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Queen Has Auto Craze,
Queen Helena of Italy has taken
the keenest interest in motoring ever
since its eariiest days. She and her
husband possess five beautiful cars,
and the Queen not only drives, but
also has had lessons in the working
of motor machinery, and could, at a
pinch, effect repairs with her own
very capable hands. — Indianapolis
News. :
Does Not Wear Aigrets.
Queen Alexandra has issued a pub-
lic statement to the effect that she
does not wear aigrets, and this, of
course, is intended as a rebuke to a
cruel and horrible practice. The offi-
cial statement means something more
even than that. It means that no
lady can venture into the Queen’s
presence with these feathers upon her
head, and it means that the aigret Js
stamped as unfashionable throughout
every rank in society. Royalty has!
its undoubted disadvantages, but
something: may be written also urca
the other side of the slate. The
power to make cruelty unfashionable
is one to be envied, and every country
would be the better for an infiuence
that is no less real because it has no
coercive laws to back it.—Argonaut.
Inspiring and Otherwise.
*Isn’t it an inspiring book?”
claimed the enthusiastic woman.
‘““Oh, yes,” admitted the other,
wearily. “Many things are inspiring.
When I see a good play or read of
heroic characters, or the organist
plays something from Beethoven's
mass in D, I feel that life is grand.
I am filled with zeal and eager for a
chance to prove my noble, elevated
point of view.
“Then I am called up on the tele-
phone by some stranger who asks me
if I will please go up to the top floor
and ask Mrs. Blank to come to the
telephone—Mrs. Blank being a per-
son I do not know and to whom I am
indebted for nothing—and the broth-
erhood of ‘man suddenly takes on a
pale, cold, blue tinge that doesn’t in-
terest me in the least. I wonder why
it is?’’—New York Press.
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With and Without Curves.
“What’s the use,” exclaimed the
tall, handsome woman, mournfully,
“of having a fine figure like mine!
that when I went against them I was
certain to be wrong, and sometimes
disastrously and fatally wrong.
“Another thing I do is to lean
shamelessly on any one I have found
capable of supporting my weight.
That, of course, has to be done with
discretion, because it is painful to
lean on the wrong person, but when
you have found a staff that you can
rely on it is foolish not to use it. The
strong like to exercise their strength,
and it must be pleasanter for your
friends to give you the benefit of
their superior wisdom than to see
you come to grief.
“It is also possible to avoid cir-
cumstances that call for decision. TIE
you can’t make up your mind quickly
you don’t need to drive a motor car
or steer a boat. _Leave that to other
°| people, and let who will sneer at your
incompetence and lack of courage.”’—-
New York Tribune.
Partiality Toward Sons.
The partiality which mothers are
supposed to show to their sons—and
which some mothers certainly do
show—may do little harm in the ear-
lier years of family life, when the
father, perhaps, balances it by a spe-
cial fondness for his daughters, and
when the buoyancy of youth carries
such injustice lightly. But on daugh-
ters of mature age it often bears very
heavily, The lot of the unmarried
woman on whom falls the care, and
even the maintenance of a widowed
and aging mother is a laborious and
exacting . one. . Many such women
there are, as every one acquainted
with our cities knows, working hard
all day and struggling to carry home
evening cheer to one who makes less
effort than she might to greet them
brightly. There is ‘a brother who
comes on a flying visit now and then,
bringing a gift none too generous, but
seeming large because it is received
all in one sum, and on him the moth-
er’s appreciation and gratitude are
lavished. When he is gope, his ad-
vice proffered without much knowl-
edge of real conditions, is quoted and
urged with an insistence discouraging
to the sister, and even the contrast
between his light hearted merriment
| and hef seriousness is harped upon.
There are sadder cases still where the
money earned by a self-sacrificing
daughter is persistently shared with a
reckless and improvident son, and—-
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“Now, there’s Mrs. Blank, for in-
stance. She is so thin and lank that
all comparisons fail. Of course she
looks perfectly stunning in the new
hipless gowns, while I—well, it’s sim-
ply impossible for me to be com-]
pressed within one of them. I look
a fright, to say nothing of the pun-
to hide all my symmetrical curves—
and then not succeeding. When prin-
rage, Mrs. Blank had just as many
curves as’ I have. Oh, no, my dear
I don’t know where she got them.
I am not Mrs. Blank’s dressmaker
nor her tailor.” I only know she had
them.”’—New York Press.
“Backbone’’ Superfluous, -»
*“The worst thing about having no
backbone,” said the woman who had
been born without that supposedly in-
dispensable member, “is trying to'get
one. It is a perfectly useless agony,
too, because if nature hasn’t given
you a backbone, you can’t get it by
any other means. If you once recog-
nize this“fact and submit to your lim-
itations you’ll find: that you can get
on fairly well without a backbone,
and when you realize how often the
thing that passes for determination is
a mere disregard for or inability to
comprehend other people’ s rights and
feelings, you can bear up under the
‘spineless.’
. “‘A backbone is not nearly so nec-
often one gets on a great deal better
without it. If you haven’t any back-
bone, you won't be tempted to butt
vour -head against irresistible forces.
‘We are most of us helpless victims in
the hands of fate, and ordinarily we
might as well let ourselves drift as
try to mold circumstances to our will,
The drifting may be a mistake, to be
sure, but pulling against the current
may be a mistake equally, and the
first is easier.
“If I can’t decide, I do nothing,
when that is possible, and let events
shape themselves as they will, and if
I must do something I do what I like
Pest or dislike least, as the case may
be. My own inclinations are the most
reliable guides I have ever found, and
1 wish that I had earlier learned to
rate them at their proper value. The
powers that presided over my early
education contrived to inoculate rhe
with the idea that inclinations exist,
as Herbert Spencer says, ‘not for our
guidance, but solely to mislead us,’
and it took me a long time {
| have gone so far
to learn |
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bitterest of all—it is to the perpetue
ally. returning prodigalthat the warms-
est affection seems to go. Habits
like these can hardly be corrected,
perhaps; in age. But mothers in
younger life should be on their
guard against forming them.—Con-
gregationalist.
Bouillon lace is constantly em-
ployed by French dressmakers as a
furbishing.
The dealers are making no display
of fans so far, and there are predic-
tions that the fan is not to be stylish
the coming ball season.
The high collar has come in again
on fur coats and jackets, and is often
made of a different fur from the gar-
ment on which it is used.
Little novelty stocks, often copied
from French models, are one of the
most striking features of the season.
They are charmingly made up of rib-
bon+of almost any fur—even pointed
fox and black lynx.
_ This is a day when bags, little or
big, ostentatiously plain or elaborate-
ly decorated, are put to a hundred
uses, from the shopping and automo-
bile bags down to the delicate little
wrist and vanity bags.
“While no skirt at the present time
can be called full, those designed for
soft, thin materials are often made to
fall in voluminous folds; but they
have the top elosely laid in tucks that
produce the Sheath fit.
The shortened waist and straight,
clinging lines of the skirt are features
that strongly influence the winter
modes, characterizing evening gowns,
dressy coat suits for afternoon and
other affairs of ceremony.
In gowns having the high waist-
line, the top of the skirt is often
tucked, but if the gown is of chiffon
or anything of this nature the gath-
ered top permits the soft folds of the
material to eling to the figure and fol-
low the outline becomingiy.
Each ore of the puffs arranged at
the back of the Psyche knot is held
in place by a large hairpin, and the
pompadour is now held by a pin in-
stead of a comb. Sor irl too,
as to add 3
side of the knoll.
THE PULPIT..
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON B
CARDINAL GIBBONS.,
Subject: The Prerogatives and Re-
sponsibilities of Moral Freedom.
Baltimore, Md.—Sunday morning
Cardinal Gibbons preached his regu-
lar monthly sermon to a large audi-
ence, at the cathedral. His subject
was “The Prerogatives and Responsi-
bilities of Moral Freedom.” The text
was from St. Luke 18:31-43% “Jesus
commanded the blind man to be
brought to Him, and He asked him,
saying: What wilt thou that I do
for thee? And he said: Lord, that I
may receive my sight. » The cardinal
sa
Is not he stone blind who is entire-
ly engrossed by the dssire for earthly
riches and shuts his eyes to the pearl
of great price? Is not he blind who
is wallowing in the mire of sin, who
is leading a life of sensuality which
leads to melancholy and despair? Is
not he blind who is bending all his
energies to the acquisition of honor
and fame, and when he acquires it, it
fails to satisfy the cravings of his
heart? Is not he blind who looks up
to heaven and contemplates the
works of creation, but discerns not
the existence of a Creator? Is not he
blind who sees the hands moving on
the clock-work of time, but fails to
recognize the invisible Hand which
keeps these works in motion? Is not
he blind who counts the days of his
years as they flow by, but does not
consider the ocean of eternity that
lies before him? w
Now, Christ says to each of you
what He said to the blind man: What
is thy will? What wilt thou that I
do for thee?
How sublime is the faculty of free
will! It is a gift which distinguishes
you from the brute creation; for man
is the only creature on earth that en-
joys moral freedom. . It is a preroga-
tive which you possess in common
with the angels and which mgkes you
like to God Himself. God and the
angels and man are the cnly beings
that have free will. ~
It is the exercise of the will that
distinguishes the saint from the sin-
ner, the martyr from the apostate,
the hero from the coward, the tem-
perate man from the drunkard, the
.benevolent ruler from the capricious
tyrant. If we are destined to be of
the number of the elect, we shall owe
our salvation under God to the right
use of our freedom. If we are to in-
cur the vengeance of heaven, it shall
be due tc the abuse of our liberty.
“Thy destruction is thine own, O Is-
rael.” In a word, our liberty is a
weapon with which, like Saul, we will
inflict a deadly wound upon our-
selves, or it is a sword with which,
like Michael the archangel, we can
conquer the infernal enemy and win
our way to heaven.
Our Saviour told the Jews that the
knowledge and practice of His pre-
‘cepts would secure for them true
freedom. The Jews were indignant
that their freedom should be called
in question: “We are the seed of
Abraham,” they exclaimed, “and have
never ‘been slaves to any man.” But
our Lord replied that though children
of Abraham, they were in bondage as
long as they were in sin. “Amen, I
say to you: Whosoever committeth
sin is the slave of sin.”
Do not Americans sometimes talk
in this way? We are freeborn citi-
zens and yield to no despotic power.
But what will it profit us to emjoy
the blessings of civil freedom, if we
do not enjoy the glorious liberty of
children of God, by which we are res-
cued from ignorance and can trample
on sin? What will it avail us to be
recognized in the public walks of life
as free and independent citizens, if in
the circle of our family, and in the
sanctuary of our hearts, we are lashed
as slaves by the demon of passion; if
we are slaves to a petulant temper,
slaves to lust, to intemperance, pride
and vainglory; slaves to public opin-
ion, the most capricious of all
tyrants?" 7
! Jesus Christ is the highest ideal of
Christian perfection. He is “the way
and the truth and the life.” He came
to teach ns by word and by ‘example.
Now, if there is any +one virtue our
Saviour inculcates more forcibly tha
another, it is"this: That our hear
and will should be -in harmony with
God’s will. “I came down from
heaven,” He says, “not to do My own
will, but the will of Him that sent
Me. My food is to do the will of Him
that sent Me that I may finish His
work.”
In exhorting us to make the will of
God the supreme rule of our actions,
our Lord is echoing thé voice of His
eternal Father. “My son,” says:Al-
mighty God, “give Me thy heart.” He
does not say: Give Me thy riches,
thy lands and thy possessions, for
these belong to Him already. “The
earth is the 'Lord’s and the fullness
thereof, the world and ‘all that dwell
therein.” He does not say: My son,
give the service of thy body, for that
also belongs to Him. “Thy hands,”
says’ the prophet, “have made and
fashioned me.” And besides we read-
ily bestow the service of _our.brain.
and hands on one who has already
gained our affections. But He says:
Give Me thy heart and the affections’
J His deiense.
arrested in the garden before His
crucifixion, -Peter draws a.sword in
Our Lord thus rebukes
him: Sut. thy sword into its scab=-
bard. he chaliceswhich My Father
hath given Me, shall 1 not drink it?”
He does not say: ‘The chalice which
Judas and Caiaphas and Herod and
the Jews have given Me. No. He
regards them all as the unconscious
instruments of God in the work of
man’s redemption. God used these
vile instruments for the sacrifice and
glorification of His Son, just as a
father uses a scourge to chastise his
child and then throws it into the fire.
“Do you not know,” says Pilate to
Christ, “that'I have the power of life
and death over you?” “You would
have no power over Me,” replies our
Lord, “if it were not given thee from
above.”
Blessed is the man who in every
occurrence of life preservég=in his
heart an unsligrables adhesion to
God's ‘will, through honor and dis-
honor, through evil report and good
report, in sickness and in ‘health; in
prosperity and adversity. Blessed is
he who hears the paternal voice of
God in- the thunder of tribulations
that resound over his head. Happy
is he who has this short bit compre=
hensive prayer often in his heart and
on his lips: “Thy will, O Lord, be
done!” Thrice happy are they who
can say with the confidence of the
apostle: “Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ,” .and a loyal at=
tachment to His will. “Shall tribu=-
lation or distress, or danger or perse-
cution or the sword? I am sure that
neither death nor life nor angels nor
principalities nor powers, nor things
present nor things to come, nor
height nor might ncr any other crea-
ture shall be able to separate us from
the charity of God.”
HOPING AGAINST HOPE.
~~ By the REV. P. A. HALPIN,
St. Angela’s College, New Rochelle,
N.Y.
Who against hope believed in hope,
—Romans 4:18.
The most wretched of his species is
the man without hope. He is more
than wretched, he is inexcusably
criminal,*because an offender against
a divine law which the apostle em-
phasized in his masterly appeal to
the Romans.
To hope.and to hope always is a eom-
mand so stringent that against hope
we must believe in hope. The words
of St. Paul suggest a picture in which
hope is portrayed supine and gasping,
while ministering faith bends over it
and arouses it into life and strength
and commanding beauty. A miracle
truly this, but within the power of
religion and attested by reason and
experience.
That such marvel may be per-
formed—nay, that it is not beyond
the reach of any soul—is solace un-
speakable. It means that any one
may bar forever against himself the
gates of despair. 1It.is a trumpet call
for highest courage and achevement.
It implies a command which if une
uttered by the Creator would pass by
unheeded. But God wills it, thera-
fore it can be ‘oteyed.” Though it
calls for a fight of hope against itself,
it is not a contradiction nor a paras
dox, but carried to’its ultimate conse=
quences it means-triumph, it is uni-
versal in its applieation, bars no man
from its sway-and eliminates no com-
bination of circumstances. It enjoins
upon one absolute refusal to surren-
der save to the inevitable doom of us
all.
Moreover, it finds a response in
man’s heart. “Never say die!” is a
cry as cld as the race. All the myth-
ologies reflect it. Christianity con-
secrates it. The Old World felt its
truth; to the New it was given to
understand it. On sea and land, on
every battle field since the dawn of
history, has it been heard.
There hfs never been a mandate
to despair. No matter what the en-
vironment, how dark the outlook,
over and above all is the inspiration
of hope. What man’s voice prevails
against the utterance of faith? When
a man says there is no hope, where is
his guarantee? The physician says:
“The man will die with the dawn”—
the man lives yet. A man is in the
clutches of adversity; he has lost his
all; 10! on the fragments of his for-
tune he builds a colossal independ-
ence.
History has not chronicled évery
hopeful deed. Ships a-meny de-
snaired of have come to port; from
many “last ditches” have been un-
furled flags of victory.
The hope that Paul speaks of is not
supine but active. It puts heart in a
man as nothing else does. It is the
mother of resurrection. God the au-
thor and finisher of hope be praised!
For from Him comes the confidence
which-gayvs: “There is a way out; if
cannot find it I will make it.” =
This hope, heaven descended, ap-
proved by reason and sanctioned by
experiénce, cannot be bafiied. . To
hope against hope is the basis of char-
‘acter. «The truest test of a man is to
hope against ‘hope and to pluck suc-
cess out of the very heart of failure.
The Divine Aid.
Elisha on the mountain top, with
an army in wait for him, seemed in a
perilous position. His servant lost
heart at 'cnce:: He @onld not’ under-
stand his master’s calmness, still less
of thy. will, for this is all that YOu:
can call your own; this is the onlyy
free, unmortgaged property you can,
offer Him.
- You should discern the hand of
God in the daily occurrences of life.
You should regard all the events hap-
pening to you, such as poverty and
wealth; sickness and health, life and
death, even the afflictions and perse:' :
cutions arising from the malice of:
men; you should regard all these, I
say, not as accidents and real evils,
but as visitations controlled and di-
rected by an overruling Providence.
They are links in the chain of yeur
immortal destiny; they are so maany
gems in the diadem of your glory.
This is the teaching of the apostle,
who says that “to them that love God
all things work together unto gocd.”
It consider the recognition of this
truth the highest Christian philos-
ophy and the practice of it the only
substanlial basis of genuine: peace.
You will never enjoy solid tranauillity
till you accept with composuze and
equanimity all the visitations svhieh
come from His loving hand.
Our Saviour insinuates the
sgme
comforting doctrine. When He is
his strange ‘reply; ‘They that be with
us, ‘are more than they that be avith
‘them.’ Only eyes divinely opened
' s2e tae invisible hosts arrayed on the
side of right and against the forces of
wrong. ig ‘courage of the good in
times of diffieulty or danger is not as
inex slcable as it sometimes seems,
for in such extremity God’s servants
feel” the pearfiess of unseen helpers,
tnd now ; that divine strength is
Bitter Lessons.
When God would educate a man,
He compels him to learn bitter les-
sons. Fe sends him to school to the
necessities rather than to the graces,
that by knowing all suffering he may
know also the eternal consolation. re
Celia Burleigh.
Human Progress.
The motive of human progress has
ever been a belief in spiritual reality.
Whenever that motive has been
superseded, progress has ceased, dis-
integi on has set in, whether in the
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR JANUARY 10.
Subject: The Descent of the Holy
Spirit," Acts 2:1-21 — Golden
Text, John 14:16, 17—Commit
Verses 2-4—Exposition of Lesson.
TIME.—Sunday, May 28, A. D. 30,
9 a.m. PLACE.—An upper, room
in Jerusalem. 3
EXPOSITION I. The Disciples
Filled With the ‘Holy Spirit, 1-4. The
disciples had been bidden not to de-
part from- Jerusalem, but to wait for
‘the promise of the Father, the bap-
tism with the Holy Spirit (ch. 1:4,
5). They had faithfully obeyed this
command. After the ascension of
Jesus they had returned at once to
Jerusalem (1:12) to wait God’s time
and God’s blessing. The following
days had ‘been spent largely in pray-
er (1:14). Those were not wasted
days. More was accomplished in the
ultimate outcome than if they had
spent those days inpreaching. Though
“they continued steadfastly’ in pray-
er (1:14, R. V.) the entire time was
not spent in prayer (ch. 1:15-26;
Luke 24;53). There was absolute
unity in their prayer, it was ‘‘with
one accord.” Their minds were all
united in one thing, ‘‘the promise of
the Father,” the baptism with the
Holy Spirit (Lu. 11:13; Ac. 4:31; 8:
16-17). They did not regard the pos-
itive promise of Christ (1:5) as re-
lieving them from the necessity of
prayer, but as an incentive to and a
foundation for prayer. The women
were- there as well as the men (ch.
1:14). Ten days passed without an
answer. The day of Pentecost, the
day of “first fruits,” the gathering
of the church (Lev. 23:15-21) came
at last. Not till that day could the
Holy Spirit be given. Now that Pen-
tecost has come no one needs wait ten
days for the baptism with the Holy
Spirit. There is no record of any wait-
ing since Pentecost (see ch. 4:31; 8:
15-174 9:17-22; 10:44; 19:1-6). The
baptism with the Spirit is every be-
liever’s birthright through the crue
cified, risen and ascended Christ (vs.
33, 39), and the moment the ccndi-
tions are fulfilled this blessing will
be ours. If we have to wait, the dif-
ficulty is with us, and not with God.
It is because we have not met the
conditions. The disciples seemed to
have been expecting the promise that
very day, they were ‘‘together in one
place” (R. V.). Ii was at or before 9
in the morning (v. 15). They were
of one accord -(cf. 1:13, 14; 2:46;
4:24, 32; 5:12). This unity doubt-
less had much to do with the bestow-
al of the gift, and the absence of this
unity has much to do with the failure
of many churches to-day to receive it.
The blessing came ‘suddenly’ at the
last (ef. ch, 16:25, 26; Mal. 3:1;
Luke 2:13). There was not a mo-
ment’s warning. There was a roar as
of a hurricane. Emphasis is laid
upon the fact that this sound came
from heaven. It is wind “from heav-
en’ we need. We have too much wind
of another sort. On another occasion
the place where they even gathered
together ° was shaken (ch. 4:31).
This sound ‘‘filled all the house.” The
disciples were ‘‘sitting,’”” not kneeling
in prayer as they are so often repre-
sented. There was not only “wind”
from heaven, but fire as well (cf.
Matt. 3:11; Is. 4:4; Jer. 23:29). The
fire was in the form of tongues, the
new power was to manifest itself in a
tongue of fire granted to them (v.
4). The tongues parted asunder (R.
V.) or portioned themselves out to
“each one of them.” Peter only is
made prominent in the story that fol-
lows, but each one of them received a
‘tongue of fire. The tongues of fire
rested upon the women as well as
upon the men (cf. also vs. 17, 18).
The blessing was not to the church
as a body, but to “each one of them”
as individuals. ‘They were all filled
with the Spirit.” This is a fulfillment
of ch. 1:5. So the expressions “filled
with the Spirit” and ‘baptized with
the Spirit’” are practically synony=-
mous. The expression used here
brings out the thought that the Holy
Spirit takes complete possession of
the faculties. The immediate result
was they ‘began to speak with other
tongues’ (cf. ch. 10:46; 19:6).
II. The Multitude Amazed, 5-11,
The noise of the wind from heaven
was heard by the multitudes without
(v. 6, R. V.). They rushed together
to find out what it meant. The multi-
tudes always gather when the Spirit
comes upon God’s people. The disci-
ples began to speak to them of the
mighty works of God. Each one
heard thém speaking in his own lan-
guage. The effects were startling and
various. They were ‘‘confounded,”
“amazed,” they “‘marveled’’ and
“were perplexed.” .Some thought the
disciples were drunk. Others ‘“‘gladly
received the word,” and were bap-
tized. = The’ conversions were very
numerous and very thorough (vs. 6,
7, 12,13, 37, 41, 42, 44, 45). Simi-
lar. and equally varied effects follow
to-day when men and women are
filled with the Holy Spirit and speak
as the Spirit gives them utterance.
These Spirit-filled men and women
did. not talk much about themselves,
but about ‘‘the ‘mighty works of God”
(v. 11). The mighty work of God
that ‘they especially emphasized was
His raising Jesus Christ from the
dead (vs. 24, 32). ‘The Spirit-filled
man is quite likely to be much occu-
pied with the resurrection of Christ
(cf. ch. 8;15; 4:8, 10, 31, 33). That
pome attributed the state of the disci-
ples to intoxication is not strange, for
the effect of both wine and of the
Spirit is to stimulate, one unnature
ally, the other supernaturally.
He—If I should kiss you what would
you do?
She (startled)—I—I never measure
an emergency until it arises.
He—If this emergency arqse now,
bow would you meet it?
She (courageously)-—Face to face.
God-Made Men.
nation or in the individual.
“Self-made” men exist only on
earth. All who enter Heaven must be
God-made—*“born of the Spirit.”"—
Keen.
(EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSORS.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10.
For Us Who Are Lost—Matt. 1:
Eph. 1: 7; Acts 4: 12.
Matt. 1. 21. The name “Jesus”
means “Savior.” It is a
Greek form. The word “Joshua”
was the Hebrew word hav-
ing the same meaning, and we
think of Joshua, in leading the Is-
raelitish people into the Promised
Land, as a type of the Christ who was
21;
to come. The name ‘‘Christ,” as gen-
erally given to our Lord, means
“anointed,”” and is especially appro-
priate to him as Son of David.
“Christ” is his title as Prophet, Priest
and King, for all these were anointed
on entering upon their office. But
“Jesus” js the precious name by
which he comes to us personally. He
is our Savior.
Eph. 1. 7. In Jesus we have
“redemption.” He gains for wus
our release from sin — from
its awful stain ‘upon our lives,
and from the thraldom in which it
holds us. Sin is a slavery. We know
what suffering and struggle, what
martyrdoms and wars, have been
necessary to release men from human
slavery systems. But we cannot ful-
ly know what it meant to the Son
of God, our Savior, to take upon him-
self-all the suffering and sorrow for a
sinning world and, alone, to bear them
on his cross. “We have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of
sin, according to the riches of his
grace.”
Acts 4. 12. The preacher here
is Peter. The fisherman dis-
ciple has been restored to his
loving Christ on the shores of
Galilee, and has become a man of
power, Spirit-filled at Péntecost. In-
spired of the Holy Ghost, Peter ut-
ters now the clear, unconfused truth
which from that day to this has been
the sufficient answer to all the “isms,”
theories, ‘“sciences,”” and moralities
which would pretend to save from sin
except through faith in the redeeming
blood of Christ. “Neither is there any
other name under heaven.” For the
salvation of us who are lost it must
be Jesus—only Jesus!
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
JANUARY TENTH.
Living for the Day Or for Eternity.
Heb: 7: 15, 16; Matt. 16: 24-27.
Live the eternal life. Matt. 19;
16-26.
A man that lived for self. Luke
12: 16-21
How Jesus lived. Heb. 12: 1-5.
The life of faith. Matt. 5: 19, 20,
25-34.
Looking beyond. 2 Cor. 4: 16-18.
The abiding life. 1 Cor. 13: 1-13.
Life for the day is to be given the
day’s thought, but life for eternity is
to be given all days’ thought (Heb. 7:
16.)
The endless life is not inert; it is
active, it has power, it is your best
assistant (Heb. 7: 16.)
Life in itself is not worth saving,
but only what life stands for; so all
is lost if that is lost (Matt. 16: 25.)
How foolish to look forward eagerly
to the coming of the postman, of our
employer, our friend, but not to the
sure coming of Christ! (Matt. 16: 27.)
Suggestions.
Eternity is not a vital thought un-
less we live it
We live for eternity if in all our
work we are conscious of it and. re
late our work to it.
Are you fonely? There are friends
in eternity. Weary? Rest is there.
A failure? ° Success is there.
Living for eternity is the only way
to live for today.
Ilustrations.
Life on earth is lilree a day-book; all
entries are to be transferred; but how
little we shall want to carry over into
the ledger of heaven!
If the innumerable deeds of a life-
time should be written on the leaf of
a tree, and all leaves of all trees
could be so coverel, the whole would
be only a single sentence in the his-
tory of eternity.
Men that live for temporalities are
like a young fellow who was to be
crowned king in a few minutes, but
was found on the floor playing jack
stones.
It was an interesting point which
Dr. Brander Matthews made in his
Lowell Institute lecture that while
he has no better chronological order
fcr Shapespeare’s plays to suggest
than the generally accepted one, he
doubts very much if that is correct,
and he bases this surmise on the
chrcnology of Moliere’s plays. If the
development of his mind and his skill
as a playwright were to be regarded
as establishing tendencies which
would reveal themselves in his pro-
ductions, discernible from interval
evidence, Moliere’s plays would have
been turned out in an altogether dif-
ferent order. The same, Dr. Mat-
thews implied. might conceivably be
the case with Shakespeare. In other
words, comments the Boston Tran-
script, itis never safe to guess un-
less one knows. The hardest les-
sons are not always reserved for the
senior class. The best fruits of life's
work do not always come at the
period of highest intellectual develop-
ment.
MUSHROOM STEW.
To stew mushrooms properly do
not add water, but put the tops and
the stems, broken into pieces, into
a dish, sprinkle them with salt and
pepper and let them stand for half
an hour or so until the juice is part-
ly extracted. Cook them in this
juice. At the last g2ason with but-
ter and cream.—New York Sun.
There