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?r/, - fcm SHARK I He Will Alw From a Splasl B FOOR little flabby two to foot shark that I saw cast m Zl O up on one of the Jersey *--*- & beaches the other day brought a lot of shark g? memories back to me." Haid a youngish middle-aged man who Bias put in a number of cruises, boy Hind man, in the navy. "I had quite a Hew shark experiences when I was on Hhe old line of Government packets, Hnd I found them out. I'm just as Hnuch afraid, of a sea tiger now as Hou'd be of a ship's kitten lapping conHensed milk out of a wardroom saucer Hn the galley deck, only, of course, I'd Ho a lot more moving when a shark Hvas around and looking me over than ^ would in the presence of the kitten. ([ "The first time a shark ever got gay tvith me was when I was a tike of u prentice on the old Swatara, down in he harbor of Mazatlan. Mexico. I was i starboard side cleaner, and one afernoon was cocked in a swing, swab)ing paint, and with ray bare feet langing not above a twelfth of a fathim from the water. "Ail of a sudden I noticed a little ;littering. goggle-eyed and snout-nosed Ish a-rubberlng around a lot in the Ittle space of water directly below rhere my feet were swinging. He 5oked so perky and impudent that I ras for throwing a cake of salt-water oap at him, but then I got to figuring hat the cat could look at the kind and hat it wasn't doing me any harm to lave this little fish watch me polish off ay cleaning station, and so 1 let him [>ok, and presently I became so busy a trying to light a furtive cigarette rithout the officer of the deck spotting ae that I forgot about the little snoutlosed fish. "Presently an old bo'sun's mate ralked over to the starboard rail and joked down at me. " 'Hey, you cub; he callcf. down to le a minute after lit had taken his osition at the starboard rail, 'you'd etter be gittin' them tootsies o' yourn ome few away from th' water's edge you don't want to go shy a pair o' eet for the balance o' the cruise. See hat pilot fish a lookin' at you an* eckonin' his big shark mate down elow ?' "This old bo'sun's mate was a great tringer to the 'prentices, and I was o sure that he was stringing me then hat I barely looked up at him. It was good thing that I didn't look up just ien?I'd probably be in the Snug Haror. with two wooden legs now, if I ad looked up at him just at that in II "For. continuing to look down as I porked, I saw something wliitey-gray [wishing to the surface of the blue rater?something about twenty foot bng, and the for-ard ten foot of it, is it seemed to me, all teeth, rows and lows of them?and then I pot busy. I *' 'Shin up. you whelp!' the old [o-sun's mate bawled at me through pe funnel that he made of his hands, Ind just as I grabbed the port rcpe bringing the bo'sun's chair and started p go hand over hand up to the rail, pere was a shower of salt water that lounded like the breaking of a water pout just below me?and I had my rst close view of a belly-up ma neater. | "He shot up above half a fathom .bove the water for me. but I already lad a hold on the rail: and he missed e by quite a stretch. But as long s I was a side cleaner I never wabbed paint from a bo'sun's chair fter that with bare feet. My bare eet had been the bait for that big hark, guided by his Jittle pal, the Hot fish. "About three years after that I got rvrr>a mftfa chart orillpfltinn !lt PUOOte. I Tahiti. A gang of seamen gunners? I was just out of my apprenticeship pen?one clay got permission of the Ifficer of the deck to take a beach Iwim. So we lowered away the long poat, sped her to the coral beach, [tripped and went in in the buff, about [ighteen of us. "It was very hot and gummy weather, .and so we were not thinking about [harks, although a thousand of theui [ssembled about the ship every time pe cook dumped a bucket of galley refuse through the swill tube. Anykow, we were all pretty young. In Lddition to being young I was chestier han I've ever been since, particularly because there wasn't a man or bay on iioard the old hooker that could teach ne anything about swimming. That's low it came that, as soon as we umped into the water on the Papete >each that day, I proceeded to outiwim all the rest, just to show 'em. "I didn't turn to look back until I ras about 300 yards from the beach. Che only reason why I turned around hen was because I heard a lot of noise rom the beach. "When I turned, I saw about a hunroil nnkivl nntivps Jllld nil of the iroung fellows from our ship lined up In the beach at tlie edge of the water, umping up and down and waving heir arms at me and yelling with all peir might. But something else that saw was a lot more important to me, pout a million huge, wet and shiny hark fins between me and the beach. Some of them weren't more than ten rards from me. The fins were moving -lowly on the surface of the water. "I could see my pipe out in plain :iew then. I stopped anil trod water ind nervously slapped the surface of he water with my hands. I noticed hat when I slapped the water paricularly hard the sharks that were learest to me sort of edged back and ircled at a greater distance from me. >o I kspe on slapping the water. "The sharks were waiting for me to ht tired, that's all. They knew that ' wouldn't start back right through hem, and they knew, too, that I ouldn't swim right ahead a few thouand knots to the Carolines or the Marquesas or the Fijis, and so they vere content to take it easy, each [guring on getting what was coming o him when the moment arrived. "Forty natives put out after me in ne of those sixty-foot long and twopot wide canoes with the outrigger arangement familiar in the South Seas, nd in the bow of the canoe and directag them -was an old lime-juicor of a A COWARDJr ays Sheer Off Ipj ling Swimmer. ^ 1 T1 ~ | Vrit quartermaster from a British trading j ev0| schooner in the harbor. j *ect' " 'Splash, han' keep a-splashing, blest ! "svili y'r blazin' lieyeballs f'r a Yankee pup- ' heejit!' bawled the old lime-juicer at ^ i^e as the canoe approached where I ! one was in the middle of the semi-circle 1Jer' of waiting sharks, and with that I be- tlu'? gan to slap and kick the water like a j Icur* sea skate fquled in the mudliook ; *wc chains. ' I was a lot rattled; but as the canoe ;' approached I noticed that all of the lfory natives that weren't helping to pull the inal canoe were leaning over the side and : slapping and churning tho water with . *ias all their might and main and making | UCV( all of the noise out of their counten- j ances that they knew how to. That settled it. The sharks dispersed like ' ?n*s a bunch of stampeded mountain goats ; 1?ni and I was hauled into the canoe and ! bawled at by the old lime-juicer for ; it: 15 my bloomink Yankee heejiocy until we pulled up on the beach. j 1S ^ "That was when I first found out by I ouc actual experience, what every deepgoing sailor in the South Seas knows, i that the shark is the worst coward [ ^Ior that swims and that he is twenty times j " more afraid of a splashing human be- Sl ing in the water than a water moccasin j 1,lS is of a howling small boy in an inland *-lu creek."?Washington Star. -^e i or 5 AMERICAN FURNITURE IN BRITAIN that and Sound ScoldJnc For the Naughty Yankees ' oliai "Who Invade Them. ' Japii The presumption cf America in sup- js (] posing that the Old Country is to come I Lon to her for furniture is amazing. It is I -will also, to those learned in furniture, '< 0alh rather amusing. , facj I 1.110 Simple reUSUIl 15 lliitt .iiuuilian I exc*( furniture is not good enough. It runs 1 an t too much on the lines of what trade journals on the other side poetically ! pi term "very attractive lines in mission : oC fitments"?gaunt, ungainly designs J tow worked out by machine in cheap ; Mor woods. j to !l Perhaps the idea that England is a ^ cl dumping ground where rubbish may otlic be shot is not yet eliminated from the fciste American mind. And yet several ex- ' 'soli< periments of that kind have ended. J and sadly. A good many years ago cheap , stre American cycles were almost hurled in j But our faces. Now one of the rarest birds j" now on an English highway is a cycle made j the anywhere but in England. v i was Another attempt of a less serious loos character was made a little while ago I bodi with bedroom suits. They were not j rod; particularly cheap, but to quote an ex- < thro pert., "the design was bad, the work ! has was bad. the effect was tawdry." and .v.nki the American-made bedroom suit is Pele not in demand. : tion Of course England does import furni- | ture from America. Of the ?700,000 ' ($3,500,0001 worth of cabinet-ware I which came from abroad in 1003 Amer- j en ica sent a larger part than any other j country??230,000 ($1,230,000) worth, j . n 1 onto America and France are indeed the j only countries which send us as muck | L . as ?100.000 ($300,000) in the year. J ^ But those figures represent goods of ' a totally different kind. The French j cc" furniture is highly finished, elaborate work; the American cheap and machine .. \ ' made. In one solitary "lino" can the 1 ^ Americans claim the bulk of the Eng- 55" lish trade. The roll-top desk was orig- . inally an American invention, and for j ? some years an American monopoly, j . But a desk is now being produced in j ^oin' England which in price competes with i m 1 the American-made article and in qual- ! ^ .. .. ... I torn ity, according to experts m tne reran j trade, i.s distinctly superior. \ ?a'V For the plain fact is thai the English j 1^' cabinet-maker has no competitors. . Even the finest French work, which 110 jj doubt comes nearest, is a bad second. In "finish" the Frenchman can hold his ; own. but in the actual cabinet-making, : a J?* the putting'together of the article, he j . . leaves much to be desired. The Ger- J ' man workmanship is not bad, but the we|s design is heavy and clumsy. j ? .. Omitting cheap machine-made furni- ; r ture?the only class apparently within j . American ken?the 'bulk of it is not . made in factories at all. London is j .. the centre of the trade, and Shoreditch j and Bethnal-greeu are its sancta sane- j ^ ^ torum. The best furniture-making is a home industry. A man, his wife and family, with perhaps one or two work- , . , . 4, ... . doul men. work together 011 their own ac- ^ count, and the Inr^e retail houses deal , ' directly with these "garret masters," 1 J1 ?London Telegraph. i Yorl The Klooil ot Wen an<l Apes. An interesting departure from the j usual methods of studying the simil- T1 arity between man and the other pri- , and mates iias been made by Professor j my Uhlenmuth, a noted German anthro- ; day pologist. who has recently carried on j thai a series of interesting observations 011 1 you tlip blood of men, apes and monkeys, i that Between the blood of the first two able there are many points of similarity and tion evidences of a distinct relationship, for but the blood of monkeys can readily mec be distinguished from that of men., j ones The difference is more or less marked, j tow; according to the species, the greatest thai resemblance being seen in the case of ?is the gorilla and the least with the le- pap< murs. a small species about the size of nati a oat and having a face somewhat j impi like a fox. A singular fact is that. ! serv judged by the blood, there is less evi- | by 1 donee of relationship found in the j the American families of apes than in \ fort those of the Old World.?Harper's ; tain Weekly. I Indi I I'n an<l Down. 44 4 The following telephone conversa- , tion. recently heard between a woman whose home is in the suburbs and a* . j business acquaintance of her husband. ,l illustrates some of the curiosities of Son' , ever our language: Business Acquaintance?"Good morn-' ^ ing, Mrs. . I'd like to speak to Mr. for a moment." j d Mrs. ."I'm sorry, Mr. , but my husband isn't down yet." . . B. A. (inquiringly)?"Isn't down yet?'' rpj^ Mrs ."I mean he isn't up yet. I'm' ghj_ letting him r'eep late this morning; hej . u was so down last evening after his of- j V) fice troubles that be was ready to give up. He says he'll be down as soon as ^ll0 he gets up."?Harper's Weekly. lute I :ie botanical papers report that De >s, the great Dutch experimental utionist, has by long continued seion produced a variety of clover ch has normally four leaves. ithin half an hour of the death of of a pair of twin boys at LeicesEnglnnd, the other one died, >ugh, the doctor said, a certain ous sympathy which exists been twins. ic South McAIcstor (Indian Terri) News relates that a negro crimin the Choctaw Nation was so ly scared by being arrested that he turned an ashen gray, and has ?r recovered his proper color. i English watchmaker has just bed making a tiny watch in the a of a shirt stud. Its dial is tweeenths of an inch in diameter, and i to be worn with two other studs turning the upper stud the watch round, while by turning the lower the hands are adjusted. ofessor Elrod of the University of itana gives a striking description ie treasure that his State possesses upphires. The only systematic minfor these precious stones in the ted States is done in Montana, annual output amounts to 450,000 >00,000 carets, including the stones : are.suitable for cutting as gems those that are only useful for medical purposes. It is said that the ilaries in Helena do finer work than one on the stones that are sent to don to be cut. Ferliaps somebody suggest that Montana should be ?d the "Gem State," in view of the . that her output of precious stones ^eds the production in that line of he rest of the United States. ofessor Angelo Heilprin's opinion the nature of the extraordinary er that rose out of the cratcr of it Pelee in Martinique a year ago, hoio-iit <->f 1000 feet, has undergone Liange. At first he thought, liko r geologists, that the tower cond of extremely viscious lava, which lificd immediately on its intrijsion, thus rose vertically under the ss of the volcanic forces beneath, a later critical Examination, he says, forces strongly upon him impression that the great pinnacle the ancient core of the volcano, pned from its moorings, and lifted ily outward. This lifting of "giant : masses or mountain ewes" ugh the crater axis of a volcano not been heretofore an entirely nown phenomenon, although e's tower is the grandest cxhibiof the kind on record. TAXINC MEN'S APPETITES. Eat Much More Tlian Women and Are Charged More. a small West Side restaurant that rs to persons on economy bent bill of fare is headed by this notr<mlar dinner?Men, twenty-live s; women, fifteen cents." low is this?" asked, a chance cuser belonging to tho sex most heavaxed. "You charge us fellows ten s more than you do the women, it have we done that we should ;o discriminated againstV" 'ou eat more," was the plain reiler. "It doesn't cost nearly so h to feed women as men, but wo the first concern in this part of a that has been brave enough to so in plain print. Many foreign lurants have recognized that fact have regulated their charges acingly. Boarding houses, too, are acquainted with the masculine ?tite, and satisfy its longings at emium. [owever, if the male border is subto excessive charges, he always the satisfaction of knowing he his money's worth. Waiters in itutions of that kind are required eport in the kitchen whether an r is for a 'lady' or 'gentleman,' and cook dishes up in proportion to capacity of the diner. ome cheap restaurants have adoptlie plan of serving 'ladylike' pors at rock bottom prices, thereby enig the man with an appetite to jle up 011 his order and preserve ir ratio between the cost of men's women's meals. But we like our better. It gives everybody a fails' and preveut3 confusion.''?New x Tress. "Wide Field For Weeklies. ie day of the weekly literary liome farm paper has just begun, and in opinion there never was a better for the right kind of weekly papers i to-day. In saying this I wish to remember that the weekly paper comes to the family filled with editorials and feature articles, ficnnd poetry, and lias departments the women, for the farmer, for the hanic, and especially for the little a paper that is clean and leans iird a higher ideal in journalism idoes the present sensational daily the one I refer to. . . . These ?rs will always be factors in our onal growth. No matter how many rovements- are made in the mail ice, they occupy a place not filled the average daily, and the better weekly is made along the lines set ti the more certain it is to maina high place.?W. T. Moore of the anapolis Sentinel. Hungry Dog*. Llaska dogs are getting the worst .11 1 K.wl norltf lutfj jjiin aiiicv itixs tuuj 5 in tliat country," said Itobert Pas1, who recently returned from Daw* "They are eating anything and ything they can find now, when w months ago they were living on best of dog bacon, an inferior prodthat was shipped north just for feeding. 'ou see. this packers' strike was nning to be felt even by the dogs, dog bacon that was formerly ped to Alaska for feeding the pups :ow in general use, and the dogs 6 to take the best they can get. I' 3s those doss up there are glad it is end of the strike."?Seattle Pestllicencer. New York City.?Full waists that are j shirred and draped to form soft and j graceful folds are among the latest | features of fashion and are exceedingly DBAPED "WAIST. i attractive in the many pliable niatej rials of the season. This one is peculiarly smart and includes a point I at the front and the new sleeves, j shirred to form two lenptthwise puffs ! above the elbows. The mr.terial chosen j for the model is willow green mcssa! line satin with cream colored lace for ! chemisette and cuffs, banding and bows of darker velvet, but there are many wool as well, as silk materials j that can be treated in tlio same manner | with equal success, and, when liked, A LATE DESIGN " I i the deep cuffs can be omitted and the sleeves made iu three-quarter length. The waist Is made with the litted 11-1 ?Ul-l, <>,,11 fVnnta on/I UUlilg, ULL ?UlL'li iuc 1UII iiwwto w?v% 1 backs are arranged, and is Jnished at j the neck with a roll-over collar under which the chemisette is attached. The sleeves are made over fitted linings, ; which are faced to form cuffs, and are full above the elbows, finished with : circular frills below which fall over tlie i gathered ones of the lace. The closing :3 made invisibly at the centre front. The quantity of material required for ! the medium size is four and three| fourth yards twenty-one inches wide, j four and one-half yards twenty-seven j inches wide, or two and three-fourth I yards forty-four inches wide, with i seven-eighth yard of all-over lace, i three-fourth yards of bias velvet and ] two and one-half yards of lace to make ; as illustrated. Very I'.-tftclnntlng, This. ! ' Absolutely fascinating is a big hat ! of the time of the Restoration. To say. | that it is fascinating is also to say that it is of the second period of the Restoration, about 1SH0. At the right the brim is very broad and flaring. At the left it is less so. At the front it is yet narrower, while at the back it is quite narrow. It is beautifully colored with a delicately rosy fawn silk, the brim being faced with a rosy castor miroir velvet. This x-olvnl- cli.tflns fitmns)- tn "n I dp 11 hrOWll. and will go beautifully with the beaver fur which is to he revived. At the left side of the erown is a bunch of loops in satiny apricot ribbon, the ribbon being drawn through a cut steel buckle at the centre, from which a magnificent paradise plume in the brownish shade sweeps over the right side. More loops of the ribbon are under the brim at the right side. This upward tilt to the right seems very unnatural, and ifs a question if the mode be widely adopted. It was not last year, though a number of models were displayed. That New Shade of liland. Tucking and smocking, not alone in small sections, but in whole pieces, large enough to make a waist, or at least a girdle effect; are being shown in gowns for reception and evening wear this season. Another kind of ornament is the blond lace, which simply defies description. It's neither cream, nor pure white, nor yellow, nor any particular shade, but blond, and the most popular trimming shown fnr tho fnll upnson. Without n broad I girdle no reception gown i3 complete. These may be of the same material and shade as the gown or of bright ribbons, with long streamers, or bows at the back?New York Press. The Knotted Stock. A pretty stock of white crepe lias . the long front tab tied up into little bows down its length. Blonde or Shirt Waist. Plain shirt waists always are in demand and always All, a need. This one shows the new sleeves, that are full at the shoulders, and includes a wide box pleat at the centre front. The model Is made of Russian blue Sicilian mohair, stitched with corticelli silk, and is worn with a belt and tie of bla^k taffeta. All waisting materials are, however, equally appropriate, the many mercerized cottons as well as wool ana silk. BY MAY MANTON. I I IV " ] ] The waist consists of the fitted lin- 1 ing, which is optional, fronts and back, j The back is plain rcross the shoulders, j; drawn dowii in gathers at the waist line, but the fronts are gathered at their upper edpes, also, so forming becoming folds. The sleeves are in ^ shirt style, gathered Into straight cuffs, j and at the neck is a regulation stock. ' The quantity of material required for j the medium size is three and three- < fourth yards twenty-one inches wide, i . i 1 i ] BLOUSE OR SHIRT WAIST. three and one-half yards twenty-seven \ inches wide, or two yards forty-ltur * inches wide. ) A SERMON FOB SUNDAY [?. >- ? wh: jr>STRONC,ftDISCOURSE ENTITLED, * 1 ffCOMFORTINC CERTAINTIES."^ 7or : the l&si The Rev. Dr. I?obert Bruce Hulty Talk ar0 on the "Words Addressed to Nlcodemus gcr ?The Person That the Verities of Our ' we Precious Faith Cluster About. moi Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday morning the *!L Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Hull, pastor of . Greenwood Baptist Church, preached on "Comforting Certainties." The text was .. from John iii: 11: "We speak that we do .. know." Dr. Hull said in the course of his aermon: > t These words were addressed to Nicode- . mus. He was un earnest, honest, yet timid iinquirer after truth. He had come to > Jesus under cover of the darkness. As an . official of the Jewish Sanhedrim, he did ,, not dare to be seen talking with tne Naza- - , rene Teacher. Yet he is convinced in his own mind that Jesus is a prophet and " that, too, a prophet sent of God. This j*? mucn he confesses to the Christ. Then be- j gins the wonderfully instructive interview from which the text is taken. This interview is evidently only an outline, but the outline is marvelously suggeitive. Nicodemus was a good man. He was a religious man. He conformed to all the religious 5?.' forms and ceremonies of his nation.. His outward deportment was blameless and his standing in the community was honor- r able. But ne was not a spiritual man. He ??? -Ai rtn 11 +A.rlnv Q PATI WOO IIU U VV uai ?C nyu.u Vttti vu viu; V- vwM verted man. To him Jesus thrice used the solemn double "Amen, amen, I say unto EH11 thee." -Th' Nicodemus could not understand what ?e| Jesus meant by being born again. He was JJ" unable to see what that new spiritual life Ara was of which he himself was lacking. Then ca? it is that the third double amen of Jesus m?' introduces the words of the text: "Verily, wtT verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we do know and testify that we have seen." 5? In this utterance Jesus uses the word ?oe "we," not simply as the plural of majesty, h0E but connecting Himself with all Hi3. discipies, so that it is perfectly proper and 'j?1 right for us to-day to use His words and P"? say: "We speak that we do know." Chris- "ea tians are competent witnesses to the cer- can tainties of religion. While in a sense it .say may be said that "the Bible and the Bible j?1" alone is the religion of Protestants," yet. in the fuller sense our religion is a life. tfu' Christ is Christianity. His life in Himself re" and in His disciples is the spirit and the a power of true religion. We have something more than opinion; something better than creeds; -we have as one of the eternal veri- in ties Jesus Christ as the manifestation of P God. It has been well said that "Christ either deceived mankind by conscious ' J ? ti- tr: it J?l..A*. Irauu or ne wua mmdcu uciuucu anu uw- ^ ceived, or He was divine. There is no getting out of this trilemma. It is inexor- ? able." He stood before the men who knew Him best and said: "He that hath seen Me . hath seen the Father." and again declared 1 to them: "I and My Father are one." This was tremendous assumption and awful cial blasphemy if it was not the truth. That Tit is the truth the course of time and the vin course of Christianity both abundantly de- ,1 dare. cioi The verities of our precious faith cluster J about a person. This person was God, sail manifest in the flesh, and for all the cen- .1 turies since Bethlehem the noblest, wisest vir and holiest have bowed before Him, rever- A ently exclaiming, "My Lord and my God!" mei It matters not from what point we view A Him, Jesus stands before the world as of ] more than man. It is said of a safe and 1 perfect arch that it must meet two require- figi ments. Its feet must not slip and its mid- 1 die must not bend. Jesus Christ is the arcb the connecting humanity and divinity. The C weight of the centuries of Christianity rest wis on that arch and they rest there safely, for 1 "Jesus is God; there never was a time when He was not; t. Boundless, eternal, merciful, the word, * the Eire begot; Backward our thoughts through ages r stretch, onward through realms of j bliss, For there are two eternities and both alike are His." Another of the certainties is that the I Christian life is a divine life. This was a son new thought to Nicodemus. It is a new anc it n j?,. T?. Ti.oa a :? I/Iiuuguu LU Xliaiijr wuaj . J.U t? uo uuu ? y>ib figure of speech, but a plain statement of infl fact, when Jesus insisted that it was neces- I sary to be born again in ?rder to enter it f heaven. Those of Nicodemus' time would bee have said it was necessary to reform, to ado deal honestly, to behave kindly, to live up* sioi rightly. So many say to-day, and if by all the this they mean uprightness in its perfect trai form they are right. But no man has ever cloi liVed who nas been thus upright. "All 1 have sinned and come short of the glory of mai God." The history of mankind shows that a t we must not seek holiness in order to God, but but God in order to holiness. Christ must ecsl come into the soul of man with His divine fu], life, and then, and not till then, are we in un9 harmony with the divine holiness. _ 1 When that life comes in then there is mir manifested the "expulsive power of a new tiai affection," better still, the expulsive power spe of a new life. Nothing less than life can ma] account for the change in men. Nothing trai but life can exert the power which the cen- blei turies of Christianity have manifested. In 1 physics we affirm confidently that every ef- Chi xect must have an adequate cause. This a c' also is true in the realm of spirituality. If p0r persecutors are changed into preachers, if any those once thoroughly depraved have been mai molded into recognized saints, if the dregs of society have been transformed into unparalleled martyrs for the truth, if common u people' have been fashioned into those of whom the world was not worthy?we ask for( what cause or what power is adenuate for "uc such marvelous alterations. ' We know the these changes. It is folly to say we do not ecc< know the power. acc( Twice each day our city is washed by a STt'3 mighty ebb and flow of tides that sweep in ana out,' despite all the winds that blow. 3'n; Your child recognizes the fact, but he is puzzled to think that the pale, silent moon, T serene amid the clouds, is the cause of buil those resistless floods. The child is puz- roc' Bled, but when your philosopher explains Pen to you that the moon does this by attrac- J?p< tion of gravitation, and you ask him to ex plain to you this attraction of gravitation, "Cl then he. too, is puzzled. Yet he knows the ^or power, knows it so well he can measure it ?{ia' and use it. So, too, with Christianity, and ?*ie its power. We can recognize its force and use it, but its secret is the sccret of life. RCV Like all force, in its origin it is a mystery. rennyson says: "T "We have but faith we cannot know, " , .For knowledge is of things we see." as | This is not quite true. Knowledge is of dee] things we feel, as well as of things we see. reiy Many things we know that we cannot see. whc We never saw a pain, but we should call fect liim a fool who should say we never felt or knew a pain. We know the power of the Christ life in the believer, because we have ^ felt it, and sometimes when this Christ life in us has its perfect freedom we are able ? to say with Paul: "I can do all things in (,erb Christ who strengthened me." pau This certainty concerning the power of aee the Christ life can be attained by all who r will fulfill the conditions. There must be ij?e' i surrender to Christ and a trust in Christ. iTou cannot have the sunbeam without the . ^ sun. You cannot have the power of Christ v*. without the Christ Himself. The apostle says: "Chris* is in you the hope of glory," f, ind it is certainly true that Christ must be in us the power for glory. Thus the . centre of our certitude is Christ Himself. ,v iVe know Him. We know His power. It iias been exercised upon us and in us. Like the once blind beggar, we exclaim: "One thing I know, whereas, I was b'.ind, now X A ;ee. There was no note of uncertainty one lbout this; there should be no note of un- wit! :ertainty about our utterances concerning laid >ur faith or concerning our own position, he e But in this age of uoubt many Christians idol! ire so frightened out of sanity that they for? ire afraid to say even of the deepest ex- ther seriences of the soul, "I know." Not so not L'aul, facing death: "I know whom I have we ' relieved. JNot so jonn, tne oejovca dis- use. jiple, declaring, "We lcno\v that we have forn sassed from death unto life. We know The that when Tie shall appear we shall be like hell Him." It is not modesty, but lack of faith now .vhich prompts Christians to say, "I hope and [ am a Christian." When we have life we enow it and should not be ashamed to say ;o. If we have not the life then by all the T1 mportance of eternity make sure of ob- the :aining it. ,It is possible to have a living nink ixperience of Jesus Christ. To have such cons in experience that we may say: ''I live, in s; ,-ct not I, but Christ, jiveth in me." Be- and ,ief may be glorified into this exDerience if Pha' _1 yield ourselves completely and unre- Hi redly to Him who is able to "keep thati HgPSfi ich we have committed to Him against t day." T \ mS 'he effect of this certainty is in every; f moft precious and helpful. Consider ^ a moment what this certitude means ia presence of the awful calamity whicW ? 1 ; summer sent a thrill of horro^ und the globe. True, indeed, is the ipture declaration "if in this life only; have hope in Christ we are of all men! 9t miserable." If death were the end 08 then we might well believe that cruelty; in the throne of the universe. But* Sgered as all are by the unutterable sor- * r, yet God rules and overrules, andl ugh we cannot see it now, yet in rtery we shall know that the carelessness?; worse?of man has bee-< overruled to rnal good. Because we know that Goa love, and because we know Jesus still , . a and is the same to-day as when Ho ^ d tears at the grave of Lazarus, we daro _ go into bereaved homes and speak o? reunion at the right hard of the throna ? Sod. I went over to the pier where lay s ldreds of the unclaimed bodies, and I 1 ' *- 3 J. !. 1 ?. a.f H J aid not nave aarea to uu il, uu<, i,u?v ?. _ jht comfort some heartbroken one with! 1 assurance that God cared, God loved I in eternity God would make this un- fe akable sadness a source of perpetual yt . Can I explain it? No! But I could preach, I could not hold up my head i Christian if I did not believe; yea, if I not know, that somehow, some time* curse shall be changed into a blessing. is is the privilege of Christians to say: jj n now: "We know that all things woric ether for good to them that love God." i j <Phy is it that all do not know these! ! ' tigs? Partly because of their conditionj are are to-day those who "having eyea { not, and having ears hear not." Thef uence of training is not easily overcomej lined only to consider as real that which! jf . be analyzed by scientific implements,1 V n refuse to admit the reality of thing? Hfl ich they cannot weigh in their scaleti or HHSjH isure by their rules. They are honesty HEffl is the blind man honest who says color HEkK a not exist. So is the deaf man test whose soul cannot be moved b? the cord of sweet sounds. It is not a ques- tSHsg 1 of honesty, but of fact. God is, even! HH ugh the unbelieving eye may sweep the' 1BB16 vens with the telescope and assert ? flMB not see God. But trusting hearts will with ever increasing certitude: "E H >w whom I believe." This gives us comt in such a time as this. It is the only; JKI og which can give comfort. So, breth-> I I , let us place ourselves in the hands of H oving God. Let us lean on the divine v*er. Let us trust the divine wisdoms ; us assure ourselves of the divine home those mansions which divine love hag pared for us, and let us be confident HKHqe - Han "Trial works for ends Too high for some to trace-* IBIWBMm rr That oft in dark attire He sends H fjf Some embassy of grace." Short Meter Sermon*. Tiere is no virtue without victory. 'here is no possession without appre* 'hat which can be defined cannot be dit is always safe to suspect the suspi* lo man was ever yet scared into being at ,'here arp few vices worse than vinegary tues. i smile will kill more microbes than an? dicine. i grain of appetite will outweigh a toil reason. _ .'he world needs a friend more than U ire in history. .'he greedy eye always misses more thai* generous one. '." w ' - -'^jS Jourage is simply knowing when it e to be afra'f5 _ lie best er jition of the Bible ia itd _atan is always ia sympathy with the j C . '-satisfied man. "he sermon that earns most flattery may 4 1 fewest souls. 'eople who take their business to church' lom take their religion to the store. - Love as a Cosmetic. ,ove is the greatest beautifier. The rea^ is easy to see. Love itself is beautiful,* 1 if we give unselfish love a lodgment h us it is constantly exerting a molding uence upon us. . ..i'.. ? iove always appears at its best. When joes wooing it always chooses the most oming attire and the most captivating irnment. So love, when it gets posses-t i of a human body, proceeds to mold! face of that body into the most at:tive form, for love always seeks to ;he itself in the most attractive garb. hat is the explanation of the trarsfortion that takes place in a woman who is nother. She may be plain otherwise^ when she bends over her babe in art easy of mother-love she becomes beautiAnd in proportion as we give place to elfish love do we become attractive. here is no masseur like love to worK acles in a homely face, says the Ohrisl Endeavor World. There is no facia) cialist who can begin to do as much to Ice a plain young man or woman at:tive, to overcome deformity or hide nishes as the magician love can do. > o hate is to become hateful. To love atf ist loved is to become lovely. It is not heap recipe, for such love costs in pro-; tion to its depth and intensity. But; ' one that.is willing to pay the price ?? f be beautiful. Boastful Building. Blow, 0 winds! Eise, 0 ocean! Breaic ;h, ye elements and try ray work!" h was the boastful inscription put upon first Eddystone lighthouse built by the jntric Winstanley. His challenge was jpted, and one fearful night the sea llowed up the tower and its builder, he next one met a similar fate, the icture and its builder, Rudyard, agaia ishing together. he third was erected by Smeaton, who It it all of stone, making it a part of its ? foundation, so that the lighthouse etrates it as a tree penetrates the soil, in this lighthouse no vaunting inscripis were placed, hut on the lowest course e chiseled the words: "Except the d build the house, they labor in vain: t build it," and on the keystone, above lantern, is the exclamation, "Laus >!" That structure still stands, a er-failing beacon light to storm-tossed iners. e who would build for eternity must set about his task in any vainglorious, [ -confident spirit. He must be careful ;o his .foundation, building firmly and ily upon the rock. Christ Jesus, and ing in trust and humility upon Him i alone can enable one to reach a perresult.?Wellsprin;j. Grace to Bear. 'lien Christ does not take away the ig that is hard for us to bear, He gives ;race to keep it and to get on even betthan if He had relieved us of it. To 1 He said: "My grace is sufucient for That is, Paul would receive graca i Christ, Christ's own strength in his enough of it to meet all his need, so ; the suffering would be overbalanced ;he grace, and the hindrance overcome the divine strength imparted. This nise is for every Christian who has a n of any kind which Christ does not ove. While we must keep it we shall helped to bear it, and it will be as lgh we did not; have it.?Forward. lilolf) Transformed. missionary in Travancore, India, saw, morning, a native coming to his house i a heavy burden. On reaching it he on the ground a sack. Unfastening it mptied it of its contents?a number o? 3. "What have you brought these here " asked the missionary; "I don't want n." "You have taught us that we do want them, sir," said the native, "but think they might be put to some good Could they not be melted down and* led into a bell to call us to church?" hint was taken; they were sent to a founder and made into a bell, which summons the native converts to praise prayer. Self Mastery. ic greatest victory my soul can win is] victory over self, the victor}* whichi es one master 01 ins o?n ncm>, cience. The victory which keeps usj ympathy with liuman hopes and griefs' loyal to the divine will.- -Rev. F. L.| len. Worcester. Mass. - ... . .