn to reach and grasp and thus be drawn from out a life of sin into the path of right. The gospel of Uni- versalism shows God as wholly upon the side of mankind. His interest and love for every soul is endless. He not only strives and searches for the prodigal child here and now, but also in the hereafter. “Univer- salism holds that God the Father of all souls will not limit His efforts to save His children by the boundary line of death; once our Father, He is always our Father, bound by every attribute of His paternal love to still labor for our good.” there is nothing in death itself that can irrevocably fix the character for- ever for good or for ill. “There is no reason apparent to hu- man judgment why it should be im- possible for a soul to repent and be saved before death and not imme- diately after.” As has been nobly wriiten, “God is forever moving the whole moral power of the universe toward the redemption and salvation of the entire human race.” But just here let me consider for a moment of the common misrepresenta- Moreover, our faith teaches that, Well, that doesn’t seem to me like much of a religion where people can do just as they please and still get to Heaven without any punishment.” We should be always alert to cone trovert and correct this mistaken idea that is often held by those une familiar with our church. ‘We do be- lieve in the absolute certainty of pun- ishment, punishment having for its object the final recovery of all men. We believe God indeed punishes guilty men not to be Himself avenged, but rather to convince men of the desirability of abandoning a life of sinfulness and of living according to the precepts of God’s word and law. Our Universalist conception of re- ligion has been likened to the relig- ious side of democracy. The old the- ory taught that religion and the church was a monarchy, a despotism, even as in Russia to-day, that God was, Czar, the absolute monarch, the tyrant of the skies and that for poor, humanity, the subjects of the king- dom, there were the eternal dungeons into which unrepentant man should be thrust at death. But with our con=- ception of God and men and things comes that understanding of man upon which all popular governments are based—namely, that man is not totally depraved and hence only a fit subject for a despotism, but rather that he has within him the inherent seed of good and that this essential element of right in humanity*is the foundation for the democracy of state and for the democracy of religion. We live within the jurisdiction of a democratic form of government in the state, what then more fitting than that we should live within the jurisdiction of a democratic form of religion in the church? Our interpretation of the universe of life lies in the belief that good shall finally triumph over all evil in every soul and in all the realms of creation. - ial We seek to show the value of works and we must prove by the works of good deeds that our conception of the Father is true and that God in us is love. Then can we ask with reason: If good déeds are not a passport to a better land—what is? Let us prove that God loves the world by ourselves abounding in good will for our neigh- bor. We must make our church the centre of our worship, we must make it a refuge for sorrowing and cheere less humanity. We must realize that through the church is the most effective work accomplished for the betterment of society and that we can become parte ners in the good work by contributing to the support of our church—con= tributing not only of our substance— but contributing strength of charae= ter and right living. There is no man but has some good within him. Then contribute this, whatever of truth and righteousness is within you. Come, bring it to the church and thus increase the strength and power of God’s family and ours. Let us show by our living that we are of the family of Universalists, that we do believe in the power of God and righteousness. Christ went about teaching a gospel of love to God and fellowman and withal a practical righteousness among men. The very core and cene tre of His teaching was in the blessed- ness of the Fatherly love of God and the joy of living as His obedient and trustful children. The kingdom of Heaven is to be a spiritual kingdom even within the hearts and lives of men if they will be persuaded and will accept a life of truth and righteousness, following in the footsteps of the Christ. Chris. tianity, then, according to our concep tion, lies in that of which the Quaker poet wrote: Our friend, our brother, and our What may Thy service be? Tord, or name, nor form, nor ritual - .rd, But simply following Thee. Thus would we as members of this family claim our divine heritage as sons and daughters of the living God and thus and only thus shall our church family come to maturity and Ye the increase so much desired of 0 —————————— God’s Help. Nothing is small or great in God’s sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trie fling, and if once the voice of cone science tells us that He requires any= thing of us, we have no right to measure its importance, On the other hand. whatever He would not have us do, however important we may think it, is as naught to us. How do you know what you may lose by neg- lecting this duty, which you think so trifling, or the blessing which its faithful performance may bring? Be sure that if you do your very best in that which is laid upon you daily, you will not be left without sufficient help when some weightier occasion arises. Give yourself to Him, fix your eye upon Him, listen to His voice and then go on bravely and cheerfully.— Jean Nicolas Grou. Christianity and Labor. It is my belief that the solvent for all pur social ills is found in the words of Jesus and in the spirit He brought to this world. Christianity will help more than any other agency to solve the problem of capital and labor. It is my firm belief that im time the laborer will own the tools with which he labors and will hire from the capitalist what money he needs. The workingman, instead of working for the capitalist, will have ine capitalist’s money working for im, Smart Sets. Smart sets must sooner or later be in the grave, rotting in oblivion, and in the eye of the world and in the world’s heart are enshrined only the few with brain and character, and who by force of that brain and char- acter do something of real importance to their day and generation. Godliness in Finance. If godliness had been enthroned in mary an institution of large and high finance that has gone to the wall dur- ing the year, that institution would still be standing, commanding the confidence and patronage of the com- munity. Holiness in Discord. No re 1] that which s no holiness i 1 regard to our belief. 7 time e hear the remark: | bre: Universalist, are you? | ony amongst
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