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Pthe splei toe adventcres= Bv ARTHUR T. < w * CHAPTER VII. Captain Tottery and Captain Settle. "Now, either I am mad or dreaming," thought I; for that the fellow had not heard our noise was to me starkly incredible. 1 stepped along the deck toward him; not an inch did lie budge. 2 touched him on the shoulder. He l'aced around with a quick start. "Sir," said I, quick and low, before he could get a word out?"Sir. we are In your hands. I will be piain. ionight I have broken out of Bristol Keep, and the Colonel's men are after me. Give me up to them, and they bang me to-morrow; give my comrade up and they persecute her vilely. Now, sir, 1 know not which side you be, but there's our case in a nutshell." The man bent forward, displaying a huge, rounded face, very kindly about the eves, and set atop of the oddest body in the world, for under a trunk extraordinarily broad and strong straddled a pair of legs that a baby would have disowned?so thin and 6tuntcd were they?and, to make it the queerer, ended in feet the most prodigious you ever saw. As I said, this man leaned forward, and shouted in my ear so that 1 fairly leaped in the air: "My name's Pottery?Bill Pottery? jap'n o' the Godsend, an' you can't make me hear, not if you bust your* scl'!" You may think this put me in a fine quandary. "I bo deaf as nails!" bawled ho. 'Twas horroble, for the troopors. I thought, if anywhere near, coukl not miss hearing him. Ilis voice shook the very rigging. * ? ? "An* o' my crew the half ashore gettin' drunk an' the half below in a very accomplished state o' liquor, so there's no chance for 'ee to speak!" He paused a moment, then roared again: "What a pity! 'Cos you make me .very curious?that you co!" Luckily, at this moment. Delia had the sense to put a finger to her lip. The man wheeled round without another word, led us aft over the blocks, cordage and all manner of loose gear that encumbered the deck, to a ladder that, toward the stern, led down into darkness. Here he signed to us to follow, and, descending first, threw open a door, letting out a faint stream of light in our faces. 'Twas the captain's cabin, lined with cupboards and lockers, and the light came from an oil lamp hanging over a narrow deal table. By this light Captain Billy scrutinized us for an instant; then, from one of his lockers, brought out pen, nnner and ink. and set them on the table before me. I caught up the pen, dipped it, and began to write: "I am John Marvel, a servant of King Charles; and this night am escaped out of Bristol Castle. If you be " Thus far I had written without glancing up, in fear to read the disappointment of my hopes. But now the pen was caught suddenly from my finders, the paper torn in shreds, and there was Master Pottery shaking us both by the hand, nodding and backing, and smiling- the while all over his big red face. But he ceased at last, and opening another of his lockers, drew forth a horn lantern, a mallet and a chisel. Not a word was spoken as he lit the lantern and passed out of the cabin, Delia and I following at his heels. Just outside, at the foot of the stens. he stooped, pulled up a trap in the flooring, and disclosed another ladder stretching. as it seemed, down into the bowels of the ship. This we descended carefully and found ourselves in the hold, pinching our noses between linger and thumb. For intleed the smell here was searching to a painful degree; for the room was narrow, and every inch of it contested by two puissant essences, the one of raw wool, the other of bilge water. With wool the place was filled: but also I noticed, not far from the ladder, several casks sot on their ends; and to these the captain led us. They were about a dozen in all, 6tucked close together; and Master Pottery. rolling two apart from the rest, dragged them to another trap and tngtreu our me suram fresh water gushed from each ami splashed down the trap into the bilge below. Then, having drained then!, he staved in their beads with a few blows of his mallet. His plan for us was clear. And in a very few minutes Delia and 1 were crouching on the timbers, each with a cask inverted over us, our noses at the bunirholes and our ears listening to Master Pottery's footsteps as they climbed heavily back to deck. The rest of the casks were stacked close around us. so that even had the gloom allowed, we could see nothing at all. , "Jack!" "Delia!" "Dost feel heroiral at all?" "Not one whit. There's a trickle of water running down my back to begin with." "And my nose it itches; and oh. what a hateful smell!* Say something to me, Jack." "My dear." said I. "there is one tiling I have been longing these weeks to say; but this seeins an odd place lor it." "What is it?" I pressed by lips to the bunghole, and ' [ love you." said T. There was sl.'enec for a moment. aiul then within Delia's cask the sound of muffled laughter. "Delia." I urued. "I mean it, upon my oath, wilt marry t/to. sweetheart':" "Must sot out of this cask first. Oh, Jack, what a dear goose thou art!" And the laughter began again. I was going to answer, when I heard a loud shouting overhead. 'Tvas the Round of some one hailing the ship, ar.d. thought I. "the troopers are on us!" i They were ic truth. Sood I heard ' - * ' M YDID SPUR"' OF JACK MARVEL, j I! [)UILLER COUCH.'' ? I 3J>' ? i the noise of foot above and a string of voices speaking one after another, louder and louder. And next Master Pottery begau to speak up and drowned all speech but his own. When he ceased there was silence for ..vnntpt nftpr v.'hich we heard a J party descend to the cabin and the I trampling of their feet on the boards above lis. They remained there some while discussing, and then came footsteps down the second ladder and a twinkle of light reached mc through ihe bungbole of my cask. Quick!'' said a husky voice. "Overhaul the cargo here!" I heard some half dozen troopers bustling about the hold and tugging out the bales of wool. "Hi!" called Master Tottery. "An' when you've done rummaging my ship, put everything back as you found it!" "Poke about with your swords!" commanded the husky voice.' "What's in those barrels, yonder?" "Water, sergeant," answer a trooper rolling out a couple. "Nothing behind them?" "No; they're right against the side." "Drop 'em. then! Tlague on this business! 'Tis my notion they're a mile away, and Cap'n Stubbs no better than a fool to send us back here! He's gruding promotion, that's what he is! Hurry, there?hurry!" Ten minutes later the searchers were gone, and we in our casks drawing long breaths of thankfulness and strong odors. And so we crouched until about midnight Captain Billy brought us down a supper of ship's biscuit, which we crept forth to eat, being sorely cramped. He could not hear our thanks, but guessed them. "Now say not a word! To-morrow we sail for Plymouth Sound, thence for Brittany. Hisr! We be all King's men aboard the Godsend, tfco' hearing nought I says little." On the morrow in fact we set sail. 'Twas necessary I should impart some notion of my erranci xo i^apxam i Billy, tho* I confin'd myself to Lints, telling him 'twas urgent I should be put ashore somewhere on the Cornish coast, for that I carried intelligence which would r.ot keep till Ave reach'd Plymouth, a town that, besides, was held by the rebels. And he agreed readily to land me in Bude Bay, "and also thy comrade, if (as I guess) she be so minded," he added, glancing up at Delia from the paper whereon I had written my request. She had been silent of late, beyond her wont, avoiding (I thought) to meet my eye. but answer'd simply: "I go with Jack." 'Twas not till the fourth afternoon (by reason of baffling head winds) that we stepped out of the Godsend's boat upon a small beach of shingle, whence, between a rift in the black cliffs wound up a road that was to lead us inland. We follow'd the road rapidly; for Delia, whom I had made sharer of tho rebels' secret, agreed that no time was to be lost in reaching Bodmin, that lay a good thirty miles to the southwest. Night fell and the young moon rose, with a brisk breeze at our backs that kept us still walking without any feeling of weariness. By daybreak we spied a hill in front, topp'd with a stout castle, and under it a town of importance, that we guess'd to be Launceston. AYe now drew up to consider if we should enter the town or avoid it to the west, trusting to find a breakfast in some tavern on the way. Because we knew not with certainty tne temper of the country, it seem'd best to choose this second course: so we fetch'd around by certain barren meadows, and thought ourselves lucky to hit on a rjad that, by the size, must be the one we sought, and a tavern with a wide yard before it and a carter's van standing at the entrance, not three gunshots from the town walls. "Now Providence hath surely led us to breakfast." said Delia, and .stepp'd before me into the yard, toward the door. I was following her when, inside of a gate to the right of the house. I caught the gleam of steel, and turn'd aside to look. To my dismay there stood near a score of chargers in this second court, saddled and dripping with sweat. My first thought was to rush after Delia; but a quick surprise made me rub my eyes with wonder? 'Twas the sight of a sorrel mare among them?a mare with one high white stocking. In a thousand I could have told her for Molly. Three seconds after I was at the tavern door, and in my ears a voice sounding that stopp'd me short and told me in one instant that without God's help all was lost. 'Twas the voice of Captain Settle speaking in the taproom; and already Delia stood, past concealment, by the open door. "... And therefore, master car trr. it grieves mo to disappoint thee; lint no mr.n proeth this day toward Bodmin. Such be my Lord of Stamford's orders, whose servant I am. and as captain of this troop I am sent to exact them. As they displease you, his lordship is but twenty-four hours behind; you can abide him and complain. Doubtless he will hear?ton million devils!" I hoard his shout as he caught sight of Delia. 1 saw bis crimson face as lie dart'd out and jrripp'd her. I saw, or half saw, the troopers crowding out after him. For a moment I hesitated. Then came my pretly comrade's voice, i shriil above the hubbub j ".Taek?they have horses outside;! Leave me?I aiu ta'en?and ride, dear j lad-ride!" In a Hash my decision was taken, for better or worse. I dasb'd out around i the house, vaulted the sate. mm vwtchinjr at Molly's mane, leap'd into the saddle. | A dozen troopers were at the gate j ' and two had their pistols levell'd. ft "Surrender!" "Be hang'd if 1 do!" I sot my teelli and put Molly at the low wall. As she rose like a bird in air the two pistols rang out together, 1 and a burning p;iin seem'd to tear open my left shoulder. In a moment the mare alighted safe on the other side, ^ flinging iue forward on her neck. But 1 scrambled back, and with a shout that frighten"d my own ears, dug my heels into her flanks. Half a minuiO more and I was on the < hard road, galloping westward for dear j ' life. So also were a score of rebel | ] troopers. Twenty miles and nice lay J i before me, and a bare hundred', ards I 1 w?s my start. ! j i 1 i' CHAPTER VIII. < How .loan baved the Day. ] And now did I indeed abandon my- . self to despair. Few would have given ! ' a groat for my life, with that crew at J 1 my heels; and I least of all, now mat i , my dear comrade was lost. The wound i ( in my shoulder was bleeding sore?I ? could feel the warm stream welling? j yet not so sore as my hearts And I | pressed my knees into the saddle flap ] and wondef*ed what the end would be. j I Molly was going her best, but the (? best was near spent. The sweat was ! , oozing, her satin coat losing the gloss, I 1 the spume lling back from her nos- i I trils?' Soli!*' I called to her; "Soh, my'1 j beauty; we ride to save an army!"' The < loose stones flew right and left as she < reach'd out her neck, and her breath J came shorter and shorter. ^ A mile, and another mile, we passed ! t in this trim, and by the end of it must j < have spent three-quarters of an hour ; . at the work. Glancing back. 1 saw the j troopers scattered; far behind, out fol- 1 lowing. The heights were still a weary 1 way ahead, but I could mark their J steep sides ribb'd with boulders. Till j these were passed, there was no chance i to hide. I reached these at last, and 1 then, high above, on the hillside, I * ? 1 ? heard a voice calling. j I look'd up. Kelow the steeper ridge f ~ * J - 1 r* r?/l linrl hanri i ? 01 IXJf TUJ." U l?il IVLI U1 iIlliU uvv.. [ clcar'd for tillage; and here a yoke of ' oxfrii was moving leisurely before a ] plow ('twas their tinkling bells I had j heard just now); while behind fol- j lowed the wildest shape, by the voice , of a woman. t She was not calling to me. but to her t team; and as I put Molly at the slope. j i her chant rose and fell in the mourn- c fullest singsong. c "So-hoa! Oop Comely Vean! oop, J then?o-oop!"' | j I rose in my stirrups and shouted. | t At this and the sound of hoofs, she J r stay'd the plow, and. hand on Jnp, ^ looked down the s.'ope. The oxen, j { softly rattling tbe chains on their yoke, j c turn'd tbeir necks and gazed. With ! c sunk head Molly heaved herself up j j1 the last few yards and came to a lialt J j with a stagger. I slipp'd out of the i \ saddle and stood, with a hand on it, ! } swaying. | ? "What's try need, young man?that j 6 comest down to Temple wi' sword , a a'danglin'?" * The girl was a half-naked savage ? dress'd only in a strip of sacking that r barely reach'd bcr knees, and a scant i c bodice of the same, lae'd in front with j pack thread, that left her bosom and j ? brown arms free. Yet she appear'd no t whit abash'd, but lean'd on the plow ""1 ' onnvrif.ii mo onsv and frank, t as a man would. j | "Sell mo a horse." I blurted out. t "Twenty guineas will I give for one b wiiliin five minutes, and more if lie be ii good! I ride on the King's errand." ? "Sell tliee a borse? Hire tliee a bed, 6' man. more like. Xny, then, lad " c But I saw licr no longer: only called I ii "Oh?ob!" twice, like a little child, and ' jj slipping my bold of the saddle, dropp'd | ^ forward 011 her breast. I ]< I was roused by the touch of a hand j * thrust in against my naked breast ? over my heart. t "Who is itV" I whispered. ' n "Joan." answered a voice, and the . band with withdrawn. "Joan?what besides?" "Joan's enough, 1 reckon: lucky for 0 thee 'tis none else. Joan o' the Tor P folks call me, but may yet be Joan j p i' Good Time. So hold thy poace, lad, J t an' cry out so little as may be." i t I felt the ripping of my jacket sleeve Jj and shirt, now clotted and stuck to the p flesh. It pain'd cruelly, but I shut my teeth; and after that camp the smart p and delicious ache of water, as she jj rinsed the wound. ! j "Clean through the flesh, lad?in an' r out. like country dancin*. No bullet to" t J - ? arson* _ probe nor Done 10 sin. nmn u... .,^v. Thy iuotbor shall kiss thee yet. What's i thy name?" ii "Marvel, John?Jack Marvel." I r "An* marvel 'tis thou'rt Marvel yet. ; P Good blood there's in thee, but little j n enow." j g (To be continued.) ? ! IJ Pointed Paragraph?. Sometimes a man's shady character - ^ keeps him in hot water. j a What a pity it is that popular theor- j P ics are not always practical. i ^ Some men would die young if they j u were compelled to work for a living. ; c Train up a hired girl in the way , ? she should go and it won't be long until she's gone. ii Lots of men have so much genius v that they are unable to do anything j8 but sit in the shade and think about j * it. If a man's wife doesn't think him at : a least three times smarter than he really 1 is, then lio married the wrong woman. ! ? a wmrinn is disappointed j r when she stnrts nwny for a two weeks' ; e visit unless lier husband looks heart- ) broken. ! t It costs at least ten times as much j 0 to live according to the requirements \ s of fashion as it does to Jive according j 8 to the demands of nature. ? Chicago |t News. j fc ThoroiiRl ly Mswiwl. P James Brazil :i:i?l Mrs. Aj^ie Turner. s of Cash inn, OkI:i., have created a rec- J ord by being married three times in I n one day. They lirst sought the pro- : i: bat*"- judge at Kingfisher. Okla., and j as there was a contest over the office they got both candidates to marrj c them. Not feeling satisfied as to tin c legality of the ceremony, they returned ( to Cashion and were mr.iTied again ? by a minister.?New York Commercial t Ad rertiser. T r When a burglar makes a clean sweep <] he leaves little to be desired. e 3 It is sometimes possible t"> pr.t up a t good front without much backing. < ' > : * A. SERMON FOE SUNDAY : 1 K STRONC DISCOURSE ENTITLED, i "WHAT CHURCH OWES CHILDREN." \ I n?e Rev. Howard Melish Talks TYhole eoinely on the Promise of Zecharlah ( to His DUcouragod Countrymen ? i Man's Tliirst For KisflitcousnesB. < Brooklyn, N. Y.?"What the Church { Dwes the Children" was the subject of a * strong sermon preached by the Rev. Hoir- , ird Melish, rector of the Church of the hloly Trinity. A number of requests for J ts publication have been received and it is lerewith given. The text was from Zechariah viii:5: "The streets of the city shall be full of bovn and girls playing in the streets thereof." Mr. Melish said: Zechariah gave this promise as a word of mcouragement to his discouraged country- ^ nen when on their return from their exile they were trying in the face of enemies ind great obstacles to rebuild Jerusalem. ! The time will surely come, he bade them ^ aelieve, when the city shall stand once j nore on Mount Zion in all its former j strength and splendor, blessed with that , greatest of all life's benedictions?children it play. ""'he streets of the city shall be ^ 'ull of boys and girls playing in the streets :hereof." \ One of the wonderful stories which cur ast census told was the phenomenal j growth of the American city. Briefly, the ^ story is this: While the population of the .'ountry in the nineteenth century was j nultiplying itself fifteen times the popu- | ation of the cities and towns was multiliving itself 150 times. Whereas the popu- j ation of the farming community has been ( nultiplied by two in fifty years, lhat of ^ :ities has been multiplied by ten; in 1800 >ne man in every twenty-five lived in a j :ity. To-day it is one man in every three, j rhe tremendous concentration of men, j vomen and children in our cities is one of ;he most significant and startling facts of f )ur times. . j The city is built! The prophet's promise ? >.as been fulfilled?the streets are full of joys and girls. But what a fulfillment! ? Chey are playing in our streets because we lave built our cities in such a way that i -.1 _1 r a .nere is do cmw jnucc iui iuciu iu p<y. ^ our tenement districts especially the louses stand so closely together that there s scarcely space for light and air to enter j ooms, not to mention courts, back yards, ^ )lay grounds and small parks. Within a j ihort walk of where we are to-day are ( lundreds of families living in one or two . ;mall rooms to a family, rooms often j doomy at mid-day. Of course, the chil- j Iren are in the streets. . , And what places the streets are for these " ittle ones! Look over the page3 of our ' capers day b." day with the children in j nind and you read the sad story of this . ittle child crushed by a car, of that one { naimed for life by some wagon. Go into ' ;he Children's Court and see boys of ;welve and fourteen arrested for crimes c vhich would send men to the penitentiary ~ or a long period of years. Between the j rcwded tenements and these injuries, j leaths and crimes, there is the relation of j :ause and effect. The tenements drive the , >oys into the streets, and there they are , orbidden by the police and prevented by J ;raffic to play games which kept me and e ny boy friends from going to the devil. ? \o! 1 don't mean that insinuation. The ;ood God won't let the devil have those ^ joys. They may become impertinent t ximinals, and die like ihe hardened thief . >n the cross, but conditions shaped them, \ ind God will give them, in my heart of ( icartp, I believe, a new chance to become t ike Him in tha; new city, Jerusalem, ^ vhich is not built by men's hands. And f et true it is that in our cities boys who ^ .re denied tee healthy amusements of boy ife drift into the crap game3 and form j treet gangs which terrify neighborhoods ^ .nd brutalize, Doys and turn the spirit of . nischief into' the demon of crime. Jacob j, tiis has told us that between the tenement v nd the penitentiary L" has found a beaten r iath, traveled by the feet of hundreds of a ur boys every year. j. It is about this somewhat new and very j erious situation of the children of our s treete that I want you to think with me s his morning. It is often said, as an argument against r he church assuming this responsibility. 1; hat the church's one mission is to preach e he gospel, and I want to say at the start t hat the purpose of the church has never t een more correctly defined. The gospel } i the message of the good tidings that 1 Jod cares for men, that God is love. Once v st a man accept that message and let it i: ink into his soul that it become9 the prin- r iple of his life, and even though he lives p a a badly ven ilated bouse in a crowded r district, surrounded by evil influences, yet o ie will be a good citizen, son, father, husband and friend. Yes, and once let a land3rd receive the gospel in his heart and he rill tranGform his tenement into decent biding places if it c. -wS him half his in- ? omc. Jor the gospel of the Son of God is he regenerating power in the world which J1 aakes all things new. To preach it clear- / y, with consecration and power, is the sureme, all important, never-to-be-forgotten j; lission of the church of Christ. But how "s the gospel to be preached in I >" ur crowded cities to-day? Jt is as im- ' ortant to know the way as the destinaion when one is trying to reach a definite oint in the world. Some men fancy that he city needs nothing more than a coun- . ry village?a preacher and a building?to ave the gospel preached with power. | 'here was a famous test case of that reaching on the East Side in Manhattan. v i man of ability determined to preach the ^ ospel every Sunday and do nothing else, dieving that people would come as they id before the city became what it ia to- 1 ay. After several years he gave up the rork as a proved failure. He was a John he Baptist crying in the city -wilderness, ut uniike John's experience the people J5 id not come out to listen to the voice. * ' Lnd 1 believe it is because they were waitng for the Christ. Not the voice in the j1 rilderntss, but the man to go about doing * ood, healing, strengthening, encouraging, e aspiring. Sermons, services and prayer P .leetinsrs are nreachins the cospel and do n ood. ^Vlany of us could not live without hem. But they do not monopolize preach- p ag the gospel. Did Jesus do nothing but (-1 reach and teach? The church needs to p, >arn anew the message of the incarnation, L: he truth that life is imparted only through c. life. We arc Christ's body. May we j( rove it by going, as Pie went, into the lighways ana back alleys, doing good, n ringing hope to the discouraged, lifting SJ p the fallen, taking little children into ur arms, and so assuring them as Christ ssured the world that love reigns enhroned above this world of pain, sorrow jj nd hardship. When the church is a man- \ testation of Christ among men, as Jesus o ias of God, not merely by speaking and o inging and communion, but by living, tl corking, helping in the world the gospel j f Christ will he truly preached. n Let me specify. One man may stand in i< pulpit by telling of God's love, give hope s( o some poor mother who is almost in de- 'I pair over her boy. Another man, ani- jj nated by God's love, may furnish a club v oom where young men may spend their a venings apart from the dangers of the sa- 1< aon, and by so doing rive hope to the s; mother whose boy goes there. Both preach h he gospel of hope, one in words and the \ ther in deeds. A preacher gives a strong ermon against the saloon and his hearers ay he is preaching the gospel. A man tarts a cooking class where women learn o make food so wholesome that their hus- e lands and sons do not longer have the de- n f r\y /Irinlr A ro nnf Vrnfh nron^liinrr flip ospcl of the more abundant life? You o cc what this means. The church is 'J treachiiig the pood tidings of love through tj very agency which give? hope to men, and ir nakes the4. feel their brotherhood among i w :ien and the Fatherhood in God. g You know the way the churches have ! *n hirked responsibility for this kind of I 0 ireaehing, the kind that is effective in our I s rowded districts. It is one of the saddest hapters in the history of Christianity. Churches among our tenements, with few plendid exceptions, have sold out ami ... noved up town, with their wealthier memifrs leaving their poorer members as sheep c vithout a shepherd in the "city wilder- s. less." One will hunt far before finding a uore un-Christian spectacle than the exo- J lus of the Christian churched from the ten- 0 ment districts where the harvest is ready. ? flie reason usually given is the removal of n he rich to the suburbs and the failure of he poor to |mtribute liberally. So the * loor are blam^ for the church's infiJalitw. fhe church ought to be on the firing line ivbere the need is greatest. Instead it ia :oo often found in the rear, caring for the fvounded, no d< ..bt, and occasionally urgng back the frightened or forward the ;tragglers. The crowded districts where :he streets are full of bo. ; and girls are ;he church's responsibility. To betake itself to the suburbs and leave these children n the streets, saloons and tenements is to >ffend God's little ones. And the Master said about such a one that it i- bettc that i millstone were hanged about his neck ind he was drowned in the deptn of the sea. The second ihing I -.vant .0 think about ;his morning with you is the church's opjortunity to help the children ' of ohr itreets. This opportunity is orly limited by the lumber of men and women who are wiling to take a real interest in the enndren, md by the space you have to use. Give ;hese children a chance to get out of the streets and away from the bad influence! nto a wholesome environment of real varm-blooded people and good books and imusements and fun giving recreations ind thev will come to the church in a stampede. Their lufoger for ennobling friendships is one of the most pathetic ;hing8 I have found in my miuistry, and ilso one of the most inspiring. Oh! the splendid opportunity for yon all :o fulfill your responsibility for these boy? ind girls of our streets is here. In the joys' clubs is the chance for you young nen to Dreach the cospel to our lads, not :>y speaking sermons, but- by manifesting to tnem through your manly sympathy ind interest, your courage and your truth* fulness, your honor and your uprightness :be Christ you love and follow*. Chris* nay be preached to these boys with the Doxing gloves, and the fencing foils, the :arpenter's tools and the football teams ;vith more power than by sermons from a julpit. In the sewing school is the chance or you young women to preach Christ, not >y words of religion, but by your beautiful riendship for the little girls who come in sager to receive that which their homes ire unable to give them. In the Sundayichool is the chance for you young men ind young women, and older ones, too, to father once a week a little group about *ou and lead them through the wonderful itory of Him who came to earth to be our lervant and yet was King Eternal, and hen through the alchemy of the influence >f your life move them to love honesty, lurity, goodness, man. Christ and God. !\or will I admit the older people's chance ;o preach the living Christ. There comes jefore me the picture of a scene in a men's :lub in a certain parish house where a >rofessor of political economy met in a perfectly natural wav a brakeman on the Pennsylvania road, and both men came to see that great labor problem more clearly, ind had more of the Christ tolerance than :ver before. And I know of women who lave found through the Giris' Friendly Soliety the chance to preach the living Christ io effectively that girls have risen up and :alled them "blessed among women." The few hours given to such work in a tingle year seem very powerless beside the )owers of darkness which walk our streets )oth day and night, week in and week out, n vacations as in working or school days. 3ut, thank God, a man^ life is not an quilibrium of forces, a resultant of houses md environments. In every soul is the hirst for righteousness which can be iroused by Dringing it face to face with a ighteous life. There is a contagion in roodness as there is in badness. Arouse hose dormant faculties in every soul, and hey, with Christ's help, will counteract til the influences of house and street, ["his is the opportunity of the church tolay in our crowded cities. Ey meeting it he church will find, what every individual vho has so met opportunity finds, that it ;ets by giving and has a firmer hold than iver on the realities of truth and life. Call such service what you will?though personally hate the t^ite phrase institu* ional, for I am pleading for a work alto ether personal, the touch of life on life? rjt you must believe that the church ? 1 ^ 1* - .'1:1:1.. J I'nicn assumes mis respuusioiiu.y aim neets this opportunity is following the crumple of the Master. When Christ came o earth to lift men up to God He took the orm of a common man. He might, "\ve ay, have gathered the Jewish nation into ome great plain and revealed His mission n the sight of all with such glorv that all r.ust bow the knee before Him. He might tave come with angels straight from heavn and swept men irresistibly into His rain. What He did resembled neither of hese, but poirts the way for us to follow, le was among men as a servant. By His ife of service, now with sermons, now eith deeds, but always with a life spreadng a contagion of love, courage, hope, nanliness, sincerity, He, the servant, so irofoundly touched the hearts of men that nen have risen up and crowned Him King if iiinga and Lord of Lords. Affliction That Fiiyn. A psalmist once said: "It is good for ne .hat. I have been afflicted: that I night learn Thy statutes." He mighc lot have sought the ways of God had le not found his own ways hedged about lim. His experience was that of a reat number of men who discovered iches in affliction which were otherwise lot to be found. The depth <. humaj* ove :.nd sympathy would never be known rere it n t for affliction. Through sorow there ha= cften lure-t a wealth f love and affection, marvelous :n its weetnes? and power. It was "not until e was afflicted that the psalmist saw the lory of the nc1y law. It in affliction lso that t.ie ".ory of human lov: shines ut. richer by far because it is charged il i_ _i i _c ri _-i v: i. ? .lin tne amy juyc ui uua. xtra, it is car price to pav but in the tfter-glow re shall be able to say that it was worth aying.?Baptist l_'nion. The Power of a Godly Life. In a recent article, the Rev. Dr. chauffer incidentally said: I had a eachcr in our school who used to be a ailor?a godly man. He knew little of istory, and nothing of science; but he new Jesus. He so taught his class thas veryoqe found the Savior, and made ublic confession. By and by he came to le and said: 'Take my class away. 1 m uneducated. I can't lead them any igher; but I have led them to Christ, rive me,' he said, 'a new class tint does ot know Christ, and I will try "to lead hem to the Shepherd.' I gave him a new lass, and before ho died everyone had aund the Savior. What was the posncy in that uneducated man? Was it ot his humble trust in Ilim who can ^nctify whatever word is spoken?" Our KcfiponsiljUity. "Others sin .-.gainst us and with us and i spite of us, but none can sin for us. V'hcnever that is done ve have to do Jt urselves." It vere well for the weak nes of earth, yea, and some who count heinselves strong, to ponder on this truth. Jen are prone to blame others for tbeic lisdeeds. This one '.empted or the other ?d astray. And so tne conscience is aothed, the still, small voice quieted, 'he consequence is that the experience, i all probability, is repeated in kind dien a little wholesome remorse for sin, putting of the real blame where it be>ngs, would save much. No one can in for us. Whenever that is done we ave to do it ourselves. ? Philadelphia 'oung People. No Triumphal Entry. It is the irony of history that Christ's ntry into Palestine is bo often misinterreted. To me there is hardly more bit?r irony in the life of Jesus than to speak t His "triumphal entry into Jerusalem, he multitude came out to meet Him, iirew their garments and palm branches 1 front of Him, and the people sang. But hat of the central figure? He saw the :eat city, and wept over is. What a conrast was that with the triumphal march f a conqueror.?Rev. Dr. A. A. Berle, alem, Mass. His Father's "Watchword, The Rev. John McNeill, the popular vangelist, says: '1 owe more than I can tell to my fath* r. He had a habit of which he never poke to us, nor we to him. He was a uarryman, and I often heard him go ownstairs on dark morning. Standing n the threshold before passing out he r-ould say aloud, 'I go to-day in God's ame.' 1 can never forget the impression his made upon me, and thankfully 63y o-day, 'My lather's God 13 1 aie,' I |||g^EbI>I6 Wby Worry? Why do we worry about the nest? We only stay for a day, Or a month or a year, at the Lord'a !>? hest, I in this habitat of clay. i Why do we worry about the road. With its hill or deep ravine ? j Jn a dismal path or a heavy load, We are helped by hands unseen. Why do we worry about the years That our feet have not yet trod? , Who labors with courage and trust nor fears, Has fellowship with God. ! The best will come in the great "To be," It is ours to serve and wait; - ' * - ? ? . -I. And the wonaeriui iuture wc soon suau i see, For death is but the gate. ?Sarah K. Bolton. The Frayer After Battle. In one of the British regiments engaged in the war with the Boers was a big, good-natiuei^ fellow named Bob. The ! story of his death is one of the belated anecdotes that have found their way tardily into the English papers. Bob had an unhappy genius for falling into difficulties. His name appeared often among the records of offences. Officers men liked him for his good nature and generosity, but no one had influence enough to keep him from the breaches of discipline which constantly marred his life as a soldier. Religion, so far from having any personal meaning for him, was only a matter for a joke. His natural good feelings had never flawered into the manhood that was possible to him. One of nis chief amusements was poking fun at a fellow private, Tim Akers, a voung man of gentle nature and firm rej ligious faith. | "Tim," he said, one day, "I wish you'd lend me thaWprayer-book o' yours." "What's tne joke, Bob? asked the young man, quietly. He had learned to a4 "D?Vn Alnwiotf wifKniif /inar. IIIC'C U JJUU O ClkLULUSjr p Wlllllft ?J-?? i reling. "I want to write a letter home to ray girl, and I thought I'd find some good j words in that book o' yours." i "Yes, you will find good words in it, and the girl will be p.ad to get them." j Bob burst into a loud laugh. "Ho! ho! You're an easy bite, kid! You don't really suppose I'd write religion in a loveletter?" I Tim started to say that religion is love of the purest kind, but the uselessness of it was so plain that he said nothing, and eo the matter dropped. The next day r .battle was fought. It lasted until night hid the forms of the wounded and the faces of the dead. When the gray dawn i broke on the dreadful scene Bob was lying between two dead comrades. A sergeant who lay near him with a shattered foot heard him say in a weak voice, "I'll be away in a few shakes. Is there any religious cove near me?" "Is that you, Bob?" answered Tim'a weary, boyish voice. "Bad hurt, Tim?" asked the sergeant. "Yes, I'm done for," answered Tim. "Me, too, boy," said Bob, thickly. "I say, Tim, 1 didn't write tnat letter. I 'aan't the 'eart, an' now I'm done for an' she'll never get it. Can you?can you prar for me, Tim?an' for her? She don't need it, but I do." "We all need it, Bob," answered Tim, gently and faintly. ! "Give us your 'and, Tim. I can just I reach you.-' < Tim stretched out hia hand and said, "Now say it after me," and he repeated the Lord e Prayer. Bob said the words after him, clumsily, awkwardly, but with a thrill in his heavy, thick voice. The sergeant joined in. "I?can't?speak?any?more/' whispered the bov. ''Shut your eyes and don't be : afraid. We go up together. It'll be all right. You'll get in, Bob." I "With all the wrongs I 'ave on me, I boy?" | The breath had left Tim's body. The sergeant glanced at Bob and saw a look of J content spread over his face. The dawn was full upon the field. A drowsy numbj ness came over him, and when he woke ! out of it he found himself in the camp hospital. He told the story afterward to his comrades. It was long before the tale got beyond the regiment, for soldiers do not tell all the stories they have lived and seen; but every man in the regiment knew of Bob's first and last prayer. A sermon had been preached to them tnat tney did not forget.?Yoith's Companion. Decline In the Ministry. In his Day of Prayer address at Prince) ton, President Patton denied that thera is a decline in quality of men entering the ministry, though he conceded that there is a falling off in numbers. The argument that young men are more largely influenced ' by mercenary motives and the attractions of other professions did not impress him. He thought the decrease in numbers more ; probably due to the intellectual unrest in our colleges. "Students go into them I with a goodly measure of domestic piety and come out not knowing where they stan^."' "Let your philosophers go running about tne country, reading papers on new theories, thinking that they must , -win their spurs by so doing, and your religious life in their institutions grows sleepy or becomes sadly weakened." Pres ident Patton declared that we need philosophers who are not only able to say ^ that they believe in God, but who say it in a way that will make their hearers believe also in Jesus Christ as their only Saviour. T2:e president concluded: "We need to pray for the professors in our colleges.'"?Advance. When Sin Comes. Temptation is not sin, yet much dietress arises from not understanding this fact. The very suggest on of wrong seems to bring pollution with it. The Eoor, tempted soul feels as if it must e very bad indeed, and very far off from God to have such thoughts and 1 suggestions. It is the enemy's ^rand ruse for entrapping us. But it is no more a sin to hear these whispers of evil in our souls than to hear the wicked ; talk of bad men as we walk along the i street. The sin comes on!y by our stopEing and joining in with them?H. A. mith. SeetU That Will Fe?.. .uthing, blame nothing?so much as thy vices and thy s.ns.?Thomas a Kenipis. Grace is of n growing nature; in the way to Zion they go from strength to strength.?Thomaf Boston. What is being raligious but always seeing God's infinite love in everything and J loving Him all the time.?J. 1'. Clarke. A solid and substantial greatness oJ eoul looks down with neglect on the ccnsurcs and applauses of the multitude.? Addison. Goodness is beauty in its best estate.? Vf urUwA Locust Pl&gae. Egypt is threatened with a plague of locusts, and the Government has called i out the army of forced laborers to combat I the pest. Owing to the young locust's | habit of never turning back or aside when once started in a certain direction, it is possible, by digging trenches, sometimes miles in length, to entrap the invading hosts and destroy thern. That, of course, must be done before the locusts take to the wing. At that staje nothing can stop their ravages, and they sweep everything ! before them. Italiau rilgrim*. Over 10,000 pilgrims- from all parts of , Italy have bsen visitinc Home. ;1 THE_ SUNDAY SCHOO INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMEN' FOR JULY 3. Subject: The Kingdom Divided, I Kin xil., 12-20? Golden Text. Ptoy. xi 18?Memory Yerces, 12-14? Comm? tary on the Day's Lesion. T. A demand by the people (vs. 1-1! ' "When Rehoboam found himself the suco sor to the throne he met the leaders of t ; nation at Shechem. While this asseml I was called ostensibly for the purpose J confirming Rehoboam in his kingdom, y ! the people had determined to exact o | tain reforms as the condition of their al i ciance. They had many grievances: The burden of taxation was very great. | was especially hard upon the northe I tribes who were so far removed from Jei i salem that thev could not share in t 1 wealth which filled the coffers of the lea I ers. 2. The people were bitterly o pressed. The forced free labor for Soj ' mon's great works was exceedingly burd 1 pome. "Although they had been dazzi by the,splendor and display of Solomo yet ere long they waked up to the bjtt realization of the fact that all this glitt was not ^old, and that the just policy jjavia no longer puiuea ine tnrone. II. Rehoboam's decision (va. 12-15). ' "All the people." This probably h&s reft | ence to the ten tribes; Judah and Ben; I min clung to Rehoboam. "The third day Rehoboam had asked the people to wa I three days for his decision (v. 5). _ "T1 seemed reasonable on the face of it, ai | yet this was one of the questions which i right heart would have decided instant] ' It was only because there was a contest 1 j tween his conscience and his desires th delay was needed. This was the turnii point in the life of King Rehoboam. ( his decision hung his destiny as king ai the welfare of the nation." 13. "Roug ly." He was harsh and insolent. "F< sook?counsel." Rehoboam first consult with the old men (v. 6). They were tl men of wisdom and ability whom Solom< in his wisdom had chosen for his advise! See Prov. 11:14: 15:22. But their count did not suit the young king. They advis | Rehoboam to grant the request of the p? [ pie and "speak good words to them" ( l 7). But he was proud, haughty and co | ceited and forsook their counsel. I J should have followed it because, 1. It w ' right. 2. It was good for the.people. It would bring the highest prosperity ai glory to the kingdom. 4. It would rend j the Government more stable. 5. It wou i bind the people to him. i 14. "Young men." Rehoboam next Co j suited the young men, his associates 0 ! 8. 9). The surest mark of a fool is that l chooseth other fools for his advisers. T king maJe a fatal omission in seeking a vice. There is no mention made of 1 | going to God or to one of God's prophe ! "I will add." This was the language of tyrant. 'With whips." It is probat that the expression is not entirely figui tive. It is ouite possible that the levies Amorites. Hittites, etc. (chap. 9:20, 2 had been kept at their toils by the lai "With scorpions." As the scorpion? instrument of torture with many lash like the legs of the animal of this nan and each lash armed with charp points lacerate the flesh ? is a more terril 1 scouree than the common whip, so will I j severity exceed my father's. This answ j meant his downfall. It was the height folly for him to take such a course. ! "Brought about of the Lord" (R. V.) T course of events had been shaped by So i mon's transgression, and they were left God to work out their natural results. T | sin of the father was here visited on t j child. The meaning is that this gre i change or revolution in the Hebrew sta j was brought about in the providence God as a judgment on the nation for t ! sins of Solomon. God foretold it by t prophet Ahijah (chap. Il:30i33); b ; neither Solomon's ?ins nor Rchoboan 1 Vtli'ml (aIIait <%r\A raali ! from the Lord. God foresees what men w i freely do and orders His judgments I mercies accordingly. III. The revolt of the ten tribes (vs. I 20. 16. "All Israel." The leaders # rep I sentinp - .e ten tribes. "What portionDavid," etc. Just as a kirg inherits t ; nation he governs, so a monarchy inher its king. But the ten tribes had not th received David, nor probably Solom either. Seven years after David had be i recognized as King of Judah thp chieftai I of the ten tribes made a special trea with him by which he should govern the j The terms of thjs treaty we do not kno j but it was probably renewed on the acc i sion of Solomon, and it is evident that t j ten trices now regarded it as broken ; Rehoboam. Their loyalt/ to him was <8 nulled by his own action. The p"hra ! "son of Jesse" is a taunt, like "carpente ! son" in Matt. 13:55. "To your tentj This was probably a popular war cry, di j ing from the r? vs of the exodus, when t I whole nation lived in tents. But we are remember also that a great multitude w now crowded about a town, and doubth mnny were at this time dwelling in ten "Now see," etc. Let David's descendai look after his dynasty: we sever our cc nection. 17. "Which dwelt." The Iura ite<5 who were members of the northe tribes, but- who had homes in the cities Judah. did not co with their own trib< { but remained and quietly sumbitted to t I reign of Rehoboam. i 18. "Sent Adoram." The chief tax c 1 lector and therefore one of the most < ! noxious in the nation. He was probal | pent to make concessions, but it was t late. "The fatal word had been. spok? the rent in the nation had been made nev ' to be healed until thpy shall be united : Christ, the son of David, in the latt ! days (Ezek. 37:15-28). "Stoned him." T ?eople in their blind rage rose up in a m< ftth this one exception this was a bloc ; Jess revolution. "Rehoboam made speec Strengthened himself. Margin, "Made i I of every effort;" "exerted himself mud since danger was threatening him as w as his messenger. It appears that lit | time elapsed between the answer of Rel boam and the sending of Adoram to < j pease the irritated leaders. This was do ' and Adoram killed before Rehoboam 1< ' Shechem. The haughty, stem answer a ' the sudden change to a more lenient poli I maikes the weak character of the w ! king. 19. "Israel rebelled." Where prin ! and people fear God there will be no : ! hellion, but where no covenant with G j is. all human consideration* fall in piece 20. "All Israel heard." When the m; ! body of the peor>ie learned what the f< assembled at Shecheui knew. "Call him." etc. After the congregation at SI c-hrin was broken up and the people h ; returned to their homes, another asseml j was convened by the leaders of the t j tribes, at which time Jeroboam was ma i thc-ir kincr. ".Tudnh only." Although B< | jam in adhered to Rehohoam (v. 21) a j also many Israelites of other tribes (v. 1 ! yet they ;.re all looked unon as being ; j torbed in the tribe of Judah. End of World in Ninety Tears. j The end of the world in ninety yea I has been predicted by Dr. John Robe i son at the evangelical services in Austi , "The Day of Judgment is at hand," ! said. "Roughly speaking, about 2000 yea 1 elapse between the comings of the Lot After He created man it was 2000 ye: until He appeared again and 2000 mc until the coming of Christ. Reasoning inductive analogy, the Lord is about d for the fourth time, and this time J will come as a Jud^e." Valparaiso's Harbor. Ha The harbor of Valparaiso, the importaM port of Chile, is only an open roadste^B in which 152 ships have been wreck^B through storms causing them to drag th^J anchor?. The water in the bay is vcH deep in most place?, and it has been clured impracticable to build a wall acrc^B the moutk of the bay. Therefore, a nuH ber of walls or breakwaters will be buH at a cost of $10,950,000. _ Turbine Engines. H The Belgian authorities have decidcd H add three, instead of one, turbine m^| packets to their Dover-Ostend service. T^| turbine engines and machinery are to constructed in England and the vessels H Belgium. The vessels are to make t^| passage of sixty-two knots in about hours and twenty minutes. H